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RATTLE PICTURE,

The cyclorama of the second battle of
Bull Run, the exhibition of which in this
city was opened last week, is unquestion-
ably an artwork of decided merit. 1t shows
the fury and passion of battle with Won
derful-even painful-vividness, and the
spectator seems to be looking down upon an
actual conflict waged by strong men with
terrible earnestness. All the effects of land
scape and the details of battle are depicted
with the highest art
The selection of the subject and the man
ner of its treatment, are, however, deserv-
ing of most of the harsh criticism they
have received. 1t is certainly straining
severely all ideas of propriety to erect in the
Nations Capital such monument Of q
rebel victory, especially when Washington
contains no such a testimonial to the triumph
of the Union arms.
The most earnest advocate Of good feeling
toward the South cannot fail to be pain
1uiiy impressed by the spectacle OF the havoc
being made in the Union ranks at the criti-
cal period Of the battle, and by the promi-
nence given in the foreground to pictures of
Lee and Longstreet and their staffs, while
no attempt to offset this is made by show
ing any Union success, or the pictures of
any of the Union Generals who did gallant
service upon that bloody field.
There would have been much less objec-
ton to the picture if the gallant Kearney
had been represented On the canvas, or if
Gems. Pope, Hooker, Mcdowell, Reno, Sigel,
Heintzelman, or Ricketts,, had been given
something like the prominence Of the rebel
commanders, AS it is, the highest Union
officer shown in the foreground is Colonel
leading brigade.
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THE REAL OUESTJo1

In spite of all that the repudiating dema
goss say to the contrary, the raising of money
for pension purposes is not a ouestio, ~
more taxation upon the common peo,,e
1t is wholly a question of whether tbs
rich man shall have his champagne and b;s
'ohahnisoerg, and his Cuban cigars cheaper
than he now does, and whether his wifa
shall be able to buy the French silks l,ces
hosiery and diamonds at lower nrices than
she can at present
1t is question whether the distiller roo.
tiiier, the brewer and the saloon-keeDer shall
increase their enormous profits by having
their liquors freed from taxation.
The question is whether we shall do tbis
or whether we shall use the money tbev now
pay into the Treasury to feed and clotbe tbe
widows and orphans of soldiers and summon.
in comfort the men who gave their voutbfD,
health and strength to secure for these neo
pie the riches and peace they now enioy.
This is the real question.
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5. What is his position in the G. A r. and what
can the new Post do about IL?
In the first question it is evident that Conrade r.
uses the word suspended" for dropped" the
latter being the penalty for arrearaes of one years
dues and requiring application for renstate-
ment. As before stated in these columns the fact
that ballot has been provided for places upon
each member the responsibility of deciding how he
shall vote. If he deems applicant for readnIis-
sion unworthy of membership. he can vote against
him, and is not required to prefer charges
?. An applicant for reinstatement, rejected can
only renew the application at the end of six months
from the date of such rejection. RESOLUTIONS Ma
tional Encampment, page ~. Journal, 1SSO) A re-
consideration of ballot cannot be had except as
provided in Section 4, Article H. Chapter IT, and at
the meeting when the ballot is had before the Com
mander has announced the result.
3. member cannot join another Post until le-
gally relieved from the first opinion cited Page36
Blue Book 1t will depend upon circumstances
whether comrade who illegally Joins another
Post should be cOurt-martaled but his election in
the new Post is void and would have to be so de-
clared by the proper authority.
4. If comTade so Illegally admitted acts ne an
officer in the Post the actions of the Post in
which he takes part matters legal in themselves
are not thereby rendered void see Decision III.
]. s X, Journal of National Encampment, 1851
5. Ii is the duty of the Commander of the Post TO
which the comrade assumes to belong to fully and
fairly establish the facts by proper inquiry and
then lay the same before the Department Com
mander for his directions in the case
ILLEGAL MUsTER-IN.
comrade in Dakota asks if one can be legally
mustered before his application is even reported or
acted on?
Certainly not. 1t is hardly supposabe that an,
officer would make such blunder
INSTALLATION.
When the Senior Vice has been elected Com
mander, can the retiring p. G. install the offcersr
Yes; unless the Department Commander has de-
tailed another officer who is present for that pur-
pose.
SUSPENSION.
Com. ~, Ill, asks: Can a comradssuspendedf for
dues join another Post?
He cannot. He must first place himself in good
standing in his Post and obtain a transfer.
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OPINIONS ON GRAND ARMY RULES.
nv PAST comNANDER-IN-cHIEl

