Evening star., 1898-02-25

Miss Lockwood.
| quiet, and the restlessness Of the house was
not as near visible at the last session.
! There were not so many on the platform,
either, as there were yesterday.
There seemed to BE- one opinion in regard
| to the election yesterday. This was that
| things could not have been bettered. Such
| expressions were heard
| 1T was glorious victory" Il knew how
| 1t would turn out from .the first" and The
only thing that surprised me was that Mrs.
| Manning did not receive more votes than
| ceive as many as She shoili have, as enc
! of the state regents had heea instructed to
| cast number of ballots for her delegation
and in the excitement of the occasion she
| forgot to do this. Th@Ie wee plenty ne
votes to spare, however. Of COURSE there
Were some expressions of discomfort, as
| Mrs. McLean's followers were stanch and
true and greatly devoted ta their leader.
| 1t seemed to be surprising to all that Mrs.
| RCse Bracket received so few votes for
president general 2
She is such a dear, sweat, lovable wo-
man." was the one remark heard of her
| defeat. 4 .t,r
Another topic of conversation was The
| ovation received by Mrs. Mary LOCKWOOD
at last nights session. 1t appeared to be
| the general opinion that this was well
merited. for Mrs. lockwood is exceedingly
| popular with the delegates Of the congress
| ard every one who has any connection
with it.
| Mrs. Stevenson Not Present.
! Mrs. Stevenson Cid not preside at the
morning session, this duty devolving upon
| Mrs. Rose Bracket, the first vice pres:-
| cent general under the present congress,
| the title having been abolished during this
| session. She appeared to have suffered
nothing from her defeat, and it is said she
| expected it, Mrs Mannirg's victory was
| predicted on all sides. America" was sung
precentor. Mr.. Percy s. Foster. Mrs. Chas.
| A. Stakely, chaplain general. offered
prayer, and, as is customary, the delega-
| tion joined in the recitation of the Lords
Prayer
Mrs. c. w. Kress of Lockhaven, Pa.
| sang the solo part of the Star Spangled
Banner" the audience joining in the
chorus. The usual confusion resulted dur
| ing the reading Of the minutes, after which
| the list Of state regents, as far as com
| pleted, was read. The chair asked the
| the regular order Of business amid cries
of Madam President" Madam Chair
| man." and even Mrs. President" Mrs.
| Cabell then, by order of the congress, was
elected honorary vice president general and
Mrs Stevenson the retiring president gem
e1al was elected honorary president gen.
| eral
The report Of the National University
committee was to have been taken UP at
| this point, but a motion was made that the
! regular order be postponed until after re-
&C ption of the tellers report on the cleo
ton of the vice presidents general The
chairman of the. telers- announced that
| more candidates were elected than there
| were places to fill as 534 ballots were cast
-267 necessary for choice. OF these Mrs.
r. A. Aiger received 526, which result was
annOlIncp0 With great aDDiauSe The others
were declared elected according to the
| largest number of votes they received.
motion was made and adopted to ten
der vote OF thanks to the tellers, who 1t
was stated, were up until 3 O'clock this
morning settling the business of the bal
lots. This fact was taken occasion Of by
one Of the delegates to make a plea for the
Continental Hall.
IF this existed, she said, ''it would not
be necessary for the delegates to go home
so late in the morning and raise a disturb
arce by ringing the door bells for fifteen or
twenty minutes and arousing the Leigh
tors.' This caused some amusement.
The National University.
The report of the National University
committee was read by Mrs. Walworth.
| attired in cap and gown. She delivered her
remarks which were added to the report,
| with great draIRatfc ability. as if she
wished to impress hpon the delegates the
| Importance of tnssnatter which she had
in hand. She FlauG many gestures, ana
| was most forcibae in-her- argument for the
| establishment of the National University.
She said, in part:
The first active work of our organiza-
| tion was in the sprfns of 1893, when we had
| a paper on the National University read
| in the Chicago ofxposition before the con-
gress of representative women by Mrs.
| Ogden Doremus, regent of the New York
| City Chapter. In that paper she said it is
| well known that the next dearest thing to
the United StatSA:rapublic in the heart of
Washington was the establishment Of the
National University To that end he made
Society Of the Cincinnati in Virainia, which
| he deemed antlfeodbllcan and arfstocratic
| in its tendencies, ana handed over its fund
| Of $4,000 to bta inYested for the use of
| the United States, University. He also Sc
lected the site in Washington for the build
ing in 1896. ;
! The University Site.
In my report for your committee In
| February. 1896. gave full statement OF
| the facts connected with the request of
| Washington and the bill passed by Con-
gress. October q, l796. which designated a
site for an university. which they did un-
der Instructions from President Washing
ton. That, a. you know. was the site Of
| the old naval observatory, and which is
still in the possession of the government
| I also endeavored to arouse your interest
| to the fact that Congress owes a debt to
| the nation which can only be Cancelled by
the establishment Of this university and
| gave you q brief summary of the memorial
| furnished by authority OF thu Senate, That
report of 1886 closed with the Recommended
| tion That the work of the standing COM
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