ther approve or disapprove
of your action.

I appreciate all the troubles and difficulties these people have
had, and it is my earnest hope that they will be able to give
the members of this board a decided answer within the next
month. * * *

In reply to a statement made by a member of the board that in an
interview with the executive committee of the Exposition Company, Mr.
Skiff, the director of exhibits, had said he could not give a list of
exhibitors (or exhibits) until near the time of the opening of the
exposition, because he did not know what would be entered, and the lists
would not be completed until about that time. Mr. Lindsay further said:

It was my opinion that when the lists of classification were
completed, there was nothing else to be inquired into; in that
list, everything which includes the result of female labor,
constitutes the class on which you are to appoint a juror. The
general classification forms a list that would be used for this
purpose.

But referring to another matter, I think that there should have
been provided by act of Congress a fund set apart for the
ladies, to be used by them. Because, as long as you are
compelled to go to the Commission, or to go to the local board
to ascertain what you can spend or what you can not spend, just
so long you will not be able to do anything effectually. I know
that the local board is going to object to all this, but when
the local board finds that by consenting to your reasonable
wishes it is enhancing the interests of the exposition, it will
agree to a proper appropriation and other proper demands made by
your board which relieve that board of any further duties on the
subject. I believe that I have said all I care to say. But,
referring to the rules: That board and the Commission can advise
you not to enforce certain rules, when the enforcement of them
would lead you into difficulties, but just as long as the rules
you make for yourselves are within the scope of authority and
duties granted us and prescribed to you, you can take directions
from the board or from the Commission if you choose to, but you
do not need to do this unless you choose to.

In response to the request of Mrs. Manning that Senator Thurston say a
few words, he responded:

Perhaps everybody has been a little delinquent in getting this
board org