ram, and in reply
would say that I vote as I did at last meeting of committee in New
York; with the recommendation that vote be published and read to
the clubs. McCahey has correct record of my vote. Or, if not,
please inform me. Fraternally,

P. H. CRONIN.

PHILADELPHIA, PA., Jan. 15, 1889.

_To the F. C. of the U. S.--_

DEAR SIRS AND BROTHERS: The Trial Committee appointed at Chicago
was unable to elicit all the facts connected with the charges
placed before it, because of the refusal of several of the
witnesses to answer many of the questions asked, and because of the
inability of others to remember events and figures that might be
supposed to be indelibly impressed on their memories. From the
evidence presented I am obliged to report:

1. That the family of one who lost his life in the service of the
order was scandalously and shamefully neglected, and continued to
be neglected for two years after their destitute condition was
known, and that Alexander Sullivan, Michael Boland, and D. C.
Feeley are responsible and censurable for that neglect.

2. That Gen. C. H. McCarthy, of St. Paul, Minn., was unjustly and
deliberately excluded from the Boston convention, and subsequently
shamefully persecuted and driven from the order, and that Alexander
Sullivan, Michael Boland, and D. C. Feeley are responsible and
censurable for that series of reprehensible acts.

3. That delegate from home organization was excluded from the
Boston convention, and that the same three defendants are
responsible and censurable for that exclusion.

4. That the same defendants issued a deceptive report to the Boston
convention, leading the order to believe that its affairs had been
examined by independent committees, and that the order was $13,000
in debt; that, in fact, Alexander Sullivan and Michael Boland were
on the committee of foreign affairs, and the Treasurer states that
there was a balance in the treasury and not a debt.

5. That prior to the Boston convention one hundred and eleven
thousand ($111,000) dollars was expended without any direct or
indirect benefit to the order, and most of it in a manner that
could not in any way have benefited the order, and that the same
three defendants are censurable a