The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-05
Anti-Confederate Spirit Put to a
Test by a Resolution Re.
lating to Homes.
MILES ELEVATION IS URGED
vexed Questions Relating TO the Sons
of Veterans Shelved for a
Year.

ST. PAUL, MINI, Sept. 4. - Major
Thaddeus S. Clarkson of Omaha. com
mander-in-chief; John H. Mullen, Wa
basha, Mimi, senior vice-commander;
Charles W. Buckley, Montgomery, Ala,
junior vice-commander; A. E. johnson,
Washington, D. c., surgeon-general; Rev.
Mark B. Taylor, Mass, chaplain-in-chief,
were the officers elected at the Grand
Army encampment to-day. With the in
stallation of officers, the successful en-
campment of 1895 came to a close, and
then it rained hard for the rest of the day.
The encampment has not been marked
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 en-
campments. There has been no COM
plant on the score of st. PauPs hospi-
tally and every veteran is leaving town
feeling glad that he came here.
Commander in Chief Clarkson an
nounced the appointment OF G. E. Bur-
meister of Omaha as acknowledgement.
His other app ointments will not be made
for few days.
A new council of administration was
elected, with q member from each State
department. Among the members are
Arizona, ]. w. Darlington; California and
Nevada, ]. K. Staler, San Francisco; Colo
RADIO, B. L. Carr; Idaho, w. II. Barton
Iowa, Lumen L. Caldwell, DEBORAH; Kan
sas, w. II. Smith, Marysville; Montana,
Charles S. Prague, Bozeman; Nebraska,
A. Traynor, ON aha South Dakota, David
E. Proctor, Wilton; New Mexico, Hiram
Champion, Santa Fe; Oregon, II. S. Allen
Army of the Potomac W. H. Chambers,
Washington, D. c.; Washington and
Alaska, Thomas NJ. Young, SeattIe Utah,
E. w. Tatlock, Salt Lake.
The utterances of President Elliot OF
Harvard University concerning the Grand
Army were resented in a report from the
committee of resolutions, which was
adopted, declaring that while we en-
phatically condemn such statements as
unworthy and untruthful, we will not dig
Nifty them by formal resolution of con-
domination"
The snti-Confederate spirit of the en-
campment was put to test by Past De-
psrtment Commander Blodgett of Illinois,
who introduced a resolution recommend
ing the erection of soldiers home in the
South for Confederate army veterans. 1t
failed to pass the committee stage and the
Department 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-felds
was strongly Endorsed.
The pending bill in Congress for me-
mortal bridge across the Potomac to the
Arlington National Cemetery, opposite
Washington, was not Endorsed.
Scott Post No. 40 of Colorado intro
duced resolution providing that depart
ment commanders should call on the
ladies of the G. A. R. each Memorial day
to assist in decorating the soldiers graves
and otherwise observing the day. This
resolution was considered in the light of
an attempt to officially recognize that
organization as a G. A. R. auxiliary over
the Relief Corps, and it was promptly re-
ferred to the com mander-in-ch The
sentiment in favor of the latter organiza-
ton is very strong in the order.
A resolution was adopted asking Con.
gress to pass law forbidding the use of
the National coat of arms and flag for
political purposes or for private gain as
either trademark or label
On motion of Cum berland Post No. 1877
the encampment supported the PROPOSE
ton to raise Major-General Nelson A.
Miles, o. s. A., to the rank of lieutenant
general.
The Sons of Veterans question was
shelved for year on report from the
committee on rules, by a reference of the
proposition to the Buffalo encampment.
In the meantime the plan proposed was
ordered printed and distributed among
the posts for an intelligent vote next year.
The convention of the Women's Relief
Corps elected the following officers: Presi-
dent, Mrs. Agnes Hit of indianapolis ;
senior ice-presIdent, Miss Marie hazen
Wrinkle of st. Paul; treasurer, Miss Isa-
belle Bagley of GAINESVILLE, Ohio; Junior
vice-president, Miss Amelie j. Colgan OF
Virginia.
The resolution that the AndersonviIle
prison site be purchased by the corps and
kept permanently in condition as war
exhibit was adopted.
a committee was appointed to attend to
the matter, and every member of the corps
was asked TO contribute cents toward the
purchase and maintenance of the fund by
the delegates present.
Mrs. John A. Logan addressed the dele
gates, advocating consolidation or afilia-
ton with the ladies of the G. A R., but
her ideas did not fall on sympathetic ears.
The rival organizations are diametrically
opposed to each other by virtue OF their
organic law, and the members are equally
determined to have nothing to do with
each other officially.
The ladies of the G. A. R. finished the
election of officers to-day as follows:
Treasurer, Mrs. Flora George, Washing
ton; chaplain, Mrs. Thankful, Massachu-
sets; national councillor, Mrs. Laura Nc
Nair, New Jersey.