People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1896 — ST. PAUL LOSES IT. [ARTICLE]

ST. PAUL LOSES IT.

G. A. R. Encampment Will Not Go to the Minnesota City. Chicago, Jan. 29. —Members of the Grand Army of the Republic will not attend an encampment at St. Paul in September. This was settled yesterday by the refusal of the Western Passenger Association to grant a thirty-day time limit on round-trip tickets. Gen. Walker in an interview said: “It is intimated to me the action of the association is in the nature of an ultimatum. My action in the matter is blocked out for me by the action of the Louisville encampment. It made a mandatory order for me to locate the encampment elsewhere than at St. Paul should we be unable to secure satisfactory rates and time limit at that place. I shall now call a meeting of the executive committee "of the council of administration and let them select a new location. Where this will be I cannot, of course, say. Three points were considered at Louisville. These, in the order of preference, were: St. Paul, Buffalo, and Denver. The two latter points are outside Western Passenger Association territory. Should the executive committee still think as it did then the ’96 encampment may be held at Buffalo.”