£©N'i'klDinTONS TO WKSiKkV HOIAXV NO. !o 



snap my fingers in the face of the hushes. Of course the cowardly pussyfoots 

 throw up their hands in horror at any baiting of the "Push." Who cares? 



Some years past there was an insistent attempt u> fasten hy improper 

 means on this country the so-called Americas code. 1 his code has some 

 good features, I in others. 



I favor priority of varietal names. 



I emphatically oppose "Once a synonym always a synonym." 



I oppose redundant names and never shall use them, such as Astragalus 

 ostragalinus. 



I oppose the required descriptions being in Latin, for the reason that 

 English is today the world language. It would not discomode me to punish 

 my descriptions in Latin, but I am opposed to the principle. I wa? educated 

 for a professorship in Latin and never thought of being anything else. I 

 favor correcting improperly made name- away from the 



author. Such as Eriogonum trichopes Torrey, which should be trichopodum, 

 the proper Greek term. I freely admit mat uniformity is desirable. I 

 oppose recognition of all genera printed without species' unless they were 

 provided later on with species, such as the Adansonian genera. Exceptions 

 should be made whenever they will aid stability. But as we know the whole 

 burden of Nomenclature ch. tnda. Attempts to g---t us 



I think that the taxpayers of this nation should put an immediate end 

 back to the effete European ways. 



to all attempts to peonize workers. I am convinced that there is more of it 

 now than there was in 1894, and there was plenty of it then. Officialdom in 

 Washington right now needs a dr -ti '. o .-•' ' i ■: an 1 the men who think 

 they own the Government should be turned out to grass where the other jack- 

 asses are. I am Id guesses when I write this, for I was 

 for 40 years intimately conn :u of Justice, the Agri- 

 cultural Department and Geological Survey in various ways. One exam- 

 ple out of the many I could relate as personally known to me is the Coal 

 Fraud cases. I was one of the two chief experts in the cases tried some 15 

 years ago in Salt Lake City, involving millions of dollars in value of coal 

 bids stolen from the Government by the railroads. After my testimony was 

 all in the railroads begged for a continuance, -Ad at the end of the period 

 came in with a compromise with the Government of all cases. It is a curi- 

 ous fact that the wife of the chief attorney for the Government got a legacy 



who bore the brunt of the battle never got more than our per diem and had 

 to fight to get that. I have seen so much incompetence and rascality in the 

 various departments of the Government that I feel excusable for refusing to 

 kowtow to the higher ups when they tap on wood and loudly proclaim their 

 l impeccability. Many times I feel like joining the ranks of those who 

 secure a housecleaning, for I think I 

 > is an inalienable one 

 in an American citizen, for it was this that caused the Pilgrim fathers tc 

 migrate to America and found this nation. 



