St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-21
DOVE, NOT AN EAGLE
THE BIRD ON THE BANNER OF THE
LOCAL G. 4. r.. COMMIT
TEE.
SWEET HERALDS OF PEACE
WILL BE THE sCOMMITTEE OF FIVE
WHICH GOES TO CHICAGO
TONIGHT.
SWEET HERALDS OF PEACE
CANCELLATION AND NOT WAR
The Dominating Idea of the Com
mittee OF Old Soldiers That
Met Last Night.

Perhaps the most important meeting
OF the local board of managers for the
G. A. r. encampment of 1896 was that
which was held last evening at the
rooms Of the committee in the Endicott
building. The chief subject of course,
was the prospective removal of the en-
campment from this city, for until that
is settled, there can be little of moment
transacted by the other committees.
For this reason many of the chair
men of subcommittee were absent,
but those who did attend represer ted
the more important ones, and the meet
ing was valuable in that a better I'M
derstanding of the situation is now had
by all of those present.
There has been great deal said in
and out Of the papers about the au-
thority of the council of administration
to remove the encampment from St.
Paul II it sees fit, but not until last
night was the exact status of affairs
made clear. Capt. McCardy has the
credit for revealing the situation in its
true light, he having taken the pains
to search the journal of the Louisville
He found it, too, in the shape of a
resolution introduced by delegate
from Illinois, to the effect that if the
council of administration, before Dec.
Is, of any year, should not secure salts
factory assurances from railroads Of a
rate Of one cent a mile for passengers
to and from the encampment, then the
council should have the power to order
the encampment to be held in such
other place as satisfactory rates could
be secured. This assurance was prac-
tically given by the local committee
almost before ST. Paul had been select
ed, with the exception, quite trivial
from the local standpoint in that it has
absolutely no bearing on those who
are opposing st. Paul. that this re-
ducedI rate shall not~apply within $50
miles of St.HPaul. There is nothing
said in the resolution about time limit
on tickets, nor does the local committee
anticipate any difficulty in securing
from the railroads such a time as will
not be burdensome in the slightest de-
gree upon encampment visitors.
The wisdom of the resolution was not
discussed at last nights meeting, al
though some or the members OF the
committee privately expressed their
surprise at such a restriction in view
OF the fact that a rate of one cent a
mile had never been secured in the
West, so far as they were able to learn
In view of the differences existing,
however, and the fact that until the
matter was settled, the local COM
mittee would be practically at stand
STILL the consensus of opinion was that
an immediate conference should be held
with ommander-in-Chief Walker.
Hon. Albert Scheffer reported that he
had telegraphed to the commander-in-
chief asking him if it would be pos
sible for him to meet a st. Paul COM
mittee in Chicago, and If so, when, and
last evening he had received a reply
stating that the general would be in
Chicago, Wednesday evening to meet
them. Accordingly it was decided that
a committee Of five, with Gen. E. c.
Mason, as chairman, should be dele
gated to visit Chicago, and they will
go down tonight While the other
members Of this committee are not
positively named, it is probable that
Messrs. Scheffer, J. H. Beck, and Judge
G. d. Kerr will be members Of the del
egation.
This committee will spend a part of
tomorrow, if possible, in conference
with Chairman Caldwell, of the West
ern Passenger association, and an en-
deavor will be made to secure such
concessions that the council of admin
istration need not feel constrained to
act under the authority of the resolu-
ton referred to above