Indianapolis Journal, Volume 48, Number 252, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 September 1898 — Page 2

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Caproo, was paid off and the paymaster's , aork was finished. The pay roll was much heavier this month than usual because the paymaster brought with him pay for the officers for the time between April 2G and May 10. The government decided to pay the troops from she day they went into camp, not from the day they were mustered into the United States service. Before leaving Indiana the regiment was paid for this fourteen days by the State, so that officers and men received double pay for the two weeks they were at Camp Mount wailing to be changed from Indiana National Guardsmen to United States volunteers. The enlisted men were paid while in the South, but the officers were required to wait until yesterday. They Were pleased at getting nearly a half month’s additional pay. The “Tigers’’ found the money burning their pockets, and before night much of it had passed out of their possession. In a few quarters some of the men had cards or dice in hand and money was changing hands rapidly. Fruit peddlers succeeded in getting to the outer guard lines, where they drove a thriving trade. Cantaloupes, peaches, bananas and tomatoes rapidly vanished from the wagons. This morning the regimental surgeons will have many stomach troubles to prescribe for. There was a •scarcity of small change. At least a dozen men asked a visitor, “Have you got change for a five?” And “no” was disappointing to them. "What’s the use of having money If you can’t spend it?” one inquired. At the head of the company streets the captains were “holding up” the volunteers for enough money to pay their transportation home. There was much grumbling at this. While-transportation is to cost but a cent a mile, the cost or riding two or three hundred miles means a good deal to a man with only |ls or so in his pocket. Some of the men heard that the transportation money would ultimately be refunded to them, but that did not encourage them very much. , Colonel Studebaker last night said the regiment would not get started home before to-morrow morning. Some of the captains have not got their accounts all straightened out yet, and the colonel is anxious to have everything turned over to Muster-out Officer lieutenant Waterman in good shape before the men are furloughed. The colonel thought, however, that the regiment would get away to-mori;ow sure. The present arrangement is for it to travel In three special trains, one containing the companies from Knox, Plymouth and South Itend, another the two companies from Fort Wayne and one each from Auburn. Water--100 and Angola, and the third those from Slkha'rt, Ligonier. Goshen and North Manchester. To-morrow will be Sept. 10. After the thirty days’ furlough the "Tigers” will return, about Oct. 10, for the final muster •ut. It is not known just how long the regiment will be here when it returns, but It is hoped that ten days at the most will be sufficient. Acting Quartermaster Lieut. Edward R. Chrlsman, who is to provide subsistence for the regiment on its return, Is proceeding on the theory that from three to five days will be required, and has asked for bids to furnish meals for the regiment for that length <*f time. Colonel Studebaker hopes to get away by the middle of October. It is understood that the War Department will urge all the haste possible in mustering out the regiments, so that they will be at home before flies. Already some of the boys are shivering in expectation of cold nights in Camp Mount When the regiment returns.

A NOVEL CLAIM. One Soldier Who Think* the State Gives the Men Money. A noncommissioned officer of the One-hundred-and-fifty-seventh Regiment has advanced the idea that the regiment is still part of the National Guard, and that, as such, the men are entitled to draw pay from the State in addition to what the government has paid them. He talks about making a demand for ninety days’ pay, and. In the event of the State’s refusal to pay it, to bring suit. He points to the fact that the State paid the men for the fourteen days they were in Camp Mount before being mustered into the United States service, and that afterward the government paid them for the same time. He says that under the law the State could not require the men to serve more than ninety days. It is his claim that, while the men were mustered into the United States service, they were never formally mustered out of the State’s militia, and that they came to Indianapolis under an order of the Governor. Deducting the fourteen days for which pay has been received, it is his contention that the State owes the old I. N. G. seventy-six days’ pay, at $1.50 a day, or sll4. Some of--the officers ridiculed the idea, but others said there might be something in the contention. None could be found who knew whether the question had ever been pa jsea on by the courts. All along the privates of the regiment have been insisting that they did not belong to the National Guard any longer, but now that there seems to be a chance of getting a nice little sum of money some of them are assuming a different attitude. Under the laws, it is said, the State could not require the National Guard to serve more than ninetydays, and hence the determination of the sergeant mentioned to only ask ninety days’ l>ay. At the head of each company street is y .rude box of pine, the cover of which is carefully secured with hasp and lock. Rude letters indicate that they are United States mail boxes. In them the boys of the comfianles deposit their letters to the home oik. Private Barnett Shock, of Company L, plays the postman. He has been regularly sworn into the mall service by Postmaster Hess. Each day he takes the mail from the boxes, places it in a letter pouch nd conveys It to the rostoffice, where mail addressed to the regiment is placed in his hands. Postman Shock delivers the mail lor each company to tho proper captain, ■who, in turn, passes it down the street through the sergeants. There is always a bustle of excitement when the postman carrying the letter pouch over Lis shoulder comes into camp. No Pay Yet for the 28th Battery. There is no information as to how soon the Twenty-eighth Battery, of Fort Wayne, will get away from Camp Mount. When Major Cleland, tho paymaster, arrived. Captain Rancke learned that he had no instructions to pay the battery. The pay rolls of the battery were sent to Columbus to be checked by the muster-in officer of the battery, and it is understood they were to be forwai€ed to Chicago, although they had not been received there when the paymaster left. He did not expect Captain Rancke to get away for three or four days. Last night Major Cleland returned to Chicago, after finding that no additional instructions had been sent him here with reference to the battery. "It may be that by the time I reach Chicago,” said he, “I will find orders to return here at once and pay off the oattery.” If this were to prove true the major might return to-night and pay the battery to-morrow, when it might get awav by Sunday, but the captain does r,ot hope for this. “I am as much in the dark as to when we ■will move as you are,” said he. The One-lundred-and-fifty-ninth Regiment Is to be paid off after it reaches Indianapolis, as the pay rolls were sent to Chicago from Meadviile. Pa., and are now in the hands of Major Cleland. He said yesterday that he bad no Information as to when the regiment would arrive. He presumed that after it did he would be orde.