Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-09
GRAND ARMY ENCAMPMENT.

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Portland (haine) Press
Comrade Tanner, of New York, moved
that the Encampment proceed TO fix the
place for the next meeting of the National
Encampment.
After some little discussion, and num-
Der of dilatory motions, the motion was
adopted.
Thereupon for a space of two hours, en-
sued season of brilliant and fervid ora
tory in favor respectively of San Francisco
and Nashville as places for holding the
next annual Encanpment. The comrades
from California presented as reasons the
fact that the Posts Of the Department of
California were made up of soldiers from
all of the States of the Union; that Califor-
MA sending out but few soldiers during the
| war, these comrades of the Grand Army
were precluded from the privileges of regi-
mental reunions, and they desired the pres
ence of their old comrades-in- arms on the
golden shores Of the Pacific. The Legisla-
ture of California had unanimously passed
bill making an appropriation of S25, 900
Tor the entertainment of the Encamp-
ment; the city government of San Fran
cisco had added to that 5000 in the form
of an appropriation, and the citizens of the
State OF California at large had subscribed
$4,000 in addition to these appropriations
of the STATE and city. The hotels and
boarding houses had agreed, by written
contracts, to exceedingly reasonable terms
TO members OF the Encampment and COM
rades of the Grand Army during the pc
riod of the encampment. Even the mat
ter of carriage and hack hire had not been
overlooked, and this, too, was to be fur
nished at reasonable prices, with no oppor-
tunitieS for eXtortion. All of the railroads
have agreed TO furnish cheap transpOrta-
ton from the Missouri river to San Fran
cisco and return, the rate being $50 for a
iirst-class ticket for the round trip, and
there was no doubt but that the Eastern
roads would meet this reduction, so that
the round trip from New York to san
Francisco would not exceed SS7 80, and it
probably would be reduced to $75.
The friends of Nashville, on behalf of
the State of Tennessee, the city of Nash
vile, the comrades of the Grand Army in
that State, and a large number of eX-Con-
tederate soldiers, warmly invite the Grand
Army to hold its next annual encampment
at Nashville, and urged III its favor its
proximity to some of the fields of battle
where the most glorious victories of the
Union cause were won; to the opportunity
that would be afforded the Northern sol
diers to visit the new South, and to the
fact that great good would come therefrOm
to our common country by the informing
ing and social greetings OF the bravest
soldiers Of the North and the South. In
opposition to San Francisco, it was urged
that the distance. was so great that not
withstanding the glowing inducements
held out by the comrades of the Pacific
coast the expense of the trip, both in the
loss of time and the expenditure of money
in expenses other than transportation,
would be so great as to render it impossi-
bic for the poorer soldiers of the Grand
Army, it beng composed largely of poor
men. to attend the encampment.
The vote was taken by departments, with
the following results: