Show INCREASE OF MALE SEALS IS AlARMING Ei EXpert rt Tells Tells' Co ie They Will Win Kill Off 06 Females WASHINGTON F Feb b. b An st-An L An e echo o o othe ot of the old fur fut seal Investigation wa wu heard heart In congress today when the ho house e committee com oem on expenditures In tho the department of ot commerce commence examined George Georze Archibald Clark Clack of Leland Stanford university who was a member of ot the fur tut seal commission commis sion slon of ot 97 1896 and a a. ep special ag agent nt In 1903 The Tho committee commUte wanted ant to ascertain 1 Sf if the Uio law had been violated in 1909 1903 when the l lessees were alleged to have SWept swep the hauling grounds of all seals eeals coming up from the sea at the Islands in Bering sea Mr Clark explained reports report h h. he ha hamade had made to the department or ot commerce and submitted to tho the committee 8 two unpublished reports of ot his hIe dealing with conditions conditions conditions condi condi- In the tho e fur tur seal islands in 1912 and 1913 In th these e reports he be said Mid the male teals seals had Increased rapidly since alnee pelagic sealing was wae abolished and a dosed season for land sealing established He argued that this Increase would be b. bevery b very detrimental to the seal oeal herd In n fifty tiftY years bo because ause the great Teat number o 01 of males would kill many of ot the female teals and many of the eu eeals a to death |