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The  Grand  Lodge 


OF    THE   STATE   OF   ILLINOIS 


Ancient  Free  ^\  Accepted  Masons 


M.W.   KDWAHI)  COOK,  GuANi)  Master 
K.W.  .1.  II.  C.  DILL.  (JitANi)  Si:(i:i-TAi;v 


BLOOMING  ION,    ILLINOIS 

PaNTACBAI'II     l'KlNTlN(i     AND     STATIONKKY     CoMI-ANY 

1897 


OFFICERS 


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Grand  Lodge  of  the  State  of  Illinois 


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M. W.  Edward  Cook   Grand  Maslcr Chic.iyo. 

R.  W.  Ch AS.  F.  Hitchcock Deputy  Grand  Master Peoria. 

R.W.  Geo.  M.  Moulton Senior  Grand  Warden.  ■ .  Chicago. 

R.W.  Wm.  B.  Wkigiit Junior  Grand  Warden ERin,<,rhain. 

R.W.  Wir.KY  M.  Egan Grand  ''Trcamrer Chicago. 

ll.W.  .1.  II.  C.  Dill Grand  Secretanj Uloomington. 

R.W.  AiJEL  M.  White,  D.D Grand  Chaplain Chicago. 

M.W.  Bro.  John  Corson  Smith. Gra/ul  Orator Chicago. 

W.  G.  H.  B.  TOLLE Veputy  Grand  Secrctar;/ .  ..^la-ttoon. 

W.  Joseph  D.  Everett Grand  Pursuivant Chicago. 

W.  Cicero  J.  Lindley Grand  Marshal Greenville. 

W.  Walter  Watson Grand  Standard  Bearer. .  .Mt.  Vernon. 

W.  Adam  Ortseifen Grand  Sword  Bearer Chicago. 

W.  Chester  E.  Allen Senior  Grand  Deacon Galesburg. 

W.  Haswell  C.  Clarke.  . .  Junior  Grand  Deacon Kankakee. 

W.  George  W.  Hamilton.  . .  Grand  Steward Prairie  City. 

W.  W.  W.  Watson Grand  Steward Barry. 

W.  J.  S.  McClelland Grand  Steward Decatur. 

W.  Samuel  Coffinhuhv.  . .  .Grand  Steward Peoria. 

Bro.  li.  R.  Stevkns Grand  Tyler Chicago. 


PROCEIEIDINGS 


M.  W.  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois 

Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons, 

AT  ITS    FIFTY-EIGHTH    GRAND  ANNUAL  COMMUNICATION. 


In  conipliciiice  with  the  provisions  of  the  Constitution 
and  By-laws  of  the  Most  Worshipful  Grand  Lodge  of  An- 
cient Free  and  Accepted  Masons  of  the  State  of  Illinois, 
the  Fifty-eighth  Annual  Grand  Communication  was  held  at 
Columbia  Theater,  in  the  city  of  Chicago,  commencing  on 
Tuesday,  the  5th  day  of  October,  A.D.  1897,  A.L.  5897,  at 
10  o'clock  a.m. 

GRAND  OFFICERS  PRESENT. 

M. W.  Owen  Scott Grand  Master Bloomington. 

R.W.  Edward  Cook Deputy  Grand  Master Chicarro. 

R.W.  Chas.  F.  Hitchcock ^Senior  Grand  Warden Peoria. 

R.W.  Geo.  M.  Moulton Junior  Grand  Ward/m Chicag-o. 

R.W.  Wiley  M.  Eg  an Grand  Treasurer Chicag-o. 

R.W.  J.  H.  C.  Dill Grand  Secretari/ Blooming'ton. 

R.W.  H.  W.  Bolton,  1).  I) Grand  Cliaphiin Chicajfo. 

R.W.  W.  E.  Mason Grand  Orator Chicago. 

W.  G.  H.  B.  TOLLE Deputij  Grand  Secretarij . .  Mattoon. 

W.  Cicero  .1.  Lindley Grand  Pursuivant Greenville. 

W.  W.  H.  Peak Grand  Marslud lonesboro. 

W.  Walter  Watson Grand  Standard  Bearer.. Mt.  Vernon. 

W.  R.  T.  Spencer Grand  Sword  Hearer Illiopolis. 

W.  E.  C.  Pace Senior  Grand  Deacon Ashley. 

W.  C.  E.  Allen Junior  Grand  Deacon  . . .  Galesburg. 

W.  W.  W.  Bruce Grand  Steward Casey. 

W.  Adam  Ortseifen Grand  Steward  Chicago. 

W.  .J.  S.  McClelland Grand  Steward    Decatur. 

W.  W.  H.  .TOHNSON  Grand  Steward Wheaton. 

Bro.  RomoRT  R.  Stevens Grand  Tijler Chicago. 