-ed to come to Indianapolis and pay the men. Officer* with Privates’ Uniforms. Down at Tampa one of the regimental officers observed that some of the line officers were wearing blue trousers and blouses that were suspiciously like those issued for the privates. The blouses had been altered, provided with pockets and shoulder straps and otherwise made to look like officers’ uniforms. “Where did you get those clothes?” interrogated the regimental officer. "We swiped them out of the chests,” was the response. The regimental officer was amazed. “Don't you know you will have to pay for them?" “H—l, no. Who’s ever going to know It? Nobody will ever find out w-hat became of them.” The line officers were evidently not acquainted with Uncle Sam’s methods of doing business. Since getting home they have found that every “dud” must be accounted for. The excuse that a pair of missing trousers or a blouse was “taken by one of the privates, I don’t know which one,” does not go. And now there is some tall swearing by those who find they must pay for their “larks.” The nice blue serges do not look so attractive as they did when there seemed a chance to get them free of charge. Soup for All Sick Soldiers. The ladies of the Indiana Soldiers’ Aid ftoelety have made arrangements to supply rtvery sick sqldler who passes through the lty with good broths and soups, no matter from what Stats they come or where they go. Mrs. John W. Kern is the chairman of a committee which has completed all tho details for such service. The conductors will notify Mr. Cramer, at the Union Station, who will notify Mrs. Kern of the approach of such trains en route from the camps, and the soldiers will reuelve every attention. Certain members of

the society will be ready at the notification from Mrs. Kern to be at the station and Mr. Taggart, who will solicit funds for the proposed help from the citizens, will have the soups prepared especially for the sick, and they will be the best that can be made. The ladies will not serve the soldiers, as does the committee in Cincinnati, but they will be present to see that all are helped and give the kind word and encouragement which help the men on their way. The Twenty-seventh Battery auxiliary meeting, advertised for this afternoon at the First Baptist Church, has been postponed until next week. Trouble in Getting State's Guns. There was a character in the comic opera “Mikado” called Pooh-Bah. PoohBah held all the offices of any importance in the Mikado’s realm, as the story went. The “Tigers” have a Pooh-Bah in tho persfm'bf Lieut. J. B. Fonner, of Company D, Fort Wayne. Besides being lieutenant of the company, he is acting quartermaster, ordnance officer and engineering officer. He is cne of the busiest men in camp these days. After getting something like order out of the chaotic conditions under which clothing was isused to the companies, he yesterday took up the ordnance question. Before tha regiment entered the service the State had issued guns to the captains and is now asking that they be accounted for. The captains have asked Lieutenant Fonn r to give them receipts for the guns, which he refuses to do. “I have enough troubles now in accounting for supplies that I receipted for, and for which 1 am responsible, without trying to look out for the troubles of others,” i3 his reply. It seems that there was not a very strict check kept over the guns issued by the State, and there will be trouble in getting things in shape. “Company J” of the Tigers. The “Tigers” enjoy the distinction of having a "Company J,” something few, if any other, regiments can boast. In lettering the companies of a regiment it has been the universal custom to skip “J.” Why the letter is tabooed is not known unless because “I” and “J” are made a good deal alike in ordinary script and there might be confusion. "Company J,” in the “Tigers,” is made up of about one hundred men who are habitually in the guardhouse for being absent without leave and otherwise transgressing the rules. A red-haired sergeant of Company E enjoyed the distinction of being the commander of “Company J” until the “Tigers” came back to Camp Mount. Since then a lieutenant, who recently got “spliced,” as the boys called it, and one captain, who has been absent from the camp at least a dozen times without leave, have supplanted the sergeant. The boys of “Company J” are called on to- do all the police work of the camp. Some of them will be detailed to remain behind as guards over the camp when the regiment leaves on furlough. in addition to those who have volunteered for this service. To Bring ldOtli Sick to Amlerson. Sister Lydia, of Andersen, In charge of ten Sisters, left last night for Lexington to take charge of the sick of the One-hundred-and-sixtieth Regiment. The government has accepted the offer made for the use of St. Mary’s Hospital in Anderson, and Mount Carrr.el Hospital, at Columbus, 0., and sick soldiers will be brought to these points and cared for. Only the very sick will be thus cared for, but in cases where a northern temperature is necessary to the recovery of the patient the hospitals at these two points will be used. I?oth are large concerns, and are considered unexcelled for attention. Vhe Sisters who have gone to Lexington will first care for the sink of the One-hundred-and-sixtleth Indiana, and later for those of ether regiments quartered there. | A New Flagstaff. A tall flagstaff was placed In front of the regimental headquarters yesterday. It is a slender ash tree, straight as a fishing rod, sixty feet high, and the bark was left on. C. S. Hall sent a man ipto the country ten miles yesterday to find tree tall enough and straight enough for a flagstaff. After it was planted Hall brought out two new flags, one. for a storm flag. All day yesterday visitors were inspired by seeing “old glory” floating in the keen breeze. About it the bright sunlight played. As retreat was sounded at the end of the dress parade the flag was slowly lowered, and fell into the hands of two privates as the last strains of the “Star-spangled Banner” floated over to headquarters from the parade ground at the other end of the camp. Soldiers on the Stage. John Tull, property master of a local opera house, visited Colonel Studebaker yesterday to learn whether he could secure twelve enlisted men to take part In a production of a military play at the theater next week. Colonel Studebaker sent him to Major Fitzgerald, who Is to have charge of the guard that remains behind to watch the camp. The major seemed to think that there would be no difficulty in getting volunteers for the production of the war drama. He told Mr. Tull that he imagined the boys would have difficulty in deciding among themselves who should go, as they would look upon it as a recreation. The Team Master Called. Team Master Burke, of the One-hundred-and-sixty-first Indiana, Colonel Durbin’s regiment, received orders last night to report at once to Jacksonville, Fla., for duty with the regiment. This is taken to mean that the assertion that Colonel Durbin has made that the One-hundred-and-sixtv-flrst was going to Cuba was to be realized at no distant time. Though Burke has been appointed for three months, this is the first time he has been called. Colonel Durbin has indicated that the regiment was to go the latter part of this month. It is also claimed that Durbin Is to be made a brigadier general.

