The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-03
LEE CAMP TABLES
new INVITATION
Fails to Consider Proposal TO
Donate Portraits to Memorial
Institute.
HONOR CROSSES PRESENTED
Major Anderson Gives l2emin-
iseences Of President .Teffer-
son Davis.

without debate. r. L. Lee Camp
No. 1, Confederate Veterans. last night
tabled request from the trustees or
the Confederate Memorial Association
that 1t donate its matchlcss collection
OF portraits to the Confederate Memo
rial institute soon to be built in this
city. and that the camp make Its per-
manent HON In the new building.
Lee Camp has several times recently
shown Its apparent aversion to aban-
doninS present quarters and moving
TO the Memorial Institute. At the time
the plans were adopted for the build
ing the executive committee of the
association extended an invitation to
the camp to donate its portraits OF
Confederate leaders. II was further
proposed that before the final draft
of the plans was complete. prcpara-
ton should be made for permanent
meeting place for Lee Camp in the
building. 1t was not intended that
the removal should take place at any
particular date, but only that the
camp should indicate It's desire to
help In making the institute what il
is designed 20 boa sort of hall of
fame No notice seems to have been
taken of the invitation.
Repeated Request.
The paper presented last night by
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS j. Taylor ELY
son, the president of the Confederate
Memorial Association, was a copy Of
resolutions adopted at the recent
meeting of the trustees of the assoCxi-
ton at Little Rock. The trustees in
dorsed the invitation extended by the
executive COMMITTEES. expressing pieus-
ure that the site for the building had
been selected in accordance with the
request of Lee Camp. on the grounds
of the Soldiers Home 1t was read
before the body. and on motion of
Adjutant j. Taylor Stratton went to
the table
1t is understood that those at the
head of the Confederate Memorial AS
ISOLATION fear that the unwillinEness of
Lee Camp to donate its portraits and
move to the building will have a bad
erect elsewhere in securing some ma
terial to go into the institute after II
Is built. 1t Is generally recognized
that Lee Camp IS the leader and It's To-
cation and prestive give II great deal
of influence
MINOR Anderson speaks.
Some personal recollections of Presi.
dent Jefferson Davis were presented 10
the caS1p by former Attorney General
william ~ Anderson last night, pre-
cedinE the presentation of crosses OF
honor by the Daughters of the Confed-
eracS. Major Anderson told of the oc-
casions on which he had seen the chief
magistrate Of the Confederate states
and paid high tribute to his personal
magneusm. his patriotism and his re-
markable force ms a speaker
the crosses were presented by Mrs.
Gregory, for Chesterfield Chapter, and
by Mrs Randolph, for Richmond
chapter.
The camp received and accepted an
invitation to the usual memorial ex-
ercises in Petersburg next Friday.
Lee Camp will leave South Richmond
at noon of that day.
On behalf of the Daughters of the
Of the Peninsula, Captain
John \. Curtis presented an invitation
to attend the exercises next Saturday
in commemoration of the iiftieth an
niversary of the battle of Bethel. This
was also accepted