The National tribune., 1905-10-12

upon the pension roll fully 1e.000
deaths occurred. The fact that many
OF the surviving veterans not upon the
pension roll need q little help will not
What precedents have wei We have
three presidents. Forty years after the
War OF the Revolution. 20 years after
the war with Great Britain. 20 years
after the war with Mexico the conHress
OF the United States enacted service
laws. putting upon the pension roll all
the survivors Of the armies OF the Re.
public engaged therein.
ut was done I'm the case OF the sur
vivors OF the war with Mexico. not
withstanding the fact that a great pro-
portion OF those survivors alter that
war put in four of the best years Of
! their lives trying to destroy the Re-
public. The Justice OF this was very
thoroughly canvassed at the time by
very large proportion OF our citizen
ship and particularly by the memberf
of the Grand Army. and j recall with
pride on this occasion that the con<
sensus OF opinion thereon found gene
eral expression in the declaration
They stood for the Flag once Let them
have 1t for that
"Now. my friends. Appomattox lies
40 years behind us. Our time has come
and so IT is that we say with a united
| States: AS We did II unto others, dc
| 1t unto u.s.
''The bugbear is the cost. The I'm.
creased expense will not be near what
some would have US believe. Much OF
| IL would be offset by the mighty inroada
which death is making among those
now drawing pensions.
Give us the service pension bill and
at once you can put nine-tenths or the
Board Of Pension Examining Surgeons
Il 81 let TNAvw~ L. liz
that every man who applies for a pen-
| sion costs the Government Sc for his
| examination, whether he gets the pens
sion or not, 81 for each of the threl
doctors.
Give us the service pension and
| within two years great number OF
| present employees could me turned te
| other duties. There the shoe might
pinch some, but we must consider the
greatest good for the greatest and most
| needy number"
Nearly every utterance of the Cons
nander-in- Chief was greeted with en-
| thusiastic applause, and he received an
ovation as he concluded. Other speak
ers of the evening who aroused the
patriotic spirit of the veterans were
Past Commander-in-Chief King and
| Burdett. and Past Senior Vice Com
| mander-in-Chief John McElroy Ad-
jutant-General Tweedale and Asst ADJ
jutant-General VIM. p. Rogers were
mustered into those Offices, Command
| er Tasker performing the duties OF
Chief Mastering officer.
| Commander-in-Chief Tanner an.
nounced the staff officers to be az fol-
| lows:
George w. Cook, Colorado, Senior
fowler, Minnesota, Junior Vice Com
mander-in-Chief; Hugo Philer, Wiscon-
sin, SUPERINTENDENT; Rev. ]. F. Leary.
Chaplain-in-Chief; John Tweedale.
Washington, D. c., Acknowledgement:
William P. Rogers, Washington, d. c..
assistant Adjutant-General; Frank
Battles, New Hampshire, Quartermas-
iter-General; NJ. ]. Cummings, New
| York, Inspector General; Charles A.
Clark. iowa, Judge Advocate-Gen
and Frank A. Butts. Washington. d. c.,
Senior Aid-de-Camp and Chief Of Staff.
This is the week when Secretary Cor
telyou, Chairman of the National Re-
publican Committee, is not going to re-
sign. A few short weeks ago 1t was
all done but the formal announcement.
Now it is all off again.
1t now develops that after Mr.. Cor
| telyou had determined several contests
and concluded other important work
as Chairman of the Republican Com
mfttee preparatory to resigning. the
4 UlSClOSuTcS CduScu ny Tic SSHcfdl
| vestigation into the affairs Of several
large insurance companies made it
| necessary that there be no immediate
change in the Craftsmanship. The adj
| mission by President Mccall, Of the
New York Life, that his company con-
| tributed about $4,000 to the Republi-
can campaign fund of 1904 has involved
| the Republican Committee to a consid-
cradle extent, and it is understood that
Mr.. Cortelyou does not wish to relin-
quish command until the atmosphere
is thoroughly cleared.