Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-12-23


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OUR CAMPFIRE.
Colonel Emil Frey, editor Of the Bas-
Ter Nachrichton, has just been elected
president of the Swiss Republic, to take
+ Office January first, 1894. He was in
3 this country in 1861 when tue Rebellion
broke out, and although he had onl.
!. come TO the United States to remaiI
temporarily, his inborn military ardoi
got the better Of him aud he enlisted,
being enrolled at Chicago and muster
/ ed into service July 8, 1851, as Ser
sgeant, with Company E, Fwenty-fourtl
Illinois Infantry, to serve three years.
August 20, 1861, he WAS appointed Sec
ond Lieutenant aud transferred to Com
pany @, and January l, 1852, was pro
m ted to First Lieutenant of Company
H, Twenty-fourth Illinois Volunteer,
from which, upon rendering his resig-
n n.tion, he was honorably discharged,
TO be mustered In as Captain Of Com
pany III, Eighty-Second Illinois Infan-
try, September 20, 1862. At Gettys-
burg he was, with mauy others, cap
tured July 2, 1868. Captain w. q.
Stewart OF the Confederate Army, Was
placed Ia cell confinement as hostage
for threatened retaliatory execution of
Captain Frey. Finally, January IA,
1855, Captain Frey was paroled at
Atkins Landing, Va, and upon re-
porting for duty, after recuperating
somewhat, was sent to his regiment
/ and duly mustered out of service at
captain of Company III, Eighty second
Illinois Volunteers. June 8, 1865, hav
ing been Drevetted Major, United States
Volunteers, "for gallant and merito-
rious services during the war, March
10, 1885.
Iowa State Register: President
Cleveland says Ia his message: III de-
sire to urge with all the earnestness al
my command that congressional legis-
lation be 30 limited by strict economy
as to exhibit an appreciation of the con
dition of the treasury and sympathy
with the strained condition of our fell
low citizens" That ''strict economy"
Is illustrated, SO far as the appropria-
tIons for disabled Union veterans are
concerned, by reduction of So, 900, 900
for pension payments" ian increase of
o 81, ,00O,O 900 for fees and expenses of ex-
aminiug surgeons" ian increase Of
500, 600 for clerk hire at pension agen-
cies,n and ian increase of $500 900 for
investigation of pension cases, "a de-
crease Of $5, 900. 600 for pensions and an
increase of 81, 400, 900 for expenses of ex-
amining surgeons, clerks and spies
upon disabled Union veterans! The
amount of labor to be performed is to
be decreased, but the "reformers" who
are to perform II are to be paid 81 ,400,-
900 more for performing it! This is the
''strict economy" urged by the admin
istration for the pension bureau, and
the rebel congress will undoubtedly 80
or Ter.
PERSONAL.
Grand Army men would like to see
Past Commander Henry II. Northup,
OF Portland, made the Republican
nominee for governor Of Oregon.
The foolish lies which some Populist
and Democratic papers are printing,
that the editor Of this paper, who is al
so Commander OF the Oregon Division
Sons Of Veterans, was born In Ger
many, would not be noticed but for
the fact that 1t might be used to the
detTiment of the order. While tho
writer is proud of his German ancestry
and would feel proud to be native Of
the fatherland, he is still prouder to
have his birthplace in the land Of the
free, our country. Itwas more an ex
preston Of hatred for foreign-born citi-
xens than anything else that led TO the
inyentlon OF this lie.
SONS OF VETERANS
General order No. 10 shows l84s
camps Ia go standing with total of
81, 800 members.
$50 mustered and 4S7 applications re-
celyed for the mon,h Of Novcmi er.
Cash IN hand Of camps on December l,
500. .45S.
tlsn. Coca Custer camp Of Eugene,
which did not report last quarter has
met. elected officers. aud reports several
new recruits. II Will he a vigorous
number Of the O'egon Division hereaf.
ter
eumpter CAmp OF Salem has just
.dded ivo members aud more are com
az Ia. Part OF the new nDifurms are
'rdersd and the camp thinks Of NOV
AZ into mors comfortable hall.
The Organization Of camp at Rose
lrS has MT been c'mplelea. This