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Gmr;)d Lodge of Illinois.
I, Loyal Levi Muiiii, Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of the State of IlHnois, Free and Accepted Masons, do hereby certify that the following pages contain a true and faithful tran- script of the proceedings of said ({rand Body at its Fifty-second Grand Annual Communication, commencing at the city of Chicago on Tuesday, the sixth day of October, A. L. 5891, and terminating on Thursday, the eiglith day of said month, to- gether with other matters author! zt^d to be published.
In Testimony Whereof, I have liereunto appended my offi- cial signature and have affixed the seal of the Grand Lodge of tlio State of Illinois, Free and Accepted Masons.
Done at the office of the Grand Secretary, in the city of Free- port, the 21st day of October, in the Year of Light Five Thous- and Eight Hundred and Ninety- one.
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EMERGENT COMMUNICATION
OF THE
M.W.GRAND LODGE
OF THE
STATE OF ILLINOIS,
F. & A. MASONS.
LAYING THE CORNER-STONE
OF THE
Masonic Fraternity Temple,
CHICAGO, ILL.
nsrOV"EIvrBET^ 6, 1890.
MASONIC FRATERNITY TExMPLE, CHICAGO.
EnQergent ConQir^unication.
An Emergent Communication of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of the State of Illinois Free and Accepted Masons was convened in the Asylum of Apollo Commandery, No. i, in the city of Chicago, on the 6th day of No- vember, A. D. logo, A. L. 5890, at High Twelve.
GRAND OFFICERS I'RESENT..
M. \V. John M. Pearson, Grand Master.
R. W. Gil. W. Barnard, Deputy Grand Master,, pro ieni.
R. W. Hugh McMillan, Senior Grand Warden, pro ton.
R. W. George W. Warvelle, Junior Grand Warden, pro tern.
R. W. Wiley M. Egan, Grand Treasurer.
R. W. Loyal L. Munn, Grand Secretary.
W. John A. Bush, Deputy Grand Secretary, pro tejii.
R. W. Rev. H. W. Thomas, Grand Chaplain, pro tern.
M. W. DeWitt C. Cregier, Grand Orator, pro tein.
R. W. W. K. Forsyth, Grand Pursuivant, pro tern.
R. W. Walter A. Stevens, Grand Marshal.
W. John Whitley, Grand Standard Bearer,, /r^; tetn.
R. W. D. J. Avery, Grand Sword Bearer, pro tern.
R. W. John O'Neill, Grand Senior Deacon.
R. W. J. H. Dixon, Grand Junior Deacon, pro tctn,
W. A. W. Hitchcock, Grand Steward.
W. Henry McCall, Grand Steward, pro tent.
W. J. D. C. Whitney, Grand Steward, pro ton.
R. W. James John, Grand Steward, pro tern.
Bro. Robert R. Stevens, Grand Tyler.
The Most Worshipful Grand Master proceeded to open the Most Wor- shipful Grand Lodge of Illinois in Aml-le Form, after which he made a few
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•appropriate remarks stating that this Emergent Communication had been called for the purpose of laying the corner-stone of the Masonic Fraternitj' Temple, and he directed the Grand Marshal to form the Grand Lodge, when the pro session was formed in the following order:
The Grand Marshal with the assistance of his Aids formed the process- ion, headed by a platoon of fifty policemen and the following Masonic Bodies:
Right Eminent George M. Moulton, Grand Commander, and Staff. vGrand Commander Moulton, Chief Marshal, with Samuel H. Smith, Assist- ant Marshal. Second Regiment Band, with 40 pieces. Oriental Consistory, 85 swords. Bohman's Band, 36 pieces. Apollo Commandery, No. i — 85 swords. Pullman Band, 40 pieces. Chicago Commandery, No. 19 — 128 swords. First Regiment Band, 36 pieces. St. Bernard Commandery, No. 35 — 147 swords. Ulrich's Band, 16 pieces. Chevalier Bayard Commandery, No. 52 — 65 swords. .Mountjoie Commandery, No. 53, on horseback — 40 swords. Siloam Commandery, No. 54 — 21 swords. Elgin Military Band, 40 pieces. Evanston Commandery, No. 58 — 54 swords. Englewood Commandery, No. 59 — 60 swords.
Nevins' Band, 25 pieces.
• Garden City Lodge, No, 141 — 153 members.
Waubansia Lodge, No. 160 — 17 members.
Kretlow's Band, 24 pieces.
Germama Lodge, No. 182 — 86 members.
■'Wm. B. Warren Lodge, No. 209 — 60 members.
'Ashlar Lodge, No. 308 — 25 members.
Busse & Ulrich's Band, 15 pieces.
Dearborn Lodge, No. 310 — 160 members.
First Regiment Band, 25 pieces.
Kilwinning Lodge, No. 311 — 75 members.
'Thomas J. Turner Lodge, No. 409 — 36 members.
Mithra Lodge, No. 410 — 36 members.
Second Regiment Band, 15 pieces.
Hesperia Lodge, No. 411 — 63 members.
'.Landmark Lodge, No. 422 — 50 members.
Chicago Lodge, No. 437 — 30 members.
Band, 14 pieces.
.Pleiades Lodge, No. 478— -65 members.
Elgin Band, 40 pieces.
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Evans Lodge, No. 524 — 65 niembers.
J. Boehman's Band, 25 pieces.
Covenant Lodge, No. 526 — 133 members.
National Lodge, No. 596 — 33 members.
Bohman's Band, 15 pieces.
Keystone Lodge, No. 639 — 45 members.
Theatrical Union Band, 15 pieces.
Apollo Lodge, No. 642 — 45 members.
Exposition Band, 16 pieces.
D. C. Cregier Lodge, No. 643 — 115 members.
Shol's Band, 16 pieces.
Herder Lodge, No. 669 — 71 members.
Waldeck Lodge, No. 674 — 32 members.
Garfield Lodge, No. 686 — 74 members.
Columbia Band, 20 pieces.
Englewood Lodge, No. 690—54 members.
Lakeside Cornet Band, 12 pieces.
Richard Cole Lodge, No. 697 — loS members.
Providence Lodge, No. 711 — 13 members.
Calumet Lodge, No. 716 — 30 members.
Band, 14 pieces.
Arcana Lodge, No. 717 — 68 members.
Golden Rule Lodge, No. 726—30 members.
Illinois Steel Company Band, 22 pieces.
Harbor Lodge, No. 731 — 147 members.
JVIystic Star Lodge, No. 758 — 50 members.
Bohman's Band, 20 pieces.
Palace Lodge, No. 765 — 87 members.
Citizens' Band, 21 pieces.
Triluminar Lodge, No. 767 — 41 members.
LaGrange Lodge, No. 770 — 32 members.
Grand Crossing Lodge, No. 776 — 15 members.
Ravenswood Lodge, No. 777 — 30 members.
Siloam Lodge, No. 780 — 68 members.
Coustantia Lodge. No. 785 — 35 members.
Six carriages with the Ofificers of the Grand Lodge.
SUMM.ARY OF PROCESSION.
Policemen 50
One Consistory 85
Eight Commanderies 600
Thirty-seven Lodges 2277
Visiting Brethren 150
Twenty-four Bands 562
-Grand total in procession 3724.
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At 3 o'clock p. m. the procession moved, the right of the hne being on Adams street ; the column moved by a countermarch south on Michigan av- enue to Congress street, west on Congress street to Wabash avenue, north on Wabash avenue to Jackson street, west on Jackson street to LaSalle street, north on LaSalle street to Adams street, west on Adams street to Franklin street, north on Franklin street to Madison street, west on Madison street to IMarket street, north on Market street to Lake street, east on Lake street to Wabash avenue, south on Wabash avenue to Randolph street, and thence west to the Masonic Fraternity Temple grounds, northeast corner State and Randolph streets.
As the head of the column reached the Temple site, the Knights Temp- lar who led the parade formed a hollow square through which the Grand Officers of the Grand Lodge passed to the platform.
On a platform to the right of the one occupied by the Grand Officers were the following women: Mesdames John C. Smith, D. C. Cregier, Gil. W. Barnard, Henry McCall, W. M. Forsyth, Charles Crane, James Dixon, and Misses Ruth A. Smith, Annie Barnard, Charlotte A. Leekley and others.
There was also in the procession the youngest Entered Apprentice Ma- son in Illinois, Bro. John C. Smith, Junior. He was initiated as an Entered Apprentice Mason in the early hours of the morning of the day of the laying of this corner-stone.
M. W. Bro. John C. Smith, Grand ^Master of Ceremonies, stepped to the front of the platform where, in the name of the Masonic Fraternity Temple Association, and on behalf of its Officers and Trustees, in well chosen words made request of M. W. Bro. John M. Pearson, Grand Master of Freemasons, that he place the corner-stone of the Temple in position in accordance with the customs of the Ancient Craft.
The Grand Master then addressed the assembly, announcing the pur- poses of the occasion and concluded as follows:
The teachings of Freemasonry inculcate that in all our works, great or small, begun and finished, we should seek the aid of Almighty God. It is our first duty, then, to invoke the blessing of the Great Architect of the Uni- verse upon the work in which we are about to engage. I therefore command the utmost silence, and call upon all to unite with our Grand Chaplain in an address to the Throne of Grace.
TRAYER BY THE GRAND CHAPLAIN.
Almighty God ! who has given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplication unto Thee, and dost promise that where two- or three are gathered together in Thy name, Thou wilt grant their request^
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fulfill now, O Lord, the desires and petitions of thy servants, as may be most expedient for them; granting us in this world, knowledge of Thy truth; and in the world to come, life everlasting. Amen.
The quartette of Oriental Consistory then sang the following ode :
LAYING THE STONE.
Here in the Great Northwest,
We lay the sacred stone, That, with the triple test.
The Master's seal shall own.
For tried and true it lies ;
The level, plumb and square Unite. Above bright skies.
And solemn silence there.
The fatherhood of God,
The brotherhood of man; The golden measuring rod
Attests the primal plan.
Pour out the corn and wine^
Nor spare the golden oil ; Glad hearts, and eyes that shine.
And happy hands that toil.
Lift up the voice of praise ;
Let every tongue unite ; Your holy anthem raise,
Ye free-born sons of light.
Grand Master — R. W. Bro. Grand Treasurer, it has ever been the cus tom, on occasions like the present, to deposit within a cavity in the stone^ placed in the northeast corner of the edifice, certain memorials of the period at which it was erected ; so that in the lapse of ages, if the fury of the ele- ments, or the slow but certain ravages of time should lay bare its founda- tions, an enduring record may be found by succeeding generations to bear testimony to the energy, industry and culture of our time. Has such a de- posit been prepared?
Grand Treasurer — It has, Most Worshipful Grand Master, and the various articles of which it is composed are safely enclosed within the casket now before you.
Grand Master — R. W. Grand Secretary, you will read for the informa- tion of the brethren and others here assembled, a record of the contents of the casket.
Grand Secretary — The casket contains the following:
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The Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of IlUnois F. & A. M. for 1S89 and 1S90; Proceedings of the Grand Chapter R. A. M. of lUinois i8go; Proceed- ings of the Grand Council R. & S. M. 1890; Proceedings of the Grand Com- manderj' K. T. iSgo; Medal Souvenir Masonic Temple; Silver and Nickel Coins U. S., 5 cents up to $1.00; Proceedings Council of Deliberation 1890; City of Chicago Reports: Board of Public Works, Chief of Police, Finance, etc. ; Semi-Centennial Medal Grand Lodge of Illinois 1889 ; City Newspapers; Masonic Veteran Proceedings 1888-9; Masonic Veteran Invitations 1888-9; Masonic Veteran Badge 1890; Menu Mystic Tie Club Banquet, Roster, etc., Medinah Temple jMystic Shrine ; Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Illi- nois I. O. O. F. ; Proceedings Grand Encampment Illinois I. O. O. F. ; Chi- cago Times, Sunday morning, November 6, 1890; Copy of By-Laws and Roster of Members of the following Lodges A. F. & A. Masons, Chapters of R. A. M., Commanderies K. T. , Councils and Consistories:
Lodge. Xo. Lodge. A'o.
Accordia 277 Lessing 557
Apollo 642 Lincoln Park 611
Arcana 717
Ashlar 308
Auburn Park 789
Blair 393
Blaney 271
Cleveland 211
Chicago 437
Constantia 783
Covenant 526
Calumet 716
D. C. Cregier 643
Dearborn 310
Evans 524
Englewood 690
Garden City 141
Germania 182
Garfield 686
Golden Rule 726
Grand Crossing 776
Harbor 731
Hesperia 411
Home 508
Herder 669
Harlem 540
A. O. Fay 676
Kilwinning 311
Keystone 639
Landmark 422
Lakeside 739
Lounsbur}^ 751
LaGrange 770
Lake View 774
Mithra 410
Mystic Star 75S
Mizpah 768
National 596
Oriental 33
Pleiades 478
Palatine 314
Pro\-idence 711
Palace 765
Richard Cole 697
Ravenswood 777
Siloam 780
South Park 662
Thomas J. Turner 409
Triluminar 767
L^nion Park 610
Vitruvius 81
Waubansia * 160
W. B. Warren 209
Waldeck 674
Wright's Grove 779
Mount Pulaski 87
Miners 273
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CHAPTERS.
Mount Pulaski 121 LaFayette 2
Jo Daviess 51 With Medal (One penny)
COMMANDERIES K. T.
Apollo I Freeport 7
Chicago. ig Galena 40
Chevalier Bayard 52 Mountjoie 53
Evanston 58 St. Bernard 35
Englewood 59 Siloam 54
COUNCILS R. & S. M.
Eli S. Parker 160
CONSISTORIES.
Freeport. Peoria.
Oriental. Quincy.
Grand Master — R. W. Grand Treasurer, you will now deposit the casket in the cavity beneath the corner-stone, and may the Great Architect of the Universe, in His wisdom, grant that ages on ages shall pass away ere it again be seen of men.
The Grand Treasurer assisted by the Grand Secretary placed the casket in the cavity prepared.
Grand Treasurer — Most Worshipful Grand Master, your orders have been duly executed.
The Architect delivered the working tools to the Grand Master who re- tained the trowel, and presented the square to the Deputy Grand Master, the level to the Senior Grand Warden, and the plumb to the Junior Grand Warden, saying:
Right Worshipful Brethren, you will receive the implements of your office. With your assistance and that of the Craft, I will now proceed to lay the corner-stone of this edifice, according to the custom of our Fraternity. Brother Grand Marshal, you will direct the Craftsmen to furnish the cement, and prepare to lower the stone.
The Grand Master then spread a portion of the cement. The stone was then lowered slowly one-third the distance, when the stone was stopped and the Grand Honors given once. The stone was again lowered as before, when it was stopped and the Grand Honors given twice. The stone was
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then lowered for the third time. When it was in place the Grand Honors were given thrice. There was appropriate music while the stone was being lowered.
The Grand Master then said:
R. W. Deputy Grand Master, what is the proper implement of your office?
Deputy Grand Master — The vSquare.
Grand Master — What are its moral and Masonic uses?
Deputy Grand Master — To square our actions by the rule of virtue, and prove our work.
Grand Master — Apply the implement of your office to that portion of the comer-stone, and make report.
The square was applied to the four corners of the stone.
Deputy Grand Master — Most Worshipful Grand Master, I find the stone to be square. The Craftsmen have done their duty.
Grand Master — R. W. Senior Grand Warden, what is the proper imple- ment of your office?
Senior Grand Warden — The Level.
Grand Master — What are its moral and Masonic uses?
Senior Grand Warden — Morally, it teaches Equality; and by it we prove our work.
Grand Master — Apply the implement of your office to that portion of the corner-stone that needs to be proved, and make report.
The level was applied to the top surface.
Senior Grand Warden — Most Worshipful Grand Master, I find the stone to be level. The Craftsmen have done their duty.
Grand Master — R. W. Junior Grand Warden, what is the proper im- plement of your office?
Junior Grand Warden — The Plumb.
Grand Master — What are its moral and Masonic uses?
Junior Grand Warden — Morally, it teaches rectitude of conduct; and by it we prove our work.
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Grand Master — Apply the implement of your office to that portion of the corner-stone, and make report.
The plumb was applied to the sides of the stone.
Junior Grand Warden — Most Worshipful Grand Master, I find the stone to be plumb. The Craftsmen have done their duty.
The Grand Master struck the stone three times with his gavel, and said:
This corner-stone has been tested by the proper implements of Masonry. I find that the Craftsmen have skillfully and faithfully done their duty ; and I do declare the stone to be well formed and trusty, truly laid, and correctly proved according to the rules of our Ancient Craft. May the building be conducted and completed amid the blessings of Plenty, Health and Peace.
Response by the Craft — So mote it be.
Grand Master — Brother Grand Marshal, you will present the elements of consecration to the proper officers.
The Grand Marshal presented a vessel of Corn to the Deputy Grand Master; a vessel of Wine to the Senior Grand Warden, and a vessel of Oil to the Junior Grand Warden.
The Deputy Grand Master advanced with the corn and scattered it on the stone, saymg:
I scatter this corn as an emblem of plenty; may the blessings of boun- teous Heaven be showered upon us, and upon all like patriotic and import- ant undertakings, and inspire the hearts of the people with virtue, wisdom and gratitude.
Response by the Craft — So mote it be.
The Senior Grand Warden advanced and poured the wine on the stone, sajnng :
I pour this wine as an emblem of Joy and Gladness. May the Great Ruler of the Universe bless and prosper our National, State and City Gov- ernments; preserve the Union of the States in harmony and brotherly love, which shall endure through all time.
Response bj- the Craft — So mote it be.
The Junior Grand Warden advanced and poured the oil on the stone, saying:
I pour this oil as an emblem of Peace ; may its blessings abide with us continually, and may the Grand Master of Heaven and Earth shelter and protect the widow and orphan, and vouchsafe to them, and to the bereaved.
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the afflicted and sorrowing everywhere, the enjoyment of every good and perfect gift.
Response by the Craft — So mote it be.
The Grand Master, extending his hand, pronounced the invocation: May Corn, Wine and Oil, and all the necessaries of life, abound among men throughout the world. May the blessings of Almighty God be upon this un- dertaking. May he protect the workmen from every accident. May the structure here to be erected be planned with WISDOM, supported by STRENGTH and adorned in BEAUTY, and may it be preser\-ed to the latest ages, a monument to the energy and liberality of its founders.
Response by the Craft — So mote it be.
The Grand Master then addressed the Architect, saying:
Worthy Sir, having thus, as Grand Master of Masons, laid the corner- stone of this structure, I now return to you these implements of operative Masonry, having full confidence in your skill and capacity to perform the important duties confided to you, to the satisfaction of those who have en- trusted you with their fulfillment.
Grand Master — Brethren and Fellow Citizens, I have the honor to re- port that in compliance with the request of the proper authorities, the cor- ner-stone of the Masonic Fraternity Temple to be erected on this site has been laid sticcessfuUy with the Ancient Ceremonies of the Craft.
Brother Grand Marshal, you will therefore make the proclamation.
Grand Marshal — In the name of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of Illinois, I now proclaim that the corner-stone of the Masonic Fraternity Temple has this day been found true and trusty, and laid according to the old customs by the Grand Master of Masons.
M. W. Brother DeWitt C. Cregier was then introduced as Grand Orator, and said:
' ' On this beautiful day, beneath a smiling sky and in the presence of sympathetic thousands, we come to engage in a noble and holy work. This great concourse of people proves one thing beyond aye or nay : it proclaims in unmistakable measure that Freemasonry is in sympathy with the heart- throbs of the people and is part of the flowing tide of progress. In ancient times only architects and " stone-squarers " were admitted to membership in the organization; but as time went by broader ideas obtained, and while we retain, cherish and practice the ancient forms and ceremonies of the Frater- nity, we rejoice that it is now wide enough to embrace humanity, and that in
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its ranks are to be found men of every opinion, sect and nation. Long an- terior to Christianity, Freemasonry had obtained a foothold in the heart of man, and the Temple of Jerusalem was a monument that was an example of its achievements. With the builders of that famous temple do we claim kin- ship, and of their glory and power are we the inheritors. We to-day set up no pretensions as an organization to scientific knowledge, but we shall con- tinue to follow the example laid down by those who went before us, to exer- cise ourselves with tireless activity in the founding and building up of insti- tutions, cities and systems.
" We have heard to-day of the pluinb, the level and the square. The clink of the hammer will soon be heard fashioning this noble structure, but we must all remember that the clink of the dollar is a necessary preliminary to its successful completion. This building will be solidified with blocks of brotherly love and cemented with Christian harmony. In it will be repre- sented the refined social affections and the grand moral sentiment of Free- masonry. Many elements and systems contribute to bring about fraternal feeling, but Freemasonry is the noblest of them all. This is its mission : to better mankind and brighten the path of humanity. The world is its em- pire. It is as unbounded as the globe. It is the guardian of law and order and the protector of equal rights. This grand building will be erected in strength and adorned in beauty. It will be a place for greeting and com- panionship of all good men. May forever be proclaimed in its halls the grand evangel — Glory to God in the highest; peace on earth, and to men good will."
After the close of the ceremonies, the Grand Lodge returned to the Asy- lum of Apollo Commandery, No. i, when the Most Worshipful Grand Mas- ter closed the Grand Lodge in Ami'le Form.
The ceremonies of the day of the laying of the corner-stone of the great Masonic Fraternity Temple were appropriately closed by the Mystic Tie Club banquet at the Sherman House, where prominent members of the Craft who reside in the city and many from the State and surrounding jurisdictions, to the number of two hundred, gathered in the parlors at 8 o'clock p. m. , without regalia and in full evening dress. The Grand Lodge was repre- sented as follows :
John M. Pearson, Grand Master.
Gil W. Barnard, Deputy Grand Master.
Hugh MacMillan, Senior Grand Warden.
George W. Warvelle, Junior Grand Warden.
W. M. Egan, Grand Treasurer.
L. L. Munn, Grand Secretary.
Dr. H. W. Thomas, Grand Chaplain.
D. C. Cregier, Grand Orator.
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"W. K. Forsyth, Grand Pursuivant. Walter A. Stevens, Grand Marshal. Samuel H. Smith, Assistant Grand Marshal. John Wiley, Grand Standard Bearer. D. J. Avery, Grand Sword Bearer. John O'Neill, Grand Senior Deacon. J. H. Dixon, Grand Junior Deacon.
A. W. Hitchcock, Henry McCall, J. D. C. Whitney, James John, Grand Stewards.
R. R. Stevens, Grand Tyler.
At 9 o'clock, to the music of Valisis' orchestra, preceded by Gen. John C. Smith, Past Grand Master, and the Rev. Dr. H. W. Thomas, the " Mys- tic Tie" Club proceeded to the banquet-room, and after an invocation by Dr. Thomas sat down to the tables.
At the center table Gen. Smith, Past Grand Master, presided. Seated at his right was John M. Pearson, Grand Master, and at his left Norman T. Gassette, Past Grand Commander. Others at the table were the Rev. Dr. Thomas, Dr. Walter A. Stevens, Maj. G. M. Moulton, Past Grand Com- mander; Clark Varnum, of Iowa, Past Grand Commander; L. L. Munn, of Freeport, Grand Secretar)'; Gen. John C. Black, John H. Witbeck, Grand Treasurer Grand Commandery K. T. ; and Gen. 'Smith D. Atkins, of Free- port, H. G. Thayer, of Plymouth, Ind., ex-Judge James Bradwell, E. B. Myers, Amos Grannis, John McLaren, Aid. J. H Dixon, Dr. G. O. Gaylor, E. B. Gould, C. K. Herrick, R. J. Walshe, William C. Brown, C. F. Gun- ther, Judge E. M. Horton, Amos Pettibone, C. B. Meyers, S. M. Arnold, Geo. L. Ayers, S. E. Bliss, W. C. Blockler, J. E. Church, Dr. J. P. Cobb, E. B. Chandler, W. W. Ramsey, H. C. Raney, P. S. Hendson, J. L. Har- vey, C. E. Leonard, Capt. Fred Marsh, B. Frank Foster, Englewood; B. F. Foster, Evanston; P. G. Gardner, LaGrange; E. E. Jacox, Evanston; J. J. Luscomb, Pullman; E. G. O'Brien, South Chicago; Albert Russell; John G. Rockafellow, Maywood.
The dining-room was profusely decorated with natural flowers. The long table at the east side of the apartment at which sat the members of the Grand Lodge and other distinguished guests was banked with blooming and foliage plants, above which hung a drapery of American flags and palms. Covers were laid for two hundred guests. In addition to those named above the following were among those who responded in person to the invitation:
Thos. H. Caswell, Gr. Recorder, Cal. Hon. DeWitt C. Cregier,
John C. Biermeister, F. B. Davis,
J. L. Burnow, Hon. James G. Elhvood, Johet,
Col. Isaac Clements, C. S. Gurney,
Arthur Dixon, R. H. Garrigue,
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Amos Graniiis, Robert A. Smith,
Anson Gorton, Hon. Carter H. Harrison.
John M. Hubbard, Allan R. Tomlin,
Dr. J. B. McFatrich, Frank M. Luce,
J. L. Harvey, John C. Smith, Jr.,
D. B. Fonda, C. A. Loomis,
Julius Goldzier, Lieut. Alexander Ross.
Morris Goldwater, P. G. M., Arizona, Dr. W. A. Stevens,
Prof. William Jenkins, Mendota, H. C. Shumway,
Maj. George M. Moulton, Maj. E. P. Tobey,
Dr. De Laskie Miller, Harvey T. Weeks,
H. G. Purinton, E. J. Whitehead,
C. R. Matson, L. L. Wadsworth,
Maj. Alfred Russell, Ferdinand Walther,
Rev. Henry G. Perry, Hon. H. H. C. Miller, Evanston,
John J. Lyons, L. H. Wilson,
E. R. Bliss, C. F. Watkins, Frank Conroj^d, E. B. C. Wright.
The menu card bore on the title page an illustration of the laying of the corner-stone, and on the back a cut of the Temple as it will appear when finished. The inner page, to which the attention of the guests was particu- larly directed, is appended:
MENU.
Blue Points.
Cream of Tomato.
Celery. Sherr3^
Fillet of Beef with Mushrooms.
Potatoes Mashed in Cream. French Peas.
Claret. Orange Ice.
Quail on Toast.
Champagne.
Lobster Mayomiais.
Neapolitan Ice Cream. Fancy Cakes.
Fruit.
Coffee.
Roquefort. Water Crackers.
The banquet was delightfully free from starchy formality. Good-fel- lowship and the fraternal feehng which are inseparable from Freemasonry were all pervading and the oratory was m keeping with the general spirit. The mandolin orchestra was stationed near the mam entrance to the banquet hall and played its selections between courses.
The Oriental Quartet, in which Assistant Postmaster John M. Hubbard's rich baritone voice is an important factor, inaugurated the toast list with " Unfurl the Glorious Banner," which was warmly encored. I\Ir. Hubbard responded with an Irish character solo.
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Telegrams from absent brethren were read. Then the toast, ' ' The Grand Lodge," was drank, George W. Warvelle responding. The speaker said:
" This is not a subject on which the miagmation can run riot. The Grand Lodge is not a principle of Masonry, but merely an adjunct — a thing of imposing obligation. But as a representative of the brothers who formu- lated the principles we cherish and enjoy, the men who met at York in 976, we honor and reverence the Grand Lodge. Those men struck a keynote that has reverberated through the centuries. When we consider the times and the state of the country when that body met the importance of the doc- ument furnished cannot be overestimated. The principles of equality and the belief that all good to the country comes from the governed were then first emphasized. The Grand Lodge is the conservator of all things de- manding our veneration and respect."
Prof. William Jenkins, who was expected to respond to the next toast, " Freemasonry, the Mystice Tie which Binds Our Hearts as One," was un- avoidably absent, and the Hon. Clark Varnum, Past Grand Commander of Iowa, was called upon to respond in his stead. Mr. Varnum said: "The subject is greater than any man can cover. From laws which men made for themselves long ago grew our grand subject — " Freemasonry" — the oldest, grandest organization the world has seen ! It has given rise to great and meritorious things, this great temple, to be one of the most magnificent in the world, among them. And it has caused the kindly hand to grasp, the heartfelt welcome to be given. The Masonic organization is a great pro- tector and conservator of the morals of young and middle-aged men. True, there are other organizations of somewhat similar nature. But even the Y. M. C. A. cannot do what our order does in promoting goodness. Let a young man, a member of a lodge, be going where he might be turned from the path of rectitude. He is taken by the hand and encouraged to keep from wickedness. He learns to say ' No.'
"Brethren, membership in our holy order is worth a hundred times what it costs."
RESPONSE BY E. R. BLISS.
E. R. Bliss responded to the toast, ' ' The Masonic Fraternity Temple — as magnificent in conception as it will be permanent in its construction."
After refemng eloquently to the magnificent splendor of the Colosseum and the greatness of its conception, he spoke of the modern temple. " Right here in our midst," said he, "is a temple which, when its construction reaches completion, will rival any temple the world has ever seen."
Mr. Bliss was loudly applauded. Norman T. Gassette was called upon
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by the President. " I made up my mind," said he, " never to set foot upon the property until the last cloud to the title had been removed. I am happy to say that the two cases involving our right to it were dismissed respect- ively by the Circuit and Supreme Courts to-day, the last at i o'clock, and now the Masonic order of Cook County has clear and indisputable title to that piece of land right in the heart of our great city." [Cheers.]
THE "ARMY AND NAVY."
Gen. Smith D. Atkins responded to the " Army and Navy, Where Grows a Comradeship Akin to Freemasonry."
" Since the days of Perry, of Paul Jones, Putnam, and Washington," said he in the course of his remarks, " our flag has been in the hands of the army and navy, and right nobly have they borne it. In later times came Grant, Sherman, Logan, Meade, Hancock, and the soldiers who gave up their lives for its preservation, and never has it received a stain. No other flag should ever be allowed to float to the breeze in this country. At the head of our institutions, aye, on the little red schoolhouse, shall it ever be borne aloft."
Gen. Atkins' address was interrupted with cheers, and at the close the entire assembly assisted the quartet in singing the " Star-Spangied Banner " in the most enthusiastic manner.
' ' The press ; a great power in our modern civilization. " The response to this was in Judge James B. Bradwell's happiest vein and not only elicited close attention but won merited applause.
GEN. JOHN C. BLACK.
Gen. John C. Black, who was not down for response, was called upon. "Because," said the President, "at our last meeting it was decreed that Gen. Black should speak next time, although our ancient customs do not allow us to depart from the established order of things. He's a Democrat, but he can sit with us, because he bears honorable scars which he received fighting for our country."
Gen. Black spoke briefly on the establishment and origin of Freemasonry so far as it was known, and referred to the New Temple. After him came ex-Mayor Harrison on his favorite topic, "Chicago."
It was not long after midnight when the speaking was finished, and all present pronounced the day a great success and the Mystic Tie Club a valu- able addition to Ancient Craft Masonry.
Fifty-Second Grand Annual Communication, held AT Chicago, October 6, 7 and 8, 1891.
zPE^ocEEiDznsra-s
OF
JHE QRAND LODQE
Of tKe State of !llir\ois,
Free ar\cl Accepted Masor\s.
M. W. MONROE C. CRAWFORD, Grand Master. R. W. LOYAL L. MUNN, Grand Secretary.
FREEPORT. ILL.:
JOURNAL POWER PRESS AND BINDERY.
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oip:fic:h]i^s
Grand llodge of the State of Illirpois, 1891-92.
HVr. W. Monroe C. Crawford Grand Master Jonesboro.
R. W. Leroy a. Goddard Deputy Grand Master. . . .Mt. Carmel.
R. W. Owen Scott Senior Grand Warden. . . . Bloomington.
R. W. Edward Cook Ju7iior Gratid Warden. . . .Chicago.
R. W. Wiley M. Egan Grand Treasurer Chicago.
R. W. Loyal L. Munn Grand Secretary Freeport.
R. W. Rev. P.P. Davenport, D. D. 6^r««(^ Chaplain Cairo.
R. W. William W. Barr Grand Orator Carbondale.
W. Loyal L. Munn, Jr Deputy Grand Secretary. . Preeport.
W. B. Y. Mason Grand Pursuivant Paxton.
W. R. S. Gordon Grand Marshal Mt. Carmel.
W. N. E. Roberts Grand Standard Bearer . . Pairfield.
W. Joseph G. Marston Grand Sword Bearer Jersey ville.
W. John O'Neill Senior Grand Deacon Chicago.
W. Eugene L. Stoker Junior Grand Deacon Centralia.
W. Thomas Worthington. . . . Grand Steward Pittsfield.
W. William Jackson Grand Steward. Godfrey.
W. A. W. Hitchcock Grand Steward. Chicago.
W. C. H. Starkel Grand Steward. Belleville.
Bro. Robert R. Stevens Grand Tyler Chicago.
OF THE
M. W. QR/IND LODQZ OF ILLIJ^OIS,
Free and Accepted pasons,
At Its Fifty-Second Grand Annual Communication.
In compliance with the provisions of the Constitution and By-Laws of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, the Fifty- second Annual Grand Communication was held at Central Music Hall, in the City of Chicago, commencing on Tuesday, the 6th day of October, A. D. 1S91, A. L. 5891, at 10 o'clock a. m.
GEAND OrnOEES PEESENT.
M. W. John M. Pearson Grand Master.
R. W. Monroe C. Crawford Deputy Grand Master.
R. W. Leroy a. Goddard Setiwr Grand Warden.
R. W. Owen Scott Jtinior Grand Wardeft.
R. W. Wiley M. Egan Grand Treasurer.
R. W. Loyal L. Munn Grand Secretary.
R. W. Rev. Francis Springer, D. D Grand CJiaplani.
R. W. Geo. W. Warvelle Grand Orator pro tern.
W. Loyal L. Munn, Jr Dep. Grand Secretary pro iem.
W. B. F. Mason Grand Pursuivant.
W. R. S. Gordon Grand Marshal.
W. N. E. Roberts Grand Standard Bearer.
W. Joseph G. Marston Grand Sword Bearer.
W. John O'Neill Senior Grand Deacon.
W. Eugene L. Stoker Junior Grand Deacon pro tetn.
W. A. W. Hitchcock Grand Steward.
W. Thomas Worthington Grand Steward.
W. William Jackson Grand Steward.
Bro. Robert R. Stevens Grand Tyler.
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The M. W. Grand Master proceeded to open the M. W. Grand Lodge of Illinois in Ami'I.e Form, with
I'RAYER BY THE GRAND CHAPLAIN.
We adore Thee, the Infinite Eternal Parent, Creator of all! Our first duty in obedience to the still small voice within us, is praise and thanksgiv- ing unto God who created us. We adore Thee as the Great Master of the universe in whom is the government of all things, from whose power, mys-' terious as it may seem to ujj, has proceeded all things. Our praj^er is the voice of our innermost aspirings, our noble ascensions, our grandest wish, and we come before Thee, the Infinite and Adorable One, aspiring to com- mune with the Father of all. We desire to know Thee in whose image we are created. We desire to conform our will to Thine, and we come with thanksgiving therefore that it is our privilege thus to address our suppliant thought to Thy throne.
We thank Thee, Infinite Parent, for our surroundings, the blessings of Thy providence which encompass us, to express the love of our Supreme Father in Heaven who taketh note of all His creatures, and in whose eye not even a sparrow falleth without notice.
We thank Thee for the renewed opportunity of this social gathering ; that we come together to cultivate the highest and noblest attainment of in- tellectual and moral qualities. We come to meet each other in this higher and diviner aspiration of which man is capable, so that we may complete our journe}'^ in this life conformably to Thy will and the grand purpose of our creation ; and as we meet together upon the field of immortality we are aware that we possibly shall meet again.
Almighty Parent, be Thou \vith us ; watch over our Order ever^-Avhere ; quicken the pulse that seeks to save, and know and relieve sorrow and suf- fering. We pray that our hand may ever be ready to yield to the prompt- ings ot the highest and the holiest nature of our beings when it is appealed to by a brother in want, a brother in need of instruction and comfort and solace.
We ask Thy blessing upon the Order over all the earth ; that all the tendency of the present day may be uniform in one grand halleluiah of praise to the Infinite God ; that this Order may be contributive to that grand result. We pray Thee now to be with us and bless us and be near us. Thy children ; and unto Thy name, Infinite Parent, shall be unceasing praise. Amen.
The Grand Secretary announced that the Committee on Credentials had informed him that a constitutional number of lodges were represented, and asked for the committee further time to complete their report, which was granted.
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COMMITTEES.
The M. W. Grand Master announced the appointment of the following named brethren to serve on the various committees during the present ses- sion:
ON MASONIC JURISPRUDENCE.
D. C. Cregier, James A. Hawley, Daniel M. Browning, John C. Smith, Charles Fisher.
ON APPEALS AND GRIEVANCES.
Joseph E. Dyas, H. J. Hamlin, Geo. W. Hill, Ira W. Buell, W. S. Cantrell.
ON CHARTERED LODGES.
G. H. B. Tolle, Geo. W. Cyrus, M. Maynard, Chas. H. Patton, A. McDonald.
ON LODGES UNDER DISPENSATION.
H. E. Hamilton, H. N. Greenebaum, S. F. Connor, M. S. Brown, C. H.
Morrell.
ON CORRESPONDENCE.
' Joseph Robbins.
ON MILEAGE AND PER DIEM.
Edward S. Mulliner, John A. Ladd, Ed. S. Wahl.
ON FINANCE.
E. C. Pace, Gil. W. Barnard, Samuel W. Waddle.
TO EXAMINE VISITORS.
M. D. Chamberlin, W. B. Grimes, James John, J. E. Evans, John W, Rose.
ON CREDENTIALS.
J. I. McClintock, D. B. Breed, P. W. Barclay.
ON PETITIONS.
C. M. Forman, A. N. Yancy, A. W. Blakesley.
ON OBITUARIES.
L. R. Jerome, D. H. Tripp, F. M. Sherman.
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ON GRAND master's ADDRESS.
Wm. E. Ginther, John B. Fithian, J. C. Animann.
ON RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION.
Wm. Jenkins, Leslie A. Munn.
The Grand Secretarjr moved that the reading of the minutes be dispensed with, printed copies being in the hands of the brethren, which was adopted.
GEAJ^D MASTER'S EEPORT.
The M. W. Grand ilaster presented the following report, which, on mo- tion of M. W. Bro. D. M. Browning, was referred to the Committee on Grand Master's Address:
Brethre7i of the Grand Lodge of Illinois :
Again I present my annual report. A kind Pro\-idence still watches over us, and has kept us safely through another year. No swift messenger has come, with sudden summons, to aii}^ of our officers. No arrow has flown by da.}' nor pestilence walked in darkness. Material blessings have followed us all the days, and the question for us now is, have we improved them for our own good and that of our fellowmen ?
The returns show that our lodges have been busy, and that a greater increase in numbers has been made than in former years. I am glad to be able to make this report, and that we have abundant reasons for encourage- ment.
The same feature in our work, that I mentioned last year, the building and furnishing comfortable and convenient homes for our lodges, has been prominent during this year, and I have been gratified to find the manifest purpose of so many of our lodges to secure beautiful and commodious halls. From the reports of the District Deputy Grand ^Masters, the general report is "peace and harmony," not meaning that peace that precedes dissolution, but peace arising from a firm and faithful performance of duty.
I sadly report to you the death of three past officers of this Grand Lodge. R. W. Bro. Andrew J. Kuykendall, for three years Senior Grand Warden of this Grand Lodge, departed this life at his home in Vienna, Johnson County, May nth, 1891.
R. W. Bro. Hosmer A. Johnson, Past Grand Orator, died at his home in Chicago, February 26th, 1891.
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W. Bro. John D. Hamilton, Past Senior Grand Deacon, died in the city of Chester, on Wednesday, August 13th, 1891.
From other jurisdictions we learn the loss by death of Past Grand Ma'^- ter Hiram Bassett, of Kentucky, Nov. 6th, 1S90. From Arkansas the death •of R. W. Bro. George H. Meade, Grand Treasurer. From California, the death of R. W. Bro. Alexander G. Abell, Grand Secretary, dying at his post ■of duty after thirty-six years of continuous service. From Florida, the death of R. W. Bro. John F. Niblack, Senior Grand Warden. From British Columbia, the death of M. W. Bro. Henry Brown, P. G. M. From Minne- sota, the death of M. W. Bro. Caleb H. Benton, P. G. M. From South Da- kota, the death of M. W. Bro. George H. Hand, P. G. M., and our Grand Representative .
Among those in our own State who in past years have been associated with us, I mention W. Bro. A. W. Adams, of Geneva Lodge, No. 139, who for several years acted for this Grand Lodge on the committee to revise our Constitution and By-Laws ; and R. W. Bro. Wm. S. Phares, residing in Ur- bana, Illinois, but, for years prior to his residence in Urbana, was our Grand Representative near the Grand Lodge of Ohio, then and always his Masonic home.
I have also received notice of the death of the following distinguished Officers and Past Grand Officers: M. W. James A. Henderson, P. G. M. of •Canada, who died in Kingston, Dec. 7th, 1890. M. W. George Baird, P. G. M. of West Virginia, who died m Wheeling, March 7th, 1891. M. W. Charles H. Collier, P. G. M. of West Virginia, who died in Wheeling, March 19th, 1S91. M. W. William Harden, P. G. M. of New Jersey, who died at Bing- hampton, New York, March 28th, 1891. I leave to the appropriate commit- tee the sad task of putting on record the proper testimonials of our respect and sympathy.
LODGES CONSTITUTED.
As soon as possible after the close of the last annual communication, I Tnade arrangements for the formal constitution of the several lodges to -which charters had been granted. An account of the work done is herewith submitted :
October 12th, 1890, R. W. Bro. Wm. R. Hoyle, Jr., D. D. G. M. for the
13th District, as my proxy, duly constituted "A. T. Darrah Lodge, No. 793," located in the village of Victoria, Knox Co., and installed its officers in due form.
October i8th, 1890, R. W. Bro. Joseph H. Dixon, as my proxy, duly •constituted "Myrtle Lodge, No. 795," located at Irving Park, Cook County, and installed its officers.
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October 31st, W. Bro. Fred W. Porter, as my proxy, duly constituted Normal Park Lodge, No. 797, located at Engiewood, city of Chicago, in Cook County, and installed its officers. W. Bro. Porter reports ' ' the occasion was made one of public interest," and the lodge room was graced with the pres- ence of ladies, friends of the members. " Dehghtful music " was rendered by the daughters of the brethren. A banquet followed, " sumptuous and served most acceptably," and then "speeches."
October 27th, R. W. Bro. W. B. Grimes, as my proxy, duly constituted E. M. Husted Lodge, No. 796, located in the city of Roodhouse, Greene County, and installed its officers. The third degree was also conferred in excellent form and a banquet was duly " justified."
November 8th, W. Bro. W. N. Dicks, as my proxy, constituted Sidell Lodge, No. 798, located at the village of Sidell, VermiHon County, and duly installed its officers. Visitors were present from Vermilion Lodge, No. 265, and other lodges in the vicinity, and a supper, prepared by the ladies of Sidell, closed the proceedings.
November 26th, W. Bro. Daniel Lawrence, as my proxy, constituted Tadmor Lodge, No. 794, located at Karber's Ridge, Hardin County, and in- stalled its officers in due form.
At the last communication of Grand Lodge the following was adopted :
''Resolved, That the Grand Lodge issue to such of the members of Bethesda Lodge, No. 661, as may apply for the same, a charter, authorizing the formation of a lodge, by whatever name they may select, and using a new number, which charter to be without fee ; which lodge to be located at Colfax, in McLean County."
After the closing of Grand Lodge, I at once opened a correspondence with the late members of said lodge, to ascertain who were qualified to sign the petition, and ready to do so. Some necessary delay was occasioned, to- give time to collect dues, and secure receipts from the Grand Secretary, but this being done and a charter duly issued to Colfax Lodge, No. 799, on the 14th day of May, and said lodge duly constituted on the 19th day of June, by W. Brother S. J. LeFevre, as my proxy, and the officers duly installed. Bro. LeFevre reports the prospect for a "good working lodge," as bright.
MITHRA LODGE, NO. 4IO.
At the last annual communication a petition was received from one who- claimed to have been elected to receive the degrees in Mithra Lodge and had already received the first and second degrees therein and for no good reason, of which he was aware, had not received the third degree, though often applying therefor. The committee on petitions called this a "very peculiar
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case," and after due investigation were "led to believe that the said lodge is violating the law in the mdnner in which said petitioner is being kept from taking the third degree." The committee recommended that all papers in the case be referred to the Grand Master with a request that he will take such steps as will ensure the due observance of the law.
Accordingly, having ascertained where the trouble seemed to lie, I in- structed R. W. Bro. Jos. H. Dixon, D. D. G. M. of the third Masonic dis- trict, to visit Mithra Lodge, and, acting under my special proxy, to preside while the case was discussed and carry out the By-Laws of this Grand Lodge relative thereto. Bro. Dixon visited the lodge twice, and carefully investi- gated the whole case, patiently pointed out their errors to the members of the lodge, and their duty to the brother, and finally no objectioii being sus- tained, the third degree was duly conferred. Too much praise cannot be given to Bro. Dixon for his able handling of this case, that had disturbed the harmony of Mithra Lodge for fifteen years.
Immediately after the close of Grand Lodge, I issued my proxy to W. Bro. J. W. Hamilton, Master of Olive Branch Lodge, No. 38, to install W. Bro. W. J. Calhoun as Grand Orator, he not having been present at the annual installation. This duty was duly performed by Bro. Hamilton, assisted by W. Bro. D. E. Brufitt, of Urbana. I also issued my proxy to R. W. Bro. Jacob Krohn to install W. Bro. George L. Munn, as Deputy Grand Secretaiy, he also having been absent at the annual Grand Communication. This duty was duly performed, at a stated communication of Excelsior Lodge, No. 97, on the evening of Nov. 7, i S90.
In December last I reluctantly accepted the resignation of R. W. Bro. Eugene L. Stoker, as Grand Lecturer, and one of the Board of Examiners. Bro. Stoker felt unwilling to occupy the position, while his duty, as member of the General Assembly, would compel his absence at all the schools then proposed to be held. I therefore on the 1 8th of December appointed R. W. Bro. John W. Rose of Litchfield to be Grand Lecturer, and member of the Board of Examiners, having full confidence in his ability and zeal. His work at the schools of instruction has been excellent.
SCHOOLS OF INSTRUCTION.
Five of these Schools have been held, as formerly, at Morris, in Grundy County; at Watseka, in Iroquois Count)'^; at Nashville, in Washington County; at Olney, in Richland County, and at Monmouth, in Warren County, commencing the first on February 3d, i8gi, and the, others in following weeks, each occupying three days. Taken as a whole, the attendance was not as large as that of last year, nor was it expected. In locating these Schools I purposely avoided our large cities, because Schools had been held
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in all of them, and I thought that the zealous brethren in some of our smaller towns, who were anxious to secure a School, should have the opportunity. The representative attendance was good, but the local attendance could not equal that in some of our larger cities, where there are several lodges. The report of the Grand Examiners will show in detail the work and attendance at each School. I attended each ot these Schools, and am fully convinced of their utility.
Commissions have been issued, after due examination, to the following, named brethren as Deputy Grand Lecturers :
Thomas W. Macfall, of Ouincy. Sylvester Thompson, of Blandinsville. John C. Bannister, of Princeton. Henry Werno, of Chicago. Herbert S. Hurd, of Chicago. Calvin B. Burt, of Chicago. John W. Kleckner, of Chicago. John Glaze, of Chicago. Isaac H. Todd, of Elvaston. Charles S. De Hart, of Carthage. L. J. Forth, of Fairfield. Cornelius M. Erwin, of Bowen. Orville F. Kirkpatrick, of Bowen. John J. Crowder, of Springfield. Thomas W. Wilson, of Riverton. Joseph A. Agee, of Riverton. Charles E. Groves,^f Mt. Carroll. Wm. V. Lamb, of Naperville. Henry A. Edison, of Willow Hill. Samuel G. Jarvis, of Victoria. Joseph V. Harris, of Canton.
OFFICIAL CEREMONIES.
Oct. 22nd, R. W. Owen Scott, as my proxy, laid the corner stone of Effingham College, located at Effingham, Effinghain County, with the usual Masonic ceremonies, an occasional Grand Lodge having been opened for that purpose. Hon. Richard Edwards, Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Rev. Bro. Alfred Bliss, President of the new College, delivered ad- dresses. Bro. Scott reported a lai-ge number of Masons from neighboring lodges present. The local arrangements were in charge of Effingham Lodge, No. 149, who did their part well.
Nov. 6th, assisted by the officers of an occasional Grand Lodge, I laid the corner stone of the "Masonic Fraternity Temple " in the city of Chicago,
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Cook County. The lodges of the city joined in procession, escorted by the Sir Knights of the several conimanderies, the number being given at over 5,000, attended by bands of music and avast concourse of interested citizens. The ceremonies were in accordance with our ancient customs; R. W. Bro. Gilbert W. Barnard acting as D. G. M. , W. Bro. Hugh McMillan as S. G. W., W. Bro. George W. Warvelle as J. G. W., and M. W. John C. Smith in charge of all the details and chairman of the committee of arrangements. The Oriental Quartet sang "Laying the Stone," and M. W. DeWitt C. Cre- gier delivered the oration. The Chicago Graphic says : ' ' The laying of the corner stone of the Masonic Fraternity Temple in Chicago, Nov. 6th, 1890, marks the most notable event in operative Masonry since the achievements of ancient days." I cannot close my report of this notable event without a tribute of respect and love to the brother who was most active and zealous in promoting the enterprise — Norman T. Gassette. Hopefully, actively and faithfully he labored to realize this, his cherished conception of what ought to be done, and of what the Masons of Chicago could do. Alas! he has not lived with us to see its completion. But as its walls rapidly rise, and so long as they shall stand, they will call to the grateful remembrance of every Ma- son in our land the name of
Norman T. Gassette.
November 12th, M. W. Bro. DeWitt C. Cregier, as my proxy, dedicated a hall to the purposes of Freemasonry and for the use of Watseka Lodge, No. 446, and kindred Masonic bodies, located m Watseka, Iroquois County. The ceremony commenced at 2 p. m. and lasted without cessation, including banquet, until a late hour in the evening. The hall was dedicated in the afternoon, and an address by M. W. Bro. DeWitt C. Cregier, on the ' ' beauties, duties and benefits" of Masonry, followed. A banquet was spread at the Williams House, and a fine band drowned the clatter of knives and forks with soft music. After the banquet a reception was held at the hall, when the ante-rooms, parlors, dining-room and kitchen were filled with the breth- ren and their invited guests, including the ladies. R. W. Bro. Owen Scott made a speech that his friends say was better than usual. Judge Starr told his reminiscences of the spot at an early day when the county was new. Rev. Bro. Seymour followed with remarks on the hidden things of Masonry. Recitations, songs and short speeches followed, and at eleven o'clock Rev. Bro. Seymour pronounced the benediction, and "one of the most pleasant entertainments ever gi'^n in Watseka came to a close." I have since visited Watseka Lodge and was completely and happily surprised to find so capa- cious and beautiful a hall, and the brethren have a right to be proud of it.
December 27th, W. Bro. H. M. Hall, as my proxy, dedicated a new hall for the use of Noble Lodge, No. 362, located at Noble, Richland County. This hall was built last year to take the place of the one destroyed by fire
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in October, 18S9, and it is to be hoped will long stand to witness to the faith and zeal of the brethren.
January 27, 1S91, I Nnsited Winchester, Scott County, and there dedicated a new hall for the use of Winchester Lodge, No. 105. They have fitted up the hall beautifully, with excellent taste, and great credit is due the W. M., A. P. Grout, D. D. G. M., for his energy and zeal in thus pushing forward the work to successful conclusion. Hospitaller Commandery, of Jacksonville, kindly furnished the escort to the occasional Grand Lodge and the whole ar- rangement was all that could be desired. Ten lodges were represented from the vicinity. Hon. Bro. James M. Riggs delivered the address, recounting the early history of the lodge ; a choir of selected singers, from the ladies and gentlemen of Winchester, added interest and variety to the ser\dces. Rev. Bro. Sisson delivered an appropriate address, and, as the local press said, "carried away the honors of the occasion." A banquet followed, to which full justice \vas done and the services closed with good feeling all around, and will be long remembered by all who participated.
January 29th, M. W. Bro. John C. Smith, as my proxy, dedicated a hall in Stockton, Jo Daviess County, for Masonic purposes and the special use of Plum River Lodge, No. 554, formerly located at Plum River, but now, after compliance with our laws, located at Stockton. Owing to a severe attack of neuralgia, Bro. Smith's report to me was brief, but the local press report an exceedingly interesting time. Nearly two hundred Masons from the vicinity were present, with wives and daughters.
From the same source I learn that Bro. Smith made them an excellent speech, it being to him familiar ground and he had old friends all around him. The prospects are good for a renewal of life for Plum River Lodge m its new home in the thriving town of Stockton.
March 6th I dedicated to the uses of Freemasonry a beautiful hall at Oalesburg, to be occupied by Alpha Lodge, No. 155, and Vesper Lodge, No. 564. Perfect arrangements had been made. The Grand Lodge was opened in occasional communication at 2 o'clock, p. m., and escorted by Galesburg Commandery, K. T. , marched to the hall where were assembled the brethren of both lodges and a large number of visitors. The exercises were conducted in ample form, with choice music, appropriately interspersed, and a few short addresses. In the evening a brilliant reception was given in the hall, where all the friends, male and female, were invited to inspect the beautiful accommodations. The evening was spent mainly in social intercourse, but was also made specially interesting by music of high quality, both vocal and instrumental. The hall and various apartments are unex- celled by any m the State. My thanks are tendered to Berthren Allen and Hoyle, Masters of the two lodges, and to Bros. Perry Burkhalter and Patch for their unremitting attention and kindness during my official visit.
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March 6th, M. W. Bro. Joseph Robbins, as my proxy, dedicated the hall of Burnside Lodge, No. 683, according to ancient form and usage. Brother Robbins says ' ' the building, erected by the brethren of Burnside Lodge, is the largest and finest in the village, and, with ample grounds on which it stands, is their own property." An oration was delivered, in a neighboring church, by Bro. Robbins. Of this he modestly expresses no opinion, but from "legal information" he is "lawfully entitled" to much praise. A crowded audience was well entertained. Not satisfied with this, the lodge met in the evening and conferred the third degree on two Fellow Crafts. The work was done by Hancock Lodge, No. 20, and La Harpe Lodge, No. 195, and was "standard." The representatives of ten lodges assisted in the services and were present at the occasional communication of Grand Lodge. Bro. Robbins further says : " The region about Burnside, whose jurisdic- tion is large, is filled with an excellent population, and Masonry there is m good and discreet hands."
April 17th, R. W. Bro. James Hibben, as my proxy, dedicated a hall to the purposes of Freemasonry and for the use of Myrtle Lodge, No. 795, located in Irving Park, Cook County. Bro. Hibben reports with commend- able pride " that the entire ceremony, from commencement to termination, ran smoothly, soberly and impressively, and that tiot a ritual was used." An appropriate oration was delivered by Bro. Hibben, which gave satisfac- tion to all who heard it. A banquet followed, graced by the presence of lady friends, and "for more than an hour we indulged in refreshments, both material and intellectual." Remember, to the credit of Myrtle Lodge, that it is not yet one year old.
June loth your Grand Master laid the corner stone of the new Court House in Carrollton, Greene County, with the proper Masonic ceremonies. Representatives of eight lodges were present, W. Bro. Joseph G. Marston, Grand Standard Bearer, filling his office. A procession of the officers of the county, and other societies, escorted the Grand Lodge to the designated spot, where a large company was assembled. The arrangements were in charge of Carrollton Lodge, No. 50, and nothing was omitted to secure suc- cess, except permanent agreement with the weather committee, a beautiful shower falling just as the ceremony concluded.
June loth, while engaged as just reported, R. W. Bro. C. F. Hitchcock, D. D. G. M. , as my proxy, opened an occasional Grand Lodge in the city of Chillicothe, Peoria County, and proceeded to lay the corner stone of the new high school building in due form. Everything was propitious. Rev. Bro. Bol- ton,of Princeton, delivered an excellent oration and the citizens of Chillicothe attended in crowds. The local arrangements were in charge of George Washington Lodge, No. 222, with Bro. G. O. Friederick as W. M., and so well was everything prepared that, as R. W. Bro. Hitchcock says, there was "not a break."
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June 24. The dedication of the new Masonic Temple at Joliet was an occasion long to be remembered, not only by the Masons of Joliet but by the crowds of visiting brethren, with lady friends who graced the ceremonies by their attendance.
The corner-stone was laid, in accordance with Masonic custom, one year before, and the structure was completed, according to the original design, without delay. I had the pleasure of dedicating this large and beautiful edi- fice for the use of the Craft. Previous examination convinced me that I had nowhere seen any building owned by the Craft so well fitted for their uses. Not only the hall itself, but all the adjoining rooms are models of taste in their furnishing and conveniences. I thought that their own sad experience in former j^ears, of loss by fire and the necessary effort to repair the same promptly, had led the way to this final successful effort. Long may it stand, a beautiful monument to the devotion of its builders.
An occasional Grand Lodge was duljr formed and opened in one of the adjoining rooms and marched into the crowded hall, and then and there ded- icated the work to the use of the Craft, with earnest prayer to God for its preservation and future usefulness. Suitable addresses were made, and a banquet spread in the adjoining room was fully enjoj-ed by hundreds.
I may be allowed to mention, with honor, the names of Bros. J. B. Fithian and Charles A. Noble, Masters of the two lodges, and W. Bro. J. G. Elwood, as having been especially active in this glorious work. A reception was held in the evening when all the rooms were thrown open to the crowds of admiring friends, and music and dancing closed the eventful day.
June 24th, R. W. Bro. ]\I. C. Crawford, as mj^ proxy, laid the corner- stone of a new court house to be erected at Fairlield, in Wayne County, as- sisted by R. W. L. A. Goddard, Senior Grand Warden, and the representa- tives of ten lodges. W. Bro. Charles H. Patton delivered the address. A band and choir were in attendance. W. Brethren R. S. Gordon, Grand Marshal, and N. E. Roberts, Grand Standard Bearer, filled their respective positions, and the work was duly perfomied, the local arrangements being in charge of Fairfield Lodge, No. 206.
June 26th, R. W. Bro. W. K. Forsj^th, as my proxy, laid the corner- stone of a public school building at Blue Island, Cook County. The occas- ion was not only one of Masonic interest, but the attendance of citizens of Blue Island showed that it was one of general importance. There is no one branch of our civil institutions with which we as Masons are so deeply inter- ested as our public schools. Masonry can never do its best work nor be fully appreciated among an ignorant community, and we gladly give our aid and influence to all efforts to promote free public schools.
Calumet Lodge, No. 716, took charge of the exercises, and the arrange- ments were perfect. Mr. Henry Biroth, President of the Board of Educa-
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tion, welcomed the Grand Lodge in an address that clearly set forth the aim of our schools to prepare children " for the duties of life," make them fit members of society and good and useful citizens. Excellent music was ren- dered by a quartette of young ladies, and an "original song" was sung by a chorus of little girls. Grand Orator J. S. Goodwin delivered the address, from which, did space permit, I would like to quote. It was indeed inspir- ing.
]\I. \V. J. C. Smith added some forceful words, and County Supt. Lane closed the exercises with with an "eloquent address" which was "heartily applauded."
The Grand Lodge, with the teachers of the schools, were hospitably en- tertained by the President of the Board of Education after the exercises.
July 15th an occasional Grand Lodge was convened at Nashville, Wash- ington County, and the corner stone of the public school building duly laid by Grand Master in due form. Representatives of fourteen lodges assisted in the work, and a large company of visiting brethren, who were amply en- tertained by Washington Lodge, No. 55, who had charge of all arrange- ments. R. W. Bro. M. C. Crawford, Deputy Grand Master, was present and delivered an appropriate address, which held the attention of the assem- bled company. A fine choir was also in attendance, who aided us with choir music at proper intervals.
September Sth, M. W. Bro. Daniel M. Browning, as mx proxy, laid the corner stone of a new building to be erected for the use of Ewmg College,, in the village o± Ewing, Franklin County, to be called " Willard Hall." The arrangements were under the care of Ewing Lodge, No. 705, and were wall carried out. The occasion proved of much interest to the Masons as well as to the citizens generally.
September i6th I visited Decatur, and there in presence of an occasional Grand Lodge laid the corner stone of Macon County Court House, in accord- ance with our ancient ceremonies. The arrangements were all provided by Macon Lodge, No. 8, and Ionic Lodge, No. 312. A procession composed of citizens and the various county and citj^ officials, was formed, followed by Beaumanoir Commandery, K. T., who acted as escort to the lodges, the officials of the Grand Lodge, in carriages, closing the procession. A large concourse of citizens witnessed the ceremony and listened to the interesting; address by Bro. Neilson giving a few incidents in the early history of the county. In the evening a banquet was spread in the dining-room of the lodge, and about three hundred brethren sat down to replenish their bodies, and refresh their souls. Several short addresses were made, and the occas- ion was highly enjoyed both b}^ the visiting brethren and their hosts.
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LODGES U. D.
October 23d, i8go, I granted a dispensation to form a new lodge, to be named Fisher Lodge, located at the town of Fisher, in the County of Cham- paign. I appointed Bro. S. B. Sale to be the first Worshipful Master; Bro. John W. Richmond to be the first Senior Warden, and Bro. William T. Mor- gan to be the first Junior Warden, with six other petitioners. This lodge was instituted Nov. 28, 1890, by R. W. Bro. F. E. Eubehng, D. D. G. M. They have reported to me a goodly amount of work done, and from the com- mendations of brethren who have visited them, I feel sure that they have a promising future. '
December 12th, dispensation was issued for a new lodge to be named Kenwood Lodge and to be located at Kenwood, in the city of Chicago. Bro. William Stevenson was appointed to be the first Worshipful Master, and Bro. Thos. W. Combs to be Senior Warden and Bro. T. A. Ford, Junior Warden, with forty-eight others. This lodge commences life with a membership greater than that of the average lodge in this jurisdiction and with fine pros- pects for the future. It was instituted on the 2gth day of December, 1S90, by M. W. Bro. John C. Smith, with several Grand Lodge officers in attendance, and in fine style. Later reports to me show a larger amount of work done.
February 7th, 1891, I granted a dispensation to form a new lodge at Carterville, Williamson Co., to be named Williamson Lodge. Bro.W. H. Perry •was appointed first Worshipful Master and Bros. John W. Cundiff and John B. Samuels to be Senior and Junior Wardens respectively, with eleven other petitioners. This lodge was instituted February 25, 1891, by W. Bro. E. Spil- ler ; has confen-ed about twenty degrees and is very promising.
February 19th, I granted a dispensation to form a new lodge at Neponset, in Bureau County, to be named Neponset Lodge. Bro. A. B. Avery to be the first Worshipful Master, Bro. John L. Priestman to be first Senior Warden and William McKee to be the first Junior Warden, with eight other Master Masons. I have a recent report from Bro. Avery, showing ■excellent work.
April 22d, a dispensation was granted to form a new lodge at Kensing- ton, Chicago, in Cook County. W. Bro. Alex. McLachlan was appointed to be the first Worshipful Master ; Bro; Charles H. Bremmer to be first Senior Warden, and Bro. Thomas Harris to be first Junior Warden ; with ten other petitioners.
The new lodge was instituted by R. W. Bro. W. K. Forsyth on the 27th day of April, 1891. Although located near Palace Lodge, No. 765, at Pull- man, it was cheerfully recommended by the latter, and from reports re- ceived will, 1 think, find plenty of material to work upon.
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May 1 6th, I granted a dispensation to form a new lodge to be called S.. M. Dalzell Lodge, located at Spring Valley, in the county of Bureau. Bro. H. C. Greeley was appointed to be the first Worshipful Master, and Bros. W. E. Dudley and E. G. Moore to be Senior and Junior Wardens respect- ively, with twenty-one other petitioners.
This lodge was formally instituted May 25th by R. W. Bro. M. U. Trimble, D. D. G. M., in presence of nearly one hundred Masons from Princeton and other lodges in the vicinity. The ceremony was followed by a " magnificent banquet" prepared by lady friends, which was fully appre- ciated by all present. Later reports to me confirm the jaropriety of locating- a lodge there.
May i8th, a dispensation was granted to Bro. L L. Lemmon, as W. M., and Bros. Harvey Weaver and John Blackwell as Senior and Junior War- dens, to form a new lodge at Nebo, Pike County, to be called Nebo Lodge.. Twenty-one petitioners signed the application.
This lodge was instituted on the 23d of May by R. W. Bro. John E. Morton, D. G. L., who reports a good prospect, which from subsequent re- ports to me have been verified.
May 25th, I granted a dispensation to form a new lodge in Macedonia^ Hamilton County, to be called Royal Lodge, and appointed Bro. Seth P. Ingram as first Worshipful Master, and Bros. Harvey C. Vise, Senior War- den, and John B. McGuyer, Junior Warden, with eight other Master Masons.
Starting as it did in a farming community, at a busy season of the year, not as much work has been done as expected, but they have prospects of plenty of work.
May 29th a dispensation was granted to form a new lodge at Cornland,. Logan County, to be named Cornland Lodge. Thirteen Master Masons signed the petition. Bro. Gaylord C. Edwards was appointed to be the first Worshipful Master and Bros. E. A. Day and A. C. Dunaway to be Senior and Junior Wardens respectively. This lodge was instituted June 13, 1891,. by R. W. Bro. C. F. Tenney, D. D. G. M., who sends us a good report.
May 30th a dispensation was granted to form a new lodge at Woburn,. Bond County, to be called Gillham Lodge. Bro. Delbert Guile was ap- pointed to be the first Worshipful Master, and Bros. George W. Kimbro and Samuel J. Elam to be the first Senior and Junior Wardens respectively, with eleven petitioners.
June nth a dispensation to form a new lodge was granted to twenty- Master Masons residing at Washington Heights, Chicago, Cook County, tO' be called Tracy Lodge. Bro. E. D. Petrie was appointed to be the first
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Worshipful Master and Bros. S. H. ]\IcNabb and Charles B'. Goes to be Senior and Junior Wardens respectively. This lodge was instituted June iSth by Bro. W. K. Forsyth, D. D. G. M., in fine style, and from his report and from other sources I learn they are doing well and have a brilliant fu- ture before them. This dispensation was granted after much consultation and examination. The list of petitioners included some whom I had long "known as good and' true Masons, and yet I had the idea that enough lodges already existed in our great city. But a very careful examination convinced me that a lodge could be well sustained at this place; indeed the fuller ex- amination removed all doubt, and reports of work done confirm my judg- ment.
June 17th, I granted a dispensation to form a new lodge at Melvin, in the County of Ford, to be called Melvin Lodge. The petition was signed by nine Master Masons. I appointed Bro. Bart Holmes to be the first Worship- ful Master and Bros. E. B. Perry and J. N. Timmons to be Senior and Junior Wardens, respectively. Considerable work has been done; they have terri- torj' enough 10 support a healthy lodge.
July 25th, dispensation was issued to form a new lodge at DeLand, in Piatt County, to be called DeLand Lodge. Thirteen Master Masons signed the petition. I appointed Bro. Mark M. Hershberger to be the first Wor- shipful Master and Bros. Timothy P. Devinnej- and Edward J. Hamma to be the first Senior and Junior Wardens, respectively.
July 27th, a dispensation was granted to form a new lodge at Belknap, Johnson County, to be called Belknap Lodge. Fifteen Master Masons signed the petition and I appointed Bro. O. P. Martin to be the first Worshipful Master and Bros. H. L. Wilfred and W. L. Williams to be the first Senior and Junior Wardens, respectively.
There have been granted, for good and sufficient reason, during the year dispensations to confer degrees in less time than that specified in By- Laws, as follows ;
Stewart Lodge, Ko. 92, fee paid $20 00
Englewood Lodge, No. 690, Chicago Lodge, No. 437, Ashmore Lodge, No, 390, Orion Lodge, No. 358, Siloam Lodge, No. 780, Wheaton Lodge, No. 269, Plymouth Lodge, No. 286, Kenwood Lodge, U. D.,
Gillham Lodge, U. D., Palace Lodge, No. 765,
10 00
5 00
20 00
5 00
5 00
20 00
5 00
10 00
10 00
10 00
S 00
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Special dispensations for election of officers, installations, vacations, and other purposes, have been granted as follows :
Lodge. No. Fee.
Greenville 245 $2 00
Olive Branch 38. 2 00
Mansfield 773 2 00
Minooka 52S 2 00
Orion 358 2 00
Palace 765 2 00
Long Point 552 2 00
Plum River 554 2 00
Philo 436 2 00
Monitor 522 2 00
Elbridge 579 2 00
Star 709 2 00
St. Clair 24 2 oo
Sigel 541 2 00
Elvaston 715 . . 2 00
Hinsdale 649 2 00
Palace 765 2 00
Scott Land ; . 743 2 00
Temperance 16 2 00
Harmony 3 2 00
Hancock 20 2 00
Lambert 059 2 00
Monmouth 37 2 00
I'hoenix 663 2 00
Marshall 133 2 00
CoUinsville 712 2 00
Prairie 77 2 00
Manchester 229 2 00
Toillon 93 2 00
Franklin 25 2 00
Lodge. No.
Yates City 44S. . . ,
Temperance 16. . .
Newton 216...
Patoka 613...,
Lainbert 659. . .
Mizpah 76S. . . .
Dallas City 235...,
W. C. Hobbs 306....
Dtinlap .321. .. .
Winnebago 745. . . .
Roseville 519. .. ,
Columbus 227. . . .
Hardinsville 756. 2
Delavan 156....
Logan 210. . . .
Toulon 93 • ■ • ■
Germania 182. .. .
Waldeck 674. . . .
Mithra 410. . . .
D. C. Cregier 643. . . .
Oriental 33- . . ■
Siloam 780. . . .
Home 508. . . .
Prairie 11- ■ ■ .
Lambert 659. . . .
Havana 88. . . .
Normal Park 797 ....
Paris 268
Kewanee 159....
Temperance 16. . . .
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RECAPITULATION.
Fourteen dispensations for new lodges $1,400.00
Dispensations to confer degrees 125.00
Special dispensations for elections, installations, &c 120.6Q.
Am't rec'd for hall recently occupied by Darwin Lodge, No. 551 .. . 25.00
Total, * $1,670.00
which amount has been paid to R. W. Grand Secretary, as received from time to time, and duly acknowledged by him.
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GRAND REPRESENTATIVES.
To fill vacancies occasioned by deaths and removals, I have duly com- missioned the following brethren as Grand Representatives :
R. W. Bro. Alcinous Y. Davidson, near the Gr^nd Lodge of Minnesota, date October 9, 1890.
R. W. Bro. Edward Edwards, near the United Grand Lodge of Victoria, date February 20th, 1S91.
Rev. Bro. W. S. Frackelton, near the Grand Lodge of New South Wales, date May 5th, 1891.
R. W. Bro. Oscar S. Gififord, near the Grand Lodge of South Dakota.
R. W. Bro. J. C. Dunlavy, to be our Representative near the Grand Lodge of Iowa, date September 23d, 1S91.
OXFORD LODGE, NO. 367.
Early in the year I became aware of dissatisfaction m this lodge, grow- ing out of the alleged action of the W. M. After considerable correspon- dence, at their earnest solicitation I visited the lodge on the gth of July, and fully investigated the condition of affairs. I was fully satisfied that the use- fulness of this lodge had been greatly impaired by rash words of the W. M., spoken both in the lodge and out of it m public, and being unwilling that this state of things should continue I removed him from office and placed the lodge in charge of the S. W.
The papers in the case are herewith submitted for your examination. I regretted the necessity for this action exceedingly, because it is the first and only time I have found it necessary, but I am unwilling that the fair fame of our order should sufl:er because the W. M. has not fully learned our first lesson — to subdue his passions and control himself.
CHARTERS SURRENDERED.
Two lodges have voluntarilj- surrendered their charters, to-wit : Elwood Lodge, No. 589, located at Humbolt, in Coles County, and Ir\-ington Lodge, No. 650, located at Irvington, Washington County. The former had the misfortune to lose their hall and furniture, together with charter, by fire on the first day of March, 1891. A new charter was issued, but, owing to their losses, they felt unable to again commence work and therefore surrendered their charter July 31st, 1891. The latter, owing to deaths and removals, was unable to continue work and so reported to me. I sent R. W. Bro. Walter Watson, D. D. G. M. for the 28th district, to examine the case, and if no
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other way appeared, with instructions to receive from the officers the charter and books, which was accordingly done on the 31st of August, 1891.
Early in the year I again, with the approval of the Charity Committee, sent to M. W. Harmon G. Reynolds, P. G. M. of this Grand Lodge, a draft for fifty dollars, which was duly acknowledged by him with grateful thanks. Bro. Reynolds is now past eighty years of age. While preparing this report I have a letter from him, stating briefly his circumstances and enclosing a petition to this Grand Lodge for relief. I would cheerfully have repeated my action of last winter, but I felt, as our annual communication was sO' near at hand, I would lay the subject before you, in hope that something more substantial might be done, whether in the way suggested in the peti- tion or otherwise, as your judgment may decide. I ask that this petition and recommendation may go to the Committee on Charity for their consider- ation and recommendation.
I desire to call the attention of Grand Lodge to Paragraph 5, of Section I, Art. V, of Part First, Grand Lodge By-Laws. By it, will be seen that it is made the duty of the Grand Treasurer, "to invest all moneys in his hands, belonging to the general and charity funds, in United States securities, etc." Twenty years ago, when this by-law was adopted, these securities were un- questionably the best investment for our Grand Lodge, but for the past few years, for reasons well known to most of you, they have ceased to be a pay- ing investment. Their high price, low interest, and liability to be paid at any time, unfits them for our use, with any hope of receiving a return for the use of the funds. I recommend, that said paragraph be amended so as to allow the Grand Treasurer to otherwise invest our funds, under such general rule as our Finance Committee may recommend and Grand Lodge approve.
In these days of prosperity, when lodges are building and leasing and furnishing halls, all over our state, I have been frequently asked for advice, as to how such property rights they may acquire may best be preserved. These forms of investments vary from land in fee simple to leases at will.
Loose contracts have been made that may, in time, prove sources of trou- ble. Now, although the Grand Master is supposed to be familiar with the laws of the Grand Lodge, we should remember that the right to hold prop- erty is given us by the State, and in the event of dispute as to rights and titles, such rights will be enforced only by the State and the Grand Master is scarcely expected to be an expert lawyer. The object of this state- ment is to caution all lodges against entering into any contract, involving civil rights, unless with the advice of an able, honest lawyer. It is thus much easier to provide for unforeseen contingencies, at a time when both contrac- ting parties are agreed, than to leave them to be provided for by others, under widely differing circumstances.
During the year a question was asked involving the construction of Sec-
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tion I, Art. X, -Part Second of the Grand Lodge By-Laws, which is as fol- lows :
" Section i. Membership in a lodge may be acquired —
" I. By having regularly received the degree of Master Mason therein, and signing the By-Laws thereof "
In 1S83, the G. M. decided, and the Grand Lodge approved, the follow- ing:
' ' When the Secretary of a lodge, upon the written request of a brother, who has received the degrees therein, signs the brother's name to the Con- stitution and By-Laws of the lodge, the lodge is afterwards estopped from denying his membership."
"2. By a Master Mason petitioning a lodge for affiliation, and upon due election to membership, and signing the By-Laws of the lodge. "
The question, in brief, was, does a neglect, for any cause, to sign the By-Laws by an elected applicant or by a Master Mason raised in a lodge, form a sufficient reason for either party to deny his membership ? Circum- stances render it unnecessar}'- for me to officially decide the question, but I deem it wise that it should be settled by Grand Lodge, and therefore ask that it be referred to the Committee on Jurisprudence for consideration.
I also desire to place in the hands of the same committee papers re- ceived from the Masonic Board of Relief of Oakland, California, in order that the rule of action laid down by this Grand Lodge, many years ago, may be more fully construed. The papers are herewith submitted.
And now, brethren, I realize that in a few hours my term of service as Grand Master will expire, and I shall return you those emblems of authority that you have so trustingly and repeatedly placed in my hands. I trust you will find that this power has not been abused, nor the duties neglected. The service has been made pleasant to me by your hearty sympathy and co-oper- ation. For myself, my highest ambition has been reached. I shall gladly relinquish to my worthy successor the honors and duties of this exalted posi- tion, and welcome him, as M. W. Grand Master, to preside over a united and prosperous fraternity.
There are, brethren, no words of parting to be uttered. For more than thirty years I have been an almost constant attendant on the communica- tions of this Grand Lodge. Commencing while not yet a representative, and only by courtesy entitled to listen and not to speak, I now hope and ex- pect to meet with you so long as my life is spared and strength permits.
My best thoughts and hopes and wishes are for the honor and glory of our noble fraternity. To have helped maintain these is my greatest pride.
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I do not fear for the future. I know the Freemasons of lUinois will follow on and achieve greater results in the future. Good men, able and true, will be elected to preside over your sjmibolic lodges, and good men, able and true, will seek to join you, and you will gladly welcome them, and by God's blessing which I humbly, earnestly crave, you will go on from strength to strength till time shall be no more.
Fraternally yours,
JOHN M. PEARSON,
Grand Master.
EEPORT OF THE GEAND TREASUKEE.
The Grand Treasurer submitted the following report, together with his books and vouchers, which, on motion, was referred to the Committee on Finance :
Wiley M. Egan, Grand Treastirer,
In account with Grand Lodge F. & A. M. oe Illinois. 1890. Dr.
Oct. 6, To bal. to credit Charity Fund, per last re- port $ 99S 54
6, To bal. to credit General Fund, per last re- port 50,748 73
Total credit bal. per last report $5i>747 27
Dec. 17, To amt. rec'd from L. L. Munn, Gr. Sec'y. 40 75
31, " " " " " 63 00 1S91.
Jan. 3, To dividend on A. A. Glenn's life ins. policy 34 95
7, To int. on Government Bonds, 3 mos 50 00
31, To amt. rec'd from L. L. Munn, Gr. Sec'}-. 80 40
March 4, " " " " '• 93 75
April 3, " " " " " 21 00
May 6, " " " " " 17 75
June 5, " " " " " 51 00
July I, " " ^ " " " 149 25
15, To int. on Government Bonds, 6 mos 100 00
Aug. 8, To amt. rec'd from L. L. Munn, Gr. Sec'j^ 12,208 34
Sept. 9, " " " " " 20,000 00
•Oct. 2, " " " " " 1,600 00
I, To int. on Government Bonds, 3 mos 50 00
5, To amt. rec'd from L. L. Munn, Grand Sec-
retarv, to General Fund 208 56
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Oct. 5, To amt. rec'd from L. L. Munn, Grand Sec- retary, to Charity Fund 201 36
Total amt. rec'd since last report. . . $34,970 11
3-717 3&
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Oct. 7, By mileage and per diem orders paid per
vouchers $ 2,968 10
7, By mileage and per diem orders pd. Grand
Lodge representatives, as per vouchers,. 14,526 90
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Oct. 6, |
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Nov. 5, |
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88 |
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89 |
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90 |
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Dec. II, |
91 |
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92 |
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93 |
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94 |
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95 |
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Jan. 7, |
96 |
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97 |
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98 |
Total mileage and per diem paid. . . $1 7,495 00
MISCELLANEOUS ORDERS PAID, AS FOLLOWS:
TO WHOM ISSUED. AMOUNT.
John C. Smith, expense $ 373 55
John M. Pearson, expense 10 60
John T. Dickinson, M. & P. D. 1889.. 19 30
Jos. Robbins, Com. on Correspond'e. 300 00
R. R. Stevens, salary as Gr. Tyler. . . 100 00
Leslie A. Munn. Deputy Gr. Sec 25 00
Z. T. Griffin, Asst. " " 5000
Thomas Vinton, Janitor 25 00
John C. Smith, rent of hall 400 00
R. R. Stevens, expense loi 47
John M. Pearson, salary Gr. Master. . 125 00
L. L. Munn, salary Gr. Secretary. . . . 208 33 Western B. N. & E. Co., portraits of
John M. Pearson 63 00
Journal Printing Co., pt'g proc' dings. 1,453 63
John M. Pearson, salary Gr. Master. . 125 00
L. L. Munn, salary Gr. Secretary. . . . 208 33
L. L. Munn, expense 10 07
Smith D. Atkins, postage stamps. ... 123 20
American Ex. Co., express charges.. 282 90^
John M. Pearson, salary Gr. Master. . 125 00
L. L. Munn, salary Gr. Secretary. . . . 208 34
John M. Pearson, expense 27 00
H. G. Reynolds, charity 50 00
John M. Pearson, salary Gr. Master. . 125 OO'
1891.]
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L. L. Munn, salary Gr. Secretary . . John M. Pearson, taxes on Mo. lands W. B. Grimes, school at Morris. . . . J. E. Evans, " " ....
John M. Pearson, salary Gr. Master L. L. Munn, salary Gr. Secretary. . W. B. Grimes, school at Nashville. John W. Rose, . " "
John M. Pearson, expense
M. D. Chamberlin, school at Watseka James John, " "
M. D. Chamberlin, " Olney,
James John, " "
J. E. Evans, " "
M. D. Chamberlin, " Monm'th
James John, " "
J. E. Evans, " "
John W. Rose, " "
W. B. Grimes,
John M. Pearson, salary Gr. Master. . L. L. Munn, salary Gr. Secretary. . . . Tohn W. Rose, school at Watseka. . . .
John M. Pearson, expense
John M. Pearson, salary Gr. Master. . L. L. Munn, salary Gr. Secretary. . . .
John M. Pearson, expense
Journal Printing Co., printing for
Grand Lodge
John M. Pearson, salary Gr. Master. . L. L. Munn, salary Gr. Secretary. . . . John M. Pearson, Com. on Printing. . W. M. Egan, " " ..
L. L. Munn, " " . .
John M. Pearson, expense
S. D. Atkins, postage stamps
American Ex. Co. , express charges . .
L. L. Munn, expense
Journal Printing Co. , printing
Brown & Uollmeyer, stationery
E. C. Pace, Com. on Finance
S. W. Waddle, "
Gil W. Barnard, "
John M. Pearson, salary Gr. Master. . L. L. Munn, salary Gr. Secretary. . . .
20S 33
30 15
49 00
39 00
125 00
208 33
42 80 34 60 53 95 44 40 32 80 59 70
48 10 41 20 41 10
43 00 41 20 41 30 38 70
125 00 208 34
44 00
15 00 125 00 20S 34
12 00
86 50 125 00 20S 33
13 50 5 00
16 50 12 00
127 20 27 00 15 85
119 50 41 II
49 00 29 00 27 00
125 00 208 33
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John M. Pearson, salaiy Gr. Master. . 125 00
L. L. Munn, salary Gr. Secretary'. . . . 20S 34
John M. Pearson, salary Gr. Master. . 125 00
L. L. Munn, salary Gr. Secretan,'. . . . 20S 33
John M. Pearson, expense 5 00
L. L. Munn, salary Gr. Secretary. . . . 20S 34
John M. Pearson, salary Gr. Master. . 125 00
W. M. Egan, salary Gr. Treasurer. . . 400 00
Missing
H. A. Knecht, expense 14 00
Brown & DoUmeyer, stationer}- 4 00
Missing
American Ex. Co., express charges.. 25 15
S. D. Atkins, postage, etc 96 40
L. L. Munn, expense 34 98
Missing
John M. Pearson, expense 23 78
Prem. on A. A. Glenn's life ins. policy 155 60
Total miscellaneous orders paid. . . 9,494 8a
Oct. 5, By balance to credit Charity Fund. . .$ 1,149 QO
5, By bal. to cr. General Fund, cash. ... 53,577 68
5, " " " bonds... 5,000 00
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143 |
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31. |
144 |
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145 |
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2, |
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Total credit balance 59.727 58
$86,717 5S Fraternally submitted,
WILEY M. EGAN, Chicago, October 5, 1891. Grand Treasurer.
EEPOET OF THE GEAND SEOEETAEY.
The Grand Secretary submitted the following report, also cash-book and ledger, and asked that they be referred to the Committee on Finance, which on motion was so referred:
JI. IV. Grand Master and Br£t/iren :
At the close of the Grand Lodge, one year ago, charters were issued to A. T. Darrah Lodge, No. 793, located at Victoria, in Knox County; to Tad- mor Lodge, No. 794, located at Karber's Ridge, in Hardin County; to Myr- tle Lodge, No. 795, located at Irving Park, in Cook County; to E. M. Hus- ted Lodge, No. 796, located at Roodhouse, in Greene County; to Normal Park Lodge, No. 797, located at Chicago, in Cook County; and to SideU Lodge, No. 798, located at Sidell, in Vermilion County.
1891.] Grand Lodge of Illinois. 47
Immediately after the close of the Grand Lodge a manuscript copy of the proceedings was placed in the hands of the printers, and on the 23d of October we commenced sending out the printed proceedings to the Grand Officers, sister Grand Lodges, and the constituent lodges; and up to the present time we have sent out 2,897 copies of the proceedings for i8go.
DUPLICATE CHARTERS.
A duplicate charter was issued to Elwood Lodge, No. 589, located at Humboldt, in Coles County, on the loth day of March, 1891, the original having been destroyed by fire.
A duplicate charter was issued to Chandlerville Lodge, No. 724, located at Chandlerville, in Cass County, on the 23d day of March, 1891, the original having been defaced.
A duplicate charter was issued to Westfield Lodge, No. 163, located at Westfield, in Clark County, on the 7th day of August, 1891, the original hav- ing been destroyed by fire.
COLFAX LODGE, NO. 799.
A charter was issued to Colfax Lodge, No. 799, located at Colfax, in McLean County, on the 14th day of May, rSgi, by the Grand Master, as authorized by the Grand Lodge on the 9th of October, 1890. See Resolu- tion adopted and published on page 93 of the proceedings of the Grand Lodge of i8go.
REPRESENTATIVES COMMISSIONED.
Commissions have been forwarded to the following representatives of the Grand Lodge of Illinois near other Grand Lodges, for the term of five years:
Minnesota — R. W. Bro. Alcinous Y. Davidson. United Grand Lodge of Victoria — R. W. Bro. Edward Edwards. United Grand Lodge of South Wales— R. W. Bro. Rev. W. S. Frackel- ton.
South Dakota— M. W. Bro. Oscar S. Gifford. Iowa— R. W. Bro. J. C. Dunlavy.
REPRESENTATIVES.
During the past year commissions have been received for the following representatives of other Grand Lodges near the Grand Lodge of lUinois:
48 Proceedings of tlie \_0ct.6th,
R. W. Bro. Wm. Jenkins, of Mendota, to represent the United Grand Lodge of South Wales near the Grand Lodge of lUinois.
R. W. Bro. Wm. Jenkins, of Mendota, to represent the United Grand Lodge of Victoria near the Grand Lodge of IlUnois.
CHARTERS SURRENDERED.
The Secretary of Elwood Lodge, No. 589, located at Humboldt, in Coles County, writes under date of July 21, 1891, that their hall and furniture had again been destroyed by fire, and that on the i8th day of July the lodge had by unanimous vote decided to surrender its charter. On the 6th of August, 1 891, I received a pencil written record book and the duplicate charter which had been recently issued to them. Said lodge made its returns and paid its Grand Lodge dues up to June 30, 1891, and their Treasurer for warded to this office $17.01 as the balance of the funds of their lodge.
Irvington Lodge, No. 650, located at Irvington, in Washington County, surrendered its charter to District Deputy Grand Master Walter Watson about the 12th of September, 1891, but the books and papers have not been received as yet by the Grand Secretary.
The following lodges failed to pay their Grand Lodge dues on or before August 15, to-wit: Nos. 247, 378. 539, 669 and 797. But every lodge made returns and paid Grand Lodge dues before the meeting of this Grand Lodge, something never before accomplished.
From the tabulated statement prepared from returns of the lodges for 1891, we obtain the following facts:
Rejections , 547
Initiations , 2,997
Passed, 2, 748
INCREASE.
Raised; 2,715
Reinstated 324
Admitted 1,063
Added for error. ... 59
Total, 4,161
DECREASE.
Suspended 734
Expelled 23
1891.] Grand Lodge of Illinois. 49
Dimitted 1,227
Died 610
Deducted for error 18
Total 2,612
Membership in 1890 42,381
Net increase for the year i,549
Membership in 1891 43, 930
Resident membership 40,589
Non-resident membership 3, 341
The returns of the lodges show that they have contributed the following amomits for charitable purposes: $17,592.45 have been contributed for the relief of their own needy members, or their widows and orphans, the past year, and $5,146.59 have been contributed to the relief of Masons not mem- bers of their respective lodges. They have also contributed toward the support of the Illinois Masonic Orphans' Home dtiring the present year the sum of $1,084.45, making the total amount contributed from the funds of the lodges for charity during the year $23,823.49. Still this amount does not show the whole sum contributed by the Masons of lUmois. Quite a large number of the lodges do not show in the tabulated statements any contribu- tions for charitable objects, because the members instead of taking fiinds from their treasury for charity, contribute as members, and keep no account ■of the amount so raised for charitable purposes.
Orders have been drawn on the Grand Treasurer at and since the last Annual Communication, for the following amounts, to-wit:
For mileage and per diem of officers, representatives and com- mittees in attendance at last communication $17,476 70
To Joseph Robbins, Committee on Correspondence 300 00
To R. R. Stevens, salary as Grand Tiler 100 00
To L. A. Munn, Deputy Grand Secretary 25 00
To Z. T. Griffin, As.sistant Grand Secretary 50 00
To Thomas Vinton, janitor 25 00
To John C. Smith, for rent of Central Music Hall 400 00
To R. R. Stevens, expenses at Grand Lodge loi 47
To Western Bank Note and Engraving Co., for J. M. Pearson's
portraits 63 00
To Journal Printing Co., printing proceedings i,453 63
To Harmon G. Reynolds, from Charity Fund 50 00
To John M. Pearson, taxes on Missouri land 30 15
To Expenses Committee on Printing 35 00
4§
50 Proceedings of the [ Oct. 6th,.
To Finance Committee visiting Grand Secretary's office 105 00
To Harry A. Knecht, filling out charters, commissions, etc 14 00
To Wm. Watson, expenses by order of Grand Master 2 55
To Grand Examiners and Depvity Grand Lecturers attending
Schools of Instniction 640 go
To Smith D. Atkins, Postmaster at Freeport, postage stamps and
government envelopes 347 oo-
To Brown & Dollmeyer, stationery for Grand Secretary's office.. . 45 n To John M. Pearson, postage, stationery and incidental expenses
Grand Master's office 14S 73
To L. L. Munn, sundrj'^ expenses Grand Secretary's office 60 87
To Journal Printing Co., printing for Grand Secretary's office. . . . 347 75
To American Express Co. , express charges 335 05
Journal Printing Co., printing Report on Correspondence S24 60
To J. M, Pearson, salary as Grand Master 1,500 00
To W. M. Egan, salary as Grand Treasurer 400 oo-
To L. L. Munn, salary as Grand Secretary 2,500 00
Total $27oSi 51
The amendment to the Constitution, proposed by the committee on jurisprudence, was submitted to the subordinate lodges for their approval or rejection, and was rejected.
It required a two-thirds vote of the lodges in order to adopt the amend- ment, or an affirmative vote of 456, but it received only 160 affirmative votes, while 409 voted against it, and 114 failed to vote.
There are located in Chicago and Cook County 62 lodges; these lodges have a membership of 10,158, and pay as Grand Lodge dues $7,548.50. They contributed for charitable purposes during the year the following sums: $8,907.39 for the assistance of their own needy members, $1,437.94 to assist needy brothers not members of their own lodges, and $467. 50 to the Masonic Orphans' Home, making a total of $10,812.83. There was a net increase in the membership of these lodges during the past year of 647.
Covenant Lodge, No. 526, had a membership on June 30th last of 555; Cleveland Lodge, No. 211, is the next largest lodge in Illinois, and on the 30th day of June last had a membership of 392; Hesperia Lodge, No. 411, had a membership of 360, while Garden City Lodge comes as No. 4 with a member- ship of 352.
All the lodges in Chicago if represented at Grand Lodge this year would be entitled to draw for ^lileage and Per Diem only $376- 5o-
From this it will be observed that these lodges have contributed to the support ot the Grand Lodge over and above the amount their representatives
1891.] Grand Lodge of Illinois. 51
are entitled to receive the sum of $7,173.00. All lodges in the State, outside of Cook County, have paid as Grand Lodge dues for the present year $25,- 110.25. If the representatives of these lodges draw the same as they did in 1890 they would receive $14,272.00, which would leave a balance of $10,838.- 75 to pay for other expenses of the Grand Lodge.
From the foregoing it will be seen that there are not as many affiliated Masons in Cook County in proportion to its inhabitants as in the remainder of the State.
I now have the pleasure of submittmg an itemized account of all money& received by me as Grand Secretary during the past year ; also the cash-book and ledger, and would ask that they be referred to the Committe on Fi- nance.
All of which is fraternally submitted.
L. L. MUNN,
Grand Secretary..
52
Proceedings of the
[Oct. 6th,
GEAND SEOEETAKY'S ACCOUNT.
Loyal L. Munn, G^-attd Secretary, in account 7vitJi
The M. W. Grand Lodge of Illinois, F. & A. Masons, Dr. TO LODGE DUES FOR THE YEAR 1891.
Bodley
EqualitY
Harmony
Springfield
Friendship
Macon
Rushville
St. Johns
Warren
Peoria
Temperance ...
Macomb
Clinton
Hancock
•Cass
St. Clair
Franklin ,
Hiram
Piasa
Pekin
Mt. Vernon. . .
Oriental
Barry
Charleston
Kavanaugh .... Monmouth . ... Olive Branch..
Herman
Occidental
Mt. Joiiet
Bloomington...
Hardin
Griggsville
Temple
Caledonia
Unity ,
Cambridge
CarroUton
Mt. Moriah..., Benevolent ....
Jackson ,
Washington ..
Trio
Fraternal
New Boston..
Belvidere
Lacon
St. Marks
Benton
Euclid
Knoxville
Acacia
Naples
Eureka
"Central
Chester
Rockton
Roscoe
Mt. Nebo
Prairie
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$87 75 |
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17 25 |
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67 50 |
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4 |
105 00 |
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7 |
74 25 |
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192 75 |
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53 25 |
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53 25 |
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40 50 |
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139 50 |
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45 00 |
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17 |
94 50 |
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76 50 |
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20 |
67 50 |
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58 50 |
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24 |
8700 |
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2S |
34 50 |
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26 |
24 75 |
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27 |
68 25 |
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2Q |
29 25 |
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69 00 |
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186 00 |
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34 |
71 25 |
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3,S |
66 GO |
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3b |
24 75 |
|
37 |
69 75 |
|
3» |
198 75 |
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39 |
54 75 |
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40 |
99 00 |
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42 |
95 25 |
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43 |
102 00 |
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44 |
66 75 |
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4.S |
38 25 |
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46 |
143 25 |
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47 |
20 25 |
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48 |
25 50 |
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49 |
39 00 |
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62 25 |
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51 |
64 50 |
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24 00 |
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53 |
81 00 |
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51 00 |
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106 ^o |
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58 |
64 50 |
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48 00 |
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60 |
79 50 |
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61 |
44 25 |
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63 |
51 00 |
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64 |
54 75 |
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6S |
46 50 |
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66 |
42 75 |
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67 |
56 25 |
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68 |
13 50 |
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33 00 |
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71 |
36 00 |
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72 |
31 50 |
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74 |
33 '^0 |
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75 |
36 00 |
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76 |
55 50 |
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77 |
119 25 |
Waukegan
Scott
Whitehall
Vitruvius
DeWitt
Mitchell
Kaskaskia
VI t. Pulaski
Havana
Fellowship
Jerusalem Temple
Metropolis
Stewart
Toulon
Perry
Samuel H. Davis..
Excelsior
Taylor
Edwardsville
Astoria
Rockford
Magnolia
Lewis town
Winchester
Lancaster
Versailles
Trenton
Lebanon
Jonesboro
Bureau
Robert Burns
Marcelline
Rising Sun
Vermont
Elgin
Waverly
Henry
Mound '.
Oquawka
Cedar
Greenup
Empire
Antioch
Raleigh
Greenfield
Marion
Golconda
Mackinaw
Marshall
Sycamore
Lima
Hutsonville
Polk
Marengo
Geneva
Olney
Garden City
Ames
Richmond
DeKalb
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78 |
fe9 00 |
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79 |
25 50 |
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80 |
65 25 |
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81 |
38 25 |
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84 |
98 25 |
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85 |
38 25 |
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86 |
29 25 |
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87 |
57 t>o |
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88 |
72 75 |
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89 |
43 50 |
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90 |
III 75 |
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9' |
47 25 |
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92 |
51 00 |
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93 |
24 75 |
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95 |
44 25 |
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96 |
17 25 |
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97 |
129 75 |
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98 |
40 50 |
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99 |
61 50 |
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100 |
43 50 |
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102 |
166 50 |
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103 |
24 75 |
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104 |
37 50 |
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105 |
42 00 |
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106 |
24 75 |
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108 |
38 25 |
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109 |
32 25 |
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33 75 |
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36 00 |
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112 |
84 75 |
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48 00 |
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114 |
31 50 |
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115 |
18 75 |
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116 |
42 00 |
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117 |
no 25 |
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118 |
42 75 |
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119 |
27 00 |
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122 |
57 °o |
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123 |
36 75 |
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124 |
69 75 |
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125 |
21 75 |
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126 |
57 75 |
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127 |
41 25 |
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128 |
20 25 |
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129 |
41 25 |
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43 50 |
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30 00 |
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30 00 |
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48 75 |
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96 00 |
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31 50 |
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15 75 |
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137 |
49 50 |
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138 |
43 50 |
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33 75 |
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140 |
66 00 |
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264 00 |
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142 |
39 75 |
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143 |
45 75 |
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78 00 |
1891.]
Grand Lodge of Illinois,,
53
LODGE DUES FOR THE YEAR iSnl — Coitinned.
A. W. Rawson....
Lee Centre
Clayton
Bloomfield
Effingham
Vienna
Bunker Hill
Fidelity
Clay
Russell
Alpha
Delavan
Urbana
McHenry
Kewanee
Waubansia
Virden
Hope
Westfield
Edward Dobbins.
Atlanta
Star in the East....
Milford
Nunda -..
Evergreen
Girard
Wayne
Cherry Valley
Lena
Matteson
Mendota
Staunton
Illinois Central...
Wabash
Moweaqua
Germania
Meridian
Abingdon
Mystic Tie
Cyrus
Fulton City
Dundee
Farmington
Herrick
Freedom
LaHarpe
Louisville
King Solomon's..
Homer
Sheba
Centralia
Lavely
Flora
Corinthian
Fairfield
Tamaroa
Wilmington
Wm. B. Warren..
Logan
Cleveland
Shipman
Ipava
Gillespie
Newton..
Mason
New Salem
Oakland....
145 146 147 148 149 150 ■51 152 153 154 155 .56 157 158
159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166
170 171 172 173 174 175 #76 177 178 179 180 182 183 185 187
190 192
■93 194
195 196 197 199 200 201 203 204 205 2o6 207
211 212 213 214 216 217 218
27 00
52 50 42 00
49 50 47 25
46 50
27 00
28 50 25 50 93 00 58 50 87 00
20 25 80 25
108 75
39 00 33 75 22 50
47 25 37 50
119 25
42 75
32 25 69 75
48 00
33 75 31 50
40 50 108 00
49 50 30 75 66 CO
33 75
18 75
154 50
36 75
43 50 27 00
53 25
37 50
54 75
50 25 14 25
41 25 III 75
38 25 S> 00
49 50
21 00 83 25
24 00 36 75 30 00 54 00
25 50 62 25
191 25 87 00
294 00 21 75 40 50
21 00
33 00 35 25
29 25
50 25
Mahomet
Leroy
Geo. Washington
Pana
Columbus
Lovington
Manchester
New Haven.......
Wyanet
Farmers
Blandinsville
DuQuoin..
Dallas City
Charter Oak..... . .
Cairo.
Black Hawk.......
Mt. Carmel . . .
Western Star... . .
Shekinah
Galva
Horicon
Greenville
El Paso
Golden Gate..... . .
Hibbard-
Robinson..
Hey worth
Aledo
Avon Harmony....
Aurora
Donnellson
Warsaw
Mattoon....
Amon
Channahon
Illinois
Franklin Grove....
Vermilion
Kingston
La Prairie
Paris
Wheaton
Levi Lusk
Blaney
Carmi
Miners
Byron
Milton..-
Elizabeth
Accordia
Jo Daviess
Neoga
Kansas
Brooklyn
Meteor
Catlin
Plymouth
De Soto
Genoa
Wataga
Chenoa
Prophetstown
Pontiac
Dills..
Quincy
Benjamin..
Wauconda
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220 |
$34 50 |
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221 |
42 7S |
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222 |
42 75 |
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226 |
66 75. |
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227 |
22 50 |
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228 |
38 25 |
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229 |
36 75. |
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230 |
23 2S |
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231 |
32 25 |
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232 |
11 25 |
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233 |
53 25- |
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234 |
51 75 |
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235 |
36 7S |
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236 |
76 50 |
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237 |
71 25 |
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238 |
45 75 |
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239 |
53 25. |
|
240 |
88 50 |
|
241 |
68 25. |
|
243 |
54 75 |
|
244 |
57 00 |
|
245 |
45 75 |
|
246 |
57 00 |
|
248 |
45 75 |
|
249 |
36 oo- |
|
250 |
25 50 |
|
251 |
46 50 |
|
252 |
60 00. |
|
253 |
26 25 |
|
254 |
119 25 |
|
255 |
21 75 |
|
257 |
35 25 |
|
260 |
84 75- |
|
261 |
42 75 |
|
262 |
26 25 |
|
263 |
71 25 |
|
264 |
23 25 |
|
265 |
37 50 |
|
266 |
36 75 |
|
267 |
26 25 |
|
268 |
94 50 |
|
269 |
36 00 |
|
270 |
28 50 |
|
271 |
109 50 |
|
272 |
51 00 |
|
273 |
55 50 |
|
274 |
34 50 |
|
275 |
54 75 |
|
276 |
16 5a |
|
277 |
48 75 |
|
278 |
76 50 |
|
279 |
43 50 |
|
280 |
33 00 |
|
282 |
28 50. |
|
283 |
55 50 |
|
28^ |
38 25 |
|
286 |
30 00 |
|
287 |
40 50 |
|
288 |
29 25 |
|
291 |
22 50 |
|
292 |
57 °o |
|
293 |
46 50 |
|
294 |
52 50 |
|
295 |
14 25 |
|
296 |
85 50 |
|
297 |
45 75 |
|
298 |
19. 50. |
54
Proceedings of tlie
[Oct. 6th,
LODGE DUES FUR THE YEAR 189I — Conttmied.
Mechanicsburg...
Hinckley
Duriind
Raven ,
■Onarga
W. C. Hobbs
T. J. Pickett
Ashlar
Harvard
Dearborn
•Kilwinning
Ionic
York
Palatine ,
Erwin
Abraham Jonas.. J. L. Anderson..,
Doric
Creston
Dunlap ,
Windsor
■Orient
Harrisburg
Industry
Altona
Mt. Erie
Tuscola
Tyrian
Sumner
Schiller
New Columbia...
■Oneida
Saline
Kedron
Full Moon
Summerfield
Wenona
Milledgeville
N. D. Morse
Sidney
Russellville
Sublette
Fairview
Tarbolton
Groveland
Kinderhook
Ark and Anchor
Marine
Hermitage
Orion
Blackberry
Princeville
Douglas
Noble
Horeb
Tonica
Bement
Areola
Oxford
Jeflfersor.
Newman
Livingston
Chambersburg...
Shabbona
Aroma
Payson
X.iberty
302 303 3°5 306 307 308
309 310 311 312 313 3>4 315 316 318 319 320 321 322 323 325 327
330 33' 332
333 334 335 336 337 339 340 341 342 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 358 359 360 361 362
363 364 365 366 367 368
369 371 373 374 378 379
gi6 50
19 50 33 75 33 75
30 75
40 50
55 50
147 75 76 50
243 75 232 50 100 50
22 50
41 25
33 00 15 00 47 25 87 75 39 75 57 00
43 50
17 25 54 00
32 25 36 75
18 75 57 75 92 25 64 so
75 75
36 00
39 75
20 25
24 75 39 75
14 25
37 50
31 50
15 00 15 75
14 25
15 00
44 25
54 oo^-
23 25
29 25
45 00
25 50
55 50
17 25
38 25
21 GO
30 CO
34 50 41 25 36- 75
57 °o 84 75
33 75 20 25
58 50 36 75
26 25
18 00 15 00 38 25 25 50
Gill
LaMoille
Waltham
Mississippi
Bridgeport
El Dara
Kankakee
Ashmore
Tolono
Oconee
Blair
Jerseyville
Muddy Point...
Shiloh
Kinmunay
Buda
Pacific
Odell
Kishwaukee
Mason City
Batavia
Ramsey
Bethalto
Stratton
Thos. J. Turner
Mithra
Hesperia
Bollen
Evening Star —
Lawn Ridge
Paxton
Marseilles
Freeburg
Reynoldsburg. . .
Oregon
Washburn
Landmark
Lanark
Exeter
Scottville..
Red Bud..
Sunbeam
Chebanse..
Kendrick
Summit
Murray ville
Annawan..
Makanda
Philo..
Chicago
Camargo
Sparland .. . .
Casey
Hampshire
Cave-in-Rock. . .
Chesterfield
Watseka
S. D. Monroe.. .
Yates City
Mendon....
Loami
Bromwell..
New Hartford . .
Maroa
Irving
Nokomis
Moscow
382 383 384 385
390 391 392 393 394
399 400 401 402 403 404 405
409 410 411 412 414
415 416
417 418 419 420 421 422
423 424 426 427 428 429 430 431 432
433 434 436 437 440 441 442 443 444 445
449 450
451 453 454 455 456 457
520 25
17 25
31 5<-
57 00 34 50 23 25 87 75
38 25
32 25 12 75
141 75
58 50
18 75 21 00
39 75
43 50
33 75 18 00 52 50 60 75 39 75 25 50
28 50
44 25 104 25
90 00
270 00
18 75
25 50
29 25
45 75 47 25
33 75 25 50
39 75
12 00 1S3 00
42 00 25 50
32 25 21 00
34 SO
30 00 25 50
13 50 28 50
23 25
40 50
46 58 1S9 75
42 CO
26 25
37 50 34 50 17 25 27 75 87 00 17 25
24 75
41 25
31 50
41 25
42 75 74 25
25 50
33 °o 12 75
1891.]
Grand Lodge, of Illinois.
55
LODGE DUES FOR THE YEAR iSgi — Continued.
Blazing Star
Jeffersonville
Plainview
Tremont
Palmyra
Denver
Huntsville
Cobden
South Macon
Cheney's Grove...
McLean....
Rantoul
Kendall
Amity
Gordon
Columbia ,
Walsh ville
Manito
Rutland
Pleiades
Wyoming
Momence..
Lexington
Edgewood
Xenia
Bowen
Andrew Jackson..
Clay City
Cooper
Shannon
Martin
Libertyville
Tower Hill
Bath
Stone Fort
Tennessee
Alma
Murphysboro
St. Paul
Stark..
Woodhull
Odin..
East St. Louis. . . Meridian Sun....
O. H. Miner
Home....
Parkersburg ..... . .
J. D. Moody.....
Clintonville
Wade-Barney. . . .
Bradford
Andalusia
Litchfield
Abraham Lincoln
Roseville
Anna
Illiopolis...
Monitor....
Chatham
Evans
Delia..
Covenant
Rossville
IWinooka
Adams
Maquon
Ashton
458 460 461 462 463 464 465 466 467 468 469 470 471 472 473 474 475 476
477 478
479 481 482 484 485 486 487
490 491 492 493 494 495 496
497 498 500 501 502
503 504 505 506 508
509 510 5" 512 514 516
517 518
519 520 521 522 523 524 525 5^6 527 528 529 530 531
^30 00 33 00
26 25
16 50
36 00 24 75
29 25
37 50
42 00
30 00 51 00 37 50 36 75
43 50
9 OQ
24 75
17 25
17 25 14 25
202 50
47 25 33 00 32 25 21 00
18 75
31 50
29 25 36 00
25 50 24 00 21 75 45 75
9 00
14 25 45 00 12 75
27 75 63 00
48 00
19 50 21 75 24 75 65 25 27 75 40 50
224 25 27 00
15 00
15 75 80 27 27 00 18 00 35 25 21 75
27 75
30 00
39 75 138 00
30 CO 208 50
12 00 416 25
51 75 23 25
31 50 27 00 21 75
Seneca
Altamont
Cuba
Sherman
Plainfield
J. R. Gorin ..
Lockport
Chats worth....
Harlem
Sigel
Towanda..
Cordova
Virginia
Valley
Apple River ..
Sharon
Long Point ...
Plum River
Humboldt . . .
Dawson
Lessing
Leland
Thomson
Madison ....
Villa Ridge....
Winslow.... . . ,
Pleasant Hill
Albany
Frankfort
Time
Jacksonville ...
Bardolph..
Gardner
Pera
Capron
O'Fallon. ......
Viola
Prairie City..
Elbridgc
Hazel Dell
Dongola....
Shirley
Highland
Vesper
Fisher
Princeton
Troy
Elwood ,
Fairmount
Gilman
Fieldon
Miles Hart
National
Cerro Gordo..
Laclede
Watson
Clark
Hebron
Streator ...
Piper
Sheldon
Union Park.... Lincoln Park. Rock River...,
Patoka
Forrest
Wadley
Good Hope. . .
532 533 534 535 536 537 538 539 540 541 542 543 544 547 548 550 552 554 555 556 557 558 559 560 562 564 565 566 567 569 570 572
573 574 575 576 577 578 579 580 581 582 583 584 585 587
590 591 592 595 596 600 601 602 603 604 607 608 609 610 611 612 613 614 616 617
;?32 25 15 75 48 75 27 75
47 25
42 75 63 00
31 50 132 00 12 00 23 25 21 00
23 25
35 25
36 75
33 00
14 25 57 75
48 00 27 75
66 75 19 50 27 75
15 00
19 50
24 00
25 50
34 50 3' 50 29 25 78 75
26 25
37 50
23 25
45 75
24 00
27 75
16 50
18 75 26 25 21 75
29 25
26 25
115 50
21 00 69 00
20 25
2i 50
43 50 14 25
17 25
30 00 97 50 48 75
27 75
22 50
33 75
34 50
116 25
33 00 27 00 126 00 lyi 25 105 00 43 SO 39 75
19 50
38 25
56
Proceedings of the
[Oct. 6th,
LODGE DUES FOR THE YEAR l8gl — C07ltinued.
Basco
Berwick
New Hope
Hopedale
Locust ,
Union
Tuscan
Norton
Ridge Farm
E. F. W. Ellis..
Buckley
Rochester
Peotone
Keystone
Comet
Apollo
D. C. Cregier. . . Oblong City. ...
San Jose
Somonauk
Blueville
Camdtn
Hinsdale
Atwood....
Greenview
Yorktown
Mozart
Lafayette..
Rock Island..... .
Lambert
Grand Chain
South Park
Phoenix
Mayo
Greenland
Crawford
Erie
Burnt Prairie ,
Fillmore
Eddyville ,
Normal ,
Waldeck
Pawnee
A. O. Fay
Enfield
Illinois City
Clement
Morrisonville
Blue Mound
Burnside
Galatia
Rio
Garfield
Orangeville
Clifton
Englewood
lola
Raymond
Herrin's Prairie
Shiloh Hill
Belle Rive
Richard Cole....
Hutton
Pleasant Plains..
Temple Hill
Alexandria
Braidwood
6i8 619 620 622 623 627 630 631 632 633 634 635 636
639 641
642
643 644 645 646 647 648 649 651 653 655 656 657 658 659 660 662 663 664 665 666 667 668 670 672 673 674 675 676 677 679
685 686 687 688 690 691 692
693 695 696
697
700 701 702 704
SS20 25
17 25
24 00
32 25 13 50
26 25
27 75 48 00
47 25 63 00
21 75
18 00
25 50 109 so
31 50 149 25 167 25
15 00
22 50
33 00
32 25
41 25
33 00
39 75
35 -iS ^3 25
42 75
16 50
44 25
62 25 44 25 53 25
28 50
19 50
19 50 15 00 28 50
17 25
63 00 28 50 33 75 73 SO
40 50 38 ?5
36 00 10 50
27 75
28 50 40 50
48 00
18 75
48 75 243 00
30 75 24 75
210 75 13 50 40 50 35 25 27 00 15 00
166 50
49 50
20 25 24 00
37 50 92 25
Ewing
Joppa
Circle
Star
Farmer City. . . .
Providence
Collinsville
Johnsonville
Newtown
Elvaston
Calumet
Arcana
May
Chapel Hill
Rome
Walnut ,
Omaha
Chandlerville
Rankin
Golden Rule
Raritan
Waterman
Lake Creek
Eldorado
Harbor
Carman
Gibson
Morning Star....
Sheridan
Arrowsmith
Saunemin
Lakeside
Grant Park
New Holland....
Danvers
Scott Land
Goode
Winnebago
Weldon
Centennial
Alta
Akin
Lyndon
Lounsbury
Allendale
Ogden
Pre-emption
Hardinsville
Verona
Mystic Star
Orel
Sibley
Van Meter
Crete
Sullivan
Palace
Littleton
Triluminar
Mizpah
St. Elmo
La Grange
Bay City
New Burnside..
Mansfield
Lake View
Grand Crossing Ravenswood
705 706 707 709 710 711 712 713 714 715 716 717 718 719 721 722 723 724 725 726 727 728
729
730
731 732 733 734 735 737 738 739 740
741 742
743 744 745 746
747 748
749 750 751 752 754 755 756
757 758 759 761 762 763 764 765 766 767 768 769 770 771 772 773 774 776 777
$15 75
12 75
57 75
51 GO
45 00
40 50
36 00
41 25 48 75 16 50 6y 75
132 75
22 50
45 00 21 00
39 75
23 25
24 00 18 00
138 75 28 50 18 75
14 25 28 50
114 75 27 75 48 00
135 75 27 75 16 50
37 50 102 00
16 50
15 00
21 75
13 50
27 75 15 75
42 00 23 25
22 50 30 00 21 75
28 50 21 00 42 00 35 25
9 75 30 75 117 00
26 25
27 00 18 75 30 00 37 50
III 00 27 00
46 50 131 25
27 75 48 75 18 00 32 25 26 25 91 50 41 25 57 75
1891.]
Grand Lodge of Illinois.
57
LODGE DUES FOR THE YEAR 189I C0}ltl7lUed.
Gurney
Wright's Grove
Siloam
Colchester
Potomac
Constantia
Beacon Light....
Stanford
Riverton Union
Morris
Lerna
778
779 780
781 782 783 784 785 786 787
529 25 48 75 84 00 42 75 27 75 44 25
23 25 16 50 27 00
24 75 27 75
Auburn Park..
Pittsfield
Broadlands
Calhoun
A T. Darrah .
Tadmor ,
Myrtle
E. ,\1. Husted Normal Park.
Sidell
Colfax
789 790 791 792 793 794 795 796 797 798 799
S42 75'
33 00 15 00 27 00 '8 75 14 25. 26 25
34 50 41 25 22 50'
9 75.
DUES FOR 1890.
|
LODGES. |
NO. |
DUES. |
LODGES. |
NO. |
DUES. |
|
106 177 541 |
$■2. 25 33 00 21 75 |
542 630 |
% 75 29 25 |
||
|
Sigel |
|||||
DUES FROM LODGES U. D.
September 2, 1891, Williamson Lodge % 6 75
~ji, Neponset Lodge 7 50
ji, Fisher Lodge 11 25
ji, Melvin Lodge 3 75
91,5. M Dalzell Lodge 16 50
ji, Nebo Lodge 5 25
ji, Kensington Lodge 6 75
^i, Tracy Lodge 3 75
51, Kenwood Lodge 30 75
1891, Royal Lodge 8 25
1891, Gillham Lodge 3 75
1891, Cornland Lodge 75
9, it
16, if t6 I?
^105 00
DISPENSATION FEES.
Fisher Lodge, U. D ^ 100 00
Kenwood Lodge, U. D 100 oa
Williamson Lodge. U. D 100 00
Neponset Lodge, U D 100 00
Kensington Lodge, U. D 100 00
S. M. Dalzell Lodge, U. D 100 00
Nebo Lodge, U. D 100 00
Royal Lodge, U. D 100 00
Cornland Lodge, U. D 100 00
Gillham Lodge, U D 100 00
Tracy Lodge, U. D 100 oo-
Melvin Lodge, U D 100 00
DeLand Lodge, U. D 100 00
Belknap Lodge, U. D 100 00.
51,400 00
68 Proceedings of the [^Od. 6th,
RECAPITULATION.
Dues collected for i8qo $ ^7 °°
Dues collected for 1 8g I 32,660 25
Dues collected from Lodges U. D 105 00
Special Dispensations by Grand Master 245 00
Dispensations for Lodges U. D 1,40000
Grand Lodge By-Laws sold 9 25
Books of Ceremonies sold 18 00
Medals sold 4 00
Proceedings sold i 00
Cash from H. Plienix. of Bradford Lodge, No. 514, for overpayment of mileage
and per diem in 1890 4 3°
^34,533 80
CHARITY FUND.
Dues from Defunct Lodges $ 102 35
Cash from Defunct Lodges 17 01
Certifying Diplomas 45 00
Sale of property of Defunct Lodges 25 00
Sale of supplies of Defunct Lodges 12 00
201 36
Total $34.735 16
M. W. Bro. DeWitt C. Cregier moved that the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge attend as a body as citizens at the unveiHng of the Grant monument, to-morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock, at Lincoln Park, which was adopted.
Bro. C. M. Forman moved that the Grand Lodge proceed to the election of Grand Officers this afternoon, which was adopted.
KEPOET— Committee orf Correspondence.
M. W. Bro. Joseph Robbins presented his report on correspondence, which, on motion, was received and ordered printed with the proceedings.
M. W. Bro. John C. Smith moved that the usual appropriation be made to the Committee on Masonic Correspondence, which was referred to the Committee on Finance.
GAVEL PRESENTATION.
M. W. John C. Smith:
Af. ]V. Grand Master afid Brethrcii of Illinois : I had the pleasure of appointing the distinguished brother representative of this Grand Lodge near the Grand Lodge of Arizona. The brother is a distinguished Mason of that far distant Territory, and the son of a distinguished American of national reputation. I am glad to say that the reputation of the son bids fair to become as well known m Masonry and as extensively as his father was in national councils.
1891.] Grand Lodge of Illinois. 59
In appreciation of the honor conferred upon him (for he deemed it a great honor to represent this Grand Lodge), he has forwarded to me to be presented to you for ths use of the Grand Lodge, a gavel, the handle made ■of ironwood of Arizona, and the mallet of onyx stone, making one of the most beautiful if not the most costly of gavels.
The brother to whom I refer as your representative is Brother Charles A. Fisk, a son of Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, of national reputation. On behalf of that brother, it aif ords me pleasure indeed to present to this Grand Lodge this beautiful gavel.
The M. W. Grand :\Iaster:
M. W. Sir: I assure you that as Grand Master of this Grand Lodge it affords me great pleasure to know that we are remembered by a so far-away jurisdiction as that of Arizona. Perhaps there is no Grand Lodge -upon this great continent that we are apt to consider farther away, although it is not so far away as California. While we regard it almost as a foreign ■country, the Grand Lodge itself is a young Grand Lodge, and in accepting this gavel I wish you to say that we are very grateful to be thus remem- bered, and that our kindest wishes and hopes for the prosperity of that Grand Lodge are tendered.
R. W. Bro. Daniel J. Avery moved that the fiye lodges which failed to pay their Grand Lodge dues on or before the fifteenth day of August be con- sidered as having paid them in time, and that the Committee on Mileage and Per Diem place them on their roll, to-wit: Nos. 247, 378, 539, 669, 797.
GALLED OPF.
At 12: 10 p. M. the Grand Lodge was called from labor to refreshment, until 2 o'clock p. m.
FIRST DAY — Afternoon Session.
Tuesday, October 6th, A. L. 589 1. \ 2:00 o'clock p. M. \
The Grand Lodge was called from refreshment to labor hy the M. W. Grand Master, Grand Officers and Representatives as in forenoon.
60 Proceedings of the [ Oct. 6thy
The M. W. Grand Master announced that he had appointed the follow- ing officers to fill vacancies at the present session :
R. W. Bro. George W. Warvelle, Grand Orator.
W. Bro. Loyal L. Munn, Jr., Deputy Grand Secretary. W. Bro. Eugene L. Stoker, Junior Grand Deacon.
EEPOET— Committee on Grand Master's Eepoit.
R. W. Bro. Wm. E. Ginther submitted the following report from the Commit'tee on Grand Master's Report, which, on motion, was adopted:
To the M. W. Grand Lodge F. &^ A. Masons of Illinois :
Your committee have given the M. W. Grand Master's report that due consideration which its high source and importance demands, and by way of report, congratulate you on the gratifying evidence it contains of unabated increase of membership of our lodges and more comfortable lodge buildings, and of continued prevalence of peace and concord among the Craft.
We recommend reference as follows, viz. :
To the Committee on Masonic Jurisprudence, all relating to Oxford Lodge, No. 367; to the construction of Section i, Article 10, Part 2, Grand Lodge By-Laws, and to the papers received from the Masonic Board of Re- lief of Oakland. California.
To the Committee on Finance, all relating to fees received, and to the investment of Grand Lodge funds under Paragraph 5, Section i. Article 5, Part I , Grand Lodge By-Laws.
To the Committee on Obituaries, that part relating to necrology.
To the Committee on Charity, the petition of Past Grand Master Rey- nolds for relief, and the M. W. Grand Master's recommendation thereon.
Your committee further recommend that the action of the M. W. Grand Master, sanctioned by the Committee on Charity, in drawing an order on the charity fund for the relief of Past Grand Master Reynolds, be approved.
Your committee concur heartily with the M. W. Grand Master in his words of caution to the lodges " against entering into any contract involving civil rights in the purchase of real estate, and building, leasing and furnish- ing halls," except by and " with the advice of an able and honest lawyer." And while emphasizing this as sound advice, your committee is gratified to know that if ability and honesty in any lawyer should at any time seem mys-
1891.] Grand Lodge of Illinois. 61
terious quantities, the future M. W. Grand Master will be as glad as he is
■competent to define them.
All of which is fraternally submitted,
WM. E. GINTHER, JOHN B. FITHIAN, JOSEPH C. AMMANN.
INTRODUCTION OF GRAND MASTER OF MINNESOTA.
R. W. Bro. Eugene L. Stoker:
M. IV. Grand Mastci- : It is a great pleasure to me to have this opportunity of introducing M. W. Brother Alphonso Barto, M. W. Grand Master of Minnesota.
The M. W. Grand Master:
M. IV. Sir : It affords me great pleasure on behalf of this Grand Lodge to welcome you to a seat among us. You are not altogether unknown to these brethren. Many of the brethren of your own Grand Lodge saw light for the first time within the jurisdiction of this Grand Lodge, and we are glad now, as their representative here, to extend to you a cordial greeting and the hospitalities of this Grand Lodge.
The usual Grand Honors were then given. M. W. Brother Barto:
M. IV. Grand Master of the State of Illinois and bretkreti : I, too, for the first time saw light within this jurisdiction. I am one of the wan- dering sons of the mother here in Illinois. I was made a Master Mason in Geneva Lodge, No. 139, almost thirty years ago. I have wandered off to Minnesota ; but I find brethren there, and they send to you, my brethren, and to you. Most Worshipful sir, a hearty greeting from the North Star State. We hope our fraternal relations may always remain such that we may be received with pleasure, welcomed with honor and speeded on our way as we return. But I will take no more of your time.
INTRODUCTION OF R. W. BRO. EDWARD MITCHELL, GRAND TREASURER OF THE GRAND LODGE OF CANADA, AND R. \V. BRO. DAVID M'LELLAN, P. S. G. W. AND GRAND REPRESENTATIVE OF THE GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS NEAR THE GRAND LODGE OF CANADA.
M. W. Bro. Cregier:
AI. IV. Grand Master : It gives me pleasure not to introduce distin- guished brethren from our own country, but from abroad — not very far
62 Proceedings of fJie [ Oct 6th^
abroad, sir, — only over the line into Canada. I desire to introduce to you R. W. Bro. McLellan, P. S. G. W. of the Grand Lodge of Canada.
And I also take pleasure to couple with that introduction the R. W. Grand Treasurer, Bro. Mitchell, of the Grand Lodge of Canada.
I do this, M. W. Grand Master, with very great personal pleasure, espe- cially in the absence of our R. W. Grand Treasurer, Wiley M. Egan, whose health will not permit him to be present to perform this pleasant task, as the representative of that distinguished Grand Lodge near the Grand Lodge of Illinois.
The M. W. Grand Master:
J\. IV. Brethren : It affords me great pleasure to receive you within the limits of this Grand Lodge, coming, as Bro. Cregier has said, from a for- eign country — not very foreign ; and I take particular pleasure because it gives me the opportunity to say that although this is a Grand Lodge of one of the United States, Masonry is not hemmed in by state lines ; that the river that flows between us, broad and deep as it is, is no barrier to Masonic courtesies, to Masonic rights, or to Masonic duties.
I welcome you, sir, also as the representative of the Grand Lodge of Illinois near the Grand Lodge of Canada, and I am happy to meet you here. Yon will find among the brethren of this Grand Lodge a cordial welcome, and I know that between your own Grand Lodge and ours there exists a very strong sympathy growing out of the troubles and opposition that in past years you have been called upon to meet. I am proud to say that this Grand Jurisdiction has always stood by what we deemed to be your rights, and I know that you have reciprocated that feeling.
Brethren of the Grand Lodge of Illinois, allow me to introduce to yoii Bro. McLellan, our representative near the Grand Lodge of Canada, and Bro. Mitchell, Grand Treasurer of the Grand Lodge of Canada, and I ask you to unite with me in according to them the Grand Honors of Masonry.
R. W. Bro. McLellan:
M. IV. Grand Master, Officers and Brethren of the Grand Lodge of the State of Illitio/s : I desire on behalf of myself and R. W. Bro. Mitchell, the Grand Treasurer of the Grand Lodge of Canada, to thank you most heartily for the reception tendered us here to-day. This is my first visit to the Grand Lodge of the State of Illinois, the Grand Lodge which I have the honor to represent in my mother Grand Lodge, the Grand Lodge of the Provmce of Ontario.
