INVESTIGATION" OF THE FUR-SEAL INDUSTRY OF ALASKA. 787 



Mr. McGuire (reading) : 



The Chairman. What brings you here? 



Mr. Elliott. I am here at the request of the Alaska Commercial Co. ■ 



Mr. Elliott (interposing). No; I deny that. I could not have 

 made that statement. 



Mr. McGuire (continuing) : 



as an expert and not as an attorney. 



Mr. Elliott. I deny that; I never saw those "notes." Those 

 have been padded and interpolated. I came there at the request of 

 Hon. William McKinley, Jr., who was a member of the committee, 

 and who sent a riding page down to me at the Smithsonian that 



morning 



Mr. McGuire. Although this examination occurs just as I read 

 it in your testimony, you say it is not true? 



Mr. Elliott. Well, I never said that; I never saw those " notes"; 

 that is not what I said. 



Mr. McGuire. Then you d^ny this answer? 



Mr. Elliott. I deny that answer in that form; yes, sir. 



Mr. McGuire " I am here at the request of the Alaska Commercial 

 Co. as an expert, and not as an attorney." You deny making that 

 statement ? 



Mr. Elliott. "At the request of the Alaska Commercial Co." — 

 yes; most emphatically I do. I remember clearly saying that I ap- 

 peared as "an expert and not as an attorney." 



Mr. McGuire. Mr. Hewitt was a member of the committee ? 



Mr. Elliott. A. S. Hewitt, of New York; yes. I remember him 

 very well. 



Mr. McGuire. In the course of the inquiry, as the record shows, 

 he asked this: 



Are you in the employ of the company at present? 



The Chairman. When was this ? 



Mr. McGuire. At the same time; the same date as before. 



Mr. Stephens. What year ? 



Mr. Elliott. Right there 



The Chairman (interposing). Let us get the date. 



Mr. Elliott. 1884; I think that is what he read. 



Mr. McGuire. March 28, 1884? 



Mr. Elliott. Yes. Those are the "notes" that Mr. Bowers 

 smuggled in, overnight, into the record of this committee and had 

 them printed without the knowledge of the chairman of this com- 

 mittee. That Bowers did so is in the "testimony," on page 303, 

 hearing No. 7, August 5, 1911, and is admitted by him. 



Mr. McGuire. On page 36 — ■ — 



Zvlr. Elliott (interposing). They are the same "notes" that 

 Mr. Bowers smuggled in overnight, and I declared that they were 

 padded and false on the same day he brought them up. (Hearing 

 No. 7, Aug. 5, 1911, pp. 309, 310.) 



The Chairman. Where are these notes ? 



Mr. Elliott. I do not know; I never saw them. 



The Chairman. Are they printed ? 



Mr. McGuire. These are from the original record. 



The Chairman. Do you have the original notes ? 



