Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1903-05-22
GEN. JOE WHEELER
GIVEN AN OVATION
Little Commander Cheered by
Veterans.
HE MAKES SHORT ADDRESS
Third Days Proceedings of the Meeting
of Confederate Veterans at New Or
Ieans-Report of Battle Abbey Com
mittee-DaVis' Monument.

| VlOuS session, though the hall was well
filled before the time for adjournment.
| The committee ON credentials report
ed that there was was total camps
represented at the reunion with 2,423
properly accredited delegates. The re-
| port was unanimously adopted The
report Of the committee on resolutions
was called for, but that body was not
prepared to appear and a very con
siderable delay ensued as the conven-
ton waited for the report.
On motion of delegate the selec-
tion Of city for the next reunion was
made a special order for IL o'clock.
General A. P. Stewart presented a re.
port covering his connection with the
| project to erect monument to the
women of the south. General Stewart
| reported that at the Memphis reunion
in 1901 he had been made treasurer
of the fund but had later resigned his
| position in favor of a fund which had
been previously appointed for the
same purpose. He announced he had
fund amounting to 1902, which he
was prepared to turn over to the COM
mittee unless 1t should be otherwise
ordered by the convention. The mat
ter upon the suggestion of General
Lee went over until later time for
action.
The report of the battle abbey com
mittee was then offered by General
Clement A. Evans. He had said but
few words when General Joseph
Wheeler came into the hall and for
few minutes it was all over with the
battle abbey report while the dele
gates cheered a welcome to the little
commander
General Wheeler, after reaching the
rostrum, made short address of
thanks for the welcome that had been
accorded him. He urged upon his
hearers the necessity of providing for
the needy and aged soldiers of the con-
federacy, suggesting that the best way
to bring this about was through the
various state legislatures.
At the conclusion of General Wheel
er's speech General Evans resumed
He announced that the cash in hand
and in immediate prospect amounts to
S204,471. Of this amount $104 ,421 is
cash in bank; $4,000 is the remaining
portion Of the Rouss donation; $4,000
has been donated by the city of Rich
mond and $4,000 by individual resi-
dents Of that place.
The committee therefore recon-
mended that as $1,000 the minimum
amount desired for the erection of the
abbey had been secured, the time had
arrived for the commencement of the
work. The report was adopted.
DR.. G. H. Tichenor, for the South
ern Memorial association reported that
the fund for the erection of a monu-
ment to Jefferson Davis had been
finally secured. The announcement
was received with tremendous ap-
plause He urged in addition that
the plan 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 existed. He was promptly
showed under by the declaration that
they existed all over the south, three
Of them being In his own state. H. T.
Davenport, of Americus, Ga, declared
that the private soldier built monu-
ment to himself when he built one for
Jefferson Davis He declared that
Mr.. Davis was patriot and Abraham
Lincoln a traitor to the country and
that the Davis monument should be
erected at once.
Judge Christian, of the Davis monu
| ment committee, announced that the
sum amounted to $4,000. Mr.. Da-
venport insisted that it would be a
disgrace to erect monument costing
less than $1,000,O00. He was prompt
| ly ruled out of order.
The committee on resolutions re.
ported favorably on a resolution Of
fered by General S. D. Lee, expressing
| the thanks and appreciation of the
| Confederate Veterans to congress and
| to Secretary of War Root for the of
fer Of the national government to pre-.
pare roster of all the soldiers of
both sides during the civil war.
General Joseph Wheeler spoke very
strongly in favor of the resolution, say.
| ing he had the assurance of the secre.
| tary of war that all original documents
sent to the war department would be
carefully copied and returned. An
amendment was offered to the resolu-
ton by Taylor Stratton, of Richmond,
| providing that three commissioned of.
ficers of the confederacy be added, if
possible, to the committee in, charge
of the preparation of the roster in or.
der to insure fair treatment of the
confederate soldier. This brought
| General Lee to the front in an i'm
| passioned appeal for the passage of
the resolution. He declared the offer
itself was a proof ofSthe integrity of
| the government.
The special order of the day, the Sc
| lection of the place for the reunion Of
1904, was then taken UP. General
B. HI. Young, of Louisville, offered a
motion that the selection of the city
be left to the executive committee with
! power to select a city at some future
time. General Hickman, of Nash
Vile, seconded the motion saying that
it was desired to see if arrangements
could not be made where the railroads
could be induced to grant rate which
would permit the delegates to attend
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