And on behalf of the twenty-one thousand Master Masons of the Grand Lodge of Ontario, I bring to you. Most Worshipful sir, and the brethren of
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this Grand Lodge, a hearty greeting. I concur with every word that you have said in reference to the dividing Hne ; that while we live under two different flags, while you are true to the Stars and Stripes, we are equally true to the Union Jack, and I am pleased to say that we are here to-day under one flag, the banner of Masonry, (applause), that knows no country, knows no creed, but wherever you find a Master Mason there you will find the right hand of fellowship. I am pleased, indeed, and I desire to thank you from the bottom of my heart, on behalf of R. W. Bro. Mitchell and my- self, for the kindly greeting extended us here, and if you or any of the mem- bers of the Grand Lodge of the State of Illinois, in your pilgrimage from time to time, should go so far away from home as to visit the city of Hamil- ton, you will there find Craftsmen with hearts as warm and true as we find here to day. And although you may be then in a foreign land, you will find brethren who will extend to you the right hand of fellowship, and make you feel at home. I again thank you sincerely, and I trust the day is far distant when anything will happen to mar the happy feeling that now exists between the Grand Lodge of Canada and the Grand Lodge of the State of Illinois. (Applause.)
R. W. Bro. Edward Mitchell:
M. IV. Gratid Maste?- and Brethren of the Grand Lodge of Illinois: Any attempt on my part to return thanks for this kind, cordial and fraternal welcome, would only be to add to the remarks and fraternal sentiments already expressed by my R. W. Bro. McLellan, your representative near our Grand Lodge. I will therefore ask you to kindly consider that in that con- nection he has spoken for us both, and with more fitting language, perhaps, than I can command. Your cordial welcome is a source of great pleasure and satisfaction, and I will avail myself of this opportunity, M. W. Sir, to hand to you the personal greeting of the Master Masons of the Grand Lodge of Canada.^and of the Grand Master, Bro. John Ross Robertson, with whom I had an interview just before leaving home ; and he insisted, and as he has a hand of no mean dimensions, with a heart very much larger in proportion, extending across the river spoken of a few minutes ago, which lies between the Province of Ontario and this metropolis of the west, I accepted. He de- sired me to express to you his fervent hope that your deliberations at this time, as in the past, would redound to the welfare and the best interests of the Craft of your jurisdiction; and that the very kind social and fraternal intercourse which now obtains may always continue between your Grand Lodge and the Grand Lodge of which he has the honor to be Grand Master, and that the I only emulation or difference or antagonism which may arise, will be who may best work to promote the true and genuine principles of the order, and who can best agree. (Applause.)
To me, M. W. Grand Master, I must consider this as somewhat of an epoch in my Masonic career, for although I have been a member and an
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officer of the Grand Lodge of Canada for the past quarter of a century, and during that time I have traveled somewhat extensively, both in the mother country and over this vast continent, from the Province of Canada to Texas, and from Maine to California, and, by the way, I happen to have the honor of being the representative of the Grand Lodge of California, this is the first time I have ever visited a Grand Lodge away from home.
A week ago I had no idea whatever that I should have the honor and pleasure to be with you. But my long time tried and true friend, Bro. Mc- Lellan, asked me to accompany him on this occasion, and he would not take "No" for an answer. And so, yesterday, I stowed away a "biled" shirt and a swallow-tailed coat, and having jDut on some style, I now appear be- fore you without a tinge of regret that I have been charmed away from home, and with a feeling of thanks that I listened to the voice of the tempter. (Applause.)
As this is my first appearance upon the stage of anj' Grand Lodge other than our own, it is attended with the nervousness and embarrassment which usually characterize a debut, and like many other brethren, I suppose I have achieved a brilliant success — in view of my teacher. At the same time I have the pleasure and satisfaction of feeling glad that I followed him from home, and am charmed and gratified with the courtesies that have been ex- tended to me on this occasion; and I will only add, that if I had thought it was so nice and pleasant to visit a Grand Lodge, I would have "been there" long ago. (Applause.)
ELEOTION-Of Grand Officers.
The M. W. Grand Master announced the appointment of the following named brethren as tellers :.
COUNTING TELLERS.
Daniel J. Avery, Joseph H. Dixon, Jacob Krohn, C, M. Forman and W. J. Elwell.
COLLECTING TELLERS.
C. F. Hitchcock, Charles F. Tenney, W. T. Vandeveer, R. D. Lawrence and W. S. Hewins.
During the collecting, assorting and counting of the ballots by the tell- ers, the Grand Lodge proceeded with the following business:
EEPORT— Committee ou Lodges U. D,
R. W. Bro. H. E. Hamilton presented the following report for the Com- mittee on Lodges Under Dispensation, which, on motion, was adopted:
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To the M. IV. Cra7id Lodge F. &^ A. Masons:
Your Committee on Lodges Under Dispensation have examined the rec- ords and returns of fourteen lodges working under dispensation, and submit the following as the result of their labors :
KENWOOD LODGE.
This lodge is located at Kenwood, in the city of Chicago. Dispensation was granted to forty-eight brethren, under date of December 12, 1890, and the records and returns show that it has been planted in fertile soil. By- Laws were adopted January 5th, i8gi, and are in every respect satisfactory.
Twenty-six petitions were received, of which 23 were elected and i re- jected; 58 degrees were conferred, viz.: 20 Entered Apprentice, and 19 each of Fellow Craft and Master Mason.
Number named in dispensation 48
Number raised 19 — 67
Named in dispensation but not joining in petition for charter 11
Total membership ' 56
We recommend that a charter be granted to this lodge as Kenwood Lodge, No. Soo.
FISHER LODGE,
located at Fisher, in Champaign County. Dispensation was issued to nine brethren, October 23, 1890. By-Laws were adopted December 15, 1890.
The record discloses the fact that ballots were spread on the petitions of candidates without any report having been made by the investigating com- mittee. Whether the Worshipful Master considered the report of a commit- tee a useless formality, or whether the Secretary did not consider it worthy a place in the record, are subjects too deep for your committee to fathom. We simply recommend that the District Deputy Grand Master make the lodge a visit.
Petitions received 9
Elected g
Initiated 9
Passed 7
Raised 7
Number named in dispensation. . .■ 9
Number raised 7
Total membership 16
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We recommend that a charter be granted to this lodge as Sangamon Lodge, No. 8oi.
WILLIAMSON LODGE,
located at Carterville, in Williamson County. Dispensation was issued to fourteen brethren, February 7, 1891.
The records of this lodge show a culpable degree of ignorance on the part of its officers. No reports of committees of investigation were required, and in two instances candidates appear to have been passed to the degree of Fellow Craft without first having been initiated as Entered Apprentices. No by-laws were adopted until May 13th, about three months after the lodge was instituted.
Petitions received 8
Elected 8
Initiated 7
Passed 7
Raised 7
Number named in dispensation 14
Number raised 7
Total membership 21
We recommend that a charter be granted to this lodge as Williamson Lodge, No. 802.
NEPOXSET LODGE,
located at Neponset, in Bureau County. Dispensation was granted to eleven brethren February 19, 1891. By-Laws were adopted March 5th.
Petitions received 14
Elected 10
Rejected 4
Initiated 10
Passed 8
Raised 8
Number named in dispensation 11
Number raised 8
Total membership 19
We recommend that a charter be granted this lodge as Neponset Lodge, No. S03.
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KENSINGTON LODGE,
located at Kensington, in the City of Chicago. Dispensation was issued to thirteen brethren April 22, 1S91, and by-laws were adopted May 2d.
The records of this lodge show a degree of efficiency on the part of its officers which is very commendable, while the amount of work done, and material offered, prove the wisdom of the M. W. Grand Master in granting, a dispensation.
Petitions received 20
Elected 15
Rejected 2
Initiated 15
Passed 8
Raised 7
Number named in dispensation 13
Number raised 7
Tot al membership 20
We recommend that a charter be granted to this lodge as Kensington Lodge, No. S04.
S. M. UALZELL LODGE,
located at Spring Valley, in Bureau County. Dispensation was issued to twenty-four brethren, May 16, 1891, and on May 25th by-laws were adopted.
The zeal of the brethren of this lodge " passeth all understanding." In the short space of two months forty-two degrees were conferred. Special communications of the lodge were of nightly occurrence, and petitioners were "railroaded through at lightning speed." The work was done under the supervision of a Grand Lecturer, and your committee have no reason tO' doubt that it was correctly and legally done.
Petitions received 15
Elected 15
Initiated 15
Passed 14
Raised 13
Number named in dispensation 24
Not joining in petition for charter 2
22 Number raised 13
Total membership 35,
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We recommend that a charter be granted to this lodge as S. M. Dalzell Lodge, No. S05.
NEBO LODGE.
This lodge is located at Nebo, in Pike County. Dispensation was issued May 18, 189 1, to nineteen brethren. By-laws were adopted May 23d, and conform to the Grand Lodge Code.
The record of work done is as follows :
Petitions received 6
Elected 3
Rejected 2
Initiated 3
Passed 3
Raised 3
Number named in dispensation 19
Not joining in petition for charter 2
17 Raised 3
Total membership 20
We recommend that a charter be granted this lodge as Nebo Lodge, No. 806.
ROYAL LOnOE,
located at Macedonia, in Hamilton County. Dispensation was granted to eleven brethren, May 25, 1891, and by-laws were adopted June 3. By spec- ial dispensation of the M. W. Grand Master, work was continued to Septem- ber 5 th.
But one serious error appears in the record, which shows a candidate balloted for without a report being had from the committee of investigation.
Petitions received 4
Elected i
Rejected 2
Initiated i
Passed i
Raised i
Number named in dispensation ■. . 11
Number raised i
Total membership 12
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We recommend that a charter be granted this lodge as Royal Lodge, No. 807.
CORNLAND LODGE,
located at Cornland, in Logan County. Dispensation was granted to thir- teen brethren May 29th, 1891, and by-laws were adopted June 13th. The record of work shows:
Petitions received 3
Elected 3
Initiated 3
Passed i
Raised i
Number named in dispensation 13
Number raised i
Total membership 14
We recommend that a charter be granted to this lodge as Cornland Lodge, No. 808.
GILLHAM LODGE?
This lodge is located at Woburn, in Bond County. Dispensation was granted to eleven brethren May 30th, 1891, and by-laws were adopted July 1 6th following.
By special dispensation of M. W. Grand Master, work was continued to September 7th, and the degrees of Fellow Craft and Master Mason were conferred without regard to proficiency.
Petitions received 2
Elected 2
Initiated 2
Passed i
Raised i
Number named in dispensation 11
Number raised i
Total membership 12
We recommend that a charter be granted to this lodge as Gillham Lodge, No. S09.
TRACY LODGE,
located at Tracy, in the city of Chicago. Dispensation was issued June nth to nineteen brethren, and by-laws were adopted June i8th, 1891.
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Petitions received 9
Elected 4
Rejected 2
Initiated 4
Passed 2
Raised 2
Number named in dispensation 19
Not joining in petition for charter 2
17 Number raised 2
Total membership 19
We recommend that a charter be granted to this lodge as Tracy Lodge, No. 810.
MELVIN LODGE,
located at Melvin, in Ford County. Dispensation was granted to eight brethren June 17th, 1891, and by-laws were adopted July 7th.
Petitions received 4
Elected 4
Initiated 4
Passed 3
Raised 2
Number named in dispensation 8
Number raised 2
Total membership 10
We recommend that a charter be granted to this lodge as Melvin Lodge, No. 811.
BELKNAP LODGE,
located at Belknap, in Johnson County. Dispensation issued July 27th, 1891, to fifteen brethren.
This lodge not having complied with Section 9 of Article XXIII, Part 2d Grand Lodge By-Laws, your Committee recommend that the Dispensa- tion be continued in force until the next annual communication of this Grand Lodge.
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DE LAND LODGE,
located at De Land, in Piatt County. Dispensation issued July 25th, 1S91, to thirteen brethren.
Work was continued in this lodge up to and including September 28th without special authority having been granted therefor, contrary to the pro- visions of Section 12, Article XXIII, Part 2 Grand Lodge By-Laws. Had the provisions of Section 12 been complied with, then Section g of the same Article would have barred the granting of a charter at this Grand Communi- cation.
For these reasons your Committee recommend that the Dispensation of this lodge be continued in force until the next annual communication of this Grand Lodge.
All of which is fraternally submitted.
H. E. HAMILTON, H. N. GREENEBAUM, S. F. CONNOR, Committee on Lodges Under Dispensation. Chicago, Oct. 6, 1891.
REPOET— Committee on Credentials.
R. W. Bro. James I. McClintock presented the following report from the Committee on Credentials, which, on motion, was adopted:
To the M. IV. Grand Lodge of Illinois, F. &^ A. Masons :
Your Committee on Credentials fraternally report that the following brethren whose names appear iu this report, are present and entitled to seats in this Grand Lodge. All of which is fraternally submitted.
JAMES I. McCLINTOCK, D. B. BREED, P. W. BARCLAY,
Committee. Chicago^ October 6th, A. D. 1891, A. L. 5891.
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GRAND OFFICERS.
M. W. John M. Pearson Grand AfasUr.
R. W. Monroe C. Crawford Deputy Grand Master.
R. W. Leroy a. Goddard Senior Grand Warden.
R. W. Owen Scott .Jjinior Grand Warden.
R. W. Wiley M. Egan Grand Treasurer.
R. W. Loyal L. Munn Grand Secretary.
R. W. Rev. Francis Springer, D. D Grand Chaplain.
R. W. George W. Warvelle Grand Orator pro tern.
W. Loyal L. Munn, Jr Deputy Grand Secretary, pro tern..
W. B. F. Mason Grand Pursuivant.
W. R. S. Gordon Grand Marshal.
W. N. E. Roberts Grand Standard Bearer.
W. Joseph G. Marston Grand Sword Bearer.
W. John O'Neill Senior Grand Deacon.
W. Eugene L. Stoker, .Junior Grand Deacon pro ttm.
W. Thomas Worthington Grand Steward.
W. William Jackson Grand Steward.
W. A. W. Hitchcock Grand Steward.
• W. Samuel Rawson Grand Steward.
Bro. Robert R. Stevens Grand Tyler.
PAST GRAND OFFICERS.
M. W. DeWitt C. Cregier Past Grand Master.
M. W. James A. Hawley Past Grand Master.
M. W. Joseph Robbins Past Grand Master.
M. W. Daniel M. Browning Past Grand Master.
M. W. John C. Smith Past Grand Master.
R. W. Charles Fisher Past Deputy Grand Master.
R. W. Henry E. Hamilton Past Senior Grand Warden.
R. W. Asa W. Blakesley Past Senior Grand Warden.
R. W. W. H.Turner Past Junior Grand Warden.
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DISTRICT DEPUTY GRAND MASTERS.
R. W. W. K. Forsyth First District.
R. W. Daniel J. Avery Second District.
R. W. Joseph H. Dixon Third District.
R. W. W. S, Hewins Fourth District.
R. W. Jacob Krohn Fifth District.
R. W. E. T. E. Becker Sixth District.
R. W. E. Sanford Eighth District.
R. W. Ebenezer Barber Ninth District.
R. W. M. U. Trimble Tenth District.
R. W. F. G. Welton. Eleventh District.
R. W. Chas. B.Griffith Twelfth District.
R. W. A. B. Halliday Thirteenth District.
R. W. C. F. Hitchcock Fourteenth District.
R. W. Samuel J. LeFevre Fiftee7ith District.
R. W. Fayette S. Hatch Sixteenth District.
R. W. F. E. Eubeling Seventeenth District.
R. W. Chas. F. Tenney Eighteenth District.
R. W. R. D. Lawrence Nineteenth District.
R. W. Albert P. Grout Trventieth District.
R. W. I. H. Todd ..Twentyfirst District.
R. W. Alexander H. Bell Twenty-second District.
R. W. Wm. T. Vandeveer Twenty-third District.
R. W. Wm. B. Wright, Twenty-fifth District.
R. W. H. T. Rurnap Twenty- sixth District.
R. W. James Douglas Jwenty-seventh District.
R. W. Walter Watson 7wenty-eighth District.
R. W. W. J. Elwell Tiveniy-ninth District.
R. W. John Wood Thirtieth District.
REPRESENTATIVES OF OTHER GRAND LODGES,
James A. Hawley Alabama.
Monroe C. Crawford Arizona.
Joseph H. Dixon Arkansas.
Loyal L. Munn British Columbia
John McLaren California.
Wiley M. Egan Catiada.
James A. Hawley Colorado.
DeWitt C. Cregier Connecticut.
George W. Warvelle North Dakota..
John O'Neill Dela^vare.
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DeWitt C. Cregier District of Columbia.
John C. Sm ith J-lorida.
Philip Maas Idaho.
DeWitt C. Cregier Indiana.
C. H. Patton Indian Territory.
John C. Smith Inua.
Wiley M . Egan Ireta nd.
George M. Moulton ; Kansas.
Leroy a. Goddard Louisiana.
Ghas. H. B RENAN .Maine.
Jacob Krohn Manitoba.
M . B . I O TT Maryland.
DeWitt C. Cregier Michigan.
Eugene L. Stoker Minnesota.
DeWitt C. Cregier Mississippi.
A. . Ash LEV Montana.
John C. Smith iVevada.
Malachi M a ynard A^e^a Brunswick.
Henry E. Hamilton Xew Hatnpshire.
W. B. Grimes New Jersey.
Henry E. Hamilton Nezv Mexico.
Walter A. Stevens '/W<y York.
E. C. Pace North Carolina.
L. B. Dixon Nova Scotia.
S. S. Chance Ohio.
John M. Pearson Pennsylvania.
E. T. E. Becker Prince Edward Island.
DeWitt C. Cregier Quebec.
James A. Hawley Rhode Island.
Joseph Robbins Scotland.
C. H. Patton South Carolina.
W. L. Milligan South Australia.
Edward Cook Texas.
Owen Scott Utan.
D. M. Browning Vii-ginia.
Gil. W. Barnard IVisconsin.
Wm. Jenkins United Grand Lodge of
bouth Wales.
Wm. Jenkins United Grand Lodge of
Victoria.
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COMMITTEES.
Jiirispriidcnce.
DeWitt C. Cregier Chicago.
James A. Hawley . Dixon.
D. M. Browning Benton.
John C. Smith Chicago.
'Charles Fisher Springfield.
Appeals atid Grievances.
•
Joseph E. Dyas Paris.
H. J. Hamlin Shelby ville.
George W. Hill Murphysboro.
Ira W. Buell Chicag'o.
Wm. S. Cantrell , Benton.
Chartered Lodges.
G. H. B. Tolle Mattoon.
Geo. W. Cyrus Camp Point.
M. Maynard .' Apple River.
A. McDonald Trenton.
C. H. Patton Mt. Vernon.
Lodges Under Dzspensation.
H. E. Hamilton Chicago.
.S. F. Connor Alton.
H. N. Greenebaum Chicago.
M. S. Brown Brighton.
C. H. Morrell Augusta.
Correspondc?ice.
Joseph Robhins Quincy.
Mileage and Per Diem.
E. S. MuLLiNER Quincy.
John A. Ladd Sterling.
Ed. L. Wahl Vandalia.
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Finance.
E. C. Pace Ashley.
Gil. W. Baknakd Chicago.
Sam W. Waddle Bloomington.
To Exmnine Visitors.
M. D. Chamberlln Freeport.
William B. Grimes Pittsfield.
James John Chicago.
Joseph E. Evans Monticello,
John W. Rose Litchiield.
Crede7itials.
James I. McClintock Carmi.
DwicHT B. Breed Freeport.
P. W. Barclay Cairo.
Petitions.
A. N. Yancey Bunker HilL
C. M. Forman Nashville.
A. W. Blakesley Quincy.
Obitiiaries.
L. R. Jerome LaGrange.
D. H. Tripp Peoria.
F. M. Sherman Oak Park.
Grafid Master' s Address.
Wm. E. Ginther Charleston,
J. B. Fithian Joliet.
J. C. Ammann Highland.
Railroads.
Wm. Jenkins Mendota.
Leslie A. Munn Freeport.
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REPRESENTATIVES OF LODGES.
1 T. W. Macfall W.
2 Wm H Crawford
3 John A. Schaub
4 Wm. B. Reid
7 Robert C. Filson
8 E F.Dawson J.
9 John H. Ward
13 F. E. Hoberg W.
Wm. H Broemer .1.
14 Hezekiah G. Mason S.
15 John Lingo W.
Peter O. ^lellins S.
Geo. F. Webber J.
16 L. L. Morey W.
17 Wm. C Johnson '
19 Samuel H. Blane '
20 Chas. S. DeHart '
Willard C. Hamilton S.
23 Geo. Bley. Jr W.
24 Chas. H. Starkel W.
25 Geo. W. Hershman J.
26 James Condra W.
27 Percy L Betts '
29 Louis Zinger '
31 J. H. Mitchell •
33 Geo. F. Hoyte '
Charles Collins* S.
H D. Bean J.
34 W. W. Watson W.
35 J.P.Jones
36 John Bawden
37 F C. Tapping J.
38 W H Bergstresser S.
39 William F. Bader W.
40 James E. Cooke '
W. K. Stewart* S.
W. H. Barnard J
42 C. A. Noble W.
43 H. D. Humphreys '
D. D, Darrah J
44 John J. McDannold W
45 T.M.Watson '
46 D. John Forbes '
47 G. W. Bagby '
48 E. C Cook '
49 R. H. Himman '
50 Frank A. Whiteside '
51 A. Clotfelter '
52 F. A. NeviU J.
53 M. Barber W.
55 L. T. Phillips '
57 G. F. Kramer '
58 Samuel Cole '
59 Jacob J. jSIason '
60 Geo. W. Dean* '
Chas. W. Sharp* S.
61 E. A. Campbell W.
63 L. T. Hoy '
64 T. P Harrison* *
6s W. V. Lambe '
66 J. R. Scott '
67 John H. Cox '
68 John Quinlan* '
69 Thomas J. Medill, Jr '
71 W. R.Sampson J.
72 C. E. Kingsbury W.
#Proxy.
R. D. LaVIontayne* W. M.
labez Love "
C. H. Burgdorff "
H. A. Westbrook S. W.
D Hamilton J. W.
Fred P. Bacon W. M.
H. W. Chapman "
A. W. Peet S. W.
Elmer S Nixon "
J. D Strait W. M.
Wm. ^1. Schuwerk '■
S. S. Clapper "
O. H. Harpham "
Andrew J Benson "
G. E. Schmidt S. W.
Bernard Baer* W. M.
Constant Brown "
Robert Fell "
John E. Morton "
T. C. Williams "
J. F. Fair •'
S. Y. Weiser "
Charles E. Tindall "
T. W. Price "
John B. Nash* "
Riley B. Roberts S W.
J. C. Wagy W. M.
George W. Marden S. W.
A. C. Doll W. M.
S J. Wilson "
Louis Blattner "
C. J Renter "
W. A. Kelley "
Howard G. Gibbs "
W F. Spence "
Elijah Shepherd* "
E.J. Tower "
D. C. Ames J. W.
E. P. Durell W. M.
G. M. Turnbull "
Edward Wemple S. W.
C. R. Jones W. M.
J. C. .McBride "
L. H. Hand "
Edward L Lott* "
Mont G. Price S. W.
H. P. Weyhrich* W. M.
Alexander Trotter "
Lafe Farmer S. W.
Ralph Metcalf w. M.
Will S. Slack "
S. Abbott "
A. Brininstool "
W. T. Martin* "
J. E. Harrington J. W.
Geo W. Earhart W. M.
W. L. Bishop "
D. D. Hyatt
Lester Barber "
C. W. Grant "
TohnT Phelps S. W.
H. Godeke W. M.
J. E Barklow* S. W.
Frank Sherrard "
H. W. Booth W. M
B. S. Williams* S. W"
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REPRESENTATIVES CoilillUied.
143 144
14s 146
147 148 149 150
15! 152
153 154 155 156
157
158 1 59 160
i6i 162 163 164
165 166
170 171
172 173
174 "75 176 177 178 179
187
190 192
193 194
195 196 197
'99 200 201 203 204 205 206
William McGaw W. M.
Chas. W. Garner "
J. A. Provoost "
Willard A. Salsbery "
C. A. Wever J. W.
J. S. Hartley W. M.
T. I. Bowling S. W.
A. 'G. Jackson W. M.
H. R. Budd •'
Enos Johnson "
H. C. Kemper S. W.
J. M. Alexander "
Buford Taylor W. M.
C. E. Allen "
L. W. Lawton "
Thos B. Briggs* S. W.
R A. Webber "
W. A. Cristy W. M.
A. T. Bovle "
Morton Sieg "
Fred Schullz S. W.
H. C. Gellatly J. W.
R. F. Morrow W. M.
Wm. P. Avkins "
John L. Pratt "
Geo. D. Rader "
E H. Robinson S. W.
H. Crihfield W. M.
Walter B. Taylor '•
E. W. Scott '■
L. E. Mentch J W.
W. H. Holland W. M.
Philip Flood
W. W Bristow S. W.
Samuel A. Graham W. M.
C W. Buck "
DA Fuller S. W.
Geo. W. Selbig W. M
Henry L. Gockely J. W.
Jacob Scheidenhelm W. M.
John O. Kennedy* "
John J Wonderly *'
David C. Gannaway "
B F. Ribelin
H. W. Mestling "
F. A. Wiley S. W.
J. B. Smith W. M.
George Brand "
C. E. Grove "
Havilah Pease
E. A. Hendricks "
James M. Tenley "
John Jackson "
L. S. Sampson "
W. O. Butler "
0. C. Gaston '
H. V. Greene "
J. Dressel S. W.
Amas Irvin J. W.
M J. Spencer W. M.
T. W. Gibson "
Henry L, Rhodes "
1. J. Taylor "
Samuel Enyart* "
James C. Hewlett S W.
Lewis J. Forth W. M.
*Proxy.
207 208 209
210 211
217 218
221 222
226 227 228 229 230
231
232 233 234 23s 236 237 338 239 240 241
243 244
245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 257 260
261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269
270 271 272 273 274 275
J. W. Haines W. M,
Frank Martin "
G L. Ayres "
Chas. F. Watkins S. W.
T. H. Stokes ....W. M.
Henry H. Mason "
E. T. Gardiner S. W.
E. G. Meriwether W. M.
Solomon Lesem "
I. M. Shup "
John A. Gladson "
John Andrew "
John Rutherford "
Levi L. Tagman "
Robert Murry* S. W.
G. O. Friedrich W. M..
Thomas J. Vidler "
Geo E Meyers "
P. J. Ecord "
J. H. Wilson "
W. S. Summers "
W. E Sapp "
Owen S. Rush "
S. Thompson •'
T.H.Humphry "
B. Mendenhall "
Fred C. Brown "
Joseph W. Wenger "
A. E. Connable "
Jacob Graff "
Joseph O'Brien "
T. C. McKinney "
W. A. Grove "
Frank Barber "
C. F. Thraner "
R. C. Duff "
Jacob McChesney "
G. W. Hamelton
i\| . Spencer Brown "
Joseph B. Crowley S. W.
William L: Pollock W. M.
James L. Sexton S. W.
Raymond B. Predmore W. M.
Henry M. Grant "
H. S. Hanner ''
William A. Dodge "
J. F. Kingsolver "
J. C. Binns S. W.
J. M. Howard J. W.
E. M Taylor W. M.
Albert T. Randall "
W. H. Eastman "
N. A. Vn itney "
Geo. Heileman "
William Likes "
E. P. Thomas "
George F. Howard "
J. H. Ashley "
L. C. Stover S. W.
W. S. Gary* J. W.
J H. Phillips W. M.
H. F. Kett "
C. P. White "
Jas. S. Baume* '■
C. Apgar ■'
N. D. McEvers "
1891.]
Grand Lodge of Illinois.
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REPRESENTATIVES — Contiiiued.
Geo. P Murphy.... W.
G. A Mueller
G A Braunschweig S.
F. Schmeliiig J.
Walter Stickney W.
M, A. Ewing
J. F. Jarvis S.
J. W. Winn W.
J P Johnson
Geo B DevoU
G W. Tilton
A. Jones* S.
A. E. Shaffer W.
Lafayett Elston
A. C. Senska
J H. Merrill
M.J. Ohmit S.
H. A Snirtevant W.
S E. Sims
Oscar J. Reese
W H Cadogan
J. K. P Little*
H R. Riddle
P. Patterson
W. B Norton S.
Geo R. Schamp W.
Chas E Barnum
Francis B. Jeanpert
Geo. S. Doughty
Wm H Blackler
W C WiUington
Rob. F. Mix
N. S Muir S.
S J Mix J.
Hugh Mac Millan W.
J.C. Hosteller* '
Omer Shawler
C. S. Cutting '
B. Wolffbrandt
T. N. Bone '
O. L Closson S.
W. J. Callahan W.
C. H. Morrell* S.
John W. McPherson W.
Z A Landers* '
A. E. Kennedy '
G. A Edwards ■
Wm. M. Hanna* '
Chas. P. Skaggs '
J. A. Butcher
C. E. Weaver '
Alex. S Jessup '
Cornelius Bye
Frank Hundson '
John L. Barnes '
H. Hedrich •
J. S Cummins '
Frank Murdock '
L. Z, Sullivan '
Geo. A Parish '
C. J. Slaten '
J. L. Mc.Vlichael S.
T. D. Judd J.
T. P. Ruth W.
Adam Wenger
SamL J. Boyd
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John P. Weger W. M.
Chas. H. Ingals "
M B Swegle "
J. R. Rayburn "
Geo. F. Cleveland "
V\ m. G Smith "
Joe M. Lanthan S, W.
Fred Wentz* W. M
Edw. Craig "
D. A. He wit "
C. T. Hunt S. W.
P. L. Blanchard W. M.
O. F. Houck* J. W,
Peter W. Lill W. M.
M. L. Taylor
L. A. Kaiser "
Geo. B. Alvord "
T. L. Vradenburg "
Richard S. Petrie S. W.
Guy N. Stonemetz W. M.
Andrew Hansen J. W.
S. J. Hobbs W. M.
Wm. Husk "
G. W. Swan "
Geo. L McNutt "
Zenos Winget, Jr "
Richard Boston •'
Geo L Rice "
Wm. Wilson "
D K.:. Smith S. W.
John S Martin "
A. Ly.ns W. M.
F D Hatch* "
J. E. Uudly '•
Lincoln Moore S. W.
W. E. Handey W. M.
W. H. Aughinbaugh "
James W. Paterson "
W. K. Haines S. W.
E. B Perry J. W.
D M. Houghtlin W. M.
Lewis W, Brown "
S. O. Bcals S. W.
W. E. Hess W. M.
Albert Krausse J. W.
C. Rohrbough W. M.
T. A. Zink "
Leyman A. Jackson "
Chas. E. Axt* "
John McLean "
A. Damarin "
C. A. Bucher "
Jesse Mays "
Wm. Montgomery "
W. A. Tweedy "
Jos. H. Long "
Fred Walther •'
S. F. English "
D. A. Arnold S. W.
John AL Hamilton J. W.
W. C. Graham S. W.
Thomas Eilert W. M.
F. R Green "
E. X. Gardner "
M. E. Blanchard "
W. H. Wilderman "
♦Proxy.
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[Oct. 6th,
REPRESENTATIVES Continiicd.
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427 42S
429 430 431 432 433 434 436
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J. S. Wittenberg ,
Thos. Webb
Henry C Dale
G. W. Fleming
Rufus Funk
J. A. Turner
A. E. Clansen S.
Charles T. Keller J.
W. H. Jones W.
P. L. Johnson J.
John Burrell S.
Jay Brown W.
Geo. F. Towne
jNI. V. B. Wyatt
John Straley
H. E. FerriU
David A. Alalarkey
Nathan Hefter*
T. A. Edmonston*
T. Van Antwerp
Frank Martin S.
Jno. W. Dixon W.
J. H. Whelpley '
H. C. Frayser
J. J. Leach
Chas. E. Barber
R. J. Ford
W. H. Longden
Jacob Funk S.
Joseph Jones W.
H. H. Adams S.
Isaac N. Winans W.
Thos. P. Miller
C. B. McKuiney
D. H. Zepp
L. Shaddrick
J. C. Campbell
J. L. Miller
W. J. Donahue
L. M. Hobart
Frank Watson S.
E. McClure W.
R. G. McHatton
A. J. Miller
S. G. Washburn*
J. M. Rugless*
C. C. Aldrich
Ed. Swedbere
Geo. F. Hoadley
C. E. Norris
Chas. Schacht
J. M. Arnin S.
A. T. Strange W.
J. A. McComas
W. O. Ensign
W. E. Nixon
Wm. Perkins
A. B. Davidson
Joseph Danks
J. W. Tincher S.
0. F. Kirkpatrick W.
G. W. Willard
W. S. Bothwell S.
Chas. Thompson W.
1. D. Woodford
M. J. Piatt S.
*Proxy.
492 ! J.G.Lee W. M.
493 : J. K. P. McCullough "
494 D. C. Harmison "
497 j Frank Harris "
498 I A. B. Gallatin "
500 John J. Crowder "
501 John H. White "
C. C. Church S. W.
502 W. A. Fraser* W. M.
503 J. J. Fyke "
504 S. A. White* "
505 D. R. Hatch "
506 Wm. Shrum "'
508 H. S. Hurd "
509 F. M. Rash
510 S. C. Swalley "
511 T. W. TeflFt "
512 1 F. R. Sutherland T. W.
514 H. Phenix W. SI.
516 Benjamin Dill '
517 J. H. McManus "
518 J. Long "
519 Geo. W. Rayburn "
520 J. F. Williford "
521 J. T. .MiUiken "
R. T. Spencer* J. W.
522 George D. Leator W. yi.
523 W.J.Smith
524 H. L. Belden "
G. W. Hess S. W.
H. D. Westerfield J. W.
525 M. M. Britton W. M.
526 T. L. Miller '•
Geo. iSL Moulton S. W.
M. A. Smith J. W.
527 Charles Reinbold "
528 D. D. Filkins W. M.
529 J. J. Carter "
530 Wm. Burkhalter "
532 F. W. Kohtt "
533 John Harrison "
534 Jas. Cruisen •'
535 Wm. I\I. Smith "
536 A. E. Mottinger "
537 F. E. Cramer "
538 C. S. Van Horn "
540 E.W.Wood*
541 T. P. iMautz "
542 F. M. Moats
543 W. R. Freek "
544 G. F. Hillig* "
547 D. H. Lyons "
548 Geo. V. Lichtenberger* "
550 Wm. AL Repine "
552 J. H. Fry* "
554 G.M.Tyrrell '_'
555 Chas. Geiger "
556 W. W. Judd '•
557 Philip >Iaas "
558 W. G. Coye^ "
559 George W. Sweet "
560 W. D. Matney "
562 S. H. Graves "
564 M. C. Tyler "
565 John F. Berry "
566 Geo. W. Olds "
1891.]
Grand Lodge of Illinois.
81
REPRESENTATIVES — COHihlUed.
J. A. Jones W. M.
W. H. Pringle
L. A. Frost
Lewis Wilson..
F. A. Pagel
Oscar Grahn*..
J. W. Watterson S. W.
Richard Hill J. W.
H. B. Frazier W. M.
Geo. B. Willan "
H. W. Ferrell "
Chas. G. Cochran "
Thos. N. Henley "
H. L. Jackson* "
G. L. Jackson S. W.
M. D. Tihbetts W. M.
Wm.R.Hoyle.Jr "
O. Z. Housley "
F. W. Clark* "
Geo. H. Sampson* S. W.
M. U.Trimble* J. W.
Elias Burke W. M.
A. L. White "
Geo. R. Ashman "
F. F. Loellker '
E. L. McLain "
C. W. Rightsell* S. W.
Warner Wilson* J. W.
P L. Line S. W.
Henry P. Martin W. M.
R. N. Carroll.... W. AL Abraham Harry Gamble...
D. A. Clary
J. 'SI. Davidson. H. S. Carp
Carpenter*
Geo. S. Hummer
I L. Harvey
]\L M. Goodale
A. N. Mallory
James Simcox
Fred Duckett
H. G. Kcpluiger S.
Elden E. James W.
Wm. Bc-rger
F. M. Devoss
Wm. G. McCann
Jos. H Crawford. M. L. Da
)anford
James T. Stafford
Lewis Smith S.
W. A. Colton W.
Jas. P. Fletcher
Ira Predmore
B. F. Punnton S.
H. D. Parker W.
Wm. Yung
C. C. Hartman
B. N. Ewing
Val. Graflf J.
Helton Halley .W.
John C. Burmeister
David Z. Condrey
Edward S. Linbarger J.
H. F. Hess W.
J. Slate '
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L P. Melvin W. M.
V. Anderson J. W.
W. J. Biggs W. M.
Thos. J. Robinson "
J. E. Greenman "
Wm. Muhl "
C. D. Gardiner "
J. Alex Montgomery "
C. A. Wilcox "
J. M. Jones "
R. H. Garrigue "
E. L. Heidenrich S. W.
Chas. R. Webster J. W.
Geo. B. Slack W. AL
Jas. A McCorkle "
Geo. W. Tipsword "
B. F. Buff "
W. A. Wood S. W.
John F. Dickinson W. i\L
W. R. Wheeler •'
Paul Ziemsen "
A. G. Butler "
E. H. Donaldson S. W.
G W. Fowler W. M.
Clark L. Gill "
T. A. Stewart "
D. M. Erskine, Jr "
Geo. G. Gowdy "
J S. Powell "
B. L. Shuey* "
Leroy Martin "
Milas Bellamy "
David McKeog* S. W.
U. H. Ashcraft W. M.
H. N. Rvan S.
G. W. Ernst W. Vi.
John H. Huyck ..
P. Wright "
Nathan W. Watson "
Wm. D Watson "
Chas E. Brown "
Geo W.Roberts "
T. J. Cross "
L D. Davenport '
Robert Stewart "
John V. Hoseney S. W.
Wm. Lynd W. M.
James M. McCulloch "
C. W. Postlewait "
James A. Smith "
John W. Hill '•
"L. Jl, Williams "
Geo. N Todd "
H. C. Finley "
A. D Josselyn J. W.
Jas. H Finnegan W. M.
W. C. Hadley "
F. M Galbraith "
A.J. Davis J. W.
A P. Pcirce W. M.
John Warburton S. W.
A. H. Story W. iSL
L. L. Gallemore ''
T. T- Throgmorton* S. W.
F. M. Purcell* W. M.
Snyder KaufTman ''
''Proxy.
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[Oct. 6th,
REPRESENTATIVES Coiltiuued.
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740 741 742
743 744 745 746
747 748
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H. P. Blackard
Herman Rethorn
J. S. Hewins
Wm E. Irwin
R. L. Taylor
H A. Schermerhorn
S. Bean
J. F. Burks
S. M. Arnold
R. A. Lomax
P. C. McKay* S.
Chas. J. Main \V
Albert Gransden
A. G. Barnes
T. L. Spafford
Joseph P. Cobb
Charles A. Dewey S
A L. Thomas
E. H. Buck
A L. White*
George T. Pearce
Seldon Simpson S.
J. D. Bellamy W.
F. M. Waters
Isham Corn well
James Rainey J.
L. D. Boomer W.
Asbury Ileavrin S.
Enoch Summers W'
George A. Potter
Charles H. Austin
Edward Smith J
T. E. Silkey W.
J. H. Seyler
J. M. Donnell
Nathan Small
I. J. Smith J.
John Close
Swen Anderson* W.
Walter T. Henne S.
W. C. Trowbridge W.
764 765 766 767 768 769 770
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777
778 779
780 781 782 784 785 786 787
789 790 791 792 793 794 795 796
R. T. Jones W. M.
L. H. Wilson "
Lewis F. Miller S. W.
A. W. McLaughlin W. M.
Sylvester Gaunt "
Geo. A. Martin "
P. G. Gardner*
L. T. Amsden S. W.
J. "W. Ward J. W.
W. S. Moseley W\ M.
Andrew Hansen J. W.
J. A. Smith W. M.
John W. Bateman "
Wm. F. Lutter "
L. A. Pierce* "
C. W. Bassett "
T. C. Ryerson S. W.
Gordon Bailey J. W.
Wm. H. Eskew W. M.
Fred H. Atwood "
E. L. Mason J. W.
L. A. Schauble W. M.
Samuel Park "
T. W'. Buckingham* "
C. J. De Berard* •'
G. B. Larison "
E. A. Bigelow S. W.
Corry M. Fike W. M.
N. S. McDonald "
George Gordon S. W.
F. F. Freeman J. W.
James S. Wheeler, jr W. M.
C. W. Patterson S. W.
W. N. Dicks W. M.
W. W. Pulliam •'
S. G. Jarvih "
John A. Oxford : "
Irving C. King "'
Gf-orge W. Trask "
W. T. Butler "
Z. Taylor "
*Proxy.
1891.] Grand Lodge of Illinois. 83
The Grand Secretary presented a communication from Winnebago Lodge, No. 745, and moved its reference to the Committee on Finance, and it was so referred.
INVITATION-To Visit Board of Trade.
R. W. Bro. Wiley M. Egan, at the request of the Secretary of the Board of Trade, Mr. George F. Stone, extended a cordial invitation to the officers and representatives of the Grand Lodge to visit the sessions of the Board of Trade at any time.
On motion of the Grand Secretary, it was
Resolved, That the invitation be accepted with thanks.
INVITATION— To Visit Illinois Masonic Orphans' Home.
R. W. Bro. Geo. W. Warvelle invited the Grand officers, representatives and visiting brethren to visit the Illmois Masonic Orphans' Home, which in- vitation was accepted with thanks.
aKAND OPFIOEES ELECTED.
The tellers having collected and counted the several ballots, reported that the following named brethren had received a majority of all the votes cast:
Monroe C. Crawford, Grand Master. Leroy a. Goddard, Deputy Grand Master. Owen Scott, Senior Grand Warden. Edward Cook, Junior Grand Warden. Wiley M. Egan, Grand Treasurer. Loyal L. Munn, Grand Secretary.
And they were each declared to be duly elected Grand Officers of this M. W. Grand Lodge for the ensuing Masonic year, and until their successors shall be duly elected and installed.
M. W. Bro. James A. Hawley moved that the bonds of the Grand Treas- urer and Grand Secretary be fixed at thirty thousand dollars each, which was adopted.
introduction of JOHN H. MYERS, GRAND M.\STER OF IDAHO.
M. W. Bro. Robbins:
M. IV. Grand Master : As the representative of the Grand Lodge of
84 Proceedings of the [Oct. 7th,
Idaho, I take pleasure in introducing il. W. Bro. John H. Myers, Grand Master of Idaho.
The M. W. Grand Master:
Af. PV. Brother : It gives me pleasure for myself, and for the Grand Lodge of Illinois, to receive and welcome you as the Grand Master of Idaho, a State that we do not know much about, but we are willing to learn, and we shall be happy to receive all the light that you can give us in regard to it.
The grand honors were then given.
M. W. Bro. Myers:
M. IV. Gra^td Master and Brethren z'jt Masonry : Coming as I do from one of the youngest Grand Lodges in the United States, it gives me pleasure to meet with this, one of the greatest of Grand Lodges; and I hope that the fraternal relations which have always existed between the Grand Lodge of Idaho and the Grand Lodge of Illinois may forever continue.
CALLED OIF.
At 5 o'clock V. M. the Grand Lodge was called from labor to refreshment until nine o'clock a. m. to-morrow.
SECOND DAY— Morning Session.
Wednesday, October 7th, A. L. 5891. ) 9:00 o'clock A. M. \
The Grand Lodge was called from refreshment to labor by the M. W. Grand Master, Grand Officers and Representatives as yesterday.
M. W. Daniel M. Browning introduced the following resolution and moved its reference to the Committee oh Finance, which was adopted:
Resolved, That the Finance Committee recommend an appropriation for the per diem usually allowed members of committees.
KEPOET— Committee on Ohaitered Lodges,
R. W. Bro. G. H. B. ToUe presented the following report from the Com- mittee on Chartered Lodges, which, on motion, was adopted:
1891.] Grand Lodge of Illinois. 85
To the M. W. Grand Lodge of Illmois, F. &^ A. Masons :
Your Committee on Chartered Lodges presents herewith the following condensed report, made from the accompanying tabulated statement of the returns of the constituent lodges for the year ending June 30th, 1891 :
INCREASE 1890-91.
Number raised 2,715
Number reinstated 324
Number admitted 1,063
Number added for error ■ . . 59
Total increase 4, 161
DECREASE 189O-9I.
Number st:spended 734
Number expelled 23
Number dimitted 1,227
Number died 610
Number deducted for error 18
Total decrease 2,612
Net increase i,549
Membership reported 1890 42,381
Total membership 1891 43.930
Membership residing in Illinois 40,593
Membership residing outside of Illinois 3,337
Total 43.930
Number rejected 573
Ntimber initiated 2,997
Number passed 2, 748
Total amount of money received by the Grand Secretary for dues
for the year iSgr $32,660 25
Total amount contributed to members, widows and orphans. . . . $17,592 45
Total amount contributed to those not members 5,146 59
Total amount contributed to lUinois Masonic Orphans' Home. . . . 1,084 45
Total amount contributed $23,823 49
:8G Proceedings of the [Od. 7th
Only two lodges were delinquent: Rob Morris Lodge, No. 247, and Herder Lodge, No. 669, made returns but failed to pay dues before October I St, but paid before meeting of Grand Lodge.
All of which is fraternally submitted.
G. H. B. TOLLE, GEORGE W. CYRUS, MALACHI MAYNARD,
ALEX. McDonald,
C. H. PATTON,
Committee.
Keport— Committee on Charity.
The Grand Secretarj^ presented the following report from the Commit- tee on Charity, which, on motion, was adopted:
M. IV. Grand Master and Brethren of the Grand Lodge :
As Secretary of the Committee on Charity, I beg leave to report that said Committee held a meeting immediately after the adjournment of the Grand Lodge last evening, and considered the matter of assisting M. W. Bro. Harmon G. Reynolds, and the}^ unanimously voted to recommend that the Grand Lodge make an appropriation of $300.00, which sum should be forwarded to him in monthly installments.
GRAND LODGE OF ITALY.
The M. W. Grand Master:
Brethren of the Grand Lodge : I have in my hands a communication from the Grand Lodge of Italy. It is in the language of their own country, and so it ought to be, and I will give you a synopsis of its contents, and wish to have it referred to the Committee on Correspondence, so that they may. report by and by the exact facts in regard to this matter.
The letter that we received from the Grand Master refers to his having written to this Grand Lodge in 1886, relative to the question of recognition by this Grand Lodge. Most of you are aware that the Grand Lodge of Italy has not been recognized by this Grand Lodge. He refers to his former let- ter, and sends with it a letter of introduction from our late Bro. Albert Pike, of Washington, asking the consideration of this Grand Lodge for recogni- tion, and that their certificates or diplomas shall be respected in this juris- diction.
This is the substance of the communication. As it comes to me with Bro. Pike's letter of endorsement, I think it is certainly due to this brother
1891,] Grand Lodge of Illinois. 87
that he should receive courteous treatment. The letter has been a j-ear on its way before it came to my hands. It came to my hands early in the year, and I respectfully ask the Grand Lodge to refer this to the Committee on Correspondence, with instructions to report to this Grand Lodge at its next annual communication, so that we may act intelligently. I do not think the Grand Lodge will be ready to recognize that Grand Lodge without knowing something about its powers, rights and duties.
On motion, the matter was referred to the Committee on CorresjDondence with leave to hold it for one year.
AMENDMENT-To By-Laws, Adopted,
R. W. Bro. Wm. E. Ginther called up the proposed amendment to the Grand Lodge By-Laws, No. L W. Bro. Frank Hudson moved its adop- tion, which was carried ; said amendment was to Article XI, Section i, Para- graph 6, Part First Grand Lodge By-Laws, and as amended reads as follows:
For each member of every chartered lodge under this jurisdiction, seventy-five cents annually, except such members as are exempt from the payment of dues to chartered lodges on account of then- poverty.
EEPOET— Committee on Jurisprudence.
M. VV. Bro. DeWitt C. Cregier presented the following report from the Committee on Masonic Jurisprudence, which, on motion, was adopted:
To the M. IF. the Grand Loifi^^t' of Illinois.
Your Committee on Masonic Jurisprudence has considered the several matters referred to it, and submit the following thereon:
The question submitted by the Grand Master, viz.: " Does a neglect, for any cause, to sign the by-laws of a lodge by a petitioner for membership, or by one made a Master Mason, constitute a sufficient reason for either the lodge or the applicant to deny membership? "
Section i. Article X, Part Second Grand Lodge By-Laws, provides that membership may be acquired in a lodge by having received rhe degree of Master Mason therein and signing the by-laws thereof. The same rule — so far as signing by-laws — applies to a brother who has been elected to mem- bership. It is frequently the case, however, that when a petitioner is ren- dered eligible to membership by either receiving the degree of Master Ma- son, or by an election, there are no by-laws at hand to sign. Every action had by and between the petitioner and the lodge, for either the degrees or for membership, in case of favorable result, contemplates membership ; therefore, unless the by-laws of a lodge or the prayer of a petitioner other-
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wise provide, it is at least by usage in Illinois sufficient to constitute mem- bership, and when the rights and privileges of membership are exer- cised by a newly admitted member, and acquiesced in by the lodge, they become a recognition of the mutual relations between the lodge and the member, and as heretofore decided by this Grand Lodge, such action estops either party from questioning the validity of membership or any of the re- sponsibilities thereof.
Your committee is of the opinion that every lodge should have its by- laws present at the proper time, and that every member should be called upon to subscribe his name thereto. A refusal to do so on the part of a ne\f member deprives him of the right and privilege of membership, leaving him in effect a non-affiliated Mason; and a refusal on the part of one who has exercised the rights and privileges of lodge membership to sign by-laws, when requested, is a violation of the by-laws of this Grand Lodge, and is- therefore subject to discipline.
Two complaints against Masons of this jurisdiction for a refusal to reim- burse Masons of other jurisdictions for expenditures made in behalf of sojourning brethren hailing from Illinois, have been submitted to this com- mittee for consideration. One is a claim by a Masonic Board of Relief at Oakland, California, for an expenditure made in caring for a destitute mem- ber of Knoxville Lodge, No. 66, of this State. It appears from the corres- pondence that the said board of relief expended $45.00, and notified Knox- ville Lodge of the fact. Said lodge promptly answered, requesting state- ment of amount expended to date, with definite instructions to make no more expense for which reimbursement would be demanded from Knoxville Lodge. Soon after this request was acknowledged and a bill for $87.50 was presented. This amount was promptly forwarded by Knoxville Lodge with the further statement that the lodge could not reimburse the Oakland Board of Relief for any further expense. Notwithstanding this, the Board of Re- lief subsequently made demand for an additional $115.40, the payment of which was declined. Your committee is of the opinion that in view of the specific instructions received by the Board of Relief, it was not warranted in making any additional expenditure with expectation of being reimbursed. We therefore do not consider that Knoxville Lodge is bound to meet the de- mand.
The other case is of a somewhat similar character. A non-affiliate Ma- son, formerly a resident of Springfield, 111., where his relatives reside, arrived at Baker City, Oregon, where he died the next day after his arrival. His remains and personal effects were taken in charge by the sheriff, and notice sent to his relatives at Springfield that his body would be forwarded if the difference in the price of a first and second-class railway ticket were paid, this difference, as shown by the coiTespondence, amounted to $46. 50. The wife and mother of deceased appealed to the Master of Springfield Lodge, No. 4, who promptly telegraphed that he would pay the difference in the-
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price of said tickets. This action on the part of the brethren of Springfield was wholly voluntary, and they as Masons were under no more obligations to pay the amount or render aid, than were the Masons of any other place. The body of the deceased brother was forwarded to his relatives, with a special attendant, and a bill of expense sent the Master of Springfield Lodge amounting to $242.35, instead of the authorized sum, which was $46.50.
Your committee is of the opinion that where a lodge asks for and receives defmife instructions relative to the disbursement of money to aid needy sojourning brethren, such lodge or its representative in the matter is not warranted in the expectation of reimbursement of a greater sum than may be authorized by the lodge of which the recipient of aid is a member, but where a sojourner is not a member of any particular lodge, as was evident from the certificate of dimission found on the deceased brother by the breth- ren of Baker City, any unauthorized expenditure is likely to fall upon those who incur it.
Your committee is also of the opinion that in the case under considera- tion the brethren of Springfield, 111. , are not responsible for the apparent ex- travagant and clearly unauthorized exj^enditure by the brethren of Baker City, Oregon.
We have recited briefly some of the particulars of these two cases in order that the circumstances may be better understood, although the ques- tions involved have, as stated heretofore, been passed upon by this Grand Lodge. In 1885 the same question was submitted to the Committee on Juris- prudence, who made the following report, to-wit: "That the care of a .sick and destitute Brother is a legitimate burden on Masons, to be borne to the extent of their ability by the Masons among whom his lot may be cast, and that the performance of this duty affords no ground for a claim for reim- bursement by the lodge to which the recipient of their bounty belongs."
Such has been the judgment of this Grand Lodge for the past sixteen years, and while your committee reaffirm the justice of this well-settled opin- ion, we believe it to be the right of any lodge to authorize other lodges or in- dividuals to incur expense in behalf of members in need of assistance, and that such authorization creates a valid ground for a claim for the amount thus expended.
In the case of the suspension from office of the Worshipful Master of Oxford Lodge, No. 367, your committee recommends that the action of the M. W. the Grand Master be approved by the Grand Lodge. Fraternally submitted.
DeWITT C. CREGIER, JAMES A. HAWLEY, DANIEL M. BROWNING,. JOHN C. SMITH. CHARLES FISHER,
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OEATION.
THE ANTIQUITY OF MASONRY.
An Address delivered before the Grand Lodge of Illinois,
October 7th, i8gi,
By R. W. Bro. Georc.e W. Warveli.e, Grand Orator.
Mos/ Worshipfjil Grand Master, Grand Officers and Brethren of ike Gra7id Lodge.
The regularly ordained grand orator having failed to materialize, the powers that be, unwilling to disturb the precedents that for half a cent- ury have prevailed in this Grand Lodge, have resolved that a substitute shall perform the duties of his office, and by some unfortunate com- bination of circumstances I have been selected as that substitute. I freely confess to you that I entertain but very vague and uncertain ideas of the duties and requirements of this office into which, at the eleventh hour, I have been installed, but I remember having read in the old books that it was a custom of our Masonic ancestors, after the labors of the lodge had been concluded, to listen to an " entertaining and instructive discourse" by the grand orator. To entertain is not an easy task, while to be instruc- tive is attended with even greater difficulties, but to be both entertaming and instructive at one and the same time is an undertaking that but few of us can hope to successfully accomplish, and I frankly admit my inability at the outset.
My general recollection of the annual addresses of my illustrious prede- cessors is that they were generally didactic in character, with a strong moral bent, a circumstance that may possibly be attributed to the fact that in most cases the incumbent of the office has been a clergyman ; but I shall not take advantage of your helpless condition to inflict upon you a sermon or tax your patience with a rehearsal of moral platitudes. During the few minutes that are allotted to me I propose to talk, in a plain, matter-of-fact way, on that time-worn and threadbare subject, the antiquity of Masonry. Possibly no topic has more frequently engaged the attention of Masonic orators or writers than the one now under consideration. Its elucidation has called forth the best thoughts of the brightest intellects of this and of past ages, and upon it the student and philosopher have written tomes almost innumerable, and yet, after two centuries of research, thought, and discussion, it is the one topic of all others concerning which the great body of the craft entertain the most hazy, indis'.inct, and incorrect ideas.
LEGENDS OF M.^SOMC HISTORY.
The legendary history of Freemasonry locates its origin at or immedi- ately anterior to the building of King Solomon's temple at Jerusalem, while
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numerous learned and industrious brethren have endeavored to demonstrate the fact of its existence for thousands of years prior to that event. Now, I do not propose to enter into any controversial arguments to show the truth •or falsity of these claims, nor am I inclined to strike with iconoclastic hand the cherished idols and traditions of the craft. I only say that no evidence, to mj' mind, suificient to substantiate the truth of these assertions has ever iDeen brought to my attention, and every attempt to show a Ime of unbroken continuity between the temple-builders and the Masons of today has resulted, so far as my observation goes, in utter failure. And because we are unable to prove by irrefutable evidence that this Grand Lodge, sitting in annual communication on the banks of Lake Michigan, is the direct descendant and lineal successor of King Solomon's artificers at Jerusalem 3,000 years ago, no inconsiderable number of the craft have conceived an idea that we have no past; that our claim of antiquity is a fable, and that our title of "ancient" is based on no better grounds than simple priority over the numerous imita- tive societies that have followed us. But in reply to this I can say: If our claims of remote antiquity are doubtful, assertions of modern origin are absolutely false, and in making this statement I am prepared to fully sus- tain the position I have taken by evidence of undoubted authenticitj^. Free- masonry is an ancient society, with a long and honorable record, and the contemplation of its development from the guilds of humble artisans to the powerful, influential, and far-reaching organization of to-day is, to my mind, a spectacle of far deeper interest than all its mythic glory under the patron- age of Israel's wise king.
Society in the tenth century was just emerging from the Ietharg3% gloom, and barbarism of the dark age. Individual liberty so long restrained now began to be asserted ; the liberal arts, for ages preceding the sole property of the church and confined to monastic communities, gave faint evidence of an existence among the people, and while the cloister still directed the hands of the workman it no longer held him in a tenacious grasp. In the eleventh century the spirit of progress was still more manifest in the revival of com- merce, the extension of manufactures, and the cultivation of handicrafts, and about this time occurred the organization of the guilds of artificers, which were afterwards to play such important parts in the political drama. In the twelfth century these guilds had spread with marvelous rapidity over the ■greater part of Europe, embracing nearly every trade and occupation, and from that time until the present Freemasonry in some form has been a living, potential energy in the social life of the civilized world. Of the progress of the Masons' guild upon the continent of Europe, its trials, its triumphs, and its glorious achievements, time does not permit me to speak and I shall con- fine the remainder of my remarks to a very brief summary of its career in England, the birthplace of speculative Masonry.
I'RINCIPI.ES OK OPERATIVE MASOiNRV.
From the best attainable sources of information it would seem that the
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principles of the operative art were derived from France and numerous cxt amples of mediaeval architecture are still extant in various parts of Great Britain, which bear upon them the name of the French master who directed the work. In England, as upon the continent, the early policy of the craft was shaped by the church, under whose protecting care it flourished and waxed strong, and the titles still employed in the nomenclature of some of the ofificers of the lodge are directly attributable to the ecclesiastical super- vision of that period.
It is a matter of congratulation for us that in tracing our Masonic gene- alogy, and proving our descent from the English craftsmen, we are compelled to rely on no doubtful theories or unsubstantial legends. Fortunately there exists authentic data in the shape of contemporaneous documentary evidence, upon which we ma)^ with confidence rely, and which fully confirms all our claims of ancient and honorable lineage. These documents, for the most part, consist of manuscript versions of what are known as the old charges, or the regulations for the government of the craft, and of these there are some thirty-one copies in existence of undoubted antiquity. They are de- posited in the British museum, the Grand Lodge of England, and in the ar- chives of its constituents, and may be seen by any person who may desire to investigate for himself the stability of our claims. The earliest document yet brought to light connected with the progress of Freemasonry in England is known as the Halliwell manuscript, dating from the fourteenth century — November, 138S — and is supposed to have been made in obedience to an or- dinance of Richard II. calling for returns from the guilds and crafts. It is in every respect a remarkable document and the most precious heritage that has come down to us. It is written on vellum, and its composition is in meter or a sort of rude verse. From international evidence it is supposed to be the work of a poet priest or monk of that day, a supposition that is strengthened by the well-known facts of early ecclesiastical patronage, and the probable dearth of clerical attainments among the workmen of that period. Here, then, we have authentic evidence 500 years old of the existence of a Masons' guild at that time in full and vigorous life, and in these days of mushroom societies with doubtful pedigrees, 500 years is not too short a period on which to predicate the term "ancient." The next in importance is known as the Coke manuscript, which, like the one I have just described, is contained within the archives of the British museum. It is in a fine state of preserva- tion and its original cover of wood still remains, together with the rough twine connecting the vellum sheets, apparently as it was sewed 400 years ago. Then there is the Landsdowne manuscript, dating from the sixteenth centurj', written upon three and one-half sheets of stout paper, and the parchment roll in the custody of the Grand Lodge of England, bearing date Dec. 25, 1583. There are besides a large number of other ancient documents, many of which bear evidence of being copied from others still older, all tend- ing to indicate the existence of the society at a very early date.
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These documents have reference to Masonry as an artificer's guild onl\', and such it continued to be until late in the sixteenth century. Prior to the year 1424 it was strictly an operative association, working privately with closed doors and sedulously guarding the secrets of the trade, and Scotch Masonry so continued long after it ceased in England. At this time, how- ever, occurred a most remarkable circumstance that completely changed the character of the association as well as its future destinies, and to which we owe the fact of our assembly here to-day. It would seem that the power and influence of the trades union were not unknown even m those days and that our ancient operative brethren had arrived at a full understanding of its value, for we find that in this year, being the third year of Henry VI. . an enactment was had called the statute of laborers, whereby Masons were no longer permitted to assemble as a body of operative workmen or to exercise their handicraft with guarded doors, nor were they permitted to fix the price of their labor or establish ordinances affecting apprentices. The object of the statute was to break up the guilds by denying to them the benefits of com- bination, but, like many other attempts of suppression, the results were far difi:erent from the expectation, for, notwithstanding this prohibition, the so- ciety continued to exist as a benevolent and fraternal association, with its membership confined to workmen actually engaged in operative Masonry. But during the sixteenth century, while it still continued to be a trade soci- ety, its benefits and advantages were no longer confined to operative Ma- sons, and workmen in other lines were received, until finally in the century following it became purely speculative, and men from every walk of life, in- cluding persons of rank, began to seek admission. During this period was engrafted upon it the system of mystical philosophy which has ever since formed one of its distinguishing characteristics, and about this time may properly be fixed the birth of modern Freemasonry as a system of morality, veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols.
.MASONRY IN THE SEVENTKENTH CENTIRV.
The latter half of the seventeenth century was a period of turmoil and civil dissensions, and these, together with other causes, led to a partial disruption of the society, so that for several years it remained in a rather dormant con- dition. Many of the lodges practically disbanded, and but little activity seems to have been manifested until what is known as the revival of 1716 and the subsequent assembly of 171 7, out of which sprang the Grand Lodge of England — the mother of all Grand Lodges.
As the enactment of the statute of laborers marked an epoch in the life of Masonry, so the revival of 1 7 1 6 marked another, and no event in the his- tory of the craft is more replete with stirring interest. It would seem, how- ever, that no minutes were kept of these early meetings, or at least none have yet been found for six years after this assembly, and the only information
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we possess of the transactions is contained in the edition of "Anderson's Constitution," published soon after by authority of the Grand Lodge. From these we learn that King George I. entered London most magnificently Sept. 20, 1717, and that after the rebellion was over, in 1716, thefew Londonlodges thought fit to cement under a Grand Master as the center of union and har- mony. Therefore, they and some of the old brethren met at the Apple-Tree- tavern, and having put into the chair the oldest Master Mason present (being the Master of a lodge) they constituted themselves into a Grand Lodge and resolved to hold the annual feast and assembly, and chose a Grand Master from among themselves until they should have the honor of a noble brother at their head. Accordingly St. John's day, 1717, the annual assembly and feast was held at the Goose and Gridiron alehouse ; a list of candidates was proposed, and the brethren by a majority of hands elected Anthony Sayre, gentleman. Grand Master. And so at the assembly of June 24, 171S, it is related that after dinner Brother Sayre gathered the votes and proclaimed George Payne, Esq. , Grand Master.
Thus matters progressed until 1 720, when a noble seems to have been; received, for at the assembly held on Lady day, 1721, John, duke of Mon- tague, was named as grand master, and then, as the old records say, "Thej^ all expressed great joy at the happy prospect of being again patronized bj^ noble grand masters as in the prosperous times of Freemasonry." From that time until the year 1738 everything passed smoolhty; the craft prospered and all went well, but in this latter year occurred an event which may well be said to mark the third epoch in Masonr}^ being nothmg more nor less than a schism. Now, if there is anything that we Americans firmly believe it is the doctrine of political unity. " United we stand, divided we fall," has long been a watchword, while '• In union is strength" is a principle instilled, into us almost with the very elements of our being, and yet, paradoxical as it may seem, no small degree of the popularity and success which has attended this fraternity, as well as its wide diffusion in all lands, is due to the fact that English Masonry was a divided house for seventy-five years, for it was not until the year 1813 that the rival factions came together and formed the- present United Grand Lodge of England.
I have thus, brethren, in a very brief, desultory and fragmentary man- ner endeavored to sketch the origin, progress, and development of Masonry as revealed to us by the authentic data now in our possession. If it lacks the romantic glamour with which it was clothed on its first presentation to you attribute it not to the unsympathetic nature of the speaker, but to the cold,, hard facts of history. No royal mandate or princely fiat gave it birth, nor did it spring into a vigorous life with one grand impulse, on the contrary its beginnings were of the most humble kind, and its evolution from the primi- tive association of timid workmen, laboring under the shadow of the church,, to the magnificent philosophical brotherhood that constitutes its organization
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in the nineteenth century has been the slow and constant work of nearly a thousand years. And let it be a matter of congratulation for us that we are unable to connect ourselves with the learned and mystical societies of the ancient world, for, by the light of authentic history, our path has ever been onward and upward, with no diminishing glories, lost arts, or forgotten knowledge.
EEPORT— Committee on Obituaries,
R. W. Bro. L. R. Jerome submitted the following report from the Com- mittee on Obituaries, which, on motion, was adopted by a rising vote:
To the M. W. Grand Master, Officers and Bret/iren of iJie Grand Lodge of Illinois, F. &^ A. A/asons :
Your Committee on Obituaries beg leave to report. The year just passed is an eventful one in the history of Masonry in the United States. Many distmguished brethren have laid down the implements of their labor and joined the innumerable caravan that for six thousand years have been pass- ing to that " Bourn whence no traveler returns."
Through the mercy of Almighty God, the shaft of death has passed the active officers of this Grand Lodge, and while so many worthy names have been added to the past, we are still permitted to enjoy life's blessings and fruitions.
Yet in this grand jurisdiction the old mower has reaped a rich, and to us, a mournful harvest.
Our list is headed with one of the most distinguished of our brethren ; a Prince among his equals.
Hosmer Allen Johnson, M. D. , L. L. D., entered into rest at his home in Chicago on the 26th day of February, i8gi. in the sixty-eighth year of his age.
Bro. Johnson was born in the town of Wales, Erie County, New York, October 6th, 1822. At the age of twelve years he removed with his father's family to Almont, Mich. , while yet it was a howling wilderness. He attended Romeo Academy and prepared himself for college, where he entered Sopho- more, and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1849. Soon after he came to Chicago and studied medicine with Prof. Wm. B. Herrick, who in 1855 was the M. W. Grand Master of this Grand Lodge.
He was for many years a Professor in Rush Medical College, and when in 1859, Chicago Medical College was organized he was elected its President, which office he held till 1866 when he resigned and became Emeritus Pro- fessor of Pathology and Hygiene and president of the Board of Trustees.
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He was a member of the American Medical Association ; of the National Board of Health ; of the American Academy of Medicine ; American Clinia- tological Association ; American Larjmgological Association ; American Association for the Advance of Science, and he had held the office of presi- dent of the American Public Health Association ; of the Astronomical Society ; the Academy of Science ; of the State Microscopical Society, and of the State Medical Society of the State of Illinois.
During the war he served as president of the Board of Medical Examin- ers for Illinois, with the rank of major, examining over one thousand sur- geons, and making frequent visits to the troops in the field.
He directed the medical operations of the Relief and Aid Society after the great fire in Chicago in 1871, a work which endeared him to all the recip- ients of his care and kindness. He received the degrees of A. B. and A. M. from the University of Michigan; that of M. D. from Rush Medical College, and that of LL. D. from the Nortnwestern University of Illinois, of which institution he was a trustee.
Bro. Johnson was made a Master Mason in 1853, and exalted to the Royal Arch degree in the autumn of the same year. He was created a Knight Templar in 1854, and in 1856 was proclaimed a Sublime Prince of Royal Secret 32° grade. May 16, 1861, he was crowned an Inspector Gen- ■eral 33 degree, and subsequently became an active member of the Supreme Council, and was for many years Deputy for Illinois. He was one of the founders of the Grand Commandery of Illinois, which body he served ac- ceptably as its Right Eminent Grand Commander for the years i860 and 1861, and in 1856 was appointed to the office of Grand Orator of this Most Worship- ful Grand Lodge,
Bro. Johnson's life was emphatically an active one; for, besides holding so many and arduous positions, he was largely engaged in professional labors. Whatever he undertook he mastered, and it is a well-known fact that in throat and pulmonar}^ diseases he stood at the head of his profession. He was physically frail and apparently unable to endure great fatigue, and it seems a wonder how he accomplished so much mental labor. While in college his health failed and he was compelled for a time to desist from study. With admirable good sense he resorted to the woods and studied geolog}- and kindred sciences as they present themselves to the man of intelligence, and it was here, doubtless, that his mind became expanded and fitted for the Christ-like work of his life, viz. : going about and doing good. For,
" The men whom nature's work instruct, With God himself hold converse."
And young Johnson, in the umbrageous forest, found
' ' Tongues in the trees.
Books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones.
And good in everything."
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It is seldom indeed that we see a character so rounded and evenly bal- anced as was Bro. Johnson's. He had acquired the power of perfect self- control. He was learned without ostentation, and sympathetic without patronizing. Modest and unassuming in his manner, and courteous and affable in demeanor, he made everyone who approached him feel that he was in the presence of a friend, and yet he was
" A combination, and a form indeed.
Wherever God did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man."
That Dr. Johnson had his frailties and imperfections is most probable, for he was a man, and " To err is human" ; but after nearly three decades of years of intimate acquaintance, professionally and Masonic, we can truly assert that we do not know what they were.
The loss of such a man leaves a void in the scientific and intellectual world that will not soon be filled, and in the secluded retirement of our be- loved Fraternity, it will simply be impossible to find his equal.
" Thou art gone from us, my brother; there is dust upon thy brow, And coldness in thy kindly heart, which ne'er was cold till now; But sweet and undisturbed thy rest beneath the sacred stone Where pious hands thy couch have spread, and thoti are left alone.
" Thou art gone before us, brother — yet we have no tears to shed. For we know that thou art numbered with the blessed, holy dead. And, in that continuing city, to which we all yet hope to come,
. Hath found, through faith in Christ our Lord, a welcome and a home."
HAMU.TON.
John Dallas Hamilton was born at Johnstown, N. Y., April 30, 1833, and died at Chester, 111., August 13, 1891.
Bro. Hamilton was a patriot as well as a Mason, and enlisted and served through the war of the rebellion. After the war he held the several posi- tions of Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue, Quincy District ; First Assist- ant Clerk of the House of Representatives, and clerk in the Illinois Peniten- tiary at Joliet, from whence he was transferred on the building of the South- ern Penitentiary, where he remained until his death. He received Masonic light in Hancock Lodge, No. 20 ; was exalted in Carthage Chapter, received the Council degrees in Carthage Council, and the order of Knighthood in Joliet Commandery. He presided as W. M. of Hancock Lodge, No. 20; H. P. of Carthage Chapter, No. 33; T. I. Master of Carthage Council, R. & S. M. ; Grand High Priest of the Grand Chapter of Illinois, and served as Senior
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Grand Deacon of this Grand Lodge. His work is ended, and the places that knew him will know him no more forever.
" Thou art taken from us, brother, all thy cares and labors done, When to our short reaching vision they had seemed but just begun; And long before its noon was reached, thy heaven kindled ray, Was lost as stars by sunlight fade, in endless, cloudless day."
R. W. Bro. A. W. Adams was born in Newburyport, Mass., March 4th, 1820, and died at his home in Geneva, 111., Nov. loth, 1890, in the 71st year of his age. Bro. Adams was for six years W. M. of his lodge, was D. D. G. M. of the 4th District, during the years 1855-6 and was for two years or more member of the Committee on Constitution and By-laws of the Grand Lodge. Bro. Adams was one in whom the members of the Grand Lodge had confi- dence, and to whom they were wont to turn for advice and assistance in cases of intricacy or doubt, depending as they did upon his cool judgment and great intelligence to guide them to a just conclusion.
Bro. Wm. Sargent Phares was born in Butler County, Ohio, October 31st, 1816, and died in Champaign, 111., March 21st, 1891. Bro. Phares was largely in public life while living in Ohio, and while in that state received the various degrees of American Masonry, and also the grades of the A. S. Rite and was for several years the representative of this Grand Lodge near that of Ohio. Indulgent and kind m his family, an upright man, a warm- hearted brother, and a christian knight, he has gone to his reward.
KUYKENDALL.
Bro. Andrew Jackson Kuykendall, was born March 3d, 1S15, and died May nth, 1891. He was the last Charter Member of Vienna Lodge, No. 150. He was a member of the Constitution Convention in 1848. His worth was appreciated by his constituents by frequent elections to both branches of the Legislature of Illinois. A soldier in two wars, and one of our oldest Masons, upright and faithful.
- ARKANSAS
mourns the loss of R. W. Bro. George H. Meade, Grand Treasurer of the Grand Lodge of that jurisdiction for thirteen years, in the 60th year of his age.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
The brethren of this jurisdiction are in mourning for the loss of two dis- tinguished Masons. M. W. Bro. Henry Brown, Past Grand Master and
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Past Grand Secretary, who departed this Hfe May 5th, iSgi, aged 99 years. An aged and time honored Mason.
BRO. ALBERT PIKE,
a Mason of world-wide distinction, historian and poet, died at the advanced age of eighty two. Bro. Pike was Grand orator of the M. W. Grand Lodge of Arkansas in 1864 and was for many years the distinguished head of the A. S. Rite in the Southern jurisdiction of the United States. He has left us for a clime more congenial, where the Grand Master of the Uni- verse presides.
CALIFORNIA.
Entered into eternal rest December 28th, 1890, Alexander G. Abel, for 36 years Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of California. Bro. Abel was one of the live Masons of the Pacific Coast, and active m building up the various Masonic Rites that have taken deep root in the soil of the Golden State.
Fell asleep on February 4th, 1891, John F. Niblack, Senior Grand War- den of the Grand Lodge of Florida. A distinguished and dear brother and worthy Mason.
Past Grand Master George H. Hand departed this life at Pierre, Dakota, March loth, 1891, and was buried by the Grand Lodge of Dakota, escorted by 150 Knights Templar. He was a distinguished Mason and one who held Masonry to be something sublime, and acted as though he were living in a higher sphere when called upon to do its bidding, in which he never tired. His funeral was said to be the largest ever held in the State, the services lasting six hours.
WEST \'IRGINIA
mourns the loss of Past Grand Master M. W. George Bond, who died at Wheeling, March 7th, 1891, and M. W. Charles H. Collins, who died at Wheeling, March 19th, 1891.
NEW JERSEY
has lost a Past Grand Master, M. W. Wm. Hardacre, who died in Bing- hamton, N. Y., March 28th, 1891.
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is in mourning for the loss of Past Grand Master, M. W. Brother James A. Henderson, who departed this life at Kingston, December 7th, 1S90.
lias lost a patriarch and venerable brother in the person of R. W. Bro. Ira Berry, for thirty-six j-ears Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Maine, and thirty-five years Grand Secretary of the Grand Chapter and Grand Recorder of the Grand Council and the Grand Commandery. He was born at New Durham, N. H., September 23rd, 1801, and died in Portland, Maine, September 20th, iSgi, at the age of 90 years lacking three days. His life was a long, active and honorable career and he went to his rest like a shock of com fully ripe and ready for the reaper's sickle.
We are taught that Masonry unites men of every countrj', sect and opinion, consequentlj' wherever the chords of sorrow in a brother's breast are swept by the hand of affliction, the Masonic heart should throb in sym- pathy throughout the world. We feel assured that we express the senti- ments of this Grand Lodge when we extend your heartfelt sympathy to all brethren wherever dispersed, upon whom the rod of affliction has fallen.
L. R. JEROME,
D. H. TRIPP,
F. M. SHERMAN,
Committee.
REPORT— Committee on Appeals and Grievances.
R. W. Bro. Joseph E. Dyas presented the following report from the Committee on Appeals and Grievances, which, on motion, was adopted:
To the M. IV. Grand Lodge of Illinois, F. &^ A. M. :
Your Committee on Appeals and Grievances fraternally report as fol- lows :
vs. - No. I.
Camden Lodge, No. 648. )
No attested copy of the record in this case having been sent us by the lodge, your committee is unable to intelligently pass upon the case, and therefore recommend that the case stand continued until the next Grand Communication, and the Grand Secretary order the Master and Secretar}- of said lodge to send up a complete record of its proceedings in this case.
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vs. -No. 2.
South Park Lodge, No. 662. )
Action of lodge set aside, and accused restored to membership.
vs. - No.
Jackson Lodge, No. 53. )
Action of lodge sustained.
vs. - No. 4.
Henry Lodge, No. 119. )
Action of lodge set aside and accused restored to good standing in the Fraternity only.
vs. \- No. 5.
Oxford Lodge, No. 367. )
Action of lodge set aside, a new trial granted ; also leave granted to amend the charges and specifications, and the lodge instructed to notify all the members in writing of the time of trial.
vs. ^No. 6.
Arcana Lodge, No. 717. )
Action of lodge sustained.
vs. y No. 7.
Aroma Lodge, No. 378. )
In this case there was no record filed with the Grand Secretary. The committee recommend that the matter be referred to the Grand Master for his examination and disposition.
All of which is fraternally submitted.
J. E. DV^AS, W. S. CANTRELL, H. J. HAMLIN, IRA W. BUELL, GEO. W. HILL.
R. W. Bro. Wm. S. Cantrell presented the following resolution, which, on motion, was adopted :
Resolved, That the question as to what would be a reasonable salary for the Grand Master and Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge be referred! to the Committee on Finance.
102 Proceedings of the [Oct. 7t]h
KEPOET— Committee on Petitions.
W. Bro. C. M. Forman submitted the following report from the Commit- tee on Petitions, which was, on motion, adopted:
To the M. IV. Grancf Lodge F. &^ A. Jf. of Illinois :
Your Committee on Petitions, to whom was submitted the following cases, after having examined into all their bearings, beg leave to report on the same in their order, viz. :
No. I. Petition for restoration of John Selby, expelled from Harmony Lodge, No. 3. Two-thirds of the members of said lodge having recom- mended his reinstatement, this committee does also recommend his restora- tion to all the rights and privileges of Masonry.
No. 2. Petition of F. Schoeneman, expelled by Manito Lodge, No. 476. This lodge having unanimously recommended his restoration to all the rights and privileges of Masonry, this committee also so recommends.
No. 3. Ignatz Lederer, expelled from Mozart Lodge, No. 656. This lodge having unanimously recommended his restoration to all the rights and privileges of Masonry, your committee recommend the same.
No. 4. Abraham E. Jennings, expelled from Scott Land Lodge, No. 743. A constitutional number of the members of said lodge having recom- mended his restoration to all the rights and privileges of Masonry, we also recommend his restoration.
No. 5. Amon Wheeler, suspended from Moultrie Lodge, No. 181. The ■evidence in this case shows that Bro. Wheeler was suspended from said lodge for non-payment of 'dues, and the evidence further shows that he failed to pay dues on account of financial adversities, and that Moultrie Lodge had surrendered its charter ; also that since the surrender of said charter he has paid his dues in arrears to the Grand Secretary, and is highly recommended by the Senior Grand Warden of the jurisdiction of Iowa, in which jurisdic- tion he now resides. We, your committee, after a careful examination into this case, and the papers relating thereto — which are very artistically prepared — would recommend that Bro. Wheeler be restored to all the rights and privileges of Masonry, and that the Grand Secretary of this Grand Lodge issue to said Brother a dimit, and also certify the action of this Grand Lodge as herein recommended.
No. 6. Jacob Hortensteine, expelled from Miles Hart Lodge, No. 595. This lodge recommends the restoration of Bro. Hortensteine to all the rights and privileges of Masonry, and your committee also so recommend.
No. 7. John W. Puckett, expelled from Akin Lodge, No. 749. Said
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lodge recommends the restoration to all the rights and privileges of Masonry of the Brother, and this committee concurs in said recommendation.
No. 8. J. B. Musgrove, expelled from Akin Lodge, No. 749. Akin Lodge recommends the restoration to all the rights and privileges of Ma- sonry, and your committee also so recommends.
No. g. J. B. Davis, expelled from Camden Lodge, No. 648. The neces- sary number of the members of said lodge having recommended the restora- tion to all the rights and privileges of Masonry of said brother, this commit- tee joins m said recommendation.
No. 10. Ransom Dodd, expelled from Temple Hill Lodge, No. 701. Said lodge recommends the restoration to all the rights and privileges of Ma- sonry of said brother. Your committee concurs in said recommendation.
No. II. George O. Greer, expelled from Scottville Lodge, No. 426. Two-thirds of the members of said lodge having petitioned for the restoration of Bro. Greer to all the rights and privileges of Masonry, this committee so recommends.
No. 12. James W. Pearce. The papers in this case show that Bro. Pearce was a member of Moultrie Lodge, No. 181, which lodge is now de- funct. That Bro. Pearce petitions Sullivan Lodge, No. 764, in which juris- diction he now resides, for its recommendation that he be restored to all the rights and privileges of Masonry, and that his dues be remitted, which is recommended by said Sullivan Lodge, and in which recommendation this committee concurs, and further recommends that the Grand Secretary issue to said brother a dimit.
No. 13. Henry C. Cole, expelled from Murphj^sboro Lodge, No. 498, Aug. 20th, 1888, for unmasonic conduct. The committee having carefully examined the papers, and having heard the statement of the brethren of said lodge, for and against the petitioner, find that all the proceedings were regular m form, and that due notice of the application of the petitioner was given in open lodge at the preceding stated communication, and that at the time action was taken, Aug. 17th, 1891, the lodge was regularly convened, and that more than two-thirds of the members present at said communica- tion voted for the recommendation of the restoration to all the rights and privileges of Masonry of the petitioner. Your committee in conformity with this recommendation feel that it is their duty to concur with the constitutional majority of the lodge, and accordingly so recommend.
Respectfully and fraternall}' submitted.
A. N. YANCEY, C. M. FORMAN, A. W. BLAKESLEY.
104 Proceedings of tJie lOct. 8th,.
CALLED orr.
At 12 o'clock noon, the Grand Lodge was called from labor to refresh- ment until io:oo a. m. Thursday. October 8th.
THIRD DAY— Morning Session.
Thursday, October 8th, A. L. 5891. \ 10:00 o'clock A. M. \
The Grand Lodge was called from refreshment to labor by the M. W Grand Master, Grand Officers and Representatives as on the preceding day.
EEPORT— Oommittee on Mileage and Per Diem.
R. W. Bro. Ed. S. Mnlliner, for the Committee on Mileage and Per Diem, presented the following report, which, on motion, was adopted:
To ike M. W. Grand Lodge F. &^ A. M. of Illinois:
Your Committee on Mileage and Per Diem would fraternally report that the following Grand Officers, members of Committees and Representatives, members of this Grand Lodge, are entitled to mileage and per diem as set forth in the following pages.
EDWARD S. MULLINER, JOHN A. LADD, EDW. L. WAHL,
Committee.
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Grand Lodge of Illinois.
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CRAND OKFICKRS.
John M. Pearson . Monroe C. Crawford. . . Leroy A, Goddard. ...
Owen Scott
Wiley M. Egan
Loyal L. Munn
Rev. Franci.s Springer Geo. W. Warvelle. . . . Loyal L. Munn, Jr. . . .
Benj. F. Mason
R. S. Gordon
N.E. Roberts
Joseph G. Marston...
John O'Neill
Eugene L. Stoker
Thomas VN orthington
Wm. Jackson
A. W Hitchcock
Samuel Rawson
Robert R. Stevens ....
Grand Master
Deputy Grand Master. Senior Grand Warden. Junior Grand Warden
Grand Treasurer
Grand Secretary .....
Grand Chaplain
Grand Orator
Deputy Grand Secretary
Grand Pursuivant
Grand Marshal
Grand Standard Bearer.. Grand Sword Bearer. . . . Senior Grand Deacon. . . Junioi Grand Deacon....
Grand Steward
Grand Steward
Grand Steward
Grand Steward
Grand Tyler
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RESIDENCE.
Godfrey
Jonesboro
Mt, Carmel.
Bloomington.
Chicago
Freeport
Springfield
Chicago
Freeport
Paxton
Mt. Carmel.
Fairfield
JerseyviUe
Chicago
Centralia
Pittsfield
Godfrey
Chicago
Troy
Chicago
DISTRICT DEPUTY GRAND MASTERS.
W K. Forsyth ist Di:
Daniel J. Avery 2d
Joseph H. Dixon 3d
W. S. Hewins 4th
Jacob Krohn 5th
E. T. E. Becker 6lh
E. Sanford 8th
Ebenezer Barber 9th
M. U. Trimble loth
Frank G. Welton nth
Chas. B. Griffith 12th
A. B Halliday 13th
C. F. Hitchcock 14th
S. J. LeFevre 15th
Fayette S. Hatch i6th
F. E. Eubeling 17th
Chas. F. Tenney i8th
R D. Lawrence 19th
Albert P. Grout 20th
I. H. Tndd 2ist
Alexander H. Bell 22d
Wm. T. Vandeveer 23d
Wm. B Wright 25th
H. T. Burnap 26th
James Douglas 27th
Walter Watson 28th
W. J. Elwell 29th
John Wood 30th
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Freeport
Mt. Carrol!
Morris
Marseilles
Princeton
Cambridge
Rushville
Monmout
Peoria
Gibson City
Kankakee
Urbana
Bement
Springfiela
Winchester
Elvaston
Carliiiville
Taylorville
Effingham
Upper Alton
Chester
Mt. Vernon
Shawneetown.
Cairo
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COMMITTEES.
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RESIDENCE.
JURISPRUDENCE.
De Witt C. Cregier. . . James A Hawley... Daniel M. Browning
John C. Smith
Charles Fisher
Chicago.
Dixon.
Benton.
Chicago.
Springfield
APPEALS AND GRIEVANCES.
Joseph E. Dyas . . . .
H. J. Hamlin
Geo. W. Hill-
IraW.Buell
William S. Cantrell.
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Shelbyville.
Murphysboro.
Chicago.
Benton.
CHARTERED LODGES.
G. H. B. Tolle I 172
George VV . Cyrus I 242
M. Maynard I 144
A. McDonald I 278
C. H. Patton I 282
$17 20|^20 24 20 20
14 4o| 20
27 80' 20
28 20 20
^37 20 Mattoon,
44 20 Camp Point.
34 40 ; Apple River.
47 80 ! Trenton.
48 20 Mt. Vernon.
LODGES UNDER DISPENSATION.
Henry E. Hamilton
S. F. Connor
H. N. Greenebaum
C. H. Morrell
M. S. Brown
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Alton.
Chicago.
Augusta.
Brighton.
CORRESPONDENCE.
Joseph Robbins | 263 | 26 30 | $15 | $41 30 | Quincy.
MILEAGE AND PER DIEM.
E S. Mulliner I 263 j$26 3ol$2o I $46 30 I Quincy.
John A. Ladd no | 11' 00 30 41 00 Sterling.
Edw. L. Wahl J 231 | 23 loj 30 | 53 10 | Vandalia.
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Grand Lodge of Illinois.
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Cdward C. Pace I 266 |$26 6ol$35 | §61 60 1 Ashley.
•Gil. VV. Barnard. . . 35 35 °° Chicago.
Sam. W. Waddle . . . | 126 | 12 6o| 25 j 37 60 | Bloomington
TO EXAMINE VISITORS.
M. L). Chamberlin.
"VV. B. Grimes
James John
Joseph E. Evans.. J. W. Rose.......
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Freeport.
Pittsfield.
Chicago..
Monticello
Litchfield.
CREDENTIALS.
James L McClintock I 286 1^28 6o|$2o I $48 60 I Carmi.
D. B. Breed 114 11 40 20 31 40 Freeport.
Philander \V. Barclay | 365 | 36 50] 20 | 56 50 | Cairo.
PETITIONS.
A. N. Yancey. .. C. M Forman . . , A. \V. Blakesley,
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Bunker Hill. Nashville.
OBITUARIES.
L. R. Jerome I 15 |$ i 5oj§2o 1 $21 50 I La Grange.
D . H . Tripp I 1 45 1 4 50 20 34' 50 Peoria.
F. -M. Sherman j sj 8oj 20 | 20 80 I Oak Park.
GRAND master's ADDRESS.
W. E, Ginther | 182 \$iS 2ol;^20
5. B. Fithian 37 3 70 20
J. E. Ammann . - | 267 | 26 70] 20
^38 20 I Charleston. 23 70 Joliet. 46 70 I Highland.
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REPORT ON MILEAGE AND PER DIEM — Continiicd.
Bodley
Equality
Harmony
Springfield
Friendship
Macon
RushviUe
St. Johns ,
Warren
Peoria
Temperance ...
Macomb
Clinton
Hancock
Cass
St. Clair
Franklin
Hiram
Piasa
Pekin
Mt. Vernon. . .
Oriental
Barry
Charleston
Kavanaugh ....
Monmouth
Olive Branch..
Herman
Occidental
Mt. Joliet
Bloomington...
Hardin
Griggsville
Temple
Caledonia
Unity
Cambridge
CarroUton ,
REPRESENTATIVES.
Mt. Moriah 51
Benevolent 52
Jackson 53
Washington 55
Trio 57
Fraternal 58
New Boston 59
Belvidere 6o
Lacon 61
St. Marks 63
Benton 64
Euclid 65
Knoxville 66
Acacia 67
Naples 68
Eureka 69
Central 71
Chester 72
Rockton 74
Roscoe 75
Mt. Nebo 76
Prairie 77
Waukegan 78
Scott 79
Whitehall 80
Vitruvius 81
DeWitt 84
Mitchell 85^
T. W. Macfall
Wm H Crawford
John A. Schaub
Wm. B. Reid
Robert C. Filscm
E F.Dawson
John H. Ward
F. E. Hoberg
Hezekiah G. Mason....
John Lingo
L. L. Morey
Wm. C Johnson
Samuel H. Blane
Chas. S. DeHart
Geo. Bley. Jr
iChas. H. Starkel
Geo. W. Hershman
James Condra
Percy L Belts
Louis Zinger
J. H. Mitchell
Geo. F. Hoyte
W. W. Watson
J. P. Jones
John Bawden
F. C. Tapping
W. H Bergstresser
William F. Bader
James E.Cooke ,
C. A. Noble
H D. Humphreys
John J. McDannold...,
T. M. Watson
D John Forbes
G. W. Bagby
E. C Cook
R. H. Himman
Frank A. Whiteside.... A. Clotfelter
F. A. NeviU
M. Barber
L. T. Phillips
G. F. Kramer
Samuel Cole
Jacob J. Mason
Geo. W. Dean
E. A. Campbell
L. T. Hoy
T. P Harrison
W. V. Lambe
J. R. Scott
John H. Cox
John Quinlan
Thomas J. Medill, Jr
W. R. Sampson
C. E. Kingsbury
R. D. LaMontayne.... labez Love
C. H. Burgdorff
H. A, Westbrook
D. Hamilton
Fred P. Bacon
H. W. Chapman
A. W. Peet
Elmer S Nixon
J. D Strait
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Grand Lodge of Illinois.
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REPORT ON MILEAGE AND PER DIEM — CotttzttUed.
Kaskaskia
Mt. Pulaski
Havana
Fellowship
Jerusalem Temple
Metropolis
Stewart
Toulon
Perry
Samuel H. Davis..
Excelsior
Taylor
Edwardsville
Astoria
Rockford
Magnolia
Lewistown
Winchester
Lancaster
Versailles
Trenton
Lebanon
Jonesboro
Bureau
Robert Burns
Marcelline
Rising Sun
Vermont
Elgin
Waverly
Henry
Mound
Oquawka
Cedar
Greenup
Empire
Antioch
Raleigh
Greenfield
Marion
Golconda
Mackinaw
Marshall
Sycamore
Lima
Hutsonville
Polk
Marengo
Geneva
Olney
Garden City
Ames
Richmond
DeKalb
A, W. Rawson
Lee Centre
Clayton
Bloomfield
Effingham
Vienna
Bunker Hill
Fidelity
Clay
Russell
Alpha
Delavan
REPRESENTATIVES.
Wm. M. Schuwerk..
S. S. Clapper
O. H. Harpham
Andrew J Benson ..
G E. Schmidt
Bernard Baer
Constant Brown
Robert Fell
John E. Morton
T. C. Williams
J. F. Fair
S. Y. Weiser
Charles E. Tindall..
T. W. Price
John B. Nash
Riley B. Roberts
J. C. Wagy
George W. Alarden .
A. C. Doll
S J. Wilson
Louis Biattner
O. J. Renter
W. A. Kelley
Howard G. Gibbs....
W F. Spence
Elijah Shepherd
E. J. Tower
E. P. Durell
G. M. Turnbull
Edward Wemple
C. R. Jones
J. C. McBride
L. H. Hand
Edward L Lott
Mont G. Price
H. P. Weyhrich
Alexander Trotter....
Lafe Farmer
Ralph Metcalf
Will S. Slack
S. Abbott
A. Brininstool
W. T. Martin
J. E. Harrington
Geo W. Earhart
W. L. Bishop
D. D. Hyatt
Lester Barber ,
C. W. Grant
H. Godeke
Frank Sherrard
H. W. Booth
William McGaw
Chas. W. Garner
J. A. Provoost
Willard A. Salsbery.
C. A. Wever
J S. Hartley
T. I . Bowling
A. G. Jackson
H. R. Budd
Enos Johnson
J. M. Alexander
Buford Taylor
C. E. Allen
L. W. Lawton
334 i6g 182 326 38 366
159 144 252
96 114 134 266 220
87 121 196 235 164 246 278 286
330 105 194 272 46 213
37 210 127 194 203
62 202 152
45 303 252
249
352
146
176
52
277
196
306
66
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147 199
339 250
244 266 134 163 157
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18 20 32 60
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25 20 9 60
11 40
13 40
26 60
22 00 8 70
12 10
19 60
23 50
16 40
24 60
27 80
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Proceedings of the
[Oct. 8th,
REPORT ON MILEAGE AND PER DIEM — Continued.
Urbana
McHenry
Kewanee
Waubansia
Virden
Hope
Westfield
Edward Dobbins.
Atlanta
Star in the East...
Milford
Nunda
Evergreen
Girard
Wayne
Cherry Valley....
Lena
Matteson
Mendota
Staunton
Illinois Central...
Wabash
Moweaqua
Germania
Meridian
Abingdon
Mystic Tie
Cyrus
Fulton City
Dundee
Farmington
Herrick
Freedom ,
LaHarpe
Louisville
King Solomon's.,
Homer
Sheba
Centralia
Lavely ,
Flora
Corinthian
Fairfield
Tamaroa
Wilmington
Wm. B. Warren..
Logan
Cleveland
Shipman
Gillespie
Newton
Mason
New Salem
Oakland
Mahomet
Leroy
Geo. Washington
Pana
Columbus
Lovington
Manchester
New Haven.......
Wyanet..
Farmers....
Blandinsville
DuQuoin
I! EPRESENT ATIVES.
R A. Webber
W. A. Cristy
A. T. Bovle
Morton Sieg
R. F. Morrow
Wm. P. Atkins
John L. Pratt
64lGeo. D. Rader
65|H.Crihfield
66l Walter B. Taylor...
68IE. W Scott ,
69'L. E. Mentch
70! W. H. Holland
71 Philip Flood
72 Samuel A. Graham..
73 C W Buck 74 75 76 77
Geo. W. Selbig
Henry L. Gockely....
Jacob Scheidenhelm..
John O. Kennedy
John J Wonderly
79; David C. Gannaway. 8o|B, F. Ribelin
82 H. W. Mestling
83 F. A Wiley
85iJ. B. Smith
87iGeorge Brand
88 C E. Grove
89'Havilah Pease ,
90' E. A. Hendricks
92 James M. Tenley
93!john Jackson
L. S. Sampson
W O. Butler
0. C. Gaston
H. V. Greene
M J. Spencer
T. W. Gibson
Henry L. Rhodes
1. J. Taylor
Samuel Enyart
James C. Howlett
2o6;Lewis J. Forth
207'J. W. Haines
aoSlFrank Martin
G L. Ayres
T. H. Stokes
Henry H Mason
E. G. Meriwether
Solomon Lesem
L M Shup
John A. Gladson
John Andrew
John Rutherford
Levi L. Tagman
Robert iVIurry
G. O. Friedrich
Thomas J. Vidler
Geo. E. Meyers
P. J. Ecord
J. H. Wilson
W. S. Summers
W. E Sapp
Owen S. Rush
S. Thompson
T. H. Humphry
130 51 132
207
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Grand Lodge of Illinois.
Ill
REPORT ON MII.F.AGE AND PER DIEM CoittlHlted.
Dallas City
Charter Oak
Cairo
Black Hawk.... . .
Mt. Carmel
Western Star... .
Shekinah
Galva
Horicon
Greenville
El Paso
Rob Morris
Golden Gate..... .
Robinson..
Heyworth
Aledo
Avon Harmony..
Aurora
Donnellson
Warsaw
Mattoon....
Amon
Channahon
Illinois
Franklin Grove..
Vermilion
Kingston
La Prairie
Paris
Wheaton
Levi Lusk
Blaney
Carmi
Miners
Byron
Milton
Elizribeth
Accordia
Jo Daviess
Neoga
Kansas
Brooklyn
Meteor
Catlin
Plymouth
De Soto
Genoa "...
Wataga
Chenoa
Prophetstown.. .
Pontiac
Dills
Quincy
Benjamin..
Mechanicsburg..
Durand
Raven ,
Onarga
W. C. Hobbs.... T. J. Pickett....
Ashlar
Harvard
Dearborn..
Kilwinning
Ionic
York
REPRESENTATIVES.
2351B. Mendenhall
236jFred C. Brown
237 Joseph W. Wenger
238 A. E. Connable
239 Jacob Graff
24oiJoseph O'Brien
241 T. C. McKinney
243IW. A. Grove
244|Frank Barber
245 C. F. Thraner
246 R. C. Duff
347 Jacob iVicChesney
24b G. W. Hamelton
250i Joseph B. Crowley
251 William L, Pollock
252 James L. Sexton
253 Raymond B. Predraore.
254 Henry M. Grant
255 H. S. Hanner
257|William A. Dodge
26o!j. F. Kingsolver
26i|E. M Taylor ,
262 Albert T. Randall
263 W. H. Eastman
264!N. a. Witney
265lGeo. Heileman
266 1 William Likes
267 E. P. Thomas
268 George F. Howard
269tj. H. Ashley
270:) H. Phillips
271 H F. Kett
272IC. P. White
273'Jas. S. Baume
274 C. Apgar
275:^. D. McEver.s
276 Geo. P Murphy
277 G. A Mueller
2781 V\ alter Stickney
279 M. A. Ewing
280 J. W. Winn
282 J. P Johnson
283 Geo B DevoU
28s G W. Tilton
286;A. E. Shaffer
287iLafayett Elston
288'A. C. Senska
291IJ. H. Merrill
292;]M. J. Ohmit
2931H. A. Sturtevant
294IS. E. Sims
295 Oscar J. Reese
296 W H. Cadogan
297 J K. P Little
299 H R. Riddle
302 P. Patterson
303 Geo R. Schamp
305 Chas E Barnum
306 Francis B. Jeanpert
307 Geo. S. Doughty
308 Wm H Blackler ,
W C Willington..
Rob. F. Mix
Hugh Mac Millan., J. C. Hosteller
309 310 311 312 3i3lOmer Shawler.
223 231 36s 242
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38 243 248 172 139
55 145
88 140 265 234 160
25 92
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17 00 19 60
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30 20
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14 80 20 00
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31 70
32 30
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112
Proceedings of the
\_0d.8th,
REl'ORT OX MILEAGE AND PER DIEM — Cotltimied.
Palatine
Erwin
Abraham Jonas
J. L. Anderson
Doric
Creston
Dunlap
Windsor
Orient
Harrisburg
Industry
Altona
INIt. Erie
Tuscola
Tyrian
Sumner
Schiller
New Columbia
Oneida
Saline
Kedron
Full Moon
Sumraerfield
Wenona
Milledgeville
N. D. Morse
Sidney
Russellville
Sublette
Fairview
Tarbolton
Groveland
Kinderhook
Ark and Anchor
Marine
Hermitage I 356
Orion I 358
Blackberry 359
REPRESENTATIVES.
Princeville
Douglas
Noble
Tonica
Bement
Areola
Oxford
Jefferson
Livingston
•Chambersburg,
Shabbona ,
Aroma
Payson J 379
Liberty
Gill
LaMoille
Waltham
Mississippi.... Bridgeport ...
El Dara
Kankakee . . . Ashmore.. . . .
Tolono
Oconee
Blair
Jerseyville
Muddy Point Shiloh
C. S. Cutting
B. Wolffbrandt
T. N. Bone
W. J. Callahan
John W. McPherson.
Z A Landers
A. E. Kennedy
G. A Edwards
Wm. I\I. Hanna
Chas. P. Skaggs
J. A. Butcher
0. E. Weaver
Alex. S Jessup
Cornelius Bye
Frank Hudson
John L. Barnes
H. Hedrich
J. S Cummins
'Frank Murdock
L. Z. Sullivan
Geo. A Parish
C. J. Slaten
T. L. McMichael
T. D. Judd
T. P. Ruth
Adam Wenger
Saml J. Boyd
John P. Weger
Chas. H. Ingals
M B Swegle
J. R. Rayburn
Geo. F. Cleveland
^^ m. G Smith
Joe M. Lanthan
Fred Wentz
Edw. Craig
D. A. Hewit
C. T. Hunt..
P. L. Blanchard
Peter VV. Lill
M. L. Taylor
L. A. Kaiser
Geo. B. Alvord
T. L. Vradenburg
Richard S. Petrie
Guy N. Stonemelz
Andrew Hansen
S. J. Hobbs
Wm. Husk
G. W. Swan
Geo. L McNutt
Zenos Winget, Jr
Richard Boston
Geo L Rice
Wm. Wilson
D. C. Smith
John S Martin
A. Lyons
F D. Hatch
J. E. Dudly
W. E. Handey
W. H. Aughinbaugh James W. Paterson...
D AL Houghtlin
Lewis W. Brown
W.E. Hess
26 257
99 226 160
70 124 185
70 305 216
236 145 349 152
339 193 270 282 109 121 229 137 214
92 194
98 14s 270 201 277 270
62
44 148 301 241 109 153 158 161 290
74 246
69
61 278 283 223
93
94 138 231 260
56 178
137 210
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19 30
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28 20 10 90
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21 40 9 20
19 40 9 80
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20 10 27 70 27 00
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24 10 10 90
15 30
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16 10
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12 10
33 80
34 30
28 30 15 30 15 40 19 80
29 10
32 00 II 60
23 80 19 70
27 00 6 00
32 20
24 00 15 00
891.]
Grand Lodge of Illinois.
113
REPORT ON MILEAGE AND PER DIEM — Contimud.
Kinmundy 39^
Buda 399
Pacific 400
•Odell 401
Kishwaukee 402
Mason City •• 403
Batavia 4^4
Ramsey 405
Bethalto 406
Stratton
Thos. J. Turner 409
Mithra 410
Hesperia 411
BoUen 41^
Evening Star 4^4
Lawn Ridge 415
Paxton 416
Marseilles 4^7
Freeburg 418
Reynoldsburg 4'9
Oregon 42°
Landmark 422
Lanark 423
Exeter 424
Scottville.. 426
Red Bud.. 427
Sunbeam 428
Chebanse 429
Kendrick 43°
Summit 4
Murrayville 432
Annawan 43
Makanda | 434
Philo.. I 436
437 440 441 442 443 444 445 446 447
■ REPRESENTATIVES.
Chicago
Camargo ,
Sparland
Casey
Hampshire
Cave-in-Rock. . . .
Chesterfield
Watseka
S. D. Monroe
Yates City
Mendon....
Loami
Bromwell
New Hartford..,
Maroa
Irving
Nokomis
Moscow
Blazing Star
Jeffersonville
Plainview
Tremont
Palmyra
Denver
Huntsville
Cobden
South Macon — Cheney's Grove.
McLean
Rantoul
Kendall
Amity 1 472
8g
C. Rohrbough
T. A. Zink
Leyman A. Jackson..
Chas. E. Axt
John McLean
A. toamarin
C. A. Bucher
Jesse Mays
Wm. Montgomery
\V. A. Tweedy
Jos. H. Long
Fred Walther
S. F. English
W. C. Graham
Thomas Eilert
F. R Green
E. A. Gardner
M. E. Blanchard
W. H. Wilderman...,
J. S. Wittenberg
Thos. Webb
Henry C. Dale
G. W. Fleming
Rufiis Funk
J. A. Turner
Charles J. Keller
W. H. Jones
John Burrell
Jay Brown
Geo. F. Towne
M. V. B. Wyatt
John Slraley
H. E. Ferrill
David A. Malarkey.
Naihan Hefter
r. A. Edmonston
T. Van Antwerp
Jno. W. Dixon
J. H. Whelpley
H. C. Frayser
J. J. Leach
Chas. E. Barber
R. J. Ford
W. H. Longden
Jacob Funk
Joseph Jones
H. H. Adams
Isaac N. Winans
Thos. P. Miller
C. B. McKinney
D. H. Zepp
L. Shaddnck
J. C. Campbell
J. L. Miller
W. J. Donahue
L. M. Hobart
Frank Watson
E. McClure
R. G. McHatton
A. J. Miller
S. G. Washburn
J. M. Rugless
C. C. Aldrich
Ed. Swedberg
Geo. F. Hoadley
C. E. Norris
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24 80 |
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17 70 |
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22 70 |
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6 |
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33 30 |
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26 40 |
6 |
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6 |
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19 30 |
6 |
25 30 |
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26 20 |
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16 20 |
6 |
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23 30 |
6 |
29 30 |
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22 30 |
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28 30 |
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340 |
34 00 |
4 |
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332 |
33 20 |
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39 20 |
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25 10 |
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31 ID |
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23 40 |
6 |
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b |
21 30 |
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6 |
28 10 |
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24 80 |
6 |
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232 |
23 20 |
b |
29 20 |
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323 |
32 30 |
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38 30 |
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180 |
18 00 |
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24 00 |
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Proceedings of the
[Od. 8tK
REPORT ON MILEAGE AND I'ER DIEM Continued.
Gordon
Columbia
Walsh ville
Manito
Rutland
Wyoming
Momence..
Lexington
Edgewood
Xenia
Bowen
Andrew Jackson..
Clay City
Cooper
Shannon
Martin
Liberty ville
Tower Hill
Bath ,
Alma
Murphysboro . . . .
St. Paul
Stark
Woodhull
Odin
East St. Louis. . .
Meridian Sun
O. H. Miner
Home....
Parkersburg
J. D. Moody.... .
Clintonville
Wade-Barney. . . .
Bradford..
Andalusia
Litchfield
Abraham Lincoln
RoseviUe
Anna..
lUiopolis...
Monitor
Chatham
Evans
Delia..
Covenant
Ross ville
Minooka
Adams
Maquon
Seneca
Altamont
Cuba..
Sherman
Plainfield
J. R. Gorin
Lockport
Harlem
Sigel
Towanda
Cordova
Virginia
Valley
Apple River
Sharon
Long Point
Plum River
487
REPRESENTATIVES.
Chas. Schacht
J. M. Arnin
A. T. Strange
J. A. McComas
W. O. Ensign
W. E. Nixon
Wm. Perkins
A. B. Davidson
Joseph Danks
J. W. Tincher
0. F. Kirkpalrick
G. W. WiUard
W. S. Bothwell
Chas. Thompson
1. D. Woodford ,
M. J. Piatt
J. G. Lee
J. K. P. McCullough..
D. C. Harmison
Frank Harris
A. B. Gallatin
John J. Crowder
John H. White
\V. A. Eraser
J. J. Fyke
S. A. White
D. R. Hatch
Wm. Shrum
H. S. Hurd
F. M. Rash
S. C. Swalley
T. W. Tefft
F. R. Sutherland
H. Phenix
Benjamin Dill
T. H. McManus
J. L""S
Geo. W. Rayburn
I. F. Williford
J. T. Milhken
George D. Leator
W. T. Smith
H. L. Bclden
M. M. Britton
T. L. Miller
Charles Reinbold
D. D. Filkins
J. J. Carter
Wm. Burkhalter
F. W. Kohrt
John Harrison
Jas. Cruisen
Wm. iSI. Smith
A. E. Mottinger
F. E. Cramer
C. S. Van Horn
E. W. Wood
T. P. Mautz
F. M. iMoats
W. R. Freek
G. F. Hillig
D. H. Lyons
Geo. V. Lichtenberger,
Wm. M. Repine
T. H. Fry
"G. M. Tyrrell
29s
239 164 114 138
50 no 214 244 244 326 242 213 121 170
32 204 191 30s 316
154
244
280
74
76
243 258
39 126 129 172 231 186 191 329 186
37 194
105
51
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173 72 211 192 165 41 141
33 8
195 120
152 210
174 144 122 95
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29 50
23 90
16 40 II 40
13 80 5 00
11 GO 21 40
24 40 24 40 32 60 24 20 21 30
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Grand Lodge of Illinois.
115
REPORT ON MILEAGE AND PER DIEM — Continued.
Humboldt
Dawson
Lessing
Leland
Thomson
Madison
Villa Ridge
Winslow...
Pleasant Hill.
Albany
Frankfort
Time
Jacksonville ....
Bardolph
Gardner
Pera
Capron
O'Fallon. ......
Viola
Prairie City...
Elbridgc
Hazel Dell
Dongola..... . . .
Shirley
Highland
Vesper
Fisher
Princeton
Troy
Fairmount
Oilman
Fieldon
Miles Hart
National
Cerro Gordo...
Laclede....
Watson
Clark
Hebron
Streator
Piper.
Sheldon
Union Park.... Lincoln Park- Rock River
Patoka
Forrest
Wadley
Good Hope. . ..
Basco
Berwick
New Hope
Hopedale
Locust
Union
Tuscan
Norton
Ridge Farm
E. F. W. Ellis.
Buckley
Rochester
Peotone
Keystone
Comet
Apollo
D. C. Cregier. .
REPRESENTATIVES.
Chas. Geiger
W. W. Judd
Philip Maas
W. G. Cove
George W. Sweet .
W. D. Matney
S. H. Graves
M. C. Tyler
John F. Berry
Geo. W. Olds
T. A. Jones
W. H. Pringle
L. A. Frost
Lewis Wilson
F. A. Pagel
Oscar Grahn
J. W. Watterson...
Richard Hill
H. B. Frazier
Geo. B. WiUan
H. W. Ferrell
Chas. G. Cochran. Thos. N. Henley...
H. L. Jackson
M. D. Tibbetts .... Wm. R. Hoyle. Jr.
O. Z. Housley
F. W. Clark
Elias Burke
A. L. White
Geo. R. Ashman...
F. F. Loellker
E. L. McLam
P L. Line
Henry P. jNIartin...
R. N. Carroll
W. M. Abraham...
Harry Gamble
D. A. Clary
J. JM. Davidson
H. S. Carpenter...
Geo. S. Hummer... 6io I L.Harvey
M. M. Goodale....
A. N. Mallory
James Simcox
6i4jFred Duckett
6161H. G. Kcplinger...
6i7lElden E. James
6i8|Wm. Bcrger
6ig|F. M. Devoss
62olWm. G. ]\IcCann... 622;Jos. H Crawlord.
623JM. L. Danford
627! James T. Stafford.
630[Lcwis Smith
631 W. A. Colton
632!jas. P. Fletcher.
Ira Predmore
B. F. Purinton
H. D. Parker
Wm. Yung
C. C. Hartman
64IIB. N. Ewing
642[Belton Halley
643 1 John C. Burmeister .
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Proceedings of the
[Oct. 8th,
REPORT ON MILEAGE AND PER DIEM — ContZtlUed.
•Oblong City. . . .
San Jose
Somonauk
Blueville....
Camden
Atwood....
Greenview
Yorktown
Mozart
Latayette..
Rock Island..... .
Lambert
■Grand Chain
South Park
Phoenix
IVlayo
Greenland
Crawford
Erie
Burnt Prairie
Herder
Fillmore
Eddyville
Normal
Pawnee
A. O. Fay
Enfield
Illinois City
Clement
Morrisonville
Blue Mound
Burnside
Galatia
Rio
Garfield
Clifton
Englewood
lola
Raymond
Herrin's Prairie
:Shi!oh Hill
Belle Rive
Richard Cole....
Hutton
Pleasant Plains..
Temple Hill
Alexandria
Braidwood
Ewing
Joppa
Circle
Star
Farmer City. . . .
Providence
Collinsville
Johnsonville
Newtown
Calumet
Arcana
May
Chapel Hill
Rome
Walnut
Omaha
Chandlerville
Rankui ...
REPRESENTATIVES .
David Z. Condrey
Edward S. Linbarger
H. F. Hess
J. Slate
I. P. Melvin
W.J. Biggs
Thos. J. Robinson
J. E. Greenman
Wm. Muhl
C. D. Gardiner
J. Alex Montgomery
C. A. Wilcox
J. M. Jones
R. H Garrigue
Geo. B. Slack
Jas. A McCorkle
Geo. W. Tipsword
B. F. Buff
John F. Dickinson
"W. R. Wheeler
Paul Ziemsen
A. G. Butler
G W. Fowler
Clark L. Gill
T. A. Stewart
D. M. Erskine, Jr
Geo. G. Gowdy
J S. Powell
B. L. Shuey
Leroy Martin
Mi las Bellamy ,
U. H. Ashcraft ' 225
H.N. Ryan | 307
G. W. Ernst 163
John H. Huyck j
P. Wright ; 69
Nathan W.Watson ' 7
Wm. D Watson , 221
Chas E. Brown | 220
Geo. VV. Roberts I 321
T. J. Cross 315
L D. Davenport ' 293
Robert Stewart
John V. Hoseney
Wm. Lynd
James M. McCulloch
C. W. Postlewait
Tames A. Smith
"John W. Hill
L. H.Williams j 208
Geo. N Todd 172
99 130
H. C. Finley
A. D Josselyn
Jas. H Finnegan.
W. C. Hadley
F. M. Galbraith
A. J. Davis
A P. Peirce
John Warburton ..
A. H. Story
L. L. Gallemore ...
!F. M. Purcell
Snyder Kauffman.
H. P. Blackard
Herman Rethorn . J. S. Hewins
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1891.]
Grand Lodge of Illinois.
117
REPORT ON MILEAGE AND PER DIEM Cotltiniied.
Golden Rule
Raritan
Waterman
Lake Creek
Eldorado
Harbor
Carman
Gibson
Morning Star
Sheridan
Arrowsmith
Saunemin
Lakeside
Grant Park
New Holland
Danvers
Scott Land
Goode
Winnebago
Weldon
Centennial
Alta
Akin
Lyndon
Lounsbury
Allendale
Ogden
Pre-emption ,
Hardinsville
Verona
Mystic Star
Orel
Sibley
Van Meter
Crete
Sullivan
Palace
Littleton
Triliiminar
Mizpah
St. Elmo
La Grange
Bay City
New Burnside...
Mansfield
Lake View
Grand Crossing.
Ravenswood
Gurney
Wright's Grove.
Siloam
Colchester
Potomac
Beacon Light
Stanford
Riverton Union.
Morris
Lerna
Auburn Park
Pittsfield
Broadlands
Calhoun
A T. Darrah
Tadmor
Myrtle
E. M. Husted ...
Sidell
Colfax
Wm E. Irwin
R. L. Taylor
H A. Schermerhorn. S. Bean
F. Burks
M. Arnold
R. A. Lomax
P. C. McKay
Chas. J. Main
Albert Gransden
A. G. Barnes
T. L SpafTord
Joseph P Cobb
E. H. Buck
A L. White
George T. Pearce
Seldon Simpson
J. D. Bellamy
F. M. Waters
Isham Cornwell
L. D. Boomer
Asbury Heavrin
Enoch Summers
George A. Potter
Charles 11. Austin.... Edward Smith.
REPRESENTATIVES.
J. H. Seyler.
; M. Donnell
Nathan Small.?
I. J Smith
John Close
Swen Anderson..
Walter T. Henne
W. C. Trowbridge
R. T. Tones
L. H. "Wilson
Lewis F. Miller
A. W. McLaughUn....
Sylvester Gaunt
Geo. A. Martin
P. G. Gardner..
W. S. Moseley
J. A. Smith
John W. Bateman
Wm. F. Lutter
L. A. Pierce..
C. W. Bassett
Wm. ir. Eskew
Fred H. Atwood
L. A. Schauble
Samuel Park
T. W. Buckingham
C. J. De Berard..
G. B. Larison
E. A. Bigelow
Corry M. Fike
N. S. McDonald
James S. Wheeler, Jr .
C. W. Patterson
W. N. Dicks
W. W. Pulliam
S. G, Jarvis
John A. Oxford
Irving C. King
George W. Trask
W. T. Butler
Z. Taylor
2o2 64 320 297 12 213 110 182
66 126
136 151 295 94 143 142
155 316 L23 32 242
T. E. Silkey 143
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217
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323
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303 178
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29 70
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16 80
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.18 Proceedings of the \_0d. iSfJi
EEPOKT— Committee on Finauce.
R. W. Bro. Sam W. Waddle presented the following report from the Committee on Finance, which, on motion, was adopted:
To the M. IV. Grand Lodge of Illinois, F. iS^ A. Masons :
Your Committee on Finance fraternally submit the following report :
We have examined the reports of the Grand Secretary and Grand Treas- urer as submitted by them to» Grand Lodge, and find the several amounts ■correct as therein set forth.
During the recess of the Grand Lodge we have, as provided by law, audited and approved bills for items as below, all of which have been paid by warrants on the Grand Treasurer :
Printing Proceedings $1,516 63
Printing and Stationery 206 00
Stationery and supplies for Grand Secretary's office 67 03
Postage, express and telegrams 560 30
Expense of Grand Master 124 95
Expense of Committees 140 10
Tax on Missouri land 30 15
Schools of Instruction —
At Monmouth. $205 30
At Morris. 88 00
At Nashville 77 40
At Olney. . . . : 147 00
At Watseka 121 20 — 63S 90
Total $3,284 06
We recommend the payment of the following bills, which we have ex- amined and found correct :
Journal Printing Co., Freeport, stationery, (S:c. , for Grand Secretary's
office $141 75
Journal Printing Co. , Freeport, for report of Committee on Corres- pondence 824 60
Brown & Dollmeyer, stationery, &c., for Grand Secretary's office. ... 4 00
J. M. Pearson, expense as Grand Master 23 78
Walter Watson, expense official visit to Irvington Lodge, No. 650. . . 255 Wm. Jenkins, expense Railroad Committee 24 79
In the matter of the petition of Winnebago Lodge, No. 745, for remis- sion of Grand Lodge dues on account of the loss of their hall and furniture bj' fire, we are unable to see any good reason in this case why the settled
1891.] Grand Lodge of Illinois. 119
practice of this body should not be followed, and recommend that the peti- tion be denied.
APPROPRIATIONS.
Your committee recommend that appropriations be made for the follow- ing items, and the Grand Secretary be directed to draw his order on the Grand Treasurer for the several amounts :
M. W. Bro. Joseph Robbins, Committee on Correspondence $300 00
Bro. R. R. Stevens, Grand Tiler 100 00
Bro. L. L. Munn, Jr., Deputy Grand Secretary 25 00
Bro. Z. T. Griffin, Assistant Grand Secretary 50 00
John Hanson, Janitor 25 00
M. W. Bro. J. C. Smith, rent Music Hall 400 00
Bro. R. R. Stevens, bill expense at Grand Lodge 97 62
W. Bro. Wm. Jenkins, service on Railroad Committee 43 40
Bro. Leslie A. Munn, " " " " 41 60
Bro. John A. Ladd, distance book for use of Committee on Mileage
and Per Diem 47 00
And to the committees in attendance on this Grand Communication we recommend the payment of three dollars per day for each day's service in addition to the amount allowed by law.
Your committee estimate the expenditures for the ensuing year as fol- lows :
For mileage and per diem $17,300
Printing Proceedings 1,800
Stationery, postage and express 1,000
Schools of Instruction 1,200
Salaries . 4,000
Expense, Grand Officers and Committees 1,000
Miscellaneous expenses 1,000
Total $27,100
Id the matter of the resolution of R. W. Bro. Avery, instructing the Grand Secretary to have reprinted and properly bound in one volume 1,200 copies of the proceedings of this Grand Lodge for the years 1840 to 1850, inclusive, your committee are of the opinion that the work contem- plated in the resolution is of great importance, and will be the only means novv possible of preserving the records of Grand Lodg» in a convenient form
120 Proceedings of the [Od. Sth^
for the period covered by the resolution. We have caused to be made an approximate estimate of the cost of the work, but are unable to give accurate estimate on account of the difficulty of determining the exact number of pages when se: in uniform type, the original volumes varj^ing greatly in size of type as well as of pages. The estimate in the hands of the committee show that the work, including the binding and distributing, can be done at a cost not exceeding one dollar per volume. We therefore recommend the adoption of the resolution, and that the work be done under the supervision of the Committee on Printing,
Your committee have considered the resolution referring the question of what would be a reasonable salary for the Grand Master and Grand Sec- retary, and are of the unanimous opmion that no change is advisable at this time in the salary provided by law.
Fraternally submitted, V E. C. PACE,
GIL. W. BARNARD, S. W. WADDLE.
The M. W. Grand Master elect announced that he had appointed the following Grand Officers :
R. W. Rev. Frederick P. Davenport, D.D. . Grand Chaplain. R. W. William W. Barr Grand Orator.
W. Loyal L. Munn, Jr Deputy Grand Secretary.
W. B. F. Mason Grand Pursuivant.
W. R. S. Gordon Grajid Marshal.
W. N. E. Roberts Gratid Standard Bearer.
W. Joseph G. Marston Grattd Sword Bearer.
W. John O'Neill Senior Grand Deacon.
W. Eugene L. Stoker Junior Grand Deacon.
W. Thomas Worthington Grand Steward.
W. William Jackson Grand Steward.
W. A. W. Hitchcock Grattd Steward.
W. Chas. H, Starkel Grand Steward.
Bro. Robert R. Stevens Grand Tyler.
The M. W. Grand Master elect announced that the bonds of the Grand Treasurer and Grand Secretary had been received and approved.
INSTALLATION-Of Officers.
M. W. Bro. John M. Pearson, assisted by M. W. Bro. D. C. Cregier as Grand Marshal, installed M. W. Monroe C. Crawford Grand Master of Ma- sons of the State of Illinois, and conducted him to his seat in the Grand East, where he was duly proclaimed as such, and received with the Grand Honors of Masonry. '
1891.] Grand Lodge of Illinois. 121
INSTALLATION-Oontinued.
M. W. Bro. John M. Pearson, assisted by M. W. Bro. D. C. Cregier as Grand Marshal, then installed the following officers:
R. W. Leroy a. Goddard Deputy Grand Master. . . .Mt. Carmel.
R. W. Owen Scott Senior Grand Warden. . . .Bloomington.
R. W. Edward Cook Junior Grand Warden. . . .Chicago.
R. W. Wiley M. Egan Grand Treasurer Chicago.
R. W. Loyal L. Munn Grand Secretary Freeport.
W. Loyal L. Munn, Jr Deputy Grand Secretary. . Freeport.
W. B. F. Mason Grand Pursuivant Paxton.
W. R. S. Gordon Gra?id Marshal Mt. Carmel.
W. N. E. Roberts Grand Standard Bearer . . Fairfield.
W. Joseph G. Marston Grand Sword Bearer Jersey ville.
W. Eugene L. Stoker Junior Grand Deacon Centralia.
W. Thomas Worthington .... Grand Steward Pittsfield.
W. William Jackson Grand Steward. Godfrey.
W. A. W. Hitchcock Grand Steward. Chicago.
W. C. H. Starkel Grand Steward Belleville.
Bro. Robert R. Stevens Gra?id Tyler Chicago.
M. W. Grand Master:
Brethren of the Grand Lodge : I am not going to make a speech. I am thankful for the honor you have conferred on me and I am going to do my best.
PEOPOSED AMENDMEJ^T-To Grand Lodge By-Laws. R. W. Bro. Sam. W. Waddle, for the Finance Committee, offered the following amendment to the By-Laws of the Grand Lodge, which, being seconded by twenty representatives, lies over until the next annual commun- ication :
No. L Amend Paragraph 5, of Section i, Article V, Part First of the- Grand Lodge By-Laws, by inserting after the words " United States " the words " State, County and Municipal."
Paragraph 5, of Section i. Article V, Part First Grand Lodge By-Laws,, if amended as above, would read as follows :
" To invest all moneys in his hands belonging to the general and charity funds in United States, State, County and Municipal securities, in the name- of the Grand Lodge of A. F. & A. Masons of the State of Illinois ; such in- vestment to be made within thirty days after the funds shall have been re- ceived, and remain so invested until otherwise ordered by the Grand Lodge;: the interest accruing upon such moneys he shall credit to the two funds re- spectively."
122 Proceedings of the \_0ct.8th,
M. W. Bro. Joseph Robbins presented the following resolution, which, on motion, was unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That the hearty thanks of this Grand Lodge are due and are hereby tendered to M. W. John M. Pearson for the ability, industry and un- failing courtesy which have characterized his administration of the high office of Grand Master of Masons, and the dignity and impartiality with which he has presided over our deliberations.
COMMITTEES.
The M. W. Grand Master appointed the following Standing Committees:
ON MASONIC JURISPRUDENCE.
D. C. Cregier, James A. Hawley, Daniel M. Browning, John C. Smith, John M. Pearson.
ON APPEALS AND GRIEVANCES.
Joseph E. Dyas, W. S. Cantrell, H. J. Hamlin, Geo. W. Hill, George W.
Warvelle.
ON CHARTERED LODGES.
G. H. B. ToUe, Geo. W. Cyrus, M. Maynard, John C. Garver, A. McDonald.
ON LODGES UNDER DISPENSATION.
H. E. Hamilton, S. F. Connor, H. N. Greenebaum, Chester E. Allen A. J. Benson.
ON CORRESPONDENCE.
Joseph Robbins.
ON MILEAGE AND PER DIEM.
Edward S. Mulliner, John A. Ladd, Ed. L. Wahl.
ON FINANCE.
E. C. Pace, Gil. W. Barnard, Samuel W. Waddle.
GRAND EXAMINERS.
M. D. Chamberlin, Freeport.
W. B. Grimes, Pittsfield.
James John, Chicago.
J. E. Evans, Monticello.
John W. Rose, Litchfield.
1891.]
Grand Lodge of Illinois.
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DErUTV GRAND LECTURERS.
