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Show Inccrsoll Doesn't .Lecture for Love. Cleveland, January 4. Early in October the ninth annual congress of the Liberal League of America was held in this city. One of the advertised attractions was a lecture lec-ture by Colonel R. G. Ingersoll. The Colonel came in on the last day of the Congress, and delivered his discourse to a large audience. A short time since The Secular Age, the organ of the local league, charged that Col. Ingersoll had not dealt fairly with the league. It declared that it was well understood before be-fore he came here that the proceeds of his lecture should be turned into the treasury of the National League, and it was only on these conditions that he was engaged to come. It is charged further that after the lecture Colonel Ingersoll's agent took charge of the receipts, paying to the Cleveland League only enough to pay the expenses of the Congress, in excess of $240 raised by the Cleveland League. The remainder, amounting amount-ing to $580, wiF handed over to the Colonel and not turned into the treasury of the National Na-tional League, according to agreement. These charges were commented upon by the Free Thinkers, and at to-day's meeting of the Cleveland League a spirited discussion ensued. At the close of the meeting resolutions resolu-tions were unanimously adopted demanding .of the secretary of the American Secular Union (the new name of the League) an itemized statement of expenditures and receipts re-ceipts of the reoent Congress, and also of what became of the profits, if any there were. |