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[page 792] Witness: No, I think not; it is asking too much of me. I generally attend to my own business and not to anybody else. If I ever saw a case I cleared myself; I did my duty, and that is as far as I have to say. Q. Did you ever see a case? A. I am not going to answer that question. I decline to answer it. Q. Have you ever seen a case which you didn't report? A. No, sir. I never did. Always reported. Q. Now I ask you if you have ever reported a case? A. I wish to refrain from answering those questions unless I am obliged to. The officers always used me like a gentleman, and if I reported any thing to them the man would go up the lane. Mr. Baker: I think it proper that the that the witness should understand that the Committee have full power and may exercise it, to commit him for contempt until he answers the question. Mr. Pettangall: I hope we shall not be driven to that extremity. I hope his goof sense will show ^ that it is done to him and to us that