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[page 98] Mr. Baker: I do not desire to consume the time of the Committee, but I think I ought to say injustice to those for whom I appear that they have no desire to restrict in any way to the very utmost limits all proper testimony which any reasonable man would feel was testimony which tended to prove any given fact. I think if witnesses have been summoned in the past, of which I have no knowledge, who have ^not been under oath, and the Dr. desires to recall them, of course they can have their sworn testimony taken. But I do think, and it certainly has been the experience of mankind, as crystalized in every familiar rule for a great period of years, that each witness, when he has testified to every thing that he has ever seen or has ever heard, has gone about as far as he can go. Because the experience of mankind has shown that only the things which a man has seen and heard tend to prove any given issue. Dr. Butler: I only desire to have the same latitude that has been extended, and no more. Mr. Pettangall: So far as I am concerned,