GENERAL ORDERS, HEADQUARTERS GRAND Army of the Republic, INDEPENDENCE HALL,

IV. The Commander-in-Chiet announces with sadness the death of

COMRADE WHEELOCK G. VEAZEY.

Past Commander-in-Chief and Past Department Commander o the Department of Vermont, which occurred in Washington, D. C., March 22, 1898. He was born in Brentwood, New Hampshire, December 5, 1835. was a graduate of Dartmouth College in 1859, a private in Co. A, 3d Vermont Volunteers, May, 1861, promoted to Captain, to Major, to Lieutenant-Colonel. In 1862 became Colonel of the 16th Regiment Vermont Volunteers, and was mustered out with them in August, 1863. Failing health prevented his return to the service. He was awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor "for distinguished gallantry at the battle of Gettysburg, July 3, 1863,"

Comrade Veazey was a soldier of distinguished service, a citizen of spotless character, a comrade whom we all loved and who filled every station to which he was called with fidelity. His life, filled with successes that came to him as a reward for honest endeavor, uprightness of character and devotion to duty in war and peace, must serve as an inspiration to the rising generation, and be to his comrades of the war a solace and a comfort in an hour of sadness. He was a conspicuous American citizen soldier. We loved and honored him living, and mourn him dead. To his ashes peace; to his memory everlasting honor.

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[From Proceedings Thirty-second National Encampment]

RESOLVED, That the Adjutant-General be directed to prepare and enter upon the Journal a proper minute expressive of the deep regret of the members of the National Encampment that Past Commander-in-Chief

COMRADE WHEELOCK G. VEAZEY

has been removed from our councils by death, and the Adjutant-General is also instructed to have such minute properly engrossed and presented to the family of the dead comrade.

[From Address of J. P. S. Gobin, Commander-in-Chief.]

The death of Past Commander-in-Chief Wheelock G. Veazey, while not expected, yet came upon our membership as a summons to one whom we loved. Eminent as a soldier and as a citizen, his charming personality had made a deep impression upon all of us and his loss was sincerely mourned. I assisted in the ceremonies at his grave, and the ritual of the Grand Army, the volleys of the firing party amid the graves at Arlington seemed a fitting close to so kindly, so eminent, so worthy a life.

will have something to say, Comrades, when this Encampment is ready to take up this question as to the selection of the location of the next meeting.

The COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF: I will put the question and it will be before the Encampment. The motion is in order and has been duly seconded that we hold the next Encampment in the city of Philadelphia.

COMRADE COOK: I move to substitute the city of Denver.

COMRADE WARNOCK: I move to make this subject a special order at 3 o'clock.

The motion prevailed.

On motion of Comrade Warnock recess was taken until 2.30 p. m.

AFTERNOON SESSION.

2:30 P. M.

The COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF: Has any comrade any new business to be presented in this Encampment? Are there any committees prepared to report? The next order of business is the election of officers. In view of the sparse attendance we will delay that for a short time unless objected to.

The Committee on Pensions presented the following report, and a motion was made that the report be received and adopted.

CINCINNATI, September 10, 1898.

J. P. S. Gobin, Commander-in-Chief, G. A. R.: Your Committee on Pensions has the honor to submit the following report:

Early in the year the committee held a meeting in Independence Hall, Philadelphia, at which, by the request of the committee, the Commander-in-Chief was present. After a careful review and a serious consideration of the status of the pension laws and the pensioners, it was decided that it would not be expedient to press upon Congress the question of new legislation, but rather to confine the efforts of the committee to urging the prompt consideration of claims now pending, the modification of certain rulings which have seemed unjust, and above all gathering the data to prove whether or not the charges of certain newspapers and