The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-09-14
Grand Army Men Held Closing
Session Yesterday.
THE BIG BARBECUE A FEATURE
OF THE LAST DAY.
Pensions Discussed-The sQuestion of Ad-
mitting Sons of Veterans Deferred
Officers Elect We're Installed and the
Convention Adjourned Sine Die.

convention Adjourned Slu6 D1e.
Louisville, Sept. ia week of colossal
festivity such as no previous Grand Army
encampment has witnessed was brought
to fitting close today with a barbecue
of mammoth proportions. All night
long an army Of employees were at work
in Wilder Park preparing the trenches
and building the fires, while underline
big tent 100000 pounds of meat, $4,000
gallons of burgoo and $4,000 loaves OF
bread were stacked in readiness for the
feast of the afternoon.
Only few of those injured by the col
lapse of the grand stand at the fire
works display last night remain at the
city hospital, the other having been tax
en- care of by local friends or members
Of their state delegations. The!most Sc
rious injured were e. Burke, Spring
field, Mass, left foot crushed; John S.
Faris, Rrookline, Mass, foot crushed;
Robertson, Minneapolis, scalp wound;
VIM. Henry Gregg and George DeLong,
Bluffton, Ohio, back wrenched and foot
crushed; Miss Carrie Donnelly, Pittsburg,
who suffered hemorhage of the lungs;
Gen. Jasper P Packard, editor of the New
Albany Tribune
Most Of the injured insisted on being
taken to their hotels or boarding houses
instead of to the hospital and the police
department experienced great difficulty
in making report of the accident. One
morning paper puts the list OF injured
o. II atb of ID Tho nnlico
16.
The National Encampfnent resumed the
secret ssession at g. 90 with the intention
of rushing business to effect an early
adjournment.
The officers of the Women's Relief
Corps after consulting with counsel, de-
oided to respect the injunction issued by
Judge Edmonds requiring them to seat
Mrs. Adele Clark of Canton, O., but to
oppose the making of the injunction
permanent The regular order of bust
ness was therefor commenced this morn
ing in secret session, Mrs. Clark being
present.
selected as the national president by &C
ciamation.
Commander-in-C Chief-elect Walker has
selected as adjutant general Irwin Rob
ms Of Indianapolis, who was IN command
of the Indiana troops on the Illinois state
line during the Pullman riots. Quarter
master Buest of Rockfor, III, will probab
ly be reappointed.
Twenty members of the New Hamp-
shire delegation, quartered at the Louis
Vile House, are ill from the effects of
the extreme heat. Many visitors from
Massachusetts and other points are like
wise suffering None of the cases are
critical.
Thefsoldiers boys who met death in the
NoIr cIory
borne to their graves Friday forenoon.
The four bodies were laid side by side
in the Legion lot..in the Cane Hill ceme-
tery. An immense throng followed the
cortege to the church and cemetery.
A resolution calling for the strict en-
forcement of the United States statutes
relative TO the employment OF ex-soldiers
in the departments was made the special
order.
A number of strong speeches relative
to the lack of recognition given veterans
in this particular were made. The debate
was in progress at recess.
When the delegates reassembled today
several hundred failed to respond to the
roll call and the absentees were roundly
scored by Col. Lawler, who objected to
the drudgery of the work being left for a
few. The report of the committee OF
pensions composed of one representative
from each state and territory was listened
to with attention. In part it was as fol-
lows: The G. A. R. in speaking for its
worthy, needy and suffering comrades
who in the days of their youth gave to
their distressed country all that they had,
and all that they held dear in order that
the Union might be preserved intact and
that the sunlight of liberty might shine
undimmed throughout the whole land,ap-
pealing to the whole people for justice
solennly protest against policy which
would deprive or impair the liberal pro-
visions made during the past thirty years
for his widow and orphans in recognition
of the sacred trust imposed upon them by
immortal Lincoln, and the unselfish
services rendered. A grateful people had
suriven for third Of a century to
measurably relieve the sufferings of it's
distressed veterans, and make recompense
for the trials they endured and services
they rendered. Wise and liberal instruc-
tion had prevailed in accordance with
recognized legal principles applicable to
remedial legislation so that the remedy
sought to be provided should be furnished
and the trust SO imposed and recognized
fully and faithfully carried out. AS the
years have passed the smoke OF battle
blown away and the war itself become q
memory generation has come on who
"knew not Joseph, and in some
quarters, the old soldier has come to be
looked upon somewhat in the light of a
burden instead of a great and patriotic
privilege as he should still appear when
viewed in his true character.
Comrade Sample of Pennsylvania, de-
clared that the report did not go far
enough. The Encampment should de-
mand the restoration of every veteran
dropped from the rolls with the payment
to him of every dollar of which he had
been unlawfully deprived. This senti-
ment was cheered, but the report was
unanimously adopted.
The proposal to establish a military
park at Vicksburg was approved, and
also a resolution declaring that the Stars
and Stripes should float from every school
house. The Encampment voted in favor
of combination of the G. A. R. A
resolution demanding an amendment to
the interstate commerce law prohibiting
railroads from making Determinations in
rate against veterans to future Een camp
ments, and another endorsing project
for the establishment of national uni
versity of patriotism, We're reported ad-
versely, and this action was sustained.
The matter of admitting to the G. A.
R. members of the the Sons of Veterans
was reported favorably by the committee.
A discussion of the resolution showed SO
much opposition that the supporters had