The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-08-30
CORPORAL TANNER.
A Red Hot Time Over Him in the
Encampment.
PROS AND CONS OF THE QUESTION.
Sons Of Veterans Not Recognized Chamberlin
On the Irish University Filings on
Reservoir Sites.

| MILWAUKEE,, Aug. 29-At the mornin.
session of the national encampment, tn
election of officers was completed. DR.
Horatio P. Porter, of Kansas, was chosel
surgeon general; w. H. Childres. of Ken
lucky, chaplain; T. j. Lovett, of New Jer
sey, junior vice-commander. The encamp
ment refused to recognize the sons of veter
ans as an auxiliary to the Grand Army o.
the Republic because of the disturbing fac
ton in the former. Instead of giving tn,
two women's organizations-the Lova
Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic
and the Women's Relief corps-a forma
endorsement which would be contrary tt
| the rules, 1t was recommended that the en-
campment bid them God speed in theil
work.
The ways and means of forwarding the
Logan monument scheme was talked of a
! length.
! The chief event of the day was a rec
hot time over a resolution endorsing Pen
sion Commissioner Tanner. Perkins, OF
Kansas, introduced a resolution heartily
thanking the administration of President
Harrison for the honor it has conferred on
the Grand Army in appointing Corporal
Tanner as pension commissioner; heartily
endorsing the latter's conduct of the
bureau, and denouncing the bitter and
malignant criticisms of the press upon his
official conduct.
General Barnum, of New York, offered a
substitute to the effect that notwithstand-
ing the assaults of an unfriendly press,
the encampment declared it's belief in the
integrity of Tanner and its approval of his
effort to do all for the soldiers and sailors
that the laws will allow. Campbell. of
Kansas agreed with Barnum, and said
For fifteen years we have been declaring,
and others been uttering, the sentiment
that the country can never pay
its bebt to the old soldiers, but Corporal
Tanner is the first officer that his made
that sentiment practical reality. | be-
lieve it the duty of this encampment to
sustain him in working out that sentiment,
and we should make our endorsements
strong enough. If Tanner is dishonest, or
has done any criminal act, we will find it
out when the investigating committee, now
at work, makes its report"
A delegate from Minnesota urged the
encampment to stand up to the rack and
say that the Grand Army of the Republic
will stand by Tanner till something wrong
is clearly proved against him. Another
delegate said that resolution of confidence
like the substitute should provoke no oppi-
Sition, but when it is made a matter of
judgment it becomes club in the hands of
Tanners enemies. ''It is not his enemies
but his friends that are investigating him
We should not try to force the admins
tration to suspend this investi-
CATION. This encampment knows
nothing of the details of Tanners
work and cannot pass Judgment upon it. If
we pass the original resolution and the com
mittee of investigation should exonerate
him, the opposition press would say the ad-
ministration did not dare oppose the Grand
Army of the Republic, and would have good
reason for it, A recess was here taken
until p N.
In the afternoon Barnums substitute
was redrafted to read as follows:
THAT we thank President Harrison for
the appointment of our comrade James
Tanner as commissioner of pensions, and
Notwithstanding the assault made upon
him, we declare our complete confidence in
his integrity and our approval of his en-
deavor to do all that can be done under the
laws for the veterans of the war And in
connection with him we ask a full investi-
cation of his administration of the affairs of
the pension bureau" This was adopted
unanimously under a suspension of the
rules.