Tanner's Plans

Columbia, Tenn., May 11.- The prooeed. ings of the Scotoh-Irish Congresa yesterday were opened by an address from Dr. D. O. Kelley, of Nashville, who spoke for tha South In the reunión of the blue and the gray eet for the day. He was followed by Comralssioner-or-Penslons Tanner In a leñgthy speech. He dwelt largely upon the war and its veterans, and Bpoke most klnrlly of those whom ha had once met as foemen. In speaking of the pollcy to be pursued by him as Commisaioner iu the adminlstration of the Pension Bureau he said that it was the bounden duty of thls great Bepublic to see to lt that no man who wore the blue and lald lt off in honor should ever feel the necessity of or be pennitted to orawl under the roof of an almshouse for shelter. Tha wolf of want must in common deoency ba driven from the door of the maimed and diseased veteran, and of the widows and orphans of those who have already lald down thelr lives. On the subject of State aid for Confedérate veterans he claimed that it was tha moral and religious obligatlon of the States of the South who passed the ordinance of eecesslon in the mud heat of passion and led tha enthusiastio youths of the land into the war, it was the ir duty through State leglulation to enact suoh laws and to make such appropriations as would proride for them in theix decllning years.