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Dr. JAMESON : That would be thoroughly satisfactory. The only thing I feel, with Mr. Deakin and Sir Joseph Ward, is, that people would be very well satisfied if they got a short precis every day of some kind or another. Mr. DEAKIN : Otherwise, they lose touch with it altogether, and we have to begin all over again. Sir JOSEPH WARD : They look for something. Mr. DEAKIN : We live in the light of a publicity which you gentlemen are hardly accustomed to. Dr. JAMESON : Still more important than anything else is what Sir Wilfrid Laurier says—that that White-Book, not the Blue-Book, should be published immediately after the Conference in full. That is the most important of all. Mr. F. R. MOOR : You do not mean that particular book there—the past Conference—but the present one. Dr. JAMESON : No; on those lines. CHAIRMAN : I understand, at any rate, that there is an agreement that we shall not have a verbatim report each day. f . Mr. DEAKIN : I am in a hopeless minority. Dr. JAMESON : Another thing is, we cannot get it. Sir WILFRID LAURIER : I think the suggestion made on the last occasion in the words of Mr. Chamberlain is the best one, and I see no reason to depart from it. CHAIRMAN : This is an illustration of what was done at the Shipping Conference the other day {indicating a newspaper paragraph). Dr. JAMESON : I think a very short precis might very well be trusted to be given each day. Sir WILFRID LAURIER : We might perhaps, compromise upon that. CHAIRMAN : That there is to be a precis? Sir WILFRID LAURIER : Yes. CHAIRMAN {to Sir Francis Hopwood) : Will you undertake to prepare a precis ? Sir FRANCIS HOPWOOD : I shall be very happy to try at the end of each day's proceedings. Sir WTLFRTD LAURIER : We can see how that works without coming to a formal conclusion at this moment.

First Day. IS April 1907.

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