The Washington Bee Newspaper, August 3, 1907, Page 1

“WASHINGT« ON *Ri@IQt] Teugisss.1gu0g VoL, 27 NO. 10 WASE IINGTON, Dp. C., SATURDAY AUGUST 3, 1907. (id-Fellows Split TON DEFEATED. s VOLUTIONARY METH- e THE SUB-COMMITT 0 AGEMENT. THE COURT | J S$ 1T. ENTIRE SOUTH| ielphia, a July 27. I Houston, of Washington, 1 D elected ee Master of t ws in America, has at last : a What would have er has been turned | r nd a dissolution of the or- Alabama cases were y, but before a deci- 1a bill was filed ask- lerec ‘ ; ub-committee of mans ' x ced in the hands of receiv- ; following is from the Pt : rd taday : | f K ODD FELLOWS AT WAR.| 7 n for a Receiver for Sub- | : i ec of Management. ’ Clinton, Jr., J. P. Cren : s t dges of the n laws of the orde r, are) mbers of the com- € » summoned as de-] uit. The latter are W.| i Porter, James F.| j homas P.Wood- awrence and A, T. Shir- é that the sub-committee ed the salaries of the tant secretary, giv- asurer at the last g of the movable commit- verning body. -laws of the order pro- rand secretary shall re- and other committee, and shall over to the nd treas- ged that he the treasurer ons, fines collected from each s to be hich fund w ng for} n this city. The secretary it is asserted, from the copies of the laws, ete., of the order, $20,000, ise refused to ac- asure es n the bill avers that five| were elected to the committee nge or altera- nt without any cha he charter, which provides for ur directors, and that the sub- holding “trials” of mem- ions of by-laws, | s charged with viola pite its leged want of jurisdiction d power to act in such matters.” This is the second suit filed against the administration of W rder under the Houston, which tends to be a failure, first in the history of the organiza- In his speech before the sub- com- ttee of management this week he de- editor in wt ed The Bee and takable terms. The Bee’s report of proceedings of the sub-committee of nt in the Georgia and Alabama | < has offended the Houston faction, | which is om the down road of defeat moment those suits were filed rd Morris, who has been dominat- committee, announced himself e for Grand Master at the M. C. He declared to-day that Houston and now he will un-! m. Morris need not have said) ston has killed himself. He | than a plaything in the hands His sub-committee of man- | ing to look at | first six hundred votes polled were |in power were bent upon punishing and | egates present. A farce was gone through {in the Courts of Alabama, }to suspend Grand Master Howze for tion. to spend over two hundred thousand dol- | | lars. | The overwhelming defeat of Houston and his sate | DR. THI rs in the ch eaivieel is predicted at the next B. M. C Tt is claimed that the new Odd Fel-! lows’ building is a fraud. It is disgust- | The next B. M. C. will President | election of jthe faculty by the unar tee, order the sale of the new building, andj p, E dw one will be erected in Washington city The South is aroused, and the follow- ing States have joined the Mérris combination: Pennsylvania, } yland Virginia, Al sippi, Texas, South Caro- lina, North Carolina, Illinois, New York, Tennessee, Rhode Island and Massachu- | setts. Thes | : “ professorsh field, he ha anti-Houston- | ~ | negie Foun ew} ama, Howard ne few institut Parke is Northweste: taught States have rebelled against | the tyrannical methods of the sub-com- | | was preside a . | where he f the head officials remarked to- | i y that the removal of the printing | i - |sOme years ant was objected to, too; that the of- nittee of management. One ened | mon ice force did not want to come in con- tact witl the dirty printing office labor- : | it took sixty years to build up| e Odd Fellows this wild goose sub- | mittee of management has destroyed | n six months | | nt ordér should so soon be destroyed | It is to be d that such a bril- by bad leadership, THE TROUBLE IN THE ODD FEL LOWS. The beginning of the present trouble in the Grand United Order of Odd Fel- ne Thirteenth B. M. C. mond, Va., last Octob At this meeting there were 1,400 delegates} enrolled. When it came to the election t and all-day ! hel of officers, after an all-n | | | ion, and the polling of about six it beca: { hundred vote Me apparent that 1 vote could not