The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-22
He and Other officers of the
Association Unanimously
Re- elected.
CLOSE OF The REUNION
Funds in Hand Sufficient for Beginning Work
on the Battle Abbey Announcement That
Money for Davis Monument is S.
cured Evokes TumuItuOus
Applause.
tBy the Associated Press.)

New Orleans, May 21.-The actual bust
ness Of the Confederate Reunion was
brought to an end today and the dele
gates adjourned sine die at noon
General Gordon was reelected com
mander-in-chief and all the department
commanders, Generals Lee, Walker and
Cabell were at the same time chosen to
fill for another year the offices they have
held so long. All the elections we're
unanimous and were made by one shout
of "aye."
The place of holding the next reunion
was left to the executive committee 1t
viii be held in Louisville Nashville or ST.
Louis 1t is the desire Of the officials OF
the organization to arrange matters so
that single railroad rate will allow the
delegates to attend the reunion and visit
the worlds fair at st. Louis, either going
or coming. In the absence of any definite
agreement with the railroads and their
inability to say what could be done, the
department commanders asked that the
entire matter be left to the executive
council for final decision after consulta-
tion with the railroad officials. Their
wish was granted by unanimous vote.
General S. d. Lee presided at the open.
ing session of the reunion.
In the absence of General Gordon, who
remained in his room at the hotel, to gain
as much strength as possible for the
ordeal OF the parade tomorrow. The at
tendance was smaller than at any previ-
Gus session, though the hall was wei
filled before the time for adjournment.
The Committee on Credentials reported
that there was a total Of ], ,253 camps rep
resented at the reunion, with 2,243 prop
erly accredited delegates. The report was
unanimously adopted,
General A. P. Stewart presented a report
covering his connection with the project
to erect a monumen. 20 the women of the
South General Stewart reported that the
Memphis reunion in 1901, he had been
made treasurer of the fund, but had later
resigned his position in favor of a firm
which had been previously appointed for
the same purpose. He announced he had
a fund amounting to 1902, which he was
prepared to turn over to the committee
unless it had been otherwise ordered BIZ
the convention. The matter, upon the
suggestion of General Lee went over until
a later time for action.
The report of the Battle Abbey Com
mittee was then offered by General Glenn
ent A. Evans. He had said but a few
words when General Joseph Wheeler came
into the hall, and for few minutes it was
all over with the Battle Abbey, while the
delegates cheered a welcome to the little
commander.
General Wheeler, after reaching the ros-
trum. made a shore address. He urged
upon his hearers the necessity Of provid-
ing for the needy and aged soldiers of the
Confederacy, suggesting that the best way
to bring this about was through the va
rious State Legislatures At the conclus-
ion of General Wheeler's speech, General
Evans resumed the reading of the Battle
Abbey report. He announced that the
cash in hand and in immediate prospect
amounts to $204,4 All. OF this amount $104,-
All is in cash in bank. $40, 600 is the re-
naming portion of the Rouss donation;
$4,000 has been donated by the City OF
Richmond and $4,000 by individual resi-
dents of that place.
The committee therefore recommended
that as $500, 900, the inimum amount de-
sired for the erection Of the abbey, had
been secured, the time had arrived for the
commencement of the work. The report
was adoptd.
DIR. G. H. Tichener for the Southern
Memorial Association, reported that the
fund for the erection of a monument to
Jefferson Davis had been finally secured.
The announcement was received with tu-
multuous applause. He urged in addition
that the petition to erect monument to
the women of the South be taken up with
energy.
A delegate from Texas asserted that he
wished to see a monument erected to the
private soldiers, claiming that none exist
ed. He was promptly showed under by
the declaration that they existed all over
the South, three of them being in his own
State. II. T. Davenport, of Americas, Ca,
declared that the private soldier built a
to himself when he built the
one for Jefferson Davis. He declared that
Mr.. Davis was a patriot and Abraham Lin
coin traitor to the country. and that the
Davis monument should be erected at
once.
Judge Christian, of the Davis monu-
ment comittee, announced that all the
money required to build the meorial was
not yet in hand The comittee desired at
least $4,000 and it had but $57 900.
Mr.. Davenport insisted that it would
Continued on Fifth Page.l