The Washington times., 1905-02-08
GRAND ARMY VETS
IN A HOT FIGHT
1t Is Over Vice Commander
OF Department.
HOLDING THEIR ENCAMPMENT
LIST of Officers Nominated for the
Ensuing Year-Matters Affect
ing Order.

A war is on in the ranks of the Grand
Army veterans who fought along the
Potomac.
These veterans. who comprise the De-
partment of the Potomac, are now hold
ing their annual encampment here. Their
bonds Of good fellowship are as strong
as ever. but in a good-natured way there
is the hottest kind OF a fight over filling
a number of Offices in which vacancies
now exist
Chief of these is the office of senior
vice commander On account OF the
resignation of Hiram buckingham the
place is open. l. G. Estes. of John II.
Rawlins Post, No. l. and B. F. Chase.
OF Lincoln Post, No. 8. have both been
nominated They are about evenly back
ed. Posts have lined up in the fight
and they promise to make spirited con-
test. Feeling was d such high heat last
night that it was deemed advisable to
make rule preventing the use of per-
sonalities.
The Next Commander.
The next commander of the post, it
was decided last night, will be A. P.
Tasker, of Burnside Post, No. s. The
first night of the encampment was &C.
cupied with the address of Commander
in-Chief, William w. Blackmar, the
report of Commander A. Hart. and the
nominations of officers.
These were as follows: For junior vice
commander, Charles F. Benjamin and
3. P. Entriken were named. For chap
lain, Theodore S. Brown and II. S.
Stevens were nominated, and for medi-
cal director, Thomas Calver and Henry
A Johnson. There are five members of
the council to be elected, and R. H.
Mareellus, Phil NJ. OBrien, Convis
Parker, Richard P. Goodman, d. c.
Robb, William H. Anderson. E. r. Rey-
nolds and ". H. Liverpool were nomi-
mated -Four delegates to the national
encampment are to be elected. and the
candidates named were Thomas H. Mar
George 5. Benson. A. T. Maupin, B. T
Janney ". w Chambers and John T.
Latham. For alternates there We're
named Alexander Scott, E. c. Johnson,
F'risbie. E. P. Seavy and J. Tyler Pow
ers.
National Encampment.
General Biaekmar spoke OF the ar
rangements for the next encampment
at Denver He announced that he had
accepted an invitation to preside at a
public celebration OF the anniversary Of
the birth Of Lincoln to be held in the
National Theater Sunday night.
that during the year there had been a
net loss of members of sixty-nine. There
had been ninety-seven deaths.
In referring to the treatment he had
received from Government officials,
Commander Hart said:
~ was especially gratified with the
neyer-faiIing and warTn-hearted interest
that President Roosevelt felt toward
the old soldiers who rendered service in
the civil war, and il really seems to me
he set the pace and instructed his subor-
dinates ali along the line to give the
veterans preference in every way posi-
BILE
Presidents Good Will.
81 brought to the attention of the
President the status of forty of our
comrades who held positions as acting
or substitute watchmen in the Govern
ment Printing Office; their places were
neither permanent nor covered by the
rules of the Civil Service Commission
These comrades filed temporary va
cancies and could not be carried on any
permanent roll I assured him that al
these comrades had efficiently perform
ed their duties IN their temporary posi-
tions for a considerable time to the sat
isfaction OF the officials Of the Govern
Inent Printing Office, which statement
was Endorsed by a letter from the Hon
F. w Palmer Public Printer ] request
ed that the positions OF these forty
watchInen be covered by the civil service
rules The President referred this
proposition. with favorable recon-
incubation, to the Civil Service Com
mission The commission, seeing the
justice Of IL. took favorable action, and
or the seth OF November last the PreSl-
dent issued the order covering the posi-
tons OF these forty comrades by the
civil service rules. which placed every
one of them in permanent position
with ample protection.
Tonight the veterans viii hold ban
Quet at the New Willard, at which
mander-in-Chief Biackmar VIII DC
q guest of honor The next meeting Oh
the encaInpment will be on Thursday