There is an official Red Cross report to Congress, made in 1903, said report on file in House Document No. 552, Vol. 49, 58th Congress, statements of historic interest relating to the status of Red Cross affairs about that time. In re the proposed annuity of $2,500 and the Honorary Presidency for Life, should Clara Barton consent to permit the minority membership thereafter to control the Red Cross, and other matters relating thereto, appear the following in that report:
Since the filing of their (the remonstrants) Memorial in Congress, at least two thousand newspapers, in the country and out of it, have openly published these damaging statements, without the slightest knowledge of the facts.
The memorial includes an ex parte statement.—It is greatly to be regretted that such action should have been taken—without giving a hearing to the majority of the organization, or to Miss Barton herself.
From a photograph taken at St. Petersburg, Russia, July, 1902, at the time the Decoration of the Red Cross was conferred on Clara Barton by the Czar and Empress Dowager.
From a photograph taken in 1904, at the time when occurred the so-called “investigation” of Clara Barton, at Washington, D. C.
From a photograph taken in Washington, D. C., in 1878.
