The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-20
Meeting in Washington. Two
of the Members From
This State.
GLIMPSE OF ITS HISTORY
Judge Adams Caller at The White HOUSE,
Wedding Cards That are Of Interest to Tar
HeeIs---Mulatto Draws the Color
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Washington, Oct. 19.-As result of &
tour of inspection of the Southern Rail
way, just completed, by President Spen-
Ger and other officials and directors, new
yards will be established at Salisbury,
Monroe and Asheville, N. c., and at Blr-
mingham, Chattanooga, Norfolk and Rich
mond. Double tracking now in progress
between here and Orange Va, will be con-
tinued, and other improvements made all
along the line 1t was the first time that
some of the New York financial men who
made the trip were accorded an oppor-
tunity of seeing the great industrial de-
Ielopments that are going on in the South,
and their visit will result, it is said, in
an expenditure of vast amounts of money
in sidings and other facilities to expedite
shipment of freight.
Judge Spencer B. Adams, formerly of
Greensboro, but now Judge of the Citi-
zenship Court in Indian Territory, is
here and much interested in the so-called
Citizenship cases. of the Chocktaw and
Chickasaw nations that were argued to-
day in the United States Supreme Court.
These cases are to determine the right
OF some four thousand so-called court
citizens to participate In division OF
lands and money of these two. Indian
tribes, and involves in aggregate from
twenty to forty million dollars. The
Dawes Commission refused to receive the
applications of these persons to be en-
rolled. They brought suit and the United
States District Court ordered them en-
rolled. In the meantime, the matter had
been brought to the attention of Con-
gress and in 1902 it created the Citizen
ship court, of which Judge Adams Is
chief to determine these and similar
cases. 1t decided that those who had been
awarded enrolled by the Federal court
were not entitled to it, hence, they come
before the United States Supreme Court
asking writ prohibiting enforcement OF
the Citizenship courts decision against
them and base their toItention on the
general proposition that Congress had
no power under the Constitution to create
such court. If the petitioners are sus-
tanned Judge Adams job, which is worth
five thousand dollars year. is gone,
for his court will pass out of existence
AQOI0cr Case Ot TO NOTtn CdTO-
linians to be argued in the Supreme
Court this weel- is the appeal of the two
gold brick swiadlers, convicted at Green's
boro and now serving their sentence in the
State penitentiary. They are represented
by two Chicago lawyers. There Were
three of the swindlers. but the third one
was pardoned by the Governor.
Two North Carolinians today received
0,ya{v
Department, William g. Scott, clerk in the
Quartermaster Generals office, $S40;
Thomas E. Brown, clerk in the office of
Chief of Staff. $1,000.
Lighthouse Tender oily, is ordered to
North Carolina sounds for duty. She has
for several years been in service on
Chesapeake Bay.
Bishop Horner, of sheyille, and Bishop
Bratton, of Mississippi, are here to at
tend the Pan-merican Congress of Bish-
ops, wich meets tomorrow. bishop Ches-
hire is also expected, but has not yet
arrived.
Washington, Oct. 19-At 10 o'clock this
morning the Supreme Council OF the
Southern Jurisdiction of Scottish Rite
Masons met here and will continue in
daily session until Saturday. This body,
in whose hands rests the responsibility
of legislating for one of the most exclu-
sive organizations in the fraternal world
-thirty-third degree Masonry-consists of
twenty-four members, two of whom are
North Carolinians, though one of them is
now a resident of another State. Col.
James Wakefield Cortlandt, of Asheville,
is sovereign grand inspector general in
North Carolina. He comes from long
line of distinguished Masons and was ap-
pointed the deputy of the inspector gen.
eral for North Carolina in 1886, and by
the Grand Commander, Gen, Pike, the
deputy of the Supreme Council in 1890. He
was elected an honorary thirty third at
st. Louis during the session OF the Su-
premo Council and was elected the ac-
tive member for his State in 1894. Judge
Adolphus Lee Fitzgerald, second grand
equerrv and sovereign grand inspector
general in Nevada was born in Rocking
ham county, North Carolina, and holds the
Master of Arts degree from the University
of that State. He engaged IN teaching,
went TO California as professor in a Meth
odist College of which he later became
president and was also deputy State su-
perintendent of public instruction. In
1878 ne was admitted to the bar, moved to
Nevada and has for many years been on
the Supreme bench of that State. He
was made a Mason at Wentworth, N. c.
in 1862.
The history of Scottish Rite Masonry
is contemporaneous with the history of