be polled at the | same rate before Monday morning. Had the roll call been regularly completed, | a number of delegates—approximately, | | seven to eight hundred—from Far S ern States, would have been compelled to | pay double transportation, for the rea-| n son that their tickets expired at 12 no Tuesday, This state of affa for the bringing about of a compromise airs was responsible | | | in which those who were ahead in the knowle e to be the legal officers, and| truce between all contending factions was patched up. At the first meeting of the new sub- ttee of management, which was in- Lugurated second Monday in Jan uary, 1907, it became*apparent that those GANIZ destroying the influence of the leaders] in the States which opposed them, and illegally, and irregularly, | | | to that end, \ | contrary to all precedent in the order, ordered the District Grand Master of the District Grand Lodge of Alabama to call | Howard at Mr. Erne sition as t gain after having his lodge together a » adjourned for six months. The ors the lodge was reconvened in extra session “i and the Grand Master, W. L. with about fifty out of four hundred del- the degree Houston, dred and e degree of Johnson and a co- only two 1 through with, and one C. F terie of his own, attempted, Grand Mastter Housten, to foist. them- selves up@n the loyal Odd Fellows of Alabama. ave been entered program h “Phi Beta Choate Sch “Honors,” Two suits and in each case Grand Master Howze and the reg» Both of | °° writes Dr, ular organization have won. these cases are now pending in the Court of Appeals in the State of Alabama. Notwithstanding this fact, under the | leadership of Grand Master Houston, at the present session of the sub-committee attempt was made serves all of high ab utation an reaching ¢ of management, an is fi ; acquisition five years. unless he assented to the il-| #°4 Johnson and turn legal election of C. the interests of the widows and orphans who were interested in the Endowment Alabama over to C. F. 4 to i ance 5 ege ot should be Department of Johnsen, who owns a small in v composed of weak men. | pendent, is the only real man + Davis has re mittee. Edit nor certain extravagant and ls that have never been author- | offense that Editor |! 1, and for which he | 1 re this committee ackass move that was made | mmon Editor J. C. Asbery to He was charged with having i the dissenting opinion of Edi-| V One fool in the committee | 1t Editor Asbery, but | in slerate it. Ed. Mo to make answer for the entire} Benjamin Davis, | clined to! ttee, but Editor ta Independent, di m to make his answer. The} rt of Davis will show up some le and illegal misappropriation of} funds of the order which he de- ed to honor. His refusal threw con- | ternation into the camp of the oppos!- njamin Davis, editor of the|t sub-comm? | the F desires to get control of company f ablest men the Endowment Department of Alabama. callec In addition to these irregularities, the} Deen cate Ze of management at its J d 1ary meeting, unlawfully attempted to} are null and void the law providing for national endowment, and the elec- f J. McHenry Jones national s1 | perintendent of edowment; the appoint- ciety Commit- d te in a ingt Ivar ment : for the increase| botany an tee; the law praviding n the initiation fee of the Members of | "°! an aman of € g for the in xsuer’s salary— law provic the order; the ase of the Grand Tr and in fact almost everything done by everything ing prepar three thou slides. H d by M. C. except their own election. A eontract has been entered into for cat the building of a building which, to- with the site upon which it now] will cost approximately one hun- learned th ver get t gether stands, | for life. It is a significant fact that} « seven years; for six years he Theological where he took front . id confidence of the Negro race by his loy | DISTRIC1 alty, courag a brilliant record at Dartmouth and hon- Negro race in having only man who did so among one hun of henors—“Commencement Sta “Special Honors.” high character with an unstained rep-| either have the teachers’ instinct, the love problems, ¢ sticeessor to Professor H yn, is Prof. R. FE. an experienced t { acre, wate el HOWARD UNIVERSITY Foraker The | | RKIELD ME | N Thirkield BUSI