Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-23

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A. G. WEIssERT, THE NEW COMMANDER.
Department of the Potomac for the last
wear. In this controversy were involved
the continuance of life membership in the
National Encsmpment, the troubles OF the
Woman's Relief Corps In the District OF
Columbia, and incidentally the continued
existence of the custom by which the Office
of Senior Vice Commander was given py
courtesy to the department entertaining the
National Encampment Colonel Lincoln's
friends favored the abolition of the latter
custom, and the friends of Captain j. M.
Pipes, who had secured from the depart
ment an instruct on to the delegates to sup
port him for the position of Senior Vice
Commander, desired its continuance.
Compromise Candidate Chosen
The Lincoln forces were led by General
S. S. Burdette, Past Commander of the De-
partment, while the Pipes men had Com
mander Dinsmore for leader The con-
troversy waxed so warm on the floor of the
encampment, and there seemed to be so
little possibility of an agreement between
the two factions, that Past Commander
Wagner, of Pennsylvania, moved that r.
II. WarfeId, OF San Francisco, be elected
seconded by Colonel Lincoln and by Captain
Pipes-the latter stating that he had been
indorsed for the position by a maj jority of
the department to which he belonged.
Past Commander Wagner's motion was
adopted and Warfeld declared elected
Senior Vice Commander. This breaks the
line of precedents extending over period
OF ten years.
For the Office of Junior Vice Commander,
Peter B. Ayers, of Wilmington, Del; Past
Department Commander, j. c. Bigger, OF
Dallas, Texas; Comrade Minton, OF Ken
lucky and Comrade Kennedy, of California,
were placed in nomination. Two ballots
were necessary to reach a determination,
and on the second Ayers received 3S9 out
of the 649 votes cast, and was elected.
For Surgeon General, DR.. w. c. Weyl,
of Danbury, Conn, and W. II. johnson,
of Min6en, Neb., were the candidates
The ballot resulted: Weyl, 432; johnson,
165, the former being elected.
DIR. Lowell Is the Chaplain in Chief.
For the place of Chaplain in Chief there
were four candidates, namely: j. II. Fra
zee, of Tennessee; d. R Lowell, of Kan
sas; E H. Hsggerty, of Missouri, and w.
II. Gottheil, OF the District OF Columbia
DR.. Lowell was the favorite candidate and
was elected.
8 O'Clock, and under General Palmer's skill
full management business was proceeded
with to a conclusion, and final adjournment
of the twenty-sixth annual encampment of
the G. A. R. at 6:10 P. NJ.
The Committee on Seniority of Depart
ments was discharged from further consid-
Grafton of the matter at its own request and
the subject referred to a new committee,
consisting of Comrades Beath, of Pennsyl-
vania; Bowling, of Ohio, and Freeman, OF
New York, for report at the next encamp-
ment.
By permission of the encampment Com
rade Woods, the First Adjutant General of
Illinois, made q statement giving history
of the order in that State from its forma-
tion.
At this point delegation of ladies from
the Woman's Relief Corps, headed by Mrs
Annie Wittenmeyer, and another from the
Army Nurses Association, headed by Mrs.
E. S. Tolman, appeared and were invited
to seats on the platform. The ladies named
extended the cordial greetings Of their re-
spective organizations to the G. A. R., to
which Commander in Chief Palmer felicit-
ously responded.
To the Memory of Dead Comrades.
A committee was appointed. consisting
| of Comrades Tanner, of New York; Duffield,
pare suitable resolutions upon the death Of
| General w. II. Barnum, of New York,
which, together with portrait OF the de-
ceased, are to be inserted in the official pro-
ceedings of this encampment Conrad.
Beath il chairman of a committee appoint e6
to perform a similar service for the late
Adjutant General Mcclellan, of Pennsyl.
| vania.
Comrade Cramer, of Maryland, repre-
senting committee sof the G. A. R., pre-
sented to ex-Commander Alger an immense
graved, which was accepted by General
Alger in an appropriate speech.
The committee appointed to have charge
of the erection of a national memorial hal
at Decatur, Ill, reported receipts to-day
amounting to s, $50.
The Committee on Resolutions reported
to the encampment q large number of reso
lutions and propositions which had been re-
ferred to IT, recommending that q large ma
| jority of them be laid upon the table, which
was done. Among the resolutions re-
ported favorably by the committee and
adopted were the following:
The Legislation That Is Desired.
Asking Congress to pass a law giving the
same right OF precedence in appointment.
to all honorably discharged soldiers that1.
now given by law to soldiers who were dis
| charged Tor disabilities. Recommending
| that the edition OF the official records OF the
| rebellion published by Congress be increased
from II, COO to $1,000. A similar resolution hai
| been passed by the Society of the Army o.
| the Cumberland. Commencing the order o.
Commander in Chief Palmer forbidding any
| post of the G. A. r. to march under the Con
| federate flag. Authorizing the Commander
| in Chief to issue a circular commencing the
Veterans Protective Association Bureau Of
| Information in connection with the Worlds
Fair. in case he shall find it worthy.
Declaring it to be inexpedient for the
National Encampment q. A. B., to express
an opinion on the subject OF opening the
| Worlds Fair on Sunday in view of the fact
| upon which the members Of the 6. A. 3. are
| divided. Favoring the establishments of 9
| soldiers home in the Marine Hospital build.
ing at New Orleans. Requesting that the
census OF the veterans OF the war and thelI
postoff1ce addresses be published immedi
| ately. Asking Congress Co provide for the
| erection of a monument to the private sol
| diers of the army. Asking the Secretary OF
| War to provide q flagstaff at Fort Sumter