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nv ability for service to pledge
their loyalty so long as I should
need it.
"The public announcement has
been requested and made as the
announcement of my candidacy was
9 equally public and was known to
every officer and chapter.
With the withdrawal Of Mrs.
Nash and the completion OF the
Rrosseau ticket. the only remaining
contest at this years election is
between Ia candidates for seven
vice presidents general to be elected
this year.
Coalition Ticket
The coalition follows:
President general-Mrs, Alfred
Brosseau, Connecticut; chaplain gen.
eral = Mrs. Matthew Brewster,
Louisiana; recording secretary gem
eral-Mrs. Samuel William Earle,
Illinois: organizing secretary gen
eral, Mrs. Lowell r. Hobart, Ohio;
treasurer general, Mrs. Adam M
Wyant, Pennsylvania; corresponding
secretary general, Mrs. Herbert M.
Lord, Maine; registrar general-Mrs.
Eli A. Helmick, District OF Column
bia; historian generaI-Miss Alice
Louise McDuffee, Michigan; reporter
general to the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition, Mrs Gerald Livingston
Schuyler. Colorado; librarian gem
eral, Mrs. Horace M. Farnham, YER
mont and curator general-M J..
S. Freylinghuysen, New Jersey.
Memorial service for departed
Daughters of the American Revo-
luton marked the second days
session of the congress.
Devoting the morning session to
reading committee reports from the
ing committee, the Congress set
aside one half hour at noon for
services for Mrs. Henry F. Blount,
vice president general of the Dis
trict of Columbia; Mrs. Austin G.
Brant, state regent for Ohio; Mrs.
Maurice Gresham, state regent for
wyoming; Mrs. George G. Squires,
state regent for Minnesota; Mrs.
Joseph Bedle, vice president general
OF New Jersey and Mrs. Christie
pIler II. Tebault. Mary Apple, con-
tralto, sang the "Recessional, and
Lead Kindly Light" accompanied
by Mrs. James Shera Montgomery.
There viii be no session this
afternoon, it being reserved for
meetings of State delegations, or
ganization politics this was
not on the program-and the meet
ings of the national committees.
Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook,
president general, and members of
her cabinet, assisted by the State
regents, win receive members Of
the d. A. R. at Memorial Con-
tinentaI Hall tonight at $3.50
o'clock, and beginning at the same
hour Mrs. Larz Anderson, librarian
general, viii hold q reception and
dance at Rauscher's, Connecticut
Avenue and L Streets Northwest,
In honor of the pages of the Con-
tinental Congress.
Mrs. Alfred J. Brosseau, treas
urer general, and the coalition
candidate for president general to
succeed Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook,
whose term expires in a few days,
made the report for the bonding
committee today and outlined the
fiscal plan for the building Of
CONSTITUTION Hail." the site for
which was dedicated yesterday.
Finance Plan
The original proposal to issue
81 500 900 in bonds with a first
mortgage on the building has been
abandoned, and proposal to cons,
fine the issue to $1,000, 900, with an
Incumberance only on the present
land holdings of the society has
been substituted.
The Congress viii be asked to
approve this method of financing
the project. The reduction In the
amount to be raised through a
bond issue, it is explained, was
made possible through funds avail
able from other sources. Each Of
the 1000 seats in the Auditorium
have been sold to the delegates and
chapters for $50, and the 50 boxes
were sold for $1,000 apiece. Adj
ditional funds are coming in from
other sources also it was said