farch My. John Re ord, 19326 Rafter, 74 Trinity Place, New York, Ne Ye Dear Mr, Rafer: New York office work here, the ing Upon discovering the difference in entered values and difficultywe had as a result, they wanted to get information regarde the Re-appraisemont Cases ®nd consequently wired you yesterday, Your of Mr. Fe We the United Robertson and Mr. A. i. Haynes, out of the States Tariff Commission, have finished their answerves recaived after they had left the office have releyed the information to them ot New York, last night, last they evening, however, I having left the City They examined every entry which we made during the period provided in Section 340, They aiso checked our invoices to jobbers during this period, fhey did not check every invoice but a good share of them and enough to definitely determines what our prices were during that period. I fully and carefully explained our price structure in view of your suggestion over the telephone regarding our wholesale prices that were in effect during the period under investigation. While they agreed withme that the wholesale price during that period would more nearly fit conditions in view of present circumstances, still they took the jobbing price as their basic figure, stating such were their instructions when they were sent to do this job. fhey agreed have to make a supplemental detail covering the situation, which report they will file definite data they were instructed to obtain, They openly in sympathy with our position. uiderstand existing I reviewed our conditions, I able to us as conditions human nature or they are will very tariff am sure report in with the stated they history with them and they their report will permit, unless I am adept at deception, be as were fully favor~ very badly mistaken one of the two, in I.asked them for parmission to make a cony of all of the figures which they obtained from our records, They stated they would not object to. us making a copy, though technically they could not make one for uss They were trying to catch an early evening traid and did. not have time for us to copy the information before they left. They were, of course, adverse to leaving their report with me, for which they could not be blamed,