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proud—one of the best of our food-fishes they had never before been 
_able to produce by artificial means. It was the Chesapeake or North 
Carolina rock bass. Many experiments had been failures because of 
not knowing exactly how to rock its cradle. He had finally had it 
worked out, and brought in a glass case, which he carried with great 
care, to the Committee on Appropriations, a lot of young rock which 
he was developing. The development of that fish alone artificially was 
worth millions to this country. So it was with other varieties—with 
_ the whitefish of the lakes and the salmon, the trout, and the carp, 
which are now circulated all over the country. All that work was 
developed under him. He carried on experiments along the New 
England coast for years to increase the supply of codfish. When he 
had established the commission on that coast and men went to visit the 
_ works, and he sought to induce gentlemen to visit them and take 
interest in the work, he entertained them all at his own expense when. 
they went there. The Government never paid a dollar of the expenses 
of anybody who went to the works under his charge in order to get 
information. 
Mr. President, I repeat that he spent in the rent of his house ata 
fair rental, in furnishing rooms to our clerks, in fuel, in lights, in 
entertaining men to educate them in the great public work he was 
doing and taking them to the different establishments of the Fish Com- 
mission, all of which he paid himself, more than the $50,000 which it 
is now proposed shall be given to his widow and daughter. 
Mr. Dawes. I wish the Senator from Kentucky would tell the Sen- 
ate what Professor Baird said on the very clause in the bill that his 
services should be without compensation. 
Mr. Brcx. The Senator from Massachusetts knows about that as 
well as I do. 
Mr. Dawes. I presume the Senator remembers that when the bill 
was drawn, after the two years’ experiments, and there were persons 
in the House of Representatives opposing it and saying that it was a 
job, he said that in order to have it clear before the world that he 
would promote no job we might put into the bill that he should not 
have any compensation. 
Mr. Brcx. Certainly; I remember that well. 
Mr. Dawes. He was prompted to do that in order to have the world 
understand that he was promoting no job. | 
Mr. Brcx. I meant to say in addition that when Congress did not 
have faith enough in the work of the Commission even to furnish room 
for our own clerks to work in, he took them to his own house and 
provided means for them. 
Mr. Cuttom. Will the Senator from Kentucky yield tome? In the 
light of the information which has been given and the disposition 
I see manifested on the part of the Senate to support the original 