H. E. Huston, Monticello. G. A. Stadler, Monticello. W. H. Stevens, Steelville. John E. Morton, Perry. W. O. Butler, La Harpe. Wm. E. Ginther, Charleston. James R. Ennis, Burnt Prairie. W. J. Frisbee, Bushnell. Charles Reifsnider, Chicago. D. F. Flannery, Chicago. James Douglas, Chester. G. H. B. Tolle, Mattoon. T. H. Humphrey, Duquoin. James M. Willard, Harristown. Frank Barker, Rochelle. Josiah M. James, Decatur. Thomas Ockerby, Chicago. Thomas C. McKmney, Carbondale. William I. Holcomb, Centralia. Adelbert J. Newell, Lostant. John R. Hodson. Chicago. C. Rohrbough, Kinmundy.
Emerson Clark, Farmington.
D. E. Bruffett, Urbana.
G. O. Friedrich, ChilHcothe.
C. W. Carroll, Chillicothe. J. W. Swatek, Chicago.
D. B. Robertson, Centralia. Charles F. Tenney, Bement. Henry Werno, Chicago. Thomas W. Macfall, Quincy. Sylvester Thompson, Blandinsville. John C. Bannister, Kewanee.
J. W. Kleckner, Chicago.
H. S. Hurd, Chicago.
Colvin B. Burt, Chicago.
L. J. Forth, Fairfield.
I. H. Todd, Elvaston.
Charles S. DeHart, Carthage.
C. M. Erwm, Bowen.
J. J. Crowder, Springfield.
T. N. Wilson, Riverton.
J. A. Agee, Riverton.
C. E. Groves, Mt. Carroll.
W. V. Lambe, NaperviUe. CLOSED.
At 11:30 o'clock .<\. M., no further business appearing, the M. W. Grand ]Master proceeded to close the Grand Lodge in Ample Form.
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Grand Secretary \
[1891.]
Grand Lodge of Illinois.
125
Districts and District Deputy Grand ]V[asters.
FOR THE YEARS 1S91-2.
POSTOFFICE ADDRESS.
COUNTIES COMPOSING DISTRICT.
29 30
W.K.Forsyth
Daniel J. Avery ,
162 22d St., Chicago
Home Ins. Building, Chicago.
Joseph H. Dixon 1240 Chestnut St., Chicago..
W.S. Hewins Elgin, Kane Co
Jacob Krohn Freeport, Stephenson county.
E. T. E. Becker Mt. Carroll, Carroll county....
John D. Crabtree Di.\on, Lee county
E. Sanford Morris, Grundy county
Ebenezer Barber iMarseiiles, LaSalle county ....
Marshall U. Trimble Princeton, Bureau county
Frank G. Welton ICambridge, Henry County....
Charles B. Griffith Rushville, Schuyler Co
A. B. Holliday Monmouth, Warren Co
C. F. Hitchcock Peoria, Peoria county
Samuel J. Le Fevcre Gibson City, Ford county
F. S. Hatch Kankakee, Kankakee county.
F. E. Eubeling Urbana, Champaign county...
Chas. F. Tenney jBement, Piatt county
R. D. Lawrence ISpringfield, Sangamon county.
Albert P. Grout Winchester. Scott county
W. O. Butler ' "
Alex. H. Bell
W. T. Vandeveer.. Chas. H. Martin...
LaHarpe, Hancock county. Carlinville, Macoupin Co
Taylorville, Christian county... Lawrenceville, Lawrence Co...
W. B. Wright Effingham, Effingham Co
H. T. Burnap Upper Alton, Madison Co
James Douglas Chester, Randolph county
Walter Watson iMt. Vernon, JeflFerson county..
Shawneetown, Galatin county..
Vienna, Johnson county
W.J. Elwell
Pleasant T. Chapman.
" South Chicago," and all that part of Cook county lying south of the Chicago River, and east of the Illinois and Michigan Canal.
All that part of West Chicago and the county of Cook lying south of the " Fulton Branch " of the Chi- cago & Northwestern R. R., and 2vest of the Illinois & Michigan Canal.
All that part of the city of Chicago and the county of Cook lying north of the Fulton Branch of the Chi- cago iSc Northwestern R. R.
Kane, McHenry and Lake.
Boone, Winnebago and Stephenson.
JoDaviess, Carroll and Whiteside.
Ogle, Lee and DeKalb.
Kendall, DuPage, Will and Grundy
LaSalle and Livingstone.
Bureau, Putnam, Marshall and Stark.
Henry, Rock Island and Mercer.
McDonough, Fulton and Schuyler.
Knox, Warren and Henderson.
Peoria, Woodford and Tazewell.
McLean, DeWitt and Ford.
Kankakee, Iroquois and Vermilion.
Champaign, Douglas, Edgar and Coles.
Piatt, Moultrie, Macon and Logan.
Mason, Menard, Sangamon and Cass.
Brown, Morgan, Scott and Pike.
Adams and Hancock.
Calhoun, Greene, Jersey and Ma- coupin.
Montgomery, Christian and Shelby
Cumberland, Clark, Crawford, Jas- per, Richland and Lawrence.
Clay, Effingham, Fayette and Ma- rion.
Bond, Clinton and Madison.
St. Clair, Monroe and Randolph.
Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Perry, Jackson and Williamson.
Wayne, Edwards, Wabash, White, Hamilton, Saline and Gallatin.
Hardin, Pope, Massac, Johnson, Union, Pulaski and Alexander.
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REPRESENTATIVES
OF THE GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS NEAR OTHER GRAND LODGES.
GRAND LODGE.
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
British Columbia
California
Canada
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
District of Columbia
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Indiana
Indian Territory
Iowa
Ireland
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Manitoba
Maine
Maryland
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Ne^v Brunswick
New Hampshire
New Mexico
New Jersey
New York
Nevada
North Carolina
North Dakota
Nova Scotia
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Prince Edward Island
Quebec
Rhode Island
Scotland. .
South Australia
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Grand National Mother Lodge of the
Three Globes, Berlin, Prussia
United Grand Lodge of Victoria
United Grand Lodge of South Wales
Kepresentative.
John Gideon Harris. . Charles Atwood Fisk
Logan H. Root
W. W. Northcott
RESIDENCE.
Montgomery. Globe.
San Francisco. Hamilton, Ont. Central.
David McLellan
Henry M.Teller
John A. Mix
Samuel W. Kiivington
John H . Olcott Washington.
D. C. Dawkins Jacksonville.
James Whitehead Warrinton.
Thomas C. Maupin
Daniel McDonald Plymouth.
J. S. Murrow... ..I Atoka.
J. C. Dunlavv ' Sioux City.
William F. Black i
Matthew M. Miller ;
Edward B. Jones Paducah.
Frank P. Stubble
John Leslie I Winnipeg.
Joseph A. Locke 1 Portland.
John A. Berry . . .
Henry Chamberlain | Three Oaks.
Alcinous Y. Davidson ! Minneapolis.
Frederic Speed i Vicksburg,
St. Louis.
Manchester. Santa Fe. Elizabeth. New York.
Halifax.
Martin Collins.
Howard B. Wiley
Harry P. Deuel
J. Henry Leonard
George E. Thompson .. .
Henry L. Waldo
Robert M. Moore
\Vm J. McDonald
Charles E. Mack
Hezckiah A. Gudger
Leonard A. Rose
Theodore A Cossman...
J. W Iredell i Cincinnati.
W. T. Wright I Union.
William F. Slingluff
Henry M. Aitkin Charlottetown.
Alexander Chisholm ' Montreal.
Newton D. Arnold
Colonel Patrick Stirling Kippenross.
John Trail McLaren
John F. Ficken. . .
Oscar S. Gifford Canton.
A V.Warr.... Rossville.
B. R. Aberiiethy
James Lowe . Salt Lake City.
DelosM. Bicon
Beverly R. VVellford, Jr Richmond.
Levi Ankency
George E. Showers
John W Laflin Milwaukee.
William Daley
Adolph Bohme
Edward Edwards
Rev. W. S Frackclton.
Berlin.
1891.]
Grand Lodge of Illinois.
129
REPRESENTATIVES
OF OTHER GRAND LODGES NEAR THE GRAND LODGE OF ILLINOIS.
GRAND LODGE.
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
British Columbia
California
Canada
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
District of Columbia
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Indiana
Indian Territory
Iowa
Ireland
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Manitoba
Maryland
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
New Brunswick
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Me.vico
New York
Nevada
North Carolina
Nova Scotia
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Prince Edward Island
Quebec
Rhode Island
Scotland
South Carolina
South Australia
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas.:
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Grand National Mother Lodge of the
Three Globes, Berlin, Prussia
United Grand Lodge of South Wales United Grand Lodge of Victoria
REPRESENTATIVE.
James A. Hawley
Monroe C. Crawford
Joseph H. Dixon
Loyal L. Munn
John McLaren
Wiley M. Egan
James A. Hawley.... DeWitt C. Cregier...
John O'Neill
DeWitt C. Cregier...
John C. Smith ,
W. J. A. DeLancey.
Philip Maas
DeWitt C. Cregier..., Charles H. Patton....
John C. Smith
Wiley M. Egan
George M. JVloulton..
John P. Norvell
Leroy A. Goddard.... Charles H. Brenan....
Jacob Krohn ,
M. B. lott
DeWitt C. Cregier...
Eugene L. Stoker
DeWitt C. Cregier...
Jerome R. Gorin
A. B. Ashley
John M. Palmer
Malachi Maynard
Henry E. Hamilton.
W. B. Grimes
Henry E. Hamilton- Walter A. Stevens...
John C. Smith
Edward C. Pace
L. B. Dixon
S. S. Chance
Frank W. HaviU
John M. Pearson
E. T. E. Becker
DeWitt C. Cregier...
James A. Hawley
Joseph Robbins
Charles H. Patton... William L. Milligan . Robert L. McKinlay, Haswell C. |Clarke...,
Edward Cook
Owen Scott
John L. McCuUough Daniel M. Browning.
John R. Thomas
Vincent L. Hurlbut..
Gil. W. Barnard
John C. Bagby
John M. Niglas
Wm. Jenkins
Wm. Jenkins
RESIDENCE.
Di.xon.
Jonesboro.
Chicago.
Freeport.
Chicago.
Chicago.
Dixon.
Chicago.
Chicago.
Chicago.
Chicago.
Centralia.
Chicago .
Chicago.
Mt. Vernon.
Chicago.
Chicago.
Chicago.
Danville.
Mt Carmel.
Chicago.
Freeport.
Evanston.
Chicago.
Centralia.
Chicago.
Decatur.
LaGrange.
Springfield.
Apple River.
Chicago.
Pittsfield.
Chicago.
Chicago.
Chicago.
Ashley.
Chicago.
Salem .
Mt. Carmel.
Godfrey.
Mt. Carroll.
Chicago.
Dixon.
Quincy.
Mt. Vernon.
Ottawa.
Paris.
Kankakee.
Chicago.
Bloomington.
Olney.
Benton.
Metropolis.
Chicago.
Chicago.
Rushville.
Peoria.
Mendota.
Mendota.
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Proceedings of the
[Oct. 8th,.
LIST OF GRAND LODGES
Recognized by the Grand Lodge of Illinois, together with names and ad- dresses of Grand Secretaries.
GRAND LODGE.
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
British Columbia
California
Canada
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
District of Columbia
England
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Indian Territory
Iowa
Ireland
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Manitoba
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Brunswick
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Nova Scotia
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Prince Edward Island
Quebec
Rhode Island
Scotland
South Australia
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
United Grand Lodge of Victoria
United Grand Lodge of New South
Wales
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Grand National Mother Lodge of the
Three Globes, Berlin. Prussia
GRAND SECRETARY.
Myles J. Greene
George J. Roskruge
Fay Hempstead
W. J. Quinlan
George Johnson
J. J. Mason
Ed. C. Parmalee
Joseph K. Wheeler
William S. Hayes
VVilliam R. Singleton
Colonel Shadwell H. Gierke
DeWitt C. Dawkins
A. M. Wolehin
James H. Wickersham
Loyal L. Munn
William H. Smythe
J. S. Murrow
Theodore S. Parvin
Archibald St. George, Dep. G. Sec
John H. Brown
H. B. Grant
Richard Lambert
Stephen Berry
William G. Scott
Jacob H. Medairy
Sereno D. Nickerson
William P. Innes
Thomas Montgomery
J. L. Power
John D. Vincil
Cornelius Hedges
William R. Bowen
C. N. Noteware
EdwinJ. Wetmore
George P. Cleaves
Thos. H. R. Redway
A. A. Keen
Edward M. L. Ehlers
Donald W. Bain
Thomas J, \S ilder
William Ross
J. H. Bromwell
S. F. Chadwick
Michael Nisbet
B. Wilson Higgs ...
John H. Isaacson
Edwin Baker
D. Murray Lyon
J. H. Cunningham
Charles Inglesby
Chas. T. McCoy
John Frizzell
William F. Swain
-Christopher Diehl
T. H. Lempnere
Arthur H. Bray
Warren G. Reynolds
William B. Isaacs
Thomas M. Reed
Geo. W. Atkinson
John W. Laflin
W. L. Kuykendall
O. Bruchner
Montgomery.
Tucson.
Little Rock.
Victoria.
San Francisco.
Hamilton, Ont.
Denver.
Hartford.
Wilmington.
Washington.
London.
Jacksonville.
Macon.
Boise City.
Freeport.
Indianapolis.
Atoka, C. N.
Cedar Rapids.
Dublin.
Kansas City.
Louisville.
New Orleans.
Portland.
Winnipeg.
Baltimore.
Boston.
Grand Rapids.
St. Paul.
Jackson.
St. Louis.
Helena.
Omaha.
Carson.
St. John
Concord.
Trenton.
East Las Vegas.
New York.
Raleigh.
Casselton.
Halifax.
Cincinnati.
Salem.
Philadelphia.
Charlottetown.
Montreal.
Providence.
Edinburg.
Adelaide.
Charleston.
Aberdeen.
Nashville.
Houston.
Salt Lake City.
Melbourne.
Sidney.
Burlington.
Richmond.
Olympia.
Wheeling.
Milwaukee.
Cheyenne.
Beriin.
1891.] Grand Lodge of Illinois. 131
p*errT\ar\er\t jMembers.
M. W. Bro. Harrison Dills, P. G. M., Bodley, No. i.
M. W. Bro. Jerome R. Gorin, P. G. M., Macon, No. 8.
M. W. Bro. DeWitt C. Cregier, P. G. M., Blaney, No. 27 r.
M. W. Bro. James A. Hawley, P. G. M., Friendship, No. 7.
M. W. Bro. Joseph Robbins, P. G. M., Quincy, No. 296.
M. W. Bro. W. H. Scott, P. G. M., Metropolis, No. 91.
M. W. Bro. Daniel M. Browning, P. G. M., Benton, No. 64.
M. W. Bro. John R. Thomas, P. G. M., Metropolis, No. 91.
M. W. Bro. John C. Smith, P. G. M., Miners, No. 273.
M. W. Bro. John M. Pearson, P G. M., Piasa, No. 27.
M. W. Bro. Monroe C. Crawford, G. M., Jonesboro, No. iii.
R. W. Bro. Edward R. Roe, P. D. G. M., Wade-Barney, No. 512'
R. W. Bro. Ben. L. Wiley, P. D. G. M., Makanda, No. 434.
R. W. Bro. John C. Baker, P. D. G. M., Waukegan, No. 78.
R. W. Bro. Charles Fisher, P. D. G. M., Central, No. 71.
R. W. Bro. W. J. A. DeLancey, P. D. G. M., Centralia, No. 201.
R. W. Bro. Leroy A. Goddard, I). G. M., Fellowship, No. 89.
R. W. Bro. Isaac R. Diller, P. S. G. W , Central, No. 71.
R. W. Bro. Asa W. Blakesley, P. S. G. W., Bodley, No. i.
R. W. Bro. Edwin F. Bahcock, P. S. G. W., Summerfield, No. 342,
R. W. Bro. Henry E. Hamihon, P. S. G. W., -Lincoln Park, No. 61 1.
R. W. Bro. Henry C. Cleaveland, P. S. G. W., Trio, No. 57.
R. W. Bro. Owen Scott, S. G. W., Wade- Barney. No. 512.
R. W. Bro. Carlton Drake, P. J. G. W., Landmark, No. 422.
R. W. Bro. William H. Turner, P. J. G. W., Oriental, No. ^t,-
R. W. Bro. Edward Co.-k, J. G. W., Blanty, No. 271.
132 Exchanges.
The Grand Secretary desires to thank the editors of the following magarines and papers for kindly supplying his office with their publications during the past year, in exchange for our proceedings. We shall be happy to exchange with all Masonic publications, and papers having a Masonic department :
Voice of Masonry — 182 South Clark Street, Chicago.
Masonic Constellation — St. Louis, Mo.
Masonic Advocate — Indianapolis, Ind.
The Illinois Freemason — Bloomington, 111.
Masonic Chronicle — Columbus, Ohio.
Masonic Token — Portland, Maine.
Masonic World — Boston, Mass.
Masonic Truth — Boston, Mass.
Masonic Home Journal — Louisville, Ky.
The Freemason — Sidney, New South Wales.
Victoria Freemason — Melbourne, Australia.
Masonic Tidings — Milwaukee, Wis.
Freemason's Journal — New York City.
The Master Mason — 40 Eastman Avenue, Minneapolis, Minn.
The Trestle Board — 408 California street, San Francisco, Cal.
The Royal Craftsman, Plainfield, N. J.
The South Australian Freemason — Adelaide. :
Masonic Journal — Portland, Me.
The Tyler — Detroit, Mich.
Nation.^l Weekly— Chicago.
Times — Chicago.
The Rough Ashlar — Richmond, Va.
Australian Keystone — Melbimrne.
Herald of Masonry — Kansas City, Mo.
^Masonic Chronicle — New York.
TO THE MEMORY OF
HOSMER ALLEN JOHNSON,
Past Grand Orator, and Past Grand Commander of Grand Commandery K. T., of Illinois
Made a Mason in Oriental Lodge, No. 33. Chicago,'in 1853. Was Grand Orator o Grand Lodge of Illinois in
Born at'Wales, Erie County, N. Y., Oct. 6, 1822. Died at Ctiicago, Feb. 26, 1891.
JOHN DALLAS HAMILTON
Past Senior Grand Deacon, and Past Grand High Priest of the Grand Chapter of Illinois.
Was made a Mason in Hancock Lodge, No. 20, at Carth- age, Illinois.
Born at Johnstown, N. Y., April 30, 1833. Died at Chester. Illinois, Aug. 13, 1891.
ANDREW JACKSON KDYKENDALL,
Past Senior Grand Wakden, Chakter Member of Vienna Lodge, No. 150.
BoKN March 3, 1815. Died at Vienna, 111., May 11, 1891.
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Patriotic CrnziiN, a True Friend, and AN Upright Mason.
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TO THE MEMORY OF
flliBEl^T PIKE,
Born at Newbury port. Mass., December 29, 1 8 Died at Washington, D. C, April 2, 1891, aged 81 years, 3 months and 3 days.
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Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Maine FOR Thirtv-Five Years.
Born at New Durham, N. H , Sept, 23, 1801. Died at Portland, Maine, Sept. 20, 1891.
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE.
Report of the Committee or\ Masoi^ic Co^^espor^der^ce.
To the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Illinois Free and Accepted Masons :
In the following pages we have reviewed the proceedings of fifty-two American grand lodges (one of them for two years), and one of the Austra- lian grand lodges. We have to lament the absence of British Columbia, New- Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Scotland, and all the Australian grand lodges but Victoria. Maine and Oregon for i8gi came to hand when our re- view was nearly completed, but we could not take them up without unduly swelling our report.
The typographical improvement of the Illinois report for 1890 over its predecessors has been commended by the reviewers, who in former years had been compelled at ruinous cost to the eyes to wade through the small type in which extracted matter was formerly put up.
In a measure the reader will find the perennial questions cropping out in these pages, the questions which every year some grand master or committee has to take up for the enlightenment of the new generation of masters and wardens which in part composes the various grand lodges with every recur- ring annual session. Yet these ever recurring questions often put on new phases or occur in new relations, so that even they are scarcely ever wholly stale. If it w^ere only the new generation who ask the questions we might look for a more speedy general consensus of opinion upon most of them; but there is abundant evidence furnished by a survey of the field in any year that many who answer them are also new in the sense that they are unfa- miliar with what has gone before. Perhaps the most striking illustration of
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this fact found in the year's work just passed under review is the action of several grand lodges respecting the application of new grand lodges for recognition. A few years since when the instances of Canada, Quebec, West Virginia, New Mexico and Dakota brought the question home to our very doors, there was an almost unanimous consensus of opinion as to the principles which should govern. The discussion which cleared up the men- tal fog and brought about such a near approach to ananimity has scarcely ceased, but for the last few years it has had for many only the interest of an abstract question because not pointed by a close-at-home concrete example. This languid interest serves in a measure to account for, but in no degree to justify the action of several grand lodges in adopting reports made to them on the question of recognizing some of the new grand lodges of Australasia, notably the Grand Lodge of New Zealand. The authors of these reports, not satisfied with assigning the sufficient reason for postponing recognition that they were without definite information as to the status of the new body, have gone on to allege that the parent grand lodges had not consented to its formation, or to volunteer the information that the new grand lodge would not be recognized until it had the allegiance of all the lodges in the colony, or, as in one instance, that recognition waited upon the siibmission to the body thus laying down the law, of what neither of the bodies named is ad- dicted to giving — " a formal notification by the grand lodges of England, Scotland and Ireland that consent had been given for the organization of a new grand lodge, imder the style and title of the ' Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of New Zealand.' "
We have recently seen the statement that when the British evacuated New York there was left upon the altar in the lodge-room in that city an in- strument from the Grand Lodge of England (Atholl) aiithorizing the New York lodges to organize an independent grand lodge. If there is anything in this beyond the fact — if indeed there is any historical value to the state- ment— that such a paper might have been left by a provincial grand master, it is the only instance we have ever heard of where any " Grand Lodge of England" has ever given its preliminary consent to the formation of an in- dependent grand lodge by lodges it had chartered, and we know of no in- stance in which it is claimed that such consent was given by the grand lodges of Scotland and Ireland. We run no risk in saying that no American grand lodge which has placed itself in this attitude towards the Grand Lodge of New Zealand can plead its own history in justification.
Of the proposition that the question of forming a new grand lodge in territory Masonically unoccupied must wait the pleasure of a single lodge when perhaps a hundred other lodges are ready to organize, it is enough to say that it is simply a proposition to establish the rule of the minority and has nothing to commend it as either more just or more sensible than to insist that any one of twentj', fifty, or a hundred Masons resident in a neighborhood
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destitute of lodge privileges, ought to be recognized as having the right to stop by his veto the formation of a new lodge whose creation is desired by the other forty-nine. In the domain of genuine Masonry lodges like individ- ual Masons should meet upon the level. Minority rule, whether oligarchical or imperial, should be relegated wholly to the Holy Empire.
Another matter attracting our attention in the year's proceedings is the subject of electioneering for office in lodge and grand lodge. It is not rare to find the matter cropping out in the address of some one grand master in any year, but it is rare to find it cropping out in sevei'al during the same year as now happens, and in some unwonted places. If the evil has not shown itself everywhere to an extent which seemed to demand the interference or invite the animadversions of grand masters, no mistake can be made in call- ing general attention to it, because Masons as a rule are active men who bear their part in all the affairs which concern the welfare of a self-govern- ing people, and hence Masonry is in danger of being modified — diluted, so to speak — by the reflected influences of other activities around it, creeping in insensibly through those who have a hand in both, until methods gain a foot- hold which, however pi'oper they may be and inseparable as some of them are from the movements by which large masses of men find a consensus of opmion, endanger the harmony which is the strength and support of our Fraternity. It is no sin to be ambitious of the honors of Masonry, but under certain circumstances what ought to be honors cease to be such. As one grand master forcibly puts it in these pages — substantially, for we do not quote his words — it is an honor to be selected by one's brethren for a high position in the lodge or gi:and lodge; it is a matter of quite another color when a brother selects the place he wants and then makes a campaign f(jr it in which all the arts and methods of the politician are employed. The only electioneering that is proper in a Masonic body is such a discharge of what- ever duty falls to a brother as will demonstrate that he has prepared him- self to perform creditably whatever duty may fall to him. If he possesses peculiar fitness for any place he will be under no necessity of making a can- vass either of the jurisdiction oi his lodge or of his grand jurisdiction in or- der that the brethren may find it out. Although it is unquestionably true that the Ancient Charges, in sayijig that Masonry is firmly resolved against all politics as what never yet conduced to the welfare of the lodge, and never will, refeiTed to the politics which divide parties in the state, yet it is equally true of Masonic politics. The lodge or grand lodge that is infected with this evil is to just that extent dislocated from its normal relations to the Frater- nity. It is not merely the prescription of law, but the wisdom of the ages which the old charges utter when they say that all preferment is grounded upon real worth and personal merit only, and whatever tends to change this and to ground preferment upon the adventitious aids which confer notoriety only, is a departure from the grand design. So general has been the agree- ment upon this subject that we have never encountered a dissenting voice
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among Masonic writers, no contention except to see who shoiild enforce most aptly the axiomatic doctrine that "Electioneering for office is un- Masonic," and that it is a duty which every Masonic body owes to itself and to the Fraternity to see that whoever resorts to it should find himself at the foot of the poll.
The death roll for the year will be seen to be large and to include many well-known names. In addition to those noted in the proceedmgs reviewed, death has taken several Masons of national if not world-wide reputation while our review has been passing through the press, or since the proceed- ings under review were issued. Of these the most noted and eminent are Alexander G. Abell, for thirty-five years grand secretary of Calitornia ; the venerable William Hacker, of Indiana, past grand master, whose active service in his grand lodge covered a period of forty-six years; and Albert Pike, of whom Bro. R. F. Gould in his admirable memoir, prepared for the Lodge Ouator Coronati, tersely and truly says: "Albert Pike was a scholar, an orator, a writer of the first rank, and a poet."
His death, although it occurred in his eightieth year, must be counted untimely, because as the sovereign grand commander ad vitem of the Sup- reme Council 33rd degree of the southern jurisdiction of the United States, as well as by his natural force of character, he wielded an influence in cer- tain directions which no successor can equal, and he died just when that in- fluence was most needed. He saw in advance of most if not all of his con- temporaries and associates in the so-called Scottish Rite, that the inevitable debate which must follow the investigations of modern Masonic historical students — the closing of the period when the history of Masonry was written chiefly from the imagination — must as inevitably go down to the funda- mentals of Masonic poHty, and that the safety of the system of which he was the head, demanded that collision with Ancient Craft Masonry must be averted. Acknowledging, unreservedly, that Ancient Craft or Free and Accepted Masonry was the first of all systems claiming to be Masonry, he could not but see that whoever acknowledged the constraining power of the Charges of a Freemason was estopped from admitting that something essen- tially different in structure and principles -of government from that which, w^hen it was defined and bounded by those irrevocable charges occupied the whole ground, could also be Masonry. Accordingly he disclaimed what his supreme council — the mother supreme council of the world — had claimed for seventy-six years, the possession of a right, simply held in abeyance, to con- fer the degi-ees of Free and Accepted Masonry; and sought to get the so- called grand lodges of Latin countries, which had been organized by lodges claiming to confer the degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason by virtue of the authority he now disclaimed, divorced from their parent supreme councils and grand orients. This he sought in the hope of averting a collision between the supreme council system and Free and
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Accepted Masonry in countries where the former is superimposed uj^on the latter, as in the United States, and where, therefore, the latter has the power to destroy it by simply exercising its authority over its own members; and to secure the recognition for the grand lodges thus divorced from the parent High Rite bodies, which should heal the disabilities born of that dissent from the original plan of Masonry which the landmarks forbid.
It was because Bro. Pike saw further and clearer than many of his asso- ciates and subordinates that he advised against invoking the intervention of grand lodges to assist in crushing out the Cerneau faction who were claiming that through their founder, Joseph Cerneau, they and not the present reign- ing dynasties were the genuine and legitimate royal family of the Holy Empire. If his counsels had been heeded we should now see, so far as human judgment can discern, a reign of universal peace and harmony throughout all our cis-Atlantic jurisdictions. As it is the only_^exceptions to their beneficent reign in this country is found in those jurisdictions where grand lodges under one specious plea or another have been induced to em- broil themselves in the factional warfare of bodies foreign to the Masonry which the grand lodge administers and governs, and having sown the wind are now reaping the whirlwind of discord and estrangement.
We tender our grateful acknowledgments to our brother reviewers and fraternally reciprocate their good wishes.
JOSEPH ROBBINS,
Committee. OuiNCY, III., Sept. 24, 1891.
1T^1>'B X.
Grand Lodge. Page
Alabama 9
Arizona 262
Arkansas 12
California 15
Canada 20
Colorado 23
Connecticut 263
Delaware 30
District of Columbia 32
Florida 36
Georgia 41
Idaho 45
Indiana 47
Indian Territory 51
Iowa 265
Kansas 56
Kentucky 60
Louisiana 70
Maine 78
Manitoba 289
Maryland 93
Massachusetts 290
Michigan 101
Minnesota 107
Mississippi, 1890 114
Mississippi, pSgr vii9
Missouri 126
Montana 135
Nebraska 138
Nevada 147
New Hampshire 148
New Jersey 155
New Mexico 161
New York 163
North Carolina 171
North Dakota 173
Nova Scotia 176
Ohio 180
Oregon 194
Pennsylvania 200
Quebec 212
Rhode Island 218
South Carolina 222
South Dakota 227
Tennessee 292
Texas 232
Utah 239
Vermont 241
Victoria 244
Virginia 245
Washington 248
West Virginia 252
Wisconsin 257
Wyoming 260
REPORT
CorTMTxittee oia Masor\ic Go^^espor^dep.ce.
ALABAMA, 1890.
70TH Annual. Montgomery. Dec. i, 1S90.
John Gideon Harris, past grand master, the representative of Illinois, was present.
The grand master (Henry Hart Broavn) warns the Craft that they need to bestir themselves if they are to keep Masonry fully abreast with the rapid growth and material prosperity of their vState. Discounting, however, what he feels that he must for lack of knowledge of and interest in the work, due to an inefficient system of lecturing and instruction, and lack of close union, brotherly love, and charity in its narrower sense which flows from a failure to properly understand and appreciate the objects and teachings of Masonry, he still thinks the outlook for the Fraternity is one of increased encourage- ment.
He announced the death of Past Grand Master George D. Norris, one of the oldest and brightest of eminent Alabama Masons.
The grand master sees the injustice of permitting the secret objection of a single member to stop the advancement of a brother who has received one or more degrees, and forcibly urges the considerations which induced Illinois
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to first deny the right of summary objection after election, when appHed to advancement, and later to make that denial fully operative by repealing the requirement of a ballot for each degree, and returning to the ancient practice of one ballot for the three. The grand master, however, weakens his argu- ment by trying to make it cover also petitioners for aiTiliation. The cases are not parallel. The rejection of a Master Mason's petition for affiliation leaves him with all his Masonic rights intact, while the denial of advance- ment robs the rights still nominally possessed by the subject of it of all prac- tical value, and if done by summary objection or secret ballot it does more than this — it places upon the brother the annonymous brand of a suspect and gives him no opportunity to free himself from suspicion. We agree with the grand master that such a law is at variance with common sense and common justice.
The action of the grand master in issuing a dispensation authorizing a lodge whose charter had been burned to continue work until the meeting of the grand lodge, indicates that he does not concur m the Illinois view that the destruction of the instrument called the charter does not affect the status of a lodge. ,
Of the seventeen decisions reported by him we copy the following :
ist. A profane has the right to join the lodge of his choice, though re- siding in the jurisdiction of another. A lodge in whose jurisdiction a peti- tioner for initiation in another lodge resides, when asked the questions in such cases required by the constitution of the grand lodge, should answer them, and if the lodge in whose jurisdiction the petitioner resides knows of no "just and sufficient reason why he ought not to be made a Mason," it has no right to object to the reception of the candidate by the other lodge, nor is it entitled to the fees in such cases unless the lodge petitioned acts upon the application and confers the degrees without asking the questions as required by the constitution.
15th. An Entered Apprentice or a Fellow Craft who suffers the loss of a leg, foot, arm or hand, or who in any way becomes physically disqualified to perform the work in the higher degrees or degree, is ineligible to advance- ment.
1 6th. A visitor in a subordinate lodge has no right to demand to see the charter of the lodge before submitting to an examination, though, as a mat- ter of precaution, it should not be considered out of place for a visiting brother to request that he see the charter, and when such request is made it is proper and right that it should be granted.
1 7th. When a lodge has been opened up from E. A. to M. M. , the clos- ing of the M. M. lodge does not close the F. C. and E. A. lodges, but each lodge must be closed separately.
No. I discloses the fact that the jurisdiction of Alabama lodges over pro- fanes is practically concurrent throughout the whole State. We are glad to say that Illinois has formally dissented from the doctrine of No. 15 upon the express ground that the landmark respecting physical qualifications can re-
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fer only to making, not to advancement, because at the time when it was agreed to there was no ceremony but making, no degrees. We should as soon think of expelling a ^Master Mason for the misfortune of losing a hand or foot as of denying advancement for that reason. The jurisprudence com- mittee took a year to think of No. i6, possibly because they wanted to find out which side of the question the grand master was on. No. 17 makes one wonder whether dealing with certain phases of Masonry does not dwarf one's sense of proportion. The question whether when a lodge has been success- ively opened on the different degrees until the third is reached, there is or is not a couple of abstract lodges floating about in the circumambient atmos- phere, liable to be invaded by profane spooks unless guarded meanwhile by ghostly tilers, waiting to be re-endowed with concrete forms and then to be gravely closed lest they be ravaged by the cowan and the eavesdropper, may be one of vast importance in the limbo of ritualistic metaphysics, but is hardly one to be dignified with a place in the practical domain of jurispru- dence. Apart from the educational value of frequent exemplification of the method of opening and closing in the several degrees, there is nothing p-acti- cal in this question of using a step-ladder to get into or out of a lodge of any given degree, and the whole matter should be left to the discretion of the master where it properly belongs, and disposed of by him a;cording to the exigencies of his work.
The grand lodge restored the charters of ten lodges, forfeited at differ- ent times for non-payment of dues; recognized the Grand Lodge of Tasma- nia on the strength of a circular which the committee (correspondence) re- ported was " without signature or attestation of seal"; chartered eighteen new lodges, continued six dispensations and granted one ; ordered the com- pilation and publication of a new Masonic code ; referred for consideration a. resolution looking to the establishment of a widows' and orphans' home, and received a donation of Masonic books from Mrs. Daniel Savre, belonging to her husband, the deceased grand secretary.
The following is from the report of the committee on appeals :
The appeal of G. W. Bogan from the decision of Cedar Bluff Lodge, No. 4S6, has, under the constitution and edicts of the grand lodge, no status through the committee on appeals in this grand body, since the appellant is a noil affiliated Mason.
The committee make no suggestion for mending a law which confessedly gives a man sufficient Masonic status to subject him to discipline, and not enough to insure that such discipline shall be either lawfully or equitably administered.
As usual the report on correspondence (pp. 122) is the work of Past Grand Master Palmer J. Pillans, who includes therein a notice of our semi- centennial communication. His well-considered and condensed review shows.
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that he had gone over the proceedings, although he does fall into the error of staling that Illinois had enacted the law recently adopted in some jurisdic- tions permitting the consolidation of two lodges if not more than six nega- tive votes against the proposition appeared in either lodge. The law was proposed, but the grand lodge was not ready to depart from the safe ground which requires a clear ballot to elect to membership b}- affiliation, ground which the jurisdictions that have adopted the plan of wholesale-affiliation- made-easy, still maintain where the business is earned on only at retail.
Bro. PiLLANS does not take kindh', we are glad to note, to the California idea that suicides should not receive j\Iasonic burial, and thinks that the bur- ial of non-affiliates may be wisely left to the discretion of the lodge ; sustains the view of Grand Master Dingmax, of the District of Columbia, that a man who by reason of being under government orders and obliged to go from place to place is unable to obtain a Masonic residence in any particular sec- tion, is anybody's material ; is inclined to doubt the universal application of the doctrine that charges against a brother do not affect his eligibility to office ; says the scheme of requiring a brother to be an applicant for member- ship m some other lodge before his lodge was permitted to dimit him, was tried in Alabama some years since and abandoned as unsatisfactory-; dis- closes the fact that in Alabama a member under suspension for non-payment of dues is required as a condition of reinstatement to pay not only for the time he was enjoying an equivalent for his money in lodge privileges, but also for the time when he was suspended from their enjoyment; and with his practiced hand manages to crowd a great deal of interesting matter into the comparatively brief limits of his report.
ARKANSAS, 1890.
51ST Annu.\l. Little Rock. Nov. i8, 1890.
The journal of proceedings reports Illinois as represented by Bro. D. D. Leach, notwithstanding the proceedings of the preceding year gave an ac- count of the formal reception of Past Grand Master Logan H. Roots as his successor. As the latter was also present there can be little doubt that Illi- nois was represented.
The grand master (J. \V. Sorrels) says that Masonry has largely shared in the general prosperity of the State, as shown by the general harmony that
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has existed, and the quiet but steady increase in the amount, and the higher character of the work done. He announced the death of George H. Meade, grand treasurer from 1877 until his decease.
Six decisions were reported, of which we copy four:
1. A Mason who becomes intoxicated every week or two is an habitual drunkard.
2. Petitioners for dispensation for a new lodge must be affiliated Master Masons of this jurisdiction.
3. A Mason who seduces the daughter of a non-affiliated Mason is guilty of a violation of his master's obligation, for which he should be tried and punished.
5. A dimit of itself is no evidence that its possessor is a Mason, and an applicant for affiliation should present satisfactory evidence that he is a Master Mason before he is received by the lodge.
The committee on law and usage with the concurrence of the grand lodge, say, after approving all but Nos. i and 5 without qualification :
That as to No. i, supposing that the grand master means thereby that mtoxication " every week or two" has become so continuous and permanent as to become a disposition or condition of the mind and custom of the of- fender, we approve the same. As to No. 5, your committee are of opinion that a dimit of itself is evidence that some one bearing the name therein, was at the time of the date of the dimit, a Master Mason in good standing, and a petition accompanied by such dimit should be received by any lodge to which it is presented, and referred to a committee ; but such committee should not report favorably upon such petition until they have examined the applicant, and proved him to be a Master Mason in due form, and to be the person named in the dimit and otherwise worthy, and no one should rec- ommend such a petition until satisfied of like facts.
In both matters the committee seems to us to be right. Theirs is the view we have always taken as to the propriety of receiving petitions for affiliation imder the circumstances named, particularly as that course desig- nates somebody who has authority to receive the ' ' satisfactory evidence that he is a Master Mason," as well as the evidence of his present good stand- ing. We presume No. 2 rests on a local regulation, as it certainly does not rest on general law, the doctrine never having been heard of until within a few years. There had been no whisper of it when in one of our reports — we cannot recall which, and we have not time to look up the date, we pre- dicted as the climax of absurdity, but as likely to sprout from the decisions then made in order to force unaffiliated Masons into the lodges, this Califor- nia-Arkansas doctrine which bars them out. It is just such decisions as this that makes it possible that such improbable questions should be asked as was properly answered by No. 3.
The sixth decision to the effect that it is imj^roper to confer the degrees on Sunday is in accord with Illinois law which prohibits it by express enact-
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ment. The grand master reaches this conclusion by a lengthy argument which gains no strength by being based, as it is in part, on the theory of a connection between Freemasonry and the operative masonry of Solomon's
temple.
WTien we make our dreamed-of \nsit to Little Rock and other Arkansas ■cities to renew our acquaintance with the good brethren of that jurisdiction whom we have met, and the many more whom we feel that we know with- out having been face to face, we shall look with interest for such signs as the "Masonic Mutual Soap-Making Company," the "]\Iasonic Bank," the ■" Masonic Fire and Marine Insurance Company," and the like. They all ought to materialize in due time, because their beneficent aims ^nll probablj'' insure for them the same liberal advertising given to another beneficent private business enterprise bj' Grand ]\Iaster Sorrels. He says he has been a member of a ^Masonic life insurance company known as the " Mutual Re- lief Association " for about five years, and his personal experience has im- pressed him favorably as to its management, and, regretting that not more than one in ten of the brethren belong to it, gives the following reasons for bringing the matter before the grand lodge :
The sentiment in favor of some kind of protection, relief, or insurance, is well nigh universal among the better informed classes of our people. But there has been so much inefficiency and dishonesty manifested in the man- agement of life insurance companies, often entailing heav}- losses and injury upon those who were not able to bear them, that while confidence may exist in the principles of assurance, there is much doubt existing as to which is the honest, which the well managed, and therefore the safe companj- in which to insure. I have frequently been asked as to my private opinion con- cerning the safety and cheapness of the' "Mutual Relief Association" of this State. My unfailing answer has been one of endorsement and com- mendation of its purposes, management, honesty and economy of adminis- tration.
There can be no question that the sentiment in favor of the use of soap as one of the chief instnimentalities in securing that cleanliness which is next to godliness, is also well nigh universal among the better informed, and par- ticularly among ISIasons, all of whom have found in their initiatory- exper- ience as such an object lesson strikingl}' enforcing its necessit}^ Nor can there be any doubt, considering the soap advertisements have seized upon the newspaper, the best of our periodical literature, dead walls and moun- tain cliffs, that there is either profligate mismanagement- of soap manufact- uring, or an enormous profit exacted, entailing heavy losses upon those not able to bear them, so that however great the general confidence in the \-ir- tues of soap, there will always be much doubt, unless grand masters and grand lodges come to the rescue as to which is the honest, well managed, and therefore saf£ concern of which to buy. "Wherefore we cannot doubt that the grand lodge will ultimately become an advertising bureau for the soap boilers as well as for the insurance men. Once well rid of the old fog^r
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notion that ]\Iasonry should not be used to boom business enterprises, and then everything "goes" that is beneficent and profitable.
The grand lodge chartered fifteen new lodges, and continued three under dispensation ; listened to an address by the grand orator, Rev. Bro. C. C. Hambv, Avho, although modestly confessing that he finds no "-positive or direct history " of Masonry beyond the building of King Solomon's temple, makes many suggestions as to the influence of the institution, just as weighty as if he had found equally positive and direct evidence that the builders of Noah's ark had proven their Masonic character by hewing square to the Hne of the Arkansas standard work ; disposed of a large amount of routine work, and declined to change its time of meeting to December. The grand lodge also wrestled at some length with the case of Bro. H-. who appealed from the action of his lodge in having taken him at his word and dimitting him during a row caused by his having objected to the admission of Bro. C, the master of a neighboring lodge, as a visitor. Two or more of the brethren having been improperly permitted to demand his reasons for objecting, it came out that Bro. H. did not consider the religious views of the worshipful visitor sound enough to warrant him in fellowshipping him. The visitor was excluded, but during the "fuss" Bro. H. either asked for his dimit or said something which was construed into a request for a dimit, and it was granted. The committee on appeals held the action of the lodge to be null and void and Bro. H. still a member, but this view was overruled by the grand lodge. The committee also recommended that the religious belief of Bro. C. be investigated \)j the grand master, but the grand lodge seems to have been impressed with the conviction that the intrusion of sectarian ques- tions had already done mischief enough and wisely declined to institute the inquisition.
There is no report on correspondence. The grand secretary acknowl- edges the receipt of the Illinois proceedings and also of the semi-centennial medal.
CALIFORNIA, 1890.
41ST Annual. San Francisco. Oct. 14, 1S90.
For the first time since his appointment in i860, the representative of Illinois, Alexander Gurdon Abell, was absent — absent indeed for the first time since his election to the office of grand secretary, in which he has con-
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tinuously served since 1856. His extreme illness had prevented him from preparing his annual report, but as prepared by his assistant, Bro. George Johnson, it reflects the entire business of the grand lodge in the same com- plete and lucid manner that long since won for Bro. Abell's reports univer- sal recognition as models in form and substance. It was submitted as his "thirty-fifth, and probably last, annual report," but the grand lodge empha- sized its hope that he might be mistaken by unanimously re-electing him to the office he has so long adorned, having at the threshold of its deliberations appointed a committee to convey to him its earnest sympathy in his afl^ic- tion, the assurance of their continued affectionate regard, and its hope for his restoration to health and to his accustomed place. It would have been entirely safe for the committee to have spoken these words of sympathy, love and hope in behalf of the Craft throughout the land. The grand master (Morris March Estee) in his brief but comprehensive and able address thus speaks of him :
He has done more to build up Masonry on the Pacific slope than any other man. He was here in the infancy of this grand body, and for thirty- five years he has stood at the helm of the Masonic ship and guided its course. One by one of his early and old time Masonic associates have crossed to the other shore until he and Past Grand Master Stevenson are left almost alone among the founders of Masonry in California. In Masonry the good that men do jive after them, so oi:r illustrious brother has not lived in vain. May his days be lengthened and may he continue to receive the merited rewards due the good and faithful servants in the order.
From the terse reflections of the gi-and master on Masonry, which he properly characterizes as a great civilizing agency, we copy a portion of the opening paragraph :
Its principles are eternal, because they are just. Neither the mutations of time, the progress of civilization, the change or march of empire has dimmed the lustre or cast a shadow over the light of Masonic truth. It has stood the test of time, the criticism of unthinking men, social upheavals, the shocks of war, and the allurements which wealth and station have cast about it. And under the influence of a wisdom coming from an ever living God, Masonry has lived on, the single and solitary example of a society organized by man for man, that did not die.
The grand master announced the death of Past Grand Master Ch.\rles Morton R.vdcliff, at the age of seventy-one, who was grand master in the year 1852-3.
No decisions are reported. A number of rulings had been made on qtiestions submitted, but as all were on lines of law already settled the grand master did not think it wise to burthen the proceedings with them. Recog- nizing the fact that flush times have passed he recommends the pending amendment reducing the annual dues to seventy-five cents, and then that they may live within their income that the grand secretary's salary be re- duced to $3,000 and the salary of his assistant to $1,500, the salary of the
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grand lecturer to $600, and that the allowance to the various boards of relief be scaled down ten per cent. He also recommends that the minimum fee for the degrees be reduced from fifty dollars to thirty, not to cheapen Masonry but to open the doors to a large class of good people whose incomes are small and who cannot well afford to pay fifty dollars or more for the degrees.- With a broad spirit and cogent reasoning he argues against the publication of a black-book by which in a far-reaching publication are paraded the names, of men who may have been rejected as the result of hasty or inconsiderate- action, or for an objection on the part of some member which in itself is. nothing against the social or moral standing of the applicant, holding that we have no right to blacken the fair fame of a man or render him less valu- able as a citizen for an object — the protection of the Fraternity — that can as well be attained some other way.
The report of the board of relief of San Francisco shows that this splen- did and systematic beneficence disbursed $12,239.25, of which $325.75 was to four cases from Illinois. Of the total of $3,502. 70 refunded by lodges and brethren, $90 was from Pleasant Hill Lodge, No. 565, of this jurisdiction. The Oakland board disbursed $321 to five cases from Illinois; the Sacra- mento board $40 to one case, and the San Diego board $296.25 to one. Re- funded from Illinois were $87.50 by Knoxville Lodge, No. 66, and $25 from Blaney, No. 271, to the Oakland board; $296.95 from Arcana, No. 717, ta the San Diego board. An aggregate of $7,450.00 was appropriated for the use of five boards in as many cities. The usual allowance of $1,200 was. made for the assistance of Past Grand Master Jonath.a.n Drake Stevenson, the first grand master of CaUfornia, and the customary $480 for the aid of his immediate successor, John Ashly Tutt. Bro. Stevenson, although ninety years of age, was able to be present. We miss the annual allotment for the maintenance of Master Walter Wilcox, the New Orleans fever waif, and the finance committee make no reference to him. Many who have had their interest in him freshened by these annual reminders would be glad to know if he has become self-supporting.
The grand lodge chartered six new lodges, and accepted the sixrrender of the charter of one that had outlived its usefulness; listened to an oration of more than ordinary ability and interest by Bro. J.\coi! Voorsanger; de- cided through the committee on appeals that only litigants could be appel- lants in disciplinary cases ; wisely directed that the grand treasurer and grand secretary should furnish their bonds through some ot the indemnifying asso- ciations for that purpose and that the expense thereof should be borne by the grand lodge ; adopted the pending constitutional amendment reducing the per capita dues from one dollar to seventy-five cents, and levied an ad- ditional tax of twenty-five cents per capita on account of the representative fund; sent the grand mastei-'s recommendations relative to reducing the minimum for the degrees and the discontinuance of the " Black Book" to a
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special committee, presumably for a report, but possibly to slumber as did his recommendation of last year to abrogate the "harsh and sometimes most unwise rule" that a Master Mason whose dimit is more than six months old cannot join in a petition for a new lodge without first joining a chartered lodge and dimitting therefrom, on which we find no report from the jurisprudence committee to whom it was referred ; and agreeably to his recommendation reduced the salary of the grand secretar}- by $600, lea\'ing it at $3,000, with $i,Soo for his assistant. These figures afford food for re- flection on the part of those who would cut down the salary of our grand secretary, who, notwithstanding he has to do business with nearlj^ three times as many lodges, receives onh' $2,500 which includes the comjDensation to his deputy, necessary clerk hire and office rent, or little more than one- half the sum paid by California, considerably less than one half in fact. Of course California furnishes its own office at a rental of §900.
A report from a committee appointed at a previous session, setting out with the assumption of the manifest necessity for the immediate establish- ment of a Masonic widows' and orphans' home, and embracing an elaborate plan therefor, was rejected after a full consideration of each paragraph, and the subject again sent to a special committee to report next year. Subse- quently Bro. James Leonard, whose head appears to be level bej'ond the average, got through a proposition that the grand secretary send out a suit- able blank with the blank annual returns designed to elicit full information as to the number of Masons' widows and orphans within the jurisdiction of each lodge and the number that would be likelj- to be sent to such an institu- tion, as a guide to intelligent action.
Alvah Russell Conklin, of Independence, was elected grand master ; Alexander Gurdon Abell, San Francisco, re-elected grand secretaiy.
The report on correspondence (pp. 63) is a condensed but comprehensive and sprightlj' review of the proceedings of fifty-five grand lodges, bj' Bro. Wm. a. Robertson, who, with a modesty which bespeaks his merit, avers that the only mistake of the grand xnaster's administration was the attempt to fit the mantle of the reviewer's distinguished predecessor upon shoulders unused to literary burdens of any character. This being so the grand mas- ter will not be sent to Coventry for his errors.
His notice of Illinois is generous both in quantity and quality. He finds nothing to condemn, or if he does he prefers rather to dwell on those things which call for praise, notablj- Grand Master Smith's ability and originalitj', and Grand Secretary Munn's portrait. He sympathizes with Bro. Smith for hav- ing his ' attempt at wit ' respecting 'Divine Rights and Prerogatives ' con- strued seriously by distinguished writers, because, he says, he has himself just cause of complaint in that his own most earnest efforts at seriousness are stupidly construed as feeble attempts at wit. An example of his serious-
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ness is furnished by his referring to our grand chaplain as " A W«olf in Sheep' s Clothing.
Bro. RoKERTSoN takes kindly to the suggestion of biennial instead of an- nual sessions, on the score of economy, but if economy is the paramount con- sideration more could be saved by making the recess still longer; notes the fact that when the Grand Lodge of British Columbia spent the first of its evening sessions at church and in the banquet hall, more is said of the latter entertainment and sagely concludes that the mouth spoke from the fulness of the stomach ; looks with disfavor on public installations ; believes the in- terest on the cost of Masonic Homes could be otherwise disbursed by judi- ciously selected boards of relief in a way to do greater good to a greater number; favors joint occupancy of halls with non-Masonic bodies; speaks of non-affiliates as drones who live on the sweets of the hive while others bear the heat and burden of the day, while within our not very limited experience we have known very few unaffiliated Masons who forced themselves to the front on festive or social occasions, or, who on the other hand, fail to contribute when called upon for charity ; favors the old rule of one ballot only for the ■degrees ; regards the past master's degree as an excrescence to be gotten rid of ; suggests arbitration to Ohio and Tennessee ; disagrees — as we do so far as it is held to be a statement of general law — with the Texas decision that ^ past master does not regain his privilege as such by again affiliating with his lodge after having once dimitted from it ; gives away the bald spot on Grand Treasurer Anderson's head with such levity that we wonder if he has forgotten the she bears who revenged the reviling of Elijah bv the He- Tarew hoodlums ; thinks that a degree of uniformity of usage otherwise un- attainable might be secured by a sort of joint high commission consistmg of one high- joint from each grand lodge, who should consider about a dozen mooted questions and recommend their conclusions to their respective grand lodges ; and apparently holds with his jurisdiction that a ballot is unnecessar}'- after an unfavorable report upon a petition. In Illinois it is thought that the rejection should be the act of the lodge rather than of a committee.
Bro. Robertson's judgment, after looking over the whole field, is that the California regulations are the most liberal and progressive of all the jgrand jurisdictions, and have few points that can be improved upon. He finds frequent occasion to urge upon the grand lodges the rule which forbids the installation of a master-elect unless he by strict examination^has been found to know the work. Doubtless the rule has its advantages, but there .are many who doubt the wisdom of thus restricting the free choice of a lodge in the selection of its rulers. There are occasions in the life of many a lodge when its welfare hinges more upon what its master is than upon what he knows ; when character is of more importance than ritualistic aptitude, and when the gratification or the disappointment of a desire to be ruled by some .one whom it especially delights to honor, may at that particular juncture be
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of far greater importance than the considerations which ordinarily govern the choice of the lodge.
CANADA, 1890.
35TH Annual. Kingston. Ji'I-y 16, 1890.
The representative of Illinois, the R. W. David McLellan, was present. Before the opening of the grand lodge, W. Bro. W. M. Drennan, the mayor, was introduced and presented an engrossed address of welcome.
The grand master (Richard T. Walkem) felt justified in saying that the year just passing away, though barren of remarkable events, had been one of great prosperity. He says :
There are some persons who seem to think that progress must necessar- ily be attended by convulsion and unrest. But the Ancient Charges tell us that Masonry has ever flourished in times of peace and been always injured by war, bloodshed and confusion ; and though these dicta were intended to apply to the political condition of a country, the principles they express are equally applicable to the domestic government of the Craft. Quietude does not imply stagnation, but is both consistent with and con,ducive to substan- tial well-being and progress.
He announced the death of Henry Macpherson, past senior grand war- den ; John Dale and John Milne, past district deputies ; D. M. Malloch, past grand registrar, and G. M. Richardson, past grand steward.
Of his visit to the Grand Lodge of England, he says:
An opportunity having been given to me of addressing grand lodge, I used it for the purpose of acquainting our English brethren with the origin and history of the Grand Lodge of Canada, and the present position and prospects of Masonry in this Province. I am thankful that the task was a pleasant one ; and I was informed that the information which I gave was. necessarily new to most of the members of English grand lodge, was fully appreciated by them, and had surprised many brethren who had but an im- perfect idea of the strength of our organization. I found myself perfectly at home among my English brethren, not only in the grand lodge, but in the private lodges which I had the opportunity of visiting. Accompanied by R. W. Bro. Ray, of Port Arthur, I was present by invitation at the installation of the officers of the Anglo-American Lodge, and the consecration of the Cornish Lodge recently formed in London The installation was a remark- able event inasmuch as W. Bro. Theodore H. Tilton, the newly installed
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master was the first American made Mason who had been elected master of an English lodge.
He reports a considerable amount of public work and a large number of dedications, and properly regards the erection of so many new lodge rooms as a proof of the vitality of the Fraternity. In the latter connection he ex- presses the opinion that dedicated lodge rooms should not be used for ' ' friv- olous amusements," meaning dancing, although he thinks they may properly be used for intellectual entertainments, relative to which it may be said that dancing has been a recognized diversion of cultivated society since the latter had an existence, and that if it is found to promote the good fellowship of the Fraternity in any locality we know of no more reason why it should be excluded from the home of the lodge than from the homes of the members.
Referring to the general expression of satisfaction elicited by the re- establishment of the foreign correspondence department, the grand master well says that those who do not look over this portion of the proceedings have no idea of the amount of useful information which may be obtained from it, and that the money spent in it is well invested.
The reports of the district deputy grand masters are very full, showing the condition of the lodges in detail and showing what an immense amount of work is performed by these officers without a single exception. Only twelve lodges out of three hundred and fifty-four were not officially visited during the year, and only nine weak lodges are reported. Of these nine the warrants of three were ordered to be recalled. Two charters and one dis- pensation were granted, and one dispensation continued.
In answer to a question whether in case of an objection being made to the installation of a master, a majority or unanimous vote is necessary to determine whether the brethren are "still satisfied with their choice," the committee on jurisprudence say, with the concurrence of the grand lodge :
In the case put, upon the objection of the brother, the installing officer should take a vote of the lodge, and if the members by a majority vote ad- here to their choice of W. M., then the installing officer should proceed with the ceremony of installation. On the other hand, if the members by a ma- jority vote declare they do not adhere to their choice, then the installing officer cannot proceed.
The question whether it is lawful for a lodge to call off for refreshments during the evening, and resume labor and transact business after twelve o'clock, was answered in the affirmative. Coming up pursuant to notice given the preceding year, a motion to permit lodges at their discretion to make by-laws providing that members more than one year in arrears for dues shall vot vote at the annual election, was carried. Illinois Craftsmen will remember that our grand lodge has more than once declared all such rules are inoperative and void, the lodge having no power to abridge the
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rights and franchises of its members by any other process than a regular trial and conviction for a Masonic offense. The annual motion requiring all business to be transacted in the third degree, instead of the first degree as at present, was knociced out by the following amendment :
That the sub-committee of the Board of General Purposes on jurispru- dence investigate and report at the next annual commimication of grand lodge what changes will be necessary in the constitution and work, in the event of the business and work in our lodges being changed from the first to the third degree.
Deput}' Grand Master W. G. Bell, of the Grand Lodge of Manitoba, was formally received as a visitor ; Toronto was selected as the next place of meeting, and notice of motion was given to permanently locate the grand lodge in that city ; and also of a motion to discontinue the use of spirituous liquors as a beverage at all refreshment tables in connection with Masonic lodges in the jurisdiction.
J. Ross Robertson, of Toronto, was elected grand master; J. J. Mason, Hamilton, re-elected grand secretary.
The report on correspondence (pp. 48), again by Past Grand Master Henry Robertson, reviews the proceedings of fifty-four grand lodges, five of them for two years. Illinois is of the fifty-four. Regretful notice is taken of the death of Past Grand Master Darrah, whose acquaintance Bro. Rob- ertson made in 1887. He quotes Grand Master Smith's remarks relative tO' schools of instruction and the "Junior Standard Team," also at considerable length from Grand Secretary Munn's historical notes which he in common with many others finds exceedingly interesting, and the concluding para- graph of the introduction to the Illinois report on correspondence for 18S9.
Prompted by the criticism of Bro. Clute, of British Columbia, on the continued use of the name 'Grand Lodge of Canada,' he says:
We are verv loth to lose the old name, "The Grand Lodge of Canada," under which we were formed, and b}^ which we are so well known all over the Masonic world, and under which we have progressed so well, but we are free to confess that the other grand lodges in the Dominion have a right to feel that any one of them is as much the grand lodge of the geographical Canada as we are. The time may soon come when we can simplify our title to the " Grand Lodge of Ontario," and thus remove any cause of complaint.
And of the Maryland fad, copied by Colorado, he says under the latter head :
They have a peculiar way of opening the grand lodge. It is opened in due form by the deputy grand master, with prayer by the grand chaplain. Then the deacons are directed to inform the grand master that the grand lodge is open and awaits his pleasure. Then the grand master enters, is re- ceived with the grand honors and assumes the gavel. That is about our
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ceremony when the grand master visits a subordinate lodge, but we fail to see its appropriateness in a grand lodge. The grand master is the presiding officer of the grand lodge, and he should open it himself, unless prevented by some unavoidable occurrence.
Bro. Robertson is opposed to the "innovation" of public installations, and says with them such a thing would be entirely out of the question be- cause a part of the secret work occurs in their installation ceremonies. If they are an innovation they are an innovation of long standing, but we ac- knowledge that there is much force in the following:
Apart from this question we think that true Masonry should be modest and not given to self-glorification, nor should we make a parade of our Ma- sonic communion for the purpose of attracting the profane. We think that i\Iasons should only appear in public on strictly Masonic occasions, and the only really IMasonic occasions that we know of are, first, the burial of a de- ceased brother, and second, the laying of the corner-stone of some public or Masonic building. All others are simply for the sake of display. We are not a proselytizing institution, and we are forbidden by our laws from solicit- ing candidates to join our Fraternity. Displays are made by other societies for the avowed purpose of attracting the outsiders and inducing them to join. Masons should be above that sort of thing.
He thinks, as we do, that those who uphold the "perfect youth" theory . do not attach sufficient importance to the qualifying words of the ancient charges ; thinks the grand master of Ohio properly preserved the dignity of his office in the Tennessee matter ; and holds, against the dictum of his grand lodge, that blank ballots should be counted.
COLORADO, 1890.
30TH Annual. Denver. Sept. 16, iScjo.
This volume contains besides the proceedings of the annual communi- cation the minutes of two special communications — the first for the dedica- tion of the new Masonic temple at Denver, held July 3, 1S90, the second for the laying of the corner-stone of the State capitol at Denver, July 4, 1890, when ex-Governor Alv.\ Ad.a.ms, as grand orator, delivered a well consid- ered, interesting and eloquent oration.
Past Grand Master Henry M. Teller, the representative of Illinois, was not present at the annual communication. Nine of the eighteen living past
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grand masters of Colorado were present, and Honorary Member. H. P. H. Bromwell, past grand master of Illinois. We don't know whether the Maryland notion of opening the grand lodge in due form (by the deputy grand master), informing the waiting grand master of that fact, and pro- claiming the entrance of His Amplitude, can permanently survive in the rare atmosphere of the Rockies, or not, but on this occasion was put in pi'actice.
The grand master (William T. Bridwell) was happily able to say that the angel of death had passed them by untouched. In stating that he had arranged for having the third degree conferred during the session, he sug- gests that it will be a recurrence to an ancient custom of the Craft in confer- ring that degree in grand lodge. This is somewhat misleading, although not intended to be. When the distinctions of Fellow Craft and Master were merely honorary and involved the communication of no additional secrets, the brethren were admitted to them only in the grand lodge " unless by dis- pensation," but when they were worked up into degrees they were probably conferred in lodges only. There is no evidence that we are aware of that either of them was ever worked in grand lodge. The " Master's part" was not much sought after. There being no mystery in it, comparatively few cared enough about it to pay the small fee charged for it. But somebody in one or more of the lodges conceived the idea of outdoing their neighbors by adapting a ceremonial to the occasion when under a dispensation the admis- sion to the distinction took place in their particular lodge. Whether Des- AGULiERS or Anderson were the fabricators of this ceremonial, or some other brother or brethren, it was of course not authorized by the grand lodge. Once started in one lodge others had to have it. or thought they had to, just the same as we have seen in our own day when one lodge started the fad of royal robes and other accessories, introduced torchlight processions and cal- cium lights as aids to secrecy and intensified the accompanying silence with hewgag and brass band, other lodges take up the sensationalism in order to compete with the original discoverer. As the demand for the distinction and the new ceremonial grew in the lodges, the demand for it minus the ceremo- nial, that is, in the grand lodge, diminished and after awhile the conferring of it in grand lodge lapsed altogether.
The grand master reports having acceded to a request of the Grand Lodge of Peru for an exchange of representatives, the authority for which action we presume to be found in some past act of recognition by the grand lodge, as he submitted requests for recognition from the grand lodges of New South Wales and New Zealand to that body for action, and we find nothing in the constitution or by-laws authorizing him to extend recognition. He reports having disapproved the by-laws of a lodge, requiring the secre- tary to have circulars printed and sent to the members each month, giving the name and particulars concerning each applicant for the degrees or for membership, for the reason that it was entirely new in that jurisdiction, and
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•different from any law now in existence. We presume this to be the regular printed notice of meeting, the use of which in several of the older jurisdic- tions is nearly if not quite universal, and against which we have never heard ;any objection raised but the expense attending it. In our mother lodge, in Massachusetts, this expense was considered as necessary an item, as much a matter of cotirse, as that for light or fuel.
Twenty-one decisions were submitted, some of which are of general in- terest :
3. In the absence of a law on the subject it is discretionary with the lodge as to how long a rejected applicant must wait before he can petition a second time.
4. Expulsion by a lodge, is from all the rights, privileges and benefits of Masonry. The lodge should send notice of such action to other branches of the Order of which the expelled was a member.
6. A lodge having suspended one of its members for non-payment of dues, cannot in after years remit the amount and restore him to good stand- ing. Suspended or expelled Masons are not worthy objects of Masonic ■charity.
II. The petition of a person who deals in bottled liqtiors cannot be en tertained by a lodge. The law is broad and positive and excludes all who are in any manner engaged m the liquor business.
13. A Mason carrying a dimit in this jurisdiction more than one year old has no legal claims on the Fraternity.
14. There is no law requiring a Mason to state his reason for applying for a dimit. He enters the lodge of his own volition, and cannot be com- pelled to remain a member, should he elect otherwise.
16. A man having lost the first three fingers of his right hand is ineli- gible to be made a Mason.
20. A man having lost part of his thumb and three fingers of his right hand is ineligible to be made a Mason.
As shown by No. 3, Colorado has no regulation preventing a lodge from receiving the petition of a rejected applicant at the next regular meeting. How many jurisdictions are there in this country in like condition? Illinois requires him to wait a year. The concluding sentence of No. 4, bj' which a lodge is required to report its doings to bodies independent of the grand lodge to whose w^arrant it owes its existence, and to which heretofore it has owed exclusive allegiance, shows that Colorado is getting on famously to- ward grand orientism. It is a legitimate and consistent outgrowth of the step in that direction taken the preceding year. No. 6 impels one to ask if it is inconceivable that a lodge might not have suspended a brother with such imperfect knowledge of his circumstances that had they known the truth they would have been only too glad to have extended the "clemency" which the Colorado regulations permit at the time charges for non-payment are
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under consideration, and if it is not, whether he may not be after suspension a worthy object ot ISIasonic justice if not of Masonic charity. If No. 13 is true, then the bearer of a year-old dimit is in hard luck that he is not carry- ing it in a jurisdiction where the Craftsmen cannot so easily absolve them- selves from their obligations for no other reason than that he has seen fit to exercise the volition conceded to be his right by No. 14. Nos. 16 and 20, with which we agree, set in juxtaposition inevitably suggest the story of the man who built a dog kennel and beside the ample door designed for the pa- rent dog, cut a smaller one for the pups.
The grand master reports that the fund designed for the erection of a home for aged Masons, their widows and orphans, now amounts to $4,000, and urges the early purchase of a site ; the gjand lodge, however, simply directed the fund to be loaned or invested for the present.
The report of Grand Secretary Parmelee, who has well earned the testi- monial ordered by the grand lodge in honor of his election for the twenty- fifth time, reports the receipt of bound proceedings of Illinois.
The grand lodge listened to an oration, well conceived, broad in spirit and adequately executed, by Grand Orator Horace T. De Long, read in his absence by Past Grand Master Greenleaf; granted six charters and contin- ued one dispensation ; recognized the United Grand Lodge of New South Wales and deferred the recognition of the Grand Lodge of New- Zealand notwithstanding the committee on correspondence — who advised the delay — reported that its organization was participated in by about two-thirds of the lodges in the Colony ; enacted a law that no lodge having a membership of less than three hundred should collect a fee for affiliation ; directed the prep- aration of corner-stone, dedication and funeral ceremonials and a monitor for use in the jurisdiction, and ordered the jurisprudeuce committee to report next year how Entered Apprentices, Fellow Crafts and Master Masons should wear their aprons.
Ernest Le Neve Foster, of Georgetown, was elected grand master; Ed. C. Parmelee, Pueblo, re-elected grand secretary.
The report on coiTcspondence (pp. 132) is again by Past Grand Master Lawrence N. Greenleaf, who generously gives five pages to Illinois for i88g. He gives merited praise to Grand Secretary Munn's historical notes, and finds it worthy of mention that the signature to Bro. M.'s portrait ap- pears with 33° at the end of it in spite of the fact that Illinois recognizes nothing beyond the three degrees. He quotes the argument of Grand Mas- ter Smith in favor of extending recognition to all grand lodges without ref- erence to the question of their regularity, who are found practicing the de- grees of Symbolic Masonry only, and also the attack of the grand master on this committee with reference to the Scottish Rite matter, both with an ap- parent relish not surprising in one who had helped to induce his grand lodge
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— possessing by the terms of its constitution as well as in the very nature of things, '' e.vcIush'L' jurisdiction over <;// subjects of Masonic legislation"-^— to admit the right of half a dozen other bodies to legislate upon subjects which it concedes to be, from its standpoint, legitimate Masonry ! Our com- ments on this action, the action of the Grand Lodge of Colorado in behalf of one of the warring factions of Scotch Riters, move him to remark that in our " wild ra\4ngs " we "lose sight of the truth and flounder hopelessly in the quagmires of supposition." It is manifest from what we shall quote from our brother that the " wild ravings" referred to was our intimation that some members of the Colorado committee had guilty knowledge that the grand lodge was being used as a cat's-paw by the supreme council ; and to show that this is not an unfair conclusion we will first reproduce from his pages that portion of our remarks which he criticises :
" We think there is internal evidence in the grand master's reference to- this subject, bearing out his statement that he had not properly studied it; and we think, too, that the brief report just quoted contains internal evidence that some members of the committee had guilty knowledge that in this action the grand lodge was being used as a cat's-paw by the supreme council. Why did the report direct the attention to the by-law forbidding ' the deliv- ery or teaching of any Masonic work not authorized by the grand lodge,' if it was not intended to create the impression that the adoption of the resolution was necessary to prevent somebody from delivering or teaching some unau- thorized version of the degrees of Masonry which the grand lodge adminis- ters? What other impression could it convey to the great mass of the breth- ren who did not know, as the committee did, that the 'Cerneau Masons' are conferring just the same file of side degrees — no more, no less — as the coun- cils presided over by Henry L. Palmer and Albert Pike?"
Bro. Greexleaf says:
In the meantime let us analyze Bro. Robbms' dictatorial and dogmatic conclusions. He thinks there is internal evidence that some members of the committee had " guilt)^ knowledge," etc. The grand master appointed the committee without any knowledge as to their individual opinions or affilia- tions with Scottish Rite bodies. The majority of the committee including the chairman who wrote the report were not members of that Rite, and the others were not active promoters or disposed to act otherwise than for the best interests of Symbolic Masonry. So much for the composition of the committee. As " rakers of hot chestnuts" for supreme councils or any other organizations they would rank as conspicuous failures, since they are all of that class who do their own thinking. We have no means of knowing through what process of reasoning they reached their conclusion, but presume that as- intelligent Masons they were conversant with the general aspects of the case and formulated their report accordingly. The only point of Bro. R.'s that apjjears to be well taken is that in regard to Sec. 127. It was clearly in- tended to refer to the work of the three degrees, as he says, and was not ap- plicable to the matter under consideration, but a C.-\rr will sometimes get off the track when there is an obstruction in the way, and if " Cerneauism" is not an obstruction to Masonic harmony, will Bro. R. tell us what is.
It will be observed that the ravings were coherent enough to compel the admission that the point of the only evidence we adduced to show probable
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guilty knowledge, was well taken. Perhaps it is a logical sequence of affairs in the atmosphere of the Holy Empire to which the Grand Lodge of Colo- rado has annexed itself, that a reviewer who unwittingly leads to the post mortem discovery of one of Bro. Carr's alleged blunders by stumbling over the corpus, should be accused for the blunder itself as having lost sight of the truth.
Bro. Gree.xleaf says a majority of the committee who reported in favor of his resolution were not members of the Scottish Rite and such as were members were not active promotei-s or disposed to act otherwise than for the best interests of Symbolic Masonry. What men do, not what they are dis- posed to do, is the vital question. Bro. G. thinks they didn't do much, for like the girl who couldn't understand the great ado about her baby, " because it was such a little thing," he calls us to note that the Colorado resolution does not go to the same extent as those passed hy other grand lodges, since it imposes no penalty for non-compliance. Perhaps he takes a different view ■of the promotive activity of Scotch Rite members of the committee from that taken by the supreme council which has since singled out one of them for decoration, though not, perhaps, as a 'raker of hot chestnuts.' If indeed they are all of the class who do their own thinking, the wonder grows in- stead of diminishing that the formulated result of their thought should be identical in language with that of the Grand Chapter of Wisconsin, the •Grand Commandery of Ohio, and the Grand Lodges of Massachusetts, Ohio, Nebraska and other bodies whose scalps dangle from the imperial girdle. Bro. G. says that we and those who entertain similar views, " whether wit- tingly or not, are certainly giving aid and comfort to 'Cerneauism' — the common enemy of everything legitimate in Masonry."
He continues:
Do not pat them on the back with the assurance that their degrees and Pike's are from the same piece, and that no one can tell the dift'erence, etc. The 27 legitimate supreme councils in the various countries of the world, seem to have discovered the dift'erence and they have been branded as im- posters and clandestine Masons everywhere. Why then, Bro. R., persist in endeavoring to belilttle the Scottish Rite degrees and to make false asser- tions. Bro. Pike has always taken ground against bringing the question of legitimacy before grand lodges, and it is an error to accuse him of being concerned in such measures. The " Massachusetts departure" tirst set the ball 111 motion. You certainlj' would not defend " Cerneauism" if you knew it was working under an " Ivory Soap label " — and that is about the extent of its authority.
Let Bro. G. and those who entertain similar views keep their rite quar- rels within the confines of the Holy Empire and not vex the grand lodge — the sole domain of legitimate Masonry — with them, and they will have no cause to complain that we are giving aid and comfort to Cerneauism. As a Mason we are no more called upon to decide a disputed succession in the
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Holy Empire — whatever may be our personal opinion in the matter — than (thanking the brother for the pat illustration) to determine the relative value of two different soap labels because their proprietors happen to be Masons. But we are called upon to defend the integrity of Masonry against all comers, whether it be dissenters who would insidiously undermine the landmarks^ or those who in the fury of their factional warfare would blindly overturn, them ; and while we are engaged in this first, last and highest duty of every loyal Mason, it is no fault of ours if one faction rather than another places it- self within the range of our impartial blows. Among the numerous evi- dences that those blows are not without their effect, not the least significant is the fact that the satraps of the Holy Empire think it necessary to misrep- resent us as the champion of a hated faction which they are strivmg to make odious. We are accused of patting their rivals on the back when we tell the Craftsmen that these factions are quarreling over the right to confer the same degrees, when in the same breath our accusers are demanding the in- terference of grand lodges on the express ground that their rivals are clan- destine because they confer the same degrees in territory already occupied by supreme councils. The intimation that we had accused Bro. Pike of be- ing concerned m invoking the interference of grand lodges lurking in Bro. Greenleaf's denial of it, is off the same piece. AVe have more than once adverted to the fact that Bro. Pike had advised against such a course, but it is found convenient to ignore this, because, we suspect, we had occasion to cite the fact as conclusive evidence of the Scotch Rite origin of these alleged spontaneous outbreaks against Cerneauism on the part of grand lodges. Certainly if no raid upon grand lodges had ever been projected m Scotch Rite circles, Bro. Pike would have had no occasion to advise against it. We can only regret that Bro. Pike did not have sufficient " influence with the administration " to secure from his deputy m Colorado — or from the deputy of the resident inspector general, whatever may be the name of the position held by Bro. Greenleaf — compliance with the advice which the latter now seems to regard as commendable.
Bro. Greenleaf thinks there are good reasons why grand lodges should assume the'Colorado " attitude for the protection of their membership against imposition and fraud on the part of Masonic charlatans and confidence men," and unfortunately in nearly the same breath recalls the fact that " the ' Mas- sachusetts departure' first set the ball in motion." We say the fact, because it is a fact so far as grand lodges are concerned, although the influence of the Holy Empire had previously secured identical action by the Grand Chap- ter of Wisconsin and the Grand Commandery of Ohio. We say it is unfor- tunate for him and for those who act with him, to recall this fact lest the fur- ther fact be recalled that while the amendment alluded to was pending in the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts not one word was said about Cerneauism. The engineers of that movement carefully abstained from the slightest hint that a rival dynasty was threatening the integrity of the Holy Empire, and
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poured out vials of wrath on the Rite of Memphis about which not a baker's dozen of people in the jurisdiction cared a continental copper. Disinterested observers like ourselves recognized at once the Jacob-voice of the supreme •council and for our pains were accused of going out of our way to attack the Scotch Riters. But the correctness of our diagnosis has since been verified by half a dozen distinguished imperialists who probablj- see no further reason for the concealment practiced by their Massachusetts coadjutors, and so openly glorify the " Massachusetts departure" as the beginning of the cru- sade against Cerneauism, apparently without stopping to inquire whether they are thereby- giving awa}' the imperial contingent of that particular " valley" for a campaign of false pretenses.
There is much other matter in Bro. Greenleaf's report which we should like to notice, but we have more than exhausted our space.
DELAWARE, 1890.
84TH Annual. . Wilmington. Oct. i, 1890.
R. W. Samuel \Y. Kilaington, past junior gi-and warden, the represent- ative of Illinois, was at his post.
The grand master (James S. Dobb) was able to say that the grand lodge met with unbroken ranks. He had made only one decision which he thought necessary to report, and that to the effect that an applicant who refused to swear, but who would affirm, could not be received. The decision was af- fiiTned. He reports having released an applicant for the degrees to a foreign jurisdiction after having received the consent of the lodge within whose ter- ritory the gentleman resided ; and therein the Delaware practice differs from that of Illinois where the act of the grand master would be surplusage, to say the least, the power of \\-aiver being held to be complete in the lodge. His recommendation that decisive steps be taken to compel a lodge to con- form to the law forbidding the joint occupancy of halls with non-Masonic bodies was concurred in bj- the grand lodge, as was also that looking to a requirement that a// the officers elect of lodges be required to demonstrate their proficiency in the duties of their respective stations before being in- stalled.. This distances California whose similar requirement refers only to the master. He re-endorses the General Masonic Relief Association, and strongly advises that lodges should relegate to the floor all officers who fail
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to creditably perform their duties, instead of advancing them simph" because they are in the line of promotion. In this the grand master is right. Officers who in subordinate positions perform their duties in a slipshod manner rarely or never find the more convenient season in which they propose to qualify themselves for the office of master.
The grand lodge took the final action amending the Constitution so that past masters are members of the grand lodge while they remain affiliated in Delaware ; made an appropriation to secure a free Masonic bed in each of the Wilmington hospitals ; and took action looking to the dissemination of the uniform work throiigh district instructors whose expenses shall be paid by the grand lodge.
James S. Dokb and William vS. Haves, both of Wilmington, were re- elected grand master and grand secretary respectively.
The report on correspondence (pp. 63) is again by Past Deputy Grand
Master Lewis H. Jackson, grand chaplain and grand condenser, who finds
space for a verj' complimentary notice of Illinois for 18S9. He regrets that
' fear of the " re trenchers " of his grand lodge prevents his making quotations
from Bro. Lokimer's "very masterly" oration.
He agrees with Bro. Logan, of Montana, that the practice of separate ballots for each degree is fruitful of mischief ; gives the waning Past Mas- ter's degree an accelerating kick ; properly demurs to the statement of a grand orator that " Freemasonry is not only a brotherhood but a church," and argues that as the installation of officers is unquestionably " the work of the lodge," therefore it must be done in private. If the premise that instal- lation is the work of a lodge were correct, the conclusion might hold, theo- retically, but installation is not the work of a lodge, as we understand it, but the work of the grand master either in person or in the person of some past master who has acquired by election the eligibility to represent the grand master in that line of work. Bro. Jackson argues that it is the work of a lodge because Masonic obligations are administered. But there are no eso- teric obligations administered — nothing but the vow of office — since the so- called Past Master's degree has been eliminated, and, we are glad to note, with his approval. Where that anomaly is still in vogue its esoteric features are surely not the work of a lodge, for the lodge is excluded from that por- tion of the installation ceremonies
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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, 1890.
80TH Annual. Washington. Nov. 12, 1890.
The semi-annual communication was held on the evenings of May 14, 21 and 2S, 1S90. The representative of Illinois, W. Bro. John H. Olcott, was present. The gi'and master (James A. Sample) submitted the following:
Quite recently my opinion was requested as to the propriety of a lodge conferrmg the degrees on candidates belonging to another lodge at the re- quest of the master thereof. I replied that it should not be dore unless the master desiring the favor stated under seal that his lodge had been notified at a regular meeting of his intention to make the request, and no objection entered either to such action or to the advancement of the candidate, and if the latter had received a degree or degrees his proficiency should be vouched for. I desire the committee on jurisprudence to decide whether this .shall be sufficient or the unanimous vote of the lodge be required before a master will be justified in asking another lodge to confer degrees for him. Whichever method may be considered the better by the committee should, I think, be presented to the grand lodge in the form of a standing resolution.
At the annual communication the jurisprudence committee reported with the concurrence of the grand lodge that a majority vote was suflficient, and this view we think is correct.
The commission of a brother as representative of another grand lodge was read and he was received and acknowledged as such by a vote of the grand lodge. In Illinois the power to receive and accredit, like the power to appoint, is lodged by the Constitution in the grand master, the jurisdiction with which he is dealing having been previously recognized by the grand lodge.
The grand lodge after a hot discussion granted a charter to a new lodge in face of a protest from Washington Centennial Lodge, No. 14. The grand master had previously granted the dispensation for the lodge in the face of a similar protest, most of the members of the new lodge having been drawn from the protesting lodge. The session of Maj^ 2 1 was held for the purpose of constituting the new lodge, and immediately after the ceremonies had been concluded the audience was brought to its feet by a common impulse when a committee from Washington Centennial Lodge appeared bearing a peace-offering in the shape of a, magnificent basket of roses. A genuine love feast followed.
The grand lodge was called together on the 25th of June to bury Past Grand Secretary James Lawrenson, who had been in the postofflce depart- ment since 1834, and enjoyed the distinction at his death of being the oldest officer in contintious service in the civil service of the government.
The annual communication was held Nov. 12, 1890. The grand master
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announced the death of Ezra Lincoln Stevens, senior past master of B. B, French Lodge, a broad, strong man, greatly beloved.
He thus refers to the last phase of the "Cerneau" incident in the Dis- trict:
Very soon after assuming office I was requested to consider the pro- priety of revoking the edict of my predecessor against those of our brethren who retained membership in the Gorgas-Cerneau Scottish Rite, and a copj^ of a proclamation issued by the Supreme Grand Council of that Rite, dated August 31, 1SS9, was placed in my hands. Believing that there should be- no delay in rehabilitating the brethren who were placed under the ban when it could be shown they had purged themselves, I referred the papers to the committee on jurisprudence and was verbally answered by the chairman, Past Grand Master Donaldson, that the proclamation covered the ground and would be sutificient, provided it had been adopted at a regularly-called meeting of the Grand Council.
Answering my interlocutors to this effect, a duly authenticated certificate was then furnished, testifj-ing that the resolutions embodied in the procla- mation were adopted at a regular meeting.
Having a written reph' to the same effect from the jmisprudence com- mittee, he issued (April ig, iSgo) his edict, as follows:
Whereas the Grand Lorlge of Masons of the District of Columbia, at a stated communication held December 27, i88g, adopted the following resolu- tion, reported from the committee on jurisprudence, viz. :
''Resolved, That 'Edict No. i,' issued by M. W. Harrison Dingman, Grand Master of Masons of the District of Columbia, be, and the same is hereby, dissolved, so far as it relates to visiting brethren from other juris- dictions, but that that portion of said edict as it applies to Masons owing allegiance to this grand lodge shall continue in force until such time as this, grand lodge shall receive official or other satisfactory information that the Grand Consistory, A. A. S. R., (Cerneau) has receded from its action in es- tablishing fraternal relations with the Grand Orient of France, and no longer holds Masonic intercourse with that Grand Body; "
And whereas a properly authenticated copy of a proclamation issued by the Supreme Grand Council, A. A. S. R., (Cerneau) duly empowered to act for the Grand Consistory of that body has been received by us, the fifth sec- tion of which reads as follows :
"Therefore, insisting that we never intentionally did or committed any act or thing showing any want of loyalty to Ancient Craft Masonrj', and that there may be no further excuse to claim that we have, we do hereby with- draw said proposal and annul, vacate, and set aside each and every act and thing done by any in authority in our rite, wherein or whereby it might be claimed (even by our enemies) that fraternal relations had been effected be- tween the said Grand Orient of France or any of its bodies and our organi- zation, contrary to the order or decree of an)- Grand Lodge of the United States."
Now, therefore, we, James A. Sample, Most Worshipful Grand Master of Masons in and for the District of Columbia and Masonic jurisdiction there-
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unto belonging, by virtue of the powers and authorities in us vested, and in performance of the duties of our office, do hereby declare said Edict No. i, issued July 25, iSSg, no /o/igcr vi force, and direct masters of lodges under our authority to cease "to include in the recognized and imperative test to be administered to visitors to their lodges the statement by such visitors that they are not members of any body acknowledging allegiance to the said Gorgas-Cerneau Rite."
Secretaries of lodges are directed to promptly notify the R. W. Grand Secretary of the date when this edict was read in their lodges.
In taking leave of the subject he wisely says:
Before lea\-ing the subject I cannot refrain from expressing the hope that this question may never again in any shape come before this Grand Lodge.
The circumstances under which it was introduced last year, viz., the direct or indirect violation of some of our constitutional provisions or stand- ing resolutions being, in my opinion, the only legitimate ground on which to base action. In other jurisdictions it has been carried into the civil courts, and caused bitter estrangements between men who had been life-long friends and brethren. Let us wait until we are assailed before we fly to arms, for the war, if it conges, must be a fratricidal one, and such quarrels are always the bitterest and most to be abhorred. Let us be brethren m Ancient Craft Masonry whatever we may be interested in outside of it, never allowing our differences elsewhere to cross the thresholds of our lodges, that we may truly say we meet upon the level and part upon the square.
The grand master gives an account of a happy surprise party held on the iSth of January, the fiftieth anniversary of the daj- on which the venerable grand secretary. Singleton, was made a Mason, when some fifty brethren sat down to a supper to which he was called in and informed that the gath- ering was held in honor of the day. He thus continues, and the wish with which he closes will find an echo in the hearts of many Craftsmen widely scattered, not the least those who like ourselves have learned to know him through the medium of these reports :
The supper over. Past Grand Master Parker re\newed Bro. Singleton's life history, I^Iasonically and otherwise, and closed a graceful address by pre- senting the distinguished guest with a Past Master's jewel appropriately en- graved as to date and meaning.
Bro. Singleton returned his thanks in a speech full of appreciation and feeling. R. W. Deputy Grand Master Gibbs read an original poem on the event and was followed by words of fraternal regard from past grand mas- ters and past masters present, ea;h of whom had reason to remember ser- vices rendered by, or good advice received from our living Masonic encyclo- paedia.
May he long be spared to wear the jewel received that evening, and be sure the brethren feel they highlj^ honored themselves in honoring him.
The Grand Lodge of Tasmania was recognized.
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Thomas F. Giisbs (935 Rhode Island avenue N. W.) was elected grand master; Wm. R. Sim;leton, 909 F street N. W., re-elected grand secretarj'.
At the installation communication Bro. Sample, the retiring grand mas- ter, was presented with a past grand master's jewel, and the incoming grand master delivered a very practical inaugural address, in which after looking forward to the erection of a temple he suggests that the erection of a home for the widows and orphans of Masons should be kept in mind, and says the operations of the Masonic board ot relief have demonstrated the benefit which might tollow if upon the death of a member in good standing his widow or -orphan should be furnished with a certificate of that standing. His closing suggestions are worthy of being placed on perpetual record :
And finally, brethren, permit me to impress upon you the importance of what may sometimes be regarded as the trifles of Masonic life ;
A word of comfort for a brother bowed down by bereavement.
A word of cheer for the unfortunate.
A word of friendly counsel and a helping hand to the misguided.
A more general familiarity with the beautiful lessons inculcated in the ritual of the order.
The report on correspondence (pp. 105) is as usual from the hand and brain of Grand Secretary Singleton, and is full of interesting matter drawn hy a still vigorous mind from the storehouse of personal recollections accu- mulated in a long Masonic life. We are again compelled to regret the ab- sence of Illinois from his review. Has Bro. Singleton determined to cut us off without a groat? We can understand why our proceedings for 18S9 were not noticed bj^ him that year, because the engraving of the semi-centennial illustrations delayed their issue, but we do not understand why they do not in his review of 1S90 receive their eleventh-hour penny along with California, Colorado, Montana, Ohio, and other October bodies. This is Bro. Single- ton's twenty-first report. Perhaps the next, which ought properly to begin a new series, will take us up again.
Bro. Singleton disagrees as we do with the Kansas decision that a peti- tion can be received by unanimous consent only, and holds that it may be received by a majority vote; agrees with Bro. Brown (Kansas) that since a lodge under dispensation is a creature of the grand master, under his imme- diate control and directly amenable to him only, he can grant a waiver of jurisdiction over a candidate, but inasmuch as the right of waiver rests upon the principle of possession, and as under the terms of the Illinois law which provides that "whenever a chartered lodge shall recommend the formation of a new lodge it shall be held to thereby cede territorial jurisdiction to the new lodge," the possession is complete for the time being, we do not see why Jiere the fact that the new lodge is directly answerable to the grand master
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should preclude a waiver by it ; approves the Kentucky decision that no ob- jection before the election of a candidate can be entertained, with which we agree, as we have frequently had occasion to insist in these reports that the right of objection is in its nature a supplemental one and does not come into existence until the protective power of the ballot has been exhausted ; finds food for thought in the recommendation that notice of rejection of petitions for affiliation should not be sent to contiguous lodges, and we may add that reflection will doubtless convince him that there is no good reason why such notice should be sent, and abundant reasons why it should not ; insists that a member who has been dropped for non-payment of dues ought to be able to reinstate himself by liquidation, without a vote of the lodge, and perhaps the strongest evidence that he is right in this is the fact that in jurisdictions like Illinois where the law declares that the non-payment of dues is a viola- tion of ilasonic covenants and therefore has in it the element of a Masonic offense, the prevailing sense of justice has proved so strong that in cases where the liquidation (or remission) which is a condition precedent to action upon a petition for reinstatement has been made and the lodge has exercised Its right under the law to refuse reinstatement, the grand lodge has compelled it to refund the money ; thinks the Cerneau controversy will no doubt cause a terrific split m some of our grand lodges, but of this there ought to be no danger, for it has no more business in a grand lodge than had the recent unpleasant- ness between the Grand Commandery of Iowa and the grand master of Templars ; and thinks it strange in view of all the light .shed upon the ques- tion by Lyon, Hughan, Woodford and Gould, that Masons will talk about a pre 1787 ritualism, but we notice that he himself still talks about the trans- ferring of the word from the degree of Master Mason to that of the Royal Arch and the substitution of another, which we regard as equally destitute of foundation.
FLORIDA, 1891.
62ND Annual. Jacksonville. Jan. 20, 1S91.
The representative of Illinois, Past Grand Master DeWitt C. Dawkins, was on duty as usual in the Southeast. The brief, broad, comprehensivie and truly IMasonic prayer of Grand Chaplain Leitner at the opening of the grand lodge is published in the proceedings.
The grand master (Henry W. Long) reproduces in his address a letter
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from Past Grand ]\Iaster Z. H. Mason, who we are sorry to learn has almost lost his vision, looking to the relinquishment of his position as repi'esentative of North Carolina because he could no more come to grand lodge. This is in accord with the modern or " spoils " theory of grand lodge representation, but we doubt not North Carolina would have been pi-oud to keep this faith- ful old craftman in her service to the end.
The grand master reports that by request of Past Grand Master Ander- son he authorized him to correspond with the various grand lodges of the country and ascertain what action, if any, had been taken by them as to " Cerneauism." We do not find that Bro. Anderson made any report to the grand master on this subject, nor do we find any evidence that the grand lodge had been " salted" by Bro. Anderson as had been done the preceding year by the distribution of the special report procured in the interest of the Supreme Council from the resident Florida inspector general of the Holy Empire and his coadjutor who has since been marked for increased rank and decoration by the imperial authorities, but we do find that the grand lodge waked up and washed its hands of the whole interference business in the most vigorous manner. Immediately following the reference of the grand master's address, we find the following:
Brother L. Harrison moved that the action of the grand lodge at its last annual grand communication, against so-called " Cerneauism" be re- considered; which motion, being seconded, was, upon motion of R. W. Bro. H. Robinson, referred to a special committee of five. Whereupon, the M. W. Grand Master appointed as such committee: E. E. Haskell, J. F. Greer, J. W. Boyd, H. H. Spear and George Lever.
At the evening session, immediately after the report of the committee on grand master's address, this special committee reported, unanimously recommending that the grand lodge do not reconsider its action, and there- upon—
Most Worshipful A. J. Russell, past grand master, moved that the action of the grand lodge, recorded upon page 67, printed proceedings of 1S90, in adopting the minority report of the committee on Masonic jurisprudence, be rescinded, which motion was seconded, and pending the discussion of said motion the further consideration thereof was postponed and made the special order for the morning session of to-morrow.
In the morning, on motion of Bro. Wilke, the majority report of the committee on jurisprudence which had been defeated the preceding year by the substitution of the minority report, and which was signed by past gi'and masters W. E. Anderson, Geo. S. Hallmark, H. J. Stewart, N. R. Car- ter, Samuel Pasco, and Deputy Grand Master Angus Paterson, was taken up and adopted, "and it was ordered that the said report be reproduced here as the action of this grand lodge, to-wit" :
The committee has given careful attention and consideration to the matters submitted to them in the address of the grand master relating to
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what is termed the " C erne an Rite." They have made careful inquiry as. to whether the organizations working under this Rite claim the authority to confer the three degrees of Masonry which this grand lodge has within its- jurisdiction, and, so far as they can ascertain, no such authority is claimed. This being the case, the committee are unable to see any ground upon which, this grand lodge can assume jurisdiction of the subject. They have no means of making an intelligent investigation as to the degrees of this so-called Cer- neau Rite, or the A. & A. Scottish Rite, or as to who has the power to con- fer them. There are serious differences between Masons as to the regularity of the organizations which claim the authority to confer these degrees. It is not to the advantage of symbolic Masonry in this jurisdiction to open the doors of our lodges to these differences. They should be left to our breth- ren who are skilled in these hidden mysteries, which are not revealed to the brethren of our lodges.
Our Constitution, Article X, Section 30, says that even expulsions and suspensions from the higher degrees do not neccessarily work as such in symbolic Masonry.
The committee recommend that no further action be taken in the matter.
Later we find the following :
Past Grand Master Dawkins presented the report of the committee on foreign correspondence, when Past Grand Master Russell offered the follow- ing resolution, which was adopted, to-wit:
Resolved, That the report of the committee on foreign correspondence be received and incorporated with the proceedings of this grand lodge, but that we disclaim any indorsement of the matter contained in it in referring to Certieauis/n or the A. and A. Rite.
To return to the grand master's address. He submits several rulings and decisions, some of which we copy, numbering them for convenience :
1. In case a brother who occasionally visited a regular lodge of Masons also visits a colored lodge of Masoiis in the same locality, should he be ex- cluded from visiting the regularly constituted lodge ?
R It ling. — Yes. Not because the colored lodge is composed of colored, men, but because all colored lodges in Florida are clandestine lodges, and worse, clandestinely organized.
2. A lodge may be called from labor to refreshment to meet on a day certain in the near future to do any work that can be done at a called meet- ing.
3. "As you are perhaps aware, our lodge, Gainesville, No. 41, F. & A. M., asked for a dispensation to elect a Worshipful Master and Junior Warden by reason of the brethren elected to those stations having moved beyond the jurisdiction of the lodge. I write you for your construction of section 325, page 90, Blue Book of Constitution of the Grand Lodge of Florida, which states the office of Master is never vacant, for succession is instanter."
Ruling. — I am of opinion that, under the provisions of the edicts of our grand lodge, the grand master may remove a worshipful master for incom- petency, and that continuous absence from the jurisdiction of his lodge,.
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renders him incompetent to perform the duties of worshipful master, and while his absence does not create a vacancy in the office of worshipful master, it does create a continuous vacancy during his absence in the office of senior warden.
The jurisprudence committee properly disapproved of Nos. 2 and 3, say- ing with reference to the former that the constitution requires the degrees to be closed out at every stated meeting, and of the latter :
Your committee are of opinion that the grand master had no authority to remove the worshipful master from office for the reason stated. During his absence from the jurisdiction, the senior and junior wardens, in success- ion, became master pro tem., and succeed to the duties of the office.
The grand lodge concurred, and right on the heels of that action author- ized a new election by a lodge which was deprived of the services of its master by his appointment to the office of district deputy grand master. The same law which constrained the action of the grand master should likewise have constrained the action of the grand lodge.
The grand lodge also granted nine charters and continued one under dispensation ; adopted a constitutional amendment by which the masters and wardens of lodges under dispensation who have paid for their charters, and have been working more than one year, are made members on an equal footing with the masters and wardens of chartered lodges ; listened to a brief but strong oration by the Rev. R. H. Weller, grand orator, whose lesson was the duty of the ilasons of Florida to build an adequate temple ; recog- nized the Grand Lodge of Porto Rico ; ordered the preparation of a digest of its laws ; and fixed upon Jacksonville as the next place of meeting.
Angus Patersox, of Madison, was elected grand master; DeWitt C. Dawkins, of Jacksonville, re-elected grand secretary.
The report on correspondence (pp. 230) is as usual from the pen of Past Grand Master DeWitt C. Dawkins. Illinois finds a place in his review, all departments of the proceedings of iSgo receiving attention. The "mag- nificent oration " of Grand Orator Wolf is laid under contribution, and the mellifluous language in which Past Grand Master Smith's response to the welcome he received from the grand master, as the representative of the flowery peninsula, naturally shaped itself, also graces his report. His complimentary references to the work of this committee are noted and valued, and his strong presentation of many points — with many of which we are in sympathy, enables us to reciprocate in kind. We regret, however, to see an abatement of the old time alacrity to discuss certain questions that we think are of vital importance to the Fraternity. We are not without hope the changed condition of affairs in his own grand lodge since the following was written, may induce him to change his determination:
In 1S70 this committee said the Scottish Rite * * * *
" embraces in addition to the three symbolic degrees, what is commonly
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known as the thirty-three Ineffable Degrees, sub-divided into lodges, chap- ters and consistories, to attempt to correct what we said in our report of I S90, would be improved by saying " what is commonly known as the de- gree of Ancient and Accepted Rite, from the fourth to the thirty-second de- grees exclusively." Now, all the degrees of that Rite are not termed there- in as " hieffablc" Degrees. The term Ineffable is a technical term, and as such applies specially, as we understand it, to the degrees contained in the Lodge of Perfection, which includes onlj' the degrees four to fourteen, and we therefore onl}- intended to correct that phraseology. But Bro. R. in- geniously perverts the meaning of our correction in the interest he seems to take in Cerneaitism. Now, as Bro. Robbins totally ignores the whole of the Scottish Rite Freemasonry as being no part of Masonry, calls it cat-and- dog business ; and as he does not voice the sentiments of "this grand lodge, and the Masons of his jurisdiction on this subject, as referred to in our last report; and as the Grand Lodge of Florida, in 1852, and ever since, has recognized the vSouthern Supreme Council, we do not feel it our duty to con- tinue any further the discussion of this subject with hmi in this report.
Bro. Dawkins says that we ingeniously pervert the meaning of what was inte ided simply as a correction of phraseology. It may be that we attached to it a significance which it did not possess, but surely there was no covert perversion, for we made no secret of our belief that his re-statement was made in order that in its final form there should be in it not even an implica- tion that the vScottish Rite claimed any authority in the three degrees of Ma- sonry, to which objection his statement of 1S70 seemed open. Just why he should speak of " the interest he seems to take in Cerneauism," in this con- reciion, is not clear, as we said nothing to indicate which we considered cat and which dog when we spoke of ' ' this miserable cat-and-dog business of the Scotch Rite factions." If it be true, as Bro. D.\wkins, Bro. Parvin and Bro. Cunningham assiduously seek to inculcate, that whoever opposes grand lodge interference in the extra-Masonic quarrels of the Holy Empire is a champion of Cerneauism, what shall be said of the Grand Lodge of Florida which not only kicked the quarrel out but emphasized its impartiality by going to the superfluous length of disclaiming any endorsement of a.x\y refer- ence to either faction in the report on correspondence. It is safe to say that Bro. Dawkins no more regards the action of his grand lodge as betraying even a seeming interest in Cerneauism, than we do, and perhaps it is not too much to expect that possibly out of the reflections suggested by its course may dawn the great light that individuals may feel the same way and be en- titled to have their motives judged by the same standard. Bro. Dawkins ^•as constrained to express his, regret when in reviewing Illinois for 1S89 he felt compelled to copy the attack of the grand master on this committee. We do not feel that we are in danger of being misunderstood bj' him when we .say that our only regret in copying the disclaimer of his grand lodge of the sentiments uttered in his report, lies in the fact that the disclaimer was made. We regret it because it is so well understood that the grand lodge is in no Avise responsible for the sentiments of the reviewer, that where a special dis- claimer is made it is open to misinterpretation.
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We disagree most thoroughly with Bro. Dawkins we will not say about Cerneauism, because we have no occasion to undertake to decide which one -of the factions is right according to the laws and dynastic traditions of the Holy Empire to which their jurisdiction is restricted, but we utterly disagree with him as to the policy of grand lodge interference between those factions. At the same time we maintain his right to his convictions and to entire free- dom in expressing them within the limits of that courtesy which should char- acterize gentlemen, limits which he has never transcended; and we further maintain that this freedom is absolutely essential to the highest value of re- ports on Masonic correspondence. We do not overlook the fact that some reviewers hold and maintain opinions that we believe are not consistent with their fealty to the Masonry circumscribed by their primary obligations, obli- gations which in the very nature of things no subsequent vows taken in the name of Masonry can supersede. But mischievous as these opinions may be, their utterance can be safely tolerated so long as the loyalty of the great heart of Masonry is assured the same freedom of expression.
As we intimated at the outset of our notice of Bro. Dawkins' report, it contains many strong points admirably presented. We hoped then to sum- marize them for our readers. That we have not done so we beg him to be- lieve is because we have already used too much of our allotted space, and not because we felt it necessary to first inquire whether in making them he voices the sentiment of his grand lodge and the Masons of his jurisdiction.
GEORGIA, 1890.
104TH An.nual. M.\con. Oct. 20, 1S90.
Illinois was not among the thirty-seven jurisdictions whose ambassadors were present at the opening of the grand lodge.
The address of the grand master (John S. D.a.vidson) is another of re- markable orations which his years of service have given to the literature of Masonry in the Empire State of the South, in which the routine details of business clothe themselves in felicitous and flowing speech, and in which those subjects that lie nearer the fountains of feeling glow with a brilliant, almost exhuberant but well chosen rhetoric. In such periods as this he an- nounced the death of David Mayer, past senior grand warden, whom he characterizes as the most unique figure of the grand lodge and one of its most gifted representatives, and of whom, with much more, he further says:
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Broad in his philanthrophies and generous in appreciation of his fellow- man, he moved through the cn-cle of his da^-s uninfluenced by the spirit of prejudice against either creed or sect, thrilled by everj-song, moved by every prayer, and sharing every tear of our common humanity. His was the reli- gion of kind words and faithful deeds. He remembered that nothing good is lost, and gathered about him a harvest of kind acts, which made of his life a benefaction. Whether standing in the Temple of Israel's God listening to the thunders of Sinai"s Mount as they delivered the letters of the law, or battling with strangely eloquent tongue for the rights of his fellow citizens in days of adversity, or pleading for the little school children whom he so dearly loved that they might enjoy what Providence had deprived him of the opportunity to receive, he ever delivered a sermon of tender speech.
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He faced the altar lights without a blush for evil thought or act ; he looked into the radiance of the blazing star like as an eagle gazes on the sun, and walked the tesselated pavement of the Order with a mien as manly, and a step as firm as honest man ere bore. Masonry was as dear to his soul as the loved ones of his household, and the splendid record which to-day we carrv, caught its strength from the gifts of mind and owes its value to the faithfulness of his service. By the terms of his last will and testament I was requested to perform the sad Rites of Masonic friendship and to speak some parting words above his clay.
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And standing before the open grave the Masonic meaning of which we so well comprehend, realizing that neither the grip of the Entered Appren- tice nor the stronger one of the Fellow Craft could raise him up, and that the grip of the lion's paw of the tribe of Judah had lifted him into life eternal be- yond my sight and A-ours, I named him for you and Masonry the Abou Ben Adhem of the Craft.
He also announced the death of S.\muel Lawrence, past grand master, a broad, strong man of attractive character, whose work as a writer on Ma- sonic correspondence we reviewed in our first report twentj'-two years ago. For years he had been "groping in darkness with sightless eyes" and had almost rounded out his seventy-fifth year when with the touch of God's finger that brought rest to his mortal frame, came in on the enfranchised spirit the dawning light of an immortal day.
The grand master submitted fourteen decisions, all of which were ap- proved. No. I presented a question which was entirely new to him and he took careful thought before answering it :
I. A member of a lodge is regularly charged, tried and acquitted. After his acquittal, newly discovered evidence is found bearing against him. Can the case be re-opened and the accused again be tried?
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I am satisfied that only under one set of circumstances can it be done. These circumstances are : If the newly discovered evidence was kept from the knowledge of the lodge through the direct act of the accused or through his influence and the lodge was thereby after the exercise of all reasonable diligence prevented from securing it, the case may be re-opened.
Unless such circumstances as these exist the onl}' remedy for the sub- ordinate lodge is for some one of its members to appeal from the judgment
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of acquittal to the grand lodge. When the case reaches the grand lodge it is within its power to inquire: (i.) Whether the newly discovered evidence is sufficient to justify a change of the judgment. (2.) Whether the subor- dinate lodge in the exercise of proper diligence should have had the evi- dence on the trial. (3.) In thus passing upon the case the grand lodge may with its plenary powers set aside the judgment of not guilty and order a new trial in the subordinate lodge.
In its effects the proper decision of this question is very far reaching. On the one hand, if a subordinate lodge can set aside a solemn jt:dgment of acquittal once for newly discovered evidence, it can do it any number of times, and there would be no end in such cases to trials and retrials. On the other hand, the rights of the lodge are to be protected and its purity preserved. It seems to me this interpretation of the law protects the lodge when it has done all it possibly could to secure the evidence, which evidence has been concealed from it by the accused or his influence, and if the newly discovered evidence in the interest of justice ought to be used, the grand lodge with its ample powers in such matters can order a new trial on proper appeal therefor. Thus the rights of Masonr}', which are sacred, are pre- served, and those of the accused, which are none the less so, will be pro- tected and secured.
We cop3' two others :
5. A suspended Mason cannot visit his lodge, under any eircuinstances, before the full term has expired for which he was suspended, except as a Avitness in some proceeding, under a summons from the lodge.
10. A minor lives under the jurisdiction of one lodge, and just before attaining his twenty-flrst year he moves into the limits of another lodge, which lodge has jurisdiction of him? Held, that as Masonry does not assume control of material until the man is twenty-one yeai's of age, the lodge under whose jurisdiction he resided after reaching his majoritj' is the one entitled to confer the degrees.
We infer froin No. 5 that suspension in Georgia is from membership only and not from the rights of Masonry, else the lodge would be estopped from permitting him to enter for any purpose. The grand master might have added in the case of No. 10, that Masonry assumes no control over any person, no matter what his age, living in its territory however long, unless he puts himself under its control by a petition to become a member. In other words the so-called jurisdiction of a lodge over profanes is purely neg- ative, that is it consists in nothing more than the right to say that if he pe- titions any lodge for the degrees he must petition that one. A lodge has no interest in any man living in its territory except as a possible candidate. If he never becomes a candidate it establishes no relations with him. The moment he removes from its territory, the possibility of its establishing re- lations with him no more exists than if he had never lived there. The neg- ative jurisdiction attaches to the territory. When he leaves the territory it ends instantly and attaches to some other territory.
The meeting of the General Grand Chapter of the United States within
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the jurisdiction seems to have thrown quite a glamour over the grand mas- ter lie says;
This body in the composition of its membership, its jurisdictional area, its large .Masonic responsibilities and its comprehensive treatment of all Ma- sonic interests, has been regarded in many quarters as the representative of what is called the "Aristocracy of the Order." But aristocratic only as ex- pressive of cultiire and refinement of honorable service and intelligent zeal. And thus it was fot:nd to be. For resting upon the instructions of the En- tered Apprentice, adorned with the beauties of the Fellow Craft, and giiided by the wisdom of the Master's degree, the additional attractions which at- tach to the chapter and the council reflect their luster upon the foundation stone of Blue Lodge Masonry.
And in this connection it has been suggested that a better knowledge of Masonic progress and a clearer conception of Masonic needs might be se- cured by combining Avith the usual report on foreign correspondence a brief synopsis of the work and advancement of Chapter Masonry. The subject is one which will well repa}' careful investigation, and though somewhat out of the beaten path, that fact should not deter us from closely examining" into the value of the suggestion. This is essentially the age of progress, and all progress involves sooner or later changes from old methods to new ones, and oftentimes a total surrender, both of prejudice and practice.
After the surrender of the preceding j-ear it is not surprising that the suggestion of further steps in the direction of grand orientism should have seemed superfluous to the committee on general welfare, to whom that por- tion of the address was referred, and that no report was made thereon.
The grand lodge ordered the issue of thirteen charters to new lodges, continued two lodges under dispensation and granted petitions for sixteen more ; listened to an eloquent address from Past Grand Master Irwin, who promised to have his contemplated history which illness had prevented him from preparing, completed b)^ the next year ; investigated and verified the report of the senior grand warden that a brother had attempted to enter the grand lodge in a state of intoxication and, finding that he Avas not a mem- ber, referred his case to his lodge for trial and report ; declared what is termed Cerneau Masonry to be still under the severe condemnation of the grand lodge, as being un-Masonic; and adopted the following resolution:
Resolved, That although it is not held obligatory in visiting a lodge, for the visiting brother to demand the i^roduction of the charter of the lodge A-isited, yet it is his right and should be exercised at his discretion.
John S. Davidson, of Augusta, and A. M. Wolihin, of Macon, were re- spectively re-elected grand master and grand secretary.
The report on correspondence (pp. 114) is again the production of difter- ent hands — three: Benj. H. Bu;ham, W. E. Mi'MFORD and W. S. Ramsey, an interesting review in which, unfortunately, Illinois finds no place.
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IDAHO, 1890.
23RD Annual. Boise City. Sept. 9, 1890.
The Grand Lodge of Idaho issues a volume of proceedings which for printing, paper and make-up, is equal to the best, and speaks loudly for the taste and liberality of the Masons of that young State.
Illinois was represented at the annual communication by Bro. Tuos. C. Maui'IN, past senior grand warden, who presented his credentials during the session and was "on motion" duly received and acknowledged.
The grand master (George L. SHOUi')who is then doubtless in the sober domain of fact, says that peace, good will and harmony prevail throughout the jurisdiction. He had but just come down from that other realm where Masons seem to feel themselves free from all constraint of facts, and there said, to be embalmed in cold type, that " Freemasonry is the oldest organ- ization or society of any now existing on the globe." Branches of the Chris- tian church now existing and presenting an unbroken succession were hoary with age before Freemasonry was dreamed of.
Reporting cases of disputed jurisdiction, the grand master discloses the fact that the laws of Idaho are silent as to the method of determining terri- torial jurisdiction. He decided that it should be determined by air lines, and the grand lodge made the rule a fixed one. Holding that a candidate should not be advanced until proficient, except in extraordinary cases, he declined to grant a dispensation to confer the three degrees on a candidate in three consecutive evenings the object being to furnish a candidate for the grand lecturer to exemplify the work upon, wisely concluding that the ad- vantage gained was not sufficient to warrant a departure from a good rule. In the case of a brother who committed murder and then immediately took his own life, he decided:
"A Mason who commits a premeditated murder is not entitled to a Masonic burial. Had A B lived charges would have been preferred against him, and he would have been expelled from the order.
" Masonry teaches us to obey the moral laws and the laws of the country in which we live. A Mason who has willfully committed murder or other infamous crime, if known, should debar him of all the rights and privileges of Masonry."
No one will question the grand master's conclusion relative to one who has 1.0(11/ icily committed an infamous crime, but the fact of immediate suicide will always raise the question of responsible mental soundness. In this case the grand master satisfied his own mind on this score by a per- sonal investigation.
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The deputy grand master (George Ainslie) submitted among his official acts during the absence of the grand master from the jurisdiction, the opin- ion that ' saloon-keepers ought not to be admitted to the mysteries of Free- masonry' as the already "conclusively" expressed will of the grand lodge, and also that honorary membership could not be recognized under their law, and the grand lodge approved.
The grand lecturers submitted an elaborate plan for disseminating the work, providing for an elective grand lecturer and district grand lecturers appointed by him, district lodges of instruction, etc., and requiring a master elect to have the grand lecturer's certificate of proficiency as a condition of installation, but it failed of adoption. The chairman of the committee on foreign correspondence made a special report on the application of grand lodges for recognition, recommending it in the case of the Grand Lodge of North Dakota because it was regularly organized and had the recognition of the parent grand lodges, and in the case of the Grand Lodge of the Fed- eral District of Mexico because it had been recognized by ' ' California, Ari- zona, Oregon, New Mexico, and other American grand lodges, and bears a very high reputation wherever known," and recommending the withhold- ing of recognition in the cases of the grand lodges of Victoria, New Zealand, and New South Wales, chiefly because evidence was lacking that they had been authorized and recognized by the mother grand lodges. He might have added in the case of North Dakota, that the parent grand lodge in hastening to accord recognition to the new body thereby emphasized its rec- ognition of the right of the lodges in the new State to form a grand lodge without anybody's permission. We can find nothing in the record to indi- cate whether the report was adopted or not.
The pending constitutional amendment proposing to adopt the New York plan of forbidding dimission until the brother asking a dimit produces a certificate of election in some other lodge, failed of adoption.
The appointment of Philip Ma.as as the representative of Idaho near the Grand Lodge of Illinois was announced.
The one lodge under dispensation failed for some reason unguessable to the appropriate committee, to make returns, and its existence was continued conditionally.
George Ainslie was elected grand master ; James H. Wickersham re- elected grand secretary, both of Boise City.
The report on correspondence (pp. 40) again by Bro. Charles C. Ste- venson, briefly reviews the proceedings of thirty-two grand lodges, Illinois not among them. Bro. Stevenson confesses that an overdose of politics in- cident to the first campaign in the new State, has materially interfered
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with the work, and as the fathers were "resolv'd against all politicks, as what never yet conduc'd to the welfare of the lodge, nor ever will," so we presume our brother is iirnily convinc'd that poHticks and reviewing are equally incompatible.
INDIANA, 1891.
70TH Annual. iNoiANArous. May 26, 1S91.
The representative of Illinois, Daniel McDonald, was one of the thir- teen past grand masters present. Past Grand Master Wm. Hacker was not present. For the first time in forty-six years past, as he says in his letter of regrets, he found himself unable to participate in the labors of the grand lodge, and having passed his four score years he recognized the prob ability that his work was done. A very cordial response was made by a committee of past grand masters for the grand lodge.
The gi-and master (Jacob J. Todd) says in his address that the year just closed has been without any startling or unusual events. Death had passed them by, but he calls a long roll of those dead in other jurisdictions, among them — in jurisdictions we have already noticed — Grand Secretary Abell, of California, and Senior Grand Warden Niblick, of Florida, and also Bro. Albert Pike, of the District of Columbia.
In the case of a lodge the surrender of whose charter had been accepted, but in which it afterward appeared that the vote to surrender had been taken at a called meeting and that the financial statement was not satisfac- tory, the master was at once notified that the charter was arrested and the lodge was summoned to show cause why it shovUd not be annulled.
He properly refused requests for dispensations to elect officers made prior to the date of the annual election and in anticipation of a failure to elect at the proper time, and put his foot down heavily upon violations of the law forbidding begging circulars.
Information having reached the grand master through the public press that a lodge had in a testimonial to one of its deceased members injected a reference to partisan politics, he caused an immediate investigation to be made, from which it appeared that the master of the lodge was alone re-
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sponsible for its publication, that it was never reported to the lodge and no record was made of it. He accordingly suspended the master from office and placed the lodge in charge of the senior warden. The grand lodge prop- erly endorsed his action.
Grand Secretary Smythe thus concludes his annual report:
Indiana is to-day one of the greatest states in the American Union. Her capital city has become noted as one of the chief cities of the country for con- ventions, both National and State. The occasions for decorating the build- ings of the city, both public and private are numerous. There has never been any provision made for the purchase of an American flag, nor the erection of a flag-staff upon Masonic Temple. The omission is very notice- able upon occasions referred to. In 1864 this grand lodge, by donating one thousand dollars for the relief of sick and wounded soldiers, thereby assisted in the defense of the American flag — dear to the heart of every American citizen. The grand lodge has grown and prospered under the protecting folds of this old banner of liberty, and I therefore submit, in all seriousness, that the flag under which we live and prosper, should float from the top of Masonic Temple upon all proper occasions, and that provision to that end should be made by the grand lodge at this meeting.
The grand lodge promptly seconded this patriotic suggestion, and or- dered the grand secretary to purchase both flag and staff.
The trustees reported that the grand lodge has $12,000 invested in long time county bonds, and were instructed to continue that system of loaning the surplus.
In a case before the committee on appeals, wherein after a plea of guilty the vote on expulsion stood six to six, a second ballot the same, and a third seven for to six against, the accused was declared expelled. This action was properly reversed on the ground that a tie vote was a failure to expel and the master should then have taken the vote on the next highest penalty. The case was remanded with instructions that the lodge proceed to assess a penalty, beginning with a vote on indefinite suspension, the penalty next to expulsion. The report of the committee is throughout a model of clearness and judicial fairness.
The following, concurred in by the grand lodge, on a case of invasion of the jurisdiction of an Illinois lodge explains itself:
The committee on jurisprudence, to whom was referred that part of the grand master's address referring to the controversy between Triluminar Lodge, No. 767, of South Chicago, 111., and Colfax Lodge, No. 3 78, of Low- ell, Ind. , beg leave to report that they have examined the papers and cor- respondence in the ca.se and that the grand master's action in the matter should be approved, and Colfax Lodge, No. 378, should pay to Triluminar Lodge, No. 767, the full amount of fees for the degrees received from Henry Neuson, but whose petition was received and acted upon, and degrees con- ferred by Colfax Lodge, and that Colfax Lodge should make such apology to Triluminar Lodge as is proper under the circumstances.
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Newly appointed representatives of other grand lodges were received and accredited b}^ vote of the grand lodge.
The grand lodge annulled one charter, granted one and continued three under dispensation ; decided adversely on the recommendation of the grand- master to reprint the early proceedings, on account of the great expense and the small encouragement in the way of subscriptions ; declined to reduce the minimum fee for the degrees from twenty to fifteen dollars ; recognized the Grand Lodge of Tasmania, and declined to recognize the Grand Lodge of New Zealand. The ground of action assigned in the latter case is that fifty- eight of the one hundred and forty-eight lodges in the jurisdiction withheld their allegiance and consent, and that the movement for forming an indepen- dent grand lodge has not been concurred m by the parent grand lodges. We regret to see this denial by the Grand Lodge of Indiana of the principle of Masonic self-government firmly established in this country for more than one hundred years and to which all American grand lodges, both in the L^nited States and Canada, have appealed as their warrant for existence. The question to be settled when a new grand lodge applies for fraternal recognition is simply one of fact. If in an autonomous state, territory, prov- ince or colony where no independent grand lodge exists, a majority of the lodges, not less than three, unite to form an independent grand lodge and do so in a regular and orderly manner, the question of the policy of forming the new body is foreclosed for all outsiders because it has been settled by the highest authority. It is quite certain that the brethren composing the Grand Lodge of New Zealand regret that the lodges have not shown a great- er unanimity of allegiance quite as much as we do, but a decisive majority of the lodges — nearly two-thirds — have determined that with only the pres- ent degree of unanimity the interests of the Craft in that Colony will be best subserved by the establishment of an independent grand lodge. Having done this, the new body has the same claims to recognition as have the grand lodges of Indiana and Illinois. It is of course quite proper that other grand lodges should take ample time to satisfy themselves that the proceedings have been regular, and that the new body has the allegiance of a majority of the lodges, but we do not understand that the Indiana committee ques- tion either of these facts. At all events the two reasons assigne*l for with- holding recognition are that a minority of the lodges hold aloof, and that the movement has not been concun-ed in by the parent grand lodges. If there is any reason why a grand lodge which is already satisfied that an in- dependent grand lodge has come into being in the same way that its own acknowledged regular existence came about, we know of no good reason why it should wait for the additional evidence which recognition by the par- ent grand lodges would supply. Enough is as good as a feast.
Nicholas R. Ruckle was elected grand master; Wm. H. Smvthk re- elected grand secretary, both of Indianapolis.
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The report on correspondence (pp. 151) by Bro. William Commons is far above the average of 'prentice work in breadth and ability. One recognizes in it at once the touch of a strong hand, and it is at the same time so fresh and sparkhng that we cannot but regret that our reading of it is necessarily so hurried.
Illinois receives generous and very complimentary notice at his hands. The following will give an idea of how we look to an outsider:
No confusion has arisen ; no lodge has surrendered its charter ; no lodge "has required being disciplined, and no evils had called for words of warning to the Craft. A vast amount of good work has been done, and a noteworthy feature of the workings of the Craft was the general desire manifested by the lodges to procure for themselves better halls and furniture ; and at the same time the quality of the membership has been steadily maintained and their mutual obligations better and better fulfilled.
A notable evidence that peace and harmony prevailed throughout the jurisdiction, is the fact that the grand master had not been called iipon to render an official decision in any case where issue had been joined. All he had been required to do was to answer questions and ' ' give good and whole- some instruction." Some disputes had arisen among lodges regarding juris- diction, but all had been settled e.xcept two, and they were so nearl}^ adjusted that he did not deem it necessary to report them to the grand lodge. The income is increasing and the accumulation of the grand lodge steadily grow- ing. The committee on grievances was almost without work, and altogether, the grand master was justitied in congratulating the grand lodge on the suc- cessful closing of the first half century of its life, and in predicting for it a glorious future.
The address of Grand Orator Wolf is highly praised as the utterance of a speaker who " has faith in Masonry and has courage in his faith," and who " with beautiful diction and strong language urges upon Masons the strength of our first charges of good citizenship and obedience to constituted authority."
The Illinois report on correspondence comes in for pleasant mention and valued recognition as standing for the supremacy of Ancient Craft Masonry. We regret^ that we shall not hear from Bro. Commons next year, but we doubt not he will again have his innings. There is always work for such as he. Past Grand Master Thos. B. Long, of Terra Haute, succeeds him on the committee.
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INDIAN TERRITORY, 1890.
i6th Annual. Muskogee. Nov. 4, 1890.
The representative of Illinois, Past Grand Master Joseph S. Murkow, -was present and on duty as usual in the Southeast.
The grand master (Leo E. Bennett) was not called upon to announce the death of any grand or past grand officers of his owij jurisdiction. He seems to have exercised a judicious repressing influence in the matter of new lodges, refusing dispensations at two points and discouraging their being asked for at others. He thinks the lodges they already have should be more thoroughly cultivated rather than new ones formed, and would raise the number of petitioners to twenty as one of the conditions of starting a new one. Ten decisions he considered worthy of report, of which the following iave general interest:
First. The loss of the tirst two fingers of right hand is a bar to recep- tion of petition for initiation.
Second. That the Grand Lodge of the Indian Territory recognizes per- petual jurisdiction over rejected material.
Fourth. A lodge has the right and ought to prohibit the use of tobacco in its lodge room.
Fifth. That it is un- Masonic and forbidden to confer degrees tipon the Sabbath.
Seventh. Charter must always be present when lodge is open.
The grand master is of the kind who cuts the pattern of the grand lodge work in a style to suit himself, and accordingly put several matters into his address in the form of resolution or of statement ready for the action of the grand lodge, most of which were adopted. Of the latter were elaborate forms of petition for degrees and report thereon designed to permit no scan- dalous or immoral men to squeeze through, and a resolution abolishing the alleged past master's degree, both adopted over the adverse report of the committee on law and usage. The committee recommended the approval of the decisions quoted above with the following modifications :
Decision one. We recommend the following modification : If the de- formity of the candidate is not such as to prevent him from being instructed in the arts or mysteries of Freemasonry, the admission will not be an in- fringement upon the ancient landmarks. Adopted.
That the second decision be modified so as to read: This grand lodge recognizes the jurisdiction of its lodges over rejected material as continuing so long as the material remains resident within the jurisdiction of this grand lodge. Adopted.
His recommendation that selling " whisky, alcohol, ^'■/>/_i,'v;- (which we
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presume to be an aboriginal euphemism for some variety of fire-water) or any other intoxicating beverage" be made a Masonic offense, and that saloon- keepers be declared ineligible, took the following form on its unanimous. passage :
Resolved, That it shall be a Masonic offense for a Mason in this juris- diction to engage in the dramshop or saloon business, and upon three months" notice to discontinue the same and upon failure to do so, Masons continuing- in the business shall upon trial and con\-iction be expelled from all the rights; and privileges of Masonry.
Resolved, That exery person engaged in the saloon business either as". owners or bartender shall be ineligible to receive the degrees of Freemasonry^ in this jurisdiction.
The grand master (who in this matter reminds the grand lodge that to» a marked degree he "may be likened to a shepherd who stands ever watch- ful to guard his flock from danger") took a tilt with "Cerneauism" with the* result to furnish some interesting reading for those who think it unfraternal to suspect the Scotch Riters of using the machinery of the grand lodge to» further the interests or the schemes of the supreme council. After premis- ing that we (that is Free and Accepted Masons who are not members of the Scottish Rite) are just as well able to judge of the regularity or legality of the claimants to exclusive jurisdiction as though we Avere admitted to its most guarded chambers, he proceeds to build his logical cob-house of ex- clusive jurisdiction based on prior occupancy, as follows:
First. Two grand bodies claiming exclusive jurisdiction of the same degrees cannot both lawfully exist in the same territory at the same time.
Second. The first lawfully constituted body working Masonic degrees, established within a territor}% and duly recogTiized by corresponding bodies, thereby obtains and is entitled to exclusive jurisdiction in such territory, and. any other body of the same degree or rite entering later within such occu- pied territory is a trespasser and unlawful.
This grand lodge is occupj-ing the Indian Territory and has been so duly recognized by the grand lodges in all portions of the world. Therefore any other grand body claiming power and right to confer the three degrees of Masonry in this Territory is unlawful and clandestine, no matter what may be its origin, its history or its purpose.
