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Show DAUGHTERS OF REVOLUTION AT WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. The twelfth j continental congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution convened here yesterday. Many of the leaders of the organization, that numbers 40,000 patriotic women, were present. Approximately Approx-imately 1000 delegates and alternates from all the States In the Union attended. at-tended. i The congress will be ' in session throughout this week and already bids fair to be marked" by several warm contests, con-tests, the principal one being over the office of president-general. Mrs. Charles W. Fairbanks is & candidate to succeed herself for the second time. She already al-ready has served one term as president- general, and one terra before that as vice-president-general, and the opponents oppo-nents to her re-election claim that her tenure In both offices operates as two continuous' terms in the meaning of an amendment to the constitution Inhibiting Inhibit-ing the officers from serving more than two continuous terms. . The advocates of her. re-election con. tend that the amendment was not retroactive and that she ii therefore I eligible. Mrs. Daniel Manning and 1 Mrs. Donald McLean, both of New York i city, will be conspicuous In the campaign cam-paign for president-general. An Interesting feature of the day's exercises ex-ercises was the raising of a flag on the site of the proposed Continental hall at Seventeenth and D streets, northweet This took place at the conclusion of the business session of the convention. Last night members of the society i visited the library of Congress, where Mrs. Fairbanks held a reception for several hours. The Children of the Revolution, accompanied ac-companied by their elders of the Daughters and Sons of the American Revolution' and about 7000 other pilgrims, pil-grims, made their annual Journey to the .shrine of Washington at Mount Vernon today to .make note of the growth of the tree the society had planted six years ago In a sheltered spot near the tomb. Transplanted from a nursery In Massachusetts in 1MT, the llttla bush has grown until it is now a lusty sapling. . . .. i - Appropriate exercises similar to those which have been held by the society each 22nd of February since the tree was planted were held, a large gathering gather-ing of members" of the Revolutionary societies now In the city taking part |