St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-28
STATE MILITIA OFFICIALS GIVEN
sIINOIs PLACES L. ENCAMP-
MENT COMMITTEES.
LEFT THE ROOM In DISGUST.
SENSITIVE To THE SLIGHT ONE
LEAVES COMMITTEE IN
SESSION.
For the Main Encnmpment Meetings
committees VIII Meet at the
Comm erciaI Club Tuesday.

The executive committee of the COM
mitteeS on arrangements for the COM
ing national encampment of the G.. A.
r., last night listened to a proposition
of G. w. Horn, to add certain names
to the committees in charge of the en-
tertainment and accommodation of the
eity's guests. What the names were
was not given out for publication.
1t IS known, however, that there has
been a slight estrangement between
the members of the committees and
the officers at the head of the militia
of the state Of Minnesota, an es-
arrangement whose first tangible ap-
pearance was made at the first and
last meeting of the committee on halls
and camp fires. When the committees
were in tentative form it will be re-
membered, the managers sent out
postal cards to those whom they had
listed on the committees, inviting them
to be present at certain dates Both
the adjutant general and his assistant.
Lieut. Col H. T. Bevans, were appoint
ed members of committees. minor
committees, perhaps, in one sense of
the word, although in the theory of
the managers all committees were of
INV LII EOl IdhNC tiIu CONSEQUENTLY OF
like dignity. The lieutenant colonel or
assistant adjutant general was named
on the halls and camp fires committee,
and attended the meeting which pack
ed the large committee into one of the
small meeting rooms of the Lincoln
club in the Endicott arcade. The de-
bate was well along, and the speakers
had laid considerable stress upon the
scope of the committee, viz: that it
should merely look after hall accom-
modations for the meetings of the
association and the camp fires. Sud-
denly the assistant adjutant general.
who apparently had not read his postal
card carefully, turned to a reporter
sitting near him and asked What
committee is this?"
sc. A. r. committee on halls and
camp f1resp' was the answer.
The assistant adjutant general i'm
mediately rose, and with s'Grump.
grump." cross between a grunt and
a gurgle, the assistant adiutant
general marched out of the room.
Adt- Gen. Nuremberg is also ap-
pointed member of two of the com
mlttees, accommodation and informa-
ton, and that on parades and reviews.
but these committees are not consid-
cred by the moguls of the department
as important as some of the others,
and the peculiar complication which
appeals to the military fitness of
things is that while Gen. Nuremberg
has to be content with a place on
these committees, his subordinate
Gen. w. b. Bend, is not only honored
with place on the most important
committee Of all, that on finance, but
also has place on the similarly re-
spected and important committee on
invitation and reception. Anoth-
er peculiar fact in connec-
ton with the makeup of the
invitation and reception committee is
that the adjutant general is one of
three veterans at the head of a state
department who are left off the COM
mlttee. State Treasurer Koerner and
Supt. Pendergast are not on this COM
mttee, but Attorney General Childs
and Public Examiner Kenyon. not
military men, are thus honored.
AS stated before. what Mr. Horr's
proposition was could not be learned
from the executive committee last
night, and what solution if any, it
offered for the dilemma in which the
state military moguls find themselves
must be conjectured, although it seems
likely that the adjutant general and
the committee on reception and tnYt-
tation.
Previous to the meeting of the ex-
ecutive committee last night, the board
OF managers held a meeting, and it
looked like old times before the re-
cent passenger rate problem came up
TO see the enthusiasm manifested Ey-
cry one was happy. and Capt Nc
Cardy's announcement that the execu-
tive committee had
the Auditorium building for the first
week in September at a price which
they considered reasonable was greet
ed with enthusiastic approval 1t was
also decided to revive the interest in
the arrangements by a mammoth re-
union of all committees to be held
next Tuesday evening. The CONNER
cial club has rendered the use of it's
meeting room, and the conference will
be held there. 1t was suggested that
an informal programme be arranged,
at which the chairmen of the various
committees make short addresses rela-
tive to the manifold branches of the
work to be done, and a committee of
five to arrange for the meeting was
made up as follows: Gen. e. c. Ma
son, Capt. j. ]. McCardy, CHRISTOPHER
w. Horn, Capt. Henry A Castle and
Judge G. D. Kerr.
This committee held short meet
ing also after the general meeting
discussing informally the meeting Of
Tuesday night. 1t is intended to make
it rouser, as the joint committees
comprise not less than 300 people, and
great enthusiasm is expected when the
announcement is made formally to
them, as it was to the chairmen last
night, that Gen. Walker has issued
the formal order finally locating the
encampment in this city.
Chairman Fred Richter, of the com
mittee on reunions, announced that he
had received notices from the follow
ing associations that they would hold
reunions either in this city or at Fort
Smelling during the coming encamp-
ment: The Wisconsin Cavalry asso-
citation, four regiments; Third Wiscon-
sin battery. Twenty-ninth Wisconsin
infantry; First and Second Minnesota
cavalry, and First Minnesota battery:
ex-prisoners of war; Naval Veterans
The Minnesota regiments will prob
ably meet at the fort. as 1t was there
that many of them were mustered into
the service, and no more appropriate
place for the reunion could be selected