Like\A-ise the Indian Territory is occupied by a Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons which is duly recognized by sister grand chapters ; is occupied by a Council of R(wal and Select Masters, by a Commandery of Knights. Templar, and by the Supreme Council of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite for the Southern Jurisdiction, all of which bodies are lawfully consti- tuted and established within our borders ; and all these rest upon our Blue Lodges and the three degrees therein conferred.
We, therefore, recognize the above named bodies as having obtained, exclusive jurisdiction in the Indian Territory over their several grades, by virtue of the foregoing principles. By wise and timely legislation we should, prevent any other bodies claiming control of such, degrees entering our ter-
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Titory and misleading otir brethren. Some may hold that we have no right ito legislate upon this matter. I simply propose that we shoiild legislate to protect our brethren, who seek membership in the other organizations. We have a clear right and it is our bf>unden duty to shield our brethren against any disturbing element or clandestine body, no matter whence the source or what the name.
The matter went to a committee of which Past Senior Grand Warden Hubert W. Hill was chairman, and who thus report:
From all the proceedings of sister grand lodges which have been sent to this grand lodge, it is manifest that there has been a great deal of dissen- sion among our brethren elsewhere, owing to the attempt of a number of brethren in the East to establish clandestine bodies of various so-called " higher" degrees. By a reference to ot:r own proceedings of the year 1SS9 on pages 37-44 will be found a full history of the controversy as well as a history of the degrees. From this it is apparent that our grand master has taken the onlj' true position on which we as Blue Lodge Masons can stand. Without professmg. to know the workings of the Scottish Rite, we have access to all the printed proceedings, and know by well attested history that the so-called "Cerneau" bodies are comparatively recent in their oi-ganiza- tion, and have attempted to invade the jurisdiction of the older bodies. If this matter were one which affected Scottish Rite Masons only, we could well afford to let the matter alone, but since "Cerneauism" has sought to enter into fraternal relations with the Grand Orient of France and other bodies claiming control of the Blue degrees, and has thus acknowledged as genuine Masonry that which every grand lodge in the United States has re- pudiated, and has asserted claims to the control of the Blue Lodge, the mat- ter has become one which deeply concerns the welfare and harmony of the Craft. No true Mason would urge his brethren to the course which the head •of the "Cerneaus" did to those Ohio Masons who had been directed to sever their connection with Cerneauism. Masonrj' is able to settle all its troubles within its own fold without recourse to the law, but this was re- sorted to and the grand lodge defied in Ohio, Iowa and Nebraska. Fortu- nately for the Indian Territory we are not troubled by Cerneau emissaries. Peace prevails Avithin our borders, and our brethren are of one mind to have it continue. It is better to take steps to prevent an evil than to wait until compelled to undertake a cure. It is for this reason that our grand master has presented the matter and has asked that we take proper steps to prevent further trouble. Your committee fully endorse the position and views of our grand master and recommend the adoption of the following:
Resolved, That the Grand Lodge of Indian Territory, A. F. and A. M. re-affirm the declaration of Masonic principles set forth in the address of Grand Master Bennett, touching Masonic occupancy of the territory con- trolled by it — Indian Territory and Oklahoma — -and hereby instructs its sub- ordinates that it recognizes as legal occupants of the Indian Territory the following named bodies and their subordinates, to-wit: The Grand Lodge of A. F. and A. il. of Indian Territory; the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of Indian Territory in connection \\ith the General Grand Chapter; the General Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters ; The Grand En- campment of Knights Templar of the United States; the A. and A. Scottish Rite Supreme Council for the Southern Jurisdiction of the L^nited States of which Albert Pike is the present Sovereign Grand Commander.
Resol-c'ed, That in order none may profess ignorance of these matters,
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the grand secretan^ is hereby instructed to prepare a circular letter and send the same to all of the lodges in this jurisdiction embodying the above reso- lution together with a warning against all other bodies claiming control of the degrees conferred by the bodies named.
This sounds marvellously like the arguments we have heard from other jurisdictions where the principle of exclusive jurisdiction attaching to prior occupancy has been invoked as an excuse for dragging the grand lodge into factional fights of extra-Masonic bodies, and to explain the alacrity of grand lodges in taking the initiative in the btrsiness, not only without the procure- ment of the supreme council but against the advice — superfluous of course — of the most trusted of the imperial authorities against such procurement. From the words we have italicised on down to the resolution there is not a line to indicate that // was written by the deputy of the suprevie council. In the resolution itself, apart from the significant fact that in the action of every grand lodge that has touched this business the supreme council always gets recognition by name, there is nothing to give away its parentage but a single line, but that is a most significant one. AVe refer to the language wherein the Masonic occupancy of Oklahoma is spoken of as being under the control of the Grand Lodge of Indian Territory. Oklahoma having become autonomous is no longer under the control of the Grand Lodge of Indian Territory, but is Masonically open territory, subject to be colonized by other jurisdictions on equal terms with that grand lodge until a majority of the lodges existing there exercise the right of forming a grand lodge of their own, which accrues to them from the political change accomplished. Per- haps no one would be so likely to overlook the recent independence of Okla- homa, or forget that the boundaries within the republic are not always co- terminous with those which mark the divisions of the Holy Empire as one who like Bro. Hill is the deputy of the Supreme Council, S. J., "for the In- dian Territory aiid Oklahoma." But there is one thing that is not forgotten, the supreme council gets the usufruct as usual and the resolution which starts out by re-affirming the principle of exclusive jurisdiction consequent on prior occupancy, ends by declaring the Southern Supreme Council to be the original, only and exclusive imperial occupant when there is not a Scotch Rite organisation of any degree in the whole territory! Surely in accom- plishing this the deputy fully justified the prescience of the supreme council which less than two weeks before had commended his industry and vigilance and invested him with the thirty-third degree and coroneted and proclaimed him an honorary member.
The grand lodge having abdicated its position as the exclusive fountain of authority in Masonry by declaring several other bodies to be with it " legal occupants of the Indian Territory," made further overtures in the direction of grand orientism by adopting — under the lead of Bro. Hill — the following :
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Whereas, This grand lodge has been officially informed of the organi- zation of the Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Indian Territory.
Resolved, That we congratulate the Royal Arch Masons of Indian Ter- ritorj'upon the progress and prosperity of Royal Arch Masonry, and request the grand royal arch chapter to exchange proceedings with this grand lodge in the years to come, that we may be fully informed of all that concerns our mutual interests, that the bands of fraternal affection may be strengthened, and that together we maj' labor for the general interests of Masonry.
The grand lodge also recognized the Grand Lodge of Victoria ; extended representation without the voting franchise to lodges under dispensation ; chartered two new lodges in Oklahoma, thereby making the number there sufficient to form a grand lodge; changed its time of meeting to the third Tuesday in August, and returned to the old ways by the adoption of the one ballot system.
Leo. Edmond Bennett, of Muskogee, grand master, and Joseph Samuel MuRROW, Atoka, grand secretary, were re-elected.
The report on correspondence (pp. 130) is the work of Grand Secretary MuRROW and Robert W. Hill. Bro. Murrow reviews our semi-centennial (1889) volume of proceedings, and rejoices that he has at last been permitted to see Grand Secretary Munn's picture in default of the man himself, and says "he has a fine face — truly an index of the man — business." Grand Master Smith's address and Grand Orator Lorimer's oration are masterly — abounding in wit and wisdom. Of the report on correspondence he says :
The introduction surveys the entire Masonic field. He says truly: " It still remains true that the events and discussions growing out of the rela- tions of Masonry with associations of Masons, other than lodges, calling themselves 'Masonic bodies,' are by far the most important that the year has brought forth." O these higher degrees, so-called, how much trouble they cause ! Pride, a desire for some secret somebody else is not in posses- sion of, a love of title, of trappings, etc., etc., everything but trite Masonry, have fastened on to symbolic Masonry and are trying to suck the life out of it. The Scottish Rite, however, seems to cause the chief disturbances.
The report has an added value from the fact that it reproduces the Charges of a Freemason and the General Regulations.
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KANSAS. 1S91.
35™ Annual. Fort Scott. Feb. iS, 1891.
The representative of Illinois, Past Grand Master Matthew M. ]\Iii,lek, was present. The grand master (John C. Postlethwaite) displays some quiet humor in his accounts of discipline :
Another lodge was charged with secretly conferring the degrees over the objection of a brother. The investigation conducted by W. Bro. E. H. Crawford, as m}' special deputy, develops some irregulaiity on the part of the lodge, but the evidence shows that the complainant was engaged at the same time in conducting friends to a certain secret place where he kept in- toxicants. We infer from the evidence that the brother was not in a condi- tion to complain of the wrong doings of others, or assist in the conferring of the degrees. In all these cases the lodges have had wholesome advice, and by the reports of the special deputies, the cases do not prove to be as griev- ous as at first represented to me. I therefore recommend that no further action be taken.
Of the nine decisions reported we copy the follovring :
1 . A brother who has been elected to any office in his lodge and re- moves from the grand jurisdiction before installation, is entitled to his dimit on application.
2. An objection to the use of the name of Christ in prayer by a chap- lain of the lodge, is not good and should be ruled out of order. The Holy Bible is the rule and guide to the Mason's faith, and is the Great Light in Masonry. It is broad enough to accommodate ever}- creed or sect acknowl- edging the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man.
4. A town having no Masonic lodge, situated equi-distant from two other towns containing lodges, is in the concurrent jurisdiction of both lodges. For the measurement of distances should be from or to the corporate limits, regardless of the particular location of the hall in the town.
5. A master has the right to call a special meeting of his lodge at any time when in his judgment it would be beneficial to and for the good of ]\Ia- sonry. And ma}- make the order for such special communication during the recess of his lodge.
7. Masonic halls leased for a term of }-ears, cannot be dedicated.
8. A lodge may appear in the funeral procession of a brother when it is not conducted by it or any other ^Masonic association, without obtaining a special dispensation.
9. A lodge loses jurisdiction over material as soon as it passes beyond its jurisdictional lines, with bona fide intent to locate elsewhere.
No. I is good sense and good law. No chaplain ought to make No. 2 necessar}'. If the Bible is broad enough to accommodate every creed, let the chaplain reflect its breadth and inclusiveness, not those centripetal feat-
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tires that always and everywhere have been the parents of sectaries. We can imagine no more complete iion scquitiir than this of the grand master in invoking the breadth of the Bible to justify something narrower. No. 4 develops for the first time the idea of concurrent jurisdiction outside of a town in which two or more lodges exist. Perhaps that is the reason why we doubt its wisdom, but it seems to us at first blush to be bad polic}- to multiply exceptions to the general rule that territorial jurisdiction extends half-way on straight lines between neighboring lodges. The rule laid down for meas- urements is precisely the opposite of ours, which makes the street door of the lodge the starting point. No. 8 is also opposed to our law, lodges in Illinois being forbidden to appear at a funeral unless to perform the burial service. No. 9 puts into a formal decision a proposition whose correctness we have insisted upon elsewhere in this report and in those of former years.
From the character of his correspondence the grand master is of the opinion that the law requiring the lodge by-laws, the constitution and by- laws of the grand lodge and the ancient charges and regulations to be read annually in the lodges, has been violated, and he wisely says that if the lodges will adhere to this requirement, and in addition read the report of the committee on correspondence, they will have fewer difficulties and less ap- peals to the grand master for light.
The grand secretarj^ reports the completion of the reprint of Vol. I. of the proceedings, and says the whole edition will be needed to supply the lodges, now rapidly increasing.
The grand lodge granted ten charters and continued one dispensation ; recognized the grand lodges of New Zealand and Tasmania ; took favorable action on the request of the Grand Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star for a joint committee to devise a plan for an institution for the better care of the widows and orphans of deceased brethren ; witnessed an exemplification of the work by the board of custodians ; listened to an excellent address from the grand orator, Bro. the Rev. James G. Dougherty, a strong but restrained exposition of what Masonry is and does, broad in spirit and close in insight ; sent a constitutional amendment involving the New York plan of transferring a member from one lodge to another without permitting him to touch the earth in his passage, to the committee on jurisprudence, it is to be hoped for final slumber ; and fixed upon Leavenworth for its next place of meeting.
Andrew M. C.\llaham, of Topeka, was elected grand master ; John H. Brown, Kansas City, Kan., re-elected grand secretary.
The report on correspondence (pp. 172) bj' the grand secretar}-. Past Grand Master John H. Brown, is the twentieth from the same har.d. He has succeeded admirably in his avowed purpose of crowding a good deal of information into a small space. Of this space he gives Illinois a generous share. He says of the address of Grand Master Pearson that it furnishes
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ample proof that the members of our grand lodge know just who to select for a first-class executive officer, one who knows his duty and faithfully per- forms it. He says much more that is complimentary of the address, and quoting from it relative to the schools of instruction and the ritual he points the extract with a timely amen. Bro. Moulton's graceful speech on his re- ception as the grand representative of Kansas, is reproduced, and happy se- lections are made from the address of Grand Orator Wolf.
Quoting from our report of 1890, wherein, inferring from remarks then under consideration, his readiness to accord recognition to such grand lodges in Latin countries as could demonstrate their independence of control or in- terference on the part of other bodies, without reference to the legitimacy of the lodges uniting to create them, we doubted if he would be ready to rec- ognize an English-speaking grand lodge notwithstanding its individual mem- bers might all be known to be lawfully-made Free and Accepted Masons, without first inquiring whether the lodges which united to form the new grand lodge were charterless, unconstitutional bodies, or had derived their warrant of existence from some legitimate source, and said we knew of no good reason why those who were possibly if not probably dissenters from the original plan of Masonry, should be granted immunity from the same inquiry which we insist upon when dealing with those whom we knew to be, as in- dividual Masons, of legitimate origin, Bro. Brown says:
The foregoing criticism savors very strongly of hair-splitting, a business we have never been inclined to engage in. When any grand lodge comes to us having complied in all respects with the laws and usages of Freemasonry as admitted among us, we are ready and willing to accord them a cordial and fraternal recognition, and not until then. From the lessons we have been taught in Masonry, we are led to believe that the Masonic family is rather an extensive one, and for that reason we apprehend that the household of the faithful is badly scattered, and its members may be found in every clime. In such matters we propose to be as watchful, in all matters touching the Masonic lineage of those who may seek our favor and confidence, as our good Bro. Robbms ; however, we think it is not well to be too exacting in our re- quirements.
We suppose we ought not to look a gift horse in the mouth, but this seems to us rather an ungracious way of telling us that he ai^rees with us. He does agree with us if he demands as a condition of recognition that the body asking it shall comply ' ' in all respects with the laws and usages of Freemasonry as admitted among us," and yet as he thinks we are inclined to split hairs we suppose he sees some ground of disagreement. As he qual- ifies his promise of as close scrutiny of the Masonic lineage of recognition- seeking bodies as the next man, with the confession that he thinks it is not well to be too exacting in our requirements, we can only infer that he thinks it savors of hair-splitting to require of lodges composed of individuals whose Masonry is of doubtful legitimacy the same authority for their existence as lodges that we require of those of whose individual legitimacy there is no
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question whatever. If it seems a little fine drawn to him to insist that the lodges must have charters from some authorized Masonic source before they can create a recognizable grand lodge, it will perhaps help him to look at the matter from a new standpoint if we recall the to him familiar Hiram Lodge (Conn.) incident, on which he made a report in 1888, correctly assuming that the lodge and its members were properly under the ban of non-intercourse. These men were all confessedly lawfully-made Masons, but they were assum- ing to work under the authority of the Oxn.^rd charter, an authority which lapsed on the formation of the Grand Lodge of Connecticut a hundred years before. If three or more lodges possessing the same sort of charter were to report that they had created a grand lodge and in its formation had ' ' com- phed in all i-espects with the laws and usages of Freemasonry as admitted among us," would Bro. Brown consider it splitting hairs if some one were to suggest the propriety of going behind the returns and inquiring whether these bodies had the necessary status to form a grand lodge? If not, is it splitting hairs to insist that other alleged lodges coming forward with the same claim, whose members are not even known to have been lawfully made,, should be subjected to the same inquiry?
We observe that under Maine our brother considers it "safe to say that the action of the Grand Lodge of Illinois in the Crum case was unfortunate, and has injured the name of our noble Institution beyond question," but we do not find that he considers it safe to reproduce side by side — as we have so long urged him to do — the Charges of a Freemason concerning God and re- ligion and his own declaration, to- wit: "Wesaj' unhesitatingly, without fear or favor, that any man who does not believe m the authenticity of the holy scriptures should never seek admission in our order." We have no doubt, judging from our personal knowledge of our brother, that he thor- oughly enjoys his fellowship in ]\Iasonry with many who do not believe in the divine authenticity of the scriptures, certainly not in that portion of them which is most important in his view, and we look forward somewhat hope- fully for the time when he will be ready to admit that the Charges of a Free- mason, which are the informing soul of Masonry, embody the highest wis- dom in nothing more than that portion of them which avowedly makes Ma- sonry instead of dogma the center of union and thereby conciliates true friendship among those whom the latter would keep at a perpetual distance.
We are glad to find the following protest against the principle involved in the action of the Grand Lodge of Tennessee upon which we animadverted in our last report:
The grand lodge assumed penal jurisdiction and suspended over twelve hundred Masons without the form of trial for non-payment of dues. This is in Tennessee; if in Kansas we would do some kicking before we would sub- mit to this wholesale process of depriving Masons of their rights by resolu- ti'on. There is something stronger than changing laws that bind Masons to- gether. We are not m favor of the exercise of these extraordinary judicial
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powers of the gi'and lodges. All such in our judgment are productive of more evil than good results. They savor too much of " snap judgments," and these actions never look well when they emanate from an Institution like ours. ^
The fact that "fero. Brown has purposely condensed himself has by no means left his report poor in good things which we should be glad to copy or summarize if time permitted.
KENTUCKY, 1890.
■gisT Annual. Louisville. Oct. i, 1890.
M. W. E. B. Jones, the representative of Illinois, was not among the fifteen past grand masters present, the list being headed by Thomas Todd Avho was grand master in 1853-5.
The address of the grand master (William W. Clarke) is a paper of very great breadth and ability, and the presentation of subjects touched upon are generally models of clear and complete statement. He announced the decease of Past Grand Master Charles Euington who died on the seventy- sixth anniversary of his birth.
Of the grand representative system he says:
In this connection it may not be amiss to call attention of the grand lodge to certam questionings heard from some quarters of the utility of the whole system of representation among grand lodges, and the propriety of its abolition. I am not prepared to recommend a step which would result in the disruption of inter-grand lodge comity. That the system is not as efficient as it should be is easy of demonstration ; that it may be made effect- ual in the accomplishment of much good is as clear. To this end, therefore, I would suggest that the representatives of the Grand Lodge of Kentucky be commissioned for a definite time ; that absence from two consecutive com- munications of the grand lodge to which they are accredited, or failure to re- port their attendance thereat, should work a forfeiture of commission, and that a letter of instructions be prepared defining the duties of representa- tives, to be forwarded to each representative of the Grand Lodge of Ken- tucky, and to accompanj' each commission subsequently issued.
The subject was not reported upon by the committee on correspondence to whom it was sent.
In 1S8S Grand Master Hofper (Kentucky) said the question whether even
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the grand master could open a lodge in the absence of the master and war- dens was one on which Masonic experts differed. Grand Master Clarke solved the doubt, if any remained, by authorizing a past master of a lodge whose master and wardens were permanently absent or disabled, to congre- gate the lodge on a certain date and such other times prior thereto as the good of Masonry or the lodge might require.
In a case wherein the grand lodge had arrested a charter without first citing the lodge to show cause why its charter should not be arrested, he de- clared the proceeding void and restored the charter.
During the year certain brethren of vSan Domingo had endeavored to se- cure a dispensation for a lodge in that republic, but on account of what seemed to hmi grave constitutional difficulties and other reasons, he had not encouraged the movement. The committee on correspondence reporting on the subject say, the grand lodge concurring:
The committee are unable to see why the brethren asking the dispensa- tion should have wandered so far from home to promote this object, when there are divers jurisdictions lying much clo.ser to them; some of them, too, their own kith and kin, belonging to the same stock and speaking the same language.
The committee hail with pleasure the disposition in the countries where the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite jDrevails, to organize symbolic lodges independent of any alliances with the so-called higher degrees, but the com- mittee do not see any good reason for organizing s3-mbolic lodges where the territory is already occupied to another Rite. It will only create confusion, and, we believe, will hinder the progress of the object sought to be obtained and so earnestly desired. We believe that the safest plan is to effect a sep- aration of the symbolic degrees from the so-called higher degrees in a peace- able manner, and not by friction. This can be accomplished by trial, pa- tience and perseverance.
The committee are therefore of the opinion that the grand master did right in refusing the petition of the brethren at San Domingo, and we com- mend him for his wise and conservative course.
Which reminds us of the advice given by the old, retiring judge to his young successor on the bench: " Don't give reasons for your decisions, for while your decisions will probably be right, your reasons will probably be wrong." W^e have no criticism to make on the decision not to grant the dis- pensation. That is a matter for the grand lodge to settle without the obtrus- ion of advice from the outside, and in determining it the Grand Lodge of Kentucky may have shown the greatest wisdom. But when brethren tired of their dissent from the original plan of Masonry are desirous of putting themselves in accord with the loyal Fraternity, we don't think it becomes a grand lodge organized upon the original plan — and requiring its constituents to reiterate at least annually the solemn promise to discountenance all dis- senters from it — to couple its refusal of the bread asked for with the advice to continue a diet of stones.
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Of one branch of the grand master's duties Bro. Clarke well says:
Of the many and varied duties of the grand master, none is more im- portant, and certainly none so severely puts to the test his fitness and qual- ification for his high office, than that of passing ujDon and deciding the num- erov:s and often intricate questions submitted to him, requiring, as it fre- quently does, investigation into every branch of the order, its ritual, its philosoph)', its theology, its history, and its jurisprudence. At times, like the clerks in chancery in the framing of writs, under the old English law, he may frame a decision in consimili casu, and, again, with powers greater than theirs, with nothing to guide him but that vague line which may be designated the trend of legislation, and his own conceptions of the purposes of the order, he finds himself pro tempore the law-making power.
We copy from his decisions some that for various reasons are of general interest:
I. A past grand master of another jurisdiction, unless at the time a member of a lodge subject to the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Ken- tucky, and having received the Past Master's degree, can not install the of- ficers of a lodge within this jurisdiction.
6. The right to install his successor is as much a prerogative of a mas- ter as is the right to perform any other of the functions of his office.
12. Not more than five Masons can be made at a meeting. This is a part of the common law of Masonry, and, of course, refers to the initiation of candidates into the Entered Apprentice degree. Of the three degrees, only the second section of the second degree can be conferred on more than one candidate at the same time.
13. The charter of a lodge was arrested by grand lodge for non-pa j^- ment of dues; subsequently, and at the same session, the dues were re- mitted. Held, that thereby the grand lodge overruled its former action and restored the charter.
17. It is the duty of the treasurer to pay all drafts made on him by the lodge m the order in which they are presented, if properly drawn and certi- fied. He has no right to, nor authoritj' over, the funds of his lodge other than as their custodian; and failure or refusal to obey the mandate of the lodge or master, when legally expressed, renders him subject to discipline.
18. While it is necessary that a petition should state the age of the pe- titioner, if for initiation, there is no law requiring him to be twenty-one years old. He must, of course, have reached that age before being initiated, and if under that age it might be well for the petition to allege that he will have reached his legal majority before the meeting at which he is to be init- iated, else the report of the committee should show that fact.
20. The fact that a Mason has been convicted by the civil courts does not affect his Masonic status nor deprive his family of any rights conferred by his membership therein. A Mason can be divested of Masonic rights only by the Masonic order.
21. A lodge must be formally opened on each degree. When it has been or is to be opened on the third degree it is not necessar)' to close on the lower degrees formally; this maybe effected by simply " calling oft'" on the
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lower degrees. Closing a lodge on the third degree closes it on all the de- grees.
23. It is not essential that a certificate of dimit accompany a petition for affiliation; the fact that the petitioner is a dimitted Mason and the loss of certificate may be established by satisfactory evidence.
24. A lodge can not be lawfully opened more than once the same da3^ Having been closed on the third degree it should not be again opened that day. It may be called from labor to refreshment as many times as may be necessary before being closed.
25. The action of the civil courts have, and can have no effect on the standing of a Mason in his lodge. If a brother is charged with being guilty of conduct unbecoming a Mason, it is the duty of his lodge to arraign him, disregarding the action of the civil authorities.
26. A Fellow Craft should wear his apron with one corner turned up.
29. A lodge subject to the Grand Lodge of Kentuck}', having waived its jurisdiction for that purpose, a candidate may petition for initiation or a Mason for affiliation in a lodge of another jurisdiction.
32. There is no law prohibiting a lodge making a donation to one not a Mason.
33. A motion to reconsider a motion, if made by one who voted on the prevailing side, and not later than the next meeting, should be entertained by the master.
34. A motion to rescind an order for the payment of money, made by any member of the lodge at any time before payment, and not afi^ecting the rights of innocent third parties, is in order.
35. The secretary of a lodge has no authority to make any other dispo- sition of the funds of a lodge than to pay them over to the treasurer, taking his receipt therefor.
39. As to the action of a lodge after a plea of guilty — it is to be borne in mind that the functions of a lodge are both judicial and legislative. As a court it would be its duty to determine the degree of guilt and pronounce judgment. There can be no question, however, that if the accused is peni- tent the lodge may, acting m its legislative capacity, pardon him, which when done, ipso facto terminates the trial.
44. The right to dimit is an inherent right possessed by every Mason, restricted only by refusal to meet pecuniary obligations to his lodge and pen- dency of charges for unmasonic conduct, and being such can, oi^ course, be exercised onl}- bj- him who possesses it. A certificate of dimit is only the written evidence of a fact, as has been previously decided, and if issued con- trarj^ to the wishes of him the disruption of whose lodge affiliation it pur- ports to evidence, the act is voidable; otherv>'ise, that which is held to be a right is converted into a wrong, and is made a vehicle of punishment. Sub- sequent acquiescence on the part of him to whom the certificate was issued will amount to a ratification of the act; wherefore, should it be his intention to avoid it, it will be his duty, without unnecessary delay, and before the commission of any act amounting to or implying a ratification, to disavow an intention of dimitting, whereupon it will be the duty of the master to make an order annulling the act and cancelling the certificate.
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50. At the eighty-ninth session of the Grand Lodge of Kentucky an amendment to the constitution of the grand lodge was proposed for the con- sideration of the subordinate lodges, by the provisions of which certain bodies thereui enumerated were acknowledged to be legitimate and genuine, and a heavy penalty provided against ' ' any Mason who shall hereafter take or re- ceive, or communicate, or confer, or sell, or to be present at or assist in com- municating or confen^ing, or selling, or solicit any one to take or apply for any alleged Masonic degree or Order of Knighthood, in any assemblage of men, no matter by what name soever it may be called, except it be held under the authority of one of the bodies hereinafter acknowledged to be legitimate and genuine." At the same session of the grand lodge a resolu- tion was adopted, the effect of which was to make the aforesaid amendment immediately operative, and continue it in force until the proposed amend- ment should be incorporated into the organic law, not as an amendment to the constitution, but as an edict or regulation; 'in other words, there was an amendment proposed to the constitution of the grand lodge, which, under a provision of the constitution, must lie over one whole vacation before it could be acted on. There was also adopted a regulation or edict set forth in the same language as the amendment, to take eft'ect immediately and to be terminated by the adoption of the said amendment. This is believed to be a clear and explicit statement of the action of the grand lodge at its eighty- ninth session. At its ninetieth session the aforesaid amendment to its con- stitution was adopted with the following amendment: ''Provided, however, That before the privileges thus guaranteed to the several bodies enumerated, their respective Grand Councils, Encampments, etc., shall first amend their several constitutions, viz., requiring that each member of their subordinate bodies shall henceforth be in active affiliation with some subordinate Blue Lodge," meaning, of course, that before the several bodies named in the amendment to the constitution could avail themselves of the privileges guar- anteed by the amendment, their several constitutions must be amended as therein indicated. The question is, what is now the law on this subject ?
Held: First — That the adoption of the amendment to the constitution, whether in its original form or modified by subsequent amendment, repealed the edict or regulation.
Second — That the amendment to the constitution as adopted is not now in force or effect, except as first held herein, and by its terms can not become operative until its conditions are complied with by the bodies therein enum- erated.
Third — That the adoption by the grand lodge of a law which, by its pro- visions, is for a time in abeyance, and which can become operative only upon the happening of some uncertain event, must be formally promulgated by proclamation of the grand master, after the happening of such event, before it becomes obligatory upon the Craft.
Fourth — That the adoption by the grand lodge of an amendment to its constitution is the solemn adjudication of all matters within the scope and purpose ot such amendment, and therefore all previous legislation on matters embraced therein and in conflict therewith is thereby repealed.
These were all approved except Xo. 50, of which more hereafter. This approval makes it certain that No. i is Kentucky law, but we do not think it is the law of Masonry. Like the Illinois law which makes affiliation a neces- sary qualification of the installing officer — although affiliation in any other
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jurisdiction fulfills the requirement— we think it is the denial of an eligibility that attaches to the persoii by virtue of his service in the office of master and no more to be denied while he remains in good standing than the fact of which it is born. No. i8 differs from our law inasmuch as the latter forbids the reception of a petition from one who is less than twenty-one years of age. No. 20 is in accord with our law. We suppose No. 21 to reflect local law, at least in part. In the jurisdiction of Common Sense, unvexed by the logical and illogical vagaries of successive grand lecturers, there is in " opening up " nothing more necessary than to opett up, "calling off," or formally "dis- pensing with labor" and the like being surplusage; and so in closing: what- ever ma}' have been opened, when the lodge is closed there isn't anything left open, no matter on what degree the closing ceremony has been per- formed. No. 24 is a good rule to prevent snap judgments in matters of bus- iness after a portion of the members have left, but there is no reason in the nature of things why it should not be disregarded if it is held to refer, as we presume it is, to one continuous session. If all the members remain and it is found convenient to return to the third degree after it has been once closed in order to take up something that had been forgotten, or which comes up as an afterthought, the equities are not violated by going back to it. We have never seen the practice indicated by No. 26. No. 29 agrees with our law so far as it refers to petitions for the degrees, but no Master Mason here has to ask permission to affiliate anywhere on the round earth where he can find a lodge to receive him. We believe No. 39 to be good law, although our own regulations say the lodge shall, on conviction, inflict adequate punishment — meaning thereby some one of the four specified grades. No. 44 also accords with our judgment. The committee on jurisprudence (Past Grand Master Pettit chairman) thus report on No. 50:
We especially commend his decision numbered 50, wherein he decides that the amendment to the constitution of this grand lodge at the eighty- ninth session thereof, which provides, among other things, "that any Ma- son who shall hereafter take or receive, or communicate, or confer, or sell, or be present at or assist in communicating, or conferring, or selling, or so- licit any one to take or apply for any alleged Masonic degree or Order of Knighthood, m any assemblage of men, no matter by what name soev-er it may be called, except it be held under the authority of one of the bodies hereinbefore acknowledged to be legitimate and genuine, shall be expelled from all the rights and privileges of Masonry; " and providing " that before the privileges thus guaranteed to the several bodies enumerated, their re- spective Grand Councils, Encampments, etc. , shall first amend their several constitutions, viz., requiring that each member of their subordinate bodies shall henceforth be in active affiliation with some subordinate Blue Lodge," is not now in force or ©fTect, and by its terms can not become operative until its conditions are complied with by the bodies therein enumerated; and must be formally promulgated by proclamation of the grand master, after the: happening of such event, before it becomes obligatory upon the Craft, there- by removing from the domain of this grand lodge a vexatious and disturbing element which has marred and threatened the peace and harmony of this. Masonic brotherhood for some years past.
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Th'e subject being made a special order was taken up the hour named, and on motion of Past Grand Master Campbell H. Johnson the report and the decision were laid on the table, on a call of lodges, by a vote of i&~)4 to I4g}4. The temperature may be inferred from the fact that a call of lodges was had on the clinching motion to reconsider that action and to la}' that motion on the table. Subsequently Past Grand ]\Iaster Pettll introduced the following:
Resolved by f/ie Grand Lodge of Kentucky, That no action at this session of the grand lodge shall be construed as m an}- manner invading or altering the constitutional amendment adopted at its last communication by this grand lodge, which compels Grand Councils, Grand Encampments, and all other orders therein enumerated, before receiving any of the benefits con- ferred in what is known as the Reinecker resolutions, 'Oa.aX. first their consti- tutions shall be amended compelling their members to be active, affiliating Blue Lodge members. We hereb}- affirm the old landmarks, and assert that no Mason can be higher than a third-degree Mason; that as such we know . nothing of the legitimacy or illegitimacj' of any so-called higher degrees; and that the peace and harmony of this grand lodge require that its " tiled door" shall forever be closed, except to the appeals of charity and the interest of our own beloved grand lodge.
The discussion on the resolution was interrupted bj- the special order for the election of officers, and on coming up for final action was withdrawn by general consent, the result being a compromise, we judge, the other factor being the restoration of Bro. Charles T. Hill on the motion of one of the leaders of the grand orient party.
The grand lodge chartered six new lodges and continued two under dis- pensation, arrested seven charters outright and three more conditionall}- and reinstated four; recognized the Grand Lodge of North Dakota on the recom- mendation of the committee on correspondence, and by the advice of the same committee decided that the proper time had not arrived for the recog- nition of any of the alleged grand lodges existing in the Republic of Mexico; requested the directors of the Widows' and Orphans' Home to suspend the superintendent, matron and some other employes of that institution, pending the examination of charges brought before it, and appointed a committee to make the investigation.
Charles H. Fisk, of Covington, was elected grand master; Henry B. Grant .(Masonic Temple) Louis\'ille, re-elected grand secretaiy.
The report on correspondence (pp. 115) is again by Bro. James W. Sta- TON. whom we hail as Thane of Cawdor, he having been elected junior grand warden. As usual his report is a paper of great interest. Illinois proceed- ings for 1889 are very thoroughly reviewed. He says this among other things of the address of Grand Master Smith:
The address is a very lengthy one, but full of interest all the wa}- through, -whether in his elegant sketch of the early history of Freemasonrj^ in Illinois,
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or in referring to the local affairs of the jurisdiction, including his reference to the distinguished dead of his own and other jurisdictions, and his state- ment of the affairs of the Illinois Masonic Orphans' Home. His decisions ^nd all else mentioned m the address are highly interesting.
He touches several matters treated of in the address and quotes the an- imadversions of the grand master on the manner in which this committee discussed what he was pleased to call Cerneauism, although it was the other faction that chiefly got itself discussed. He compliments highly and justly ■Grand Secretary Munn's historical tables and memoranda. Of the semi- •centennial exercises he says:
The crowning glory of the communication was the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the organization of the grand lodge, which occasioned the sendmg out of a large number of invitations to all parts of the Masonic A\'orld. We do not see that Kentucky was represented on the occasion, and not even a letter of apology was sent, or if received, was not published. But we are sure none was offered, else Bro. Munn would have found room for it. Now, we regard this as all wrong. When one grand jurisdiction is honored by another by invitation to attend and participate in some special festivities, ^it certainly is common courtesy- to acknowledge receipt of the invitation, and, if n<jt able to attend, an apology for inability to do so. If those to whom the invitations are sent out do not care for themselves, they should respect the jurisdiction that elevated them to the place that gave them the privilege ■of receiving such honors.
The festivities were on a magnificent scale, and the speeches were grand. We shall not attempt to say anything about them. To do so would take more time and space than we can spare. A very beautiful medal was struck in commemoration of the happy event, and over six hundred guests were seated at the banquet table, the menu of which was elegant. Before pro- ceeding to the banquet table a splendid address was delivered by Bro. Rev. George C. Lorimer, D. D., who several years ago was well and favorably known in Kentucky as an able divine and a faithful exponent of Masonry. We can not mention more of this elegant address than to say that his trib- utes to our distinguished Past Grand Master Henry Clay, Stephen A. Doug- las, of Illinois, and Eli S. Parker, the renowned Seneca Indian and Chief of the Six Nations, is of the very highest type, and place them in the front rank of profound orators, giving to our Clay the title of " Demosthenes of .the South."
The refusal of the Grand Lodge of Illinois to recognize certain so-calied grand lodges of Scotch Rite origin on the ground of incurable congenital illegitimacy of the bodies forming them, leads him to remark that he is not <;onverted to the doctrine of Bros. Gurney and Robbins and does not expect to be until he is ready to say that all Masonry is spurious which does not spring direct from English-speaking grand lodges, which he does not believe. Touching his remark that the universality of Masonry would be narrowed ■down to a small portion of the inhabited globe if such were the case, it is only necessary to say that we discussed that phase of the question with him in our report for 1890, and we refer him to that report for what we think is a conclusive answer to the point raised. We refer him also to that report for
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our views on sectarianism in Masonry, a subject on which he is pleased ta call them erratic. Of the Illinois report on correspondence for 1SS9, he saysi
He devotes more than eight pages to a re\ne\v of Kentucky for 188S, quoting from the address of Grand Master Smith, the report of the commit- tee on jurisprudence on the Cerneau question, and commenting vigoroush^ on both, calling the able rejDort of our venerated McCorkle in i86g, on the Grand Orient of France and Louisiana troubles, a "stump speech" in favor of the legitimacy of the Southern Supreme Council, and that it now crops- out that our action was a formal recognition of the legitimacy of the South- ern Supreme Council, but seems to think we hardly knew what we were doing at that time. We say to Bro. Robbins that the Grand Lodge of Ken- tucky knew then what it was about, and it knows now just as well as then. We do not propose to argue this question at length, for we have not the time or the disposition to do so.
We did not say that Bro. McCorkle's report on the invasion of the juris- diction of the Grand Lodge of Louisiana by the Grand Orient of France was a stump speech in favor of the legitimacy of the Southern Supreme Council,, but we did say that he injected into that report a stump speech on the im- material question of the legitimacy of the Supreme Council of the State of Louisiana, and we repeat it for the purpose of saymg that the expression i.? neither discourteous, unparliamentary nor unfraternal, as Bro. Statox would make it appear. All obiter matter is in the nature of a stump speech, even if it would be a model of restrained argumentative composition in its proper place. Bro. McCorkle's statement in that report that there were in the United States two legitimate supreme councils dividing its territory between them, was entirely obiter having no more bearing upon the question before the gi-and lodge than the statement that there were in the United States two branches of the Methodist episcopacy. The question before the grand lodge was that of sustaining the integiity of Ancient Craft Masonry in this countiy against the invasion of a foreign power. As we showed in that portion of our remarks which Bro. Staton did not quote, and which neither he nor any other Scotch Riter is likely to quote, "the offense of the French grand orient did not lie in its having sustained a pretender in invading the territory of the Supreme Council of the Southern Jurisdiction, but in having sustained a body m invading the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Louisiana by planting blue lodges therein to confer the degrees of Ancient Craft Masonry. All reference in those grand lodge reports [Bro. McCorkle's and others that happened to be written by Scotch Riters] to disputed jurisdiction as between different councils was mere surplusage — if it escaped being an impertinence — for the action of Kentucky and every other American grand lodge would have been the same if the body invading the rights of the Grand Lodge of Louisiana had been of ramrod regularity under the laws of the Holy Em- pire."
In one sense Bro. Staton may be right in saj-ing that the Grand Lodge of Kentucky knew what it was about then, and that it knows now just as.
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•well as then. If he means by this however that the Grand Lodge of Ken- tucky consciously and purposely adjudicated the question of the legitimacy -of the supreme councils, and declared " the Supreme Council of the Northern Jurisdiction, holding its seat at Boston, in Massachusetts, and the Supreme Council of the Southern Jurisdiction, holding its seat at Charleston, in South Carolina," to be Masonic bodies with the conscious design of making that dec- laration Masonic law in Kentucky, did it also know what it was doing when it acknowledged the right of the supreme councils to confer the degrees of Symbolic Masonry by the adojDtion of the same report? That report says:
These two supreme councils claim and have the right, through their various subordinate bodies, to confer all the degrees of their Rite, includ- ing those of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Crcift and Master Masoti, up to the highest degree conferred in those bodies. Nevertheless, in order that no conflict of jurisdiction, in regard to the first three degrees of Masonry, ■should arise in the United States, between the governing bodies of the Scot- tish Rite and the grand lodges exercising jurisdiction over the York Rite, as it is called, the two supreme councils have agreed {not stirrenderijig the rig lit to confer the first t/iree degrees, for that would have been to emas- culate the Scottish Rite), that wherever, in the United vStates, there are, or shall be, grand lodges exercising jurisdiction over lodges working in the York Rite, and conferring only the degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason, they will not permit the lodges of the Scottish Rite to confer these degrees on anj- applicant for the Scottish Rite degrees, requiring .all such applicants, however, to have previoush' taken those degrees m the York Rite lodges.
The italics are ours. In this matter, at least, either the grand lodge did not then know what it was doing, or the Scotch Riters who are now so swift to •deny that the supreme councils ever professed to have any authority in the Masonry of the three degrees don't know what they are doing.
We are quite ready to believe with Bro. Staton that his grand lodge knows now what it is doing just as well as in 1869, and judging from the in- dications between the Imes of a red-hot tmie at the communication under re- view, it knows a good deal better what the Scotch Riters are about.
Of our remark that at the time of the quarrel between Bro. Albert Pike and Bro. Geo Frank Gouley it was current talk that the former threatened in certain contingencies to establish blue lodges in Missouri, Bro. Staton says :
Fortunately we have before us the correspondence which took place be- tween these two distinguished brethren, and we fail to find in it the least sign of a threat to establish Blue Lodges in Missouri. The only threat used by Bro. Pike in his answer to Bro. Goulej' is as follows:
' ' I fail to see how you will go about deterring us from receiving Master Masons, or them from obtaining our degrees. Averse as I am to contro- versy, I shall, if you or any body of Royal Arch Masons or Templars compel me to it, retort with such force as I can, and I shall not spare the pretenses
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of Chapter Masonry or Templarism to antiquity, or to the rightful possession of secrets borrowed from the Scottish Rite."
If there is any other threat embraced in the correspondence of Brother Pike Ave fail to find it. To give a thought that Brother Pike ever thought of si:ch a thing as the establishment of Blue Lodges in a territory already occu- pied by a legal grand lodge, much less threatened to do so, is to advertise him an imbecile or a fool, and we suppose there are none so weak or insane as to believe either. It will be remembered that this controversy related en- tirely to Royal Arch Masons and Knights Templar, and Master Masons were not brought into it at all. Brother Pike knows as well as any one in the world that the establishment of Blue Lodges by the Supreme Council over which he presides, in any jurisdiction in the L^nited States, would be the death knell to Scottish Rite Masonry all over the land. Upon the other hand he boldly disclaims any right of the Supreme Council to do so.
What is more conclusive than this negative evidence is the fact that Bro, Pike himself has denied it. The fact cited by Bro. Staton that Bro. Pike boldly disclaims any right of the supreme council to do so is not conclusive,, but has no bearing upon it, because Bro. Pike had not, as he himself states, come to the conclusion that the supreme councils did not possess the " un- surrendered" right to confer and govern the blue degrees which Bro. Mc- CoRKLE claimed for them and which the Grand Lodge of Kentucky, with its eyes wide open — as Bro. Staton assures us — conceded to them, until 1S77,, ten years after his controversy with Bro. Gouley.
We infer that Bro. Staton is not fully in accord A\-ith Bro. Pike on this subject, inasmuch as he favors the recognition of grand lodges created by lodges assumed to be chartered by supreme councils, while Bro. Pike says, writing in 1877: " Until recently we believed that the supreme councils had the right to create and govern symbolic lodges from the beginning, and that where they did not exercise it they simpl}' refrained for the sake of harmony ;, but being called upon carefully to consider the question, we are of the clear opinion that, upon the face of the Grand Constitutions, these give no such power."
We should be glad to touch other features of Bro. Stato.x's report, with which we find ourselves in accord, but we have more than used up our space.
LOUISIANA, 1891.
7C)TH Annual. New Orleans. Feb. 9, 1S91.
This volume contains besides the proceedings of the annual communica- tion the records of a special communication held Sept. 29, 1S90, to consider financial questions growing out of the building of the new temple.
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R. W. Bro. W. P. Stubbs, the representative of Illinois, was not present at either of the communications.
The grand master (Charles F. Buck) begins with a reference to their houseless condition, their old temple having been sold and demolished, and passes by an easy transition from material temples to the spiritual. He says :
The spirit alone prevails; it blooms in perpetual identity; it expands in growing exaltation; it goes ever onward and upward on the ladder of faith, hope and charity, the rounds of which eternally repeat themselves, until per- haps at some point the summit-seat of perfect happiness may be attained. So, ]\Iasonry and the good that is in it may live and prosper independently of the temples and habitations to which we are accustomed. In the "heart" we are made: in the " heart" we should grow.
We have destroyed one temple; we are erectmg another; some day, surely, this too will disappear; whether by choice, as ours, whether by cir- cumstance of fate, or by the gradual waste of natural decay, is quite the same; Masonr}- will be there as it is here now, surviving, %
'■ Unhurt amid the war of elements,"
unimmortal as the soul, from which it springs. So let us remember, while in the pursuit of our own selfishness, to gratify pleasure and escape inconven- ience, or to make revenue, we build temples. Masonry is nowhere purer and more beautiful than in the valleys and on the hilltops, under the expanse of the blue canopy of heaven, divested of all pomp and splendor, clothed only in the immortal garment of spiritual truth.
There was no vacant chair in the grand lodge, but he announced the death of District DejDuty Grand Master W. D. Henderson, of the seventh district, and referred to the distinguished dead of other jurisdictions.
Referring to foreign relations, he says
The only matter that has occurred to me in this consideration is that we are not in communication or fraternal relations with many prominent Grand Orients in Europe.
There may be good reasons for it ; perhaps it is simply because no mut- ual steps have been taken to bring about friendly intercourse.
I think, both on principle and for practical reasons, something should be done in this regard. Hundreds of our brethren go to different parts of Eu- rope annually, most of them would like to visit Masonic lodges. The ex- istence of express fraternal relations would facilitate and perhaps add to the pleasure and enjoyment of visits. I would suggest that the committee on foreign correspondence take the matter in hand to assist the grand lodge or the incoming grand master, in determining whether it may be desirable or proper to establish or renew formal fraternal intercourse.
If Bro. Buck had read proceedings and correspondence reports as closely for the last twenty years as reviewers are compelled to do, he would have seen that communication with many European bodies have lapsed because of the growing feeling that from being mixed up with politics and for other causes
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they are scarcely identifiable as Masonic, even apart from the fact that the ■"grand lodges," so-called, which help to compose them lack the indepen- dence which would render them recognizable as equals. The grounds on which the Grand Lodge of Xew York, in 1871, ordered that "recognition and correspondence" between itself and grand orients should " cease," were tersely stated by Grand Master Antmox :
" Each of these grand orients is more or less subject to the authority of what I believe to be known as a ' Supreme Grand Council,' which is, as its name denotes, the ultimate governing body of the Masonic jurisdiction and superior to the grand orient."
The supreme grand council belongs to a rite, and requires for admission to its governing body the possession of degrees wholly unknown to this grand body, and in those countries considered and spoken of and really being ' higher degrees ' in their system.
' ' Representatif)n, therefore, with the grand orients is a representation and treaty between the supreme Masonic power in the Free and Accepted rite, our own, and a subordinate bodj^ m the Ancient and Accepted Rite, adopting these terms as convenient."
Representation between the grand lodge and the supreme council is, of ■course, impracticable from the degrees additional to that of Master Mason, required in those bodies, and doubtless also from the rank and authority over 'inferior' degrees, so termed, which belong to them.
For such reasons as these some of the most distinguished American ad- vocates of the recognition of grand lodges of Scottish rite origin, provided they administer only the symbolic degrees and are free from all entangle- ments with grand orients and supreme councils, are opposed to the recogni- tion of grand orients.
The grand master submitted five decisions, a portion of which we copy:
I. In one of our lodges a serious contention arose over the taking of the ballot on an application for affiliation.
The wor.shipful master, in preparing and announcing that the ballot would be taken, omitted the usual formula, "white balls elect, black balls reject." In all other respects the ballot was fully announced, and it was not claimed that there was or could have been any misapprehension as to the object of the ballot. It resulted unfavorably, and the applicant should then and there have been declared rejected, there being more than one blackball cast. After the announcement protest was made that because the worship- ful master had failed to observe the formula the ballot was absolutely illegal and void, and should be considered as not having taken place. The worship- ful master, more for the sake of peace and harmony than because he really thought the point well taken, allowed a second ballot. I hold that in this he erred; neither the written nor the unwritten law of Masonry make any particular form of announcement of the taking of the ballot sacramental; it is sufficient that the voting be by "ballot," — secret — and that the brethren are sufficiently advised of the object for which it is taken. The law does not .speak of " black " but only of ''negative " ballots, and when a lodge ballots
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l)y means of the well-known ballot-box and black and white balls, the use of these is so universally understood that the omission to announce it must be considered as without effect on the legality of the ballot.
In dealing thus I would like to be understood as dealing only with the strict question of law. As matter of wise and s:-ife government of the lodge, I think the master cannot be too careful in all details attending the ballot on ■candidates, and it would be better that he should err on the side of excessive caution than relax any form of announcement to which the brethren have been accustomed. * * *
2. Oiit of this same controversy grew a contention as to the manner in which balloting should be done, especially by the officers. The particular inquiries were, " Should the worshipful master salute the senior warden be- fore casting his ballot?" (by sign, etc.,) and " Should the three officers leave their seats, salute, etc. ? I answered that there was nothmg in law or usage that made any particular mode of casting the ballot obligatory.
3. An aged man, somewhere near or above sevent}' years old, contem- plated making application for affiliation. The worshipful master of the lodge to which he intended to apply desired to know what "dotage" meant as it appears in our law ; whether by the mere fact of age a party came under the prohibition implied. I answered, of course, m the negative. Dotage is a condition ' ' of imbecility of mind or loss of understanding by reason of old age," but every old man is not therefore a dotard. Fitness for admission, in this regard is not a question of age, but of mental capacity to act with freedom and responsibility.
5. R. W. Bro. D. D. G. M. B. F. Scott, 12th Masonic District, reported that being about to confer the degree of E. A. on a candidate he refused to proceed on having learned that the candidate had not signed his name to his application, but that the name had been appended for him by his " voucher." The applicant, it appears, cannot write and authorized his friend to sign for him. He asked my judgment on his refusal to confer the degree. Of course, I approved his action ; both on the letter of the law and the edict of this grand lodge approving a ruling of P. G. M. Girard, in 1874, grand lodge regulations, page 20. The requirement seems to be absolute : the candidate Diust sign his name\.o the application. This provision is so imperative that a signature by mark, which in business transactions the law admits, would not suffice.
All were properly approved.
From the report of the grand secretary we observe that transfer of juris- diction from one lodge to another requires in Louisiana the interposition of the executive office. In Illinois the correspondence is between the lodges alone. The report of Louisiana Relief Lodge, No. i, shows the disburse- ment of $22. 50 to applicants from Illinois.
Past Grand Master John C. Smith, of Illinois, was received as a visitor with the grand honors. Three charters were granted and two lodges con- tinued under dispensation; a general celebration of St. John the Baptist's Day was ordered, the lodges in New Orleans to celebrate together, those in the country together or separately as should be most convenient, the pro-
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ceeds to form the nucleus of a widows' and orphans' home fund; and much time and thought was given to the work and how to disseminate it.
Bro. James C. Batchelor retired from the office of grand secretary which he had filled so efficiently for twenty-four years. The fraternal good wishes of thousands of Craftsmen will go with him wherever he may be.
Charles Francis Buck, of New Orleans, was re-elected grand master; Richard Lambert (Drawer No. 8i, P. O.) New Orleans, elected grand sec- retary.
The report on correspondence (pp. 90) by Past Grand Master J. Q. A. Fellows, is, like its predecessors for some years past, prepared on the topical plan and is pi'ovided with an index by which its value, otherwise great, is much enhanced.
He gives eighteen pages of his report to extracts from the different pro- ceedings on "The Cerneau Question," and his own comments thereon. There has been so much heat displayed by the parties to this quarrel that it is refreshing to find a distinguished member of the supreme council who can write of it in a spirit of judicial fairness. For this reason and because there is so much in his remarks that bears upon the folly of grand lodges being dragged into the controversy, we quote at some length :
What is Cerneauism ? It professes to be an organization of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, and to trace its genealogy from Joseph Cerneau who it is protested was in possession of the degrees of that rite with power to establish a Supreme Council as the governing body of that rite in the United vStates. As to these pretenses we do not now propose to write a single sentence — enough on that has already been written. It, or its princi- pal organization had its headquarters in New York city, and from that, its missionaries have attempted the establishment of its various bodies in differ- ent parts of the country. This brought it m direct conflict with the Supreme Councils of the Southern and Northern jurisdictions, who take their origin, the first from iSoi when was established in Charleston, S. C, the first known of the existing Supreme Councils of the rite in the world, and the Northern from 1813, when it was established in New York by Emanuel de la Motta, by consent of the Supreme Southern Council. These two had occupied the whole territory for many years, when in 1881, the other commenced its work.
There was more or less interference with grand lodges and grand lodge Masonry, and hence the controversy. Each charge the other with claiming a right, which for the time is waived, to establish Blue Lodges, and each as strenuously deny the charge. It must in all candor, be admitted that neither now claim any such right, and it is equally true that both parties did claim the right until within a comparatively few years, though as a general thing waiving the right. It may be that more or less directly one or both have, to some extent in the past, exercised the right claimed but now abandoned.
But there are among the violent opposers of the two Supreme Councils, the Southern and Northern, and who claim to be not the advocates of the Cerneau Council, who denounce rites, or as they call them, " High Riteism,"
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as not Masonic at all, and not to be recognized by grand lodges as having a Masonic existence. They pretend to know nothing of the rite and that they cannot know, and at the same time talk and write as though they knew more than the chiefs of the rite itself.
The grand lodge Masonry is founded on certain principles called the Landmarks, and which are taught in the lodges and inculcated in the var- ious ceremonies, which most admit to be; a belief in God, the Father of the human race; the Brotherhood of Man through that common source of life; the immortality of that spirit breathed b}^ God into man whereby he became a living soul; and the moral law — love to God and man — our rule of conduct being, to do unto others as we would be done by.
It is from these fundamental principles that we deduce our form of gov- ernment, our organization of lodges and grand lodges. As, in the words of Bro. Gould, the great Masonic historian quoted elsewhere under the head of " Landmarks," he says: " Freemasonry is founded upon the perfect equal- ity of all its members, and its governing body is an elective and representa- tive one. In fact the craft governs itself." No other conclusion can possibly harmonize with the constant teachings in our ceremonies. All are bound by the same ties; all meet on the level; all are of one common and equal brotherhood. When viewed in this light it is difficult to see what standing there can be for the theories of the inherent rights of grand lodges and grand masters, et id oiiine genus.
Such are, in the main, the features of grand lodge Masonry, the Mas- onry of the degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason. It inculcates certain ideas, principles, truths. So, of what some call the Royal Arch Rite, the Templar Rite, etc. Each have their additional ideas and truths, or at least their peculiar paraphrase of those of the lodges. And how is it with the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite ? We submit that it is the same with this rite, whether advocated by the Cerneaus or Regulars.
As we are among those who oppose the pretentions of the High Riters so far as it is claimed that their rites are any part of Masonry, we beg to re- mind Bro. Fellows that it is not necessary to know anything about the hidden things of those degrees in order to determine that they are not Mas- onry. Indeed we shall see that he himself admits that unless they can be separated from the hierarchical features of government the Scottish Rite is not ilasonry. After quoting from Bro. Albert Pike as to what the Ancient and Accepted Rite is, he continues :
This writer has been a Mason since 1849, a recipient of all the degrees of both rites since 1856; has woi'ked them all as presiding officer of every body he belonged to and in other cajjacities, and prides himself with having devoted some time and study to the teachings and philosophy of both the rites and all the degrees, and he must say, from his personal knowledge, there ai-e great truths in them all, well calculated to benefit the student and the human race, and that Bro. Pike has not stated the claims of the Ancient and Accepted Rite nearly strong enough in the words quoted above from, his address, and will add that there is nothing in the moral, ethical, religious, political or philosophical teachings of the rite to which the strictest of those who claim that all Masonry is embraced in the three degrees could condemn as contrary to what is taught in the lodge. They are indeed a philosophical exemplification of the symbols of the lodge. They teach, emphatically, lib-
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erty, equality, fraternity, in addition to faith in God the immortahty of the soul, the brotherhood of man, and as necessarily growing out of these.
But there is one feature of the Ancient and Accepted Rite with which this writer has never been satisfied — its members are not equal, though its doctrines emphatically teach equality ; its governing body is not an elective and representative one; the craft, inembers of the rite, do not govern them- selves. If we mistake not, the eliminating of this feature from the govern- ment of the rite would soon end all the strife. There is no reason why it should not be done. There is nothing in the teachings of the degrees, the ceremonies, which would prevent ; on the contrary, they inculcate an elective and representative body even more strongly than do those of Blue Masonry. As a member of the Supreme Council for the Southern Jurisdiction, as a 33d •degree member for thirty-four years, I can say this, and have so thought for tTie last thirty j-ears, and without fear of running counter to the laws of the rite. I feel certain that the change can be had, and' when the organization is changed so as to bring about this result, there will be no more strife than tliere now is among Royal Arch Masons and Knights Templar, and no con- troversy between the bodies of the rite and grand lodges.
It may be said this cannot be done without destroying the rite. Such a change in the constitution and working of the order is radical, and it would •cease to be. But is this so? Is the rite depending upon the existence of this hierarchy ? Does it consist in the hierarchical form of government? We submit, on the contrary, that this is not so ; that in its degrees, in the moral, ethical teachings of its ceremonies, nearly, if not quite, all the great changes have already been made, and within the last thirty years. If the constitutions of 1786 could not be changed without cestroying the rite, how could the number of members of the supreme council be increased from nine to thirty three or more?
But we are getting beyond our intention. The object of these remarks is to induce the great contestants on both sides to unite and agree to lay aside all strife, other thin to seek to remodel the organization upon an equal- ity basis and save the methods for ennobling the human race which the rite possesses. If the existence of the rite depends upon its hierarchical feat- nre, and tuithoiit it the rite would cease to exist, then ive agree with Bro. Gould that the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite is not Freemasonry. A rite is a ceremony, and the ceremony of the A. and A. Rite, wherever is taught the principles of the rite, constitute the rite and not the form of the organization. As said before, the teachings in the ceremonies and lessons of the various degrees of the A. and A. Rite inculcate more strongly than those of the "Blue degrees," the principle of government in Freemasonry, that there should be the perfect equality of its members; that the governing body is an elective and representative one; that in fact the Craft governs itself. The real teachings of all the degrees from Entered Apprentice (em- phatically) to the thirty-third, and Knights Templar, teach this and are de- signed to prejaare the Mason for that very duty, self-government — not only in the lodge but m society and the world.
We insist that the hierarchical feature in the organization of the rite is not a necessary part of it, but is an excrescence engrafted upon it by men fond of power and in an age when one-man power made supreme pretensions to prerogative; and such are the claims of those who set up the prerogative question of grand masters and grand lodges.
The features of the controversy which have led to the foregoing, seem
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to compel us to further remarks. There are, we submit, two sides in this controversy. Bro. Pike, the Grand Commander of the Southern Jurisdiction, has repeatedly objected to the bringing of this controversy into the grand lodges. It is a pity his requests were not heeded.
With reference to the first part of this last extract it is proper to keep in mind the fact that the question is not whether the Ancient and Accepted Rite is better than Freemasonry, but whether it is Freemasonry. We had occasion to discuss this question — apart from the hierarchical feature as well as including that — in reviewing Bro. Pike's address delivered at the laying of the corner stone of the Scottish Rite cathedral in Washington by the Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia, and while reviewing the proceedings of that grand lodge. To that discussion, found on page 44 of our report (///. Proc. iSSg) we beg to refer Bro. Fellows for what seems to us a conclusive showing that grand lodges cannot admit that the rite administered by the supreme councils — and we might add by the chapter and commandery — to- be Masonry. If it is not conclusive, the fact remains that neither Bro. Pike. nor any other defender of the High Riters' claims to the Masonic character of their degrees has so far as we know undertaken to meet the points raised. The same is true of our remarks under the head of Kentucky last year, on page 106 of our report (///. Proc. iSgo), where some of the points are touched.
We have italicised one sentence of Bro. Fellows' because we wish to call attention to an admission of the frankest kind by a distinguished Scotch Riter of what we have been roundly abused for saying. Of course if it is true that it is necessary to divest the rite of its hierarchical features in order to make it Masonry, it goes withoiit saying that while that feature remains it is not Masonry. And so far it remains.
We have made frequent reference in these reports to the expulsion of Bro. Pekez Snell by the Grand Lodge of Louisiana at the order of the su- preme council. Bro. Fellows says this was a "Cerneau" supreme council established there in 1839, although elsewhere he speaks of the latter as com- mencing work in 1881. We have never followed the history of the contend- ing factions closely enough to understand this. We suppose that he does, and it is not necessary that we should. The fact shows that whichever of the factions is on top will go at any length to keep there. The " Cerneau" grand council "demanded," says Bro. Fellows in the following extract, " that the Grand Lodge of Louisiana should expel him, a member of the grand lodge, because // had," and the grand lodge obeyed. To-day the other faction demands that its rival be excommunicated because it has banned them:
In 1839, the "the Cerneau" Supreme Council was transferred to and es- tablished in New Orleans. It soon after got control of the Grand Lodge of Louisiana. Its members became the ruling majority. It expelled Bro. Perez Snell, a thirty-third of the southern jurisdiction, for conferring the de- grees of the A. and A. Rite, by authority of that jurisdiction^ and demanded
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that the Grand Lodge of Louisiana should expel him, a member of that grand lodge, because // had expelled him. The grand lodge obeyed and it was not till after his death that that decree of expulsion was annulled. Others, his supporters and friends, followed in his wake, and started in 1847 a revolu- tion, which was not settled until 1850, when the features of the composition of the grand lodge which made such acts possible were changed, and since which time the Craft has enjoyed peace and harmony in this jurisdiction, disturbed only by the Foulhouze revolt, which has long since ceased to be a disturbing element. Why will not the brethren of our sister jurisdictions take a lesson from our example ? History teaches by example, and we have given this scrap of Louisiana history that our brethren may profit by our former difficulties.
The lesson is that there is no safety for grand lodges but to compel the factions to settle their quarrels within the boundaries of their brumagen empire.
Bro. Fellows gives his usual general statistical table, and we shall again avail ourselves of the results of his labors unless the Maine proceedings of 1 891 come in time to give us the later table of Bro. Drummond.
MAINE, 1890.
71ST Annu.il. Portland. May 6, 1890.
Soon after the opening Bro. Joseph A. Locke presented his commission as the representative of Illinois and was formally welcomed. In a recent number of the Masom'c Token, of Portland, we saw a notice of the death of Bro. Locke's predecessor, Bro. George W. Deering, who had represented Illinois near the Grand Lodge of Maine since 1877. He died suddenly, of heart disease, at his residence in New Hampshire, where he had lived for some years past. He is remembered here as an active member of the Grand Lodge of Illinois nearly thirty years ago, and as grand commander of Illi- nois Templars at about the same period.
The grand master (Albro E. Chase) announced the death of Charles W. HaxN'ey, past junior grand warden, and William Henry Smith, past sen- ior grand warden. He also referred to the death of Charles Fobes, nearly eighty-eight years of age, more than sixty-five years a Mason, treasurer of Ancient Landmark Lodge from 1S53 until his death, and to the dead of other jurisdictions, among them Past Grand Master Darrah of Illinois.
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In his practical remarks on the good of the Fraternity he asks: " Are you, who have been honored with positions of honor and respect, giving your aid and knowledge to those who succeed you in a brotherly way, or are you going about and aiding them by the current phrase ' I did n't use so to do?' "
Of Cerneauism he says:
Much time has been given to the reading of many and wordy pamphlets upon "Cerneauism." Perhaps information has been obtained, but this jurisdiction knows comparatively little about it, and the less they know the better. " Where ignorance is bliss 'tis foil}- to be wise."
And of grand representatives:
Illinois has taken the initiatory in the matter of limiting the time for the commission of the grand representative for that jurisdiction and has pre- scribed that the commission shall expire by limitation at the end of five years. It has therefore issued new commissions for this length of time, and to those who are "actively engaged in the grand work of Ancient Craft Masonry." If, by this means, a renewed interest can be had among representatives, it may have merit in it.
Illinois was not the first to move in this matter ; Iowa and some other jurisdictions, we believe, had already limited the life of representatives' com- missions to three years.
The grand master in recommending conventions for instruction, says:
While it is extremely desirable that all should conform and acknowledge what is the right and the truth, yet there will never be found those who, in their delivery, will pronounce every word in the same way, nor will it be possible to see in every lodge the wording perfectly agi^ee, until the grand lodge shall have bought a si:fficient number of phonographs with which to supply each lodge, and the grand lecturer has at one and the same time filled each. Then let these machines be distributed to each lodge and the work will be rendered uniformly in word and in intonation of the voice. But what then becomes of that social and fraternal purpose for which Masonry is founded ? Where will you find your ' ' good executive officer or your com- panionable craftsman" ?
He also quotes to enforce his ideas the remark of our Past Grand Master Smith that "You can no more command the interest of your membership by making the ritual the all-absorbing thought of Masonry, than you can build up the congregation of a church by the pastor reciting the creed to his people on every Sabbath and giving them nothing more."
The constitution of the Grand Lodge of Maine provides that a lodge after adoption or revision of by-laws shall send a transcript of the same im- mediately to the grand secretary for examination, and await the approval of the grand master before recording or printing. In a lodge where the by- laws had been amended, raising the dues, in accordance with their own pro- visions but where the transcript had not been sent to the grand secretary as
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required, some of the brethren refused to pay on the ground that the by-laws had not been constitutionally amended. The grand master decided that the by-law was binding although the full requirement of the constitution had not been met.
In a case where a candidate for the degrees refused to conform to the ancient and usual custom when directed to prepare himself for initiation and left the hall, the lodge voted that the entire sum paid by him should be re- turned to him. The grand master properly commended this action, and it was confirmed by the grand lodge on appeal from the action of the lodge, notwithstanding the by-laws provided that in such case "the deposit should be forfeited to the use of the lodge." The grand master further reports:
2. Section S8, Article V, of the constitution, provides that no lodge " shall hold more than one stated meeting m each month at which they can receive petitions and ballot for candidates, except by dispensation." The meetings of a lodge follow the movements of the wandering moon, and that caused the regular meeting to come twice in one month, at the beginning and again four weeks later.
Query. Can the lodge at the second meeting ballot upon petitioners regularly presented and referred at the first meeting ?
Ansiuer. Yes.
3. " Can a past master legally take the East and open the lodge in the absence of the W. M. and S. W., the J. W. being present and inviting said past master to open, but refusing to take the East himself ?"
Answer. Yes..
4. " Has the D. D. G. Master po-wer to open the lodge he is visiting, if neither the master nor wardens are present ? "
A nswer. No.
5. A brother dimitted from a lodge, and before he became affiliated with another lodge, found that he had lost his dimit, and asked the lodge from which he dimitted to grant him another.
Query. Is he entitled to a duplicate, and can the present officers issue one ?
Ansiuer. I do not think that he is entitled to what is known as a dimit, but is entitled to a certificate of the facts as shown by the records of the lodge in his case under seal of the lodge.
No. 3 would not be law in Illinois, but it is in Maine, resting on usage claimed to be derived from the old regulations before they had been amended. The following relative to jurisdiction indicates the nature of the difficulties by which the grand master was beset in consequence of making it depend on the distance by " the usually trav^eled route" instead of by air lines:
The question of jurisdiction has been asked, answered, presented with more light, light extinguished and the question left in darkness. Foreign-
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ers have invaded this jurisdiction, have built railroads in a section of our state, and were so unwise that they did not make curves enough in their road to make the distance on their road between two or more places, in which there are lodges, equal in length to the turnpike road, and serious- consequences are resulting therefrom.
A special committee bemg unable to determine which was the usually traveled route in the two cases reported by the grand master, it was decided that candidates residing at a greater distance from X Lodge by the common road, than from Z Lodge by railroad, might apply to either. In a State like ours where new' railroads are constantly building, the confusion from any other than the air line rule would be interminable. Many lodges die from shifting of centers of population, or survive by removal, but no one thinks of giving up the rule.
In recommending the approval of the decision of the preceding year that the rejection of a candidate by a lodge not having jurisdiction is void, the committee on jurisprudence (Drummond chairman) believe it to be erroneous,, and that when a candidate submits himself to the jurisdiction of a lodge he should abide the consequences when the decision is against him, as well as when it is in his favor and he receives the degrees. Finding the opposite opinion generally held, however, they think it best to adopt it as the law of Maine.
A committee appointed to ascertain and report what are the Public Grand Honors made a partial report and were continued. In thirty-f ve jurisdictions they find in all, except four, one of two distinct methods prevail- ing, which for the purpose of distinction they designate as the "Mackey" and the " Macoy" methods:
Bro. Albert G. MackeJ^ in his "Lexicon" published nearly fifty years ago, thus describes " Public Grand Honors " : " Both arms are crossed on the breast, the left uttermost, and the open palms of the hands sharply strik- ing the shoulders; they are then raised above the head, the palms striking each other, and then made to fall smartly upon the thighs. This is repealed three times, and as there are three blows given each time, viz., on the breast, on the palms of the hands and on the thighs, making nine concussions in all, the Grand Honors are technically .said to be given "by three times three."
For funeral occasions this manner of givjng the Grand Honors, accom- panied by appropriate words, with a few unimportant changes, is now em- ployed in nearly every grand jurisdiction.
But for Grand Honors to be given on public occasions other than funeral, there is a great lack of uniformity, and much "confusion among the work- men " has been occasioned at public ceremonies. In the lists given the com- mittee has placed the jurisdiction as using the method which it reported to be most prevalent. * * "'
Thirteen jurisdictions follow the "Mackey" method, and five more with some variations. The whole five cross the right arm 07.'C7- the left, and two
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of the niimber change the order by raising the hands above the head before crossing arms. Of the other method they say:
Bro. Robert Macoy, in his "Cyclopedia" pubhshed about twent}' years ago, says that the Public Grand Honors ' ' consist of clapping the hands three times, in rapid succession," and "are to be given on all public occasions ex- cept funerals." In New York they are given "by clapping the hands three times, thrice repeated, commencing with the right hand uppermost, then changing to the left hand uppermost, then back again as in the commence- ment," and your committee understand this to be the manner of giving these signs :neant by Macoy, although his definition is not plain.
Nine jurisdictions follow Macoy, and with variations four more. Penn- sylvania claims to have none, and of the other three exceptions the commit- tee say:
In Arkansas, "the hands are raised above the head, clapped three times, then brought squarel}' to the hips, repeated three times."
In Rhode Island, "the arms are crossed over the breast and the body inclined forward and backward, this being done three times. In other words, bow three times with arms crossed upon the breast."
In Massachusetts, the same is done, only no mention of bo\\'ing was made to us.
At the dedication of a hall in Massachusetts thirty -five years ago, the lodge being open on the second degree in order to take in Fellow Crafts who were present, we remember that Grand Master Heard gave the appropriate private grand honors after the first and second circumambulations, and after the third crossed the arms on the breast with a bow, but whether the bow would have been repeated if this had been given three times we do not know. Of coi:rse the committee have access to the Illinois Book of Ceremonials where the method here used is given.
The grand lodges of North Dakota, New South Wales and Victoria were recognized, two new lodges were chartered, and the edict warning the breth- ren against certain lodges in Quebec holding under foreign lodges was re- voked, the Grand Lodge of Quebec ha\'ing recalled its edict of non-inter- course. A committee was directed to report an expeditious and quiet method of conducting elections in the grand lodge. If the proceedings be- fore us were not over a year old we would recommend a trial of the Illinois method.
Albro E. Chase, grand master, and Ira Berry, grand secretary, both of Portland, were re-elected.
The report on correspondence (pp. 197) by Past Grand Master Josiah H. Drummond is the first of a new series, so to speak, his twenty-sixth, ^\^th which he starts in on another quarter of a century of continuous review work. Considering the great age which good Masons attain in Maine, the
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physique with which Bro. Dkum.mond is endowed and the scant danger of his rusti7tg out, it don't seem unreasonable to hope that the successors of some of the youngers such as we, may see him round out the second quarter.
We read each fresh report from Bro. Drummond's hand with ever in- creasing admiration for its abiUty and ever increasing wonder at the mem- ory or the patience which lays us all under obligations by the thoroughness of his information. In the report before us he reviews the Illinois proceed- ings for the semi-centennial year, 1889. Referring to the scraps of history of the old grand lodge which went down in the anti-Masonic storm leaving scarcely an accessible trace behind it, he says there is at least one pamphlet in existence which was not published by John C. Reynolds in his History of Masonry m Illinois, he having no knowledge of it. His defense of Grand Master Smith's right to have his joke about the divine right of kings, re- minds us of our defense of an accused brother before a mock court, at Springfield, years ago when the grand lodge met there. He wanted the court to decide which of us was prosecuting attorney! He says:
He recounts, with some signs of annoyance, a curious misunderstanding of some remarks made in his address of the previous year. He undertook to be facetious and satirical in relation to the prerogatives of grand masters. The " anti-prerogative fellows " took him to be in earnest, and belabored him soundly, much to our amusement, though to be sure their solemn com- ments were more clearly nonsense than the grand master's joke! So this year he hits them off by telHng a good story how one of Mark Twain's witti- cisms was misunderstood. He now essays the serious, but makes a worse mess of it than he did the year before! He does not believe in grand mas- ters doing acts " for which there is no law or landmark." Well, who ever heard of any Mason who does ? The whole doctrine of grand masters' pre- rogatives is that they are landmarks which the enacted law cannot change or take away. We believe in the prerogatives inherent in the office of grand master, but we most fully and heartily endorse the proposition that the grand master can do no act for the doing of which ' ' there is no law or land- mark."
He notes with pleasure the decision of Bro. Smith that an unaffiliated Master Mason is not circumscribed by territorial jurisdiction, but may^ join and hold lodge affiliations in any state, regardless of his residence or abode, '■ ' as there has been a recent attempt to take away this privilege of a Mason of so long standing that it approaches closely to a landmark. " He copies with approval his remarks in favor of recognizing grand lodges of Scottish Rite origin, and while commending very highly his action in securing for our grand lodge a full set of its proceedings, thinks he is in error in suppos- ing the set in the library of the Grand Lodge of New York is the only one in existence, feeling very sure that there is a full set in the library of the Grand Lodge of Maine, and he thinks there is elsewhere a third. He hopes to see those of the old grand lodge added and all before 1845 reprinted in one pamphlet. He also copies the grand master's comments on the manner in which this committee sees fit to discuss the questions growing out of the
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High Rite quarrels and the reference thereto by the committee on the grand master's address, and while waiting to find out precisely what it means, post'^ pones intended comment of his own on our views of imperialism. We re- gret this because our brother's remarks are always edifying whether we agi-ee with them or not, and we regret it the more if for the same reason he postponed any intended comment on the proposition that reports on corres- pondence fail to serve the purpose for which intended if they do not commit the grand lodge for wh'ch they are written.
Bro. Drvmmond rejoins to our discussion of his position on the Crum case. We think he has made the most that can be made of a weak case,, and the extent of its weakness may be judged by the fact that in attempting: to disprove our statement that he had run away from the fundamental \a.\v which prescribes and permits only one religious test in Masonry — belief in God and obedience to the moral law — he is compelled to make a definition of "Atheist" luhich no lexicographer would recog7iize and lu/dc/i is dis- credzted by jiniversal usage. Incidentally he says we wisely dodged his question, this because .we declined to transfer the discussion from 1±ie exist- ing state of facts to a hypothetical one. He asks another question, and in- asmuch as it illustrates the main point of the discussion as well as the inci- dental one with respect to the by-law, we ^AW. answer it. "If," he asks, "the Investigating Committee finds that a candidate is an a^vowed atheists would that by-law [forbidding the introduction of sectarian matter] exclude their so reporting ? "
The committee do not report in open lodge with us, but privately to the master, but under the former practice of reporting to the lodge, that by-law of course would not forbid the reporting of the ascertained fact that a can- didate was an avowed atheist, because, tested by the fundamental law, that is not a sectarian question ; but if on the other hand the committee had not found that he was an atheist, but that he held views of the Bible differing from Bro. Drummond, or Bro. Goldwater, or both, the introduction of such, matter in their report would be in violation of the by-law because, tested by the ancient law, it is touching on sectarian ground. But we will let Bro_ Drummond talk more connectedly:
The basis of his argument is the " Universality of Masonr\'," as shown by the " Ancient Charges," upon his interpretation of them. But Masonry is not universal ; no at/ieist can be made a JJason. In this Bro. Robbins- agrees with us.
In passing, we would remind him that he holds that nothing is Masonry that did not originate from one of the British Grand Lodges. We might claim that under this theory. Masonry is practically not universal ; but as- he discusses this question from the stand-point of the character of the In- stitution, we refer to this point for another purpose. From the very organ- ization of the Institution in Great Britain, it has been the usage and the law, that the Bible should be present in the lodge in order to make it a lodge, or
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to do any work therein. In all our reading, it'c have nevet' seen the iiistance .0/ a lodge, hailing directly or indirectly, under the British lodges, luhieh was allowed to siihstitiiie any other book or t/iing for the Bible, or to 'work without it. If Bro. Robbins can point us to a single instance, we wish that he would do so; we do not believe that he can. One significance of this is that the Bible is by law an essential part of his Masonry, which is not so universal as to allow any substitute for the Bible.
There is an incidental matter, upon which Bro. Robbins lays some stress. A by-law of his grand lodge prohibits the entertaining of any charges, or .any matter written or oral, involving questions of "a sectarian character," .to be read in or presented to the lodge. We asked him if the evidence of a Masonic offense was contained in a document which contained sectarian matter, that document could not be used as evidence Of course, such a ■construction would be absurd, and he wisely dodges our question.
But the applicability of the by-law depends upon the meaning of the word " bectarian " ; if the Investigatmg Committee finds that a candidate is an avowed atheist, would that b^'-law exclude their so reporting ? But we forget; Bro. Robbins is not answering " supposititioiis constructions. " He ■cooU}' assumes that an attack upon the Bible is "Sectarian"! and that a charge for such an attack is also " Sectarian" !
He begs the very question at issue. If our position in relation to the Bible in the lodge is correct, the charge in the Crum case was not of a " Sec- tarian character": the by-law, therefore, is of no consequence in the discus- rsion.
We have said that Bro. Robbins agrees that no atheist can be a Mason; tut when we note the meaning which he gives to the word " Sectarian," we .are not sure that he really agrees with us; we hold that the man who accepts the French idea is an atheist; in brief, we hold that one who does not be- lieve in God, the Father and Ruler of mankind, is an atheist, and cannot under the fundamental laws of the Institution be made a Mason. The Fatherhood oi God and the Brotherhood of man are correlative terms; the Mason can include in the latter only those who believe in the former.
He is c^uite right in saying that Masonry is not universal, because no atheist can be made a Mason ; and it is equally true that its claim to the de- gree of universality which it does possess, rests on the fact that none but .atheists are excluded on religious grounds. This is evident from the fact that universality was claimed for it at a time when it existed nowhere out- side of the British Isles, and when there were only a few lodges there; and this view is greatly strengthened by the concluding lines of the charge con- cerning God and religion which at once indicate the reason for, and describe the effect of, putting the Institution on a basis so nearly undogmatic that only atheists were excluded, viz. : " W^hereby Masonry becomes the center of union, and the means of conciliating true friendship among persons who must have remained at a perpetual distance." No other rational meaning •can be given to these words in the connection where they stand, than that it was the explicit purpose of the law to absolutely banish, this side of the boundary which defines atheism, all dogmatic differences. Heretofore dogma or politics had been the centres around which men had gathered, but
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now Masonry, Avhich stands for undogmatic, non-political human fellowship, was to become the centre of union, not by asking men to give up either their religious or political opinions, but only that they should not obtrude them upon their fellows while on Masonic ground.
Bro. DRfMMOND is also right in saying that we hold that nothing is Ma- sonry that did not originate from the British Islands, and he might have added that all of what we call spurious Masonry came remotely from the same source, ha\'ing been transformed by dissenters from the original plan after it had crossed the channel.
He says it has always been the usage and the law in Great Britain that the Bible should be present in the lodge in order to make it a lodge, or to do any work therein. We have no disposition to deny this, because it would not strengthen our argument to find an exception to the rule. We beg to remind him that during the same period it has been no less the usage and the law that the Square should be present in the lodge in order to make it a lodge, or to do any work therein, and by the same token one significance of this is that the Square is by law an essential part of Masonry. The mere fact that the Bible is universally present as an essential part of Masonry no more proves that it is there to be used as the churches built upon it use it, than an equally universal and essential presence of the Square proves that it is there to be used as it is used by the trades to whose prosecution it is es- sential.
We have said that the weakness of Bro. Drummond's position compelled him to make a definition of atheist which is discredited by universal usage. We shall also see that his attempt to justify it leads him on dangerous ground. To show that this new definition is correct he says that ' ' the Fath- erhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man are correlative terms: the Mason can include in the latter only those who believe in "Cae former." This prop- osition shows the wisdom of the fundamental law in requiring Masons to af- firm Deity simply, not to define him ; it proves too much. If the terms are really correlative, then whoever believes in the Brotherhood of Man is a theist ; and French Masonrj^ which we had all agreed to be atheistical, by basing itself on the " Solidarity of humanitj!-" not only believes in God in spite of itself but defines him inferentially in the same terms as Bro. Dru.m-
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Quoting at some length from our report, he continues : «
The "Old Charges" mean now what they meant when they were adopted: they have no such elasticity as to have one meaning then and an- other meaning now ; they are to be read in the light of circumstances exist- ing when they were made ; they are to be taken as entirely m harmony with other laws then existing and obser\-ed.
It was then a landmark of Freemasonrv, that no one could be made a
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Mason except by covejtan/ upon the book luhich he verily believed to con- tain the law of God: and that is a landmark now.
We utterly repudiate the idea that the Bible on the altar of a lodge is a mere symbol, or anything else than the Book of the Law, (for that lodge,) of that God in whom every one must believe in order to pass the crucial test of admission to the Fraternity.
It is true that no other question was asked of us than the one stated by Bro. Robbins ; but it is also true that we were then instructed that the office of the Bible is precisely as we have stated it; the reasons for it were given, which any Mason will understand we cannot give here : the presence of the Book of the Law was absolutely essential to acquiring the Masonic character.
The Masonic law has always been, that belief in God carries with it be- lief in a Book of the Law, without the presence of which no lodge can be held. Theoretically it may be true that a Mahomedan lodge could use only the Koran; but that is of 'no consequence; the necessity is that there shall be a Book of the Law — the divine law.
The religion, therefore, in which the old charge holds that all men agree, is belief in God, the Father and Ruler, and m a book of His law as such Rider, although it does not theoretically require belief in the same book.
In America (and for that matter everywhere where Masonry, according to Bro. Robbins, is practiced) the Bible is that Book of the Law by universal law and usage. If Bro. Crum was initiated m the lodge of which he was a member, he accepted it as the Book of the Law of God ; if he, by mental reservation, undertook not to do so, he is held to the consequences the same as if he had accepted it. His course, viewed from a Masonic standpomt, was an actual repudiation of his Masonic obligations. Being a member, his course was a violation of fundamental law.
We entirely agree with him that the Charges of a Freemason mean now what they meant when they were adopted. Moreover we hold that they are the supreme law, the landmark, and that any attempt to interpret Masonry that requires them to bend in order to give that attempt consistency is fal- lacious upon its face. The first of those charges is the fundamental, unalter- able law of Masonry concerning God and religion, solemnly agreed upon as such and its acceptance as such made one of the conditions upon which every man has acquired Masonry from that daj' to this, and without which condi- tion no man can lawfully acquire it. We are not permitted to assume that the office of the Bible in the lodge is to narrow or annul the obvious meaning of the landmark, but on the contrary we are constrained by the landmark to such a view of its office as will leave intact the broad foundation the law marks out for the Masonry that is to be, because in definittg that founda- tion it explicitly repudiates any ttarrower usage that may have prevailed in the past.
There is no reason to believe, however, that in the primary use made of the Bible by the Masons of that day there was any significance beyond that attaching to the similar use of it in the courts from which the practice was borrowed. The assumption that at any time no one could be made a Mason
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except by covenant upon a book ' ' which he verily beUeved to contain the law of God," is wholly gratuitous. He was not asked — as Bro. Drummond con- fesses for himself — whether he believed the book on the altar contained the law of God. No one gave him the least hint that he was required to hold any particular view of the Bible, and whatever he may have been taught afterwards relative to its office cuts no figure with reference to the claim that he could not be made without holding a particular view, because he had al- ready been made. Nor is the phrase " Book of the Law" entitled to any weight in this discussion. It does not occur in the ancient charges, the old regulations, ritual or work of Masonry, but is borrowed from an organization superimposed upon Masonry some time after the bounds of required theolog- ical belief were fixed beyond the power of any man or body of men to change. The law which fixed those bounds did not permit Bro. Crum to be asked whether he accepted the Bible as the Book of the Law of God, nor did it permit any one to assume for him that he either so accepted or rejected it. I*: permitted the asking of one question and one only, and that question was asked and answered before he ever knew whether there was a book in the lodge or not.
Bro. Drummond repudiates the idea that the Bible lies on the a'tar of Masonry as a symbol. The fact that it is aliuays correlated with other great lights that are confessedly symbols, is surely not without some significance; but there is abundant other evidence that its theological significance is just that which the landmark concerning God and religion permits it to have, and nothing more. This is shown by the practical usage of the Craft. It is probably entirely safe to say that the lodge to which Bro. Drummond belongs is no exception to the well-nigh universal rule that every lodge numbers among its members some who reject the theory of the divine authenticity of the Bible ; and indeed so general is the consensus among Masons that this side of atheism it is not permitted to inquire into a brother's religious opin- ions, that a man of such general breadth of information as Bro. Chauncev M. Depew could say as he did in a public address at Utica, N. Y., the other day, and doubtless with a perfect conviction that it was literally true: " Dur- ing all these ages there have been no trials for heresy or rewards for ortho- doxy in Masonic lodges."
It is true that at times in this country there have been attempts to prac- tically narrow the catholic basis, of fellowship fixed for the Fraternity by its fundamental law, and these have had temporary success in some jurisdic- tions, showing for the time being the impress of some strong man or men who have been more tenacious of their sectarian views than mindful of the guarantees of complete religious liberty to all God-acknowledging men, which were among the conditions on which they were entrusted with Ma- sonry. We take Bro. Drummond's word for it that at least one God-trusting Mason has been expelled for heresy in Maine, and we know from the record
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that the same thing "has occurred in Ohio, Texas and Missouri : in the latter jurisdiction in one case, at least, wherein the report upon the adoption of which the brother was expelled, furnished unquestioned evidence that he believed that "God is a Supreme Being and created all things and made un- changeable laws to govern the same," and in addition vouched for him as " a good citizen and an upright man." But in spite of these chiefly sporadic exceptions the great heart of the Fraternity is sound on this subject, as shown by the fact that in no lodge of Ancient Craft Masons in this country is the candidate asked any other question than the single interrogatory warranted by the ancient charge concerning God and religion. This fact alone is a conclusive refutation of the claim that by usage the presence of the Bible in the lodge has modified the fundamental law.
The closing remark of Bro. Drum.mond that in his judgment the Grand I^odge of Illinois is treading on the heels of the Grand Orient of France with dangerous closeness, and occasional asides elsewhere to indicate that Illinois is somehow occupying new ground, induces us to print here a few brief de- liverances on this subject:
We now hold as our forefathers held, and as we hope our posterity to hold, that from the votaries of Masonry is expected and required a sincere belief in the existence of God, the Creator and Governor of the world ; and that beyond this great principle of faith it is not lawful to impose any relig- ious test as a requisite for admission to our mysteries. — C. K C. of I'a., jS^S. The true rule is expressed in the above declaration. — C. F. C. of N. H., jS4g.
It is anti-Masonic to require any religious test other than that the can- didate should believe in God, the Creator and Governor of the Universe. — J^es. Ala., 1S4S.
We can find no reason for interdicting any otherwise worthy applicant who ' firmly believes in the existence of a Supreme Being,' nor can we allow of any right to interrogate him further as to his religious belief. — Hubkard, C. F' C. of N. H., iSj-j. This we believe to be the true doctrine. — O'Sulli- <VAN, C. F. C. of Mo. , iSjS.
The Grand Lodge of Vermont condemns as un-Masonic the introduction of any tests of a sectarian character. The only faith required of a candidate is a belief or trust in God; without this no obligation would be binding upon Jiim. — Haswell, C. F. C. of VL, iS4g.
Reso/7'cd, That in the opinion of this Grand Lodge, the exclusion of any ■class of men from the privileges of Masonry, who believe in the existence and moral government of the Supreme Being, evinces a spirit adverse to the genius of our institution, and that it is an assumption of power not sanc- tioned by the usages of the Craft. — Mass., 1S4J.
Rcso/ju'd, That this Grand Lodge is clearly of the opinion that a dis- tinct avowal of a belief in the divine authenticity of the Holy Scriptures should be required of every one who is admitted to the privileges of Masonry, and that a denial of the same is an offense against the institution, calliig for exemplary discipline. — O/iio, i8j6. The Grand Lodge of Ohio attempted (as
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above) to amend, as they supposed, the law, and at once the universaHty of the institution is destroyed, and none but the Christian becomes eligible to initiation. — Mackey, 5. C, /Sj6.
Resolved, That candidates for Masonry should be required to avow their belief not only in the existence of God, but in the divine authenticity of His Word as revealed in the Bible. — Storer, C. F. C. of Co/ifi., tSj6. [Re- jected.]
The only declaration of faith necessar}- on the part of the candidate, be- fore initiation, is the profession of belief and trust in God. But, we also say, that a man who dec /ares his disbelief in the divine authenticity of the Holy Bible cannot be made a Mason. — -Brown, C. F. C. of Fla., iS/S.
Your committee believe this {Ohio Res.) all wrong. The Jews, the Chi- nese, the Turks, each reject either the New Testament or the Old, or both, and yet we see no good reason why they should not be made Masons. In fact, Blue Lodge Masonry has nothing whatever to do with the Bible. It is not founded on the Bible; if it was, it would not be Masonry; it would be something else. Masonry is a mere charitable institution— nothing else — and it is founded on tradition. Solomon, to whom it is traced, and who is said to have been the first M. E. Grand Master, never heard of the New Testa- ment. He was not a Christian. We must, therefore, either blot out the memory of Solomon, and also that of the other Grand Masters, or we must not insist upon a belief in the authenticity of either the Old or New Testa- ment. The position which the Christian assigns to the Bible is a very nat- ural, but not a necessary one — it is thus to them as Christians, and not as Masons. — Sayre, C. F. C. of Ala., iSjj.
Resolved, That the Grand Lodge of Texas declares that a belief in the divine authenticity of the Holy Scriptures is an indispensable prerequisite for Masonic admission; and the Grand Lodge does not mean to exclude the Israelite, whom it does not regard as being disqualified for the mysteries of Masonry. — Texas, iSjy.
No religious test shall ever be required of any applicant for initiation, other than a steadfast belief in the existence and perfections of Deity; and no lodge under this jurisdiction shall receive any candidate without the ac- knowledgment of such belief. — Cons I . Neb.
The religious views of a candidate are not to be regarded at all. It is sufficient if he believes in the existence and providence of God. — C. W. Moore, 1849.
It is clearl}^ settled that, in the first degrees of Masonry, religious tenets shall not be a barrier to admission or advancement of applicants provided they believe in God and in His Holy Word. — Res. Ohio, 1S20.
No test, except belief in God who governs the Universe, should be ex- acted.—C. F. C. of Ohio. iSjo. Do. R. I., iSjo. Res. Ala., 184S.
If the applicant believe in the moral law (the Ten Commandments) and governs himself accordingly, we can inquire no further. — Morris, Am. F. AI., in., 121.
By the usages and principles of our order, he who does not believe in and acknowledge the Bible as the rule and guide of his conduct, ought not to be received into our order. — Hubbard {G. M. of Templars), Ohio, iSjj.
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With the spirit of the Texas resolution we cannot concur. It is not An- cient Free and Accepted Masonry. In the latter a belief in Deity, in God, or rather a trust in God, is all that is required of a candidate. — C. F. C. of R. /., 1S3S.
The Grand Lodge of Iowa recognizes no religious creed or dogma as a prerequisite to gain admission into the portals of her temple; all she requires is, that the candidate should believe in the existence of God, the Creator of all things, and be free-born, of lawful age, and well recommended as a good man and true. — Parvin, C. F. C. loiva, iS4g.
Resolved, That Masonry, as we have received it from our fathers, teaches the divine authenticity of the Holy Scriptures, and that the views of candidates on this subject should be ascertained by the committee of inquiry, or otherwise, as well as their other qualifications and fitness to be received into the order. — Res. Iowa, /Sj^. We protest against all such innovations. — Barber, C. F. C. Ark., iSjb.
The following, by Grand Master Hugh McCurdy, received the especial commendation of the committee on jurisprudence and the approval of the Grand Lodge of Michigan in 1874:
" Oiiestion. — Does jNIasonry require a candidate to avow a belief in the Divine authenticity of the Holy Scriptures ? Answer. — No. Symbolic Mas- onry acknowledges God, and demands of its votaries a declaration of belief in the existence of God — Jehovah — a Supreme Being. * * *
"While our landmarks admit no Atheist to our ranks, they do not author- ize us to demand of a candidate or a brother any declaration of his specific belief concerning the origin of the Holy Scriptures, the manner of their com- munication to man, or the precise signification of their contents. We, as Masons, do not undertake to decide questions on which theologians them- selves do not agree. The Bible, the Square and the Compass are recognized lights in Masonry; and we have no more right to demand that the Mason or the candidate shall declare what he believes to be the origin or the nature of the Bible than we have to require him to declare what he believes to be the origin of the metal in the Square. The former we leave to the theologian and to every man's conscience, and the latter to the chemist and to every man's investigation. The uses we make of these IMasonic lights do not re- quire that these questions be mooted or decided by us.
Inasmuch, therefore, as our landmarks do not demand of the candidate any declaration of faitJi or of religious belief, except that of the existence of God — a Supreme Being — the Great Ruler of the LTniverse:
" It is ordered that the lodges of this grand jurisdiction can neither add to or take from the requirements, in this respect, which were established by our ancient brethren."
In 18S9 the grand master of South Carolina (Div\er) reported the fol- lowing decision :
It is the duty of the committee appointed on the application of a candi- date for the degrees of Masonry, to examine into his moral, as well as his mental and physicial qualifications, and they should be satisfied that the can- didate believes in God, before they report favorably upon his petition."
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So scrupulous was the Grand Lodge of South CaroHna that it could by no possibility be claimed that it assumed to touch anything but the bare question of atheism, with respect to the religious belief of candidates, that "before approving the decision it substituted " Supreme Being" for " God."
We close these references with a quotation from the most important manifesto ever issued by Masons in this country, or in any countrj^ since the Charges of a Freemason were agreed to and promulgated, the Declaration of Jive thousatid Freemasons of Neiu Englatid, iSji :
' ' Masonry simply requires of the candidate his assent to one great fund amental religious truth, the existence and providence of God."
These might be multiplied, but they are enough to show that the Grand Lodge of Illinois, in this as in other matters stands among the most con- servative of Masonic bodies; and in nothing did it ever show a truer conserv- atism or wiser prevision than when it forbade heresy-hunting within its juris- diction.
Bro. Drummond does not like the strict rule that a lodge cannot call off from one day to another, but would permit it to call off to another da}^ only to complete unfinished business before it ; condemns attempts to drive non- affiliates into membership and wisely says that members b}' compulsion are ordinarily a burden rather than a benefit; has come upon reflection to doubt if the Grand Lodge of Canada should be asked to change its name so long as its name implies no pretensions to jurisdiction beyond the boundaries of On- tario, and gives some good reasons for his opinion, but we presume the change will come some day; saj^s public installations have been held in every jurisdiction in which they are now held from the time Masonry existed therein in an organized form, and that the number of jurisdictions in the L'nited States in which they are not recognized or allowed may be counted on the fingers of one hand, with room left to count more; concludes that un- less the number of beneficiaries of proposed Homes is much larger than one would think at first, more good can be done with the money by affording personal relief than through institutions of the kind, where the interest on the cost of the plant and the annual expenses for repairs must be added to the pro rata of maintenance in order to determine the cost per capita, which is quite in accord with our remarks on the subject last year; holds, as we do, that Masonic rank "follows the person" the world over; wrestles with the old problem (this time under Kentucky) of how a grand lodge can reverse the proceedings of a lodge, whereby a brother has been deprived of his membership, as illegal and yet be unable to declare that he is still a mem- ber, and gives it up, as every one must until we get a new vocabularj'; notes as new the question involved in the decision of the grand master of New Mexico that the request for the postponement of a trial must be decided by the lodge, but wherein the grand lodge decided that it must be decided by
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the master, inclining to the opinion that in the absence of enacted law the decision is within the province of the latter; holds as correct the Texas decis- ions that officers installed without opening the lodge, or officers installed by any other than an actual past master, are not legally installed, but that the acts of the lodge were not thereby invalidated; and replying to the question of Bro. Matthews (Texas), " how a grand lodge per se can know anything of a Royal Arch Chapter," answers: " In the same manner that it may know that a stranger is a Mason — dy voucher." Here we should thmk he was simply nodding if we did not find the same idea elsewhere in his report. The Masonic law of avouchment don't fit. That law requires that the person vouched to shall have complete previous knowledge of the substance to which the voucher relates.
He assumes in criticising Bro. Lockwood's (Conn.) report, that tolera- tion of associations of Masons other than lodges is recognition of them, by grand lodges, as Masonic bodies, and says that " the grand lodge has knowl- edge by voucher that in these higher ' bodies ' its own secret work is used in a manner entirely consistent with the duties of the members of its obedience to itself and with their obligations to it," which impels us to inquire, first, whether he has ever known any Mason to confess in the presence of his grand lodge to such use of its secret work? — and, second, whether it is consistent with the obligations of the members of its obedience to use as Masonry the secret work over which the grand lodge has exclusive jurisdiction — and has created but one body, the lodge, through which it can communicate it — in any organization except it be in a just and lawfully constituted lodge of Free and Accepted Masons?
One other question: He says in a connection which seems to warrant the inference of his approval, that in passing laws to settle the quarrels of the contending factions of Scotch Riters ' ' grand lodges are prescribing a rule of action for the members of their obedience, and are defining what such members shall practice as Masonry." What we wish to inquire is, whether the grand lodge can make a definition of Masonry for the individual mem- bers of its obedience, different from that which the fundamental law compels it to adopt for its constituent lodges?
MARYLAND, 1890.
104TH Annual. Baltimore. Nov. i8, 1890.
We have before us two tasteful volumes of the IMaryland proceedings. The first contains besides the journal of the annual communication, the rec-
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ord of a special communication held July aSth and 29th, 1890, for the burial of John S. Tyson, the junior past grand master, who was accidentally drowned while fishing in Gunpowder river. His ability, sterling character, high attainments and fraternal zeal called forth eloquent tributes from Past Grand Master John M. Carter and Bro. Francis P. Stevens, and particu- larly from the grand chaplain on the following day when the grand lodge stood around his open grave.
Bro. Carter says of him:
Perhaps no other man in this grand lodge exercised so large and bene- ficial an influence in its councils as Brother Tyson. And yet this was accom- plished without apparent effort on his part. He was always mild, gentle, conservative, judicious in his speech and demeanor. Never urgent or ag- gressive in his advocacy of any measure he undertook. Invariably kind, courteous and deferential to his adversaries, he rarely ever failed to caiTy his side, or, at least, make many friends for it, whenever he engaged in any discussion.
So, too, in wielding the gavel of grand master; always calm, dignified and judicious in his utterance, he carried conviction with his opinions and left no room for doubt as to the wisdom of his views, no matter what differ- ence might have existed before. He seemed incapable of reaching any other than a right conclusion in any case of difficulty.
A photographic portrait of his striking face forms the frontispiece of the volume.
Past Grand Master John S. Berry, the representative of Illinois, was present at the annual communication and made himself strikingly felt in the re-establishment of the grand charity fund.
The address of the grand master (Thomas J. SHRVocK)is full of the great Masonic fair whose result justified his faith and zeal, netting about $60,000. This magnificent success which practically removed the shadow of debt which had so long overhung the Fraternity in Maryland, he attributes chiefly to the women, backed by the executive committee and a comparatively few Masons. He reports the Craft as enjoying a high degree of prosperity. He had made few decisions. He had advised in a given case that disclosing the secrecy of the ballot was a Masonic offense for which the brother, if con- victed, should be expelled, and he was exi^elled accordingly. The case came before the grand lodge on appeal, and the committee recommended that the findings of the lodge be approved, but as the evidence had not disclosed any willful intention on the part of the accused, they offered a resolution that the punishment be mitigated to suspension for a year. This the grand lodge in a spasm of indignant virtue rejected. At the succeeding semi-annual a motion to reinstate was defeated. He will ultimately be restored, doubtless, for al- though the punishment was deserved it was disproportionate.
The grand master had invited the five surviving past grand masters to
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be present and they all dined together at the Temj^le during the evening, but Past Grand Master Latrobe, then in his eighty-eighth year, felt unequal to the excitement of attending the session, and left after dinner. Past Grand Masters Ohr, Webb, Berry and Carter were present and addressed the grand lodge, the former looking backward over fifty years of service in that body. He said:
It has been fifty years since I attended my first annual session in this grand lodge. What a retrospect! Now this ample room will hardly contain the representatives of the numerous lodges upon our roll. Then one dozen half alh'e lodges only survived those days of gross darkness and lowering clouds of anti-Masonic persecution, which had left us few in numbers and weak in faith. The few hundred of that day are to-day more than outnum- bered by the double of thousands.
At our head then stood the honored Benjamin C. Howard, sustained by Gilman, Charles Howard, a Stapleton, a Hall, a Keerl, a Peters, a Robinson and a few others who kept the spark of Hope alive on our altars.
The first movement of active life took shape from a two page report of the Committee on Foreign Correspondence, reviewing the correspondence of other grand lodges. That committee consisted of Jo,seph H. Stapleton and myself. A movement had been made in the Grand Lodge of Alabama to congregate a convention of the different grand lodges to revise the work and ritual of our Order in which much confusion and disorder prevailed. Our committee endorsed the movement, and our grand lodge added its voice to the call. Two years after that date saw a convention of the most respected and able Masons of this country from Maine to Florida, from the Atlantic shore to the limit of the then far West, assembled in this city, who exempli- fied their work in our grand lodge, by which it was adopted' and ordered to be taught and practiced in all our lodges. This movement put new life and energy into the few faithful lodges and some of the dead ones were resusci- tated. The day of renewed prosperity was dawning, but it needed that some visible and tangible work of our institution should be made manifest to the outside world to continue and promote the commenced prosperity. Brother Gilman, two or three others now all gone to their rest, with myself labored earnestly for the establishment of a " Grand Masonic Home " for the helpless and hopeless widow and orphans and the disabled needy orother, where they could pass their days in peace and comfort. Grand Master Gilman and my- self devised the plan and pushed it to completion, commencing on a capital of seven or eight hundred dollars; it in a period of about twenty-five years had reached an amount exceeding sixty thousand dollars.
Continuing he spoke of the diversion of the fund from its legitimate pur- pose by " unholy hands," and urged that as it was a moral and honest, if not a legal debt upon the grand lodge, duty required its restoration, conclud- ing thus :
I hope tho' I have seen iovix score j-ears, that I may live to see the ob- ject accomplished by the continued energj' and skill of our beloved grand master, and that he may continue in this line until the accumulation of this fund; until the blemi'^h upon our escutcheon shall be wiped out and the honor of Masonic Faith untarnished.
"And novvabideth Faitk, Hope and Love, but the greatest of these, is Love."
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Past Grand Master Berry recalled a singular coincidence :
I stand before you as the third oldest past grand master in this jurisdic- tion ; and by a singular coincidence, three of the five of us were elected to the high and honorable station of Alost Worshipful Grand Master while yet we were members of Adherence Lodge, No. SS, A. F. & A. Masons: Bro. Charles H. Ohr, the founder of our lodge, having preceded me several years as M. \V. Grand Master, and Bro. John H. B. Latrobe being my immediate successor, and so, considering our earthly abidings, I quote from our first Great Grand Master, King Solomon, "A threefold cord is not quickly broken. "
Continuing he, spoke eloquently and warmly of the diversion of the char- ity fund, and after some interesting reminiscences, closed m a most practical way:
As an original subscriber toward the building of this Temple, I hold ^Masonic Temple stock amounting to seven hundred dollars. I do not pro- pose to take from its grave where it was buried some twenty-four years ago, a fund known as the Grand Charity Fund. No, the memiories of its annihi- lation are to me too painful. But I desire to begin de novo a Grand Charit}" Fund towards a Home and support of indigent widows and helpless orphans of Master ^Masons, and as an earnest of the obligations resting upon me in the discharge of my duty to our deceased bi'ethren, I here and now give to that object, so sacred, mj^ Masonic Temple stock of seven hundred dollars, and as much more money as will make my gift amount to the sum of one thousand dollars, and may God bless the gift and all who unite in this noble charity.
On his motion the necessary resolutions were adopted to re-establish the fund, and additional subscriptions amounting to §1,600 were made on the spot.
On a special report of the committee on correspondence and on its rec- ommendation, the grand lodge deferred the recognition of the Grand Lodge of New Zealand, although the report showed that a large majority of the lodges in the Colony assented to its formation. It rejected a resolution look- ing to the annual appointment of a grand orator, and presented Grand Mas- ter Shrvock with an elegant silver service in recognition of his great services in reducing the debt to a merely nominal figure.
Thomas J. Shrvock, grand master, and Jacob H. Medairy, grand sec- retary, both of Baltimore, were re-elected.
An emergent communication was held Jan. i, 1S91, called m view of the destruction of the Masonic Temple on Christmas day, by fire. The indomi- table energy of Grand Master SnRvt)CK was shown in his having secured the old United States court house, fitted and furnished in six days after the de- struction of the temple, enabling him to say that they found themselves comfortably housed in a building which seemed almost to have been erected for Masonic purposes, so well arranged was it for the uses of the Fraternity.
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The Masons of Maryland will have the profound sympathy of the Craft everywhere in this calamity, coming upon them just at the moment when, after years of heroic struggle with a grievous burden of debt, they were be- ginning to breathe freely. Their staying qualities already proven fully war- ranted the hopefulness of the grand master. He said:
The destruction of the Temple and its contents is a great calamity to the Fraternity, collectively and individually, but we can fully recuperate from that loss by the active co-operation of all the brethren. I am fully persuaded if we face the calamity with that fortitude and coiirage which should char- acterize all the members of our Fraternity m such an emergency, that but a short time will elapse before what now appears to be a great chastisement may turn out to be a blessing in disguise. A body composed of such men as constitute the Masonic Fraternity of Maryland should be strong in adversity, and I have no doubt that you will be. * * * One of the greatest losses which befel us is the destruction of the portraits of the past grand masters, who have served the gi^and lodge during the last century, and I trust the grand lodge will authorize their prompt restoration.
The special communication called of the grand lodge for this evening was for no special purpose other than that of having the brethren come to- gether, and to realize, by intercourse with each other, that Masonry in Mary- land is as strong in adversity as in prosperity, and the large attendance which IS present this evening is a conclusive evidence of that fact. I trust that upon the adjournment of the grand lodge to-night we may all feel better about our loss and encouraged by having met and communed together.
The grand lodge justified the grand master's confidence by requesting him to replace the portraits destroyed, and seconded his recommendation that the services of brethren who distinguished themselves in the hazardous work of saving valuable records, archives and jewels, by ordering suitable medals struck for them.
At the semi-annual communication, held May 12, 1891, our representa- tive, Past Grand Master Berry, was not present.
The grand master reported that the board of managers had determined to reconstruct the burned temple, a large portion of it being entirely unin- jured, devoting the whole space to Masonic uses, and under no circumstances to again have a theater connected with the building. The grand lodge ap- proved and stands behind the board in the rebuilding.
The grand master reported the completion of the medals ordered at the emergent communication, and also one which he had had prepared for Past Grand Master Myron M. Parker, of the District of Columbia, through whose efforts they had been able to secure the United States court house for Ma- sonic uses. On the occasion of their presentation, at a later period of the session, to the twelve recipients — including Bro. Parker — the grand master was greatly surprised to receive one himself from the members of the grand lodge, appropriately struck in steel.
One incident of their financial situation is thus reported:
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The fitting up of our present quarters required the outlay of a consider- able amount of money, which, of course, in view of our present financial con- dition, I was exceedingly anxious should be returned to the treasury of the grand lodge, through rentals of the rooiTis ; and, with a view of increasing these, I have permitted the meeting in the large room of a Body, known as the "Shrine." I felt justified in exercising the prerogative, specially con- ferred upon me by grand lodge resolution, to do this, as our present quarters were not dedicated to Masonic purposes. I have in no wise changed my views, " that only Masonic bodies should be permitted to meet in Masonic Temples."
Notwithstanding the grand master's reservation in speaking of this or- ganization— superimposed as it is upon Masonry by making the possession of Masonic degrees a prerequisite for membership — we have no doubt their being permitted to meet in the apartments of the grand lodge will ultimately be cited as a recognition of theShriners as a " Masonic body," as is just now being gravely done in the case of other "high rites" similarly superimposed.
The grand master reports that Bro. E. T. Schultz has reduced the price of the remaining copies of his History- of Maryland Masonry to $5 for the four volumes. This ought not to have been necessary to insure the sale of so valuable a work, but the fact is, the great body of the Craft cannot be in- duced to read Masonic literature, or, we fear, anything else but newspapers, at any price.
The grand master suggested the saving of five or six hundred dollars by making the printing of one annual report cover the business of the year in- stead of issuing the proceedings of the semi-annual communication separately, as at present, but a resolution to that end offered by the committee on ad- dress was defeated.
The report on correspondence (pp. 143) from the accustomed hand of Bro. Edward T. Schultz is a fine example of how much of interest can be crowded into a brief space when the condenser is run by a inan.of brains and discrimination. Almost six of his limited number of pages are given to the Illinois proceedings for 1890. With Grand Master Pearson he confesses his inability to see why with the railroads giving reduced rates equal to four cents a mile, the representatives should receive mileage of ten cents ; says the charitable showing of the jurisdiction for the year disclosed by the in- quiries of the grand secretary is truly a grand one; and quotes from Grand Orator Wolf's address his pat illustration of the disproportionate size of the name of a Chicago association of Anti-Masons.
The Illinois report on correspondence receives considerate notice, and is laid under contribution in a flattering way on the subject of non-payment of dues and non-ai?iliation, whereon we are glad to find our views in accord with his own. Of our remarks anent the decision of Grand Master Shryock relative to defective ej^esight, he saj's:
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We have noticed that several other reporters also criticise this decision of Grand Master Shryock, inferring, as Bro. Robbins appears to do, that under this ruling a near-sighted person, or one requiring the use of glasses to aid their eyesight, cannot be made a Mason.
It is really surprising to us that any one should have come to such a conclusion. Had Grand Master Shrj^ock considered it necessary to have been more explicit, he would have stated that the eyesight of the applicant in question was so defective that with the utmost aid a spectacle-inaker could afford he would have been unable to recognize the worshipful master half the length of the lodge room. Surely Bro. Robbins cannot think such a per- son can be made a Mason?
Very likely we should have agreed with the grand master in the case re- ferred to, but the trouble with these imperfectly-stated cases is, that they go into the books as precedents. In a general way we think the ritual in the second degree indicates what the candidate should be able to perceive.
He comments on our criticism of the grand master's action in granting dispensations to authorize lodges to atiticipatc the regular date for electing officers :
With the utmost respect for our Bro. Robbins, we must say we regard the reason assigned for his objection to the granting a dispensation in this case as of the flimsiest character. For one possible absent member who might time his return to be present at a lodge meeting falling on Christmas, scores of brethren would be absent, because of their desire to spend Christ- inas with their families.
We think he could not have put quite as much emphasis on the word ' anticipate' as we did, or he would have seen that the point of our criticism was not in permitting an election on some othe7' than the regular night, but in not making it subsequent to the stated date whereby the brethren who wished to spend Christmas with their families and the absentee who was en- titled to rely on the provisions of the by-laws could both participate.
Of another matter he says:
He thinks, and in this we concur, a special dispensation to permit a lodge to perform the burial service over a brother ' ' ought to be as superflu- ous as would one authorizing a chartered lodge to make Masons."
In justice to the grand master we give the following which we find in his notice of Wyoming, with reference tp the action criticised:
We have several times stated in our reports why a dispensation has been made requisite to bury a deceased brother in the city of Baltimore, but for Bro. Kuykendall's benefit we will do so again. It was to put a stop to a practice which had become somewhat notorious, of a dozen Masons, preceded by a brass band containing, perhaps, double their numbers, parading through the streets of our city, notably on a Sunday afternoon, with a lot of urchins, wliite and black, tagging after them.
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While we hold it is an inherent right of a lodge to bury with Masonic ceremonies its deceased members, it is nevertheless, not onlj' the right, but the duty of a grand master to see that this ceremony is performed in decency and order. With that object in view, therefore, it has been deemed proper that the permission of the grand master should be had, for parades of the Craft in this city on funeral as well as on all other occasions.
Bro. ScHULTZ says that while he has no disposition to argue the general question of conferring the degrees on Sunday with Grand Master Sorrels, of Arkansas, he is greatly mistaken in sa^nng that it is a violation of the ' long established customs and usages of Masonic bodies,' it having been a common practice 'in ye olden times,' and within his memory still frequently done ; expresses his gratification — and ours— at the failure of the British Co- lumbia propositions to declare a brother ineligible to any office in the grand lodge who has not attended at least six meetings of his lodge during the year, and to forbid the privileges of a Master Mason to a brother raised to the third degree, and denying him the character of a member, until he has proved his proficiency in the degree by examination in open lodge; shows the injustice of the Colorado decision — made in the face of the conceded right of dimission — that a IMason carrying a dimit in that jurisdiction more than one year old has no legal claims on the Fraternity, whereby a brother hold- ing a certificate of good standing m. the Fraternity, and whose life and con- duct has since been above reproach, is luithoict trial deprived of all his rights in the Fraternity; is surprised at the Delaware ruling that an appli- cant who refuses to swear, but who will affirm, cannot be received, closing the doors of Freemasonry, as it does, to Quakers and all others who consci- entiously live up to the Scriptural injunction, ' Swear not at all,' and says he has been at the making of two gentlemen who affirmed, when among those sanctioning the proceeding by their presence were some as bright and intel- ligent ]Masons as ever lived in Maryland ; argues ably for the inherent pow- ers of grand masters which it is just now fashionable to deny but which con- tinue to be exercised all the same by all, including the jurisdictions which deny them, whenever the emergency arises; stands by his opinion expressed the previous year that there are but few jurisdictions where homes are actually needed and fewer still where they can be supported without too great a tax upon the Fraternity, but if established prefers the voluntary system of sup- port, which is, as we have frequently had occasion to show, the Masonic sys- tem, inasmuch as it takes into account the varying degrees of ability to con- tribute; thinks the lodge at Annapolis referred to by Bro. Drinkard as hav- ing been organized under a dispensation by Thomas Oxnard was really organized on the "inherent plan," as evidence has recently come to light showing it to have been in existence at least eight months before it was war- ranted by Oxnard; and in his "conclusion" discusses very temperately the Cerneau Scottish Rite muddle, defending the action of grand lodges in in- terfering therein, on the ground that the doctrine of exclusive jurisdiction
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from prior occupancy is of general application and that it is the duty of the grand lodge to enforce peace on that basis. He says :
Some three or four distinguished writers have given aid and comfort to the brethren connected with the Cerneau organizations, only so far, however, as to question the right or propriety of grand lodges to legislate upon the subject. They hold that grand lodges can know nothing officially regarding Scottish Rite Masonry, therefore they cannot inquire into any controversy that may occur between brethren of that rite.
To us this appears to be most fallacious reasoning. A grand lodge is the supreme Masonic authority within its jurisdiction over all matters affect- ing the welfare of the Craft ; if therefore anything, no matter what it may be, occur to disturb the peace and harmony of the Craft, it is not only the province but the duty of the grand lodge to inquire into and ascertain the cause of the disturbance, and to interdict those of its household whom it may ■deem to be the promoters of the disturbance.
Disclaiming the adjective, and repudiating the possible implication that it is a writer's duty to inquire whether the application of sound principles will incidentally comfort one party or the other, we beg hini to remember that while we do hold that the grand lodge can never know anything as a body about what a portion of its membership knows nothing, the point of our opposition to the action of grand lodges that have interfered in this mat- ter, goes far deeper than this. The grand lodge cannot interfere o?i either side without denying the validity of the law of its existence — the law which dejifies Afasonry ajid forbids any man or body of men born under It to de- fine it differently.
MICHIGAN, 1S91.
47TH Annual. Grand Rapids. Jan. 27, 1891.
Henry Ch.-vmberlin, the representative of Illinois, was one of the seven- teen past grand masters present at the opening of the grand lodge. Imme- diately after the opening, the grand master (John S. Cross) whose well-chis- elled face belies his name — if we may trust the lines of the fine steel portrait which forms the frontispiece of the Michigan volume, stated that having ac- cepted an invitation to dedicate the Michigan Masonic Home, he had chosen that time for the pleasant duty. At the conclusion of the dedication cere- monies Past Grand Master Hugh McCurdy — he of the melitiuous tongue —
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delivered an eloquent address that fitted the occasion as not all occasional addresses do, after which the grand lodge rested until the evening.
The grand master referred to the death of Past Grand Master Jonathan Adams Allen, whom we in Illinois had so long with us that we had forgotten that he belonged, Masonically, to Michigan, he having been for many years president ot Rush Medical College, Chicago, of whom he says:
His address to the grand lodge at its session in Detroit in i860 has never been surpassed for clearness and elegance of diction. His decisions — fifty- nine in number — formed practically the basis of our present system of juris- prudence.
Brother Allen was a ripe scholar, a writer of more than ordinary ability, and an eloquent speaker.
He was a great man everyway — great in his literary attainments, great in his eloquence, great in his hold upon the scientific world, great in his efforts to alleviate human suffering, and great in his love for the teachings of Masonry. Few men have been more honored than he during his lifetime, and fewer still who will leave behind them only the benedictions and tears of a sorrowing people.
The publication of the Michigan " Blue Book" did not, of course, relieve the grand master from the duty of answering questions on points of law, because there will always be a large proportion of inasters who either will not read or cannot interpret the published law. He submitted thirty-seven decisions, as a whole wonderfully briefly and well stated, some of which we copy:
No. 2. As no dues can accrue during expulsion the lodge has no right to charge them against an expelled member as a condition of his restoration.
No. 3. The fee should in all cases accompany the petition. It is not sufficient that the fee is guaranteed — the money should actually accompany the petition.
No. 4. The lodge cannot by vote refund or present the applicant with the amount of his fee.
No. 5. It is competent for a lodge, while the main hall is undergoing repairs, to meet in its ante-room and transact the ordinary routine business, provided the charter and proper lodge furniture are present.
No. 6. Except in case of death the grand master has no power to grant a dispensation for the election of a junior warden while worshipful master and senior warden remain.
No. 7. The loss of the left hand disqualifies a candidate for Masonry.
No. 8. A person who is dwarfed in size and affiicted with a hunchback is not a suitable candidate for Masonry, although otherwise well qualified.
No. 9. The granting of a dimit is an act of grace on the part of the lodge ; a brother cannot insist upon it as a right. The lodge is the sole judge of the sufficiency of the reasons given with the application for a dimit.
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No. lo. A worshipful master would not be justified in entertaining charges against a brother for non-payment of a debt unless it was alleged that the debt was fraudulently contracted.
No. 12. When an entered apprentice loses the thumb of his right hand it is a bar to his advancement.
No.* 13. A member who has threatened to stop the work of a lodge is amenable to disciplme.
No. ig. Question. When the worshipful master has called a special meeting, and afterwards gives notice to the senior warden, secretary, tyler and others that no meeting would be held at that date, can the junior warden open tne lodge and, with the assistance of a past master, confer the degrees without the order and consent of the worshipful master, he being within the jurisdiction of the lodge ?
Answer. Yes; the junior warden could preside at a meeting regularly called unless he had received notice of its abandonment.
No. 20. Question. A brother is accused of being a defaulter as treas- urer of another society. Should charges be preferred against him in the Masonic lodge ?
Answer. The party against whom the fraud is alleged to have been committed should first proceed against him.
No. 21. A non -affiliated Mason cannot prefer charges against a member of a lodge.
No. 22. A candidate, one of whose legs is a trifle shorter than the other, is disqualified.
No. 28. Residence must be continuous for twelve months before it can be established. Having once been acquired a temporary absence would not vitiate it.
No. 30. Question. An entered apprentice of lodge "A" removes into the jurisdiction of lodge "B." He applies to lodge "B" for the remaining degrees. Lodge " B" obtains a release of jurisdiction from lodge "A" but neglects to act upon the petition. He afterwards gains a residence in the jurisdiction of lodge " C" and now applies to lodge " B" for the remaining degrees.
Answer. Held, that lodge "B," in neglecting to act upon the petition, lost its jurisdiction. He should petition the lodge at "C," where he now resides, and request the lodge to obtain a release of jurisdiction from lodge "A."
No. 31. Question. Can a candidate who has been elected in lodge "A" petition lodge " B," a year or more having elapsed from the date of his elec- tion to lodge "A," the lodge having concurrent jurisdiction ?
Answer. Yes, lodge "A," by its neglect to confer the degrees within one year, forfeited its personal jurisdiction.
No. 35. An objection made before the election of a candidate is void and should be disregarded.
No. 36. The length of a lunar month, being the interval between simi- lar phases of the moon, is about twenty-nine and one-half days.
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No. 37. It is not competent for a lodge to instruct its Secretary to cast the entire vote of the lodge for the officers required by the regulations of Grand Lodge to be elected by ballot.
Of the decisions quoted none require other comment than approval until we come to No. 6. Illinois has decided that the grand master cannot prop- erly grant a dispensation to elect a master in contravention of the right and duty of succession attaching to the senior and junior wardens respectively, but Ave see no reason why he should not grant one for the election of a jun- ior warden if the convenience of the lodge required it, because nobody's right of succession would be affected thereby. With reference to No. 8 we think the degree of the infirmity (hunchback) would be the question to be considered — is it Masonically disabling ? Of course there is no regulation height or shortness; "Tom Thumb" (Stratton) was a Mason.
No. 9 is opposed to our law, which holds dimission to be a right, and therefore does not permit the lodge to vote on an application therefor. No. 10 is in accord with our enacted law and numerous precedents, but No. 12 is not. In Illinois we should no more deny advancement to an Entered Ap- prentice or Fellow Craft because of such a loss than we should expel a Mas- ter Mason for the same misfortune, and this on the explicit ground that when the law respecting physical fitness was made, " making" was all there was, " degrees " being unknown. No. 13 agrees with our law. No. 19 we think is correct if the master has given no general notice of the abandonment of the meeting. No. 21 is in accord with what seems to be our law, but the intention of the latter is not quite clear. We do not think the decision good law. " A trifle" in No. 22 might be so trifling as to invalidate the statement. As it stands we think it too sweeping. We are in accord with Nos. 35 and 37 {No. 36 being simply a definition). The only decision that did not pass muster with the committee on jurisprudence is No. 30, and that the grand master also considers erroneous. The committee say, the grand lodge con- curring :
In conversation with the grand master in reference to this question, he kindly informed your committee that since he made this decision he has given the subject much thought, and now says if he had the decision to make over again he would reverse his own decision and rule that where a lodge waives jurisdiction of an Entered Apprentice in favor of a lodge asking for the juris- diction of such unfinished material, it loses full and complete jurisdiction of such material, and the lodge receiving such material then becomes the ex- clusive owner of the unfinished material and can never be divested of it ex- cept by its own act legally expressed. We recommend that this question as thus modified stand in place of question No. 30.
Referring to the Masonic Home just dedicated the grand master thinks it probable that voluntary contributions alone cannot be relied upon to sup- ply the needed revenues for its maintenance, and that some scheme of syste- matic aid should be adopted by the grand lodge, suggesting an endowment
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fund to be created and fostered by the grand lodge, either bj- increasing the revenues sufficiently to allow a stipulated sum to be paid yearly into the treasury of the association, or by a per capita ap^^ropriation from the grand lodge dues. The matter went to a special committee who reported in favor of pledging to the Home association a certain specified yearly amount and recommending a change in the by-laws whereby some certain amount of the per capita dues shall be applied directly to that purpose. On motion of Past Grand Master McGratii the report was laid on the table and the fol- lowing adopted:
Resolved, That the report of the committee on masonic home be laid upon the table until the next session of this grand lodge, and that in the meantime the grand secretary be instructed to furnish each lodge a printed copy of the I'eport, together with the proposed amendment to the by-laws increasing grand lodge dues, so that each lodge may instruct its master how to vote upon these questions.
Later a resolution donating $5,000 to the Home to meet current expenses for the coming j'ear was referred to the finance committee for immediate re- port. The committee stated that an actual surplus of about $S, 200 was at the disposal of the grand lodge and reported the resolution back without recommendation. After a discussion which took a wide range, the resolu- tion, which was strongly supported by Past Grand Master Champlin, Jef- ferson S. CoNOVER, Grand Secretary Innes and others, and opposed by past grand masters Mitchell, McGrath, Chamberlain and others, was put to vote and lost.
A motion to vote $5,000 to the Home was amended to make it $3,000, and this was accepted by Past Grand Master Mitchell in place of $2,000 proposed by himself as a substitute and the $3,000 appropriated.
After the disastrous experience of Kentucky in attempting to support by taxation the Home which it had already munificentl}- endowed, which re- sulted after having " shaken the craft to its foundations," in a resort to the voluntary principle, we cannot doubt the wisdom of those of our Michigan brethren who oppose committing the grand lodge to the maintenance of the institution by the former method. Subsequently the following preamble and resolution was adopted:
Whereas, The trustees of the Masonic home of Michigan tender that institution to the grand lodge ; and
Whereas, This grand lodge, while desirin:^- to give respectful attention to the offer, is at present without sufficient knowledge of the needs of, or responsibilities connected with, or attendant upon, its acceptance to enable it to act with that understanding and deliberation which so mighty a subject demands. Therefore
Resolved, That a committee of ten inembers of this grand lodge is ap- pointed with power to examine into the whole subject and to report their conclusions to this grand lodge at its next annual communication.
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It shall be the duty of this committee to meet at some time and place to be designated b)- the chairman, and to devote such time to its consideration as they may deem necessary, not exceeding three days, and if they should decide that the offer should be accepted that they present to the grand lodge some plan by or upon which its benefits should be enjoyed, as well as how or in what manner the institution should be supported.