BY PAST CoMMANDER-IN- CHIEF R. B. BEATH.
GNoTICE.-Inquires on Grand Army matters of
general interest and proper for publication will be
answered in this column by Past Commander-in-
Chief Beath 1t will be of course understood that
such answers simply personal, or in the way of
advice which one comrade may properly give an
other. Questions requiring official answers must
be submitted to the proper authorities
Comrade E, Nunda N. ", presents the follow
ing.
REiNSrATEMENT.
1. A cornrads suspended for nom payment OF one
years dues pays up his dues and asks to be rein
stated. ls the Post not bound TO reinstate him or
else prefer charges and give him trial?
z III IL ballot is taken and he receives less than
the necessary two-thirds required to elect cannot
the vote be reconsdered at the next meeting and
another ballot be had?
ILLEGALLY JOINS ANOTHER POST
o. A member Is mustered as n charter III eIuber of O
new Post without transfer from his own Is he
not liable TO court martial; and if So which Post
has jurisdiction?
L. al one or two years elapse, and the situation of
such member remains the same he filling offices in
the new Post, are not his acts as officer void?
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VICTORY IN NEW YORK,


A telegram to The NATIONAL Tribune
from Maj. Jos. W. Kay conveys the crafty
ing information that the Veterans Rights
Bill has passed the Assembly. This is a
glorious victory and well-won. Never was
there better fight made for an act of justice
than the Veterans Rights Union and the
GAR. of New York made for more than two
years to secure this. 4. They nodded public
sentiment, they combatted hostile press
and antagonistic organizations, which had
behind them wealth and social influence;
they defeated their enemies at the polls and
elected their friends, and now their triumph
is complete.
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE is proud of
having contributed in no small degree to
this grand result. 1t has done very much
more toward bringing it about than any
other paper published.
Now let the comrades in every other State
in the North and West go and do likewise.
The National tribune., 1886-03-11
TIE WIDOWS INCREASE Rrr,

In response to several requests, we repub
hSh the full text of the bill introduced ir
the House by Mr.. Matson, of Indiana
passed by that body, and now pending IN
the Senate, ITO increase the pensions .,
widows and dependent relatives of decaasoa
soldiers and sailors":
Ds u e"ucted &C. That fom and after the passape
Vi 'iiIs "ct me rate oil pension for widows minor
en- ana dependent relatives now on the pen
sioh-foll or hereafter 10 he placed on the neueo,
roll, and entitled to receive less rate a., -.
after proved, shall be $I2 per month. and ,o,I,;.
herein shall be construed to affect the ex;s,int,
allowance OF 81 per month for each child under ,h
age OF 10 years. Prouided That this ao, Obo,I 49,
Ply only 10 WIDOWS who were married fo fbe a..
''eo soidier OF sailor priorto its passage and to
those who may hereafter marry prior Ia or durin,,
the service OF the soldier or sailor And o, .c,s %
p's oi acs inconsistent with the provisions of tbi
act are hereby repealed - VILE
Sec. 2. That no claim agent o- at,or,,
recognized in the adjudication of elaine ,. l. De
act, nor shall any such person be entitIed to r;
any compensation whatever for services mr. ,..
tended services III making applications thereund.r
The Committee on Pensions of the Senate
has reported favorably, recommending the !
following amendment:
Strike out the words: and nothing ,er.ir .t.u
be construed 10 affect the existing allowance f Co
per month Tor each child under the age of I years
'io ilsert Ia lieu thereof the following: And in
'u'lioh thefeto The pension of widows shall be in
reased at The rate of 81 per month for eecb cbiIa
ihder the age of is years of the husband ON ac-
'"'i' u whose ccath tie claim has been or shall
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OBITUARY..

