Miss FAHEY. No, sir; only once, and he went to a picnic that day. Mr. LAMBERT. Do you know how long ago that was?

Miss FAHEY. No, sir; I do not.

Mr. LAMBERT. How long ago was it, according to your best judgment?

Miss FAHEY. I should judge it was over a year ago.

Mr. LAMBERT. From the time you were discharged, or now?

Miss FAHEY. From now, I should say.

Mr. LAMBERT. Then it would be during the summer of 1896, as you recall it?

Miss FAHEY. Really I could not say.

Mr. LAMBERT. Do you know whether or not he was excused?

Miss FAHEY. He was excused.

Mr. LAMBERT. Do you know who excused him?

Miss FAHEY. I heard that Dr. Ayer excused him.

Mr. LAMBERT. Who was there in his stead?

Miss FAHEY. I do not think anyone was left in charge of us. We all did our work as well while he was gone.

Mr. LAMBERT. Was he gone all of the day or just part of the day? Miss FAHEY. Part of the day. He was there before we left the office, I know.

Mr. LAMBERT. In the evening?

Miss FAHEY. Yes, sir.

Mr. LAMBERT. Was he there to distribute the specimens in the morning?

Miss FAHEY. Yes, sir.

Mr. LAMBERT. During part of the day, after the opening and before the close, he was absent?

Miss FAHEY. Yes, sir.

Mr. LAMBERT. Do you know where he went to a picnic?

Miss FAHEY. No, sir; I do not know.

Mr. LAMBERT. Do you remember whether he was absent at any other time than the occasion you have mentioned, to attend patients or make professional calls, or to prescribe or to do anything of the sort? Miss FAHEY. No, sir.

Mr. LAMBERT. Otherwise he was always present?

Miss FAHEY. Yes, sir.

Mr. LAMBERT. And ready and willing to discharge any duties you might request him to do, or that were to be done in the department? Miss FAHEY. Yes, sir.

Mr. LAMBERT. Do you remember that he at any time neglected any duties?

Miss FAHEY. No, sir.

Mr. LAMBERT. What you regarded as a duty of the office?

Miss FAHEY. No, sir.

Mr. LAMBERT. Whenever there was a reexamination or a verification to be made he was there and willing to do it, and did make the verification?

Miss FAHEY. Yes, sir; as far as I know.

Mr. LAMBERT. Were you called on to make a statement before Edward Shelden, who was collecting evidence some time after Dr. White was discharged?

Mr. LAMBERT. Do you remember conversing with anyone about it at or about the time he was here?

Miss FAHEY. No, sir.

Mr. LAMBERT. You are acquainted both with Miss Flynn and Miss Dalton?

Miss FAHEY. Yes, sir.

Mr. LAMBERT. You know the work they were doing?

Miss FAHEY. Yes, sir.

Mr. LAMBERT. And how they were doing it, ordinarily!

Miss FAHEY. Yes, sir.

Mr. LAMBERT. What would you say with respect to whether it was good, bad, or indifferent work?

Miss FAHEY. I should say they were good working girls. They were competent, so far as I could tell.

Mr. LAMBERT. Always prompt?

Miss FAHEY. Always prompt, and very attentive to their work. Mr. LAMBERT. No complaints were made of them!

Miss FAHEY. I never heard of them.

Mr. LAMBERT. Neither by the chief nor by any of the assistants! Miss FAHEY. No, sir.

Mr. LAMBERT. Then you know of nothing that would justify their discharge on the ground of neglect of duty?

Miss FAHEY. No, sir; I do not.

Mr. LAMBERT. I believe you said they were present!

Miss FAHEY. Yes, sir.

Mr. LAMBERT. And always remained until the work was completed! Miss FAHEY. Yes, sir. We all had the same amount of work to do. Mr. LAMBERT. They always did theirs?

Miss FAHEY. Yes, sir.

Mr. LAMBERT. You never heard them publicly chastised or criticised by their chief or any other person there?

Miss FAHEY. No, sir.

Mr. LAMBERT. If such chastisement or criticism had been passed, you would have heard it?

Miss FAHEY. Yes, sir; I should think so.

Mr. LAMBERT. The girls there talked politics!

Miss FAHEY. Yes, sir.

Mr. LAMBERT. You were divided into parties, or, rather, cliques or gangs?

Miss FAHEY. Yes, sir.