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Proceediugs  of  the  [Oct.  5, 


The  M.W.  Grand  Master  proceeded  to  open  the  Grand 
Lodire  of  Illinois  in  ample  form. 


PKAYER-By  the  Grand  Chaplain. 

Gracious  God,  our  Heavenly  Father,  we  bless  Thee  this  morning' 
for  care  and  protection,  for  Thine  infinite  mercy,  that  Thou  hast 
vouchsafed  unto  us  all  needed  help,  in  that  we  have  been  given  health 
and  strength  for  ever}-  claim  of  life;  for  the  infinite  mercy  that  hath 
covered  our  mistakes,  and  put  away  our  sins;  for  the  prosperity  that 
has  crowned  the  efforts  of  Thy  servants.  We  praise  Thee,  and  rejoice 
in  that  while  we  were  lost  to  the  dangers  that  surrounded  us,  and 
through  which  we  were  passing,  Thou  wast  mindful  of  us,  and  that 
depression  and  affliction  seemed  to  forbid  the  coming  of  help.  Thy 
ministrations  were  ample  and  timely;  and  during  all  the  year,  Thou 
hast  been  so  merciful  as  to  grant  unto  Thy  servants  that  which  they 
most  needed,  and  hast  given  to  each  and  to  all  a  place  yet  among  the 
living,  with  no  visible  marks  of  displeasure  resting  upon  them. 

We  bless  Thee  for  the  spread  of  the  principles  of  our  fraternity, 
for  the  light  that  has  put  away  darkness,  for  the  truth  that  predomi- 
nates in  the  hearts  of  Thy  servants,  and  brings  joy  and  peace  to  the 
civilization  in  which  we  dwell. 

We  bless  Thee  for  the  Institution  that  we  have  found  advancing 
love  and  sympathy,  in  promulgating  the  great  interest  of  righteous- 
ness in  this  our  beloved  land.  Be  i)leased  this  morning  to  accept  of 
those  that  bring  Thee  their  hearts.  From  everlasting  and  everlast- 
ing Thy  mercy  endureth  forever;  and  in  that  is  our  hope.  Bless  the 
Most  Worshipful  Grand  Master,  and  all  he  is  associated  with.  Grant 
unto  them  that  measure  of  wisdom  that  shall  enable  them  to  direct 
the  business  of  this  session  of  the  Lodge  in  the  way  that  shall  please 
Thee,  and  bring  inspiration  to  the  representatives  of  the  lodges  re- 
garding the  interest  of  our  Brotherhood.  Pour  Th}^  spirit  out  upon 
them,  that  they  may  come  to  see  Thee  in  Thy  light,  and  dwell  in  that 
truth  that  predominates  all  nature  and  maketh  all  things  to  abide  in 
the  keeping  power  of  the  Infinite. 

Regard,  we  pray  Thee,  any  who  have  been  afllicted,  with  the  pecu- 
liar solace  which  the  Father  bestows.  Bless  any  who  have  affliction 
and  sorrow  by  the  removal  of  their  companions  in  life.  Bless  the 
homes  represented  here;  the  lodges  and  all  their  interests  and  all 
their  peculiar  claims.  Let  the  truth  that  we  so  much  love  be  spread 
throughout  all  the  earth,  until  the  darkest  corners  thereof  shall  he 
illuminated  with  the  light  of  Truth,  until  righteousness  shall  prevail 
in  all  kingdoms  under  the  sun.  Hear  Thou  us  in  this  hour  of  prayer. 
Most  merciful  God,  give  us  grace  and  wisdom,  that  our  ignorance 
may  disa[)pear.     Grant  us  mercy,  that  our  sins  may  be  pardoned  and 


1897.]  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois.  5 

put  away,  and  in  the  fullness  of  time,  when  all  that  survives  shall 
have  accomplished  that  rig'hteous  experience,  give  us  a  place  in  the 
kingdom  of  absolute  Truth. 

Our  Father  which  art  in  heaven,  hallowed  be  Thy  name.  Thy  king- 
dom come,  Thy  will  be  done  in  earth  as  it  is  in  heaven.  Give  us  this 
daj^  our  daily  bread,  and  forgive  us  our  debts  as  we  forgive  our  debt- 
ors; and  lead  us  not  into  temptation,  but  deliver  us  from  evil;  for 
Thine  is  the  kingdom  and  the  power  and  the  glory  forever.     Amen. 

