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[page 920] superintendent in place of the present superintendent. Ans. I have no recollection of it. Ques. Have you not applied to the present steward and treasurer to get him to allow his name to be used as a candidate for the place of superintendent of the asylum and promised to do everything you could for him if he would do it. Ans. I remember having a conversation with him in which I said it was my judgment that he could run the institution with the skill he possessed, better than Dr. Harlow could as the thing did run, because I believed he did practically run it now. Ques. Did you not of your own accord go to him and have one interview with him secretly for the purpose of endeavoring to get him to be a candidate for the place of the superintendent. Ans. I never had a secret interview with him that I remember. I have no recollection of asking him to be a candidate. I told him I wished he could have the place for I thought him eminently qualified for it in some respects. Ques. What reason had you for stating that if the superintendent could be removed, the investigation would be closed. Ans. I have given them already. I have said that the discipline of the hospital was