Evening star., 1897-02-26
MORE EXCIYEME
Committee on Consolidation Refused
by the D. A. &.
CONFUSION over fHE ELECTIONS
Everybody Wanted to Speak at
Once, and Tried to Do So.
PARLIAMENTARY DECISIONS

PARLIAMENTARY DECISIONS
The congress of Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution met in its eighth bi-daily
| session tired lot of women this morning
! The congress worked about Is hours yes
| terday, and though it didn't accomplish
| much IN the way of results, the labor and
nerve force expended was tremendous.
The vice president general, Mrs. Steven
| son, was In the chair. with her parlia-
| mentarian at her side. The business of the
| morning was 'fini shng the election Of OFF,
| GERS. After some routine work and the
presentation Of a picture of Gen. Israel
Putnam by his great granddaughter, Mrs.
| Walker of Chicago, the congress precipitat-
ed itself into election of vice presidents
general Then the fun began
Inc president general announced that no
rev nominations for vice president general
could be made that election of the four
necessary to complete the list must be
| selected and elected from the list of nomi-
| nations already on the bulletin board. Dis
! Satisfaction was expressed audibly by
many, and few calmly proceeded to make
| nominations, each in turn being ruled out
| of order.
| e"eS0 W hO w OulOht DOvSns
Who made nominations or any other
motion was not obtainable data, because
the delegates seldom stated their names
ard did not wait the recognition of the
chair. Over and over again the statement
was made by the reading secretary the
| president general and the vice president
general that no nominations were in ord=r
out the nominations were made and then
| ruled out of order
Ladies who found that some of their
| IaVorlteS were not elected last night i'm
| meolately proceeded to make additional
| secopd1ng speeches, and as there were
ABOUT twenty names of ladies not elected
sood nalf hour was wasted in this man
ner Usually the lady after having eu-
| lcgized her favorite to the top notch got
| up and withdrew her name
| A vigorous attempt was made to have
| the TOUR names that received almost votes
| enough to elect declared the nominees
but the congress declared this unconstitu-
| t1cna!. After much expenditure of breat til
and lung power and muscular force by
the president general the following names
were placed upon new bulletin board for
the congress to act upon: Mesdames
Blount, Chenowith. Mary Mckee, Vonre-
dDgvard, Hatcher, Washington Clarke
Hall, Wright. Burrows Willard Bloun,.
Slccum, Gordon, Mcmillan, Greeley, Fair
banks, Sheppard, Stone, ,Goodfelow Jones,
thompson. and the congress proceeded to
select four out of the number to fill the
four vacancies.
Some Floral Onerinxs
While the voting was In progress mag
nificent bunch of long -stemmed American
beauty roses was brought to Mrs Hooy
of Pennsylvania. an expression from the
Plttsburg chapter at her election to the
vice presidency general. Another was
presented to Mrs. Lindsey, and a third to
Mrs. Jewett of Chicago chapter, all of
Whom had been elected vice presidents
general.
An immense bunch of Easter lilies came
walking in. with pretty girl page behind
1t, and its long blue gibbons trailing on
the floor These came TO the president
gecefat. Mrs. Stevenson. from the Old
DOMINION CHAPTER of Virginia, with con-
gratulations on her unanimous election to
the high office of president general for
| fourth term. Mrs. Stevenson received
saying that she felt very closely allied
| to the Virginia people, as all her revolu-
tionary ancestors came from that state.
President of the Rival Order.
The congress was more than usually
noisy this morning, and the president gen
eral had to call the board of managers to
order. they occupying a box in conspicu-
Gus position to set an example to the rest
OF the congress. There was more thana buzz
Of excitement when the president of the
D. r. appeared the platform, and the
presiding officer had to rap for order be-
fCre she could present the lady to the
congress in proper FORM Mrs. Stevenson
said she hoped the members of the con-
gress would receive Mrs. Snow with proper
courtesy and grant her moment to pre-
sent her plea. Mrs. Snow briefly and quiet
ly thanked the congress for the courtesy
of their attention, and stated that she was
unable to be present last evening, and so
could not ask for the committee of con-
! ference from the d. A. r. then, when the
communication from the board of man
ayers of the ID. r. was up for considera-
| tion, but she now asked it. She said that
a circular had been sent to each member
of the d. r. in the nation asking them if
| they desired consolidation with the D. A.
| r.. and. without exception almost, they
had voted that they did. She had been
| informed that on direct motion the d. A.
! r. had last night voted the same thing.
| She would now ask for a committee of
conference. And then sat down.
Everybody Excited.
| A match to a barrel Of gasoline wouldn't
| create half as much CONSERVATION as that
simple request did. Mrs. Ritchie and Mrs
Walworth, who say they are for union and
! talk the other way, both got the floor, and
| both talked. and everybody else talked,
| They all wanted union, YES indeed, they
did, but they wanted 1t like the whale
| wanted Jonah, by swallowing the D. r.
Mrs. Ritchie finally got the floor. and,
| looking calmly out over the excited con-
gress said: Madam president, we settled
this all last night, and there is no use to
| take up the time of this congress with it.
| My motion was that If the ID. X. wanted
| union with the D. A. r. they could obtain
| it just as those who are already with us
have obtained it-by coming in on proper
| credentials
Mrs Walworth said that the congress
had been informed last night that
there were legal objections to be urged,
| that such a union would invalidate the
charter. She wanted union. but all such
| talk was useless 1t couldn't be done un-
| der present circumstances
| A lady in the back Of the house wanted
| to move to reconsider the vote Of last
evening. Miss Pike atked her on which
side she voted and she BALD she didn't have
| to tell Miss Pike said she would have to,
as no one could move to reconsider ex-
| cept one who voted on the winning side
She still ir sisted that as there was no roll
call she would not havS tottell. She final
| ly said she voted against the motion last
night. The president general ruled that
| she could not move to reconsider.
A Footnote Not Authority.
''But Roberts. our authority, says may"
she insisted And shebread from a foot
| note which said that II there was no roll