The St. Louis Republic., 1904-07-21

for Tran ration Day Coi~ *
as he might think the interests OF the
Exposition require.
NC SUCH LETTER

Inc Giobe-Democrat pretends TO quote a
ie''er. or the substance of a letter, sent by
we National Commission to the Executive
Soinrhlttee OF the Exposition. II repre-
r SrnIs the commission saying: THE
pricuce OF sending out passes to friends
..lu acquaintances who are not otherwise
ennntIed TO free admission must stop"
me Exposition Company never received
any communication from the commission
Whlch either charged or insinuated tina I
there mad been a practice of giving passes
10 friends and acQuaintances. There has
,se peen no such practice, and the suggestion
lIat there has been was invented by the
person from whom the Globe Democrat $
remarkable misnformation came. Passes
nave not been issued as matters of friend
snip, but wholly on account Of the official
station Of the person receiving them, or
IN IN return for valuable services rendered to
the Exposition.
It is equally untrue that, there has been
practice OF sending out ''instalments of
q thousand or more sngle-trip passes
without making any record of their des-
tlnation. On the contrary, a careful and
tarys office. showing all passes issued.
Inc issue of passes has been proportion
ateiy smaller than II was at Chicago,
taking the relative size of the two expo
sitions into consideration The fact that
the number of foreign and State Govern
ments represented AT St. Louis is much in
excess OF the number represented at the
Chicago Exposition. and the further fact
that the number of private exhibitors is
very much larger than ii was at Chica go
should, in the ordinary course. have led
70 considerably larger issuance of passes
In ST. Louis. This has not been the case,
however, and the actual number Of ad-
missions on free passes has not averaged
any more at st. Louis than it did at Chi
cago.
These facts are readily developed on ex-
animation of the recort.s of the Exposition
Company. which present a complete and
exhaustive exhibit of all passes issued
iC M at a srila
as was charged by the Globe Democrat
yesterday. that almost one-ha1f of these
rrse admissions were by passes sent out
without presentation of any credentials or
the recording Of the name of the person TO
whom each was issued" This statement is
apparently both malicious and untrue.
since there is nothing In the situation that
would Justify even suspicion that the
passes issued have not been under fixed
classifications and in accordance with au-
thoriZed acquisitions, of which full rec
ord has been made.
RULES NOT CHANGED.
When the rules and regulations govern
ing the issuance of passes were submitted
to the National Commission for approval.
that body sent back to TIE Exposition
Company a modifica ton OF the rules. en-
bodying some fourteen different changes.
Not & single one of the changes proposed
either effected or contemplated any rsduc-
ton In the number of passes issued.
In so far as the number Of passes is
NohtcIileu. tHe IHOClIlCauGnS proposed ny
the National Commission would have re-
suited In material increase, and. when
this was made apparent to the repre-
sentatives of the National Commission
many of the notifications proposed were
promptly withdrawn and the final code
of rules and regulations, as agreed upon
Netween the two bodies. is in every es-
-sential particular affecting the number of
passes for which authority is given. pre-
cisely as originally fixed by the Exposi-
tion Company. The phrasins of the rules
has been changed in a number of in
stances in order to obviate ambiguity and
to assure greater clearness and accuracy.
In a few instances an increase in the
issue of passes has been provided for. but
IN the main the rules and regulations
stand without change or modification es
to their substance. and the classes Of
persons to whom passes were issued by
the Exposition Company have received the
full and unqualified approval of the Ma
tional Commission.
There was no surrender on the part of
the Executive Committee, because. on
mature consideration of the rules and
regulations there was no change of sub
stance that the National Commission
asked to have made.