The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-14
Returned Volunteers VIII Or
ganize a Society.
On TEMPORARY BASIS.
PRELIMINARY WORK EFFECTED
LAST NIGHT.
Veterans Engaged in a Lot Of Talking
Matches Last Night-omeers
Were Compelled to Take 8 Back
Seat-Question as to Who is Zig
ible to Membership.

A lively nesting Of equally lively
Utah battery volunteers was held at
the odd Fellows hall last evening. All
told it took up about two hours time.
and at the hour Of adjournment the So
luton of the main question under de-
bate was about as far removed as the
ultimate suppression Of the Fihpin1s.
Major Grant, Lieut6nants Seaman and
Grow and good sprinkling Of the e-S-
enlisted men were on hand to form a
hollow square on three sides Of the
, large room.
Some Of the eX-enlisted had not al
lowed time to oface the memory of
days spent in the guard house or dig
glng trenches, and they took advantage
OF the occasion to treat their late SUI
peIlor officers somewhat cavalierly. 1t
was said before the meeting that a pro-
jsct Was on foot TO defeat any motion
TO effect a permanent organization
wherein the former officers would re-
tain anything approaching their late
titles. The men thought that turn about
was fair play; that the officers should
Dc content with the glory Of being
charter members Of the organization,
and that the priVates should be ele-
waited 10 the rank of officers.
Meeting Gets Tangled.
The meeting got under way far
enough TO elect q chairman and secre-
tary, after which there was a hopeless
ENHANCEMENT of opinions, rising to
points of order, questions of personal
privilege and motions that were alteF-
nately carried and lost simply because
50 many people were talking at once
that nobody knew just what he was
voting for OF against.
Sergeant Maoie and Pat Klenke
were elected chairman and secretary,
respectively, and tEL~ couldn't have
had q liValieT time Oh & had they been
back on the firing line in the Philip
pines Somebody would make a mo-
ton which would be followed by So
many amendments and SubStitutiOnS
that the intent Of the original would be
completely smOthereI, and one that
contained provisions exactly opposite
to what was originally intended would
be put before the house.
Then somebody would call for the
original, and while the chairman was
trying to recall it somebody would
arise and get things hOpelessly mixed
by saying a lot Of abstruse things. That
would throw the chairman OF the
scent, where he would remain until
/ some one arose and said: I'D ike 10
know what's what, and who's who in
/ this meeting, anyhow
Nobody volunteered to clear away
/ the mental cObWebs but half a dozen
returned heroes entertained the audi
enCe With expressions Of individual
/ opinion that made things worse than
/ they were before A good many rounds
of blank ammunition were fired at
fha
entertained the provision to admit all
Utah volunteers. whether or not they
belonged TO the Eighth army corps.
Had Fun With Troopers.
The ex-light batterymen numbered
their tongues, and a few of them took
delight in throwing bombs into the
camp of the cavalry troop. scorntng 10
belong TO an organization that was
composed of soldiers who spent the
summer heTdinE sheep in the Yosemite
valley a sergeant Of the troop was
present and took exception in vigorous
termg TO such language.
The main discussion Of the evening
hinged on the effort to effect a perma-
men > organization that would or would
not include the volunteers from Utah
who belonged TO organizations other
than batteries \ and b. 1t was voted
10 effect an organization that would in
clude all who enlisted from this state,
and after that was over q nOuGu N5s
made to have the membership COM
posed exclusively of the men VINO were
on the firing line in the Philippines.
The TWO motions got in a mixed up
condition and there were a few more
rounds Of Tapid-nTe explanations that
b6WildGTed everybody from the chair
man down to the man who did the most
L dor La
a. r. Mexican post tried to help the
boys out by telling them what a broad
minded. organization the Grand Army
of the Republic was; that the boys
should copy after it and admit all vol
unteers from --. no matter in what
capacity they served the government
Hall Roasts Grand Army.
Happy Jack Hall begged to differ
from the veteran of the rebellion; he
said he had some doubts about the
Observation-Disclosures of an organization
that refused 10 admit to its membership
men who fought for the flag at Santi-
ago and Manila Corporal Nelson was
in a beIligeIeut mood, and while the
men i'm the center were engaged in dis
CusGng The main points of the nights
campaign, he and eX-PrlVate Louder
dGplOyed az s1iTIlISherS and engaged in
q wOTdy war of airy persidaSe and sar-
castle banker.
Ii was finally agreed TO consider the
organization as a temporary one. and
TO appoint q committee of nine TO draft
q set of resolutions and bylaws stating
the requisites necessary for permanent
rne.n bership. The committee as ap-
pointed consists of NIessTs. Williams.
VIllen. Barnes. Nelson, Seaman,
Kuols. Boardman, Caldwell and Eos
ter.
& vote Of thanks was EXTENDED to
Commands Clark and J. b Mexican
nos. for the use If the hall and for tho
privilege of using it again two weeks
from lat evening, when the next meet
ing Will be held.
Real Estate Transfers.