The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-07
THE c. A. R. ENCAMPMEN1
Officers for the Ensuing Year
Were Elected.
WERE GIVEN A BANQUET
The Soldiers Home Came Up for Discus
sion at the Morning Session-A
Memorial to President
Mckinley. ...

Yesterdays session of the annual en-
campment of the Grand Army of the
Republic, department of Montana was
devoted entirely to the consideration of
matters pertaining to the order 1t was
expected that some of the committees
to whom had been referred the address
of the department commander, would
report during the day and the reports
be discussed, but the committees were
not ready and the order Of business
went over to to-day. Several matters
of Importance were taken up for dis
cussion at the morning session, among
them the soldiers home, and at the
afternoon session the officers for the
ensuing year were elected. In the even
| ing the veterans partook of a banquet
given by Lincoln post of this city in
| honor of the delegates at l. o. G. T.
| hall.
| At the business session a memorial
| to President Mckinley was adopted
asking for the appointment of Lieut..
]. G. Sanders as a pay officer in the
regular army. Lieutenant Sanders is
| now filling such a position with the
Montana volunteers at Manila.
| An invitation was extended to the
| w. r. c. to attend the meeting in the
| afternoon, and the invitation was ac-
| cepted.
Resolutions were adopted in memo
rial of Captain Fuller, the first depart
| ment commander, and thanking the
Street Railway company for courtesies
extended and the I. o. G. T. for the
| free use of the hall.
! When the election of officers was
| reached there were some Sniritad rom
tests, the election resulting in the selec-
| ton of the officers for the ensuing year
| as follows:
Department commander DR.. C. B.
| Miller of Wadsworth post Of Helena;
| senior vice commander j. S. Wisner
! of George B. Meade post of Anaconda;
| Junior vice commander, J. D. Eaton of
Nat Lyon post of Kalispel; medical
director, DR.. l.. E. Holmes of Lincoln
post, Butte: chaplain. Rev. ]. l.. AL
brftton of Lincoln post, Butte.
Delegates to the national encamp-
ment: II. $. Howell, Frank Blair post,
| Virginia City; A. N. Bull, Moody post,
Ennis. Alternates: j, A. McElroy, Will
liam English post Bozeman; G. j. Hen
| nebury, Lincoln post, Butte.
Council of administrations T.
O'Leary. George Meade post, Anacon-
da; A. N Bull. Moody post, Ennis: H.
| H. Carr, George B. Mcclellan post,
post, Butte; ]. M. Lindley, William En-
| glish post, Bozeman.
The installation of officers will take
| place at this mornings session, and the
appointive officers will then be named.
! Among the committees that will report
to-day is the committee on the state
| OF the order. composed of Col. P. R.
Dolman of Butte, l.. S. Wilson of Boze-
| man, r. E. Fisk of Helena and T. C,
| Davidson of Anaconda, to whom was
referred one of the most important rec
| concentrations of the department
commanders address. It was a rec
| concentration that the mastering in
fee and per capita tax be reduced by
| about half. The committee has pre-
pared its report, which is against the
| recommendation, the committee being
unanimous in the view that the cir
| cumstances of the order will not yet
| admit of such reductions.
| A committee was appointed at the
morning session to request business
men and public houses to fly flags at
half mast in honor of the dead heroes
| or the Santiago campaign. who We're
buried in the national cemetery at
Washington yesterday. Many complied
| with the request.
Good Templars hall was crowded
when the banquet hour arrived in the
| evening. The hall was handsomely de-
corated with colors the veteran
reveres, and three long tables extend
ing the entire length of the hall, which
| trembled with the weight of good
things to eat. Around them the old
soldiers and their families gathered
and Toasted, the grizzled old warriors
swapping war time recollections the
| while. About the walls were arranged
seats for friends and invited guests
Gov. Robert B. Smith was present, and
as the guest of honor, occupied a seat
at the head of the center table,
Col. +. X. Dolman presided as master
of ceremonies and called upon the
| prominent guests and comrades to re-
spond to appropriate topics suggested
| Mrs. Hugh kirkendall of Helena ad-
dressed the gathering briefly, after
| which Governor Smith was called upon
He eomplimented the old soldiers high
| ly and no less the ladies of the w. r.
C., felicitating them in the fact that so
many remained to take part in the an
| nual gatherings. He paid a tribute to
the veterans by saying he had not long
| ago had reason to know they were still
fired with patriotism. When the war
with Spain broke out and volunteers
were called for, the old soldiers were
among the first to offer their services
He had, however, in justice to them
and to the younger generation, whose
patriotism was just as great, given the
places 1t had been his to give to the
| younger ones, who he said had acuuit-
ted themselves nobly. He did not for
get in eulogizing those who defended
the Union, those who wore the gray
| They had been sincere in their convic-
! TONS were now as loyal to their gov
| eminent as any, and their sons were
fighting side by side with the sons of
| the wearers of the blue.
Major Martin Maginnis followed with
| a few patriotic remarks, in the course
| of which he referred to the recent scan
| dial in connection with the election of
a United States senator. 1t was while
| referring to the honor of Montana tina t
he said a stain had been but lately put
on her eschutcheon, but young Mon
| tanans We're washing it out with their
blood on the battlefield at far away
| Manila.
After the applause which followed
Major Maginnis' remarks had subsidized,
Carroll Dolman spoke briefly on THE