Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-16
Highest Masonic Body in the World
in Session.
SUPREME COUNCIL, SCOTTISH RITE
important Gathering at the House
of the Temple.
PROGRAM FOR THE WEEK

A Masonic body of the highest degree,
the Supreme Council of the Ancient and
Accepted Order of Scottish Rite, of the
Southern Jurisdiction of the United States,
convened a noon today in biennial session
at the House of the Temple, corner of Sd
and Z streets northwest. 1t is the oldest
Supreme Masonic Council in existence, and
includes all the Scottish Rite COnSistories
south of Mason and Dixon's line and west
of the Mississippi, exclusive of Michigan
and Wisconsin, embracing those in thirty
three states. 1t was organized al Charles
ton, S. c., in 1901, on a charter granted by
the French council, and its original mem
bers were John Mitchell, grand COM
mander; DR.. Fred Dalcho, lieutenant grand
commander; Emmanuel De La Mata,
Abraham Alexander, 7. B. Bowen, Israel
Dbelen, DR.. Isaac Mudd, Moses G. Levy
and DR.. James Moultre.
When the Church of Rome interdicted
Masonry in France the French council,
which was then the mother council of the
world, gave up its charter, and this honor
became the possession Of the council now
in session here.
Composition of the Council.
The Supreme Council is composed of act
I've, honorary and emeriti sovereign inspect
ors general. The active members, one for
ton, form the executive branch of the
council and transact virtually all it's bust
ness, their deliberations being conducted
behind closed doors, the honorary and
emerfu members being disbarred from any
participation. Vacancies in the ranks of
the active members, which are caused only
by death, filled by those surviving by
selections from the emeriti or honorary list.
During the present meeting seven vacan-
cies will be filled in the active list and
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Active Members.
The active members of the Supreme Coun-
ell are: Grand commander, Thomas Hub
bard Caswel, San Francisco, CAL lieu
tenant grand commander, Mr.. James Dow
ell Richardson, Murfreesboro', Tenn; grand
prior, Erasmus Theodore Carr, Miles City,
Mont; grand chancellor, Samuel Emery
Adams, Minneapolis. MINI; grand minister
of state, Martin Collins st. Louis Mo-;
secretary general Frederick Weber Wash
ington; grand almoner, Richard ]. Mum,
savannah, Ca; grand auditor, Samuel
Manning Todd, New Orleans, La; grand
constable, Rufus Eberle Fleming Fargo
n. D.; grand chamberlain, Buren, Robinson
sherman, Vinton, Iowa; second grand
equerry, James Rudolph Hayden, Seattle
Wash; grand standard bearer Adolphus
Leigh Fitzgerald. Eureka New; grand
sword bearer, William Frank Pierce, Oak
land, Cal; grand herald, Henry Moore Tel
Reynolds Singleton, Washington, d. C;
Theodore Sutton Parvin, Cedar Rapids
Iowa; John Frederick Mayer, Richmond
Va; George Fleming Moore, Montgomery,
irving Irving "; Pratt, Portland, Ore; Austin
Beverly Chamberlin, Galveston, Tex, and
j. Wakefield Cortland, AsheviHe. n. c.
Committees Selected.
Grand Commander CaswelI has announc-
ed the following committees:
On Jurisprudence and legislation-In-
spectors Richardson, Moore, Fleming,
Sherman, Teller
On fnance-Inspectors Adams, Hayden,
Pierce.
On nominations - Inspectors Sherman,
Pratt, Chamberlain
On foreign -relations-Inspectors Parvin,
Mayer, ChamberIin.
On doings Of subordinate bodes-In-
spectors Fitzgerald, Chamberliu, Pierce.
On dolngS of inspectors and DEPUTIES
Inspectors Num-, Foote Cortland
On state of the order and unfinished
Collins, Carr, Pratt
On Neutrality-suspicious. Todd, Carr
Pratt.
On library and neutrality-suspicious. Hay
den, Fleming, Adams
On revision of neutrality-suspicious. Moore
Pierce Hugo, Hussey, Rosenbaum, NAL
Two officers of the Supreme Council will
also be chosen to fill the vacancies caused
by the deaths, respectively, of Lieutenant
Grand Commander Odeu S. Long of West
Virginia and Treasurer General Gilmer
Meredith of Baltimore.
Notes of the Gathering
All the active members are In attend
ance except Senator Teller, who is con-
fined to his bed by illness at his home IN
Denver.
The District of Columbia Consietory of
the Scottish Rite will tender a reception
TO the visitors at the House OF the Temple
Wednesday night at o'clock
The sessions for the remainder of the
week will commence at 10 a m. daily. There
will be two each day
During the week the Supreme Council
VIII make pilgrimage to the grave of the
late Gen. Albert Pike, at Oak Hill Gene
terry Gen. Pike was for thirty-s!x years
grand commander OF the Supreme Council
Temple. >'0
The Supreme Council will also, at q date
70 be chosen, lay the corner stone of the
bronze monument to Gen. Pike, which will
De erected in the reservation at the inter-
stcuon OF Indiana avenue and Sd and D
stieets, one square south OF the House of
the Temple. The statue, of which Cheya-
her IrentanoVe is the sculptor, is being
cast at Florence, Italy, and will be nm
Eealed with imposing ceremonies on the one
hundredth anniversary of the organization
of the council. in May, 1901 Representa-
tive James ID. Richardson of Tennessee.
VINO Is lieutenant grand commander, will
deliver the address on that occasion
The annual session of the Provincial
Grand Lodge and Royal Order of Scotland
will be held tomorrow at 10 am at Scot
fish Rite Cathedral, G. street between 10th
and 18th streets.
The annual banquet of the order will be