The grand lodges of Victoria and Tasmania were recognized, but recog- nition was withheld in the case of the Grand Lodge of New Zealand, the committee on correspondence assigning as a reason for recommending this course, the fact that they were without official notification of the consent of any one of the mother grand lodges, although what bearing that has on the question they do not state.
The " Rupert case " having been heard on its merits by a special com- mittee, the testimony was reported by the chairman. Past Grand Master Champlin (chief justice of Michigan), and thereupon Bro. Rupert w'as de- clared not guilty and declared " restored to all the rights and benefits of Masonry." The grand lodge having decided the previous year that it had no power to restore a brother without affiliation we infer that he is restored to membership in his lodge, but if so the language of the resolution is un- fortunate.
John Q. Look, of Lowell, was elected grand master; William P. Ixxes, Grand Rapids, re-elected grand secretary.
The report on correspondence (pp. 387) is as usual from the grand sec- retary, whose e.v officio jewel is a pair of open scissors of heroic size. Gen- erous scissors'. They give the Illinois proceedings for i8go nearly fourteen pages in which to tell their story chiefly in their own words, in fine print, sandwiched between compliments in long primer. The question, " How do you do it?" is addressed to the grand secretary:
As usual Munn presents h-s voluminous report, full and complete, laid on our desk with his most approved trademark thereon, in the short space of about ten days after the closing of the session. We are after all the patents we can get. We want to know how you do it, and we will try and copy. Great brains, j\Iunn, great brains.
Copying the tribute of our obituary committee to Past Grand ]\Iaster J. Adams Allen, he says :
The writer regrets exceedingly that this melancholy event was not known to him either officially or personally until very late in the fall, and sometime after the death of this great and good man. Michigan loved Past Grand Master Allen, and their love for him was reciprocated. His life as a man and a jNIason cannot be too highly estimated, and we only regret that the Grand Lodge of Michigan could not have paid the appropriate respect to this brother in consigning his remains to the grave, that his gifted eloquence and masterly Masonic life entitled him to. The Grand Lodge of Michigan would have mingled her sorrows with those of Illinois had the information reached us in time.
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Past Grand Master Smith's happy response to his welcome as the repre- sentative of Iowa and Florida is preserved in his pages; Grand Orator Wolf's oration praised for its ability and polished diction; and his generous reference to our report is supplemented by reprinting its introductory por- tion.
Himself a thirty-third degree member of the Scottish Rite, Northern jurisdiction, referring to Bro. Anderson (Cal.) on the Cerneau broil, he says:
He names the States that have spoken out definitely on this question, and says he hopes to see others follow their example. Our personal opinion is that this matter can be easier cured by letting it severely alone; and as to grand lodge authority on this subject, we are as emphatic and positive as- Bro. Anderson that they have nothing to do with it. Let the rites right their own wrong, if any exists. It is a good boy that minds his own business and lets the other fellows alone.
And of Bro. Parvin on a cognate subject:
We disagree entirely with Bro. Parvin in his comments relative to the acceptance by the grand master of the invitation of a commandery of Knights Templar to act as escort for him during the ceremony of laying the corner- stone of the Michigan Masonic Home. Of course the grand master would not have invited or permitted a body of Knights of Pythias to attend in such a procession, because they are not Masons or a Masonic body. We think the comparison far-fetched. We agree with Bro. Lockwood of Connecticut. We think that Royal Arch Masons, Knights Templar, Scottish Rite Masons of the Northern Jurisdiction or of the Cerneau following, are bodies of Masons, not Masonic bodies. We hope Bro. Parvin will see the difference.
Referring to an interesting addenda to the Texas report which he sup- poses to be made from Bro. Parvin' s report on the Cerneau bodies, he says he is at a loss, and has been for a year or two, to know where Bro. Parvin now gets his ideas, which are so opposite to what they were a few years ago.
He is a warm advocate of institutional charities such as the Michigan Masonic Home represents, and confesses to becoming disgusted at the idea of refusing the lodge-room to the order of the Eastern Stai', and granting it to the Arabs to tramp through the hot and dusty sands under the name and style of Shriners.
MINNESOTA, 1891.
3STH Annual. St. Paul. Jan. 14, 1891.
A. Y. Davidson, the newly-appointed representative of Illinois, was. present and during the session was formally received and welcomed.
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The grand master (Jacob A. Kiester) announced the death of the junior past grand master, John H. Brown, and of Caleb H. Benton, who was grand •master in 1882 and 1883. Both were natives of Vermont, the former sixty- five and the latter forty-nine years of age. Both were strong men to whom the grand lodge owed much. Of their recent losses the grand master says:
In less than a twelvemonth three of our past grand masters have gone hence — three of the most eminent Craftsmen our jurisdiction has ever had, or, I may well add, ever shall have — Bros. Pierson, Brown and Benton; and of the fifteen grand masters who have presided over our jurisdiction, seven now are sleeping in their graves. The Craft could have spared some others of us much better than these, our counselors and guides in all difficulties, but it is an old truth that death loves a shining mark, is no respecter of per- sons, and that
" The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours."
This did not close the death record — George W. Lamson, past grand orator, and Frederick Joss, past junior grand warden, having died during the year.
The following is greatly to the grand master's credit:
In July last I received a very kindly expressed request to examine the character and standing of a Masonic insurance company, and if satisfied therewith in all respects, to give my official endorsement and recommenda- tion of the association. Though entirely satisfied with the soundness of the institution, its beneficial purposes and honorable management, and knowing also of several instances m which such recommendations had been accorded by grand masters to like societies, I felt it to be my duty to decline to give any official recognition or recommendation of this or like associations, for the reason that though conducted by Masons and confined to Masons in their membership, they are but private business enterprises, in no way controlled by or amenable to the Fraternity as such, or any administrative officer thereof, and in no way coming within the official purview of the grand mas- ter, or of this or any other grand body.
The grand master confessed that he was mclined to boast a little of the progress and prosperity of the jurisdiction, and his statistics and other facts relative to the Craft in Minnesota show that he was quite justified in so ■doing. He found it necessary to re-state the law of territorial jurisdiction, which is identical with that of Illinois, that of each lodge extending half way i)7t aft air line from the exact location of the lodge-room to the neighboring lodges in all directions, disregarding all other boundaries. He spoke a strong word for the grand lodge library and reported the generous act of Mrs. Pierson, the widow of the late grand secretary, who insisted on donat- ing to the grand lodge his Masonic library which that body had offered to Tauy.
He urges a reconstruction of the district deputy system, and we presume this was done on the lines indicated in the report of a special committee ap-
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pointed last year — although we find no record of its adoption — as we observe that the incoming grand master has divided the State into thirty-four dis- tricts, giving no deputy more than eight lodges to supervise. The inspection provided for in the report is quite searching.
The grand master recurred to the subject of cypher rituals, strongly con- demning them for many reasons beside the crowning reason of their being in violation of the primary obligations of the Craftsmen. He fails to men- tion the chief reason for the spread of the evil, which is beyond question the increasing familiarity with the printed rituals of the "higher degrees" whereby the perceptions of the brethren have been blunted.
He submitted four decisions, three of which are general in character:
First — On an application by some good brethren for an opinion as to the propriety of using representations of Masonic sj-mbols in connection with business purposes and advertisements, I ruled that the use of our symbols, emblems and hieroglj-phics as, or on signs, or m connection with, advertise- ments and the like, pertaining to matters of private business, is reprehen- sible.
Our emblems, symbols, characters and hieroglyphics are used to teach great moral truths and have peculiar and almost sacred, and some of them largely esoteric, significations, and the use of them in connection with private or public business affairs is derogatory to their high purposes, partakes of the mercenary, tends to their degradation, and should not be tolerated.
Second — The worshipful master of lodge No. 4 wi^ote me that a gentle- man, in every respect eligible, desired to apply for the degrees in Masonry, but had mquired whether, if any covenant or obligation in the nature of an oath were required, he could be permitted to take, instead, an affirmation. The worshipful master requested instructions. I gave him substantially the following answer, more fully stated, however, here than in my reply:
1. That Masonry possessed certain fixed principles, forms, rites and ceremonies that are immutable, and that it is not in the power of any man or body of men to make innovations therem.
2. That the O. •. B. ■. in each degree is symbolic in character, and as. such has certain peculiar significations, and partakes of the nature and pos- sesses the force of a landmark, and cannot be omitted or changed in form, and that no one has the power to grant a dispensation permitting any change or omission, and that the substitution of an affirmation or other promise or form of covenant in its stead, and that no form of affirmation is prescribed or permitted or known in the rituals or elsewhere in Masonry.
3. That Masonry is a peculiar institution and does not seek members of any grade or rank or qualifications, and does not change or modify its prin- ciples, rites or forms, which must always remain the same for all, to meet the views of any applicant for initiation, but all comers must conform to the established regulations or remain out of the Fraternity.
Fout't/i — I advised, in a case presented by a worshipful master, that a traveling or other man, who has no home or place of residence, is not eligible for the degrees in Masonry under our rules. That our regulations, which.
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require an actual residence and domicile for at least one year within the jurisdiction of the lodge to which he applies, means, in effect, that one who has no fixed or actual place of residence or domicile is not eligible for the de- grees anywhere.
No. I cannot be too highly commended nor too often reverted to, and we regard it equaly applicable to the use of the word " Masonic" by insur- ance and beneficiary societies as to emblems and hieroglyphics. Time was when we would have accepted No. 2 unhesitatingly, but the more we reflect ■upon the subject the more unsettled our opinion becomes. It is manifest that the point of difference is clearly technical, as apart from the question of the word to be used anj' one of us would as unhesitatingly accept the affir- mation of such a man as his oath. His compliance would be as complete in his own eyes as that of any brother; but would ours? — that's the rub. We are in accord with Xo. 4. All were approved by the grand lodge.
The grand lodge granted eleven charters and continued two lodges under dispensation; authorized the grand master to report a ritual of the Past Mas- ter's degree " as required in this jurisdiction," at the next session of the grand lodge, and cause the same to be disseminated by the district deputies, but the resolution to that end — coming from the committee on ancient land- marks— does not state in advance whether the two-thirds of the grand lodge composed of the wardens will be required to retire when the grand master reports; and under the lead of the committee on jurisprudence, who stated that conflicts In construction had arisen relative to restoration under the pro- visions of the constitution, adopted the following:
Resolved, That no Mason who may be hereafter indefinitely suspended or expelled shall be restored to Masonic rights and privileges except upon application to and the favorable action of the grand lodge in session.
This may have seemed a necessity of the local situation, but it does not rest on a sound logical basis as a law should. A suspended Mason is not outside of the Fraternity, and so it ought not to require the intervention of the grand lodge, as in the case of an expelled Mason, to get him back again. He is still a member of the Fraternity and of the lodge — a member under disabilities, and as the body that imposed the disabilities did not see fit to release their hold of him, it ought to be competent to remove them.
Alphonso Barto, of Sauk Center, was elected grand master; Thomas Montgomery, St. Paul, re-elected grand secretary.
The report on correspondence (pp. 155) is again by Bro. Irving Todd. Since we have learned that Bro. Todd has had long training in a newspaper office, we have ceased to wonder that his maiden report of last j-ear seemed so much like the work of an old stager.
We thought from certain ear-marks about his report that we could not be mistaken in supposing him to be a subject of the Holy Empire, and this
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he confesses, but denies the soft impeachment of the imperial pottage, being content to be a high private in the rear ranks. He says we are greatly mis- taken in thinking that if Bro. Piekson had lived, Minnesota would not have bartered away its birthright — he don't express it in just those terms — but that the action had was directly in line with our late brother's views of the situa- tion, both publicly and privately expressed. We may have been mistaken in our estimate of what Bro. Pierson would not have done ; those in constant intercourse with him ought to be able to judge better than we, but neither in his reports nor in the only personal chat we ever had with him — at the last Templar triennial at St. Louis, when our conversation chiefly covered the topics wherein we had in some measure differed — did he ever say anything from which we could infer that he favored grand orientism, or that he would consent that jMinnesota should do what no other grand lodge that has em- broiled itself in this foreign quarrel has done — assume to empower by resolu- tion the so-called " higher bodies" to " itse so much of the esoteric ceremo- 7iies of the first three degrees as may be tiecessary for their purpose."
A frank confession is good for the soul. We called attention to the sig- nificant fact that while all bodies of corresponding grade other than certain named chapters, councils, commanderies and supreme councils were de- clared irregular, the penalty of the law was by the Minnesota legislation de- nounced only against those who should offend against the majesty of the supreme council, to which Bro. Todd replies;
Certainly. The Cerneaus were the only disturbing element in the juris- diction, and the legislation was aimed directly at the root of the evil. After the lapse of nearly a year the benefits directly resulting from the enactment are becoming more and more apparent.
We have no doubt that our brother's estimate of the "benefits" result- ing from the enactment will be confirmed by the chancellor of the exchequer or whatever may be the title of the illustrious functionary who handles the revenue of the Holy Empire.
We have made it an unvarying rule not to copy complimentary things said of us by our brother reviewers; probably it will not be considered a de- parture from that rule if we re-print the following;
Bro. Robbins ran against a snag in lown, his renewed commission as grand representative from that jurisdiction being canceled by the grand mas- ter upon the receipt of his 1S89 report on correspondence. The controversy is both lengthy and acrimonious; it covild hardly prove otherwise when two such giant rams lock horns; yet in statements of facts Brot Parvin has de- cidedly ihe best of it, his opponent lacking the grace to admit that he had even unintentionally fallen into error. Having mounted his hobby our Quincy frater finds himself at once placed upon the defensive. If vigorously flailed he can blame no one but himself.
This admits of no comment from us and we reproduce it only that our
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brethren may see how the matter looks to a disinterested spectator. In his notice of Iowa, he again refers to the grand representative incident and the review which figured in connection with it, and saj's:
In justice to Bro. Robbins it may be said that his re\-iew was written before the appeal to the courts, and he emphatically disclaims the implied intention to encourage any effort to destroy the supremacy of the grand lodge. Yet it cannot be denied that he has furnished abundant aid and com- fort to the parties who are creating these dissensions in a number of juris- dictions, our own included, and doubtless his opinions are largely quoted in the literature with which the country has been flooded during the past two or three years.
Since writing the above we are in receipt of a voluminous pamphlet en- titled " Address of 111. John J. Gorman, 33°, !Most Puissant Sovereign Grand Commander of the Supreme Council of Sovereign Grand Inspectors-General, Thirty-third and Last Degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, for the United States of America, their Territories and Dependencies," dated New York, Oct. 2Sth, iSgo. On page thirty-seven begins a chapter headed Most Worshipful Joseph Robbins, the following being a portion of the intro- duction :
' ' Permit me to present to you what ]\Iost Worshipful Joseph Robbins, past grand master of the Grand Lodge of Illinois has to say on that subject in his admirable report on Masonic correspondence to the Grand Lodge of Illinois in October, 1889."
Here follows five pages of quotations and comments. How about pot- tage, Bro. Robbins?
Bro. Todd, Bro. Parvin, Bro. Greexleaf, and ever}' other brother who has accused us of giving aid and comfort to the other faction in this quarrel, know that we have never assumed to decide as between the two or more fac- tions who was right historically or according to the laws of their imperial limbo, but we have steadfastly denied not only the right of the grand lodge to recognize either of them as Masonic bodies but the possibility of its doing so without abdicating the power whose exclusive exercise is the condition and law of its existence. If in repelling attacks upon the integrity of Free and Accepted Masonry, for which the grand lodge stands, and in maintain- ing the sovereignty of that body, which they invoke only to destroy by caus- ing it to be shared with another or a dozen other bodies, it always turns out that our antagonist is one and the same faction, neither that fact nor the in- cidental aid and comfort derived by the other faction is a responsibiUty of ours. When we show, as we did in the five pages referred to, that ihe South- em supreme council prints and disseminates the rituals and secret work of the Blue degrees, the question whether they can afford to assume that a rival council is in a position to place them at a disadvantage on such a showing, is one they must decide for themselves. It is not of our raising.
In passing we may save him the trouble of explaining, as Bro. Albert
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Pike did in a pamphlet before us, that the rituals printed are those of " the Blue Degrees according to the Scottish Rite", and that " the work contained in them is so different from our American work, that no American Mason, not knowing it, could gain admission upon examination into any Scottish Rite lodge in any Latin country in the world," because such explanation is immaterial: they are the degrees for whose possessors the supreme coun- cils claznt, on the score of such possession, the right to be recogtiized by Ancient Craft Masons, received into Ancient Craft lodges as visitors,, and out of their lodges to build grand lodges which ought to be recog- nized as governifig bodies in Free and Accepted Masonry by the grand lodges of the world!
Recurring to the putative pottage referred to by Bro. Todd, we can only say that we are not a subject of the empire and hence not subject to be gaz- etted for the increased "rank and decoration" to which he is entitled unless, imperial gratitude is a delusion and a snare.
Bro. Todd homologates — as Bro. Gurney was wont to say — the Califor- nia decision that it is contrary to Masonic law and mischievous as a precedent to confer the degrees on ministers without charge, wherein he is in accord with the Illinois laws and our individual views ; discloses the fact that in Minnesota as in Illinois public installations take place without opening the lodge, the record, we presume, being made as with us by the order of the master; follows the line of the arguments in treating of the powers of the grand master with which the readers of our reports are familiar and which seem to us conclusive; says the theory of life membership is all right, but in practice it has commonly resulted in most dismal failures; gives his adhes- ion, as we have done aforetime, to the idea of shortening the title of district deputy grand master by leaving off the last two words ; adheres to the gen- erally accepted rule as to the effect of a declaration of non-intercourse — that it is an interdict ; holds also the prevailing idea that the grand lodge is a perpetual body like, for instance, the senate of the United States, in oppo- sition to the Virginia idea that each annual session brings together a new body ; says his experience accords with our idea that the labor of preparing a report is in inverse ratio to its length, and commenting on Bro. Vincil's- remark that it is easier to excerpt than to compose, says:
Yes, it is comparatively easy to excerpt when one has the requisite faculty and practice, yet an active experience of thirty years in the editorial department of a newspaper has taught us that almost anyone can write the articles when the subjects and line of treatment are mapped out for him, but that it requires the best man in the shop to do the clipping. A good ex- change editor is born, not made, with the nose for news as an inheritance.
We return thanks for a copy of Bro. Todd's digest of Masonic law in Minnesota, valuable to Craftsmen everywhere and invaluable to every Ma- son in that jurisdiction.
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The Minnesota volume has its usual complement of portraits of good- lookmg men — fine phototypes of the retiring grand master (Ki ester) and of Charles W. Nash, grand master from 1866 to 1S71.
MISSISSIPPI, 1890.
72ND Annual. Greenville. Feb. 13, 1S90.
Past Grand Master Frederic Speed, the representative of Illinois, was present. Death had laid a heavy hand on the grand lodge. The grand master (Wm. G. Paxton) announced the death of past grand masters Rich- ard P. Brown, Charles T. Murphy and William S. Patton, and \Yilliam Richards, senior grand deacon.
The grand master reported twenty-seven decisions. If we remember aright we some years ago spoke of Mississippi as having a " double-barreled executive," or words to that efi'ect, from the fact that questions of law were submitted sometimes to the grand master, sometimes to the committee on law and jurisprudence, sometimes to both. Explanations showed the ex- pression to be hardly fair, because it is sought to have only such questions sent to the committee as do not rcqitire executive action, but only a con- struction of the regulations, and the committee takes care to keep their questioners reminded that while the grand master's decision is law, their opinion is merely advice, but the committee confesses that it sometimes hap- pens that brethren in their excess of zeal to obtain Masonic light, submit almost identical questions to both, and as both act upon them without the other's knowledge, the result is that "there is not produced on the inquir- er's mind the entire confidence which he so desires." This possible confus- ion from the deliverance of conflicting opinions during the recess, is the chief drawback of the system. Apart from this it does not differ in principle from the usual mode of procedure, as it amounts in substance to the submis- sion of the grand master's decisions to the committee at an earlier date, while the questions submitted directly to the committee may be presumed to be the same as would be asked during the session, and referred to them. It gives the committee time for reflection and discussion, and the reports of a committee whose chairman possesses the wide knowledge, clear perception and power of statement of Past Grand Master Speed have a great perma- nent value. We quote such of the grand master's decisions as are of general interest:
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3d. A was indefinitely suspended by lodge B, and that lodge having since forfeited its charter, he now asks restoration to membership in lodge C. Can they act upon the petition ?
Answer — Yes. If lodge C regularly succeeded to the territory of lodge B it can first restore him to Masonry, and afterwards elect him to member- ship by proper proceedings.
4tih. Petition is made for change of venue, the applicant alleging such prejudice in his lodge that a fair trial cannot be had. How may this be se- cured ?
Answer — By lodge action onlj-. The right of a lodge to try its own mem- bers is absolute and without qualification or exception.
7th. Can a subordinate lodge lay the corner-stone of an edifice ?
Answer — No. It can only be done by the grand lodge, duly opened by the grand master or his regularly authorized deputy.
Sth. Is the position of the conier-stone arbitrary or to be governed by circumstances ?
Answer — It must be placed in the northeast corner.
nth. A was made a Fellow Craft in a lodge now defunct. How shall ihe secure the M. M. degree ?
Answer. By proper application to the lodge succeeding to the territory.
12th. The Worshipful Master being a witness, is it proper for him to preside at the trial ?
Answer — Yes. Other members are also witnesses, and neither they nor the W. -.M. •. lose any of their privileges. Neither are they relieved from any of their responsibilities.
13th. How can a lodge U. D. obtain the name and number of a defunct lodge ?
Answer — By due petition to grand lodge.
14th. What is the status of an E. A., made such in an " Army Lodge?"
Answer — The same as if so made by any other defunct lodge, any ir- regularities being healed by an edict of the grand master in 1865 ; action of grand lodge J1867 and decision of Grand Master Fearn 1S71.
2 1 St. An individual whose place of business (saw-mill), though several times changed, was always nearer to lodge A, owns property in and has always clauned the location of lodge B as his home. This, despite the fact that he registere ; and voted within the jurisdiction of lodge A at the last election. Which lodge has jurisdiction ?
Answer — Lodge B.
In reaching this conclusion I freely admit that under the "act of voting" the applicant is legally a citizen of the territory controlled by lodge A. But this was done, as claimed, as a temporary convenience and with no thought of impairing any rights or privileges connected with lodge B. Even if err-
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ing in receiving petition and conferring degree, lodge B has committed no crime, the acts done being warranted by representations made by the can- didate, these coveinng a term of years.
22d. Can a master-elect be installed and preside over his lodge without first receiving the " secrets of his chair? "
Answer — No. Investing a master-elect with the degree of Past Master is universally acknowledged a '' stne qua non" in qualifying him for the chair.
Nos. 3 and 1 1 indicate that the Mississippi and Illinois law is identical on this point— the lodge which becomes heir to the territory of a defunct lodge may complete any unfinished business as well as work. Referring to No. 7 we doubt if the grand master intended it to be construed precisely as it reads. Laying corner-stones is the work of the grand master, assisted by a grand lodge, but it is an occasional grand lodge picked up for that hour only. Of No. 13 the law committee say that while they do not doubt that the grand lodge has the power to give the name and number of a defunct lodge to a new lodge they think there are reasons why it should not be done, and they proceed to give the reasons which induced Illinois to forbid it by express enactment. The committee coiTectly and forcibly say of No. 21 :
The same question was presented to the committee, stated in a some- what different form and upon the facts as presented to them they decided that the " fixed abode from choice" of the petitioner was clearly shown by the act of registering as a voter 111 the Bogue Chitto precinct. A citizen must vote in the precinct in which he has his residence, and he determines that as against the weight of all other evidence, when he takes the registra- tion oath required by law to be made before registration. There is no such thing possible as a man being under the jurisdiction of one lodge and voting at a precinct within the jurisdiction of another lodge without perjuring him- self. This man decided for himself, when he registered at Bogue Chitto, that he did not reside within the jurisdiction of Brookhaven Lodge, and that his "permanent settlement, domicile or fixed place of abode from choice " was under the jurisdiction of Bogue Chitto Lodge.
If the grand master had said ge}iC7-ally, instead of "universally," in No. 22 he would have been right, although other grand lodges besides Illi- nois have struck from their law the provision for investing the master-elect with the Past Master's degree.
We take some of the points submitted directly to the committee, and their answers:
Question 5 — Is there any way in which a lodge can waive jurisdiction over a candidate for initiation ?
Answer — There is not.
Question 9 — A member of a lodge in another jurisdiction being guilty of a Masonic offense within the jurisdiction of one of our lodges, it asks how it shall proceed ?
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Answer — Proceed and try the case precisely as if he were of your lodge, •and notify the result to the lodge in which he holds his membership, through our grand secretary.
If No. 5 is predicated on the absence of any regulation providing for waiver, and not on a positive inhibition, we think it is error — holding that the jurisdiction of the lodge is complete and that the right of waiver is a natural one. No. g is in complete accord with our law. We copy No. 12 and its answer because it vigoi-ously expresses views which we have ex- pressed, officially and otherwise:
Question 12 — A member of the lodge is indicted by the grand jury, and it wants to know "how it can dispose of him," before final action of the civil court ?
Answer — We have always been dissatisfied with Section 60, Rules and Regulations. The language is, to say the least, unfortunate. The object is to prevent a brother being prejudiced in his trial, and yet it says he may be suspended. Suppose his offense merits expulsion ? Can he afterwards be reinstated for the purpose of expelling him ? How can he be suspended without a trial — by resolution ? Suspension is "final action" and so is ex- pulsion, and would operate as prejudicially against the accused, if it should leak out, as such things are certain to do. It would be rank injustice to add to the calamities of the situation of -a brother in so unfortunate a predica- ment by suspending him at the time of all others, when he most needs the counsel and assistance of his brethren and thereby cut him ofl: from all com- munication with them. We are to help and assist all distressed worthy brothers. A Mason in Masonic contemplation is a " worthy brother " until he has been lawfully condemned by a Masonic tribunal. If there ever was a time when a man is in distress it must be when charged with crime. Even if he is innocent, the terrors of the situation are such that he is liable to do the most foolish and prejudicial things, and if we are ever to stretch forth our hands to aid and assist, and save a fallen brother, surely that must be the supreme moment, in an honest man's life, when he most needs strong arms and warm, sympathetic hearts, to aid and counsel him. If he is guilty, his own conscience condemning him, he is unable to take advantage of what- ever extenuating circumstances his case ma}^ afford, and so he is put up at the worst instead of in the best attitude when dragged before court and jury, to answer. If we suspend every Mason charged with crime, do we not con- demn him, without a hearing and without a trial and thereby assist so far as moral weight can go, in securing the conviction of the innocent and guilty alike ? Instead of deserting them, it is our plain duty to stand by them, until convicted of crime, not that we are ever to shield the guilty, but so far as in us lies, we are to see that they get a fair and impartial trial by a jury of their countrymen uninfluenced by prejudice or afi:ection. "Remember that around this altar you have promised to befriend and relieve every brother who shall need your assistance," says the sublime charge read when- ever we close the lodge. It is a shame-faced lie, which we go on from month to month repeating over and over again to ourselves with pharisaical pre- cision, paying tithes of mint and anise and cummin, and omitting the weighter matters of the law, judgment and faith, blind guides that strain at a gnat and swallow a camel ! We cannot reconcile it to our Masonic con- science that it is right to reverse the rule of the civil law that every man is presumed to be innocent until proved guilty. The rule is in direct conflict with itself, with all the obligations and teachings of Masonry, and therefore
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inoperative. Stand bjr your brother; see that he has a fair and impartial trial, with an opportunity to make a full and complete defense ; and when you have done all this, if proven guilty, then, but not until then, you may thrust him forth, that he may go unto his own place.
We quote from a subsequent report of the same committee:
Question F— Is a person who sells lager beer and ginger ale eligible for initiation ?
Answer — No.
Question F raises another question in our mind. Can Bro. Barkley tell us whether ginger ale is included among intoxicants by the committee from experimental knowledge, and if so, what kind of water they use in making it in ^lississippi? He will observe that we do not suggest that it is from ex- perimental ignorance. Up here in the Northwest it is so generally used by that class of prohibitionists who believe the best way to sustain a law is to first set an example of obedience to it, and by others of us who are practically if not theoretically prohibitionists, that it is known as the "Iowa Drink." Does it undergo a change when subjected to the more tropical climate of Mississippi?
The grand lodges of North Dakota, Victoria, and New South Wales were recognized; six new lodges were chartered, and one dispensation granted; a master who had been suspended from office by the grand master for un- lawfully retailing whisky, and by his order furnished with a copy of charges and specifications and cited to appear before the grand lodge, was put on trial, convicted, and sentenced to suspension for two years, and we presume the charter of his lodge was revoked and annulled, for having re-elected him after his suspension from office, as recoriimended by the committee, but we find no record of the adoption of the report; another master against whom the grand tiler preferred charges, presumably for intoxication, and cited to appear at once before the grand lodge for trial, and whom the senior grand deacon (who was ordered to bring him before the grand lodge) reported could not be found, was suspended from office and cited to appear next year for trial ; the thanks of the grand lodge were returned to such representatives of Mississippi near other grand lodges as had sent in reports of the doings of their grand lodges, including the representative to Illinois ; and on the initi- ative of an enthusiastic report by Past Grand ^Master Andrew H. Barkley, a joint movement for the establishment of a Masonic Home was entered into by the grand lodge, grand chapter, grand council and grand commandery, the same to be supported mainly by free-will offerings, but each of the high joints agreeing to set apart twenty cents per capita of its annual dues. In addition to this, lodges are required to take up a collection from their mem- bers on St. John's day in December, and make as liberal appropriations from their treasuries as their ability will permit. Collections are also to be taken
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up at all Masonic celebrations. Generous pledges were made in behalf of many lodges on the spot. Nobody will rejoice more than we at the success of our Mississippi brethren in this enterprise, but we feel bound to .<5ay that we do not think the pledge of twenty cents per capita — necessitating an increase of the per capita tax from ten cents to thirty — was a wise movement. Hu- man nature is pretty much the same everywhere, in the long run, and the experience of Kentucky alone with enforced taxation affords a lesson that we fear no grand lodge can afford to ignore. Five hundred dollars was ap- propriated to the Protestant Orphan Asylum at Natchez.
John Riley, of Kosciusko, was elected grand master; J. L. Power, Jack- son, re-elected grand secretary.
The report on correspondence (pp. 107) is the work of Past Grand Mas- ter Andrew H. Barkley. As usual it is admirable in spirit, elegant in style and full of interest. Illinois is included in his review. He quotes from the remarks of Grand Master Smith at the grave of Past Grand Master Darrah, and from his annual address at the semi-centennial communication, and also from the address of Grand Orator Lorimer. He praises Bro. Munn's work very highly and has a generous word for the report on correspondence.
Brief extracts from the reports of grand representatives appear among
the appendices.
MISSISSIPPI, 1891.
73RI) Annual. Aberdeen. Feb. 12, 1891.
The representative of Illinois, Bro. Frederic Speed, was one of the ten past grand masters present.
The opening prayer by the chaplain pro tempore, Rev. Bro. H. J. Har- ris, printed in the journal, is a model Masonic prayer, catholic and reverent in spirit, brief but comprehensive, clothed in simple, direct English whose beauty and appropriateness grows on one with each new reading.
The grand master (John Riley) announced the death of Past Grand Master Robert C. Patty at the early age of fifty -four, "respected and loved by all who knew him for his sterling worth and manliness." The committee on necrology say of him:
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If purity of thought and honesty of purpose are the only essentials of greatness — then he was great. Only sixteen years of Masonic life — yet there was crowded into that brief period more labor, more devotion, and more zeal than is generally known in a Masonic pilgrimage of half a century. All that Bro. Patty did was ivell done; it was thorough, almost exhaustive. It was enough to know among Masons that Bro. Patty endorsed the action, or rec- ommended it, to secure the favorable notice of the Craft on almost every oc- casion. Earnestly Bro. Patty solicited the eleven past grand masters who were in attendance at the last annual communication of the Grand Lodge of Mississippi to have their photographs taken in a group — for said he — "it's not probable they will all meet again in grand lodge." It was done, and he, the youngest — the Benjamin of the group — has been taken. Wise in coun- sel, zealous in labor and congenial in spirit, we can truly say — he had few equals and no superior in his department of Masonic labor.
The grand master reported having in three instances granted dispensa- tions to receive and act upon petitions of candidates who had not resided the full time within the jurisdiction of the lodge, although more than the pre- scribed time in the State. In each case the applicant was an itinerant Meth- odist minister, liable to be moved each year by his conference, and in his judgment men who were so self-sacrificing for the good of their fellow creat- ures, were entitled to special privileges. He was brought to book by the committee on law and jurisprudence who reminded him, with the concur- rence of the grand lodge, that his action was in direct conflict with the regu- lations.
He had had no occasion to make new decisions, but it had required a voluminous correspondence to answer questions by reference to the regula- tions, and to decisions already made. He strongly urged the claims of the Masonic Home upon every individual Mason.
We find the following in the report of Grand Secretar}^ Power:
The Grand Royal Arch Chapter, at its convocation just closed, passed a resolution requesting the grand lodge to adopt a statute requiring the secre- taries of lodges to notify the nearest chapter of all cases of suspension, ex- pulsion or reinstatement, as they m.ay occur, from time to time — to the end that good standing in the lodge shall not only be made a condition of mem- bership in the Chapter, but that the latter shall have official notice by which it can be goveraed in excluding or restoring. I suggest that the Law Com- mittee also prepare a section on this subject, so as to conform to the request of the Grand Chapter.
The law committee surely were not influenced by the sugar-coating of the suggestion, " to the end that good standing in the lodge [Fraternity] shall be made a condition of membership in the chapter " [Capitular rite], because that condition existed already, but for some reason they reported in favor of so much of grand orientism as is involved in keeping tab for certain bodies of Masons which they incorrectly style Masonic bodies, saying:
We approve the recommendation of the grand secretary requiring secre- taries of subordinate lodges to give notice of suspensions and expulsions to
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neighboring chapters, councils and commanderies, and therefore recommend the following as an additional by-law:
Sec. — . Secretaries of subordmate lodges shall give immediate notice to the grand secretary of all suspensions and expulsions from their lodges, and he shall issue a monthly circular giving notice thereof to all Masonic bodies in this grand jurisdiction.
And the grand lodge concurred. We are unable to find anything to in- dicate why the Scottish Rite, Insurance Rite and Bedoum (Shriners') Rite were not admitted to the benefits of this bureau of information.
We quote further from the report of the law committee :
Question 3. Is it a violation of law for the master to carry the charter home with him when the lodge is closed?
Answer. No. If the lodge room is iiisecure it would be his duty to do so, even though it might entail some inconvenience.
Question 4. Is a member of the lodge who allows his dues to remain unpaid on the day of election deprived of the right to vote on a petition for initiation or membership, before the expiration of the ninety days allowed in which to show cause why he should not be suspended?
Answer. No.
Question 5. Is it lawful to postpone action for a month where a mem- ber has been siimmoned to appear and show cause why his dues have not been paid, under section 21 of the By-Laws ?
Answer. A brother having been notified to appear within ninety daj-s, under section 21, it would be proper to postpone action on a motion to sus- pend. The law is not that a brother shall He, but " may be suspended." He is to appear within ninety days and show cause. If a reasonable excuse is ofi^ered, he might have his dues remitted at that time or at any future time. The lodge need not take action at all, if it sees fit. All the grand lodge requires is that delinquents shall be summoned to show cause.
Question 6. A party within the jurisdiction of this lodge holds a cer- tificate from Union Lodge, No. 75, in Union county, S. C, certifying that he has been granted a dimit from said lodge, which certificate has seal of the lodge signed by the secretary, but not signed by the W. -.M. He also has a letter signed by the secretary stating he could not give the date the dimit was granted as the lodge and all their books had been burned. He has put the certificate into our lodge and asks for membership. Now what steps must we take in the matter ?
Answer. Ordinarily the master's signature should be attached, but we think that the papers presented were all that was necessary in this case. A dimit is the action of the lodge. The paper is but the certificate of what it has already done, whether issued at the time, or afterwards.
Question 7. Is the fact that a Master Mason has been convicted by a ■court of law, sufficient evidence to convict him at a Masonic lodge trial, or must he be tried for the offense, and the evidence of the crime for which he is tried be produced at the lodge trial to sustain the charges ?
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Answer. No. There must be independent proof. We have nothing to do with, and ought not to be influenced by the result of the trial in the civil court.
Question g. Is an election of officers legal, while the lodge is called from labor to refreshment, without calling on the lodge again ?
Answer. No business can be transacted while the lodge is at I'efresh- ment.
Question 12. Can a lodge be opened in the Master's degree by any seven Master Masons, provided one of the principal officers is present, or is it necessary for seven members to be present ?
Answer. Lodges can be opened on funeral occasions by three Master Masons, and by the same number for the purpose of conferring the Master's degree, but in the latter instance the inaster or a warden must be present. It requires seven members of the lodge to constitute a quorum in order to transact any business.
Question 14. One living in the jurisdiction of lodge A moves into the jurisdiction of lodge B, and resides there eleven months; which lodge has- jurisdiction over him ?
Answer. A lost jurisdiction the moment the removal was made, and B obtained it instanter, but it cannot entertain a petition from him in less than twelve months.
Question 19. Can a member of the lodge who has been indefinitely sus- pended, be reinstated by simply taking his seat in the lodge on lodge day ?
Answer. No.
Question 20. Can a member of the lodge who was suspended for a definite time, take his seat ii* full fellowship, fully reinstated, without some action of the lodge ?
Answer. Yes; see section 65, Rules and Regulations.
Question 28. Brothers A and B had a misunderstanding. Thereafter Bro. A declined to speak to Bro. B, the latter being willing to speak and recognize the former as a brother. Charges were preferred against the for- mer, he was tried and convicted and suspended from the lodge for three months; efforts were made by the Committee on Offenses and a number of members of the lodge to get Bro. A to speak and to recognize Bro. B. He still declined; charges were again made against Bro. A for this offense, to which he pleaded guilty in open lodge. The lodge declined to find him guilty or inflict any punishment, and he still declines to speak or recognize Bro. B. What should be done in the premises?
Answer. In the words of one of the Ancient Charges, brethren " are to salute one another in a courteous manner." We can conceive of circumstan- ces under which a brother may refuse to associate with another, outside of the lodge, but a refusal to speak to him constitutes unmasonic conduct, es- pecially after the lodge has once passed upon the controversy. It is our duty to "stand to the award and determination of the lodge, who are the proper and competent judges of all such controversies." The effect of a plea of guilty is to dispense with proof of guilt, and unless A introduced testimony in mitigation of the offense, the lodge should have found him guilty and fixed
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a sentence. It has been decided over and over again, by this grand lodge, that lodges cannot avoid this responsibility and duty. The lodge must now take up the case where it left olT, and fi.K a sentence. If A still persists in refusing to " stand to the award and determination of the lodge," it must cut him off, "for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should per- ish and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell."
Some of these are quoted to show the chaotic condition of mind out of which the questions come, notably such as 3, 9, 14 and 19. No. 14 is not so much to be wondered at, because it seems to have taken the Craft every- where a long time to get it through its head that a lodge has no more rela- tion to a man who has moved out of its bailiwick without ever having peti» tioned for the degrees, no matter how long he has lived there, than it has to> one who flies across it on the " Fast Mail." No. 12 is radically different from our law which provides that no lodge shall be opened on any degree unless seven Master Masons be present, and prohibits ballotnig or other business (not work) unless seven members of the lodge are present. On these ques- tions the committee locked horns with each other, or rather Bros. McCor- MiCK and McCooL locked horns with the chairman, Bro. Speed, and the fur flew. On the first, the grand lodge sustained the chairman in the opinion that a dormant lodge still holds its territorial jurisdiction until its charter has. been declared forfeited, while in Illinois by express enactment neighboring lodges may poach on the territory of a lodge that has ceased to work for six months, unless satisfactory cause for such cessation is shown to the grand master; on the second, the twain were sustained in the opinion that personal jurisdiction in the case of an elected candidate for the degrees lapses at the end of six months if he does not present himself for initiation, against that of the chairman that it is perpetual as in the case of a rejection; on the third the chairman was sustained against the field m the opinion that the record of a lodge trial resulting in expulsion must be sent to the grand lodge whether an appeal is taken or not. Inasmuch as their law requires the confirmation of a sentence of expulsion by the grand lodge, we think Bro. Speed is right, but with the Illinois law we hold that the lodge is the proper tribunal to in- flict the punishment, whatever its grade, unless an appeal is taken, and in that case alone under our law, is it necessary to send up the record.
The business of the Masonic Widows' and Orphans' Home was given precedence at this session, the first thing after the report of the committee on credentials being an earnest and eloquent address by Past Grand Master Barkley in behalf of the institution. Subsequently the committee on the state of the Craft reported that in addition to the amount pledged by the lodges the preceding year about $800 had been realized on the St. John's days collections, but the tone of the report indicates a certain degree of dis- appointment, and, calling attention to the agreement to set apart 20 cents per capita, the committee reported the following resolution to enforce its collection :
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Resolved, That in addition to the per capita tax of ten cents now col- lected annually from each member of the subordinate lodges, that we also assess and cohect annually a further sum of twenty cents per member to be set apart as a fund in building and maintaining our Masonic Home. This sum to be collected and paid over as other annual dues to the grand lodge.
After considerable discussion, a nighfs reflection and a brief discussion the next day the report was rejected, and the question of the tax involved sent to the lodges who are to report their action next year.
The gi'and lodge made its customary allowance to the Protestant Oi-phan Asylum at Natchez, and practically as a memorial tribute to Past Grand Master Harvey W. Walter who sacrificed his life in the yellow fever epi- demic at Holly Spring.s, in 1878, appropriated $300 to assist his daughter in procuring a medical education ; chartered two new lodges and granted dis- pensations for two more; dealt gently with the confessedly erring, contrite and since exemplary brother who last year was deposed from his mastership and cited for trial at this session, ordering him to be reprimanded in his lodge and thereafter restored to all his fraternal rights ; ordered a revision of the statutes by Chairman Speed on lines laid down by him, which promise an admirably arranged code; sent a proposition for biennial sessions, coming over from last year, to the tomb of the Capulets ; made provision to avoid tlie former vexatious delay in issuing the proceedings by making a penalty ■contract for their delivery within sixty days after the close of the grand lodge, whereb}^ we have them before us in good season to make a note of it; deferred the recognition of New Zealand for fuller information ; and made arrangements for a ' ' iield day " by postponing for a year the final disposition of a report in an appeal case wherein the accused, convicted of selling liquors and refusing to desist when admonished to do so, appeals on the ground that the law under which he was convicted is unconstitutional and subversive of the true principles of Freemasonry. Two of the coinmittee, past grand mas- .ters MuRRV and Evans recommend the approval of the action of the lodge, the third member. Past Grand Master Burkitt, dissenting.
John M. Ware, of Starkville, was elected grand master; J. L. Power, Jhckson, re-elected grand secretary. [We will give the grand charity fund of Mississippi a dollar if Bro. Power will tell us his front name.]
The report on correspondence (pp. 106) is up to the high-water mark of excellence as a "portraiture of- the Craft," always reached by the reports of the author, Past Grand Master Andrew H. Barklev. He gives Illinois for 1890 very flattering notice, and seems to enjoy the honors to our distin- guished visitor from Mississippi, Bro. Speed, almost as much as the brethren of Illinois, whose valued privilege it was to extend them. He deems espec- ially worth}- of note the fact noticed by Grand Master Pearson in his expe- rience with schools of instruction, that the representatives of the smaller lodges are the best qualified teachers, and that the work of their lodges con-
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forms more closely to the standards than that of the older and stronger lodges. Of one of our committees, he says :
We have examined very carefully the report of the Committee on Peti- tions, and find in several instances cases of brethren who had been exiDelled from their lodges. The petition and the recommendation of the lodges are by the committee stated to be in due form, and the restoration to the rights and privileges of Masonry is recommended. Now in each case the report is adopted. '
The question arises just here, does this restoration to the rights and privileges of Masonry, also include restoration to membership in the lodge ? In Mississippi it does not. How is it in Illinois ?
The language of the committee is carefully chosen and means no more than what it says. The word restore is applied only to the rehabilitation of expelled Masons ; the word reinstate to cases of suspension. The grand lodge reserves to itself the right to restore to one who has wholly lost it his- Masonic character, but nothing more. When he is restored it is to a condi- tion of non-affiliation, and membership in a lodge — whether 'it be the lodge from which he was expelled or some other — can only be acquired by petition and unanimous ballot. Evidently the law of restoration in this respect is alike in Mississippi and Illinois ; but the law of appeal is widely different. In Illinois, if the grand lodge finds on an appeal from a sentence of expulsion that the appellant has not been lawfully expelled it says so, the action of the lodge — which here is final unless an appeal is taken — is set aside, caused to be as if it had never been had, and the brother of course resumes the enjoy- ment of all the privileges whose temporary deprivation he has suffered while waiting for the final judgment. In this it does not assume to restore an ex- pelled Mason to membership in his lodge, but simply reinstates him in the enjoyment of rights from which he has been practically suspended through an unlawful attempt to expel him.
We are glad to find ourselves in accord with him on the question of maiming after initiation. Our own views reflect the long settled practice of Illinois, where, as we said in our criticism of the Texas decision to which Bro. Barkley refers, it is specifically held that the landmark respecting physical qualifications refers only to the time of making, because at the time when it was agreed to, "making" was all — degrees being unknown; hence a brother can be advanced no matter how maimed or crippled after initia- tion. Of this he says:
This view of the subject is in keeping with a report submitted to and adopted by the Grand Lodge of jSIississippi in 1877, if memory serves us cor- rectly. At the time of his initiation the man is made a Mason, and no phy- sical'misfortune which may afterwards befall him can act as a bar to his ad- vancement, and it would be a gross wrong to deprive him of this, because, for no fault of his, he should become maimed. The question of physical qualification applies solely to the candidate for initiation, and no deformity-
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■or disabilit}^ which may afterwards befall him can lawfulh- be urged as a reason for estoppel to advancement.
We reciprocate the regret of Bro. Bakkley that j\Iississippi was absent from our table last year, for although we have this year reviewed the miss- ing volume as conscientiously as if it had been fresh, it is a sort of ' ' back number" to both parties after all.
MISSOURI, 1890.
70TH Annual. St. Louis. Oct. 14, 1S90.
The ambassadors of thirty-seven jurisdictions were present, among them Bro. Martin Collins representing Illinois.
The address of the grand master (Theodore Brace) is a strong, lucid paper, reflecting particularly in the force and directness of its statements, the ability which in a state noted for its bar, has crowned its author with the highest honors of his profession. He thinks the true spirit of Masonic comity is shown in the Iowa legislation looking to reciprocal permission between that and the neighboring grand jurisdictions for residents living near state lines to cross them for affiliation or for the degrees, and recommends similar action. The special committee to whom the subject was sent, however, had the concurrence of the grand lodge in their adverse report, in which, while recognizing it as the law of Masonry that Master Masons may seek their Masonic homes wherever they choose, they think it unwise to give a sister grand lodge a privilege which the Grand Lodge of Missouri denies to its own lodges, and that the proposed legislation would lead to confusion and jeopard the friendly relations of the two grand jurisdictions; and we think this conclu- sion is a wise one.
Referring to a case wherein he considered the propriety of arresting the ■charter of a lodge for grave irregularities, but on confession, contrition and promise of amendment he concluded not to do so, the grand master says he ■ordered the following to be entered on the records of the lodge :
It satisfactorily appearing to the Grand Master of Missouri, that at a regular communication of your lodge, held on the 23d day of November, 1SS9, the degree of Entered Apprentice was conferred upon Richard Grider and T. J. Mifford, in your lodge, in violation of Masonic law, these presents are to declare the proceedings of 3-our lodge in that behalf, null and void, and
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that said Grider and Miflford are not Entered Apprentices regular!}- made, and shall not be entitled to recognition as such until formall}^ healed.
After a somewhat careful hunt we are unable to find any record of ap- proval or dissent on tfie part of the grand lodge. Inasmuch as the lodge was regularly at labor, the degrees havmg been conferred at a regular meeting, we do not understand how the grand master's order could undo the act of making. The lodge being regularly at labor, they were Entered Apprentices regularly made, however much the law may have been violated in making them.
Of the power of the grand master in certain cases, he saj-s:
The power of the grand master in cases cognizable before subordinate lodges, from whose judgment an appeal is provided for to the grand lodge, is not very well defined, but I take it when charges are preferred against a brother and the lodge has jurisdiction on the subject matter ami of tJic parties, and they have been duly sianinoned i7i the manner provided by law, the grand master, for mere error or irregularity in the trial, has no power to set aside the judgment of a subordmate lodge. Such eiTor must be corrected by appeal. When, however, a party has been deprived of an opportunity to appeal within the time allowed by the law, without any fault on his- part, the grand master might, perhaps, in a proper case, require the lodge to allow the appeal, even after time.
This is well stated, but we have italicized certain words in order to call attention to a class of cases in which we think the grand master ought to in- terfere. Where the lodge has not fulfilled the conditions necessarj^ to give it jurisdiction of the parties, as frequently happens in those jurisdictions where exceptional methods of discipline for non-payment of dues prevail, we think the grand master in the exercise of his dut}- to require obedience to the law, ought to set the proceedings aside and not wait the slow course of an appeal.
We reprint a portion of the eleven decisions reported by the grand master :
First — That a lodge has no right to refuse one of its members, a Master Mason in good standing, Masonic burial, when such burial is properlj- re- quested, because, by his request, his bodj- is to be thereafter cremated.
Second — Upon the death of a Master Mason in good standing, it is the duty of the lodge of which he was a member to give to his widow a certifi- cate of his former membership and good standing, and of the Master and Wardens to sign such certificate. Her right to it as evidence of such former membership is absolute, and no question as to her personal worth and con- duct can be made an excuse by the lodge or its officers for refusing to dis- charge this duty. The question of her personal worth, or conduct, can come up only when by virtue of this evidence of the relation which she sustains to the Craft, she makes application for relief or protection from them.
Third — A Master Mason ceases to be a member of the lodge tiie moment
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a dimit is granted him by the lodge, though no formal dimit is ever issued or delivered to him.
Fourth — A Master ]\Iason who has been elected, installed and served as Warden in a regular lodge under the jurisdiction of another grand lodge recognized by the Grand Lodge of Missouri, is eligible to the office of master of a lodge within this jurisdiction.
Eighth — A dimit may be granted a Master Msson in good standing who has paid all his dues, and. is not otherwise indebted to the lodge, although he may be personally liable on an unmatured obligation to the lodge.
Tenth — It is the duty of the master to notify every resident member of his lodge to attend the trial of a brother. This does not mean to siinunotis. A summons should be issued only in a case of "extreme emergency."
Eleventh — The terms used in Sec. 5, Art. XVI., G. L. By-Laws, are not terms of qualification, but of limitation. The six months' residence within the jurisdiction of the lodge petitioned therein required, is the niinimuni time prescribed. A by-law of a subordinate lodge, which requires a residence of twelve months within the jurisdiction of such lodge, is not in conflict with the provisions of that section.
These were all approved except the second, of which the committee on jurisprudence say:
Second — Your committee also approve, as being in conformity with the laws of this grand lodge, the decision of the grand master, to the eft'ect that the widow of a deceased Master Mason is entitled to a certificate of the mem- bership and good standing of her deceased husband, without regard to the character of the widow herself. This decision is in literal conformity with Section 30, Art. XVI. , of the By-Laws, which is mandatory on this subject, and leaves the subordinate lodges no discretion. But your committee is of the opinion that this by-law ought to be so amended as to leave some discre- tion to the subordinate lodge in the matter. Your committee is not of the opinion that a blaster ]\Iason is relieved of his obligation to render true Ma- sonic charity to the widow of a deceased brother for any reason, but is of the opinion that a right to have a certificate of the kind now under discussion is a right conferred only by the section of the by-law above referred to, and is not necessarily a part of our Masonic obligation, and is, therefore, subject to amendment. If the officers of a subordinate lodge -':ave knowledge that the widow of a deceased brother is a woman of improper character, they ought not to be compelled to give her a certificate, which she can display on any occasion, or in any place, certifying her to be the widow of a deceased Mas- ter Mason. Besides, if any woman who is the widow of a deceased Mason is entitled to such a certificate, notwithstanding she maybe of bad character, that fact impairs the eft'ect that the certificate should have in the hands of a worthy good woman, who is the widow of a deceased brother Mason, and who is entitled to all the care and assistance ^Masons can give her. There- fore, your committee recommend that the by-law in question be so amended as to leave the matter of issuing such a certificate to the discretion of the offi- cers of the subordinate lodges; provided, they ascertain that the character of the applicant is improper, and we invite the attention of the Committee on Revision to this subject.
In connection with the eleventh the grand master defines the dift'erence between domicile and residence:
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I have, in the course of my correspondence, discovered that the idea, seems to prevail in the mmds of some well-informed Masons, that when an applicant has a domicile in this state, that his residence must necessarily be within the jurisdiction of a lodge nearest to such domicile. Domicile and residence are not, however, strictissi7>ie jure, synonymous, although in many enactments for all practical purposes, they may be treated as conver- tible terms. In a general way domicile may be defined as a place where a. man has his " tnie, lixed and permanent home, and principal establishment to which, whenever he is absent, he has the intention of returning." Resi- dence, the place where a man has " a fixed and permanent abode or dwell- ing-place y^^r t/ie lime being." It will be observed from these deiinitions, a man may have his domicile at one place in the state and his residence at an- other.
In view of the expense to the Craft of holding State lodges of instruc- tion,— equivalent to our schools of instruction — the fact that they have been held pretty well over the State, and the amount of the grand lecturer's time absorbed by them, the grand master recommended that no more be held, and the grand lodge concurred.
He argues eloquently for a generous support of the " Home," but says, the responses of the lodges to the request to designate a sum each which it will give annually, affords little ground upon which to base the hope that the situation caused by anticipating the revenue in order to pay the appropria- tion m its aid last year, will be relieved b}"- the sijontaneous action of the lodges upon such request, and foreshadows the necessity of taxation by the grand lodge of fifty cents per capita. Subsequently an amendment to the bj'-laws, making such a provision, was introduced and considered, and finally action thereon postponed until next year.
The grand master announced the death of Past Grand Master John E. C.'\DLE at the age of sixty. He reached the grand east in 1875.
The report of the St. Louis board of relief shows that aid was extended to Illinoisans amounting to $29.65, and that Grand Crossing Lodge, No. 776, of this jurisdiction refunded $8.15.
The grand lodge visited and lunched at the Masonic Home ; ordered a revision and codification of the laws and decisions, as recommended by Grand Master Brace; chartered twelve new lodges and continued three under dis- pensation ; declined to appoint a canvassing agent for the Home, as necessi- tating a useless expenditure of money; appropriated $5,000 for the Home, to be paid if the state of the treasury will permit without reducing the funds below the amount needed for legitimate grand lodge expenses; illustrated its idea of clemency towards a master who had been in the saloon business con- trary to law, and in whose case the committee thought mitigating circum- stances called for a light sentence, by siispending him for five years ; and voted to hold its next annual communication in Kansas City.
George E. Walker was elected grand master; John D. Vincil re-elected grand secretary; both of St. Louis.
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The report on correspondence (pp. 2ig) is as usual from the pen of Grand Secretary John D. Vincil, past grand master, and is written in his charact- eristically vigorous style. Something over nine pages are given to the pro- ceedings of our semi-centennial communication. He credits Grand Master Smith with striking a very solid blow at " prerogatives" in his remarks about the " Divine right of Kings," and makes several quotations from his address. Of the reports of the grand treasurer and grand secretary, he says :
The reports of the grand treasurer and grand secretary are careful and full exhibits of the affairs of these offices. Especially that of Brother Munn, the grand secretarj', who presented an able paper. In it there is found a most interesting table, showing the state of Masonry in all the jurisdictions of this country from the year 1800 to 1889, inclusive.
The growth of the Institution has been simply marvelous. In 1800 there ■were 347 lodges and 14,000 Masons in the United States. In 18S9 there were over 10,000 lodges, with a membership of 600,000. Brother Munn is entitled to the grateful appreciation of the Craft in this country, for this invalt:able collection of facts and figures. It will do for a book of reference, to which additions may be made with ease for the future. The table will keep.
The proceedings incident to the semi-centennial receive due notice. Of the after-dinner speeches he says:
This committee is glad to know that his place was filled by his old-time friend and brother. Dr. William H. Scott, now of California. The grand master announced the sentiment : ' ' Woman — it is Modesty that Makes Her Divine." He said that "Brother John D. Mucil, Grand Secretary of Mis- souri, being absent, this sentiment will be responded to by one known to all as a past grand master of this state, who has come 2,500 miles to be with us on this occasion." Brother Scott was then introduced.
The Grand Secretary of Missouri deeply regretted the necessity that prevented him, at the last moment, from meeting his obligation to be present on that gi'and occasion. He had expected and purposed to attend.
We can assure our brother that the regret was mutual.
The Illinois report on correspondence is stjded a labored production and receives some attention, its writer a good deal of it. One feature of it in- terests him :
One feature always commands attention in the reviews of Brother Rob- bins : he defends vigorously and fearlessly the system of Symbolic Masonry against all claimants. The "York Rite," is his only Masonry and chief joy. His treatment of the pretentious "High Rite" claimants is vigorous, bold and strong. He deals with these branches in choice, yet forcible, terms. His convictions are as strong as his language. In his very interesting exordium, he said: " It is the ' Scottish Rite," as usual, that makes all the disturbance."
Quoting from our introduction our attempt to account for the fact that the holy empire is always in a turmoil, he continues:
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WTiile Grand Master Smith declared, as already quoted, concerning M. W. Bro. Robbins, that "his premises are false and have no foundation in fact," yet it cannot be denied that the " Scottish Rite " branches have made •" all the disturbance" in the Masonic household of this country, resultmg in law suits and strife more widespread than any "disturbance" ever known among the Fraternity. In this charge, Brother Robbins is sustained by facts. Tlie finding of the Illinois committee hereinbefore mentioned, is as much a vindication of the position taken by Brother Robbins, as it was an endorse- ment of Grand Master Smith. That committee said: " It is and has ever been held, and rightly too, by this grand lodge, that it can recognize nothing but the three degrees of Sj'mbolic Masonry." What more does Brother Rob- bins contend for ? It was necessary for the Grand Lodge of Illinois to put itself upon record to the above extent, as the grand master had brought the matter before that body. It placed the subject in its proper position before the Fraternity and left it there. Less could not have been done. More would have been superfluous. Missouri has not deemed it needful to do even that much, as " High Rite-ism" is a dead duck in this jurisdiction. It never has amounted to much, and has had less prominence among Missouri Masons since the vigorous fight made against its lofty pretensions by the lamented Gouley more than twenty years ago. He was a member of the so-called "Rite," and was supposed to understand its merits. He did not spare it, although in some way connected with it. It maybe said to the credit of the Masons in Missouri who belong to this "Rite," that they are loyal to the "York Rite," and, for the most part, yield to it their hearty preference. They are not liable to the charge of Brother Robbins of creating " disturb- ance" among the Fraternity ot this jurisdiction. And there is a good rea- son for this. The members of the "Scottish Rite" in Missouri could not, if they would, create an}' disturbance of note, as their numbers are small, and such effort would be frowned upon in a manner to teach any disturbing element a salutary lesson in short order.
Bro. ViNciL saj's we do not fancy lovs feasts. On the contrary, we like tTiem. But because we enjoy them in their place, it does not follow that it is wise to invoke their methods in a Masonic deliberative body. Our brother sets forth some of the facts which followed theirs to indicate its beneficent character, and we rejoice with him in every item of promise or fulfillment of the noble purpose for which the Home is designed. That does not, however, alter our opinion of the impolicy of settling the responsibility of building, managing, or supporting such institutions upon the grand lodge, and it has laappened that it is in the midst of bursts of enthusiasm which becloud the judgment that grand lodges have become committed to enterprises and poli- cies that entailed upon them years of vain struggle, if nothing worse. No- body can question the beneficence of the intentions or of the objects of them, which planted Masonic colleges in half a dozen jurisdictions in this country, under the auspices of grand lodges, but the contagious enthusiasm with which the movement was inaugurated does not seem to have been a guaranty of the wisdom of the plan adopted. The last one of them has disappeared. That any one should question the wisdom of the grand lodge in taking a step whose logical outcome is a demand that the necessary revenues of an eleemosj'nary institution shall be secured by enforced taxation, doubtless .seemed ungracious to many Mi.ssouri Masons besides Bro. Vi.ncil; but the
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indications are already apparent that Missouri Masons will be among the- first to perceive the disinterestedness of such questioning, and the littleness of attributing it to a feeling that no good can come out of the Nazareth of aj. particular jurisdiction. You cannot go on teaching Masons for generations the lesson which at once approves itself to human judgment, that their char- itable obligations bear a definite relation to their ability to give, and then in the name of a fraternity into whose covenants this just principle is inex- tricably woven, require a brother whose necessities and the wants of his. wife and little ones compel him to carefully weigh every penny of his out- lays, to contribute as much for charity as his more fortunate brother who cannot spend his income, without producing friction. Kentucky tried it, and though the Craftsmen of no jurisdiction are more generous — as is shown by their liberal support of their ' ' Home " since the compulsory method was abandoned — the result was appalling.
We have referred to the demand that the necessary revenues of such an» institution shall be secured by enforced taxation, as a logical outcome of the action of a grand lodge in assuming the management of it. In Missouri it has come sooner than we expected, having cropped out at the very commun- ication at which was presented this report of Bro. Vincil's which cites the fact that no symptoms of the "vociferous" have shown themselves, as evi- dence that we are either too conservative or too hypercritical. With this proposition for a per capita tax for the support of the Home,, comes, as we have seen, the inevitable friction, considerable enough to secure its postpone- ment for a year.
We have said that Bro. Vi.ncil gave some attention to our report, and a good deal to the writer of it. We permit him, at the expense of space that we can ill spare, to pillory himself in our pages:
Brother Robbins does not fancy " love feasts," especially if they are of the " vociferous " kind. Ours was not of that sort. It was calm, hearty and full of love. The character of our " love feast " has been shown by the facts which followed. With a property worth seventy-five thousand dollars, al- ready paid for, which cost us forty thousand, nearly forty thousand dollars funded as an endowment and increasing, drawing six per cent, interest, su good cash balance on hand, with a large amount of installment notes, making; a total amount of assets largely over one hundred thousand dollars, our love feasts are not "vociferous" but practical. We had a "love feast" on the- 15th of June, iSSg, when the Home was dedicated. Thousands of our breth- ren and citizens were participants in the "feast" of good things, and seven thousand dollars flowed into the Home treasury on that "feast" day. So our work has not shown ariy of the symptoms of the " vociferous" depicted by our illustrious brother of Illinois, who is either too conservative or too hypercritical. Our Missouri methods do not seem to please Brother Robbins. I wish we could do something that would be fully up to his idea of Masonic propriety. Our saloon action did not meet his views at all. Now our Home- work is too "vociferous" for anything. And next he is not satisfied with the action of the Grand Lodge in 188S when we got rid of a man of fellow feeling with his protege in Illinois, who wanted to kick the Bible out of the
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lodges and out of Masonry. Brother Robbins said that to bring such a matter before the lodge was "mischievous." Our Missouri member had said: ""When made a Mason, I beHeved in God and the Bible as firmly as ianybody, but after getting older I fotnid out better." We did not think it " mischievous" to deal with such a member, but put him out. Brother Rob- bins thinks that an " appeal to the emotions, the prejudices and the passions of men" was "never more strongly illustrated" than by the Grand Lodge of Missouri when it approved the expulsion of this party, who had said: " When made a Mason I believed in God and the Bible as firmly as anybody, "but after getting older I found out better." Brother Robbins said in criticis- ing our action on the above case, "that there was no foundation whatever for the charge of atheism." Brother Robbins seems almost offended at this committee for intimating that there is anything atheistic in his Masonry or Ihis defense of Crum, the Illinois atheist. Still he enters his appearance at court as attorney for the Missouri party who was expelled for saying he had learned better than to believe m the God of Masons or the Bible. I make no charges. He is upon record in his own strong language. Let others judge. It will be very hard for him to convince intelligent Masons that he is sound on this issue when he steps forward and defends a man who has renounced the God in whom he professed to put his trust, by saying "after getting older I have found out better" than to believe in him. Brother Robbins says that such an utterance does not furnish any ' ' foundation whatever for the charge of atheism." Perhaps not in his view. But in the eyes of Missouri Masons it did. And the "foundation for the charge of atheism" was so strongly furnished in the declaration of the aforesaid part}^ that the Grand Lodge of Missouri unanimously adopted the report of Past Grand Master Givan, who rendered it. The Illinois committee said that Brother Givan "dared not quote the law of Masonry" bearing upon the case. Who made thee a judge of thy brother's actions in such matters? Have j'ou answered the arguments of Brother Givan m this case, as well as some others ? The report of the committee embodied the facts and the proof showing the moral .and Masonic declension of the accused, he having renounced both God and the Bible. What law do you want to apply in such cases ? Do you want us to adopt yovir dictum, and declare that action against such members who know better than to continue faith in the God of Masonr}^ is " mischievous ?" You may lead your Grand Lodge to stultify itself by adopting your views, and find " no foundation for the charge of atheism " in the words of recanta- tion of one who ceased to believe in God and the Bible, because he found out better as he grew older. But let me assure you, Brother Robbins, your utterances are as unacceptable in Missouri as they were to your Grand Mas- ter, who had to pull your Grand Lodge out of the depths into which your too liberal interpretation plunged it. It has been a growing opinion of this writer (and I am not singular in holding it) that the distinguished Committee on Correspondence of Illinois Masonry should be treated for moral or Ma- sonic strabismus. I do not hesitate to say that his views on some questions are to be deprecated, and are dangerous. Nothing short of strabotomy will save him from total darkness in the regions of unbelief. He seems far more pleased with aspersing those who have punished recusant members, as in our Missouri case, than in contending for a high standard of obedience to God and Revealed Truth. He says of our action in the matter now under consideration, that it was " by perversions and by appeals to the prejudices and passions of the members, such as characterize this report," that we were able to affirm the expulsion of the party who had "learned better than to be- lieve in God and the Bible." That is all right. Brother Robbins. With you, our actions are simply "perversions," appeals to the prejudices and passions of members who adopted the report. But with us, who had a due apprecia-
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tion of moral principle, it was IMasonry, decency and morality. Hence the finding of oi:r grand lodge that it was not at all " .mischievous " to deal with such offenders as Crum and others. Brother Robbins has made his record for defending the indefensible. I am willing he shall enjoy the full reward of his labors and the fruit of his doings. He graciously declined to notice my animadversions upon his report of the Crum case. I am glad he was so mercifully inclined as to spare me. Perhaps my views were so affected by " congenital illegitimacy " or weakness as to forbid treatment. He ought to have been humane enough to try and cure the errors, and save the wandering. I will wait for his review of my treatment of his report and former expressions, as found in my report in i8Sg.
Premising that when Bro. Vincii. wrote the above he knew that no one but himself had ever intimated that the Illinois brother who he says "wanted to kick the Bible out of the lodge and out of Masonry" had ever remotely objected to the use made of the Bible in the lodge, and that both the brothei' himself and the lodge who tried him declared that he was not an atheist, and referring to his closing remarks, it is only necessary to repeat what we said in 1889, that while we should be glad to discuss the real questions involved in the case — as we trust we have shown in this report — we do not care to enter upon a discussion for the mere purpose of repelling attacks in the form of inuendo, when to do so would be to dignify by denial the assumption that there is any difference of opinion among Illinois Craftsmen as to the rela- tions ot atheism to Masonry.
To the Missouri cases brief reference only is necessar}-, either the one of which Bro. Vincil steers clear with all possible care, or the other in which with unaccountable obliquity of memory he alleges that we say the language quoted by him ' ' does not furnish any ' foundation whatever for the charge of atheism.' " What we did say was, that from his own statement — which was made subsequently and which was vouched for by Past Grand Master GivAN as being in the language of the accused, viz. : ' / believe God is a Supreme Being, and created all things, and made tuichangeable laws to govern the same' — "it is evident, if language has any meaning, that there was no foundation for the charge of atheism."
" Have you answered the arguments of Bro. Givax in this case, as well as some others?" queries Bro. Vincil. There is no occasion to enter upon such a work of supererogation. Bro. Givan has answered them himself. So far from moral and Masonic declension being shown by his report, he says of the accused: "From all that we know he may be as good and upright a citizen as any in the lodge" ; and of Bro. Stern — whose case Bro. Vincil con- veniently ignores — whose belief in God was not questioned, his alleged of- fense being simply " Disbelief in the Bible as the Word of God," he says: " The writer of this report the more keenly regrets the position appellant has placed himself in, because of his personal knowledge of his being a good cit- izen and an upright man," thus furnishing in his own report indubitable evi-
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dence that both the accused fulfilled completely the requirements of the law of Masonry — the first of the Charges of a Freemason — concerning God and religion — Belief in God and obedience to the moral law.
MONTANA, 1890.
26TH Annual. Livingston. Sept. 24, 1890.
A portrait of John Anderson, the retiring grand master, graces this vol- ume of the Montana proceedings, good looking enough to keep up the repu- tation of the State of Montana for the personal pulchritude of its leading Masons.
The representative of Illinois, Past Grand Master Cornelius Hedges, was on duty in the vSoutheast, where he has held the fort for nineteen years.
The deputy grand master, WilliaxM T. Boardman, presided. Grand Mas- ter Anderson bemg detained at home by illness. There was no address from the grand east, but subsequently the incomplete address of Grand Mas- ter Anderson was obtained in time for publication in the proceedings. The grand master can find nothing in the constitution and by-laws of the grand lodge authorizing him to set aside a law of a lodge, but did what the believ- ers and unbelievers in the doctrine that grand masters possess certain pow- ers apart from those constitutionally granted, both do — granted the necessary dispensations when the emergency arose which he thought warranted such action. He asks what the "book of constitutions " is which the grand lodge recognizes and talks about it in a way to make us feel that he half suspects it to be really like the fabled "Mrs. 'Arris" — that "there never was no such a book."
Grand Secretary Hedges, in speaking of their coming twenty-fifth anni- versary, refers to the same misleading numbering of the annual communica- tions that exists in our own proceedings :
On the 24th day of January next will be the 25th anniversarj- of the or- ganization of our grand lodge, which took place at Virginia City, January 24, 1866. The numbering of our annual communications is soinewhat mis- leading and arose from counting the organization and the subseqtient meet- ing in October of the same year as each an annual commtmication. There were but three lodges at that time and such was the difficulty and delay in communication with the States that we organized a grand lodge of our own
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that others might be saved the trouble that we experienced. Of those pres- ent at the organization P. G. Masters Hull and Duncan have dimitted to the grand lodge above, but there are several survivors and it would seem very suitable and desirable, if possible, to celebrate that event in Virginia City where the organization occurred. At any rate it is in my heart to make the suggestion and see if we could not secure the presence of some of our former associates who have wandered to other lands.
The grand lodge telegraphed its sympathies and regrets to its absent chief; recognized the Grand Lodge of New Zealand; learned from its com- mittee charged with the duty of procuring testimonials for such of the past grand masters as had not received them, that a silver tea service had been presented to each of the ten who had not previously been honored, under the impression that they were all who were still living within the jurisdiction, and directed that another who had been subsequently discovered should re- ceive his belated penny; chartered one new lodge; warmly debated a reso- lution reported favorably by the jurisprudence committee providing for but one ballot for the three degrees, defeated a motion to lay it on the table, but failed to give it the necessary two-thirds vote necessary to adopt it, as will doubtless ultimately be done ; changed its time of meeting to the second Wednesday in October, and fixed on Butte as its next place of meeting ; ap- pointed a committee to report next year on the desirability and feasibility of establishing a Masonic Home; requested the grand master to appoint no district deputies for the coming year, turning their job over, temporarily, to the grand lecturer; and mitigated their much-criticised regulation respect- ing non-affiliates, as follows:
Resolved, That non-affiliates may visit lodges in Montana for one year after their arrival m the State, or after such non-affiliation shall commence ; after the lapse of such time they shall not be permitted to visit nor shall they have any of the privileges accorded to members of lodges, unless such non- affiliation be caused by their rejection by the lodge in whose jurisdiction they may reside, after a bo>ia fide eifort on their part to affiliate by petition in the usual way.
The grand officers were installed in public, the grand lodge being called off for the purpose, No further business was done and little time wasted after calling on, a banquet and ball having been announced as awaiting at- tention. Bro. Nick Fretz — clan not given — led the singing of Burns' Adieu in closing.
William T. Boardman, was elected grand master; Cornelius Hedges re-elected grand secretary; both of Helena.
The report on correspondence (pp. loS) to which every one familiar with the Montana proceedings always eagerly turns, is as usual the work of the grand secretary. In his "closing," he says:
To write such a report as one would care to subscribe and publish is get- ting to be more of a task every year. Not only are grand lodges multiply-
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ing, but some of the ablest talent in the country is enlisted in writing these reports or reviews. It is becoming a conspicuous arena for the Davids and Goliaths of Masonic lore and law, with an increasing, more discriminating and exacting crowd of interested spectators, not overinclined to turn up the thumb in behalf of the discomforted gladiator. It requires not only the read- ing of an increased volume of Masonic literature of increased calibre, and rifled at that, but it requires outside study and resort to such articles of Ma- sonic lore as Bro. Parvin is gathering at Cedar Rapids. It is about the same in our domain as we witness among the nations of Europe in multiplying their armies and improving their weapons, each trjnng to outdo the other. Only, this strife of ours is not a burden on the masses, but is altogether ele- vating. Still it also requires labor, and more of it. Nil sine pulvf7'e. Some are in chronic hysterics over infringements of ancient landmarks, some of which seem to have been planted on floating icebergs. Some are concerned about the essentials of the "perfect youth," and others exhaust their ener- gies upon the millinery and ceremonial departments. But there is plainly discernible throughout all this commotion of the elements an expansion and elevation of the soul of Masonry, divine charity, rallying to her standard the intellect, energy, systemizing order and material wealth of the best portion of mankind.
Bro. Hp:dges need have no fear that the style of reports which he writes will stale. For just the reasons he gives, his cottfreres at least will turn to them with increasing pleasure, glad to forsake for the moment the drudgery of verifying alleged facts, the wearying glitter of pinchbeck tinsel, and the sweat and din or the strife which clashing interests and ambitions sometimes create, to the graceful airiness that always rests, the wit that never wounds, the irony that never degenerates into bitterness, the judgment that clothes the driest subjects with the most playful fancy, and to the courtesy and fra- ternal feeling that never fail.
In his genial and extended notice of Illinois he notices first the portrait of Past Grand Master Darrah, which leads him to a touching notice of the funeral services and an appreciative reference to his character. He touches everything of interest in the proceedings, speaking in appreciative terms of the address of the grand master, and praising very highly the historical notes of Grand Secretary Minn. He finds, as will be seen, something of personal interest in the election ;
At the election of officers Bro. Pearson became grand master, and Bro. Leroy A. Goddard was advanced from junior to senior grand warden. "We speak of the latter because it has been our exceeding pleasure to have met this brother frequently here in Montana during the past season, and have personal proof of the many noble qualities that have marked him for merited advancement.
Referring to the celebration of the semi-centennial, he says:
Twenty pages are devoted to letters and messages of regret from every jurisdiction in the country. Nothing appears for Montana, but it was not our fault, and Bro. Munn charges the omission to the printers. "We would not mind it so much, but as the representative of Illinois it certainly seems a piece of unpardonable neglect that such an occasion should pass \>\ unnoticed.
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And discovers the milk in the cocoanut at a glance :
The committee on reduction of expenses recommended the reduction of rate allowed for mileage, the reduction of Masonic districts and the allow- ance of pay to but one representative. The fellows that would be left were in a majority.
He ' ' hefts " the Illinois reviewer and his report with discriminating hand, and we thank him even more than for other generous words, for the compli- ment paid to it in saying that he "would not give a rush for the opinion of any man, whether Mason, or not, who always agrees with whoever he is talking with on any side of any subject."
Bro. Hedges wisely says it is best to dispose of appeal cases finally where substantial justice can be done rather than send them back for re-trial ; rec- ognizes the fact that a Masonic home does not meet the most common wants in these our northern jurisdictions, and says that while it is different in the South where so many were impoverished and broken up by the war, yet even there this condition will pass away, evidently feeling that ' ' poor-house " charity should not be accepted without question as the settled form of Ma- sonic benevolence; says that "Joseph (Wheeler, Conn,) is withal no scrub of a poet when the afflatus strikes him and he bestirs Pegasus for a spin " ; does not think the lodge acquires the same quality of jurisdiction by electing a candidate that it does by rejecting him; confesses that he is coming to thmk that the single-ballot system is the true one, though it is with reluct- ance, for he had theoretically convinced himself that it was keeping up bars around our pasture and that the ballot was the proper way of filing objec- tions ; had given up the fight against the grand representative system when he found there was no use staying out in the cold alone, but had never changed his opinion of the utter uselessness of the fancy appendage ; thinks it likely Webb would not recognize the " Montana Webb Work" if he should see it exemplified, though it is pretty clean work and very near like that he learned in Iowa thirty-five years ago; and gives himself away in noting that Lodge No. 95 (Florida) had traded off a triple name for Pedro, by reflecting aloud that he "didn't think that game was played in Florida " !
NEBRASKA, 1890.
33RD Annual. Om.-vha. June i6, 1S90.
Sixteen past grand masters were present, but Harry P. Deuel, the rep- resentative of Illinois, was not of the number.
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The address of the grand master (John J. Mercer) occupies forty pages of fine print containing only a reasonable amount of "fat." He reports the condition of the lodges as comparing favorably with former years, and har- mony as the rule. There still exists, however, the usual degree of confusion resulting from the use and misuse of the ballot and the unseemly desire for office, the usual sources of vexation. He submitted nineteen decisions — or rather eighteen, the nineteenth being more an exhortation than a decision. We select a part of them :
I. In Masonry there is no statute of frauds or limitations, neither is it governed by statute or common law rules. The question in every case of Masonic offense is, " Has the brother violated the laws or principles of Ma- sonry?" If so, he is subject to discipline, no matter whether it is an offense against the law of the land or not.
4. After the usual business of the lodge has been transacted and the lodge closed in regular form, any work done immediately after by reopening the lodge, would have to be done under a special meeting and the record made up as a special meeting for such business as the meeting was called.
6. It is the special duty of each and every subordinate lodge to correct the evils of intemperance in any of its members as speedily as possible, and if upon the first or second admonition the brother does not reform, to sus- pend or expel him promptly.
7. There is no limit of time within which an Entered Apprentice or Fellow Craft may be required to advance. His advancement must be of his own accord.
8. A candidate being asked the constitutional questions, answered " No." The duty of the lodge is to return the fee to the candidate and in- form him that so long as he holds such belief he cannot be made a Mason.
13. The grand master cannot issue a dispensation to authorize the ini- tiation of a person who has been rejected by a lodge, for it is the inherent right of a lodge to judge the fitness of its own members, and the grand mas- ter cannot, by the exercise of his dispensing power, interfere with this inhe- rent right.
15. A visitor has a right to know that the lodge he proposes to visit is a legal body, and he has the right to inspect the warrant or charter at a proper time, but he has no right to put the lodge or its officers to any trouble or inconvenience while at work. The master would also be justified in re- fusing to allow the charter or warrant to be taken out of the lodge room while the lodge is in session.
16. Is a brother living in Kansas eligible to the election of master of a lodge in Nebraska? If he is a member of the lodge in Nebraska, he is eligi- ble for election to the office of master. It is membership in a lodge, not the residence, that constitutes eligibility to office.
Illinois has no statute of limitations, but perhaps might be said to have a statute of frauds. The grand lodge has said that Masonry does not permit a Mason to have a standard of commercial ethics less rigid for his dealings with a profane than for his dealings with a brother; that its lodges are not
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permitted to take cognizance of differences between brethren, growing out of business transactions, unless fraud is specified as well as charged, and that in determining whether a specification does really involve a cognizable offense, the safe rule is to determine whether it is an offense indictable under the statute of the State.
Referring to No. 4, the grand master seems to suggest the calling of a special meeting to be held instanter, but we do not well see how the contin- gency could arise to make it necessary-, without being at the same time too late to make the notice general.
The first proposition embraced in No. 6 is unexceptionable, but whether this can best be done by the short, sharp and decisive campaign marked out by the grand master, or by a more long suffering clemency, is a question which the lodge should decide without duress, the primary law making the brethren the " proper and competent judges." The jurisprudence committee probably took this view of the matter, as we find they struck out all after the word " possible." They also modified No. 8 bj' striking out that portion re- ferring to the return of the fee, the regulations leaving that optional with the lodge. We think they ought to have endorsed it as an admonition of duty if not of law. Equity requires the return of the fee if the lodge finds it ■cannot render an equivalent for it.
No. 15 is a perhaps as fair an adjustment of rights and courtesies as need be made under ordinary circumstances, but it seems to us that too much stress is commonly laid upon the inconvenience to which the lodge is put by a request to see the charter, so much that we sometimes wonder if it does not refiect the possible difficulty of readily putting their hands on the sacred instrument. It ought to be one of the least of the inconveniences to which the brethren are put by the natural and proper desire of a strange brother to visit the lodge. As for the awful responsibility taken by the mas- ter in permitting the parchment to be temporarily in some other one of the lodge apartments than the tiled room, the justification for refusing to shoul- der it must rest on the theory that it is the parchment and not the fact to which it certifies that goes to the constituting of a lodge, and, this fact set- tled, that the ritualistic elements of constitution must be perpetually present during the session or the underpinning would be knocked out. If this is true we suggest that as a matter of convenience a photographic copy of the char- ter be made to do duty while the instrument is being scrutinized by the vis- itor. It would certainly answer the purpose as well as the tin simulacrum of the compasses on whose imitation legs one leg of the validity of the acts of some lodges rests. The common sense view of the matter even under this theory would seem to be, that wherever about the apartments the presence of the instrument is actually required for the proper carrying out of the pur- poses of a lodge of Masons — and not the least of these is to enable strange brethren to enjoy the fellowship which is its chief end — there is its legitimate
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place, and it no more ceases to be a part of the lodge than do the two or more of the certain number of Masons who are temporarily there on the same errand.
But the stronger reason why the master would be justified in allowing the charter to be taken out of the lodge-room while the lodge is in session, is, that it is not the parchment but the action to which it certifies, that is the real element of constitution ; and to show this it is necessary to call attention to the fact that on a vote to revoke by the grand lodge the lodge ceases to- exist no matter who has the parchment.
No. 1 6 states an obvious fact but one which it is hard to get into some heads without a surgical operation.
The grand master was not called upon to announce the death of any present or past grand officer. His reference to the dead of other jurisdic- tions included mention of Past Grand Master Darrah, of Illinois.
He calls attention to the fact that throughout the jurisdiction lodges have as a rule adopted the mmimum fee for the degrees, and that the dues aver- age about three dollars a year; and he questions whether the grand lodge- should not require lodges to exact dues sufficient to meet all their obliga- tions, and maintain a sound financial condition. On the whole he thinks Masonry is too cheap in Nebraska. The grand lodge, so far as we can dis- cover, wisely left the matter of dues to the lodges.
Nearly twenty-six pages of the grand master's address are given to the Scottish Rite and to trouble growing out of the ill-advised action of the grand lodge the preceding year in interfering in the quarrels of that chronic dis- turber of the public peace.
It will be remembered that in i88g Grand Master France, impressed with the " distinguished authority" of some seven grand lodges named by him that had interfered in the fight, and not impressed by the commendable example of some six or seven times that number of grand lodges which had kept out of it, urged the grand lodge that it was a " plain duty " incumbent upon it to do something in the premises, and that accordingly the following, reported bj'' the jurisprudence committee, was adopted:
Whereas, A grand lodge of Free and Accepted Masons is an independ- ent and sovereign body, recognizing and having supreme jurisdiction over no other degrees than those of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason, as illustrated and taught by the rituals and secret work adopted by such grand lodge; therefore be it
Resolved, That this grand lodge expressly declines to enter upon any discussion of the history, use or legitimacy of any bodies claiming to confer what is known as the Scottish Rite degrees, or to be committed to the recog- nition of any such body, or to the recognition ©£ any body conferring any de-
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grees over which this grand lodge has no control, as being Masonic, or as being a part of Ancient Craft Masonry.
That we cordially endorse the law as recognized and promulgated by our ■grand master.
First, That two bodies claiming to be Masonic, of the same grade, can- not lawfully exist in the same State at the same time.
Second, That the first lawfully constituted authority established in a State thereby obtains exclusive jurisdiction in such territory, and that any other body of the same grade or rite, entering later within such territory is in itself unlawful.
The grand master goes on to tell what followed :
Shortly after the communication of the grand lodge had closed, it was brought to my knowledge that certain Masons acknowledging obedience to our jurisdiction, who had, some of them, been highlj' honored by the Craft of Nebraska by the election to some of the highest offices and positions of honor in their gift, and who justly prided themselves that they were promi- inent in Masonic circles among us, were circulating among the Craft and distributing to the several lodges and their members, garbled, inaccurate, false and forged reports of the action of the grand lodge, and about the same time my mails were crowded with inquiries which came to me from different lodges and members of the Craft, asking for authoritative information as to what the action of the grand lodge had really been. These false and garbled reports were published broadcast in the press of the State, and I submit for your consideration one of the mosr vicious of its kind which I received.
Whether this was a circular or a newspaper account he does not state, but we judge from what he says it was the latter. Whichever it was, it gave him an excuse for issuing an edict in which after publishing the report as adopted by the grand lodge, he proceeds to interpret it for the purpose of pacifying the Craft, setting forth under three preambles, first, that the Southern (Pike) Supreme Council introduced the Scottish Rite into Nebraska in 1S67 and held undisputed possession until 1S88, when the " Cerneaus " came in; second, that the Cerneau bodies governed by Ferdinand J. S. Gor- G.\s and John J. Gorman have been declared unlawful because the territory they seek to operate in is already occupied; and third, that certain "evilly- disposed persons," with intent to deceive, are circulating garbled, inaccu- rate, false and forged reports, and with certain other ill-informed persons have expressed a determination to propogate " the error of ' Cerneauism."' Hence as grand master he declared and made known officially that the only legitimate and lawfully constituted authority of the Scottish Rite in Ne- braska is the Southern, and that all others are unlawful and clandestine.
The edict was issued July 20, (i88g,) and on the evening of Aug. 9 he
was pained and surprised to receive some resolutions adopted by Nebraska
Lodge, No. I, two nights previous. These were in the nature of a protest
. against the action of the grand master as an attempted violation of the ex-
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pressed will of the grand lodge and as making innovations in the body of Ma- sonry, arraigning him as follows:
We recognize in Edict No. i, emanating from Grand Master John J. Mercer, an attempt to introduce into the body of Masonry a foreign element, not recognized by our grand lodge as being Masonic or as being a part of Ancient Craft Masonry; against which attempt, we, as Ancient Craft Ma- sons, do most earnestly and solemnly protest.
We recognize in such edict an attempt on the part of Grand Master John J. ]\Iercer, in his official capacity as such grand master, to recognize as legit- imate, the authority over the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, claimed bv the so-called Southern Jurisdiction of the United States, presided over by Albert Pike ; and we, as Ancient Craft Masons, do most earnestly and sol- emnly protest against such attempt as being in direct violation of the reso- liition adopted by the grand lodge at its last communication, wherein the grand lodge expressly declined to be committed to the recognition of any such body.
Inasmuch as our grand lodge at its last communication expressly de- clared itself a sovereign body " recognizing and having supreme jurisdiction over no other degrees than those of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason," and in the same resolution declined to enter upon any dis- cussion of the history, use or legitimacy of any bodies claiming to confer what is known as Scottish Rite degrees, and declined to recognize such bod- ies as being Masonic, or as being a part of Ancient Craft Masonry, we regard the action of Grand Master John J. Mercer in attempting to foist upon the Fraternity of Ancient Craft Masonry a recognition of a Scottish Rite body in defiance of such express declarations of our grand lodge, a base innova- tion, entirely foreign to Masonic law, tradition or usage, and a usurpation of power not known in Freemasonry and not to be countenanced by this lodge.
This action of Grand Master John J. Mercer is not only in defiance of the expressed will of our grand lodge, but is designed to impose upon An- cient Craft Masonry new and unwarranted qualifications ; it plainly indicates a desire and intention on his part, so far as he can use his position for that purpose, to make membership in certain Scottish Rite bodies affect and de- termine the standing and qualifications of Ancient Craft Masons. Abiding b}- the ancient charge that it is not in the power of any man or body of men to make innovations in the body of Masonry, we expressly den}' the existence of any authority in our grand master to impose upon Masonry any new qualifications. All the qualifications necessary to obtain admission and rec- ognition as a Master Mason are those taught and exemplified by the rituals and secret work adopted b}' our grand lodge ; and we deem it the dut_y of every loyal Ancient Craft Mason to resist to the utmost this attempt to add to those ciualifications any additional requirement.
The first comment of the grand master uiDon the circular is as follows :
In this circular of Nebraska Lodge, No. i, its authors constitute them- selves the especial chamijionsof Ancient Craft Masonry; yet it is remarkable that this document from the words "bow with submission" in the tenth line to the words "understood by the Fraternity" at the end of the twentieth line, is an almost verbatim copy of a letter of Grand Commander John J. Gorman, the leader of one Cerneau faction, to his partisans in Iowa.
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This letter in his address (page 27, proceedings of 1SS9,) was written in July, 18S9, and the circular of Nebraska Lodge, No. i, is dated August, 6, 18S9.
When a lodge in Nebraska is guided to insubordination by the prompt- ing of the grand commander of Cemeauism, it is not improper to inquire how far such action corresponds with the landmarks of Ancient Craft Masonry, and whether Cerneatiism is not taking too much iipon itself by its inter- ference with the authority of this grand lodge.
He proceeds to substantiate the near approach to identitj^ claimed, by printing in parallel columns the letter and the introductory portion of the resolution — that portion preceding the body of the paper already- quoted.
This calls to mind Franklin's advice: " When you are going to send a man to do something for j^ou, if you want it well done, go yourself." Neb- raska Lodge might better have done Us own writing, for the introduction is the weakest portion of the protest. Apart from this the use of the language from that source gave the grand master an advantage which he was not slow to use, not in visiting punishment upon Nebraska Lodge — for that was inevitable under the circumstances, but as a make-weight which helped him and the other supporters of grand orientism in the grand lodge, to secure from that body action more satisfactory to the partisans of the supreme council than that of 1SS9. Of course it makes " a mighty differ" whose ox is getting gored, whether language comes from one source or another. We have never known a thick and thin partisan of the Holy Empire to so much as whisper a reference to the fact that when the imperial contingent was engineering the amendment through the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, which gave recognition to the supreme councils, on the specious plea of protecting the lodges from discord, the charmed words which were to ac- complish this were identical with amendments previously adopted by the Grand Chapter of Wisconsin and the Grand Commandery of Ohio, neither of which bodies had any lodges to protect. For the reasons following, the grand master arrested the charter of Nebraska Lodge, No. i, and recom- mended the further disciplining of the master (Alexander Atkinson) and wardens (Augustus C. Osterman and William D. McHugh):
It seems to me, brethren of the grand lodge, that insubordination and contumacy, insult and defiance of lawful Masonic authority, could go no further. By such actions, knowledge of which was scattered broadcast over this and other states, your grand master was charged with " attempting to foist upon the Fraternity of Ancient Craft Masonry a base innovation en- tirely foreign to Masonic law, tradition or usage, and a usurpation of power not known to Freemasonry, and not to be countenanced b}- this lodge." He is further charged with a design " to impose upon Ancient Craft Masonry new and unwarranted qualifications." All which assertions are untrue in fact, and unwarranted by the tenor, purpose, and object of Edict No. r.
While it may be true that the legislative acts, edicts and proceedings of the grand lodge and the official acts of your grand master may be fraternally
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criticised with a view to a better understanding thereof, and for the purpose of securing a correction of errors and remedying unwise actions, it is respect- fully submitted that such discourteous arraignments of the official head of Freemasonry in the state cannot be tolerated or overlooked. To charge the grand master, over the seal and official signatures of the officers of a subor- dinate lodge, with "usurpation," with " attempting to foist a base innova- tion " upon the Craft, is going beyond the limits of respectful treatment, or such treatment as a grand master of Masons has the right to expect and ex- act from those in office, and runs far into rebellion and sedition.
We recall the story of a man who came home from a political caucus in a state of great excitement. " Husband, dear," said his anxious wife, "what /s the matter ?"
" Matter! Matter enough; a man called me a liar right in caucus! "
" O, well, husband, you don't care anything about that, you know he couldn't prove" —
" But he d/c/ prove it!"
So, too, we suspect that in this case the sting of the protest lay in its truth. No one can read the edict without recognizing the purpose of the grand master to commit the grand lodge by his interpretation of its action to precisely the one thing which it explicitly declared it would not be com- mitted to.
The grand lodge declared that it expressly declined to be committed to the ' ' recognition of any body conferring any degrees over which it had no control, as being Masonic," and in the face of this the grand master declares that the action of the grand lodge and its declarations respecting the matter w^as a recognition of the Supreme Council of the Southern jurisdiction as "the only legitimate and lawfully constituted Masonic authority" of the very rite to which the language of the grand lodge was primarily applied. And as if to leave no doubt that this was his purpose, he enters into a lengthy argument with many citations to prove that the Scottish Rite bodies to whose recognition as Masonic bodies the grand lodge declared it would not be com- mitted, are Masonic bodies, nevertheless. Among these citations is the fol- lowing:
GRAND MASTER OP" ILLINOIS.
[]V/io are ttoi recognised.^ 1889. Issued a letter of warning to the Masons of Illinois against the Cerneau body of the Anc. -.and Ace. -.Scottish Rite of Burlington, Iowa.
We now see the meaning of what Grand Master France said in i88g, while hunting precedents to justify interference in the melee, when he referred to the action taken by the grand master of Illinois, and which led us to say that Grand Master Smith had not mentioned the matter at that time, and that if
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this was a case of second sight on the part of the grand master of Nebraska the vision was illusory, for when Grand Master Smith did speak of it some months later it was only to say that it could not be oiificially presented to any lodge m this jurisdiction. Bro. France and Bro. Mercer both confounded Grand ^Master Smith with the deputy of the Northern council for the district of Illinois, two very distinct persons officially. Grand Master Smith issued no letter to the Masons of Illinois on this subject. Deputy Smith did issue a letter of warning, but that he did not forget the distinction between the grand mastership of Illinois and the deputyship f or the corresponding valley, swale or basin — whatever may be the correct term — of the imperial domain, will be seen by referring to a copy of the letter on page 135 of the appendix to the proceedings of the Northern supreme council for 18S9, and addressed "To the Members of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonrj- in Illinois," and signed by him as "Deputy." Grand Master Mercer also quotes the action of the Grand Lodge of Kentucky in 1S69 recognizing the Northern and Southern supreme councils, but not that portion of the report declaring that they claim and have the right to confer the degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason.
The committee on doings of grand officers reported the following:
Resolved, That we unequivocally approve, sustain and endorse the gTand master in the issuance of Edict ^s"o. i, of July 20, 5S89, his subsequent arrest of the charter of Nebraska Lodge, No. i, and the suspension from office of the three principal officers thereof for insubordination and contum- acy.
This was finally adopted as reported after a debate and parliamentary struggle lasting through a whole day, and vain attempts to secure such a modification of it as would not commit the grand lodge to any recognition of legitimacy of the Scottish Rite bodies, or as passing upon their history, use or legitimacy. Subsequently the first three officers of Nebraska Lodge were ordered to submit to the grand master a written confession of contrition for their connection with the circular, such as should be approved by him as sat- isfactory, on pain of having charges preferred against them and being tried by a commission.
The net result of the elfort of the grand master to mend by his edict the ■unsatisfactory shape in which the action of the grand lodge had left things for the grand orient party, is that the Grand Lodge of Nebraska has doubly stultified itself ; Masonrj- has been betrayed in the house of its friends, and rankling bitterness stirred up that will last for half a generation. But after a fashion the partisans of the Holy Empire have got the coveted recognition for their supreme council, and although it is not assumed that this action was secured by any formal procurement on the part of the supreme council, yet it is worth}- of note that at the next meeting of that body Grand Master
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Mercer and his immediate predecessor were gazetted for the highest honors ■of the Empire.
The grand lodge assisted the grand master to lay the corner-stone of the new cit}' hall in Omaha on the second day of the session; chartered nine new lodges, continued one under dispensation and discontinued two; telegraphed a message of sympathy and cheer to the grand chaplain detained at home by illness; authorized the grand master to extend recognition to the Grand Lodge of New Zealand at his discretion; listened to an ingeniously con- structed and finely written address from the grand orator, W. Bro. Jas. P. A. Black; selected Omaha as its next place of meeting; and indefinitely postponed a pending amendment providing tor one ballot onlj' for the three degrees.
Robert E. French, of Kearney, was elected grand master; Wm. R. BowEN, Omaha, re-elected grand secretary.
The indications last year were that we should this year get a report on ■correspondence from Nebraska, but to our regret none appears.
NEVADA, 1890.
■26TH Annual. Carson. June 10, 1S90.
The representative of Illinois, Charles E. Mack, grand orator, was pres- ent, and, at the formal reception of the corps, welcomed them on behalf of the grand lodge.
The brief address of the grand master (Charles W. Hinchcliffe) an- nounces the death of Past Grand Master DeWitt C. McKinney at the early age of fifty-five years. He was much respected as a judge and as a citizen, and was a devoted Mason.
Among the many appointments of grand representatives reported is the re-appointment of Past Grand Master John C. Smith as ambassador near the Grand Lodge of Ilhnois. The year was an uneventful one, and there •were but few official acts to report.
The gi'and lodges of North Dakota and New Zealand were recognized.
A communication from the Grand Secretary of Illinois transmitting
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semi-centennial medals for the archives of the grand lodge and for the rep- resentative of Illinois was read, that grand lodge congratulated on the suc- cess of the semi-centennial celebration, and thanks returned for the medals.
John W. Eckley, of Virginia City, was elected grand master; Chaun- CEY N. NoTEWAKE, Carson, re-elected grand secretary.
The report on correspondence (pp. 71) is again by Bro. Robert L. Ful- ton, and as usual is supplemented by a digest of the year's decisions. The proceedings of our semi-centennial communication are generously noticed, and Grand Secretary Munn's table of statistics by decades is copied. In speaking of the medals represented in the volume he mentions that pre- sented by Washington to Red Jacket, but the compositor makes him say " Rev. Jacket."
Speaking of the fact that the keen eye of the reportorial staff had de- tected that the report of the Nevada committee had been made up of many facts and few opinions, he says :
This policy was adopted after mature deliberation and considerable con- sultation, as being the right course, all things considered. A large expe- rience in journalism taught us that oj^inions were cheap, but that real facts made a solid foundation for a writer. We have found the peopie able to generalize from current events as sensibly and correctly as the majority of the self-appointed leaders, and we certainly have felt no anxiety about the capacity of the Masons of Nevada to correctly sum up and give due weight to the movements in the Masonic world, if properly placed before them. It would be far easier to fill out sixty pages with editorial matter and friendly notices of our fellow scribes than to sift, classify and shorten the reports of proceedings made from the grand lodges of the world, but it would not be nearly as useful to our readers, and we should not feel justified in putting them to the expense of paying for printing such stuff when it might be re- placed by a concise history of the events of the year.
The comparative labor of preparing long and short reports is well put. The short report requires an amount of labor altogether disproportionate to its appearance. In Bro. Fulton's case the evidence of a thorough examina- tion of the proceedings received is everywhere manifest.
NEW HAMPSHIRE, 1891.
I02ND Annual. Concord. May 20, 1891.
This volume of the New Hampshire proceedings has for a frontispiece a fine steel portrait in line and stipple of the late venerable John Christie,, who was grand master from 1847 to 1850 inclusive.
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The semi-annual communication for the exemplification of the work was held at Manchester, Dec. 30, 1S90. The representative of Illinois, R. W. Bro. George E. Thompson, was not present at this or at the annual com- munication.
The grand master (Frank D. Woodburv) announced the death of Dan- iel W. Edgerly, past grand lecturer, at the early age of fiftj^-three, and of JosiAii Morse, past senior grand warden, in his ninety-first year. He had been a Mason nearly sixty-eight years.
The grand master had made no decision of sufficient importance to re- port. Among the dispensations reported are a large number granting per- mission to install officers in public, a formality which Illinois law does not require. Two noteworthy occasions were the dedication of new halls at Manchester and Nashua. At the latter a banquet was served to nearly one thousand guests, and Past Grand Master George W. Currier was presented with a past grand master's jewel by the brethren of Nashua.
The report of a long pending case reported by the grand master had a somewhat amusing side. About 1877, one Proctor, of Fitchburg, Mass., was rejected in Aurora Lodge of that city. He afterwards removed to Troy, N. H., and in 1S87 made application to Monadnock Lodge, stating he had been rejected in Aurora Lodge. The officers of Monadnock Lodge supposed that as the rejection had occurred in another state no permission was neces- sary, and he was elected and had received two degrees when objection to his advancement came from Massachusetts, and he was stopped. When asked for a waiver of jurisdiction, Aurora Lodge replied that the matter was m the hands of the grand lodge and they could do nothing, and there the matter hung. In endeavoring to have the matter adjusted. Grand Master Woodbury unexpectedly found an entry on the debit side against Aurora Lodge. Some twelve or thirteen years before, through a similar misappre- hension, that lodge had elected and conferred the degrees upon one Cle- woRTH, who had been previously rejected in Lafayette Lodge, of Manches- ter, N. H. Subsequently returning to Manchester, he endeavored to visit* Lafayette Lodge, was refused admission, and complaint was made to the Grand Master of Massachusetts of the invasion. When this "stand-off" was discovered it didn't take long to discover a thoroughfare where none could be seen before. Monadnock explained, apologized and tendered the fees received from Bro. Proctor to Aurora; the latter returned the fees, withdrew all objections to Bro. Proctor's advancement, and had no diffi- culty in getting the approval of the Grand Master of Massachusetts, with whom Grand Master Woodbury had previously conferred. Subsequently Aurora asked Lafayette to withdraw objections in the Cleworth case, tendering the fees received from him. Lafayette voted to accept the apol- ogy and return the fees, the grand master's approval was forthcoming and the ban is lifted from both the unfortunates.
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From the very clear and able report of the committee on trials and ap- peals (Joseph W. Fellows, Chairman) in the case of an appeal from a ver- dict of acquittal on the charge of adultery, we take the following, in which the grand lodge concurred, bearing upon a question of great importance:
The decree or judgment of divorce upon the ground of adultery with the accused, obtained by the complainant against his wife, was sought to be introduced as evidence here and was admitted in the form of a statement by the complainant over the objection of counsel for the accused. This was in- competent. It has been settled over and over again that such is not compe- tent evidence, unless granted upon plea of guilty, which is taken as an ad- mission. The verdict of a jury or court upon trial of any criminal cause, where issue is joined and the pleadings do not contain admission of guilt, is not competent evidence in Masonic trials of those who were respondents or defendants in such causes.
We quote from the same committee in another case, illustrative of the rule obtaining with reference to the class of cases growing out of differences- between brethren respecting business transactions cognizable by the lodge:
In the case, Lafayette Lodge, No. 41 (Bro. Richardson complainant),, against Bro. Frank H. Hitchcock, [see Proceedings Grand Lodge, 1887, page 56,] it was held substantially that unless the accused used his Masonic pledge in some way to obtain a benefit, and failing to keep his obligation violated his Masonic faith, these matters of civil debt and duties growing out of them should be left to the civil law, and in that case the Masonic pledge was not so used.
In the case of Golden Rule Lodge, No. 77 (Bro. Archibald complainant), against Bro. Vaille, [see Proceedings Grand Lodge, 1889, page 235], the same doctrine was held, and the facts showed that the accused did use his Masonic pledge for the purpose of obtaining a pecuniary benefit and failed to keep it, thus violating his Masonic faith to the injury of a brother who trusted to it, and loaned him money. The distinction between such cases as come within Masonic discipline and those which do not, may be very easily determined by examination of the two cases cited above.
The grand lodge killed pending amendments to the constitution fixing the minimum fee for the degrees at fifteen dollars, which we presume was an effort to lower it ; and forbidding expulsion or suspension from the rights of ]Masonry for the non-payment of dues, fixing the penalty for such delin- quency at forfeiture or suspension of membership, and providing for suspen- sion for such offense without the form of trial of those three months in ar- rears. That the present law is unsatisfactory may be assumed from the adoption on the heels of the above action, of a resolution requesting the com- mittee on jurisprudence to prepare and report next year simple forms for trial in these cases. The following amendment which awaits action next year, we take it applies only to cases where the offense charged is wronging and defrauding the lodge in a pecuniary way, the committee on trials and appeals having suggested that in such cases a large amount of money might
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be involved and hence the lodge be too much interested to give an unbiased trial and vsrdict:
And whenever an offense is committed against the lodge of which the accused is a member, except in cases of non-payment of dues, the charges shall be filed with the grand master, instead of the lodge, and thereupon he may appoint a commission to hear and determine the matter and make a re- port to the grand lodge in the same manner as in cases where the trial takes place in the lodge.
A revision of the constitution was ordered.
Frank Dana Woodbury, grand master, and George Perley Cleaves, grand secretary, both of Concord, were re-elected.
We observe in the list of permanent members of the grand lodge, that the residence of Past Grand Master William R. Burleigh is given as Bloom- ington, Illinois.
The report on correspondence (pp. 242), as tisual by Bro. Albert S. Wait, is even to a greater degree than usual the chief feature of interest in the volume. Its unusual length (for him) is chiefly due to the fact that he gives nearly thirty pages to an incisive review of Bro. Albert Pike's attack on Bro. Mackey's list of " landmarks," in which the questions involved are discussed with his usual closeness, clearness and courtesy. We find our- selves generally in accord with him throtighout the discussion.
In his notice of Illinois Bro. Wait quotes from the report of the com- mittee on lodges u. d., condemning the giving of notes by lodges under dis- pensation, ' thereby increasing the liabilities of the grand lodge,' and asks whether the committee intend to state that the grand lodge is liable by the civil law of the land upon such a note. We cannot speak for the intentions of the committee as time will not permit us to consult the chairman, but it seems to us that the language quoted, and this which he also quotes — ' these notes are the notes of this grand lodge, given without authority, but for the payment of which this grand lodge is responsible ' — would fully justify him in assuming that the committee held the grand lodge to be liable by the civil law.
Referring to his criticism of Illinois for declining to recognize the Grand Lodge of Colon and Cuba, and quoting our counter question, ' Whether in his judgment there ever was a time when it was not consistent with loyalty to the fundamental law to give countenance to any irregular lodge or to dis- senters from the original plan of Masonry, and if there was whether the bur- den of the obligation not to do so is now lifted?' he says;
If the ground for denying recognition to the grand lodge in question is that it is irregular, and that its constituents are dissenters from the original plan of Masonry, those are both questions of fact, and by a general consen-
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sus of the American Craft they have been decided against the assumption of our IlHnois brethren. Our observations alluded to, and our query towards which Bro. Robbins' question is directed, indicate the reply we conceive should be given. It is that our brethren of Illinois could, without any sacri- fice of principle, accept the decision of the great body of the Craft. Like any other case where men or Masons differ in opinion upon a question of practi- cal moment, it must be settled by some tribunal authorized to decide it. In the case in question the competent tribunal is the general sense of the Fraternity. That has pronounced upon the question, and our suggestion was that our brethren might properly accept that decision in place of their individual views.
This illustrates one quality in Bro. AVait that draws us to him verj^ strongly. However much he ma}- try to draw the teeth of a biting question before answering it, he iinll answer it and he won't dodge the consequences of his own logic. We \\-ill not at this moment press the point against which Bro. Wait's logic has driven him, that is, whether a man who has been en- trusted with a responsibility or an organization that has been created as the conservator of a principle, can without sacrifice of principle so define their duties as to rid themselves of the responsibility intended to be and still verily believed to have been assumed, or to destroy the principle still verily believed to have been entailed. Casuists differ as to whether such a course is ever justifiable, but we think none ever justify it except on the score of duress. There is yet no duress so far as the Grand Lodge of Illinois is con- cerned. Nor does Illinois believe that there has yet been any deliberate consensus such as our brother implies and which he thinks would absolve her from her own interpretation of the ancient law. The fact that many grand lodges have recognized the Grand Lodge of Colon and Cuba does not of itself carry much weight, for the reason that many gi-and lodges have also recog- nized manj^ other bodies claiming to be governing bodies in Masonry, whose irregularity is much more apparent. Formerh- recognition went out to su- preme councils, grand orients, and to so-called grand lodges spawned by these bodies without investigation as to their composition, form of govern- ment, or even the extent to which their authority was recognized in their own country. It is only wnthin a few years, for instance, that even a small portion of those who shape the legislation of grand lodges came to have any definite knowledge of the composition of grand orients. Recognition had been extended to them in the absence of any protesting body in their own countries, chiefly on the purely sentimental ground which we have run on to more than once in this year's reviewing — that " In every clime are Masons to be found, in every land a brother." We have elsewhere in this report (Lou- isiana) referred to the exposition of the character of grand orients by Grand Master Anthon, of New York, in 1871, upon which the grand lodge ordered that recognition heretofore extended to, and correspondence entered into with, these bodies should cease. That exposition, imperfect as it was, was about the first source of information the Craft in general in this country had relative to their make up. And what a small portion of the Craft ever had
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that brought to their attention. The discussion of their status out of which will come an intelligent consensus respecting their claims to be recognized as Masonic bodies, begun since then and did not become anything like gen- eral until nearly a decade later. That discussion is now only fairly begun, and it is yet too early to talk of an enduring consensus among the Masons of this country. That this is instinctively felt to be so by those who claim that pretty much everything is Masonry that calls itself so, is shown by the active effort throughout all the Holy Empire of dissent from the original plan of Masonry — so general that it is impossible to escape the conviction that there is within that jurisdictional limbo a consensus if not a conspiracy — to secure for the bodies built on that dissent formal recognition as Masonic bodies from as many grand lodges as possible. We are not the prophet or the son of a prophet, but we do not see how any one who believes in the principles of Masonry can doubt that this very activity will hasten the day when the Fraternity will find its inevitable equilibrium on what our good Bro. V^aux calls "the eternal foundations of Freemasonry" — the Charges of a Free- mason.
Bro. Wait rejoins at some length to our remarks respecting the Quebec- England difficulty:
In the first place, then, as we have heretofore said in replj' to Brother Drummond, of Maine, we see but very slight analogy between the govern- ment of Masonic fraternity and states and nations. The latter are necessar- ily territorial, all their resources being drawn from the earth, and their object being the protection of the people in their possessions. Masonic governments are not, from the nature of the institution, necessarily territorial or geographical at all. They are primarily and fundamentally devoted to social and moral objects, and so far as they possess property rights, it is merely incidental and subsidiaiy. The case supposed by Brother Robbins, •as we view it, has no bearing upon the question in hand. It was the mate- rial wealth and corporate possession of the territory, about which the parties were disputing, and which they finally settled. To illustrate our view: Suppose while that territorial question remained unsettled the Grand Lodge of Canada had chartered a lodge in the territory which \>y the settlement fell to the United States. Would that change in the jurisdiction over the soil necessarily deprive the mf)ther grand lodge of her right to govern that lodge of her own creation? That grand lodge jurisdictions are not in their nature territorial is shown by the fact that they by the general consent oc- cupy in common any territory where there is no grand lodge established. It is shown by the well-known system of Grand Lodges in Germany, by the historical fact that for a long time there were two grand lodges at the same time in England, and by the fact that in the single kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland there are now three grand lodges, all recognized by the Masonic world and working in harmony. That particular lodge government is not in its nature territorial is shown by the universal practice of lodges in the same town or city having concurrent jurisdiction within the district where they are located.
In his Canada-lodge illustration Bro. Wait asks if the change in the jurisdiction of the .soil would deprive the mother grand lodge of the right to govern the lodge of her own creation. Yes, unquestionably; just as the
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change in the jurisdiction of the soil prevented the United States from gov- erning the people residing in the slice of Maine given to Canada by the Webster-Ashburton treaty.
He says that the fact that grand lodges by general consent occupy in common territory in which there is no grand lodge shows that grand lodge jurisdictions are not in their nature territorial ; while it seems to us that no better illustration of the principle contended for by Illinois could be fur- nished than the unanimous alacrity with which grand lodges so occupying territory in this country get out of it when that territory becomes sufficiently autonomous to have a grand lodge of its own.
If lodges we'e sovereign his illustration of their concurrent jurisdiction would be quite to the point; but as they are subject to have their jin-isdiction modified by a higher power, its applicability is not recognized.
Bro. Wait insists that he does mean that the possession of a dmiit with proof of identity is sufficient to admit a strange brother into a lodge, and says such proof is "lawful information." He is the only writer we know of who regards it as such, and the universal practice of requiring a brother to "prove himself" instead of submitting the evidence of others, not present, about himself, shows conclusively, we think, that documentary evidence is not the lawful information contemplated by a Mason's primary engagements.
We copy the following because it is so directly in the line of our reflec- tions elsewhere in this report — we believe under Minnesota;
A candidate for the degrees who was a Quaker, wished to affirm, in- stead of receiving the obligation in the usual form. The grand master being applied to, answered, " No. You have no authority to make innovations in the secret w-ork. Moreover, I believe candidates should conform themselves to Masonry and not Masonry to candidates." This decision received the approval of the jurisprudence committee, and also of the grand body. We have a decided impression that the same question has been decided differ- ently in some other jurisdictions, though we are not now able to state where, or at what time. We do not affirm that the grand master, m this case, may not have decided rightly. We are satisfied, however, that it would be no innovation in the body of Masonry, for a grand lodge to enact that the word "affirm " might be used in receiving the obligation, instead of the one now in common use. Words are but symbols of ideas, and in the case in ques- tion they signify the same thing. Why, in case a candidate is scrupulous upon the subject, not allow the same indulgence that the law allows in civil proceedings ? The sanction is the desideratum in the case, and it is the same in the one case as in the other.
Bro. Wait says it may be that a non-affiliated brother is not entitled to have the funds of any particvilar lodge appropriated to defray the expenses of his burial, but he holds, as we do, that non-affiliated brethren are as much entitled as members of lodges to Masonic burial, with the honors of the Fra- ternity, and that to extend this rite is a duty that living brethren cannot
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avoid; thinks a verdict of acquittal ought not to be final if new evidence comes to light showuig palpable guilt; truly says that the power to hear and determine on which the right of appeal rests is one of which the grand lodge cannot divest itself, it being a necessary incident of sovereignty ; says with reference to grand representatives that it is the settled and universal prac- tice at the present time for the nomination to come from the jurisdiction to receive the representative, and he is doubtless nearly if not quite correct, so rapidly do thmgs sometimes settle themselves, but so recently as our own. executive service — closing in 1878 — the exceptions to the rule were numer- ous; vigorously questions the universal applicability of the Minnesota decis- ion— which we called an exhortation — that " the first duty of every Mason is to obey the master," citing numerous possible instances, in which we agree with him, it would be the duty of a brother to refuse; as vigorously states- the true doctrine that the power of a regular lodge to communicate the Ma- sonic status is fundamental in Masonry; understands, but on what authority is not stated, that the Grand Lodge of New Zealand does not have the sup- port of a majority of the lodges; and after reading a considerable amount of Cerneau literature, says :
After reading all these papers, with much on the other side, we are more than satisfied of the wisdom of the conservative attitude assumed by our own grand lodge in the premises. It declares the exclusive power of the grand lodge over the three symbolic degrees of Masonry, and its right to forbid the use of the ritual of those degrees in connection with any and all other rites assuming to be Masonic; reserving, by plain inference, to it- self, the right to determine the proper occasions for the exercise of that power, but holding that as yet such an occasion has not arisen in New Hamp- shire.
There is one point in this matter wherein we are glad to find ourselves in the fullest accord with Bro. Wait and his grand lodge — its declaration of the exclusive power ot the grand lodge over the three degrees of Masonry, and its right to forbid the use of the ritual of those degrees in connection with any and all other rites assuming to be Masonic.
NEW JERSEY, 1891.
104TH Annual. Trenton. Jan. 2S, 1891.
Robert M. Moore, the representative of Illinois, was one of the seven past grand masters present. A finely executed steel portrait of his successor.
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the retiring grand master, forms the frontispiece of the New Jersey volume. He is good looking enough to go into the Minnesota or Montana gallery, but ■^vould be at once picked out from among them as bearing the unmistakable impress of the east.
After a brief e.xordium the grand master (Charles H. Mann) announced the death of the grand secretary, Joseph H. Hough, at the age of seventy- ;iive, whose annual re-election every reviewer has chronicled ever since cor- respondence reports began to be written. His official connection with the grand lodge is thus briefly told :
The first mention we find in grand lodge proceedings of Bro. Hough is at the afternoon session of the annual communication held in Trenton on Tuesday, November 13, 1838. At this communication he was elected deputy grand secretary, and held this office until the annual communication Novem- ber 14, 1843, when he was elected grand secretary, in which position he served the grand lodge for over forty-eight years with fidelity to the Craft equaled by few, excelled by none.
The grand master also chronicles the death of no less than seventeen past masters, two of whom, John S. Clark and Willl^m T. Ames, were also past district deputy grand masters. AV. Bro. William S. Williams had at- tained the ripe age of ninety-one, and had been a Mason since 1827.
He reports general prosperity and an unusual degree of harmony, and ■speaks in high terms of the results of district grand lodges of instruction. He reports but one decision, viz. :
A by-law of a lodge which provides that any member who shall have paid dues for a specified number of years shall thereafter be exempt from the payment of dues, is m conflict with Rule 6, under Dues, page 86, Digest of 1 388, hence null and void, and the adoption or continuance of such a by-law is prohibited.
The following manifestly reflects the growing doubt whether the estab- lishment of eleemosynary institutions is the most economical and desirable method of Masonic charit}' :
From personal conversation with many brethren, and through the re- ports of the district deputy grand masters, I learn that there is a great di- versity of opinion in reference to the advisability of continuing the project at this time. It is a serious question to decide whether more good can be ac- complished at less expense by a charity fund, as recommended last year, than by the establishment, at this time, of a Home which could at first only hope to be able to shelter the distressed and homeless brother ; whereas, by means of a charity fund our subordinate lodges could be assisted in their care of not only the indigent brother, but of the widow and orphan as well.
The formation 5f a permanent grand lodge charit}- fund, looking to the establishment, upon a sound basis, m the near future, perhaps, of a Masonic Home, would keep'the matter before the Craft, and give them a laudable ob- ject to which they could, from time to time, contribute; and if the money
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now pledged for the establishment of a Home was given for the establish- ment of a permanent grand lodge charity fund, looking toward the procure- ment of a Home such as New Jersey Masons might be proud of, the object so dear to many of our brethren might be attamed without embarrassment to the work of this grand lodge.
The circular letter issued by the committee on Home and reproduced in their report, reflects the other view :
At the lowest estimate made from data in the hands of the committee- received from less than eighty lodges, there are eighteen worthy aged and mdigent Craftsmen in New Jersey lu/io need a /loiiif, the majority of whom are supported partly or entirely by their brethren of the Craft. Some lodges, have been almost or entirely bankrupted financially by the constant and in- creasing dram made upon them to assist brethren unable to provide for themselves. The frequent placing of the time-honored hat upon the altar for charitable contributions it is believed has had, and still has, much to do with the decreased and decreasing attendance of members at regular lodge communications and interest in their proceedings. The days when lodges through committees and relief boards effectively cared and provided for their sick, aged, needy and disabled have been relegated to the past. The world moves. Business men amidst the increasing activities of business life can- not find the time to serve upon and perform the duties properly of commit- tees appointed to look after those who need their care. In the administra- tion of its charitable work. Masonry in this jurisdiction must keep pace with others "on similar purpose bent" who are not of us. Brethren, we must keep abreast of the times; justice to our " Ancient and Honorable Society," and the performance of Masonic duty, require us to do so.
The committee report subscriptions from lodges to the amount of $6,508.50. The general subject again went over by deferring the further consideration of last year's report of the committee on grand lodge charity fund until next year, after it had been called up.
The grand master reported the final settlement of the Lemm case, thus justifying our conclusion of last year that both parties having reached the point where they were willing to talk of arbitration a substantial step to- wards accord had been taken. The proposition of New York that the ques- tion in dispute be submitted to an arbitrator to be selected by the two grand masters, was conditioned upon the suspension of the interdict adjudging and declaring that the initiation of Le.mm to have been "irregular, unlawful, without Masonic virtue, hence null, void and of no effect." New York mean- while having enjoined and forbidden Lemm from visiting or attempting to visit any lodge within the jurisdiction of New Jersey until he should have permission from both grand masters. The last word of New Jersey had been that when the grand lodge or grand master of New York should have- " withdrawn their judgment, and, by suspending Lemm from all Masonic- privileges should have removed all danger of an invasion of New Jersey by him, it would be time enough to consider the withdrawal of the edict issued in his case" (referred to above by New York), and declining to withdraw the edict. This was prior to the proposition from New York. The New
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Jersey jurisprudence committee advised Grand Master Mann that the in- junction laid on Lemm by New York, prohibiting him from visiting Mason- ically the jurisdiction of New Jersey, was a substantial acceptance of the proposition of the latter grand lodge. The point of honor bemg saved bjr this guarantee against invasion. Grand Masters Mann and Vrooman had no difficulty in getting together, the latter having proposed in a reply to a notification from the former that he had selected an arbitrator, that they placed the cap-stone of harmony in position themselves and without resorting to outside arbitration. Accordingly Past Grand Master Robert M. Moore was selected for New Jersey, and Grand Secretary Edward M. L. Ehlers on the part of New York, they, in the event of disagreement to select a third, whose decision should be final. These brethren came to an agreement without calling in a third party. They found that while some of the facts indicated that Lemm's legal domicle was in Fort Edward, N. Y., as claimed by Fort Edwards Lodge, yet that his own statements, disclosing the intent which is largely the essence of the question of residence under the Civil Code, determined his residence at the time of petitioning, at Weehawken, N. J. So adjudging, the arbitrators say:
As the Masonic law of the jurisdiction in which a petitioner for Masonic privileges resides must govern in the case of such petitioner, all the proceed- ings taken in the case of the said Lemm under the law of New Jersey were unlawful and irregular.
Believing the said petitioner to be innocent of intentional wrong, and, so far as we can learn, fit material for the Masonic Temple, we do respect- ftilly recommend that after suitable apology has been made by Fort Edward Lodge to Mystic Tie Lodge, that the ^L W. Grand Master of New York re- quest the Grand Master of New Jersey to heal the said Lemm, Mystic Tie Lodge, No. 123, consenting thereto, and thus impart to him all the rights and privileges of Freemasonry.
While it is not within the scope of the question submitted to us for arbi- tration, we are firmly of the opinion that every grand lodge should adopt a regulation prohibiting subordinate lodges from requesting or granting to lodges of other jurisdictions waiver over material, unless such requests are preferred through the office of the grand master or grand secretary of their respective jurisdictions.
It was also agreed b}- the arbitrators that the grand master of New York should by edict debar Lemm from Masonic privileges until healed by the proper Masonic authority of New Jersey, and upon being advised of the terms of settlement the grand master of New Jersey recalled the edict of May loth, 1889, enjoining the Jersey lodges from acting on requests for waiver of jurisdiction from New York lodges, but ordered that all requests for waiver of jurisdiction (either penal or territorial) to or from a lodge in another state must be preferred through the grand masters of the respective jurisdictions. The committee on jurisprudence congratulate the grand lodge upon the settlement of the case and especially that in such settlement the position of New Jersey has been fully maintained, and say :
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In closing this case, your committee beg to justify their statement in their report to the last annual comnnniication, that "the facts /;/ relation to lu's residence are not in dispute," concerning which statement the I\I. W. Grand Master of New York, in his last address, uses this language: " It is with sorrow, rather than censure, that I read from that report," quoting the above sentence.
The facts /;/ relation to Lemm's residence are as follows: That Lemm, before his application to Mystic Tie Lodge, had moved to Weehawken ; that in his petition to Fort Edward Lodge, of New York, he stated that he was a resident of Weehawken ; that Fort Edward Lodge applied to Mystic Tie Lodge for a waiver of the jurisdiction of the latter lodge over said Lemm. These are the facts "/;/ rt'/rt//i9« to his residence," and none of them have ever been disputed. The fact of his residence was in dispute, but the facts in relation to his residence have never been.
Beyond expressing our gratification at the restoration of full fraternal relations between the two jurisdictions, we reserve possible comment until we come to the New York proceedings.
The grand master reported another case of invasion wherein Albion Lodge, New York City, asked for waiver of jurisdiction from Hoboken Lodge, Hoboken, over one Entkup. Hoboken Lodge replied that they were pre- vented from taking action on the request by the edict of May lo, 1889, above referred to; Albion Lodge conferred the degrees notwithstanding; Grand Master Mann protested to the grand master of New York, and the matter was undergoing investigation, pending which he notified the Craft through the grand lodge not to recognize Entrup as a Mason.
The grand lodge duplicated its donation of last year to the family of a " past grand officer," considerately refusing to let its left hand know to whom its right hand was extended ; adopted an appropriate and well considered memorial of the lamented Hough ; put a stop to the practice of renewing the petitions of rejected candidates on the same night of the rejection, by requir- ing at least four weeks to elapse, notice to be sent him and his proposition fee returned ; paid proper respect to the civil magistrate by receiving Bro. Leon Abbett, governor of the State and past master of Temple Lodge, No. no, with appropriate honors and giving him a seat in the grand east, and also received Grand Secretarj^ Ehlers, of New York, as a visitor ; sent an application for recognition received from the Grand Lodge of \'ictoria to the committee on foreign correspondence, we presume for report next year as we find no record of further action, and directed the grand secretary to present a lithograph likeness of M. \V. Edward Stewart, grand master from 1850 to 1855 inclusive, to Stewart Lodge, No. 34. A steel engraving of Bro. Stew- art forms the frontispiece of the report on correspondence. A portrait of the late Bro. Hough was ordered for the grand secretai'y's office, and a testi- monial for the retiring grand master.
Thomas W. Tilden, of Jersey City (259 Fifth St.), was elected grand master; Thomas H. R. Redway, Trenton, elected grand secretary.
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The report on correspondence (pp. 107) is as usual the work ot Past Grand Master Henry Vehslage, who had evidently given our proceedings for iSgo a very thorough examination. He says of the address of Grand Master Pearson that it is notably brief, and yet is thoroughly clear and busi- ness-like. The report of Grand Secretary Munn is characterized as a com- plete and masterly setting forth of all the things pertaining to his office, and he considers the result of his effort to ascertain the amount contributed by the lodges for benevolent purposes as altogether an admirable exhibit. Ap- preciative mention is also made of the thoughtful and instructive address of Grand Orator Wolf, and of the report on correspondence.
