The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-05

Thaddeus S. Clarkspn of Omaha, COM
mander-in-chief; John H. Mullen, Wa
bash, Mimi, senior commander; Charles
W. Buckley, Montgomery, Alabama,
Junior vfce-commander; A. E. Johnson,
Washington, D. c., urgeon-general;
Rev. Mark B. Taylor Massachusetts,
chaplain-in-chief, were the officers elect
ed at the Grand Army encampment to-
day. With the installation of officers,
the successful encampment of 1896 came
to a close and then 1T ra1ned hard for
the rest of the day.
The encampment has not been mark
ed by any political or other sensation,
and the mild contests made for the next
encampment and commander has taken
from the event much of that lively in
terest which has characterized former
encampmentS. There has been no COM
plant on the score of st. PauPs hosL
pitaIity, and every veteran is leaving
town feeling glad that he came here.
COMMUNICATIVE Clarkson an
nounced the appointment of G. E. Bur-
meister of Omaha as adjutant-gener
His other appointments will not be
made for a few days.
A NEW COUNCIL OF ADMINIsTRA-
TON
was elected with a member from each
state department. Among the members
are: Arizona. w. Derrington; Cali
Francisco; Colorado B. Carr; Idaho
w. H. Barton; Iowa-Lumen L. Cald-
well, DECORATE Kansas-W. II. Smith,
Maryswale; Charles S. Prague
of Bozeman; Nebraska-A. Traynor,
Omaha; South Dakota-David E. Proc
tor, Wilton; New Mexico-Hiram
Crompton, Santa Fe; Oregon-H. S.
Allen; Army of the Potomac-U. H.
Chamber, Washington, D. c.. Washing
ton and Alaska-Thomas NJ. Young, Sc
attic; Utah-E. w. Tatlock, Salt Lake
city.
The utterances of President Eliot of
Harvard university concerning the G..
A. r. were resented in !, report from the
committee on resolutions, which were
adopted, declaring that while we en-
phatical1y condemn such statements as
unworthy and untruthful, we will not
dignity them by a formal resolution of
condemnation. The anti-confederate
spirit of the encampment was put to
test by Past Department Commander
Blodgett of Illinois, who introduced a
resolution recommending the erection of
a soldiers home in the south for confed-
crate army veterans. 1t failed to pass
ment Of Illinois threw it out at its last
encampment. The project of estab-
fishing national parks on the site of the
Vicksburg and Fredericksburg battle
fields was strongly endorsed
MEMORIAL BRIDGE.
The pending bill in congress for a me-
mortal bridge across the Potomac to
the Arlington National cemetery oppo-
site Washington was not endorsed.
Scott post Nc. 40 of Colorado introduced
a. resolution providing that department
commanders should call on the ladies
of the G.. A r. each Memorial day to
assist in decorating soldiers graves
and otherwise observe the day.
A resolution was adopted asking con-
Sress to- pass a law foTbidding the Use
of the national coat of arms and flag
for political purposes or for private
gain, as either a trade mark or label
On motion of Cumberland post No.
737 of Illinois, the encampment sup
ported the proposition to raise Major
General Nelson A. Miles, U. S. A, to
the rank of lieutenant-g general.
The sons of veterans question WAS
shelved Coz q. year, on a report from
the committee ON rules, by a reference
of the proposition to the Buffalo en-
campment. In the meantime the plan
proposed was ordered printed and dis
tributed among the posts for an intelli-
gent vote next year,
WOMEN'S RELIEF CORPS.
The convention of the Women's Re
lief corps elected the following Officers:
President, Mrs. Agnes Hit of Indi-
annapolis; senior vice-president, Miss
Marie Hazenwinl1le of st. Paul; treas
urer, Miss Isabelle Bagiey, of Zanes-
vile, o.; Junior vice-president. Miss
Amelia. j. Colgan of Virginia.
The resolution that the Andersonvi1le
prison site be purchased by the corps
and kept permanently in condition as
a war exhibit was adopted
A committee was appointed to attend
to the matter. and every member of
the corps was asked to contribute 5
cents toward the purchase and main
tenance of the fund. Over $500 was
subscribed to the fund by the delegates
present.
Mrs. John A. Logan addressed the
delegates, advocating consolidation or
affiliatiOn with the ladies of the G.. A. |
r., but her ideas did not fall on SYM |
pathetic ears. The rival organizations !
are Numerically opposed to each other
by virtue of their organic law, and The I,
members are equally determined to !
have nothing to do with each other Of /
ficdalty. The ladies of the G. A. r. |
finished the election of officers as fell |
lows: Treasurer. Mrs. Flora George.
Washington; chaplain, Mrs. Thankful, (
Massachusetts,; national councillor, Mrs. |
Laura McNair, New Jersey
At 1 O'Clock the convention adjourned |
cino die