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gaged ill iiiiding out how the fniiiiiis lluil produced the trouble 

 ill the wiiie-jii-owiug districts found its access into the vines. I 

 had the pleasure of having Professor DeUarrj point out to me 

 himself the lirst spore that I ever saw, sending its germ threads 

 do^vn into the tissue of the plant. 1 do not know who discovered 

 the l>ordeaux mixture, hut T do knoAv tiuit thai was very in- 

 fluential in limiting the s])read of tlie disease and restoring the 

 Avine industry to its normal and natural condition. I do not be- 

 lieve, however, that it was discovered by our scientilic friends; 

 bill liiey did discover the life history of the disease, which was 

 a most iiiijioi'lai!!, iK'niuinciit con! ribii lion lo the; viiu.'-growing, 

 wine-producing indnslry of (he Old W'orbl. Now it seems lo 

 mo that Wi' are in a sonn-wiiat similar condithui here. ^Ve have 

 with us a pest, Avlii(di is destroying our forests. It seems to 

 me that the proper thing to do is to destroy every spore-produc- 

 ing s])ecinien that A^■e know is actively engaged in disseminating 

 and widening the area of the disease. That would seem lo be 

 one commonsense remedy to adopt. It is along the line of what 

 we know in the treatment of contagious and infectiops diseases. 

 In tiie meanwhile, lei onr laboratory men go on with renewed 

 energy and keep u]) the work. 1 think that ever}' State in this 

 1^11 ion ought to have a laboratory of well equpiped scientific 

 men, men who follow tludr work not for their salary but for 

 th(; love of the work. Those are the men tlnit give you the perma- 

 neni results. I would like to see every Slate in tliis Union 

 have a laboratory well ojuipped and well provided with all that 

 is necessary to produce effective work, ^lark Twain on one 

 occasion made the remark that they had a (pieer way of dealing 

 with criminals out West. He said "They hang them lirst and 

 try them afterwards."' Now il seems to me that we have the 

 known criminal willi us here. Let us hang him lirst and then 

 let our laborat(U-y friends try liim in the meanwhile. (Applause 

 and laughter). 



MK. HAKOLl) PKIRtU^:, of Pennsylvania: Mr. Chairman: 

 I move that at 1 1..">(I A. M., the Conference; take a recess until 

 two o'clock, and at that time, 11.30 A. M., the Committee on 

 ilesolutions meet in the House Caucus room. 1 Wiuild also 

 move thai no rcsolntions be receiv<Ml afler 10. .'50, and dial u]> 



