FIFTIETH CONGRESS, 1887-1889. 1079 
tucky knows, to the Committee on Appropriations of the House and 
stated to them what his ideas were and what he thought was a possi- 
bility. He stated that if the Committee on Appropriations of the 
House would give him $5,000 he would devote his time without cost 
to the Government in experimenting to such’an extent as to demon- 
strate the possibility of accomplishing something of value to the people 
of this country in the line of producing food-fish, and $5,000.two 
years before the date of the law, when there was no law regulating it, 
was appropriated for that purpose. 
When Professor Baird had demonstrated freely to his own satisfac- 
tion and everybody else’s what he could do, he drew the statute, and 
that it might not appear that he was seeking a place of gain or profit 
to himself, but that it was solely in the interest of the poor people of 
this country, he said: ‘‘I do not ask anything for this work; I am 
willing to devote all the time I have left from my duties at the Smith- 
sonian Institution to the work.” Then the law was adopted. 
He created an institution; he created the: law governing it; and 
under it from $5,000 a year we have imposed upon the officer created 
by that law the disbursement of more than $100,000 a year. From 
one single station for hatching fish close by him here at the Smith- 
’ sonian Institution he has been required by appropriations from time 
-to time and by the duties of an office voluntarily taken upon him to 
establish stations all over the country, first in the Lakes, then on the 
Pacific coast, down on the shores of Massachusetts and Maine, and 
down on the Southern waters. Everywhere where it was possible to 
make the experiment useful and demonstrate its possibility, the serv- 
ices of Professor Baird were required in the discharge of duties that 
he.never could possibly have pinion Gite when he tendered his 
services. 
Mr. Harris. Will the esultia from Massachusetts allow me? I 
believe the Senator from Massachusetts has been in one or the other 
of the Houses of Congress for the last eighteen or twenty years. If 
the Senator from Massachusetts regarded this service as meriting a 
higher degree of compensation than was being ‘allowed and paid to 
that very distinguished and able official or person, whichever he may 
have been, why did not the Senator see that he was paid to the extent 
that his services merited ? : 
Mr. Dawes. That is not an inquiry, it seems to me, becoming 
the Senator from Tennessee to make of me. I am showing what 
Professor Baird voluntarily took upon himself, and what we in addi- 
tion, and beyond any possibility of a conception on his part, put upon 
him, and that without murmur or complaint or reference to the fact 
that the statute required it should be done for nothing, he willingly 
took the new burdens we imposed upon him until the end, seventeen 
years after it had grown up into an institution that no man could be 
