INVESTIGATION OF THE FUR-SEAL INDUSTRY OF ALASKA. 827 



Island, until he saw the hearing of this committee of January 17, 

 1914. On February 20, of this year, Mr. Clark testified as follows: 



The Chairman. Did you know that Carlisle had issued regulations that were in 

 force on the island in 1896 prohibiting the killing of yearling seals? 

 Mr. Clark. No; I was not aware in 1896 or 1897 of that fact. 

 The Chairman. Do you not know now about those regulations on the islands? 

 Mr. Clark. I know it from the last hearing only. 



Mr. McGuire. That was his last testimony. 



Mr. Elliott. Yes; Friday, February 20, 1914. That George A. 

 Clark was deliberately telling an untruth to deceive the committee 

 is self-confessed by him in his own official report to the Secretary 

 of the Treasury^ dated February 24, 1898, pages 257 to 292, part„2 

 Fur Seal Investigation, 1898. 



Here is the record of a search made into every official entry that 

 he could find touching certain movements of the seals in each and 

 every journal kept by the United States agents in charge of the seal 

 islands from 1872 to the close of the record of 1896, up to the date of 

 July 13, 1896. 



This exhibit of this examination of every page in these official logs, 

 or journals, kept on the seal islands from 1872 to the end of the 

 season of 1896, or the year when he first visited the islands, de- 

 clares the fact that on page 292, part 2, in Seal Investigations, he has 

 made an examination of Chief Special J. B. Crowley's log for 1896 

 and has made daily extracts from its pages between "April 13" and 

 "July 13." 



The "Carlisle regulations" of May 14, 1896, are beautifully en- 

 grossed in this log aforesaid, on pages 14, 15, 16, under date of entry, 

 "June 17." Therefore, Mr. Clark in his progress of examination of 

 the pages of this official log day by day, up to July 13, could not have 

 failed to have seen, immediately after his citation of events on "June 

 14," as noted by him here, on page 292, this extended and handsome 

 entry of the Carlisle regulations under date of June 17 and imme- 

 diately following. That he carefully turned the pages from "June 

 14" over to "June 23," and then again to "July 13," is fully con- 

 fessed to the committee by himself in this official record of his own 

 making and as above described. That is all I wish to say upon that 

 subject. 



The Chairman. I believe that concludes the hearing, then. 



Air. McGuire. Mr. Lembkey wishes to make a brief statement. 



Mr. Lembkey. I did have a desire at the time to answer certain 

 statements which Mr. Elliott had brought forth in his testimony 

 before the committee, but as I look back upon it now I feel that 

 perhaps it might be just as well to let it go and not comment on it 

 at all, so I do not care to make any further statement. 



The Chairman. I desire to state to the committee that there may 

 be a few papers yet that may be submitted in the matter of certificates 

 and public records, and so forth, and 1 would like to have a little 

 time to gather them together. 



Mr. McGuire. For this record? 



The Chairman. Yes; things that probably ought to be in. I am 

 not sure there will be anything. I think there is a certificate here 

 as to who was the owner of the James Hamilton, Lewis, in 1892. 



Mr. Stephens. When will we meet again, Mr. Chairman. 



The Chairman. We will adjourn to meet at 10.30 Thursday 

 morning next. 



