Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-23

regent Of Constitution Chapter Of the DIS
tfict, was raeogntsed and moved that tue
report Of tM coh4nittse be adopted. In.
msd''st s sane q1e asked what GOOD 'nAs
How viii that hslp Miss Baird-Husyf'
was demanduA ir.
Mrs. TostsF explained tnst It weuid sx-
press the cohddenEe Of the congress IN Aass
Baffd-Huey's vindtcation-
Defense of the Old Board.
Miss YorsyeAe of New York was then
recognised. miss sForsythe was member
Of the national board at the time the matter
first came ug and it is said she has opposed
every effort, to have the case reopened and
to give Miss Baffd-Huey chance to be
heard on the real merits of her ease. Miss
Forsythe began With defense Of the ac-
ton of the old ma tionaI board, but was
quickly called down, the congress being
evidently In no mood to submit to the
threshing over OF old straw. Miss Forsythe
persisted amid mutterings and objections
of the congress- and finally the president
general told herzto proceed with her state
mcnt.
She had not proceeded FAR. however when
Miss Weeks, member Of the special COM
rnittee called her down, fatty contradicting
Miss Forsythe's statements, and called at
tentfon to the fact that she was supported
In this contradiction by the stenographers
report of the hearing. of Mrs. Roberts
demanded that the transcript of these stem
ographic notes be read. which was done.
Finally it was decided to dismiss the
whole matter by accepting the report OF the
committee precisely as tt was read to the
congress. 1t is considered by a majority OF
the delegates that this is an entire vfndica-
ton OF Miss Baird-Huey and sufficient
censure of Mrs. Roberts, so far as its prac-
teal effect is concerned.
Reports Of the Delegations.
Mrs. Emma L. Stanley, state regent Of
Kansas, and wife OF ex-Gov. Stanley, says
the six chapters in Kansas are doing splen-
did work. The Topeka chapter of Topeka
has offered cash prizes of $40 and $50 for the
best essays written by students of the To-
peka high school on the subject THE Santa
Fe Trail Mrs Stanley explains that Nan
ses has no landmarks of revolutionary
times and in their stead the Kansas
Daughters have decided to mark those Spots
and highways having national as Wen as
d local Importance. The line OF the Sante
Fe trail. extending thr- ugh the state olS-
lance of more than four hundred miles. has
been chosen as our first united Undertaking
This road. for over half a century, was the
route over which passed the commerce OF
the prairfas The wagon road was surveyed
by United States commissioners in 1s2o- u,
and the Kansas State Historical Society mas
secured from the government for our use
copies of the maps ana Held notes OF the
survey. with these as our Suloo, IL ID ouA
Intention to have stone mounds or markers
raised along the route.
In Wichita the Eunice Sterling Chapter
has had given it a plat of ground In the
city park. On this fine flag pole has been
raised and the flag is kept floating all the
time. The society has also planted small
oak tree-a grandchild of charter oak. Sew
eral chapters In Kansas have real revolu-
tionary daughters as members. Kansas Is
represented by Mrs Stanley and Mrs Eu-
gene Ware, wife of the commissioner OF
pensions.
Mrs Dennis Eagan, state vice regent OF
Florida, presented the greetings OF the
state.
New Jersey is the smallest but one of the
state sisterhood of the D. A. r.. but IL
yields a powerful influence in the organiza-
ton Its soil teens with revolutionary
"reminiscences and its Daughters are patri-
otically eneE8etic.4 New Jersey has nine
teen chapters REPRESENTED in the thirteenth
continental Congress. Mrs. E. G. Putnam
is the newly elected regent and Mrs. Ellen
Micum vice regent, Mrs. Althea Randolph
BedIe of New Jersey was elected vice
president general for New Jersey two years
age and has, just been reelected.