The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-16
He is Unanimously Re-
Elected Leader.
JUSTICE TO The SOUTH
Report Of Committee On History Adopt
ed. Battle Abbey and Davis Mon
ument Funds. New Orleans
Selected as Next Place
OF Meetinq.
OF Meeting.
(By the Associated Press)

(By the Associated Press)
Louisville Ky, June 15.-The Unit
ed Confederate Veterans today re-
elected their old officers as follows:
Commander-in-C Chief, Lieutenant-Gen-
eral Stephen ID. Lee, Mississippi; Com
mander Trans Mississippi Department
General L. w CabeH Texas; Com
mander Army of Tennessee Depart
ment Lieutenant-G General Clement A.
Evans Georgia; Commander Army o.
Northern Virginia Department Irving
Walker. South Carolina.
New Orleans had little difficulty III
securing the convention for 1906.
Nashville made a fight which surpris-
ed the convention, but the sentiment
was strongly i'm favor of the Crescent
City.
Fraternal greetings We're read from
the State encampment of q. A. TX. OF
Indiana in session at Madison. The
greetings were only moderately cheer
ed, and one delegate on the platform
with the remark that there lis getting
To be too much of this fraternlzlng
took his hat and depar\1.
Other interesting reports submitted
during the day were those of the his
tory committee and the battle abbey
committee.
The spectacular feature of the re-
union--the parade of the remnants or
the South's once great army--will take
place tomorrow. and it is expected
that the humber of men in line VIII
exceed that of any recent reunion
The line of march will cover dis
tance of nearly three miles.
New Orleans Chosen.
81.
sion General Lee introduced Captain
n. r.. Norris, of Macon, Ca, who de-
livered the annual address TO the Vet-
Grams. Captain Harris spoke for more
than two hours and held the attention
of his audience throughout. General
Lee had barely announced that the
order of business was the selection OF
a place of meeting for next year when
from every part of the hall came
shouts of New Orleans" Order was
restored long enough TO permit Gen
eral A. B. Booth commander of the
Louisiana division. to extend the off1-
cial invitation of the city of New Or
leans and the State of Louisiana.
General George w. Gordon. OF
Memphis. commander of the Ten
nessee division extended the invitation
of Nashville in behalf of two and Il
half million people of the State. and
of various organizations of Nashville.
c. w Baskette, editor of the Nash
VILE Banner. was introduced and
gracefully seconded the invitation.
The check to the enthusiasm for
New Orleans was but temporary, and
on a rising vote the Crescent City was
decided upon.
The selection was made unanimous.
General George p. Harrison. of Ala
bama chairman of a committee ap-
pointed TO confer with committees
from other Confederate organizations,
read n report recommending that the
words of the famous song Dixie be not
changed as the sentiment of the old
bows i'm gray was decidedly against it.
1t was adopted.
The report of the Committee on
Resolutions was read by former Gov
ernor Fleming, of Florida. The re-
port endorsed the effort TO bring
about peace between the foreign nd-
tions of the Far East and expressed
the hope that before the full noon
day of this twentieth century. univer-
sal peace shall be proclaimed. and that
all the nations of the earth shall have
beaten their swords into plow shares.
the spears into pruning hooks, and
nations shall learn war no more
Graves of Confederates.
Major f. w. Anderson. first lieuteI-
ant commander of Charles Broadway
RouSS Camp No. .l91 of Washington,
ID. c. offered the following resolution
and the committee incorporated it in
its report:
Whereas, the bill before Congress
for the care of the graves of Con-
federate soldiers buried near hospitals
and prisons i'm the North has so far
failed of passage by that body.
BE it resolved. that this association
of United Confederate Veterans, in
convention assembled urges the pas
sage of this bill: as n matter of right
and duty. not only on the part of the
Senators and REPRESENTATIVES. i'm Con-
greSs from Southern States. but also
on the part of those from all other
States OF the United States. i'm that
the government is charged with the
Sepulchre of those who died prisoners
in its hands. according TO the usages
of civilization. of which the United
States forms a large and competent
part"
This section of the report caused
considerable discussion. but it was n
nally adopted.
The election of officers was then
takZn up. and the present officers
were quickly reelected. 1t was just
$50 o'clock when General Lee de-
clared the Reunion of 1905 adjourned
sine die.