Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-14
CAMP-FIRES AGLOW.
The Great Encampment at
Columbus.
THE NEW OFFICERS ELECTED.
The G. A. r. Boys Vote Themselves
More PensiOns-ReuniOn of
the 10th Indiana.

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.
COLUMBUS, O., September 13.-The fine
display of California products and the
Ohio Centennial detract somewhat from
the attendance at the numerous reunions
of veterans. Meetings of the various
organizations represented continue to-
day.
The encampment at meeting this
morning chose Hon. VIM. Warner, OF
Missouri, Commander-in-C Chief for the
ensuing year. Warner served in the
Thirty-Third and Thirty-Fourth Regi-
ments of Wisconsin during the war, and
is now a member of Congress from the
Fifth Missouri District. Col. Moses
Neil, of Columbus, was elected Senior
Vice Commander; Joseph Hatfield, of
New York, Junior Vice Commander.
Rev. S. G. Updyke, of Dakota, was
chosen Cheplain-in- Chief at the after
noon session, and P. M. Dewitt, of Iowa,
was elected Surgeon-General. The Com
mittee on Resolutions submitted it's re-
port, part of which, referring to pensions,
is as follows:
Resolved, That it is the sense of this
Encampment that the time has come
when the soldiers and sailors of the war
for the preservation of the Union should
receive the substantial and merited
recoe milton of this Government by grant
ing them service pensions; and it is
further
Resolved, That this Encampment
favors the presentation to Congress of a
bill which shall give to every soldier
or sailor who served in the United
States between April, 1861, and July,
1865, for a period of sixty days or more,
a service pension of IS q month, and to
those whose services exceeded 800 days,
an additional pension of one cent per
day sfor service in excess of that
period. Your Committee also earnestly
recommend the preparation of bill
placing the widows of Union soldiers and
sailors and marines on the pension list
without regard to time of service or
cause of soldiers death. Your Commit
tee further report that we not withdraw
our support of the bill now before Con-
gress which was proposed and endorsed
by the Pension Committee, known as the
Disability Pension bill.
Other resolutions recognize the Sons |
of Veterans as an organization, and less |
important matter. Then it is resolved,
with pride and heartfelt pleasure, that
we place upon record our grateful appre-
citation of the hearty welcome and most
generous hospitality extended to this
Encampment and to the membership of
the G. A. R. by the citizens of Colum-
bus, and by the State and Department
officials, who have freely opened to us
the hospitable homes of this beautiful |
city. allowed us to take entire possession |
of their city and their capitol, and whose |
unceasing efforts and boundless hospital |
successful, as it is the most numerously
attended Encampment our order has
yet held"
A special resolution was offered and
adopted, unanimously appropriating $500 |
for immediate use in relieving the neces-
sites of members of the organization who
are suffering from the yellow fever cpl |
demic in Florida.
Another business session will be held |
tomorrow.
The Signal Corps survivors, to the
number of 106, of which Governor Fora |
ker was an officer, held meeting. Sec |
retary D. W. Marcy explained the his |
tory and objects of the organization in |
the East. A resolution was unanimously
adopted to the effect that the members |
of the Corps in the Western armies |
would unite with the East in a
National Association of Signal Corps
Veterans. The officers of this corps,
whose duties were in the nature of a
private secretary to general officer in
the field, were necessarily scattered
throughout the armies, and have here
tofore been unable to hold reunions, but
it has been decided that annual meetings
shall hereafter be held at the G. A. K.
encampment.
At the headquarters of the Loyal
Legion to-day general good time was
had at the reception of General George
Crook. An enjoyable social reunion OF
Mexican Veterans was held in the SEN
ate chamber, and numerous other regi-
mental, brigade and army reunions were
held all over town during the day.
Tonight camp fires are still aglow; anec-
dotes alternate with patriotic eloquence
in entertaining the listening thousands.
IN INDIANA.
GEN. Harrison at the Reunion of the
10th egfment.