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President Huidekoper : Gentlemen, you have heard the report 
of the Finance Committee and if there is no objection, the report 
will be received and approved as read. There being no objection 
it was so ordered. 
DISCUSSIONS OF THE REPORTS OF VARIOUS COMMITTEES. 
President Huidekoper : The first subject for discussion is the 
report of the Committee on Diseases. 
Dr. Paquin: Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: It may be that 
I have not the right conception of what ought to constitute the 
reports of this Committee. I have thought that one of its chief 
elements at least ought to be justice. It ought to deal fairly with 
all the questions it attempts to consider. If it mentions anybody 
connected with any work, it ought to mention them all equally, or 
at least tell the whole truth about it. 
The report that has been submitted to us on contagious dis¬ 
eases, jather consists chiefly in explanations of what one gentle¬ 
man has done in investigating Texas fever. A large portion of 
the many pages in the report refer to the good work done by Dr. 
Smith at Washington. Every strong point is stated with fairness 
and exactness, but when it comes to compare that with the work 
of other men, the report glances over the other work, omits en¬ 
tirely much that is worthy of consideration, and then makes an un¬ 
fair comparison. I submit, gentlemen, if a comparison is to be 
made, it ought to be impartial. If there is to be merely a com¬ 
parison of these investigations of Texas fever they ought to be full 
and complete of all the work that has been done, and not the opin¬ 
ion of the gentleman who framed the report. I do not understand 
this Association to be organized for the purpose of discussing 
one-sided views. I do not understand that reports ought to be 
based on opinions, but on facts. If I am correct in my opinion, 
this report should have presented all the facts that have been 
developed by investigation. I do not object to what has been 
said concerning the important work of Dr. Smith. It is very 
important that the investigation he has made be given to this As¬ 
sociation ; but what I do object to is the unfairness with which 
comparisons have been made. 
