St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-02-28

bers 1888 volumes. Mrs. N. d.
Sperrv, OF the auditing committee,
verified the treasurer's accounts.
Seven hundred and seven members
were entitled to vote at this meeting.
Congress is considered the court o.
final appeal for the chapters and
considerable time has been spent in
debate over accepting the decision OF
the national board in the Warren
chapter of Illinois, whether to seat
the delegates of the original chapter
or OF the seceders to the new chap
ter, and au impartial committee was
appointed to report the matter to
congress. to take action later.
There were II amendments to the
constitution, which had been made
last year to be called up and de.
cided by congress. Out of 13, only
one of them passed the house Wed
nesday, which was, that local chap
tiers must be governed by the nation
al constitution. but they may enact
bylaws OF their own in harmony
with it. Wednesday evening brought
out fine representative audience to
listen to patriotic addresses by Sen
ator Chauncey Depew OF New York
and Senator Carter of Montana.
Mr.. Depew paid a tribute to women
and reviewed the social side of the
life of George Washington. Senator
Carter cbampioned the cause of the
present administration in the ex-
pansion policy. The rendering OF
the song THE Sword of Bunker
HILL" bv Miss Peterson of the But
falo chapter, was beautiful. Mrs.
A. 6. Draper, of The committee of
ways and means, upon Thursday
reported that $24 900 had been
spent by the society the past year.
Nominal ions for ten vice presidents
general were limited to three-mInute
speeches. In the afternoon FL can
didates were nominated from
various states and six tellers were
placed in charge to count the ballots
and it was 6 p. m. before all of the
states had voted. There is a laud
able spirit of emulation amongst
the states, to select the most
patriotic woman of marked execu,
tive ability, prominent in that state
for this office; hence the wives OF
senator's and representatives have
often been chosen; but the office is
often sought after by ambitious
women, so the preference has been
given to natives of state or to
those who live there at least a part
OF a year. Mrs. P. c. Cheney of
New Hampshire, was nominated
and some lady nominated Mrs. H.
w. Taplin for Vermont; the presi-
dent general asked If she represented
the Vermont delegation and she
said mo, that she was simply gwen
the name on paper and asked to
make the nomination." that was all
she knew about it. The president
stated that she had been intervie wed
by Vermont ladies, and understood
otherwise. We learned that Yer
mont delegates had previously ex.
pressed wish to have Mrs. Senator
Ross of St. Johnsbury for, their
candidate, but were not positive of
her acceptance, so the nomination
was not made; they stated Mrs.
Taplin, the 10Th candidate, was a
native of Virginia, a cousin of Gen.
eral Lee of the confederacv and lived
in this city, hence not Vermonter.
We heard Vermont had good dele
cation in congress and Mrs. Julia !.
Estey was unanimously chosen state
regent of Vermont, which seemed to
give great satisfaction. as evidenced
by the beautiful fl ,ral offerings
received from the Vermont delega-
ton. Her husband is Lieut.. Estey
and the son of General Estev, a
prominent Vermonter. The votes