The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-04
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 ,rh. following letter from Mrs. J. Thompson. the former treasurer oi the Alabama Division U. D. c., VIII he readily understood and appreciateo hv fine daughters who attended the creensboro convention. Two sessions were crowded into one on Thursday morning, the second day of the con vention, in order to accept the court eous Invitation from the Memorial As .ocistion to listen to an address by osneraI Oates, and to attend the un- yeiiing of the Confederate Soldiers Monument.
 Sd many matters of importance had to be brought up and disposed of in the limited time that, explanations were precluded. In the absence of a number of the committee chairman. the secretary's duties were multiplied, but the minutes were ready at the close of the morning session and were read, corrected and approved. After met in Selma and again approved the minutes.
 Since Miss McCally distributed the minutes 1t has been intimated to the former secretary that Mrs. Thomp- son felt she had been misunderstood at the Greensboro convention in re- gard to her position on the subject of the soldiers tax and therefore had been misrepresented in the minutes.
 The secretary wrote at once to her requesting . statement of her position. l in order to publish the same in the lU. D. c. columns of The Advertiser. Mrs. Thompson's plan in regard to the distribution of the soldiers tax is clearly defined and 1t will no doubt appeal to the good sense of all the Daughters. The former secretary Is delighted to publish this explanation of a seeming contradiction in the po- sition of one. who Is always to be found on the side of right and jus tice.
 | L. D. Ross.
 Ex- x-Secretary, Alabama Division, U. D. c. -s Tuscmubia, Ala, Nov. 21st, 1904
 My Dear Mrs. Ross.
 Dear Triend:-In reading over the minutes of the Greensboro convention which reached us November 1st. I find Con page 5S0 that. my motion made subsequent to the action of the convention, in abolishing Art VI
 by-laws-has been whQlly misunder- stood and hence misrepresented. My motion had no reference to the Di- vision or it's treasury!
 I After the vote was announced, abol- ishfng the fifteen cents per capita tax there seemed to be many whose chap ter work, Is to devote moneys to the | ''old soldiers" so I moved that, each chapter obligate itself to raise an amount equal to the fifteen cents per l capita tax and that this soldiers fund be distributed from its treasury to the needy soldiers, in its respective local Ifty Or community My motion did not name the State Treasury or State President. One delegate Mrs. Law renee of Union Springs. I think stated that there were no needy old soldiers in her community and I said in a case like that, which Is exceptional, the fund could well bo paid to those at IMountain Creek Home, or to aid cnap- lters having a large pension list. oth- CTS said my motion was just the same las the law only now abolished This tshould have awakened my mind te some misunderstanding of my words for m;sinterpretation of my argument but 1t did not, for I was acting in good faith to hold the chapters to an ob- litigation to aid old soldiers and in my Imind concluded. as this fund was moi Ianly longer to be sent to the State Treasury that the convention deemed lit unwise to encroach upon chapter rights Gin this matter as one beforel by designating the amount of fund land manner of its home distribution so let 1t pass. I had hoped thai lit was made clear. that as tho sun total of the fifteen cents per capits tax would enable the Division to con tribute only two dollars per month tt inine or ten needy soldiers, and hence only the relative number of chapter. lwould be represented in the distribu
 tion-that a more plausible. practica
 ble and efficient means of assistance tt
 our old soldiers. would be to keel
 this fund at home and distribute tt
 the local needs of our old soldiers
 You remember the hurried adjourn Iment, and veacuation of the hall.
 was standing in the dispersing crowt when the minutes were read, and no feeling a need for alertness in tn,
 matter, must confess and with re
 gret, to a verp reprehensible inatten
 tion-hence no correction.
 hesitate greatly. to call attention to these matters-so long ago in thu past--but as the record stands totall! different from my argument. and in tention to aid and alleviate in caus
 dear to us all, trust you will set m
 right. am not pleading. do not grea
 sirs, misconstrue my intention O
 that interest I feel assured. but
 would be gratified to be understood.
 Your sincerely.
 Lucie M Thompson.