The National tribune., 1909-08-26
me QMcers.

The election of officers was entered
Into Immediately after Hfnch on Thurs
iday. The Credentis2 Committee report
led 31s voting members, the smallest
were not ZOE in, the galleries. The
name of Mrs. Belle c. Harris, of Kan
sas. was presentedito to the convention by
Mrs. Cora M. Deputy, Department Pres
lident Of Kansas, and the name of Mrs.
Jennie T. Berry, of Iowa. was presented
by Mrs. Marie L. Bashan, Department
president Of Iowa. Both ladies made
candidates, and the seconds came by
dozens from every section.
/ After the election of Mrs. Berry as
National President Utah got to quarrel
ing with itself over the Senior Vice
PRESIDENCY, and the office went to Mrs.
/ Fannie d. w. Harding. of Colorado
Past National Secretary and eminently
elected were: Mrs. Charlotte E. Wright,
Connecticut, Treasurer. elected for the
| fifth term by acclamation, and Mrs.
Clara L. Campbell, Idaho, Chaplain.
The Executive Board is as follows:
Mrs. Florence O. McClelland, Illinois,
lChairman: Mrs. Cora M. Deputy. Kan
sas; Mrs Lilah D. Lindsay. Oklahom I;
Mrs. Clara Lake, Rhode Island; Mrs.
Alice McEwen, Texas.
Mrs. Sarah d. Winans, of Ohio, was
reelected Chairman of the Anderson
vile Prison Board Mrs Emma Stark
Hampton, of Michigan, was elected
Delegate to the National Council of
Women. Mrs. Abbie A. Adams was
made the second Delegate to the Coun-
| Gil of Women.
The officers appointed are as follows:
Mrs. Georgia Wade McClelland, Iowa,
Secretary; Mrs. Marie L. Basham, Iowa,
| I. and l. Officer; Mrs. Cora M. Davis,
Oregon, INSPECTOR: Mrs. Mary NJ North,
| Maryland, Patriotic Instructor; Mrs
| Margaret Carey Wright, California.
Press Correspondent. The Counselor
was not named.
The whole staff does credit to the
Woman's Relief Corps. and this should
be prosperous and businessIike admin
istration.
Concluding Business.
The consideration of the National
Presidents address and recommended
tions occupied good part of the last
afternoon. Some of the recommended
tions were dropped because of their al
tering Rules and Regulations. The
most important of these was the recon-
mendation that the old section contain
ing Discipline, which was abolished last
year, be restored until a properly con-
stituted committee could present some
thing more satisfactory. If the recon-
mendatiOn had been given as a resolu-
ton in the resolutions forwarded 80
days before convention, as the law re-
quires. 1t would have been adopted
unanimously. The necessity fer such
discipline has been demonstrated in
many ways and In various Departments
during the past year, II Is stated, the in
subordination of Department Presidents
and their incapacity for filling their
offices having been made apparent in
several instances. Mrs. Ball, of Poto-
mac, protested that the convention
ought to do something to punish the
insubordination in her own Department
at once, but said that she knew it would
not be possible to accept the recon-
mendation out of order. As the only
alternative a resolution was adopted in
stituting committee to present some
form of Discipline for the next conven-
ton. Mrs. Mary S. Gilman was made
Chairman of the committee. Mrs. Har-
riet j. Bodge was elected the second
member and Mrs. Mary l.. Carr the
third menaber. ~ Hk
The recommendation to appropriate
800 for the vested, fund of the Francis
Scott Key mansion was unanimously
adopted. Mrs Isabel WorreiI Ball.
partment of the Potomac, w. r. c.,
appears first on the list contributing to
the mansion fund, followed by 78 mem
bers, of Sheridan Corps. OF washington,
d. c., made a statement concerning the
old mansion which came as surprise
to the delegates. She stated that 1t was
the Woman's Relief Corps and the
Grand Army of the Republic which
saved the Betsy Ross house, and not
the Revolutionary societies, and that it
was the belief of the management of
the Francis Scott Key house (which is
the same that saved the Betsy Ross
house) that the same societies would
save the Francis Scott Key mansion. If
it is saved from the hands of the real
estate spectators. Mrs. Mary NJ North
stated the same thing.
The Mississippi Case.
The recommendation to make Pro-
yisional Department of Mississippi and