the approval of the awarding of premiums, the appointment to
the international jury shall be made in accordance with section
6 of article 22 of the official rules and regulations of the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company."

You will remember that the nominations of group jurors were not
made until long after the time specified in the rules and
regulations, which left but a brief time to notify the jurors
and allow them time to get here to begin the performance of
their duties by the 1st of September.

You will doubtless remember that the writer, Mr. Allen, had an
interview with you and Mr. Skiff, in which he protested on
behalf of the National Commission that no time was given the
Commission to investigate the character of qualifications of the
jurors thus nominated, and that it was placing in the hands of
the chiefs of the different departments the power to fix up
juries and make the awards conform to their own wishes, if they
desired to do so.

You will also doubtless remember that Mr. Skiff, in your
presence, said to Mr. Allen, as he has said to the Commission
frequently before and as he assured us he had said to hundreds
of exhibitors, that after the action of the group juries these
awards would have to pass the department juries, then the
superior jury, then the local company, and finally be approved
by the National Commission, and that if anything wrong was done
by the group juries thus selected ample opportunity would be had
to right such wrong. Acting on this assurance the National
Commission went ahead and approved such jurors as were sent them
for their approval.

Paragraph 4 of said rules and regulations provides that each
group jury shall choose its own officers, consisting of a
chairman, vice-chairman, and secretary. It came to the knowledge
of the Commission that when the group juries were being
organized this rule was being violated, and in most, if not all
instances, the officers of the group juries were being selected
by the chiefs of the departments. We went to see the secretary
of the exhibit department, who had charge of the matter of
juries in that department, and informed him of this violation of
the rules. We were informed by him that he did not know the
chiefs had gone to the extent of informing the juries who their
officers should b