The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-15

| CT. President of the National Fedora tion of Clubs, and the Christian Ad- vocate." a powerful religious puplica- ton. Eighty-five thousand women are represented by these societies. The following Is an extract from Mrs Pitts report:
 Opposes Polysamy.
 At a meeting in April I presented to our Chapter q resolution indorsing the protest against Mir. Shoots reten- tion of his seat In the Congress of the United States, and indorsins also the memorial to Congress for the amend ments to the constitution prohibiting polygamy. It was unanimously car- ried. as many of our members were also members of the Home Protective League, and all were loyal, as South ern bred women should be, to the highest ideals of marriage. and the purity of the home. Now we come with an appeal to this whole body of the National U. D. c. to add the weight of their indorsement to the noble work being done by the U. D. c. and help to teach Americanism.
 T present this memorial not from a political standpoint-we have no politics in Utah; we are ruled by q King. Joseph the Prophet--but as a member of the Home Protective League, and in the name of morality and purity of the home, under the banner of the my father fought"
 Mrs. Mathis ofsTennessee said, at the conclusion of Utah's report: May ask that this convention rise in honor of that magnificent report, and the Chapter which has been formed with such sublime courage, and which means more than anything else that has been tf motion to this effect was carried.
 Expression of Sympathy.
 The chairman said: While we feel deep sympathy in the troubles of our Utah sisters, the objects of this asso- citation would not permit the introduc- ton of the resolution referred to in the report from Utah." Her ruling was sustained The anti-poiygamists do not regard this turn of the affair as final. Mrs. C. Y. Goodlet, the venera- ble founder of the [. D. C.. said last evening:
 ''I personally indorse the work of Christianity embodied in the memorial proposed by Mrs. Pitt. If I could do anything to aid the women of Utah in obliterating the curse of polgamy I would not hesitate to lend all the in- fluence of which l may be possessed as founder of the U. D. e.
 Memorial services. with prayer by N O profound respect for veterans of the Cohfederacy, who had passed away dur ing the year, occupied half the fore- noon session. The names commemora- ted were those of Henry s. Foote, W. W. Foote. Charles Clement Lee, win s. Green and John Shirley Ward. of California; Judge John H. Reagan. of Texas: General William B. Bate, of Tennessee; General Fitzhugh Lee and General Thomas H. Churchill. Their military, professional and political ca- reers were outlined and eulogized.
 Reading of Reports.
 Routine business being resumed, Mrs. A. NJ Stephens, of Los Angeles, read the historical committees report North Carolinas report was read by States president, South carolina's re- port was read by Mrs. M. Glover for the president Mrs. Bernett. West Virginias was read by Mrs. Kate Witherow Reynolds for President Vir- Rinia T. McSherry, and Maryland Di- visions by Miss Foulke. of San Fran cisco Alabama by Mass Arlington, Virginia by Mrs. Charles Elliott, Tex as bv Mrs. " E Austin, Nebraska by Mrs Hickman, Tennessee by Mrs. A. B. White and Oklahoma by Mrs. Rapley conciuded the divisional reports.
 Hundreds of fashionably gowned | and charming women thronged the white and gold room of the St. Francis Hotel in the afternoon, at the recep- | t1on oiven the convention by Jefferson | Davis chapter. Mrs. Sidney M Van Wyck. president. Governor Pardee l wired the following message:
 q regret that oficial business which detains me at the capital deprives me of the pleasure of attending the reeep- al meeting of United Daughters of the confedeFaey"