Captain Morrison’s Funeral. Pittsburg papers notice the funeral in that city of Capt. T. W. Morrison, of the Sixteenth Regiment, United States Infantry, who was killed while leading his company in the charge at El Caney July 1. Captain Morrison was a native of Indiana, but he married in Pittsburg, and as his wife’s relatives live in that city his remains were brought home for burial there. They were accompanied by a squad, consisting of a lieutenant, a sergeant, a bugler and six privates of the Sixteenth Regiment. Frank W. Morrison, a brother, of this city, attended the funeral. Governor Will Review Troop*. The condition of Governor Mount continues to improve. Yesterday he went ou: for a drive and at its conclusion said he would visit Camp Mount to-day in response to the invitation of Colonel Studehaker. While there the Governor will review troops at 4 o'clock in company with Dr. O. S. Runnels and inspect the camp generally. Military Xote*. Adjutant Rex will leave for Kentucky today to join his wife, who is ill. The Ladies’ Aid Society announces that all boxes of luncheon for the feast of home food to bo given to the One-hundrcd-and-fifty-eighth Regiment to-morrow evening must be at St. Paul's Church by 2 o’clock to-morrow afternoon. Sickness is on the decrease at Camp Mount. Twelve men w’ere discharged from the hospital yesterday. But two new cases wore reported. There were but 196 responses to the sick call, as against 265 the day before. The extremely cold nights have been rather trying on the men, whose blood has been thinned down to the consistency of water under the sun of Florida. Sergeant Major John H. Worth, of Fort Wayne, was sent to the hospital yesterday. He has been indisposed with malaria for some days, and was for a time conlined to his quarters. After getting back into Indiana he improved considerably and was able to be about, but yesterday there was a relapse and he decided to go to the hospital. The pln’sicians do not believe that his condition is very critical. A board of review’ some days ago prepared a schedule of property turned over to the United States government by the State w’hen the One-hundred-and-fift>-seventh was mustered into the service. It was forwarded to Washington. The total claim approximated $36,000. Lieutenant Waterman yesterday received a telegram from Quartermaster General Ludd*ngton, Washington, saying: ’’Copy report board of survey. One-hundred-and-flfty-seventh Indiana Volunteers’ State property, mailed to-day." It is presumed that the quartermaster has approved the recommendation of the board of survey. As to this the lieutenant said he could not speak definitely until the documents were received by mail. Peace Society. Baltimore American. Baseball is picking up more dollars now, and If it has its way there will never be another war. So He Has. Detroit Free Press. Gen. Sir Herbert Kitchener seems to have completely Dew eyized the Mahdista.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1898.

THE FILIPINOS COMING ♦ . AGIYNALDO SENDS DEI EGATES TO INTERVIEW M KINLEY. - ■ ♦ Government nt Washington Claims to Dave No Fear of a Clash with the Insurgents at Manila. * LONDON, Sept. B.—A cable dispatch from Hong-Kong, dated Sept. 6, received in London yesterday, announces that a committee of three Filipinos, appointed by Aguinaldo, has left Hong-Ktng in order to confer with President McKinley on the future of the Philippine Islands. Agnlnaldo Not Miking Trouble. WASHINGTON, Sept. B.—Administration officials have had no recent cause to feel tout a critical condition of affairs was near at hand with the insurgent forces of the Philippines. It will be recalled that Major General Merritt, before starting for Paris, advised the insurgent leader, Aguinaido, that the authority of the United States in and about Manila must be respected, and that in the interest of a quiet and orderly administration of affairs it was desirable for the insurgents to vacate the suburbs of the city within a reasonable time. About that time Aguinaido gave assurance of cooperating with the American forces towards the maintainenee of order, and there has been no reason to believe his adherents would give serious opposition to their removal from the suburbs. The time within which the movement is to be accomplished has not expired, according to the understanding here, and a satisfactory arrangement is expected before the time arrives. In the meantime r.o reports have come from General Otis, who is acting governor, ponding the absence of General Merritt, as to friction with Aguinaido over his retirement. Reports have been circulated that the President, received a dispatch from Gen. Otis, yesterday, saying that he had given Aguinaido until to-day to vacate the suburbs or else take the consequences. This is erroneous, however, as no such crisis has been reported by General Otis, and the reto have grown out of the original orders given by General Merritt. There is no uneasiness in official circles over our relations with the insurgents, as the American officers at Manila have thus far shown an ability to cope with the situation so tactfully as to avoid friction and entanglements.

