The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1886-11-11
THE GRAND ARMY.
News From the DepartmentS---NeW
Posts, etc.
HEADQUARTERS BULLETIN.

HEADQ'Rs GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC,
MADISON. Wis, Nov s.
By direction of the Commander-in- Chief the
Executive Committee of the Council of Admin
istratou met at Madison, Wis, Nov. 5. Pres
ent: Farchild, Wheat, Wise, Wilson, Illinois
Meigle, Missouri; Austin, Ohio; Taylor, Quar-
termaster-ieneral; Gray, Adjutant- General.
Absent. Marker, Pennsylvania. Quartermas-
ter-General Taylor was ordered To purchase
$4,000 of United States bonds and register in
the names of the Chief and
Quartermaster- General. The contract for print
ing blanks was Let TO the lowest bidder for
81, ASS. The bill for printing the journabpro-
ceedings of the Goth National Encampment was
ordered paid when presented 1t was ordered
that the records aud documents at National
Headquarters be arranged for presentation at a
cost not 20 exceed $3.50. A contract for 100000
membership badges, new patent, was let 10
Dawson Philadelphia at 25 cents each. Or
dered that $500 be appropriated 10 the Com
mander-in-Chief 10 buy type writer and en-
ploy person 10 use il at National Headquar-
tiers. Adjourned TO meet in Chicago Nov. 30
10 arrange transportation for National En-
campment in 1857 f. b. GRAY,
Adiutant and Recorder
At meeting of the Department Command
eFs of the New England States held i'm Boston
Oct 26 il was arranged that their several an
nna Department Encampments should be held
at the dates given below:
Rhode Island, Jan. rs.
Vermont, Jan. 80 aud 20.
Massachusetts Jan. 27 and 2S.
Maine. Jan. % and 26.
New Hampshire, Feb and g
Connecticut, Feb. 3 and a.
This Arrangement was made so that the Com
mander-in-Chie could meet with them.
Circulars have been sent TO the Assistant Ad
Jutants- General of the Departments of Illinois,
III, L.
Minnesota. Nebraska, New York, Pennsylva-
mia aud the Potomac requesting the earliest
possible information at Headquarters of the
dates, as soon rs fixed upon, for the annual En-
campments in these several Departments.
Louis Marguart belonged in 1861 TO com
pany OF Swiss Rifles organized in Memphis,
Tenn; was sworn into the service of the South
ern Confederacy, served a year, deserted, en-
tered the Federal lines at COrinth, Miss, made
full statement of his case, and enlisted the
same day la Co. q, doth Ohio; was promoted TO
Corporal Sergeant, First Sergeant. Lieutenant
and Captain; was mustered out with the regi-
ment at the close of the war. Applies for admis-
sion 10 the Grand Army. His application with
explanation, forwarded 60 Judge-Advocate-
General for opinion. The following opinion is
submitted by Henry L. Taintor, Judge Advo-
cate-General:
His long service in the Union Army proves
undoubted loyalty and appeals most strongly
20 the sympathies, but it is evident from the
statement submitted that the applicant has
borne arms against the United States and
under the organic law of the Order must be de-
clared ineligible"
The report of the committee on the report of
Past Adj't Gen. John Cameron, of Washington,
and which was unanimously adopted by the
Encampment is a very high and well-deseryed
compliment TO an exceptionally efficient and
meritorious officer
When Col. Gray, Adjutant- General of the
GAR, was in Washington recently he called
on his old army friend Col. VIM Il. Mclean
First Deputy Commissioner of Pensions. After
old times were talked over Col. Gray remarked
by the way, Col. Jerry Hotchkiss, who lives
at Fayetteville, Walworth Co., Wis, has never
been able 10 get his pension"
We'll, what's the matter2n remarked the
official.
Jerry had the misfortune 10 be hurt in the
dead of night, and no one can swear to having
seen it.. That appears to be the trouble" was
the reply.
Mclean made the case special, and not many
days ago Jerry was notified that he had s. 500
back pay TO his credit in the Treasury, and he
draws pension now at SIG per month.