The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-09-07

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COL. LEO RAss1EUR.
New Commander in Chief of the Grand
Army of the Republic.
The thirty-fourth annual meeting of
the organization was called to order
at ten o'clock in Studebaker hall by
Gen. Albert D. Shaw, commander in
chief. y
Mayor Carter Harrison delivered
the address of welcome on behalf of
the city of Chicago, cid Judge Joel
NJ. Long Eecker. commander of the
department of Illinois, welcomed the
encampment on behalf of the veterans
of the state and city. At the opening
of the business session Commander in
Chief Shaw delivered his annual mes
sage.
The actual membership of the
Grand Army of the Republic, as
shown in the report of Adjt. Gen.
Thomas J. Stewart, was on June 30
last 276,662; members suspended, co.
474; total names on rolls, BOG, 100.
During the year 5000 members were
dropped from the rolls, having been
previously suspended. The death rate
has increased from 2.7S in 1899 to $50
in 1900.
The annual report of Quartermaster
General Edward J. Atkinson shows a
disbursement of SIC, 3o3.14, against re-
ceipts amounting to $2s,243.9s, leaving
a balance on hand of $7,94O.84. Among
the expenditures was the final pay
ment upon the. Grant monument,
which amounted to $3,645.O7.
Chicago,Aug. a31 Leo l:assieur, Of
St. Louis, viii be in command of the
Grand Army of the Republic during
the coming year. At the session
Thursday of the thirty-fourth annual
encampment in Studebaker theater
his name was presented, and received
the unanimous support Of the dele
gates. Past Commander in Chief Mai.
William Warner, of Kansas !: City,
presented the name Of the Missourian,
and Adjt. Gen. Stewart, Of Pennsyl-
vania, seconded the nomination. OH.
GERS selected follow:
Commander in chief-Leo Rassieur, st.
Louis.
= Senior vice commandment &C. Milliken,
Maine. ~"@ a.smS.*@&s
Junior vice commander-Frank seamons.
Surgeon general-John A. Wilkins, Ohio.
Chaplain In chief-A. Grahms. California.
The following resolution dealing
with the pension problem and calling
for legislation to put an end to the al
legged violations of the law by the
present commissioner at Washington,
II. Clay Evans, was adopted:
Resolved, That the commander in chief
appoint committee of five comrades to
present to the president a certified copy of
the acts OF the national encampment, with
the expression Of Its earnest desire for JUS
tice only to our disabled comrades and
the widows and orphans of our dead under
the letter and spirit Of the law"
A thorough investigation was Or
dered of a report made by a special
committee to the effect that perverted
histories of the rebellion are being
used in southern schools to perpetu-
ate sectionalism and disloyalty in the
minds of the rising generation of the
south, and the following resolution
was adopted:
Resolved. That we call upon the MEM
bers of the Grand Army Of the Republic.
together with all patriotic citizens, to aid
in banishing from our schools all books and
teachings Of partisan. sectional or dis
loyal character"
Denver was selected as the next place
Of encampment. .-,...--........, 49,.
Judge Leo Rassieur was born in .Badern,
Alsace, Germany, In 1874. His people came
to this country in 1S49. settling in st. Louis.
At the breaking out Of the civil war Leo
Rassieur, who was II years Of age, enlist
ed as private in the Thirtieth Missouri.
He steadily rose through the ranks and at
the end Of the war held a majors brevet.
In addition to his service In the union army,
Judge Rassieur has been a member Of the
st. Louis board Of education five years and
attorney for the board ten years; has spent
four years on the bench Of the probate
court Of st. Louis. organized and served
as president of the Western Riding club,
the principal organization of its kind in
the Mississippi valley, and, has built up
one Of the largest law practices in st. Louis,
as well as becoming one Of st. Louis most
prominent citizens. He is a member of
Frank p. Blair post, G.. A. r. y
Indians Increase.
Pawhuska, o. T., Aug. 30.-The cen
sus of the Usage and Kaw, Indian
tribes shows an increase in population
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