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mittee : and, I have done so regardless of whether the truth told as 

 above, hurts or helps any man or men. 



It won't do for Mr. George Archibald Clark to say now in this 

 light of his exposure in the premises, that he had overlooked this 

 record made by his own Government in re Yahnovsky's report, or 

 letter "No. 6", of the American case certified to the British case on 

 November 19, 1892, as quoted above. 



It won't do, for he has testified here, February 24, 1914, that he 

 had this very volume 8, which carries all this proof of that " false 

 translation" of Yahnovsky's record in his own hands on the seal 

 islands in 1896 and 1897! He testifies: 



Mr. McGuire. Mr. Clark what do you mean by the London weights and charts? 



Mr. Clark. Well, in 1896 and 1897 when the two commissions were at work on the 

 Pribilof Islands we were under the necessity of getting all the light we could about 

 the sizes and the ages of the animals, and we found that in volume 8 of the Paris 

 Tribunal of Arbitration * * *. 



Here he tells you that he and Dr. Jordan were busy in 1896 and 

 1897 with this volume 8 of the Proceedings of the Fur Seal Arbitra- 

 tion, which carries on page 323, the full text of the "false translation" 

 placed in a deadly parallel with the correct and " revised translation" 

 which our Government ordered into the case, as a substitute for this 

 fraud, November 19, 1892! 



Then when Dr. Jordan and he deliberately use it in their report of 

 1898, page 25, as the "American translation" and "superior" to the 

 "British translation" (which never existed), they have "deliberately 

 falsified" the Russian (and the American) records in the case, just as 

 I charge them with doing to your committee (see pp. 185, 186, 255— 

 261, 411, hearing Xo. 1: Oct. 13, 1913-Jan. 17, 1914; House Commit- 

 tee on Expenditures in the Department of Commerce). 



Now, we come to Yeniaminov as an authority. Mr. Clark had a 

 good deal to say about Yeniaminov and I will have something to say. 



The manifest errors in Yeniaminov's account of the fur seals which 

 caused Elliott to characterize it as being "full of errors" and to omit 

 from it the most salient and obvious errors which Jordan and Clark 

 publish without objection or criticism (see Report Fur Seal Investi- 

 gations: 1896-1897: part 3: " Yeniaminov's Account of the Sea Bear," 

 translated by Leonhard Stejneger, pp. 219-222, 1898). 



On February 24, 1914, duly sworn, Mr. George A. Clark testified 

 as follows to the House Committee on Expenditures in the Depart- 

 ment of Commerce, to wit: 



Mr. ('lark. On page 185 of this first hearing, Mr. Elliott ia quoting from page 222 

 of Dr. Jordan's report, volume 3. This is a translation by Dr. Stejneger of an article 

 by Bishop Yeniaminov, originally published in St. Petersburg in 1839. The transla- 

 tion was made for Dr. Jordan to be placed in his report. Mr. Elliott quotes a para- 

 graph that begins "The taking of fur seals," etc.. etc. * * * 



This omitted sentence is very important and I want to read it. * * * He 

 omitted this sentence: "The quite young seals, that is to say, those only four months 

 of age, are killed without exception." 



Mr. McGuire. You mean to say that is omitted from Elliott's statement? 



Mr. (lark. It is omitted from this quotation by Mr. Elliott, and the quotation is 

 repeated three times in this document before you. 



Mr. McGuire. Suppose you inserted that statement what effect would it have on 

 his statement? 



Mr. Clark. It absolutely disproves Mr. Elliott's contention and proves that Dr. 

 Jordan was right when he said the Russians killed male and female fur seals alike. 



Mr. McGtmtE. Could that have been omitted without having been willfully omitted? 



