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[page 216] to the people of Maine for an investigation and we are here, having accepted it. It is not much money that people are willing to spend in an investigation like this. So that we are in the extraordinary position of meeting on the other side a body of men, or what is practically a corporation with great powers, and with money at its command, which no doubt it legitimately uses. I stand above so few as any public manifestation as concerned, but I think I have extended to me in the proper way, a great deal of sympathy. I now request that a gentleman harmed in the law shall be allowed to sit with the Committee simply to decide questions of late on the admission of evidence, which may arise between me and Mr. Baker. Mr. Pettangall: We have no power to do any thing of the kind. Mr. Baker denied that the trustees had throw out a challenge for investigation. Certain attacks had been made upon the ^management of the institution, and those gentlemen having in charge ^the hospital for the people come to the committee and say "Gentleman, if any person within the borders of this commonwealth desires to investigate the management of this