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[page 87] Mr. Morrill: Dr. Butler will understand that this Committee has no authority to exercise any such power, and all we can do is to get it from the legislature. Dr. Butler: I understand it so, and I want it from the legislature. Mr. Morrill: Before I should agree to any such order I should want the names of the witnesses and where they reside. While the Committee are willing to sit here any length of time and give every opportunity that the trustees challenge us to give to investigate this thoroughly, and I dont think any officer shrinks from it, I think it will be no more than fair and right that parties, Dr. Butler or anybody else, desiring persons to be brought here, should submit the names of such persons to the Committee, if this extraordinary power from the legislature is desired. Dr. Butler: With all due respect, I will say it is a very extraordinary cause but rarely pursued, and I think not in one single case in the last legislature, which you know was a legislature with a good many precedents to it and a wonderful thing, were the names of the witnesses presented. I may bring up a witness here