and ratified by
this board of lady managers. You will find in talking with this
company a keen anxiety to quickly adopt any suggestions that
will bring about success in any line. Claim whatever you think
in the form of a rule, assert your right to approve or confirm
if you please everyone appointed to push this woman's work
anywhere. In regard to a building, say what you want; submit
your plans to this Commission; place your wants in the form of a
resolution to be approved by the Commission and the local
company; the approval will carry with it the expense. We will
regard any expenditure which you may make as "legitimate
exposition work"--commissioners to go abroad, or whatever it may
be.

There is a large amount of money available for this exposition.
It has been handled with the utmost care, skill, and excessive
prudence by the company, but that shows merely a good, sound
economical management; however, there is ample means, means that
will unquestionably apply to meet every want.

At the session on November 20 the committee named to prepare resolutions
to be presented through the National Commission to the Exposition
Company offered the following, which were adopted, and copies forwarded
to the Commission and company:

First. The board of lady managers respectfully call the
attention of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company to the
act approved March 3, 1901, under which act this board has the
power to appoint one member of all committees authorized to
award prizes for such exhibits as may have been produced in
whole or in part by women. The board of lady managers decline to
accept the amendment of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Company to this act of Congress expressed in a resolution of the
executive committee of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Company, as follows: "To nominate one member of all committees
authorized to award prizes for such exhibits as shall have been
produced in whole or in part by female labor."

Second. The board protests against the appointment, without its
authority, of any representative at home or abroad connected
with work for which this board is responsible.

Third. That the board of lady managers select, with the approval
of the local company, two of its members to awaken interest in
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company among wom