"The question of importance to our Great Council at the late session of the Great Council of the United States was the action of the Committee on Appeals in the Van Zandt case, which decision will be found in the records of the G. C. U. S. of G. S. D. 406, page 493, in which they sustain Mr. Van Zandt's appeal, giving as a reason for so doing that he did not receive the notices of the charges. I personally talked to Brother Gregory, chairman of the committee, and while he believed that Van Zandt had committed things unbecoming a Red Man, he said that the law was very plain and they could not deviate from it." The following is extracted from the report of the Great Chief of Records: Number of members at last report, 1,174. adopted, 76; admitted by card, 9; reinstated, 23; suspended, 109: withdrawn, 16; expelled, 1; deceased, 3; present membership, 1,209; gain since last report, 38; pale faces rejected, 1; amount in Great Council wampum belt, $252.42. Brother C. C. Conley, Great Chief of Records of the Great Council of the United States, was then introduced and received with the usual honors. After an appropriate address he proceeded to raise the elective and appointive Great Chiefs as follows: John I. Winter, of No. 6 Great Sachem W. C. Diederich, of No. 19 Great Senior Sagamore Willie Walker, of No. 1 Great Junior Sagamore W. E. Fite, of No. 6 Great Prophet C. E. Lyddane, of No. 2 Great Chief of Records John D. Walker, of No. 4 Great Keeper of Wampum H. V. Cohn, of No. 8 Great Sannap Louis Vissman, of No. 9 Great Mishinewa E. E. Bennett, of No. 11 Great Guard of Forest John Hafendorfer, of No. 14 Great Guard of Wigwam Enos Spencer, of No. 8 Great Rep. to G. C. U. S. The Great Sachem announced the standing committees as follows: Finance--W. S. Roberts, of No. 7; C. M. Chasteen, of No. 4; Louis Vissman, of No. 9. Law and Usage--W. C. Pelham, of No. 3; E. E. Bennett, of No. 11; Ben C. Nunn, of No. 14. State of the Order--G. A. Ellerkamp, of No. 9; George Hinesley, of No. 8; Samuel G. Dorr, of No. 11. Returns and Reports--H. C. Rhodes, of No. 7; T. B. Wright, of No. 11; H. W. Ray, of No. 3. Board of Appeals--L. E. Pearce, of No. 4; J. G. Sewell, of No. 7; George Dehler, of No. 8. Appropriate resolutions of thanks were then adopted thanking Onequa Tribe, No. 2, for its hospitality and Brother C. C. Conley for his distinguished services and counsel during the burning of the council brand. The council fire was then quenched, to be rekindled in the hunting grounds of Louisville, at the 10th run, rising of the 9th sun of Flower Moon, G. S. D. 408. =1899.= FIFTH GREAT SUN COUNCIL.