Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-09-20
THE OLD WARRIORS
Prove Record Breakers at Trans
acting Business.
Col. Thomas g.. Lawler, of Rockford, Ill,
Chosen Observation-Disclosures
Officers Elected-General
Orders No. 1.

the Twenty-eighth national encamp
-ment of the Grand Army of the Repub
lie adjourned sine die last night.
year from next Monday the boy.
In blue, crossing Mason and Dixon:
line for the first time in the history o.
the order, will fraternize with theil
opponents of the sixties, and thu:
make visible demonstration of the oft
repeated assertion that there is Nc
longer north or south, but one
country, free and undivided. And il
but 1.-THE of the pledges aDd prom
1ses made by the visiting kentuckians
are redeemed, the encampment of %
will never be forgotten, either by the
Union or confederate veterans who are
fortunate enough to be among the
participants.
The encampment transacted it's bust
ness with electric speed. When the
noon recess was taken ali the national
officers had been elected.
After one of the most heated con.
tests in the history of the order Col
Thomas G. Lawler. of Rockford. Ill,
was elected commandments. defeat
ing his only opponent, Col. Ivan \.
Walker, of indianapolis, by the narrow
VI CiSNCh III toldl Nolc VI
$40.
The other officers elected by the en-
-campment were:
Senior Vice-Commander- A. p.
Burchfield. of Pittsburgh.
Junior Vice-Commander-C II.
Shute, of New Orleans.
Surgeon-General-O w. Weeks, of
Marion, o.
Chaplain-in- Chief-Rev. r. Ii. Hager-
ty, of st. Louis.
Representative to Council of Admin
istration-Charles w. Gerwig.
The new chaplain-in-chief is a MEM
Der of the famous Ransom post of St.
Louis.
The election of officers occupied the
entire morning session save ten min
utes, which were given up to a delega-
ton from the Women's Relief corps and
the ladies of the Grand Army of the Re-
public who Brought fraternal greet
ings.
A council of administration, COM
posed of thirty-five members, was also
chosen.
Equal dispatch was manifested in
the afternoon, so much SO that Gen.
Dan Sickles was moved to remark, as
he steadied himself on his crutches in
front of the fOotlights:
You have laid more business on the
a Bile in few minutes than congress
has in the last two months"
Nearly half an hour was occupied in
reading the reports of the committee
on resolutions, which dealt with more
than a score of subjects.
One resolution called the attention
of state departments and posts to the
character of certain school books used
in some of the public schools of the
country and cited a report of the de-
partment of Pennsylvania setting forth
that many text books used in school
are .works of Southern sympathizers
and contain erroneous misstatements
relating to the war. This was adopted,
and also a resolution requesting de-
partments and posts to financially as
sist poor soldiers orphans DESTROYS of
securing a high school education.
Hearty applause greeted the resolu-
ton directing the incoming comman-
der-in-chief to endeavor to secure the
reinstatement of such comrades as may
have been unjustly discharged from
government service. and also to pro-
y
fee. AS a rider to this resolution, the
following was also carried amid vo-
-ciferous shouts:
That the Grand Army of the Re-
public, in Twenty-eight national en-
20 campment assembled, respectfully re-
a. quest the president of the United States
to issue an executive order to the heads
of the several departments of the gov
eminent, and through them to subor-
dinates having the power of employ
ment for the retention of such persons
in service who were veterans in the
war and give them preference"
1t is stated that these resolutions
created an animated debate in the COM
mittee. and the motion to table the IN
was adopted by majority of only one
vote.
A resolution expressing sympathy to
the family OF the late COmte de Paris
was unanimously adopted by rising
vote, and a letter of sympathy was also
ordered sent to Andrew q. Curtin. the
venerable war governor of this state,
who has been unable to attend the en-
campment owing to serious illness.
A proposition that members of the
Sons of Veterans be admitted to post
meetings was ruled out of considera-
ton on the ground that it involved a
change in the constitution, and that
the usual thirty days notice had not
been given to the delegates.
Nearly two hours were occupied in
an animated debate on a report from
the committee upon a series of resolu-
tions submitted by Phil Kearney Post,
No 10, of Richmond. Va, which set
forth that certain published statements
made by Commander j. A. Watrous, of
the department of Wisconsin, to the
effect that the post in question had
collected moneys for the decoration of
graves in southern cemeteries and i'm
properly applied them to the erection
of a hall were untrue in substance
and in fact, asking that this denial be
,printed in the records of the encamp
Inent and a committee be appointed by
the commander-in-chief to investiA Ate
the truth of the charges.
Col. Watrous took the floor IN hi.
.oyyn behalf, and declared that he was
fully justified i'll making the state
ments that had been called in ques
ton.
Edgar Allen, of Richmond, Va. made
an earnest speech in behalf of the post
asserting that its acts had been strict.
honorable and legitimate, and pro
duced proof that the post had securet
q plo. OF ground upon which 1t pro
posed to erect grand army hall
1t was finally decided to instruct tn
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