The evening star and Newark advertiser., 1907-07-15
CHA.
WOMEN GO IN
ANGRY MOOD
To Demand That National
Officers Be OuSted and
Inquiry Instituted.

Many women prominent in the Ladies'
Catholic Benevolent Association LEFT
this city today to attend the second
triennial session and ninth convention
of the organization, which will meet
In Springfield Mass tomorrow morn
ing at O'Clock, continuing until the
business of the convention is concluded.
There is not the slightest doubt that
the convention will be stormy, and the
New Jersey delegation, which is op-
posed as a body to the present admin
istration, will not only lend its sup
port to ousting the present incumbents,
thirteen of whom are anxious for re-
election, but 1t will insist upon an in
quiry into the charges of gross extrav-
agance in handling the funds of the as
sociation. which charges are made
against the supreme officers.
The New Jersey delegation, all of whom
received copies of and anonymous circulars
containing the charges, a copy of which
WINS published exclusively In the EVEN
ING STAR. have been on the alert for
political tricks which they feared might
be resorted to by more unscrupulous menu
bers. Their watchfuness WAS rewarded.
for when the official organ of the l.. c. Il.
A. was received In this city Saturday it
was discovered that Zucarelli Branch No.
e21. of this city. was among the published
list of branches entitled to send a delegate
to the convention.
This announcement made the active onts
unusually active, as 1t Is generally known
that Zucarelli branch has only twenty.six
members instead of fifty, the number re-
quired before the branch can hnve any
voice in the business of the association or
send a delegate to the convention.
| Delegates who know the condition of
| fa4p IT,, o,.olIt DNaK, H.
clare that Illegal transfers were made
from other branches in order to obtain
the required number took the matter be-
fore the local supreme trustee. Mrs Maria
Quinn, who started an investigation as
result of the pressure brought to bear
upon her.
When asked for an explanation, one of
the officers declared the membership of
the branch to be fifty-one, but when
asked if it was not true that transfers
were made by members of Morristown
branch she acknowledged its truth and
said the transfers were made with the
permission of the supreme president, whom,
she declared, was anxious that the branch
be represented at the convention, because
the presence of delegate would add
strength to the cause of the present ad-
ministration Sh further averred that the
transfers were made without the knowledge
of the transferred members.
| To substantiate the truth of this state
! ment Mrs Quinn obtained a statement
from the odcers of the Morristown branch,
| with the seal of the branch attached, stat
| ing that the transfers were Illegal and that
| the transferred members were really only a
| loan to the Newark branch to entttle 1t
to a delegate at the convention.
As a matter of fact, not one OF the trans
ferred members signed the roll of Zuccarelll
>effect, which statement is in the possession
of Mrs. Quinn.
The New Jersey delegation declares thii
is only one instance of trickery which ha
been practised in the supreme council ant
they declare they will demand an explana
tlon of the proceedings and challenge thu
right of the delegate of Zuccarella brancf
to a place on the floor of the convention.
Nearly 200 amendments to the constitu-
| tion will be acted upon. and 1t Is expected
that this will occupy large part of the
convention. Some of the delegates from
this section who will attend the eonven-
ton. besides Mrs. Quinn. are Mrs Jane
Dcugherty. Mrs. Rose A. Duffy, Mrs.
Ellen Slnnott. Mrs. Elizabeth Hague, Miss
Margaret Gray, Miss Annie O'Connor, Mrs.
Catharne Murphy, Miss Mary McLaugh-
| in Mrs Barbara Steines. Mrs Margaret
Holmes. Mrs. Marie Bouncher. all of this
city; Miss Catharine Comisky, Belleville;
| Miss Mary Ferrbacher. Elizabeth: Miss
| Margaret Collins. Bayonne: Miss NJ. Kee-
| gan, Jersey City. and Mrs. Catharlne
McCabe. Bloomfield