The National tribune., 1901-08-22
NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT.
Committee or Credentials and Other
Appointments Annoi need.

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Mo-. General Orders No. T. in which he an
nounces that open unofficial meeting of the
Both National Encampmcnt of the G. A. r.,
and also Of the Convention Of the W. X. c.,
and of the Convention Of the Ladies Of the
6. A. X. and other auxiliary societies, will be
held at the Central Armory on Bond Street
ON Wednesday Sept. II. at s O'Clock p. M,
standard time. The addresses of welcome by
the Governor of Ohio, Comrade George X.
Nash, and the Mayor of Cleveland, the Hon.
Tom l.. johnson, and the responses thereto on
the part of comrades of the Grand Army of
the Republic and members of auxiliary or
ganiZations are expected at that meeting.
The greetings usually extended by our aux
iliary and kindred organizations to the Grand
Army of the Republic, and responses thereto,
will also form part of the exercises of
that evening. Ali comrades of the G.. A. r.,
whether members of the Encampment or not,
and all members of the w. II. c., Ladies of
the G. A. L.. and kindred organizations will
be welcome at this meeting, which will be
held at that time in order to the entire
next two days for the business of these or
CARNATIONS and TO give all members an oppor-
tunity of participating in these interesting
exercises.
COMMITTEE ON CREDENTIALS.
The following comrades have been ap-
pointed n Committee Credentials The
AdjutInt General; ID. w. Robbins, Assistant
Adjutant General, Department of Colorado
and Wyoming, Colorado Springs, Colo; John
III. Thaeher, Assistant Adjutant-General, De-
partment of Connecticut, Hartford, Conn.
H. A. Kasscn. Assistant Acknowledgement
Department Of Ohio, Akron, o.; Thos. b.
Rodgers, Assistant Adjutant General, De
partment of Missouri, st. Louis. Mo.
| The Committee on Credentials will be on
duty at Headquarters, Room 12S, Hollenden
Hotel, from o'clock to O'Clock p. m,
Tuesday, Sept. 10, and from to O'Clock on
Wednesday. Sept. II.
The following comrades of the Executive
Committee have been appointed to make the
pro rata apportionment Of reviewing stand
tickets to the various Departments; the same
handed officer
dentials and receives the delegate badges:
VIM. II. Armstrong, Thos. w. Scott and
Nicholas W. Day.
PARADE ARRANGEMENTS.
special parade order, giving specific in
structions for the parade will be published
comrades will form for the parade at $3.50 a.
m standard time, Sept. II. The line of
march will extend over Euclid Avenue, from
Case Street, where the head Of the column
will start, to Bond Street, and thence north
| TO Summit Avenue, where disarmament will
take place and reviewing stands will be
placed
| Col. r. z. Burdick having been selected as
Marshal by the Citizens Committee will act
as assistant of Comrade Edward n. Ketchum,
Senior Aid and Chief of STAFF. He will select
40 Aids. ex-sOlliers of the Spanish-America
War, residents Of Cleveland, who will act as
guides for the Departments to their places of
formation and at the time Of disbandment
of the parade and who will receive their in
structions from Col. Burdick.
Aids-de Camp on the staff Of the Com
mander-in-Chief who engage mounts for the
parade will Immediately hereafter communi-
cate direct with Edw. n. Ketchum, Senior
de-Camp, Galveston, Tex, in order that
they may be fully advised as TO the point Of
formation, and uniform to be worn.
Ernest kretschmer of Post IL, Depart |
ment of Missouri has been appointed color
bearer, and Christian Fricke, Post No. l, De- |
partment of Missouri, as buger during the |
National Encampment.
In oh NJ
| Post Quartermaster Arthur Dreifus of Blair |
Post, l, Department Of Missouri. will leave
st. Louis on Sunday Evening, Sept. 8, at Z |
o'clock p. NJ, for Cleveland, Ohio, via Big
Four X. X.
AMENDMENTS.
The Rules and Regulations, Article XIV, |
| Chapter V, provides that amendments or
alterations thereto shall have been approved |
and presented by a Department EncampmeDt, |
and notice thereof given by the Adjutant Gen |
eral at least 30 days before the assembling |
| OF the National Encampment. The follow |
| ing amendments and alterations have been |
properly certified to the Adjutant- General and |
are published for the information of the com |
rades:
BY THE DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS
Whereas at the outbreak Of the rebellion |
in 1861 there were hundreds of thousands of |
| truly loyal men residing in the South which |
was overrun by rebel authority and power,
and the National forces driven out of IL be- |
| fore the great mass of the people there |
realized that war had begun or was really |
| imminent; and
Whereas many young men were, when they |
| had no protection BY the National Govern |
ment, by force Of public opinion and the
rebel army acting under conscript laws driven |
| into the rebel army, where they were com |
PEELED to remain for a short time until they |
were enabled TO escape therefrom to the
Union lines; and
Whereas a great many OF such men, as soon |
as opportunity was given them rallied to the
National Standard enlisted, and did faithful |
and gallant service In the cause OF the Union |
! although they left their homes and loved |
ones without the protection Of the Govern |
ment In the defense Of which they barred their |
patriotic breasts; and
Whereas during the war their comradeship
with the boys in blue formed in camp, on the |
march and on the picket lines was welded In
| the smoke and fire in the front OF many q |
hard fought battle: and
Whereas these true, faithful and gallant |
soldiers were at the close of the war, after |
| some Of them had served two or three years |
| and had received honorable scars, while many |
others had fallen on the field of battle, were |
| given certificates Of honorable discharge; and |
Whereas these war comrades OF ours are |
debarred from membership In our noble Or
der because of the provision of Article ", |
Chapter l of the Constitution, which Is as |
/ follows: mo person shall be eligible to mem
bership who has at any time borne arms
| against the United States;'' and
Whereas IL Is our desire that the COM |
radeship which was formed In actual war be |
continued in our victory and glorious peace:
Therefore, be 1t
| Resolved, That the latter clause of Article |
| " of Chapter ] of the Constitution be |
amended by inserting the word voluntarily |
after the word "time" and before the word |
borne" that said clause when amended |
shall read as follows: mo person Shall be |
eligible TO membership who has at any time |
Voluntarily borne arms against the United |
States"
by THE DEPARTMENT or OHIO.
To memorabilia the National Encampment to |
amend Chapter III, Article ii, Section /, by |
inserting after the words "All Past Depart |
ment Commanders the words land such |
comrades who have served as Commanders |
! in-Chief," and who are residents of the De |
partment, so TO make II read: 1.-THE De |
partment Encampmcnt shall consist Of first. |
The Department Commander and such com |
rades who have served as Commanders In |
| Chief, and are residents OF the Department
and all Past Department Commanders who |
have served for the full term of one year, or
who have been elected to fill vacancy" etc. |
BY THE DEPARTMENT OF OREGON
Resolved, That our delegates TO the 35th
National Encampment be instructed to use all
honorable means TO secure change In the |
Rules and Regulations so that not more than
one G. A. X. Post may be chartered In towns
with less than 1000 Inhabitants
STAFF APPOINTMENTS.
The following comrades have been an
pointed Aids-dc-Camps on the staff of the
COMMANDMENTS Chief:
Kansas-s. c. Farnoil, Post 60, Osborn,
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