SEXTON WINS. ting the delegates vote for their choice. This was done and the result announejd as follows: Philadelphia, 305; Denver, 205. A motion was made immediately afterward to go into the election of commander-in-chief. Although it was then late in the afternoon, the motion was adopted, and immediately the name of Albert D. Shaw, of Watertown, N. Y., was presented by a delegate of that State. In the closing part of his remarks he twitted Illinois with having for the fifth time asked for the election of a commander-in-chief, while her chief city had never yet invited the encampment to enjoy its hospitality. Gen. John C. Black, of Illinois, In placing in nomination James A. Sexton, of Chicago, called attention to the fact that Illinois was the fostering mother of the organization, and in that way had the first commander. Subsequently that typical American volunteer so’dier, John A. Logan, had been twice elected commander, but for a few years Illinois had seen the scepter of commander placed iri the hands of other States. He then in a most forcible and eloquent manner presented the claims of his candidate. Commander Pugh, of Ohio, announced that Isaac A. Mack, of Ohio, had directed him to say that he declined to have his name presented as a candidate, because the senior vice commander w r as to be chosen from the city where the encampment is being held, according to the usual custom. A delegate of Kansas explained that the name of Thomas J. Anderson, of Topeka, Kan., who had been named as a candidate, would not be presented as a candidate The roll of States was then called and the vote announced, showing the election of James A. Sexton, w r ho received 424 votes, while Albert A. Shaw received 241. Commander Shaw, in a well-worded speech, moved the unanimous election of Sexton, and the motion was carried. Sexton being called, returned his thanks in very brief form, and the encampment immediately adjourned until 9 o’clock to-morrow. A resolution was introduced to have the school histories use the words “The war between the States” Instead of the “war of the rebellion.” It is quite likely that resolutions will be adopted providing for the use of the term “war for the preservation of the Union.” There will also be an effort made to secure representation for the colored men in the national encampment. Unusual interest w T as taken in the selection of the committee on resolutions on account of the recent issue of indorsing Alger or Miles and other matters in connection with the management of the Spanish war. The following Is the committee on resolutions: Alabama—R. H. Allison. Arkansas —O. M. Spellman. California and Nevada—A. J. Buckles. Colorado and Wyoming—A. V. Bohn. Connecticut—Alfred B. Beers. Delaware—Daniel Ross. Florida—L. G. Jenness. Georgia—L. B. Nelson. Idaho —H. F. Reed. Illinois—Joel M. Longeneeker. Indiana—Gil R. Stormont. Indian Territory—David Red field. lowa—General Metzger. Kansas—Cyrus Lelanu. Kentucky—O. A. Reynolds. Louisiana and Mississippi—Charles H. Shute. Maryland—Robert C. Sunstroin. Massachusetts—George M. Fiske. Michigan—Washington Gardner. Minnesota— S. R. Van Sant. Missouri—W. B. Rogers. Montana—lV. H. Black. Nebraska—H. C. Russel. New Hampshire—John C. Lir.ehan. New Jersey—Charles J. Haughton. New Mexico —J. M. Moore. New York—John Palmer. North Dakota—Col. W. H. Brown. Ohio—A. M. Warner. Oklahoma—J. C. Cummings. Pennsylvania—C. W. Hazard. Potomac—Nathan Bickford. South Dakota—Robert Dollard. Tennessee—H. C. Whittaker. Texas— C. E. Haskell. Utah—H. C. Ward weigh. Vermont— W. H. H. Slack. Virginia and North Carolina—Edgar Allen. Washington and Alaska—Harry Bigelow. West Virginia—George J. Walker. Wisconsin—A. J. Weissert, chtirn an. * COL. SEXTON’S RECORD. Started dm a Private In 1801, When Only Seventeen Years Old. CHICAGO, Sept. B.—Col. James A. Sexton, of Chicago, the new commander-in-chief of the G. A. R., was born in Chicago Jan. 5, 1844. When Lincoln, in April, 1861, issued a call for 75,000 volunteers, Colonel Sexton enlisted on April 19, 1861, as a private soldier. He was then only seventeen years old. After three months’ service he re-en-llsted in the Sixty-seventh Illinois Infantry Volunteers, and was commissioned a first lieutenant. He was later transferred to the Seventy-second Illinois Volunteers and was made captain of Company D. He served in Ransom's brigade, McArthur’s division, Seventeenth Army Corps, of the Army of the Tennessee, and participated in its campaigns, sieges and battles. Asa regimental commander he fought with his

regiment in the battles of Columbia, Duck River, Spring Hill, Franklin and Nashville and throughout the Nashville campaign. In 1865 he was on the staff of Maj. Gen. A. J. Smith, the commander cf the Sixteenth Army Corps, and remained with Smith until the end of the war. Upon ttie assault and capture o? the Spanish Fort, Mobile, Ala., April 8, 1865, he had his left leg broken below* the knee, being struck by a piece of shell weighing seventeen ounces. He was wounded at the battle of Franklin and at the battle of Nashville. After the war he remained two years in Alabama, working a plantation near Montgomery. In 1867 he returned to Chicago and founded the firm of J. A. & T. S. Sexton. In 1872, after the Chicago fire, this firm was succeeded by Gribben, Sexton & Cos., and is still manufacturing stoves, hollow-ware, etc. Colonel Sexton has been prosperous and an active citizen in every move for the public. President Harrison made him postmaster of Chicago in April, ISB9. Colonel Sexton gave himself up to his duties as postmaster and did much to make the office a well-managed public concern. The world's fair was held during his term. He is an active worker in the Grand Army, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion and other soldier and aimy societies. He is a past commander of the Depaitment of Illinois, G. A. R. At the present time he is president of the board of trustees of the Illinois State Soldiers’ and Sailors' Home, located at Quincy. He has been a presidential elector, a Lincoln Park commissioner, a colonel in the Illinois National Guard and has held several positions of honor and responsibility in the State. W. R. C. Convention. CINCINNATI, Sept. 8.