Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-12

BY gain from delinquent reports 1926
Total gains d I. Y. .is. Y. 31.15f
/ sg1 urge upon the department com
i manders and the assistant adjutant-;
4 generals of the various departments
1 that they insist upon the posts render
1 ing an accurate account of the stand
| ing of their posts in this respect in Or.
4 der that the number of comrades sus-
1 pended in their respective departments
may be correctly ascertained and re-s
I ported.
FINANCIAL SITUATION.
/ have taken considerable pains TO
! look into the financial situation of the
Grany Army OF the Republic as re-
| ported by the various posts of their
respective departments to their assist
ant quartermaster-gene and from
| tahulated report, made by the quar-
lStermaster- general. / find that IS de-
! partments own real estate of the mar
ket value Of ss23. 1886.
That the POSTS of AZ depart III
nents have cash in post
and relief funds amounting
TO 1892, S12315
That 80 departments have
furniture and other cash
assets of the value OF SO. Is. 1885, 1927
Total value of post property,
cash securities, etc, in the
above departments 81, 622,o .3S
This is a good showing of the thrift
of the Grand Army OF the Republic
from financial standpoint.
PENSIONS. #
The Grand Army OF the Republic has
ever stood for general pension lesis-$
latfon, believing that the families of
u
and that comrades who were wound
ed and disabled upon the line of bnttle
should be pensioned, no matter what
their term of service might have been
am informd that several depart
zInents have passed resolutions along
different lines and favoring differ
sent laws from those which have
received the sanction %of the Grand
Army of the Republic. These resoluS
tons will go to the hands of the pen
sion committee and after their report
thereon will receive the consideration
of this encampment. invite your care
full consideration of the subject matt
ter of these resolutions. g,s
Tho number of survivors OF the Civil
war at the close of the last fiscal year
TUNE 30, 1909 as shown by the annual
reports of the commissioner Of pen
isions, was 620,9S5. The number of SUR
$vivors in the pension roll May 81, 81 800, i
was 596.411. The amount appropriated
for pensions during the year was s162,
600, 900. i
The amount appropriated and spent
during the year ending June 80 1908, in
the national and state homes for, sup
port, maintenance, etc. for old and
needy soldiers, was the sum of 81, 1851.
Total. s162, Isl. 3s1.
SOLDIERS HOMES.
NY attention has been called two or
three times to letters from inmates Of:
| the soldiers homes. anonymous letters.
! complaining Of ill-treatment and ir-5
Irregularities in the home. All of these
llnatters have been carefully investigat-3
Cd and the complaints found to be with
out foundation.
j find upon investigation that there
are ten national soldiers homes in the
United States and 80 state homes. That
during the year ending June 30. 1905,
34,949 members were cared for IN
the national homes, and q tn's
number 1879 We're maintained
throughout the year. That in the 30
state homes there We're 2O,147 disabled
| soldiers and sailors cared for; Il ABS be-
ling maintained throughout the year
| The whole number cared for In the ma
| tional and state homes for the year
ending June 30. 1908, was 55,o9s, gain
| over the previous year Of 966.
RATES TO SALT LAKE.
/ The transcontinental lines, operating
| between the Pacific coast and Salt
1 Lake City, promptly granted me a rate
! of one fare for the round trip. Thus
/ you will observe that all roads west
or Chicago have giyensus a rate of one
fare for the round trip. and all east OF
| Chicago have stubbornly resisted and
refused to do better than give us a
rate of one and one-half fare to Chi
i cago and st. Louis. This is not as
| good a rate as these associations are
| giving to summer tourists for the
i Yukon Seattle exposition, but we can
i rot avail ourselves of the summer
/ tourist rate unless we purchase tickets
4 through to Seattle.
i You will observe, comrades, that I
4 have lahored earnestly and zealously
i with the great railroad corporations in
4 the interests of the Grand Army of the
/ Republic for a reasonable rate to and
i from our encampment, for the men
i who from 81 to 65 bore the brunt of
i battle and saved the Union--one and
4 indivisable--and that the great railroad
4 corporations which girdle it with their
l tracks have no feeling of patriotism and
i make no concessions to the comrades of
the Grand Army OF the Republic.
SALT LAKE CITY.
Before visiting Salt Lake City, APP
pointed a subcommittee of the execu-
tive committee. of four comrades, re-
/ siding west of Chicago. in order to
save expense, but before starting / re-
I celyed an Invitation from the COM