Mr. LAMBERT. Do you think the discussion caused any ill feeling among the different girls in the room?

Miss FAHEY. I think it did for awhile.

Mr. LAMBERT. In fact, did it get so as to prevent any of the girls from speaking when they met?

Miss FAHEY. No; I do not think so.

Mr. LAMBERT. Did you ever hear any of them quarrel?

Miss FAHEY. I do not know. They used to get into some pretty hot arguments, but I do not know that they quarreled over it, exactly.

Mr. LAMBERT. Who seemed to take the leading part on the McKinley side and who on the Bryan side, if anybody took a leading part? Miss FAHEY. I should judge Mrs. Bushnell and Miss Gibson did. Mr. LAMBERT. They seemed to talk the most!

Miss FAHEY. Yes, sir.

Mr. LAMBERT. Although you knew Miss Flynn's politics and also Miss Dalton's politics?

Miss FAHEY. Yes, sir.

Mr. LAMBERT. You could easily have told, and Mrs. Bushnell probably knew it also, from what was being said or done about it?

Miss FAHEY. Yes, sir.

Mr. LAMBERT. Did you ever hear her, Miss Gibson, or Miss Thompson complain of your politics or of the politics of any of the other girls there?

Miss FAHEY. No, sir.

Mr. LAMBERT. The discussion and conversation, etc., took place at recess and noon?

Miss FAHEY. Yes, sir.

Mr. LAMBERT. It was not permitted or allowed in the department during working hours?

Miss FAHEY. No, sir.

Mr. LAMBERT. What was the order which Dr. White maintained there; was it good or bad, or how was it?

Miss FAHEY. It was good.

Mr. LAMBERT. The discipline was good!

Miss FAHEY. Yes, sir.

Mr. LAMBERT. I believe you overheard the conversation between Dr. White and Mrs. Bushnell on election day, with reference to the Irish train?

Miss FAHEY. Yes, sir.

Mr. LAMBERT. State to the committee as nearly as you can just what was said.

Miss FAHEY. I heard the doctor say, just after recess and before we started to work, "I wonder how those fellows feel after taking that man's life." Then there was nothing said for a while until we had recess again. Mrs. Bushnell called him, or at least I think she called him, because he was up there by her table. They were talking there, I do not know just what about, but the doctor was kind of explaining to her, and she was very angry, and she said, as she rose from the table, "That is all right, Dr. White; I will not forget this for you." Mr. LAMBERT. Did she say "You will be sorry for it?"

Miss FAHEY. I do not remember her saying that. I just heard her say "That is all right, Dr. White; I will not forget this for you." Mr. LAMBERT. Do you recall now any instance where Dr. White neglected his duty!

Miss FAHEY. No, sir; I can not.

Mr. LAMBERT. Nor either of the girls referred to?
Miss FAHEY. No, sir.

TESTIMONY OF MRS. J. S. WALTERS.

Mrs. J. S. WALTERS, being duly sworn, testified as follows:

Mr. LAMBERT. You are acquainted with Dr. White?

Mrs. WALTERS. Yes, sir.

Mr. LAMBERT. Are you now in the employ of the Government at South Omaha!

Mrs. WALTERS. No, sir; I got my dismissal the 31st day of December, 1896.

Mr. LAMBERT. You were employed there while Dr. White was in charge?

Mrs. WALTERS. Yes, sir; since June 16, 1893.

Mr. LAMBERT. And after that time!

Mrs. WALTERS. Yes, sir.

Mr. LAMBERT. What time did you actually quit work in the department?

Mrs. WALTERS. We were furloughed, you know, right along; but in September I was married, and then I was dismissed.

Mr. LAMBERT. Was that September, 1896?

Mrs. WALTERS. No, 1895.

Mr. LAMBERT. So your other statement should have been December, 1895, instead of 1896.

Mrs. WALTERS. Yes, sir.

Mr. LAMBERT. I thought so.

Then it was about a year before Dr.

White was discharged that you quit work?

Mrs. WALTERS. Yes, sir; just about a year.

Mr. LAMBERT. But you did work there about two years while he was in charge?

Mrs. WALTERS. Yes, sir; I went in under Dr. Siggins. He was there only a short while when Dr. White came.

Mr. LAMBERT. While you were in the department what was your position; assistant microscopist?

