Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-09-15
DO NOT LIKE EVANS.
Grand Army Men Adopt Resolutions Re
ported by the Committee. Which Gem
sure the Pension Com missioner.

| Grand Army Men Adopt RESOLUTIONS Re-
ported by the Committee. which Gem
| sure the Pension Commissioners.
Cincinnati. Sept 1.-THE work of
the thirty-second annual encampment
of the Grand Army of the Republic
w as concluded late in the afternoon
of Friday.
| The report of the committee on pen
sions is as follows:
| Your committee to whom wSs referred the
resolutions relating to the pension question
| reports that 1t has considered all resolutions
respecting the subject matter and recommends
the adoption of the following:
| Resolved, That Ii is the judgment of this en-
campment that in the administration OF the
pension laws generous and patriotic con-
| struction should govern. and the laws be adj
ministered in the spirit Of justice and fairness
| in which they were enacted
| Resolved. That any effort to prevent the
honest applicant for a pension from succeed
ing by any subterfuge, rule, or forced corstruc-
ton of the laws, which will work injustice to
the applicant. is to be condemned by all hon
orable men.
| Resolved That in view of the repeated COM
plants OF the unfair construction of the pen
sion law and of the making and enforcement Of
rules which are in violation Of the law and in
| imical to the interest of applicants impels this
encampment to call upon Comrade William
Mckinley, president OF the United States, to
|
is executed in spirit OF fairness, justice and
liberality
Resolved, That all rules which tend to hinder
and embarrass the allowance of honest pension
claims should be repealed, and we ask the
president that he his authority to cause
those whose duty it is to execute the laws to so
perform their duty to do justice to the SOL
diers and administer the law so as not to OBJ
struct the prosecution of pensions by technical
| requirements not within the province of the
law and which are only calculated to hinder
and obstruct in the effort to obtain lawful pen
sionS
Resolved, That the rule of the pension office
by which widow is debarred from pension IL
she has an income of 800 per year is unjust.
and we ask the president that the order be alb
rogated and the minimum income debarring
from pensions be fixed at not less than 1900 per
annum. In this connection we desire to inform
the president that very early in his admins
tratton it was announced by high official in
the pension office that the widows limit would
be raised to $500, but it never materialiZed.
Resolved, That we ask for the re-establish-
ing of order 164, which was enforced under the
Harrison regime This order. in simple terms.
took cogniZance in rating mans pension OF
all the disabilities he suffered under. 1t was
abrogated by the last administration, and il
was held that to be entitled TO the lowest rate
of IS per month comrade must have one dis
ability which is rated at that amount II he
has three disabilities rated at "a each he gets
no pension all This Ubiquitous rule is
maintained up to this hour, and submit il
is not such treatment we had right to ex-
pect from Comrade William Mckinley.
The report was adopted without dis
cussion.
A resolution offered by comrade
from New York, declaring it to be
treason for any member of the Grand
Army to refuse to do all in his power
to give employment to fellow-mem-
bers. was the subject of quite an ami
mated discussion. It was charged by
Ii 49,
its purpose was to cast censure upon
congress or upon individual members
of congress, and that such action was
undignified and unbecoming from this
encampment- An amendment was
offered to modify the resolution by
striking out the word treason and in
serting a milder phrase. But the en-
campment with considerable unanim
ity, voted down the resc' luton.
The application by the Ladies' Re
lief corps for permission to amend
their constitution so as to enable
them to use relief funds for the benefit
of soldiers of the Spanish-Americar
war was acted upon favorably by the
encampment-
The proposition to make eligible tt
membership in the Grand Army sol
diers who have served in the war with
Spain was laid on the table.
Officers of Ladies' of the G. A. R.
The following officers were elected
by the Ladies of the G. A b.: Presi
dent, Mrs. Agnes Winslow, Chicago
senior vice president. Mrs. M. P. Ca
hoon, Elyria, O.; junior vice president
Mrs. Pauline Willis, San Francisco
Cal; treasurer, Mrs. Eta Toby, Lo
gansport, Ind; chaplain. Mrs. Mar
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, selor, Mrs. Flora NJ. Davey, Duluth
Mimi; council of administration, Mrs
Annie Lincoln. Duluth, Mimi; Mrs
= Emma Wall, Lawrence, Kan; Mrs
Aurilla Sherman, Keokuk, La. Thes
officers were installed by Mrs Franci
N. Wood, of Topeka, Kan. Presiden
Winslow will appoint a secretary ane
other officers at some time in the heal
uture.