Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-03-31
W|THDRAWS files
FROM THE SENATE
Senator Foraker Unburdens Rec
ord of Reflections on
High Officers.

Washington. March Ex-senator
Foraker obtained leave to withdraw
from the senate files q paper intro
duced by him on Wednesday last and
printed as "A public document, and
Che order carried with il the suppress
sion of all the printed copies of the
paper His introduction OF the paper
last week and the withdrawal today
contained no ntlmation of the sem
satlonal character OF the document,
which still would be unknown had II
moi been for The fact chat several
copies had been given out before 1t
WAS suppressed.
The paper was prepared by Henry
w. Elliott OF Lakewood o., and pur-
ported to be the official record of
the loot and ruin of the fur seal herd
OF Alaska " was written III chron-
illogical order. beginning about 1865,
and continuing to the present time.
IL was written In long hand, closely
written and difficult To read. Prol.
Elliott had submitted records 81 pc
iagic sealing several times. anu they
had always been printed as public
documents. Therefore when senator
Foraker was asked TO have the alleged
"oficial record" printed he made the
request IN the usual form. and did not
take the trouble va read IT, Today
he made apologies To Vice President
Fairbanks and several senator's
REFLECTS ON OFFICERS.
II was not until the paper came out
in printed form today that its char
actor became known. 1t was found 10
reflect upon the integrity OF the pre-
siding officers of the senate and upon
members of the senate and house ana
other government officials.
Passing over 80 years OF the OIL
clal records" Prof. Elliott dealt with
the work Of the Anglo-American nigh
commission In connection with the
sealing question and told OF an argu-
ment made by Mr.. Fairbanks in oppo-
,ition TO ~ sealing bill before tie SEN
ate committee on foreign relations IN
l902-19O3, when he was q member OF
the committee. This paragraph is
taken from the bill I'm the house: But
on Feb. =, In the senate foreign re-
lations committee, senator Fairbanks
deliberately tells the committee tisl
this bill is not needed; that the fur
scuI question has been agreed to by
The Joint committee and only awaits
the formal publication when the COM
mittee assemblies: he assured the conf
mittce that the reconvention OF the
commission Is TO take place soon alter
March 4. 1908.
"frhn statement OF Senator Fair
banks was an untruth m every respect
"a square and Wholesale fabrication
on his lart. to defeat tho pending bill
Under the circumstances his coll
leagues could not dispute his false re-
port; therefore they took no action
on this bill OF his request.
JOHN HAY DRAGGED IN.
Tho "ofricial record" refers in dis
paraging manner to The part taken by
the late Secretary of state John Hay
in regard to the sealing question, ana
charges that legislation was bitterly
opposed "by the land and sea butchers
| OF the fur seal herd. who had suborn-
| cd certain senators, congressman aho
| department officials.
1t refers also to the extended trip
of inspection over Alaska mado by
| Senators Dillingham;. Nelson. Burn
| ham and Patterson. and mentions the
fact that no legislation was accomp-
lished. Fault Is found also with the
fact that Secretary Root and Assist
ant Secretary Bacon had done "abso-
lutely nothing" although fully inform
ed that a plan of mutual concession
and joint control of United States and
Canada could be successfully neso-
tiated III six weeks time The long
record closes as follows:
WHY should this infamous work of
the land and sea butchers of our fur
seal herd go thus unchecked? And
that, too, when the Canadian govern
ment asks us to unite with it on q
proper plan TO suppress it No auib-
bling cr nonsense about the necessity
OF Seeing or sounding Japan or Rus
sia viii bear the light of honest dis
cussion These governments have
both boen ready at any hour to sup