The National tribune., 1907-09-12
Three Trustee. and Their Duties.

I respectfully recommend that these
severa! amounts, by the action OF tnis
Encampment, be transferred TO tne
Permanent Invested Fund; that TINS
fund be held in trust by three Trustees
to be elected by ballot. one to serve one
year. one two years and one three years,
and that at each National Encamp-
ment hereafter one Trustee be elected
by ballot to serve three years. In the
event of vacancy from death or other
cause the Commander-in-Chief shall by
mail nominate three comrades for such
vacancy within 80 days after the va
cancy occurs, to the National Council
of Administration. and each member
of the Council shall within 10 days
after the receipt of such nominations
indicate his choice for Trustee and send
it by mail TO the -Chiet.
who, with the Adjutant-Generai, shaii
within so days from the date the noml-
nations were announced canvass and
announce the result of the ballot. The
candidate receiving the highest vote
shall be declared elected, and serve as
Trustee until the National Encampment
elects his successor. The Trustees shall
give bonds guaranteed by a reputable
surety company, to the satisfaction oi
the -Commander-in-Ch and in sucr
sum as shall be fixed b. the National
Encampment Investments shall bt
made in Government bonds, and nc
part of the Permanent Invested Fun6
shall be expended unless authorized b.
two-thirds vote of the National En-
campment on a call of the roll by De
partments. Each Trustee shall receive
his expenses and the sum of So per an
mum for his services, and the cost ol
the bonds shall be paid as other bill:
are paid.
With a Permanent Invested Fund Il
! seems to me reasonable that ii will in.
crease. Already bequests have beer
made to the Grand Army of the Re
public. If we manifest a capacity ant
willingness to husband our resource!
| this fact will not go unnOted. a full
purse often induces over-indulgence II
! that which sometimes begets fatal in
difference to sound business policy anf
leads to pitifu1 conditions. Sometime
| in body like this oratorical blandish
ments carry ordinarily sane men int
spasms Of generosity never met with II
their personal relations to the roh''
impulse of giving from their privat'
store.
| The Future.
With a Permanent Invested FUND
designed to meet the necessities sure &
arise in the future, it becomes Il sacre
trust, and there will be less liability :
hasty and ill-considered action in vot
|
the funds be held as now, without espe
cial limitations upon the use of wha
may fairly be termed our surplus f.
Esuch it is. a Permanent Invested Funt
gives reasonable hope for the perpetua
! ton of this, the most valuable civil
brotherhood in the annals of mankind
until, let me say, we shall cease to eXis
| by the law of limitation.
| Note of Appreciation.
| The associations of the past 1
months will live in my memory as lon
| as reason holds her SWAY. My persona
and official relations with my fellow
| officers and with each member of tn
staff have been of the most cordia
| character. The work of each has ex
erted an important and acknowledge
influence upon the well-being of TIL
Order. ! need not in this presence en-
ter into details of the splendid recor
my comrades have made. and whic
are now part of the history of tn
Grand Army of the Republic. The
know of the tenderly harmonious rela
tons which have existed between US
| 1t only remains for me 10 publicly ten
der to them this expression of sinceres
| gratitude for their uniform kindne1
and always prompt compliance wit
! every request or suggestion. Each ha
been faithful to his high trust
To the Aids-de-Camp and Assistan
Inspectors-General l am profoundl
grateful for their unselfish service an
support. With scarce an exception tn
records made by these comrades JUST
ffes the confidence reposed in them. T
! the comrades at large / express CRATE
full acknowledgment of their soldierl
cooperation in all that pertained to tn
discharge of my duties. My constan
prayer is that the close relations whic
have bound us together may remain un
broken forever. / crave place In tn
heart G. every man who wears 18th
little bronze button
Comr; des, if we who wear the five
pointed star labor well at whatever ou
hands and hearts find to do in the year
which remain to us, the future his
torian must write across. the imperish
able scroll: Noble in her courage
princely in her charity and grandest {
all in her tender humanity, the fam
of the Grand Army of the Republic ha
come down TO us in song and stor.
Slorified by poet, painter and historian
. and encircled by a light which tn