The San Francisco call., 1896-08-05

order and membership and to devise means
for their successful execution.
Out of the measures planned at the last great
sun. and the labors performed during the in
terim by your great chiefs and the active
members earnestly devoted to the advance
ment Of our we take IN
resenting to you the aggregate result OF the
orders Advancement.
The report proper was mainly Statistical
in nature, showing that there were at
present Al tribes in the State, three OF
which were Instituted this year.
There are 3703 mem bers now enrolled as
against 290O last year. Past sachems
number 500, past grand sachems 10 and
representatives 200
The sum of $14, ,057 20 has been ex-
pended for relief and $3083 35 for burial
purposes. The amount of wampum
forming the total assets is $50, III 73.
The degree of Pocahontas has IL coun-
ellis with a mbershlp OF 1VO4. lts total
assets are $3092 IL.
Regarding the condition OF the order the
report reads as follows:
The condition of the order is one of hopeful
activity and large increase in membership
may be confidently looked forward 10 IN tue
future. The majority OF tribes record gain,
while few record small loss. 1t will become
the duty of the Great Council to extend help
ing hand to Sioc No. 81, Wahtoke No. 63, and
Tonawanda No. 73. These tribes, from local
those who remain though earnest to maintain
their standing in the order, find 1T burden to
continue the meetings. From correspondence
lately received the membership In each OF
these localities is most willing to maintain
their organization, but they will need to be
assisted bv this Great Council as branches of
our great family OF Red Men. II tribes are IN
duty bound to assist members when in dis
tress, it follows that we, as Great Council,
should assist in the rebuilding of such tribes,
who, through adverse circumstances, have
eoII ohorcb
be expended for this purpose as well as for the
extension OF the order in other hunting
grounds.
Included were the great sun report of
the Great Keeper of Wampum William j..
Smith, and the report of the finance COM
mittee, Fred K. Brandt, w. Rotrosky,
William Cam pbell, Robert Jones; the
great sun report of the great trustees,
Davis Louderback, Henry A. Chase, Will
lam Rotrosky; the great sun report of
the great representatives, Benjamin +.
Josseiyn, Fred K. Brandt. D. f. Seavey,
and the report of the committee on cor
respondence.
This latter included report showing the
progress made by the various great coun-
ellis under the Jurisdiction of the Great
Council of the United States, and SUBJ
Joined is an account of the last great
council of the United States, where the fire
was kindled in the hunting grounds of
Providence, r. l., on the tenth sun, Moon
G. S. d. 404.
Concluding IL says:
New fires have been kindled where former
fires had become extinct and in many places
where none have ever been burned. An inter-
est in the Improved Order of Red Men has been
created which never before so widely existed,
not only among our own members, but in the
paleface world. We are to-day recognized as
never before, to be the distinctively American
fraternity. In fact it may be safely asserted
that the only present obstacle to our progress
is the financial question. Because of our pat
riotic beginnings and teachings and in the
fact that we are the only fraternity which in
any way preserves the virtues and traditions
of the ancient American people, we present
peculiar claims TO Americans which give us
their respect and good will and which viii at
tract them to our wigwams if we properly di-
rect our energies to that desirable end. We
must at all times remember that the order de-
pends upon its individuals. A Red Man can
not do, as such, without harm to the order,
some things which he may otherwise do with
out attracting pubic attention ana censure.
We are each of us part of the beautiful whole,
which it is our duty to humanity to maintain
without reproach.
Not breath's distance from the solemn
council of the braves the fair-faced maid
ems of the lodge of Pocahontas were as
sembled. The entire morning session was
devoted to the question of seating the
delegates and whether the regularly
elected delegates should have vote and
voice in the proceedings, as well as the
past great Pocahontases.
The matter was referred to the great
sachem in the tent across the way, and he
decided finally that all should be given
vote.
The committee on credentials read its
report, the delegates were seated and the
records of the last Great Council were read.
Last night the three councils, degree of
Pocahontas, gave reception to the visit
ing councils at Red Mems Hall, and to-
day, in the language of Mabel Curtis,
great Pocahontas, at the second sun of the
session, second run, setting of the sun,
the Great Council Will proceed to the elec-
ton of the great chiefs. Literally, at 2
O'Clock in the afternoon there will be an
election of great chiefs.
The adoption degree was exemplifed
last evening by the braves at Union
Square Hall, the competitive members
being Modoc tribe No. 81, Manzanita
Tribe No. 4, Arapahoe Tribe No. 76 and
Montezuma Tribe No. n. There is a
prize of 100 fathoms of wampum or $100 to
be awarded to the victorious team. The
result of the contest will be announced
this afternoon at the session of the Grand
Council.