St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-01-15
STATE MILITARY ASSOCIATION.
The Annual Meeting of the Minnesota
National Guards in this City
Yesterday.
The Legislature to be Asked for an Appro
priatiOn of $40, 900 Annually.
Interesting Papers Read and Farious Nat
tiers COnssdpred--I Grand Military
Ball In the Erening.

The delegates from the various companies
of the two regiments of the Minnesota Ma
tonal Guards met in annual session at
Armory hall yesterday afternoon. Upon the
arrival of the delegates they were met at the
depots by the local committee on reception
from companies A, B and l, and escorted to
the NicoAet house, where they were assigned
quarters, and the following names were copied
from the register of that hotel:
Capt. NJ. f. Clapp, Co. F, First regiment,
Fergus Falls; Capt A. Z. Pierce Sergt.
Kingman, Private VIII Webster, Co. G, FIRST
regiment, Red Wing; Lieut.. August T. Koer-
ner, Co. II, First regiment, Litchfeld; Capt.
L. D. Frost, Lieut.. Tawucy, Judge advocate)
Lieut.. E. NJ Roberts, Lieut.. .. Fochlns, Co.
c, Second regiment, Winona; Major G. w.
Mead, Second battalion, Second regiment, Wi
nena; Capt. T. F. McGraw, Co. X, Second
regiment, Mankato; Capt. j. C. Danahower,
Co. l, Second regiment, st. Peter; Assist
ant Surgeon d. B. Collins, Second regiment,
st. Peter; Lieut.. L. s. Quonce, Sergt. S.
Gilbert, Co. E, First regiment, ST. Paul
Lieut. j. W. Castle, Sergt. j. NJ. Kuhn,
Corporal c. NJ. Mcclure, Co. Z, First reg-
ment, saltwater; Capt. E. S. Bean, Private
NJ. T. Karn, Private j. H. Mebaum, Co. D,
First regiment, St. Paul; Capt. VIM. Blakely,
Co. E, st. Paul; Capt. VIM. Bird, Sergt.
f. ". Bird, Private D. A. Dale, Co. D, Sec
ond regiment, Paramount; Col Bend, First
regiment, st. Paul; Col. Bobleter, Second
regiment, New Ulm; j. II. Nightingale, Serg-
Henry Klener, Corporal Peter Van
Valid, Co. B, I'd regiment, Faribault; Col
Lawson, Fort Smelling; Frank L. Randall,
sergeant major, I'd regiment, New Ulin
Chas. Berry, surgeon I'd regiment. New Ulm
Capt F. P. Wright. Lieut.. Vim. Becker,
Lieut.. VIM. Dawson, Co. c., LIST regiment,
st. Paul; Capt. T. f. Schleuder, Lieut. A.
Wiegand, Sergt. c. V. Barnes, Co. E, I'd
regiment, Albert Lea; J. B. Kennedy, Co. /,
I'd regiment, st. Peter; R. f. Brown, Geo.
H. Hay, Co. F, I'd regiment, Mankato; Adjt.
Gen. Mccarthy, st. Paul; Lieut.. Coe, G. S.
Ives, I'd regiment, St. Peter; Capt. Burger,
St. Paul; Lieut.. w. j. Sonnen, adjutant, 1st
regiment, st. Paul.
THE SESSION
Col. Bend called the association to order,
after taking dinner. The roll call showed
over fifty-eight delegates in attendance Col.
Bend opened the session with brief address,
the tenor Of which was a ompliment to the
guards.
After appointing committees on dues and
nomination of officers, a recess of twenty
minutes was taken.
LEGISLATION TO BE ASKED FOR.
Reassemb bling the committee on legislation
submitted report, which recommended an
act whereby the commander in-chief will be
given full authority to call out the state
troops in case of riots or when it becomes
necessary to protect property, and also to
delegate to the commander-in-chie the power
to establish rules and regulations to govern
the troops on such occasions, as he may
deem necessary. The report further
recommended that the troops should
not be held accountable for the injury which
spectators may sustain in case Of a riot.
Another recommendation was to give the
colonel power to order court martials when
ever he thinks proper, and also to modify or
improve the findings of court martials in ac-
cord2nce with the system IN vogue in the
regular army. Soldiers when ordered out
for service should receive pay and rations,
the same as the regular army, the pay not to
be less than 81 90 per day, and transporta-
ton TO and from the scene of duty. Tue re-
port recommended that instead of Sl4, 500
the annual appropriation be made 100000,
and adding commissioner aud inspector
Of rife practice TO each regular staff, such
officers to rank as lieuteuanst.
The report was adopted.
COL. BENDS PAPER.
Col. Bend read the following interesting
paper on "Encampments."
The annual encampment Of the national
guard ought TO greatly improve the drill and
discipline Of our citizen soldiers, bat they
will signally fail in so doing unless full adj
vantage is taken by the opportunities afforded
by them. When 1t is taken into consi dera-
ton that in Minnesota about 1000
men annually give to encampments a
weeks time, and spend at them
some $1,000 or IS, 600 of state funds,
as well as a large amount Of their own, 1t Is
manifest that nothing should be left undone
which will tend 10 develop sOldierly qualities
and 10 attain the highest degree OF excel.
lence. In order TO bring the subject prop
erly before the convention the following sub
divisions will be considered:
Location Of camp grounds.
Discipline in camp.
Instruction.
Location-In order to make an encamp-
ment complete success, it must be so To-
Gated and conducted that when the week IL
over and the troops return TO their homes
and their several occupations, they will look
back with pleasure 10 the tent life through
which they have passed, and will look for
ward to the encampmeut of the next year.
The recounting Of their military experience
will
STIMULATE RECRUITING,
and will conduce to a larger attendance on
each successive occasion. While these de-
siderata should be carefully looked after,
nothing unmilitary should be allowed. and
while needless duty should not be required
from the men, they should be held rigidly TO
every duty called for by regulations.
In the question Of location, after con slider
ing the all important sanitary requirements,
Col. Bend considered as absolutely necessary
space for tents, drill grounds and rifle range
After these, it was Of prime importance that
there be advantages for Notwithstanding,
fishing, bathing, rowing, etc, although he
did not regard close proximity to large
hotel or q large CITY Gs always desirable. He
did not regard hours off duty which were
passed in bar or billiard rooms or louuging
on hotel piazzas as conducive to military dis
cipline; besides II tended to create an i'm
preston among citizens, that more time was
passed out Of, than in, camp.
Discipline-The colonel treated Of the ne
cessity for instruction tn men, by their COM
mandant, prior 10 going into camp. for one
week Is too short to learn everything and bv
preliminary instruction much time otherwise
devoted to mere rudimen;s viii De saved. In
camp each man should realize that he
CEASES TO BE cITIzES
aud becomes a soldier. Discipline cannot
be too strict, and regulations cannot be too
strictly enforced. 4 man should be reproved
who passes an officer without sslutlng, and
II any similar fault is not Feproved the soI-
der viii become slOuchy in appearance, and
careless in driIl and psrade.
Col. Bend condemned as unmilitary the
prsc4e some srntries have Of coming to