Columbus. Two years ago one of the greatest soldier meetings that was ever held in this country, and probably ever will be again, was held in that city, and they entertained them magnificently there. I have no doubt that that city and her people will give the Society of the Army of the Cumberland a most cordial welcome; and it is as nearly central as any other point-equally so with Indianapolis. On behalf of Columbus and those representing her, we earnestly urge that the Society adopt the motion made by GENERAL PARKHURST.

PRIVATE HUDNALL:

If it be in order, I am a member of that Committee, and when we met yesterday there was no invitation extended to meet at any particular place. We waited a reasonable length of time, and received no invitation, and Indianapolis was suggested, and it was unanimously adopted by the Committee that this Society meet next year at Indianapolis. The strongest reason urged there for it, and none was urged against it, was that two years ago, I think, the Society met in Chicago, Illinois. To-day we are in Toledo, Ohio, and it must be remembered that while the State of Ohio furnished the largest number of organizations, I believe, of any State in the Union to make up the Army of the Cumberland, Illinois was second and Indiana third. I believe that is the record, as shown.

Indianapolis is certainly the most central point that we could select, and I believe that it is but just to the State of Indiana that this Society hold its next annual meeting at the city of Indianapolis, and I therefore move, as a substitute to the motion of GENERAL PARKHURST, that the next meeting of the Society be held at Indianapolis, Chickamauga week of next year.

GENERAL PARKHURST: .

I hope the amendment or substitute will not be carried. This Society is very well known in the State of Indiana, and there are a great many members of the Society who reside in Indiana, and many

of them in Indianapolis. If they were desirous of entertaining this Society, it seems to me that they would show that desire, and extend to us the courtesy of an invitation.

I don't want to press my presence upon any individual, and as a Society I would not like to press our presence upon that city. If they had extended an invitation, I would have agreed with the Comrade in the proposition to have our next meeting in the State of Indiana, but they not having extended an invitation, and we having received an invitation from Columbus, I think we ought to go there.

GENERAL CIST:

I would like to offer an amendment to the report of the Committee as to Chickamauga week. That is indefinite in this essential particular, that the 19th and 20th of September, which are known in the Society as Chickamauga days, come on Saturday and Sunday. It is much more convenient to a number of our members who are required to perform certain duties under the laws of the State of Ohio with reference to making up pay-rolls, and the payment of employes, to meet in the week following or the week preceding. It is about an even thing whether it is one week or the other, just so it is understood. So I move that the time be fixed as the Wednesday and Thursday after the 20th of September of next year, so as to accommodate the greater number of our members.

The amendment was agreed to.

THE PRESIDENT :

Now comes the motion by GENERAL PARKHURST. If you are ready for the question, we will vote by ballot, and I will appoint COLONEL FOx for one canvasser and CAPTAIN CLEM for the other.

COLONEL STONE:

While this vote is being collected, may I call the attention of the President of the Society to Article 6 of the By laws :

"That prior to the final adjournment of the Society, at each annual meeting thereof, the President shall appoint a committee of three members, residents of the city in which such meetings shall be, and not officers of the Society, as a Committee on Bills and Claims, and to such committee all claims against the Society, of whatever character, should be referred for investigation and allowance before being paid." Now that article or by-law has not been acted upon for a number of years, and yesterday we voted on a claim that was presented a short time ago in regard to the Washington meeting of 1879.

We voted yesterday to pay the claim that had occurred in 1879, because of our neglect to appoint an Auditing Committee at the time, and I would suggest that before this meeting adjourns, the Committee required by that by-law shall be appointed, so that no claim shall come upon us hereafter without full information.

THE PRESIDENT:

Let me ask a question while we are on that point. You say this by-law has fallen into desuetude for how long? What is the reason of it?

GENERAL FULLERTON:

Simply because there wasn't any use for it.

GENERAL MORGAN:

There wasn't any use for it, and I call your attention to the fact that during the years we first held our meetings, we held them without invitations.. We contracted our own bills and paid our own expenses, and there was no extra entertainment. The Local Executive Committee didn't make much calculation for any special entertainment as they have been in the habit of doing of late years so generously, and in that way that by-law fell into neglect. It seems to me, by the neglect until this morning of receiving any invitation from

any place, that the time may be coming again for that procedure, and our vote to go to Indianapolis without an invitation was on that line. I think it is probably in the near future, if we continue our meetings, that we shall have to go to places without invitation and have our meetings, as we originally had them, on our own account. Therefore, as I understand, it will be well to carry out the by-law as originally designed and intended.

GENERAL PARKHURST :

I think, Mr. President, it would depend a good deal upon the habits and character of the committee.

THE PRESIDENT:

I think we could get through the form of doing it. I will consult the Local Committee before I take action in the matter.

COLONEL ROPER:

If you will allow me to suggest to the gentlemen present that if they are careful to settle their bills before they leave the hotel, the other proposition will not be necessary at all.

Here the vote was announced as follows:

For Columbus, 39; for Indianapolis, 19.

THE PRESIDENT:

That carries the report of GENERAL BARNETT, with the amendment as to the time which GENERAL CIST made. GENERAL WOOD will please report for the Committee on Orator and Alternate.

GENERAL WOOD:

The Committee appointed to select Orator and Alternate beg

leave to report to the Society that we have selected GENERAL E. S. MEYER, Orator, and GENERAL F. C. WINKLER, Alternate. I believe our selection needs no discussion from us. Of course we leave it to the Society to ratify the report which I am instructed by the Committee to lay before the Society.

The report was adopted.

THE PRESIDENT:

The next report will be from the Committee on Nomination of Officers.

GENERAL MORGAN:

The Committee on the Nomination of Officers of the Society have attended to the duties assigned them, and report as follows:

For President.

GENERAL W. S. ROSECRANS.

For Corresponding Secretary.

GENERAL HENRY M. CIST.

For Recording Secretary.

COLONEL JOHN W. STEELE.

For Treasurer.

GENERAL J. S. FULLERTON.