Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-08-16
The Delegates Are About Equally
Divided on the Canteen
Question.
OPPOSE M0NU MENT TO WlRZ.
May ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS In.
creases-Decisions Regarding Eli.
giUility TO Membership.

Minneapolis, Aug. l6-The business
sessions Of the Grand Army OF the
Republic began today About 1900
delegates were present. The most i'm
portant questions To be taken up we're
the abolition OF the canteen from the
old soldiers homes. and the proposed
erection OF a monument 20 Henry Wirz
By the women Of the south.
On the canteen question the dele.
gates were apparently about evenly
divided.
On the question ~ a monument To
Wirz there was on an sides a bitter
feeling of opposition. After the FORM
al opening exercises, reports OF officers
were submitted.
The total membership Of the Grand
Army Is declared IN the report of Adit.-
Gen. Tweedale to be 2S5S23. an increase
Of S,36S during the last six months. The
losses by death for the year ended Dec.
81 1905, were 1905. or $50 per cent Of
the total membership. In the preced-
ing year the losses by death reached
exactly the same percentage.
The suggestion is made that the or
sanization be incorporated with a pro-
vision requiring the annual reports OF
the organization to be submitted TO
Congress.
The receipts from the per capita tax
imposed on members are declared TO
be insufficient fot the proper conduct
Of the affairs Of the Grand Army. The
suggestion is made that the tax be
increased from 3la cents to cents per
annum, which will increase the revenue
Of the organization about $500 yearly.
The acknowledgement also suggested
that certain things now issued gratuit-
ously 70 members OF the Grand Army
be sent out at slight charge. increas-
ing the receipts in this manner also.
The items for which the charge was
suggested are:
Commissions for appointlye officers
and to individuals. for copies ot the
journals of the national encampments;
charge OF Is cents a copy would.
II y declared pay half of the *
p" va, eftr,rt '6r lrfSpts-t.,sf asssl>i -
j. Cummings WAS largely made up
Of statements from the assistant in
spectors general throughout the coun-
try. all Of whom asserted the various
soldiers homes in their respective
states 10 be IN fiourishing condition
la n Nhut afaNr
Of the assistant inspectors could not
be induced 10 make reports at all.
Judge Advocdte-Gen. c. A. Clark
submitted a synopsis Of the decisions
prepared by him during the year.
These are in brief:
A citizen who was impressed into
the confederate army deserted. join-
cd the Union forces and received an
honorable discharge from the war de-
rartment. Is not eligible for member
ship IN the Grand Army because he
has at ono time borne arms against
the United States.
Members who have been dropped
for nom payment OF dues may Doe adj
mitted TO their old posts on the pay
ment II not to exceed one years dues
or 10 another post on the payment
on lIlf MNAhI NlANAfl ~NIl lffH
\ man who was honorabiy discharg-
ed after his first enlistment and dis
honorable discharge after re-enlist-
mcnt is not eligible for membership.
The election ~ post commander
who procured the resignation Of a
duly elected post commander by
threatening to impeach him because
Of acts wholly outside the g. 4. r. Is
invalid.
According to the report 81 Quarter
master Gen Frank Battles. the amount
Of cash received from the retiring quar-
termastcr general was ss5s3; the total
receipts during the year have been So
$50. making the receipts Tor the year.
SO az. The total expenditures have
been sls.ll5. leaving a balance IN the
treasury " t2.351.
The apparent shrinkage IN the amount
OF available cash on hand Is accounted
for by the fact that no call was made
during the last year for the southern
memorial
The transfer from the quartermaster-
general Of a special fund amounting 20
s. 700 aud he early date ~ the present
encampment necossitated the closing
Of the books before any Of the
per capita tax for the term ending June
30 could BE- taken up.
After the formal opening exercises.
reports OF officers were submitted
The report ~ Commander-in-Ch icf
Tanner covered the work OF the Grand
Army last year. 40 mention was made
81 the canteou question. but as to Wirz.
the recommendation was made that the
Grand Army enter a dignihed and em-
phatic protest against the erection OF
the monument.
The heat, which has caused much SUI
ferlng. continues with no prospect "
cooler weather II Is estimated by the
police today that the prostrations dur
| Ing the parade numbered over 100 Tho
great majority of these were women
who had become exhausted by standing
IN the streets waiting for the parade TO
pass
Many have left The city for their