write to this district officer, and ask him to tell them something
about what they shall do, and inquire of him about a matter they
knew all about. You remember how the answer of Mr. Spelman came
back, that he knew nothing in the constitution that gave him power
to inflict a penalty. They had already, then, passed upon this man.
This committee had already set their heads together and concluded
it was necessary to inflict a penalty, and that is the reason why
this Peoria man wrote that he knew nothing in the constitution that
required him, or that gave him power to inflict a penalty on the
senior guardian for having read the report of the trial committee
in his camp. This was not written in all seriousness; it was
written as a covering for what had happened in Camp 20.

RENTING THE CARLSON COTTAGE.

"This was on the 16th. On the 17th comes back this letter from
Spelman. On the 18th Beggs writes this other letter, in which he
says the time is coming when the men who are creating disturbances
in the Irish organization will find there is a day of punishment.
He had it on his mind he had been conferring with this committee.
On the 18th Mr. Simonds was talking of renting the flat, and when
Beggs wrote this letter in reply to Spelman, stating that the time
is coming when those men who are creating this disturbance would
learn there is a day of punishment, then it was they began active
operations. On the 19th the furniture was purchased and placed in
the flat, so there is no other theory on earth than that it was the
work of this committee, whoever they may be. Well, it does not stop
there. On the 20th of March we find that a man by the name of Frank
Williams appears on the scene. He introduces himself on the
afternoon of the 20th, and I was somewhat surprised that my brother
Donahoe spent a whole half-day trying to show that P. O'Sullivan
was an hour's ride from home at noon that day. This all occurred on
the afternoon of the 20th, and the object of that proof was to show
that this man, Martin Burke, alias Williams, alias Cooper and
Delaney, didn't walk over the plot and talk to P. O'Sullivan after
he rented the cottage. It was to show that P. O'Sullivan was not at
home about that time on the 20th, and I was somewhat surprised that
the learned co