The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-05-16
A. P. A. AND M'KINLEY
SUPREME COUNCIL MAY ExONERATE
THE OHIO STATESMAN.
Action of the Executive Committee
Likely to Be Rcpudiated-Rcvi-
sion of the Ritual.

WASHINGTON. May 15.-Various matters
OF significance to the interests of the A. p.
A. were brought before the Supreme Coun-
Gil OF that body at its meeting to-day. The
session devoted mainly 10 the consid-
Grafton of committee reports and addresses
by the members. Five Congressman spoke
before the council during the afternoon.
Among these WERE Messrs. Linton. of
Michigan. and Hilborn, of California The
report of the committee on agitation was
taken up. The committee took the ground
that agitation without education is danger
Gus TO the cause. Education, it was held,
must come first, and TO this end the COM
mittee recommended that a bureau Of in
formation be established. This bureau was
to consist of the supreme president and one
member of each of the various State coun-
ellis.
The work Of the junior A. p. A. was re-
viewed and the proposition urged that the
body be placed under the control of the
women's auxiliary Of the A. p. A. The
main point of the report, however, was the
recommendation that all the property in the
United States except such as is owned and
used by national, state or municipal organi-
cations be taxed. The committee ritual
and paraphernalia also made an extended
report. 1t covers number of technical
changes in the ritual. An Armenian sub
scription was raised and resolutions giving
expression to the organizations sympathy
for the Armenian cause, will be framed at
once by committee resolutions.
The ritual as finally revised by the COM
m5ttee makes no direct reference TO the
Roman Catholic Church, but makes a
sweeping manifest against Sectarianism in
governmental matters in a general way.
The direct reference was stricken out late
this afternoon after long and heated con-
troverSy, the advocates OF the proposition
finally prevailing in the committee of the
whole, and the 1ull report OF the committee
was then adopted.
The advisory board which has been deal
ing with the blacklisting of Major Mckin-
ley by its executive committee finished IT'S
laoors tonight and will report to the coun-
Gil in the morning. 1t was stated on what
appeared to be good authority that the
board had before it persons VINO had been
sent to Ohio and seen Mr.. Mckinley and
that they had received satisfactory an
swers to questions propounded to him" No
official statement of such proceedings, now
ever, could be obtained. 1t was reported on
seemingly good authority tonight that the
board would report that the executive COM
mittee had been misled by the evidence
which 1t used as basis for the b.acklisting
ton to DE unreliable and untrustworthy. and
that it would further recommend that the
order should not indorse or condemn any
candidate Tor preSldentlal nonorS.
General GrOSyenor, of Ohio, who Ii was
said sent to Judge Stevens certain charges
against him and taken other action in
connection with the pending Mckinley mat
ter before the A. p. A, has sent a letter to
the Post in which he says: Every publica-
ton in any newspaper stating that Mr.
Hanna or G.. V. Mckinley or anybody else
had telegraphed to me or written to me or
spoken to me orally in regard TO any con-
troversy in which Judge Stevens is in
terested, or in which anybody else in that
connection is interested, is wholly errone-
ous
A public meeting was held tonight in
Center Market Hall. Judge Stone, of Kan
sas City, No., presided and speeches were
made by c. c. Bradshaw, of Montana (;
Vice President George j. Jackson W, Z.
Shinn, of Buffalo; E. H.. Dunbar. of Bos-
ton; Joseph Waldrup, Of California; Thomas
A. Hansen, colored, of Ohio; Mrs. Carrie o.
Oostidyk, of Detroit; F. c. Campbell of
Minnesota; U. e. Ingram, of New York,
and NJ j. Holman.