The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-08
OATES RESOLUTION
CAMP LoMAx REFERS PENSION
 MATTER TO COMMITTEE.
Not Opposed to soldiers' Home Many New Members Elected Arrangements for Gen.
 Lees Lecture.

The resolution prepared by General W | c. Oates and cmbodying his views on the | question of Soldiers Home was pre- l scented to Camp Lomax at special meet | ing last night. The resolution declares | that the amendment of the present pen Confederate veteran shall receive be- | tween $50 and $l00 was the true solution | of the question of taking care or the needy and helpless old soldiers. After some discussion the resolution was referred to a committee of three and it was decided that the resolution should not be published for the present. The members of the Camp thought that the a damper on the efforts of Camp Jen Falkner to build a Soldiers Home and that 1t might further give out the i'm. precision that Camp Lomax was opposed to the building of the Home. Tn yiew or oi all this the resolution was not given to the press.
 The special meeting was called for the purpose of arranging the details for the lecture of General Ftzhugn Lee al the Auditorium Wednesday night. The onice of Judge J. B. Fuller where the meeting was held was comfortably filled with vet erans.
 Applications for membership in the Camp from the following Confederate sol diers were read: James F. Brennan. w. E. Goree. J. T. lsrooks. I. Hubbard. A. II. Clark and T. A. Dowler! The appli- cations were referred to Committee consisting of c. E. Owens. T.. B. Stubbs and J. c. Finley The Committee. after retiring and considering the applications, made a favorable report and the appli- cants were elected to membership in Camp Lomax.
 In preparation for the coming lecture of General Lee, Commander Fuller an- nounced the appointment of the Reception Committee to consist of General William C. Oates; General George F; Harrison TIT on Screws. Captain J. NJ. Falkner and Cap tain c. A. Lanier.
 The following members of the Camp
 were appointed as door-keepers: R. C. Tarver. Hal. T. Walker. William Knox. W. H. Maybin. R. A. Copley. c. L. Hard away. k. J. Harris, and Dennis OCon- nor.
 Chairman Tarver. of the Doorkeepers. ditorium at p. m. Wednesday night.
 Comrades Paul Sanguinetti and T. M. Vass were named as ticket sellers.
 Captain George W. Ely moved that iron, the Camp of the Sons of Confeder- ate Veterans. This motion met with the favor of the Camp and 1t was adopted. The Commander announced that he could not name the ushers until he had con ferred with the Commander of Camp Holtzclaw.
 General Oates requested the members of the Reception Committee to meet at hiS office at noon todays
 Captain Lanier thought that some plan should be formulated by means of which the tickets to General Lees lecture should be urged upon the people of Mont- gomery and as great as number as pos sible sold. He said that the lecture was only two days off and while a large number of tickets had been sold the camp should not trust to luck. but should sec that IS many as possible or the remain ing tickets should be disposed of before l.n atvh of Ina. Iln nd d the appointment of committee of ten to devise some plan whereby the tickets should be sold. The suggestion was put in the form of motion which was car ried and the commander announced the appointment of the committee as fol- lows: W. B. Jones. John c. Finley. F.. G. Fowler. Frank Browder. B. c. Tar
 yer. Reed Smith, R. P. Griggs. David Committee was requested to meet in the office of Commander Fuller at 10 o'clock today.
 General Oates said that he desired be- fore the Camp adjourned, to present to the Camp the resolution which he had been requested to prepare by the mem bers of the camp in place of a resolution which had been offered at previous said that the resolution embodied his views on the question of a Soldiers Home and that he presented 1t at the special meeting as he would be away from Mont gomery when. the Camp met again.
 Before reading the resolution General Oates said that he had departed from his usual blunt style fin writing it out
 The subject was one that appealed to him so forcibly that his sentiment had been peculiarly touched.
 The resolution after paying a high tribute to the Confederate soldier cX- pressed 1t as the sentiment of the Camp that the present pension laws should be so amended that the needy soldiers should receive between $50 and 800 a year. The resolution contained a provision. wishing to Camp Falkner a full measure of sue cess in its efforts to build soldier 8 home and praising the laudable undertak- ing.
 General Oates said that he recognized that the resolution was not perfect and he thought that 1t should go to a Com mittee which should report upon it to
 T. B. Stubbs moved that the resolution be not published just yet. He thought that the publication of 1t at this iunc- ture might do harm.
 Judge Tarvcr endorsed the sentiments of Mir. Stubbs. He said that the publica- ton of the resolution might throw a damper upon the efforts of Camp Falkner to build soldiers home The resolution was altogether an important matter It should be referred to committee that should give 1t careful and proper atten- ton. Judge Tarver said that the members of the camp know that the people of the State were not always as patriotic as they should be and the effort to have the pension laws amended was large un- dertaking. The veterans and the Daugh- ters of the Confederacv had had this fact impressed upon them when they had att tempted to get some legislation through at the Capitol He thought that the camp should go slowly and carefully and that the resolution should not be published as a wrong impression A to the position of the camp toward a home might he given out.
 In replying to Judge Tarvcrs remarks general oates said that he did not take issue with him. The resolution expressed