Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-07
EXPRESSES ITS GRATITUDE
ARMY AND NAVY UNION AP'
PLAUDS THE SENATE.
Passage of Bill Increasing Enlisted
Mems Pay-Differences With
National Commander.

The thanks of the Army and Navy
Union garrisons in the District of Column
ba were rendered to the United States
Senate on behalf of the American sailors
and soldiers at a meeting of Admiral
David D. Porter Garrison last night at
q. ~ r. Hall. This action was taken. 1t
WAS explained. because of the passage by
the Senate yesterday of the bill granting
an increase of pay TO the enlisted men
of the United States Army.
\ copy of the resolutions was forwarded
To Senator Francis E. Warren. chairman
OF the Senate military affairs committee.
The meeting further recommended that
the same increase should be given to the
enlisted men of the navy and Marine
Corps.
An open letter to National Commander
j. Edwin Browne protesting against the
manner in which he is alleged to have
treated the members of Col. Theodore
Roosevelt Garrison in particular and the
other three garrisons generally, al the
time of their suspension by him was read.
1t is signed by Capt. George l.. Snider.
representative in national encampment.
The letter calls for an investigation into
the affairs of the Army and Navy Union
and of those of the Endowment ASsocia-
ton.
An Exciting Episode
Describing the scene in the meeting
place of Roosevelt Garrison last Septem-
Der. when Browne and his staff seized
the records. seal and charter of the gar
rison. Capt. Snider states:
THE garrison officers remained passive.
with the single exception of the adjutant
who asked for the exercise of patience
and reminded YOU that the paymaster was
a bonded officer as you approached that
comrade with clencned fists. One of your
staff officers drew his sword. and only
the example of the commander of my gar
rison prevented the deplorabe occurrence
from developing into disgraceful physi-
cal contest With naked sword the wood
hacking that supported the charter in its
frame on the wall was broken and sp1in
tered. as that document was ruthlessly
taken. and the officers of my garrison
were placed in the unenviable position of
tolerating an unlawful proceeding or meet
ing the situation by directing physical
force against the person of the national
commander 1t is unpleasant to particu-
larize your Incorporate language and loss
of self-control. and in strong contrast
was the gentlemanly department. patient
liberation and wise forbearance of the
commander of my garrison "a. Unfortu-
nate publicity followed. and many garbled
reports were circulated to which you con-
tributed by giving to the press your YER
sions of what transpired while the garr1-
son was at muster. The officers of Roose-
welt Garrison "A then and afterward were
heset by reporters. but resoutely declined
to disclose the proceedings within the gar
rison: they have bent all their energies
since then to effect reconciliation, and
have met only rebuffs: my garrison alone
was selected for intimidation. and II IS
illy-treatcd in pturn for the charitaole
action in admitting you when you were
an expelled member OF another garrl-
son restoring you in our ranks. and NOM
ina ting you for the office of national COM
mander in 1900
Absence of Comradeship.
.Nv comrades in Garrison "a may hu-
MANLY fail i'm observing the letter OF the
law. but they can only advance toward
an ideal of perfection by having their
errors indicated in a spirit of comrade-
ship. by the exercise of sound Judgment.
tempered with charity. and justice Tor
all as the objective. They have been
condemned without hearing, deprived OF
fellowship with our comr3des throughout
the Union by the verbal order of one in
temporary authority, and their advances
since have been repulsed. Their hopes
In the present national commander nave
vanished. but loyalty to the National
Corps remains. They are not learned IN
the intricacies of the law. but assume
that the constitution and bylaws were
formulated TO give stability to the ma
tional body and to guard the rights OF
carrisons and individual comrades. They
believe him to be the greatest among
us who gives widest application to our
principles of charity. loyalty and fra
ternity and therefore. maintain that no
order should he enforced even with the
rgor that exists properly only in active
service. for they believe united
ny the highest bonds of comradeship and
not bound together under system of
rules and articles of war.
IL is understood protest against the
action OF Commander Browne will be sent
to all the garrisons in the United States
Matter of Appointments.
Commander \. c. BroacHer of Roose-
welt Garrison made a speech in favor of
more soldiers. sailors and marines be-
ing recognized in appointments to posi-
tons under the local. federal and state
governments.
In states where members of the Army
and Navy Union and Spanish War Vet