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GORDON STILL LEADS
VETERANS WILL HAVE NO OTHER
COMMANDER-IN-CH
DEPARTMENTAL GENERALS
WERE ALSO REELECTED AT THE
REUNION.

Business of the Reunion Brought
to an End-Next Reunion City Not
ChOsen-WiII BE st. Louis, Nash
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Trip to BE a Feature-BattIe Alb
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Progress in the Davis MOnume nt
Enterprise-Great Parade To-day.
New Orleans, May 21.-The actual
business of the Confederate reunion
was brought to an end to-day, and the
delegates adjourned sine die at noon.
Gen. Gordon was reelected COM
mander-in-c chief, and all the depart
ment commanders, Gems. Lee, Walker
and Cabell, were at the same time
chosen to fill for another year the Of
fees they have held so long.
All the elections were unanimous,
and were made by one shout of Aye"
The place of holding the next reunion
was left to the Executive Committee
1t will be held in Louisville, Nashville
or st. Louis. 1t is the desire of the
officials of the organization to arrange
matters so that a 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 agree
ment with the railroads and their in
ability to say what could be done, the
department commanders asked that the
| entire matter be left to the Executive
Council for a final decision, after con-
sultation with the railroad officials.
Their wish was granted by a unani-
nous vote.
Gordon Saving His Strength.
Gen. S. D. Lee presided at the OPEN
ing session of the reunion in the abb
sence of Gen. Gordon, who remained in
his room at the hotel to gain as much
strength as possible for the ordeal of
the parade tomorrow. The attendance
was smaller than at any previous ses-
sion, though the hall was well filled
before the time for adjournment.
The Committee on Credentials report
ed that there was a total of !, 523 camps
represented at the reunion, with 2,423
properly accredited delegates. The re-
port was unanimously adopted.
| Gen. A. p. Stewart presented a re-
| project to erect monument to the
women of the South. Gen. Stewart re-
ported that at the Memphis reunion in
1901, he had been made treasurer of The
fund, but had later resigned his posi-
ton in favor of a firm which had been
lprevionsiy appointed for the same pur-
pose. He announced that he had a
! fund amounting to SOP, which he was
prepared to turn over to the commit
tee, unless it should be otherwise or
dered by the convention. The mat
ter, upon the suggestion of Gen. Lee,
went over until d later time for &C
ton.
On the Battle Abbey.
The report of the Battle Abbey Com
mittee was then offered by Gen. Gle
ment A. Evans. He had said but a
few words when Gen. Joseph Wheeler
came into the hall, and for a few
minutes it was all over with the Bat
tie Abbey report, while the delegates
chered a welcome to the little COM
mander.
Gen. Wheeler, after reaching the
rostrum, made a short address. He
urged upon his hearers the necessity
of providing for the needy and aged
soldiers of the Confederacy, suggesting
that the best way to bring this about
was through the various state legis-
latures.
At the conclusion of Gen. Wheeler's
speech, Gen. Evans resumed the read
ing of the Battle Abbey report. He
announced that the cash in hand and
in immediate prospect amounts to
$204, All. OF this amount $104,4 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 $200,000, 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.
T.,o Davis Monument.
DR.. G. H. Tichenor for the Southern
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 applause.
He urged, in addition, that the plan to
erect a monument to the women of the
South be taken up with energy.
A delegate from Texas said that he
| wished to see a monument erected to
the private soldiers saying that none
existed. He was promptly showed I'M
der by the declaration that they ex-
listed all over the South, three of them
being in his own state.
H. T. Davenport of Americas, Ca,
declared that the private soldier built
a monument to himself when he built
one for Jefferson Davis. He declared
that Mr. Davis was patriot and Abra-
ham 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 all
the money required to build the memoir
ial was not yet in hand. The commit
tee desired at least $4,000 and it had
but $57 900.
Mr.. Davenport insisted that 1t would
be a disgrace to erect a monument
costing less than s1.000,000. He was
promptly ruled out of order.
Thanks TO Secretary Root.
The Committee on Resolutions report
ed favorably on a resolution offered by
Gen. S. D. Lee, expressing the thanks
and appreciation of the Confederate
Veterans to Congress and to Secretary
of War Root, for the offer of the ma
tional government to prepare a roster
of all the soldiers of both Gides during
the Civil War.
Gen. Joseph Wheeler spoke strongly
In favor OF the resolution. saying that
he had the assurance OF the Secretary
OF War. that all original documents
sent 70 the War Department would be
carefully copied and returned.
An amendment was offered 70 the
resolution by Taylor Stratton Of Rich
mond providing that fhree commits
stoned officers ~ the COufedfFacv be