Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-04-28
SELECT LITTLE ROCK AS
NEXT MEETING Pl ACE
After eallotins on officers and City
for Reunion Of 1911 Many Matters
of Business Are Disposed OF and
Convention Devotes Itself 20 Excr-
else of Memorial Hour.
Ony Associated Press.)

Mobile. Ala, Aplll 81. w II"
Little Rock. Ark, chosen as the re
union city for 1911. and New Orleans
endorsed for the honor in 1915 and
with an election of officers, the
United Confederate Veterans AS
ISOLATION closed its business session
tonight. All that remains now Is the
big parade tomorrow ard the balance
of the week will be devoted TO
amusements. The vote stood: Little
Rock. 1870: Chattanooga, $40; Okla-
homa City, Il; Houston. o.
When Texas was reached, the vet
Grams saw how hlngs were going AMI
threw their strength to Arkansas.
The endorsement of New Orleans as
the meeting place for 1915 was con
tanned in a resolution favorably re-
ported and adopted. II reciies that
New Orleans proposes 10 hold
Panama canal exposition inl9l5 and
that the Crescent City had asked the
Veterans TO endorse the exposition and
attend II in April 1915.
General Gordon Chosen.
General George w. Gordon, OF
Memphis. commander of the depart
ment of Tennessee, was chosen com
mander-in-chief, succeeding General
Clement A. Evans. of Atlanta, who de
clined reelection.
General Evans was elected past
commandcr-in-chief.
The new commander General Cor
don has the distinction of being one
of the four living Confederates who
were actually major-generais before
the war ended He also has a record
OF being captured by the r'edera'
forces three times.
General Gordon will be succeeded
in command of the district of Ten
nessee by George Bennett Young OF
Louisville. Ky.
II is understood that General VIII
liams f. Nickel will remain adiutant
general and chief of staff TO General
Gordon.
Adjutant General William +. Mic
kelrs annual report showed thirty
new camps had been chartered during
the year. and ten old camps were re-
instated.
Clarence J. owen. commandment
chief of the Sons of Veterans was
presented and received An ovation.
Owen spoke spiritedly Of state rights
and declared if the Uniteu States is
TO exist as a nation il must recognize
and adopt ,ne means for which the
South fought.
HISTORY Report.
General Bennett Young. OF Louis
vile. read the history report. He
deprecated the tendency Of writers TO
misrepresnt the South. He declared
that Of all the Southern soldiers In
Northern prisons, twelve OF every
hundred died. while of Northern
soldiers in Southern prisons. only
nine of every hundred had died. The
greatest monuments u the Southern
soldiers. he said. Is the death list of
the North
The convention adopted the report
end. on motion. a copy will be sent
Senator Hepburn. OF Idaho. who re-
Gently spoke in the senate n opPOsi-
ton to the placing OF statue of
General r. +. Lee in s;ataary hail.
This motion was carried with cheer.
Promptly al noOa. in accordance
with an old custom. the convention
suspended business ard devoted Itself
to the ccNrciscs u memorial hour.
This is practically a religious exer-
else in memory o. those who di d dur
ing the year The services were con
ductcu by Rev. r. Linn CAGE. chaplain
general Of the veterans. and the
famous Jesuit orat0r-priest. Rev.
Father DE La Morinicr.