The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-19
DAUGHTERS PICK WASH | NGTON FOR NEXT CONVENTION
Conclave Closes, But Many to Make Pilgrimage to Mont gomery to Visit
 the Capitol

tation of Washington. D. C., to meet there the coming year.
 Mrs Walter E. Hutton, president of the District of Columbia division, introduced the invitation, which was accepted at once.
 The features of Sunday will be that about B of the visitors, most of them from the northern portion of the United States and distant points will make the trip to Montgomery, where they will be escorted by Mrs. Chap pell Cory. general chairman for the convention. and Mrs. Charles !. Sharp. chairman for entertainment
 When the group reaches Mont- somery, the members will be met by the White House of the confec- eracy association, and will be taken at once to this historic house in which Jeff Davis lived.
 There will be presented to the White House association the flags which were given to the Yaneey chapter during the U. D. c. conven- tion by the various states.
 This Jeff Davis home, 1t Is de- elared, was preserved to posterity by the work of a handful of women led by Mrs Cory, who is segent of the White House association.
 
 There the visitors will have lunch con. Here also the visitors will hear a short service conducted by the rec tor of the Montgomery Episcopal church.
 Later the delegates will go to the capitol buildings 1re they wi stand upon the tsar where Jeff Davis took his oath of office and later will be taken for a drive over gomery-followed by tea.
 It is declared that the convention attendants expressed themselves with great happiness over the hospi- tality rendered them in Birmingham. and said they had had wonderful as well as an educational time. They were particularly struck with the great resources of the city, and the magnificent steel furnaces. They were delighted with the pictures of Roderick Mckenzie, artist, put up for their pleasure, and the recital by Frederick Dunkerly
 They made much over the city's brilliant reader. Mary Gillen, who ap- peared before the galaxy of luncheons in a program of songs and recita- tions
 During the day these were the main events:
 
 themselves to raise s30,00 for the completion of the Jefferson Davis monument at his birthplace at Fair view, Ky, within the next few months, so that the project may be dedicated formally on the. anniversary of Davis.
 The monument is now 21s feet tall. and will be made $50 feet high, mak- ing it the second tallest monument in the world.
 Public to Help
 Not only will the chapters raise money, but the general public will be given the opportunity to subscribe.
 A telegram of sympathy was sent to Mrs. Luke Wright. daughter of Ad- miral Semmes, on the death of her husband, General Wright. The con vention members stood with bowed heads a moment In honor of the de- ceased.
 Mrs. Frank Mason. who has been acting in the interest of memberships and donations for the Stone Mountain project had. up to late hour, re- ceived only about sio0 in s5 member ships. The convention is not con trbuting to this as body. but Is subscribing and becoming members to the association as individuals. I lncSe figures, IL Us nOpeu, WILL pe swelled by greater interest and mem- bership, and even after the conven- ton, Mrs Mason said the Stone Mountain association. Atlanta, wishes all southerners who desire to have part in tnis to send on contributions
 Pledges For Highway
 In convention, pledges were taken, by permission through a resolution. for the markers to be put up along Jefferson Davis highway, leading from Washington, D. c. to the Pacific ocean,
 The convention adopted report supporting the Tillman bin of Rep resentative Tillman of Arkansas. which it was declared, the president general personally had been asked by Miss Susan Lawrence Davis Of Athena. to have rescinded because Miss Davis feared division among the Daughters over the subject since, in Miss Davis words, some could not work against their own interests"
 Cotton Tax
 This bill Is known as the Cotton tax bill, and Miss Davis declafed that numbers of the Daughters had supported bills previously of Sem ators Overman and Simmons.S North Carolina, for the payment of Illegal tax collected on the cotton of the south after the war from 1S6a-6S. The bill concerns whether the gov ernment shall repay this tax to cot ton planters and their heirs which row aggregates, with compound inter- est, many millions. The Tillman bill , indorsed by the Daughters recom- mended that this money be appro- priated and given only to the Con- federate soldiers and widows which leaves the heirs of the planters. who are neither one or the other out of considerations,
 The other two bills would take care of the heirs and in case heirs all were dead, the tax would go to the states to appropriate as they saw fit.
 Up to late hour. nothing had been heard of taking up the rescind- ing question. Miss Davis is from a family whose grandfather assisted in writing the Alabama constitution and the papers for admission of Alabama into the union, She is also niece of Nickolas Davis. member of the secession convention which met in Montgomery in 1861 and who was the author of the resolution before that convention to have the Civil war question voted on by the people.
 Fund Renamed
 The name of the Confederate Wom- ans Relief fund was changed to that of the Jeanette Weaver Ram dolph chapter. and 1t was said in con- /vention by the president general and from the Virginia division that em- phatically Mrs. Randolphs resigna- tion as honorary president of the U. D. C.'s was not rendered on ac- count of her age; that she is still an active worker. and that she IS known throughout Virginia as the best loved and best known woman in the state,' and is still much en- eaged with the work If thA IVirRinia