gulations or
otherwise.

In reply to these asserted rights, and the exercise thereof by
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company, the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition Commission denies the right of the company
to promulgate and put into operation rules and regulations
governing and prescribing the issuance and use of free passes to
the exposition grounds without submitting such rules and
regulations to the Commission, and without obtaining its
approval thereof, and denies the right of the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition Company to issue free passes to the exposition
grounds without the concurrence or approval of the National
Commission, expressed through general rules and regulations, or
otherwise.

Upon the two issues here presented the Commission invokes the
judgment of the board of arbitration, provided for in section 4
of the act of Congress, entitled:

"An act to provide for celebrating the one hundredth anniversary
of the purchase of the Louisiana territory by the United States
by holding an international exhibition of arts, industries,
manufactures, and the products of the soil, mine, forest, and
sea, in the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri,
approved March 3, 1901."

For convenience a copy of the correspondence referred to is
hereunto attached.

Hon. John M. Allen and Hon. John M. Thurston, the members of the
Commission appointed to act for this body on the board of
arbitration, will hold themselves in readiness to meet the
members of that board appointed by the company at their
pleasure.

Yours, very respectfully,
THOS. H. CARTER.

Hon. D.R. FRANCIS,
_President Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company._

On June 14 the Exposition Company submitted certain rules and
regulations governing the issuance of passes. The Commission gave due
consideration to the proposed rules, and on June 25 returned them to the
Exposition Company with certain modifications, which the executive
committee of the Exposition Company refused to adopt. Whereupon, on July
7, the Commission, by resolution, demanded immediate arbitration on the
matter and protested against the issuance of free admissions pending a
decision by the board of arbitration.

Mr. Joseph Flory, secretary of the Commission since its organization,
resigned from that office on July 1, 1904. Mr. Lawrence H. Grahame, of
New