Mrs. WALTERS. Yes, sir.

Mr. LAMBERT. Do you remember that Dr. White was late any morning?

Mrs. WALTERS. No, sir.

Mr. LAMBERT. Not a morning?

Mrs. WALTERS. No, sir.

Mr. LAMBERT. He was always present at the opening in the morning?

Mrs. WALTERS. Yes, sir; always present.

Mr. LAMBERT. The specimens were always properly distributed, so that you could go to work?

Mrs. WALTERS. Yes, sir.

Mr. LAMBERT. Do you remember whether he was absent during the day attending professional calls?

Mrs. WALTERS. No, sir; I remember that he once went to a picnic for a half day. I remember that because he wanted to go. It was a Sunday school picnic, and we asked him in the morning if he was going, and he said, Yes, if he could he excused. So in the afternoon he must have been excused, because he went. That was the only time. Mr. LAMBERT. That was in the summer of 1895?

Mrs. WALTERS. I could not be positive whether it was in 1895 or 1894.

Mr. LAMBERT. It might have been in 1894?

Mrs. WALTERS. Yes, sir; but I am not sure.

Mr. LAMBERT. Do you remember when your department went under the civil service?

Mrs. WALTERS. No, sir; I do not.

Mr. LAMBERT. Is that the only time you recall that Dr. White was absent?

Mrs. WALTERS. Yes, sir; the only time.

Mr. LAMBERT. You do not know of any instance where he neglected his duty in the department?

Mrs. WALTERS. Not one instance. He was always faithful, to my knowledge.

Mr. LAMBERT. Did he seem interested and active in the performance of the work?

Mrs. WALTERS. Yes, sir; he did. He was very much interested in the work. He took a great deal of interest in it.

Mr. LAMBERT. Are you acquainted with Miss Flynn and Miss Dalton?
Mrs. WALTERS. Yes. I worked right next to Miss Dalton.

Mr. LAMBERT. You know what kind of work they were doing?
Mrs. WALTERS. Yes, sir.

Mr. LAMBERT. And how they were doing the work?

Mrs. WALTERS. Yes, sir. Of course, I could not swear how they were doing it, but I really feel that they were doing it well. They were a little slow, but the work is such that it requires slowness. It can not be done fast. They were faithful to their work. They were slower than the other girls, but I really think they did their work well. Mr. LAMBERT. As well as anybody in the department?

Mrs. WALTERS. Just as well as anybody in there, and better than some, because there were girls there who hurried through the work, and it can not be done well and done fast. These two girls and I worked very slowly. We were always last with our reports. It is work that requires slowness.

Mr. LAMBERT. You never heard any complaints made of them either by Dr. White or any of the assistants?

Mrs. WALTERS. No; the Doctor did not complain.

Mr. LAMBERT. Nor any of the assistants, except that they were slow? Mrs. WALTERS. No, sir.

Mr. LAMBERT. You would have heard any public criticism made there if it had been made?

Mrs. WALTERS. I have often heard remarks made there about their being slow, but that is all.

Mr. LAMBERT. You would have heard, however, any complaint that was made?

Mrs. WALTERS. Yes, sir; because we were all there together.

TESTIMONY OF HOWARD MEYERS.

HOWARD MEYERS, being duly sworn, testified as follows:

Mr. LAMBERT. You are a resident of South Omaha?

Mr. MEYERS. Yes, sir.

Mr. LAMBERT. How long have you been such?

Mr. MEYERS. Ten years and more.

Mr. LAMBERT. What is your business in South Omaha!

Mr. MEYERS. I am a druggist.

Mr. LAMBERT. With reference to the situation of the Bureau of

Animal Industry, where is your place of business located?

Mr. MEYERS. It is directly across the street.

Mr. LAMBERT. The Bureau of Animal Industry is located on the southeast corner of Twenty-sixth and N streets?

Mr. MEYERS. Yes, sir.

Mr. LAMBERT. Then your place of business is on the southwest corner of the same streets?

Mr. MEYERS. Yes, sir.

Mr. LAMBERT. How long have you known Dr. White?

Mr. MEYERS. In the neighborhood of four years or more.

Mr. LAMBERT. Ever since he took charge of the department?

Mr. MEYERS. Yes, sir; and some little time before.

Mr. LAMBERT. During this time did Dr. White have most of his prescriptions or all of them filled at your place of business!