The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-30

and the offering or 8 prayer py the Rev. Mir. Biaekard of the Methodist Church of Memphis.
 Commander Gordon announced the first thing in order was the offering oi resolutions.
 The report of tine Committee on Gre dentials was then called for and read by the chairman of the committee, J, c. Guise of Alabama.
 The total representation of 1.sSs camps, was reported with an aggregate attendance of 2,3Uy delegates. Texas had the largest representation with 1zs camps with 45l delegates. The report was adopted as read.
 During the opening of the convention 1t was almost impossible to hear any thing twenty feet from the platform. The reading of the report was ire quently interrupted by tkc shouts of delegates who claimed that they could not distinguish anything uttered.
 "Is the sergeant-at-arms in the place called General Gordon.
 "He is," replied one of his assistants.
 Then I request" said the comman- der. that he secure a policeman and stop that noise outside.s We are willing to put up with side shows, but we must have quiet in which to transact our business"
 General Gordon then called for the Mayor Tor any other official" and asked that aid be given in lessening the noise.
 The resolutions prepared by the .va- rious delegates were passed up to the commander, who read them aloud be- fore passing them back to the Commit tee on Resolutions.
 No Federal Aid Wanted.
 thAk Ens@ gross be memoralized to erect in the nations capital monument to Gen. Robert E. Lee.
 No action was taken, but there were a number of cries of Nor "No!"
 The resolution was passed back to the committee.
 The next thing in order" said Gen. eral Gordon, lis the reading of the re- port of the Committee on History | Gen. s. D. Lee, Chairman of ths Committee, advanced with this report. which was bulky and voluminous. He asked that because of the length of the report that it's reading be dispensed with and that the delegates should read it in the morning papers. General Ca bell made a motion that all action on the report be deferred until after the printing of the report. General Lee then asked thst the report be read at once. After a long debate. the report was made the special order of business at 8 o'clock this afternoon. r The report of the Committee on Con- federate Memorials was read by Chair man c. A. Evans of Georgia. The report showed total of cash in hand of $S1, ,2s8; there are $S1,307 in good colIectable subscriptions; there Is .an additional $6o,0O0 still due from Charles Broadway Rouss. of New York; other items bring the total resources of the organization at the present time to $22s, ITO.
 Appended to the report was a resoiu- ton that the members of the Memo rial Committee be ordered to meei within ninety days in Richmond. Va. to make final arangements' for the lay ing of the cornerstone of the Battle Abbey which is to be the great Con federate Memorial The peport wal adopted and the resolution passed.
 Greetings to Sons.
 On, motion of General Walker ol South Carolina, committee of Ave was appointed to extend the greetings of the United Confederate veterans to the Sons of Veterans assembled in the auditorium. ..siss
 General Haughton of St. Louis, a member of tie Sons of Veterans and 9 candidate for the position cfs com mander of that organization, was then given the floor for 8 short address. in which, speaking for the Sons of Vet erans, he extended greetings ts5 the ii erans. r
 A resolution declaring that at 4:sC o'clock in the afternoon the convention proceed to choose the location of the next reunion, was adopted.
 There was a short delay waiting for the report of the Committee on Reso- lutions, which was not entirely ready A partial report twas presented. how ever. E- -
 The first resolution was that the Congress of the United States be re- spectfully requested to make sufficient appropriation for the care of Confed' crate dead in the cemeteries of tho North.
 The second resolution moved tha thanks be extended to. Congress and tt the President of the United States fol the passage of the act, approved Jun' 6. 1900. making an appropriation for thu re-interment of the Confederate deat in the National cemetery at Washing ton.
 A second clause asked that whenev CT a request for the dead of any Con federate State be made by any Stat or organized memorial association theN be restored to the care of their nativ' State.
 All these resolutions were reported unanimously by the Committee on Res olutions and were passed by the dele gates without debate and with chee
 As his gavel fell announcing tn, adoption of the resolutions Genera Gordon said:
 Ia ,Ia (. you that the day has finally cont when foes as we'll as friends are read, to pay tribute to the valor of the meI of the South"
 Monument for Women.
 General A. P. Stewart offered a res oMtiop asking that all members of th' United Confederate Veterans each giv, one dollar for the purpose of erecting a suitable memorial to the women o the South--to commemorate the hero ism shown by them during the war The motion met with great approva and one delegate, who announced him self as "Jfm Crow" from Louisiana handed up the first dollar.
 The money was commencing to pou in on General Stewart when Genera Gordon interrupted him to resume th' regular order of business to allow tn, reading of the reports of the Jefferson Davis memorial association, which wa read by Mrs. N. B. Randolph. of Rich mond. Va The financial report of tn association showed total cash in han, of $32,672 with outstanding subscrip tions of $10.727.
 Mrs. Randolph made an urgent ap peal for more money.
 At the conclusion of the reading O the reports of the memorial associa tion General Gordon rapped vigorousl