-The sixteenth annual convention of the National Woman's Relief Corps of the G. A. R. convened at 9 o’clock this morning in the Scottish Rite Cathedral. The morning session was devoted to the reading of the reports of the various officers, the appointment of committees and other routine matter. The roll call showed a full attendance of delegates, representing 140,000 members of the order. Alter the usual formalities attending the opening of the gathering, the national president, Mrs. Sarah J. Martin, of Missouri, delivered her annual address, which treated largely of the proposed changes in the bylaws of the organization, and also reported the relief work accomplished by the organization during the Spanish-American war. After the opening exercises addresses were made by Mrs. Anna Laws, chairman of the woman’s citizens’ committee, on behalf of the citizens of this city, and by the department president, Mrs. Vesta Shoemaker, of Dayton, representing the sisters of Ohio. The annual report of the national secretary, Mary H. Shepherd, of Missouri, shows an aggregate of 144,245 members and 3,254 corps, making a net gain of 4.089 members and seventy-two corps during the past year. The report of the national treasurer, Isabel L. Bagley, of Ohio, shows the assets of the organization to be $18,997, and no liabilities. The attention of the convention was called to the fact that there is at this time the largest general fund on hand that has ever been reported to a national convention, with the largest total cash balance, as well as the largest assets. The general fund now on hand is $12,624.7* Shortly after the opening of the session this morning the Ransom Post, of St. Louis, marched into the hall in a body, headed by their band, playing “Marching through Georgia.” Commander Carter, of the Ransom Post, then presented to Mrs. Carter a magnificent basket of flowers. The election of officers will take place to-morrow. I,tulles of the G. A. R. CINCINNATI, 0., Sept. B.—'The Ladles of the G. A. R. resumed their session to-day in Odd Fellows’ Temple. Mrs. W. B. Melish and Congressman Bromwell delivered interesting speeches. ' The national president, Mrs. Flora M. Davie, was presented by friends with a diamond set badge, Mrs. Wood, of Kansas, making the presentation speech. The reports of the national president, secretary and treasurer were read. The treasurer’s report showed an especially fine condition of the finances. It appears from the report that during the year nine-ty-one new circles have been organized, averaging thirtv-seven each, making a total of 4,441 new members. They adjourned at noon until to morrow, when election of officers takes place. XV. R. c: Elects Officers. CINCINNATI, Sept. B.—On suspension of tho order of business the Woman's Relief Corps elected Mrs. Flo Jamison Miller, of Chicago, president; Mrs. Mary Wentzel, of Cincinnati, senior vice president; Ellen T. Daniels, West Virginia, junior vice president; Mrs. Caroline H. Bell, of Milwaukee, national treasurer. The following were elected members of the executive board: Chairman, Airs. Ella F. Burt, Rhode Island: Mrs. Alida Rue, Knoxville, Tenn.; Kate B. Valladingham. South Dakota. Convention adjourned until 9 a. m. to-morrow.

CHIEF GORIN’S ADDRESS. Rctnrii of Captured Flag* Would Not ’ Please Him. CINCINNATI, Sept. B.—ln executive session of the Grand Encampment, the reports of tho different departments were submitted. Commander-in-chief Gobin, in his address, said: “As comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic, we can look over the events of the year just passed with feelings of congratulations and just pride. No equal period of time in the world's history has been fraught with more momentous events, and the result to us, as a nation, cannot but place us upon a much higher plane among the governments of the world. The feature, however, that affects us is that which relates to our participation in the occurrences as old soldiers and citizens, who. for over a third of a century, have taught love of country and adoration of the flag, and declared patriotism to be the foundation stone of the Republic. To-day we behold the flag we brought back to the Nation unsullied and undimmed, floating over a reunited country, and its blessings and protection extended to the isles of the sea, indicative of a higher civilization and a purer evangelization. To our fellow-soldiers and sailors of the present era, we extend our congratulations as heartily as is in our power to do so, recognizing, as we do, that our organization and our teachings during the last thirty years have been effective in preparation for this glorius result. As we combated disunion and secession, in order that this Nation might forever remain one and irfdivisible, so we to-day rejoice as we behold the citizen-soldiers of every State responding to the call of our comrade President to enforce the decrees of humanity and civilization among those who disregard their teachings upon the islands of our adjacent seas. From every standpoint, the mission of the Grand Army of the Republic has been a pronounced success in thus keeping alive the fires of patriotic teachings, and, with our fellow-citizens, we are rejoiced at the step forward to the exalted position we now occupy among the nations of the world. Therefore, pursuing in our deliberations the same moderation and the same unselfishness, but thoroughly devoted to the cause which rendered It possible for us to secure the confidence of the Nation, we can further unite our efforts to secure continued success and prosperity. “To our esteemed comrade, President William McKinley, and his secretary of war, our past commander-in-chief, R. A. Alger, we have given our individual and organized support in the arduous duties imposed upon them. Never in the world’s history has there been an occasion when the experience of leaders in national strife rendered them so thoroughly competent to meet the difficulties encountered. Our people are proverbially peaceful in their desires. Averse to war. naturally, no portion of them are more so than the men who by personal experience have participated in its horrors. Yet at the call of the President there was no delay, no hesitancy in responding, and today there are 00 regrets, no division of

