Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-04-28
ELECTED DEPARTMENT COMMAND
Err, G. A. r., FOR KANSAS
NEXT ENCAMPMENT AT HOLT0N
STATE REUNION NEXT FALL IS TO
BE HELD IN TOPEKA.
Administration of Pension Commis-
sioner Evans vigorously Con-
demned-Resolution Com
mending Gov. STAN
ley Tabled.

HUTCHINSON, KAS..Aprl 27.-(Special.)
The Kansas department G. A. R., which
IS holding its annual encampment here, to.
day elected officers for the ensuing year,
adopted resolutions and acted on the re-
ports of the various committees. The en-
campment will adjourn tomorrow, after
the installation of officers. Holton was Sc,
lected as the place for holding the annual
encampment next year. Topeka got the
state reunion.
The following are the c. A. R. officers
elected:
Commander-o. H. Coulter. Topeka.
Senior vice commander-John Beaner,
Jetmore.
Junior vice commander. B. Palmer.
Wichita.
Chaplain-D. D. Akin, Peabody.
Medical directors. NJ. Colladay, Hutch
inson.
Council of administration-D. z. Ballard.
Barnes: John B. Campbell, Kansas City;
Ben Pagan. Ellsworth; Charles Harris,
Emporia; A. w. Ashcroft, Chanute.
The following delegates. and afternates
were elected to the national encampment
at Philadelphia: First district. delegates,
B. s. Foster. Hiawatha; G. W. johnson,
Seneca; alternates. John Seaton, Atchison;
Ed 2. Jones, Hcisan Second district, A
Dobson, Ottawa; r, ". Blue, Pleasanton;
alternates, B. Z. Bugh. Ottawa: w. D.
Sapler, Ottawa Thirda.-. district, Kirk
Brown. cowley; GA. MITCHELL Montgom-
cry; alternates. F. NJ Mills. Chautauqua;
w. B. Stone, Cherokee. Fourth district,
w. A. Morgan. Cottonwood Falls: Isaac
Hammond. Eureka: alternates, r c. Tho
burn, Peabody; d. A. Stahl, Emporia.
Fifth district, B. F. Pealer, salina; Thomas
Dever, Junction City; alternates, S. S.
Longley, Greenleaf; W. II. Fletcher, Clay
Center. Sixth district, o. II. Durand Man.
kato; w. H Mitchell, Beloit; alternates,
H F. Hillabrant. Osborne; W. E. Marsh,
Lincoln. Seventh district, A. W. Smith, Nc
Pherson; Henry Shadd, Sedgwick; al
ternates, G. w. Nimmock, Great Bend;
Jesse Lyons, Stafford.
The resolutions adopted vigorously con-
denim Pension Commissioner H. Clay Evans
for his official attitude toward the old SOL
diers, ask for congressional investiga-
uon of the pension department and for
remedial legislation governing 1t.
A resolution thanking Governor Stanley
for his attitude toward and treatment of
the old soldiers of the state was intro
duced. but, upon motion of Major T. j.
Anderson, of Topeka, was tabled.
A resolution Was adopted congratulating
the Twentieth Kansas, now doing heroic
service at Manila, and also complimenting
the other regiments raised in Kansas dur
ing the war with Spain. The encampment
resolved in favor of pensions of not less
than si2 a month for all widows of veter-
ans, and in favor of military instruction in
the public schools. 1t also declared in ia
vor or having American flags foated from
the school houses in the state.
The pension resolution is as follows:
Whereas, AT the last encampment held
at the city of, Wichita, April 81, 1898, reso-
lutions were adopted condemning the man.
agement OF the pension department; and
Whereas, Not less than twenty-six state
enSampments have. in their wisdom, felt
Sa,1ed Szon, upon to adopt resolutions of similar
whereas. At the nationa, encamnrsr,
held at Cincinnati last September, consist,
ing, as 1t did. of the best men and the best
thought OF this nation. the abuses of the
pension department forced from said en-
campment expressions of discomfort and
dissatisfaction in more severe and con-
oemnatory language than this department
made use of; and
Whereas, these wrongs having gone un-
redressed and the piteous appeals of our
comrades having been unavailing, and
Whlch we are confronted, relief can only
come through congressional enactment or
the interposition of our chief executive
Resolved, by the department of the G.
"A. r. of Kansas, That we reaffirm our for
mer action, and that our senators and rep
resentatives in congress be requested 10
present these our grievances to the chief
executive and TO exert their power to have
corrected these unjust and oppressive
abuses in the administration of the pension
bureau, and, falling to obtain the relief
sought from that quarter, then that they
cause to be Instituted congressional in
Vestigaton upon which may be based re-
medal legislation,and to secure q relaxa-
ticn OF the unjust and Obstructive rules be.
hind which the commissioner ifitrenches
himself TO the end that no narrow censtruc-
tion shall thwart or defeat a bread and
liberal Interpretation of the generous pen
sion laws passed for the benefit of the
heroic and deserving soldiers of the ma
ton
The following officers were elected In the
". r, C.: Department president, Mrs Min
ME ID. Morgan. Cottonwood Falls; senior
vice president, Mrs Ida c. Chaplin, Hutch
tnson: junior vice president, Mrs. Mary L.
Glogston. Eureka: treasurer, Mrs. Eliza
Q. Harris, Emporia: chaplain, Mrs. Jennie
R; Marsh, Manhattan.
The Ladies of the G. A. r. elected the
following, officers: Department president
Mrs. Della Rawlings, Kansas City, Kas
secretary. Mrs. Mary Z. Stanley. Atchison;
senior vice president, Mrs Emma Ritchie
Wichita; junior vice president. Mrs. Annie
Beeler. Ottawa: treasurer, Mrs Annetta
Lundy. Winfield: chaplain, Mrs S. Engie
Lawrence: counselor, Mrs. Emma Wall:
delegate at large to the national conven.
ton, Mrs. Nellie Rhodes Mcmillan. Man
haitian; delegates to national convention
Mrs. Snyder, Wichita: Mrs. Marsh, Otta
wa; Mrs. Root, Beloit Mrs. Brusrian. To.
peka; Mrs. Raff, Osborne: council OF ad.
rninistration, Mrs. l.. L. Mcbride Ieayen.
worth: Mrs. Frances n. Wood Topeka
Mrs. William Marshall Hutchinson
The following officers were elected by the
Ladies Aid Society: Department president
Mrs. Eva outcalt. Burlington: Vice pres.
tdent, Miss Jessie BEEN, Hutchinson; chan.
lain, Mrs. Sadie George, Wichita: trensur.
er, Miss Josephine Rich, Burlington; coun-
ell of administration. Miss Lou Wilson
Oberlin: Mrs. Maud Redmond Burlington:
chief of staff, Mrs. Il. Bailey. Reading
The Sons of Veterans new officers Are;
Division commander, l.. b. Price Mulyane,
senior vice commander, James T. SelIens
Bunker Hill; junior vice Commander
Charles Hedrick, Hutchinson; division
council, Guy Sellick, Enporia: c r.
Holmes, Florence; William Kfrkwood
Marysyille: delegates to national conven.
ton. W. p. Wilcox, Emporia; C. L. Den.
nison. Erie: Columbus Borrin Oberiin. I
L. Papes. Wichita.
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