Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-24
MOHONk MEETING
OF indian TRIBES
DEPENDENT RACES DISCUSS
MANY BIG QUESTIONS,
Religious Work Among the Indians
viii Be Considered by Many Church
Observation-Disclosures Keith Smiley,
Host shscenferenoe.
,nk Lake, N. r., oc(obsr 2s.

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At the palatial mansion Of AIbert X
Smiley the Lake Mohonk Conference
of Friends of the Indian and Other
Dependent Peoples today began its
25th annual conference, which will
continue three days. Affairs in the
Philippines, Hawaii, Cuba and Porto
Rico will be considered, as we'll as
the welfare of the Indian tribes of
the United States. Mr.. Andrew S.
Draper, the distinguished scholar and
savant, is the presiding officer. Among
the important matters to be taken
up is that of the treatment to be ac-
corded the redskins of Indian Terri
tory under Oklahoma statehood.
Francis E. Luepp, commissioner of
Indian affairs, will conduct one ses-
sion in person, the speakers to in
clude only officials in the govern
ment Indian service.
Self-government in the Philippines
will afford fruitful subject for dis
cussion, the speakers on the program
including Arthur F. Odlin, formerly
I Judge of the Philippine court of first
instance; Paul Charlton of the bureau
Of insular affairs; Congressman M. e.
Driscoll of New York, w. Bourke
Cochran of New York and w. A.
Jones of Virginia, Thomas Lawler of
Boston, G. H. Clark editor of the
Hartford Courant and DR.. Charles C.
Creegan of New York.
Religious work among the Indians
will be considered by many church
dignitaries of wide experience, in
Guiding Bishop Joseph Johnson of
California; Bishop w. H. Hare of
South Dakota; Bishop E. R. Hend-
rix of Missouri; DR.. Charles L.
Thompson of the Presbyterian mission
board; John j. Delany of the Catho-
lie Indian missions and DR.. E. E.
Chivers of the Baptist Missionary as
sociation.
Matters concerning the material
and spiritual development of the
Hawaiians will be taken up by Bishop
Henry Restarick, Hon. Frank M.
Hatch DR.. N. B. Emerson and A.
Lewis, Jr., all of Honolulu and Con.
FRESHMAN Charles E. Littlefeld of
-daine; Arthur L. Bates of Pennsyl-
vania and George E. Lilley of Con.
necticutt
Many other prominent men are ex-
pected to address the conference, in
Guiding several congressman, army
and navy officers, clergymen and edi.
tors of prominent newspapers and
periodicals. The only official recog.
milton given to the 25th anniversary
of the conference will be an address
by DR.. Merrill E. Gates, secretary of
the United States board of Indian
commissioners, who will review the
quarter century's work of the con.
ference.
Albert Keith Smiley, the founder
and host Of the Lake Mohonk con.
ference, was born in Maine, March
IL, 1928. AS a Quaker, he early be.
came greatly interested in the In
dams and other dependent peoples,
as well as in the establishment of
universal peace, and to carry out
his plans for great annual confer
ence he bought large property in
Ulster county, New York, embracing
thousands of acres, on which he
erected magnificent mansion where,
since 1882, hundreds of people have
gathered each autumn as his private
guests to discuss Indian questions.
Each spring since 1894 similar con-
ference has been held to consider in
ternational arbitration. He has been
a member of the board of United
States Indian commissioners since
1879. OF late years he has made his
winter home in California and in
1898 he presented library building
and adjoining. park to the city of
Redlands, Cal. He is a member of
the board of trustees of several edu-
cational institutions, including Brown
university, Bryn Mawr college, New
York Normal school and Pomona col
lege, Pomona, Cal.