announces the} several strong members to} FORAKER’S CHALLENGE. of Howard University, all} AND THE TARIFF. NO RE- nimous action of the commit- PEAL OF THE 14TH AND | 15TH AMENDMENTS. ard L ks comes to the} THE SOUTH TO ip vacated by Dean Fair- BLAME. ving been placed on the Car-| Bellefontaine, Ohio, July 3e dation with a liberal pension} ut the »w takes a place among the } wh ions on this Foundation. Dr. | tary an honor graduate of the | tor rm University, he included the Tillman, where Senator nt of Simpson College, Iowa, | speech but digressed doubled the attendance and | siring the courses of study to stop, the aud ; for ; to proceed. he was professor in Gam-| A challenge was is Seminary Atlanta, | make specific what cha gained the | the tariff. MR. C. A. H Tl GRAND MASTER OF ER AMONG ODD FELLOWS IN THE SOUTH. raft, Congressman Burton, nges he d aker made some sharp remarks to- Chautauqua President, and Governor Vardaman | he} of Mississippi. He spoke in reply to| far beyond the bounds of reason, de- Tillman’s ree emt race-prc when, after lience urged sued to Ta } . : I see his is going to make a speech} feeling by repealing the TAFT | talks on that subject, Aseembly, in| of them, fully agree with him. esires in| 4 tandsthen continued ; Tillman, said in part: “Before taking up anything else I want to speak briefly in answer to some ut- |terances of Senator Tillman. He has een making a speech in Ohio. It was This is his fayor- ite topic. He is at his best when he but his best is also his, worst “He is one of the frankest and one of the ablest men the South has ever} | produced. Everyone is fond of him as | a man, but his views on this subject are nator | so extreme that but few of his Demo- cratic colleagues in the Senate, if any In this j latest speech he is quoted as saying: after the war, the North had not, ecre- na- | ‘If, in its passion and sectional hatred, gone »blem | cency, and righteousness, there would de- | today be no race problem. him} “‘We resent and resist the doctrine! | of equality under the Fourteenth and ft to| Fifteenth Amendments, You have done wrong. has done wrong. It can remedy the; fteenthAmend- | ment and letting the States contro] the | The North PARAGRAPHIC. NEWS 3Y MISS BEATRIZ L. CHASE. Thomas Black, of Kenton, Ohio, a | leading Republican and two-term mayor, acknowledged the forgerly of $28,000, | covering a period of nine years, | The acquittal of W. D. Haywood ends | the remarkable trial at Boise, Idaho. - Ought a minister who uses slang in the pulpit, with his pants turned up, to eriticise the young man who wears what the minister calls “snaked toed shoes”? { No! } Revs. G. W. Lee and M. W. D. Nor- j™man attended the North Carolina Bap- tist State Convention. ; The National Association of Teachers met in its fourth session at Hampton Institute Thursday and Friday of this | week. The True Reformer organization could “perpetuate its founder’s memory, the jlate W. W. Browne,” in no better way than by building an Old Folks’ Home. Mr. Joseph A. G ———= | franchise i nes, who died at Cannot Force Equal od hoine, 1612 Arctic avenue, Atlantic (Ci two Sundays ago, was the son of his discussion is in the nature of protest against Nothing could be more! wide of the mark | social equality Everybody under- | | | = | | “All the way througl | } stood then, as now, t at social equality cannot be forced upon anybody. “The purpose of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments was to provide political equality, to put all citizens of the United States, whether rich or poor, white or black, upon the same plane, so far as political rights of citizenship * were concerned. “What I want to answer is his charge that in hatred and passion theFourteenth | und Fifteenth Amendments to the Cgn- ‘ stitution were forced upon the South, j and that in this way the North need- j lesssly precipitated upon the South the} evils they suffered during the recon- | struction period. These amendments,not fully } made necessary by the situation created manded by the war itself, were seceding States immediately af- ter the war.” Senator Foraker discussed conditions ‘at the close of the war at great length, ; “If they had secepted the Fourteenth | Amendment there would not have