Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-05
REPORTS DELEGATES
SPECIAL ORDER AT ANTI-SALOON
LEAGUE MEETING.
Echoes of the National Convention at
ChicagO-AmIiated Bodies Rep
resented Last Night.

| The special order last evening at the
| meeting of the Anti-Saloon League of the
| District of Columbia in its hail. No. 625
| Louisiana avenue, was the reception of re-
| ports from the fifth national anti-saloon
] convention, held at Chicago May "A and %
| President Ewn was in the chair and Rob
| ert f. Harvey acted as secretary in the
| absence of Secretary Shipe Reports were
| first heard from the president, as chairman
| of the committee on cooperation, and of the
| executive committee, the acting secretary.
| as chairman of the committee on literature,
| and Andrew Wilson as chairman of the
committee on legislation. These reports re-
| lated to the local work of the league.
On motion of Geo. w. Callahan the LIE
Droit ''Y'' admitted to the league as an
affiliated body. The following We're an
nounced as new representatives from the
Mckendree Epworth League: Mr.. F. ].
Mackenzie William Bushby, Isaac Bow
| beer, jr., Miss Jennie Bowbeer, Archie w.
Davis.
Other affiliated bodies represented last
evening were Calvary Baptist Church, Nine
teenth Street Baptist Christian Endeavor
Society, First Congregational Church Tenn
perance Society, Memorial Lutheran Chris
tan Endeavor Society, Foundry Methodist
Episcopal Temperance Society. Tenleytown
NJ Z. Church, Waugh NJ. E. Sunday school
and Epworth League, Wesley Chapel Ep-
Presbyterian Christian Endeavor Society,
First Presbyterian Church c. E. Society,
Grand Lodge and Columbia, Independent,
Minnehaha and Silver Star Lodges, l. o.
G. T.; LIE Droit and Northwest Unions, w.
c. T. u; Central Union Mission and the
Federation of Young Peoples Societies of
liberal churches.
The Chicago Convention.
Rev. j. F. Heisse, pastor of Wesley Chap
ell, and delegate from the District of CO.
lumbia Anti-Saloon League to the Chica-
go convention, was the first speaker under
the special order. He told of the expert
| ences of the party, going and returning.
He was followed by Mr.. r. A. Dinsmore,
| delegate from the Grand Lodge of Good
Templars who told of some evidences of
the need for anti-saoon work found in
Chicago, where over 1000 saloons are wide
open, Sunday and every other day.
The next speaker was Rev G. A. Wilson,
pastor of the Western Presbyterian Church,
and delegate from the District of Column
b1a Anti-Saloon League He was intro
duced as the only District delegate who
had an opportunity to make a speech at
Chicago outside of the convention, and told
of how he captured pulpit unwittingly
and delivered an impromptu address about
the antl-Saloon convention and movement
to the congregation of Baptist church,
where he had gone for evening worship
Fred Mckee, another of the leagues del
egates, was introduced the first to re-
ceive the title of superintendent" Hav-
ing read the District of Columbia report to
the convention among the superintendent
of the state leagues, Mr. Mckee was de-
Scribed in of the Chicago newspapers
as the superintendent of the District of
Columbia Anti-Saloon League" He told
OF some of the impressive addresses of the
| convention, mentioning in particular the
annual address of President Price and two
in his honor delivered by Rev p. A. Baker
superintendent of the Ohio Anti-Saloon
League, and NJ. F.. NJ. Bradley. one of the
District of Columbia party, a delegate in
common with Mr.. Price from the national
and grand divisions of the Sons of Temper
ance.
Mr.. A. N. Garfield was next introduced
as the representative of the District of
Columbia delegation on the committee on
resolutions Mr.. Garfield was a delegate
from the Grand Lodge. l. O. G. T. He
said he had been a member of the same
committee at all the national conventions
and that there was less disposition at the
Chicago convention than heretofore to go
outside of the one object for which the
league is organized-the suppression of the
drink traffic.
Andrew Wilson. who attended as a dele
gate from the Christian Missionary Society
OF MARYLAND, Delaware and the District of
Columbia told of the defeat of a proposed
amendment of the constitution of the Amer
lean league, which had passed the ma tional
executive committee. and needed conse-
quenuy only two-thfrds vote in the con-
Nentlon. 1t had reference to doing away
with the present general board of direc-
ton, composed of a representative from
each affiliated body, and substituting there
for board composed of two representa-
ives from each state Anti-Saloon League
or other state auxiliary branch and
each national body affiliated with the
league. 1t was opposed by the District of
Columbia delegation. he said. mainly be-
cause it lessened the federation idea of
the movement which was taken from the
District of Columbia organization when the
national league was organized here in 1895,
al h.. Il
sentatlon in the management of grand
lodges of Good Templars, church confer
ences and like bodies whose 'nationaI' bod
les are not affiliated, In the final vote two
or the state OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES c. r.
Carlos Of Illinois and Rev. w. c. Helt of
lndiana-were among those who stood with
the eastern delegates against the proposed
change.
Amendments Adopted.
The only constitutional amendments OF
any moment that were adopted. he said
made the legislative superintendent an cleo
tive ofhcer and provided for the election OF
all the members of the executive commit
tee by the convention instead of part by the
convention and part by the board of direc-
tors.
Mr.. A L. Swartwout who went as a dele
gate for the Central Union Mission spoke
of the president of the convention Hiram
Price of Iowa. who has resided here since
his retirement from Congress- and whose
as an evidence of the physical advantages
OF life of abstinence and uprightness.
Rev l.. B. Wilson. D. D.. first vice presi-
dent of the national league and a dele
gate TO the convention from the Washing
ton District Epworth League. was called
upon to sum up the reports and give his
Impressions. He said the first thought of
any one looking into the convention would
probably have been that 1t was small af-
fair, the largest attendance at the business
sessions being only about 125: but when
the representative character of those pres
ent was taken into account, it was seen
that truly national movement was repre-
Sented."
He mentioned the delegates from Cali
fornia, Vermont and Kentucky especially.
and paid high tribute to the character
and ability of the national superintendent.
Rev. Howard H. Russell. D. D.. and the
leaders in other states. He referred espe-
cially to a striking cluster of addresses"
the afternoon of Thursday, May "a, by
Wayne B. Wheeler. attorney of the Ohio
Anti-Saloon League; William H. Anderson,
NJ ha A,,%i Co1