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Show PRESIDENT SENDS MESSAGE ON SEALS WASHIN0TON, Jan. 8. President Taft in a special meaug. to rongre today recommended the repeal of th. act of congress which prohibited for nv years I he killing of fur svars ou th Pribilof islands. Mnuwd Hint, than year ago. Investigation, the preai. dent said, showed a reinarkabl. in. creese in th. six of th herd in on season god proved conclusively that only the fema.1. ecels and tb bull wibIm rwals Bred protection and thousand of "bachelor"' seals can be killed each year without reducing the Jterd. |