The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-16

?. Article from Mobile Register sent di- rect from southern Congress as follows. Southern Congress, Montgomery March 4: The flag of the Confederate states ia determined on unanimously The design was originated by the committee on flag, and not from any of the models pre- scented, etc.
 3. Article from Montgomery Advertiser of March 5, printed in the Mobile Daily Advertiser of March '. making same statement.
 4 Affidavit from Mir Marschall
 ,. Statement from his wife.
 G. Statements from Mrs. Lockett's son and daughter and from others who were then in Marion, Ala, and were familiar with the facts.
 T. Extracts from the Confederate Con- gressional Record from Harrison's book, "The Stars and Stripes" and from the Montgomery Advertiser.
 8. A copy of the Louisville Courier Journal of June A. 1995, published at Mir Marschalrs home, containing sketches of the three designs of MT. Marschall as ne designed them. said copy of the Courier Journal antedating by six years the copy of the Montgomery Advertiser of 1911, in which an incorrect design was printed, and with which MT. Marschall is not con- nected up in any way.
 g. Please refer to the minutes of the
 
 lima Daughters-page 25, where the his- torian innocently confesses that she had never heard of the claim of Major Smith until June, 1911, also page 26 showing how recent is the Smith contention.
 I wish to call your especial attention to some important facts:
 1. That the official report of the flag committee as given by MT. Miles, chair man, distinctly states that none of the designs sent to the committee were suit. able. He divides those sent to the com mittee into two closses: First, those which copy and preserve the principal features of the United States flag into slight and unimportant notifications !" Second, those which are very elaborate complicated or fantastical."
 The first class, he says were reflected because none of them at any consid- erable distance could readily be distin- guished from the one which they imi- tate"
 The second class were objected to be- cause however pretty they may be when made up by the cunning skill of fair ladies fingers in silk, satin or embroidery, they are not appropriate as flags
 This is proof positive that the design which Orrin R. Smith claims to have sent to the committee the second week in February, was discarded among all the others
 Orr1n k. Smiths flag was sent in early in February. If it had been suit able it would have been accepted long before the 4th of March and the com mittee would have been spared the trouble of seeking experienced and ex- pert help or of getting up designs of It's own. This one statement of the committee disposes at once of the Or rin R. Smith design. The above quoted passages from newspapers and one di- rect from Southern Congress prove the fact that Orrin R. Smiths design was either not received or if received was rejected with others.
 Second: The flag committee report contains another statement again di- rectly opposed to the Orrin R. Smith claim, which is additional proof that MT. Smiths design was not accepted
 It is claimed that the Orrin R. Smith flag was designed on the idea of the Trinity-three in one--the three bars were for the church. state and press red represented state, legislative, ju- dietary and executive; white for church. Father, Son and Holy Ghost blue for press, freedom of speech. freedom of conscience and liberty of press, etc.
 Hear the report. of the committee opposed to this:
 Committee expressly states that the significance of the three bars of col ors were taken from the heraIdic em- blem Red represented valor, white