The National tribune., 1888-09-20
Comrade Carter, Illinois, made 3 stirring
speech against the admission of ex-rebels.
The adverse report was adopted.

Comrade Carter, Illinois, made stirring
speech against the admission of ex-rebels.
The adverse report was adopted.
PAST DEPARTMENT COMMANDERS.
The propositions to deprive the Past Depart
ment Commanders of vote in the National
Encampment were reported adversely, and the
report adopted.
COURTS MARTIAL.
It was recommended that majority of the
members of court-martial be authorized to
open court and proceed to business. Adopted.
oPDYKE CHAPLAIN IN CHIEF.
The teilers reported that Comrade Opdyke
had received majority of the votes cast for
Chaplain-in-Chief, and was therefore elected.
PENSIONS.
Comrade Blue, Kansas, moved to suspend
the rules and proceed to the discussion of the
report of the Committee on Resolutions. Car
ried.
Comrade Reinoehl, Pennsylvania, read the
following report of the majority of the COM
mittee:
Your committee respectfully present the follow
l. RESOLVED That it is the sense of this Encamp-
ment that the time has come when the soldiers aud
sailors of the for the preservation of the Union
should receive the substantial and merited recog-
milton of this Government by granting them sery-
ice pensions IN accordance with established usage
And further
2. ReSotusd, That this Encampment favors the
presentation ola bill to Congress which will give TO
every soldier sailor and marine who served in the
army and navy of the United States between April,
1861 and July, 1865, for the period Of 90 days or
more service pension of IS per month, and TO ali
who served period exceeding 500 days an addi-
honal amount of one cent per day for each days
service exceeding that period.
8. Your committee also earnestly advocate the
passage OF a bill placing the widows OF Union sol
diers, sailors and marines the pension list with
out regard to the term of the service the of
the soldiers death,
4 M xynF ft1pt hat 10
not withdraw our repeated approval of the bill now
before Congress which was proposed and Endorsed
by the National Pension Committee of the g A. r..
known as the Disability Bill.
The minority of the Committee presented the
following report:
now before Congress which was proposed and in
dorsed by the National Pension Committee of the
GA r. and favor its passage i'll behalf of our needy
and deserving comrades
Comrade Barnum, of New York, said that for
the purpose of getting the matter before the
Encampment he would move the substitution
of the minority for the majority report, and
the Limitation of the discussion to five minutes
for each speaker
Comrade Bennett, Indiana, said that as
the question had heretofore been discussed
until everybody thoroughly understood it, he
would move the previous question. Benefits
ideas as to what the previous question really
meant were decidedly muddled. His words
were much more plentiful than his knowledge
and he wound himself up in a snarI, which he
kept complicating by his excited talking.
Finally he was induced to keep quiet. Some
clearer heads took up the matter, and the pre-
Yious question was ordered.
The question then was upon the substitution
of the minority for the majority report This
was defeated by UiUG U0ce vote.
Comrade Sample, of Pennsylvania, called for
a division, in which the galleries would not
he counted" This was at first denied him,
but at last given. The Adjutant. General an
nounced the result in favor 80, opposed 156.
Comrade Curtis challenged the Adjutant-
Generals count. "There were," be said, 4" FIVE
times as many voting in the negative as in the
affirmative"
The question then turned upon the adoption
of the majority report. This was taken by a
rising vote. Against %, in favor 356.
COmrade Avery moved that the adoption of
the majority report be made unanimous. There
were a few dissenting votes.
SONS OF VETERANS.
The Committee on Resolutions reported as
follows:
Resotoed That this Encampment indorse the OBJ
jecs aud purposes Of the Order of Sons of Veterans
q. s. A., and hereby give to the Order the official
recognition of the GAR, and recommend that
comrades aid and encourage the institution of
Camps of Sons of Veterans. III. s. A