The National tribune., 1910-10-20

delphia. Pa; A Fl. Stafford, James
town, n. Y; John T. Brady, Wash1ng-
| ton. d. c.; ]. B. Miller, Philadeiphia'
Resolutions-W. T. Foster, Washing
ton d. C.; D. W. Wood, Columbus,
| Ohio: D. II. Bonesteel, New York. n.
v. George w. Elston. Cincinnati, Ohio;
E. D. Campbell, Philadelphia, Pa.
Oficers elected for the ensuing year:
Commander. Nathan Munshower, Co
mmbus, ohio; Senior Vice Commander,
w. P. Griffith, New York. n. Y; Junior
Vice Commander, Joseph e. McCabe,
Beaver Falls, Pa; -Chlef,
Rev. n. H. Holmes, Pittsburg, Pa;
Surgeon General, DIR. c. Fl. Gardner,
Philadelphia, Pa; Quartermaster-G Cen
eral, Frank l.. Blair, Pittspurg, ia.
Executive Committee-lra ID. Hunt,
! Columbus, Ohio: Thomas H. Carter,
Baltimore, Md; David H. Bonesteel,
New York, n. Y; James Lynn, VIII
mington, Del; E. D. Caldwell, Phila-
delphia, Pa.
The following appointments have
been announced: DIR. John C. Bishop,
Columbus. ohio. Adjutant- General;
William H. Redheffer, Philadelphia,
Pa, Judge e-Advocate-G General. Head
quarters have been established at 60
East Broad street, Columbus, Ohio.
Sons of Veterans.
Rules and Regulations appointed at
the oath National Encampment to con-
| slider the following resolution-Re-
solved, That the National Commander,
after his installation, shall appoint a
committee of five comrades, who shall
report at the next National Encamp
ment such rules as said committee may
deem best for the purpose of admitting
| as honorary. associate or auxiliary
members sons of comrades in the Union
Veteran Legion of sons of those who
were at any time eligible to member
| ship in the Union Veteran Legion; and
| in said report to prepare all necessary
forms to properly carry into effect the
intent of this resolution-rcported ad-
lversely against any change, and the ma
| jority report was adopted by the En-
campment.
The Lee Statue.
The following resolution was adopt
| ed Wednesday, Sept Is, with instruc-
tions that the AdjutantGeneral fur
nish the Associated and Atlantic City
Press copies thereof:
The Union Veteran Legion, in its 25th
Annual Encampment assembled, makes
the following declaration of its views
concerning the presence of the statue
of Gen. Robert f. Lee in Statuary Hall
in the Capitol of the United States.
We regret that the lawmaking pow
er Of the United States which, by the
act of 1864, created Statuary Hall and
prescribed the conditions and qualifi-
cations prerequisite to the occupancy
thereof did not embody therein pro-
vision which would have prohibited the
| placing therein of the statue of anyone
who had in any manner participated in
any movement calculated or intended to
destroy the life of the Nation.
| We regret also that the aforesaid
act failed to designate and define any
source or power of censorship, of ap-
proval or dissent concerning the statues
that might be submitted by the various
States of the Union as to the fitness
of their selection in view of the re-
quirements of said act, but it saw fit
to and did leave 1t absolutely and
without restriction to the various States
| to make such selection as they might
see fit to make, their selection and the
presentation by them of the statues
in the matter.
| Conceding that she had the power
we regret that the great State of Vir-
ginia, immeasurably rich in the posses
| sion of the records of innumerable
| lillustrious citizens who had rendered in
calculable service to the whole Repub-
| lie in the founding and preserving of
the same, did not see fit to choose one
of them as the colleague of the immor-
| tai Washington, but preferred to choose
Gen. Lee, whose eminence in history
arises in its entirety from the fact that
he spent what should have been the
best years of his life, and devoted his
great military genius to an effort to de-
stroy what Washington, Patrick Henry,
Jefferson, Monroe, Marshall and many
others of Virginia's sons periled life
and fortune to build up and nurture.
| The highest official law officer of the
land, the AttorneyGeneral Of the
United States. having decided under his
official oath and in response to n re-
quest from the President of the United
States for his official opinion on the
legality of the presence of the statue
of Gen. Lee in Statuary Hall, that 1t
is there in accordance with the act of
1854 and that there is no power in ex-
istence with authority to uproot exist
ing conditions we. in the spirit of 1861
(which then caused US to risk life itself
in support of the majesty of the law
bow submissively to the provisions of
the act of 1864, which, tho mistakenly
lenacted, is still the law of the land,
land, regardless of the position assumed
or to be assumed by others, decline to
place ourselves in the position of re-
belling against any law of the land, and
particularly against law which be-
came a vital fact thru the signature
of Abraham Lincoln.
Printing Roster of the Army.
The committee to whom was re-
Iferred the following resolution, adopt
ed at the 24th National Encampment,
which they were instructed to present
to Congress, reported that they had In
lterviewed some Of their Congressman,