property that the exposition had the use of and did not own.  This applied to fire apparatus, to electric switch boards, to machinery, to street sweepers, to watering carts, and to a great variety of things that were of utility and were loaned by the manufacturers or dealers, who wished to have them in service for the advertising to be gained thereby.

The city is claiming, under the ordinance from which I have quoted in the other letter, the piping on that part of the ground included in Forest Park, and only to-day wrote asking to know when this pipe could be taken up by the city.

    It will afford me pleasure to answer any inquiry or to forward
    to you any document relating to this salvage matter which you
    may desire to see.

    Can you advise me how long you expect to remain in Washington?

    Very truly, yours,
    WALTER B. STEVENS,
    Secretary.

    Hon. THOMAS H. CARTER,
    President National Commission,
    Louisiana Purchase Exposition.

Having been elected a Senator of the United States from the State of Montana, Mr. Thomas H. Carter, president of the Commission, resigned his office as member of the Commission on March 9, 1905.  At a meeting of the Commission held on March 20, 1905, the following letter was received from Mr. Carter, and his resignation as president of the Commission was duly accepted: 

    WASHINGTON, D.C., March 9, 1905.

GENTLEMEN:  Finding that my duties as United States Senator, assumed on the 4th of this month, will so far require my attention as to render it difficult to longer continue a member of the Commission, I have determined to hand my resignation to the president, and preliminary thereto I respectfully resign the position of president of the Commission.

In tendering my resignation I can not refrain from expressing to the Commission jointly, and to the members separately, my grateful appreciation of the unfailing confidence and cordial support with which I have been favored at all times by the members of the Commission, without exception.

    It is questionable whether any like body of men, selected from
    the country at large, has ever acted more harmoniously in the
    discharge of any public duty.

    With deep regret, and only from a sense of duty, I sever my
    relations with the Commission, and in doing so wish each of my
    associates on the Commission long life and prosperity.

    Respectfully submitted. 
    THOS.  H. CARTER.

    The honorable LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION COMMISSION,
    Washington, D.C.

Mr. Carter also addressed a letter to the President of the United States, tendering his resignation as a member of the Commission, which reads as follows: 

    WASHINGTON, D.C., March 9, 1905.