The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-14
BIG REUNION
 OPENS TODAY COnfcderateS Marching on
 Louisville. HAND OF HOSPITALITY City Proud of H0noring the
 Old Heroes. Several Prominent 0hacers Are on the seene, Including General Joe
 wheeIer-slichle's Highly
 Interesting Report.

Louisville, June 13.--Louisville, deco rated to an extent hitherto unknown. and smiled on by typical summer weather, extended the hand of hospi- of arriving veterans who have come to Kentucky to attend the fifteenth an- nuai reunion of the United Confederate Veterans, which opens tomorrow.
 Tn every hotel and at almost every corner in the business section of the city the men wearing the grey are to bs f>und To all purposes the reunion opening Is officialIy set for tomorrow. Among the prominent ex-Con federates now here are Gen. stephen D. Lee Com mander-in in Chief: Gen. Joe Wheeler. Gen, Andrew J. West of Atlanta. com manding the North Georgia Brigade. who came in at the head of a large delegation of Georgians; Lieutenant General Irvine Walker of South Caro- lima. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner. Gen. William Jones of Richmond and Gen. Clement A. Evans of Atlanta, the chair man of the History Committee and the Battle Abbey. It was the intention of the History Committee to hold meet tng this afternoon. but owing to the non-arrival of several of its members. the meeting has been put over until to- morrow. Governor Beckham. who will extend the welcome of the State to the delegates. Is expected tomorrow morn Ing
 The Virginia and Maryland deiega- ticns came in this morning and some of the great army of Texans arrived during the afternoon. The Tennessee ans began arriving in force this after. noon. followed closely by attachments of the Arkansas regiments.
 Speer Can't Attend.
 Much regret has been expressed over the receipt of a letter from Judge Emory speer of Macon. Ga. announo- been expected that Judge Speer would address the orphan brigade. of which he Is a member.
 The accommodations arranged for the veterans are on a large scale and are believed to Do complete. At several plaees Barracks have been arranged fof Iie Accommodation of 1000 veterans irgs nearby. It matters not the hour the wearer of the grey presents him- self for something to eat. It will be ready and waiting for him twenty-four hours in the day. {. Gen. w. E. Mickle, Adjutant- General and Chief of Stan. has completed his annual report, which is highly inter- estlng It says.
 Tt is a source of sincerest pleasure to me that am able to report that the debt that has been resting on the fed eration for a number of years has been paid in full That this matter has been liquidated Is due to the extraordinary efforts put forth by you; and while the urgent appeal made by you to the wealthiest members of our order was sent to near 300 people and should have had most generous responses, the amount realized was barely sufficient to wipe out the debt. This lukewarmness on the part of those who were In a po- sition to respond most liberaily Is sad commentary on the degeneracy of the times and displays a deplorable lack of interest by men who were once so ready to share the dangers and depri- vations that rendered the Confederate armies famous throughout the world.
 There has been carried on the roster of the, order for number of years many camps who had made no payment of any kind since they were chartered; some of these really never had an ex- istence, having died aborning' After comforting with the Adjutant General of the various divisions these camps have been put on the dormant list; and no mall matter will for the present be sent them. This means a con siderabe annual saving to the order. There are still on the roster a number of camps who do not contribute to the finances of the order, make returns of any kind or manifest the least interest in the federation. As soon as definite Information can be secured regarding them they will be added to the dor mant list.
 rue- Promptly Paid.
 T am proud to be able to report that at no period in the history of the federation have the camps paid their dues with more promptness or in great CT numbers. At the Nashville meeting only about 4s 2-8 per cent of the camps paid in full all claims against them. while at the present time AZ 'S-4 per cent of them are all present or ac- counted for
 ''The field from which new camps are to be gathered Is limited and the ma terial Is rapidly diminishing by the erosion of time. Yet there are those who once were units of our great armies who desire to associate them seles together and connect themselves with our social, literary, historical and benevolent order. Since our reunion in Nashville last June eighteen new camps have been chartered. making the total on the roster at the present time. distributed as follows:
 Summary by States.