Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-19
D. AR. DELEGATES
STICK TO BUSINESS
Working Hard to Make Up e.
Hours Behind Their
Schedule.
BALLOTING is UNFINISHED

terday's work, the congress Of the Ma
tional Society of the Daughters Of the
American Revolution today had an un-
usually quiet session There was not one
single discordant note. and business pro-
ceeded on dead level Of monotony.
The proceedings are now a day behind
the program. The voting is 1iso behind
schedule and the first ballot will not Be
completed until late this Afternoon Then.
II there is no majority vote for any can
didate-and It seems certain that none
Of the four candidates for president gen
erai can command a majority necessary
to election-it will all have to be done
over again.
The voting machines seem to be Civ
ing trouble to the voters and are de-
laying progress. This is the first time
they have been used and some OF the
voters require a quarter of an hour
to register their political opinions. AS
there are only three machines this
holds up the waiting line.
Conserving Strength of the Clerks.
Mrs. Joseph Dearborn. Chairman of
tellers. explained that she is not calling
state delegations alphabetically to vote
because she is conserving the strength
Of her clerks. and is grouping state
delegations to equalixe the labor. The
voting continued throughout the morn
ing.
Mrs. Walter Roe OF Colony. Okla.
clad in the buckskin costume OF a
Cree Indian. spoke OF the three Indian
schools. She told OF many treaties be-
tween the Indians and the United
States treated as scraps OF paper" and
asked If the United States had blood
guilt
Mrs Roe also told of her interroga-
ton of the Apache prisoners of the
fight for the United States II war came
against Mexico. She asked subscrip-
lions to scholarships in the schools at
$3.50 each.
Mrs. william G. Spencer, vice presi-
dent general from Tennessee. Endorsed
Mrs. Roe's plea and urged that con-
tHbutions be made for at least one
scholarship.
Kentucky Room Offered.
Mrs E. G. Boone, state regent of Ken
lucky. offered the Kentucky room. the
debt on which has just been liqutdated,
for war purposes in response to the
appeal of the Secretary of War. The
room is to be available after the adj
Journment of the congress.
Offer Of all available space in Memorial
Continental Hall for the use OF the Red
Cross was proposed in a resolution by
tary general The congress refused to
refer the resolution to committee. and
insisted on voting without dissent in
favor of it
MRS. George c. squires. independent
candidate, took exception to statements
made in the press that she has with
drawn from the race as q candidate for
president general
figured. but she is still in the ring" she
said, Mrs. Squires added that she would
be in at the finish.
May Retain Their Membership.
The chair ruled that the wife of an
alien. losing her American citizenship
thereby. is not thereby barred from
membership In the D. A R Mrs Story
declared that eligibility to membership
in the D. A. r. depended entirely upon
the services of ancestors.
A signal honor was paid to Mrs.
George NJ Sterneerg when she was
nominated by complimentary stand
ing vote for honorary vice president
the late surgeon general OF the army.
has been . vice president general
through the administrations OF Mrs
Daniel Manning. Mrs Charles Fair
OAn Ks daO ME- 0A0AlucW SCVtS SSHC
has been librarian general for the last
four years
Oppose Volunteer System.
Word of the action OF tho House mill
tary committee yesterday in substitut-
ing the volunteer for the selective draft
provision OF the administrations war
army bill caused great indignation
among the Daughters at last nights
session. A resolution was promptly
and unanimously adopted asking every
member to call upon her representative
and senator to support the govern
ment's plans.
The night meeting was featured by
patriotic demonstrations. Among the
speakers was Lieut.. G. l. Faulkner of
the Royal British Flying Corps, who
told of the service Of British and
French women In the war.
II the British and French commits
sioners coming to Washington for war
conferences arrive in time they will be
invited to address the Daughters. A
resolution to this effect was adopted
yesterday amid enthusiastic cheers.
Liberal donations from practically
every state were made during the day
to fund to wipe out the remaining
SIS. geo debt on Memorial Hall.
/ The forty-stxth state nag was hung
in the hall yesterday afternoon when
that of Arizona was presented to the
Daughters.