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Show OPPOSE NEW RATE Councils of Royal Arcanum Organize for Contest. NEW YORK, July 17. Representatives Representa-tives of twenty-nine councils of the Royal Arcanum, in New Jersey, Including Includ-ing nearly all the organizations of the order in the counties of Essex, Union, Passaic, Hudson and Bergen, have formed a permanent organization with the Idea of opposing the new rate schedule adopted at Atlantic City by the supreme council. A resolution was adopted without a dissenting vote, demanding that the grand council of New Jersey petition the supreme council to reconvene before October 1, the date on which the new rates co into effect, and abandon that schedule. A committee of fifteen will be appointed to carry on the fight. In advocating a return to the old rate schedule, It was generally agreed by the dissenters that to strengthen the llnances, an additional assessment, at the old rates, might be made at stated periods, such as one each quarter. Under Un-der this plan with 300,000 membership $1,200,000 would be raised the first year, with Increasing amounts as the membership mem-bership Increase ln future future years. |