The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-16

sets : Mrs. Crien. Of Alabama; Mrs.
| Polk. of Tennessee; Mrs. Burney, of
South Carolina; Mrs. Thompson, of Mass
achusetts.
The voting will begin at o'clock this
morning, the voting machines having
been installed last night. The delegates
will vote by States. II probably will be
tomorrow before the final results are
known.
At yesterday afternoons session Mrs.
Willard T. Block. chairman of the COM
mittee on liquidation and endowment
fund OF Memorial Continental Hall, and
Mrs. James NJ. Fowler. chairman of the
committee on penny-a-day contribu-
tons. reported.
Mrs. Scott's Report.
Rev. James Shera Montgomery deliv-
cred the invocation and Mrs. Charles
Baker, OF New York, sang ''Oh. Rest in
the World The actual business of the
session was taken up.
Copies of the bill introduced in Con-
gress. at the request OF Mrs. Scott, to
appropriate $500. 600 to help put an addi-
ton to Continental Hall. were given to
all delegates. The bill provides for the
appointment Of a commission to pass on
the plans for the building.
Mrs. Scott also passed around copies
of a letter from Representative Horace
Towner, stating that the bill would not
have the effect of giving the govern
ment additional Jurisdiction over the D.
A. r.
Mrs. Scott's report as chairman OF the
national board of management was. in
part, as follows:
Probably the most important action
taken by the February board was that in
regard to organization in foreign lands,
as embodied in the resolution that will be
read to you. Also action in regard to
the acquisition Of additional land and
Office building. There has been much
honest misunderstanding and much mis-
leading Misrepresentation of this action.
Therefore. / have had printed for dis
tribution, for every delegate, the bill that
has been presented in Congress. 1t has
been passed by the Senate, but the
House has not vet considered it.
THE letter explanatory OF this bill Is
also printed, and Is in your hands. The
recommendations of the board and the
unanimous Endorsement of the CONT
mental Hall committee on the following
afternoon are matters of record.
Il will not detain you with any argu-
ments in favor Of this bill. as the entire
discussion that took place in the board
is reported in full in the April magazine,
but will simply state that there is no
string to 1t. II il is passed the ground
adjoining is given the D. A. r. in fee
simple; also funds, If any should be
given, for an Office building No pecu-
mary political, or other interest or right
would attach either 20 the United States
government or to the Sons Of the Ameri-
can Revolution"
Financial Condition Good.
The report of the treasurer general,
Mrs William D. Hoover, of Washing
ton. contradicted emphatically press re-
ports that there mad been laxity in the
management of the business affairs Of
the society. Besides reading a COM
plete report, showing the disposition Of
a current fund amounting. in balance
from last year and the years receipts.
to s119,143S1. Mrs. Hoover. visibly moved
by the reports which had been circulat-
ed. said:
II will ask the official reader to read
my report. but before she reads it, I
would like to say few words. / will
say, as did Mrs. Brumbaugh, the regis
trar general, that this has been a most
prosperous year financially. as these, our
records will show, and as my report will
show. II you desire more information
than is contained in the report, will be
only too glad to give it to you. In other
words. IL there is anything you want to