WnDER.-Abraham NJ Wilder, Surgeon and
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel U. S. Vols, died at San
Francisco, Cal, Jan. IL. He was born at Bolton,
Mass, May g. 1910. At the age of 90 he entered the
army and was appointed Acting Assistant Surgeon
U. 5. A, Oct. 1S 1862. June %, 1863 he was COM
missioned Major and Surgeon, and soon after was
appointed Medical Director of the 23d Army Corps.
April 26, 1864 he was appointed Medical Director
of the Cavalry Corps of the Department of Ohio,
and from this time until the end of the war he occu-
pied highly responsible positions as Medical
Director and Medical Inspector of Army Corps and
Departments. March Il, 1865, he was ordered to
Vicksburg to superintend and arrange for the
supply and transfer of sick exchanged prisoners
from Andersonyille, after which he was placed III
charge of the General Hospital at Leavenworth,
Kan. and was Medical Director of the District of
North Kansas. He was brevetted Lieutenant
Colonel for meritorious services during the war,
Aug. 10, 1865, and was honoraby msutered out,
Aug. 1S, 1860.
OPrrz-Died in Beardstown, ILL.,, Feb 20, Capt.
Chas Opitz. He was born in Bonn, Prussia, IN
1923, and came to this country in 1853. In 1861 he
enlisted in Co. A, 18th H., was promoted from
Sergeant to Second Lieutenant May 25 1861, and on
Sept 3, 1862, was commissioned successively First
Lieutenant ard Captain, for gallant service at
Shiloh. In this battle he severely wounded by
a musket ball. which entered ut the point of his
nose, passing through just under the brain, coming
out and chipping off the upper half of his right
ear. The funeral services were conducted by Nc
Lane Post, No 81, GAR, Department of Illinois,
OF which he was member.
VALE.-George Vale, 36th H., died recently at
Milledgeviile, Ill. He was honorably discharged
after more than three years of faithful service;
STRATTON.-At Trout Run, Pa, Feb 10, Byron
Stratton, of William More Post, No. 1872, GAR,
aged5l. He enlisted Aug. Is, 1862 and was wounded
at Cold Harbor June l. 1868.
DAyENPoRT.-Capt Albert Davenport died at
Circleville, o., Feb 90 aged &c. Forty years ago
he traversed the wilds of Oregon and California
under Gen. Fremont and served under the latter
during the war as scout, spy, and bearer OF dis
patches, in which capacity he always proved sin
guary faithful and trustworthy.
HANCoCK.-Chas. III. Hancock, Co. A, sth Mimi,
died Feb. II, at Minneapolis, Mimi. He was born
in Boston, Mass, in 1923, and went to Minnesota
at early day. At the breaking out of the rebel
lion he responded promptly to the call and served
to the close of the war. He leading member
of Dudley 2. Chase Post, of Minneapolis.
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The NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
WASHINGTON, D. c., MARCH II, 1886.
BATTLE OF BULL RUN,
CEN. JOHN A. LOGAN.
70 BEGIN APRIL &.

