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Show WOULD OUST MISS BARTON. Famous President of Red Cross Society So-ciety Under Fire. A memorial protesting against the administration of the American National Na-tional Red Cross by Clara Barton was sent to the speaker of the house Jan. 30 by John M. Wilson, its first vice president, and twenty-two members of the executive committee. Miss Barton is in New York. General John M. Wilson, first vice president, and ex-Secretary of State John W. Foster, Rear Admiral W. E. Van Reypen and ex-Secretary of the Navy Herbert, members of the executive execu-tive committee, are dissatisfied with the management and laid their grievances griev-ances before congress, which chartered chart-ered the organization, in the form of p. memorial. - The by-laws of the Red Cross Society So-ciety recently adopted, which make the president eligible to a life term and place the administration of the A' 'La vy j IV5$ CUBABABTON finances of. the organization within the arbitrary power of a single person, were particularly objected to. The purpose of the agitatiou is admitted ad-mitted to be to retire Miss Barton from the presidency and secure the reorganization of the society. |