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not include a mass of documentary exhibits which were read and considered in evidence, for the purpose of information. Of this testimony, 1,077 pages embrace the subject-matter of police interference at the polls, and the balance, or almost 9,500 pages refer to the subject-matter of blackmail, extortion and corruption. In all, 678 witnesses were examined, of whom eighty-one were examined on the first and 597 on the second branch of the inquiry. In all about 3,000 subpoenas were served, of which upwards of 2,750 were with reference to the second branch of the inquiry.

While during the first stages of the investigation, the difficulty lay mainly in ability to procure testimony, as the investigation progressed, as public sentiment became more and more aroused; and the developments assumed from day to day a more startling aspect, the number of witnesses and the variety of testimony offered increased prodigiously, and the main difficulty finally lay in sifting the good from the mass and in rejecting that which was purely cumulative.

In this connection attention may, with propriety, be directed to the valuable services rendered to your committee by the Hon. William A. Sutherland, who served as counsel with reference to that branch of the investigation which dealt with police interference at the polls. It is due mainly to his services,

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