A communication was received from Great Incohonee J. W. Cherry, announcing that Great Guard of the Forest Jas. H. Cook had been commissioned to represent him at this session, and he being announced as being in the forest, Great Representatives Louis Vissman, John H. Buschemeyer and Robt. Lee Page were appointed to escort him into the Council Chamber. Acting Great Incohonee James H. Cook was formally introduced and greeted with the honors of the Order. It was agreed that the representatives of Tribes so recently instituted as not to be legally entitled to representation be admitted and allowed mileage. Upon the recommendation of Great Junior Sagamore D. H. Russell, 66 Past Sachems in waiting were introduced and received the Great Council Degree. Upon the recommendation of the same Great Chief, the credentials of the representatives of 67 Tribes, and they being present were accorded seats as such in the Great Council. The total attendance at this session was 145. The following were appointed to fill vacancies on Committees:-- Judiciary--M. B. Wallerstein, of No. 60. Orphans--E. M. Wallace, of No. 5 and J. G. Renaker, of No. 37. Charters--J. C. Lykins, of No. 113; M. M. Redding, of No. 64; W. H. McDonald, of No. 111. Great Sachem H. H. Denhardt, as was now the custom, presented his Long Talk in print, and the following extracts will be of interest:-- "As the members of the Great Council of Kentucky assemble in peace and harmony around this Great Sun's Council fire, we can congratulate ourselves upon the close of the most prosperous year in the history of the Order in Kentucky. From Paducah our runners swiftly to their Tribes returned spreading the spirit of true fraternity there engendered into every wigwam in our Reservation, and as a result the council fires of the various Tribes have been kept brightly burning; discord has been banished from their midst; and the braves and warriors have become accustomed to assemble not for the purpose of wrangling among themselves, of gaining some petty advantage over another brother or over another Tribe, but plans for the capturing of palefaces were discussed and as a result at least two thousand palefaces' scalps are dangling at the belts of our warriors and braves. This Great Sun has been one fraught with many blessings and pleasures. The propitious sky has occasionally been obscured by a fleeting cloud, but the passing shadow only intensified the brightness that followed. Through the sunshine and the shadows, the pleasures and trials, our beloved Order has grown until now it has taken rank as one of the most prosperous fraternal societies in Kentucky.