Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-04-20
Reports of Several National
Officers Cause Somewhat
of a Stir.
LACK OF COOPERATION BY
ADMINISTRATION HINTED
Liquidation of Debt on Hall Held
Blocked by Withholding of Of
fetal Endorsement of Plan.

Following morning session devoted
almost wholly to the transaction of
routine business. enlivened only in
spots by debate somewhat warm. to-
DAYS session of the twenty fourth an
rual congress of the Daughters of the
american Revolution warmed up this
afternoon. hen reports of several ma
1ional officers were presented. At
least two Of these reports contained
more or less thinly veiled allegations
of lack of cooperation on the part of
the president. general. Mrs William
Cumming story. and other prominent
national officers.
Mrs. Anna Scott Block of Chicago.
chairman of the liquidation and en-
dowment fund committee, in her re-
port, almost in so many words charged
that Mrs. Story declined to aid the
committee in it's work of raising funds
for reducing the Indebtedness on Me-
Block failed to declare herself either
fC. or against the present administra-
ton.
Mrs. Charles Wesley Bassett. historian
general of the society, declared her
annual report was refused by the
national board. February II. for the
reason, assigned by the board. that
il was complaint and not a report.
ganizing secretary general, in her re-
port openly stated that her work Of ex-
panding the society had been hamper
ed by members of the administration.
Ten Minutes for Reports.
The most important business of the
morning session was the adoption Of a
resolution allowing ten minutes for the
reading of reports of national officers
,1,-
Efforts were made to limit the time to
five minutes. and repeated votes. viva
Noce and standing. were required be-
fore the congress at last registered its
will that the time should be ten min
utes. with ample time for discussion
of the reports.
Reading of the minutes of yester-
DAYS sessions was omitted. the regular
order of business being otherwise ad
hered to. The session was called to
order by Mrs. Story. the Scripture read
ing and prayer being by Rev. Sigour-
ney W. Fay. Announcement of the
committee on recommendations of ma
tional omcers-the nominating COM
,nittee-was passed. and the presenta-
ton of reports was at once taken up.
The report of the president general,
which was read yesterday, was omit
ted. and the morning session ended
with the reading of the report of the
chaplain general. Mrs. Mary S. Lock-
wood
At the afternoon session Mrs. Block.
chairman of the committee on liquida-
tion and endowment fund. exploded a
bombshell in the congress when she as
serted that the work of her committee
had been virtually stopped because of
the failure of the president general to
give her official approval to a plan for
raising money to pay of the building
debt.
Mrs. Block in her report quoted let
ters purporting to have been written
=
occurred that the president general
withheld her support and Endorsement
OF the committees plans for the reason
that il had been reported that Mrs.
office of treasurer general on the
Guernsey slate.
Denies She Is a Candidate.
Mrs. Block stated in her report that she
= not and will not be candidate for
that office or any other. and that she at
10 time contemplated being a candidate,
although she had been asked by Guernsey
adherents in Chicago to run for treasurer
general against the incumbent, Mrs.
Joseph E Ramsdell.
No move can be made, II is apparent
at any session of the congress, to which
Interior motives are not at once imputed
by administration supporters or adherents
of Mrs George Thacher Guernsey, state
regent OF Kansas, who is Mrs. Story's op-
tonent for the Office of president general
Guernsey supporters declared after
ftis mornings Session that Mrs Story's $
advocacy of a continuance of the plan
O, holding regular board meetings each
:donth was an attack by the presi-
ceHt general on an article in what is
styled the platform. on which Mrs
Guernsey is running. The. article in
question declares against needless and
useless expenditure of large sums" in
calling the national board together
each month. and advocates the sub
at:tution Of quarterly meetings Of the
board.
In statement issued shortly after
noon today Mrs- Guernsey asserted
That the expenses Of five extra meet
fags of the national board in the last
have been $2a7J0
Under the present system. which we
are attacking. Mrs. Guernsey said. in
tration is being thrown Into the hands
OF a few states only"
The statement asserts that the prac-
ttce of holding meetings of the board
twelve times year instead of qua
that II has virtually robbed western
members of the board. as well as
southern members, of representation at
board meetings by reason of the heavy
expense Of such trips TO Washington.
Mrs story's Adherents Indignant.
Adherents of Mrs. Story are warmly
Indignant in their refutation of these
srd similar allegations. asserting tina,
Mrs. Story has been actuated by the high
est possible motives in all that She has
.-,tr as president general and that no
4 ground exists for complaint as to
80. rcarr.r Of her administration
C2ucusIns OF the state delega tious
III ihe small rooms Of Memoria! Conti-
mental Hall and at the various state
ii"ad3narters IN the hotels of the city,
continued this morning. attendance a (
fhc morning session being somewhat
reduced ON this account
Committee on Recommendations.
'"he membership of the committee on
recommendations of national officers.
- anaounced this morning, is Mrs
gorge W. Gedney. state regent Of New
.f"IseN. chairman. Mrs j. Morgan
sri II, Ma bama: Mrs. BroolSmyer, Mis-