Ogden Evening Standard | 1913-01-29 | Page 8 | Report is Made on Fur Seals

REPORT IS MADE ON FUR SEALS Washington, lan 29. In a report, on fur sea conditions at the Pribylof islands, into which it conducted a wide Investigation the house com-mlttee com-mlttee on risheriei today recommend. jerl a flve-ejir protection period. President Taft recommended that the ' law be. repealed Th committee a'leged (hat that the Northwestern Tin''!'.. w bad violated the laws In trilling fe-nnl fe-nnl sea's and vearllngs and re.com- ' menif-d that the attorney general proceed against the securifleB of tbe company foi the providing of a bond of t.ifio.uon foi- the fulfillment of its 1 1 - "Hi'- The securities were D 0 Mills and the late Senator Stephen R Blkins The committee charges that the lase was obtained by frond which consisted of tbe tiling of a fale affidavit. af-fidavit. b f Mebes. presHlrnf of the company! to the effect that neithv he nor his associates were engaged i ilatie sealing and other violations viola-tions of the law. The committee says that the eom-pan eom-pan was interested n tbe schooner 'A I Lewis ' outfitted for tbe commission com-mission of depredations upon ihe j righ seas, and that Lic'-cs was as-! sociaterj with Alexendare B McLean noted as a notorious British pirate, to j commit depreJatlons upon the high j seas by unlawfully killing fur seals belonging to the government of the Unites States." 'Your committee finds, savs the, report, "that Isaa C Glebes, conspired con-spired and agreed with H. H. D. Pcirce, and H II Townsend, seal expert ex-pert of the bureau of fislieries. in preprring and collecting a fraudulent , claim for damages for the seizure of, the Lewlg bv the Russian government govern-ment Tlw Hague tribunal awarded the United States 150,000 Tor the owners of the cssel The commit-j tee further recommends that the state department negotiate with Russia Rus-sia for the purpose of rectifying the wrong done bv Llebes, C H Town - 1 eond and H. H D Peirce against tbe government of Russia, a friendly power "