veteran organizations meet here at the same time-the week pre

ceding July 4th next.

This week has been selected for several reasons. The Centennial Exhibition will open May 10th, and at the date of meeting will be in full blast. The park will look prettier then than at any time later until the fall of the year. Necessarily, the most interest will center in the celebration of July 4th, and the week selected will enable all the different organizations to have their own special reunions-give one day for a general meeting-while those who prefer to rough it for the week, can be provided for in tents or temporary barracks.

We hope, through our State government, to secure from the United States a sufficient number of tents for this purpose. It will be unnecessary to enlarge upon the inducements for such a meeting. We shall never have another such opportunity for a reunion of the veteran soldiers and sailors, and I trust your Society will by a unanimous vote decide to meet at the time and place named. Yours fraternally,

ROBT. B. BEACH,
Adjutant-General G. A. R.

GENERAL PARKHURST said:

Mr. Chairman :-I move you, sir, that the thanks of this Society be tendered to the writer of that communication, and that it be referred, as to the place of meeting for the next year, to the appropriate committee to be designated for that purpose.

Which motion was carried.

The Recording Secretary, COLONEL STEELE, read another communication in relation to holding the next meeting of the Society at Chautauqua Lake, which was, on motion of GENERAL PARKHURST, also referred to the same Committee.

GENERAL STREIGHT remarked that the Constitution and By-laws provided for the manner of selecting a place for the holding of the meetings of the Society, consequently all these motions were out of order.

The President replied that it was a mere matter of courtesy, and that they would of course be referred to the appropriate committee, and stated further, in another connection, that he would now call upon the Secretary to announce the committees for the ensuing year.

The standing committees were then announced as follows:

Committee on Nomination of Officers for ensuing year:

GENERAL D. S. STANLEY,

GENERAL A. D. STREIGHT,

GENERAL JAMES BARNETT,

COLONEL H. N. FISHER,

MAJOR R. S. LA MOTTE,

CAPTAIN ROBERT HUNTER,

LIEUTENANT H. P. SCHUYLER.

Committee on Orator:

GENERAL CHARLES CRUFT,

GENERAL ELI MURRAY,

COLONEL A. B. CRANE,

MAJOR R. E. A. CROFTON,

SURGEON J. D. BROMLEY,

CAPTAIN WM. MCCRORY,

CAPTAIN GEORGE WILLIAMS.

Committee on Memoirs :

GENERAL A. G. McCook,
COLONEL HUNTER BROOKE,
CHAPLAIN WM. EARNSHAW,

CAPTAIN HARRISON MILLARD.

Committee on Publication:

GENERAL HENRY M. CIST,

COLONEL M. P. BESTOW,

MAJOR W. H. Bright.

Committee on Time and Place of Next Meeting:

GENERAL J. G. PARKHURST,

COLONEL W. H. GREENWOOD,
COLONEL J. M. BOONE.

The President and GENERAL PARKHURST announced, informally, that the Committees of which they were Chairmen would meet in the parlors of Bagg's Hotel during recess, and an announcement of the same character was afterward made by the Chairmen of the other Committees.

GENERAL PARKHURST then said:

I have a matter which I wish to bring before the Society-a matter in which we are all very much interested.--I feel deeply interested myself in it; and that is, an accurate history of the Army of the Cumberland, and I have drawn a resolution in relation to it, which I now offer:

Resolved, That we appreciate all efforts to produce truthful histories of the National Armies, and we rejoice to learn that CHAPLAIN VAN HORNE'S History of our Army, written at the re

quest of GENERAL THOMAS, and represented to be a truthful and complete narrative of its campaigns and battles, will soon be published by Robert Clarke & Co., Cincinnati. Confident of the integrity and ability of CHAPLAIN VAN HORNE, we most heartily commend this work to the members of our Army and the people of the country.

The motion being seconded, GENERAL STREIGHT said:

While I have great faith in CHAPLAIN VAN HORNE, who is a personal friend of mine, and while I do not doubt but that it is an accurate history, it seems to me that this Society should not indorse the book until the book has been criticised, and then the indorsement will do some good. Now, understand, I am not raising any opposition, for, as I have before remarked, I have great confidence in the Chaplain, but I have never read a page of his book, and it is with me a question whether we ought to indorse the book. Let us first see what it is, and then the indorsement will do good. Without that it will do harm.

GENERAL McCook said:

As I understand this matter, the Chaplain, who is a personal friend of mine, has had access to the official record of General THOMAS, and if we indorse his official ability and integrity, it seems to me that we do not commit ourselves by passing this resolution, and I hope it will pass unanimously.

GENERAL STREIGHT said:

In my remarks just now, I meant that if we undertook to indorse anything, it should be worth something. That is the questian I am raising, and no other; there is not any personal feeling, for I expect the book is all right.

GENERAL PARKHURST said :

My friend, GENERAL STREIGHT, seems to think that this is a matter we want proof of, but I have that confidence in the integrity and ability of CHAPLAIN VAN HORNE to feel that he would not publish a statement in his work, purporting to be a history of the Army of the Cumberland, which was not correct, and for which he has not good vouchers; and in the fact that CHAPLAIN VAN HORNE has labored vigorously upon this work for the past ten years, at the special request of GENERAL GEORGE H. THOMAS, and that GENERAL THOMAS not only gave him access to official records, but he also placed, in his hands his private papers. GENERAL THOMAS, whom we all loved, has selected CHAPLAIN VAN HORNE to write the history of the Army of the Cumberland, and it is satisfactory to me that it is a correct history.

GENERAL DANIEL BUTTERFIELD, of New York, offered the following, which was adopted:

Resolved, That the resolution be printed at the expense of the Society, and sent by circular to each member.

The resolution as amended was then passed unanimously.

CAPTAIN WILLIAM MCCRORY desired to offer an amendment to Section II. of the By-laws, which reads thus:

II. Every officer and soldier desiring to become a member of this Society shall, upon signing the Constitution, pay to the Treasurer the sum of five dollars as an initiation fee, and thereafter, the like sum of five dollars per annum as yearly dues; and shall thereupon be entitled to a copy of the Proceedings of the Society, when published, free of charge.