Bro. Vehslage is the personification of fraternal courtesy, and for that reason his criticism whereof he at times makes one to feel the keen edge, fits all the more snugly. He correctly says that we are not in sympathy with the intervention of grand lodges in the Cerneau quarrel, and kindly copies some thmgs from our report defining our own position which he kindly says would seem to make it impossible to further mistake it, and adds:
Unable as we are to transfer any considerable portion of this discussion to these pages, we cannot but regret that the circumstances have made the polemic so much more prominent than the reporter, and although he correctly maintains "that reports on correspondence, so far from reflecting the views of the body for which they are written, reflect what is going on in other jur- isdictions for the information of that body," such has been the effect of his controversy in the Cerneau dispute and the Vienna Lodge action, that when he comes to the notice of New Jersey, the "reflection" of the correspondent degenerates into a disparaging criticism of the grand master for upholding the enactments of the grand lodge, so that it becomes a caricature instead of a reflection.
We have re-read the paragraphs our brother refers to and we can see that it might strike one as intended for a disparaging criticism of the grand master. Indeed we have the best ot evidence that it inight because it has struck Bro. Vehslage that way. We intended no disparagement of the grand master, for we confess to the highest respect for his ability and his conscien- tiousness. We aimed the criticism at the regulation or ' ' enactment of the grand lodge " referred to. For so much of it as seems to disparage the grand master we apologize most squarely and heartily. On the other hand, if we could indicate more strongly our dissent from the regulation itself than we have already done, we would do so. We have no desire to disclaim the ele- ment of caricature so far as it is possessed by the paragraphs referred to, because caricature is a legitimate and proper weapon for the correction of abuses so long as the representation introduces no element of falsehood, but while we find no language too strong in condemnation of the law and usage which visits upon the innocent the sins or the blunders of others, and denies the axiomatic fact that the work of a regular lodge regularly at labor confers upon the subject of it the Masonic status, we sincerely regret that we have failed to so " discriminate between the man and the act" — between the law
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and the officer whose duty it is to execute it — as to throw the shadow of a doubt upon our respect for M. W. Bro. Moore, whom we regard not only as an able and accomplished Mason, but as over all a gentleman.
Bro. Vehslage concludes his report with the following tender tribute to the dead grand secretary :
The pleasure incident to the completion of this report has been sadly shaded. At the beginning of our writing, and since, we were in receipt of the proceedings of other grand lodges from R. W. Bro. Hough, our grand secretary, until all but one or two had been fonvarded. Then came the sor- rowful tidings that his long service, so faithfully rendered, was suddenly concluded, and his brethren gathered, on December i8th, to look once more at his quiet face before committing the remains to their resting-place in the grave. His illness was brief, and it seemed as if he were not dead, so that Longfellow's words suggested themselves:
'' Time has laid his hand Upon my heart, gently, not smiting it, But as a harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations."
Very fittingly the task of preparing a memorial of our beloved brother has been assigned to a committee whose extended and intimate acquaintance with Bro. Hough qualifies them for the office to be rendered, as it did for the presentation of the testimonial from the grand lodge two years ago. But in leaving that work to such competent hands, we close our report with the consciousness of a great loss in the absence of one who has so long been a conspicuous figure at our annual communications, and withal was so un- assuming in his faithful performance of official duty.
Again we are reminded, in the words of Carlyle, that "our grand bus- iness is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."
And we may add that the reviewer has fully realized this admonition in his work.
NEW MEXICO, 1891.
13TH Annual. Albuquerque. Jan. 26, i8gi.
This pamphlet is illustrated with phototj'pes of Past Grand Master William L. Rynerson, who was elected to the grand east in 1880, and his- successor, Simon B. Newcomb, elected in 1881. The idea of preserving in this permanent form the features of those who have been thus honored by the Craft is an excellent one and might well be copied by other grand lodges.
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Illinois was not represented, and we notice that there is still a blank against our grand lodge in the list of grand representatives.
The grand master (Frederick H. Kent) congratulates the Craft of the jurisdiction on its continued prosperity during the year. He submitted four decisions: that a re-elected master should be re-installed; that a candidate for the second or third degree is not properly prepared if he has rings on his fingers ; that a lodge after having elected a candidate may ask a lodge in another jurisdiction to confer the degrees for them; and that a petition for initiation cannot be withdrawn after it has been referred to a committee, all of which are in accord with our law except the last, which, in Illinois, is qualified by the provision for withdrawal in case the candidate is found dis- qualified by lack of residence or otherwise.
The gi'and lodge adopted the grand master's suggestion to increase the revenue by requiring lodges to pay one dollar for every Master Mason raised; continued White Oaks Lodge under dispensation, and enjoined it to heal candidates who had been passed and raised in violation of constitutional re- quirements and also to eliminate from their by-laws all provisions which have a tendency to convert the lodge into a debating society; re-adopted the " Missouri work " ; expelled a brother who asked to have his name erased from the roll of membership on account of religious scruples, reversing the action of his lodge which had been ordered to try him contrary to its wishes and to those of Grand Master Harroun, who brought the matter before the grand lodge in 1889, and who wisely advised that he be permitted to with- draw; and fixed its permanent seat at Albuquerque, with all the uncertain- ties of pronunciation which that collection of letters implies.
The report of the committee on lodges under dispensation shows that the records of White Oaks Lodge reflect a chaos of irregularities, but there is nothing in it to make it probable that any of the degrees conferred were given at a time when the lodge was not regularly at labor, and therefore none given at a time when the lodge was incapable of investing the candi- date with the Masonic status, on which incapacty the necessity for healing alone rests.
Charles H. Dane, of Deming, was elected grand master; Alpiiues A. Keen, Albuquerque, re-elected grand secretary.
Past Grand Master Max Frost again presents the report on correspond- ence (pp. no), in which the Illinois proceedings for 1890 receive fraternal notice.
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NEW YORK, 1891.
iioTH Annual. New York. June 2, 1891.
This massive pamphlet of 469 pages is adorned with two fine steel en- gravings, portraits of James W. Husted, the " Bald Eagle of Westchester" as he is known in the world of politics, and Joseph J. Couch, past grand masters, who occupied the grand east in 1876 and 1877 respectively.
Sixtj'-one grand lodges were represented by sixty-one representatives at the opening of the grand lodge, among them Illinois by R. "W. William J. McDonald.
The address of the grand master (John W. Vrooman) occupies sixty- seven pages and covers a wide range of subjects. He announces the death ■of past grand masters Ellwoo.d E. Thorne who occupied the grand east in 1874-5, and Charles Roome who served in 1879; Frank Magee, past grand steward; Albert Jones, William Sinclair, Isaac W. Baker, James H. Gracey, Robert M. Lawrence, James M. Fuller, William C. Carpenter, Cornelius S. Gibb, Chas. W. Brown and Edwin Gates, district deputy grand masters.
Past Grand Master Roome took his Masonry late in life, having been in- itiated in his fifty-fourth 3'ear, and afforded one of those comparatively rare instances of the kind where it can be truly said as the grand master says ot him : ' ' He did not wait for duty to come — he sought it. His intense love for the Craft was rarely equaled, never excelled." It led him to seek other opportunities of fellowship with his brethren than those afforded by the lodge, and made him as active in other associations of Masons. In the Templar order he attained the highest honors within its gift, having been Grand Mas- ter of Templars from 1886 to 1889. Past Grand Master Thorne was initiated at tw^enty-four, and was an active, zealous and accomplished Mason. We recall with great pleasure a brief visit from him in our own city some years since.
There is scarcely anj-thing in the whole range of Masonic duty that the grand master does not touch in this remarkable address, and he leaves upon all the impress of his clear thought and great moral earnestness. Of the re- sponsibilities of officers he well says:
When a brother accepts office in a Masonic lodge, it carries with it all the obligations incident to the proper performance of the duties of that oiiice. The charge to the candidate " Masonry should not interfere with 3'our nec- essary vocation," does not apply with equal force to lodge officers. They voluntarily accept the honors, assume the duties, and take upon themselves the obligations of their several stations, and have full knowledge of all the
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requirements demanded, which are additional to those demanded of the in- di\ndual Mason.
Of the social element he says, among other things:
I am in favor of banquets and entertainments, hospitable and inexpen- sive, upon all suitable occasions. Fraternal meeting around a social board and in the hall of pleasure, where prudence and temperance should always reign supreme, will bring the brethren into closer fellowship and acquaint- ance which will lead to friendship and ripen into true Brotherly love.
We heartily commend the following to those who are prone to be carried away by novelties in Masonry, and who do not see that the enduring strength of the Fraternity, so far as its ceremonials are concerned, lie in their dignity and simplicity:
I also suggest that there should be limitation of expense in the purchase of costly paraphernalia to be used by lodge officers. There is a growing tendency in this direction, which in my judgment ought not to be encouraged. There is danger, my brethren, in such innovation, and indeed, in any so- called Masonic progress. We should never attempt to improve upon Ma- sonic principles, for they never change; neither should we depart from the simplicity of our Fathers.
Be not forgetful that the plain Lambskin is more ancient and more hon- orable than kingly robes of royal purple. Exercise the greatest discretion in selecting lodge apparel, and be cautious to preserve that simplicity which has ever united us m the bonds of a common brotherhood. It is not costly apparel that makes a lodge successful, nor is it the wearing of such apparel that produces a lasting impression upon the candidate. Degrees should be conferred with uniformity and simplicity everj^where. Let the lodge officers, clothed with purity of thought and purpose, aim to produce a lasting im- pression upon the heart of the candidate rather than upon the eye.
Four lodges had generously offered to furnish, each at their own ex- pense, one of the rooms in the " Asylum," which is the corporate name of the Masonic Home atUtica, and the grand master fitly suggests that it would be a graceful acknowledgment of their generosity to place over the doors of the respective rooms thus furnished the name of the lodge.
The system of district visitation inaugurated the preceding year had been ' continued, and in the thirty districts he was welcomed by six hundred and twenty-nine lodges and about twenty-five thousand brethren.
The grand master's story of the settlement of the New Jersey difficulty is soon told:
The arbitrators, while justifying the action of Fort Edward Lodge, and expressing their belief that Bro. Lemm was innocent of any intentional wrong, and fit material for the Masonic Temple, nevertheless determined that in the Masonic sense, at the time of his initiation in said lodge, he was a resident within the jurisdiction of Mystic Tie Lodge of New Jersey. They therefore recommended that a suitable apology be made by Fort Edward
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L,odge to Mystic Tie Lodge for having invaded its jurisdiction, and to the end that the law of the Grand Lodge of New Jersey be vindicated, that the grand master of New York request the grand master of New Jersey to heal Bro. Lemni, Mystic Tie L'odge consenting thereto.
The apology was promptly made, graciouslj- accepted, and the recom- mendations of the arbitrators were fully carried out.
Every Mason will rejoice that this cloud on the fraternal relations of the two jurisdictions has been cleared away, and Fort Edward Lodge having been shown to be in the wrong was properly required to apologize for its ac- tion ; but the action of New York in requesting New Jersey to heal Bro. Lemm ^^^ll not, we trust, be elsewhere accepted as a precedent to sustain the doctrine that a regular lodge regularly at labor can confer the degrees upon a candidate without investing him with the Masonic status.
No decisions are reported; in the rare cases where controvers}' had arisen compromise had been successfully urged.
By means of a series of interrogatories he found out something of how the lodges spend their time. He received replies from nearly seven hundred lodges to the following:
1. How many communications were held by your lodge from Januarj^ ist, 1890, to December 31st, 1890?
2. How many of these were stated or regular?
3. How many were special or emergent?
4. At how many of these communications, both regular and special, were degrees conferred?
5. At the communications where degrees were not conferred, was any- thing done except to open and close the lodge?
6. Has it been the custom in your lodge to read the proceedings of the grand lodge ? If so, at how many communications?
7. What suggestions have you to make concerning the best method of occupying with profit the time of lodge communications when no degrees are conferred?
One hundred and thirteen lodges report that portions of the proceedings were read at one or more meetings ; two lodges report their reading in full. Among other facts he derived the following :
Four hundred thirty-one lodges report that where degrees were not con- ferred, nothing whatever was done except to open and close the lodge.
Two hundred fifty-five lodges report that where degrees were not con- ferred, schools of instruction were held, addresses delivered, or musical and literary exercises were provided.
One hundred two lodges had no suggestions whatever to make in re- sponse to Question Seven.
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Three hundred thirty-eight lodges made suggestions exclusively in the- direction of the formal ceremony of conferring degrees.
Two hundred forty-seven lodges made timely suggestions, not only in conferring degrees, but also to educate the Craft through the medium of lec- tures, remarks, readings, social, musical and literary entertainments, etc.
One hundred twenty-seven lodges record the fact that the worshipful master made report of his visit to the annual communication of the grand lodge and the business therein transacted.
He recommends the appointment by each lodge of a standing committee whose duty it shall be to provide a programme for meetings not occupied in conferring degrees or on business. Much space and thought is given to the subject of the Asylum at Utica, the corner-stone whereof was laid May 21, 1S91. The event was made the occasion of a most imposing demonstration, of which one feature was a procession in which, apart from the brethren who composed the nine commanderies of Knights Templars and those who ap- peared as Royal Arch Masons and Royal and Select Masters, six thousand seven hundred and thirty-four Master ]Masons marched to the music of thirty-nme bands. Eloquent addresses were delivered by Bro. Chauncey M. Depew, Grand Master Vrooman, and by Past Grand Master Frank R. Lawrence to whom by a universal consensus was accorded the distinction of orator of the day. The remarks of the mayor, the Hon. Alexander T.^ Goodwin, in opening the exercises at the opera house and in introducing Bro. Depew, were especially happy. He said :
One hundred and thirty years ago the wilderness where now stands the city of Utica received an army of 10,000 men. It was the expedition of Lord Amherst on its way to raise in triumph the flag of St. George over the gates of Montreal. It did its part in ending a contest of a century. It gave a linal blow to French domination in America, and placed the development and des- tiny of a continent in the keeping of the English-speaking race. The wilder- ness through which it traveled has been made to blossom as the rose by the- intelligent, virtuous, industrious people who inhabit this beautiful valley.
To-day a second armv of ten thousand men invades our homes. Utica rings with joy. Her streets are bright with decorations and illuminations. No bayonets glittering in the sunlight are seen. Blood and carnage neither go before nor follow after this grand army. The trowel, rather than the sword, is in the hand of its commander, and with the cement of brotherly love he has laid the corner-stone of a grand charity — a home from whose walls, to the end of time, shall perpetually flow ' ' a blessing for the little- child, a blessing for the widowed woman, and a blessing for the wear-worn man."
The address of Bro. Depew illustrates his wonderful versatility of thought and speech which cause him to be singled out as the fittest orator of so many widely-differing occasions. In closing, he said:
A hundred years ago at Newburgh, when the Revolution had succeeded and the Continental army was disbanding, Washington and aU his generals
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standing within the precincts of a Masonic lodge, of which they were all members, could rejoice in the fact that the Masonic principle of the equality of all men before the law. had, at last, after unnumbered centuries, become the corner-stone of their Republic. A century of the successful operation of this principle enables i:s to contemplate to-day a government of sixty-three millions of people possessing more power, enjoying more happiness, delight- ing in more liberty, and richer and more prosperous than those of any other nation upon earth'. We turn from Washington and his generals and their great work in war, from the early Grand Masters of our State, Robert R. Livingston, who gave us our judiciary system, and DeWitt Clinton, who created the Erie canal and wedded the lakes to the sea, to the duties of the hour. The past is superb and secure. The present is peace. The future, under the beneficent operations of the institution founded here to-day, and kindred asylums which will be established in the different parts of the State, will open with increasing years new avenues for charity and fresh reservoirs of benevolence.
The speech of Grand Master Vrooman as a crisp blending of chronicle and prophecy, exhortation and philosophy is sici generis. Referring to the laying of the corner-stone of the orphan asylum thirty-one years before by the then grand master, John L. Lewis, he said:
The address he delivered upon that occasion comes to us now like the inspired hope of a prophet. I repeat his thrilling words for the satisfaction ancl joy of our Utica friends and brethren who are anxious that the Home and School here builded shall supplement the grand work of j^onder noble institution. He said; "When shall we come forth in our strength, and lay the foundations of an asylum for a brother's little ones, worthy of the object, worthy of the Craft, in New York? The feeble accents of him who addresses you now fall upon your ears probably for the last time ; but if in coming years you shall cherish any kindly memories of your present grand master, remember that his latest words to you on such an occasion were a plea for the widow and orphan — his last admonition that caught from the loving and glowing lips of a Greater Master, to remember that ^ ye have the poor al- ways with you. ' "
He makes grateful mention of James Herring, grand secretary, who in 1842 conceived and wrote the memorial to the grand lodge which prayed for the building of a hall ' and the founding of an asylum for worthy decayed Masons, their widows and orphans,' and to Greenfield Pote, grand tiler, who headed the accompanying subscription with a dollar, whose small be- ginning thus made rendered possible the ceremonies of this day.
After all, the oration of Past Grand Master Lawrence, to whom Grand Master Vrooman refers as "that genius of Freemasonry," was the strong word of the occasion. Contrasting with the present a period in the history of the Craft in New York, he says :
Masonic history in the State of New York has not always been bright or prosperous. In the period since the grand mastership of Chancellor Living- ston, who, during the last fifteen years of the eighteenth century, presided over the Fraternity, both joy and sadness, prosperity and adversity, have in turn been the lot of the Craft. We behold it at one time so highly esteemed,
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so much sought after, that the most distinguished sons of the State contended in its counsels for the honors within its power to bestow ; while, at another period, but a few years separated from the first, it had become the object of a prejudice so intense, a persecution so bitter, that none save the most de- voted would acknowledge their adherence to Freemasonry.
In this connection he pays a deserved tribute to the memory of Morgan Lewis, to whom — although he was then and for most of the years of his grand mastership an unaffiliated Mason — the faithful but diminishing few turned for leadership when his predecessor, Stephen Van Renssellaer, cowered before the storm, and who came forth fi-om his well-earned retire- ment to take up the emblem of authority and hold it until the returning dawn :
We have heard the words of the grand master concerning our revered brother and late Most Worshipful John L. Lewis, and heartily we echo the merited tribute to that ripest scholar and most ardent Mason. But at this time we should remember also another of the name, that brave old Revolu- tionary General, Judge and Governor, Morgan Lewis, for thirteen years grand master of the State, who through the darkest days in all its modern history guided with wisdom and firmness the destinies of the Craft, and then, as the storm abated, in the language of his later namesake, " went tottering down to the tomb, but holding to the gavel of authority with the firm grip of a master."
The gi^and secretary's report thus speaks in round numbers:
Ten years ago we had a debt of six hundred and four thousand six hun- dred and eighty-six dollars and three cents. To-day we have nearly a quar- ter of a million of dollars at interest, and sufficient funds in the hands of our grand treasurer to meet all the expenses of the current year.
The grand librarian reports a satisfactorj' increase in the number of res- ident and visiting brethren who avail themselves of the privileges of the reading-room of the grand lodge library. His supplemental catalogue shows the addition of many valuable books. Masonic and non-Masonic.
Bro. Chas. T. McClenachan, the historian of New York Masonry, re- ported necessary delay in issuing Volume II. of the history on account of a change of plan, making the >vork chronological and topical instead of a gen- eral and narrated account. It relates to the grand lodge from the granting of the Provincial warrant in 1 781, and will present all the subjects consid- ered by the grand lodge down to the present day, an arrangement that will make the book especially convenient and valuable to students.
The grand lodge chartered two new lodges ; recognized the Grand Lodge of Victoria ; waited for fuller information and a greater degree of unanimit}'' among the New Zealand lodges before acting upon the application of the grand lodge of that Colony for recognition, although admitting that a ma- jority of the lodges adhered to it; declined favorable consideration of the Grand Orient of Italy because the committee on jurisprudence were not able
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to satisfy themselves that candidates are required to express their beHef in Deity, and because there does not appear to be a distinct separation from the supreme council ; and reiterated its former refusals to recognize the ' Inde- pendent Spanish Grand Lodge, Sevilla, Spain,' because of grave doubts of the regularity of its formation, " no evidence being furnished except its own assertion;" embarked in the jewelry business on a large scale by ordering jewels for its representatives near other grand lodges, for the thirty-five dis- trict deputies, for the commissioners of appeals, and for the trustees of the hall and asylum fund ; made provision for the relief of three widows of past grand officers whose names are considerately withheld ; learned from the commission of appeals that for the first time since its organization in 1873 it found itself with no business before it; and concurred with the committee on work and lectures, who closed a dissertation on biblical history and topogra- phy with the recommendation that the w'ord " Hinnom" be substituted for " Jehosophat" in the place where used, a point having only the interest of curiosity for this longitude where neither is heard.
William Sheker, of Brooklyn, was unanimously elected grand master after the office had been tendered to Grand Master Vrooman with like ac- cord, and declined; Edward M. L. Ehlers, New York, unanimously re- elected grand secretary.
In the rejDort on correspondence (pp. 144) Past Grand Master Jesse B. Anthony again reviews the proceedings of fifty-five American grand lodges, England, Ireland, Scotland, and three grand lodges of the Australian com- monwealth, while Charles Sackreuter furnishes a review and translations ot the proceedings of the continental bodies of Europe. The report also em- braces a special paper on Masonic Homes, and most complete statistical tables in which analysis and comparison are carried beyond any we have be- fore seen. As they are also the latest we shall transfer them to our pages, using them at the end of our review.
In his notice of Illinois, Bro. Anthony appreciatively notices the larger type in which our report is printed. He quotes the remarks of Grand Mas- ter Pearson relating to the ritual, and takes space for a generous extract from the address of Grand Orator Wolf. The report on correspondence re- ceives pleasant mention and is also laid under contribution.
We find that we are in accord as to the principle which should govern in the recognition of new grand lodges — the question is to be determined by the regularity of the organization, and not by the attitude of the parent grand lodge.
Bro. Anthony is, we are glad to see, inclined to question the propriety of giving official recommendation to any Masonic insurance association ; agrees with Grand Master Estee, of California, that the names of rejected applicants for the degrees should not be published throughout the jurisdic-
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tion ; notes that the Colorado jurisprudence committee is directed to report how Entered Apprentices, Fellow Crafts and Master Masons should wear their aprons, and saj-s he had always supposed that he who had sought the light of Masonry learned thereby the way and manner ; does not think a lodge acquires permanent jurisdiction over a candidate by electing him, but that he might change his mind and put his petition into another lodge with- out asking the first, if jurisdiction were concurrent between them; defends public installations as being ofttimes beneficial in their effects and as having in them no element of impropriety; expresses, as we have already done, dis- sent from the decision of the grand master of Florida that the removal of a master for incompetency, or his permanent absence from the jurisdiction of his lodge creates a continuous vacancy in the office of senior warden; meas- ures his work as reviewer by no other considerations than the importance and interest of matters coming under notice — apart from the constraint of keeping his report within a resonable limit, which is the true doctrine; in- clines to the opinion — elicited by the Georgia proceedings relative to a new trial after acquittal — that when a brother has been fairly tried and the issue determined — all the proceedings having been regular — then a lodge cannot reopen the case on the same charges and specifications; notes the fact that "the 'chestnut' that the corner-stone of the Capitol building of our nation was laid with Masonic ceremonies by M. W. G. M. George Washington, does duty in the account of the laying of the corner-stone of a Masonic hall found in the Idaho proceedings; says that the New York regulation respect- ing dimission — which we do not like — has been found advantageous in lessen- ing un-affiliation ; considers a set form of questions and answers as a part of the report of the committee of inquiry to be objectionable on many accounts; says that all the Masonic bodies at Troy, after an experience of twenty years, have found life membership advantageous ; criticizes, as we have done, the action of the Grand Lodge of Minnesota in claiming for itself the sole right to reinstate indefinitely suspended Masons, saying that unless such case had come before the grand lodge on appeal he should deem it the province of the lodge to exercise its original rights, wherein, as also with reference to a pro- posed enactment in Montana exempting Masons from dues who have been active contribi:ting members for twenty years, where he holds the rightful power of the grand lodge to be restricted to exempting from grand lodge dues, he shows a commendable disposition to stand by the just rights of the lodges; does not think a ballot should be reopened on a rejected candidate even for the clearly ascertained reason that his rejection was the result of a mistake, because he does not understand how the fact can be arrived at with- out an exposure of the ballot, which would do away with the safeguard of secrecy, but we do not think the safeguard of secrecy is destroyed if a brother goes to the master and says he cast a black ball through a misapprehension — that being the only black ball cast, a fact that would be within the mas- ter's knowledge; holds to the right of a member of a lodge to exclude a vis- itor, his rights therein being superior ; is of the opinion expressed by us last
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year that the presentation of charges cannot of itself avail to prevent the in- stallation of a master-elect; has the same defective vision that affects many of us, in his inability to perceive how a candidate was unlawfully made whO' received the degrees in a regular lodge, simply because the lodge had failed to inquire before making him whether there was anything against him on the records of the grand secretary, or why a candidate should suffer for the fault of the lodge or the secretary in the neglect of a purely clerical duty — but this is Pennsylvania law ; properly questions the propriety of permitting lodges to appear in public to participate in the ceremonies of Decoration day; is of the sound opinion that a Master Mason can apply for affiliation where he pleases without reference to State jines; and speaks with great dignity,, moderation and effect of the efforts of the Iowa and Ohio reviewers appar- ently designed to draw the Grand Lodge of New York into the broils of the Scotch Riters.
NORTH CAROLINA, 1891.
104TH Annual. Raleich. Jan. 13, 1S91.
The representative of Illinois, Hkzekiah A. Gudger, was at his post, and during the session was elected to the grand east.
The address of the grand master (Samuel H. Smith) is very brief. He said the year had been an uneventful one, so much so that he could remem- ber no important questions referred to him for decision. His correspondence had been extensive, however, and enabled him to note the steady increase of interest in the work. He announced ths death of the grand treasurer, Wm. E. Anderson, at fifty-six. Rev. James T. Harris, the superintendent of the orphan asylum at Oxford, at forty-eight, and John J. Christophers, past grand secretary, at eighty-seven.
He reports gratifying progress in the dissemination of the Stevenson work which was again adopted by the grand lodge one year before.
The grand secretary reports that the nine lodges to whom charters were restored last year are all at work.
The Oxford Orphan Asylum run pretty close to the wind during the year, closing with a balance of $34.83. The usual appropriation of $2,000 was made in aid of the institution.
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The committee, whose appointment we noted last year, to report on the non-affihate question, report against disturbing the existing rule, and we should think that rule ought to be satisfactory to the most relentless foe of the proscribed class, their status being as follows:
3. Any member of a subordinate lodge who may apply for a dimit shall be granted the same upon his producing the secretary's receipt that he has paid all lodge dues, if there be no charges against him ; Provided, that any Mason who thus becomes non-at?lliated, by his action distinctly releases all members of the lodges from any and all Masonic ties between himself and them, retaining no Masonic right, except that of petitioning any lodge for membership.
The non-affiliate is certainly a potent individual in the Old North State, if by the simple act of dimission he can release his brethren from obligations which are generally supposed to be irrevocable. On the report of the same committee it was agreed that an appeal does not vacate the judgment of a lodge as declared by the edict of 1SS6, and that a Mason's rights are m abeyance while it is pending.
The grand lodge granted eight charters and continued one dispensation ; attended a reception given in its honor, on the first night of the session, by Bro. Daniel G. Fowle, governor of North Carolina; defined the method of arraigning masters of lodges before the grand lodge for trial; received a telegram from the grand orator communicating his inability to be present; and laid on the table a proposition to declare men who had lost one hand or foot, but who are otherwise physically sound, to be eligible for the degrees.
Hezekiah a. Gudger, of Asheville, was elected grand master, Donald "W. Bain, Raleigh, re-elected grand secretary.
The report on correspondence (pp. 75), a very interesting paper, is again from the hand of Bro. Eli^ene S. Martin. Illinois receives very pleasant and appreciative notice. He thus refers to a matter of statistics :
We desire here to make the follo\\-ing statement in justice to our dis- tinguished Bro. L. L. Munn, grand secretary-. In our last report, in notic- ing the valuable report of Bro. Munn • ' bearing upon the progress of sym- boiical ]\Iasonry in the United States," we undertook to make some correc- tions of the same relating to North Carolina as to the number of Masons, &c., supposing we were correct. When our proceedings reached Bro. Munn, he addressed us a very- courteous and fraternal letter, asking upon what author- ity our corrections rested, as he had obtained his information from our grand secretary. We were staggered at this, as we were relying upon the same authority; but, upon investigation, discovered that the discrepancy was occasioned by Bro. Munn's statement excluding non-affiliates and ours in- cluding them, in gi\dng the total number of Masons in this state.
It gives us pleasure to make this explanation as an act of justice to Bro. Munn, and also to explain the difference m the two reports.
The Illinois report on correspondence is verj- kindly referred to.
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We regret the announcement that Bro. Martin feels unable to take fur- ther service on the committee. He is succeeded by Bro. J. C. Martin as chairman.
NORTH DAKOTA, 1891.
2ND Annual. Fargo. June i6, 1891.
Illinois was not among the nineteen jurisdictions represented, Bro. Leonard A. Rose being absent.
The address of the grand master (Frank J. Thompson) betrays at once the training of his years of service as a reviewer. Death had not invaded their own official circle, but he refers to the distinguished dead of other juris- dictions, dwelling particularly on George H. Hand, past grand master of Dakota, an honorary member of the Grand Lodge of North Dakota, and as- dear to them as one ot their own household.
From his decisions we quote the following:
Number i. Ques. After a petition has been referred to a committee of three, the proper time elapsing, only two of the committee report, can the lodge proceed to ballot upon the same?
Ans. This is a matter which lies largely in the discretion of the master. If he has reason to believe that the delay of the 3rd committeeman is for the purpose of further investigation, he may postpone the ballot after an- nouncing the fact to the lodge, unless some member present objects and calls up the petition. But if he believes it is the result of carelessness, as is usu- ally the case, he can state the report of the committeemen reporting; and unless there is a request by some member of the lodge present for a post- ponement for the purpose of further investigation, and unaaiimous consent given, he can order the ballot sjjread.
Number 4. Ques. What work has ever been designated as the work of this grand jurisdiction?
Ans. The Grand Lodge of Dakota a few years asgo a:dopted the work as promulgated by Brother M. L. Young, the grand lecturer of the Grand Lodge of Wisconsin, and it is virtually the work of this grand jurisdiction.
Number 6. Ques. Can a lodge move from its present hall to one situ- ated in the same city without first obtaining permission from the grand master?
Ans. A lodge has the right to move from one hall to another whenever
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the brethren so desire without having to ask the consent of the grand mas- ter or the grand lodge. Provided, that the hall is located in the same city, town or village.
NuMKER 7. Ques. Can a junior warden dimit during his term of office, he having removed permanently from the state and is clear on the books of the lodge?
Ans. Yes.
Number 9. A lodge cannot prevent a newly raised candidate from be- coming its member by making it a pre-requisite for him to sign local b}-- laws.
The obligation of the third degree renders it unnecessary. The ver}- fact of his election and raising makes him a member.
Number ii. In order for a stranger brother to gain admission into a lodge he must satisfy the brethren that he is a mason in good standing. A receipt for dues and a satisfactory examination on the lectures are only prima facie evidence that he is such. The very best masons are not always the best posted. Personal acquaintance with and reputation of the applicant are as concomitant to an avouchment as a knowledge of the lectures. The biggest masonic frauds in the world are always armed with credentials and are bright in the ritual. Masonry is no iron bedstead into which all men must fit, or be lopped off or stretched out as the case may be that they may just fit it. While caution must always be observed, circumstance must not be ignored. The laws of the Medes and Persians stagnated the nations which they governed, and the inflexible rule of the Egyptian Priests as to perspective, dwarfed artistic thought and left to the world a legacy of un- couth hieroglyphics that rival only the embryonic attempts of a school bo}-. God gave man discretion in a more or less degree. Circumstances is a con- dition which men must recognize ; so in the matter of satisfying yourself as to the worthiness of a stranger brother to visit the lodge, use discretion, consider the circumstances and be cautious. In such matters I can only state generalities. Those on the ground must deal with particulars.
We think No. i reflects the general practice and that it is correct. The practice indicated by No. 6 may not be as general, but it ought to be. It obtains in Illinois. No. 7 is shown by him to be in accord with Dakotan precedent. Grand Master Thompson cites many opinions on the question, showing great diversity. His own conclusion is that in the nature of things there is no good reason why he should not dimit, and in this — apart from the question of usage — we agree. In Illinois resignation or dimission of a mas- ter or warden is forbidden by law, but neither can be prevented from remov- ing to the antipodes. No. g probably does not express just what the grand master means, as making the signing of the by-laws a prerequisite to mem- bership is not an obstacle. In Illinois the grand lodge by-laws make it a pre- requisite, and every Mason raised is raised an unaffiliated Mason, but with the privilege of completing his membership without other action on the part of the lodge. We like the law because it gives the brother the opportunity to choose his own Masonic home with the least possible trouble to himself after he has become sufficiently familiar with the Fraternity to make a choice.
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No. II is timely because there will always be many brethren whose only idea or method of testing a visiting brother is by a cast-iron routine. He recom- mends the repeal of the twelve-mile regulation adopted last year, believing that the grand master unhampered can come nearer doing the best thing than a fixed rule.
The interest which always attaches to personal mention induces us to copy a portion of what the grand master says of a trip to the Pacific Slope:
It is indeed a great pleasure to meet ma?ons of other grand jurisdictions ■ of whom you have heard and read, and whose names to a writer on corres- pondence are, as it were, household words. Among the few whom I met, and whose fraternal greetings still warm my heart are: M. W. Brother Louis Ziegler, of Spokane, the masonic scholar of the coast states; Grand Secretary Reed of Olympia, Washington ; M. W. Brother Jacob Myer, of Portland, Oregon, a man whose personal charateristics, kindness of heart and interest in Masonry, as well as birth, reminds me of our M. W. Brother William Blatt. Brother DeLin, of Portland, although never honored by any grand masonic ofifice, has so taken on the spirit of Masonry that his office, and the hospitality of his greetings, exemplify in the world what is taught in the sacred retreat of the lodge room. It is a rendezvous for the masons of that beautiful city, and at almost anj- hour of the day one can find there the requisite number of masons to open a M. M. Lodge. Grand vSecretary Chadwick, of Salem, Oregon, was another, the interesting writer on correspondence; Brother Christopher Diehl, grand secretary of the Grand Lodge of Utah, whose writings as reporter on correspondence have won him a place among the first of masonic writers. A man whose enthusiasm for Masonry is so great that a couple of hours chat with him convinces you that there is only one great thing in the world, and that is Masonry. Brother Stevenson, of Boise City, Idaho, writer on correspondence, was another of the pleasant and intelligent masons I met. Also Brother Bowen grand secretary of Nebraska. A busier man in masonic matters does not exist. Perhaps it is amiss to mention these things here, but the benefit derived from travel and the brushing against intelligent masons, is of so high im- portance that I deem it almost a part of my official duties, especially since I have been received as the grand master of this jurisdiction, and have noted how high the Grand Lodge of North Dakota stands in the estimation of brethren in other jurisdictions.
The grand lodge chartered one new lodge ; found that the grievance committee had no business to report, not even a grievance of their own, as they could endure uncomplainingly any amount of that kind of enforced idleness; was honored with the presence of Grand Master W^'illi am G. Bell, of Manitoba, as a visitor ; admonished and besought the brethren of New England Lodge, No. 4, of Ohio, through a special report of the committee on correspondence, to return to their allegiance to the Grand Lodge of Ohio, of which body thej- have recently declared themselves independent ; repealed the twelve-mile regulation; fixed upon Grand Forks as the ne.xt place of meeting; provided that hereafter lodges under dispensation might affiliate members by dimit ; and defeated the following modification of one of the grand master's decisions, offered by the committee on jurisprudence:
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We are of the opinion that the candidate may demand his advancement if objected to after initation, that charges be preferred and that he have a trial thereon within a reasonable time, or that the objection shall be disre- garded. It must not be overlooked that the Entered Apprentice and Fellow Craft have rights as brothers which must be respected.
We hope some day to see the principle laid down by the committee rec- ognized m North Dakota and wherever else it may now be denied.
John F. Selbv, of Hillsboro, was elected grand master; Thomas J. Wilder, Casselton, re-elected grand secretary.
The report on correspondence (pp. 122) is mainly by Grand Secretary Thomas J. Wilder, who wields a tolerably free lance, in which, unhappily, Illinois does not appear. The last twenty-two pages are by M. W. Frank J. Thompson, who took hold and helped Bro. Wilder out at the last, the report not being concluded when the grand lodge met. In his "conclusion," Bro. Thompson says:
While we have this opportunity to appear before the brethren of the guild, we should like to suggest the idea of the reporters on correspondence for the various grand lodges, having a day and hour arranged at which they could meet at Denver in 1892, at the Knights' Templar triennial conclave. We believe such a meeting would not only be pleasant, but profitable ; and the hand-shake, and the sound of the voice, would tie in hard knots the skeins of freindship which willing hands have so long been weaving with pen and pencil. Let some one older and better known than the subscriber make the effort, and we predict unqualified success, and a resolution of thanks for his efforts.
We suppose the Illinois proceedings somehow miscarried. Should such a thing occur again, if the grand secretary will notify Bro. Munn they will be forthcoming.
NOVA SCOTIA, 1890.
25TH Annual. Halifax. June ii, 1890.
The representative of Illinois, T. A. Cossman, notice of whose nomina- tion for reappointment was given during the session, was present and act- ively engaged in the business of the grand lodge.
Immediately after opening the brethren marched to St. Paul's church
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and listened to an able sermon by Rev. Geo. D. Harris, rector of St. Matthew's church, LaHave, from the text, " Love the Brotherhood."
The grand master (Da\"ID C. Moore) announced the death of Col. A. K. McKiNLAY, past grand warden, and for fifteen years grand treasurer, at fifty-eight ; and of Col. James Poyntz, the representative of the Grand Lodge of Ireland. He was ninety years of age. We mention that he was born on board ship, in the English Channel, to record the curious custom prevailing in the British naval service, in accordance with which he was entered upon the ship's books as hailmg from the parish ot Stepney. Quoting the words of another, the grand master says of him :
' ' He was noted for his devotion and firm adherence to the principles of the Order, and for his almost uninterrupted attendance at the regular com- munications, until prevented by the infirmities of advanced age. At the- festivals of the Craft in Windsor he presided for many years, when his gen- ial smile, infectious good humor, and ringing, hearty voice, raised his breth- ren and companions to the hi.^^hest pitch of enthusiasm. His charity was proverbial, but it was of an unobtrusive character. No one knew better than Bro. Poyntz how, when and where to bestow charity. "
The grand master deplores the fact that the grand charity fund had been allowed to die out, and says :
I pray you let this be remedied. I trust you will, before you part, re- ceive and act vigorously upon the report of the committee appointed by us to look into the whole matter, that so it shall no longer seem a farce for your grand master to dedicate Masonic Halls to "Universal Benevolence," when he knows too painfully that worthy suppliants plead to him and the treasurer before an entirely empty chest.
Subsequent proceedings probably throw a side light on the absence of the charity fund. The grand lodge owns the Masonic Hall building at Hal- ifax, on which there is a debt of $22,000. The interest on this, and the necessary outlay for insurance, taxes, repairs, and other expenses, absorb all the revenue of the grand lodge, leaving nothing for the payment of the debt, and the per capita tax on the lodges is already as high as it can be placed. The proposition was introduced that as the grand lodge is composed of representatives of the lodges, each of which has a share in all the property owned, and liable for their portion of all debts contracted by that body, a special tax of one dollar per annum be levied upon each member for seven years to create a sinking fund to pay the debt, each lodge to be responsible for the sum of the indebtedness of its members. As the discussion is not reported, it is impossible to tell whether the brethren in defeating the prop- osition rebelled at the logic, or shrunk from the burden it entailed. Which- ever it be, the moral of the situation should not be lost upon brethren else- where who have a mind to urge grand lodges to embark in building enter- prises.
Among the questions answered were the following:
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1. That an applicant, living outside the jurisdiction of any subordinate lodge, can select either of the two lodges nearest his residence; but he must be recommended by six brethren.
2. No investigatmg committee may write "approved" or "not ap- proved," on any paper, as a report, but must simply report " verbally."
No. I leads us to infer that the jurisdiction of each lodge is fixed by some •corporate boundary. In Illinois it is impossible for an applicant to live out- side of the jurisdiction of any lodge; the ftearesi lodge has absolute jurisdic- tion no matter how distant, except, of course, where two or more lodges ex- isting m the same town have concurrent jurisdiction. No. 2 shows that the practice indicated by it is the same as that which prevailed here before the ob\'ious reason for making reports verbal induced our grand lodge to require also that each member of the committee of inqiiiry should make his report privately to the master. The grand master having been invited to take part in the installation of the officers of Royal vStandard Lodge, an English army lodge stationed at Halifax, says of his visit:
I wish every brother who comes to Halifax would so time his visit that he might pay this lodge a visit.
The precision with which every step is taken — the perfect order — of these brethren of the British army, are only what one expects, of course, but it would be well if we also strove "to imitate. I have never enjoyed an even- ing in lodge more thoroughly. Afterwards about 100 brethren sat down to a handsome supper ni the lower hall, and I was glad of the opportunit}' of expressing to Ro^-al Standard Lodge how glad I was to have them within our jurisdiction, although they be not of it. When I rose to leave, the ova- tion paid to the Grand Lodge of Nova Scotia, in my person, as your repre- sentative, was such as went to my heart, and will be remembered as long as I live.
Of clothing he says:
I should be glad if this grand lodge would positively prohibit the use of any material but lambskin or white leather, in making aprons. Oftentimes the new initiate is presented with " a lie to begin with," and I have more than once during my visitations heard the words changed to "white linen," which is a double lie, as the material is "cotton." I am reminded of an anecdote of one of my own cloth, who wore the hood of a degree to which he had no right. A person pointed out the fact to a witty dignitary, and asked if that were not acting a lie. The reply was, " Doubtless it is a fal<,e/iood." Let our Masonry have nothmg false about it.
The grand master made the occasion of the " International Masonic Congress" of the preceding July an excuse for a notice of the Grand Orient of France, but the committee on address voiced the sentiment of the grand lodge when they said as "its judgment had already been promulgated there was no necessity for further action." We think they might have been even more emphatic. We have long since agreed that the Grand Orient of France is not a Masonic body. Let us act as though we meant it, and not worry
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ourselves about its antics as though we thought Masonry was somehow res- ponsible for them.
At eight o'clock on the evening of the first day's session the grand lodge sat down to dinner at the Halifax Hotel as the guests of the city lodges. The menu is given and bears witness that there was nothing on the table stronger than "Goat" — which the epicurean tastes of our provincial neigh- bors forbids us to regard as a euphuism for r-aiik butter — and " Dimjtted cheese."
The Grand Lodges of Victoria and New South Wales were "recognized ; a proposition to constitute the past masters of each lodge a board for the ex- amination of masters-elect, with power to require him to put himself under a course of instruction in the constitution and ritual if necessary, and to re- port him to the grand secretarj:' if he is found unqualified at the time of his installation, was allowed to lie on the table; Yarmouth was selected as the next place of meeting; the retiring grand master was by unanimous vote placed at the head of the list of grand chaplains in consideration of his twenty- one years' service in the grand lodge ; and the following decisions adopted in reversal of advice given by a district deputy:
Your committee are of the opinion that the worshipful master of a lodge has the undoubted right to invite any master or past master of any lodge to occupy the East for the purpose of conferring degrees.
Your committee ai'e of the opinion that under Sec. 23, 24, Chap. 14, no member suspended for non-payment of dues, has the right of visitation in any lodge in this jurisdiction.
Lieut. Col. Charles J. Macdonald, of Halifax, was elected grand mas- ter; Hon. Wm. Ross, Halifax, re-elected grand secretary.
The report on correspondence (pp. 225) is chiefly the work of Bro. David Neish, but a few of the jurisdictions noticed are reviewed by Bro. T. B. Flint, each signing his work. Bro. Neish gives seven pages to the Illinois proceedings of 1889. He gives the core of Grand Master Smith's remarks at the funeral of Past Grand Master Darrah, copies his decisions and quotes from his remarks relative to reinstatement after suspension for non-payment of dues, and on the reports ot the district deputies. He gives three pages to extracts from Grand S-ecretary ]\Iunn's text accompanying his historico- statistical tables, which shows that he knows a good thing when he sees it, for it is rare to find the results of so much well-directed labor crowded into an equal amount of space; gives a specimen block from Grand Orator Lor- imer's address, which he characterizes as a truly magnificent oration; and speaks appreciatively of the report on correspondence, quoting from it our remarks in reply to Bro. Drummonu on the true significance of the Bible in the lodge.
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The report on correspondence is supplemented by a catalogue of ancient Masonic documents in posession of the Grand Lodge of Nova Scotia, pre- pared by a committee of which the retiring grand master was chairman, but who gives the lion's share of the credit for its preparation to W. Bro. John R. Gkeen, who did the bulk of the work and prepared all the MSS. The catalogue is arranged chronologically, and the magnitude of the collection may be judged from the fact that the documents relating to the grand lodge require thirty-six closely printed pages, and those relating to the lodges an equal number. They cover a period of about eighty-five years — from about 1784 down to the formation of the sovereign Grand Lodge of Nova Scotiai in i86g. We rejoice at the good fortune which has preserved all these good things for our Nova Scotia brethren, all the more because in our brief half- century of existence as a grand lodge, our archives have been thrice des- troyed by fire.
OHIO, 1890.
81 ST Annual. Sandusky. Oct. 15, iSgov
The Ohio volume it illustrated with three photogravure portraits: that of the retiring grand master, a man of remarkable fine face and pose, form- ing the frontispiece; of Octavius Waters, past grand orator and past senior grand warden, as frontispiece of the memorials of deceased brethren ; and of John D. Calwell, past grand secretary, appropriately doing like duty for the proceedings of the Masonic Veterans of Ohio.
The volume opens with the proceedings of an emergent communication held June 24, 1890, to dedicate the new Masonic temple at Sandusky, the publication of which would be fully justified if for no other reason than to preserve the address of R. W. Bro. Allen Andrews, senior grand warden, who was for that day grand orator. It is of a very high order of merit, in con- ception, breadth of thought, elegance of diction, and in its appropriateness.
The representative of Illinois, James W. Iredell, Jr. , was present at the annual communication in at least three capacities, as we judge from the following remarkable minute of the proceedings after the opening :
The M.-.W. -.Grand Mastei then introduced M. E. Comp. James W, Iredell, Jr. , Grand High Priest of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons
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of Ohio; Comp. Grafton M. Acklin, M. -.111. •. Grand Master of the Grand Council of R. & S. M. of the State of Ohio, and Rt. Em. Sir Wm. B. Melish, •Grand Commander of the Grand Commandery of Knights Templar of the State of Ohio. The Grand Honors were given the distinguished guests, and •each responded in an eloquent and appropriate address.
The grand master (Leanukr Burdick) announced the death of Joseph M. Stuart, past grand marshal, at sixty-eight; and regretted that he had not received timely notice of his deceajSe, that he might have tendered what the dead brother had hoped to receive — funeral honors of the grand lodge. He was buried by a commandery of Knights Templar.
He records also the death of Daniel A. Scott, past grand high priest of the grand chapter of Royal Arch Masons; Matthias H. Watt, grand secretary of the grand chapter; James Nesbitt, past grand recorder of the grand commandery ; and of W. S. Phares, the predecessor of the present representative of Illinois, the latter dying at Champaign, Illinois, in his .seventy-third year. We recall the venerable and genial brother as a visitor to the lodges in Quincy.
The grand master thus refers to their relations with Tennessee:
The unpleasant relations with Tennessee remain unreconciled. While I regret exceedingly that the Grand Lodge of Tennessee should have been led into a misunderstanding of the facts in the case, as shown by the publication of the olficial correspondence between the then grand masters of the two grand bodies, I am firm in the conviction that it is not the duty, nor even the part of the Grand Lodge of Ohio to make any concession, until the Grand Lodge of Tennessee shall see proper to recall the obnoxious language of its then grand master, wherein he charged prominent Masons of Ohio as being "persecutors of their brethren," and classed them with such characters as ■" Phihp Le Bel, Calvin, and Torquemada."
Official notice of the appointment of representatives from several sister jurisdictions had been received, among them that of James W. Iredell by the grand master of Illinois.
He strongly urges the claims of the Masonic Home jointly organized by the grand lodge, grand chapter, grand council, grand commandery, and the grand council (A. and A. S. Rite, N. M. J.)
President Iredell submitted the report of the board of trustees in which the plan for raising funds for the Home is thus outlined:
" ist. By the payment of a per capita tax on the members of the various Masonic Bodies, to be 25 cents per annum, as already adopted by several grand bodies.
"2d. By donations from the funds of the Masonic Grand Bodies of Ohio, that may be voted by said grand bodies from moneys left over from year to year, after paying running expenses.
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"3rd. By donations and annual contributions from Masonic Bodies, throughout the State.
"4th. By contributions, bequests, and subscriptions from individuals, under such terms as may be adopted by the board of trustees.
"5th. By the creation of Honorary Life Memberships upon the paj'- ment of one hundred dollars ; and of Honorary Annual Memberships upon the payment of ten dollars per annum, by any lodge or individual.
"6th. By setting aside, by action of the Masonic Grand Bodies of the State, of 'St. John's Day,' Jtme 24th, of each year, as 'Masonic Home Day,' and the formulation of plans to insure the contribution of ' Thanks Offermgs' to the Masonic Home on that day."
The trustees showed their faith by their works and that they were pre- pared to practice what they preached, by subscribing $1,000 within their own body. Their report went with the grand master's remarks to the committee on ways and means, and on their report the grand lodge contributed $5,000.
In February a paper published at McConnelsville, O., contained an ar- ticle on " The Impending Crisis in the Affairs of Masonry," containing, the grand master says, abuse of the vilest character against the grand lodge and its officers. From the master of the lodge there the grand master learned that the author was a member (Spkague) of his lodge and reported to be a member of the"Cerneau" bodies, of which also many of the lodge were either members or sympathizers with, and he doubted whether the lodge could or would discipline the party. Charges were preferred against him by order of the grand master, the accused plead guilty, reflection having con- vinced him that he had been guilty of un-Masonic conduct, whereupon the charges were dismissed. The grand master thought his pimishment did not fit the crime, and referred the case to the grand lodge. On the report of a special cominittee that there seemed to be a spirit of rebellion to constituted authority auw contempt for the grand lodge and its enactments, the judg- ment of the lodge was set aside, and the work of the lodge suspended pend- ing an investigation by the grand master with a view to arrest of charter i£ the suspicion of willful contumacy proved well-founded.
We copy from the grand master's rulings and decisions:
1. What is the status or full effect of an objection, made in open lodge, to a petitioner, before the report of the investigatmg committee?
2. What effect, if any, does such an objection have on the rights of the petitioner under Decision 182 (page 83, Masonic Constitutions, etc., 1882)?
3. Does such an objection virtually act as a rejection of the petitioner, and to be so declared by the W. M. at the proper time? Or, if petition can be withdrawn can he go elsewhere and say, "I have never been rejected?"
4. Is a report of a majority of an investigating committee (on a peti- tion) sufficient to enable a lodge to receive and act thereon, or should a report from the full committee be required, and this after thorough investigation ?
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Answer: Objection should not be allowed until after petition has been acted upon, as provided by rules governing. Rule 41, upon which the right of objection is based, does not contemplate giving a member the right to ob- ject to the lodge receiving or acting upon a petition. After a petition has been received by the lodge, referred to and reported upon by a committee, ballot must follow after report has been made ; therefore, objection should not be allowed or considered.
Questions 2 and 3 are covered by answer to first question.
Answt'r: 4. A lodge may accept the report, and vote upon an appli- cation reported upon by a majority of the committee appointed.
Does the requirement as to age of an applicant for degrees (twenty-one years) have reference solely to the time of initiation, or to the time of pre- senting the petition?
Ajtsziwr: In my opinion the "Ancient Charges" and our regulations contemplate that a candidate should be free-born and of " lawful " or mature age, and that condition should exist at the time his petition is presented to the lodge for its consideration.
ist. A brother who has been a member of the lodge for a number of years, has engaged in the biisiness of retailing liquors in a saloon — is he amenable to discipline?
2d. In case he should dimit and remain unaffiliated, is he amenable?
Answer ist: Public sentiment as well as statute law in regard to that subject has changed materially during the past twenty years. It is now held that traffic in intoxicating liquors for purposes other than medicinal or me- chanical uses, is a Masonic offense. The construction herett)fore given to Masonic law prevents any lodge from initiating or admitting to membership a saloon-keeper, or a party who traffics in intoxicating liquors. Held, there- fore, that a member of a lodge who traffics in intoxicating liquors, to be drunk where sold, is subject to the charge of unmasonic conduct.
2d. Yes.
Question ist: Can a man who is suspended for non-payment of dues be placed in good standing twenty-four hours after death by payment of dues, the man while living not being in good standing, and his body only re- maining on earth?
2d. There are quite a number of Masons in this city who are in good standing in higher bodies, but who are suspended for non-payment of dues in Blue Lodge. I can not find where lodges have officially notified higher bodies of suspension or expulsion, nor can I find in the Code anything au- thorizing it done. Is it legal to furnish higher bodies vith a certificate of suspended or expelled members? If legal, is it imperative?
Answer ist: No.
2d. Bodies recognized by the Grand Lodge of Ohio as "Masonic," and who make the degrees of Ancient Craft Masonry a prerequisite to member- ship in their own body, and who are occupants of the territorial jurisdiction occupied by the lodge suspending or expelling a member may be officially notified under seal of the lodge.
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I am directed by the master of this lodge to request your decision on the followmg points of Masonic law :
I St. Can an objection to his receiving any degree be legally placed on the minutes of a lodge, against a citizen of the jurisdiction who has never petitioned any lodge for membership?
Answer: No.
2d. A candidate for the Second or Third Degree is blackballed and re- jected. Can objection be filed in the lodge against his receiving any more degrees before he again petitions the lodge?
Answer: No.
A Lodge of Master Masons should not be called from "labor to refresh- ment" when leaving the hall for the purpose of performing funeral cere- monies or any other Masonic duties.
The law of objection and the time for its application is well stated in a general way. In Illinois a recorded objection stands as a bar against the candidate for one year unless sooner withdrawn. As we have, we believe, elsewhere stated, we think the decision that a lodge may accept the report and vote upon an application reported by a majority of the committee of inquiry, reflects the general practice. That the requirement respectmg age should apply to the time of petitioning is the construction given by the Illi- nois law, and we think it is the proper one. The statement that Masons in Ohio who have been suspended for non-payment of dues remain in good standing in the "higher bodies," mdicates that they are simply excluded from the privileges of their own lodge, and the term suspension ought not to be used in connection with them. The question whether it is legal, and if so whether it is imperative that "higher bodies" should be furnished with certificates of lodge action in cases of suspension or expulsion is a natural one considering the action and attitude of the Grand Lodge of Ohio, and "vvith the answer illustrates the process hy which grand orientism is being •evolved there.
The following, from the address, is published for information :
During the past year considerable correspondence has been had with the grand master by members of the Fraternity regarding the action of this grand body prohibiting members from participating in the conferring of an order or degree upon female relatives of ^lasons, and known as the ' ' Eastern Star."
At the session in 18S4 the grand lodge adopted the following:
"■Resolved, That any brother conferring the so-called ' Side Degrees ' is, in all cases, a proper subject of Masonic discipline." (Pro. 10S4, p. 135.)
One of my correspondents in regard to this matter is a lady, said to be the wife of a Mason and a member of the Eastern Star. In reply to the letter from the lady, I stated that personally I am not opposed to the Order,
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and that I believed miich good could be accomplished by bringing the mothers, wives, sisters and daughters in closer communion with the Masonic body, as an organization, but so long as the rules of this grand lodge make the participation in the conferring of " Side Degrees" a Masonic offense, it becomes the duty of Masons to abstain from conferring any of said degrees.
M}' attention has again been called to this matter in connection with the following, which appeared in one of our daily papers:
"owlish organs "will Probably Distinguish the Organization of a Masonic Side Order at Chicago
TO-NlGHT.
"Chicago, September 27th. — [Special.]— The first Chicago Nest of the Order of Owls will be instituted here this afternoon, and prominent mem- bers of the Masonic Fraternity from half a dozen near-by States are arriving this morning to signalize the event by their presence. A special car filled ■with Ohio Owls arrived from Terre Haute this morning. Headquarters have been opened at the Grand Pacific Hotel, where Dr. G. F. Pennington, ■of Baltimore, the Supreme Sapient Screecher of the World, is being heartily welcomed. The Owls hold the same relation to Masonry as does the Mystic Shrine. The Order is but three years old, but has a membership in the United States of nearly twelve thousand, restricted generally to the leading officers of the leading Masonic bodies in the country. The initiation this •evening will be witnessed by a large and distinguished audience, and after the Nest has been brought into existence, elections will take place to the offices of vSapient Screecher, Sapient Bag-holder, Lord High Executioner, Tooter, Hooter, Blinker, and Recording and Property Owls."
While I have no knowledge that we have the "Order of Owls" in Ohio, I am credibly informed that the Order of t^.e " Mystic Shrine" does exist in Ohio, that the order does make membership in a Mas^mic body a prerequi- site, and, in one instance at least, does occupy apartments in a Masonic Tem- ple that has been dedicated to Masonry by this grand lodge.
Now, my brethren, I submit the proposition to you: Are we consistent in this matter? Does not the resolution adopted by this grand lodge as to side degrees, apply as well to the Mystic Shrine, or the Owls (providing it is true that membership in a Masonic body is a prerequisite), as it does to the •Order of the Eastern Star?
Here is an institution fostered and recognized by several grand lodges with whom we are in fraternal correspondence ; an order whose membership is composed of mothers, wives, sisters and daughters of Masons, whose pres- ence and social influence would be beneficial at all times — they are pro- scribed, while another whose offices are filled by a Sapient Screecher, Sapi- ent Bag-holder, Lord High Executioner, Tooter, Hooter, Blinker, etc., is permitted to attach itself to the Masonic body.
I therefore earnestly recommend that the action heretofore had against the order styled the Eastern Star be rescinded, or that the resolution as it now stands be made to apply to all organizations and their members that make membership in a Masonic body a prerequisite to membership in said organization.
The "information" derived from this does not refer simply to the birth •of a new side degree, but to the state of mind generated by the acceptance
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of the doctrine that an association whose pohty is a flat denial of the prin- ciples of Masonry (like the Scottish Rite, for instance,) is a " Masonic body " simply because it happens to be made up of Masons. Having swallowed that, it isn't very much of a step for a champion of the Ohio legislation de- fining Masonic bodies and the Ohio decision as to who may occupy Masonic halls, to propose to take in also associations partly composed of Masons. Of course if the fact that an association that is wholly composed of Masons is by that token a " Masonic body," one partly composed of Masons is by the same token to a certain extent a Masonic body, and if there be in it a pre- ponderating proportion of the Sons of Light, why should not that carry the name, and having got the name why should not that invest it with eligibility to become a part of the grand orient? The state of mind referred to — wherein the character is made to fit the name instead of the name being made to fit the character — naturallj' finds the new titles a temporary stum- bling-block, but when the now nascent side degree shall have clothed itself with an organization — as the other side degrees have done — got its pin- feathers, so to speak, and been hailed as a " Masonic Body," the titles which now smite the unaccustomed ear with discordant sound, will not only titilate agreeably the first of the revered senses, but will carry with them their own demonstration of antiquity — the unmistakable impress of the unsdoin of our " ancient brethren." It is only lack of use that makes " Sapient Screecher " seem less euphonious, or less appropriate to the Masonic system, than " In- spector General of the Holy Empire."
The grand secretary reports that those lodges which the preceding year suffered loss of mileage and per diem for delinquency in the matter of re- turns, were this year the earliest, with one exception, to get them in.
R. W. Bro. Barton Smith submitted through the grand master a report on the pending litigation of the grand lodge in the various courts of the State on the Cerneau question. In two cases brought to restrain lodges from pro- ceeding to the trial of members upon charges of un-Masonic conduct in affil- iating and holding communication with irregular, clandestine, and un-Ma- sonic (Cerneau) bodies, and in which the jurisdiction of the court was de- murred to, the judge handed down his decisions just before the grand lodge met, and we extract the core of it:
First. A member of a Masonic lodge, even though such lodge is incor- porated under the laws of the State, has no property interest either in his membership in the lodge or in the property which the lodge acquires.
Second. That, while a lodge is a charitable, benevolent, beneficial, and social organization, and is bound to aid and assist its members when they are sick, or in want or in distress, as well as to aid their widows and orphans^ this aid and assistance is incident to membership, tipon which it depends, and that the right of the member of the lodge to such assistance is lost by the termination of his membership, and that a member maj' forfeit his right to such membership by his misconduct.
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Third. That the power to determine who is, and who shall rightfully remain, a member of a Masonic lodge, rests in the lodge itself, bemg volun- tarily conferred upon him by its members, each of whom, on becoming a member, is presumed to have known the nature and character of the lodge, and that it had disciplinary power over all its members. By voluntarily be- coming a member of a lodge, he acquires, not a severable right to any of its- property, but the rights only of a member of the society so long as he con- tinues to be a member. By the implied conditions upon which he became a member, his membership may be terminated by the act of the society, when he ceases to be a Mason.
Fourth. Whether it is unmasonic conduct for a member of the lodge to become a member of the Cerneau Bodies of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, is a question that is purely Masonic, and one into the merits of which this court will not enter.
And this we doubt not will be the substantial judgment in the other five cases pending.
Emeritus Grand Secretary John D. Caldwell submitted a very interest- ing report of the centennial celebration of American Union Lodge, No. i, Marietta, on the evening of June 28, 1890, which he attended as the special representative of the grand master. The testimonial to Bro. Caldwell or- dered by the grand lodge the year previous took the form of an office desk and chair, a properly inscribed Masonic ring, a gold pen, and a suitable badge to wear as Emeritus Grand Secretary, a fac-similie of which is printed on the last page of the proceedings of the Masonic Veterans of Ohio.
The following is from the journal of the first day's proceedings of the grand lodge :
Bro. J. W. Iredell, Jr., M.-.E. -.Grand High Priest of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons in Ohio, submitted a communication from the grand chapter concerning notices to be sent from lodges to chapters, which was, on motion, referred to the committee on Masonic jurisprudence.
And this, unanimously adopted, from the records of the same body at the same session :
Your committee on Masonic jurisprudence, at the request of the M. -.E. •. Grand Chapter, submits the following:
" Resolved, That the secretary of each subordinate lodge be, and he i& hereb}^ required to send an official notice, under the seal of the lodge, of the dimission, suspension, expulsion, or reinstatement of any of the members of his lodge, to the secretary of the Chapter or Chapters of Royal Arch- Ma- sons within whose jurisdiction it may be situated."
The word "hovering" in the following sufficiently identifies the bodies under consideration as being the Owls and other newly-fledged organizations referred to by the grand master, and of which we have already spoken :
Your committee on Masonic Jurisprudence has considered the portion of the annual address of the M. -.W. -.Grand Master relating to societies, not
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JNIasonic but claiming (somewhat indefinitely indeed) a shade of kinship with Masonry, and reports that, in the opinion of your committee, a slight amend- ment to rule 79 of the Code, with a view to making its language more defi- nite, would provide a remedy b}' settling in the minds of all Masons of the State the position occupied by the Grand Lodge of Ohio in regard to w-hat are sometimes called side degrees, and other societies, not Masonic yet hovering in the near neighborhood of Masonic organizations and their places of meetmg: We, therefore, offer for adoption the following:
" 7Q. No subordinate lodge in this jurisdiction shall permit its lodge- Toom to be used by any other society or order whatsoever, nor shall it occupy any hall or room jointly with any other order or society, except tem- porarily by the special permission of the grand master or of the grand lodge ; biut nothing in this regulation shall be construed to prohibit a subordinate lodge from using rooms jointly with a Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, a Council of Ro^'al and Select Masters, a Commandery of K^nights Templar, or a body of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, under the jurisdiction of the Supreme Council of the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the United States ot America, no other societies being recognized as ^Masonic by this grand lodge."
Objection sent this over until next year, its immediate adoption requir- ing unanimous consent.
A modification of the old and simple rule of making the territorial juris- diction of a lodge coterminous with a line half-wa}' between itself and neigh- iDoring lodges, which permitted lodges to agree with their neighbors as to the dividing line betw-een them, wnth the consent and approval of the grand lodge, was found to be leading to agi'eements which were recorded neither on the books of the grand lodge nor of the lodges, and the prospective con- fusion led to the preliminary steps for returning to the old rule.
The grand lodge granted one new charter, continued one lodge under dispensation, refused one petition for a dispensation and referred another to the grand master; exchanged telegraphic congratulations with California, then in session ; called the roll of grand representatives and found thirty-two jurisdictions represented personally, and another responded by written greet- ings ; referred to the grand master the request of the grand orator that offi- cial notice be taken of the alleged fact to which he called attention, that the grand treasurer of the Grand Lodge of New York had taken adverse action against the Grand Lodge of Ohio, on matters pertaining to the Cerneau con- troversy ; appointed a committee on history to prepare a historj^ of Masonry in Ohio, requiring that it make annual reports; increased the gi'and secre- tary's salary to fifteen hundred dollars, which, at the risk of being thought to indicate — in the eyes of our good Brother Cunningham — an unfraternal at- titude towards the Grand Lodge of Ohio, we must say is in our opinion a ridiculously small compensation for the amount and quaUty of services ren- dered by Grand Secretary Bromwell ; fixed upon Columbus as its next place of meeting ; ordered as a testimonial to the retiring grand master that an engraved portrait of him be placed in the printed proceedings, and when in
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returning thanks for the action he insisted on furnishing the plate and prints. at his own expense, authorized the grand master to proctire, and Past Grand Master Lemmon to present to him a past grand master's jewel.
Levi C. Goodale was elected grand master; J. H. Bromwell, re-elected grand secretary; both of Cincinnati.
The report on correspondence (pp. 205) is as usual the work of Past Grand Master William M. Cunningham, a sufficient guarantee of its ability and interest. The Illinois proceedings for i88g receive extended notice. For his error in giving the number of lodges represented, " tJiree hioidred and twenty-nine, less than one-half of the subordinate lodges enrolled," we can only account by the presumption that he counted only one of the double columns on each page of the report of the committee on credentials. Hastily coimting both we make the number six hundred and thirty-seven, which is approximately correct. We may add that the highest number on the roll does not reflect the number of lodges — there are many vacant numbers once possessed by lodges now defunct, and these under our law cannot again be used.
He quotes from Grand Master Smith relative to our deceased Past Grand Master Darrah ; concerning the Masonic board of relief, of Chicago, and the Orphans' Home, and his criticism of the manner in which this committee discussed the broils of the High Riters, of which he says :
This rebuke of the apparent sympathy extended to Cerneauism by M.-.W. -.Bro. Robbins, and his unwarranted criticism of the private alf airs of other grand lodges in relation thereto, was such a mark of disapprobation upon the part of the grand master as would certainly be very distasteful to- his appointee. *
It would seem, if the report has any meaniitg, that this view was also held by the grand lodge in its adoption of the report of the committee on the grand master's address, as in it we find the following paragraph:
"The grand master states facts when he says, ' Cei'neauism and all other isms outside of the Symbolic Degrees are unknown to this member- ship.' "
The italics are ours. Whether he found in the "paragraph" of which his quotation is a part of a sentence, anything to indicate that the grand lodge did not pass upon the view expressed by the grand master, so far as it was controversial, or whether he hoped to make the meaning clearer for the elision, is not clear. Perhaps some of our brethren can tell us, if they see the whole "paragraph," which includes all that it said on the subject, viz. :
" It has ever been held, and rightly too, by this grand lodge, that it can recognize nothing but the three degrees of Symbolic Masonry. Of other .so- -called Masonic bodies this grand lodge officially knows nothing, and such bodies are not proper matters of discussion for this grand body ; and thtr
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grand masier sta/es facts when he says Cerneatiism and all other isins j02itside of the Svjnliolic degrees are unknown to this nicmbership, and can- not be officially presented to this grand lodge, or any constituent lodge in this jurisdiction."
We have placed Bro. Cunningham's " paragra^jh" in italics, for conven- ience in findmg it.
Copying from the circular of information prepared by the grand master relative to the placing of the cape-stone on the tower of the Auditorium, and including that portion of it which referred to the Templar escort to be fur- nished by the grand commander of Knights Templars, he says :
The M. •. W. -.Grand Lodge of Illinois is to be congratulated upon laying aside, even temporarily, their illogical hobby of the non-recognition of leg- itimate Masonic bodies other than the first three degrees ; but for a grand lodge that claims to neither ktiow or recognize any other Masonic bodies than lodges of Entered Apprentices, Fellowcrafts or Master Masons — to in- augurate the foregoing interesting ceremonies, and to not only request the participation therein of other Masonic bodies not recognized by it, but also in its adoption of a ceremony heretofore, in name at least, pertinent only to the Ritual of Capitular Masonry, and for which an especial ceremony had to be prepared, is but another illustration of the mconsistencies pertaining to ^ny such illiberal and unwarranted exclusiveness.
In this instance the inconsistency is made more apparent and striking by its adoption, at same communication of the grand lodge, of the report of a committee, in which it is said : *
"It has ever been held, and rightly too, by this grand lodge, that it •can recognize nothing but the three degrees of Symbolic Masonry." (Re- port of committee on grand master's address, p. 82.)
And also in the persistent denial of recognition to afty grand lodge that can not trace its genealogy directly or indirectly to the Grand Lodge of Eng- land, which is reiterated at same session in the report of another committee.
We may add to the evidences of inconsistency cited above that the ■grand master also accepted the escort of a double platoon of police, and al- though the proceedings do not show that the grand lodge ungratefully or in- consistently refused to recognize "The Finest" as a "Masonic body," it undoubtedly would have refused if the question had been precipitated. We Tecall the fact that at the recent corner-stone laying at Utica, the Grand Lodge of New York had the escort of a company of militia, but we stumbled upon no evidence in the New York proceedings that the national guard had been admitted to partnership in the government of Masonry in that jurisdic- tion. Relative to our brother's remark about the Grand Lodge of England, we desire to ask him if he knows of any Masonry in existence outside of the British Islands at the time the Grand Lodge of England was formed, or any Masonry in the British Islands that was not organized on the grand lodge plan at the time of the formation of the grand lodges existing in those islands.
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He thus introduces his remarks on the lUinois report on correspondence:
The report upon foreign correspondence, submitted by M. -.W. -.Joseph Robbins, covers two hundred and forty-five pages of tne printed proceedings, and whilst the abihty of its author is unquestioned, the report well-written, and a part of it, as usual, very interesting, yet so much of it is marred by liis sarcastic utterances against all who are opjjosed to Cerneauism and clandestine Masonry, that its usefulness as an intended impartial reveiw is destroyed.
Perhaps it is natural that one whose grand lodge by its vulnerable ac- tion has given him so much to defend, should become irritable, even to for- getfulness, of the restraint in the use of words which our brother is wont to impose upon himself. This is the most charitable explanation we can offer for his reckless speech about our ' ' sarcastic utterances against all who are opposed to Cerneauism and clandestine Masonry." He has abundant oppor- tunity to know that our utterances, sarcastic or otherwise, against those who are opposed to Cerneauism have been restricted to those of its opponents who have raised the "stop thief " cry upon the floor of the grand lodge where all the imperial factions are equally poachers, all equally clandestine in so far as they claim any authority in Free and Accepted Masonry, and neither of them — whether clandestine High Riters or not — clandestine Alasons un- less they do.
Continuing, our brother says:
In his discourteous mention of Ohio, he loses sight of Masonic courtesy, and his illogical, groundless conclusions are certainly equaled b}^ their un- fraternal charater. Without waiting for or looking at the other side of the matters in dispute between Tennessee and Ohio, he hastens to adopt with- out question the statements of Past Grand Master IngersoU, and greedily swallows the whole, apparently only too glad to have another opportunity to express his views against what he so vaingloriously tei'ms " High Riteism," and upon that pretense he becomes a champion of Cerneauism, however disavowed upon his part. As an exposition of his unfairness also to another Grand Body, attention is directed to his review of Pennsylvania, in which he submits a pompous communication from the high-titled dignitary of one of t/ic Cerneaii factiO)is, and whilst disclaiming any personal knowledge of the subject himself, he publishes that statement with a flourish, as if it were a finality against the testimony of hundreds of prominent Masons throughout the United States who know whereof they speak.
In his review of Iowa he undertakes to criticise Bro. Parvin's statement, that the present Cerneau bodies had no existence prior to i8Si — which is doubtless true — by quoting Pennsylvania, which, in accordance with the pretended Cerneau history, as claimed by itself, decided their illegitimacy upon their own statement, from their own stand-point, but without thereby necessarily admitting the truth of such claim or pretended history.
In addition to the sin of "discourteous mention of Ohio," he also speaks, as we have elsewhere seen, of our "unwarranted criticism of the private affairs of other grand lodges." If we admired the " you're another " style
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of argument, we might again call attention to the extract we gave above which refers to the "illogical hobby" and its "illiberal and unwarranted exclusiveness." But we have no disposition to shelter ourselves behind a pretence, for if he finds our grand lodge riding a hobby, or guilty of illiberal and unwarranted exclusiveness in matters which touch the body of Masonry, he may be assured that we at least will not consider his saying so a dis- courtesy or as evidence of unfraternal feeling against the Grand Lodge of Illinois. The acts of a grand lodge that touch the body of Masonry are not their private affairs, but they are the concern of the whole Fraternity and as such legitimate subjects of criticism, and for that criticism reports on cor- respondence are the fit and proper place.
To come down to Bro. Cunningham's meagre bill of particulars showing our unfraternal conclusions, he says we hastened to adopt without question the statements of the grand master of Tennessee relative to matters in dis- pute between Ohio and Tennessee. And why not, pray ? He had made a statement so definite as the following as to an occurrence about which he was in a position to know the facts :
' ' The grand master (of Ohio) assured me in plain terms that no repre- sentative would be received from us unless he was not onlj' an orthodox Scottish Rite ]\Iason, but also an active and prominent supporter of the locall}' dominant faction in the policy of using the gi-eat power of the grand lodge to support an order of the Scottish Rite."
Surely this statement was not of a kind to make it probable that it& author could be mistaken about it, and the high position of its author ought to be a sufficient voucher for its credibility. If a reviewer may not accept the statement of a grand master of Masons made under circumstances which would render misrepresentation little less than criminal, he might as well abandon the effort to keep track of current events. Until the statement of the grand master of Tennessee is shown by the publication of the entire cor- respondence to be either a misapprehension or a falsehood, the charge of unfraternal feeling against those who believed it is at least premature.
The charge of unfairness will, on his own showing, strike any disinter- ested person as baseless. The grand master of Pennsylvania made without specification the general charge that the Cerneau faction claimed and had exercised the right, power and authority to confer the degrees of Ancient Masonry. We sought from the person whom we supposed to represent the faction referred to for the definite information which the grand master had failed to give. It is true the reply came from a "high-titled dignitary," but inasmuch as we hadn't the bestowal of the title which that dignitary enjoys, in common with the distinguished brother whose right to claim it in that patch of the imperial domain is backed by Bro. Cunningh.'VM, it is difficult to see what bearing its resounding amplitude has upon the question of our fair- ness in the matter. And as we didn't write the letter we might pass over-
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the characterization of it as "pompous," but for the fact that the truth of history obliges us to confess that it struck our unilluminated apprehension as a plain matter-of-fact communication couched in the respectful language \vhi;h one gentleman commonly uses to another. It is not always safe tO' feel too sure of one's own state of mind, but that ours is not the jaundiced eye in this instance we feel reasonably confident when we find that our de- clining to vouch for its historical verity, on the score of our own ignorance,, is put in evidence to prove that we considered it a finality.
If Pennsylvania has any reason to compfain of comments on its action,, it strikes us that instead of our being the guilty commentator it is her volun- teer defender, our critic himself. In attempting to straighten out our men- tal entanglement consequent on Bro. Parvin's fixing the advent of the Cer- neau bodies — doubtless correctly, Bro. Cunningham says — in 1881, he explains that the action of Pennsylvania was based upon an ante-natal romance of the Cerneau's themselves. We never undertook to decide as between the Parvinian and the Pennsylvanian view, but by so much as Bro. Cunningham's adhesion strengthens the former, by just so much it emphasizes our expressed opinion that it left the Pennsylvania allies of the imperial forces in bad shape»
In conclusion, Bro. Cunningham says:
Having elsewhere, in this and preceding reports, devoted so much space to the refutation of misrepresentations concerning the Grand Lodge of Ohio in its disciplinary measures against insubordination, and its war against clandestine Masonry, any further consideration of the report of M. -.W. -.Bro. Robbins in that connection would seem to be unnecessary, except perhaps to again repeat that all of the so-called controversy, so far as the Grand Lodge of Ohio is concerned, was forced upon it by the so-called Cerneaus. themselves, and not by any action, suggestion, or interference whatever therein by the legitimate Supreme Council of the Northern or Southern Jurisdiction. Proceedings and enactments of the Grand Lodge of Ohio suffi- ciently proving this statement, have been repeatedly quoted, and yet, judg- ing from the past, 1VC may expect, that our M. -.W. -.Brother re/// rw///;///^'- to convey in his reports the unwarranted inference that the Grand Lodge of Ohio originated the so-called controversy, or permitted its introduction by Northern Jurisdiction partisans.
We regret to see our M. -.W. '.Brother — whom we have long held in high esteem; personally and as a IMasonic writer — so persistent in his unfraternal attitude to this grand lodge.
We need only say with reference to what he styles an unwarranted in- ference, that we indicated in our report for 1890 the grounds which we thought warranted that inference. And we are now obliged to add that the proceedings we are now reviewing, with their records of the unprecedented and ostentatious reception of the chiefs of organizations to whom the Grand Lodge of Ohio had already relinquished a portion of that authority whose exclusive possession and maintenance was entailed upon it by the immutable law ; according to them the grand honors which heretofore have been held to
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belong only to grand masters; their participation in the business of the grand lodge not simply as members of that body, but, as the records show, in their character as heads of other organizations; their subservient enactment of laws at their request which would relieve their individual constituency of the necessity of attending the blue lodge in order to keep advised of the stand- ing therein of their fellows — these things, forced upon the gi'and lodge by no controversy but which only the blinding passions of a factional tight has made possible, superadded to the denial of the right of lodges to choose their own rulers without duress, and, more significant still, the denial of the time- honored and universall}^ admitted right of lodges to instruct their masters, make the purpose to subject the Masonry of this countrj^ to the blight of grand orientism which in the old world has well-nigh if not wholly destroyed its identity, so plain that it is little else than criminal folly for loyal Masons to shut their eyes to the fact. Men do not gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles. There is but one organization superimposed upon Masonry that has ever spawned a grand orient — the characteristics of which these events show the Grand Lodge of Ohio to be fast assuming — and that is the oligarchy of the so-called Scottish Rite.
OREGON, 1890.
40TH Annual. Portland. June ii, 1890.
This volume is over a year old, but it is so long since anything from the Web-Feet gladdened our vision that it is most welcome. It is rich in illus- trations, containing portraits — excellent specimens of the phototypic art — of John C. Ainsworth, grand master in 1S54-1S55, still li\'ing and a resident of California; Benjamin Stark, grand master in 1S57-1858, one of the organiz- ers of the Grand Lodge of Oregon, now living at New London, Conn. ; and Christopher Taylor, the retiring grand master. They are all exceptionally fine looking, showing that not all the handsome men went to Montana.
The representative of Illinois, W. T. Wright, was one of the eleven past grand masters present.
The grand master (Christopher Taylor) must have been happy to be able to say :
I rejoice to know that the craft in this jurisdiction is increasing in num- bers and material prosperity. Harmony and the best of feeling prevail
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among brethren all over our jurisdiction. We are at peace with all foreign jurisdictions. There is not a single grievance to report on our tiles.
He thus recognizes the pioneer :
There is one among the pioneers that must receive my special attention. He is the Master Mason pioneer. He goes wherever civilization is found. He forms a nucleus of good moral strength that grows in influence until it instills itself into every religious and secular relation of life. Masonry, in this way, asserts itself as the strong and indispensable support in the fabric of our civilization. This pioneer, hand in hand with all others, has been, from the first, in the van in making this noble commonwealth your pride, your dear and contented home. He, too, must give way to those who shall enjoy the fruits of his labor. Brethren, let us all treasure the sacrifices, the persistent deeds of heroism, made for your happiness by these solid men and Masons. The sun of their useful lives is fast setting in the West. May your grateful hearts enable you to keep their memories as bright as the sun that rises in the East.
He announces the death of Past Grand Master William W. Fowler, who filled the grand east in 1862. He died in California. Mention is made of the death of Past Grand Master Darrah, of this jurisdiction, and a me- morial tablet is inscribed to him.
He refers appreciatively to an invitation from Grand Master Smith to attend our semi-centennial communication, and returns thanks to Grand Sec- retary MuNN for the proceedings of that meeting, and also for a set for the library.
From his decisions we select the following:
2. That a member dropped from the roll for non-payment of dues can be reinstated by his own act, and that is by paying up his lodge dues. The payment of dues and the secretary's receipt entitles him to membership again.
3. That a non-contributing non-affiliate is not entitled to a masonic burial.
4. That a master elect must take the past master's degree in a convention ■of past masters.
5. That a non-affiliate can not vote upon a petition for membership, nor can he ballot in any lodge in this jurisdiction tor the degrees of ilasonry.
6. If a lodge refuses to waive jurisdiction over a candidate residing within its jurisdiction, (but not for a year) at the request of a lodge that has jurisdiction, the candidate must wait until he has acquired a year's residence in his new home before he can apply for the degrees.
8. The master of Ashland Lodge No. 25 refused a Cerneau, (so-called) Mason, the privilege of visiting his lodge. He asks if he did right. My answer was that he did perfectly right.
9. That the custom of incorporating subordinate lodges is directly against the spirit and plan of Masonry. If a subordinate lodge wants to hold property, the title may be vested in three trustees, worshipful master and
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wardens, and their successors in office ; they to be governed by rules adopted by the brethren of the lodge.
lo. That no master elect can be installed while charges are pending" against him.
13. That it is not proper to copy the charges filed against a brother into the record book. The record must show what was done with them, and the result of the trial, but not the charges.
14. That a saloon-keeper, bar-keeper, or clerk, cannot be a contributing- member of any lodge, nor can he visit lodges. They are open to suspension, or indefinite suspension, etc.
16. That a brother, if present, cannot be excused from voting on the report of a petition for the degrees or for affiliation. The unanimous con- sent of all present entitled to vote is required to entitle the candidate to ad- mission.
A committee on a petition must report at the next meeting, or ask for further time. A committee cannot allow a meeting to go over without mak- ing a report of some kind on a petition.
Some of these are published for information simply. No. 2 reflects the practice of some other jurisdictions besides Oregon. No. 3 of course rests- on a local regulation, as under the common law of Masonry an unaffiliated Mason is entitled to Masonic burial whether he contributes or not. It is the "progress" of later years that puts the funeral honors of Masonry on the market.
The committee on jurisprudence, the grand lodge concurring, thus mod- ified No. 4:
" A worshipful master elect must take the past master's degree in a con- vention of past masters, or furnish satisfactory evidence to the installing officer that he has previously received the degree."
Speaking from the standpoint of a grand master, the master-elect could not receive the past master's degree anywhere else than in a convention of past masters. Neither he nor the grand lodge know of any past master's degree except that so conferred. Reading between the lines we presume the committee meant that a degree of corresponding name conferred under the authority of the grand chapter of Royal Arch Masons would answer as well. As Master Masons we don't, know whether it would or not. No. 5 becomes- intelligible only when it is known that in Oregon visitors have the right to- vote on petitions. It discloses the fact, too, that a Mason may be a good- enough Mason to visit, but not a good-enough Mason to vote. No. 8 indi- cates that during the two jrears covered by the proceedings which have failed to reach our table, the Grand Lodge of Oregon has become the instrument through which one of the Scotch Rite factions is able to get a whack at the other fellows — another indication of " progress." The doctrine of No. 9 does.
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not obtain m Illinois. Here the act incorporating the grand lodge makes ■each constituent lodge receiving a charter from it a body corporate. We have elsewhere given our reasons for dissenting from No. lo; we do not be- lieve in putting it in the power of an}- pig-headed member to destroy the eligibilit}'- of an officer-elect. No. 13 does not accord with our practice. The jurisprudence committee and the grand lodge agreed that No. 14 should not be approved, for the following conclusive reasons:
Your committee are of the opinion that Decision No. 14 is not sound ma- sonic law, for the reason that it is a well settled principle of masonic juris- prudence that every Master Mason, member of a subordinate lodge, is to be held as in good standing and entitled to all the rights and pri\nleges of such until convicted of some masonic offense in the way and manner prescribed 'by the rules and regulations of the Craft.
They also modified No. 16 to read as follows:
" No one can be elected to receive the degrees, or admitted to member- ship in a lodge of this jurisdiction, without the unanimous consent of the members present."
The grand lodge quite unanimously sat down upon a proposed amend- ment of the constitution designed to cut off all past grand officers from its membership ; had an interesting season of oratory over the reception of the •diplomatic corps, and Grand Secretary Chadwick vouches for the scene as one of the most impressive and instructive it had been the pleasure of that body to enjoy, which leads us to remark that perhaps they do those things better and better the further you go west, for if we remember rightl}', Bro. Parvin don't find anything very impressive in such occasions ; exchanged telegraphic congratulations with the grand lodges of Manitoba and Wash- ington, and the Masonic Veteran Association, then in session, the latter at San Francisco; chartered three new lodges; learned from the report of the grand secretary that $2,442.01 had been realized from the special tax levied the previous year, and that there was enough money in the locker to keep house with very comfortably, and also that the Illinois semi-centennial med- als had been received ; appropriated $300 to the Masonic board of relief, of Portland ; recognized the grand lodges of Victoria and North Dakota ; and enjoyed a very interesting oration bj' Grand Orator F. A. Moore, in which the adaptation of the j^rinciples of ilasonry to the wants of man as a social and rational being are well set forth.
James F. Robinson, of Eugene, was elected grand master; Stephen Fowler Chadwick, Salem, re-elected grand secretary.
The report on correspondence (pp. 199) is as usual the most interesting feature of the Oregon proceedings, and it is always likety to be until Past Grand Master Chadwick lays down the pen, a day we trust j-et far in the future. We have grounds for this hope, for though Brother Chadwick
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staunchly classes himself with the "old fogies," Masonically speaking, the youthful spirits which bubble and sparkle in his reports show that Old Father Time has no boy's play on his hands in trying to bring him down to slow marching time. He gives something over seven pages to the Illinois proceedings for 1889, examining them thoroughly, quoting the grand mas- ter's decisions and quite extensively from the historical portion of his address, and saying many pleasant things of the Illinois brethren. Coming down to the semi-centennial proper, he says:
This Fiftieth Anniversary was celebrated with a grand banquet. We were amused in reading over the "Menu." The first thing to eat was "California Salmon." This would be fun for a Californian, even. Who ever heard of a California salmon, unless they were shipped there from Oregon — salmon worthy of the name. Canned salmon are taken there from Oregon and Alaska; like California oysters, which are Eastern or Oregon 03'sters, bedded there. Had it said, "Columbia River Salmon of Oregon," salmon eaters would know they had the finest salmon in the world: but California salmon are bad, very bad ; Illinois salmon would have been better. The toasts were all good. All in all, this Semi-Centennial Celebration was not only an honor to the Craft, but an event of which the entire State should feel proud.
We do regret that we can not find space for the addresses delivered and the poems read on this occasion. They are excellent. "Masonry and the Dignity of Labor," by Rev. Brother George C. Lorimer, D. D., is a brilliant oration. The remarks by all the brethren who spoke were very fine and instructive. At Battery D, we notice among the grand officers and special guests of the evening, at the center table for supper, that several ladies were seated. This added much to the credit of the brethren. It makes all the difference in the world. We can not do this matter full justice.
We thank him for his good word for Illinois salmon, of which the variety in our waters is "various." On the Mississippi, where we live, they are called cat. We are glad to have his approval of the remarks on the land- marks, copied from our review of Iowa, and introduced, thus:
As to landmarks in Masonry: We do not understand that Brother Al- bert Pike asserts that there are no landmarks in Masonry. He has not only declared there were, but has enumerated them. He may not approve of the list in full prepared by Bro. Mackey which Brother Parvin denounces. Bro. Parvin goes farther than any one of whom we have read on this subject. We are not prepared to confound Brother Pike with Brother Parvin in this matter. There are landmarks or there is no Freemasonry. We are aston- ished at this " Bull in the China shop " business. Will it never stop?
As usual Bro. Chad wick's report bristles all over with brilliant things, but it would be a mistake to judge from such as we are wont to copy that the solid qualities are wanting. They are always able papers.
Of the past master'* degree, dear to his heart, he says:
Our good Brother Staton is four inches longer than we are and two pounds lighter, and still thinks that the abolishment of the past master degree would not affect him in the least. To one who suspended a grand master
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and involved himself in a personal war of words with a past grand officer, and almost a knock-out, etc., this statement seems incredible. So long as Oregon retains her high position among the civilized states of the world she will retain her undying love for this degree. We regret again that we can not write on these important questions.
There is sound philosophy in this from his "Conclusion":
The principles of Masonry are old, but the symbolical and allegorical methods by which they are given free scope, practicability and force, are a new revelation to the newly made Mason. His Masonic life must now com- mence by digging deeply into the dogmas of his profession ; into those re- cesses that increase Masonic faith and develop its philosophy. This work must be within himself. The moment he goes out of himself to seek that in- dividual strength that is essential to advancement in Masonry which he can obtain only by seeking it within himself, he becomes a changeable and un- certain body, no longer subject to iirst impressions. To comprehend the benefits of Masonry is a life work. He who does Masonry will be strong in the element of sociability, liberal and prudent in the attribute of charity and thorough in the practice of what he professes. The advanced age of man shows that sociability and mental growth characterize him to the end of life. At no period should a Mason cease to be the quickening spirit of sociability. This gives him fullness of heart and breadth of intellect.
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The term -'progressive" may apply to man, but not to fundamental principles. The wheat of ancient Egypt and the wheat from which the eighty loaves of bread were made, found in the ruins of Pompeii, was the wheat of to-da3^ and the world now may be astonished at the scientific dis- posal that has been made of the uses to which this cereal is subject; yet the principles that have made it bread, and every thing but bread, are made known by study, penetration and application. Because honesty is better known and observed does not make the principle a new one. Because a Ma- son, as such, is more social, often sociable and more intelligent, does not give to the world a new discovery of a principle. Man does not make intelligence, he receives it intuitively, according to his capacity. The lowest order of in- tellect among men sees the manifestations of superior intelligence in more advanced races. They feel the power of superior races in their wars and government. This ability of superior races is not conclusive against inferior races. It is a question of condition. The march of civilization may elevate, step by step, the lowest type of manhood to better conditions. The civilized of our race must lead the way of those who know nothing of that education that those possess who have been trained in progressive schools for genera- tions that have been coming and going since creation.
George Washington "never saw a steamboat." Benjamin Franklin would be paralyzed with amazement were he to return to the earth and wit- ness the uses to which his lightning is put. Sir Moses Montefiore fully ex- emplified the principle of charity during his long and useful life. All of these eminent Masons were distinguished for their great achievements for mankind. They died at great age; the noble Hebrew at the age of 102. They were no better or different Masons in principle when they died than when they became Masons. Were they all alive now, in this respect, there would be no difference. They might be more learned in arts, sciences, po- litical economy, etc., and more familiar with Masonic requirements as the field for Masonic labor is enlarged, but not stronger in Masonic faith, or more social and charitable. They died as they lived, by their Masonic vows.
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The temptation to summarize Bro. Chadwick's reports is always -well- nigh irresistible, and it is especially strong in this case. It is our readers' loss that time will not permit us to do so.
PENNSYLVANIA. 1890.
Annual. Philadelphia. Dec. 27, 1890.
This volume, with its customary generous type and elegant printing and make up, is adorned with the picturesque /^(rr simile, on steel, of our Roman- esque brother, the distinguished Richard Vaux, grand master in 1867, 186S, 1869, whose unique, able and statuesque reports on correspondence, no less than his executive serxnce, have carried his fame as a Mason everywhere.
An equally fine portrait of James M. Porter — a strikmgly thoughtful face — makes the frontispiece of the report on correspondence.
Besides special communications for the dedications of Masonic halls, and an emergent communication held to accept the completed decorations of Ionic Hall in the temple at Philadelphia, the volume contains the records of stated communications, as follows: Quarterly, Mar. 5, 1S90.
The representative of Illinois, William T. Slingluff, is not recorded as present either at this or any other communication during the year. A peti- tion for a warrant for a new lodge was refeiTed to the grand officers \vith power to act.
Quarterly, June 4, 1890. Three petitions for new lodges were referred to the grand officers with power.
The grand master (Clifford P. MacCalla) reported the following facts relative to the so-called " Egyptian Rite of Memphis":
1. The said rite, in its title, claims to be a "Masonic" body, whereas it has been decided by two Grand Masters of Pennsylvania not to be a Ma- sonic body.
2. It addresses the official certificates which it issues to its members, *'To all Masons throughout the globe," and "To all Free and Accepted Ma- sons."
3. In its constitution and official history, it asserts that its so-called grand master ' ' shall always possess the right and have the power to make Masons at sight."
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AYhereupon, on motion of Past Grand Master Conrad B. Day, pream- bles setting forth the facts as stated bj- the grand master, and the following resolutions were adopted :
The7'efoi-e, Resolved, That the said so-called "Egyptian Masonic Rite of Memphis " is Masonically a clandestine body.
Resolved, That an edict of the right worshipful grand lodge be issued, declaring the so-called " Egyptian Masonic Rite of Memphis" to be clan- destine, and notifying and requiring all brethren Free and Accepted Masons in the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania to sever their con- nection with and renounce their allegiance to said rite within ninety days from this fourth da}' of June, a. l. 5890.
This is the same body (or one of them — there were two, the other being the "Ancient Primitive Rite of Memphis") which in 1884 the Grand Lodge of Illinois warned the brethren of its obedience against as claiming authority in Ancient Craft Masonry. It did not do this, however, until by letters over their own signatures, the proprietors of the two concerns, Darius Wilson and Alexander B. Mott respectively, in answer to specific inquiries, dis- tinctly claimed the right — which they would waive so long as thej^ were let alone — to confer the degrees of Entered A^jprentice, Fellow Craft and Mas- ter Mason.
Quarterly, Sept. 3, i8go. The deputj^ grand master (J. Simpson Africa) •explained his presence in the chair h\ the absence of Grand Master Mac- Calla in Europe, and read the following cablegram from him :
London, September 3, 1890. The Grand Master of Pennsjdvania sends heart}' greetings to his grand lodge from within the open Grand Lodge of England.
For the second time in one hundred and fifty-nine years, a Grand Master •of Pennsylvania visits the Mother Grand Lodge and is warmly greeted.
Other matters at this meeting were wholly of local interest.
Quarterl}^ Dec 3, 1S90. Grand Master ]\IacC.\ll.\ having returned from abroad occupied the chair.
J. SiMi'soN Africa was elected grand master. Grand Master MacCalla having declined a re-election; Michael Nisbet, re-elected grand secretary. The P. O. address of both is Masonic Temple, Broad St., Phila.
The grand lodge reviewed its finances, which were found to be in a sat- isfactory condition. Among the payments is one of $6,600 for salaries of grand secretary and his clerks and clerk of the finance committee.
The committee on temple reported the acceptance of a full-length oil portrait of Past Grand Master Conrad B. Day, the gift of Harmony Lodge, No. 52, and similar portraits of Brethren Andrew Rodeno, Jr. and George
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W. Kendrick, Jr., gifts respectively from Mary Commander)', No. 36, and Philadelphia Commandery, No. 2, Knights Templar. At a later hour the following was adopted after a futile attempt to make an exception in favor of past grand masters and to postpone action until the next quarterly:
Whereas. Several life-size portraits of living Master Masons have rec- ently been placed as permanent adornments in the Masonic Temple, and as the spaces for the proper exhibition of portraits of distinguished Masons will soon be limited.
Resolved, That on and after St. John the Evangelist's Day, a. l. 5S90, the Temple committee be directed to dechne placing in Masonic Temple, Philadelphia, the likeness, portrait bust, figure, statue, or representation of any living ]Mason.
Two thousand five hundred dollars was appropriated to the stewards of the Stephen Girard charity fund.
Annual communication Dec. 27, 1890. The grand master reported that he had sequestrated the warrant of a lodge for having so procrastinated as to make apparent the purpose of the lodge and of its trial committee not to bring to a final issue the cases of three of its members charged and finally pleading guilty to the charge of being members of a "Cerneau" consistory. His action was confirmed,
Last year we chronicled the munificent gift of Grand Treasurer Thomas R. Patton who gave the grand lodge $25,000, the nucleus of a charity fund for the relief of widows of INIaster Masons, designed as a memorial to his deceased wife. At this meeting Bro. Patton added thereto an equal amount, saying:
I now desire to make another donation of twenty-five thousand ($25,000) dollars in first mortgage four and one-half per cent, guaranteed bonds, which I herewith hand you, Avhich wdll increase the principle sum to fifty thousand ($50,000) dollars, thereby securing, in accordance with the deed of trust, the payment of fifteen hundred ($1,500) dollars for the uses of the relief fund.
This additional donation is to be considered and become a part of the original fund, under the conditions of the deed of trust, which I deem un- necessary to change in any particular, but which I hereby ratify and confirm in all and every respect.
Bro. Patton knows a good investment when he sees it. We have no doubt this $50,000 will bring him greater returns than any other investment' of equal magnitude he ever made.
The grand master's address touches a good many phases of Masonry and its business. Under the head of living up to the Landmarks, he says :
It has been my purpose throughout the past year to adhere closely — as all of my predecessors in the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania have done — to
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the ancient usages, customs and Landmarks of Freemasonry. It is only by such a course that the stability of both our principles and practice can be maintained. The Fraternity in Pennsylvania has long and justly been cre- dited, not only at home, but as well abroad, with marked conservatism in Masonic thought and action. It perpetuates the established, it deprecates, innovation, it denies the demand, which occasionally arises, for the novel. There can lawfully be nothing new in Freemasonry. Any Masonic practice that is novel is thereby self-condemned. We stand uix)n the old ways, and will not consent to the introduction of any nineteeth-century profane meth- ods into our ancient Fraternity.
And under the head of Modern Innovations Unlawful:
We recognize and enforce the truth that Freemasonry is, in the highest sense of the term, a secret society ; and that candidates must seek us of their own free will, not we them, by any form of invitation whatsoever. Hence a public installation of lodge officers has never been known under the authority of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania. Hence we have no public grand honors, to exhibit in the presence of the profane. Hence we require that at all formal Masonic meetings only Freemasons shall be present. We rarely have a procession of the Craft, and that only on a most important Masonic occasion. We participate in no general public processions. When we attend a Brother's funeral we do not wear Masonic clothing, or regalia. We do nothing in public for the purpose of attracting th& attention of the profane. We think that by this action we are maintaining the integrity of Masonic principles, and the ancient usages of the Craft. Tnere are other organiza- tions which were created for the purpose of display, or which may con- sistently adopt it to further their interests; but Freemasonry, which avowed- ly does not seek to make proselytes, and which is or should be, the most secret organization in the world, may not lawfully court the gaze of the pro- fane, nor invite them to be present at a purely and exclusively Masonic lodge ceremonial, such, for example, as a lodge anniversary, or the installa- tion of lodge officers. We have public ceremonials, which are necessarily so, such as the laying of the corner-stone of a public building, on the invita- tion of the proper authority. This is lawful, and the usage with regard to it is universal. It requires no refinement of casuistry to distinguish between it and the needless exposure of a purely secret ceremonial, such as the in- stallation of officers, or the celebration of the constitution of a lodge. These latter are for the Craft alone, while the former is necessarily performed in public and therefore open to public observation. In connection with our pub- lic ceremonies, however, no lodge is opened.
With the general thought of the above we agree, but to call the installa- tion of officers a purely secret ceremonial is a misuse of terms. With the ex- ception of that portion of it known as the past master's degree, or " investing with the secrets of the chair " — where that practice still prevails, for in many jurisdictions the chair has no secrets — the essential portion of it has been in print almost as long as Masonry has existed in its present form. The fifteen charges to which the master is required to assent, has been in print since the appearance of the first edition of Anderson's Constitution.
Of "The Influence of Other Organizations," he says:
There is a tendency which the Craft continually should watch. Our
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Fraternity frequently makes Masons of those who are already connected with other secret orgjanizations — purely modern — whose usages and customs are entirely different from our own. The constant, and possibly unconsci- ous, effort of these brethren is to introduce into Freemasonry the usages with which they have grown familiar in their other secret societies. This cannot be permitted. Freemasonry is a law unto itself. Our usages are our own, and imalterable. We change not. The individual must yield his ■opinions and desires to the Craft; he cannot mould it, it must mould him. He sought it of his own free will, and he must willingly and loyall}' main- tain its ancient usages and customs, without admixture with those of any ex- traneous society whatsoever. No modern invention, m usage or custom can improve Freemasonry.
This is true, and among the most potent, if not the most potent of the influence tending to transform Masonry, are those that are reflected back upon it from societies that are superimposed upon it calling themselves Ma- sonic.
Grand IMaster MacCalla found much pleasure in visiting Masonically while abroad. He thus speaks of his visit to the Grand Lodge of England:
Brother Colonel !Marmaduke Ramsa}^ District Grand Master of Malta, presided as "Grand Master in the Chair," in the absence of the Most Wor- shiptul Grand Master the Prince of Wales, and cordially welcomed me to the Grand Lodge of England. This welcome was accorded me as your repre- sentative. It was the Grand Master of Pennsylvania who was received, and only once before had this official been received, and that one hundred and fifty-nine years ago, my illustrious predecessor having been Brother Colonel Daniel Coxe, the Provincial Grand Master of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, appointed by Deputation from the Grand Master of Eng- land, dated June 5, 1730. It was on January 29, 1731, that he was welcomed in the Grand Lodge of England, on which occasion his health was drunk as '" The Provincial Grand Master of North America." This official acknow- ledgement of Pennsylvania's grand master occurred more than two years before any deputation had been issued for the introduction of Freemasonry into Massachusetts, or any other part of America other than our own juris- diction, which was then united with those of New York and New Jersey.
I will not attempt to portray to you the magnificence of the scene on my visit to our mother grand lodge. The grand officers were brethren of the high- est distinction, Masonically and socially; the grand lodge-room was brilliant with symbolic and artistic decorations; the Masonic clothing of the oflficers and members was rich and appropriate ; and the proceedings were in the highest degree dignified and orderly. I may convey to you my meaning with regard to this latter feature by saying that the proceedings were as dignified and orderly as those of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania.
The grand master had just been speaking of his \-isit to Bro. William James Hughan, who, he said had been of "great service to the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania through his writings, which have aided to establish and maintain the fact that Philadelphia was the premier Masonic city on this continent and the mother-city of Masonry in America." This naturally leaves the inference on one's mind that the deputation to Coxe had been fruit- ful of results and that through him, " Pennsylvania's grand master," Phila-
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delphia became the premier Masonic city, etc. Philadelphia uiay have been the premier Masonic city, but if so it was by virtue of the existence of lodges that had no warrants, lodges that "just grew" as Topsy did, for they never had any parents.
The letter of " B. Franklin, G. M," to Henry Price and the Boston brethren, written Nov. 28, 1734, is evidence that at that time — a year and a half after the issue of Price's deputation, the Masonry of Philadelphia was "wanting the sanction of some authority derived from home" (England.) It was because it was so lacking that Franklin wrote the letter. If the lodge or lodges had been established under the authority of Coxe's deputa- tion their authority would have been ample and Franklin would have had no occasion to look to Price.
Of the spontaneous contributions of Masons for the relief of sufferers by the Johnstown flood, the grand master says:
The Masonic Relief committee of Johnstown acknowledge the receipt of $47,585.09. Of this sum, $41,596 was sent by me direct to the committee, as set forth in my report of last year, and the remaining $5,989.09 was for- warded to the committee independently by various Brethren and bodies of Freemasons. In addition, I sent $500 by telegraph to District Deputy Grand Master Brother James S. McKean at Johnstown, the Monday after the flood ; also, $1,665 to various flood sufferers, and $1000 to the general relief fund, of which Brother Mayor Fitler, of Philadelphia, was the custodian. This made a grand total of $50,750.09, received and expended for the relief of the flood sufferers. The Masonic relief committee in its report to me of its disburs- ments of $47,585.09, say (what will be gratifying to all the contributors to the fund):
' ' We are glad to be able to add, that we do not know of a dollar of the sum hereinafter accounted for having been bestowed on any one unworthy of this great charity."
From the grand master's decisions we quote the following, supplying numbers for our own convenience:
I. It is an established principle of Freemasonry that electioneering for Masonic office is not Masonic. Profane methods must not be introduced into the Craft. The following specific forms of such electioneering I have de- cided to be unlawful:
It is not permissible to send out through the jurisdiction, for use in dif- ferent lodges, a printed circular instruction to a lodge representative from a past master (with name in blank, to be filed up), to vote for a Brother therein named, as a grand officer. A lodge representative is justifiable in not recognizing an instruction evidenced in this un-Masonic manner.
It is not permissible to open any head-quarters outside of the Masonic Temple, where brethren may participate in a complimentary luncheon im- mediately prior to or during the holding of a Masonic election, in the interest of any brother who is to be voted for for Masonic office.
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2. An illegitimate son is disqualified for initiation into Freemasonry. According to the Landmark, an applicant must be "the son of honest par- ents."
3. A lodge connot assess its members, upon the death of one of their number, to pay a funeral benefit. Such an act would be icltra vires. A resolution providing for such an assessment is out of order, because contrary to the usages and customs of Freemasonry.
4. A brother must be physically qualified to perform the work of the station to which he aspires, or else he cannot be installed. A brother who has lost the greater part of the thumb of his right hand is ineligible to be installed Junior Warden of a lodge.
5. Black cubes are not lawful Masonic black balls, and cannot be used as such in a lodge. Black balls, like white balls, must be round.
6. If a lodge-room or Masonic hall has not been dedicated to Free- masonry, the lodge owning it may, if it so desire, rent it for use by another society; but it may not do so if it has been dedicated to Freemasonry.
7. A dispensation authorizing a lodge to make a Mason of an applicant wlio has a phj-sical disqualification will not be granted. The moral, mental, and physical qualifications for Freemasonry are absolute, and cannot be dis- pensed with.
8. In the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania there cannot be an appeal from the decision of a right worshipful grand master.
g. Where an applicant has been approved and initiated without any inquiry of the grand secretary as to whether there is anything on his records against him, or without the recipt of a favorable reply to such an inquiry, the candidate was unlawfully made, and grand lodge must be petitioned to heal Ms making.
We are surprised that the necessity should have arisen for the decision we have numbered otie in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania "profane" knows a thing or two about electioneering methods, but the Masonry ot that State is so secluded that we could not suppose these methods would make their way through the veil. We have known campaigns made for Masonic offices in jurisdictions where the brethren wear their aprons to Masonic fun- erals, and even admit their wives and daughters to their installations — cam- paigns by wholesale letter writing, and even by postal cards, but never any where the candidate managed to get his name into an " instruction " blank, or invoked the potent aid of the free lunch. We more than agree with the grand master that a representative would be justifiable in not recognizing such an instruction, if he had reason to believe it was procured by the can- didate. There ought to be such a universal agreement that electioneering for Masonic office is unmasonic, that whoever resorted to it would find hini- selt at the foot of the poll.
Referring to No. 4, we think it is better, of course, that a brother should be physically qualified to perform the work of the station to which he aspires,
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but we do not believe that the misfortune of having been maimed either takes from him his eligibiUty or from the lodge its right to elect him. No. 5 we presume is based on the fact that a cube is not round, for we can think of no other leg it has to stand on. But if a cube is not a ball, it may be a ballot, and its shape aids in preventing mistakes. We know of no landmark which requires Masonic ballots to be round. We are in accord with No. 8 in so far as it means that his decision is law for the time being, but while a grand lodge may not reverse his decision in the case wherein it was given, it may decide that it shall not be the law for other cases, and that it shall not be operative beyond the recess.
No. 8 is given for information. It is the law of the Grand Lodge ot Pennsylvania, but not the law of Masonry, in so far as it assumes the neces- sity of healing in consequence of any omission that does not effect the regu- larity of the lodge or of the meeting at which the degree is conferred.
We are glad to find the following on this subject in the brief but well- considered address of the incoming grand master (J. vSimfson Africa) in- stalled at this communication :
Hardship has often been inflicted upon worthy applicants for initiation and membership by reason of the neglect of secretaries of lodges to make the required inquires of the right worshipful grand secretary, as prescribed in the Ahiman Rezon, pages 235 and 239. A secretarj^ maj- neglect to com- municate with the grand secretary in such cases, or to report to the lodge the reply of that officer, but it is the duty of the worshipful master to with- hold a ballot on any petition until a favorable response has been received from the grand secretary and an announcement of that fact has been made. Hitherto, the penalty for such neglect of duty has, sometimes, fallen upon innocent heads, but hereafter the proper officers will be held to a strict ac- countability in such cases.
A highly appreciative minute was adopted recognizing the high service of the retiring grand master, and a suitable engrossed copy signed by the grand officers was ordered to be prepared for him. He was also presented with a past grand master's jewel.
The report on correspondence (pp. 229) by Past Grand Master Rich.\rd Vau.x surely does not warrant the deprecatory way in which he speaks of it at its close. Great as has been the hindrances and distractions under which he has done the work, he has builded better than he knew. He says :
We feel mortified that it is apparent that many defects exist in this re- port,— more than it has been our good fortune heretofore to permit. But our beloved brethren will be less severe in their criticisms when the difficul- ties through which we had to labor are suggested; it is needless to explain or describe them. A few hours only during seven weeks could be com- manded for our work. These hours were taken from daj's and nights ab- sorbed mostly by public duties.
In his salutatory he speaks of the prevailing harmony among gran d lodges and Masons, and asks :
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What other institution of men among mankind, in this age of novelties, theories, unrest, speculations m science, and disputations and doubts as to the foundation of faith, has such a record as Freemasonry? Quiet, believ- ing, constant, unwavering, holding fast to the traditions and teachings which have come down from the aforetime. Freemasonry is undisturbed, confiding, satisfied, and in the grandeur of its principles defies agitations, as the eternal rocks the foam of the billows of the storm-tossed sea*
We wish we could spare the space for the whole of his opening remarks. As it is, we must pass over much excellent advice and content ourselves with taking that portion of it treating of physical fitness, not only because he refers to it in his notice of Illinois, but because the exhortation with which it closes deserves to be written in letters of gold:
The difference of opinions as to what constitutes a '■'■ physical disability" of candidates asking initiation into Freemasonry is becoming of importance to the fraternity.
The reasoning by which the standard of a "perfect youth" is maintained is the logical deduction from premises which are latent in the essence of Ma- sonic law. The "ancient mj-steries," from which the mysteries embodied in the symbolism of Freemasonry are derived — must have been originally derived — required the initates to be qualified to receive them. That qualifi- cation was to be ascertained by inspection and examination. The " prepara- tion," and the tests, were severe and prolonged. They were intended to demonstrate the phvsical and mental capacity to undergo both without de- fault.
A physical defect did not require the test, for the preparation discovered it.
The initiate was to be perfect, so as to obtain what the preparation and tests were intended to determine were the requirements for initiation. Why were they instituted, if not for that? If physical or mental disability existed, it needed no such prolonged and severe trial to ascertain the fitness of the in- dividual. As to the physical, it was apparent. The mental needed a more careful investigation. Those who care to study what is now known of the process of testing the qualification for the "ancient mysteries" cannot fail, as we think, to be convinced that perfection — a perfect condition of body and mind — was the absolute essential requirement of those who sought initiation.
So far as these traditions have come to tis of this day, we have adopted the method originally designed, not to the extent of the severity of the tests, but so far as the acceptance of the qualifications are essentially necessary.
Of course we cannot write a comparison, but we my venture to point out the character of the ceremony" of " preparation." For what purpose is the stringency of this proceeding, at least in our jurisdiction ?
"Physical disqualification" is certainly a primary object. For what? To determine the action that follows, before the ceremony.
The law as it exists ordains this preparation. It is exact now in its par- tictilars. It declares what shall be the qualifications.
It is not a statute by grand lodge enactment, a written law of grand lodge. It does not appear in any written ordinance or constitution of a grand
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lodge. It IS unwritten, a law orally established and communicated. It is a. tradition. Whatever may have been its entirety, it is unalterable. No au- thority in Masonry can alter, change, or amend it. It is a landmark, be- cause it cannot be "removed;" it is steadfast, abiding, unchangeable. If this be so, then the reasoning from such a premise makes a minute or a gross • violation of the law equally impossible.
If it be admitted that a candidate without an arm is physically disquali- fisd, by what authority is it to be said that the loss of a small part of an arm is not a disqualification, or the loss of a finger is not a disqualification if the loss of the hand be within the prohibition?
The authority to decide is not known as an authority. It must rest on the caprice or whim of the lodge membership. Is that sufficient to set aside a landmark? If the landmark is not to be removed or changed by the highest Masonic power, can a lesser Masonic authority do it with impunity?
If not a jot or tittle of the law, the fundamental, absolute law, can be changed, how then can any change be made, but by the direct violation of the law? Can Freemasonry as established exist, if any number of Freema- sons can destroy the fundamental landmark on which it rests, the very law that constitutes it what it is now, and has been since the aforetime? If this is to be justified or approved, then any other essential requirement for initi- ation of a candidate can be ignored, set aside, changed by any one of the subordinate lodges of any grand lodge of Free and Accej^ted Masons, where- ever situated.
Have we not seen already in France that Freemasonry has become a reproach, a scandal, and an outlaw from the commonwealth of true Free- masonry? Having lost its character as a Masonic body, it has been cut off from recognition by all grand lodges of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons in the States of the United States, and England. It changed, ignored a landmark.
Is not this proof of the impossibility of changing the essential funda- mental law of our Craft with impunity? This is a greater offence, it may be said. But no, the reasoning as to it is perfect as to the principle involved.
Dear brethren, we have felt it a duty thus to speak. Our ancient and honorable Fraternity must be protected against innovations. Begin, and who can foresee or foretell the end? Pardon us, dear brethren; we only pre- sent our views on this subject because we feel the grave danger that lies in the abjuration of a truth; the overthrow of a safeguard; the yielding to policy; the surrender to importunities; the giving up of authoritative law to the inconsiderate desire " to advance with the progress of the age." Free- masonry never would exist to-day, be the institution it is, if those who have gone before us were weak enough to believe that change could justify the abandonment of Masonic law to gratify those who were ignorant of its true, unchangeable character, or its unalterable, essential, fundamental principles.
It might be asked. What is the most appropriate remedy for these dif- ferences of opinion? We have none to suggest. The foundation of Free- masonry has long been laid. Like the eternal hills, it stands immovable. Seek by earnest study, without prejudice, to find this foundation. It exists. It is knowable to those who diligently seek it. Ask, and ye shall receive; seek, and ye shall find. Reject the insidious suggestion that this foundation can be covered up by the most specious of all error, the error that circumstances
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and present temporary policy can destroy this foundation, erected by the wisdom of the sages in the ages that have passed. They gave us Freema- sonry in trust for those who come after us. Let us preserve it as we re- ceived it.
Bro. Vaux gives ten pages of his valuable space to Illinois. " Present company is always excepted," is a venerable saying. Of course the Pennsyl- vania volume could not have been before him when he wrote :
We must remark that the printed pamphlet copy of the proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Illinois is the best speci- men of the typographical art we have received. It is a very beautiful pamphlet.
Grand Master Pearson's address is charactei-ized as an admirable paper, and the remark that "there is strong common sense manifested in his opin- ions," shows that the man's presence is not necessary to accurate measure- ment. He copies with commendation his remarks on the ritual, and on the subject of lodge jurisdiction. He also copies the skeleton of one of the re- ports of our committee on appeals — that portion which is deemed essential for record— and concludes that it is " a delightful way of making reports." If he should be present when inquiry makes its necessary for the committee to demonstrate the oral method of putting the rounded form on these flesh- less bones he would not, we are sure, credit the delight to any escape from careful study and preparation. He does not, we feel equally assured, over- look the implied compliment to his own jurisdiction — the great exemplar of dignified reticence in all that pertams to Freemasonry.
It would be churlish not to make public confession of our gratification at the compliment involved in his transferring almost the whole of our in- troduction to his pages, and the more direct compliment of having so dis- tinguished a brother stand sponsor for its being worth a careful reading. We take great pleasure in reciprocating his generous expressions.
In further reference to our report he says:
In noticing Pennsylvania, our brother mentions the reception by Grand Master MacCalla of the Illinois contribution of five hundred dollars to the Johnstown sufterers, remarking that five thousand dollars were ordered to be sent if needed. That is faith by works emblazoned on the gratitude of the sufferers.
We do not comprehend our brother's criticism on our remarks on " Phys- ical Disqualifications." We have in this report given more fully our opin- ions.
Notwithstanding the address of the Recording Grand Secretary of Massachusetts attack on our Grand Master MacCalla, and his offensive innu- endoes, and his impotent effort to make one Price the original Boston " Father" and " Founder " of Masonry on this continent (we rejoice he does not claim it prior to Columbus), Philadelphia is the mother city of Masonry in the United States. We of course repeat all we said about dogmatizing,
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though we can't be put on the stocks for that. We do not expect to be by ovu" t)rother yet.
Our brother complains that we are too affectionate ! Well, the fraternal spirit sometimes overflows the limit of the lettc7'. We will not offer our " farewell salutations " to our dear brother till he lets us out of the stocks he is preparing for us. What with Brother Drummond's, of Maine, "flail," .and Brother Vincil's, of Missouri, "flail," and Brother Robbins's "stocks," we are not dismayed.
We grieve that he does not comi^rehend our remarks on the subject of the physical fitness of candidates, because if it is so obscure as not to be in- telligible to him, what must it be to the great mass of our readers with their •comparative poverty of information?
Last year Bro. Vaux found the origin for the "perfect youth" require- ment in the rules laid down for the Jewish priesthood ; this year he goes much further back, even to the time ' ' when ' sun worship ' was the cult of Iribes and peoples," as will be seen by reference to what we have quoted
from his salutatory.
If the declaration of what shall be the qualifications does not appear in .any written ordinance or constitution of a grand lodge, it does appear in the Constitutions of Freemasonry, and any verbal formula that does not square iitself by that declaration is evidence that the ' ' tradition " has been corrupted. We agree with him that it is a landmark — not because it cannot be removed, but that it cannot be removed because it is a landmark — because it has its foundation in what the fathers who had the best opportunities to know what the immemorial law was, solemnly agreed that it was a part of the immem- orial and unchangeable. We do not say that nothing is landmark that is not found in the Charges of a Freemason as agreed to in 1722, but we do say un- Jiesitatingl}' that nothing is landmark that is not in accord with those charges, and it was this law which we had in mind when we said last year that there is no warrant in it "for demanding of the 'perfect 3-outh' more than that degree of perfection which will enable him to receive, practice and impart the Masonr}^ which that law circumscribes, on terms of equality with his fellows." Whether each candidate is perfect enough to do this somebody must decide, just as somebody must decide under the Pennsylvania rule which they hold to be more rigid, and it is no more difficult to decide whether there has been deprivation of enough of any of a candidate's members to "render him uncapable of learning the art of serving his master's lord," than it is to decide whether he is sufficiently " flat nosed" to bring him with- in the inhibitions of the Levitical law as cited by our brother last year. Of course no human judgment is fallible, and under any interpretation of the law mistakes will sometimes occur, but this is no excuse for setting aside the law. It is our duty to stand by the law — and by the law in its purity, as it stood before schism had given occasion or opportunity for its corruption. 'This is our duty because as our distinguished brother trulj- says, Masonry
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cannot exist if the very law that makes it what it is and what it has been since aforetime, is destroyed.
We have not had an opportunity to read the address of the recording- grand se :;retary of Massachusetts to which Bro. Vaux refers, because un- fortunately that section of the Massachusetts proceedings which contains it never reached us. We fear our brother did not read with sufficient care the brief paragraph which prompts him to refer to the dispute between Massa- chusetts and Pennsylvania as to privity. We intimated our dissent from Grand Master MacCalla's claim for the Craft in Pennsylvania the first " formal organization," but so far from denying the priority of Philadelphia in the possession of unauthorized lodges, we were, so far as we know, the first to call attention to that fact, a score of years ago, in our review of an address delivered by Grand Master Gardner, of Massachusetts, in 1871. Convinced that there must be some hideous mistake somewhere to account for our brother's impression that we are about to' attempt to put him " in the stocks," we have carefully read over what we said last yenv. We find in the fourth line from the top of the first paragraph beginning on page 222, that the printer or our own bad proof reading, or both, made us say " does 7iot get a hearing in Masonry," when we meant to ssijdoes get a hearing in Ma- sonry. It may be that the presence of this interloping "not" so queered the whole of our discussion of the subject then in hand, that thus his conception of the inconceivable — that we should dream of putting him in the stocks — became possible. We are glad to confess that we have had our thought greatly widened by our communion with our dear Bro. V,\ux, but it is not broad enough yet to imagine stocks big enough to put him in.
We thank him for the deserved criticism of our misuse of the word " fare- well" to what we were far from hoping should be our final salutations, but to avert it in future we close — for close we must, with A uf Wiedersehen.
QUEBEC, 1891.
21ST Annual. Montreal. Jan. 28, 1891.
Thirty-three grand lodges were represented, Illinois by R. W. Bro. Alexander Chisholm, who presented his credentials immediately after the opening of the grand lodge, and with others was welcomed and saluted with the grand honors.
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The grand master (Isaac H. Stearns) announced the death of Col. Mc- Leod Moore, honorary past grand master of the Grand Lodge of Quebec, and grand master of Knights Templars for the Dominion of Canada. He was eighty years of age and had been a Mason sixty-three years, having been initiated at the early age of seventeen, at Aberdeen, Scotland. Other members of the grand lodge deceased were James W. Wright, past district grand master, and T. Inglis Poston, a past grand deacon, at forty-five.
Immediately after being called to labor after dinner of the first day, the grand chaplain delivered an interesting and well considered discourse on " Masonry in the World."
Of England and Quebec the grand master says :
Matters between England and Quebec have not changed since our last communication. M. W. Bro. Walkem, who undertook two years ago to me- diate between the two bodies, has conferred personally both in England and with the English lodges in this city, and seems hopeful of ultimate success. In the last letter I received from him, he says :
" I must ask you to allow matters to remain m their present condition, in order to give me an opportunity of doing what I consider expedient. Our brethren of Quebec must not be impatient if the settlement of the matter, which I trust will ultimately be accomplished, occupies some time."
It rests with you, brethren, to say whether the present state of aft'airs shall continue. M. W. Bro. Walkem, of course, is neither counsel for Que- bec nor England ; and we cannot call iipon him to disclose his plans until he is ready to do so, and when formulated, it is then time to consider whether they are acceptable to this grand lodge or not.
This was supplemented by the following from the committee on the state of Masonr}-, in which the grand lodge concurred:
While we cannot at this time but feel disappointed that so little definite infoiTuation can be laid before us, in regard to mediation with England, by M. W. Bro. Walkem, yet we can understand that diplomatic reasons may re- quire such information to be withheld, in the best interests of the Craft, and we suggest that every opportunity should be offered our respected mediator in his self-iiniDosed task, and can only trust that his hopes of ultimate suc- cess will be realized, and that he will be enabled to bring the matter to a happy solution, and thereby render himself entitled to the gratitude of the Masonic world.
The grand master strongly urged that the district deputy grand masters should be appointed by the executive whose immediate representatives they are, instead of being nominated by the representatives present from their respective districts. The same committee reported some considerations on both sides of the question, and suggested that the recommendation was worthy the very careful consideration of the grand lodge; we find no record of further action.
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He again presented his views on the desirabihty of establishing a Ma- sonic Home, there being a small nucleus of a fund for that purpose in the hands of the grand treasurer, but confessed that there seemed to be a lack of enthusiasm generally with the members. Near the close of the session the following was offered :
That that part of the constitution relating to members' fees payable for grand lodge purposes, be amended to read as follows: " Every lodge shall pay towards the fund for grand lodge purposes the sum of fifty cents per annum for each member; also an additional sum of fifty cents per annum for benevolence and charity, 50 per cent, of said benevolent fee to be applied for the purchase and maintenance of a Masonic Home, said pi'oceeds to be placed in the hands of three trustees, elected by and subject to the will of grand lodge ; and the remaining 50 per cent, of said benevolent fee shall be applied for the support of a board of relief m each district, said boards of relief to be composed of one representative from each lodge, and governed by by-laws to be adopted at a joint meeting of all the boards of relief; any unexpended balance of the annual income of each board of relief to be paid over to the trustees of the home fund annually.
A long discussion followed, but the body had dwindled down and it was decided not to go to a division with so few present; the subject was accord- ingly sent to a special committee with instructions to report early at the next meeting of the grand lodge.
Reference is made to the new grand lodges of Tasmania and New Zea- land by both the grand master and the above committee, and the hope ex- pressed that the committee on foreign relations may find them entitled to the recognition for which they ask. We do not find any report from that com- mittee respecting them.
Montreal was agreed upon as the next place of meeting.
Fr.^nk Edgar was elected grandmaster; John H. Isaacson re-elected grand secretary; both of Montreal.
The report on correspondence (pp. 105) is from the practiced hand of Bro. E. T. D. Chamhers, and only a practiced hand could get so much of in- terest into so small a space. Of this space he gives something over eight pages to Illinois for iSgo, chiefly to Bro. Wolff's oration and the report on correspondence.
Quoting from Bro. Wolff quite liberally as to objections to the secrecy of the institution, as to its origin and as to the way in which it honors woman,. he says:
Bro. Wolff" does not believe in the antiquity of Masonry. "It is true," he says, " that Adam made himself an apron, but I can scarcely believe that he was a Mason, for he had been guilty of grossly un-Masonic conduct just before. "
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But was he not promptly expelled therefor, Bro. Wolff?
He further says:
We admire his outspoken condemnation of the socialism, anarchism and communism, which, he declares, are under various names and slightly differ- ent forms, sowing seeds of discord in the land; atid principallj' for the rea- son that "axMasonisa peaceable subject to the civil powers wherever he resides or works, and is never to be concerned in plots and conspiracies against the peace and welfare of the nation ; " and the entered apprentice is warned " against at all countenancing any act that may have a tendency to subvert the peace and good order of society."
