The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-12
CLAIM MEMBERSHIP
Suspended Foresters
Do Not Recognize
the Edict.
THEY WILL HOLD A MEETING.
The McNally Case Will Be
Rehearsed in
Court.
THEY WILL HOLD A MEETING.

Troubles in Court Thomas E. Cum
bingham, F. Of A. are still far from
being settled, and the 26 men who were
suspended claim they are still members
of the court, and will be at the regular
meeting Thursday evening, Sept. 81, as
tip to Chief Ranger Daniel F. Fitz-
gerald that he erred when he declared
them suspended.
They also claim that they can very
easily show that Grand Chief Ranger
Daniel F. Fitzgerald and his lieutenant,
Deputy Grand Chief Ranger P. 3. Roy
name, are in duty bound to help Michael
j. McNally collect his claim from
Court Cunningham, because he sup
ported Mr.. Fitzgerald in the contest for
grand chief ranger at the grand court
convention in Boston last May.
The suspended members will have a
little run together some night this week
to talk over matters, and it will be in
the form of a special meeting of the
court and all other members who care
to attend are welcome to do so, they
say.
At present they are paying very little
attention to the action of Grand Chief
Ranger Fitzgerald, as they claim he
exceeded his authority and would not
be upheld by the proper authorities in
the state organization.
Last evening Thomas N. Dean stated
that he knew, as did any fair minded
member of the court, that the McNally
claim was out of order from the start,
as the revised laws of the court which
went into effect May Is, 1898, proved it
conclusively. 1t was in July, 1898, that
Mr.. McNally put in his first claim of
S27.13, Mr.. Dean says, and he did sc
long after the revised laws went into
effect, which was badtaste The court
at this time, he says, refused to pay the
amount of money asked for and at the
grand court convention in Boston last
May, Mr.. Mentally put in claim for
$271S, not saying anything at that time
about the claim OF $110, which the court
is now fighting. Last May, Mr.. Nc
Nally went to the grand court conven-
ton as delegate from Court Cunning
ham, and was allowed So day for ex-
penses. When he returned he put in a
bill of $110 for sick benefit, making a
claim for a sick benefit for the -four
days he was in attendance at the Bos-
ton convention.
The claim for $110, Mr.. Dean says
| never went through the proper chan
nels, and Mr.. McNally, instead of doing
dS hc onOuIdg UOOh II Jul Ol The
diction of the state body and such Off
| GERS as Grand Chief Ranger Fitzgerald
and Deputy Grand Chief Ranger Ro-
| nayne, when he appealed to the Law
courts of the commonwealth for a set.
Element. 1t then became matter fol-
settlement between Mr.. McNally an6
Court Cunningham, and not for the
state officers or Deputy Chief Ranger
| Rorayne, who attempted, as an ennis.
sary of Mr.. Fitzgerald, to fix it up
Deputy Ronayne's actions, suspended
men claim, are only those of a too
working out a promise of Grand Chief
Fitzgerald, and in his attempt to dc
it he has exceeded his authority
AT the present time, Mr.. Dean and
other men of the court opposed to the
payment of the Mentally claim, are Civ
ing their entire attention to the trial
which is to come up Saturday in the
central district court, as the prelinlin-
airy hearing on the case, and it is prob
able that whatever the result is, an APP
peal will be taken. The other side has
as strong an argument, and there will
be considerable interest in the hear
ing. If the laws revised by Court Gun
bingham, cutting down the sick benefit
from rs to Is weeks, can be proven H.
legal, things will look bright for the
McNally faction, but this is impossible
the opponents say.