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I had to reveal these facts to the Governor in order to tell him how we were going to proceed against these doctors, how I proposed to tighten up the law on medical evidence, why I wanted more money in the Labor Department budget for the employment of specialists directly responsible to the Department of Labor and not employed by anybody else. We didn't want to have to rely on the specialist brought in by the insurance company, or the doctor brought in from Sackett Street by the insured claimant, but we wanted to have our own specialists who were men to be above reproach.

James Alexander Miller, who was a great tuberculosis specialist, was one of my advisers on that and had been perfectly splendid. There was also Dr. Irving Pardee and Dr. Armitage Whitman, who was an orthopedic man. These men were men whom nobody could buy or even hint about. They were willing to undertake some of these things at our suggestions. There was also a very famous eye man, Dr. Charles May, who was by this time very old, but who was without doubt the greatest diagnostician of eye problems. He was willing to come and be a specialist. From the insurance company they got $250 for an hour's testimony on a particular afternoon, but from us they might get just $25. It's an awful nuisance to busy, high paid professional men to come down and sit around in a hearing room in the