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inclose herewith a copy of said letter of the 18th instant for
the purpose of refreshing your memory without the necessity of
looking it up.

You will see that in that letter we defined the contention of
the National Commission as to its right to approve or disapprove
of the awards of the juries, and it concludes with a demand for
arbitration unless this right is conceded by your company.

You will remember that instead of answering this letter you
invited Mr. Betts and the writer into your office, where we sent
for Mr. Miller, to discuss this question. You should remember
that when you broached this subject the writer said to you, "We
are not looking for work, nor are we looking for trouble, but we
think Congress has imposed this duty of approving and
disapproving these awards on us, and we will not shirk it."
There was considerable discussion in your office that day, but
no intimation from you or anyone else that there was still
opposition to our contention. You went on to say that the lists
that you were getting out were not official in any sense and
would not be until we said so.

You will recall that this interview between us was at your
suggestion and intended, we supposed, as an answer to our
communication of the 18th of October, in which we had demanded
arbitration on this very question. You say in your second letter
of the 4th instant that "It was our understanding that before
official notification to exhibitors a list of awards of the
superior jury would be furnished by the secretary of said jury
to the Commission and also to this company for their information
and for the purpose of giving the Commission and this company an
opportunity to call the attention of the jury, or the committee
of five now acting as such, to any errors which the Commission
or this company might discover, so that the same might be
considered and corrected before giving official notification to
the exhibitors." We can not understand where you could have
gotten that understanding. I know that there was nothing said
about the National Commission having a list submitted to it for
any other purpose than the purpose of approval or disapproval.
We never asked for a list for information, nor was anything ever
said about referring anything back to the committee of five.
What was ever