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I do not mind telling you," and he took him by the lapel of the 

 coat and led him off into a corner; "this is the situation of 

 things," said Neasmith, "the night before the vote was taken 

 I needed one vote and I needed it badly. There was one man 

 in the Legislature whom I thought I could persuade to help 

 me out. I got him up to my room, seated in a chair, gave him 

 a good drink of whisky and a cigar, and I said to him; now see 

 here, Jones. I want to be United States Senator from Oregon. 

 I want one vote. How much will you take? 'By gosh,' he 

 says, 'that's the kind of man I like to hear talk. You talk 

 business; you're all right. What will you give?' 'Well,' I said, 

 'how wouid one hundred and fifty strike you?' 'One hundred 

 and fifty hells,' said Jones, 'I paid the GoA^ernor of Oregon 

 three hundred dollars for pardoning me out of. prison.'" 

 (Laughter.) 



Gentlemen, I could not let this matter pass without some 

 suggestion on my part of the facts as I have known them. I 

 could have very much better presented this matter in a paper, 

 but I have not'had time to prepare it. My life is busy; there- 

 fore with these few remarks I will conclude what I have had 

 to say on this subject. 



Mr. Clark: The gentleman's remarks so far as my paper is 

 concerned are wholly unwarranted. 



Secretary Whitaker: In what respect? 



Mr. Clark: Simply because my paper does not touch on 

 the protection of the fish of the Great Lakes alone ; it is more 

 general — touching on the protection of fish everywhere. My 

 paper is broader in scope. I only mentioned the fact of the 

 closed season for whitefish, and what laws we do not have 

 about the black bass, just to compare spawning habits of the 

 two kinds of fish. In this whole matter I am not concerned 

 about the fishermen one way or the other, and have not had 

 that idea in my head at all. I was simply looking upon the 

 question as a practical fish culturist, and I have closely ob- 

 served the work on the Great Lakes and elsewhere for thirty 

 years. That is what has brought out everything upon this 

 subject of protection. There are a few things I would like to 

 answer in INIr. Whitaker's remarks, as long as he has touched 

 on this subject. I want the gentlemen to understand that my 

 article was in reference to the question of protection through- 

 out the whole L'nited States; not contined to the protection 

 of lake trout or whitefish alone — but to everything, every- 

 -^here — a different kind of protection, as I said in my paper 

 for different kinds of fish, according to the conditions. The 

 characteristics of the fish must be studied in all matters by 

 our scientists, and especially as to the protection of the food. 

 I think the food question has as much to do with their perpet- 



