The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-16
THE NATIONAL Y. c. T. U.
Mrs. Stevens Elected Fresidemt-Temple
 Question Again Discussed.


 slm attendance at the opening to-day. Mrs. Dunham's resolution pledging the National Union to the payments of the $S00,0 issue of Temple trust bonds was postponed owing to the small attend ance till o'clock this afternoon. Mrs. Lowell of Pennsylvania introduced a resolution deploring the great destruc- tion of song birds for millinery and petitioning congress to pass law pro- hibiting the use for military purposes of all useful or singing birds. Some discussion, humorous and otherwise, followed and it was carried. 160 to z. Mrs. Francis Josephs, colored, of Louis jana, presented resolutions denouncing lynchings in the south and they were laid on the table to be called up later
 At 1O:90 the election of officers was taken up. It was announced that 371 officers and delegates were entitled to vote. Miss Bessie Laythe Scovel of Min nesota presided during the election. Be- fore the balloting began an Illinois del egate created something of a sensation by asking that some one tell us the personal religious convictions and sec terian connections of Mrs. Stevens" There was no answer save in a buzz of dissent to the injection of such query at such a time For president 356 votes were cast: Blank ballots, ?; Miss Anna Shaw, i; Mrs. $. M. D. Fry, 1; Miss Helen Hood, 1; Mrs. Caroline Buell. l; Mrs. M. N. Stevenson, 1; Mrs. B. l.. Scovel, 1; Miss Bell Mix l; Mrs. K. l.. Stevenson, 9 Miss Anna Gordon, 7; Mrs. White Kinney, ?; Mrs. Clara C. Hoffman, 4: Miss Marie c. Brehm, l; Mrs. A. s. Benjamin, 1; Mrs. Mary H. Hunt, 3; Mrs. Louise s. Rounds, 5; Mrs. Marion Durham, 5; Mrs Fessenden, [; Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens, BIT.
 Mrs. Stevens made a very touching speech of acceptance, urging all to jon In carrying on the work to which Miss Willard the beloved lender had given her life The Maine delegation p,es2nt- cd her with q beautiful cluster of To 'os Mrs stevens then stated she wanted tc nominate Miss Anna 4. Gordon, Whl had Leen Miss Willards' private secle. tary, and is probably one of the most beloved of the union leaders to be vice president at large. The bylaws were then amended to give the president the authority to make such nomination and the nomination was agreed to and the election followed by an unanimous vote.
 Telegrams announcing tLesa two elec- tions were ordered sent to Mrs. L. M. N. Stevens husband, to Miss Gordon's mother and to Lady Henry Somerset. The result on corresponding secretary was then announced, Mrs. Susannah M, D. Fry of Minnesota receiving 204 votes out of 353, the others being very scat terlng and Mrs. Fry was formally de- clared elected.
 Miss Clara Hoffman of Mississippi was reelected recor ling secretary on the first ballot. Mrs. Frances Bea- champ of Kentucky was made assistant record ng secretary. While awaiting the result of the vote for treasurer the re- cording secretary read the recent or der to the British army in regard to the use of liquor and dangers arising from immortality of all sorts. A mo- tion was made and carried to send a copy of the order to the secretary of war and the secretary of the navy vita the endorsement of the convention. The balolt for treasurer resulted as follows: Votes cast $50; Mrs. Helen M. Bar wer, 2S9 Mrs. M. Ii. Durham, fl; scat tering, 30.
 The Temple resolution introduced by Mrs. M. H. Dunham was then called up. It was as follows:
 Resolved That in view of the hearty endorsement given by the national con- vention in Boston in 1891 to the Temple trust bonds. that the endorsement de- cded many to purchase the bonds, and that the moral obligation thus incurred by the national union toward the bond holders has been weakened again and again, we hereby pledge our co-opera- ton to the board of Templt trustees in the retirement of the Temple trust bonds.
 The discussion turned at first on whether the national union had ever formally endorsed the Temple bonds.  It developed that the claim was that the national union had morally indorsed it by resolutions adopted at various conventions in regard to the Temple. Mrs. Carse closed the debate. She ad- mitted that there was no legal obliaa- tion and pleaded that because of the moral obligation there should be no re- pudiaticn of the Temple. The resolu- ton was defeated by a standing vote 76 to 267. Mrs. Ellis of New Jersey moved that the trust fund in the hands of Miss Cornelia Dow of Maine be ap- piled fthe donors agree, to the relief of Temple bondholders so far as it would apply, being paid to them pro- portionately. This resolution was re- ferred to the executive committee. At the evening session addresses on "To- tai Abstinence and Prohibition were made
 ELOPENEST RESULTS IN MURDER.