The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-04
ONCE MORE THE
OLD VETS MEET
Encampment of the G. A. r. Begins
in Denver Today.
ENORMOUS CROWD THERE
FIVE CANDIDATES FOR THE
CHIEF OFFICE.

n ENVER. Sept. 3.-The thirty-ninth
annual encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic will begin
in this city tomorrow. The city is
crowded with guests and heavily loaded
trains are arriving at the union station
from all directions
In order To facilitate the handling of
passenger trains, the Santa Fe has Or
dered all freight trains annulled for
the next twenty-four hours. The travel
on this line is exceedingly heavy. Other
roads where traffic il heavy are con-
sidering the advisa bility of taking sim
liar action.
Members Of the local executive COM
mttee persist i'm their belief that the
coming encamDment win be the larg-
est IA the history Of the organization.
Wires Being Pulled.
At headquarters and in the Hobbies
Of hotels already is heard the discuss
ion of the election OF officers and the
place of the next meeting.
There are five candidates for the Of
nee of COMMUNICATIVE chief. namely:
Corporal James Tanner of New York
Robert Brown of Ohio. Colonel Bur
roughs of New Jersey, ex-Congressman
Charles Burton of Missouri and Gen
eral George Stone of California.
-Four cities are in the race for the
1906 meeting place. They are: Chat
tanoOga, Tenn; Columbus, O.: Mime
a2olis and Buffalo
The custom of giving the office of
senior vice commander 10 the city en-
tertaining the encampment has brought
fv,ta
the field from this city-GeneraI George
w. Cook, chairman of the local en-
campment executive committee, and Z.
:. HOLSTER.
Business to Be Considered.
Some of the important business to
be considered by the encampment in
its secret sessions, which begin on
Thursday morning. will be proposed
changes in the constitution and recon-
mendatiOns to the congressional COM
mittee. The latter viii be asked to
endeaVor TO have congress pass a new
service pension bill that will have no
age limit.
one proposition is TO pension vet
Grams of the Civil war. whether injured
or not on a per diem basis: that is TO
say, a certain amount for each day
of service.
There is proposition under consid-
Grafton 10 change the constitution SO
as 10 provide for a new office, that of
a patriotic instructor. Each post viii
have an instructor of this kind, whose
duty IL viii be TO OffiCiate in the public
schools as a teacher of patriotism. \
department official. TO be created. Will
have supervision of the post instruct
ors. and national officer will be i'm
supreme authority over all of them.
Each shall have an insignia of office
Change of Ratio.
Another proposed constitutional
amendment is one changing the ratio
of representation in the national en-
campment frem one representative for
ever $50 members TO one for every 500
members, and still another purpose is
to make il OBLIGATORY upon posts to
suspend members in arrears for twelve
months when two months notification
has been given.
Leaders are urging their comrades to
work 20 get the more than 300 000 vet
Grams who are not G.. A. r. members
to affiliate. In this way, they assert,
the great decrease in membership
through mortality can be met for the