The Washington herald., 1911-10-10
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power of the alliance. Kurt Voelckner,
CT this city, moved that steps be taken
10 invite the German Catholic societies,
the German veterans organizations, the
Norwegian associations. and similar
bod to join the movement of the al
liaI in the same sense as the Irish
American societies.
Protesting against the action of the
Russian government in not recognizing
tne passports of American citizens of the
Jewish persuasion, Hon. Simon Wolf
moved that the alliance request Congress
to declare null and void the treaty of
this country with Russia of 1882. The
resolution was adopted unanimously.
Honor to Architects.
That the honor of being theauthors and
architects of the COngressiOn Library be
longs to two Germans, John L. Smith
meyer and Paul j. Pelz, and not to
Orig. Gen. Thomas Lincoln Casey, T. s.
A, as indicated on marble tablet in
the library. was the substance of a res
olutiOn offered by Rudolf Cronau, of
New York. The resolution demands that
the tablet be changed so as to place
the names Of the two German architects
at the head Of the tablet and not at the
foot as at present. Mr.. CrOnau also
demanded that the money which is still
du" t" Messrs. Smithmeyer and Pelz
from the government be ordered paid
by Congress. The resolution was PASSED
10 the committee on legislation.
Gustav Bender defended the splendid
work performed by the Engineer Corps
or the army, mentioning the Panama
Canal, the Washington Monument, the
locks at st. Mary Falls Canal, Ambrose
Channel, the public parks and numerous
others He paid high tribute to Gen
CASEY in connection with his work in
erecting tn" Library of Congress.
War on NntiyIsm.
Theodore Sutro, of New York. offered
the following resolution. which was
adopted:
ITO check nativistic cncroachmcnts.
to maintain and safeguard the good and
friendly relations existing between
America and the old German father
land"
\ motion hy Gustav Bender to in
struct branch organizations to make
every effort to induce Congress to pur-
chase Mount Vernon and make it ac-
CessiblC to the people. free of charge
was referred to the United German
Societies Of this city
ST. Louis was selected as the next
convention city. in 1913.
In order to enable the executive board
to come in more frequent touch with
the State organizations II was resolved
to have annual conferences at th,. head
quarters of the alliance in Philadelphia.
which shall be attended by one dele
gate from each state. and the members
of the executive committee
Old officers Retained.
The election Of officers for the coming
two years resulted in retaining the old
officers. who are as follows: Dr. G. J.
Hexamcr. Philadelphia. president; Joseph
Keller. Indiana. first vice president: John
Tjarks, Baltimore. second vice president.
Col. +. 9. Stahl, Trenton, y. j.. third
vice president: John =. Cappelmann.
Charleston. s g. fourth vice president:
John Schwalb. Cincinnati. fifth vice
president; Theodore Sutro New York
sixth vice president. Leo Stern. Milwau-
kee. Wis. seventh vice president. and j.
Hermann. of san Francisco Cal, eighth
vice president. Hans Weniger. Phila-
delphia, treasurer: Adclph Timm. PhiIa-
delphiH. secretary. and Hermann Weder.
Philadelphia, financial secretary. The
offices Of fifth. sixth. seventh. and
eighth vice presidents were created at
the meeting yesterday afternoon.
\ vote Of thanks was extended to Col.
Martin Wiegand, chairman Of the local
arrangements committee and to Kurt
Voelckner. president Of the United Ger
man Societies.
Nearly all of the delegates took the
late trains last night for their homes.