The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-29
RED MEN ENTER ON
 BUSINESS AT ONCE
Officers for Alabama Elected at
 Night Session
NEGROES ARE INFRINGING
Great Sun Council Objects to Use of Name "Red Men" By coored Organization and Legislature
 Is Petitioned for Relief.

Without any blare of trumpets, but true to the stoica silence of their race, the great council of Alabama of the Im- proved Order of Red Men, quietly slipped into Birmingham yesterday morning and began their twentieth great sun council. Like their ancestors in the forest they did not waste many words in greeting one another, but got down to business immediately.
 Red skins from all over the state are in attendance and practically every tribe is represented There are nearly three hundred delegates, representing about 5000 members of the different lodges in the state.
 Last nights session was the feature of the day, as the election of officers was held Some of the races were very splr- ited and the balloting was exciting. The onicers elected are:
 New Officers Elected.
 Great sachem, R. b. L. Mel, Selma, no opposition.
 Great senior sagamore, Jacob Burger Birmingham.
 Great junior sagamore Mac Feather stone, Mobile.
 Great prophet. John F. Jones, Mont gomery
 treat chief of records. William S. Smith, Montgomery, reelected.
 Great keeper of wampum. Charles Chappell, Pratt City, reelected.
 Appointed chiefs
 Great sannap, l. l.. Rosendorf, Selma
 Great mishinewa, P. J. Coyle, Bir- mingham.
 Great guard of the wigwam, Y. P. Walls, Prattville.
 Great guard of the forest, John D. Nolan, Wylam.
 Raised up by great guard of the forest, James H. Cook, as the special represen- tatves of the great incohonee, w. A. s. Bird of Kansas.
 Great sachem, R. E. L. Mel appoint ed the following standing committees:
 Committee on law, L. T. Letcher, Mont gomery; H. s. Saul, Montgomery; D. D. Chapman
 Committee on finance, M. M. Marsh, Mobile; E. Manuel Levy, Phenix; E. E.. Stanley, Longdale.
 Board of appeals, R. T. Goodwin, Montgomery, three years; hold over, R. G. Arlington, Montgomery, one year; B. K. McMorris, Wetumpka, two years. Committee on credentials, E. B. Wal lace Cullman; D. o. Vaughan, Geneva; P. c. Burton, Kimberly.
 Montgomery was selected as the place at which the twenty-first great sun coun- cil will be held in 1908.
 The morning session was called to order by Great Sachem John F. Jones. | The credentials were called in by the credential committee and the new repre- | lot orttr fho 1aU degree.
 The reports of the great sachem and other officers were then made. It was reported that about HOO pale faces had been painted red since the last grea t sun and that the orphans fund had reached depth of 6O,OOO fathoms. M. b. Friedman Is the chairman of the committee on arrangements and Is doing splendid work.
 It was announced that negroes had formed a lodge in Bessemer and had named it the Afro-American Order of Red Men. Resolutions were passed that the standing committee on laws frame a bill to be introduced at the next session of the legislature in regard to these negro tribes.
 number of other resolutions were passed, but none of very much impor- tance.
 The resolutions in regard to negro lodges using the name of Red Men are as- follows:
 Text of Resolutions.
 Whereas, This great council has been informed of the existence of an alleged tribe or lodge of negroes using the name of Red Men; and
 Whereas, The noble race, whose pro- totype the improved Order of Red Men is proud to be, received into adoption only the palce face with straight hair and arched instep, through whose veins flowed unmixed Caucasian blood: and
 "Whereas, Such Infringement upon the name and ceremonies of the Red Men is detrimental to the interests of the order universal; therefore, be 1t
 Resolved, That the committee on laws be, and Is hereby authorized and direct ed, to take such steps in it's judgment may be necessary to protect from i'm proper use the name or ceremonies of the Improved Order of Red Men, and es- pecially from such improper use by ne- groes; be it further Resolved, That the legislature of Ala bama be- and is hereby petitioned and me- morialized, to pass such laws as will pro- tect the Improved Order of Red Men from illegal infringement of it's rights as be- slowed in its charter from the Congress of the United States be 1t further
 Resolved, That the committee on laws is hereby assured of the full and hearty support, morally and financially, of this great council in securing the passage by the legislature of Alabama of such laws as may be necessary to carr yout the purpose of this resolution"