ASK $12,000 FOR MONUMENT

Daughters Of Confederacy Want Help For Veterans’ Project.

[From THE SUN Bureau.]

Annapolis, Md., Feb. 10.-A delegation representing the Daughters of the Confederacy appeared before the Finance Committee of the Senate and the Ways and Means Committee of the House today asking for an appropriation of $12,000 with which to complete the fund for the erection of a monument to the Confederate women of Maryland, which the Confederate veterans have been endeavoring to raise for some time.

In support of that request, the members of the delegation pointed out—

That in all of the Southern States monuments are being erected to the Confederate women.

That the Confederate women are worthy of being thus honored.

That they deemed it the conferring of a benefit on the Commonwealth to perpetuate so high a type of domestic virtue.

The House Ways and Means Committee tonight decided to report favorably Speaker Trippe’s bill to appropriate $12,-000 for the proposed monument and also Mr. Frick’s bill to exempt Baltimore city stock from taxation by the State.

Speaker Trippe said that if his bill was passed and the monument erected it would be the first monument to women in the State.