Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-08-12
THE GRAND ARMY.

The National Encampment-General Sher.
man Speaks--Ncxt Meeting ut st. Louis
Officers Elected.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 7.-At the third
days session Of the national encampment
yesterday the Committee on Resolutions
submitted report denouncing pelygamy
and asking Congress TO pass such laws as
would eradicate the evil from the country.
The feature of the afternoon session was
discussion Of the service pension bills. The
department of Massachusetts offered a
resolution favoring the passage by Con-
gresS Of the Lowering bill. which provided
pension of IS month to every surviving
soldier and sailor of the war, whether dis
abled or not The Committee on ResOlu-
lions, to whom the matter was referred,
ana. submitted minority report favoring
the measure. A vote was first taken on the
latter and it was defeated-327 to sc.
During the proceedings General Sherman
origin of the order and of the part the
members had taken in the civil war and
then said: MEN who have only engaged
in single battle or single campaign are
apt to dwell on it as the only one ever
fought and assume that our war was the
one conflict of arms worthy of record.
Others have preceded it; others will sue
coed it. We now with retrospect of only
twenty-one years read that the civil war in
America was but a single step of the world
to a newer and higher civilization. The
revolutionary war demonstrated that the
thirteen colonies. planted by Europe on
the coast of America, had attained man.
hood and had natural right to assume
all its functiOnS-amOng them independ-
ence. The war of 1912 demonstrated that
this new nation was capable of defending
itself, not only within its own domain but
on the high seas and every where. Then
the Mexican war of 1916 and 1S47 demon
slrated that our race and institutions must
reach from ocean to ocean, from the lake 10
the gulf, with ample room for development,
and finally the civil war demonstrated that
we, as citizens, could defend the Govern
ment against the greatest of all enemies
ourselves"
General Sherman then gave an interest
ing account of the causes which led to the
Mexican war and of the subsequent history
of that war, and the conquest of California
by the United States, with the part taken
by General Fremont.
Speaking of his own share in the opera
tiOns the General told how the battery to
which he was attached had been sent
around the "HOrn' leaving New York
July IA, 1916, and arriving at Monterey,
January 80, lS47. He compared the condi-
ton Of California at that time with the
present prosperity and then reverting 10 the
benefits of the civil war, closed as follows:
"YOu, my beloved comrades of the war OF
1861, have abundant reason for your faith
in the majesty and security of the new
Union, bound together in harmony by rv-
ers and mountains and by bands of steel,
each State controlling its own property and
interests with strong government over all.
Yet, in your conventions and feasts you can
we'll spare some words of cheer to your Old
comrades of the Mexican war who did SO
much to enlarge the national domain and
make possible the glorious work you after
ward so thoroughly accomplished. We can
not expect TO tarry long to enjoy the fruits
of our labors, but untold generations will be
here to protect, defend and maintain these
conquestS, and meantime we have right 10
be proud and content that in our day and
generation we have largely contributed TO
build up and strengthen the fabric of gov
eminent fashioned by our fathers, sanct.
fed by the greatness of Washington, made
dOubIy precious by the noble virtues of our
martyred Lincoln and crowned by thu
achievements of our cOmrade, Grant,
St Louis was selected as the place of thu
next national encampment by vote of 2li
to III for Milwaukee.
Z. The encampment then proceeded to thu
election of COmmander-in-Chief. Tanner,
of New York, was proposed by Hatch, Ok
Massachusetts,, after which Lucien Fair
child, of Wisconsin, John Burch, OF Hi
nOis. John L. Rea, of Minnesota and John
II. Reynolds, of New York. were placed in
domination. The Whole number of votes
cast was AL; necessary to a choice, 222.
Tanner received liz; Fairchild, 1873; Burch,
II; Reynolds, 81, and Rea, So. Reynolds
then withdrew in favor of FairchiId, and
the second ballot was proceeded with.
When 377 votes had been cast on the second
ballot, it was shown that Fairchild had re-
ceiyed 500, or seven more than necessary to
elect. A motion was then made to make
his election unanimous and it was carried.
General S. w. Bacl1us, OF San Francisco,
was unanimously elected Senior Vice Com
Chief