The Washington herald., 1916-04-19

amendments to Mrs. Guernsey's original
motion were put and rejected.
The original motion, by a majority vote
was then laid on the table, as was a
motion injected at this time that the
members remove their hats.
wants window Opened.
Mrs. Story closed the incident by de-
claring, There Is IN charge OF the d.
A. r. magazine an intelligent commit
tee capable of intelligently directing the
work Of the magazine. 1t is a distress
sing condition when an outsider at
tempts to govern this committee
Immediately after this clash Mrs
Story asked that the window be opened
as she wanted more air.
When the members Of the twenty-ffth
congress gathered for the afternoon ses-
sion there was feeling of tension in the
air following the morning announcement
that the report Of the magazine commit
tee would be the opening business.
The feeling was brought about by the
recent resignation of Miss Natalie Sum-
ner Lincoln ssseditor Miss Lincoln re-
signed when her action in making a re-
port to the national board was con-
strued as an attack on the chairman Of
the committee.
The verbal clash in reality was brought
about by the morning report of the treas
urer general. in which 1t was shown the
magazine had incurred a deficit of 50,
64S47, and the statement In the report of
the chaplain general, Mrs. Mary S. Lock-
wood, in which she said:
DO not let us forget that when the ma
tional board looks for a report of our
magazine from the editor and the busi-
mes management they are in accordance
with our law
THE censure of the board should
come when they neglect to carry out
the law as laid down in the constitu-
tion, not when trying to live up to it.
The only party. IL We must have par
tisanship, should be to uphold the con-
stitution that has carried US through the
years and made this society one Of the
most successfully organized in the world
Immediately following this Mrs. Story
said: without criticism Of any report
that has been made here today, want
to state that there is no business man.
ager of the magazine and that the only
salaried officer Is the editor.''
Miss Lincoln Is silent.
1t was expected that Miss Lincoln
would ask recognition on the floor to
present her side of the initial contro.
versy, but thhe opportunity was not
presented on request.
The afternoon session was opened
by Miss Media Humphrey, grand
opera singer, who gave several solos.
She was encored repeatedly, and as
the last number rendered the old
Southern song, Little Alabama Coon"
in the words and tone used by her
mother in singing the song when Miss
Humphrey was very small child.
The report of the Memorial Con-
tinental Hail, of which Mrs. William
Cumming Story is chairman, was read
by Mrs. Robert Lansing, secretary Of
the committee.
Mrs. Lansing gave a resume of the
history of the erection of the hall from
the meeting on October IS. 1890, when
the subject was first broached by Mrs.
Mary s. Lockwood, until the time of
the first meeting in the hall in 1905.
In a short address following the re-
port of Mrs. lansing, Mrs Story told
the members that the first money for
Memorial Continental Hall was raised
at a luncheon given at Mount Month
cello and during the present congress
the members OF the d. A. r. would be
asked to indorse a movement to have
the Federal government purchase the
site of the home of Thomas Jefferson.
introduces Lady Aberdeen.
Representative Davis told the members
that the long agitated bill looking into
the putting into book at the Government
Printing Office OF the records of the
heroes of the Revolution would be enact
ed at this session of Congress. He also
said that a bill to make the Star Span
gled Banner the official emblem of the
United States would be passed. He closed
with the assertion that bill also would
be passed preventing effectively any des-
ecration of the flag.
Mrs. Story then asked that she be per-
mitted to interrupt the proceedings to in
troduce an unexpected guest of honor,
Lady Aberdeen.
Lady Aberdeen thanked the D. A. r.
and through them the women throughout
the United States, for the ready response
10 the appear OF the var sufferers of
Europe.