Show TJIE GRANp 4 1MY General Sherman Relates Some Army Experience 1 1l l DBLIBEBATIONS ffi r1J I BeboutiO3 Denouncllit m1 cbnd boeJ Commander ycbiId ici1erother o O XbGAE J FEASCISCO August G Dunns SAI the proceedings I OEfESAL SHEEilAS nddress He poke of the Bead an orizm of the order and of the part embers had taken n the civil war 3Bd then said The men who have n11 engaged In a single battle or a ny caIUp ign are apt to dwell on it sinpe event fought and the only one i are apt to assume that our many o us rat was the only conflict of arms I worthy of record Others have pro Se4ed It and others will sncceedit with a retrospect of only i We now tlientyo U realize that the civil WAr in America was bat a single step in ol the world to anew r and the progress pro I htgner civilization The revolutionary demonstrated that the thirteen col ontee war planted by orope on the coast of Amen had attained manhood and to assume all its had a natural rig functions among im independence The war of 1512 demo istrated that this new nation was capable of defending i iseU Not only within its own dominions domin-ions bat on the high seas and I everywhere Then the Mexican war of 1S1G7 demonstrated liat our race and institutions reached from ocean to I I I ocean the lakes to the Gulf for room I for development and finally tbo civil I war demonstrated that its citizens 1 could defend the overnment against the ereatest of all enmisodri lv u I He then gave an interesting account of j the causes which led to the Mexican I war and of the subsequent history of that war and the conquest of California J by tho United States with the parts played by General remont Commander Com-mander Bloat and others Speaking of his own shore in the operations he told bow the battery to which he was attached was sent around the Horn leaving New York July 14 SlJ and arriving at Monterey I on the Sth of January 1817 He then I compared the condition of California I t at tha time with its present prosperity and then reverting to the benefits of the I I civil War closed as follows You ar beloved comrades of t e War of I 1S91 have abundant reason for your Kith in the majesty and security of this new era bound together in harjnony by rivers and mountains and by b nds of steel Each station controlling its own property and interest with a strong government over all Yet in your conventions and easts you can well spara some words of cheer to your older comrades ol the Mexican war who did so much to enlarge the national aomaln and make possible the glorious 1 Tork you afterwards so thoroughly t accomplished We cannot expect to S tarry long enjoylhe fruits ofour la ICIr but untold generations cf intelli 1 seat men and beautiful women will be aere t t protest defead and maintain re > e conquests and meantime we have 3 a right to be proud and content ht in our day and generation I e have largely contributed to = jld up and strengthen the fabric 11 I iIthe government fashioned by our II athers sanctified by the greatness of x Waihington made doubly precious by J8 ht noble virtues of onrmartyred Lincoln II Lin-coln and crowned by the achievements iI ol our comrade Grant ct the thud days = session of the lit natIonal encampment f3daythe oom I aittee on resolutions ubduit d arrel lit fort e DESOUSCIHG FOIAGAUT a 7Lat Congress be asked t pss such lIt iws as will eradicate the evil from these the-se country A feature of the afternoon session was a di ca sion over the service pension pen-sion bill The department of Massa 3 i chusetts offered a resolution favoring I the passage by Congress of a covering I 7 I wu which Protides a pension of Sa f month to every surviving soldier and sailor f the war whether disabled or 1 I not Tae committee on resolution to I f waorn the matter was referred reported 5 adversely Beajetf of Indiana submitted a jw > rlty report favoring the measure all p hevole was firsttaken on the latter III tad deIeattd by 327 to 86 Several ef art were made during the day to bring P we consideration of the next en wnpment place but without avail ii ja majority report against the fS I I In raeasvre was adopted H A session will be heW this evening 11 Tnen el it j 4 jHpposed both the selection 1 an encampment and the election of I A tCers mIl be accomplished 1 i V THE TOXESS RELIEF COEP3 1 11 irs Ehabcih Kinn of San Fran 11 tko was today elected national Pres i JiJd vt1 of the Romans Vs oman Relief Cor s Sarah Nichols of Xew York ulor Ice President 1 > 4 ti t Loas was selected as the place of Le next national encampment by apt TOte pe of 23 to 171 for Nashville The 81t e1ethtrJtllt > nt then Proceeded to the of tan ttio of Commander in Ghisf Xe 5flner of New York was rO d POscd by Hatch of bsmI setts alter which Lucien Fair i n it ttild Uu gf P TOOp ntin > John Burst of llliI I I John p Eea of Minnesota and joe tJi rug J A Remolds of New York were I 17 TsrfT m oh maU9nW1th the foHowing I wl Whole number of votes cast ul 1L 1 J1 sary to a choice 22 Tanner 11 it > ki5hll r s Burst 7L Bemolds re o t Fi leai2 Remolds withdrew in favor tug r rthiId and the second ballot was 1 tIItiiD edej W1th Fairchild of Wit zn being elected CommanderIn 229mmftfldermn a tie on a allot of 229 ottl i 1Otkii was then made to make hisS I his-S Carried General Ii BMbi of San Francisco was un jjjjjjjjjjnciscjwasun animously elected Senior ViceCom m derinChief Colonel Edgar Allen Bichmand of Virginia was elected Junior ViceCom mandermChief Dr A S Evarts of Colorado SurceonGeneral Rev Thomas C Warren of Chattanooga Chaplain There were no further proceedings of importance and the encampment adjourned ad-journed tine die |