INVESTIGATION OF THE FUR-SEAL INDUSTRY OF ALASKA. 699 



that the "Russians never killed or disturbed the female seals * * * from start to 

 finish of then possession of them . ' ' 



It need not be pointed out what was the apparent object of the mailing of this 

 attack against Chancellor Jordan to his successor in the presidency at Stanford 

 University. 



(Signed) George Archibald Clark, 



Secretary of Bering Sea Commission of 1896-7. 

 President's Office, 



Stanford University, Cal., 



December 15, 1913. 



Here he tells you that there is a " British translation" which uses 

 the word " breeders" and an "American translation" which uses the 

 word "bachelors." He takes the British translation because it is 

 superior, and here, in that monograph he uses the word "breeders"!: 

 Comment is unnecessary. Now, one word more. 



The Chairman. What is the real difference about using the word 

 "breeders" or "bachelors" ? What is the real significance? 



Mr. Elliott. The real significance is that if you use the word 

 "breeders" the} r have got to be males and females; and if you use 

 the word "bachelor," it means nothing but young males. That is the 

 whole crux of the situation. Dr. Jordan employs that word 

 "breeders" as the correct translation when his own government has 

 denied it to Mm. 



Mr. Watkins. That is the question I asked you awhile ago. What 

 is the material difference between the two translations ? 



Mr. Elliott. Mr. Clark admits it at the start, and then insists that 

 the word "breeders" was used by our Government and that the 

 British used the word "breeders," when in fact the British had no 

 translation whatever! The only translation used, is the one I charge 

 up to Dr. Jordan with having falsified, and falsified here; and that is 

 the translation which was made by our Government, and vouched for 

 by our Government November 19, 1892, and which is the correct 

 translation to-day. So much for the falsification of the records. 



Now, I am going on to the question of skins. 



The Chairman. You say that Clark made the same statement to this 

 committee when he was before it. Why do you think that was done 

 before the present committee ? 



Mr. Elliott. To shield the effect of land Trilling, that same Trilling in 

 1909, which Yanovsky condemns in 1819 — that is, the constant an- 

 nual killing of every young bachelor in the fall, if they can get them; 

 and if they do not get them, then they are sure to get them in the 

 following spring and summer — that means a loss of needed or ceding 

 bulls and an annual increase of harems of breeding cows, until there would 

 be from 500 to 1,000 cows to a bull, and that is the end of the species. 

 That vms what was ruining the herd; the constant Trilling of these young 

 bachelors every year; and "if they did not get them in the fall, they 

 got them in the spring," as Yahnovsky reports. "The consequence is 

 that if it is not stopped the species will be extinct," he said. 



The Chairman. It would have the tendency to create the impres- 

 sion upon this committee that pelagic sealing did the damage, and not 

 land killing. 



Mr. Elliott. That is what he admits. He says, "If Jordan's 

 translation is correct, then I am wrong; if his translation is incorrect, 

 then I am right." The land killing did ruin the herd in 1804-1834, just 

 as Yanovsky reported. I am right, I have used the only transla- 



