Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-11
BUSINESS CONCLUDED
Thirty-Sixth Annual En-
campment Mustered Out.
COMMITTEE REPORTS
THE LOCAL MANAGERS CASTING
UP THEIR ACCOUNTS.
Chairman Warner Congratulates Citi-
COMMITTEE REPORTS
Chairman Warner Congratulates Citi
zens of Washington Upon Success
of Plans for Entertainment.

With the appointment of a new council
OF administration, the transaction of vari-
| Gus encampment business and the induc-
| ton into office of the new commander and
his assistants the thirty-sixth national en-
campment of the Grand Army of the Re-
public came to an end yesterday afternoon.
Many of the delegates have already gone
| to their homes. Such as remain in. Wash
ington plan to leave tonight. With their
departure the entertainment and festivities
of the current week will be brought to a
close and the entire undertaking become a
thing of the past.
The convention sat only a few hours after
the close of the report in yesterdays Star.
Much time was spent in receiving and con-
s1dering reports from standing and special
committees, those from the committees on
school history, the address of Commander
Ell Torrance and the memorial to the late
Gen. Franz Sigel being given particular at
tention.
Regarding the subjects suggested by
those titles the convention agreed to con-
tinue the committee on school history, with
instructions to obtain If possible an en-
tirely impartial, unbiased and complete his
tory Of the war; to indorse heartily the
plan to erect suitable monument in St.
Louis to the memory of Gen. Siegel. and
the plan to erect in connection with the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition a temple
of fraternity in which the G. A. r. shall
have space; to indorSe heartily the address
of Gen. Torrance, with particular reference
to his proffer of aid for the Confederates'
Home in Alabama, the attitude of the con-
vention being that the Grand Army was in
terested in all old soldiers.
Monthly Payment Of Pensions.
Several subjects were considered on mo-
ton from the floor
In this manner the convention discussed
at length proposition from Pension Agent
Heidekorper of Philadelphia, that pensions
be paid monthly instead of quarterly. The
general opinion was that the present quar-
| terly system answered every reasonable
need and should not be changed. 1t was
| voted, accordingly. that the encampment
| take no action on the suggestion.
| Colonel Coney of Kansas provoked a great
| deal of debate by asking the delegates to
| protest against the discharge in 1899 OF
| Charles Handbach of Kansas, a pension
agent, said to have been dismissed because
| he gave information to G. A. r. Investigate
| ing committees. Such action, according to
| Colonel Coney and many others, was con-
| trary to the civil service law. The discus
| sion was very one-sided, but sufticed to
| bring into question the methods of the H.
| Clay Evans administration in the pension
| bureau. A resolution was finally adopted
| asking the department to reconsider its
| action in the Hanback, case.
| The convention referred to the committee
| on pensions a request from the Woman S
| Relief Corps that the G. A. X. indorse a
| movement to obtain pension for the widow
| of Past Commander Vandervoort.
! The convention passed unanimously res
| olutions of thanks to all who had contrib
| uted to the entertainment of the delegates,
| making particular mention of Chairman y
| H Warner and his associates of the citi.
zens' executive committee; the onclais OF
| the District of Columbia, the people of the
! CITY of Washington, and the trustees or the
| First Congregational Church. The adjutant
general was directed to transmit copies OF
these resolutions to the Dfstrlct CoIhmis-
sioners the chairman of the citizens com
mittee the trustees of the church INDICATED
and the commander of the Department OF
| the Potomac.
The routine and special business of the
convention being then concluded, General X
| p Reath of Pennsylvania advanced to the
platform and administered the oath OF once
to General Thomas ]. Stewart as commah-
der-in-chief; General VIM. M. DIN or Bos-
James NJ Averill of Georgia as junior vice
commander-in-chief,D DR.. A. w. Atchison OF
Texas as surgeon general, Rev. d. b.
Shuey, DID, of Kansas chaplain-in- chief.
Council of Administration.
These ceremonies were very brief. There
were no speeches and no demonstrations on
| the part of the convention. When General
Stewart assumed the chair he announced
| the appointment of Col. Charles Burrows OF
| New Jersey quartermaster general for
| the ensuing year, and read the following
roll of his new council of administration:
Alabama, M. D. Wickersham; Arizona
| George Broughton; Arkansas, Charles n.
| Rix; California and Nevada, William r.
| Shafter; Connecticut, Frank Miller; Della
| ware, Peter McAleer; Florida, Henry Mar
| cote; Georgia, ]. A. Cummerform; Idaho
| Jas. L. Fuller; Indiana, William II. Arm
| strong; Illinois, Thomas w. Scott; Indian
| Territory, Alfred Griffith; Iowa, S. c. James
| Kansas, ]. X. HUDSON; Kentucky, c. c.
| Vaughan; Louisiana and Mississippi, An
| drew ]. Barrett; Maine. F. S. Walls; Mary
| land r. c. Sunstrom; Massachusetts, A. J.
| Hunt; Michigan, Ben Barker; Minnesota, L.
w. Cullen; Missouri, F. M Sterrett; Mon
| tana, P. H. Manchester: Nebraska. John
| Lett; New Hampshire, Nathaniel Shack
| ford; New Jersey, E. P. Southwick; New
| Mexico, ]. r. McFie; New York. NJ. J.
| Cummings; North Dakota, J. H. Johnson
| Ohio, A A. Taylor; Oklahoma, William
| Tompkins; Oregon, Orville Didge; Pennsyl-
vania, T. G.. Sample: Potomac. B. P. En-