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Show 143 partisan and clever. It is a report on the condition of the river between those two points. Now, it is in no sense a partisan report. It is a technical report on conditions as I found them. Mr. Farnsworth: I do not use the word " partisan" in any offensive sense. The Special Master: No, I do not think that Mr. Farnsworth means that. Mr. Farnsworth: I meant merely partisan, in the sense that I am partisan, and counsel on the other side is partisan, and the duty rests on us to presentnour respective sides to this controversy. Mr. Blackmar: For instance, in this report, he has a lot of soundings that he made on this river. Now, if I asked him as to the various soundings, it would take the best part of a week to bring them all out. The Special Master: Mr. Farnsworth, would not this meet your objection, that the report will be admitted, so far as it is a statement of fact, and in so far as it is a conclusion or a view expressed by Mr. Hoyt, such parts shall not be admitted; that those must be developed on oral examination? Mr. Farnsworth: I think that that would substantially cover it. I will go farther than that: that it may be admitted, in so far as it is a statement of the contents of other government reports and papers. It may be admitted, in so far as it 2104 |
