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Senator BATE. Mr. Chairman, will you not agree to have hearings 

 later than that date ? The proposition yesterday was to keep the hear- 

 ings open until the 10th of January, and we differed about it. I wanted 

 to have the time extended to the 15th. I have telegrams waiting to 

 be answered, and the parties desire to be heard the 15th of January. 



The CHAIRMAN. I do not think it would be right to give that time; 

 that is only six weeks before final adjournment. 



Senator BATE. Then what time shall I indicate to them? 



The CHAIRMAN. I think they should appear here on the 3d of Janu- 

 ary; probably we shall not finish the hearing on that date, but we will 

 continue it. 1 think everybody should be here the 3d of January. 



Senator BATE. Between the 3d and the 10th? 



Senator MONEY. I have answered the dispatches 1 have received to 

 the effect that the parties should come at once; that nobody knew when 

 the hearings would close. I received dispatches of the same tenor. 



Senator BATE. I expect that I had better state to them that they 

 must be here between the 3d and the 10th, because the proposition of 

 Senator Allen yesterday was to close the hearing on the 10th. 



Mr. WALDEN. Am 1 to understand that the hearing will be contin- 

 ued between the 3d and 10th of January ? 



The CHAIRMAN. It will be open on the 3d and continue as long as 

 we think we can give you time not later than the 10th, but I think it 

 will be concluded that week. The 3d is on Thursday, and I hope to 

 conclude it that week in three days. 



Senator BATE. But let us understand that, Mr. Chairman, and see 

 what gentlemen desire. I want to know it myself. No one will be shut 

 out or excluded up to the 10th of the month, and if we can get through 

 before the 10th we will do it. Let us have that understood. 



The CHAIRMAN. I am not prepared to say that. There will be nobody 

 excluded up to some date, say the 6th, covering the 3d, 4th, and 5th. 

 We shall have to be able to close it in that time, because the hearings 

 have been very full before the House, and anyone can appear during 

 the holidays and have all the time he wants. 



Senator HANSBROUGH. Do I understand that it is the intention of 

 the Chair to appoint a subcommittee to sit during the holidays 2 



The CHAIRMAN. 1 will appoint a subcommittee now, consisting of 

 yourself, Senator Dolliver, and Senator Heitfeld, or any number of 

 you, and any other members of the committee may come in and take 

 an equal part. I expect to be here myself most of the time. 



Senator HANSBROUGH. I wish to ask, for information, if it is intended 

 to postpone the hearing to suit the individual convenience of all the 

 gentlemen who I see would like to have all the month of January in 

 which to be heard? I do not see the necessity of appointing a subcom- 

 mittee at all. It would be well for the whole committee to adjourn 

 until those gentlemen get together and decide when they would like to 

 have us consider this measure. 



Mr. SCHELL. That would save the time of the committee. 



Senator HANSBROUGH. I say that- from the standpoint of the gentle- 

 men who desire to be heard. 



The CHAIRMAN. This committee is in the nature of a court, and those 

 gentlemen are here as witnesses and advocates. 



Senator HANSBROUGH. We have not summoned them, however. 



The CHAIRMAN. They must come at our convenience. 



Senator HANSBROUGH. I thought so. That is right. 



