John H. Kirby, president; L.J.  Polk, W.W.  Seley, and Walter Tips, vice-presidents; Royal A. Ferris, treasurer; Louis J. Wortham, secretary and general manager; Paul Waples, chairman executive committee; A.W.  Houston, Barnett Gibbs, B.F.  Hammett, Jesse Shain, E.P.  Perkins, L.L.  Jester, Monta J. Moore; P.P.  Paddock, executive commissioner; R.H.  Sexton, resident commissioner.

The members of the board of lady commissioners were:  Mrs. L.S.  Thorne;
Miss Kate Daffan, Ennis; Mrs. B.F.  Hammett, El Paso; Mrs. O.T.  Holt,
Houston; Mrs. W.R.  Roberts, Brownwood; Mrs. Fannie Foote Emerson,
McKinney; Mrs. J.B.  Wells, Brownsville; Mrs. W.F.  Beers, Galveston; Mrs.
C.L.  Potters, Gainesville; Mrs. E.P.  Turner, Dallas; Mrs. William
Cameron, Waco; Mrs. William Christian, Houston; Mrs. W.F.  Gill, Paris;
Mrs. W.E.  Green, Tyler; Mrs. J.F.  Wolters, Lagrange; Mrs. F. Hufsmith,
Palestine; Mrs. I.H.  Evans, Austin; Mrs. J.C.  Lea, Dallas; Mrs. W.F. 
Robertson, Austin; Mrs. Bacon Saunders, Fort Worth; Mrs. T.V.  Sessions,
Nacogdoches.

The Texas commission installed and successfully maintained exhibits in the palaces of Fine Arts, Education, Transportation, Mines and Metallurgy, Forestry, Agriculture, and Horticulture.  The cost of the installation was as follows: 

Fine Arts .................  $1,225.50
Education .................     948.00
Transportation ............     459.30
Mines and Metallurgy ......  10,577.85
Forestry ..................   4,477.05
Agriculture ...............   6,899.87
Horticulture ..............   6,099.14

The contract price for the Texas Building, which occupied one of the most admirable sites on the exposition grounds, was $45,562.  Expenditures in furnishings and in ornamenting the grounds were $12,000.

The Texas Building contained exhibits of a character intended to demonstrate the kinds of homes in which Texas people live, the kinds of schools in which their children are educated, and the churches in which they conduct their worship.  These demonstrations were the conception and work of the Texas Federation of Women Clubs.

The work which the Texas commission did for Texas in forcing a recognition of the rights of breeders of pure-bred cattle below the Federal quarantine line, and the rights of breeders and raisers of beef cattle, on the attention of the exposition management was noticeable.  The original ruling of the Live-Stock Department of the exposition was to the effect that pure-bred cattle from below the Federal quarantine line should not be allowed to participate in the live-stock show at the exposition, and that none but halter-broke cattle should be exhibited in any event.  The effect of this ruling, the commission claimed, was, first, to shut out from participation the breeders of pure cattle from below the quarantine line, and, second, to prevent a demonstration that should show what the immense cattle ranges of the Northwest and Southwest are capable of producing.