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Show IBELfEVES LAW OF 1912 WILL PROVE FAILURE WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. An echo of the old fur seal investigation was heard in congress today, when the house committee on expenditures in (he department de-partment of commerce examined George Archibald Clark of I.elnnd Stanford university, who was a member of tho fur teal 'commission of 1S9G-97 and a special agent of J900. The committee wanted to ascertain if the law had been iolatcd in TOO!), when tho lessees wero alleged to have swopt the hauling grounds of all seals coming up from the son at the Pribiloff islands, in Bering tea. Mr. Clark explained reports he had made to tho department of commerce snu submitted to the committee two unpublished reports o his dealing with conditions in the fur seal islands in I'JIU and IDi:?. fn these reports he said tl male aonls had increased rapidly Isiiit c ielngic sealing was abolished and a closed season for land scaling established, estab-lished, llo argued that this increase would be very detrimental to tho seal herd x ft fifty" years because tho great number of males would kill many of the female seals and tramnlo mnnv- of the young seald to death. On the basis of the figures in this report, he argued thai the Dixon law of liUU and recent legislation governing land sealing would bo a failure. |