been jany Fifteenth Amendment, for with the Fourteenth Am dment accepted and all eceding States restored to their in the government, the ratification nd Mrs. Gaines, of Fauquier coun- Va. Thermometers reg ; stered 179 degrees in the sun in’ some parts of Texas last Sunday. It is said that it was the most terrific heat visitation ever known in Te Millions are as, said to be China from the famine. The funeral of Senator Pettus, of Ala- bama, who died at Hot Springs, N. C., last Saturday night took place Ala., last Tuesday afternoon, The N National Packing Company,known as the Beef Trust, has purchased the stock in the Colorado Packing Com- pnay William R, Kenyon, number of Starving in at Selma, who was for a ars a business partner of Senator Clark, ang twice Mayor of Butte, Mont., died at his country home, n Amsterdam, N. J., at the age of 67 years. Teofila Pettrilla, the leader of the strike at Hibbing, Minn., was placed un- der arrest last Tuesday morning, on the charge of carrying concealed weapons, The important subject discussed by the George Washington University last Tues- day evening was the abolition of capital | punishment in the District of Columbia. It is stated that any patient who has n $50 value in his possessioin en to Bellevue ZI } ifteenth Amendme the ENSLEY, ALA. THE GREATEST OR- | Tauisite number of States w ait | | been an impossibility ' = é eee | Says South Was at Fault | 1 “If, therefore, there be fault to" ge and ability. He comes to| at Colur st Everett Just accepts a po eacher of English. He has of magna cum laude, the | essary or begin to tinker. ighty-two graduates, even the “I am not now a ¢ cum laude being granted to] office, but if I ever am I will not get| be difficult to exaggerate the unfriend- } men. On the commencement the lockjaw. I think is name stands in every li ing Kappa holar, taking all the three given, al-} Professor Foster | Thirkield: “Mr. these honors and is a fellow] can tox ility. He is also a man of { office Standing,” and Honorable Mention,” | torily, Desires Free y. Sugar, in d with high aims and fa . es mes, ° He seems to me t0} eliminate myself. apacity to see questions which usked and afswered, mpart infotmation.” and ajc nate, ward P. Davis, class of 07s | place tI help it Arts and Sciences, one © te | criticised Presid Roosevelt in a refe | the results, but only a solemn sense ever sent from Howard, ha ence.ip Prcadt Andrew Jackson, in! of : i to a) position im: the which he saic Johnson was one of Can N Be those Presidents who jlieved the executive and he m » take charge of the t Il the white high sch Schat thing, most nage verybody nia State Normal dealng with Senator 1 er in biolog d has gained some distine-} 71), original investigator. He S| Mississippi, for they xceptional gifts and will bring by the laboratory method,b ical utterance own hand ve Whe ed by his you isand permanent mucroscopic cone voting ag: is modern methods the following: “My may know that -was book work until they have] .44. defiantly. © specimen, ex In concluding the part of the sentiment of the South in t only man who opposed it,” “If there and I insist quite) i5per anywhere who has not been ben- bus, and I would like to the height of his power }him tell what he wants changed in the tariff, for | am getting particular the views of men who want to be Presi-{fusal to accept the dent. Let us go slow in this matter,| ment, not only compelled reconstruction, taken | and be certain that any changes are ne would be beneficial before we | fication of the andidate for every representa-/| Jy character of the legislation I tive of the people should be able to an-| them that was enacted immediately after swer the questions of his Speech. { “But don’t draw any big stick on_him, Just de-| for that won't work on the iree the way of appointments, don’t help it When I can’t walk around and Jexpress the opinions I entertain, I will} sentiment in the North that secured the ; } He said that he had heard that Con-| ment and led to the Fifteenth Amend- and cateful investigation, 4) ¢ressman Burton wanted a revision, and| ment, by which it readiness to attack and a power to solve | ajso that he had heard it ramored that State should have the right to deny or Burton wanted to