The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-09-22

ton was effected with the losS OF uVe
posts. He says the officers have not yet
been brought to trial.
During the last calendar year, as
shown by the report, there was gain
OF 229 in the number OF posts, making
the total number 1865. The total num-
Der OF members on December 3lst last
was 40S,37 an apparent loss OF l,IOS
This loss is said to be apparent because
in one department it was found that
nearly {, 900 had been added without
authority and the returns previously
made were incorrect, so that there was
actually gain Of about l,2O0 IN the
total strength Of the organization. Dur
ing the year the deaths numbered 6, ,4O4;
honorably discharged 1929; transfers,
9,460; suspensions 34,367; dishonorable
discharges 467, and delinquents 1852.
The adiutant general comments short
ly on these losses and says: Practical
ly it may be said the membership OF the
G. A, r. is now ut its highest point. 1t
no doubtwill remain about the above
number for few years to come, when
necessarily it must decrease and the de-
crease will be rapid" The report closes
with statement compiled from depart
mental returns from July l, 1891, to De.
cenber 81, 1891. $96,0l1 was expended
by the various posts for the relief OF un-
fortunate comrades, soldiers, widows
and orphans, and the total expenditure
on that score from July 1,1S7l, to June
80, 1891, was $2,22l, ,704. The adiutant
general believes that these figures are
not correct and says there is no douot
that the actual amount was larger.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The most important, and in fact the
only interesting feature Of the after.
noon session, was the selection of In
dianapolis as the place where the next
annual encampment will be held. The
special committee appointed to pass
upon the report OF the surgeon general
brought in report 'congratulating the
G. A. r. upon the increased efficiency
of that bureau. The report was adopted,
as was the report OF the committee on
petitions, which was included in that
OF the adjutant general, and contained
no new feature OF interest, simply recit-
ing its recommendation to the invalid
pension committee of the house OF rep
resentatives that the deficient law OF
June 81, 1890, permitting the decision
that death on the battlefield is not
equivalent to an honorable discharge,
be remedied, and the submission to the
commissioner OF pensions OF requests
that pension agency be established in
Oregon and that the clerical force OF the
pension bureau be increased.
The question Of where the next en-
campment should be held was soon
settled. Lincoln, Neb., announced that
she would not make a contest and after
Governor Chase, of Indiana, had made
an address extolling the advantages OF
Indianapolis, that place was selected
by acclamation. The exact date OF the
encampment will be fixed later on by
the council OF administration. The
encampment then adjourned till o
o'clock tomorrow morning.
SECOND ARMY CORPS.
Major General Nelson A. Miles pre-
sided over the meeting of the second
army corps, Many members of the
Irish brigade were present and no re-
union has listened to more good stories
than that OF the second army corps to-
day.
All the outgoing trains to-day were
packed to their utmost capacity. spe-
cial trains on the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad and on the Pennsylvania carried
crowds OF visitors to Gettysburg, Rich-
mond, Fredericksburg, Harper's Ferry
and other places where fighting oc-
Cured.