Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-09-28
American Legion Shows
Antagonism Exists to
Pending Measure.
COMMITTEE REPORT
FAVORS APPROVAL
Kansas City Will Probably Entertain
Lesionaries in 1s21-Four-Fo Fold
Compensation Plan Meets With
General Approval-Many Deiesa-
tions Want McNider, of iowa. as
Commander in Chief.
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
Cleveland, Sept. 2S-The American
Legion got down to the real business
of its second annual convention to-
day.
Twelve committees. established
yesterday under orders from Nation
al Commander Franklin D'Olier
worked late into the night In order
to be able to have their reports
ready.
The committee on time and place
for the next annual convention was
prepared to recommend Kansas City
as its choice and Oct. 81 to Nov. 2,
1921. as. the date.
The committee on departmental di-
visions was prepared to recommend
that tho constitution be amended and
six departments be created, five in
the United States and one in Europe,
and that instead OF five vice COM
manders, elected at large, as at pres
ent, vice commander be placed
over each OF the six departments.
The central department under this
plan would include Ohio. Michigan.
Wisconsin. Indiana, Illinois. Iowa,
Nebraska. Minnesota, North and
South Dakota.
The resolution fayorfng immediate
action by the United States on the
four fold compensation plan received
the approval of the committee on adj
justment compensation. but minor
amendments We're advocated.
Today's program includes the
presentation of Gen. Marie Emil Fay
ollie. personal representative of the
French government, and Admiral Sir
William Lowther Grant Great Brit
aims representative. With the with
drawal of Milton j. Foreman, of Chi
cago, and Emmett O'Neill, of Ken
lucky, from the race for the national
commandership last night, only two
formidable candidates were in the
field today.
Many Want McNider.
1t was said that the New England
delegations and several southern and
Rocky mountain delegations had
definitely endorsed F. J. Galbraith,
Of Cincinnati.
The claim also is made that the
southerners will throw their support
to Hanford McNider, of Mason City.
Iowa, carrying with them the west
ern states. The McNider forces claim
they would receive the support Of at
least twenty three states, but reports
of splits bringing new territory to
the Galbraith ranks were frequently
heard
The first official action of the ma
tional commander after the conven-
ton opened today was the appoint
ment of David j. Mccoy, Of San
Francisco. as sergeant at t-arms.
The commander then requested
that each State having fifteen votes
or more appoint an assistant to the
sergeant -at-arms. This gave Mccoy
twenty assistants.
Uproar Over Compensation Bill
The report of the committee on
adjusted compensation was called for
and, when read, started an uproar.
The report recommended that the
American Legion give it's
unqualified approval of house bill
number 14,157, which passed the
house of representatives by vote of
2S9 TO so on May 20, 1920, and which
is now pending before the senate,
and which provides for the optional
plan Of either:
Adjusted service pay, based on
length of service, or.
Adjusted service certificates
maturing in twenty years, based on
length of service, or,
educational training, or
s;4-Farm or home aid, or
5-Land settlement for which thir-
ty-one states have already made,
thru their state legislatures, provi-
siOns for operation.
The report also approved the ac-
ton of the national executive COM
nittee and the national beneficial
legislative committee in formulating
and presenting this adjusted COM
pensation legislation to congress, and
directed the national executive COM
mittee to take such action as it may
deem necessary to insure prompt
passage Of the bill.
Politics and Labor Ignored.
The report Of the resolutions COM
mittee. when it was presented to the
convention on reassembling after the
noon recess, did not contain state
ment one way or the other relative
to the stand of the American Legion
in regard to politics or organized
labor.