Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-26

Ohio. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ca 30. ap6
oAiahuha- '..-.....-..--.-.-.... - l.O6l
oregon. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 81 1916
P''n'isy lyania ....-....-.......... Go6 3i.352
Riode Island. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. a6 2a.3
south Dakoia. as 2-2B
4 tnhesse-- ....--.......----.-.-. - 2,3S
texas. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Al Sl9
TAN. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 1Sl
Virginia and North Carolina 49,. SO i.Sst
Washington and Alaska ........ 81 1.si2
West Virginia .......-..-.-.-. % $50
Nisconsln- --.......-..-.-..-... S6s 1o,yl1
Totals. ......................1,l0 3ls,456
There was exper 6ed for charity during
the year S21o.Gy4.
Report of the Quartermaster General.
The report of Qrartermaster General A.
]. Burbank showed receipts of S16.S59, OF
which SS.106 came from the per capita tax,
and expenses of Sl9.722; the balance on
hand being S,111, the credits to the differ
ent funds being follows: General fund.
sl62; Grant monument fund. 81, 133: Sher-
man monument fund, SOD; southern memo
$3.50. and there are $4,000 in United States
bonds.
Report Of Chaplain Taylor.
Chaplain-in-Chief Mark y. Taylor report
ed that he had heard from 5.2ll of the 7,1lS
posts and submitted the following figures:
Posts attending Memorial day services,
5,2l1; comrades in line. 20l.a26; Women's
Relief Corps participating, 2.393; members
participating, 44,19l; camps Sons of Vet
Grams, gJ3; Sons of Veterans participating,
~, IS4; number of cemeteries in which
graves were decorated, 13.9o3; soldiers and
sailors graves decorated. 500 ,631; number
unmarked by proper headstones, l9,y6l;
public schools engaged in services, CAB;
number of pupils participating, fo.:,01; other
organizations participating, BIS; amount
expended, SIS, it3.
He could give no official assurance that a
single soldiers grave was decorated in five
departments that any of more than
800 posts carried a single flower or flag 10
a soldiers or sailors tomb. 1t was becom-
ing more evident to all that the efficiency Of
the Women's Relief Corps had never been
adequately measured nor sufficiently appre-
ciated. Department chaplains were Gener-
Gus in their praise of the valuable services
cheerfully rendered by the Sons of Vet
Grams.
Capt. ZaIinski.s Report.
The report of Capt. L. l.. Zalinski. C.S.A.
Qetired). chief all on military instruction,
public schools" contained the following:
but little progress has been made in
the southern states owing, apparently, TO
the opposition of the confederate veterans
to the Grand Army, emhittered by the con-
tioVersy on the question OF school history.
THE movement las not met with full
success in other sections of the country,
owing chiefly TO the following reasons:
Expense lnkOlNcu, ldCh Vi iiSAi EtlOts'
crowded curriculum of schools. opposition
On sentimental grounds based on the
wickeGness of war and the fear that the
military instructions will tend TO create a
warlike spirit.
1T is proposed to again submit TO the
ccming session of Congress the bill ask
ing for the detail OF army officers and non
com missioned officers to give military in
struction in public schools of towns of
5000 inhabitants and upward. This III
require detail of about fifty commissioned
and 15o non-commission I'd officers. 1t Is
also proposed to ask for the issue OF arms
and equipments which may be on hand and
suitable for the purpose.
Amendments Recomme ndcd to Rules.
Judge Advocate General Albert Clark
recommended the following amendment to
the rules:
No person shall be eligible to member
ship who has at any time borne arms
against the United States. except such as
belonged to the southern militia at the
outbreak of tie war. but never took the
cath of allegiance TO the confederate states,
and afterward rendered faithful service as
Union soldiers; ane except, also, those VINO,
living in the south. entered the confeder-
ate service under duress. but escaped there
from as soon as possible and enlisted in
the Union army, and received therefrom
an honorable discharge.
He also recommended the adoption Of the
following:
Resolved, That the officers of the sew
eral departments are advised to endeavor
TO secure the enactment of laws by the
states and territories within their juris-
diction TO prevent the use of Grand Army
insignia for advertising other business
purposes, as well to prevent imposture
i'm soliciting charity"
Surgeon Generals Report.
The report of Surgeon General A. e.
johnson, NJ. D., which covers only thirty
of the departments, and therefore was in
complete. showed that the number OF
deaths for the six months ending Decem-
Der 81. 1886, was 1.115. of which 105 pre-
sumably died from wounds, 5l9 from dis
eases contracted in service, 433 from other
causes, no cause being assigned as to as.
There were treated free of charge 649, and,
in addition, 619 members of families of ex-
soldiers, sailors marines. The money
value of medicine, services, etc, was &c.
$50. The number Of deserving sick or
MANNED not receiving a pension was 951.
The report showed that thirty-two years
after the close of the war IS per cent OF
the deaths reported were from service
origin. The surgeon general made a num-
Der of recommendations with the view of
securing accurate and complete reports in
the future.