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most strenuously object. I ol)jeet to acting on that committee in 

 any manner like that and settling- it. I do not think it could be 

 done. If it is not right, very well, T am willing to serve on the 

 committee as long as I may live, if you want me to, but I do not 

 want to act upon the committee and settle the question in two 

 hours, after working two years to fix u])on a certain definite 

 system. 



Dr. Bartlett : It seems to me passing strange that a body of 

 men such as we have here interested in that feature, who have 

 had two years' experience on that line, cannot settle the matter 

 in a very short time. I am interested in this matter. I tele- 

 graph to my superiors that I liave made a sliipment of so many 

 number ones and so many nund)er twos, but when I get up to the 

 sixes and sevens the variation in rate is increasing all the time. 

 The number that goes forward in cans does not tally with the 

 number represented in my shipping card. It must be a matter 

 of a good deal of inconvenience, and I think in three of four 

 hours we could reach a conclusion. We might have intermediate 

 numbers and arrive a little closer at the truth. We have had 

 two years' experience to Ijase our decision on. 



Mr. Clark: We have had two years' experience and I am 

 pretty well satisfied with the present plan. You may get up any 

 ])lan — ! don't care what it is — it will \ary unless you get it into 

 eighths. Wben l)ass will grow ilve-eigliths of an inch in three 

 days, wliat are you going to do ? I think the pystem is pretty 

 good as it is now. and if the committee attempt to do anything 

 now I will argue along that line. I really think it is a mistake. 

 Dr. Bartlett may be all fixed and satisfied in his mind, and Mr. 

 Meehan may l)e ( I don't think you ha^•e got the personnel of the 

 coraniittee as it was before, exac-tly) and they may know just 

 what to do and say, l)ut it seems to me it is too short a time to 

 try to arrive at any satisfactory conclusion. 



Mr. Titcond): T rise to a ])oint of order. I think the matter 

 should be discussed in committee, not here. 



Mr. Koot: I don't think the chairman has the names of the 

 committee just as it was before. 



