Morning journal and courier., 1889-08-30
News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. CORPORAL TANNER Endorsed By The Grand
 Army Encampment. THE LIBERALS AGAINST HIM. Danger Of A Rupture In
 British Parliament. A GREAT MINING FRAUD. Many Women And Children
 Suffer Thereby.
GRAND ARMY ENCOURAGEMENT,


 A Lively Time over Corporal Tanners
 Methods.
 MILWAUKEE, Wis, Aug. 29.-At this mornings session of the National Encamp. ment the election of officers for the ensuing year was completed. Dr. Horace P. Porter, of Kansas, was chosen surgeon general; w. H. Childers, of Kentucky, chaplain; and T. J. Levitt, of New Jersey, junior vice-com- mander.
 The encampment refused to recognize the sons of veterens as an auxiliary to the G. A. R., because of disturbing faction in the former. Instead of giving the two womens organizations the loyal ladies of the G. A. R., and the Wonen's Relief Corps, formal endorsement, which would be contrary to the rules, it was recommended that the en- oampment bid them God speed in the work.
 General Alger, president of the Logan Monument fund reported that the collections to date aggregated $11, ,119.
 The chief event to-day at the meeting of Grand Army delegates was redhot time over resolutions endorsing Pension Commis- sioner Tanner. MT. Perkins, of Kansas in- troduced 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, and heartily endorsing his conduct of the bureau because it was erected for the benefit of the soldiers and sailors of the late war, and denouncing the bitter and malignant criticisms of the press upon his official conduct.
 Gen. Barnum, of New York, offered sub- stttute to the effect that notwithstanding the assaults of an unfriendly press the encsmp- ment declared it's belief in the integrity of Corporal Tanner, and it's approval of his eff forts to do all for the soldiers and sailors that the laws will allow.
 MT. Campbell, of Illinois, agreed with General Barnum in his ideas as to the proper wording of the resolution, and said: "Don't take nasty vote. We can afford to stay here ten hours to settle this important question and settle it right. For fifteen years we have been declaring and others have been uttering @ sentiment that the country can never pay the debt due the old soldiers, but Corporal Tanner is the first official that has made that sentiment upon a practical reality. believe it the high duty of this encampment to sustain him in working out that sentiment. If the Grand Army of the Republic ever had @ duty to perform, looking straight ahead to the committee that is Investigating the pension bureau or to the commissioner himself az it is now and we ought to pass this resolution. The substitute differs with I it in only one particular. It expresses be. would not influence the action of the com mittee charged with the investigation. Il may be better than an endorsement like that offered in the original resolution, but VIC shonld make our endorsement strong enough A delegate from Minnesota said he would no more dare to go back to the soldiers of hi State after harming hair of Tanners heae k1,oy, &1r r3r1 r1a han ofC pI urged the encampment to stand up to tht rack and say that the Grand Army will stand by Tanner till something can be clearly proved against him.
 Another delegate said resolution os conf dence like the substitute should provoke nt | opposition, but when it is made a matter o | judgment it becomes club in the hands O | about this administration of the pension bu \ reaus It is not his enemies, but his friends | who are Investigating him. We should mol ' try to force the administration to suspend tn, | investigation. was in Washington las ! week. It was charged upon the street \ and everywhere else that men employed \ up in the bureau had their cases made spe cial and taken up immediately and re-rate6 | much higher, while the poor devils of tht
 I told them that it was lie, but if he ha.
 done that and we pass the original resolution we endorse such action on his part. Tn substitute is broad enough. This encamp ment knew nothing of the details of Tan ner's work and cannot pass judgment upon it We may believe 1t is all right, but we do no
 say 1t. If we pass the original resolution ant ! the committee of investigation should exon
 crate him the opposition press would sa that the administion dare not oppose tn
 Grand Army and they would have good res
 son to say 80.
 General Bsrnum's resolution was adopte,
 under suspension of the rules uuanimousl
 amid great cheering.
 The day trains brought in about eight thousand additional visitors. The great al
 traction was the night naval battle. Fully quarter of g million people occupied tn
 beach, and the vast amphitheater on th
 hillside of the lake shore park was packe
 with Grand Army men and their wives, thes
 seats being reserved for them. The battle we
 splendid spectacle, being participated in b
 about sixty vessels, besides stationary mo
 tar fleet and by about three thousand infar trymen and artillerymen.