Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-09-08
NJ 'CABE IS OUSTED
BY A COMMITTEE
MEN ACTING FOR POLICY HOLD.
ERs SAY HE is NOT IN Ac.
CORD WITH MOVEMENT
Regard Him as Traitor for Endorsing
the Administration Ticket-Days of
Usefulness to the Organization Are
Numbered by Resolutions.

New York, Sept. 7.-Bishop Charles
z. McCabe of the Methodist church,
whose home Is In Evanston, ILL.,, yes
terday was evicted from the interna-
tional policy holders committee. Thus
did the committee answer the bishops
recommendation that it accept the adj
mlnistration Of the Mutual Life and
the New York Life insurance COM
panies.
Eighteen of the twenty-five mem
bers OF the committee were present at
the meeting and the vote to dispense
with the bishops services was unani-
nous. Bishop McCabe's attitude, the
committee said, is so completely out
OF sympathy with the announced pur-
pose of the organization that it
amounted in effect to surrender of
mis- membership.
Bishop McCabe's views on the ad-
ministration ticket and also on the In
ternational committee were expressed
in q letter addre. 5ed to Alton B, Par
ker
Following are the resolutions adopt.
ed by the committee:
Resolutions Of Custer.
Whereas. Bishop McCabe accepted
membership on the committee, but has
been unable to attend any of the meet
ings of Its subcommittees, although re-
spectfully urged to do so, and
whereas. There was furnished to the
press from the officers of the Mutual
Life Insurance company on August 81
letter bearing the signature of Bish-
op McCabe, addressed to Hon. Alton b
Parker, as chairman of the executive
committee, which letter has heen read
at this meeting, but had not been re-
ceived at the time 1t was given out for
publication by the Mutual Life Insur-
ance company on the date Of its meet
ing, and
Whereas, Bishop McCabe has beer
communicated with by telegram and
letters, urging him to attend this meet
Ing so as to present his view to his as
sociates and to be informed of the
views of the committee, but has made
no reply to such communications and
has failed to attend and.
Whereas, copies of the proposed ad-
dress We're furnished to Bishop Nc.
Cabe before the meeting at which thu
address as adopted was mailed at Ieas
three weeks before the address was
distributed, and no objection or criti.
cism was made by him as to the form
OF the address for four weeks after the
distribution thereof. nor until the let.
ter Of August 81, and,
Whereas, The views of the commit
tee as to the course that should be
pursued by the policy holders in the
impending election for trustees, as ex.
pressed in it's address to the policy
holders issued July 9. are opposed tc
those expressed in the aforesaid letter
to the chairman of the executive com.
mittee. 1t is
Resolved, That this committee re.
CARDS the attitude assumed In the SAID
| letter as SO completely out of sympa.
| thy with the announced purpose of the
committee as to amount in effect to the
surrender by Bishop McCabe Of his
| membership in the committee and ht
is accordingly relieved from further
service.
Resolved, That the chairman Of the
executive committee Is directed to re.
ply to the communi cation of BishoI
McCabe in such form as he deems ap.
| propriate.
Resolved. That in the Judgment o,
the committee 1t is not in the Interests
Of the policy holders to accept or In.
dorse the administration ticket of eth
er company.