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[page 129] that you thought a certain man who had been discharged, one man or another, had been discharged on insufficient grounds, that there was no need of discharging him? A. I dont know that I ever have. Q. Will you say you never did? A. I could not say that I have; I cannot think of anybody. Q. Will you state that you never have? A. There is a little of politics mixed up in one case, and I might have said only that I didn't think it was sufficient, or thought they all might to go; there were some that ought to go that didn't go. Q. Were there some that did go that you though ought not to? A. I thought they all ought to go. Q. Did? A. Yes, sir. Q. A clean sweep? A. Yes, sir, clean sweeo; if he turned away any he ought to turn away all. What you have reference to occurred about a year ago. I dont think of any thing else now. Q. Was Hodgkins at one time in the employ