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[page 60] will adjourn so that he can have an opportunity when the Chairman is present. Dr. Neal: The only question is that of the expense of attending here. Mr. Morrill: You will recollect I advised you that the Committee was not full to day, and it would appoint a meeting for next Tuesday. Dr. Neal: Yes, sir. My experience in the matter of insane hospitals has been considerable, of course not so extensive as that of others. I was connected with an insane hospital in New York for seven years before I came here. Here I was physician up to last Nov., a little over five years. It is certainly not a pleasant duty to do what I am going to, but nevertheless, I felt that I could not avoid it. I know the opposition and enmity that is created against any individual who speaks against the hospital, especially if he has been there. In all these investigations of hospitals there is a great deal of enmity and opposition created against a man, and it follows him pretty closely for a long time. [illegible] seems to be a sort of "close corporation", with the idea that they alone have any right to say what is right or