Show BITTER 4 Hos SAID I Question of Confederate Graves Arouses Strong Feeling II WHO IS TO CARE FOR THEM t DEBATED AT METING OF VETERANS VET-ERANS YESTERDAY + Decided That Federal Government May Look to Those Buried In the > North While Graves I the South Will Be Kept Green By Their Ow Womens Hands 4 Charleston S C May 12With a spirited and at times stormy session the ninth annual reunion of the United Confederate Veterans was today brought to a close General John R I Gordon commanderinchlef and all the old officers were reelected Louisville Louis-ville Ky was chosen as the next place of meeting and the question of federal care of confederate graves was disposed of by the adoption of a substitute resolution reso-lution which declines the presidents suggestion except as to those graves located in the north and reserving to the women of the south the duty of car log for those in the seceding states and Maryland The adoption of this resolution and the report which accompanied it precipitated pre-cipitated a debate which verged on the sensational and at times much confusion and disorder prevailed General Stephen D Lee presented the report of the committee on history which was unanimously adopted This was one of the most Important matters I before the convention and the reading of the report was listened to with close attention The report alluded to the war with Spain as a factor in eradicating eradi-cating the shadows of the war between the states and refers to the prompt response of the southern states to the call for troops as showing to the whole country the depth and fervor of southern says south-ern patriotism Continuing th report Consent the Governed We a not likely in the future to hear s much about the right of men who have not yet learned to govern themselves to govern others by their votes The doctrine of the declaration of independence that governments derive de-rive their just powers from the consent of the governed had something of a shock in the war between the states and the island subjects of the United States will find little comfort in reading read-ing that celebrated instrument by the light of subsequent history The difficulties dif-ficulties of the race problem abroad ought to bring a charitable judgment of the same thing here at home and I we may reasonably expect our northern brethren to meet us hereafter rather in I a spirit of inquiry thanof rbuke Alluding to the question of cpnfeder I ate graves the report says The recent generous words of President Pres-ident McKinley commending the confederate con-federate dead to the nations care are the expressions of a sentiment growing grow-ing everywhere that the deeds of the confederate soldier are the glory of the whole country and that his memory is worthy to be cherished wherever selfsacrifice commands sympathy or brave actions strike a responsive chord In noble hearts I Care of Confederate Graves I The committee on resolutions reported the substitute for the resolution on federal I fed-eral care of the confederate graves I recommending that the United Confederate Con-federate Veterans record their sincere appreciation of the utterance of the president of the United States in Atlanta J At-lanta in December last concerning the I assumption ot the care of the graves of our confederate dead by the nation naton al government that we shall welcome wel-come any legislation which shall result re-sult in the care of the graves of our comrades in the northern states by our government In regard to the confederate dead it recommends the care of their final resting places as a sacred trust dear to the hearts of southern women and we believe we can safely let i remain I there Rev Taylor Martin of Pulaskl Va spoke against the adoption of the report I re-port He said the veterans had nothing noth-ing to do with any suggestion from the president and they would never be placed in the attitude of being under I obligations to the government that slew southern men He said the dead heroes he-roes had rather lie in unmarked graves kept green by loyal southern women than sleep beneath the costliest monument monu-ment the federal government could ereot Theodore H Busby of North Carolina Caro-lina declared in a spirited speech that it would be a discourtesy to the chief of the nation and a disgrace to the confederacy con-federacy if the report was not adorned I as received from the committee The discussion then grew very bitter and I great confusion followed Theres too much McKlnleyism in it shouted a veteran in the audience I Various expressions followed this many of them bitter and sensational The I report was finally adopted with cheers I |