Gen. John A. Logan, as is well known, took
part in the first battle of Bull Run as a
citizen, fighting in citizens clothes, in the
ranks of Michigan regiment.
He has written sketch of the battle which
for vividness Of description and historical
accuracy surpasses by far any account Of
that famous engagement ever written. 1t is
wonderful bit of picture-writing and will
be welcomed by all of our readers, not only
on the distinguished authors account, but
because Of its own unusual merits. 1t will
begin in THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE for April
1, and probably run through four numbers.
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MR.. FRANK B. CURTIS, U. S. Pension Office,
has compiled q work entitled Digest of PEN
sion Laws, Decisions, Rulings, Orders, etc"
containing all the laws of the United States
governing the granting of pensions. with
much valuable data pertaining thereto in
the shape of orders, decisions and rulings.
The book contains over 600 pages, with a
copious index, making it the most complete
work of its kind ever issued. Mr.. Curtis
has shown his capacity as a compiler in the
thoroughness of this work which is invalu-
able as a book of reference and assistance in
the examination and adj judication of pension
and bounty land claims.
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be granted which shall be in lieu of the rate of 50
per month allowed by existing law for children
under the age of 16 years; and when such child or
children shall, under section 4103 of the Revised
Statutes, receive less than 81 per month such child
or children shall in addition, be paid SO as TO
make such pension 81 per MONTH
Senator Van Wyck has given notice that
when the bill is taken up he will offer the
following amendment, fixing the amounts
to be paid to minor children:
That minor children shall receive as follows: S.
per month when one parent is deceased and SO
when both parents are deceased; and that the PEN
sionable age be extended to is years; also that
fathers and mothers only be required to prove de-
pendence at the time of application for pension.
Democratic Members of the House have
taunted the Senate with its slowness in
passing the bill. This is not deserved. The
Senate passed an almost identical bill o year
ago and sent it to the House for concurrence
but that body was too intent upon partisan
legislation to pay attention to it.
Near the close of the last session Senator
Van Wyck, of Nebraska, despairing of secur-
ing the passage of the amendments to the
Mexican pension bill in the shape they were
then, attached the amendment relating to
widows and orphans to private pension
bill for the relief Of Sarah E. Jackson. Sen
ator Mitchell, of Pennsylvania, added an
other Of the amendments, and in this shape
the bill passed the Senate and went to the
House, which was too busy with contested
election case to pay any attention to it.
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THE HONEST WAY.

Very many of the best economists of this
country, who understand what it has cost to
bring our system of revenue to its present
perfection, and who appreciate the enormous
damage to our trade and commerce that al
ways follows any disturbance of taxation,
strongly favor the continuance of the present
system, without change of any kind, and
the distribution of the surplus to the several
States according to population. We favor
this ourselves, rather than have our reviving
business upheaved by changes in the tariff
and revenue laws. But the honest way is
always the better way, and the honest way
in this case is to use the surplus revenue in
discharging the Nations sacred obligations
to the men who saved it's existence, and to
their widows and orphans.
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commission in the 44th Wis, and held that
until mustered out at the close of the war
He took part in the Red River campaign, and
in the battle of Tupelo as Assistant Adjutant-
General to t. Kilby Smith, who commanded a
division under the gallant old A. j. Smith.
President Lincoln complimented him with an
appointment as Assistant Adjutant-G General,
but he never mustered as such.
After being mustered out he selected Mis-
souri, as his residence and entered upon the
practice of law in Kansas City, which was then
a village Of 5000 inhabitants. He achieved
success at once, and in 1867 was elected City
Attorney of Kansas City. The next year he
was Circuit Attorney for the Counties of Jack
son, Johnson, Lafayette Cass, Pettis and Sa-
line, Mo. In 1871 he was elected Mayor of
Kansas City; was Presidential Elector on the
Grant ticket in 1872, and appointed United
States District Attorney for the Western Dis
trict of Missouri in 1882. In 1885 he received
the high compliment of the vote of the Re-
publican members of the Missouri Legislature
far United States Senator, and was elected to
the 49th Congress as a Republican, receiving
16, 176 votes against Ia, Col cast for his Demo
cratic competitor.
He has been an earnest GAR man from the
first. He organized and is a member of Geo.
III. Thomas Post of Kansas City. In 1882 and
1883 he was Department Commander of Mis-
souri, and had an eminently successful admin
stration. When he entered the office Missouri
had but II Posts When he retired, two years
later, it had nearly 200 fourishing Posts He
was elected Senior Vice Commander in Chief
at the National Encampment at Denver in
1888. At the National Encampment at Min
neapolis in 1884, he was nominated by Gen. w.
7. Sherman, in an exceedingly complimentary
speech, for Commander-in Chief
Maj. Warner is lawyer who stands in the
front rank of his profession, an eloquent and
convincing speaker, an indefatigable worker,
and comrade the first article of whose religion
is that the Government is in honor bound to
properly pension every soldier who is depend
ent upon his labor for support, and is incapaci-
tated from performing that labor.
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SOLDIERS IN CONGRESS.
MAJ WILLIAM WARNER.

