Evening star., 1915-04-23
ROUTINE MATTERS
IN OAR. CONGRESS
Presentation of Gifts Pleasing
Diversion at the Session
This Morning.
SUFFRAGE HUES FEATURE
OF DECORATIVE EFFECTS
Reading of Reports to Be Concluded
This Acknowledgment
for This Evening.

ton We're devoted to routine matters and
to the presentation of gifts to national
officers. chairmen of committees. etc.
Decorative effects at the hall caused
many of the daughters with suffrage lean
ings to smile significantly. of the many
bouquets adorning the tables. the rostrum
and the platform itself. or presented to
Mrs. William Cumming Story. re-eN~cted
president general a ma ajority We're in the
suffrage colors of yellow and white. Mrs.
Story herself became a symphony of suf-
frage hueS when she received huge
cluster of yellow daisies and white lilies.
which she held against the purple of her
gown.
The Invocation at the morning ses-
sion was by Rev. Dir. Abram Simon.
following which the minutes of yes
terdaY'S sessions We're begun. When
1 he reading had proceeded as far as
the close of the morning session a mo-
tion was made to defer further read
ing until later and to take up at once
the reports of the minor committees.
The motion carried, but the committee
reports were deferred while the pages
presented the president general with
a pair of jeweled shoe buckles and
]eweled slides for a tulle dog collar.
The floor pages also presented the
president general with a silver mesh
Miss Florence Finch and Miss Hilda
Fletcher, chairman and vice chairman.
respectively, of the pages.
For Entry in Book of Remembrance.
The Maine delegation announced that
the chapters of the Pine Tree state had
presented the society with $50, which
was to be credited to the president
general In the organizations book of
remembrance
Mrs. Daniel Lothrop. founder of the
society of the Children of the Ameri-
can Revolution and chairman of the
committee on that organization, read
her report Oh the growth of the junior
society. which was formed two years
ago. The report detailed the growth III
of the society, which Mrs. Lothrop
styled "a training school for the ID.
A r."
mornings session, but which were moi
reached before the noon recess. were
those of the Eugenia Washington
founder, memorial, Miss Anna Maxwell
Jones, chairman: genealogical research
Mrs. Fred Yates. chairman: to revise
the statutes, Mrs. Livingston Rowe
Schuyler, chairman: Philippine scholar
ship, Mrs. Joseph f.. McWilliams, chair
| man, and legislation in United states
Congress- Mrs Charles X. Davis. chair
man.
just before the noon recess meeting
of the committee on resolutions. Miss
Janet Richards. chairman. was called.
This committees report was scheduled
for the first business of the afternoon
session, called to convene at ; o'clock.
hut conSidera ton of the committee :
report was not begun until an hour
after that time.
While Miss Richard and members of
her committee declined to give any IN
formation as to The nature or the com
mittees reLort, ii was rumored that
several of the committees recommen-
dations might be expected to develop
anita SoniSln
Speculation Aroused.
Speculation was rife during the morn
ing session as to possible action rela-
tive TO the report of Mrs. willard T.
Block chairman of the committee on
LIQUIDATION and endowment fund and
certificate pennE-a day plan.
1t was expected that the congress,
under the leadership OF the president
general would decline to pay Nhe sum
of about $1,000 claimed to be due to
the firm which engraved and printed
the certificates of descent. on the
ground that such payment VIII not be
due until the certificates have been
disposed of and the money received.
These certificates of descent were part
of the plan proposed at the last con-
gress by Mrs. Block as means OF re-
ducing the debt on Memorial Cont
mental Hall.
The session tonight is to include ad
dresses by Maj. Gen. y. W. Greeley.
Col John Temple Graves. Miss Mabel
T. Eoardman. Mrs. \. Taylor Phillips.
society in London, England: Mrs.
James 7. Morris and others. The pro-
gram for the evening session also in
cludes several musical numbers. A
I. 1,0lI
honor Of Mrs. Stonewall Jackson, Mrs
Miranda b. Tulloch and Mrs. NJ. E. S.
Davis. the principal speaker being Mrs.
Josephus Daniels, wife of the Secre-
tary of the Navy.
Competitors May Again Contest.
Principal interest in the afternoon
session yesterday of the twenty fourth
Congress was the an
by Mrs. George Thacher
Guernsey. defeated candidate for presi-
dent general of the u. A. r.. that she
would be "a candidate for the saline Of
flee two years hence. While Mrs
Guernsey made 10 formal personal an
of the fact that she is to
be considered still in the ring, she al
lowed her friends and supporters to
circulate the announcement among the
delegates. The statement was definite
ly made as coming from the Kansas
state regent.
Mrs GuernseS'S showing was good
enough to encourage her in the belief
that had she entered the lists several
earlier she would have been
said one of the prominent
Guernsey supporters last night. I'm
a way she was drafted. and at time
too late to permit her to make a really
effective canvass. The support which
was accorded her. in spite of this fact.
however was SO great that her ad
herents believe she Will be elected two
years hence.
Remarks made by adherents of Mrs.
Story and by few OF those who We're
in charge of affairs connected with her
candidacy created the impression that
the re elected head of the society is to
be a candidate for third term as pres
ident general in 1917. No confirmation
of the rumor was to he had but it was
OF sufficient definiteneSS to cause con-
siderable comment.
Another prominent Daughter who is
expected to he candidate two years |
from now is Mrs. John Miller Horton
of Buffalo, who was one of Mrs. Guern- |
sey's adherents in this years election |
Features of Last Nights Session.
Last nights session of the congress- |
which convened at $50 o'clock, was |
CONTINUED on fourteenth pags.)