The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-07-21
SUPREME COUNCIL TALKS.
Royal Arcanum Head Says Something
About Rates.
From Fridays Daily.

from FIludy > ldliy.
The Supreme Council Bulletin, the of
fetal organ of the supreme officers OF
the Royal Arcanum, takes notice in its
July issue of the protest against the
new assessment rates in that order. An
editorial commenting on the situation is
as follows:
According to the reports i'll the daily
newspapers and the resolutions and pro-
tests received from subordinate councils,
Il great many members of the Royal Ar
canum have condemned the action of
the supreme council and protested
against the new rates without duly con-
sidering the new plan, and before it was
understood. Our old enemy, the COM
mercial life interest, has done much to
foment dissatisfaction among the mem
beers. Agents have been offering term
insurance policies and representing them
to be old policies and claiming that
the rates were less than those of the
ROYAL Arcanum.
Meetings have been held by councils
and committees of councils in various
states. Action has been taken calling
Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania for the
purpose of petitioning the supreme coun
ell to hold a special session and revise
the new plan. An impression has got
abroad that seven grand councils have
the right to call a special meeting of the
supreme council. Others have the i'm
preston that the executive committee
has the right to call special meeting
of the supreme council. The only au-
thority for calling a special meeting of
the supreme council is given in section
>, which says:
Special meetings shall be called by
the supreme regent upon the written
request of a majority of the representa-
tives to the supreme council represent
ing seven or more grand councils.
There We're seventy-seven representa-
tives to the supreme council. A ma or-
! ity of this number is thirty nine, and it
will require the written request of thir
| ty-nine representatives to the supreme
council, in which majority must be in
Guided the representatives from seven
or more grand councils to invoke the
| authority of the supreme regent for
calling special session of the supreme
council.
The Royal Arcanum is mutual or
ganization governed by its members
through their representatives in the SUI
preme council. 1t is a government of
laws. The laws passed by the supreme
council are binding upon every one
within the ranks, officers as well as
members. Those laws provide how they
can be amended repealed, altered or
suspended. The supreme council is a
corporation chartered by the state law.
Its acts are liable to be tested in the
courts. The repeal of law can be test
ed the same as the enactment of law.
''If the membership do not like the
new rates the way for them to be
changed is through the representatives
in the supreme council, and the next
annual session of that body may adopt
new rates more satisfactory to the ma
Iiority of the membership.
'The supreme council will welcome
the fullest investigation of the new plan
by the membership, being satisfied that
the more it is investigated the more it
will be liked.
'The newspapers have magnifed the
excitement in different parts of the
country very much. The member who
denounces the supreme officers and the
| supreme council in the heat of discus
sion is. given big head line and his
utterances are spread before the public
in flaming type; but the thinking
member, who quietly reads the litera-
ture and does not participate in the
| protest, is not heard from and is not
represented in the papers,"
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