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PASSED INTO HISTORY,
]. r. Eucsmpment Finished Its
Labors and Adjourned.
Exam ELECTED SURGEON GENERAL
|cers for the Ensuing Term Were
Chosen and the ORGANIZATION
Closed Its Labors.

ffalo. N. Y. August 27.-The secon
Of the Grand Army of the Republi
mpment was opened at 9:15 o'clocl
morning. General Clarkson presiding
! session, like that OF yesterday, wa
tly private. Guards with musket
at the door and only those with tn
tersign were admitted. The election o
ers, from senior vice commander down
taken up under the order Of business
fred Lyth Of Bidewell- wilkeson pos
uffalo, was unanimously elected senio
commander. Major A. J.' Smith o
post presented his name to the con.
bon. The nomination was seconded b.
bel Shaw, commander OF the depart.
of New York. The adjutant general
Instructed to cast the vote of the en-.
bment for Mr.. Lyth.
ben the nominations for junior vice
handler in chief had been declared
IA, Congressman Pickler of South .Da-
who was chairman of the committee
ensions at the last congress, endeay-
to nominate from his State. Com
her in Chief Clarkson ruled that he
out Of order, but Mr.. Picker persisted.
vote the ruling of the commander
hief was sustained. Mr.. Pickler yielded
great reluctance.
David Mckay of Dallas. Texas, a
ran Of the Seventy ninth New York
landers, was elected unanimously sur
general OF the Grand Army.
e first ballot for junior vice command
i'd not result in a choice, but later
djutant general was instructed to cast
vote of the encampment for Francis
fn OF Hartford, Conn, the candidate Of
Naval Veterans association.
~ Frank G.. Bruner. pastor Of the First
odist Episcopal church of Chicago,
unanimously elected chaplain in chief.
mmander in Chief Shaw of the depart
of New York offered a resolution pro-
& that the last Sunday in May be OBJ
ID as memorial day and spoke at
h in support of it.. The resolution was
tied
usual courtesy of the encampment
extended to the Woman's Relief corps
committee was admitted to the floor
axe the report of the auxiliary organi-
n. The committee consisted of Mrs.
by of Ohio. National treasurer; Miss
IN OF Illinois, past National secretary
Mrs. Clara Burleigh, Massachusetts,, of
Woman's Relief corps home of that
and the past department president OF
achusetts. The report contained a
psis of the work done by the Woman S
ef corps. The new officers were in
ed and the encampment adjourned at
o'clock to meet at Cincinnati in 1898.
committee from the Womans Relief
Is was admitted to the hall and pre-
bd the convention with several beauti-
floral emblems and made a brief re-
Of the work OF the Woman's Relief
IS for the past year. Mrs. Woodley, Ma
II president of the Army Nurses, who
also admitted to the convention, like
Mother" Ransom of California, So
old, the oldest army nurse living, and
Seatt. who spoke for the colored vet
who were unable to attend the en-
pment.
hong the reports receiving favorable
liberation in the executive session of
encampment was that of the pension
mittee. II recommended a readjust-
of widows pensions and presented a
OF proof and application in pension
ns substantially the same as that en-
led in the Pckler bill. which has passed
house of representatives but has not
led the senate. The report stated that
present commissioner of pensions had
ented to adopt new rules substantially
Same as those in force during the Har-
administration. The report also
mmended that congress pass service
lion law to apply to all veterans who
reached the age OF GO years.
e report Of the committee having In
ge the memorializing of congress to
base the several important battlefislds
u Fredericksburg. Va, and connect
, by government roads. was adopted.
e invitation of the Young Mems Bust
Association of Richmond. Va. TO held
encampment OF 1899 in that city was
lived and thanks extended and the as
.tion was informed that the question
only be considered by the encamp-
OF 1898. Another committee reported
raDiy the proposition to establish Ma
u parks at the battlefields of Vicks-
Stony River and Appomattox.
pe report of the committees on text
used In public schools was adopted
report deals severely with some OF the
prizes used in the South. charging tina,
misstate the facts as to the cause o!
rebellion and present them from a
hern point of view. A regret Is ex-
SEQ that. after an examination of all
histories used in the States that were
to the government in the opinion Of
committee none merited the unqualified
rsement Of the organization. The re-
closed with the following recon-
Nations:
ihat this encampment urge the con.
cd asitation of the question of i'm.
60 text books in our schools that re-
10 The history of the United States. es.
Fllion.
mat the National encampment au
ne the appointment of permanen
inlttee on the subject of teaching pa
ism in our schools. which shall max,
port each year
mat 1t be urged upon each dBpart
OF the Grand Army and recommend
the Woman's Relief Corps, the Son,
'eterans and all allied organizations
tney give direct and persistent atten,