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[page 393] shall leave it to the Committee to decide whether he be summoned as a witness or not. Dr. Butler stated that he had taken good advice, and the course he proposed to take had been thought proper. If Mr. Baker spoke for the management of the hospital that was another thing. He was confident that it would be improper for him to testify while conducting the examination. At the proper time he would be perfectly willing to come before the Committee. Mr. Pettangall: When will that proper time be? Dr. Butler: When I shall have finished conducting the examination. Then I shall be here ready to be cross-examined as well as to bear my testimony Mr. Hall suggested that it was an awkward thing for counsel in a case to be also a witness, because in his argument he would be obliged to comment on his own testimony. So far as he knew it had always been regarded by the legal profession as a delicate thing for a man to testify and argue in the same case. Adjourned.