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the time for adjournment is just at hand I should like to be heard after 

 the holidays on this subject. I represent such a vast interest the 

 Kansas City Live Stock Exchange, of which I am the present presi 

 dent, with perhaps some 400 members, that loan millions of dollars 

 annually to the cattle growers, feeders, etc. I say the interest is so 

 large that the few moments allowed now before adjournment will not 

 give me time to present the evidence. 



The CHAIRMAN. Allow me to interrupt you. As you have come 

 such a long distance, would it not be better that you should be heard 

 now 2 We shall be still more busy after the holidays. We can give 

 you a hearing this afternoon or to-morrow morning. The Senate w T ill 

 probably adjourn quite early to-day. 



Mr. WALDEN. Unfortunately, I am here on another mission that will 

 require all my time during to-morrow. 



Senator HANSBROUGH. What length of time would you like to have? 



Mr. WALDEN. Possibly an hour or more. 



The CHAIRMAN. I have just learned of the death of the wife of the 

 President pro tempore of the Senate, and it is quite likely that the 

 Senate will adjourn immediately, and we can come right back here. 



Mr. SPRINGER. If that is .so, it adjourns you over the holidays? 



The CHAIRMAN. Certainly. 



Senator MONEY. But it does not adjourn this committee. 



The CHAIRMAN. The committee may remain in session. I will appoint 

 a subcommittee. We shall probably meet this afternoon. I suggest 

 to Mr. Walden that he appear at 2 o'clock this afternoon. 



Mr. SCHELL. May I ask whether the committee will sit during the 

 holidays ? 



The CHAIRMAN. Certainly; it will be obliged to do so. 



Mr. SCHELL. I leave for Cincinnati this afternoon. I want to be 

 heard, and I should like to be heard some time between January 3 

 and 10. 



The CHAIRMAN. We shall have a hearing on the 3d of January, but 

 the state of business is such that our hearings then will have to be 

 hurried. It will not be possible to give the time then that we are 

 ready to give now and during the holidays, so that matters will have 

 to be put in writing and go into the record without reading to a con- 

 siderable extent. The army bill is of pressing importance, and that 

 measure will come up immediately after the holiday recess. Three 

 members of this committee are upon the Committee on Military 

 Affairs. So you can see the urgency which compels us to close this 

 hearing as soon as possible after the 3d of January. 



Mr. SCHELL. Tour honor, I see all that, and I appreciate it. How- 

 ever, there is one thing that is apparent to me and apparent to every 

 member of the committee. It is that there is no organized opposition 

 to this bill. Everybody comes in and talks at random. That condition 

 will continue unless we are allowed some time to organize and get 

 together. We will not be before this committee properly unless we 

 are allowed some time to get together and agree on the objections that 

 should be urged and agree on somebody to present those objections. 



The CHAIRMAN. Well, we shall have~a hearing the 3d day of Janu- 

 ary. We want to give you all the time we possibly can, }^ou know, 

 and to be just as liberal in that respect as possible. It was for that 

 purpose that I thought we had better have the committee open during 

 the holidays. But still we shall have a hearing on the 3d of January. 