sentiment as to the magnificent manner In which those officials have performed the arduous duties of their importan positions. The congratulations of the Grand Army of the Republic, aye. of the Nation, are due them, and from this present encampment there should go forth no uncertain words as to our united support to the government in solving the difficult problems yet before them. Confident are we mat the result will justify the supreme faith which we repose in these, our comrades, and through their efforts we believe the Nation will continue under the providence of Almight God to the higher position which He has evidently designed for it. KEEP THE REBEL FLAGS. "It has been urged by well-meaning comrades to propose the return of the flags captured during the war, presumably to thr States recently in rebellion. I cannot but deprecate any agitation of this question. We have never recognized the proposition that the war of the rebellion was a war between the States; it was a war for the Union, and the Union to-day is of all the States. Those lately in rebellion are as thoroughly a portion cf it as are those who battled for its life and supremacy. All captured property belongs to the government of the Union, and is as much the property of one State, if such can be, as of the other, and of the individual members of all of them. No State has a right to claim or hold specific articles belonging to the national government. Whatever may have been past conditions, the present beholds sectional lines absolutely destroyed, and the men of all the States fo..owing one flag, in battle line, shoulder to shoulder. Let the flags remain where they are, as the best possible place of repose for them and what they represented at that time, now so nearly forgotten. Any agitation of this character seems to me to be unwise. Grand Army men have no desire to revive any feelings but those which brave men can accept as leading up to a more glorious Union, to a higher appreciation of the soldierly qualities of all the men who battled with or againsl us in the days gone by. The action of the Confederate Veterans’ Camp of New York seemed to suggest a method which will end all discussion and satisfy those gentlemen who continually recur to this subject. Their resolution presents for the consideration of the various Grand Army posts and others, the proposition that a building be erected at Washington, under appropriate legislation of Congress, to be a national depository in which not oniv the captured flags but all such emblems and trophies of each side as may be offered from any quarter should be properly collected and lodged for their careful preservation and identification. Ts it is desirable • o take any etens- relative to this matter, this is the most satisfactory solution of the entire quesion.” Referring to his visits to departments in the South, the commander-in-chief said; “In the South the greetings of ex-Con-federates who participated in many of our camp-fires was exceedipgly agreeable, and was preliminary to the devotion to country and flag manifested in their response to the call of the President.” “The pension question has engrossed the attention of the entire Grand Army during the ypar, as never before. Prior to the assembling of the last Congress there seemed to be a concerted attack upon the pensioner, and among many of the old soldiers the impression prevailed that it did not originate in the camp of our enemies. At all events, the newspaper attacks contained statements, many of them distorted and misleading, but, apparently, unauthoritative. which left the pensioners, as a class, in an unenviable light. That these attacks were unfair and made for a specific purpose, seemed to be evident, and their object was, presumably, to prevent any increase In the appropriations for pensions during the incoming Congress over that of the preceding year. This thought also seemed to be followed in the granting of pensions, or, at least, was looked upon as one of ihe reasons for the delay in adjudicating claims, although there has been a steady increase in the number granted. THE PENSION LIST. “The proposition to publish a list of pensioners placed the Grand Army in a peculiar position. No man believed there was any necessity for it, or that it would produce any possible good, or that there were any considerable number of fraudulent pensioners on the roll. On the other hand, the opposition of the Grand Army to the publication would at once have been seized upon and taken advantage of by the pension opponents as evidence of our knowledge of fraud and a disposition to conceal it. “Our only recourse was to suffer in silence, or with simple indignant denials, and look to the future for vindication. I. therefore, appointed a committee to take the matter up in all its details and prepare a report. It is evident that much of the pension agitation, and, in fact, the complaints of unfairness arises from the special acts granting pensions to individuals outside of the general laws, for which the Grand Army is in no way responsible. All that the old soldier demands is that the existing pension laws be administered with justness and liberality in accordance with the intention of the laws, when enacted, and which were to provide for the soldier and relieve his necessities to the full extent to which he is entitled. This is due him. and this there should be no cavil or question about his receiving. “The question of the suspension of comrades for the nonpayment of dues still prevails, and it is most difficult to legislate in a manner that will do justice to those who cannot afford to pay their dues without doing great injustice to the posts in the cases of those who can afford to pay them, but simply neglect to do so. My observation is that a largo percentage of the men who are suspended for nonpayment of dues are as fully able to pay as a large number of those who remain and continue to pay. Therefore, the criticisms of many of the comrades.are unfair; while all sympathize with the comrades who are unable to pay, there can be no feeling of that character for the comrade who Is able, to pay and neglects to do so. My own Impression is that the matter must necessarily be left to the individual posts.” Alfred Lyth, senior vice commander-in-chief, next read his report. He referred to the visit of Post 2, Department of New York, to Hamilton, Ont., saying that the cheers which greeted the comrades on arrival and the reception on the part of the citizens of Hamilton were illustrations of the recent drawing together ir. sympathy and feeling of the two great English-speaking nations. Francis B. Allen, junior vice commander-in-chief, presented his report. He said in his report that no mistake would be made if the National Encampment should in the future select at least one national officer whose service was in the navv, and thus give practical effect to the sentiment of the organization—the equality of the soldier and sailor. David Mackay, the surgeon general, made his report. He suggested in his report the adoption of some system of discipline in order to Insure the sending in of required reports. His idea was that only those posts and departments which evinced sufficient interest in the order to furnish the reports he allowed representation in the department and National Encampment.

