The morning times., 1895-10-17
GEN. GIBBONS THEIR CHIEF
Loyal Legion Elect Him and Also
the Other Officers.
Adjutant General Ruggles as a Story
Teller and Chief Engineer Melville
as Ballad Singer.

The commander -iD-chief of the Military
order of the Loyal Legion met yesterday
morning in the banquet hall of the Airing
| ton. The most. important business trans
acted was the election OF Gen. John Glib
bons as coflmander-in-c n-chier. He was the
old commander OF the Iron Cross Brigade
aud afterward OF the Second Army Corps.
His election was unanimous.
Every State in the Union save Oregon
is repre- sented. Seventy-seven delegates
are in attendance. and many of them show
the effects OF Confederate lead. Here an
empty sleeve or trouser leg, there a limp
or scar, show that some battlefield OF the
civil war saw some of the wearer's blood.
The order is limited in its membership to
officers in the late war OF their eldest sons.
The morning session was taken up with
the reports of the officers and various com
mittces. After the election OF the COM
mander- -in-chief u committee was appointed
TO nominate the remaining officers.
The most important committee, appointed
Just before a two-hour recess taken at
noon, was on eligibility. 1t consisted of
Gen. Hubbard. Gen. Varney, Col. Wood
ward. Col Davis and Mai. Hayden. They
have several appeals before them, and In
passing on them they must decide several
important constitutional questions.
The afternoon session was devoted TO
routine business and the approval of the
committee on nominations.
The other Officers elected were Admiral
ancroftGherar r1i a nd Gen. Selden Connor,of
Maine. sc niorandjun nior vice commanders in
chief; Col. r. Z. Nicholson, Philadelphia,
recorder; Capt. Peter De Keyser, Prnnsyl-
vania, chancellor; Gen. Albert Or,lway,
District OF Columbia, registrar; Col. Cor
ncliIs Galley, Cincinnati. Ohio. treasurer;
H. Clay Trumbun. chaplain; t;en. ].
Marshall Brown, Maine. Col Arnold A.
ROnd, Massachusetts; Major W. p Hixford,
District OF Columbia; Major George W.
Chandler. Michigan. and Col Charles II.
Davis Illinois. additional member of the
council in-chief.
This morning the Legion goes tD Fort
Myer to witness parade n nd Cossack riII
by the cavalry. AT 12:45 they viii cali on
the President. In the afternoon ,he dele
gates all go TO Mount Vernon. In the even
ing a reception viii be given by the Legion
to Gen Miles at the Army nd Navy Club.
A reception was rendered by the local
cofnfnandery OF the LOYAL Legion In the
evening to the visiting companions of the
cominaDdery in oh ier at the 4 rlinston Hotel
The banquet hall was very deliberately
decorated with sInllax. potted plants. large
masses of roses. and champagne. A baNd
was in attendance.
Col. Hosmer was in charge of the arrange
ments- The programme was delightfully."-
Informal. There were no set speeches In
lieu of the customary rhetorical flowers.
lHtTP were SONGS ana NoTltS- onc OF the
songs was Marching Through Georgia.
with the chorus OF which the veterans
raised the roof.
Among the good story-teIlers was Col
Hodges, of Missouri. He was encored
several times and responded every time
with a good and new story, Chief Engineer
Melville sang n song in his best style
Adjutant General Ruggles made the hit
of the evening in a clever war story the
last cha pter of which took place in this city
The festivities were Kept up to a late
hour.