The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1901-05-31
CONFEDERATE VETERANS.
The Days Programme Carried Out
in Full, Including the
Flower Parade.
TEXAS HAS BIssssT REPRESENTATION.
Memorial Committee Ordered 90
Meet I'm Rfchmond within Ninety
Days TO Arrange for the Laying
of the Cornerstone of Battle A.
hey, the Confederate Memorial.

Memphis, Tenn. May 3o.-There
was no question OF a postponement
of the flower parade or any other
feature of the Confederate Veterans
reunion. and the programme was car
ried out in full.
The exercises in Confederate hall
were opered by the Doxology and
prayer.
The credentials report showed
total representation OF 1859 camps
with an aggregate attendance of p
3os delegates. Texas had the largest
representation, with 129 camps and
451 delegates. The resolutions, pre-
pared BIZ various delegatesywer read
aloud by the commander, and then re-
ferred to the committee on resolu-
tons. Among them was a motion that
. congress be memoralized TO erect in
the capitol of the nations capital
monument 10 Gen. Robert +. Lee. No
action was taken, but there were a
number of cries of mol" moi" and
the resolution was passed back TO the
committee.
The report of the committee on
confederate memorial showed total
resources of the organization at the
present time 10 be s22s,7lo. Members
of the memorial committe were or
dered TO meet within 90 days in Rich
mond. Va, TO make final arrange
ments for the laying of the corner
stone of the battle abbey, which is to
be the great confederate memorial.
A partial report of the committee
on resolutions was presented. II was
resolved that congress be requested to
make sufficient appropriation for the
care of confederate dead in the ceme-
teries in the north: that thanks be
extended TO congress and to the pres
ident for the passage of the act MAX
ing an appropriation for the rein
terment for the confederate dead
inferred in the national cemetery at
Washington, and that whenever a re-
quest for the dead of any confeder-
ate state be made by any state or or
gained memorial association that
they be restored TO the care of their
native state.
All these resolutions were reported
and unanimously adopted by the
delegates without debate and with a
cheer.
AS his gavel fell announcing the
adoption of the resolutions, Gen. Cor
don said:
MY comrades, at last I conprat,i-
late you that the day has finally come
when foes as well as friends are
ready TO pay tribute to the valor of
the men of the south"
Gen. A. p. Stewart offered a resolu-
fion asking that every member of the
United Confederate Veterans give one
dollar for the purpose of erecting a
suitable memorial to the women of
the south. The motion met with
great applause, and one delegate who
announced himself as Jim Crow
from Louisiana, handed up the first
dollar.
The money was commencing -
pour in on Gen. Stewart, who was
later made treasurer of the fund.
when Gen. Gordon interrupted him to
allow the reading of the report of the
Jefferson Davis Memorial associa
ton. The report showed a total of
cash in hand of s32 .672, without stand
ing subscriptions of S10.727. When the
speech had been read. services in
memory of Miss Winnie Davis were be-
gun with an invocation by Rev. DR..
Perry.
As the clergyman resumed his seat.
Gen. Gordon announced that it was
intended likewise TO hold sacred
service in honor of the confederate
dead.
Inc memorial exercises were closed
by prayer delivered by Chaplain-
General Jones of the Veterans asso-
citation.