succeeti him in the “L am not going t let him have the] servitude. He apparently | ther was it hatred that broaght about had polic power is d to displ illman, he said the | hear people talking about] to particip bill you | t the r I, for I was the id the a about | secedir constituents, “Rufus | and if he is not able to do so satisfac- let him be recalled. Ameri-) kind of legislation, coupled represent have find with anybody on account of the ‘ Fifteenth Amend it rests with the 1ey, by their re- ourteenth Amend-} g States, fc but precipitated submission and rati- ifteenth Amendment. “They accentuatedall this by their any treatment of the freed men. It would affecting the war in most of the seceding States. “Itis no exaggeration to say that the spirit of this legislation was not justice, and that of the most ma- character. This with refusal but injustice, licious and reveng post-| to accept what were thought to be the any,} generous terms of the Fourteenth Amendment, naturally created a public | ratification of the Fourteenth Aménd- ided that n | Ss p abridge the right to vote on account of race, color, or previous condition of But it was not passion, nei- and allied hos- pitals at New York may be charged $1.50 a day for treatment in the insti- tutions. Dr. John D, Ballard being the first dark-skinned citizen ever admitted to the New Jersey Rental So- ciety. has the honor of Postmaster General Meyer has issued an order which says that all lawyers Postoffice Depart- ment must be members of the District Supreme Court of the State or Territory practicing before t to which they belong. Miss Helen P. Gray, who was charged with obtaining money from the Crow In- dians on their reservation in Montana under false pretenses, has been arrested and put in jail at Billings, Mont The Zion Ministers’ Assoeiation of the District of Columbia and Baltimore, a new colored religious organization, has been formed. The law of Maryland is very strict bor. Charges have against Sunday | already been made against some pefsons. Helen at Pittsburg, committed suicide not long cutting herself with a razor 3ailey Trowbridge, an actress ago by across the throat. Night Policeman John H Dotigherty, of Crisfield, Md., was shot and instantly killed last Saturday night by James Reed, half Negro and half Indian. Otto Hoffman, who was appointed a ne, except « “There wa ly when t Iment was | | en adopt- ed been a time 1 it could have | since been r in my opinion, there people need not worry about men Ii ever will be a time when it cam be re- and Governor an Of| pealed, simply because it was right then| It was a great for cognition by gove of citizens gover! ment of to have ¢ protection under it lf ¢ ontinued to ) page four. BALTO. AND OHIO E CU SION. Sunday, August 4, $1.00 to Harpers Se single in their government andj | pected to spend, and in spite dred and twenty thousand dollars. It is ‘ as the order ex- | hands of the] memories. costing twice as much Contiuned to page five. strongly upon their learning to use their anid eyes, an@ not merely their efited by it, 1 There are some good things in the bill — READ THE BEF and those I wrote into it myself.” Puts Blame on South. Senator Foraker, I have not heard of him. answering Senator Ferry ‘and sage ae « and return. $1.35 to Berkeley Springs and return. $2.00 to Cumberland and return. Special train leaves Washington at 815 am keeper in the Bronx Park Zoo at New | Ye ‘ork, was attacked by an elephant at the Zoo last week A monument dedicated to the memory jot Major James Stewart, who com- | manded Battery B, Fourth United States. Artillery, in the Civil War, was unveil- ed at the Arlington National Cemetery: last Sunday, | BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD. to Niagara Falls, August 2 and 16; Popular excur only $10 round trip ursion tickets will be sold on the above dates, good going only on Special Train leaving Washington at 7.45 a.m., j arriving Niagara Falls at 11.00 p.m. Tickets valid for return ten (10) days, | including date of sale, on all regular trains, except “Black Diamond Express,” | of Lehigh Valley Route. | Call on ticket agents for pamphlet giving full particulars as to stop-overs, | side-trips, etc. | d | September 6 and 20; October 6, 1907. ae