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being Regierungsrat Dr. Hayek; its members were scattered 
all over the world. 
The income of the Committee consisted of the contri- 
butions of the respective States: that of Hungary was 1000 
florins = 2000 crowns, a sum included, in equal shares, in 
the budgets of the Ministers of Public Instruction and Agri- 
culture respectively. These contributions were sent partly to 
the President, partly to the Secretary, and were employed to 
cover the expenses of propaganda and the maintenance of 
the ,,Omis", the periodical published by the Committee. 
So it is easily understood that the Committee never met ; 
the President and Secretary held communication only by 
letter, acted quite independently, and spent the money inde- 
pendently, facts which led to rivalry, later to a breach of 
unity that only the authority of the Crown Prince succeeded 
in smoothing over. 
Under such circumstances the organisation could make 
no start or progress. The only thing that was done was 
to propose 1888 as the year for the holding of the Con- 
gress. 
Finally, in 1887, the Hungarians made a move, by ela- 
1887. borating a scheme for the PIOC, which the latter should 
utilise as a basis for the scheme it was to present to the 
Hungarian Government. The seven points of the Hungarian 
scheme proposed to provide for the delivery of special addresses. 
The members of the first special committee, were Dr. Geza 
HoRVATH, John Frivaldszky, Dr. Gyula Madarasz, Prof. 
John Kriesch, Prof. Joseph Paszlavszky and Otto Herman, 
1888. then M. P. At the same time Dr. Blasius and the Secretary's 
Office at Vienna were requested to present a scheme, keeping 
as far as possible to the seven points. 
In the meantime the quarrel between the President and 
Secretary was raging, time passed away, and the year 1888 
