hairman, Mrs. Holcombe, Mrs. Montgomery, Mrs.
Andrews, Mrs. Moores, Mrs. Coleman, Mrs. Hunsicker, Mrs. Porter, and
Mrs. Hanger. Invitations were extended to the President of the United
States and his Cabinet, Diplomatic Corps, officers of the Army and Navy,
members of the Senate and House of Representatives, the Government
Board, the National Commission of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, and
officials connected with the exposition resident in Washington. The
Exposition Company was most generous in allowing $600 for the cost of
this reception. The two committees appointed to confer with the National
Commission and local company on matters pertaining to the board of lady
managers, met at the Southern Hotel, St. Louis, March 11, 1903, and were
admitted to a conference with the National Commission on that day. The
subject in regard to the work and duties of the board was reopened by
the following questions:

First. What special work does the Commission desire the board to
perform before the opening of the exposition?

Second. What service will the Commission require from the board
between the opening and closing of the exposition?

to which Senator Carter replied as follows:

The plan and scope of your work must first be determined, and,
in an advisory or suggestive sense only, I venture to submit for
your consideration a plan and scope which would require your
board--

First. To make due preparation for the intelligent selection of
one member of all committees authorized to award prizes for such
exhibits as may have been produced in whole or in part by female
labor.

Second. To advise the Commission from time to time as to the
desired extent and the appropriate manner of woman's
participation in the ceremonies incident to the dedication,
opening, and conduct of the exposition.

Third. To confer and advise with the officers and chiefs of the
exposition on the progress being made from time to time in
exciting the interest and enlisting the cooperation of women in
the several departments, and to appoint all committees necessary
to carry out the purpose, and to procure information on the
extent of woman's participation in the exposition.

Fourth. To encourage the presentation of exhibits by women by
correspondence, advertising, or such other means as the company
may approve.

Fifth. To collect statistics of wo