These gentlemen are now the committee of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, to meet at the call of their chairman, General Belknap, to report to us to-morrow, at our business meeting, that their report may be adopted, modified or not, as the Society shall determine. General Belknap, you will call your committee together, and I wish this committee to be prompt in making their report, and the Society will then act upon it.

General Belknap:-I may as well now request the members of that committee to meet at my room, Room 251 at the Grand Pacific Hotel, this afternoon at 2 o'clock.

The President:-The next business in order is the selection of an orator. Are you prepared to enter upon that business?

On motion of General Bane,

Resolved, That the President nominate a committee of five to select an orator for the next meeting of the Society.

The President:-I name for the committee the following gentle

men:

General M. M. Bane, Chairman; General William E. Strong, Captain B. R. Sherman, General Wm. R. Marshall, and Major E. C. Dawes.

The President:-General Bane will call his committee together at his own pleasure, to report to the Society to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock.

General Bane:-I will request that committee to meet in the gentlemen's parlor at the Pacific Hotel, this afternoon at 3 o'clock.

The President:-The next business in order is the nomination of officers for the next ensuing year.

On motion of Colonel Pierson,

Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed to nominate officers for the next ensuing year, or until the next year.

General Rice:-I offer as an amendment to that, that we reelect the same officers that we have now for the next ensuing year.

The President:-You had better go through the forms of a nomination.

General Rice:-Can't we get outside of a caucus nomination?

The President:-We have generally gone through the forms, and elected whom we pleased. [Laughter.] I will appoint as the committee on nomination of officers for the ensuing year, Colonel R. N. Pearson, Colonel W. T. Shaw, Lieutenant Samuel T. Brush, General E. W. Rice, and Captain John H. Monroe.

The President:-Colonel Pearson, you will call your committee together at such time as you please, and report to-morrow morning, at 10 o'clock, your preferences for officers of the Society for the ensuing year.

Colonel Pearson:-I will give notice to the committee now, that we can meet in the parlor of the Grand Pacific Hotel, at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon.

The President:-Gentlemen, we have now, with reasonable despatch, transacted all the important business which called us together this morning. We have put in motion the machinery which will provide for the coming year.

Captain Tuthill:-Before the meeting adjourns, I wish to announce for the Banquet Committee, that the banquet is to take place at the Grand Pacific, at 7:30 to-morrow night, and we want every man to 'be there at 7 o'clock, in order that there may be no delay, and that we may get through our dinner in seasonable time. The tables will be arranged so that eight will sit at each table, and gentlemen who desire to sit together can arrange themselves in that order, and apply to Major Jenny, of the commitee, at the club rooms at the Grand Pacific, where the banquet tickets are sold, and he will give them a table. I wish also to announce, that, at the last meeting, a resolution was passed, that the ladies be admitted to the banquet, and that will be the course at this banquet. All who desire the company of their wives, or daughters, or other lady friends, at the banquet, can procure tickets for them at the club room at the Grand Pacific.

Lieutenant Scribner:-As the Secretary of the Local Executive Committee, I desire to announce that invitations have been accepted from the Industrial Exposition Company, of this city, for the Society to visit the Exposition, at from 2 to 4 o'clock this afternoon. Your badges will admit members. An invitation has also been extended by the Panorama Company, of the Panorama of the Battle of Shiloh, to visit and inspect that picture at from 4

to 5 o'clock this afternoon. Your badges will also admit

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Captain Tuthill:-One word further from the Banquet Committee. There was a good deal of complaint last year, as I understand, because smoking was not allowed at the banquet, and I understand the ladies said they did not wish to deprive the old soldiers of the privilege of smoking at the banquet. Now, we should, at this meeting, take some action. The banquet will be held in a large room, and I do not think smoking will inconvenience anybody.

General Warner:-I move that the thanks of the Society be tendered to the ladies for permission to smoke at the banquet. [Laughter and applause.]

Captain Tuthill:-I would like to have a motion to that effect put and carried.

The President:-I think it is the general sense of the Society that we be permitted to smoke to-morrow night at the banquet. [Laughter and applause.]

