med he could
only make his complaint to the chief of the department from
which the exhibit referred to came, and when one chief was
approached he said he would not permit the matter complained of
to be investigated by the superior jury. He then appealed to the
full superior jury to hear him, and he was informed that they
had agreed that no one should be heard. So that it occurs to us
that the thing we sought to warn you against has been
practically accomplished, and the assurance given us that the
method by which these things might be corrected has been denied,
so that if we understand your contention that we were only to
approve the system of making awards instead of the awards we
claim the system that we approved has been violated from start
to finish.

We also find that some jurors who were appointed and approved
for certain departments had been transferred to other groups and
departments without the knowledge or approval of the National
Commission.

We are not thoroughly familiar with the character of all your
chiefs for integrity or impartiality, but from some things that
we have heard we are unwilling for some of them to make up a
list of awards without the National Commission's performance of
the duty that devolves on us by the act of Congress and by
section 6 of article 22 of the rules and regulations of the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition, adopted in pursuance of an act of
Congress of the United States, and we again wish to protest as
we have had occasion to do several times before, against the
apparent disposition on the part of the local company to ignore
the National Commission, and disregard the powers vested in this
body by the act of Congress, under which this exposition is
held.

We see from the papers that your company, without any reference
to the National Commission, is proceeding to publish the list of
awards made as heretofore described in this communication. We
wish to enter a protest against this being done, and to inform
you that under section 4 of the act of Congress a board of
arbitration is provided for, "to whom all matters of difference
arising between the Commission and said company concerning the
administration, management, and general supervision of said
exposition, including all matters of difference arising out of
the power g