The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-04-17
ANNUAL SESSION
OF D. A. R. BEGINS
Ladies Who Trace Their
Ancestry to the Revolu-
ton Meet In Washington
NEW JERSEY AT EBBITT HOUSE
MRS W. D. KEARFoTT, OF MONT
CLAIR. A CANDIDATE FOR THE
vICEPREsIDENCY TO SUCCEED
MRS. ALTHEA r. BEDLE

WASHINGTON, April II. 1906
Daughters Of the American Revolution
were formally convened for their fif-
teenth annual congress in Memorial Con-
tinental Hall yesterday morning, when
Mrs. Donald Mclean. the president gen.
eral. dropped the gavel at 1890 o'clock.
1t is the largest congress that has ever
been held. the magnet being the nearly
completed headquarters of the national
society. which is decked in holiday garb
for the occasion, with the platform bank
ed with palms and the American flag
draped on the wall.
Whether the Montana difficulty will be
brought up in open congress or not IS
the absorbing topic with every Daughter
interested in the national body. Charges
of fraud in an election, preferred by Mrs.
Amos G.. Draper, district delegate.
ter Harvey Weed, regent and yice-regent
of the Montana Daughters, were investi-
gated by a committee of the national
board of management and in a report
presented Saturday night the two women
were cleared of the charges and the COM
mittee declared them legally elected.
1t is asserted that the matter will be
appealed to the congress from the de-
cision of the board and the special COM
mittee, and if this is done it will make
the session memorable in D. A. r. his
tory. and it will besides, so it is claimed,
have an immense bearing on next years
election. The decision of the board in
accepting the report of the committee is
regarded as decided victory for Mrs.
Weed. especially after the mass of testi-
mony presented by Mrs. E. K. Haskell,
of the Silver Bow Chapter, of Butte,
Mont. against her.
The invocation prayer was offered by
Mrs. Teunis S. Hamlin, chaplain-gen-
eral, after which Mrs. Mclean made an
address of welcome. The responses We're
made by Mrs. A. A. Kendall, Maine;
Mrs. Charles B. Byram, Tennessee; Mrs.
William J. Crittenden, Michigan; Mrs
John A. Murphy, Ohio; Mrs. L. Bradford
Prince. New Mexico; Mrs. John L. Stew
ems, Iowa; Mrs John R. Walker, Miss
souri,. and Mrs. Mary Wood Swift, Cali
fornia.
In the afternoon the congress formally
organized with the roll call of delegates
and the report of the credentials COM
mittee. Mrs. Charlotte Emerson Main,
chairman. Mrs Alexander Ennis Pat
ton. cha ir1nan of the programme com
mittee, made her report.
New Jersey headquarters have been
established at the Ebbitt House, where
the State meeting was held yesterday
afternoon at o'clock. Every evidence
points to the reelection of Miss Ellen
Mecum, of Salem, and Mrs. Erastus G..
Putnam, of Elizabeth, as State regent
and State vice president, respectively.
Mrs. William D. Kearfott, of Eagle Rock
Chapter, Montclair, is New. JERSEYS can
didate for vice president-general. She
was a potent factor in establishing the
playground and summer school for 300
Italian children in the Maple avenue dis
trict Of her town. She is being indorsed
by Mrs Althea r. Bedle, of Jersey City,
whom she seeks to succeed. She is a
young woman, and is popular in New
Jersey, and is also a personal friend of
Mrs. Mclean, who has expressed the
wish that Mrs. Kearfott be elected.