Maj. William Warner, who represents in
Congress the Fifth Missouri District, in which
is Kansas City, was born in Wisconsin in 1871,
and reared there. After receiving what edu-
cation he could obtain in the common schools
of his State, he entered Lawrence University
of Wisconsin. and afterward the University of
Michigan. In 1862 he raised company in his
native town, and with it entered the SD Wis,
of which regiment he was made Adjutant be-
fore leaving the State. He was promoted TO
Captaincy in the regiment during the siege of
Nicksburg. He afterwards accepted Majors
The National tribune., 1886-03-11
PICTURE OF GEN. LOGAN.
FINE PORTRAIT FOR 25 CENTS.

In response to numerous requests from our
subscribers we have secured splendid pict
ure of the warrior-statesman. Gen. John A.
Logan. 1t is enlarged from superb photo
graph by Sarony, of New York, and is pro-
nounced by the Generals friends an excellent
portrait. 1t is printed on heavy plate paper,
suitable for framing, and is such a picture as
-anot be e.bought in the shops for less than
acse6. or 81. We will send it securely
">r Nlaostage paid, to any subscriber
=" 0rah''R --TRIBUNE for 25 cents; or
or We will send an two of the pictures
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Now the bookkeepers of New York COM
plain that their wages are lower than those
of an ordinary mechanic or car driver" and
they want to organize trades union to rec
tify things. 1t it is not at all surprising
that their wages should be lower than a
mechanics. The country is full of Com
mercial Colleges" protesting to turn out
first-class bookkeepers on short notice, while
nowhere is there any institution to teach
young men the mechanical trades. The re-
suit is that mechanics are not plenty, while
there are five to six bookkeepers in the
country for every one that is needed. The
foolish idea that bookkeeping is more re-
spectacle than skilled labor has something
to do with this result In any large city an
advertisement for a bookkeeper at So or $40
a week will bring host of answers, while
an advertisement for carpenters or black
smiths, machinists or tinsmiths, at much
better wages, will be answered by very few.
The moral of this is: Stop sending your boys
to Commercial Colleges" and set them to
work learning good trades.
The National tribune., 1886-03-11

WE have received several requests to print
in full various pensions bills that have been
introduced in Congress. There are hundreds
of these measures, many of them prepared
by different Members, covering the same
points. Few, if any, will be passed in their
present shape. They are considered by the
committees, and if it is decided to report
favorably on a proposition a bill is prepared
to be reported to the House or Senate, which
may combine certain features of a dozen or
more. To print the bills as they are at
present would prove deceptive and unsatis-
factory to the reader, and would be too great
a tax upon our space. THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE assures its multitude ofreaders that
they will be kept fully informed, as fast as
measures are perfected by the committees
and reported for the action of either branch
of Congress
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WORLD,S CYCLOpEnia

80 many inquiries have come from our SUBJ
90 serine!S t ior copies OF the Worlds Cyclopedia,
oI which we distributed several thousand last
year, that we have secured a new sunnIy
1his book is a wonderful little mine of infor.
NATION on every yday topics, and neatly bound
IN cloth. We viii send it to anyone who will
raise US a club of six subscribers, or we will
send IT and The NATIONAL TRIBUNE for one
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1HE people bore extraordinary taxation
very cheerfully in order to pay the bondhold-
ers the hundreds ofmillions per annum which
they demanded to satisfy their claims Now
no increase of taxation is asked for IN nav
the soldiers their just dues. All that is re-.
4uired is that portion of the surplus revenna
be devoted to discharging the Nations debts
of honor
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CAPTURING AIoCoMoTIvr

=, Every day applications for agencies for this
tiprlllng war romance pour into this office, and
siioSe wIshlhg 10 engage as canvassers had better
united States will be taken up. This ;s ono af
the bostselling books of the times and All VIII
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