We trast that the time referred to by Bro. Wolff may be long distant, " when we, as Masons, like the Crusaders of old, will be called upon to grasp our trusty swords and go forth in defence of the truth and our homes." In the excitement engendered by oratorical warmth, fanned by the applause of an enthusiastic audience, even the most experienced and most successful of public speakers are sometimes carried away bj^ surrounding circumstances, and apostles of peace grow belligerent and make as though they would smite off the right ear of those from whom they dift'er. As ci/zzens. Freemasons, being distinguished for their loyalty to the state which maj' for a time be- come the place of their residence or afford them its protection, ma}' be counted upon to do their duty in the tented field, as they have so often done before. As Freemasons, however, their mission is xaXh^x peace than the sword, and they will have indeed materially departed from the principles and teachings of the Order, should they as such, for any purpose whatever, imitate the Crusaders of old by a resort to physical force, even for a maintenance of that which the}- deem to be the truth. Masonry is a constant search and en- deavor after the truth, but Masonry does not, and never can, compel the ac- ceptance of truth by others, either b}^ physical force or by any means what- ever. When our good Brother talks of us as going forth with our trusty swords, as Masons, in defence of our homes, we think he is rather under- estimating our zeal and ability to go forth, whenever occasion requires, as fathers, brothers, sons and citizens, and when he refers to the Crusaders of old as so going forth in defence of their homes, we are inclined to question his correct remembrance of the history of those stirring times.
M^e have no desire to belittle the full .significance and serious import of the mutterings of socialism, anarchism and communism in the neighboring Republic. Many thoughtful minds are occupied with the problem, suggested by Bro. Wolff, of how best to prevent the tapping, by these nefarious in- fluences, of our civiHzation and social fabric. And like our good Brother, we believe that Freemasonry has a mission to perform in this connection. It is handmaid to patriotism as well as to religion. But it promulgates its belief in the Brotherhood of man by the same propaganda as its faith in the Fatherhood of God. Not by physical force and persecution, but by the link- ing of men together by mystic points of fellowship as in a bond of fraternal affection and brotherly love, and by recommending to most serious contem- plation the volume of the sacred law, from which it follows that Freemasons are obliged by their tenure to obey the moral law. This is the leaven and these the influences that make for national honor and domestic peace, and though as citisejis, we may be strictly within the line of our duty in employ- ing the sword of human justice, as the free, fearless and independent citizens of Chicago have already done against the hydra-headed monster that occas- ionally troubles the peace of our Illinois Brethren, yet as Masons we have
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other duties to perform, and our mission is then the higher and nobler one of prescribing prevention rather than cure, and of warning and training all who are susceptible to our beneficent influence, against all that makes men slaves while they idl}? dream of freedom.
Before taking leave of Bro. Wolff, whose oration has deeply interested ns, and from whom we have borrowed much that will no doubt prove equally interesting to our readers, we must ask permission to express our extreme regret at the occurrence in the published report of his remarks, of the following language:
" Popeiy, the mother of superstition and bigotry, the eternal foe of Freemasonry, is seeking to gain control of our Republic."
It is none of our business to discuss the assertion herein made, but Freemasonry is the avowed handmaid of religion, and authorizes none of her votaries to pronounce in her name, either for or against any form of religious belief that teaches the existence of a Supreme Ruler of the Universe, whose dictates it is man's imperative duty to obey. It is our zeal alone for the old landmarks of Freemasonry that dictates the present protest; for in our own jurisdiction, as elsewhere, the Roman Catholic church, from an ill-formed conception, let us hope, of our aims and teachings, is the implacable foe of Masonry.
Nor can we resist the temptation, in this place, to point out that there is a thousandfold more of sectarianism in styling one of the religious bodies to which several of our membership belong, as "the mother of superstition and bigotry," than in permitting the prosecution and disciplining of a Brother who boasted that he did not believe in the Divine authenticity of the Bible. To quote the language our excellent Brother Past Grand Master Joseph RoblDins applied to ourselves last year ' ' to call it something else than sec- tarianism would not mend matters, because the fundamental law forbidding the introduction of any quarrels about religions or nations or state policy would still remain."
Of course there is no argument in this assertion, but it is the best that Bro. Robbins urges against our criticism of the Vienna Lodge case; and, as he touches us up for having ignored it last year, we fail to see that it merits any other reply than " that to call it sectarianism does not make it so." In this case it is not so much " what's in a name ?" as " how far is the name warranted?" That the attack upon the character of Rom-an Catholicism is sectarian we presume that even Bro. Robbins will not attempt to deny. That there would have been any sectarianism, on the other hand, in disciplining a Brother who boasted of his unbelief in the divine authenticity of the Book of the Law upon which he was obligated, Bro. Robbins is almost the only Masonic writer of note in the English-speaking world to maintain.
We could wish that our brother's zeal for the old landmarks of Free- masonry which leads him to protest against Bro. Wolfk's reference to the Romish church, was of a more abiding quality, as we find that in reply to our remark that he seemed to be of those who think it of more importance to be able to say that the sun is always at its meridian in respect to Freemas- onry, than that the landmarks which shape and circumscribe the institution should be preserved, he saj-s:
Yes, Bro. Robbins, we are decidedlv of those who believe that no com-
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paratively modern laws relating to Masonic government — call them land- marks if you will — if they so shape and circumscribe the institution as to limit its universahty, should be permitted to interfere with the practical ap- plication of principles coeval with the birth of the Order, or to deny the fact that " the sun is always at its meridian in respect to Freemasonry."
Of this it is enough for the moment to say, that the body of law known as the landmarks in no wise interferes with the practical application of any beneficent principle either by Masons or others, but it recognizes the fact that they may be applied by others and hence it defines the conditions under which their application is recognizable as Masonry.
We desire to recur to his remark in the quotation which preceded this — that of course there is no argument in our assertion that to call an inquisition into a brother's views of the Bible something else than sectarianism would not mend matters, because the law forbidding the introduction of any quar- rels about religion would still remain. We don't know what he nieans by this, because undeniably if such an inquisition does not introduce sectarian- ism into the lodge, it does introduce a quarrel about religion, which the Charges of a Freemason forbids. If this is not argument, fair argument, and argument directly to the point, then we confess we do not know w^hat argument is. It certainly fully justifies the action of the Grand Lodge of Illinois in the Vienna Lodge case, in which he says it is the best we have to offer. It is good enough, but it was not all we had to offer. We offered as evidence that the question involved was a sectarian qu^estion, the fact that the world is'full of sects based on differing views of the book, and that is legitimate argument of the most direct kind.
We can only give ourselves time enough to say with reference to his re- mark that we are almost the only writer — of note, he is so over-generous as to say — who maintains that the question whether a brother does or does not "believe in the divine authenticity of the Bible is one which no one has a right to ask in the name of Masonry, that our review of Maine may give him some new light on that subject ; and to add that we had not then read our broth- er's report, or we might have strengthened our citations by quoting from Bro. Chambers himself when he says, as we have seen, that " Freemasonry is the avowed handmaid of religion, and authorizes none of her votaries to pronounce in her name either for or against any form of religious belief that teaches the exis:ence of a Supreme Ruler of the Universe, whose dictates it is man's imperative duty to obey."
We must permit ourselves one more quotation from Bro. Chambers;
Though not an avowed advocate of Cerneauism, Bro. Robbins is an in- veterate foe of grand lodge legislation against that disturber of Masonic peace; though we should have expected, from the increasing force of his contentions for the supremacy of grand lodge supremacy, to find him chime in with the unison of Masonic condemnation of a body that has set at defiance
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the edicts of the grand lodge to which its members professed obedience. In- stead of this, it would appear that Bro. Robbins disputed the correctness of the charges made against Cerneauism by the grand master of Pennsylvania, and appealed to the supreme head of the incriminated body itself — a most remarkable excess of courtesy m one direction, to say the least, when it is considered that members of such body in Ohio are in open rebellion, and have invoked the strong arm of the law against the edicts of the grand lodge tO' which they owe submission.
Or, in other words, he would expect us, to signalize our loyalty to the ex- clusive sovereignty of the grand lodge, to "chime in" with the abdication by the grand lodge of the sovereignty which is its sole excuse for existing and the sharing by it with half a dozen other bodies the responsibility not only of governing and administering that which it could never have existed to gov- ern and administer had not each individual member of it solemnly agreed should not and could not be governed in any other way. Xo. We are not fond enough of strife and bitterness to wish to purchase it by the repudiation of our primary obligations.
At the expense of space that we can see that he could not well spare, Bro. Chambers reproduces that portion of the introduction to our report de- voted to ]\Iasonic Homes. We assure him that his kind words of our report are fully appreciated.
He refers to the fact that a hundred or so of the brethren of Illinois vol- unteered to have portions of skin cut from their arms in what proved to be a vain attempt to save a brother's life by skin-grafting, at the Emergency hos- pital, Chicago, as showing that they were animated by the true principles of Masonic charitv.
RHODE ISLAND, 1890.
looTH Annual. - Providence. May ig, iSgo,
This pamphlet is embellished with a wood cut of the Reformed Jewish Synagogue at Providence, the corner-stone of which was laid by the grand master assisted by the grand lodge.
The semi-annual communication was held Nov. i8, 18S9. The following from the grand secretary's report is of interest to all students of Masonry:
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The work of reprintin,^ the Early Proceedings of Grand Lodge is pro- gressing as rapidly as circumstances will permit, and a really interesting volume to the Masonic student has already been issued, to be followed shortly by a second equally valuable. Every brother in the jurisdiction should pos- sess this work, containing as it does the complete record of grand lodge and being a history of Freemasonry in this State. The price affixed per volume is $i.oo.
Past Grand Master Newton D. Arnold, representing Ilhnois, was re- ceived and acknowledged as grand representative.
The grand master (George H. Kenvon) gave notice of the death of Past Grand Master Lyman Klapp, and appointed a committee to prepare a eulogy. The other business was of purely local interest.
The one hundredth annual communication was opened with an elaborate programme :
March Entrance of Grand Officers
Anthem — " The Earth is the Lord's" Dow
Selection — Psalm cxxn Grand Chaplain
Sentences from New Trestle Board Grand Chaplain
Response, Solo and Chorus — "Jehovah Great" Mozart
Ceremonies.
Proper Psalm cxxxiii Grand Master
Anthem — " Benedictus " Lachner
Pr(jclamation Grand Marshal
Choir from Orphkls Lodg:£, No. 36.
Grand Master Kenyon says:
We are forcibly reminded of the rapid flight of time, when we recall the fact that this grand lodge has reached the venerable age of ninety-nhie years, and that we are now holding the One Hundredth Annual Communication. We are assembled for the purpose of reviewing the events of the past year ; of considering the present condition of the Craft in our jurisdiction, and mak- ing such provisions and regulations as we may deem expedient for its welfare in the future. The year just passed has been one of peace and ciuiet 111 the Fraternity, and while it has been marked by no startling events or unusual experiences, we rejoice m a steady and healthful growth from all sections of the State, by the addition to our numbers of good men and true who will aid in maintaining and preserving the honor and reputation of our noble institu- tion.
He recurred to the death of Past Grand Master Lyman Klapp, aged sixty-two, and announced also the death of seven past masters,, one of whom, Bro. Lebbeus C. Tourtelotte, had attained the ripe age of eighty-four.
He thus refers to a matter of misinformation :
I wish here to correct an impression which has been circulated exten- sively, and commented upon not only in the Masonic journals of our country but abroad, wherein we were represented as performing this ceremony in terms inconsistent with the religious faith of our Jewish brethren. Such was
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not the case, and all who were present and gave attention to the services can well remember the omission of the words which were said to have been used, and to have been distasteful to the people for whom we were laying the cor- ner-stone.
The grand master submitted two decisions — that two members of the committee of inquiry must report on an application before it could go to a ballot; and that in case of expulsion, confirmed by the grand lodge, the requisites for restoration were a unanimous ballot by the expelling lodge re- storing him, and this confirmed by the grand lodge. This is the same as our law except that we require a two-thirds vote of the lodge expelling him, recommending his petition for restoration, and on such recommendation the grand lodge restores by a majority vote. The remarkable thing about the Rhode Island decision is not the decision itself, but the fact stated by the grand master that nothing in the regulations of the grand lodge seemed to determine the course to be pursued. The grand master seems to lay some stress upon the fact that for some years since his expulsion the man has been a resident of another State, but th's of course cuts no figure whatever.
In his report of dispensations issued we find the following :
Permission has been granted in three cases for lodges to hold official correspondence with other lodges in other States ; having first obtained from the grand masters of the other States permission on their part for such corre- spondence.
Wherefore we suppose there is a regulation in the Providence Planta- tions that lodges therein must not write to lodges thereout without permis- sion ; because it is just as much a natural right of a lodge to communicate with any other regular lodge the world over, as it is one of the natural rights •of one Mason to hail any other regular Mason wherever he may meet him.
On the perennial subject of the uniformity of work the grand master after quoting from the records of the fathers the fact that the lectures of the three degrees were rehearsed in extetiso on the 17th of November, 5879, and thereupon declared to be the authorized lectures of the jurisdiction, says:
You will readily see that we have an authorized form of work to be used, but the officers of lodges have no means of ascertaining exactly what it is, for we cannot expect even those who were present at the time it was re- hearsed to accurately remember it all. There are among us some brethren who can, without doubt, accurately reproduce it and would wnllingly do so. While we have the opportunity why should we not attend to it? I most heartily recommend that a copy of the authorized work in suitable form, be placed in the custody of our grand secretar}-, to be at all times accessible to masters and wardens of lodges, to district deputy grand masters, and the ^and lecturer, for their information. This copy should not be removed or taken from the office of the grand secretary, nor be marked, copied, mter- Uned, or in any way changed ; that the district deputy grand masters shall keep themselves posted as to the correct version of the work, and feel under
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no restraint from correcting the work of any lodge, if they find errors in it ; but shall consider it a part of their duty to see that the authorized work in all their lodges is strictly adhered to. Thus we may acquire a uniformity of work and have little variation from it throughout our whole jurisdiction. The plan certainly seems to me worthy of a trial and I submit it to your judgment.
This is interesting as showing how long it takes history to repeat itself m a jurisdiction of the size of Rhode Island. On the 20th of November, 1871, the work and lectures were presented in manuscript by a committee previously appointed, and declared to be the genuine thing, and then it was ordered that all the work written out by the authority of the grand lodge, or by any person assuming to act for that body, be returned to the grand secre- tary within sixty days and then burned, the time for its destruction being fixed at II o'clock, ante-meridian, June 15, 1872. The records show that with the exactitude which characterizes all the doings of our Rhode Island brethren, the burnt offering to their obligations was made at precisely eleven o'clock on the day fixed.
This would make the cycle of the Rhode Island phoenix about twenty years in round numbers. It is said that it was while digging in the sand on the site of one of these burnings, in the hope of finding some trace which would clear up a disputed point in the lectures, that one of the Craftsmen discovered the Baked Clam, which since that time has been an important feature in the P/icemx Work, the standard work of Rhode Island.
The grand lodge agreed with its committee on centennial that the proper time to observe that event was at the completion of its one hundredth year instead of at the one hundredth annual communication which marked only the ninety-ninth year, and gallantly seconded its suggestion that a portion of the celebration should be arranged to take in the ladies; increased the grand secretary's salary to $500; levied a per capita tax of fifty cents; rec- ognized the grand lodges of New South Wales, Victoria and North Dakota; and postponed until the semi-annual communication the consideration of a favorable report on the suggestions of Grand Master Ackley that masters be given discretion to confer the second and third degrees upon a larger number of candidates than is now permitted, thus, in the opinion of the com- mittee, without injury to the Craft, saving the wear and tear of the grand master's prerogative incident to the issue of frequently- asked-f or and uni- versally-granted dispensations, and that the lectures be shortened while in actual service, which, the committee agree might be advantageously done, particularly in the third degree, its great length freqtiently nearly vacating the hall — by which token we know that the Rhode Island and Illinois Crafts- men are indeed brethren, that one touch of nature proving the universal kin- ship.
George H. Kenvon, grand master, and Edwin Baker (care of Henry Baker & Son), grand secretary, both of Providence, were re-elected.
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There is, as usual, no report on correspondence. We hope it will occur to our Rhode Island brethren that the beginning of their second century of independent existence would be an appropriate time to return to the system.
SOUTH CAROLINA, 1890.
114TH Annual. Anderson. Dec. 9, 1890.
The representative of Illinois, R. W. Bro. John F. Ficken, was not present.
Of the condition of the Craft, the grand master (R. Furman Dh-ver) says :
I am gratified to report, that in this jurisdiction Masonry has taken no step backward during the past year. Our lodges are taking a deeper inter- est in the order than I have ever witnessed among them, and although a larger number of candidates have been admitted into the order than ever before in the same length of time, yet I find that the outer door has been closely guarded and onl)^ good material allowed to enter. I also find that there is a disposition among the brethren to have better lodge rooms, making them brighter and niore comfortable, and their meetings are pleasanter and more social. This is, indeed, truly gratifying. I believe the social feature of our lodge meetings has been too long neglected ; it is high time it should be revived. I regret to say that it has in the past been too often the custom of some of our lodges to hold their meetings in a cold and formal way, then long before the time for closing is at hand the most of the brethren are weary and anxious to obtain permission to leave.
He unquestionably hits upon one of the causes for this when he refers to tardiness in opening, and he wisely says that what constitutes a good meeting is not only the ritual being properly carried out, but where it is made pleasant and full of good cheer.
He announces the death of W. H. D. Gaillard, past senior grand dea- con, and Bro. A. Doty, senior grand warden. The concluding line of the following reference to him by the grand master, disclosing the fact that he was known by his brethren simply as "Doty," lets in a flood of light on what he was socially:
Brother Doty was truly a good Mason, and being a good Mason he was a good man, and a good citizen. His fellow citizens of his native city, loved him and delighted to do him honor. His Brethren of the mystic tie esteemed
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"him as one of their strongest supports and considered no honor too great for him. In every walk of life, through which he passed, whether it be as a cadet in the Citadel Academy, as a soldier on the field of battle, as a princi- pal in the schools of Charleston or as a presiding officer in the Oriental chair in the East, he was the same noble true man. Our Brother was not known and loved among the Craft on account of any high sounding title attached to his name ; he was too modest and retirmg for that, we only knew him as " Doty," and that was good enough for us.
The grand master deplores the absence of the past grand masters, of whom he says :
These worthy brethren have served us faithfully and well in days gone lay, and have acquired a vast amount of information and experience in Ma- sonic matters which I am satisfied would make their presence at our Annual Communications invaluable to us, but we can not expect these brothers to lose their time from their private business and at their own expense attend our grand communications and assist us in the work without being allowed ■even the privilege of a vote in this grand body.
Following his suggestion, at a late period in the session, an amendment was offered to the constitution giving them a vote each and the pay of rep- resentatives of lodges, and goes over for consideration next year.
The grand lodge recognized the Grand Lodge of North Dakota ; agreed with the committee on jurisprudence that a candidate, who on presenting himself for initiation is found to have lost all the toes on his left foot, cannot proceed (because he can't climb over a constitutional provision), and that the presenting of a petition to a lodge in North Carolina upon which that lodge refused to act because he was not a legal i-esident of that State, did not give the lodge jurisdiction over him, and disagreed with it in its proposition to require a brother whose application for advancement is black-balled to file a new petition and wait a month before another ballot, and also in its proposi- tion to have a committee agree on the secret work, reduce the same to cypher, print and distribute the same, each lodge being required to obtain a copy; appointed a committee to consider the advisability of founding a Ma- sonic orphanage and report next year ; reopened the case of a brother who had been "erased from the roll" for non-payment of dues in which his ap- peal had before been considered and dismissed by it, and sent it to a "court " consisting of one brother each from the appellant's lodge and two neighbor- ing lodges for action and report; granted charters to two lodges under dis- pensation and re\'ived the charter of an old lodge dormant; ordered a past grand master's jewel for the retiring grand master; indefinitely postponed a constitutional amendment requirmg the grand lodge to meet annually at Charleston, and requiring all official documents to be dated from that city as the grand east of the jurisdiction, but fixed upon that city as its next place of meeting; and " closed in short form on the third degree, and re-opened in like manner on the first degree," for the installation, after which it closed in
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short form on the first, and re-opened in Hke manner on the third degree," a see-saw as to whose significance perhaps Bro. In(;lesby will enlighten us.
Laurie T. Izlar, of Blackville, was elected grand master; Charles Inglesby, Charleston, re-elected grand secretary.
The report on correspondence (pp. 78), by Bro. Charles Inglesky, is supplemented by Bro. Drummond's table of current statistics and by Bro. Munn's table from our proceedings of 1889 showing the date of organization and the parentage of American grand lodges. The report is of course con- densed— although there is little "fat" in its finely printed pages — but as it is mostly in his own language it reflects much of his opinions without the ne- cessity ot extended comment.
The Illinois proceedings for 1889 get three pages of interesting review. He regards the celebration feature of the semi-centennial communication as "in every way a grand and monumental success." He is undoubtedly cor- rect in assuming that the word summonses is used in a different sense in the laws of South Carolina and Illinois. There we take it to be applied to no- tices of meetings as well as to the instrument the disobedience of which con- stitutes a Masonic offense. Here it is restncted to the latter, which is in the nature of a writ, requiring personal service, and written return made thereon.
Of Bro. Munn's statistics, he says:
Appended to the report of the grand secretary is a table showing the statistical condition of Masonry in the United States. South Carolina is one of nine grand lodges in which there has been since 1880 a falling off in num- bers. In all the other grand lodges, thirty-seven in number, there has been an increase. In Illinois for example in 1880 there were 691 lodges with a membership of 36,374. In 1869 there were only 681 lodges, but they have a membership of 41,479. The grand secretary has also appended a most val- uable table of grand lodges showing date of organization, etc., etc. This is so interesting a table that we shall msert it at the end of this year's report, givmg R. W. Bro. Grand Secretary L. L. Munn due credit for the same.
Referring to the subject of Cerneauism as introduced in the address of Grand Master SMurn, and of our reports, he says of the latter?
His reports in the last two years have discussed the policy of grand lodges with reference to the "Higher Degrees," but more especially the fierce battle going on between the A. & A. S. Rite and Cerneauism, and Bro. Robbins has been urging that as Ancient Craft Masons we should let them fight it out among themselves, as it is no concern of ours. We have always said as Bro. Robbins does that we have no knowledge of any of these bodies, but we think that inasmuch as the head of the Cerneau organization, F. S. Gorgas, visited and fraternized with the atheistical Grand Orient of France, and as the Cerneau consistories do claim to exercise authority over the three degrees of Ancient Ci'aft Masonr}-, our grand lodges would be false to them- selves if they permitted their members to have anything to do with Cer- neauism.
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And under Iowa, noting with generous regret the action of the grand master in ordering a representative's commission which had been prepared for us, cancelled, he says:
Bro. Robbins' offense was that he censured the action of Iowa and all other grand lodges on the Cerneau question, not because he is a Cerneau Mason, for he has nothing to do with any of the so-called higher bodies, but because he thinks that Ancient Craft Masons have nothing to do with these- higher bodies and their quarrels. In this we differ with Bro. Robbins be- cause the Cemeaus hold Masonic communication with the Grand Orient of ' France, and also do claim jurisdiction over Ancient Craft Masonry.
We are glad to find these statements with reference to Cerneauism in' Bro. Inglesby's report, because now we have some hope of getting some defi- nite knowledge of the foundation for the charge that the Cerneau bodies claim to exercise authority over the three degrees of Ancient Craft Masonry. From our point of view as an Ancient Craft Mason, no excuse has been of- fered by the advocates of interference by grand lodges in these High Rite broils that is worthy of a moment's consideration except those mentioned by Bro. Inglesbv. The charge of affiliating with the Grand Orient of France was only made against the head of one of the factions into which we under- stand the Cemeaus themselves to be split up, and as in this case the incrim- inated brother (Gorgas) and his council have made such explanations and declarations of repudiation of any intention to recognize or affiliate in any way with the righteously banned grand orient as to be satisfactory to the Grand Lodge of Maryland, it is not necessary to again refer to that phase of the war.
The grand master of Pennsylvania is sponsor for the charge that the Cerneaus claim and have exercised power and authority to confer through their bodies the degrees of Ancient Freemasonry. None of the grand lodges that had previously interfered in the quarrel had based their interference on this ground. Massachusetts, the first to act, did so on the alleged ground of protecting its lodges against degree peddlers and the desirability of putting a stop to the multiplication of degrees, and so Cerneauism was never men- tioned, but the Rite of Memphis whose degi-ees run to g6, we believe, was assumed to be the object of the attack, and it was not until the amendment of the constitution had been effected, and "Masonic Bodies" defined satis- factorily to the High Riters, that we began to hear Massachusetts congratu- lated on having led off in the "war" against "Cerneauism." In Ohio the " war" was waged on the ground of exclusive jurisdiction attaching to prior occupancy by the Palmer Supreme Council, as it was in Iowa, Colorado, Minnesota, Kentucky, Nebraska, etc. (including Indian Territory that hadn't a Scottish Rite body in it), on the ground of prior occupancy by the Pike Supreme Council. But the statement of the grand master in an official edict that he had "lawful Masonic information " that the Cerneau organization not only claimed " but had exercised the power, or authority, or right to confer
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the three degrees of Ancient Freemasonry," put a phase on the matter that -challenged the interest of every loyal Mason. We wrote to the head of the incriminated body as the only person who could authoritatively answer the question whether it claimed the power, or right, or authority to confer the degrees of Ancient Freemasonry, and called his attention to the charge that it had exercised such power. His reply was a sweeping as well as a partic- ular denial of the statements made by the grand master of Pennsylvania. Although the Pennsylvania edict was sent to the other grand lodges in the United States, yet no explanation in the way of particulars was ever made, no instances cited to prove the charge which was the excuse for its issue. Past Grand Master Fellows, of Louisiana, himself a distinguished member •of the Scottish Rite and a loyal adherent of the Pike supreme council, says Avith reference to the contending factions that ' ' it must in all candor be ad- mitted that neither now claim any such right, and it is equally true that both parties did claim the right until within a comparatively few years, though as a general thing waiving the right," and adds: " It maybe that more or less directly one or both have, to some extent m the past, exercised the right claimed but now abandoned."
Those of us who have been compelled to follow closely the proceedings of grand lodges in this country for the last score of years know that neither party has within the last decade exercised the right, or power, or authority alleged by the grand master of Pennsylvania to have been exercised by the Cerneau faction, and our distinguished brother, Parvin, the head of the other faction in the suzerainty of Iowa, who would be only too glad to convict the rival faction of so fatal an error, says there were no Cerneaus until 1881. Our distinguished brother, Past Grand Master Cunningham, of Ohio, a loyal adherent of the same faction, says that in this Bro. Parvin is doubtless right, and he is also authority for the further statement that the grand master of Pennsylvania based his action upon a pretended but unveracious history of the Cerneaus themselves. The contmued failure of the grand master of Pennsylvania to designate the time or place where the Cerneau bodies have ever confen^ed the three degrees of Masonry, and the discredit thrown upon the claim of those bodies to have been in existence at the time to which Bro. Gorman understands him to have referred, according to the statements of his successor. Grand Master MacCalla, leaves one in such a state of per- plexity as to the real facts that it is a relief to find that they are in the pos- session of a writer like Bro. Inglesby, who will not fail to give us the bill of particulars for which we have looked in vain elsewhere.
We acknowledge with great pleasure his courteous reference to our work.
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SOUTH DAKOTA, 1891.
i6th Annual. Watertoavn. June 9, 1891.
The representative of Illinois, Past Grand Master George Harper Hand, alas ! was not present — he had gone over to the majority. He died, as an- nounced by the grand master (Theodore D. K.anouse), at Pierre, March 10, 1891, and was buried by the grand lodge at Yankton, March 17. A touching letter of acknowledgement from Mrs. Hand discloses the strong helpmeet who had a part in moulding the character which bound his brethren to him with such a tender tie. Speaking for herself and family, she says :
On behalf of myself and family, I desire to offer the Masons of South Dakota the deepest thanks for their sympathy and condolence in the hour of our overwhelming sorrow. The presence at the funeral of such a number of your noble order from all parts of the state testified in a most meaning manner to the deep regard in which our loving husband and father was held by his brother Masons.
In the house of death, human sympathy and love is so real that we turn first to it to find relief, and in the dark days that follow, to that solace that can come from God alone.
Your beautiful floral tribute to his memory was perishable, but your lov- ing words and golden deeds are eternal and will be recorded in Heaven, and cherished in our hearts, until we too shall have joined him in that land be- yond the grave.
The recommendation of the grand master that the subject of erecting a suitable monument to his memory, by the fraternity of South Dakota, be considered at this session, resulted in an order of the grand lodge for its erection at the earliest practicable moment.
The memorial committee say of him :
He was born at Akron, Ohio, August 9th, 1837, whence he with his par- ents removed to Wisconsin. After completmg his education, he chose the profession of the law, and at the breaking out of the war proved his devotion for country by honorable service in the field. Coming to Dakota in 1865, he, from that time forth to the day of his death, devoted his energies in the de- velopment of the Territory and the promotion of its interests, as later in those of the state.
He was appointed U. S. Attorney in 1866, holding the office for three years. In 1872, he received the appointment of Register of the U. S. Land Office. From 1874 to 1883 he was Secretary of the Territory, during a large portion of the time acting as Governor. While the several executives with whom he served were often subjected by the press and the public to most .severe criticism, yet the name of George H. Hand was ever above calumny, and a brighter, purer record of one for a quarter of a century in prominent public position, cannot be found.
Untiring in devotion to duty, he exerted by his example an influence for emulation enjoyed bj^ but few.
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To us, however, his Masonic record is of more particular interest. He received his first Masonic light in St. Johns Lodge, No. i66, now No. i of this jurisdiction, at Yankton, on November 30th, 1867; was passed Decem- ber 13th following, and raised January 4th, 1868. He was elected junior warden in 1S69, senior warden the year following, and in 1873 worshipful master of St. Johns Lodge, which office he held for three years, being wor- shipful master at the organization of this most worshipful grand lodge in which he participated, and rendered it up to the time of his death such sig- nal and distinguished services. He was elected its first grand treasurer. In 1S76 he was promoted to the office of deputy grand master. The follow- ing year he was chosen grand master, which office he filled with such marked and pre-eminent ability for four years.
It is manifest that the committee were fully warranted in saying that "his death was untimely, and his brethren mourn as they have never mourned within this jurisdiction." A phototype portrait of Bro. Hand ap- propriately forms the frontispiece of this volume of proceedings.
Of the condition of the Craft, the grand master says:
Perhaps my predecessors may have enjoyed administrations more ex- empt from discord, but how it could be so, with poor human nature to deal with, is not easy to see. Surely we can say that our ' ' lines have been cast in pleasant places." Harmony has prevailed throughout our borders, and consequent peace has reigned with her beneficent sway. Our lodges are almost without exception, so far as known, in a reasonably prosperous con- dition.
Reparting that he had but one decision to report, he says:
The usual number of questions have been submitted, and answered — large numbers of which, indeed all, with one single exception, might have been avoided had the Constitution and By-Laws been " frequently read." However, I would not forego the pleasant, fraternal correspondence growing out of the unnecessary questions on any account.
In his decision he sustained the ruling of the master of a lodge that the law providing that thirty days should elapse between the preferring of charges- and the trial of delinquent brethren, thereon permitted the trial at the next regular meeting (they being restricted to one regular meeting in each month) although the full thirty days had not elapsed. The grand lodge concurred with the committee on jurisprudence in the following:
The lodges in this jurisdiction being prohibited from having more than one stated communication in one lunar month, the law in order to be abso- lutely operative, must be construed in accordance with said decision.
The first stated meeting after the serving of the citation would most likely occur within the minimum time prescribed, while the stated comniuni- cation following the latter would not frequently occur after the maximum has expired. This decision does not apply however to trials for unmasonic conduct. The term " 30 days " must in such cases be strictly complied with.
The grand lodge also concurred in the following from the same commit-
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lee relative to a communication from the grand secretary of North Dakota, requesting that the returns, petitions, dimits and all records of North Dako- tan lodges remaining on file in the grand secretary's office, be transferred to the grand secretary of North Dakota:
I St. The documents and records are a part, and a very essential part, of the records of this grand lodge, without which the same would be very in- complete.
2nd. We should be loth to part .with anything that will furnish to those who come after us a complete history of this grand lodge, particularly its re- lations to those lodges who under such fraternal and favorable conditions organized the Grand Lodge of North Dakota.
3rd. The records of this grand lodge are and should be ever open to and at the service of our brethren in North Dakota.
4th. All requests for copies of our records or any part thereof have, ■whenever requested, been furnished the grand secretary of North Dakota at a minimum cost for the labor required to make the same, and we recommend that said course shall be continued.
The grand lodge chartered four new lodges ; provided for a codification of its by-laws and decisions; recorded its appreciation of an enjoyable trip to the beautiful Lake Kampeska, around which so many of the traditions of the red man linger, which was only one item of the hospitality extended b)^ Kampeska Lodge ; fixed on Sioux Falls for its next place of meeting ; recog- nized the Grand Lodge of Tasmania on the recommendation of the commit- tee on correspondence, and under the same lead gave notice that it could not recognize the Grand Lodge of New Zealand, or take official notice of its ex- istence until elements of discord now existing shall have been eliminated. The bill of particulars of essentials lacking, does not, however, touch either of the three considerations which determine whether the body is entitled to recognition, unless the "large number" of lodges said to be adverse to the organization of an independent grand lodge at present, constitutes a major- ity of the lodges in the Colony. These considerations are. First : Is the Colony antomonous? Second : Does the new body command the allegiance of a majority of all the lodges m the Colony? T/iird: Were the proceed- ings regular?
George A. Johnston, of Mitchell, was elected grand master ; Charles T. McCoy, Aberdeen, re-elected grand secretary.
The report on correspondence (pp. 100) is again by Past Grand Master William Blatt, who will never again come as near invoking and evoking -universal dissent as when at the outset he calls his assignment to this duty "an act of misplaced confidence on the part of the grand master." Our brother is right in his inference that his report of last year was the first of his reviews that had come under our notice. We have not, unfortunately,
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had access to the Dakota proceedings except in those years we have had the pleasure of reviewing them.
The Ihinois proceedings for 1890 receive due notice. He quotes, as many others have done who have gone that way before him, Grand Master Pearson's remarks about the ritual, including his reference to the great paint- ing, "The Angelus," because, he ?ays, the sentiment is so true and beauti- ful that he cannot forbear. We find that our introductory was quite in accord with his views, excepting our remarks on the war of the High Riters, where- of he says :
He claims iirst that neither the grand lodge nor anyone else for that matter knows which of the two rites is " the true Jacob." That the right claimed by the Cerneaus to confer the three degrees has never been exer- cised here, and that the renunciation of that right by the other fellows pre- supposes the existence of it. This is the substance of Bro. Robbms' argu- ment. He is aware of the ground upon which grand lodges have generally acted in the matter, but ignores it. We have repeatedly in our last report, stated them, and others have done so more fully and ably. We will, there- fore, only make a few additional remarks.
If Bro. Blatt had read all we have said on this subject, or if he had even read our introductory of last year three times instead of twice to which he confesses, he would hardly have said, we think, that we ignored the grounds on which the various grand lodges who have embroiled themselves in this side-degree quarrel have acted. If any ground has been alleged to justify interference that we have not examined, it must have been something that escaped our observation altogether. If he has our report of 1S90 before him — and if he has not we shall be glad to send it to him — we ask him to read again our remarks on this subject, found under Kentucky, to see whether we have reall}' ignored the grounds on which interference is sought to be justified. We think he will at least see that we have never intimated that if there were absolute unanimity of opinion as to which of the claimants is the genuine Tichborne from the High Rite point of view, the grand lodge whose jurisdiction is restricted to the domain of Masonry, would be justified in making a deliverance on the subject. The grounds on which he justifies in- terference are thus briefly but comprehensively stated :
The grand lodge being a supreme Masonic power, a power absolute, posesses all the rights she desires to arrogate to herself or to exercise. If this power is denied, the whole foundation upon which the gi-and lodge sys- tem rests must fall to the ground. If she possesses these rights, as we be- lieve she does, then there can be but one other question. Was it right and politic to exercise it? Ohio and Iowa did this too late. Massachusetts and others, by timely action, escaped the storm. We were of the Robbins school in this matter, until the danger threatened. Extreme cases require extreme measures, and we believe that the cause fully justified the means, and that the grand lodges in question did not step one iota beyond legal Masonic bounds. We believe, further, in blind loyalty to the grand lodge as the first duty of every Mason and by lawful means only, and within the body itself
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endeavor to right real or apjiarent wrongs. Right ever has and ultimately always will prevail.
We agree that the grand lodge is the supreme Masonic power in the ad- ministrative sense, but that the grand lodge is supreme in the sense that it is under no constrait we do not agree, neither do we think Bro. Blatt will claim it. The grand lodge is under the constraint of the law of Masonry as found in the Charges of a Freemason. A score, a hundred, or a thousand Masons in an organized body cannot collectively absolve themselves from the obligations of fealty which each individually has assumed upon the con- dition that they were irrevocable. No man cr body of men can make inno- vations in the body of Masonry. Within, the constraints imposed by the landmarks the grand lodge is the sole judge of how much power it will exer- cise, but no possible condition, or set of circumstances, no danger however threatening, can warrant the grand lodge in assuming to cut loose from the limitations imposed by the fundamental law. That law defines Masonry, and it imposes upon every grand lodge, particular lodge, and every indi- vidual Mason the duty of maintaining that definition against all comers. The grand lodge which so defines Masonry that it shall impose conditions «s a basis of fellowship not imposed by the Charges of a Freemason, or that shall exclude the conditions which that body of supreme and unalterable law does impose, repudiates the conditions upon which it accepted existence, and through Its acceptance of which it asked and received recognition as a Ma- sonic body. We trust that now our brother can see that our view of the pro- priety of grand lodge interference does not wait upon the settlement of the question whether this party or that has a priority of right in conferring thirty- three, or ninety-six, or nine hundred of the multitude of degrees which have been revised by dissenters from the original plan of Masonry, but upon the plain, easily understood and impregnable ground that the grand lodge being restricted to the field of Masonry cannot recognize either party with- out assuming that such organization is within that field and investing it by that assumption with the character of a Masonic body ; and that it can- not invest these bodies — which it did not create, whose work it does not supervise, and which are not open to its individual constituents, save upon conditions unknown to and unwarranted by the Charges of a Freemason — with a Masonic character without making a new definition of Masonry incon- sistent with the unalterable basis upon which itself rests. In other words, while the grand lodge has the power to decide which, if any, of bodies organ- ized upon the original plan of Masonry have the regularity of organization which entitles them to recognition as duly constituted Masonic bodies, it has no right to recognize as Masojiry that which ts not Masonry.
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TEXAS, 1890.
55TH Annual. Houston. Dec. 9, 1890.
The representative of Illinois, B. R. Akernathy, was among the mem- bers of the dijDloraatic corps present.
The address of the grand master (A. S. Richardson) is not only a very able paper, but its author is master of a very clear and elegant style. He announces the death of Past Grand Master George W. Van Vleck, at sev- enty-six, who filled the grand east in 1S61, and whose servnce in the grand lodge extended over a period of more than forty j^ears; and of Past Grand Master William Stedman, at sixtj-eight, who was elected grand master in 1857.
His summary of the reports of the district deputies indicates a much nearer approach to complete supervision than we shouli have expected in a State of such magnificent distances as Te'xas.
The grand master submits thirty-six decisions, characterized generally by a clear knowledge of the law, a quick perception and strong common sense. Some of them we copy :
2. Individual members of several lodges may, for the purpose of re- ceiving instruction in the work, assemble as individuals at any agreed place of meeting, but there must be no semblance of organization other than that of the local lodge, if any, where they meet.
3. Several lodges cannot, as tiled lodges, meet for any purpose in the same place.
4. A lodge may pass and enforce a resolution prohibiting smoking, or any other unseemly conduct in the lodge room, but no such action would seem necessary, since all needful authority to enforce order and decorum is alread}' vested in the master.
7. A ballot upon an application having proved unfavorable, it was re- passed with the same result. The master then set the ballot box aside, in- tending to announce the result before the lodge closed, but omitted to do so. At the next lodge meeting, anothe" master being in the chair, and the result of the ballot not having been recorded, the matter again came up, the ballot was spread and the candidate elected.
Held, that the election was void, the candidate ha\nng been rejected at the former meeting, notwithstanding the failure to announce the result. It was the ballot, and not the announcement, that operated a rejection.
8. The personal jurisdiction of a lodge once attached is perpetual until waived, and a waiver is discretionary with the lodge. A refusal to waive can no more be inquired into, even b}' the grand master himself, than could its action in rejecting a candidate. The right to cast the black ball is in either case the indefeasable right of the brother casting it, and cannot be ques- tioned.
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lo. A voucher by a brother with certainty as to time and place where he has sat in a Chapter of Royal Arch Masons with a brother who proposed visiting the lodge would be a sufficient compliance with the spirit of Resolu- tion ii6 to warrant his admission.
This ruling ,was based upon the assumption that the chapter being a creature of the grand lodge the qualification of its members must necessarily be known to the grand lodge, and that to hold otherwise it might possibly happen that the grand high priest of the grand chapter, whose installation as such had within the hour been witnessed by most of the members of the lodge, would be excluded from visiting the lodge until after a regular exam- ination, because no brother present had ever sat with him in a lodge. Upon reflection, however, the position does not seem sound and I have therefore felt constrained to reverse my decision. For although the chapter may be the creature of, and the qualification of its member may originally have been known to the grand lodge, it does not know, nor can it know, that these qualifications have remained the same as they originally were or that the re- quirement that members of the chapter shall be Master Masons has been a continuing factor in its organization. And further, the master of the lodge not being necessarily a Royal Arch Mason cannot be expected to accept as satisfactory a voucher based upon membership of an organization of which he knows nothing. And it follows, of course, from the equality of the lodges that qualifications which were insufficient to warrant admission into one lodge -would be equall}^ insufficient to warrant admission into any other.
13. In the matter of dues or other lodge duties, lodges cannot discrim- inate between callings or professions — cannot create among its members a privileged class. Ministers of the gospel, as such, can, no more than law- yers, farmers or mechanics, be exempted from payment of lodge dues. Any exemption or privilege, when granted, must be to the individual.
14. The waiver by a Texas lodge of jurisdiction over one of its initiates in favor of a lodge in another jurisdiction was merely a privilege of which that lodge might have availed itself. Failing to do so, however, it acquired no jurisdiction, and upon his return to the jurisdiction of his original lodge, it may proceed with him as though his residence had never been changed or -waiver granted.
1 5. While legal methods are not usually resorted to in lodge trials. Masonry will, when expedient, readily adopt and adapt any approved methods which legal experience has shown effective for the attainment of truth, and in the absence of direct testimony, the fact of keeping or frequenting a disorderly liouse may, in Masonic, as in legal proceedings, be established by proof of public notoriety.
20. Masonry knows no "Order of the Eastern Star," and can with no more propriety allow its lodge room to be used as a reception room for a banquet to be given by the ladies of that order than for a reception room for any other festive occasion.
24. Neither suicide nor suspicion of crime will necessarily debar a brother from his right to Masonic burial. But known crime may. Such ■cases call for the exercise of discretion by the master.
26. Any member of a lodge may object to the presence with him in the lodge of anyone not a member of that lodge, and the ground of his objection cannot be questioned.
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27. Any member of any lodge, in Texas may object to the conferring of any of the degrees upon any person in any lodge m the State, and may sig- nifj'- his objection either by a black ball or by protest, verbal or written, to the master of the lodge, and that protest must be respected.
28. When a visitor, Avishing to cast a black ball, is excluded from being present at the ballot upon an application for degrees, he may make his pro- test either in advance before retiring or after the ballot has been taken.
29. One man cannot report for a committee of three without consulta- tion, and the lodge cannot confer the degree without a report from a com- mittee.
30. A visitor, whether accompanied b}' the examining committee or not, shoulr', as a matter of propriety, enter the lodge as he would a gentleman's hou?e — by the front rather than bj' the back door.
34. Lodge discipline is not necessarily required in all cases of wrong doing. Lodge trials, though at times necessar\', are at best but necessary' e\-ils. They tend to disturb harmony, create ill feeling and are not unfre- quently the occasion of scandal in the community, and hence should be avoided if possible, but where the offense is flagrant, the proof evident and the oft'ender defiant the lodge should speak, and that with no uncertain sound.
35. Whether a confession in open lodge and profession of repentance ought to condone an offense depends upon circumstances, the gravity of the offense and the real disposition of the offender. Venial offenses rarely call for serious discipline. And even in offenses of a graver character a man may be carried away by impulse or passion and yet be sincerely penitent, while another, shameless in his disregard of duty, may yet simulate penitence merely to escape punishment. It is the discriminating between such cases that calls for the exercise of discretion.
We presume No. 2 to have been made necessary by a provision — and a proper one — that only authorized lecturers can be einployed by lodges or organized schools. Of course it is the birthright of every Mason to give to or receive any la^-ful Masonic instruction, as between indiAaduals, a right not subject to abridgeinent b}' any authonty whatever.
The committee on jurisprudence saj^ of No. 7:
When the worshipful master is satisfied that either an election or rejec- tion has been accomplished, he should at once, before transacting any other business, announce the ballot. We cannot agree with the grand master that it is the ballot and not the announcement that operates an objection. To make the ballot complete there must be an announcement coupled with the ballot, and without the announcement the result of the ballot cannot be as- certained, and the announcement must come from the presiding officer. The officer who fails in this important duty deserves the highest censure.
As a matter of mere verbal criticism the committee is right in saying that the ballot is not complete until the result is ascertained and announced, but it is also true that the failure to announce an ascertained fact makes it none the less a fact. No. S reflects the Illinois as well as the Texas law. No.
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lo affords one of the rare exceptions in which an executive reverses his own decision as the result of his own reflections, an act which betokens breadth of mind. The committee on jurisprudence aptly say of this:
As Master Masons we cannot Masonically know of the existence of other Masonic bodies or what the qualifications for membership may be, and while we agree with the final conclusion reached by the grand master, yet we hold that there is not such intimate connection existing between lodges of Masons, Masons and other Masonic bodies as would necessitate any reference to them in testing the qualifications of the Mason.
No. 13 is in accord with our law, and we think No, 14 would pass mus- ter anywhere. We agree that the fact that the ladies belong to the ' ' Order of the Eastern Star " gives them no additional claim upon the courtesy of the Craft, but we think there would be more propriety in extending the privileges of the lodge room to the wives, mothers, sisters and daughters of Masons than to those not so connected. No. 26, and the two following it, shows that the Texas regulations differ from ours under which none but mem- bers of the lodge petitioned enjoy the rights enumerated, and that they are similar to, if not identical with those of Oregon. No. 29 has no break in its- comprehensive logic, and No. 30 is as delicate a reminder of good breeding as one could meet or wish. Nos. 34 and 35 are full of practical good sense and Masonic spirit.
The grand master evidently feels the false position in which the Grand Lodge of Texas has placed itself by its religious dogmatism, and enters upon a lengthy examination of the justice and reasonableness of holding Masons to a strict conformity with the doctrine of the plenary inspiration of the Bible considering the wide spread differences as to what is and what is not inspired text, among those who in a general way accept the volume as of divine au- thority. The discussion is in a broad and tolerant spirit, but is of a char- acter that would be out of place in a Masonic body that has not, like the Grand Lodge of Texas, cut itself loose from the landmark which guarantees to every God-trusting Mason absolute freedom from inquisition into his par- ticular opinions. From this standpoint and for his audience the argument is a most commendable one, the only weak thing in it being the concluding lines of the last paragraph wherein he suggests the dissembling by the breth- ren of their real opinions. We should be glad to quote it entire, but its length forces us to content ourselves with its concluding paragraph :
Hence it would seem to follow that if the Doctors of Divinitj'^ themselves, those upon whom the church has devolved the duty of determining the question, have not, with all their profound learning and opportunities of re- search, been able to agree among themselves as to the exact text of revela- tion as originally given, or to protect it from error in translation, it would ill become Masonry, which does not profess to be either learned or dogmatic, and which at last gets its Bible from the church, to undertake to prescribe the exact measure of faith required in its contents, and that its full duty to. Itself and to its membership is discharged when it simply holds its neophyte
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to a belief in a Great Creator and Father of us all and to a recognition of a revelation of His divme wall as being embraced within the volume which it lays before him as its Great Light; with the imposed mjunction, however, that whatever doul)ts he may entertain as to any special feature of that vol- ume he shall, under penalty, keep those doubts to himself, and not by their ventilation seek to unsettle the faith of others.
The reference made to it by the committee on grand officers' reports in- •dicate that Epliriam is still joined to his idols:
The observations of the grand master as to the Holy Scriptures are ex- tremely interesting, laborious in research, critical in analysis and liberal in spirit. They are remarkable for their broad and tolerant views. The posi- tion of the Grand Lodge of Texas has been so often stated, and is no\s- so ^vell understood, that we deem no other expression in regard to it required.
The special committee to investigate the status of Masonry in Mexico, think there is an improvement in the affairs of the Fraternitj- there, there tiaving been a central grand lodge established in the City of Mexico to which State grand lodges and lodges that had arrogated to themselves grand lodge powers are submitting. They say the probability is that all the lodges there are now working under lawful authority unless it be a lodge or two chartered by grand lodges in the United States. The grand lodge agreed to their rec- ommendation, as follows :
1. Resolved, That all resolutions and orders of this grand lodge inter- dicting Masonic communication with lodges and Masons in Mexico be and are hereby repealed.
2. That it is hereby made the duty of such lodges in Texas as are near to lodges in Mexico, m case they desire to hold Masonic communication with such lodges, to examine into the authority by which they are held and, in case they find them regular, to adopt a resolution authorizing visitation and iSIasonic intercourse with such lodge; but in case they have any doubt of the legality of the authorit\' under which such Mexican lodge is held, they shall report the matter, with all the facts in their possession, to the M. W. Grand Master for his opinion, by which they will be guided when received.
In other words, the duties of the committee, confessedly very imperfectly performed on account of illness, are now devolved on the lodges. The com- mittee seem to think that while supreme coimcils in the L^nited States can create lawful Masonic bodies in Mexico, grand lodges in the LTnited States cannot.
The grand lodge granted ten charters outright, and thirteen more to lodges working under dispensation, and restored two ; declined to recognize the Grand Lodge of New Zealand because of the possible truth of the report that of the ninety-nine lodges joining in the movement for the new body, enough had subsequently^ withdrawn to leave it without the support of a ma- jority of the one hundred forty-eight.lodges existing in the Colony; appointed s. committee to consider inducements from various localities for its removal
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from Houston and its permanent location elsewhere ; and in* a case wherein a lodge had convicted a brother and then refused to punish him, for which its charter was arrested, and the brother last year expelled by the grand lodge, reopened the brother's case — on proof of probable innocence — set aside its own action of last year, reversed the decision of the lodge in refusing to sus- pend or expel him, and sent the cause to another lodge for a trial "on the facts."
George W. Tyler, of Belton, was elected grand master; W. F. Swain, Houston, re-elected grand secretary.
The report on correspondence (pp. loS) from the accustomed hand of Past Grand Master Thomas M. Matthews, is as usual a valuable and inter- esting paper, in which Illinois is fraternally noticed. He thinks the charit- able record of Illinois Masons, as elicited by the grand secretary's question blanks, is truly a most noble one, but we presume the same method of ques- tioning would elicit one as creditable, relatively, in any jurisdiction where the necessities were equal. Still the information is valuable and especially so as an answer that one need not be ashamed of to the question "What is your great jurisdiction doing for charity?" often asked by those who think nothing is being done unless it shows up in brick and mortar. He regrets to see a proposition to reduce our grand secretary's salary "in the interest of economy," and advises the brethren instead to cut down their ten-cent mileage as advised by their level-headed grand master, with which we wholly agree. He asks if there isn't a touch of spleen in our comment on one of the Texas decisions. We assure him that there is not a touch. We talk straight out sometimes, but don't sulk or get " touchy." Copying our effort to make plain to him what we meant when we accused Texas of amending the land- mark, he says:
Now, I ask, Bro. Robbins where else does he find the proof of the exist- ence of God except in his revealed will to man — the Bible ? (I speak now with reference to Masons of christian countries ; others have their Book of the Law, which to them is the Bible.) He will, perhaps, say in nature. If so, I answer in nature we have the strongest proofs of the divine authenticity of the Bible. If Masons be not required to beheve it, why teach the initiate that " it is the inestimable gift of God to man"? Teach him a falsehood, and that " it is the Great Light of Masonty?" If a man believes that " the KiRST SENTENCE IN THIS OLD Jewish liOOK IS A LIE," as Crum said, and Bro. Robbins dittoed, that sentence asserting that God was, or is, how in the name of reason can he believe that God exists? I accept the definition my brother gives of atheist, but at the same time I deny that it is possible for him to believe in the existence of God and at the same time believe the as- sertion that He does to be "a lie." As for the landmark, paraphra.sed as it is by Bro. R., "spelled out to show how Texas presumes to amend it," it proves nothing except that Bro. R. is an accomplished sophist. The first and last bracketed and italicised words wotild not change the meaning or make it less broad, if understood to mean as in Texas, belief in God and his revealed word. Where my brother got that part about " the majority," I
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can't imagine; ndt from Texas, however. No, Bro. Robbins, you may argue till doomsday dawn and you can never convince yourself, much less ot/icrs, that you can believe in God, and yet not believe the statement or assertion that God is. 'Tis like mixing oil and water, or the hottest place man ever heard of and icebergs Simply, the thing can't be did. But my time is up, my ' ' copy " must go forward. Good-bye.
Now, Yankee fashion, we answer his initial question by asking another. What reason has he to suppose that we do not find it just where he does — in the Bible. We have never discussed the grounds of our faith in any portion of this debate, either with Bro. Matthews or any other member of the guild. We are not discussing the truth or falsity of the Bible, because we consider such discussions out of place in Masonic papers. The sole question we have discussed is: What use, Masonically, does the fundamental law permit us to make of the Bible? And we should consider it an impertinence, Mason- ically, to volunteer an opinion either that the Bible is or is not either partly ■or wholly inspired, because we could not do so without touching the ques- tions on which men divide in religious matters, and that is what the land- mark, with an explicitness that is unmistakable, forbids, thereby guarantee- ing to our brethren immunity from the obtrusion tipon them of our " partic- ular opinions."
Bro. Matthews will look in vain in anything we have written for any expression of opinion as to its plenary inspiration or divine authenticity, and as a proper and deserved penance tor the reckless assertion that we have dittoed any declaration of Bro. Crum, or the declaration of any other man that the first sentence or any other sentence of the Bible is a lie, he ought to condemn himself to re-read all that we /lave said word for word. WTien he has done this, and satisfied himself of his error, we are ready to accept his apology. There is one part in our paraphrase, about ' the majority ' that our brother wonders where we got or how we apply it, and on that we recog- nize our obligation to help him out. We mean just what the attitude of Texas on this question warrants us in putting into it: That although a man's belief is such as to fully satisfy the demands of the landmark, that his par- ticular opinions on minor religious questions he is only permitted to enjoy so long as they coincide with the opinions of the majority of the Grand Lodge of Texas. If they do not, notwithstanding the guarantees of the landmark that these opinions are to be left to himself, he is unceremoniously kicked out.
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UTAH, 1891.
20TH Annial. Salt Lake City. Jan. 20, iSgi.
Past Grand Master James Lowe, the representative of Illinois, was pres- ent and on active duty as acting grand chaplain and member of committees on jurisprudence, credentials, etc.
The grand master (Arthur Morris Grant) announced the death of Freedom Henry Church, past senior grand warden, at sixty-five, and Grand Chaplain William Henry Randall, at the early age of forty-nine. We find also memorial tablets to John Cunnington, past senior grand deacon, and Hugh Alexander Fraser, past grand sword bearer.
He reports the second rupture with Nevada over alleged infringement of jurisdiction still unsettled, but we judge from his tone that it is not causing unpleasant friction. He decided that a blank ballot is not a vote, and that in case of a tie the master has two votes, the latter we consider erroneous. He was also compelled to repeat the "chestnut" that a member cannot ap- peal to the lodge from the decision of the master.
The Grand Lodge of Tasmania was recognized, but recognition of New Zealand was declined in the following terms:
Rcsolz't'd, That, when the Grand Lodge of New Zealand, of which Bro. Henry Thomson, Esq., is grand master, and Bro. William Ronaldson, grand secretary, can assure us that peace, which is so essentially necessary among grand lodges, lodges and brethren, has been restored, and that all the lodges in the Colony are united and have affirmed and declared their allegiance to its Constitution and Laws, the Grand Lodge of LTtah wnll welcome it as a sister grand lodge, and not until then.
The committee on correspondence gives the following reasons for this:
A number of lodges which took first part in the movement have since declined to participate further. In other lodges ruptures have arisen to such an extent that their usefulness is entirely destroyed. In several of the Scottish lodges, in which the membership was divided as to the supremacy of the two grand lodges, those favoring New Zealand seized the charters of the parent body, and have since refused to return them. The Grand Lodge of New Zealand upheld and endorsed these unlawful and unmasonic acts. That being the situation, the Grand Lodge of Scotland refused to recognize the new grand lodge, and instructed the loyal brethren not to hold Masonic intercourse with any one under its obedience.
If the members of the Scottish lodges who are alleged to have "seized" the charters were in the majority in their lodges, it was neither unlawful nor unmasonic. Under the law governing the formation of grand lodges they had a right to keep them.
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At the reception of the diplomatic corps the representative of Illinois, as the senior of the body, made the speech of the occasion.
It having been found impossible to maintain indefinitely the public de- partment of the Masonic library, the following was adopted;
Whereas, By the labors and contributions of the Masonic fra-ernity of Salt Lake City, supplemented b}- generous aid from non-Masons of all classes, our library has been built up and so far maintained, with now about 8,000 well selected volumes.
Whereas, Our Fraternity is unable to provide for the further adequate growth of our said librarj'; and,
Where.-vs, It is now proposed to organize a general " Library Associ- ation," without regard to political or sectarian affiliations, and provide for its permanent maintenance, provided said Association may have our library as a nucleus (except our strictly Masonic books); and,
Whereas, It is further proposed to concede certain memberships in said Association for this grand lodge, the Salt Lake lodges, the chapter and the commandery, if desired by them or any of them. Therefore, be it
Resolved, That this grand lodge in annual communication now assem- bled, approve of the proposition to turn the Public portion of the Masonic library over to a General Library Association, for the purposes aforesaid, and the grand lodge library committee is hereby authorized to finally arrange to transfer the said Public portion of our said library to such Public Library Association for the purposes aforesaid on such terms as it may seem best.
Whenever that is accomplished the new institution ought to be called the Diehl Library, that the collection may become m name what it is in fact, a monument to the faith, zeal and untiring industry of Bro. Christopher Diehl, its projector and builder.
William Grant Van Horne was elected grand master; CiiRisrorHER Diehl, re-elected grand secretary, both of Salt Lake City.
The admirable report on correspondence (pp. 79) is of course the work of Grand Secretary Diehl, who gives Illinois proceedings for 1S90 a necessaril}' brief but comprehensive notice. Noting our reference to Past Grand Mas- ter Lowe, formerly an active member of the Grand Lodge of Illinois, he says:
So it is, Bro. Robbins, and Bodley Lodge, No. i, at Quincy, is now and always will be his Mother Lodge. Bro. Lowe never goes back on old friends, you vasiY depend upon it, and the older he gets the faster he holds to them. He is of the good old stock, and the right kind of blood runs through his veins.
He advises any of the Utah brethren who wish information on Cerneau- ism to read our report. If a knowledge of Cerneauism is what they want, our reports are not the place to look for it, but we trust they shed some light on the antics of grand lodges over that bugaboo.
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Referring to a Maine brother who wanted to reduce the per capita tax from twenty to fifteen cents, he advises him not to come to the Mormon country as their lodge dues are twelve, and their grand lodge dues three dollars a year. We don't wonder that the Masons of Utah value their in- stitution.
Necessarily condensed as the report is there are many places in it where the characteristics crop out that have made Bro. Diehl a universal favorite: with the guild.
VERMONT, 1891.
98TH Annual. Burlington. June 10, iSgr.
Vermont sends out an exceedingly tasty and well printed volume having for its frontispiece a fine steel portrait of the retiring grand master (Wing).
The representative of Illinois, Delos M. Bacon, was present and was advanced to the grand east.
A letter of regrets and remembrance was received from Past Grand Master Park Davis, now a resident of Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
The grand master (Geo. W. Wing) announced the death of Franklin H. Bascom, a very well known Mason who had served on grand lodge commit- tees and held various appointed offices; of Lafayette B. Soper, grand tiler and past district deputy grand master; and John B. Hollenbeck, who was grand secretary from 1833 to 1862, one of the faithful few who kept alive the altar fires during the anti-Masonic storm. He was for many years the grand representative of Illinois near the Grand Lodge of Vermont, an honor to our jurisdiction which we are glad to recall. He died at Burlington, May 24, 1891 ; had he lived until the nth of next February he would have completed his one hundred years. A spirited wood cut of the venerable brother is in- corporated in the text of the grand master's address.
The grand master reports excellent results from the district meetings for instruction in the work, presided over by the district deputies. Prior to these meetings the district deputies were called together, as we noted last vear, to receive instruction in the work. At this meeting the grand lecturer
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delivered an exceedingly practical address to the deputies on their powers and duties, filled with excellent advice.
The grand master submitted no decisions, those made involving no new principle. Before closing he made the following excellent suggestion :
Every lodge has meetings at which there is nothing to do except to transact the routine busmess. Now, if at such meetings or at meetings called specially for that purpose, some member of the lodge would read to the brethren assembled the report of the committee on correspondence, a re- view of all the proceedings of the grand lodges with whom we sustain fra- ternal relations, I am sure the brethren would be interested in the living, vital issues of the day, and that the results would be, more reading and think- ing Masons, and an increased attendance at such gatherings.
The following, concurrrd in by the grand lodge, explains itself:
Your committee on foreign correspondence to whom was referred so much of the grand master's address as relates to the Grand Lodge of Que- bec and England, would courteously report —
That they are fully m accord with the sentiment expressed by the M. W. Grand Master, and to the end that every obstacle may be removed in the effort for an amicable adjustment of the difference existing between those grand lodges, the adoption of the following resolution is recommended :
Resolved, That the order of non-mtercourse between the Grand Lodge of Vermont, its subordinates, and all persons owing allegiance thereto, and the Grand Lodge of England, its subordinates, and all persons owing alle- giance thereto, as contained in resolutions adopted by this grand lodge at its annual communication, A. L. 58S7, be, and the same is hereby vacated and annulled.
The grand lodge accepted the invitation of Burlington to hold its next annual communication in that city, and afterwards enjoyed a delightful boat ride on Lake Champlain ; but as this was not during working hours it still had time enough to do a large amount of routine work to which the business of the communication chiefly related. A past grand master's jewel was or- dered for the retiring grand master, and the jurisprudence committee was given a year to think over the following :
Resolved, That hereafter the air line rule governing the jurisdiction over towns in which no lodge is located be abolished, and that concurrent juris- diction over all such towns be given to the lodges located in towns contigu- ous thereto.
Delos M. Bacon, of St. Johnsbury Center, was elected grand master; Warren G. Reynolds, Burlington, re-elected grand secretary.
The report on correspondence (pp. 1 10) is again the work of Past Grand Master Marsh O. Perkins and bespeaks for its author the possession of all the qualifications for a charter member of the guild. The Illinois proceed- ings for 1890 find a i^lace in his review and receive a thorough examination.
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He quotes Grand ^Master Pearson on the ritual and the greater relative pro- ficiency of the smaller lodges in the work; refers to the charitable statistics of Bro. MuNN, and, knowing a good thing when he sees it, reproduces the eloquent speech of Past Grand Master Speed, of Mississippi, on his formal reception as a visitor.
We gratefull}^ accept as our own the apologj- he makes for us for having gotten him mixed up with another past grand master in the grand secretary- ship. Bro. Perkins is not one of those opinionated men who feel bound to stick to a thing simply because they have once said it. Referring to an in- cident in the Iowa proceedings somewhat affecting our relations with that body, he quotes from our report to show that we seem to accept the situa- tion philosophically, but adds:
We say "seems to accept," but this may be questioned after all, as he returns to the attack, and scores Iowa, Bro. Parvin, and everybody else who questions the legitimacy of the greatest disturbing element m the field of Freemasonry of this day and generation. And then he calmlj^ says he is not a "defender of Cerneauism." He reminds us of the old fellow who d — d his wife, his children, and everybody and everything around him, and when re- monstrated with by his pastor, mildly remarked, " I know its awful wicked, parson, but then its mighty soothin' to the feelins."
Now we can understand the "ineffable" disgust with which the Irish- man who was " keeping the peace" with his shillalah, turned upon the gen- tleman who objected to having its victims brained in his own parlor, and up- braided him for sy-inpathizhig with the etiemz'es of public order.
The fatal facility with which our brother gets things topsy-turv^y, as when he makes us criticise the Grand Lodge of Iowa for declaring one of the Scotch Rite factions illegitimate, when the whole point of our criticism was that it declared either of them legitimate — compels us to believe — as the al- ternative of the hideous suspicion that the famous Eli was of the Vermont branch of the Perkinses — that he is himself a scion of the Celtic race.
Bro. Perkins is master of an easy and graceful style, sees and makes his points quickly and clearly, and his report both bristles with mother-wit and sparkles with humor, making it one of the most enjoyable as well as most instructive that has come to our table. We find ourselves in accord in most things, wide apart in others, but just now we can't take the time to point them out. Those of our brethren who can get the opportunity to read it ^vill find themselves amply repaid.
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VICTORIA, 1891.
2ND Annual. Melbourne. March 16, iSgr,
At the quarterly communication of June 16, i8go, the grand master (W. J. Clarke, Bart.,) mentioned that Meridian Lodge, of St. John, No. 729 of the EngHsh register, had tendered its allegiance to the Grand Lodge of Vic- toria, asking that its past officers should have the same privileges as those of the origmal; this was conceded.
The board of general purposes reported that recognition had been ac- corded by two more grand lodges. South Carolina, and the National, of Denmark; and also as follows:
A communication was received from the Lodge of Australia Felix, No. i,. recommending that the jubilee year of Freemasonry in Victoria be marked by the establishment of a Royal Masonic Institution for Girls. The board requested that the above lodge appoint four of its members to confer with the president, vice president, grand registrar, grand treasurer and grand secretary as to the best course to adopt in commemoration of the jubilee year of Freemasonry in this Colony.
It was decided that it was undesirable that the names of brethren ex- cluded from their lodges for non-payment of dues should be read out in open lodge, but that the grand secretary should keep a record.
At a special meeting, Aug. 4, iSgo, the grand master announced the death of the Earl of Carnarvon, pro-grand master of England, who had done so much for Masonr}^ in the colonies; he was sure that in no part of Her Majesty's dominions was his death regretted so much as in Victoria.
At the quarterly of Dec. 15, 1S90, Sir W. J. Clarke was nominated for re-election as grand master. The nomination being seconded —
Bro. G. S. Coppin, P. G. M., in supporting the nomination called atten- tion to the necessity of properly installing the grand master in accordance with article 14 of the Book of Constitutions, the custom in the Grand Lodge of England of merely proclaiming the grand master should not apply to this grand lodge. In the former it was well known that His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales seldom attended grand lodge, and the custom of simply pro- claiming him as grand master has been adopted. Here there was no such reason for not annually installing the grand master, he therefore trusted for the future that the Book of Constitutions would be strictly adhered to, and. the M. W. Grand Master duly installed according to ancient custom.
At the same session —
The M. W. Grand Master said that he had the pleasing dut}' of making,, on behalf of the Fraternity, a presentation to Bro. John James, P. D. G. M., as an appreciation of the action taken by hmi in uniting the four Constitu- tions into one, and afterwards working up the United Grand Lodge of Vic-
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toria. Bro. James had given so much attention to the matter, that he (the grand master) did not think they had gone out of their way in doing honor to one who had done so much for Masonry. The grand master then pre- sented Bro. James with a cheque for ^200.
Three new lodges were chartered ; letters of recognition were received from the grand lodges of Liberia and Rhode Island, and a list is given of nominations made by the grand master for appointment as representatives of the grand lodges recognizing the Grand Lodge of Victoria, thirty-six in all, among them R. W. Bro. E. Edwards, Jr., for Illinois.
A special meeting was held March 6, 1891, for the burial of H. W. Lowry, past deputy grand master, when appropriate memorial action was had.
At the quarterly of March 16, 1891, Sir W. J. Clarke, Bart., was unan- imously re-elected grand master, and was formally obligated and installed. T. H. Lempriere (Freemasons' Hall, 25 Collins St.), Melbourne, is grand sec- retary.
Arrangements were made for sending the Australian Keystone to all grand lodges.
It having been brought to the notice of the board of general purposes that a lodge had affiliated a member initiated in a lodge under the Grand Orient of France, asked the grand lodge to consider the subject; it was or- dered "That no recognition be given to brethren hailing from the Grand Orient of France."
A special meeting was held May 26, 1S91, to hear some appeal cases, at "which meeting steps were inaugurated looking to the possession of the Free- masons' Hall buildings by the grand lodge, or some other suitable home.
VIRGINIA, i8ac.
113TH Annual. Richmond. Dec. 9, 1890.
The representative of Illinois, Beverly R. Wellford, Jr., was one of the two past grand masters present at the opening. We are glad to note that on the third day Past Grand Master Drinkard was able to be in attend- ance.
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The grand master (Robert T. Craighill) says the past year has not been an eventful one in Masonry in Virginia, and that the loyalty and devo- tion of the lodges and their individual members have made his official duties both light and pleasant. Of the Masonic Home of Virginia, which was ded- icated June 24, 1890, he says:
This noble charity — the child of our beloved Brother Babcock's benefi- cence— has, in the short space of a year, taken its place among the institu- tions of our State and corntry, and bids fair already to rival the greatest and best of them in the near future. I invite your attention to the report which will be submitted at this grand communication by the board of governors, that you may judge for yourselves of the hold which the " Masonic Home of Virginia" has taken upon the minds and hearts of the Masons of Virginia, in whose hands, under Providence, it is safe to predict that its progress •and development are assured beyond all peradventure.
He made only three decisions during the year, and these — the following — were confirmed:
1. That Section 172 of the Methodical Digest must be construed to mean that no term of service, however long, can constitute the worshipful master of a lodge under dispensation 3. past 7naste7-.
2. That a lodge under dispensation is not liable (as a chartered lodge would be), under Section 245 of the Methodical Digest, for dues in arrears in a chartered lodge on the part of any of the members of such lodge imder dis- pensation.
3. That the wardens of a lodge, in their regular order of succession, have all I /w powers of the worshipful master in his absence from the juris- diction of his lodge, however temporary such absence may be. Thus the lodge can al no time be without a head, except upon the happening of a three-fold casualty.
Of the distinguished chairman of the committee on correspondence, he says:
Owing TO the continued ill health of our beloved brother, Most Worship- ful Wm. F. Drinkard, chairman of the committee on foreign correspondence, I regret to say that no report on that subject will be submitted at this meet- ing of the grand lodge. AVhile a general regret will be felt at this omission in our own and many other grand jurisdictions, yet I am confident that a * much more poignant regret will prevail because of the indisposition of our gifted chairman. I pray God he may soon be restored to good health and to his pre-eminent usefulness among us.
This prayer will be echoed by Masons not only in America but wherever Masonry has its home, " on the continents and the islands of the seas."
The report of the board of governors of the Home, of which Bro. A. G. Babcock is the president, shows that the committee on site after visiting sev- eral localities, accepted the property offered by Bro. Babcock as a free gift, " situated not more than two miles east of the city of Richmond, and con-
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sists of forty-four and one-half acres of land on the Nine Mile Road, with a dwelling of ten rooms and necessary outbuildings on a healthy emnience." The board at once put the house in proper repair and furnished it for the re- ception of orphans, elected a matron and were ready to dedicate it by the 24th of June. It has already been the recipient of numerous gifts and there can be no doubt that from this practical beginning will grow an institution that will be the pride of our Virginia brethren.
The absence of Past Grand Master Francis H. Hill had a sad explana- tion, his wife having died suddenly on the first day of the session. The grand lodge passed resolutions of condolence.
The grand lodge witnessed the exemplification of the work in the three degrees; chartered nine new lodges and contmued two under dispensation; received a favorable report from the trustees of the Masonic temple, who follow the sound plan of paying as they go; recommends no particular day when the lodges shall endeavor to raise the needed funds for the Home, but urges that annually at such time and in such manner as they shall deem best they shall do their best to raise a fund for its endowment and support; found in the report of "No Business" by the appeal committee the best evidence of the prevailing peace and harmony reported by the grand master, and in reply to the question whether it is proper to discuss the character of a can- didate for initiation, in open lodge, amended and re-enacted a section of the Methodical Digest, as follows :
" Sec. 22g. The petition must be presented at a stated communication of the lodge, and must lie over at least one lunar month, before it can be considered, and notice thereof .shall be given b}^ the secretary to all lodges having concurrent jurisdiction; and the ballot must be clear to elect the peti- tioner. Any discussion of the moral qualifications of the petitioner, in open lodge, must take place at the communication at w^hich the petition is taken up for consideration, after it has been read, and before the ballot is spread thereon. "
The Illinois law forbids discussion and says the secret ballot is the only proper expression of opinion. As to nominations in grand lodge the follow- ing rule was laid down :
" The deputy grand master shall always be a candidate for election as grand master ; any member of the grand lodge may make an additional nomination."
John Howard Wayt, of Staunton, was elected grand master; Wm. B. Isaacs, Richmond, re-elected grand secretary.
Not to find Bro. Drinkard's customary report on correspondence is a sad disappointment, but, as the grand master suggests, the regret that he was to ill to write it is greater than the disappointment at its absence.
The loss is partly atoned for by the publication of Past Master S. J.
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Quinn's history of Fredericksburg Lodge, No. 4, in which Washington was made a Mason. It occupies sixty-nine pages of close print and is of very great interest.
It appears that for the first few 3'ears of its existence it was, hke the early lodges in Philadelphia and St. Andrew's Lodge in Boston, an unau- thorized self -constituted body. Its first meeting was held Sept. i, 1752, and the Grand Lodge of Scotland, from which it finally received its charter, was not applied to for that instrument until 1757. It was granted in 175S.
WASHINGTON, 1890.
33D Annual. Ellensburgh. June io, 1890.
The grand lodge was resplendent in a new set of regalia, the gift of Past Grand Master Levi Ankeny, the representative of Illinois. The new clothing came to hand just after the close of the preceding annual communi- cation, but happily the delay dovetailed into the fitness of things, making the first wearing of the " freedom suit" coincident with the doffing by Wash- ington of what Grand Secretary Reed calls the "swaddling" garments of territorial organization, and the donning of its first pair of suspenders as a sovereign State. Lender such circumstances it would be ungracious to criti- cize the grand master or the grand secretary for giving the newly-fledged commonwealth a first-class advertisement.
At the outset of his address the grand master (William A. Fairweather), Avhose name warrants any degree of optimism, says:
While calamities of a startling and serious character have visited many sections of our land since last we met, yet it may truthfully be said that the past year has been marked with wonderful progress throughout our State. Our people have enjoyed a year of great prosperity, probabl}- the greatest in the whole history of Washington. To fully appreciate this fact, one has only to visit the various sections of our young and growing commonwealth, to see evidences of thrift in every department of industry, and behold on every hand success and rapid advancement as well as growth, and more than full compensation for the labor of our toiling citizens. Industry everywhere has received its full compensation; cities have sprung into existence as by magic; population has increased, schools, colleges and churches have multiplied, while prosperity and smiling peace greet us on every hand. With this grand march of material progress and development, our noble institution has ma- jestically kept pace. It has largely extended its borders, and to an unpre- cedented degree increased its membership.
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Not the least of the calamities which the year brought was the drowning in Puget Sound of Past Grand Master Thomas Taylor Minor in the very- prime of manhood. Dr. Minor was one of the most prominent citizens of Washington and had iilled many positions of trust, professional and other- wise. It was our good fortune to meet him at Cincinnati, in 1876, during his grand mastership, and to be impressed with his ability, his singleness of purpose and his charming social personality. Death closed his exceedingly active and fruitful life at the early age of forty-six. The grand master also referred to the distinguished dead of other jurisdictions, among them Past Grand Master Darrah, of our own State.
He very properly refu.sed the request of two lodges for dispensations to permit them to appear as lodges and attend the Easter services of a com- mandery of Knights Templars at the opera house in Walla Walla on Easter Sunday, although he seems to regret that the law constrained him to do so; with equal propriety recommended the return of the balance of a sum paid in advance for the degrees, but for which the applicant had not received a full equivalent, he having been expelled after receiving two degrees ; and took the right view of the member of a lodge under dispensation, who laid back in the breeching, as described in the following:
A brother, one of the charter members of this lodge, at the organization of the lodge, refused to submit to an examination by other members, claim- ing that they had no right so to do, and that he was entitled to a seat in the lodge by the authority of his dimit alone. Upon being remonstrated with, he retired and has not appeared at the lodge since. On the 6th day of May, 1890, I ordered his name stricken fi-om the petition and dispensation, and his dimit returned to him. His conduct seemed to. me to be in violation of one of the plainest principles, and an obstacle in the way of carefull}? guard- ing our doors. Such persons ought to be treated as obsti^uctionists, and find their proper domicile elsewhere than around our sacred altars.
Masonry is having at least its share of the "boom" at Tacoraa where, as the grand secretary reports, a lodge under dispensation in existence less than four months had conferred sixty-three degrees and received forty-five members by affiliation!
The grand lodge enjoyed a visit from David E. Baily, past grand mas- ter of Nevada ; paused from its in-door work long enough to lay the corner- stone of a new Masonic temple in EUensburgh ; found its grievance commit- tee with nothing to do and nobody to help them; chartered ten lodges work- ing under dispensation and continued three dispensations ; exchanged con- gratulatory telegrams with the Grand Lodge of Oregon; under the lead of our old friend and brother, Past Grand Master ZiegleJr as 6hairman of a special committee on work, prescribed the external qualifications of their fu- ture grand lecturer as "of at least medium age, commanding appearance and good address, and capable of inspiring confidence and respect among
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the brethren and lodges to the highest degree;" and fixed upon Seattle as its next place of meeting.
A reprint of The Washiiigioii Monitor and Frcoiiasons' Guide, by Grand Secretary Reed, was ordered at the expense of the grand lodge, the edition to consist of one thousand copies.
James Ewen Edmiston, of Dayton, was elected grand master; Thomas MiLBURNE Reed, Olympia, re-elected grand secretary. A life-like autotype portrait of Bro. Reed forms the frontispiece of the Washington volume.
The report on correspondence (pp. 65) was prepared by Past Grand Master Louis Ziegler at the request of the chairman of the committee, Grand Secretary Reed, who at a late hour found that his public duties would re- quire all his time. It is a very condensed review, but full of the vigorous thought of our well-known brother. He gives Illinois tor 1889 extended no- tice. Grand Master S.mith's reference to the 'junior standard team' puzzles him because he thinks it presupposes also a ' senior standard team.' Taking for his text Grand Master Smith's explanation of his remarks about the " divine right of kings," which many brethren took in dead and solemn earn- est, Bro. Ziegler takes him to task for the explanation more vigorously than the other fellows did for the original speech. He says :
We are surprised beyond measure at the above expressions of our good brother. We agree with him in part. We, too, believe in the doctrines of America, " that all men are created equal," and that rulers are made such by the will of the people ; and as an American citizen by choice and not by the accident of birth, we adhere to the above doctrine with additional tenacity. But we do not believe in his overdrawn parallel of prerogatives of grand masters and the divine rights of kings. We believe in American institutions with all the faith within us, but we do not believe in Americanizing, or Ger- manizing, or Russianizing, or Italianizing Freemasonr3^ We believe in the pure system of Freemasonry, as handed down to us by our fathers.
Freemasonry, as we understand it, is not one of America's institutions, neither can it be made one without innovation on the body of Masonry. Masonry is an institution peculiar to itself. It is a law unto itself, and it can not be incorporated m any civil policy nor form of government. Yet it will assimilate and become loyal to any form, from the most liberal to the most absolute. We deny our good brother's assertions, that Freemasonry is American. It is not, any more so than it is German, French, or Russian. Masonry belongs to the world — it is cosmopoHtan; it belongs to all; it is broad enough to take in all and bid them to be at home within her shrine. % * * ~ * * ->:- *
And, moreover, our good brother's attempt to make Masonry an Ameri- can institution, and his truly democratic words accompanying it, became in- sipid, when we read his extolling words on the higher degrees. How incon- sistent are his words with his deeds, when we take into account the fact that, as the deputy of the Supreme Council of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of the Northern Jurisdiction for his State, he battles manfully in defense of that rite, not even sparing his position as grand master of symbolic Ma- sons to gain a point in favor of his supreme council.
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Now we ask, how can he reconcile his words to his deeds as a true American? When we consider that the government of the Supreme Council, of which he is an honorary member only, is in form and fact an oligarchy, with a head as absolute as any prince or potentate, and whose rulers do not become such by the will of the people, but by the will of the few. Yet in the same breath he inveighs against the exercise of any powers by symboHc grand masters which are not strictly provided for by constitutional sanction.
We believe in the form of government provided for by the founders of the supreme council. We received it from the fathers and fovmders of the rite ; we are loyal to its principles, and if we could not subscribe to them we would not belong there.
We likewise believe that the office of grand master of symbolic Masons is endowed with powers to be exercised for the good of the Craft, and an at- tempt to restrict them by constitutional enactments is a violation of the land- marks by which they are guaranteed.
We believe in the laws of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, and we likewise believe in the laws, landmarks, customs and traditions of Ancient Craft Masonry, and our allegiance to either or both is not conflicting with one another, and not in conflict with our sense of duty as a man, a Mason or an American citizen.
He copies also the criticism of Grand Master Smith on our report, with the remark that it is the most extraordinary paragraph ever incorporated in a grand master's address.
Bro. IMunn's report is highly praised, and he speaks very kindly of the report on correspondence, but finds a fly in the pot of ointment when he comes to our remarks about the Scottish Rite. He says :
The main feature of this report is his (as we think) unwarranted and un- reasonable opposition to the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. All su- preme councils and pretended supreme councils are treated alike by his caus- tic and pungent pen. We heartily endorse our brother's views in keeping supreme council controversies out of oiu" grand lodges. We as symbolic Ma- sons know nothing of them, and have no part with them; but we cannot agree with him in terming all supreme councils as pseudo and spurious Ma- sonic bodies.
As we cannot hope to point out anything that differentiates the Scottish Rite from genuine Masonry more clearly than his description of the " oli- garchy" when he is criticising Past Grand Master Smith, we shall not stop to argue the question with him, feeling sure that the leaven of what he al- ready clearly sees will work out his complete salvation, which to one who regards the report of Past Grand blaster Lockwood, of Connecticut, as "the ablest exposition of Masonic law and jurisprudence that has come from any source," cannot be far off. Quoting the report m full, he says:
Of this very able and profound opinion, the grand master speaks thus: " Although myself a member in good standing in Lafayette Consistory, S. P. of R. S. , of Bridgeport, I fully concur with Brother Lockwood regarding the
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jurisdiction of this grand lodge." To which we desire to add our unctious amen.
We are, oiu'self, a member in good standing of all the bodies of the An- cient and Accepted Scottish Rite, including honorary membership in the Su- preme Council of the Southern Jurisdiction, and love that rite of Freemasonry with all the loyalty of our manhood, yet we fail to see wherein that unfor- tunate controversy of the two supreme councils with the Cerneau Rite, is or can be in any way the concern of symbolic Masons or grand lodges of sym- bolic Masonry. As Past Grand Master Lockwood has so deftly said, "We will have our energies fully occupied if we attend to our own business." Therefore, let us keep our fingers out of the fire that burns on our neighbor's hearthstone, lest we burn them.
Recurring to his review of Illinois, he says in closing:
As we are about to close our review of this grand lodge, we are taken by surprise by an unexpected yet very pleasant call, yea a visit, from our old friend and frater, Bro. Leroy A. Goddard, the present senior grand warden of this grand lodge (Illinois). Our good brother is looking about our coun- try and city in a way, we presume, of recruiting his health. We were glad to see him, and truly wish that some other of our old Sucker friends would follow his example. Doctor, I ween that your state of health demands a veering from the ordinary grooves of life, and should you steer this way the latch-string is a yard long. Adieu, " Herr Docktor."
It is in our dreams to do that very thing ^vhen the long-postponed and elusive " day of leisure" comes. Meanwhile we can only take enough more time to say, Aiif IViederschcn.
WEST VIRGINIA, 1890.
26TH Annual. Charleston. Nov. ii, 1890.
The ambassador of Illinois, George E. Showers, was not present.
The grand master (Frank Burt) puts a great deal into a few words when he says:
The world is brighter and life is dearer to us because of our Masonic gatherings, and each of you will agree with me that our annual communica- tions are productive of that spirit of fraternal regard and friendship not at- tained by other assemblage of men. Association is apt to determine largely our lot for time and eternity as well ; then since our Masonic associations are desirable, healthful and profitable, are we not the more ready to appiaud the Institution we now represent and which teaches friendship, morality and
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brotherly love ; elevating morally, socially and intellectually all who conform to its precepts. The practice of Masonic teachings means moral and intel- lectual development, a growth into truer and nobler manhood; it means hu- manity advanced and helped. Brethren, if we have striven to practice and inculcate the principles of Masonry, you do not need that I should tell you of the condition of the Craft. Neither individuals, societies -nor communities can practice our teachings without attaining prosperity, influence and conse- quence. The harvest shall be likewise as we plant. The vSupreme Grand Master of the Universe has made it so.
He reports that he had recognized the Grand Lodge of North Dakota, as authorized by the grand lodge to do on receiving evidence of the regular- ity of its formation. He tells how a junior warden-elect found out that the past master's degree was a part of the installation sei'vices:
July 7th, to Shryock Lodge, No. 47, to elect and mstall Junior Warden, treasurer and secretary at stated communication, July i8th. This dispen- sation was granted upon the application of R. W. Fred M. Weber, district deputy grand master, who was also the retiring master of the lodge, and upon the information that these officers elect refused to be installed. Under date of July Sth, however, I was informed by the master of Shryock Lodge that the junior warden elect had received the past master's degree with a view of taking his station as junior warden, and afterwards refused to be installed ; whereupon I revoked the dispensation to elect and install a junior warden and instructed the master that the past master's degree is a part of the installation services and the brother who received it, having proceeded thus far, should finish the ceremonies and serve the lodge as junior warden.
We copy some of the eighteen decisions submitted :
1. Lodges U. D. cannot give dimits — affiliate Masons, nor collect dues. Their powers are defined in the dispensation itself.
2. A lodge in this jurisdiction is competent to receive the petition of a bona-fidc resident, without regard to any stated period of residence. This decision simply utters the situation as it exists. I am of opinion that the laws of this grand body should state a period of one year at least.
3. It is not lawful for a lodge to receive the petition of a profane who has been rejected, unless by the consent of the loclge in which the rejection was made; nor can said lodge give such consent until one year after such rejection.
4. A Master Mason in good standing may affiliate with any lodge that will admit him. If rejected he may renew his petition for membership to the same lodge or petition any other lodge as often as he thinks proper so to do. His standing as a Mason is not afi:ected, nor are his rights abridged by being rejected on application for membership. His dimit should always accompany his petition.
5. A person who has a deformity on right shoulder blade next the back, of the size of a beef heart, who walks erect and is not hindered because of such deformity from gaining a livelihood is eligible, and his petition for the mysteries of Masonry may be received.
9. A Mason residing in Ohio may be admitted to membership in any lodge in this jurisdiction. His lodge being extinct, then his certificate from
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the Grand Lodge of Ohio is a voucher of the same character as a dimit and may be so received.
11. To open a lodge on the first degree, seven Masons should be pres- ent. If the lodge is U. D. it is not material that the same seven Masons should be present, who made application for the dispensation, nor need they all be Master Masons.
12. A person whose right leg is three inches shorter than the left, being in all other respects eligible, should not be debarred from receiving the degrees if elected ; since such defect in no way hinders him from practicing the precepts and complying with the ritual.
13. A person who has lost the second and third joints of fore finger of right hand, leaving a stub protruding either long or short is eligible. If the first or knuckle joint is destroyed he is not eligible. The finger being dislo- cated or disjointed, at the first or knuckle joint, thus leaving a part joint at the knuckle, he may be initiated.
14. Neither the AV. M. nor wardens can tell to an}- brother how many cubes are in the box against a candidate for initiation. It is the positive duty of the master to check all inquiry concerning the ballot after it is taken and the result announced. The stationed officers announce all that is neces- sary to determine the result, and no member has any right to make further inquiry of any officer or brother concerning the ballot, the vote of any brother, or even to explain his own vote. The ballot is secret and the stationed officers cannot destroy its character. They are delegated by the lodge to perform the duties of their respective stations, and these duties are certainly in the line of maintaining the sacred character of the ballot, rather than destroying it by disclosing, and thus abusing the powers of their official stations.
16. The master of a lodge has power to admit or deny admission to visitors. He must in all cases use judgment and discretion, keeping in mind the harmony and best interests of the lodge as well as the right of visitation. It is the duty of the master to admit or deny as shall best pre- serve the right of visitation and peace in the lodge. For instance, objections on account of bad character should be heeded, and discipline should follow ; objections because of personal grounds ought never to be made; if made, the master should act for the welfare of the fraternity.
17. A Lodge U. D. cannot perform the ceremonies of Masonic burial.
No. I leads us to ask what visible means of support lodges under dispen- sation have in West Virginia. Nos. 2, 3, 4 and g are given as reflecting the law of jurisdiction in West Virginia, which differs from a majority of Amer- ican jurisdictions in not requiring any stated length of residence — nothing more than it shall be (^^i/m _/f(T'^. It will be observed that No. 9 states the law as it exists in Illinois — the right of a Master Mason to affiliate is not bounded by jurisdictional lines. No. 11 differs from Illinois law, which makes no distinction between lodges respecting the number required to be present. Nos. 5, 12 and 13 are copied as showing where the grand lodge placed the limit. The committee on jurisprudence say:
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endorse and approve is that numbered 12 in the report, which relates to the vexed question of the physical qualifications of a candidate, and which holds that " a person whose rijjjht leg is three inches shorter than the left," is elig- ible to the mysteries of Freemasonry. In 1875 this Grand Lodge approved a decision by Grand Master White declaring that " a petitioner whose left leg is two and one-half inches shorter than the right leg does not possess the physical qualif.cations required of a candidate for Masomy." In 1SS5 the Grand Lodge approved a decision by Grand JMaster Thornburg that "a pro- fane whose right leg is four inches shorter than the other " is not eligible to the mysteries of Masonry. The decision. No. 12, referred to, is in direct opposition to the decisions made in 1875 and in 1885, and the question is thus presented, Will the Grand Lodge adhere to the former ruling or adopt the new ? This Grand Lodge has in many respects relaxed the ancient rule of physical perfection, requiring a candidate to be " sound in all his limbs and members as a man ought to be," and we have embodied in what is known as Edict No. 8, a general rule upon the subject. Shall the door be opened wider. The committee is of opinion that the rulings made in 1875 and in 1885 upon this subject should be sustained and that decision No. 12 should be disapproved. Let us draw the line here and stand up to it.
Without seeuig the parties we think it is often impossible to judge whether a candidate answers the requirements of the ancient law — which by the way nowhere says that a candidate must be ' ' sound in all limbs and members as a man ought to be " — and that decisions made after our boyhood fashion of trading jack-knives, " unsight and unseen," are not always safe. The following record shows the disposition of the matter :
Grand Secretary Atkinson moved to strike out that portion of the report that overruled the decision of the grand master on the question of physical qualifications. After a long debate a vote was taken resulting: Ayes 10, noes 66. So the grand lodge refused to strike out.
The grand secretary then moved to substitute the following resolution for the section of the committee's report under controversy:
Resol-iwd, That in all cases where an applicant for the mysteries of Freemasonry is able to fulfill all of the requirements of the ritual, and is in good health, and of good moral character, he is hereby declared to be eligible to receive the mysteries of Freemasonry within this jurisdiction.
The ayes and noes were called for and the vote resulted: ayes 23)^, noes 53%. So the resolution was declared lost.
On motion the report of the committee, in its original form, was regu- larly adopted.
The substitute offered by the grand secretary fully meets the require- ments of the Charges of a Freemason. No. 16 shows a different view of the law than obtams in Illinois,, where the power of a member to excliide a vis- itor by summary objection is recognized.
With reference to No. 17 w-e have just one word to say — Why?
The grand master praises the work of the district deputies, and their re- ports show that it is deserved. It is unusual to see such thorough reports outside of the Dominion of Canada.
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The voluminous reports of the special committee on by-laws who over- hauled the by-laws of every lodge in the jurisdiction, represents a mountain of labor, and with the by-laws at hand to refer to one could construct from it almost a cyclopedia of jurisprudence so far as it relates to lodges. They found but two in the whole number that were correct in every particular.
The committee on work report the grand lecturer and his deputies all thoroughly equipped, and a flattering degree of uniformity prevailing, and on a question submitted make the following report:
After a Master Mason's lodge has dispersed and is called on again by the master's gavel it is not proper for the brethren to give the due guard. There is no lodge until the master has declared the Master Mason's lodge at labor.
The grand lodge granted three charters and continued one dispensation, disposed of one lonely appeal case, and declined to recognize the Grand Lodge of New Zealand for reasons that are indicated in the following:
Resolved, That as soon as the Grand Lodges of England, Ireland and Scotland submits to this lodge a formal notification that consent has been given for the organization of a new grand lodge, tinder the style and title of the " Grand Lodge of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons of New Zealand," and such request of said new grand lodge is presented with written signa- tures of the J\I. W. Grand Master and M. W. Grand Secretary of said new grand lodge, authenticated by the seal thereof ; then the gi^and master of the il. W. Grand Lodge of West Virginia shall issue his proclamation recog- nizing said grand lodge as legitimately established, and that fraternal relations between this grand lodge and that shall be regularly opened.
Considering the history of the organization of the Grand Lodge of West Virginia, the first of the conditions named m this resolution sounds terribly queer, to saj' the least.
John M. Hamilton, of Grants\-ille, was elected grand master; George W. Atkinson, Wheelmg, re-elected grand secretary.
The report on correspondence (pp. 38), again by Grand Secretary Atkin- son, past grand master, is a very condensed review of American grand lodges in which Illinois finds a place.
This pamphlet is embellished with wood cut portraits of the incoming grand master (H.^milton) and Past Grand Master Willi.\m H. H. Flick.
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WISCONSIN, 1891.
47TH Annual. Milwaukee. June 9, iSgr,
The representative of Illinois, Bro. John W. Laflin, was on duty as. usual in the southeast.
The address of the grand master (N. M. Littlejohn) is a very fine paper. He announces the death of John M. Rountree, past junior grand warden, at eighty-five. He was a charter member of Melody Lodge, No. 2, which took its first charter from the Grand Lodge of Missouri in 1S44, and took an active and prominent part in organizing the Grand Lodge of Wisconsin. The grand master quotes from a letter from Past Grand Master SMurn, of this jurisdiction, relative to his making:
" Major John H. Rountree, of your city, was a distinguished pioneer of the great Northwest, and the oldest Mason at date of his death that had been made in Illinois — certainly in the frontier town of Galena, then the commer- cial center of the Mississippi Valley. I find in the records of Strangers' Union Lodge, No. 14, Galena, that John H. Rountree, of Platteville, Territory of Wisconsin, petitioned for the degrees of Freemasonry, May 29, 1828, and the records show that he was raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason March 21, 1829. He continued a member of that lodge as long as it existed. I have known Bro. Rountree since early in the fifties, and now desire to bear my tribute to his worth as a man and a Mason. "
He announced also the death of John Matheson, past junior grand war- den, at the early age of forty-six, a strong man, much beloved.
We touch some of the fifteen decisions siibmitted by the grand master:
That where a ballot has been taken at a special meeting it is the duty of the master to declare it null and void and take a new ballot; that a lodge may, at the request of a brother who has renounced the name by which he is known on its records, by a majority vote substitute his new name after having received satisfactory evidence that he has changed his name in ac- cordance with the laws of the State in which he lives, which seems all right at first blush, but on reflection we are led to ask whether if the change is legally made the lodge would have the right to ignore it, which a vote upon the question would imply ; that there is no Masonic law authorizing an ob- jection to affiliation ; that where a waiver of jurisdiction is asked the proper lodge for the applicant to petition is the lodge receiving the waiver; that it* would be a violation of the landmarks to make a man a Mason, one of whose legs is about four inches shorter than the other, necessitating the use of crutches; that in case of delay in granting a dimit, the brother is "clear of the books " if he has paid up to the time he asked for it ; that the grand mas- ter has no authority to act in the matter when a lodge seeks to change its meetings to a place other than that named in its charter, because it is in ef-
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feet an amendment of the charter, a difficulty which the IlHnois law meets by a provision specifying the conditions under which the grand master may act ; that the grand master not having authoritj' to dispose of material be- longing to another State cannot give a dispensation authorizing a lodge to receive the petition of an applicant residing in Minnesota without infringing upon that jurisdiction, which, although it received the endorsement of the jurisprudence committee and the grand lodge, seems to us to miss the real point involved. Of course the grand master cannot sieze the material of ]Minnesota lodges, but the Minnesota lodge ha^-ing jurisdiction can waive it, and then if the grand master refuses to suspend the Wisconsin law which prohibits its lodges of making Masons of non-residents, he must do it for some other reason than that assigned, because that reason no longer exists. He also decided that in determining territorial jurisdiction distances must be calculated from the lodge-room without reference to corporation or town lines, which accords strictly with Illinois law.
Two years before, the grand lodge declared the intemperate use of in- toxicating liquors to be a ' Masonic crime,' and made it the duty of the lodges to restrain it as far as possible by trial and punishment. It having come to the grand master's knowledge that in some of their lodges this duty has been wholly disregarded, he says:
By our constitution the three ranking officers of ever}- lodge are made a committee on discipline. If such committee in any lodge allow gross viola- tions of the foregoing resolution to exist without action on their part, the grand master would be justified in suspending them from their official posi- tions for the neglect of duty.
He does not, however, forget the prior duty to the erring brother, as the following — alike creditable to his head and heart — ^^■ill show :
If in this world there ever comes to the human heart a foretaste of the joys and the rewards of the Great Hereafter, it comes through acts of charity and kindness to our unfortunate and erring fellow beings. If a brother will not heed your kindly admonitions, if after every effort to reclaim him, he still pursues his downward course, then it is the duty of the lodge to vindicate the reputation of our institution, by resort to trial and punishment. Let your Masonic duties come in their proper order. Kindly admonition and fraternal persuasion first, trial and punishment as a last resort.
He alludes to the evil which exists in some of the lodges of electioneer- ing for office, and forcibly says: " It is true that there is great honor in be- ' ing called to fill high official positions in Masonry, but a person is honored only when he is selected for the office through the confidence and by the voluntary action of his brethren, and not when he selects the office he would have, and obtains it through bargain and intrigue." These are timelj- words and they apply as well to grand lodges as to the constituent bodies.
The grand master thinks iNIasonry should seek new fields to conquer,
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and says what it needs to-day is some great object for which the Masons of the world can unitedly labor. Accordingly he bespeaks for the Grand Lodge of Wisconsin the distinguished honor of inaugurating some plan for the abo- lition of war and the bringing about a federation of humanity, with a view, as we judge, of presenting the plan to the world at the Columbian Exposi- tion of 1893. If anybody is looking to be "told to do some great thing," then we agree that the scale on which Chicago works makes it the appropri- ate place wherein to "exemplify the work," so to speak, preparatory to the dispersion of the tribes that shall carry a knowledge of it to the uttermost parts of the earth ; but we have no fears but Masonry will continue to justify its existence if it only continues to do simply the duty which lies closest at hand.
The grand lodge trustees who were ordered by the grand lodge last year to submit a plan for a charity fund, submitted a report embodying a plan for an emergency fund involving a per capita tax in addition to that now paid for grand lodge expenses, but proceed to give their reasons why they think it should not be adopted, and although we fear we have already transcended the limits we had set for this report, their remarks contain so much shrewd common sense that we cannot forbear quoting a portion of them :
Tliird. If statesmanship embraces a close consideration of the correla- tion between causes and effects, and the philosophic and practical analyses of their origin and growth, then by a parity of reasoning, it may be truth- fully said that Masonic charity is the grandest exemplification of the institu- tion of Masonry, but if the causes that would create a charity fund should have the effect of creating in the minds of some of our Masonic brethren, too lazy to work, that they could be supported by Masonic charity, the grandest purpose of our beloved institution would have been perverted to an ignoble end.
Foiert/i. We believe there is a very wide distinction between true Masonic charity and Masonic sentiment, and while your ti-ustees j'ield to none in their allegiance to the true spirit of the best there is in our noble Order — while deserving charity would find us willing to give as freely and generously and with hearts as overflowing with sympathy as any, still we are of the opinion that to establish a charity fund by this grand lodge in its present prosperous condition, would only be to invite and encourage a depend- ence where independence has heretofore existed. It would be to educate some of our brethren to feel that the only purpose of the fraternity was to support them and very soon forget the old adage that " God helps him who helps himself."
Fifth. There is a trite saying " let well enough alone." We have borne the burdens that have been placed upon us admirably and well by the most liberal and noblest charity, and this grand lodge is still competent to dispense its charity in a most magnificent manner, as it has done in the years past without the establishment of a charity fund, and in this respect it will never suffer by comparison with other sister jurisdictions. We believe the true principle is that dispensation of charity should be among the subordinate lodges, who have every opportunity of judging of the merit and worthiness of the applicant, and if the subordinate lodge is too poor financially to meet
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the demands made upon it, the grand lodge will never refuse, as in the past, to come to their aid by voting such sums of money as may legitimately be required. We submit the accompanying resolutions.
The grand lodge agreed to the report and indefinitely postponed the plan.
Four charters were granted, one of them to a lodge that had not worked under dispensation.
Among the amendments to the Constitution and which lie over until next year, is one in which the idea again crops out that a representative should re- ceive no more in mileage and per diem than his lodge has paid as dues, when the very purpose of paying mileage and per diem is to enable weak and dis- tant lodges to be represented. These lodges pay just as much as the stronger so long as the tax is per capita — just so many cents a head. The tax lies on the members, not on the lodge.
The committee of five on universal peace and morality not appearing- with a report, the grand master continued it until next year — the quater- centennial.
N. M. LiTTLEjOHN, of Whitewater, grand master, and John W. Laflin, Milwaukee, grand secretary, were re-elected.
The report on correspondence (pp. 63) is another of those cameos that have won for the author, Bro. Din'can McGregor, so much deserved praise as an artist and reporter. The few strokes which bring out Illinois are deftly and cleanly made.
WYOMING, 1890.
i6th Axnl'.\l. Cheyenne. Dec. 2, 1890,
The representative from Illinois, William Daley, the junior past grand master, was present.
The address of the grand master (Leroy S. Barnes) is very brief. He announces the death of O. P. Yelton, past deputy grand master, and re- ported the past year one of peace and good will in the jurisdiction.
In a case wherein a gentleman was elected to receive the degrees and
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then absolutely refused, through fright, to proceed, he advised that after waiting a reasonable time for him to present himself for initiation, his money •should be refunded. This was the only thing referred to him that was not covered by the grand lodge by-laws, and this he considered more as fraternal advice than as a decision. The grand lodge agreed that the advice was proper. He reported having given a dispensation authorizing a lodge to an- ticipate by a week the annual election that would otherwise fall on Christmas ■eve, and the grand lodge while in session gave another lodge permission to hold its election a week earlier still, for the same reason. Under Maryland we have referred to the reasons why we think dispensations should not issue to authorize a lodge to hold its election before the stated time.
The grand lodges of North Dakota and Tasmania were recognized; Rawlins agreed upon as the place of next meeting ; the grand master au- thorized to appoint a committee of six to agree upon the work and report it to the grand lodge next year, and the following laid over under the rule :
It is hereb}' moved that section 77 of the by-laws of the Grand Lodge of "Wyoming be amended as follows: After the word " require " insert the fol- lowing: " It shall be the imperative duty of the master of any lodge to pre- fer charges against any brother of his lodge who is engaged in the sale of intoxicating liquors, and if found guilty he may be expelled or suspended, as the case may be."
Emile a. Abry was elected grand inaster; W.m. L. Kuvkendall re- elected grand secretary; both of Cheyenne.
The report on correspondence (pp. 55) is as usual the work of Grand Secretary Kuykendall. Noticing Illinois for i8go, he says:
The grand orator. Rev. A. T. Wolff, delivered an excellent oration before the grand lodge. We recommend its perusal to our brethren who are continually prating and orating about Adam, Moses and Solomon being Masons. He followed the grand master's advice, who said, ' ' Don't give us a flowery talk about the antiquity of Masonry ; that is done to death. Talk about something else." Which he proposed to do and did do, to the great relief, no doubt, of the brethren assembled.
His willingness to put up with a Masonic ancestry less antique than Adam and his restitution of our patronymic — prized as an heirloom above the more saintly name he had substituted — are assurance to our prophetic soul that an examination of his left arm would disclose that complete absence of strawberry marks which proclaims a long-lost kinship.
He thus refers to a matter wherein we differed with him:
Our brother takes issue with our position in disapproval of Grand Master Smith's decision that a brother Master Mason may petition for membership wherever he pleases, without regard to jurisdictional lines. In answer to his comments on our position, we do not question the right of any brother remain- ing a member of a lodge when he changes his residence to another State. In
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such case the brother may not desire to dimit and become a non-affiHate even temporarily, whilst in the other case referred to in decision, the brother dim- its purposely that he may become a member in another State than the one in which he resides. In one case the member makes no attempt to non-affiliate. In the other he non-affiliates to become a member where he does not reside. This we believe he should not be allowed to do. Where he has his residence is the place for him to become a member by affiliation, and there must be few if any grand lodge jurisdictions that permit affiliation without a residence therein for a certain definite time.
We hope that on further reflection he will recognize more fully a right which IS rooted in the fact of membership in a family that is too big to be circumscribed by State lines and every member whereof is free.
ARIZONA, 1890.
QTH Annual. Phcenix. Nov. ii, 1890.
The representative of Illinois, Charles A. Fisk, was not present accord- ing to the report of the committee on credentials, but the record shows that he was appointed and installed grand chaplain, and that the grand chaplain made a prayer at the closing. He may have been at his devotions when the report of the committee was made up.
It is pleasant to note the following under the sub-heading of Necrology in the address of the grand master (George J. Roskruge), not otily because of the freedom of the jurisdiction from bereavement, but because of the phil- osophical acceptance of the verdict of the majority which marks the true American :
I am happy in having to say that since our last annual session no mem- ber of this grand body has crossed the "dark river," although, politically speaking, on the fourth, several prominent members, myself included, silently sailed up the well known ' ' Rio Salado. ' '
The grand master recommended that those who had served as masters in other jurisdictions should, be entered upon the rolls of their respective lodges as past masters but should not thereby become members of the grand lodge, and the regulations were amended accordingly, which we regard as a step in the right direction.
His one decision — that seven Master Masons are required to constitute a
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quorum for the transaction of regular business and the election of candidates, was approved.
The grand lodge chartered one new lodge ; enjoyed a \-isit from Past Grand Mastor Isaac S. Titus, of California; adopted the air-line rule in pre- scribing the territorial jurisdiction of lodges, a unanimous vote to be required for a Avaiver; ordered that no master should be installed until he shall pre- sent a certificate of his ability to confer the degrees in accordance with the Arizona ritual, from the grand lecturer or a past master; recognized the Grand Lodge of New South Wales and sent the application of the Grand Lodge of New Zealand to the committee on correspondence for investiga- tion ; and fixed upon Phoenix for its next place of meeting.
George W. Chevney, of Tombstone, was elected grand master; George J. RosKRUGE, Tucson, re-elected grand secretary.
There is no report on correspondence.
CONNECTICUT, 1891.
103D Annual. New Haven. Jan. 21, 1891.
Portraits of Clark Buckingham, the retiring grand master, and Edward B. Rowe, past grand master, engraved on steel, embellish the Connecticut
volume.
The representative of Illinois, John W. Mix, was one of the nine past grand masters present.
The grand master (Cl.ark Buckingham) announced the death of Nathan Dikeman, past grand sentinel, and James E. Coer, senior grand deacon.
The single decision submitted by him was approved; it is as follows:
Qiiestioji. Can a candidate who has been duly elected by a lodge, and having been duly notified of the same, and neglecting to present himself for initiation, and the six months' tiine having expired as required by the by- laws of said lodge ; could his petition be received by another lodge and acted upon until waiver of jurisdiction has been granted by the former lodge?
Answer. The lodge first receiving the petition of a candidate acquires jurisdiction over him, and holds such jurisdiction until it releases it. The
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candidate forfeits his right to initiation, but the lodge forfeits nothing. If the lodge had rejected the candidate, it would not be contended that the other lodge could accept him without its consent. The principle is the same in each case. The candidate has submitted himself to the jurisdiction of the lodge, and that jurisdiction cannot be taken away without its consent.
The sam§ question will be found otherwise decided in this report.
In conclusion he says :
In conclusion, I wish to call the attention of the craft to some of the errors that I have found the past year creeping into our time -honored insti- tution, to-wit: such as assembling together as a lodge to perform Masonic labor upon a day that is strictly prohibited by our laws, and contrarj^ to our Masonic teachings, also in imitating other organizations, which have for their motive a beneficiary purpose, where they have to resort to means we as Masons could not consistently with our Masonic teachings adopt.
This warning is still timely, although the danger arising from the re- flected influence of modern secret societies with insurance features seems to us less pressing than it was a few years ago. It is still pressing enough, however, not to be forgotten for a moment, and to demand resistance wher- ever it shows itself in ^Masonr}-.
The grand secretary reported additions to the charity foundation fund amounting to $696, and the report of the president of the board of managers gives the total of the fund as $10,911.33. The grand secretary also reports the centennial volume far enough advanced to be ready to issue with the grand lodge proceedings.
The grand lodge requested Past Grand Master Lockwood to publish a new edition of his Masonic Jurispi-udence, now out of print; recognized the Grand Lodge of Peru; exchanged congratulatory telegrams with the Grand Lodge of Utah, then in session; and must have experienced — although it probably did not enjoy — a new sensation when Grand Senior Warden William W. Price, on being elected deputy grand master, declined advancement be- cause of the nature of his business which takes him away from home.
Hugh Sterling, of Bridgeport, was elected grand master; Joseph K. Wheeler, Hartford, re-elected grand secretary.
We regret the absence of the usvial report on correspondence, and all the more on account of the cause — the illness of Grand Secretary Wheeler, the committee on correspondence, who we trust is by this time fully restored. Not being able to write the report in advance of the session, he suggested that it be omitted this year to give room for matter which seemed to him of more importance, explaining himself as follows :
We are just entering our second century, and for several years our lodges will be celebrating their centennial anniversaries. Would it not be
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well to place on our printed records the names of petitioners for charter of every lodge in the State, the date of issue, where located, and by whom signed, that the record may not be destroyed. In some instances this data is lost, the charters having been burned and can never be replaced.
These little things, seemingly of no importance, will become more valu- able as time wings its flight, and should be attended to when the opportunity to do so is available.
This suggestion is followed, and in addition the present officers, and the changes in the personnel of each lodge during the year, is given.
We recognize the wisdom and value of this, but for all that, in common with all the members of the guild we miss Bro. Wheeler's accustomed re- port.
IOWA, 1891.
48x11 Annual. Ced.ar Rapids. June 2, 1S91.
It besi)eaks the elegance of this volume of the Annals of the Grand Lodge of Iowa to say that it is like its predecessors bearing the imprint of the same house, except that it is more richly illustrated, having for its front- ispiece a view of the exterior of the Masonic library at Cedar Rapids, numer- ous interior views of the same, and a fine portrait of Bro. Albert Pike, dead April 2, iSgi, in his eighty-second year.
The representative of Illinois, Past Grand Master Joseph Chapman, sent a letter of regrets for his enforced absence.
The grand lodge was escorted from the library building to the opera house by "Apollo Commandery, No. 25, Templar Masons," which we pre- sume to mean Knights Templars, the new name being a slip of the pen by the grand secretary. Since the Grand Lodge of Iowa has admitted the grand chapter to partnership in the government of the Craft in that jurisdiction, it is quite appropriate that the worshipful brother (C. H. Cogswell) who so creditably discharged the duty of welcoming the grand lodge should be os- tentatiously paraded in the journal of proceedings as a past grand high priest. The grand master responded to the address of welcome m most ex- cellent taste. It is gratifying to note that the grand lodge is still opened, and that such of its business as it is still permitted to participate in, is trans- acted on the third degree.
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The address of the grand master (James D. Gamble) is a strongly writ- ten paper of twenty-seven closely printed pages. He submits three decis- ions: First, that a Master Mason not a member of that particular lodge cannot stay a petitioner for the degrees therein by objection or otherwise, without action on the part of the lodge. Second, that under the revised code, as before its adoption, the right of objection by a member may be ex- ercised even to prevent the spreading of the ballot on a petition, as well as after a petitioner has been elected. Third, that a member has the right to exclude a visitor by peremptory objection, for although tinder the provisions of the code the control of visitation lies with the master, yet his discretionary power is limited by the provision," having in view the usages of the Craft and the interest of the particular lodge." The committee on jurisprudence discovered that a section of the code imperatively requires the ballot to be spread after the committee has reported, and the decision was modified ac- cordingly. Seeing that the right of objection is in its nature and origin a supplemental right, not coming into existence until the natural and regular means of self -protection, the ballot, has been exhausted, we should be sur- prised at the judgment of the committee that it may be exercised before the committee has reported, were it not for the evidence furnished by the subse- quent proceedings that they were selected by the grand master to be his echo, and that in this respect he made no mistake in his selection.
The grand master again attacks what he calls the " romantic provisions " of their " tender law" respecting non-affiliates as being indefensibly wrong,, and recommends stringent legislation. He says it is no answer to the prop- osition that such legislation will be efi:"ectual, to say that some other jurisdic- tions have tried it without avail; but to any but that class of minds which is firmly convinced that the only thing required to make water run up-hill is an act of congress, the lesson of universal experience in this matter, that non- affiliation has gone on increasing pari passu with the increasing severity of legislation against it, would seem to be worth heeding. It is no wonder that non-affiliation is on the increase, as stated by the grand master, in Iowa. The only wonder is that an institution whose strength and support is har- mony, has not disintegrated still faster since the Grand Lodge of Iowa took the cover off of the Pandora's box of High Riteism. Years must elapse at best before the Craft in Iowa can settle down to its normal condition out of which can come a just judgment as to the effects of the present law which the grand lodge decided should have further trial.
The grand master also strongly urges the founding of a Masonic home and reproaches the grand lodge for its apathy in the matter, reminding the brethren that wordy resolutions written on cheap paper are very poor satis- faction for a famishing stomach.
The response of the committee on the grand master's address had in it something of what the present grand master (Phelps) would call " the moan-
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ing of an adverse wind," but recommended inquiry by a committee through a circular letter to the lodges, as to the probable number needing the shelter of such an institution, and a report as to its probable cost and the expense- per capita for the inmates. The grand lodge, however, had an opinion whose wisdom we are not disposed to question, which found expression in the adoption of the following substitute:
This grand lodge fully endorses the noble sentiments of brotherly love and charity expressed by the grand master, but it is the opinion of the grand lodge that a Masonic Home is not necessary in this jurisdiction at the pres- ent time, and that Masonic charity can be more satisfactorily, economically and equitably dispensed by the constituent lodges, as now done.
The grand master announces the death of Joseph Lyman and Chris- topher L. BiNKLEY, past junior grand wardens; and Edwin Eugene Ains- WORTH and John Calvin Parish, neither of whom had held office in the grand lodge, but both had attained prominence in the grand commandery.
The grand master details his pursuit and punishment of the brethren who remained obdurate in the heresy of Cerneauism beyond the date fixed for recantation. He says:
In obedience to your instructions, and in conformitv with the law en- acted at your last session, I caused to be prepared and filed with me by the Right Worshipful Junior Grand Warden proper informations against thirteen different Master Masons residing and holding membership withm this juris- diction, charging each of them with un-Masonic conduct, in violating the provisions of Chapter 37 of our Code. Upon filing these informations I im- mediately served upon each of the accused parties a notice thereof, together with a copy of the information in each separate case, in the manner and form required by law, and required the accused in each case to plead and object to the sufficiency of such information withm a specified time, which in some instances was done. In due time I appointed a committee, consisting of Brothers L. C. Blanchard, George W. Ball and T. R. Ercanbrack, with au- thority and direction to take the evidence and report their findings in each case, as provided and required by the law. The times and places of taking such evidence were fixed in advance by the committee, and in each case where pleas and objections had been filed due notice thereof was duly given and legally served on the accused brother, and he required to attend in case he desired so to do. After such committee had taken the evidence as di- rected, they made their report and findings in each case, and filed the same wath the grand secretary as required by the law ; and in each case the commit- tee found the accused "guilty" as charged in the information. Thereupon I issued an order, in the shape of a circular-letter, declaring each of the par- ties so found guilty duly •' Suspended from all the rights and privileges of Masonry," and had a copy thereof forwarded to each of the subordinate lodges within our jurisdiction, with directions to the master of the same that he cause such order to be audibly read in open lodge at the next regular meeting after the receipt of the same. [For copy of such circular see appen- dix hereto.] Although the committee in taking the evidence visited Creston, Council Bluffs, Cedar Rapids, Davenport and Sioux City, where most of the accused brethren reside, yet in each case the parties accused failed and neg- lected to put in a personal appearance, or make any defense whatever, and
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treated the matter with contempt and indifference. These cases will in due time be taken up for iinal action and disposal.
He also reports that the lodge of which one of the accused (Geo. P. Wil- son) was a member (Brilliaut Lodge, No, 433, at Creston), while his case was pending granted him a dimiton the 21st of November; that his order declar- ing him suspended, dated Dec. 2, was received, read and filed at the Decem- ber meetmg of the lodge, and that subsequently — Jan. 22, 1891 — the master and secretary issued to him a certificate directed to a lodge in Colorado, to the effect that he was a Master Mason in good standing. He thereupon ar- rested the charter of the lodge and the jewels of the officers named, and rec- ommends that the charter be revoked. Subsequently the grand lodge re- voked the charter.
We now recur to the closing remark of Grand Master Gamble in the quo- tation made above, that " these cases will in due time be taken up for final action and disposal." Bro. Parvin complains that Bi-o. Gamble is unjustlj' criticised for simply carrying out the mandatory legislation of his grand lodge. Let us see. And first let us recall the fact that in the interest of one of the parties to this factional broil among the imperialists the Grand Lodge of Iowa has volunteered — we use the term volunteered out of deference to Bro. Parvin who says that the supreme council didn't have any hand in the business — to overthrow the jurisprudence of the Charges of a Freemason and substitute the Star Chamber proceedings of an inquisition foreign to the " vicinage." In other words, while in the case of all the felonies of the cata- logue, original jurisdiction is left with the lodge where the landmark places it, in the case of those who oft'end against the majesty of the reigning dy- nasty of the Holy Empire it is taken from the lodge and vested in the grand lodge, or, during the recess, in the grand master to be by him exercised through a royal commission appointed by the crown to try the cases in which the crown itself has brought the complaint and framed the indictment. It is m this class of cases that the Draconian law recently enacted by the Grand Lodge of Iowa applies, including the following section quoted by Grand Master Gamble in his report:
By Section 372 of the Code it is provided, among other things, that " in all cases where the proceedings herein provided for are had when the Grand Lodge is not in session, and when the committee by its report finds that the accused is guilty of the charges preferred, such rej^ort and findings shall be •entered of record in the office of the Grand Secretary, and from that date the accused shall stand suspended from all the rights and privileges of Masonry until the the next session of the Grand Lodge, when final action shall be taken on such report by the Grajtd Lodge."
The italics are ours.
We now quote from the record at the time these cases were " taken up for final action and disposal" :
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Grand Master Gamble presented and read his report upon the report of the committee appointed to take testimony and present their findings in reference to certain Masons (13) charged with unmasonie conduct by the Junior Grand Warden.
At the conchision of which he declared each and all of the following eight Masons, duly and legally " expelled from all the rights, privileges, and benefits of Masonry," under and by virtue of the laws of the Grand Lodge,, viz :
J. G. Graves, Mt. Hermon Lodge, No. 263, Cedar Rapids.
E. J. Babcock, Davenport Lodge, No. 37, Davenport. J. B. Morgan, Davenport Lodge, No. 37, Davenport. Monroe Ebi, Trinity Lodge, No. 20S, Davenport.
F. C. Hills, Landmark Lodge, No. 103, Sioux City. C. C. Wales, Landmark Lodge, No. 103, Sioux City. N. B. Evarts, Acacia Lodge, No. 176, Webster City. L. E. Hurlbut, Ashlar Lodge, No. in. Ft. Dodge.
And further. That this declaration and paper be entered of record as part of the proceedings of this Grand Lodge.
Again the italics are ours and they emphasize the fact that the act by which eight Masons by him found guilty of the crime of constructive treason defined by an ex post facto law, are declared duly and legally expelled by the grand master, is ordered to be entered of record as part of the proceed- ings of the grand lodge, when, notwithstanding the unmistakable provision of the law that ' ' final action shall be taken on such i-eport by the grand lodge," that body is not permitted to open its lips !
There seems to have been a waste of Bro. Parvin's fiery indignation at our speaking of the executive of his grand lodge as a prosecuting attorney^ aired as it was in the superfluous defense of a grand master who is not only swift to be the detective, prosecuting attorney, jury and judge which the latter day jurisprudence of Iowa makes him, but is also emulous of the title " Lord High Executioner."
After the grand master had ordered his own lawless act in these cases entered of record as a part of the proceedings of the grand lodge, he took up' the other five cases " for final action and disposal." The record continues:
He then read a further report, being the report of the committee in reference to each of the cases of Wilson, Barber, Mitchell, Steadman, and Bennet (5), each of which reports were severally, as read seriatim, "ap- proved " by the Grand Lodge, whereupon
The Grand Master then severally declared each and all of the five fol- lowing Masons duly and legally "expelled from all the rights, privileges,, and benefits of Masonry," as aforesaid, viz. :
[The brethren above named.]
And further,
Ordered such declaration be entered of record as a part of the proceed- ings of this Grand Lodge.
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The record shows that in these cases the reports were severally " 'ap- proved' by the grand lodge." The record does not show that they were ap- proved under the gag law, all debate being arbitrarily cut olT.*
Excluding for the moment the eight cases wherein the grand master as- sumed to expel the accused in defiance of the law which declares that final action shall be taken on the report by the grand lodge, we doubt if in the annals of any grand lodge a parallel can be found to the action had in these five cases which appear by the record to have been disposed of according to the forms of law, but in which the substance of the law, such as it is, is de- nied.
But this is not the end of the high-handed acts of the autocrat of a grand lodge whose boast it is that the grand master possesses no powers not granted to him by its constitution. We find in the second day's proceedings that' upon the presentation of the additional report of the committee on cre- dentials, the deputy grand master (Martin) being in the chair. Past Grand Master John Scott — than whose name none in the annals of Iowa Masonry is more honorable — ofliered an amendment relative to which the record says:
Brother Scott, Past Grand Master, presented an amendment to the report, which Grand Master JNIartin (presiding) ruled out of order. [^The complainant having failed to file with the committee the certificate of his qualification entitling him to such representation.]
Whereas, Section i of the second article of the Constitution of the Grand Lodge of Iowa provides that Masters for the time being of the several chartered lodges under the jurisdiction of this Grand Lodge constitute the leading element in its composition ;
And Whereas, The records of this Grand Lodge show that for ihirty- five years last past the lodge known as Nevada Lodge, No. 99, has borne a rightful place on the rolls of this Grand Lodge ;
And Whereas, The returns of said lodge have been duly made to this Grand Lodge for the full term of thirty-five j-ears:
And Whereas, The schedule of Grand Lodge dues — page 37 of the Grand Secretarj'-'s report — for the current year, amounting to $69.00, have been fully paid:
And Whereas, The returns of said lodge No. 99 show that John Scott, a member of said lodge with the qualifications required by law, was duly and properh^ elected Master thereof, and is personally identified as such Master of said lodge :
And Whereas, Said John Scott is personally present and demanding on behalf of the brethren of said lodge its right to representation herein; there- fore
Resolved, That the committee on Credentials be, and are hereby, in-
*Our authority for this statement is the wor.shipful brother Austin A. Cassil, master of Banner Lodge. No. 437. Grand River. Iowa, in a communication publislaed in the Masonic Review (Cincinnati), for July, IS'Jl, p. 34(i.
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structed to enter the name of said John Scott upon the roll of membership herein, according to the rights of the lodge and the Master thereof.
This astounding ruling of the acting grand master and the bracketed reference to the " certificate" were a blind puzzle at first, indicating only the parentage but not the variety of the cat that we felt sure was in the meal bag. Recurring to the first report of the committee we found nothing refer- ring to certificates, the report being in the usual form. Upon glancing over the list of representatives when we came to Jewel Lodge, No. 309, instead of the name of the representative we found the following: " W. M. excluded by order of grand master, being a member of Cerneaii bodies." Referring to the grand master's list of brethren whose membership in the Cerneau bodies had been unearthed by him, with the expectation of getting some clue to the entry, we found that Jewel Lodge was not given as the Masonic home of any of the accused, and this, although his name was not given by the committee on credentials, showed that the excluded master was not a convicted Cer- neauite, and so the riddle was as far from explanation as ever.
Happily, at this juncture, on opening the American Tyler (Detroit), of the issue of Sept. 3, 1891, which came to hand yesterday, we find a com- munication from Past Grand Master Scott which not only shows where the deputy grand master got his cue for declaring out of order a resolution that in addition to being germane to the subject before the grand lodge and be- ing absolutely timely, involved a question of the highest privilege, but the nature and parentage of the certificate referred to in brackets by the grand secretary, and moreover that a material incident in the proceedings occur- ring when the committee on credentials made its first report was suppressed in the journal. More than this, it throws a flood of light upon the tyrannical and lawless methods by which the commonwealth of Freemasonry with its equal floor and equal eligibilities for every Craftsman, deriving its just pow- ers from the consent of the governed, is sought to be held m unholy alliance with a pinchbeck imperialism founded upon caste and privilege, denying the principles of representative government and substituting for the grand mas- ter chosen by the free suffrages of the Craft an autocratic head holding his office by a life tenure.
