The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-17
BROWN Of OHIO
LEADS VETERANS
New Commander Is Chosen After
an Interesting Contest
Against Opponents.
PLACE NEXT ENCAMPMENT
Is NOT YET DETERMINED
Archbishop John Ireland Is
Honored With Title of
ChapIain-in- Chief.

MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, Aug. 1s-
Commander -chief-R. B. Brown.
Zanesville o.
Senior ommander-William n
Armstrong, Indianapolis. y
Junior ce-commander-E B. Fen.
ton, Detroit
Campaigning n,chief-Archbishop John
Ireland, ST. Paul
Surgeon general-W. II. Johnson
Lincoln, Ncb
These officers were elected today at
me annual meeting of the Grand Army
OF the Republic. All other officers are
stah appointments and will be an
nounced later by the new commander
n-chle1' Inc strongest opponents OF
MI Brown for the honor of being com
mander-i in chief were c. G. Burton of
Missouri and Capt. P. H. Coney of
| Kansas. Both withdrew when It was
seen that the election of Mr.. Brown
| was r certainty
Several candidates were nominated
Tor senior and Junior vice-commanders
| pnt later all Withdrew in favor of Arm
strong and tenton and both were chosen
UNANIMOUSLY. Archbishop Ireland had
no rivals for the position of chaplain
in-chief
After the election the place for hold
ing the next convention was taken up,
but adjournment was taken before a
vote was reached. The voting will he
resumed tomorrow.
1t is expected that the debate on the
WIZ monument proposition will also
come up tomorrow
Despite the fact that Commander-in.
Chief Tanner strongly urged that a
protest be made against the erection OF
she monument, there is a pronounced
feel1ng that the matter is not one of
which the Grand Army should take of
fetal notice
Sketch of New Chief.
The new .commander-in-c chief of the
u, A: r., r. B. Brown, was born in lSA5
and has always lived in Ohio. He en-.
hsted in the Fifteenth Ohio infantry
at the age OF 16 and served in the
fourteenth Army corps in the Army of
the Cumberland until he was mustered
out in 1864. He then re-enlisted and
served until the end of the war He
was private for three years and then
became on-commissioned officer. He
mas long been active in the work of the
Grand Army. Mr., Brown is now editor
of the GAINESVILLE Courier.
Mrs. Carrie Sparkling of st. Louis
was tonight elected National president
or the Women 5 Relief corps Her prin-
cipal rival was Mrs. Kate Jones of New
York. Mrs. Sparkling has previously
held number OF high offices in the or
ganizatlon.
Nearly Ten Thousand Die.
The total membership of the Grand
Army of the Republic is declared in the
report of Adjt. Gen, Tweedale to be a35,-
s32, an increase of 1868 during the last
SIX months. The losses by death for the
year ended December 81, 1905, were
membership. In the preceding year the
losses by death reached exactly the
same percentage.
The business sessions of the Grand
Army of the Republic began today.
4 bout 1900 delegates were present.
me most lmportant questions to be
.aken up were the abolition OF the can
ieeu from the old soldiers homes and
he proposed erection of monument to
Henry Wirz by the women of the
South
On the canteen question the dele.
rates were apparently about evenly Ii.
On the question of monument 10
Nirz there was on all sides a bitter
ceiling of opposition After the formal
penlng exercises reports of officers
we're submitted,
The suggestion is made by Adjt.-
zen. Tweedale that the organization be
Incorporated, with provision requir-
ng. the annual reports of the organi.
alton to be submitted TO Congress.
The receipts from the per capita tax
imposed on members are declared to be
nsuihcient for the proper conduct of
he affairs of the Grand Army The
lggestion was made that the tax be in
reased from By to cents per annum,
Inch Will increase the revenue Of the
rganization about $4,000 early.
The Adjutant. General also sug-
ested that certain things now issued
ratultously TO members of the Grand
rmy be sent out at a slight charge.
lcreasing the receipts in this manner
so. The items for which the charge
as suggested are:
Commissions for appointive officers
nd to individuals For copies of tho
urnals of the national encampments
large of 25 cents n copy would, it is
sclared, pay half of the expense Of
the journal.
Soldiers Homes
The report of Inspector.General NJ
Cummings was largely made up of
atements from the assistant inspect
s-general throughout the country, all
whom asserted the various soldiers
mes in their respective States TO be
hourishing condition, Some COM
amt was made that many of the
sistant inspectors could not be in
ced to make reports at all
Judge Advocate, General c. A Clark
omitted synopsis of the decisions
epared by him during the year. These
,, in brief;
A citizen who was impressed into
, Confederate army deserted, joined
: Union forces and received an hon
lble discharge from the War de
rtment is not eligible for member
p In the Grand Army, because he has
one time borne arms against tho
ited States
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