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Show 7544 5522 introduces any different situation for me to rule upon? I haven't read that report. If there is anything in that report which gives the opinion of army officers or any other persons as to that might be come with this river in order to improve its navigation after 1896, I hold it is equally immaterial and irrelevant, and that portion of the report I shall not consider. MR. BLACKMAR: I think the army engineers' report is entirely based upon improvement of the river. THE SPECIAL MASTER: The report, I suppose, Will speak for itself. I will have to determine how far it is, and how far it is not-- MR. BLACKMAR: Of course both Mr. Hughes and Lieutenant Leeds and all their superior officers, whatever they have to say about it is on the improvement of the river. THE SPECIAL MASTER: If that is the fact, to the extent that testimony is introduced which I consider to be irrelevant and immaterial in view of the issue in this case, such testimony will not be considered by me. You have introduced quantities of government reports, parts of which must be material, many parts of which must be immaterial. I shall use such portions of those reports as you point out to me on argument or otherwise, and I shall indicate such portions us I consider relevant or irrelevant. |