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Excerpt from Hearings Before the Special Committee Appointed by the Speaker, Under a Resolution of the House of Representatives, Fifty-Ninth Congress, Vol. 1 of 2: To Make a Full and Complete Investigation of the Management of the Government Hospital for the Insane The chairman. Then, so far as you are concerned, you do not wish to appear here as a witness. N r. Clark. I understand that some one is here from the Attorney General's Office. For what purpose does he appear? The chairman. Mr. Pic. Amara. From the district attorney's office, has come here and stated hat the attorney-general has asked him to appear on behalf of the attorney-general's Office. Mr. Mcnamara. Mr. Chairman, perhaps I should explain that I am not connected with the attorney-general's Office. I am assistant United States attorney for the District of Columbia, and at the request Of the attorney-general I have been assigned to appear here. Not especially in the interest of Doctor White or in the interest of the hospital, but simply to see that whatever interest the Government may have in this matter may be conserved. In other words, I hold no partisan brief, and the Government is equally interested with the committee in havia the actual facts brou ht out. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.