acted in entire good faith, without a thought as to these
apparently insignificant little books being of any importance or
having caused me or anybody else any trouble, and that he was
wounded in his most sensitive spot by the construction my Times
letter had put on his action. And in Colonel Lockwood's case one
saw the case of his party on the Committee. They had simply been
thoughtless in the matter.

I hope nobody will suppose that this in any way exonerates them.
When people accept public service for one of the most vital
duties that can arise in our society, they have no right to be
thoughtless. In spite of the fun of the scene on the surface, my
public sense was, and still is, very deeply offended by it. It
made an end for me of the claim of the majority to be taken
seriously. When the Government comes to deal with the question,
as it presumably will before long, I invite it to be guided
by the Chairman, the minority, and by the witnesses according to
their weight, and to pay no attention whatever to those
recommendations which were obviously inserted solely to
conciliate the majority and get the report through and the
Committee done with.

My evidence will be found in the Bluebook, pp. 46-53. And here is
the terrible statement which the Committee went through so much
to suppress.



THE REJECTED STATEMENT