Show rn 1 S Si GLARKSON IS r GoKI AmER Mrs Agnes Hill of Indianapolis lis President Womans Relief Corps SONS OF VETERANS QUESTION SHELVED Andersonville Prison Site to Be Purchased New Officers Installed Tlie Council of Administration President Eli AdmiistrntonPxcsldent ots Utterances Resented Resolution Resolu-tion Adopted Asliiiif Congress to Forbid the Use of the National Coat of Arms and Flag For Political Polit-ical Purposes ST PAUL Minn Sept 41ajor Thaddeus S Clarksbn of Omaha com manderin chief John H Mullen Wabash Wa-bash Minn senior commander Charles W Buckley Montgomery Alabama Junior vicecommander A E Johnson Washington D C surgeongeneral Rev Mark B Taylor Massachusetts chaplaininchief were the officers elected elect-ed at the Grand Army encampment today to-day With the installation of officers the successful encampment of 1896 came to a close and then it rained hard for the rest of the day The encampment has not been marked mark-ed by any political or other sensation and the mild contests made for the next encampment and commander has taken from tine event much of that lively interest in-terest which has characterized former encampments Th ° re has been no complaint com-plaint on the score of St Pauls hospitality hos-pitality and every veteran is leaving town feeling glad that he came here CommanderlnChlef Clarkson announced an-nounced the appointment of C E Bur aPJoIntm i meister or umana as aajutantgenerai I i His other appointments will not be I made for a few days A NEW COUNCIL OF ADMINISTRATION I ADMINISTRA-TION was elected with a member from each state department Among the members are Arizona W Derrington California fornia and Nevada J K Staler San Francisco Colorado B Carr Idwho I W H Barton Iowa Lumen L CaJd well Decoraih KansasW H Smith Maryyvale Montana Charles S Prague of Bozeman Nebraska Traynor Omaha South DakotaDavid E Proctor Proc-tor Wilton New Mexico Hiram Crompton Santa F OregonH S Allen Army of the PotomacU H Chamber Washington D C Washington Washing-ton and Alaska Thomas M Young Seattle cityThe Se-attle Utah E W Tatlock Salt Lake The utterances of President Eliot of j Harvard university concerning the G A R were resented in i report from the committee on resolutions which were adopted declaring that while we emphatically em-phatically condemn such statements as unworthy and untruthful we will not dignify them by a formal resolution of condemnation The anticonfederate spirit of the encampment was put to a test by Past Department Commander Blodgett of Illinois who introduced a resolution recommending the erection of a soldiery home in the south for confederate confed-erate army veterans It failed to pass the committee state and the depart ment of Illinois threw it out at its lat encampment The of enCament project establishing estab-lishing national parks on the site of the Vicksburg and Fredericksburg battlefields battle-fields was strongly endorsed MEMORIAL BRIDGE The pending bill in congress lor a memorial me-morial bridge across the Potomac to the Arlington National cemetery opposite oppo-site Washington was not endorsed Scott post No 49 of Colorado introduced a resolution providing that department commanders should call on the ladies of the G A R each Memorial day to assist in decorating soldiers decoratng s graves and otherwise observe the day A resolution was adopted asking congress con-gress to pass a law forbidding the use of the national coat o arms and itag for political purposes or for private I gain as either a trade mark or label On motion of Cumberland post No I 737 of Illinois the encampment supported sup-ported the proposition to raise Major General Nelson A Miles U S A to the rank of lieutenantgeneral The sons of veterans question was shelved far a year on a report from the committee on rules by a reference or the proposition to the Buffalo encampment en-campment In the meantime the plan proposed was ordered printed and distributed dis-tributed among the posts for a intel gent vote next yea WOMENS RELIEF CORPS The convention of the Womens Relief Re-lief corps elected the following offlces President Mrs Agnes Hitt of Indianapolis Indi-anapolis senior vicepresident Miss Marie Hazenwinkle of S1 Paul treasurer treas-urer Miss Isabelle Bagiey o Zanes vie 0 junior vicepresident Miss Amelia J Colgan of Virginia The resolution that the Andersonville I prison site be purchased by the prson purhased corps cors and kept permanently in condition a a war exhibit was adopted I A committee was appointed to attend to the matter and every member of the corps wa asked to contribute 5 I cents toward the purchase and maintenance main-tenance of the fund Over 2500 was present subscribed to the fund by the delegates Mrs John A Logan addressed the delegates advocating consolidation or affiliation with the ladies of the G A R but her ideas did not fall on sympathetic sym-pathetic ears The rival organizations are diametrically opposed to each other by virtue of their organic law and the i members a equally determined t have nothing to do with each other of ficdalCy The ladies of the G A R I finishe the election of officers a fellows fel-lows Treasurer l r Flora George Washington chaplain Mrs Thankful I Massachusetts national councilor Mrs Laura McNair New Jersey At 1 oclock the convention adjourned sine die se |