St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-06
AFTERNOON WORK.
Resolutions Passed - Candidates
for Commander.


DETROIT. Aug. 5.-The afternoon
session Of the national encampment t
was devoted almost entirely to the dis
cuSSiOn regarding the selection of the
place for holding the next eacampment.
After a long heated debate the matter
was settled on the first ballot by Wash
ingtOn securing majority of twenty
seven votes over Lincoln. Resolutions
were unanimously adopted requesting
congress to pass a law authorizing the
interstate commerce commission to per-
init railroads to give reduced rates to
all soldiers and sailors of the
war of 1S61-1S65 attending national
encampmentS. The committee on
seniority of departments was continued
another year at the request of certain
departments that wanted to furnish
further evidence berore a final report
was made. A resolution was unani-
mously adopted limiting the length of
parade at all future encampments to
two miles.
The location of the next encampment
having been settled, the interest of the
encampment is now chiefly centered in
the election of the commander-in-chief.
Capt. John Palmer, of New York, A. g.
WeiSSert, of Wisconsin, and Col. W. r.
SmedbeTg, of California, are the leading
candidates. and it is safe to say that one
of these will be elected. The long and
stubborn contest in the New York del
egation between Palmer and Hedges
ended to-day in a victory for Palmer,
after several caucuses had been held.
Mr.. Hedges took his defeat goOd-nat-
uredlY and promised tO.work for Palm
er. In conversation MIR. Hedges said
the Ohio delegation would support the
New York candidate after giving their
own candidate, Gen. Hurst, cOmpli-
mentary vote. 1t is also well under
stood that Pennsylvania, Massachusetts,
New Jersey, Rhode Island and Mary
land Will caucus in favor of Palmer.
The New Jersey caucus last evening
voted in favor of Hedges, but Mr..
Hedges said to-day that their support
had been changed to Palmer. Before
the New York delegation united on
Palmer, the chances were decidedly i'll
favor of Weissert, and even now he is
formidable candidate. Some of the
Eastern states which might have
supported him will probably vote for
Palmer, but Maine and Illinois have
already caucuSed in his favor, and it is
we'll understood that Michigan will de-
clare for Wessert in the morning. The
states of California, Illinois, Kansas and
Minnesota have already declared for
Smedberg, and several other Western
delegations are counted for the CalifOr-
MA man. Altogether il promises to be
very interesting three-cOrnered strug-
gle, with the chances somewhat in favor
of Palmer, since he is to receive the
united support of the New York delega-
ton. Only once in the history of the
order has New York had the commander
in-chief, and had it been known week
ago that the New York delegation
would be able to unite upon man mis-
election would have been conceded as
all obligation due the Empire state.
The ''race question" still remains un-
solved, but will be settled by the en-
campment tomorrow. The whole mat
ter is temporarily in the hands of a
special committee appointed to-day, and
it Is understood tonight that majority
of this committee will oppose the rele-
CATION of the cOlored comrades to sep
arate departments. The leading q. a.
X. men of Louisiana and Mississippi
still insist that the G. A. r., SO far as
the whites are concerned. will go to
pieces in the South unless this is done,
while. on the Otner hand. eX-COngress-
man Smals, of South Carolina, Col.
Lewis, of Louisiana, and other promi-
nent colored members VOW they will
tear off the badges and denOunce the q.
A. r. unless the colored comrades in
every state are admitted to full fellow
ship without race distinction or social
isolation.