This published communication of Past Grand Master Scott is directed " To each Member of the Grand Lodge," and in the outset says:
My Brother: — You no doubt remember that on the presentation of the Report of the Committee on Credentials I asked to be informed by the Com- mittee why Nevada Lodge No. gg was not enrolled as being represented. The Grand Master would not trust the Committee, chosen and drilled by himself, to answer me. Ignoring with contempt his own Committee, he answered for it, and with excited flourishes of his gavel declared that he would decide who were members of the Grand Lodge. With emphasis he said that no one could be enrolled without his consent while he occiipied the chair.
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Never before having seen a presiding officer of a deliberate body deny the right of the Body to judge of the quahfications of its own members, and hoping the riihng might not be deliberately arbitrary, illegal, and brutal, and to give an opportunity to retrace a step that might have been angrily or thoughtless!}^ taken, I rose to "a personal explanation and question of priv- ilege." Even this, though a right never questioned among civilized men, was denied. The explanation was as much yojtr 7-ight to hear as it was 7niiie to speak. In the most haught}' and offensive manner we were informed that there was no question before the Grand Lodge that could be discussed and that no explanation would be heard.
Manifestly here was where the deputy grand master got his cue for his indefensible ruling, but which fortunately did not keep the facts from the record ; and the facts there set forth show that the question of privilege was a real one, involving as it did his rights and the rights of his lodge — his right to be enrolled and the right of his lodge to representation — both of which if those facts are undenied and undeniable were absolute, admitting of no question. Lest the deputy of the Supreme Council of the Southern Jurisdic- tion for Iowa shall say that our comment is the prejudiced criticism of an outsider who knows not the facts, we will let an insider who is manifestly able to do the subject full justice — if any one can — characterize this action as it deserves. Says Bro. Scott in his open letter:
I rise now to the ' ' question of privilege and explanation " that was then denied. I tell what all of us saw, as it appeared to me. You are a ' ' cloud of witnesses " to the facts. I afterwards placed them before the Grand Lodge in the preamble and resolutions recorded in the Journal, on page 364. By persistence I got them on the record. But for this they would doubtless have slumbered in oblivion with the brutal edicts that were issued during the year, but not reported to the Grand Lodge. The record shows a perfect and complete claim on the part of Lodge No. 99 to representation in the Grand Lodge, (i) A reference to the Constitution which we have in the most solemn manner agreed to stand to and abide by. (2) That the Lodge has been rightfully borne upon the rolls for 35 years; had made the required returns ; and had paid the dues demanded for the current year to amount of $6g.oo. (3) That the duly elected Master of the Lodge, with all the legal qualihcations, personally identified, was then present and demanding on behalf of the brethren of his Lodge, and of himself, the absolute right to be e7irolled.
These are all the important facts. They were in possession of the Com- mittee on Credentials. What more could legally or decently be demanded ? To deny so plain a right is to be deliberately false to the most solemn pledges kiiozun to Masonry. Because it was felt that the brethren of the Grand Lodge could not be trusted to carry out the nefarious program of the conspirators the right to pass upon this question was denied them. The wresting from them of this right, a right essential to the very existence of the Body of which they were members, and dating from the earliest knowl- edge of deliberate Bodies, and parliamentary law, was a still less excusable enormity.
To do this under the flimsy gauze of a ' point of order ' raised by the- Grand Master himself, as a semblance of excuse for a fraud upon the body over which he had been called to preside, was an insult as much to the Intel-
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ligence of its members as it was brutal in method and in substance. I am glad to be able to say that in a varied experience of a not uneventful life, more than 40 years of which have been intimatel}' associated with Free- masonry I never before saw such an exhibition of arrogance and assumption. It would not for a moment be tolerated in any other organization in any free country, and not in this except for our well known principle of obedience to constituted authority. To take advantage of this conservative principle in the commission of such an outrage and insult makes the act all the more contemptible as well as reprehensible.
The single line in which he speaks of the right of members to be en- rolled under the conditions prescribed by the constitution, and the right of the brethren of the grand lodge to pass upon the credentials of its own mem- bers as " a right essential to the very existence of the body of which they were members," embodies so axiomatic a truth that it sweeps away at a stroke the pettifogging report of the facile committee on jurisprudence to whom was referred the following queries, submitted by Past Grand Master Scott on the last day of the session :
Is a representative deliberative body the only proper authority which' can pass upon the credentials of its own members? What remedy has a constituent member of such a body when the presiding officer arbitrarily assumes to pass on credentials?
In response to the first of these queries, the committee say :
If this query is intended to refer to political or legislative bodies, especi- ally those governed by parliamentary laws or usage, we would say, " Yes." But if intended to apply to Masonic bodies, the rule might be otherwise, as our laws. Section 233, Paragraph 10, among others, has the following provi- sion: "The parliamentary usage of civil deliberative bodies is not recog- nized in Masonry, except in so far as it does not conflict with our well estab- lished customs, and the time-honored powers of the grand master. The parliamentary usage of Masonry is a something peculiar to itself. Its out- lines are to be found in the Ancient Constitution, Rules of Order, and the laws of the grand lodge." Our laws further teach us that the unwritten law consists of time-honored customs, usages, etc.
Following in the wake of the thought that no doubt prompted this query, we might say: The form or condition of credentials necessary to admit a constituent member to a seat in this grand lodge does not appear to have been defined by the written law of this grand jurisdiction, or how members shall be admitted to the sessions of this grand lodge. But by an emphatic unwritten law, long since indulged in by grand lodges and grand masters, and especially so by the grand masters of this jurisdiction, the grand master has directed the form, manner, and conditions of credentials to be signed and subscribed to by the members claiming membership herein, and so far his right to do so does not appear to have been questioned.
Your committee must conclude, therefore, that in the absence of any written law directing the matter of credentials, and following the rule, " cus- tom, and usage " so long recognized by this grand jurisdiction, the grand master may pass upon the form and conditions of credentials of the members asking recognition in this grand lodge.
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The committee is unfortunate that in its attempt to darken counsel by- its talk about 'CaQ.forni of credentials when it was the substance of the rep- resentative's right that was at stake, it appealed to the " Ancient Constitu- tions" and to the "time-honored customs, usages, etc." Unfortunate be- cause by the Ancient Constitutions the grand lodge — as is specifically set forth "by the regulations " hereunto annexed" — " consists of and is formed by the Masters and Wardens of all the regular particular lodges upon record, with the grand master at their head" — and that Nevada Lodge, No. 99, which was arbitrarily excluded from the grand lodge was one of the regular par- ticular lodges upon record and an integral part of the Grand Lodge is unde- nied and undeniable; unfortunate in referring to time-honored customs and usages, because by custom and usage as universal and as long established as the existence of grand lodges, members have been admitted to their rights therein upon proof of possessing the qualifications prescribed by the enacted law of the grand lodge.
It goes without saying that so far as the language of the committee is intended to convey the idea that the conditions on which a member of the grand lodge has a right to be listed as such have not been defined by the written law, or so far as it is intended to convey the idea that the grand master either in Iowa or elsewhere has ever directed the " conditions " of credentials in the sense that he has made the exercise of the representative's rights contingent on any other conditions than those named in the constitution and laws of the grand lodge, it has, so far as we know, not a shadow of foundation in fact. That his right to instruct the committee m the modus operandi of ascertaining and recording who possesses the qualifications pre- scribed bj' the constitution and laws has never been questioned is the most conclusive e\-idence that he has never presumed to direct any course that af- fected these qualifications either by taking from or adding to them. As an illustration let us take the method pursued in Illinois, instituted by Grand Master Cregier at the suggestion of the ^^Titer twenty years ago, in which by a system of cards distributed to the representatives with the blank re- turns, by them presented — after having entered their name, rank and lodge upon them — successiveh' to the committees on credentials and mileage and per diem, the necessity of reading the time-consuming reports of either of these committees in extenso is obviated. The committee on credentials takes from the card the name of the representative correctly spelled by himself and lists it mth his rank against his lodge already entfered upon their blank report ; passing to the committee on mileage and per diem close at hand, his name is entered upon their blank and from that blank the mileage already computed is entered upon his card, by which process each representative has that portion of the reports of each of these committees, which refers to him, in his own pocket and can call attention to any error made by either when their reports are presented, or before. This card he surrenders to the com- mittee on mileage and per diem when he receives his mileage and per diem
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order. This system has been firmly fixed for years, but it is nowliere de- fined in any written law because it is only a method of applying the law, -neitlier adding to or taking from the law itself. No one has ever questioned fhe right of the grand master to institute the method, not onh' because its vast utility and economy at once commended itself to all, but because it in no ■wise interfered with their rights under the law.
A recurrence to Past Grand Master Scott's open letter discloses the •manner in which the grand master assumed not to apply the law respecting the qualifications of members, but to make new law:
I come now to further "personal explanation." It was current talk, believed b}' many,, that I was that dreaded horror, "A Cerneau." As a Master Mason I do not, and can not ktiow what or who is "a Cerneau." Nor as a student of Masonic History can I learn this with certainty. The testimony and the criminating and recriminating charges of the High Rite people are contradictory and confusing. But the testimony is clear that I am what Albert Pike was, and what our own 111. Brother Parvin is, save only the mysteries of the 33, which includes the secret constitutions that are said to confer upon those which possess them absolute authority over all Maso7is in t/ieir Jurisdiction, and of which the knowledge is not given to tliose who attain oBly to the 32d degree.
By reference to page 65 of the appendix to the fifth bound volume of the Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Iowa it is seen that I '• received the degrees of the A. and A. Rite at the hands of 111. Albert G. Mackey, in 1856." He was then, as in 1S53, when Albert Pike was introduced by him to the same Rite, Secretary-Treasurer General of the Southern Jurisdiction, with head quarters at Charleston, S. C. ; see page 19S appendix to the' Jour- nal of iSgi of Iowa Annals. If then, with t.'ie illustrious Pike, and the Illus- trious Parvin, the head of the Rite in Iowa, I trace my lineage in the High Rite through the Jewish dealers in second hand goods at Charleston, to the French tailor who invented it at Paris, there can be no har-sinistcr on my escutcheon. ' ' The Inquisition " must, therefore, have been satisfied with my actual standing, and could have had no thought of any possible clan- destine association on which to base the order for defrauding Lodge No. 99 of its right to representation in the Grand Lodge.
The Journal says that I " failed to file with the Committee the certificate of qualification." I was passed by the Committee and entered on their record as one of the permanent members of the Grand Lodge without sign- ing the Certificate. Were special privileges granted to members because of supposed dignities? Or is there something that attaches to common Master Masons which causes their constitutional rights to be ignored by Grand Masters and their selected committees? I append the certificate which I was required to sign as Worshipful Master of Lodge No. 99, but not required to sign as a Past Grand Master.
" I hereby certify that I am^not a member of, or in any wise connected with, the Grand Consistory of the State of Iowa of S. P. of the R. S. 32 degree or any of its subordinate Bodies under the jurisdiction of the Supreme Council 33 degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite for the United States of America, their Territories and Dependencies."
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duty of the grand master to preside in the grand lodge, and therein decide all questions of order," the committee on jurisprudence say:
There is no provision in the constitution limiting the power and authority of the grand master in the matter of providing the form of credentials. We therefore conclude that he is invested with full power and authority to pro- vide the form of the credentials and the manner of their presentment to the grand lodge. Having. provided what the form of credentials shall be and the manner of their presentment to the grand lodge, the grand master is, by the provisicns of Section 15, Chapter 2, of the Code, authorized to declare any motion or attempt to change the form of such credentials or the manner of their presentment to the grand lodge out of order, and should he do so we are of the opinion that his action would not be an arbitrary assumption of power, but strictly in accordance with his authority under Masonic law.
The only remedy that a brother would have in such case would be to comply with the order of the grand master by signing the credentials pro- vided and presenting them to the committee on credentials in proper form.
If there is no provision in the constitution limiting the power of the grand master in the matter of providing the form of credentials, if the constitu- tional provision defining the membership of the grand lodge is inoperative against the arbitrary power of the grand master to exclude those whom it declares to be members, what remedy would the brethren have if he shotild direct the committee on credentials to exclude all masters and wardens and include only such persons as he should designate? Manifesth^ if there is no restraining power in the constitutional declaration defining the composition of the grand lodge, he may \.Si&&fro}n the qualifications recognized by that instrument with the same freedom that he exercises, with the approval of his committee on echo, in adding to them.
Apart from the fact that the indefensible legislation of the Grand Lodge of Iowa by which manifest and glaring dissent from the original plan of Ma- sonry is attempted to be validated as Masonry, is an example of defiance of the constraint of paramount and confessedly unchangeable law, there is no basis even by implication in its action for the act of the grand master in set- ting up a thumb-screw cunningly devised for the double purpose of forcing a confession of the guilt of constructive treason on the one hand, and on the other of purging the grand lodge of all who were not abject enough to prefer submission to a lawless act rather than encounter the suspicion of sympa- thizing -wnth those who had been placed under the ban.
It is refreshing to know that m Iowa, as,elsewhere, there are those who like Bro. Scott are connected with what Bro. Parvin denominates the loyal Scottish Rite bodies, who are strong enough to turn the shafts of misrepre- sentation and loyal enough to Ancient Craft Masonry to refuse to sacrifice their manhood by conformity to the lawless demands of those who would sur- render its supremacy and divide its heritage with dissenters. His words
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ring out clear and strong as the blast of a silver bugle, a call to the legitimate and constitutional defense of its equal rights, privileges and immunities:
I could not certify that I am not " /;; a>iy wise contiectcd luith" the body referred to ; for, while I do know it to be true, I suspect that I have an interest in a certain case in the Courts in which I am helping to pay costs and Attorneys fees, and that I am contributing my share of some thousands of dollars to the support of the Officers and Committees, including traveling expenses and extra work of stenographers, of the Grand Lodge of Iowa, the principal concern of which for two or more years past seems to have been to manage the concerns of the body described by capital letters which as a Master Mason I do not understand. If so, I am in some "wise" or unwise way "connected with" that body. But I told the Committee truly when I said I could not m good conscience and with self respect sign the " Certifi- cate of qualification." This must have been the burden of my offense, and for this the Brethren of Lodge No. 99 were made to suffer a deliberate wrong.
I am told that other Lodges were denied representation on the same grounds. Next year it may be your Lodge, and for no better reason than the arbitrary will of some booted and spurred imported Scottish Knight, who would in mere wantonness ride rough shod over American Masons. For myself I sa}', as I said substantially in open Grand Lodge, that in the interest of manly independence I will resist tyranny while red blood fills my veins. I will unhorse him who would recklessly trample down my brethren, myself, the Ancient Charges of a Freemason, or the Landmarks the Masonic Fathers set up.
If this be not done, where is our safety? It we permit our Constitutional rights to be wrested from us, and our fundamental law treated with con- tempt at the demand of some High Rite this year, what will guard us next year from the demands of the "Royal Order of Scotland," the "Mystic Shrine," the " Owls," or the " Calathumpians ?" Let us call a halt. Let us return to a government of Craft Masons, for Craft Masons, by Craft Masons. Let us hear once more from the chair in Grand Lodge the pleasant queries, " What is the pleasure of the Grand Lodge?" "Is the Grand Lodge ready for the question?" This will be a welcome change, if we shall ever reach it from the recent custom of demanding assent as a cut throat demands a purse.
The grand master closed his address with quite an eloquent peroration, after having delivered a lengthy dissertation on brotherly-love, which it must be confessed does great credit to his imagination.
The grand secretary reports that the semi-centennials of two of the lodges had occurred during the year, one of them — that of Iowa Lodge, No. 2, at Muscatine — having been properly observed. He contributes memorial notices to the distinguished dead of other jurisdictions, including J. Ad.-\.\is Allen and Norman T. Gassette, of Illinois, but we find nothing outside of the memorial tablet department respecting the Iowa dead additional to that found in the grand master's address. In his report as librarian he refers specifically to the Pai-\-in Autograph Collection, which appears to be of great richness and variety and will of course become of constantly increasing value.
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He also refers to the ' ' Shrine Case, " a large and fine symbolic case presented by the illustrious potentate of that order in Cedar Rapids, in behalf of the resident Arabs, to contain papers contributed by them. Iowa having gone into the business of defining " Masonic bodies," he feels obliged by the fact that the " Shriners" are not included in the Iowa schedule to explain that "the Ancient Arabic order" is " not a Masonic institution," but a " ' society of Masons' — a distinction with a difference." He then undertakes to explam the reason why it differs from chapters of Royal Arch Masons, commander- ies of " Templar Masons," and consistories of Scottish Rite Masons:
The requirements for admission to the Temple of the Shrine are "that the candidate shall be a Knight Templar in good standing or a Scottish Rite Mason of the thirty-second degree in the loyal bodies of the rite." The chapters and commanderies, as also the consistories require that their can- didates shall be Masons in good standing. The Ancient Order of Arabic No- bles have not asked recognition for their shrines at the hands of the Masons or of the grand lodges. They are not recognized or styled even Masonic bodies, while chapters, commanderies, and consistories of Masons have aU been so recognized by grand lodges of this and other countries from the ear- liest period.
Wh}^ should they not be recognized by Iowa, which has declared the bodies on which they build " Masonic bodies"? Not because they don't build on the lodge, because the commandery doesn't do that — it builds on the chapter, while the Shriner builds on the commander}-. The fact is that when one has once cut loose from a common sense basis there is no end of the non- sense into which he is driven to explain away the unexplainab'.e. It is un- derstood that one of Bro. Parvin's imperial friends in Massachusetts, a dis- tinguished Scotch Riter of the northern jurisdiction, when h^ found that the Massachusetts amendment which he had had so much to do in engineering through on the plea that it was time to stop the manufacture of degrees, had cut off the Shriners whose operations did not interfere with the exchequer of the Holy Empire, not being desirous of stopping their fun, suggested a nio- dits Vivendi that would at least save him the trouble which his Iowa brother finds in explaining away the unexplainable. He suggested to the Shriners that they strike from their written constitution the requirement that candi- dates for admission should possess Masonic degrees, at the same time pre- serving it through the ballot as an unwritten law. In that way they would escape the penalties denounced by the Massachusetts law against members of bodies " claiming to be Masonic" and not on the Massachusetts schedule of " Masonic bodies." Can it be that this advice has been followed and that this is the reason why they have not, as Bro. Parvix says, " asked recogni- tion for their Shrines at the hands of Masons or of the grand lodges"? If so he ought to be let into the secret by his " loyal " brethren, to save him the trouble of attempting to prove that two and two do not under all circum- stances make four. In the effort to do that now under consideration, further on Bro. Parvin says:
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Those not well-read in Masonic history insist that "there are no Mn sonic degrt-fs beyond the third or master's degree, there are no Masonic bodies other than those of lodges and grand lodges;" and deny the right of any Masonic body to create additional degrees. If grand lodges or lodges did not possess the right to create (as they did in 1744 the Royal Arch and Templar Order in 1769), b}^ what right did the Grand Lodge of England create the second or Fellow Craft degree and the master Mason's or third degree afU-j- its organizatit)n in 171 7, or after the promulgation of the Anci ent constitution of 1723? The right to create the Royal Arch and the Temp- lar degrees was vested in the grand lodge upon the same ground as was the right to create the second and third degree, and make them a part of Anci- ent Craft Masonry. If the former are not lawful, neither are the latter; both are lawful hy prescription.
The right of the grand lodge to create the Royal Arch degree and the Templar degrees did not rest upon the same ground as the right to create or to tolerate the creation of the second and third degrees, because the creation of the Royal Arch and Templar degrees set up distinctions unknown to the Charges of a Freemason while the latter did not. The distinctions of Fellow Craft and Master existed and were recognized when the Charges of a Free- mason defined the plan from which departure and dissent were thereafter forbidden, and by that prohibition every man who has received Masonry since then has agreed to stand.
The grand lodge chartered eight new lodges ; adopted the adverse re- port of the committee on jurisprudence on a proposition to repeal the Cer- neau legislation ; authorized the purchase of additional ground for the library ; ordered an engrossed copy of a resolution of thanks presented to Brother Cyrus W. Eaton, potentate of the Cedar Rapids Shriners, in recognition of his magnificent gift; and fixed upon Dubuque as its place of next meeting.
The eightieth birthday of the venerable grand tiler. Father Schreiner, occurring soon after the close of the grand lodge, an appropriation of eighty dollars in gold was made as a remembrancer when the day should arrive; and when he was again installed the grand master presented him with a line album containing photographs of the elective and retiring grand officers.
Ralph Gurley Phelps, of Atlantic, was elected grand master ; Theo- dore Sutton Parvin, Cedar Rapids, re-elected grand secretary.
The report on correspondence is unmistakably the work of the grand secretary, Past Grand Master Par\in. We approach a review of it with re- luctance, because it is an ever present danger, in considering such a diatribe as this last child of Bro. Parvin's maturer years, that the reviewer may be- come infected with its example and be led to forget the fraternal courtesy which most of us admire in others and would f am maintain in our own writ- ings. Apart from its scurrility, the chief impression it leaves as a whole is a lack of the sense of proportion. If this sense were normally intact there would seem to be no good reason why a couple of reviewers the insignificance
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of whose views is attested not only by the fact that they differ from Bro. Parvin's, but by the consensus of several illustrious brethren resplendent in the gew-gaws of the Holy Empire, should monopolize so large a share of his attention. What might not the ponderous wit accomplish with an object commensurate with its gravity, which here finds with nearly every mortal page fresh opportunity to evoke the jaded admiration of his readers by show- ing how the arguments of two persons holding very similar views about the action of Iowa — the one bred to medicine, the other to the pulpit — can be an- nihilated by lumping them as the opinions of " the two doctors"?
Bro. Parvin devotes something over ten pages to Illinois, under that title ; how much elsewhere we have not time to figure up. He alludes with manifest approval to Grand Master Pearson's advice to the lodges to secure homes of their own ; commends the statistics of Bro. Munn, the obituary re- port of Bro. L. R. Jerome (who would be surprised to find himself brevetted a "past grand master" by any one whose recent experience had not ren- dered him liable to get grand lodges and grand councils mixed up), Past Grand Master Smith's response when introduced as the representative of Iowa, Past Grand Master Speed's admirable speech, and Grand Orator Wolff's able address. He urges that the Grand Lodge of Illinois should lead and set the style in the matter of making a showing at the Columbian exposition in order to counteract the baneful influence of the anti-Masons, and should also provide suitable headquarters in the city for the Masons of the world. He refers to the author of the Illinois report on correspondence as one whose "opinions (save upon two topics, in which his intense prej- udices entirely mislead his judgment) are entitled to the consideration of all Masonic students." These two topics — upon which we learn that he "and almost the whole world " disagree with us — are " the Universality of Mas- onry, and Cerneauism."
He has had, we confess, some opportunity to judge of our opinion as to what constitutes Masonry and as to what constitutes dissent from its original plan and the extent of departure therefrom necessary to render it unrecog- nizable as such, but as we have never expressed any opinion about Cerneau- ism as distinguished or distinguishable in its relations to Masonry from Mo- rinism or any other ism claiming to be the original and legitimate concluding syllable of Scotch Riteism, we are at loss to understand how he knows that our views are not identical on that phase of the subject. We fear he is some- what hasty in forming conclusions. Perhaps we are all somewhat given to haste in that matter. We find that we were hasty in assuming that he "re- membered to forget the injunction of the ancient charges " in failing to refer to us as brother throughout the fifteen pages of his review of Illinois. We learn from his apology — which we now reciprocate — that " it was simply for the sake of saving time and space in writing." As we reflect upon it there is a saving of one-third of the space, to say nothing of the time, in substituting
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"Dr." for Bro. We are sorry on account of the Iowa exchequer that Bro. Parvin feels compelled to sacrifice economy to courtesy and emphasize the sincerity of his apology by referring to us as " Most Worshipful Brother Dr. Robbins, Past Grand Master," and as he is now between two fires — a mani- fest desire to be polite, and a confessed desire to economize — he will be grate- ful for the suggestion that usage now permits titles when not used as pre- fixes to be set wholly in lower case letters.
Our brother goes off a little previously sometimes, as where he thinks he IS replying to our remark that ' the Grand Lodge of Iowa has taken the first step in the process b)'- which grand orientism is evolved,' when he says they were but following in the footsteps of a dozen or more grand lodges that had legislated upon the subject. There is a manifest difference between taking the first step in a certain process and being the first to take a certain step in a process. We meant just what we said when we said the Grand Lodge of Iowa had taken a step toward grand orientism. Grand Orientism is a sj^s- tem of so-called Masonic government existing in Latin countries, where the governing head is a body known as the supreme council of sovereign grand inspectors general of the thirty-third degree, and of this council all other bodies composmg the grand orient are dependents. Among these depend- ent bodies is the " grand lodge" nominally the governing body of Symbolic or Blue Masonry. It is a grand lodge only in name, having no attribute of sovereignty, and destitute even of the first attribute of independence — the right to choose its own rulers. The sovereign grand commander of the su- preme council is ex officio grand* master of the grand lodge. The office of grand commander is non-elective, attaching by right of succession to the sen- ior grand inspector general according to the date of his diploma, and held with the appendant grand mastership by a life tenure. We correctly said that the Grand Lodge of Iowa had taken the first step in the process by which this system is evolved when it declared by its vote that the exclusive jurisdic- tion which was entailed upon it by the law of its being and as the condition of its being intrusted with the government of the Craft was not exclusive, but that there are other "Masonic bodies" possessing co-ordinate power in the government of j\Iasonry. It is an offense in his eyes that we make sport of the pretensions of this hierarchical system which he and the Grand Lodge of Iowa declares substantially to be as lawful as the grand lodge with its equal repre- sentation on its equal floor, and equal eligibility of every Craftsman to be ele- vated by the equal suffrages of his brethren to the highest ofifice if they so will it — the Masonry of the Ancient Charges from whose original democratic representative plan there can be no dissent without putting the dissenters without the pale of the institution. For us to deride the imjDerial pretensions and condemn the polity of grand orientism is assumed by him to be evidence of both narrowness and ignorance, they being such truly Masonic and benefi- cent organizations that the Grand Lodge of Illinois is condemned for nar- rowness and illiberality because it does not recognize them. When, however,
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we speak of his grand lodge as an inchoate grand orient, it is in his eyes evi- dence of our intense hatred of the Grand Lodge of Iowa !
We fear Bro. Parvin makes bad skips in his reading. We feel sure he must have inadvertently skipped Bro. Pike's opinion of grand orients, al- though it by means follows that he would not condemn us for saying what when said by Bro. Pike would be regarded as sounding the very depths of wisdom. However, Bro. Pike's reputation will have to bear the burden of our entire accord with his views when he says that the grand orient system is "pernicious," and "the fruitful source of infinite scandals and incalculable mischief." The system is, however, the legitimate and natural outgrowth of the attempt to yoke Scotch Riteism and Masonry together. In that sys- tem there is a show of recognizing the right of the grand lodge to govern Blue Masonry by making it one of the bureaus of the concern, but, as we have already seen, the "grand lodge" of the grand orient system is a fiction, a name — kept alive out of deference to those who have conscientious scruples about forsaking the original plan.
We asked Bro. Parvin to point out a syllable of ours in our report of 1S89 or elsewhere that gave a shadow of color to the implication of the lan- guage by him to Grand Master Gamble, that either our words or our ac- tions were designed to encourage any effort to destroy the supremacy of the grand lodge. In response he catches his breath in large caps : ' ' Well, that beats us!"
Of course it beats him. It is easy, we judge, for him to pour out broad- sides of reckless talk about our position and our views, but when we bring him to book for it and call his grand master to account for implications which we mildly characterized as libelous, it is much easier to raise his brows in simulated astonishment than to furnish the bill of particulars for which we call. The straits to which he is driven are sufficiently shown by the fact that when we ask him to come down from his vague limbo of generalities and specify some word or line in our report of 1889 designed or calculated to en- courage an effort to destroy the supremacy of the grand lodge, he can only cite as an evidence of its seditious character a statement from a report writ- ten a year later and relating to an event which did not occur until months after the period of which he had been writing. Grand Master Gamble had given the superfluous reason for cancelling our commission as the Illinois representative of Iowa — superfluous because his own good pleasure was enough — that our report for 1889 was designed to give encouragement to an attempt to nullify the action of his grand lodge by the interference of the civil courts. Our charge made in 1890 that this assigned reason was 'disin- genvious in statement and libelous in its implications,' his grand secretary now cites as a specimen brick of our report of 1889!
We said the reason was disingenuous in statement — not " disingenious,"
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as Bro. Parvin misquotes, for the ingenuity is painfully apparent — and libel- ous in its implications because the grand master must have known that our review of Iowa was written before the intervention of the civil courts had been invoked. With that truly imperial courtesy which characterizes the didactic diversions to which the subjects of the Holy Empire are chiefly ad- dicted, Bro. Parvin says: "We don't beheve it." And with characteristic hand-to-mouth recklessness proceeds to give the grounds on which he ques- tions the statement of a brother who must be conceded to have first-hand knowledge of the subject on which he was speaking. He says the Iowa pro- ceedings were not distributed until about the middle of July in that year, and that the suit in the civil court was begun on the 27th of that month, and continues:
The report on correspondence by the Brother Doctor Past Grand Mas- ter, etc., etc., was presented to the Grand Lodge of Illinois on the 7th day of October, and therefore could not have been written until after a full knowledge of the existence of this suit was known to all i-eading Masons of his jurisdiction, himself included, and elsewhere.
When he gets down to Minnesota he becomes more specific in his state- ments :
The proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Iowa were not mailed to the several grand lodges tJiat year until some time after the 4th of July. The appeal was made to the courts by those who set at defiance the legislation of the grand lodge on the 27th ot that month. The proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Iowa could not, therefore, have reached the reviewer for his Octo- ber review until after the appeal to the courts had been made. Notices of that appeal to the courts were published, not only in the various papers of the state of Iowa, but also in Illinois and other states, as an item of public news. The Masonic periodicals in Illinois and everywhere else had full references to this act of the Cerneaus, so that had the reviewer have read anything outside of the proceedings of Iowa he would have known that be- fore he received the volume the case was already in court. The defense is. too flimsy for further consideration.
This statement shows that we do not need to remind him that it is not Bro. RoBBiNS, but Bro. Parvin in behalf of his grand master and himself, who is essaying a defense. And a sad out he makes of it by his own show- ing. He makes it quite plain that the proceedings which could not, there- fore, have reached the reviewer for his October review until after July 27, were sent to him sometime between the 4th and " about the middle" of that month. He saves us the trouble of looking up the files of the Masonic peri- odicals of Illinois by showing that the suit was brought after the August number of the Voice of Masonry was in print, and that if the Ilh'iiozs Free- mason had received immediate notice of it, it could not have appeared in that paper before about the 20th of August. Bro. Parvin may not know that the printing of what he ingeniously but not ingenuously calls our ' ' Oc- tober review" begins in June, nor can he know from experience just how
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•early in the season a writer who weighs his words must begin his work of two hundred and fifty pages to complete it by about the middle of Septem- ber, when the only time that can be devoted to it is the scanty leisure left by the demands of an exacting profession, to be divided between this and other departments of "the world's work" ; but he knows enough from observation of the work of such writers and the history of printing reports to be perfectly aware that ours cannot be less than about three months at the inside in pass- ing through the press.
We have spoken of Bro. Par\in's hand-to-mouth recklessness of speech "by which, to meet or to assist him in dodging a point, he will make an asser- tion at one moment that in itself is an abundant refutation of what he says at another, and we regret to add that he is in no wise restrained by the facts. He repeatedly refers to the assumed fact that we had accused Bro. Albert Pike of taking an active part in securing the intervention of grand lodges in this factional fight of the High Riters, and approvingly quotes Bro. Green- i-EAF as saying that it is an error for Bro. Robbins to accuse him of being ■concerned in such measures. Now to begin with, neither Bro. Parvin nor Bro. Greenleaf can put their finger upon any word of ours that even by im- plication charges Bro. Pike with any such thing. Bro. Pike was too astute a man to advise or desire any such thing, a fact that we have always recog- nized, and we have lamented the fact in print that he was not able to make his subordinates m the southern jurisdiction see the matter in the same light and thus have preserved the peace of genuine Masonry in several jurisdictions. We have never supposed, nor have we been verdant enough to suppose, that either of the supreme councils had taken formal action looking to the inter- ■yention of grand lodges, nor have we supposed that either of those bodies was a unit in looking favorably' upon such action. But that does not dis- prove nor even discredit the correctness of our judgment trom the first as to the parentage of the whole business, and unhesitatingly expressed at the time of the Massachusetts departure. In their superserviceable zeal in the defense of Bro. Pike from a charge we had not made, each quotes — Bro. Greenleaf first, and Bro. Parvin from him — the following statement of Bro. Pike, to which we referred last year :
" I was consulted in regard to the action intended to be proposed to the Orand Lodge of Massachusetts, and I remember saying that * * * it would be a grave error for persons of our rite to encourage such interfer- ence, even in our favor, by tlie grand lodges."
In the face of this Bro. Par\in asks elsewhere what we can mean by at- tributing to the Scotch Riters the action which he assumes was spontaneous •on the part of grand lodges whose existence was threatened by this particu- lar broil of the imperial factions. Who consulted Bro. Pike? Was it the grand lodges of the jurisdictions that were threatened with eternal chaos all at once after having Lived quite comfortably through other similar outbreaks
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in the imperial limbo? Bro. Pike's affiliations with grand lodges had not been so close as to suggest him as the most likely person to be consulted by them. Will Bro. Parvin say that he thinks Bro. Pike's consultation was- with the representatives of Ancient Craft Masonry?
Bro. Parvin repeats his statement that we have treated the Grand Lodge of Iowa unfairly and unfraternally, but he will not and dare not say that we have misstated the facts of its action, however much he may object to the inferences we have attempted to draw from those facts. We have neither falsified the record nor suppressed any portion of it that was material to a fair understanding of the status of this question either in Iowa or any other jurisdiction. Can he say as much? We look in vain in his review of the District of Columbia for any hint of the fact that the anti-Cerneau legislation which he was so swift to record when it was enacted,, was entirely abrogated upon the express ground that it was a matter tliat did not properly concern the grand lodge after it had been shown that the inhibited faction had offi- cially repudiated any alleged connection with the Grand Orient of France. In like manner we look in vain for any hint that the Grand Lodge of Florida had repealed {see Florida) its legislation of the previous year for the explicit reason that in the absence of any proof of the interference of the banned body with Ancient Craft Masonry the grand lodg-e could see no ground upon which it could assume jurisdiction of the subject. He commends Bro. Daw- kins for declining further discussion of the subject with us upon the ground — correctly taken, he says — that we do not voice the sentiments of this juris- diction, but fails to give any hint that the Grand Lodge of Florida had by- resolution disclaimed all responsibility for Bro. Dawkins' expressions in the matter. Silence may be golden under certain circumstances, but suppress- ing the record in a case where he assumes to' be giving the brethren of his jurisdiction, for whose information his report is supposed to be written, a true picture of what is going on elsewhere, is not of the eighteen-carat vari- ety. Speech maybe " silvern," but to us it seems like the ring of baser metal when speech is put into men's mouths that they have not uttered, as when in ostensibly quoting Bro. Drummond's remark that " persistent mis- representation to this effect, by parties interested, has partially concealed the truth and misled the Masonic public," Bro. Parvin has injected the bracketed remark ["like the Brothers Doctors Robbins and Vincil"] after the word "in- terested," a word whose use under the circumstances makes it morally cer- tain that Bro. Dkummond did not have us in mind, whatever may be his opinion about our representations — and whatever that opinion may be he is quite capable of expressing it for himself. It maiy be denied that this is really counterfeiting, inasmuch as the words were placed in brackets ; but if this is so what shall be said of his putative, out-of-wbole-cloth quotation from Bro. Vehslage. If our readers will turn to p. i6o of this report they will find a quotation from Bro. Vehslage referring to our strictures on the New Jersey law respecting the status of Masons irregulaiiy made by regular lodges.
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Bro. Parvin quotes tiae same thing, except that he cuts off a portion of the "beginning of the first sentence, and says that " this criticism is in fuU ac- cord, not only with our own views, but those of other writers who have re- ferred to the subject at all, after which he continues his quotation as follows:
" For while," as Brother Dr. Robbins says, "his position did not require him to take sides at all, nevertheless he did take sides, and most thoroughly, and that, too, with the Ce7-)icau faction, for whom he has only kind words upon every occasion, while he is as severe and bitter in his denunciation of the other side and of the grand lodges not in sj-mpathy and harmony with the Cerneaii faction .as is here expressed."
This is, like other excerpts, set solid and enclosed in quotation marks, precisely as it is here printed, appearing to be, with the exception of the words, "as Bro. Dr. Robbins says," the language of the New Jersey re- viewer. Our Iowa brother then adds:
As there is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous, so there is but one step from loyalty to disloyalty, and that step has been taken by him, from whom better things had been expected.
To show the real nature of this metal we copy the uholc of Bro. Vehs- lage's referenc£ to us in connection wiih this Scotch Rite qtiestion, includ- ing his quotations from our report:
All these recurring questions are treated by Bro. Robbins in his able and direct fashion, but another matter of contemporaneous interest absorbs the larger share of his attention. He is not in sympathy with the intervention of grand lodges in the Cerneau quarrel, and the reasons for his antagonism have been misrepresented and misconstrued. It would appear impossible to further mistake his position since he speaks of —
" The duty of observing ^.nd reporting for the information of our grand lodge anything that may occur as the war progresses, which threatens the integrity of the Masonry which it is the function of that body to preserve in- \'iolate. We don't expect any one to discriminate between this and taking sides, who cannot understand the diiTerence between the attitude of a nation which becomes an active belligerent in a war which is raging on its borders, and its attitude when under like conditions it simply maintains an armed neutrality to preserve the inviolability of its own territory. "
Or, as in another place, he affirms :
" Our position does not require us to take sides between the Scotch Rite factions, but only to take the , side of Masonry against dissenters from its original plan, and against those who would use it as a makeweight in their private quarrels, be it one side or the other."
We will add here that the subject to which we referred when we brought down upon ourselves Bro. Vkhslage's courteous criticism is one on which Bro. Parvin' s ideas and our own are m accord, and we add it because it brings us direct to another point upon w-hich his misrepresentation would be as amazing as the facts we have just cited if he had only put the views at- tributed to us in quotation marks. Under " New Hampshire," he says:
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Brother Wait holds that a brother having received the degrees regularly becon:es a member of the institution, and is entitled to its privileges. It is his right to be recognized and fellowshipped, and it is the Masonic duty of the brethren to recognize and fellowship him the world over. He is a Ma- son, not of this or that grand lodge jurisdiction, but a Mason of the institu- tion. We could wish that we had space to quote all of the brother's admira- ble argument upon this subject under the title of Canada. His views are in accord with those of Brother Greenleaf, of Colorado, and so far as we know of all writers, except those of Illinois, where there are noted exceptions.
If there is an}' subject upon which we have persistently hammered awaj- since we began writing these reports it is the subject referred to by the Iowa reviewer, and always on the other side of the question from where he puts us.
It will be evident by this time to all not only that we cannot afford to go through the whole Iowa report to correct the misrepresentations which Bro. Parvin evidently assumes will answer just as well as the truth, but also after these examples, that it is unnecessary. But his remark about loyalty under the New Jersey fiction brings us for a moment to Bro. Parmn's latter day horror of rebellion. One would think it had ever been to him the Masonic unpard- onable sin. The subject is however a good illustration of what he makes no bone.s of confessing, that the right or wrong of a thing depends on whose ox is getting gored, for in this very report, bristling all over w"ith denuncia- tion of rebellion and rebels, he defends the rebellion of the Iowa Templars against the grand master of Templars, for whom in his memorial of him he makes the defense that his unlawful exclusion of the Grand Commandery of Iowa — and we agree with him that it was unlawful — was due to bad counsel and was not done of his own motion. Under the title of Kentucky, the same pen says:
We have no respect or regard w-hatever for rebels against constituted authority, we care not by what name they are known or called. Men who will violate their solemn obligations to support the constitution and sustain grand lodge authority are deserving of no better fate than that which befell the apostate Judas.
So, too, in regard to the right of a lodge to instruct its master how to vote in grand lodge: " How any one can deny this right and be consistent is more than we can understand," he says, and with this we agree provided he means consistent with his solemn pledges as a master, pledges at least as old as the first printed edition of the Charges of a Freemason, and religiously imposed on every master of a lodge of Free and Accepted Masons from that day to this; and yet we listened in vain for Bro. Parvin's approving voice when we criticised the denial of the right by Grand Master Williams, of Ohio, and the law officers of that grand lodge at his back, wherebj' one vote — perhaps more — was saved to the grand orient party in the Grand Lodge of Ohio. We suppose that, as in the Templar rebellion, it was not our ox that was getting gored. Under South Dakota he is quite in accord with Bro. Bi.att who holds that while a grand master may properly suspend a master from
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the functions of his office, he cannot suspend him from the rights and privi- leges of Masonry, and says that the opposite doctrine "cannot be sus- tained b^' Masonic law, old or new," yet in his so-called review of the proceedings of his own grand lodge, while he repeatedly refers to the thir- teen brethren suspended and eight of them expelled by the grand master, we find no hint that the power of the grand master is not rooted in all law ancient and modern.
We have cited these instances of misrepresentation m the face of the plainest facts, and these instances of herculean straddling by which he gets on opposite sides of the same question in the same breath, simply to show that it is waste of time to chase a will o' the wisp ; but our attention is at- tracted at this moment to one misstatement that we cannot permit to pass unnoticed. He recurs to the series of articles we quoted from a constitution which he says is bogus, published in our review of Iowa in iSSg, and says:
We showed not only the falsity of these articles, but that they were for- geries, and presented and printed in parallel columns (to which the brother takes exception) the genuine articles. W'e stated that "we did not know whether he knew they were false or not," but he leaves us no longer in doubt as he admits that "he had read in the ' Voi:e of Masonry' an exposition of their falsity by Brother Albert Pike."
W"e refer to our report of i S90 in which he says we admitted having read in the Voice of Masonry an exposition of their falsity, for the e\'idence that this statement is without the shadow of fotC7tdation. He can settle the question of veracity with the record. It is there in black and white. We may remark, however, that we regret our continued inability to engage his attention with a quotation which we last year repeated from what, in the absence of his denial, we are still permitted to regard as the genuine consti- tution of A. and A. Rite for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States: " Every Lodge of Perfection must have one copy of the ritual of the Blue Degrees, with the secret work, and may have four copies of that ritual." {Art. XII., Sec. 4.) And also:
' ' Each Inspector General, Active Member, and each Deputy of the Su- preme Council or an Inspector General, shall have issued to him one copy of each Ritual from one to thirty-two" {Sec. 2), and, second {Sec. ij, lb.) — ".No body of the Rite shall be established until it has paid for, or made arrange- ments to have at once sent to it, and pay for. the books which bodies are re- quired to have, that is to say:
' ' Lodge of Perfection. "
4 Rituals of the degrees conferred by it. I Ritual of the Blue Degrees for instruction. I Secret work of the degrees conferred by it. I Secret work of the Blue Degrees, etc.
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Of course Bro. Parvin continues to speak of us as a sjmipathizer with and an advocate of Cerneauism, and having impanelled a jury declares us convicted. It is perhaps unnecessary to add that each of the brethren polled on the subject, whose language /las not either been garbled or pui mio- his vunith out of luhole cloth, has " had some of the pork!"
MANITOBA, 1891.
i6th Annual. Winnipeg. June ro, iSgr.
Besides the journal of the annual communication, this pamphlet con- tains the proceedings of a special communication held at Minnedosa, July i, 1890, to lay the corner-stone of the new Masonic hall. In the course of a prelimmary exhortation the grand master aptly said:
In a Freemason's lodge there must be no jangling of sectarian creeds, no political acrimony, no strife ; the true Freemason must divest himself of all this and put on the robe of harmony, gentleness, good will and brotherly love, so that he may in the lodge below be prepared to enter the Grand Lo^ge above, which God grant we may all enter.
Forty grand lodges were represented at the annual communication, Illi- nois by R. W. Bro. John Leslie, who was at this session elected grand jun- ior warden. The grand master (James Alexander Ovas) announced the death of Duncan McArthur, past grand tiler, and Gilbert McMicken, past grand senior warden, a man prominent for many years in the public affairs of the province. The distinguished dead of other jurisdictions were remem- bered, and more extended notice given to R. W. Bro. the Rt. Hon. Sir John A. Macdonald, G. C. B. , prime minister of Canada, past grand senior war- den of the Grand Lodge of Canada, who died at the age of seventy-six, with a record of forty-seven years of unbroken service in the Canadian parlia- ment. He also reports the serious injurj^ of the grand senior warden, Bro. Thos. McPherson, in a railway smash-up at Seattle, who was happily re- covering.
The district deputy of the Emerson district says of Glenboro Lodge u. d. :
This lodge adopted the Ancient York (or American) work. Although I am familiar with it and admire it, I am not in favor of new lodges adopting it for two reasons. First, it requires more well skilled officers than we ever find in a new lodge, and to be properly and impressively performed, requires.
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more paraphernalia than a new lodge can afford. However, the work done "here was creditable to the lodge.
"We have seen the " American work" adapt itself to about as scanty par- aphernalia as could be imagined, but we presume Bro. Frazer gathered his idea of its ordinary costume by stumbling on to a lodge m the States with whose make-up Solomon in all his glory could not compare, the modern cir- •cus being its only rival.
The grand secretary makes a verj' encouraging report of the progress and use of the library and of the advantage the reading-room has proved to the Craft.
The grand lodge chartered five new lodges and continued two under dis- pensation ; recognized the right of a member to summarilj- exclude a visitor by objection ; welcomed a distinguished visitor in the person of R. W. Bro. T. S. Elliott, past grand senior warden of the Grand Lodge of Scotland and deputy provincial grand master of Roxboroughshire and Selkirk ; ex- changed fraternal greetings by wire with the grand lodges of Dakota, Nova Scotia, Oregon, Wisconsin and Washington ; appropriated two hundred dol- lars to aid Belmont Lodge, No. 13, at Morden, in the erection of a hospital, and one hundred dollars in aid of the general hospital at Winnipeg ; and es- pecially commended the action of the grand master in disallowing an amend- ment to the by-laws of a lodge imposing fines upon the officers for non-at- tendance, upon the sensible ground that to allow a breach of duty to be sat- isfied by a money payment would be to detract from its binding nature.
William George Bell was elected grand master; William G. Scott re-elected grand secretary ; both of Winnipeg.
There is no report on coiTespondence. The grand secretary acknowl- edges the receipt of a bound volume of the Illinois proceedings, and among the memorial tablets is one inscribed to J. Adams Allen, of this jurisdiction, past grand master of Michigan.
MASSACHUSETTS, 1890.
99TH Annual. Boston. Dec. io, iSgo.
We have before us the proceedings of several quarterly and special communications :
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Special communication July 22, 1890, at Palmer, when the grand master (Samuel Wells) laid the corner-stone of the memorial hall and public library. The grand lodge had for a portion of its escort a post of the Grand Army of the Republic, but we have not noticed that any of the reviewers have re- garded this as a recognition of L. L. Merrick Post, No. 107, as a " Masonic body." A feature of the ceremonies was the responsive scriptural readings between the chaplain and the brethren.
Quarterly communication, Sept. 10, 1S90.
The grand master announced the death of John W. Dadmun, past grand chaplain and past district deputy grand master. Long a minister of the M. E. Church, for the last twenty-five years he had been emploj^ed as chaplain and superintendent of schools in the reformatories of the city of Boston, located at Deer Island. He had a genius for human fellowship which made him greatly beloved in the Fraternity.
An appreciative memorial of George P. Sanger, deceased, past deputy grand master, was presented.
Special communication, Oct. 11, i8go, at Lowell, when the grand master laid the corner-stone of the new city hall. The brief address of the grand master — like that delivered at Palmer — is a model of fitness and good taste.
Quarterly communication, Dec. 10, iSgo. .
Grand Master Wells thus speaks of the condition of the Craft :
The condition of the lodges, on the whole, is very satisfactorj-, but few of them showing lack of interest or want of work. The prosperity of Free- masonry in this jurisdiction is great, and still improving. Our financial con- dition is so sound and the prospects for future improvement so good that we need have no fear of any future embarrassment. Harmony prevails among our lodges, and our relations with sister grand bodies are pleasant and friendly.
Among the dispensations granted he reports several to bury brethren Avith Masonic honors, so many that we are led to infer that funeral honors cannot in Massachusetts be extended without permission of the grand mas- ter. He recommends such a change of the constitution as will permit dual membership, being satisfied, on investigation and reflection, that the reasons for prohibition no longer exist in this day of rapid transit ; but his qualifying advice that no brother be allowed to hold office in more than one lodge at the same time seems to us to give the whole case away, because it suggests at once a condition incompatible with essential equality of conditions and eligibilities. He also raises the question whether the privileges of non-affil- iated Masons should not be restricted because the great financial growth of the grand lodge and the rapid increase of the charitj^ fund makes the privi- lege of being a Mason more valuable. We do not, however, find this dem-
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onstration of the reflex value of belonging to a rich institution coupled witb any suggestion to modify the declarations of the preparation room. " Who- ever," he says, "expects to share in the benefits of the Institution should be willing to contribute to its maintenance," and if the matter is to be presented! as a desirable financial investment we are bound to admit that his proposi- tion is conclusive.
Ten thousand dollars was appropriated out of the surplus receipts to the Masonic education and charity trust, and five hundred dollars to the com- mittee on charity. One charter was granted.
Samuel Wells, of Boston, grand master, and Sereno D. Nickerson,. Cambridge, recording grand secretary, were unanimously re-elected. The P. O. address of both is Masonic Temple, Boston.
Stated communication, Dec. 30, 1890. The grand officers were installed, and the grand secretary reported that the printed proceedings of the grand lodges with which they were in fraternal correspondence had been received! and placed in the library. At six o'clock the brethren were called from labor and marched in procession to the banquet hall where •' the Feast of St. John the Evangelist was celebrated in due and ancient form, after the man- ner of Masons."
We suspect from the fact that the grand lodge was called to labor again at ten o'clock, that some of the ancient forms were honored in the breach rather than the observance. The after-dinner speeches were of the usual high order. This year the only speaker from abroad was Grand Master Kenyon, of Rhode Island.
TENNESSEE, 1891.
77TH Annual. Nashville. Jan. 28, 1891..
Thirty-one jurisdictions were represented, Illinois by A. V. Warr, one of the fourteen past grand masters present.
A right worshipful, the deputy grand master (William S. Smith), occu- pied the chair of the most worshipful and announced the death of Grand Master Benjamin F. Haller. He died at the early age pf fifty-four, widely known and universally respected, and the tributes to his memory called.
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:forth from reviewers all over the country who had known him face to face, 3.11 take on a tone of unwonted tenderness which tells of something in his personality which drew men to him verj' closely.
Among the dispensations reported by the grand master is one to a lodge imder dispensation to have "a grand rally," the exact nature of which everj^ reader can guess for himself as the Masonic nomenclature of this latitude does not include it.
We copy three of the four rulings made by the grand master, the other being purely a local matter:
2. The making of a mark to a petition for the degrees in Masonry was not complying with Edict 21. If the applicant could not read and write lodges should not receive the petition.
3. A subordinate lodge has no right to require an ofificer who has been ■elected and installed to give bond by a mere resolution of the lodge, but lodges desiring officers to do so should amend their by-laws to that effect.
4. A member who refuses to prefer charges against a Master Mason when ordered b}- his lodge to do so does not commit a Masonic offense by so refusing. The lodge has no legal right to make such an order; the junior warden being the proper one to prefer charges when the same is ordered by .the lodge.
The committee on jurisprudence dissented from No. 3, saying:
In this we are of the opinion that the acting grand master erred, and that the officer elect is, by virtue of his oath of installation, required to con- form to the rules and regulations which may from time to time be adopted by the lodge whose servant he is. We recommend the disapproval of this ruling.
The grand lodge, however, and we think correctly, took the grand mas- ter's view.
In a letter to the lodges urging action in supjDort of the Widows' and Orphans' Masonic Home, the grand master stated that only two lodges out- side of the city of Nashville had complied with the following request made in 1889:
'' Ri'so^vcd, That the W. M. of each Subordinate Lodge in this grand jurisdiction be and is herebey requested to submit the claims of the Alasonic Widows' and Orphans' Home to the members of his lodge, and request from each a contribution of one dollar to said institution."
A proposed constitutional amendment authorizing the grand lodge to make assessments for the maintenance of the Home, was concurred in and went over for consideration (we presume under the rule) in 1892.
The grand lodge arrested two charters for failure of lodges to make re- turns and pay dues, received the surrender of one, granted eight to lodges
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working under dispensation; continued one dispensation and granted nine for new lodges ; held a lodge of sorrow in memory of the deceased grand master ; listened to a lecture on the esoteric work of the third degree from Past Grand Master Connor ; and negatived the adverse report of the com- mittee on ways and means and a resolution passed two years before by re- mitting the dues of two burned-out lodges.
William S. Smith, of Ebenezer, was elected grand master ; John Friz- ZELL, Nashville, re-elected grand secretary.
The report on correspondence (pp. 162) is as fresh as a breeze from the Great Smoky Mountains. It is from the hand and brain of Past Grand Mas- ter George C. Connor, whose visit to our grand lodge in iSSi many of the members will ever recall with great pleasure, and particularly those who had the good fortune to enjoy the social hour at the Grand Pacific in the evening when he and Bro. now Past Grand Master Smith swapped reminiscences of Chattanooga in 1S63, at which time they were swapping round shot and shells and other iron tools. His report is characterized by the same exhuberant vitality and hearty botihouu'c which makes his personality the stimulus of life and good fellowship all around him. Illinois receives fraternal notice. He thinks Grand Master Pearson's address marvelously brief in view of the salary he receives, but perhaps he iias not yet caught on to the value of a grand master who knows enough to stop when he has got through talking. He says Bro. Pearson favors an iron-clad ritual, and lets him into the secret that it is an absolute impossibility so long as the brains of all masters are not cast in the same steel mold. He says the grand master thrummed upon the economic string, but that the grand lodge did not waltz to his thrum- ming, and smiles so incredulously at the idea of getting through any legisla- tion that touches the pockets of the legislators, as to leave little doubt that the Grand Lodge of Tennessee is our Siamese twin.
We heartily reciprocate his friendly greeting to the author of the Illinois report on correspondence, and for his demonstration that a Mason may sometimes have his official toe trod on without letting his unofficial toe fly out with forty-mule power. He says :
Brother Robbins is not of the Rite Eccosais, we take it, and he cuffs the ears of the poor thing whenever its head inharmoniously pops up. 'Tis to be regretted. We are of the opinion that there should be no less willingness on the part of a grand lodge to defend the Scotch Rite, in maintaining pos- session of its jurisdiction, if lawfully acquired, than in defending the Grand Chapter of the English Rite, under like circumstances. Lack of knowledge of the Rite should not influence Brother Robbins; he might just as easily have refrained from being a chapter Mason.
Brother Robbins does know that the Grand Lodge of Illinois is in lawful possession, and that no other authority could organize a Blue Lodge in the State. If Illinois was unoccupied territory the Scotch Rite would be on equal footing with the English Rite, and could lawfully lay the foundation of its
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system there, which is the Blue Degrees of that Rite, conferred in the Rite's own way. But if the Enghsh Rite afterwards came, and sought possession, the pohcy of the Scotch Rite would surrender control over the Blue Degrees. Now, as all Scotch Riters are also English Riters, in America, why are we so honored in the English Rite, and so doubted when we step inside the portals of the Scotch Rite? Brother Robbins, you well know we are as loyal to the English as to the Scotch Rite; and that we are as truthful in our de- liverances about one as about the other. Now, let us all kiss and be friends, and we will warmly grasp your digits (D. V.) when the World opens her Fair in the Windy City in 1892.
We speak of his official toe, because elsewhere he mentions the fact that he is the deputy of the supreme council for Tennessee, a tact on which we congratulate that valley. He truly says that we might just as easily have refrained from being a chapter Mason as from being a member of the Rite Eccosias, and we may add that had we on the other hand taken in both of them instead of onh^ one, it would have been just as easy to refrain from ad- mitting that either of them is Masonry as it is now. His courteously put question why brethren who are so honored in the English Rite are so doubted when they step inside the portals of the Scotch Rite, is a reasonable one and deserves a reasonable answ^er. But not every one who asks such a question is so generous as to put the materials for the answer in the same paragraph with such charming nah'ete as Bro. Connor has done. He says that if Illi- nois were unoccupied territory the Scotch Rite would be on an equal footing with the English Rite and could lawfully plant lodges there to confer the blue degrees. He assures us, however, that if the English Rite afterwards came and sought possession it would be the policy of the Scottish Rite to surrender control of the blue degrees. The reason why what is called the Scottish Rite or the Ancient and Accepted Rite is looked upon with a sus- picion that does not attach to the Templar Rite or Cryptic or Capitular rites, is that it claims something which they do not, i. e. the right to establish lodges to confer the blue degrees. Just now, it is true, all the leaders ex- cept Bro. Connor are busy either denying that the so-called Scotch Rite (which never had any connection with Scotland) ever did claim the right to confer the blue degrees, or in showing that whereas it once claimed it only to waive it, now it utterly disclaims and repudiates it. We have no doubt that Bro. Connor is as loyal to what he calls the English Rite and which we call Masojiry, as to the Scotch Rite, but if he includes in the term Scotch Rite the existence of a power that can exercise any jurisdiction whatever over the degrees of Free and Accepted Masonry, viz. : Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason, then we don't think equal loyalty to both comes up to the measure of loyalty due to the institution of which we be- came members before we became chapter Masons, council Masons, Templar Masons, Scotch Rite Masons, Shriners or anything else whose bodies have been superimposed upon the lodge. We doubt not that Bro. Connor is even more loyal to Masonry than he thinks he is, and that down underneath all this confusion resulting from the application of the word " rite" to the sys-
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tem circumscribed by the limbo of the Holy Empire exclusively, instead of applying it also to the capitular, cryptic and Templar systems, he is fast an- chored to the exclusive and irrevocable prescriptions of the Charges of a Freemason.
As Bro. Connor confesses himself a " Canuck" he is excusable for get- ting northern geographical names mixed, after being so long and so far from home, and we forgive him for applying the name " Windy City" to the at- mosphericalh- quiet and otherwise retiring metropolis on Lake Michigan.
Noting the expulsion of a brother by the Grand Lodge of Arkansas for •denying the divine authenticity of the Bible, Bro. Connor says:
Brethren of Tennessee! In your name, and in the name of L'niversal Freemasonry, this committee protests that the above action was Jesuitical, inquisitorial, tyrannical, and, therefore, unmasonic. There are thousands of Freemasons in Arkansas who deny the di\-inity of Christ, conscientiously repudiate the story of his resurrection, and of the subsequent apparitions! Judaism denies all these, and the maintainers of Judaism are Freemasons in good standing, and are entitled to be. Ugh! When will grand lodges be delivered from the baleful influences of cranky sectarians? They who believe in God and the brotherhood of man, and act as they believe, have enough of 'belief" to entitle them to seats among the so-called "Sons of Light," either among the natives of Little Rock, Singapore or Constantinople. This com- mittee thanks God that it is able to believe, to cherish its beliefs, and yet re- main undesirous of cramming these beliefs down the throats of Unitarians, Jews, Mohammedans, or Budhists.
If the grand old ship of Freemasonry is to continue to sail on forever, bearing light and knowledge to all quarters of the globe, these sectarians, who are so clamorous in some of the grand lodges, must be denied admis- sion to the helm, and must not tamper with the binnacle ! New tests and new articles of faith are not to be tolerated if they disturb the unsectarian character of our humanitarian institution! These "belief" cranks are the lineal descendants of Torquemado; of Mary and Elizabeth; of Pole and Gregor}-; of the fanatical Pilgrims who whipped and fined and imprisoned in America. Allow no such mental and soul tyranny to acquire influence and authority in the conventicles of the Ancient Craft. There is poison and death where such arid dogmas take possession of the soul. Persuade men, if you will, to believe, but dare not to rekindle the fagots, or reconstruct the racks of the dark age. Thanks be unto God, we believe or not as we please in free America.
In his Conclusion, Bro. Connor discusses several well-worn subjects and some that are not so hackneyed, and invests them all with a new interest by his breez}- stjde, fresh illustrations and often fresh ideas. We should be glad to make extracts under several heads, but we fear our report is already swollen to undue proportions.
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ST^^TISTIOS.
Grand Lodge.
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Dis. of Columbia.
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Indian Territory.
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts ....
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire..
New Jersey
New York
New Me.\ico
North Carolina....
North Dakota
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina....
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia ,
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
British Columbia..
Canada
Manitoba
New Brunswick...
Nova Scotia
P. Edward Island, Quebec
Total.
Mem- ber- ship,
9.546 429
I2,6t,4
15,831 5.252 15.505
*3.396 13.450 751 42,369 23,890
1,357 22,463 18,089 15,974
4,314 20,675
5.491 30,880 31,864 12,1 '"
8,390 27,824
■,833
9,28: 99;
8,333 13, 75.775
I629
17,439 1,464
34,840 3,664
41.192 3,96, 5,70 3,385
16,743 *2i,558 486 8,742 9,930 2852
*4,074
13,646 650
639.255
20,499 1,689
30,915 670,170
37 1,051
653 405 580 90 336
925
30
2,302
1,285
171
1.225
1,261
1,411
288
836
413
1.449
1,764
851
639
1,482
172
654
34
315
793
4,622
159 1,773
228 2,354
Affilia- ted.
416 1 700
221
67
35 36,290
63
I 361
165
82
38,186
499 14 595 646 264
604
147
691
711
427
ic
116
74 291
544
351
299
1,017
93 554
27
6
334 252
3 214
84 350 47 88
49 72
123 57
223
273
3 46
54 718 162 563
14
753
31
, 92 t468
257
227 31
13,844
50 385 43
549
Died
199 260 58 258 15 64
561 310
23 229
175 237
100 318 9' 453 383 107 190 389 30 77
21
140
208
Dimit- ted.
495 25 636 394 146 123 19
823
5,338
3 15' 24
526 63
663 64 82 29
332
214
8,527
6
245: 23 23
45 4
32 1,291
825
86
1,213
972
633
89
279
145
393
750
403
357
1,055
56
365
33
88
194
1,086
Sus- pended N. P. of Dues.
206 24
255
304 90
124
769 386 19 531 413 612
71
160 76 204 481 174 214 430
27 140
2.84;
132 397
18 140 359
91
346
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14,393' 5,5521 8.873 tEstimate.
127 69 158
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Net loss
690 5 331 415 460 212 62 301
124
766 684 296 335
215
762 800 562 424
879 163 595
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544 129 1,302 108 463
213
540 478
261 19
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18,735
91 429
536
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23 49 20 IS 31 16 41 35 37 19 45 2 8 43 9 12 14 32 1 1 30 6 5 21 26 7 40 24 44 27 17 I 47 28 42 4 36 3 34 29 38 11 48 25 22 39 33 18 46 |
121 84 167 432 531 571 284 441 |
8 22 9 II 13 25 20 6[ |
30 • 29.6 64. 70. 140. 81. 174- |
.09.8 .08.72 •08.53 .04.24 .08.45 •03-79 •05.5 .09.5 |
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38 10 |
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44. 44. 62. 51- 37-7 51. 53- 37-5 37.8 108. 64. 87. 66. 30.8 50. 55-5 52. 52-5 107. 87. 105. |
•°7^43 .04. •05-55 .05.50 -14-52 .05.48 .07.27 .09.22 .07 j6 •04.10 .07.82 .04.81 .05.67 .07.6 .08. •05 • 5 .10.3 •07^5 •03^4 .03.8 .05.8 .06.23 |
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16 |
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61 510 325 65 219 297 252 218 335 244 417 530 481 134 363 162 253 |
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18 |
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39 |
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12 |
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36 |
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24 |
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15 |
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290 295 50 [ |
29 14 17 |
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21 |
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165 402 156 443 249 118 174 |
'4 14 8 21 38 9 17 |
44- 71- 44- 105. 114. 32. 45-7 41- |
. I I . 76 .05.16 -06.45 .05.92 -05.13 |
.08.36 .01.58 .03.65 .03.26 .02.8 .08.88 .03.45 •03.64 |
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32 |
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.07. -05.28 |
19 |
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31 |
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lot 259 234 173 |
15 23 9 II |
69. 87. 42. 44- |
.04.41 .04.87 .07.5 -09-3 |
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14 |
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6 |
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313 1 153 145 I 283 1 '49 ; 135 120 84 : |
14 23 19 13 12 14 13 |
64. 54- 68. 58. 40. 55- 42. 42. |
-0£ . ■05-54 .10.73 .06.78 .09.71 -04-37 .06.95 -05.47 |
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34 |
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26 |
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MASONIC CORRESPONDENCE.
299
STATISTICAL COMPARISON.
1890
Grand Lodges 55
Number of Subordinates I 10,709
Raised..
14,086 5,550
Affiliated
Restored
Died
Dimitted
Suspended for non-payment of dues.
Suspended and expelled
Membership
8 311
16,830
■3.542
650
629,084
10,817
36,741
15,608
6,401
8 848
17,161
13,876
650
648,361
56 11,029
38,186 14 393 5,552 8,873 16,709
12.597
595
670,170
Based upon the Tables we find, in the Grand Lodges in the L^nited States, that:
In the accession by new work the average has been 5 85-100 per cent.
The additions by affiliation and restoration represent 3 09-100 per cent.
The losses from death are 1 37-100 per cent.
The losses from dimissions are 2 52-100 per cent.
The losses from non-payment of dues are i 91-100 per cent.
The net gain of the year represents 18,733. equal to 3 02-100 per cent
In numerical standing the most prominent rank in the following order ; New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Massachusetts, Mississ- ippi, Indiana, Iowa, Texas, etc.
The average of membership to each lodge is greatest in the following: District of Columbia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, etc.
The jurisdictions having lodges of the largest membership are in the following order: Connecticut, Colorado, Michigan, Illinois, New York, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, District of Columbia, California, etc.
IP^I^T II.
LODGE DIRECTORY,
TABULATED STATEMENTS,
REPORTS OE DLSTRICT DEPUTY GRAND MASTERS, AND OTHER OEEICERS.
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APPENDIX. PART 11=
Alphabetical Lilst o? Post-Oi?Ices,
GIVING NAME AND NUMHKR OF LODGl-: LOCATED AT EACH.
roST-OFFICE.
Abingdon
Akin
Albany
Albion.
Aledo
Alexis
Allendale
Allen's Spring
Alta
Altamont
Alton
Alton
Altona
Amboy
Andalusia
Anna
Apple River...
Areola
Arlington
Arrowsmith....
Ashley
Ashmore
Ashton
Assumption
Astoria
Atkinson
Atlanta
Atwood
Auburn
Auburn Park ..
Augusta
Aurora
Aurora
Avon
Bardolph
Harrington
Barry
Basco
Batavia
Bath
Bay City
Beardstown.... Beecher City .
Belknap
Belle Rive
Belleville
Belvidere
Bement
Benton
Bethalto
Birds
Blandinsville .. Bloomington... Bloomington... Bloomington...
Abingdon 185
.Akin 749
Albany 566
Hermitage 356
Aledo 252
Alexandria 702
Allendale 752
Giirney 77S
Alta 748
Altamont 533
Piasa 27
Erwin 315
Altona 330
Illinois Central 178
Andalusia 516
Anna 520
Apple River 548
Areola 366
Levi Lusk 270
Arrowsmith. 737
Clay 153
Ashmore 390
Ashton 531
Bromwell 451
Astoria 100
Annawan 433
Atlanta 165
Atwood 651
Ark & Anchor , 354
Auburn Park 789
J.L.Anderson 318
Jerusalem Temple ... 90
Aurora 254
Avon Harmony 253
Bardolph 572
Lounsbury 751
Barry 34
Basco 618
Batavia 404
Bath 4t,4
Bay City 771
Cass 23
Greenland 665
Belknap U. D.
Belle Rive 696
St. Clair 24
Belvidere 60
Bement 365
Benton 64
Bethalto 406
S. D. Monroe 447
Blandinsville 233
Bloomington 1 43
Wade-Barney | 512
iMozart ' 656
POST-OFFICE.
Calumet
Blue Mound.
Bowen
Bradford
Blue Island
Blue Mound....
Bowen
Bradford
Braid wood | Braid wood.
Bray field Goode
Bridgeport [Bridgeport.
Brighton Hibbard
Broadlands jBroadlands
Buckley iBuckley
Buda
Bunker Hill
Burnside
Burnt Prairie...,
Bushnell
Byron
Caberry
Cairo
Camargo
Cambridge
Camden
Cameron
Camp Point
Campbell Hill..,
Canton
Capron
Cantrall
Carbondale
Carlinville
Carlyle
Carman
Carmi
CarroUton
Carterville
Carthage
Casey
Catlin
Cave-in-Rock...
Centralia
Cerro Gordo
Chambersburg..
Champaign
Chandlerville....
Channahon
Charleston
Chatham
Chebanse
Chenoa
Cherry Valley.
Chester
Chesterfield
Chicago
Chicago
Chicago
Chicago
Buda.
Bunker Hill
Burnside
Burnt Prairie
T. J. Pickett
Byron
Norton
Cairo
Caraargo
Cambridge
Camden
Berwick
Benjamin
Shiloh Hill
Morning Star
Capron
Van Meter
Shekinah
Mt. Nebo
Scott
Carman
Carmi
CarroUton
Carterville U. D
Hancock
Casey
Catlin
Cave-in-Rock
Centralia
Cerro Gordo
Chambersburg
Western Star
Chandlerville
Channahon
Charleston
Chatham
Chebanse
Chenoa
Cherry Valley
Chester
Chesterfield
.Accordia
Apollo
Arcana
Ashlar
716 682 486 514 704 74-1 386 249 79' 634 399 151 683 668 3"7 274 631 237 440
49 648 619 297 695 734 575 762 241 76 79 732 272
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429 292
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APPENDIX. — PAP^T 1!.
19
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF POST-OFFICES— Continued.
POST-OFFICS.
Chicago
Chicago
Chicago
Chicago
Chicago
Chicago
Cliicago
Chicago
Chicago
Chicago
Chicago
Chicago
Chicago
(Grand Crossing)... Chicago
(South Chicago) ...
Chicago
Chicago
Chicago
Chicago
(Kensington)
Chicago
Chicago
Chicago
Chicago
Chicago
Chicago
( 'hicago
('hicago
Chicago
(Irving Park)
( 'hicago
('hicago
Chicago
( 'hicago
('hicago
('hicago
Chicago
Chicago
(Hyde Park)
( 'liicago
Chicago
(Tracy)
Chicago
(South Chicago) ...
Chicago
Chicago
(Union Stock Yds)
Chicago
( 'hicago
Chicago
Chilllcothe...
(Jhrisman
( 'lay ( 'ity, ...
('layton
Cleveland
( 'lifton..
( 'linton
(!oal Valley.
Cobden
( 'ohn
Colchester ...
Colfa.x
(Jollinsville. . Columbia .... Columbus....
Blaney
Blair
Cleveland
Chicago
Constantia
Covenant
Dearborn
D. C. Cregier.. Garden City...
Germania
Garfield
Golden Rule...
Grand Crossing.
Harboi'... Hesperia.
Home
Herder ....
Kensington U. D.
Kenwood U. D.
Kilwinning
Keystone
Landmark
Lessing
Lincoln Park
Lakeside
.Mithra
Myrtle
Mystic Star....
National
Normal Park..
Oriental
Pleiades
Richard Cole.. Siloam
South Park
Thos. J. Turner
Tracy U. D
Triluminar... Union Park.
Mizpah
Waubansia
Wm B. Warren. Waldeck
Geo Washington..
Rloomfield
Clay City
Clayton
Clement
Clifton
DeWitt
Valley
Cobden
New Hope
Colchester ,
Colfa.x
Collinsville
(Jolunibiii
Columbus
271
393 211
437 783 526 310 643 141 182 686 726
776
411
508 669
311 639 422
557 611
739 410
795 758 596
797 33 478 697 780
662 409
767 61U
160 209 674 222
147
680
688
84
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799 712 474 227
POST-OFFICE.
Comptoii
Concord
Cordova
Corinth
Cornland
Cowdeu
Crab Orchard.
Creston
Crete
Cuba
Dallas City
Danvers
Danville
Davis
Dawson
Decatur
Decatur
De Kalb
De Land
Delavan
Denver
De Soto
Dc Vvitt
Diona
Dix
Dixon
Dongola
Donnellson
Dundee
Du Quoin
Durand
Dwight
Earlville
East Dubuque East St. Louis
Eaton
Eddyville
Edgcwood
Edinburg
Edwardsville ..
Effingham
Elburn
El Dara
Eldorado
Elgin
Elgin
Elizabeth
Elizabethtowu Elliottstown....
Ellis Grove
Elmwood
El Paso
Elvaston
Enfield
Englewood
Ei|uality
Erie
Etna
Eureka
Evanston
Pawing
Exeter
Fairbury
Fairfield
Fail-mount
Fairview
Fairweather ....
Brooklyn
N. D. Morse
Cordova
Andrew Jackson
Cornland U. D.
Joppa
Blazing Star
Creston
Crete
Cuba
Dallas City
Danvers
Olive Branch
Evening Star
Dawson
Macon
Ionic
De Kalb
De Land U. D,
Delavan
Denver
De Soto
Amon
Hutton
Rome
Friendship
Dongola
Donnellson
Dundee
Du Quoin
Durand
Livingston
Meridian
Martin
East St. Louis
Crawford
Eddyville
Edge wood
Blneville
Edwardsville
Effingham
Blackberry
El Dara
Eldorado
Elgin
Monitor
Kavanaugh
Elizabeth
Delia
Kaskaskia
Horeb
El Paso
Elvaston
Enfield
Englewood
Equality
Erie
Wabash
W. C. Hobbs
ICvans
Ewing
Exeter
Tarbolton
Fairfield
Fairmount
Fairview
Kingston
282 34C 543
487
706
458 320 763 534 235 742
38 414
55f'
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99 149
359 388
730 117 522
36 276 525
86 363 246
7' 5 677 690
667
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APPENDIX. PART II.
ALPHABETICAL LIST. OF POST-OFFICES— Continned.
POST-OFFICE.
Farina
Farmer City ....
Farmington
Ferrell
Fieldon
Fillmore
Fisher
Flat Rock
Flora
Forrest
Frankfort
Franklin
Franklin Grove
Freeburg
Freedom
Freeport
Freeport
Fulton
Galena
Galesburg
Galesburg
Gallatig.;
Galva
Gays
Gardner
Geneseo
Geneva
Genoa
Georgetown
Gibson City
Gillespie
Gilman
Girard
Glasford
Golconda
Good Hope
Goreville
Grafton
Grand Tower...
Grant Park
Grayville
Greenfield
Greenup
Greenview
Greenville
Griggsville
Grove City
Groveland
Hainesville
Hamilton
Hampshire
Hardinsviilc
Hardin
Harrisburg
Harristown
Harvard
Havana
Hazel Dell
Hebron
Henderson
Henry
Herrin's Prairit
Heyworth
Hickory Ridge.
Highland
Highland Park. HiUsboro
La Clede
Farmer City
Farmington
Elbridge
Fieldon
Fillmore
Fisher U. D.
Russellville
Flora
Forrest
Frankfort
Wadley
Franklin Grove
Freeburg
Freedom
Excelsior
Evergreen
Fulton City
Miners
Alpha
Vesper
Gallatia
Galva
Miles Hart
Gardner
Stewart
Geneva
Genoa
Russell
Gibson
Gillespie
Gilman
Girard
Lancaster
Golconda
Good Hope
Saline
Full Moon
Lafayette
Grant Park
Sheba
Greenfield
Greenup
Greenview
Greenville
Griggsville
Fisher
Groveland
Rising Sun
Black Hawk
Hampshire
Hardinsville
Calhoun
Harrisburg ~. ...
Summit
Harvard
Havana
Hazel Dell
Hebron
Hiram
Henry
Herrin's Prairie
Heyworth
Dills
Highkand
A. O. Fay
Mt. Moriah
192
579 592 670
348 204 614 567 616 264 418 194
97 170 1 89 273
584 684 243 595 573
154 733 2 14
591 171 106
131 617
339 341 657 740 200 129 125 654 245 45 585 352
238
443 756 792 325 431 309
88 580 604
26 119 693 251 295 583 676
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POST-OFFICE.
Hinckley
Hinsdale
Holcomb
Homer
Hoopeston
Hopedale
Huntsville
Hutsonville
Illinois City
Illiopolis
Indianola
Industry
lola
Ipava
Iroquois
Irving
Irvington
luka
Jacksonville
Jacksonville
Jefferson
Jeffersonville ....
Jerseyville
Johnsonville
Joliet
loliet
Jonesboro
Kane
Kankakee ,.
Kansas
Karber s Ridge,
Kewanee
Keithsburg
Kinderhook
Kingston
Kinmundy
Kirkwood
Knoxville
Kno.\ville
Lacon
La Fayette
La Grange
La Harpe
Lake Creek
Lake View
La Moille
Lanark
La Prairie
La Salle
Lawn Ridge .... Lawrenceville...
Lebanon
Lee Center
Leland
Lena
Lerna
Le Roy iLe Roy...
Lewiston JLewiston .
Lexington Lexington
Hinckley .
Hinsdale
Meridi.an Sun
Homer
Star
Hopedale
Huntsville
Hutsonville
Illinois City
Illiopolis
Vermilion
Industry
lola
Ipava
O. H. Miner
Irving
Irvington
J. jJ. Moody
Harmony
Jacksonville
Providence
Jeffersonville
Jerseyville
Johnsonville
Mt. Joliet
Matteson
Jonesboro
King Solomon
Kankakee
Kansas
Tadmor
Kewanee
Robert Burns
Kinderhook
Kishwaukec
Kinmundy
Abraham Lincoln..
Kno.vville
Pacific
Lacon
Stark
La Grange
La Harpe
Lake Creek
Lake View
La Moille
Lanark
La Prairie
Acacia
Lawn Ridge
Edward Dobbins...
Lebanon
Lee Center
Leland
Lena
Lerna
Liberty. Libertyville . Lick Creek...
Lima
Lincoln
Lisbon
Litchfield
Litchfield
Liberty. Libertyvdie .
Union
Lima
Logan
Orient
Charter Oak. Litchfield ....
APPENDIX. — PART II.
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ALPHABETICAL LIST OF POST-OFFICES— Con/mut-d.
POST-OFFICE.
Littleton
Loami
Lockport
Loda
Long Point
Louisville
Lovington ...
Ludlow
Lyndon
Lynnville
McHenry
McLean
McLeansboro
Macedonia
Mackinaw
Macomb
Macon
Magnolia
Mahomet
Makanda
\ianchester
Manito
Mansfield
Mapleton
Maquon
Marcelline
Marengo
Marine ;....
Marion
Maroa
Marseilles
Marshall
Martinsville
Mascoutah
Mason
Mason City
Mattoon
Mattoon
Mechanicsburg ..
Medora
Melvin
Mendon
Mendota
iMeredosia
Metropolis City.
Milan
Milford
Millburn
Milledgeville
Milton
Miner
Minonk
Minooka
Moline
Momence
Monmouth
Monticello
Morris
Morrison
Morrisonville
Moscow
Mound Station .. Mount Auburn...
Mt Carmel
Mt. Carroll
Mt. Erie
Mt. Morris
Littleton
Loami
Lockport
Abraham Jonas
Long Point
Louisville
Lovington
Pera
Lyndon
Gill
McHenry
McLean
Polk
Royal U. D
Mackinaw
Macomb
South Macon
.Magnolia
Mahomet
Makanda
Manchester
Manito
Mansfield
Phoeni.^
Maquon
Marcelline
Marengo
Marine
Fellowship
Maroa
Marseilles
Marshall
Clark
Douglas
Mason ,
Mason City
Mattoon
Circle
Mechanicsburg
Fidelity
Melvin U U
Mendon
Mendota
Benevolent
Metropolis
Eureka
.Milford
Antioch
Milledgeville
Milton
Comet
Rob Morris
Minooka
Doric.
Momence
Monmouth
Fraternal
Cedar
Dunlap
Morrisonville
Moscow
Kendiick
Kedroii
Mt. Carmel
Cyrus
Mt. Erie
Samuel H. Davis....
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467 103
220
434 229 476
773 663 530 114
454 417 133 603
S^i 217 403 260 707 299
449 176
52 91
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POST-OFFICE.
Mt. Pulaski
Mount Sterling
Mt. Vernon
Moweaqua
Murphysboro.
Murrayville
Naperville
Naples
Nashville
Nebo
Neoga
Neponset
New Boston
New Burnside
New Columbia
New Douglas
New Grand Chain
New Hartford
New Haven
New Holland
Newman
New Salem
Newton
New Windsor
Noble
Nokomis
Normal
Norris City
Norwood Park
Nunda
Oakland
Oak Park
Oblong
Oconee
Odell
Odin
O'Fallon
Ogden
Olmsted
Olney
Omaha
Onarga
Oneida
Opdyke
Oquawka
Orangeville
Oregon
Orion
Oswego
Ottawa
Ottawa
Owaneco
Palatine
Palmyra
Pana
Paris
Paris
Parkersburg
Patoka
Pawnee
Paw Paw
Pa.xton ...'.
Payson
Pecatonica
Pekin
Pekiii
Pellonia
Mt. Pulaski
Hardin
Mt. Vernon
Moweacjua
Murphysboro
Murrayville
Euclid
Naples
Washington
Nebo U. D
Neoga
Neponset U. D.
New Boston
New Burnside
New Columbia
Madison
Grand Chain
New Haitford
New Haven
New Holland
Newman
New Salem
Newton
Oxford
Noble
Nokomis
Normal
May
Beacon Light ,
Nunda
Oakland
Harlem
Oblong City
Oconee
Odell
Odin
O'Fallon
Ogden
Caledonia
Olney
Omaha
Onarga
Oneida
Jefferson
Oquawka
Orangeville
Oregon
Sherman
Raven
Occidental
Humboldt
Locust
Palatine
Palmyra
Pana
Prairie
Paris
Parkersburg
Patoka
Pawnee
Corinthian
PaxtOH
Payson
A. W. Rawson..
Pekin
Kmpire
Farmers
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APPENDIX. PART 11.
. / LP II A nETICAL LIST OF POST-OFFICES— Continued.
POSl -OFFICE.
Peoria
Peoria
Peoria
Peoria
Peotone
Perry
Peru
Petersburg
Philo
Pilot
Pinckneyville....
Pittsfield
Piper City
Plainfield
Plainview
Piano
Plainville
Pleasant Hill... Pleasant Plains
Plymouth
Pocahontas
Polo
Pontiac
Pontoosuc
Port Byron
Potomac
Prairie City
Pre-emption
Princeton
Princeton
Princeville
Prophetstown .,
Pullman
Quincy
yunicy
Quincy
Quincy
Raleigh
Ramsey
Rankin
Rantoul
Raritan
Ravenswood
Raymond
Red Bud
Richmond
Ridge Farm
Rio
Riverton
Robinson
Rochelle
Rochester
Rockforu
Rockford
Rockford
Keck Island
Rock Island
Rockton
Roodhoust;
Roscoe
Rose Bud
Roseville
Rossville
Rushville
Rutland
Sador\is
Saint Charles ...
Peoria
Temple
Illinois
Schiller
Peotone
Perry
St. Johns
Clinton
Centennial
Newtown
Mitchell
Pittsfield
Piper
Plainfield
Plainview
Sunbeam
Adams
Pleasant Hill. ... Pleasant Plains..
Plymouth
Gordon
Mystic Tie
Pontiac
Herrick
Philo
Potomac
Golden Gate
Pre-emption
Bureau
Princeton
Princeville
Prophetstown....
Palace
Bodley
Herman
Quincy
Lambert
Raleigh
Ramsey .
POST-OFFICE.
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714
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608
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Rantoul.
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Ravenswood
Raymond
Red Bud
Richmond
Ridge Farm
Rio
Riverton Union.
Robinson
Horicon
Rochester
Rockford
Star in the East. E. F. W. Ellis...
Trio
Rock Island
Rockton
E. M. Husted....
Roscoe
Tempel Hill
Roseville
Rossville
Rushville
Rutland
R. Gorin
Unity
470 7-:7 777 692
427 "43 632 685 786 250 244 635 102 166 t''33
57 658
74 796
75 701
519 5^7 9 477 537 48
Saint Elmo
Salem
Sandwich
San Jose
Saunemin
Savanna
Saybrook
Scott Land
Scottville
Seneca
Shabbona
Shannon
Shawneetown.
Sheffield
Shelbyville ....
Sheldon
Sheridan
Shipman
Shirley
Sibley
Sidell
Sidney
Somonauk
South Elgni ...
Sparland
Sparta
Springfield
Springfield
Springfield
Springfield
Spring Hill
Spring \alley.
Stanford
Staunton
Steeleville
Sterling
Stewardson
Stockton
Stone Fort
Streator
Sublette
Sullivan
Summerfield...
Sumner
Sycamore
Tamaroa
Tampico
Taylorville
Tennessee
Thomson
Time
Tiskilwa
Toledo
Tolono
J'onica
Toulon
Towanda
Tower Hill...
Tremont
Trenton
Trilla
Troy
Troy Grove.... Tunnell Hill...
Turner
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Union
Saint Elmo
Marion
Meteor
San Jose
Saunemin
Mississippi
Cheney's Grove
Scott Land
Scottville
Seneca
Shabbona
Shannon
Warren
Ames
Jackson
Sheldon
Sheridan
Shipman
Shirley
Sibley
Sidell
Sidney
Somonauk
Clintonville
Sparland
Hope
Springfield
Central
Tyrian
St Paul
Bollen
S. 1\L DalzelL.U. D
Stanford
Staunton
Alma
Rock River
Sigei :...
Plum River
Stone Fort
Streator
Sublette
Sullivan
Summerfield
Sumner
Sycamore
Tamaroa
Yorktown
Mound
Tennessee
Thomson
Time
Sharon
Prairie City
Tolono
Tonica
Toulon
Towanda
Tower Hill
Tremont
Trenton
Muddy Point
Troy
Shiloh
Reynoldsburg
Amity
Tuscolo
Orion
APPENDIX .
-PART II.
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF POST-OFFICES— Conlimu-d.
POST-OFFICE.
Franklin
Urbana
Waltham
Temperance...
Stratton
Vermont
Verona
Versailles
A. T. Darrah..
Vienna
Villa Ridge
Upper Alton....
Urbana
Utica
Vandalia
Vermilion
Vermont
Verona
Versailles
Victoria
Vienna
Villa Ridge
Viola |Viola
Virden iVirden
Virginia Virginia ...
Waldron Aroma
Walnut Walnut
Walpole ^Tuscan
Walshville Walshville,
Warren Jo Daviess
Warsaw (Warsaw....
Washburn Washburn .
Washington Taylor
Wataga Wataga ....
Waterman ; Waterman.
Waterloo j Morris
Watseka Watseka ..
Watson 'Watson
Wauconda Wauconda.
Waukegan IWaukegan
157 384
408 116
793 •50 562 55 7 161 544 378 722 630 475 278
^57 421
98 2gi 728 787 446 602 298
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POST-OFFICE.
Waverly Waverly
Wayne City Orel
Waynesville 'Wayne
Weldon Weldon
Wenona Wcnona
Westfield Westfield
Wheaton Wheaton
Wheeling Vitruvius
White Hall White Hall..
Williamsville Lavely
Willow Hill Cooper
Wilmington .Wilmington
Winchester ! Winchester.
Windsor
Winnebago
Winslow
Winterrowd ....
Woburn
Wolf Creek
WoodhuU
Woodstock
Wright's Grove | Wright's Grove
Wyanet j Wyanet
Wyoming i Wyoming
Xenia iXenia
Windsor
Winnebago
Winslow
Mayo
Gillham U. I).
Chapel Hill
Woodhull
Saint Marks
Yates City.
York
Yorkville....
Vates City
York
Kendall
118
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•05 322
745 564 664
719 502 63 779 231
479 485 448 313 47'
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Con. to Members, their widows and orphans
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4^
I^EIPOIE^TS
DlSipiCy DEPUTY QRAJND JMASJipS.
FIRST DISTRICT.
3100 State Street, Chicago, Sept. 21st, 1S91.
M. W. John M. Pearson, Grand Master.
Dear Sir and Bro. : I herewith submit my annual report as District Deputy Grand Master for the First Masonic District.
I reaUze the fact that it is rather late to send in my report, but the very fact that I had so little of an official character to report, has led me to delay it from day to day thinking that something interesting might turn up.
My official acts during the year have been very few, and consisted chiefly in installing officers and answering such questions on jurisprudence as were already fully covered by the Grand Lodge By-Laws or settled by well deiined Masonic usage.
The only other duties I have performed worthy of special mention were as follows:
On June i8th I instituted Tracy Lodge, located at One Hundred and Fourth Street, Washington Heights, which is now within the city limits of Chicago. This young lodge starts out with the most briUiant prospects, not of becoming a large lodge, for the population surrounding it is too small for that, but of being a comfortable home insiitution for the fifty or sixty Ma- sons who live in the immediate vicinity.
I wrote you sometime ago about their building. 1 had the pleasure of paying them a visit on the occasion (jf their conferring the sublime degree
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for the first time, and I must say that I was not disappointed at the taste for convenience and comfort displaj-ed in fitting up their room.
On June 26th, acting as your proxy, I laid the comer-stone of a public school building at Blue Island, in this county, a detailed report of which I sent you some time ago. I have nothing to add to that report, except to hope that the Masonic Fraternity may be called upon to participate in many more such ceremonies. I think they tend to make us better and more patri- otic citizens, and give the public at large a better idea of our ancient insti- tution.
As usual, I have visited a large proportion of the lodges in my district, and am glad to say that they are all working in that peace and harmony which is not only the strength and support but also the success of all in- stitutions.
In closing, permit me to thank you sincerely for the honor conferred in my appointment, and to hope that the very pleasant relations that have ex- isted between us may be continued for many years to come. Fraternally yours,
WM. K. FORSYTH, D. D. G. M. First District.
SECOND DISTRICT.
4S5 West Adams Street, Chic.a.go, Sept. 10, iSgi.
Hex. John M. Pe.\rson, Grand Master.
M. IV. atid Dear Bro.: In submitting my report as District Deputy Grand Master for the Second District, I am happy to state that all the lodges in this district are prosperous ; the quantity and quality of the work is satis- factory, and that harmony which insures success and progress is prevalent to a marked degree.
The brethren in one or two locations in this district are discussing the subject of the organization of new lodges, and, as I believe there are fewer lodges m the Second District in proportion to the number of population, am convinced there is room for at least two more successful lodges, and presume that apphcation will be made, either to the Grand Lodge or to your suc- ■cessor, for dispensations, which I hope and trust may be granted.
Nothing has occurred during the present year worthy of particular com-
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ment, and hence I have little to report. Thanking you for the honor con- ferred upon me, I beg to remain,
Yours fraternally,
DANIEL J. AVERY, D. D. G. M. Second District.
THIRD DISTRICT.
Chicago, Sept. 12, 1891. M. W. John M. Pearsox, Grand Master.
Dear Sir and Bro.: It affords me pleasure to be able to again report my district in a flourishing condition. Nothing of a serious character has arisen to mar the harmony which exists. The lodges are doing more than their average amount of work, selected from good material.
Each year shows that the lodges have improved in their work, and it will not be long before there will be none but the Standard.
I have been called upon to install the officers of several lodges, to wit- ness their work, and to assist in the destruction of their banquets, all of which was very pleasant.
October 15th I received your proxy to constitute Myrtle Lodge, No. 795, located at Irving Park, Chicago. On the i8th, with the brethren who con- stituted the Grand Lodge, we proceeded to Irving Park. The lodge was constituted in due form and the officers installed. The officers and members were much pleased that their lodge was among the numbered. They made serious promises as to their Masonic duties in the future.
In the case of Mithra Lodge, No. 410, referred to you on the recom- mendation of the Committee on Petitions at the last session of the Grand Lodge, of which I gave you a verbal report and now enclose a full report, I will say, after receiving your communication on the case I called upon the Master and laid the matter before him — having previously labored with the officers and members of the lodge to do their duty in givmg the brother his degree or a trial. The F. C. was passed in 1875, and having been objected to had petitioned from year to year for justice (a trial or his third degree). The record shows that there was no intent to do the brother justice, and he was compelled to apply to the Grand Lodge for redress. After receiving your proxy to settle the case according to Masonic law, I appeared before the lodge and informed them of your orders, and after several weeks the
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matter was brought to an issue. There being no charges against the brother, I ordered the degree to be confeiTed, which was done in due form. In this case the Masters from 1S75 to i8go failed to perform their Masonic duty, as their own records will show. The result of this case was a final settlement of the bad feeling which had existed for years, and now leaves the lodge in a healthy condition.
Thankmg you for the honor conferred and the confidence j'ou have re- posed in me, I am,
Fraternally yours,
J. H. DIXON, D. D. G. M. Third District,
FOURTH DISTRICT.
Elgin, August 12, 1891.
M. W. John M. Pearson, Grand Master.
Dear Sir and Bro. : By communication received from our respected Grand Secretary, R. W. L. L. Munn, I am reminded that another Masonic year has well-nigh gone, and that the annual report of my district must be rendered.
Mj^ duties the past year have not been onerous. I was present at but two installation ceremonies, viz.: McHenry Lodge, No. 15S, and Monitor Lodge, No. 522. An invitation from Blackberry Lodge, No. 359, aiTived too late to be of service; and I would kindly suggest to the brethren the advis- ability of giving a little more time to arrange business matters and make the necessary preparations for these visitations.
With sorrow I report the decease of my worthy predecessor, R. W. Bro. A. W. Adams. On the beautiful morning of Nov. 12th, accompanied by W. Master TurnbuU of Elgin, and W. Bro. Brown of Geneva, we performed the last sad rites at the grave of our deceased brother. The large and mournful assemblage of Masons and friends of the deceased showed how much he was loved and respected. A devoted Mason, a loving father, and an honored citizen.
By special invitation, I visited Dundee Lodge, No. 190, on two occasions for work, accompanied by sev-eral of our Elgin brethren, and as is customary with the Masons of Dundee we greatly enjoyed their hospitalit}-.
The unfortunate misunderstanding in McHenry Lodge I deemed of such
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importance as to call upon the Grand Master to aid me in settling the diffi- culty, and to whom I am much indebted for able and timely assistance, and am glad to say that tranquility is restored, and the lodge is now prosperous and happy.
In conclusion, I am proud to report the lodges in this district in a j^ros- perous condition, and the amount of work being done in some of them is quite phenomenal and shows a great desire on the part of our young men to inculcate a higher plane of morality and to become useful citizens. Fraternally and courteously,
WM. S. HEWINS, D. D. G. M. Fourth District.
FIFTH DISTRICT.
Freeport, August 6, 1891. M. W. John M. Pearson, Grand Master.
Dear Sir and Bro. : In accordance with the time-honored custom of our Ancient Order, I present you a brief repoi-t of my relations with the Crafi of this, the Fifth District.
A brief report, indeed, it must be, for the old ship of Ancient Craft Ma- sonry has sailed over very smooth seas during the last year. Not a cloud has appeared in the sky; not a wave has been ruffled by so much as the ap- pearance of an adverse wind, and her "Three Lights" steadily burning have kept her prow turned toward the harbor of peace and prosperity. It assuredly is a matter of pride with me, as your honored representative, to be able to give so satisfactory an account of the "Old Fifth." Thanks to the members of our noble Fraternity, there has been no cause for friction or harsh criticism, or for the exercise even of authority ; and this, let me add, is a most praiseworthy comment upon the character, good will and courtesy of my brethren.
My duties have called me into close relations with many of the lodges, as usual, and I am convmced that high as it was before, the standard of Ma- sonic membership is being yet more elevated, and, as a rule, the character of those seeking the degrees is coming to be more and more closely scrutin- ized.
In return for the numerous courtesies extended to me by the Fraternity, I wish in this report to express my sincere acknowledgments, and to none
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more heartily than to yourself for your uniform kindness and fraternal re- gard. Cordially yours,
JACOB KROHN, D. D. G. M. Fifth District.
SIXTH DISTRICT.
Mount Carroll, August i8, 1S91.
M. W. John M. Pearson, Grand Master.
Dear Sir and Bro.: I am reminded that my report as your represent- ative in the Sixth District is again due.
The year now closing has been devoid of notable events. The stereo- typed expression I have so often used, "The Sixth District is peaceful, har- monious and prosperous," is still appropriate. May it ever so remain; and so it wnll remain while the lodges and individual brethren continue "that noble contention, or rather emulation of who best can work and best agree."
I congratulate you, sir, on the success that has attended your adminis- tration of the affairs of the Craft of this great State.
Loyally and fraternally,
EGBERT T. E. BECKER, D. D. G. M. Sixth District.
EIGHTH DISTRICT.
Morris, August 25, 1S91. M. W. John M. Pearson, Grand Master.
Dear Sir and Bro.: The only matters of especial note in the Eighth District are as follows :
On the 3rd, 4th and 5th days of February, A. D. 1891, a Masonic School of Instruction was held at Morris, well attended, very instructive, and of great benefit to all the brethren who attended. We were honored with the presence of the M. W. Grand Master, whose words of advice, as well as the
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instruction and exemplification of the work by the officers conducting the School, will long be remembered and of lasting benefit to the lodges of this vicinity.
A sumptuous banquet, provided by Cedar Lodge on the evenmg of the last day, closed one of the most successful Masonic Schools it has ever been my pleasure to attend.
June 24th, A. D. 1891, the new Masonic Temple at Joliet was dedicated with due Masonic ceremonies by the M. W. Grand Master, with the assist- ance of a large number of brethren from all parts of the State. The build- ing and all its appointments and adaptabilities to the work are not excelled in this State. An elegant banquet at 4 o'clock p. m., and a reception in the evening by the members of the Order in Joliet and their families, to the visiting brethren, their wives and daughters, closed this memorable occasion.
In accordance with an " ancient custom," the brethren of Raven Lodge, of Oswego, and Kendall Lodge, of Yorkville, with visiting brethren, ob- served St. John's day by services on the Sabbath next following, held in the Congregational Church at Oswego.
Members of the Eastern Star had filled the church with beautiful flowers and tastefully decorated the pulpit and walls with Masonic floral emblems. The music was very appropriate for the occasion. An address by the D. D. G. M. was delivered, and the church was filled with a very attentive and appreciative audience.
Fraternally yours,
E. SANFORD, D. D. G. M. Eighth District.
NINTH DISTRICT.
Marseilles, August 22nd, 1891.
M. W. John M. Pearson, Grand Master.
Dear Sir a7id Bro.: In submitting my report for the past year, I take great pleasure in stating to you that peace and harmony seems to prevail in the Ninth District. I have not been called upon to settle any questions of dispute for the past year.
Thanking you for the honor conferred, I remain,
Fraternally yours,
EBENEZER BARBER, D. D. G. M. Ninth District..
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ELEVENTH DISTRICT.
Cami'.ridgk, August loth, 1891.
M. W. JuiiN M. Pearson, Grand Master.
Dear Sh- and Bro.: My labors as your Deputy have been confined to the usual correspondence, varied by an occasional installation.
The majority of the lodges in this District are enjoying a steady, healthy growth, the material being of the most desirable age and texture. The only cases of friction were fully brought to your cognizance at time of occurrence.
Fraternally yours,
FRANK G. WELTON, D. D. G. M. Eleventh District.
TWELFTH DISTRICT.
RrsuviLLE, August 17th, 1891.
M. W. John M. Pearson, Grand Master.
Dear Sir and Bro.: As your Deputy for the 12th District I have no report to make of any official action of mine during the past Masonic year. I have visited some of the lodges and have found them in a good, healthy condition, and it gives me great pleasure to be able to say that nothing has occurred in the 1 2th District to mar the peace and harmony of Masonry, and that not a single case has been referred to me for official action.
Thanking you for the honors conferred upon me, I am.
Fraternally yours,
CHARLES B. GRIFFITH. D. D. G. M. Twelfth District.
THIRTEENTH DISTRICT.
MONMOI'TII, August, 189I.
M. W. J(MiN M. Pearson, Grand Master.
Dear Sir and Bro.: The time having arrived for my annual report, I am glad to say that peace and harmony reign in this the 13th Masonic Dis-
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trict. A fair degree of prosperity has attended a majority of the lodges. No call for official visitation has been made and in consequence only a few lodges have been visited in my official capacity ; but many questions have been answerd concerning Masonic law and usage.
I am reminded almost dail}^ of the good results of the School of Instruc- tion you caused to be held in this city in March last ; the lodges are now Avorking the Grand Lodge work, and know what it is.
During the past year I assisted in the dedication of a very fine lodge room at Galesburg, which reflects great credit upon Masonry in that city. Ver}' truh' and fraternallj' yours,
A. B. HOLLIDAY, D. D. G. M. Thirteenth District.
FOURTEENTH DISTRICT.
Peoria, August i8, 1891. M. W. John M. Pearson, Grand Master.
Dea7- Sir and Bro.: It is with pleasure that I can report that peace .and harmony prevail in the Fourteenth District.
I visited Geo. Washington Lodge, No. 222, at Cliillicothe, on invitation, twice. I witnessed the conferring of the third degree, which was very im- pressive and well rendered. I also assisted in laying the corner stone of the new High School building, a full report of which I made you at the time.
I visited W. C. Hobbs Lodge, No. 306, and installed their officers.
Also visited Taylor Lodge, No. 98, at Washington, 111., at which time the officers of Taylor Lodge were installed. The same evening the officers of their new Chapter were installed, also the officers of Eastern Star Chapter. The ceremonies were witnessed by the wives and daughters of the brethren, Avith a few invited friends. At the conclusion of the ceremonies an adjourn- ment was had to the hotel, where a splendid banquet awaited us, which was greatly enjoyed by all present.
I installed the officers of Peoria Lodge, No. 15, and Illinois Lodge, No. 263.
The lodges in tliis city have been doing a large amount of work the past year. Temple Lodge, No. 46, held a two days' session in May, at which
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time an invitation was extended to the neighboring lodges to be present. The attendance was large, and several candidates were raised to the sublime degree of a Master Mason. The session was voted a success. I am informed it is decided to hold another session sometime in the month of September.
lUinois Lodge, No. 263, also devoted one day and evening to the con- ferring of degrees, while Peoria Lodge, No. 15, contented herself with two or more evenings each week in dispensing light. Schiller feodge. No. 335, has not been idle, many of our German friends availing themselves of the opportunity offered them by our active and vigorous German lodge.
Thanking you for the honor conferred, I am.
Fraternally yours,
C. F. HITCHCOCK, • D. D. G. M. Fourteenth District.
FIFTEENTH DISTRICT.
Gibson City, August 21, 1891. M. W. John M. Pearson, Grand Master.
Dear Sir and Bra.: It is with pleasure that I report Masonry in the Fifteenth District as being in good condition, and all seem to be working- together in harmony.
During the year I have had the pleasure of visiting a number of the lodges and all are making good progress m the art.
I find the most improvement in the lodges that take an interest in the Schools of Instruction.
In the way of official duties, I have had the honor to install the officers of several lodges and also as your proxy, to constitute Colfax Lodge, No. 799, return of which was made at the time.
The youngest lodge in this district, Melvin U. D. is showing good pro- gress, having raised two candidates this week.
Thanking you for the honor conferred upon me, I remain. Yours Fraternally,
S. J. LeFEVRE. D. D. G. M. Fifteenth District.
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SIXTEENTH DISTRICT.
Kankakee, August 22, 1S91. M. W. John M.* Pearson, Grand Master.
Dear Sir and Bro. : During the past year nothing has transpired in this Masonic District that required any official action upon my part.
A personal knowledge of, and unofficial statements from, most of the lodges in this district leads to the conclusion that peace, harmony and unvary- ing prosperity prevail.
Fraternally Yours,
FAYETTE S. HATCH, D. D. G. M. Sixteenth District.
SEVENTEENTH DISTRICT.
Urbana, August 17, 1891. M. W. John M. Pearson, Grand Master.
Dear Sir and Bro.: The only official act performed during the year was the instituting of Fisher Lodge, U. D., on Nov. 28, 1890. A large num- ber of brethren were present and an enjoyable time had.
I have not since had the pleasure of meeting with this new lodge, but from information received I have no doubt but what it will be able to make a good showing before the Committee on Charters and Dispensations.
No call for official visitation has been made during the year.
So far as I am informed, peace and harmony prevail throughout the dis- trict. Most, if not all the lodges, have enjoyed a fair degree of prosperity.
Again thanking you for the honors conferred, and with best wishes for your future prosperity and happiness, I am,
Fraternally yours,
F. E. EUBELING, D. D. G. M. Seventeenth District.
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EIGHTEENTH DISTRICT.
Bement, September 7, 1S91.
M. W. John M. Pearson, Grand Master.
M. W. Sir and Bro.: Absence from home has delayed this report. I find, however, on referring to my " mem," that I reported you all my official acts at the time they occurred, and will only add that, so far as I know,. " Peace and Plenty reigns within our borders."
With kmd personal regards, I am.
Fraternally yours,
C. F. TENNEY, D. D. G. M. Eighteenth District..
NINETEENTH DISTRICT.
Springfield, August 20, iSgi.
M. W. John M. Pearson, Grand Master.
Deaf Sir and Bro.: As District Deputy Grand Master of the Nine- teenth District, I take pleasure in being able to report that all is peace and quietude in this District. Not a murmur of any kind that I have heard of, and the most of the lodges in this District are doing good work and have good material.
With congratulations to you for the great mterest you have taken in the Craft during your administration, and for the favors you have conferred upon me personally, I remain.
Yours fraternally,
R.' D. LAWRENCE, D. D. G. M. Nineteenth District.
TWENTIETH DISTRICT.
Winchester, September 5, 1891.
M. W. John M. Pearson, Grand Master.
Dear Sir a7id Bro.: The past Masonic year has been a very quiet one in this District, and yet one of general prosperity and good feeling among
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the brethren. Much work has been done in the various lodges of the Dis- trict, and there has been quite an increase in membership.
The custom of lodges visiting each other has been indulged in to some extent, and with the best of results. Besides the cultivation of the social and fraternal relations, great interest has been manifested in the work, if not a spirit of rivalry engendered as to who can best confer the degrees.
A School of Instruction has been proposed for this District, and is meet- ing with the hearty approval and support of all the lodges. The general sentiment seems to be that " whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well," and evinces a desire on the part of the Fraternity in this District to do better and more accurate work. Such a school will probably be held during the coming fall.
Fraternally yours,
A. P. GROUT, D. D. G. M. Twentieth District.
TWENTY-FIRST DISTRICT.
ElV ASTON, August 20, 1S9I.
M. W. John M. Pearson, Grand Master.
Dear Sir and Bro.: I take great pleasure in herewith submitting my report as District Deputy Grand Master of the Twenty-first Masonic District tor the year which is now drawing to a close.
Immediately upon receiving my commission, I sent to the several lodges in the District a notice of my appointment, and expressed a readiness to re- spond to all calls that might be made upon me.
Have not been permitted to visit all the lodges in my District, but by means of correspondence have been able to ascertain the condition of each.
Of the twenty -nine lodges in this District, I find that twenty own the hall in which they meet. Only four have reported no work, while in all " no contention exists, but that noble contention, or rather emulation, of who best can work and best agree."
The " Standard Work" is used by nearly all of the twenty-nine lodges. This is the result of the ' ' School of Instruction " held by the Board of Grand Examiners at Carthage in 1888, and at Quincy in 1S89, and also of the efforts
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of the six Deputy Grand Lecturers who reside within this Twenty-first Dis- trict.
While all these lodges might justly receive commendatory notice, yet there is one of which I wish to make special mention on account of its rapid improvement. About a year ago at a meeting of Warsaw Lodge, No. 257, the question of surrendering its charter was submitted to the lodge. It was lost by a vote or two. This condition was caused by one or two members who had been using the black ball too freely as a revenge upon the lodge for some imaginary offense to themselve'?. By the united effort and zeal of the remaining members "things were made so unpleasant" for these men that they speedily withdrew. The lodge not only revived, but has become en- thusiastic and is now doing excellent work with a corps of officers composed of young men who are quite proficient in the " Standard Work."
There have been only a few questions submitted to me officially, and these were plainly answered in the Constitution and By-Laws of the M. W. Grand Lodge.
Thanking you for the honor conferred upon me, I am.
Yours fraternally,
HARRY TODD, D. D. G. M. Twenty-first District.
TWENTY-SECOND DISTRICT.
Carlinville, September 10, 1891.
M. W. John M. Pearson, Grand Master.
Dear Sir and Bro.: I beg leave to report that all of the lodges in this District, so far as I am advised, are in a prosperous condition. There are two or three lodges which, for local reasons, are not accomplishing the work -which might reasonably be expected of them, but we hope that a little time •will prove a sufficient corrective.
There have been no dissensions among the Craft brought to my knowl- edge, and I think that I can safely report that the Brethren of this District are hand in hand standing and working for the good of Masonry.
Our Brethren desire to congratulate the Grand Master and other grand officers on the peaceful yet prosperous condition of our ancient institution
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under their administration. Personally, I thank you for the distinguished favor with which you have been pleased to regard me.
Fraternally yours,
ALEXANDER H. BELL. D. D. G. M. Twenty-second District.
TWENTY-THIRD DISTRICT.
Taylorville, Sept. S, 1S91.
TVI. W. John M. Pearson, Grand Master.
Dear Sir and Bro.: The present Masonic year has been exceedingly prosperous and entirely harmonious.
I installed the officers of a few lodges, and visited several others on cer- emonial occasions. Beyond this, I have been called upon to perform no -official duties. Fraternally yours,
WM. T. VANDEVEER, D. D. G. M. Twenty-third District.
TWENTY-FOURTH DISTRICT.
Lawrencevh.le, August 22, 1S91.
M. W. John M. Pearson, Grand Master.
Dear Sir and Bro.: I hereby make report of my stewardship as your representative in this the 24th District.
I am sorry to say that sickness and business have called me out of this grand jurisdiction, but am happy to report, so far as I can hear, by visita- tion and correspondence, the Fraternity in this District is in a prosperous condition. I am more than pleased to report that the Schools of Instruction held in this part of our grand jiirisdiction are bearing rich harvests. Lodges .are taking more interest in perfecting themselves in the "Standard Work.''
More interest is manifested in having the lodge rooms ornamental, and supplying themselves with many or all of the "working tools" of our pro- fession.
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I have only been called upon once in my official capacity, which I re- ported to you at the time.
Thanking you for the honor conferred, as well as the confidence reposed in me, and hoping that our grand jurisdiction may still shine among the galaxy of sister stars, as brightly as under your wise rule, I am,
Fraternally,
P. J. ANDERSON, D. D. G. M. Twenty-fourth District.
TWENTY-FIFTH DISTRICT.
Effingham, August 12, iSgi.
M. \V. John M. Pearson, Grand Master.
Dear Sir atid Bro.: Nothing of absorbmg interest has occun^ed in this district during my term. The lodges, with a few exceptions, have shown healthy, and, in some instances, vigorous growth.
I have not been called upon to give official direction or official aid in any matter where discord was an elemsnt; but on each occasion of my mingling with the brethren, to attain a higher standard of excellence m the work and a fuller comprehension of the truths taught b}^ the order, has been the object.
I have been especially pleased to note the efforts being made by a num- ber of the Masters in this district to attain proficiency in the standard work and interest the members of their respective lodges in its study. These efforts I have taken occasion at every opportunity to encourage, believing that in that marviier the moral and intellectual purposes of the Fraternity can best be realized, and at the same time its social features be greatly en- hanced.
The printing and distribution of copies of the constitution and by-laws of the Grand Lodge, together with the election of earnest and intelligent brethren as Masters, renders light the duties of your representative in this district as an adviser and counselor upon questions of Masonic law and juris- prudence.
I have made a number of visits throughout the district, and hope before the close of the year to meet with some of the lodges that I have not been able thus far to reach.
A detailed account of the many pleasant evenings spent with various
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lodges, although a genial task, would occupy considerable space; I will therefore close by assuring you of my belief that in our small corner some little progress at least has marked our efforts. I am, sir. Fraternally yours,
WM. B. WRIGHT. D. D. G. M. Twenty-fifth District.
TWENTY-SIXTH DISTRICT.
Upper Alton, August 31, 1891.
M. W. John M. Pearson, Grand Master.
Dear Sir and Bro.: I have the honor herewith to submit my report as D. D. G. M. for the Twenty-sixth District.
Immediately upon receiving my commission, I forwarded to each lodge in my district, in addition to the usual official notice, the following:
" In connection with the enclosed official notice I desire to announce my intention of visiting each lodge in my District at least once, previous to the next session of the Grand Lodge, at my own expense. I should be glad to have your lodge notify me when such a visit will meet its convenience."
Such lodges as responded, makmg an appointment, I have visited, with one exception. I much regretted the fact that the invitation of Marine Lodge, No. 355, was for an evening upon which my own lodge held its stated meeting, and, being Worshipful Master, I did not feel that I would be justified in leaving.
I had the pleasure of visiting and witnessing the work in Piasa, Trenton, Bethalto, Madison and Franklin Lodges, and have an invitation to visit Er- win on the evening of September 3rd. Several lodges responded without making any appointment, but with cordial invitations to suit my own con- venience.
My duties have been exceedingly light and all of the most pleasant char- acter, and, so far as I know, peace and harmony prevail throughout the District.
Thanking you for the honor, and with the highest personal regard, I am.
Fraternally,
H. F. BURNAP, D. D. G. M. Twenty-sixth District.
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TWENTY-SEVENTH DISTRICT.
Chester, August 22, 1S91.
M. W. John M. Pearson, Grand Master.
Dear Sir and Bro.: It affords me the greatest pleasure imaginable to report that everything m my district, so far as I am aware, is prosperous and harmonious.
I have visited several of the lodges during the year, and some I have not, as business matters interfered in that direction.
Accept my best wishes for your continued sticcess, happiness and pros- perity. I am. Fraternally yours,
JAMES DOUGLAS, D. D. G. M. Twenty-seventh District.
TWENTY-EIGHTH DISTRICT.
Mt. Vernon, September 21, 1891. M. W. John M. Pearson, Grand Master.
Dear- Sir and Bro. : In accordance with the Grand Lodge By-Laws, I here\\nth submit my report as District Deputy for the 28th District. I have had no request to visit any lodge in the District, and therefore believe every- thing is harmonious and in good order. The School of Instruction at Nash- ville, near the beginning of the year, was well attended and much enthusiasm manifested in learning the work by those in attendance. There can be no question but these Schools accomplish great and lasting good each and every year.
In compliance with your request, I visited Carter\-ille in February, and instructed the brethren in reference to instituting a new lodge, U. D., all of which has been reported to you.
An occurrence of considerable local Masonic interest was the laying of the corner stone of the new public school building, with appropriate Masonic ceremonies, at Nashville, 111., July 15th. I was unable to be present, but am informed the occasion was both interesting and profitable to the Craft.
The lodge at Irvington, Washington Co., No. 650, having become so weak in numbers on account of removals, deaths, <S:c. , they could no longer
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have meetings, I took up their charter and records, which I have in my possession. The remaining property, books, accounts, furniture, working" tools, &c., I placed in charge of Bro. J. M. Scott, former secretary, for safe keeping, pending action on the case by the Grand Lodge.
Again thanking you for the honor conferred, and congratulating you on your successful administration, I am.
Yours fraternally,
WALTER WATSON, D. D. G. M. Twenty-eighth District.
TWENTY-NINTH DISTRICT.
SlIAWNEETOWN, Augl1Stl2, iSqI.
M. W. John M. Pearson, Grand Master.
M. IV\ and Dear Bro.: I have the honor of now submitting to you my report as D. D. G. Master of the 29th Masonic District of Illinois.
I have made onlj' two official visits during the past year, and the matters- which called for these visits have been fraternally settled among the breth- ren concerned. They call for no further report.
Masonry in this District is prosperous and flourishing, peace and har- mony prevailing. Among other pleasant duties I was able to be at the lay- ing of the corner stone of the new Court House at Fairfield, in Wayne Co. R. W. Bro. M. C. Crawford, D. G. M., ably conducted the ceremonies, a large body of Masons participating. It was a pleasant and instructive occa- sion. This was indeed an old fashioned St. John's day celebration.
Congratulating you upon the success of our Grand Lodge under the two years of your administration, and wishing you continued peace and happi- ness, I am, Yours gratefully and fraternally,
W. J. ELWELL, D. D. G. M. Twenty-ninth District.
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APPENDIX. PART II.
THIRTIETH DISTRICT.
Cairo, July i8, 1891.
M. W. John M. Pearson, Grand Master.
Dear Sir and Bro.: I have the honor to submit my annual report as D. D. G. M. of the Thirtieth Masonic District of IlHnois. I had the pleasure of installing the officers of Cairo Lodge, No. 237. Other than that I have not been called upon to perform any official duty. That fact speaks well for the unity and harmony that exists in this District. Have had some official correspondence on minor matters appertaining to the well being of Masonry.
Appreciating the honor conferred in appointing me your Deputy, and tendering you my personal regards, I am.
Fraternally yours,
JOHN WOOD, D. D. G. M. Thirtieth District.
APPENDIX. PART II.
63
peport of QraAcI Exanrvir\ers.
PiTTSFiELD, III., May ii, 1891. John M. Pearson, Grand Master.
M. IV. and Dear Brother: I herewith transmit a brief report of the Masonic Schools held pursuant to your order by the Board of Grand Exam- iners during the current Masonic year :
The first was held at Morris, on the 3d, 4th and 5th da3's of Februarj-, 1 891. There were present M. W. John M. Pearson, Grand Master; R. W. Owen Scott, Junior Grand Warden ; R. W. W. B. Grimes and J. E. Evans, ■Grand Examiners; R. W. Edward Cook, ex-President of Board of Grand Examiners; R. W. J. H. C. Dill, Deputy Grand Lecturer; R. W. E. San- ford and E. Barber, District Deputy Grand Masters.
Thirtj^-seven lodges were represented, and one hundred and sixty-seven names reg"istered.
WATSEKA.
The second was held at Watseka, on the loth, nth and 12th daj^s of February, 1891. There were present M. W. John M. Pearson, Grand Mas- ter; R. W. John O'Neill, Senior Grand Deacon; W. B. F. Mason, Grand Pur- suivant; R. W. M. D. Chamberlin and John W. Rose, Grand Examiners; R. W. Brethren Edward Cook and A. B. Ashley, former Grand Examiners ; R. W. Brethren H. S. Hurd, J. M. Willard and D. E. Brufi:ett, Deputy Grand Lecturers.
Thirty-five lodges were represented, and one hundred and fifty-five names registered.
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NASHVILLE.
The third was held at Nashville, on the 17th, iSth and 19th days of Feb- ruary, 1891. There were present M. AV. John ]M. Pearson, Grand Master; R. W. M. C. Crawford, Deputy Grand Master; R. W. Brethren W. B. Grimes and John W. Rose, Grand Examiners ; C. H. Martin, T. H. Humphrey, W. I. Holcomb, G. H. B. ToUe, D. B. Robertson. W. H. Stephens and J. M. James, Deputy Grand Lecturers ; R. W. Edward Cook, ex-President Grand Examiners, R. W. Brethren W. B. Wright, H. T. Burnap, W. Watson and John Wood, District Deputj^ Grand Masters.
Thirty-three lodges were represented, and one hundred names reg- istered.
The fourth was held at Olney, on the 24th, 25th and 26th days of Feb- ruary, 1 891. There were present M. W. John M. Pearson, Grand Master; R. W. Brethren M. D. Chamberlin, James John and J. E. Evans, Grand Ex- aminers; C. H. Martin, G. H. B. Tolle and C. Roherbaugh, Deputy Grand Lecturers, and W. B. Wright, District Deputy Grand Master.
Fifty-nine lodges were represented, and two hundred and two names were registered.
MONMOUTH.
The fifth and last school was held at Monmouth, on the 3d, 4th and 5th days of March. 1S91. There were present M. W. John M. Pearson, Grand Master; R. W. L. L. Munn, Grand Secretary, and R. W. John O'Neill, Senior Grand Deacon; R. W. Brethren M. D. Chamberlin, W. B. Grimes, James John, J. E. Evans and J. W. Rose, Grand Examiners; R. W. Edward Cook, ex-President Grand Examiners; R. W. Brethren W. O. Butler, W. J. Fris- bee, Emerson Clark, C. W. Carroll, G. O. Freidrich and S. Thompson, Dep- uty Grand Lecturers; R. W. Brethren W. K. Forsyth, G. W. Hamilton and A. B. Holliday, District Deputy Grand Masters.
Seventy-two lodges were represented, and two hundred and thirty-one names registered.
At each of the schools the opening and closing ceremonies and the work in each degree were fully exemplified, general instruction given, and the de- grees conferred on actual candidates.
Again, M. W. Grand Master, permit me in behalf of the members of the Board of Grand Examiners to return our fraternal thanks for your kindness, and for your presence, assistance and encouragement at our schools.
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We also desire to publish our hearty appreciation of the services of the several Deputy Grand Lecturers, the District Deputy Grand Masters and others, and heartily thank them for services rendered, ' ' without the hope of fee or reward."
We further report that during the current year, up to date, we have found, upon due examination, the following named Worshipful Brethren " worthy and well quahlied," and have recommended them for commissions, as Deptity Grand Lecturers, viz. :
John W. Kleckner, Chicago. Cornehus M. Ervin, Bowen.
Herbert S. Hurd, Chicago. Orville F. Kirkpatrick, Bowen.
Calvin B. Burt, Chicago. John J. Crowder, Springfield.
John Glaze, Chicago. Thomas N. Wilson, Riverton.
L. J. Forth, Fairfield. Joseph A. Agee, Riverton.
L Harvey Todd, Elvaston. Charles E. Groves, Mt. Carroll.
Charles S. DeHart, Carthage. WiUiam V. Lambe, Naperville.
Respectfully and fraternally submitted,
W. B. GRIMES,
Acting Secretary,
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I N DEX.
Address — page.
Of Grand Master 26
Appointments —
Of Committees 25, 122
Of Grand Officers 60, 120
Of Grand Examiners 122
Of Schools of Instruction 29
Of Deputy Grand Lecturers 30, 123
Of Deputy Grand Masters 125
Amendments to By-Laws —
Acted upon 87
Proposed and seconded 121
Alphabetical List of Lodges (in Appendix, Part 2d) 2
Alphabetical List of Post Offices, with Name and No. of Lodges (Appendix, Part ad) 18
Appeals and Grievances —
Committee on 25, 122
Report of 100
Committees —
Appointment of 25, 122
Appeals and Grievances, report of. 100
Chartered Lodges, report of. 84
Correspondence, report of. 58
Credentials, report of. 71
Finance, report of. 118
Grand Master's Address, report of. 60
68 Index.
Jurisprudence, report of. 87
List of 25, 122
Lodges U. D., report of. 64
Mileage and Per Diem, report of 104
Obituaries, report of 95
Petitions, report of. 102
Chartered Lodges —
Committee on 25, 122
Report of. 84
Tabular Statement of (in Appendix, Part 2d) 24
Correspondence —
Committee on 25, 122
Report of. 5S
Report of (in Appendix, Part ist) 3
Credentials —
Committee on 25
Report of. 71
Deputy Grand Lecturers —
Referred to, in Grand Master's Address 30
List of 123
District Deputy Gr.\nd Masters —
List of 125
Reports of (in Appendix, Part 2d 43
Election —
Of Grand Officers 58.64.83
Exchanges —
List of; 132
Finance —
Committee on 25, 122
Report of "8
Gavel Presentation —
From Representative near Grand Lodge of Arizona. By M. W. Bro. John C. Smith 58
Index. 69
Grand Lodges —
List of 130
Grand Master —
Address of. 26
Committee on, report of. 60
Remarks of. 59, 61, 62, 84, 86
Grand Examiners —
Appointment of 122
Report of (in Appendix, Part 2d 3
Grand Officers —
Election of. 58, 64, 83
Appointment of Appointed Officers 60, 120
Installation of 120
List of 22
List of Elected Grand Officers from formation of Grand Lodge to date 126
Grand Secretary —
Reported a constitutional number of lodges represented 24
Report of. 46
Submitted his books and accounts 51
Grand Secretaries —
List of. 130
Grand Treasurer —
Report of. 43
Introductions —
Of M. W. Bro. Alphonso Barto 61
Of R. W. Bro David McLellan 61
Of R. W. Bro. Edward Mitchell 62
Of JVl. W. Bro. John H. Myers 83
Invitations —
To visit Board of Trade 83
visit Illinois Masonic Orphans' Home 83
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Installation —
Of Grand Officers 120
Jurisprudence —
Committee on 25. 122
Report of. 87
Lodge Directory (in Appendix, Part 2d) 2
Lodges Under Dispensation —
Committee on 25, 122
Report of. 64
Minutes —
Reading of dispensed with 26
Mileage and Per Diem —
Committee on 25, 122
Report of 104
Oration —
R. W. Bro. George W. Warvelle, Grand Orator 90
Obituaries —
Committee on 25
Report of. 95
Petitions —
Committee on 25
Report of 102
Permanent Members —
List of i3>
Prayer—
By Grand Chaplain ■ 24
Representatives —
Of Constituent Lodges 108
Of other Grand Lodges near this Grand Lodge 129
Of this Grand Lodge near other Grand Lodges 128
Index. 71
Reports —
Of Grand Master 26
Of Grand Secretary 46
Of Grand Treasurer 43
Of Committee on Appeals and Grievances 100
Of Committee on Chartered Lodges 84
Of Committee on Credentials 71
Of Committee on Correspondence 58
Of Committee on Finance 1 18
Of Committee on Jurisprudence 87
Of Committee on Lodges Under Dispensation 64
Of Committee on Grand Master's Address 60
Of Committee on Mileage and Per Diem 104
Of Committee on Obituaries 95
Of Committee on Petitions 102
Of Committee on Charity 86
Remarks —
By i\L W. Bro. John M Pearson, Grand Master 59, 61, 62, 84, 86
By M. W. Bro. John C. Smith 58
By M. W. Bro. Joseph Robbins 83
By M. W. Bro. D. C. Cregier 61
By R. W. Bro. Edward Mitchell 63
By R. W. Bro. David McLellan 62
By M. W. Bro. Alphonzo Barto 61
By M. W. Bro. John H. Myers 84
Restohation-
Of John Selby 102
Of F. Schoeneman 102
Of Ignatz Lederer 103
Of A. E. Jennings 102
Of Amon Wheeler 102
Of Jacob Hortensteine 102
Of John W. Puckett 102
Of J. B. Musgrove 103
Of J. B. Davis 103
Of Ransom Dodd 103
Of George O. Greer 103
Of James W. Pearce 103
Of Henry C. Cole 103
Resolutions —
By M. \V. Bro. D. M. Browning 84
By W. Bro. W. S. Cantrell lOi
By AL W. Bro. Joseph Robbins 122
Schools of Instruction —
Reference to, in Grand Master's Address 29
Report of Secretary (in Appendix, Part 2d) 63
Tabulated Statment, showing amount of dues, number of members, etc. (in App., Part 2) 24
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