The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1905-12-21
NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS.
Commander-in-Chief Tanner Issues Gen
eral Orders, No. 3.

COmmander-in.Chief Tanner Issues Gen.
eral Orders, No. 3.
| Headquarters Grand Army of the Re-
public, Fendall Building.
Washington, d. c., Nov % 1905.
General Orders, No. 8.
l. The -following-named comrade:
are appointed on committees and as
signed to duty as follows:
Pensions.-Bernard Kelly, Chair
man, Ottawa, Kan; David f. Pugh
Columbus, Ohio; Henry NJ. Nevius
Kalamazoo. Mich; Daniel E. Denny
Worcester, Mass; William Rule. Knox
vile, Tenn; c. E. Adams, Superior
Neb
Fredericksburg Battlefield Nationa
Park. - John McEIroy, Chairman
Washington, d. c.; st. Clair A. Mulhol-
land, Philadelphia, Pa; Washington
Gardner, Albion, Mich; Daniel r. Bal
lou, Providence, r. L.; Albert E. Sholes
of Georgia (Flushing, N. W; d. A
Grosvenor, Washington, ID. c.; Hora-
ito c. King, Brooklyn, N. Y.
BY vote of the Encampment the fol-
lowing Committee is continued:
On Erection of a Statue in Honor OF
|Benjamin F. Stephenson, Founder of
the Grand Army of the Republic
Charles A. Partridge. Chairman. Chi
cago, ILL.,; James Tanner, Washington,
d. c.; Louis Wagner. Philadelphia, Pa;
John McElroy, Washington, D. c.;
Thomas S. Hopkins Washington, d. c.
Other appointments will be an
nounced in future General Orders.
H. The following resolutions adopted
by the goth National Encampment are
hereby promulgated:
That this 39th National Encamp-
desire to express their deep sympathy
to Past Junior Vice COMMANDMENTS
Chief John G.. Linehan, Of New Hamp-
shire, in his Illness and fervently hope
for his speedy restoration to perfect
health.
That the privileges and honors ex-
tended by the Grand Army of the Re-
public to the members of the Army
Nurses Association, as set forth in the
recommendations of the report of the
Committee on Rules. Regulations and
Ritual, at pages 2O8 and 2O9 of the
ment held at Boston, Mass, be and the
same are hereby extended to all sur
viVing nurses of the great war who
shall establish their right to be known
as such nurses by evidence satisfactory
to the Council of Administration.
That the committeeman is di-
rected to appoint a committee of three
to consider such papers as were filed
before the Committee on Resolutions at
the Encampments of 1901, 1903 and
1904, regarding the monuments on the
battlefields of Bull Run, and such other
evidence as may be submitted to them
or be obtainable by them regarding the
same, and that the said committee is
directed to report the facts regarding
the same and to make such recommen-
dation as they shall deem best to the
next Encampment.
That the incoming Council of Admin
istration be directed to have the body
of Past Commander-in-Ch Van der
WORT removed to the United States and
buried at the expense of the Grand
Army of the Republic, If agreeable to
his family.
That Department Encampments be
allowed to employ stenographers who
are not members Of the Grand Army of
the Republic, provided they enter the
Encampment after the opening cere-
monies.
That as the Grand Army Of the Re-
public has uniformly favored a fair and
liberal application of the National pen
sion laws, and as the President with
this purpose in view has appointed
Vespasian Warner, of Illinois, Commits
sioner of Pensions, the National En-
campment at its annual session hereby
commends the action of President
Roosevelt in this regard.
III. At the 39th annual session of
the National Encampment the Rules
and Regulations were amended as fol-
lows:
Page 4-Eligibility to Membership
Article Nv, Chapter /. changed. to COR
rect misprint, to read: