Show PRESIDENT IS ASKED TO PROBE new orleans july 12 president A R of tho new orleans cotton exchange today addressed the following letter to president roosevelt the rant exposure in the statistical bureau of cotton agriculture department part ment has developed a situation which lq cotton trade circles for ciany months past has been 0 o strongly suspected from apparent indication as to amount to a positive conviction of wrongdoing and now hat the ekpo expo lire has ben publicly announced a feel ins 0 intense indignation prevails throughout uie trade interested in tair dealing by reason of tha department having been authorized authorised by a clique of corrupt speculators to promote their in and kelpsh ends and that it should be biown who have been tha beneficiaries and th cor tufted as well with end a view I 1 am directed by the board of directors of this exchange to addres you direct and invoke your good offices in having a searching investigation carried on until the whole matter Is probed to the core and the results given to the public 1 I beg to assure you our pomplo here are already profoundly impressed and gratified with your continued disapproval and condemnation of impure methods jn government affairs and your disposition to dismiss i from the service unfaithful agents and therefore anticipate your good efforts 1 in responding to enla aphea 1 |