The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-12-01
OLD COMRADES MEET
Annual Session Union Veter-
ans Union Held Here.
WlCHITAGETSC COMMANDER
Headquarters Located Here
During Ensuing Year.
WICHITAGETS COMMANDO

vgtc0ita was chosen Division headQuar-
ters for the Kansas Union Veterans
Union at the annual meeting held here
yesterday
This city was further honored in the
selection Of 4 J. Weaver for the chief
of5osr Of the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES gener-
al The other officers selected were J.
r. Johnson Of Kansas City. Kansas,
brigadier general. First brigade and J. +.
senosnich OF Fort Dodge. brigadier gen
eraI Second brigade The remaining Of
foers Of the union are appointive and
their selection Will be made by General
Weaver within a few weeks. Before
the convention adjourned, Emporia was
selected as the city for the next annual
meeting TO be held one year hence.
Tn meeting was called 10 order in the
Sons Of Herman hall. North Main street
yesterday morning and the veterans con-
Quoted the one day session behind clos
ed doors.
General NJ. o. Frost Of Topeka acted
as chairman and he was assisted BY r..
j. Smyith Of Topeka quartermaste gen
eraI. and ". A. Ouigley, Topeka, adju-
tant general The seven regiments rep
resented are located at Topeka Kansas
city, Emporia and Wichita. The or
ganization IS in no sense opposed to the
g. 4 r.. and as a matter Of fact most
OF the members Of the last named or
ganization are also members of the for
mer The Union Veterans Union is COM
posed only Of those soldiers Of the civil
war who have seen actual service on the
firing line.
At the meeting yesterday the following
resolutions were unanimously adopted:
s4To the Division Encampment Union
Veterans Union met in its second an
nual meeting:
I'VE your committee on resolutions sub
NIT the following report
First, recognizing the fact that our
ranks are being rapidly decimated by the
reaper. Death, we are profoundly CRATE
full 70 the benehcient Father of ALL that
so many Of our comrades. who during
the dark and bloody days from 1861 to 1865
saw actual service on the field of battle,
are still dwelling in the ranks Of men.
Second. We are forcbiy reminded
that the veterans of the battle field have
already grown old; that their powers Of
endurance have become SO much i'm
7aired that most Of them have reached
the point Of inability TO earn even the
pittance required for the comforts Of
lie
Third, All patriotic citizens acknowl-
edge that IN saving our country and our
country's flag from the attacks Of treas
on upon the best government known
among men; the union soldiers have
earned not only the good opinion but the
gratitude Of the nation, and that the
value Of the services rendered 10y them
can not be estimated in money.
Fourth, in the opinion Of your com
mittee. the time has now arrived when
every honorably discharged union soldier
in the war OF the rebellion should be
given a pension sufficiently to supply his
temporal wants. Therefore.
Resolved, That we are in favor Of the
Interpretation of the existing pension
laws in the liberal spirit that prompted
the congress i'm eXacting. and the presi-
dent in approving them
Dissolved. That we request our repre-
sentatives and senator's to use their best
efforts to secure the passage Of a service
ErU5lJLL Nll4 WHICH HIlit 4IlNltOE every
honorablv discharged union soldier of the
war Of the rebellion
Resolved. That the law providing for
the preference of ex-union soldiers in ar
pointments TO civil service should be
faithfully executed, and wherein its prac-
teal adliction said law is found to he
defective such amendments should be
made TO the same as viii cause the spir-
it and intent Of the raw 10 be carried out.
Resolved. That since the provisions
by the government are insufficient to
provide homes for an old soldiers who
need their protection and since the sold
iers' home at Dodge City, provided by
the state is insufficient for The needs Of
the citizens of the state, emitted to shell