Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1893 — LOYAL LEGION CONGRESS. [ARTICLE]

LOYAL LEGION CONGRESS.

The seventh quadrennial congress of the Loyal Legion was called to order in the Chamber of Commerce at St. Paul, Wednesday. After an address of welcome by Mayor Wright and others, tho general session was devoted to the discussion of proposed amendments to the constitution, it has been pn p wed lo extend the memben hip limitation so as to includo naval and military cadets 'of the war of the rebellion, but by an almost unanimous vote tho proposition was rejected, as tho present constitution makes all such cadets who are in active service ineligible to become members. Gen. Nelson A. Miles and Gen. Lew Wallace arrived Wednesday, and took part in the business of the meeting. The annual reunion took place at the Metropolitan Opera Honse. Addresses were delivered by Brevet MaJ. (Jen. X).

McGregg; Commodore George W. Melville, engineer-in-chief United States navy; Brevet Maj. Got. Wagner Swayne, Col. Thomas A. Livermore. Maj. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, Capt. Epbriam A. Oitls, Brevet Brig. Gen. C. F. Mandcrson, Brevet Maj. Gen. Jacob I). Cox and Col. D. P. Dyer. - ,