The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-31

practioner in civil life to learn the lesson
taugft in the work done in Cuba, Porto
Rico, the Philippines and San Francisco,
and to become a sanitary propagand1sI
in his state and municipality.
EVIDENCE OF UNION.
"You will act at this meeting upon a
resolution which, If passed, will wipe
away another evidence that this country
was ever divided against itself. end it
reJo1ces my heart to think that have
yet by word or by line to learn of a
single objection to the admission Of those
who. more thanla generation ago, fought
wearing the gray, shut who have. within
the past three years fought for a united
country, and fought wearing the blue"
The invocation for the day was deliver
ed by Archbishop Ireland in reverent and
eloquent terms II
The auditing committee appointed yes
terday is as follows: General
]. T. Priestly, iowa; Maj. I. q.
Clark, StillwatFr::s Col R. H. Reed.
Wyoming The nominating committee wi
be appointed today at the close of the
morning session. 1T will consist of one
member from 9achf state represented at
the convention. - The publication commit
tee had nothing of public interest to re-
port. The secretary reported that tire
association now has 476 members. S1Kce
last year 1t has lost about forty members.
Out of these there were ten deaths, and
nine designations. Many were sent away
to Manila and other points, and tEey
could not see what benefit would be de-
rived from. the association when 50 far
away from home. The treasurer reported
a balance of So, $50 in the treasury, 50.
the association is in a f1ourish-ng condl-
ton
At the close of the session it was an
nounced that Dr. A. McLaren would give
a clinic at ST., Luke's hospital at a. m.
today; also that Drs. Wheaton and Full
ton would give a clinic at st. Jeseph's
hospital at a. m. tomorrow. An invi-
tation was EXTENDED to surgeons to tie
present. Another invitation was given
them to visit the exhibit of surgca! in
struments, ct cetera, at the Ryan al
mex
AMEND THE LAWS
The afternoon session was called at 2::O
and it brought up one or two things OF
great interest DR.. Christian Fenger, Of
Chicago, was elected to honorary mem
bership. He is a great pathologist and
surgeon and is known Of all over the
world Recently he was honored- by
the king of Denmark by being made a
Knight of the Dannebrog. DR.. Fenger
was present when the action of the as
ISOLATION was taken and he took the
floor. He thanked everyone present and
said he felt deeply honored by the unan-
imous action of the association.
The following = amendment to the by
laws was passsd upon unanimously:
ITO amend section g. article 2, referring
to association members by inserting the
words "ex-medicalr officers of the United
States volunteer service" also the words
land eX-medica officers of the Confeder-
ate army and navy, whose service was
honorably terminated
The executive committee reported the
election of theefollewing to active mem
bership: Winsl9w Anderson, colonel and
surgeon general, nj. G., California; Car
roll D. Evans. Sgeo,enel and surgeon gen
eral, N. G., Nebraska; Louis P. Nc
Cormick. captain and assistant surgeon,
N. G., Pennsylvania; D. R. Fuller, cap
tain and assistant Surgeon, N. G., Penn
sylvania; Norvat H. P.erce, past assist
ant surgeon lieutenant Ill. Nav. Mil;
Matt R. Post, major and surgeon N. G.,
Colorado; Edward Stieren, first Heuten-
ant and assistant surgeon, N. c., Penn
sylvania. To associate membership:
Delaven Bloodgood, captain and medical
director, retired, United States navy;
Clarence Eugene Drake. captain and as
sistant surgeon N, G., Qhio;r Charles
James Fox, brigadier general surgeon,
retired, N. G., Ohio.
All the members of the association were
disappointed to learn that Gen George
NJ. Sternberg could not be in attendance
at the convention.