Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-08-07
4 wild Scene at the Vote.
THE Ex-uNIoN PRISONERS.
They Approve Demand for Pay for
Their Suiferings.

I They Approve a Demand for Pay for
Their Sufferings.
| There have been during the encampment
| nos less than eight national organizations
| in session, not the least interesting of
which was : ne National Association of En-
| Prisoners O. War. The president is E H.
| Williams, Of Indiana, ana in his address
he resented the treatment accorded to ex-
| prisoners by congress. He said they had
! sacrificed mere than any other class of sol
| diers owing to the peculiar hardships I'M
! dergone by Union prisoners in rebel pris-
| ons. They had yearly for several years
/ presented bills to coLgress for their proper
/ Naturalization, but none of them mad re
celved even a respectful consideration, and
| the government had not even given them
a vote of thanks. Forty-seyen thousand
comrades had died in rebel prisons, and
! this was evi lence of the sufferinEs under
| gone.
Want Two Dollars a Day.
| This pert of the presidents address was
| heartily approved and committee re
! ported in favor of presenting a bill to the
next congress in behalf Of the soldiers
| who We're il prison for a period of not less
| than sixty GAYS or more, providing that
! they shall receive 81 for every day of their
| confinement. The new officers of the o.
| Canization are as follows: President,
Stephen NJ. Long, of East Orange, y. J.:
vice president, Major Marion T. Ander-
| son, of the District of Columbia. chap
lain, John :. Ferguson, Keokuk. Ia. his
| torian, Warren Lee, Norwich, Conn:
! members of the executive committee X
F. Wilson. of Ohio; c. W. Pavey, of Hi
nois; George w. Grant, of Minnesota, and
| L. II. RIPPER of Pennsylvania.
| Other Society Meetings.
A new society has been organized at
this encanpment, composed OF men who
| smelt powder and heard bullets whistle
in at least ninety days actual service 1t
includes both blue and gray. George +.
| Dalton, OF St Louis. WAS made major
| general and Thomas Teake, of St Louis,
register gen eral. 1t will meet next year
| al Chicago
The Veteran Signal Corps held its six
| teenth annual reunion. reporting a mem
| bership OF > ,. /. b. Fortescue, of Phila-
delphia, was elected president and Charles
! Dewitt, of Boston. SeCretary-treasurer
The memoir al committee has raised 81. 600
| toward erecting a monument to the corps
The Ladies OF the q. a r. have held a
! successful meeting They report a total
| mem bership of between 1900 and 20.OUl
Its object i to help soldiers, their widows
! and orphans. and to keep all such out of
the pOOrhouSe.
Monument to Colored Veterans.
Or. George w Bryant, a colored ex-
soldier from Chicago, i in the city solicit
ing subscriptions for the erection Of
| monument 20 the colored soldiers in
jackson par :, Chicago. before the World :
fair. An association for that purpose has
been organized at Springfield Ills, with
Senator Culiom, Governor Fifer. and a
| banker of that city as trustees of the
| funds 1t is intended TO raise Sl5O0OO,
and about $1,000 has been secured so far.
The monument will be 1D5 feet high, and
will consist of granite shaft sur
| mounted by a statue of Captain Cailloux,
a colored officer who was killed at Port
| Hudson. Around the base will be eight
bronze statues of abolition and war he
roes includ ng Lincoln, Lovejoy, John
Brown, and others.
Notes of the Encampment.
AT the reunion of the Seventh Michigan
| infantry the question who was the Drum
mer boy of the Rappahaunock" aposi-
ton claimed by K. H. Henderson,, who
presented letters from Lincoln, Grant. and
others supporting his claim that he crossed
the river with the Seventh. There were
too many old vets who were there and had
not seen Henderson,, however, and the
| honor was given to John L. Spillane, po-
iceman Of this city.
The w. C. +. U. yesterday sent to the
encampment petition asking that body
to Danish wine and other intoxicants from
all future banquets. 1t was filed.
A delegation of ladies from the w r.
c. visited tie encampment and told it
what they were doing. They were loudly
applauded.
The following resolution was introduced
and carried unanimously at the Michigan
reunion of Mexican veterans: That an eff
fort be made by the officers to invite the
surviving veterans of Mexico to meet the
American survivors of the Mexican war at
the next general encampment at WASH
ington, and chat congress be asked for an
| appropriation therefor"
There were regimental and brigade re-
unions going on at a number of halls all
day, and the veterans had good time
generally gro citing old comrades and tell
ing their bat les DER. At night there were
campfires at Camp Sherman and several
| churches.