ious times thereafter submitted other reports of
the financial standing of the Exposition Company, based upon the
findings of the above-named firm of expert accountants, all of which are
in the files of the Commission.

The last report of the expert accountants employed by the Commission,
containing a statement of receipts and disbursements of the Exposition
Company from date of its incorporation to date of April 30, 1905,
together with a condensed statement compiled by said expert accountants,
showing their estimate of the financial result of the exposition, which
they state has been prepared from the accounts of the company to May 3,
1905, and from an estimate of future receipts and expenditures,
furnished by the president of the Exposition Company, is herewith
submitted as a part of this report as "Appendix No. 1."

The Commission was compelled from time to time to call the attention of
the Exposition Company to the apparently excessive number of free
admissions in comparison with the total attendance at the exposition.

On May 10, 1904, the Commission wrote to the Exposition Company,
pointing out that for the first seven days of the exposition, with the
exception of the opening day, the number of free admissions compared
with paid admissions was in the ratio of 7 to 6. On several subsequent
occasions the Commission insisted that prompt action should be taken to
check the indiscriminate use of passes.

On May 24, 1904, the Commission adopted the following resolution:

_Resolved_, That Mr. Thurston, as a member of the judiciary
committee present, call upon Judge Ferris, general counsel for
the Exposition Company, and indicate to him the condition of
correspondence with reference to free admissions to the fair
grounds, and to suggest to him that in the absence of any
disposition on the part of the Exposition Company to take notice
of the protests of the Commission, he has been authorized to
prepare the case for submission to the Attorney-General of the
United States, with request that action be taken in the courts
to prevent further violation of the law and rules as agreed upon
by the joint action of the company and the Commission.

On the same day Mr. Thurston, in a conference with Judge Ferris, general
counsel of the Exposition Company, brought the said action of the
Commission to his attention and insisted that the Exposition Company
should at once take immediate ste