Show MAY PREVENT SEAL KILLING FOR TIME TIM WASHINGTON May 2 Conservation of the Alaskan seal leal herds is a matter to which S Secretary Nagel of ot the department of ot commerce and labor Is giving close clos attention Congress has given the secretary see sec discretionary authority that It will rest rut with him whether a certain number of ot the animals aro are to be slaught slaughtered yearly yearly yearly year year- ly or whether scaling sealing shall be stopped topped al altogether altogether al- al together for a 11 time The Tho lease of the North American Commercial Commercial Com Corn mercial com company pan which for tor twenty years ears has enjoyed the exclusive privilege of ot taking the tho s seals als expired Saturday To this government the sealing scaling Industry has been an Important one financially the calculation bel being that no less leu than has been derived from tho the tax on skins Formerly the tho receipts were large but recently these have dwindled because of the gradual depreciation of or her herds from frona pelagic sealing In 1885 the number of seals scala estimated on the tho loff Islands Inlands was Now ow Is believed bellev d to be a lIb liberal ral calculation Experts believe e that by the enforcement enforce ment meat of a closed season for ono one or more years ears or by material restrictions In the num number r authorized to be legally killed tho the herds ma may bo be replenished From 1835 to 1850 the tho seal Islands were ere closed to sealing sealing seal seal- ing operations tho the suspension resulting in greatly Increasing the herds herd The North orth American Commercial compan company com coni- pans pan has hns a. a big plant on the seal islands whose Inhabitants num number r about It is not Improbable that the government may acquire the tho property The care of ot tho the people whose whole mainstay has hu ben been the sealing Industry Is ono one of ot the problems to be bo met |