Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-09-21
BOYS In BLUE.
Annual EncampmenJ Of the Grand
Army at Indiana polls.
The Twenty-Seventh National Meeting of
the Union Veterans OF the War Was a
SUGGESTIVE Pension Report
WOmen's Societies.
THEY RREAK RANKS.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Sept S-After
nearly seven hours continuous session
yesterday the twenty-seventh national
eucampment of the grand army adj
journed at o'clock p M. The report
of the pension committee was the fea-
ture of the day 1t was unanimously
adopted and is as follows:
Lincoln declared it the duty Of the nation 10
care for those that had borne the battle and for
their wives and orphans After his death a
grateful nation met and received the veterans
and showered upon them the plaudIts and hon
ors they had so wen and hardly earned
With profound sorrow and regret we
have TO report that all provision for the
veterans has been changed. Thousands
Of pensions have been stopped with.
out notice and thousands of pensioners dropped
from the rolls IL has been claimed that an adj
judicaton of pension settled nothing that the
secretary Of the interior and commissioner
of pensions We're invested by law with abso-
lutte power over the pension roll, and that it is
within their legal authority TO reopen and re
wise pensions allowed by their predecessors
under regulations adopted by them, whenever
they see tit TO change the rules OF evidence and
the scale of ratings, and this in country of
law, where from the infancy Of the government
the United States by its organic law is IN terms
denied the right TO deprive any person of prop
erty without due process Of law.
I'VE deny that the secretary Of the interior
and the commissioner Of pensions have any
such power; therefore the Grand Army OF the
Republic, in national encampment assembled,
speaking for the grand army of beloved COM
rades many of them too poor too unused.
too broken 20 understand the strong arm
Of the government when administered
with an unfrieudly hand, scouts and
denies the indiscrim!nate charges of universal
be found that discredit may he east upon the
entire all, and this great body OF brave and
patriotic citizens stand disgraced before the
country.
we demand that there shall be 40 backward
step in pension legislation or administr ation
and that the sacred trust OF those that bore the
burden OF the battle shall be sacrCdly observed
and sacredly administered
The report concluded with serie OF resolu-
tons declaring that the grand army looked
with soicitude ana alarm upon the action of
the administration ia arbitrarily depriying
the veterans OF an opportunity 70 be heard I'm
defense Of the rights solemnly adfudged and
confirmed TO them; that it declared against
the presumption Of fraud until charges had
been proven and until each pensioner had
fun notice and fun and complete opportunity to
be heard An additional resolution declared
that as the commissioner Of pensions by his re-
cent withdrawal OF the obnoxious rulings,
when hau DeeH generously condemned, hau
virtually acknowledged the incorrectness of
such rulings il was deemed his further duty 10
at once restore to the rolls the thousands of
pensioners now standing illegally suspended
WOMEN CHOOSE OFFICERS,
The Woman's Relief Corps elected
the following officers: president,
Sarah C. Mink, New York; senior vice.
president. Jennie S. Myerhuff, Indian
apolis; junior vice-president Amanda
T. Newcombe. Vermont; chaplain,
Harriet X. Dodge Connecticut; treas
urer, Armilla A. Cheney, Detroit
The ladies of the Grand Army Of the
Republic elected the following officers:
President, Mrs Amanda J Withern
Minnesota; senior vice president, Mrs
Taylor, Ohio; junior vice president,
Mrs. L. p Anderson, California: treas
urer, Mrs Gordon, Kansas; counselor.
Mrs. Carrie V Sheriff., Pennsylvania;
council OF administration, Mrs. Josie
81 sar, Pennsylvania; Mrs Emma
Da, -, Kansas; Mrs. Eta Tobey, In
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