Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-06-03
CoNFEDERaTE VETERANS.

Veterans the report OF the committee on
resolutions wss adopted without debate.
1t indorses the objects and aims of the
Arlington Confederate Monument Asso-
citation, which purposes the erection OF
Confederate monument ia Arlingios
national cemetery.
On the correct representation OF Inc
Confederate battle fsg the resolutions
committee submit ss a substitute: "Ihat
the action Of this associstiou, at its con-
veniion held in Nashville, Tenn, in
1904, be Endorsed and reaffirmed.
The report favors the preservation OF
all papers, manuscripts and historical
skstcheS Of the Confederate States and
recommends the endowment Of Con-
federate hospital in the home formerly
owuei by Stonewall Jackson at Lexing-
ton.
1t suggests the celebration of the one
hundredth anniversary of the birth OF
Gen. r. E. Lee By permanent memoir
ial in the institution OF which he was
president Washington and Lee Univer-
sity), aud favors the erection OF a mon-
ument to the eighteen soldiers killed at
Appomattox. The building OF this last
mentioned memorial it commends to the
camp at Appomattox.
The report recommends the tabling OF
the request of the "Daughters" for Il
change of the rules governing the be-
stoWsl Of the crosses Of honor so that
they may be worn by the descendants OF
the recipients.
1t thanks Congress and the President
for returning the captured battle flags
and for sppropriatiDg 5000, 600 to mark
the graves of Confederate soldiers buried
in northern soil.
The report urges that the southern
states give each Confederate soldier Il
testimonial of his record, and, when the
end comes, an appropriate buria'; also
that the division commanders shall con-
stitute the executive committee of the
association.
It declares that the title Of general
shall be borne only by those who had
that title during the war. 1t also recon-
mends the tsbling Of the resolution pass
ei by the Daughters" aud providing
that DO state sponsors and maids OF
honor be appointed.
1t likewise recommends the tabling Of
the resolution regarding a monument to
the women of the south, and extends
sympathy for Mrs. McKinley's relatives.
Among The features OF the days work
was the reading Of the annual report OF
Rev. j. William Jones, the chaplain
general. The report advised the as-
sembled veterans Of the death Of II. d
DckenoD, of New York, who had
served long and faithfully for the as
ISOLATION. i, dealt also in the litiga-
lion undergone by the association in
the recovery of the remaining $4O,-
900 Of Observation-Disclosures
bequesi, left the association by
the late Charles Broadway R0uss.
Peter Rouss, the executor of Charles
Broadway Rouss, refused to pay the re-
naming $40. 600, and took the case
through the courts of New York, where
it was finally decided against him. In
regard 10 the battle sbbey proposed to
be eiec;c1 in Richmond, the report
stated that on account Of the delay in
the municipal appropriation Of Richmond
the abbey had not yet been started, but
that the movement was well under way,
with 5000, 900 at present 10 the treasury.
The report vas adopted unanimously
The C0nfederated Southern Memorial
Association met Saturday and listened 10
stirring address by Mrs. Virginia
Clay Clopton, OF Alabama, the author
of ga Belle of the Fifiies," who is the
widow of Clement C. Clay, senator from
Alabama, who was arrested on the
charge of being implicated in the MUIR
der of Abraham Lincoln, and who was
imprisoned with Jefferson Davis in For
tress Monroe.
Mrs. Clopton, who ia quite old, bat
a charming and dramatic speaker, held
her audience spellbound with her graphic
account of the arrest of her hns-
band. She described her varied expert
ences in her attempts TO see her husband,
her reverses at the War Department at
Washington and her 6nsl success. She
also describe her journey with Jtffsr-
son Davis by boat from Alabama to
Norfolk.
Many of the women present had known
the various personages to whom she re-
ferred in her narrative, and mauy faces
in the audience we're wet with tears.
The sons of Veterans he'd their last
aud most important meeting Saturday
afternoon and passed a resolution forbid
ding the election of any person to the
organization other than son of Con-
federate veteran, meaning one who bore
arms for the Conf 1eracy.
The election of officers was without
contest, John w. Apperson, of Mem
phia, being elected commander in chief;
w. w. Old, of Norfolk, commander of
the Army of Northern Virginia; Clarence
J. Owens, of Alabama, commander OF
the Army of Tennessee, and J. S. Hill
lard, of Texas, commander of the Army
of the Trans. Mississippi.
DR.. Thomas NJ. Owen, of Alabama,
late commander 10 chief, was made his
torian general, and a committee on his
tory, composedsoftone member from each
State, was elected TO assist him.
The Women Of the Confederacy pass
ed a resolution, which names a commit
tee Of three women of the Confederate
Memorial Association, three members OF
the Daughters of the Confederacy, and
three members of the United Confederate
Veterans to request the United States
government to restore the names of Pres