New-York tribune., 1903-03-01
D. 4. r. CONGRESS ENDS.
Not a Peaceful Session, Bat Night
Haze Been H'orse.
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yrsxhinIton Feb &-The twelfth Conttnentei
corrresa Of the Daughters Of the American ReVo-
tuition adjourned tonight. The dOWnpcur oh lam
prevented many OF the members from oeihs rEese"
at the operinE of this mornings session. tnousnn u
Mrs Fairbanks who has never once nasseo
throughout her week Of trying duty, was on ha"~
with her hammer promptly at 10 O'clock
The battle Of the amendments began early ano'
as usual time lost In fruitiess o1scussioHS' a.
which nearly every woman in the house tco& pa "
One OF these amendments related to the .imPe~acn ~
nent' Of members. After q dozen NJ more Daush-
ters had talked it over for and against, Mrs. b"h
aid Mclean asked what impeachaoie crimes - w.
mentioned in the constitution OF the society iN
she went on to show that the Daughters hau nO
shixh crimes" in their constitution. so that sucn
an amendment would require second amenonent
defining impeachabe crimes. Mrs. Estes G. f<atn-
bone presented to the congress resolution paying
q tribute to the sailors who LOST their lives IN
Brooklyn in the Revolutionary War.
A resolution, fairly saturated with PATRIOTISM
ordered" each chapter to have nag OF the %.
eetv's coIors as well as the Stars and Stripes ana
Instructed" each regent to raise both hags on a"
holidays over the chapter hall, or. there "e'"s
no hall over the regents house.
Immediately a young woman jumped up a"I
called out an objection to the words ordered ano
instructed" and suggested that "recommenoeo
and requested be used instead. Then meH1Oet
rose and said that her chapter had no haAl' 0"
that as she lived in hotel. she didn't see nov
two flags over mis- house every time hoHuaS
came around and then everybody laughed ana 'i'e
author OF tie motion subslded.
The Presidents reception yesterday was not
without its flaw. When Mr.. Roosevelt arouseu
Southern indignation by entertaining negro guest
II was believed by optimists that the South wouio
forget Apparently the South remembers AO1
s y tbe from Ws ts pHfF pHduS and d0G
maned at the Opera House until the afterpGon e1 lid
fo visit a house where negroes were en-
tertaiRed, but the majority OF them gave g o orna
said tt that She was not accustomed to calling at
Especially as Mrs Roosevelt left there just as they
came Others, still. objected to being lhViteo a.
% MIS- iithes Randolph RedIe, ce-president;;genn-
eral Of the Nsw,Jersey society gave large & gunner @
tionaI ofieers and State rsEents Mrs BedIS eS has
Woman Of the consress-Which is saying great
deal She has changed her superb toilets Tor ever S
ported gown made entirely of steel and Jet pail
Miss Janet E. Richards, the oficial reader whose
knowledge have added not a little to the success
Of the sessions just closed o.u,1, hos heer
peaceful one In eloquent contradiction there are
shattered gavs3 3 and 1sc brGSn cb SLAB es@e 9e TO pef
under the blows Of Mrs. Fairbankss hammer carry
Mrs Mer1rrn. regent of Potomac Chapter: this
city, was showing some friends beautiful mailer mailer
70 her chapter The marble is bit from H1o.t4s the
who looked at it said: What this congress needs
for a eavel is the Washington Monument itself
No, the congress has not been a peaceful one:
but remembering rast years. It is freely admitted
that 1t might have been worse. There are many
brilliant women in the society. women of brains
and education. who never fail to say and 90 the
right thing at the proper time: but-there are
others This afternoon stormy discussion re-
suited from the efforts Of the friends OF MISS
vestigation of certain charges made against nsT
and which have been inherited from the last con-
gress. The excitement grew so intense in tse
later afternoon owing to the persistent detnanos
made by Miss Baird HueY's supporters. that the
congress went into executive session. and the re.
porters were deprived Of the first real cnance OF
securing sensational copy.