The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-26
She WILL NOT RUN
Mrs. MCLEAN NOT OPPOSING MRS.
FAIRBANKS.
LATTER TO BE REELECTED
PRESIDENT-GENER OF THE Ma
TIONAL ID. A. RS.

Mrs. Mclean Announced That She
Would Not be "a Candidate-Wants
to Keep Contest on the Floor
and Restore HarmOny-Mrs. Nor
gan Offers an Important Amend
ment-Wants State Boards of Ar
bitratiOn Created - Named on a
Committee.
Washington. Feb. 25.-Mrs. Donald
Mclean of New York, who has been
prominently mentioned as a candidate
for the coming election for president
general of the D. A. r. to-day formal
ly announced her withdrawal. This
action insures the reelection of Mrs.
Fairbanks for another term of two
years, and also means that Mrs. Nc
Lean will be a candidate for president
general two years hence. Mrs. Nc
Lean made the following statement:
Il have positively declined to accept
a nomination for president-general of
the D. A. R. this year, because 1 de-
sire to keep contest off the floor of
the continental congress and so assist
in restoring harmony and good feeling
to that body
A part of the session to-day was de-
voted to the question of embodying in
a single substitute amendment all the
important features of the proposed
amendments to the constitution. One
by Mrs. Mamie NJ Coleman of Chi
cago creates board vested with the
judicial powers of the congress.
Another BY Mrs. Caroline M. Muir
ply, state regent of Ohio, creates a
committee on appeals elective by the
congress, to consist of seven members,
none of whom shall be a state regent
or national officer, to hear on it's mer-
its every case properly brought before
it, to take evidence and procure legal
advice when necessary, and to make
definite recommendations to the con-
gress in each case.
For Arbitration Boards.
The; third, offered by Mrs. S. B. C.
Morgan of Georgia, creates state
boards of arbitration to adjudicate all
matters concerning the chapters
brought up for settlement and to have
the power to impeach officers of the
state chapters and to reprimand, sus-
pend or. expel any member of the chap
tiers. The board is to report to a body
of five members appointed by the con-
gress to constitute a court of final APP
peal.
Mrs. James L. Blair, president of the
board of lady managers of the st.
Louis Exposition, and Mrs. Katherine
p. Horton of Buffalo, chairman of the
Exposition Committee of the D. A. r.,
spoke during the day in behalf of the
exposition, Mrs. Blair saying that st.
Louis would welcome all the members
and their families and friends in 1904.
For the Continental Hall.
Mrs. w. L. Lyons of Kentucky, one
of the vice presidents general, took the
chair. and Mrs. Fairbanks made a re-
port on the work of the committee on
the proposed continental memorial
hall. a site in this city for the hall,
she said, had been purchased for $780,
900.
Subscriptions made by the state
chapters to the continental hall fund
were announced, the aggregate ap-
proximating $4,000. The $4,000 for
the site has already been paid, and
approximately $4,000 remains on hand.
1t is predicted the building will cost in
the neighborhood of 100000
The committee to consider the pro-
posed amendments discussed at the
morning session were announced as
. follows:
Mrs. Mamie NJ. Coleman of Illinois,
Mrs. Caroline NJ. Murphy of Ohio; Mrs
S. B. C. Morgan of Georgia; Mrs. Orion
of Ohio, and Mrs. Waring of South
Carolina. The congress then took
recess until tonight.
Plans by stereOpticOn.
The plans for the proposed CONT
mental Memorial Hall were exhibited
by means of stereoptican views at the
night session. The presentation of the
plans was preceded by an interesting
report of the Subcommittee on archi-
lecture having the matter in charge,
of which Mrs. Eleanor H. Lindsay, the
wife of ex-senator Lindsay of Ken
lucky, is chairman. No recommended
ton was made as to which of the sets
should be accepted.
A resolution was adopted providing
for the nomina ton of officers to-mor-
row morning, to be followed by the
casting of the ballots for their cleo
ton in the afternoon.
81