"no;" the noes seem to have it. Division is called for; those in favor will rise and remain standing.

(Calls for reading of motion.)

PRESIDENT GENERAL. There is a call for the motion; it will be read by the Reader.

READER. "That paragraph 2 and paragraph 7 be withdrawn from the page of official information."

Mrs. BALLINGER. Will you read the paragraphs, so that we may know what we are voting for.

READER. "Business remaining unfinished at the close of each session to be taken up under the heading 'Unfinished business' on the last day;" and "Time limit for speeches: three minutes."

PRESIDENT GENERAL. You are not voting on the substitute you are voting simply to substitute this motion.

Mrs. BALLINGER, of the District of Columbia. I believe we are allowed to speak to the motion, are we not? As I understand it, it is a mere technicality; it is a proposition to give the right to limit debate to this part of the Daughters of the American Revolution instead of that. Instead of that, we, the congressmen, limit the time of the debate and not the board of managers.

PRESIDENT GENERAL. That is not the question. The quetion is whether this shall be substituted for the other; it is not yet before you. The vote to be taken is whether this substitute is accepted and is, therefore, substituted.

Mrs. BALLINGER. I beg pardon.

Mrs. EDWARDS, of Michigan. Can it be read again—we did not hear it?

(Reader reads substitute.)

Mrs. EDWARDS. As I understand it, the first motion was not clear, and this motion has been made in order that it shall be perfectly clear.

PRESIDENT GENERAL. That is it exactly. Those opposed will please rise and remain standing until counted. The Chair announces that it is largely lost. The question recurs to the motion of Mrs. Fowler, of Massachusetts. Will you read the motion of Mrs. Fowler, please?

READER. "I move that as much of the second page of the

program as is information be absorbed, and that as much as is dictation be left to the Congress to accept or reject, as the occasion suggests."

Mrs. FOWLER. I had no reference to any particular senten e in the second page; I made it on general principles, in order that Mrs. Roberts might not be disappointed. [Laughter.]

PRESIDENT GENERAL. The Chair feels that it is rather too indefinite for a congress of intelligent women to decide upon, but I must put it to vote. You have heard the motion; all those in favor of the motion of Mrs. Fowler, of Massachusetts will please say "aye;" those opposed, "no;" the motion is lost. Dr. MCGEE. I move the adoption of the program.

Seconded.

Mrs. MCLEAN. Madam President, National Officers, and Daughters from all over this country, I rise thus early in the Congress to bring before you a patriotic project because, as I have already said, I believe that every Daughter in this country will be deeply interested in it, and every Daughter here seated will feel with me that it should be the first recorded action, in case you do act upon it of course, of the Continental Congress of 1899. Why? Because, and it may seem a cosmic fact, but you can never again have a Continental Congress of 1899. By which I mean to say that this great body of patriotic women can never again come together for the first time after a declaration of war with a foreign power and after our arms have come home seethed in victory. Thank God! I know that there are no souls here which have not thrilled through these months, and no hearts which have not wept, and no hands which have not worked and worked and worked for the soldiers and sailors of this beloved, country. Now let us seal that work with one tangible object; and I know, too, that there are those that have not only given their time and their love and their pledges, but there are members of this Society who have allowed their own best beloved to go straight to the cold and dreadful pass of death for this country. Let us commemorate those members. There is no manner of dubt that this Society has done such a work as we have heard our President General record to us this morning throughout the length and the breadth of the land. Every Chapter, every indi

vidual member of that Chapter, has done such work as should immortalize it, and it will immortalize it; but humanity, after all, wipes away a man. And I therefore wish to bring before you this afternoon this project, that the surplus fund of this Society, accumulated during the past year—and we must have some surplus for we were told this morning that we have the magnificent membership of 27,000 odd, and having that we must have some surplus-now, whether it be small or whether it be large, let us devote it to a memorial for those men who have lost their lives for this country during the late war. I do not propose that we shall gather together and endeavor at any great herculean effort to raise an enormous memorial. Every Chapter in this country has made a peculiar effort; every one has taxed its energies and its financial resources to the utmost, therefore I do not suggest that we should do anything of that kind. But we have something in our national treasury, whatever it be, whether it be a thousand dol'ars or whether it be ten thousand dollars, let us put it in unchangeable granite and immutable bronze bearing upon it the Star Spangled Banner and the Insignia of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and above all, whether the literal words or not, the spirit that these men died that liberty might live. Therefore, ladies, I bring you the following formal resolution, hoping that it will be acted on affirmatively, hoping that this Society, when its records go forth to the world, shall say, “We are great women, we are big women, we know parlimentary procedure; we like it, but we are too big to be limited by it; and our first act, when we come together as patriots, is to honor the patriots who have given us this country and paid for it."

