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and withdrawn from the case by the official agents of the United 

 States Government, he then and there and at this time, knowingly and 

 deliberately , sought to deceive the' House committee as to the truth and 

 the facts in this case. 



Mr. Watkins. Why do you say that? 



Mr. Elliott. Because it appears in the document. I am coming 

 to it. I am going to cover it all if you will allow me to finish, and 

 then ask me questions. I wiU show you the proof. 



Bad as that showing is for Mr. Clark, it becomes in his case still 

 worse for him; because, on February 24, 1898, he, as Dr. Jordan's 

 "secretary of the Fur Seal Commission," which made a report on 

 Fur Seal Investigations, 1896-1897; Parts I-IV, 1898, has deliber- 

 ately used this same "false translation" of letter No. 6 aforesaid, as 

 the correct version; thus Dr. Jordan and his associates on the com- 

 mission have made it the sole foundation of that commission's report 

 upon the conduct of the Russian sealing from 1800-1847, inclusive. 



Mr. Watkins. Who decided that is false? 



Mr. Elliott. I am coming to that. I will bring that right in here. 



Observe the following, in further explanation to the committee, 

 that Dr. Jordan "deliberately" used this "false translation;" Mr. 

 Clark testifies (Feb. 24, 1914), to wit: 



Mr. Clark. * * * Now I have quoted from the book which Henry W. Elliott 

 gives as his authority, and it confirms Dr. Jordan absolutely. 



Mr. McGuire. The Elliott quotation is not an accurate quotation of Dr. Jordan, 

 is it? 



Mr. Clark. Not at all. 



Mr. McGuire. They are entirely different? 



Mr. Clark. Yes; I wish to say there is a second translation of this letter which 

 appears in the British counter case. Dr. Jordan was well aware of that translation at 

 the time; but he considered the American translation superior. The British trans- 

 lation uses the word "bachelors" instead of "young breeders." 



Right here let me say that there is no "British translation," and there 

 never was a "British translation." Is that understood by the com- 

 mittee ? 



Mr. Watkins. I understand it. 



Mr. Elliott. Then Mr. Clark goes on to say: 



But the point I want to get at is that Dr. Jordan is charged with falsifying a record 

 and altering a quotation, while the reference used by him disproves the charge. This 

 charge of falsification against Dr. Jordan is not founded in fact, and is untrue. 



The Chairman. Then would you suppose there is one side of this which supports 

 Mr. Elliott's theory, and another^ side which supports the Jordan theory? 



Mr. Clark. There is nothing here to indicate that. 



The Chairman. Now, I am informed by Mr. Elliott that he has the original letter 

 here, and that he can translate it himself, and knows just exactly what it contains. 



Mr. Clark. I had a Russian scholar by the name of M. Lippitt Larkin, an instructor 

 in Stanford University, translate this letter from the facsimile. 



The Chairman. Mr. Clark, you see we get into interminable trouble by going along 

 the way we do. 



Mr. McGuire. But here is the point. Mr. Elliott makes a direct accusation against 

 Dr. Jordan, and the most favorable construction that can be placed upon it, so far 

 as Mr. Elliott is concerned, is that it is simply a disputed question as to the proper 

 translation. Either that is true, or Mr. Elliott wilfully makes a misstatement. 



Now, Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, you will 

 observe by the above record that Mr. Clark has deliberately renewed 

 the falsification of that letter "No. 6," which has been self-confessed 

 as such by the man who first translated it (see p. 152, Vol. VII, Proc. 

 Trib. Arb., 1893), and self-confessed as a "false translation" and 



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