The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-17
STORMY SCENE
Encan,pn1ent on Record Against the
Wirz Monument Plan.
'tCorporal'' Tanners Imprisoned Appeal for
the Minority Report Wins the Day. Com
to Preuent Open Rupture on Encampment
City, Omaha Wants Reunion in 1905
encampment Endorsed tho battlefield
purchase plan.
Invitation from The South.

encampment Endorsed tho battlefield
purchase plan.
Invitation from the South.
The request that the encampment
meet in southern city, however, is
genuine, and it was made with SO much
earnestness by the Atlanta people that
the delegates who heard about 1t felt
very kindly toward the men who
Rassed If maH and t was feq
mined that Atlanta did not have suf-
fcient railroad facilities to take proper
care Of the big crowds. This argument
does not apply to all the cities of the
south, however, and so in few years
it is quite likely that the old veterans
will be making their way to the scenes
of their former activities and tri-
umphs.
Said one Of the most prominent men
IN strong eastern 4h: delegation to I'll
have been in favor Of accepting a south
ern invitation this year if it had not
been for the Wirz matter. That has
so revived the old time preiudices on
both sides that I should hesitate about
going, to the south as early as 1907.
We could keep the old soldiers quiet
the men who, did the fighting on both
sides. They would be glad to see one
another, and could fight their battles
ness or Of i'll will. But fear that we.
could not keep the women folks, north
and south, quiet. They would probably
bring on trouble before southern en-
campment had fairly got under way
that is to say an encampment held al
early as next year. And thru the won
en- the young men are Influenced q. ' / alo
trouble makers of today are not the
men who wore the blue and the gray,
but their grandsons and the mothers
and daughters and granddaughter.
! ssl have sometimes felt as If we were
to blame for this Wirz business our
selves, for we have fairly plastered the
| southern battleields with monuments to.
! northern chivarly and valor. If we
had it to do over again I should vote
against every proposition to establish
monument south Of the Potomac and
the Ohio rivers.'
After Saratoga had been selected as
the encampment city next year, Arch
| bishop John Ireland was called to his
feet by the delegates He made brief
| address, expressing his appreciation at
having been elected chaplain-in- chief.
He was received with continued APP
plause and given such a reception as
must have done his heart good.
Message to Mrs. Logan.
Judge Ell Torrance Of Minneapolis,
past commander-in-chief, was response
BILE for graceful telegram which the
encampment ordered sent this morning
to Mrs. John A. Logan, whose home is
in Washington, D. c. The resolution
was read to the encampment by Judge
Torrance, and adopted unanimously
amid great applause. It reads as fol
lows:
=, "Resolyeq. That the Grand Army Of
campment assembled. at Minneapolis,
August, 1907, sends greetings and
wishes for peace, length Of days and
multiplied blessings to Mrs. John A.
Logan, the honored woman SO long
identified with our work and the life Of
our most illustrious leader
Canteen and Wirz
The canteen and Wirz questions, as
had been anticipated, created good
@ asa partie sS the iat a TRe aues
tons came up on the report Of the reso-
lutions committee, recommending that
as to both of them the encampment
= take mo action. This recommendation
was swiftly followed as to the canteen.
| A delegate from Wisconsin arose and
offered resolution calling upon con-
gress to reconsider it's action in abolish
ing canteens in national soldiers
homes. With a promptitude that was
canteen, the Wisconsin motion was laid
on the table, the vote being over
whelmingly against it.
Then came a very earnest debate
over tho Wirz matter. The Indiana
member Of the resolutions committee,
Ketcham, who was the only dissenter
I last night when the committee turned
4 down the Tanner recommendation as to
Wirz, made q minority report, calling
upon the confederate veterans to pre-
Event the Daughters Of the Confederacy
from carrying out their plans for
monument.
Tanners Appeal
i The debate was protracted. Mr..
twenty minutes in defense Of his
minority report. He was followed BY
Judge Torrance Of Minneapolis against
it. The commander-in-chief, aCore
poralo Tanner, then vacated the chair
) and made an impassioned appeal in
favor of the action recommended in his
annual report. He wanted the minority
! report Of the resolutions committee
J adopted, and said If nothing was done
by the encmpment, the south would
;. be led to believe that Grand Army
. sentiment favored the Wirz monument
4 proposition. The Tanner speech was
received with a good deal Of enthu-
/ siasm.
Corporal Tanner Wins.
The speech of the COMMANDMENTS
chief turned the encampment toward
the minority report, if it was not favor
: able to it before. The question was put,
and the ayes gave back resound.
! ing cry that filed the hall. The s noes
. we're few in number, comparatively, and
it was not necessary to have a formal
: rollcall by departments. The Grand
Army of the Republic has gone on rec