Therefore, "Resolved that the surplus income of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution for the year ending February 18, 1899, be devoted to the rearing in Washington of a memorial to all soldiers and sailors, officers and privates, of the United States Army and Navy, who lost their lives during and owing to the Spanish-American war of 1898."

Seconded by several.

Mrs. ROBERTS. May we have the resolution read again?

I would like to amend by adding the words "the trained nurses who lost their lives."

Mrs. MCLEAN. All who lost their lives.

PRESIDENT GENERAL. Will Mrs. Roberts wait until the motion is stated by the Reader.

READER. "That the surplus income of National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, for the year ending February, 1899, be devoted to the rearing in Washington of a memorial to all soldiers and sailors, officers and privates, of the United States Army and Navy, who lost their lives. during and owing to the Spanish-American War of 1898."Mrs. Donald McLean.

Mrs. ROBERTS. I would like to withdraw my amendment. Mrs. JEWETT. I move a postponement of this until a later day.

Mrs. DRAPER. I would simply like to ask for information. I would simply like to say, Madam President, what has become of the report of the Program Committee? We voted upon a motion in regard to it, and as I understand it, the report of the Program Committee is still before the house; it has not been acted upon. It has not been accepted, nor has it been rejected. May I ask for information, whether this house has passed any motion in regard to the report of the Program Committee?

PRESIDENT GENERAL. There is no motion.

Mrs. DRAPER. Is not the report, then, before us?

PRESIDENT GENERAL. Yes, but Mrs. McLean asked for a question of privilege. She thought this part of the program. Mrs. GREEN, of New York. May I speak a few words on this subject? While I fully appreciate Mrs. McLean's sentiments, it seems to me that the women of this country-(interrupted.)

Mrs. JEWETT. I move a postponement of the consideration of this question until a later day, until we know whether we have any surplus.

Numerously seconded.

Mrs. MCLEAN. I offered it at this time in order that it might be the first recorded action of the Congress of 1899; that was my object.

PRESIDENT GENERAL. The motion is not yet stated; will the Reader kindly state the motion?

READER. That the consideration of Mrs. McLean's mction be deferred until Friday, when unfinished business will be considered.

Seconded.

PRESIDENT GENERAL. It is debatable.

Mrs. MCLEAN. Why? Madam President?

PRESIDENT GENERAL. We do not generally ask the whys; the motion is debatable.

Mrs. JONES. Madam President, one of our beloved founders lost her daughter in this late war, and a motion is to be brought before the Congress with some idea toward this motion which Mrs. McLean has offered, and we would like very much if this could be deferred until that motion can be made; I refer to Miss Reubena Hyde Walworth.

PRESIDENT GENERAL. Is there any further debate?

Mrs. NESMITH. I should like to say that it would seem fitting for the Daughters to express their sentiments before. the national body does that. It does not seem that it is at all necessary that we should postpone our action to await theirs. Theirs is an entirely different one; it comes from the national government in consideration of services, and out of esteem for the Daughter who lost her life; but why have not we ourselves as Daughters a right to express our admiration, esteem and sympathy for those who died and for those who lost them? It seems to me that it is wise and proper that such a resolution as Mrs. McLean's should be passed.

PRESIDENT GENERAL. Will the member kindly confine her debate to the postponement, which is before you?

Mrs. GREEN. I wanted to say that while the women of this Continental Congress have shown such fine work, and shown such noble deeds, for this cause, I think we should take into consideration also what our President General presented this morning, the matter-(interrupted.)

PRESIDENT GENERAL. The question is on the motion to postpone.

Mrs. MCLEAN. I merely brought this before you now for the reason that I gave two or three times. I think it is a