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The others all said that their experience with congress was that every subsidy was grudgingly granted and required minute statement how money was to be spent etc. I asked [[red underline]] Edison: [[/red underline]] "Are you willing to appear before Congress and explain them your scheme and how money will be expended?" [[red underline]] He [[/red underline]] said: [[red underline]] "Yes - I will." [[/red underline]] After which we entered all the dining room and submitted report of what had happened. 
To my astonishment our other members did not object to large estimate on the contrary [[red underline]] Sprague, Hewitt [[/red underline]] and others said it would be [[red underline]] absurd if we asked for less. [[/red underline]] I addressed them twice
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explaining my point of view etc. Franklin Roosevelt thinks subsidy would be obtained if properly presented.  So finally we all agreed on [[red underline]] $5000 000 [[/red underline]] research institute with 2½ to 3 [[red underline]] million Dollars subsidy. [[/red underline]] 
Next meeting will be in New York, not later than 60 days from date: [[strikethrough]] When [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] Whitney Woodward and myself [[/red underline]] felt that amount proposed by [[red underline]] Edison was unduly large. [[/red underline]] 
Woodward was the only one who spoke against.  I told him however that his [[red underline]] Carnegie [[/red underline]] Institute was [[red underline]] not pressed for time [[/red underline]] as was the case here where some work had to be performed at accelerated speed and where furthermore the subjects would not be selected but had to be handled as fast as they came which made