AD.IITANT GENERAL'S REPORT. Tlie Grand Army Decreased 13,853 During: the Past Year. CINCINNATI, Sept. B.—The report of Thomas J. Stewart, adjutant general, was next read, and it showed the following: The members in good standing June 30, 1597, numbered 319,456. The gain during the year was, by muster in, 10,940; transfer, 4,275; reinstatement, 12,657; from delinquent reports. 4,551; total, 32,453. The losses were: By death, 7.353; honorable discharge, 1,190; transfer, 4,471; suspension, 25,033; dishonorable discharge, 165; by delinquent reports, 7,041; by surrender of charter, 1,025; total, 46,306. So the members in good standing June 30. 1898, numbered 305,603. The number of members remaining suspended at that date was 36,668. Reports received from departments showed that 8,610 members previously reported as suspended had been dropped from the rolls. The following taol© shows the number of posts and the membership in each State at the end of the official year: MemPosts. bers. Alabama 13 200 Arizona 7 220 Arkansas 53 746 California and Nevada 103 5,280 Colorado and Wyoming 62 2.296 Connecticut 64 6,36i Delawaro 13 470 Florida 22 381 Georgia 18 586 Idaho 17 376 Illinois 570 23?999 Indiana 477 18,166 Indian Territory 17 364 lowa 437 13,334 Kansas 419 15,220 Kentucky Ibo 4,021 Louisiana and Mississippi 30 1,029 Maine 165 7,648 Maryland 55 2,843 Massachusetts 211 &),386 Michigan 289 15^848 Minnesota 172 7,1i0 Missouri 391 13.317 Montana 15 453 Nebraska 274 6,497 New Hampshire 91 4 007 New Jersey HI 6,271 New Mexico 10 137 New York G 49 35,568

11 Af Lfiß/Wfi ~ C 0,%.^ North Dakota 21 480 Ohio 675 29.588 Oklahoma 60 1,155 Oregon 59 1,801 Pennsylvania 593 32.497 Potomac 18 2.782 Rhode Island 26 2.042 South Dakota 80 1,011 Tennessee 81 2.1 J 8 Texas 42 700 Utah 5 204 Vermont 11l 4.261 Virginia and North Carolina... 56 1.124 Washington and Alaska 58 2,048 West Virginia 48 1.336 Wisconsin 250 10,042 Totals 7.L13 305,603 The amount expended in charity during the year was $171,903. The revenues from the sale of supplies and per capita tax are decreasing yearly, and it Is imperatively necessary that the expenses at national headquarters be decreased or the per capita tax increased. Many of the posts are becoming reduced in memt rship, the infirmities of age render comrades in many instances less enthusiastic, meetings become less interesting, comrades are soon suspended and the posts become delinquent. The information so far received would hardly justify action by Congress in the erection of a hospital for the care and treatment of surviving soldiers of the war for the suppression of the rebellion who are suffering from insanity and confined in almshouses or being cared f< • by their families or friends. The report of the quartermaster general, A. J. Burbank, showed that the receipts during the year were $17,195 and the expenditures $14,694. the balance on hand being $9,902. credited as follow-s: General fund. $2,457; Grant monument fund. $5,777; Sherman monument fund. $226; Southern memorial fund. $14.40. The assets, including the cash on hand, are $11,385, and, in addition, $16,000 is inverted in United States bonds. Alonzo Williams, inspector general, reported that the organization is still strong and in good condition, although rapidly decreasing in numbers. Jt was still doing very efficient work throughout the land.

GRANT MONUMENT REPORT. Sonlptor Simmons'* Dpslisiik Have Ileen Approved l>y tlie Uoninilttee. CINCINNATI. Sept. B.—The following report on the Grant monument was adopted: “Your committee on the memorial to our late comrade, General Grant, to be erected at the capital in Washington, report that for two years past they have been in correspondence with the sculptor, Mr. Harrison Simmons, of Rome, Italy, in relation to replacing the statue which was forwarded to Washington and which failed to receive the approval of the joint committee on the library of Congress. The members of your committee, who had carefully inspected the work, believed that the likeness was good and that the statue was one of the very best of the many now in place in Washington, but as the committee on the library of Congress decided otherwise, we were compelled to accept their conclusions and require Mr. Simmons, under his contract, to replace with one which would be satisfactory. “In order that there should be no possible chance for another rejection, we required Mr. Simmons to present to the committee on library a clay model of the head and photograph of the full statue. Mr. Simmons came over with this model, and your committee for him had a very satisfactory interview with the joint committee of the library. That committee was aided by the production of a large number of photographs of General Grant in the possession of the War Department, and they gave the model a very close inspection ana unanimously approved the same. “Mr. Simmons was then directed to proceed w-ith the work, and as a result we feel that we will have a much more satisfactory statue than the first one completed, Mr. Simmons is hard at work in the finishing of the figures in the equestrian statue of Gen. John A. Logan, the bronze pedestal for which has been completed and placed in position in Washington. He does not believe that he can have our work ready for final acceptance much before the Congress meets in December, 18i*9, but he will hasten it all he possibly can. We regret very much this long delay, which has seemed unavoidable. Your committee, however, has worked earnestly to obtain a production which should be creditable to the Grand Army of the Republic and worthy of our distinguished comrade. “S. S. BURDETT, Chairman. “R. B. BEATH, Secretary.” The following w r as also adopted: “Resolved, That the work of establishing the Gettysburg National Military Park and the preservation and care of that great battlefield is worthy of the support of every patriotic citizen; that the prominent features of the plan to locate and mark the battle lines and positions of ail the commands in the contending armies has our hearty approbation; further, "Resolved, That we are gratified that the commissioners, under the supervision of the secretary of war, are pushing the work of marking the lines of the Army of Northern Virginia as rapidly as the title to the necessary land can be secured by the United States; further. “Resolved, That, in view of the limited appropriations, the progress which the commissioners have already made and the stability and excellence of the? work already done commands the admiration of every soldier, and we trust that Congress will be liberal in granting the funds to complete this great work according to the plans adopted. The result will be grandly monumental, and must awaken sentiments of pride and patriotism in every true American heart. DON’T USE CHAMPAGNE. Mins Letter Asked to Christen the Illinois with Pure Water. CHICAGO, Sept. B.—The f ’lowing letter was sent from National W. C. T. U. headquarters to-day to Miss Nancy Leiter, who is to christen the battle ship Illinois: “Tho Temple, Chicago, Sept- 8. “Dear Miss Leiter—ln behalf of the HOtUXX) women of the Women's Christian Temperance Union of the United States, and in particular of the 15.000 of our number in Illinois, we respectfully request you to christen the battle ship Illinois not with champagne, but with pure water. “We would call your attention to the fact that the battle ship Kentucky was chrietenod with water from the Lincoln spring, and we feel that there are enough historic streams in our own good State to make such an act most appropriate. We also feel sure that it would be far-reaching in its influence for temperance and righteousness. We know you will appreciate the spirit Ln which this letter is written, and will not feel that we have taken an undue liberty. Verv sincerely yours, “KATHERINE LENTS STEVENSON, “Corresponding Lejretary “HELEN BARKER, Treasurer."

