Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-10-13
IN GRAND ARMY CIRCLES.
What the Patriotic Orders Are Doing
at Salem.

Money is beginning TO circulate as
result Of the October quarterly pension
payments, of which about $50, coo is re-
ceived at Salem.
The Woman's Relief Corps gave
very successful social at Grand Army
hall Monday evening. 1t conclued
with social attended by the sons aud
daughters. The w. r. G. assisted by
the young people will be a dominant
social force at the capital this winter.
The Sons of Veterans, Sumpter camp
No. s, last night received the resigna-
ton of Capt. Roberts, aud elected DIR.
s. G. Browne, a prominent and active
/ fraternal order worker who will throw
a great deal of new life into the camp.
A committee of two was appointed to
extend friendly greeting to a son of
John Brown of Ossawattamie now re-
siding at Salem and make him an hon.
orary member of the camp.
Sedgwick post G.. A. r. and w. R.
c. meets every Monday evening.
The next meeting of Sumpter camp
will be next Thursday evening.
Commander r. A. Crossan requests
the publication of the following pream-
ble and resolutions adopted at the ma
tionsl encampment at Indianapolis,
september 7:
The Grand Army of the Republic, in
National Encampment assembled,
speaking for that great army of beloved
comrades, many of them too poor, too
bruised, too broken, to withstand the
strong arm of the government when
administered with an unfriendly hand,
proud of the good name and fair fame
of the American volunteer soldier, in
terested far beyond any other person or
organization that the pension roll shall
| tell the truth and in fact be-what il is
in theory-a "roll of honor" and ever
mindful of its cardinal principle, ITO
preserve honor and purity in public af
| fairs" scouts and denies these indis.
criminate charges of universal fraud
, and resent the imputation that because
some unworthy survivors may be found,
that discredit shall be cast upon the en-
tire roll, and this great body of brave
and patriotic citizens shall stand dis
graced before the country. We de.
maDd, that there shall be no back ward
step in pension legislation or admins
tration; that no pensioner shall be de-
prived of his property without due
process of law; that the presumption
shall be in favor Of honesty aud fair
dealing; that the poor and lowly shall
not be put to unnecessary, expensive or
oppressive process to preserve their
meAgre pittances; that the sacred trust
in favor Of those who "have borne the
battle" shall be sacredly administered;
and we do now solemnly and deliber-
ately
Resolve, That the Grand Army of
the Republic looks with solicitude, not
to say alarm, upon the proposition,
that after sufficient tribunals have been
established by law before which ques-
tions have been presented and adjudic-
ated, upon evidence submitted and ex-
amined, and upon which nation has
accorded pensions in this their hour of
need to those who in its hour of need |
stood between It and death, the officers |
Of that nation, administering a public |
trust, have arbitrarily deprived, with
out notice or an opportunity to be
heard, our needy and distressed CON-
rades of the rights thus solemnly ad-
judged and confined to them.
We DECLARE, That every presump-
tion should be made in favor of such
records so made; that no presumption
OF fraud shall be INDUCED in against
them, and that no change be made in
the pensions so accorded until after
charges have been made and eviden nee
in support thereof has been produced,
of which charge each pensioner has
had full notice and full and complete
to be heard in support of
the pension so accorded to them; aud
il Is further
Resolved, That as the Commissioner
Of Pensions, by his recent Withdrawals
Of the obnoxious rulings which had
been so generally condemned, has vir-
tually acknowledged the ineorrectness
Of such rulings, we deem it his further
duty to at once restore to the rolls the
thousands of pensioners now standing
Illegally suspended.
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