Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-09-08
GRAND ARMY ENCAMPMENT.
Final Adjournment Taken Last Night
Charge That Adams Worked a Scheme

| Charge That Adams Worked Scheme-
| INDIANAPOLIS, IND, September =
! The Grand Army button is disappear
| ing from the streets almost as rapidly
as it appeared, tents have been folded
and stored away, and this morning one
can pass along the downtown streets
without being jostled at every step.
Thousands OF veterans left the city last
| night and to-day, and to-day every train
| pulling out OF the Union station is
loaded to overlooking with the soldiers
and their friends. But they are not
all going to-day or even tonight. Many
| remained TO see the great pageant
which took place at 100 this evening.
This pageant was one OF the memorla-
| BILE things Of the twenty-seventh annual
| Encampment and preparations for max
| ing it success have been going on for
many weeks. 1t represented the mill
tary history OF the United States and
EN- braced floats, tableaux and fireworks.
The national bodies OF the Grand Army
OF the Republic resumed their business
sessions this morning and continued
throughout the day. The public In
stallation Of officers occurred tonight.
Regarding the reports sent out from
this city last night that there was a
shortage In the Quartermaster Generals
Office Of the q. A. R., Gen. Weissert
said that they were untrue. John
Taylor, OF Philadelphia, who filled that
Office, resigned last July to give his
attention to private business.
The chairman OF the auditing COM
mittee confirms Gen. Weisert's state
ment, and says that when Mr.. Taylor
left the office he accounted satisfactorily
for every dollar in his possession to
his successor Gen. Lewis Wagner.
There is considerable talk to-day
about the election OF Commander Ad-
ANS. It's claimed that Gov. Mckinley
was on his way to this city for the pur-
pose of putting Gen. Hurst, OF Ohio, in
nomination for that high Office; that
Adams's adherents learned OF this and
rushed through the election OF Adams.
Gov. Mckinley, HurSt's friends say, was
taken TO "free show" at Armstrong
Park, while this was going or. 1t is
the first time that the National officers
have been chosen on the first day OF
the convention, and this, 1t is said,
tends to confirm the "snap" theory.
At the Women's Relief Corps conven-
ton to-day the special address recon-
mended that the departments instead or
building homes for widows and nurses
of the war, should send them to the Ma
tional Home. This provoked discus
sion, and 1t was finally defeated.
CommanderinChie WeIssert pre-
sented the greeting Of the G. A. r. in a
speech to the convention. A bitter
controversy arose over the report in the
case OF Mrs. Edna f. Clark, OF Ohio,
who was suspended from the order a
year ago, and this action was sus-
tained.
The. Cnpn pjttea- 90 Pora'ons e-asant-
the disability act Of June, 1880, the re-
port, after a long preamble says:
We demand that there shall De no
backward step in pension legislation or
administrations; that no pensioner snail
be deprived OF his property without due
process Of law; that the presumption
shall be in favor Of honesty and talr
dealings; that the poor and lowly snail
not be put TO unnecessary expensive or
oppressive process; that the sacred trust
in favor Of those who have borne the
battle shall be sacredly observed and
sacredly administered, and we do now
solemnly and deliberately declare that
every presumption should be made In
favor OF records so made; that no pre-
sumption in fraud shall be INDUCED In
against them and that no change De
made in the pensions accorded until al
ter charges have been made and evil
dence in support thereof has been pro
duced. OF which charge each has had
n full notice and full and complete
opportunity to be heard In support oil
the pension so accorded him.
Be 1t further RGsO,Ued, That as the
Commissioner OF Pensions, by his re-
cent withdrawals OF the obnoxious rul'
inVs which have been so generally con-
demned, has virtually acknowledged
the incorrectness OF such rulings,
we deem it his further duty to at once
restore TO the rolls the thousands OF
pen sions now standing illegally sus.
pended.
The report was unanimously adopted.
This afternoon the encampment In
structed the commander in chief TO
! carry Jue QueStlOu Va. NAS 'SHN'N'
the suspensions Of pensions up TO the
supreme court. The national councils
of administration was then elected.
Among its members are: West Nlr'
Qinia, q. r. King; Ohio, r. Fl. Cochran;
Potomac, Lyman b. Cutler; Virginia
and North Carolina, Dan Thompson;
Pennsylvania, A. P. Bnrchfeld.
The following officers were elected
this afternoon and Installed By the W.
r. c.:
President, Mrs. Amantha ). Waters,
of Minnesota; Senior Vice President
Mrs. Taylor, OF Ohio; Junior Vice
President, Mrs, n. P. Anderson, oil
California; Treasurer, Mrs. Gordon, Of
Kansas; Councillor, Mrs. c. V. Sheriff
| OF Pennsylvania.
The Commander-in-Chief Adams has
selected DR.. George Z. Graham, o.
MARYLAND, Surgeon General; j. +,
Leach, of Massachusetts. Adjutant Gen
eral, and Louis Wagner, OF Philadel
phia, Ouartermaster General.
Brazil Shuts OT Communication.
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