Colonel Newsham:-I move that a committee be appointed to draft resolutions in reference to our late comrade, General Grant, and place them on the records of our Society. I move that the committee consist of five members.

The President:-It is moved that a committee of five be appointed to draft suitable resolutions, commemorative of the death of our comrade, General U. S. Grant. What is the pleasure of the Society? [Cries of "Question! question! question!"]

The question, as stated, was put and carried.

The President:-How shall that committee be named ?

Voices:-By the chair.

A Member:-I move that the President of this meeting and General Logan, General Grant's two immediate successors, be named as the two leading members of that committee.

The President:-Of course, the death of General Grant is an epoch, not only in our own history, but in the history of the world. The papers have been flooded with resolutions, and what we do must be done with great care, because we were, as it were, a part

of his family; therefore, as I have to speak upon that subject, and did intend to speak to you, at this meeting, at the very initial part of the meeting, but the local committee preferred that I should defer what I had to say upon that subject until night, because they think we will have a larger and a better audience, I have deferred to their will, and what I have to say upon that subject will be written and delivered to you to-night. I think, therefore, I ought not to be on that committee, but it will give me great pleasure to name five good members, who will fulfill the office perfectly.

Several Members:-Let the chair name them.

Colonel Dodge:-I think that the very reasons stated by the chair for not serving, are the reasons for appointing the chair on the committee.

Lieutenant-Colonel Dresser:-I move that the committee be composed as follows: General Sherman, General Logan, Bishop Fallows, Govenor Oglesby, and General Green B. Raum. [Applause, and cries of "Good! good! good!".]

The question being on Colonel Dresser's motion to appoint the above named comrades as a committee to draft resolutions, commemorative of the death of General Grant, it was carried unanimously.

Captain Beem:-It seems to me very appropriate, at this moment, in the absence of any will or testimony, or other document in writing, designating to whom General Grant desired his membership to descend, to make a motion in that direction, and I move, with the chairman's approval, and the unanimous consent of this Society, for the admission into full membership into the rights, privileges and obligations of members, in accordance with the third amendment to the constitution, of the eldest son of our first commander, Colonel Fred. D. Grant.

Several Members:-He is a member already.

Captain Beem:-How does he become a member?

The President:-He was in the Army of the Tennessee as a boy. I saw him at Vicksburg. Colonel Fred. Grant is fully entitled to membersbip here, for he was with us at Vicksburg.

Captain Beem:-I did not know that Colonel Grant was a

member of this Association. In that case I will change my motion, and make it that Mrs. Grant, the widow of our first commander, be made an honorary member of this Society.

General Hickenlooper:-I suppose General Beem means that Mrs. Grant be designated as a substitute member. Our rules and regulations provide for the admission, as substitute members, of widows of members. You mean a substitute member, don't you, General? (To General Beem).

Captain Beem:-Yes, I mean a substitute member.

The President:-(To General Hickenlooper.) Am I right about Colonel Fred. Grant?

General Hickenlooper:-Yes, you are right, he is a member. The President:-The question is on the proposition to make Mrs. Grant an honorary member.

On the motion of Captain Beem being put to a vote, it was declared carried.

On motion of Colonel Miller,

Resolved, That the widow of General Crafts J. Wright, be made an honorary member of this Society.

On motion of Colonel Barnum.

Resolved, That the widow of Captain Josiah Barber be made a substitute member of this Society.

Captain Ogg:-I have a formal designation of my own son as successor to my membership. I think the proposition is in order at this time, and I will respectfully request that his name be rolled.

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General Hickenlooper:-He cannot be enrolled now, but he can succeed you.

General Sherman read the following letter from Governor J. M. Rusk, of Wisconsin:

GENERAL WM. T. SHERMAN,

EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, MADISON, WIS., September 7, 1885.

President Society Army of the Tennessee, Chicago, Ill.:

DEAR GENERAL:-I regret that I can not be present to participate in the eighteenth annual reunion of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, owing to engagements made prior to receiving notice of the time of our meeting.