We fly these flags to-day to do you a Signal Service Translated by the Code Book they mean: 1. —“sl6” will, for a few days longer, /T* N 2- —Be the price for handsome made-to-measure “Business Suits’* 3. —At the “Kahn Tailoring Co.,’* 4. —Which will soon remove to the “Beehive Corner.” choice fall and winter weights in this sale Ladies may buy cloth of us by the yard at wholesale prices. Boys in camp specially invited to call. Jlk NATIONAL pTk Tube Works iifl Wrought-Iron Pipe for Gas, m Steam and Water. Boiler Tubes, Cast amt Matt*, able Iron Fittings (black and 6 alv anl/.cd), Valves. Stop PVT Cocks, Engine Trimming. Hr btearo Gauges, Pipe Tongs, H||a HVai w I’ll'® Cutters, Vises, Sere# Kara Plates and Dies, Wrpm Uea. B J si 4l Meant Traps, Pumps, Kltcfc. si *-2 cn sinks. Hose. B dttng.UabJjffl bit Metal. Solder, White and W Colored Wiping Waste, and Vh aveS nil other Supplies used la C 9 m3 connection with Gas. Steam IJ and Water. Natural Gaa MM Ky Supplies a specialty. Steamheating Apparatus for Pub--80 Kira be Buildings, Store-room^ 4J| F jj M Ills, Shops. Factories, Laundries. Lumber Dry-Houses. |a H|n etc. Cut and Thread to orJf f l der any size Wrought-Iron W Vft Mpe, from M inch So IS Inches diameter. ft KNIGHT & JILLS9N, Lj s. PENNSYLVANIA ST

ROOSEVELT MAY PARADE. The Rough Riders, However, Do lot Want to Give the \\ l.ol© Show. CAMP WTKOFF, Montauk Point, L. 1., Sept. B.—Colonel Roosevelt, in speaking of Major Van Wyck's request of rhe President that the Rough Riders be directed to parade in New York and of the President’s decision to le%ive the question of a part or the whole of the Fifth Army Corps parading to the general officers and the surgeons, said: “We should he pleased to parade with the army or with the cavalry division, but we would not care to parade by ourselves. If we are to parade with other regiments we should do so soon, for we are turning in our horses and equipments to the government and shall soon be mustered out. It would not hurt the men physically, I am confident, to parade.” That is the general feeling of the officers and of the troopers. So much has been said of the Rough Riders parading that It would be distasteful to them to parade alone. Major Surgeon Brown, in charge of the general hospital, said: “It would not hurt the Rough Riders to ride up Broadway nor tor the well men of any of the cavalry regiments. The infantry regiments of the army, however, are not fit to parade. Seventy per cent, of the men could, perhaps, do so in a week. In three weeks, I think It would he all right for the infantry to parade, but it seems to me impracticable for more than a single regiment to parade. No more than a single regiment can be taken by rail to New York from here in one day. I'he parade would have to be made after the tiring rail journey of five hours. The only other way would he to take the men by water. 1 do not see how you could move several thousand men by water and parade them immediately after landing. There is no place in Now York to encamp the army, either before or after the parade. The armories would not hold them. Consequently it seems to me Impracticable to parade more than one regiment at a lime and that the parade of infantry regiments should not take place for two or three weeks because of their physical condition.” Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler said: “I am rather in favor of parades. I think I was responsible for the Seventy-first boys parading. The programme was for that regiment to go from the Thirty-fourth-street ferry to the armory in Thirty-fourth street. I suggested that they go up Broadway. I don t think it hurt thf*m. The fellows who were too weak to march went in vehicles. Some who began the march rode after they got tiroo. An entire regiment could ride if it ehouid be necessary.” FOR CUBAN EVACUATION. Instructions to Spain's Commlulonen Reaches Havana. HAVANA, Sept, B.—The Spanish mail steamer Ciudad do Cadiz, which arrived this afternoon, brought instructions from the Madrid government to the Spanish evacuation commissioners dealing with the details of the evacuation, the questions of fortifications, buildings, mortgages and other properties of the state to be renounced by Spain along with her sovereignty in the island. ffhe joint sessions of the commissioners will be held behind closed doors in the palace of the colonial government, and it is understood that the utmost secrecy will be observed, all avenues of Information being zealously guarded. Trie Lmted States transport Resolute, with the American military commissioners, is expected to arrive to-morrow. The commissioners, it is announced here, will live on hoard the transport, coming ashore each morning and returning In the afternoon to the vessel. Special precautions will be taken to insure absolute older and to prevent uny hostile demonstration that might possibly be made. General Soiano, who succeeded General Pando as chief of staff to General Bianco, will go on hoard the Resolute on her arrival to receive and welcome the American commissioners. Besides the Ciudad de Cadiz, the first Spanish mall steamer to arrive here since the blockade was raised, the following vessels have entered tne port within the last twenty-four hours: The steamers Aval a, from New York, Olinda, from Vera Cruz, and the coasting steam-r cuaniguanicoo, all with cargoes and passengers, and th# schooner Gabriel, from Montevideo. Olive May In Divorced. CHICAGO, Sept. 7.—The divorce decree which has held the actress. Olive May, a prisoner for the summer ai the little North Dakota village of Jamestown, has been granted, freeing her from her four years* union with Henry Guy Carleton, the playwright. Miss May went out to Jamestown scon after the close of the New York season and spent the summer in a solitary wait for the rights of citizenship. When her three months had expired she lost no time in filing her bill, giving nonsupport and desertion as her reasons for seeking divorce. According to her story the separation had been one of common agreement and had been of two years' duration.