The  Grand  Secretary  announced  that  the  Committee 
on  Credentials  had  informed  him  that  a  constitutional  num- 
ber of  lodgfes  was  represented,  and  aslted  for  the  committee 
further  time  to  complete  its  report,  wliich  was  g^ranted. 

The  Grand  Secretary  read  the  following-  list  of  Com- 
mittees appointed  by  the  Grand  Master: 


COMMITTEES. 

MASONIC   JURISPRUDENCE. 

DeWitt  C.  Cregier,  .Tames  A.  Hawley,  Daniel  M.  Browning,  .John  C. 
Smith,  John  M.  Pearson. 

APPEALS   AND  GRIEVANCES. 

Monroe  C.  Crawford.  .Joseph  E.  Dyas,  William  S.  Cantrell,  George  W. 
Hill,  Eugene  L.  Stoker. 

CHARTERED   LODGES. 

Loyal  L.  Miinn.  Frank  W.  Havill,  George  A.  Stadler,  Thomas  W.  Wil- 
son, .James  L.  Scott. 

LODGES  UNDER  DISPENSATION. 

Charles  H.  Patton,  C  J.  Renter,  S.  S.  Chance,  Daniel  .J.  Avery,  Henry 

C.  Mitchell. 

CORRESPONDENCE. 

.Joseph  Robbins. 

MILEAGE   AND   PER   DIEM. 

.John  A.  r.add,  William  B.  Wright,  Ed.  T^.  Wahl. 


Proceed iii(/s  of  the  [Oct.  5, 


FINANCE. 

L.  A.  Goddard,  Gil.  W.  Barnard,  Samuel  W.  Waddle. 

GRAND   EXAMINERS. 
W.  B.  Grimes,  A.  B.  Ashley,  J.  E.  Evans,  J.  W.  Rose,  .1.  K.  ImimIs. 

CREDENTIALS. 

J.  I.  McClintock,  P.  VV.  Barclay,  George  W.  Cyrus. 
PETITIONS. 

C.  M.  Fornian,  Ben  Hag^le,  A.  W.  Blakesley. 

obituarip:s. 
George  W.  Warvelle,  N.  E.  Roberts,  G.  O.  Friedrich. 

GRAND   master's   ADDRESS. 

W.  E.  Ginther,  George  F.  Howard,  W.  F.  Beck. 

RAILROADS. 

\Vm.  Jenkins,  C.  H.  Morrell. 

The  motion  of  M.W.  Bro.  John  M.  Pearson  that  printed 
copies  of  the  proceeding's  of  the  last  annual  communication 
being  in  the  hands  of  the  brethren,  reading"  of  the  same  be 
dispensed  with,  was  carried. 

The  Grand  Master  introduced  the  Lexington  Quartet, 
composed  of  Chicago  Masons,  whicli  gave  several  delight- 
ful selections,  at  the  close  of  which  he  thanked  them  in  the 
name  of  the  Grand  Lodii'e. 


1897.]  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois. 


GRAND  MASTER'S  ADDRESS. 

Brethren  of  the  Grand  Lodge: 

In  the  archives  of  memory  have  been  safely  deposited  the  stir- 
ring Masonic  events  of  another  year.  For  his  loving  care  and  tender 
mercies  we  are  profoundly  grateful  to  our  Heavenly  Father, 

"From  out  whose  hand 
The  centuries  fall  like  grains  of  sand." 

Another  chapter  in  Masonic  history  has  been  written.  What  it 
really  embraces  cannot  be  told.  Its  glories  are  not  those  of  war  and 
carnage,  but  of  love  and  good  will.  ''Peace  hath  higher  tests  of  man- 
hood than  battle  ever  knew."  The  fevered  brow  has  been  cooled  by 
the  touch  of  a  brother's  hand,  the  orphan's  cry  for  bread  hushed  by 
bounteous  supplies  from  the  fraternal  store,  and  the  widow's  sorrow 
assuaged  by  the  kind  and  loving  sympathies  of  the  mystic  Craft. 
These  are  but  the  briefest  outline  of  the  noble  and  generous  deeds 
which  constitute  the  ripened  fruits  of  Freemasonry.  But  we  must 
not  remain  content  with  what  has  been  done,  for 

"Although  our  past  achievements  we  with  honest  pride  review, 
As  long  as  there's  rough  ashlar,  there  is  work  for  us  to  do. 
We  still  must  shape  the  living  stones  with  instruments  of  love, 
For  that  eternal  mansion  in  the  paradise  above. 
Toil  as  we've  toiled  in  ages  past,  to  carry  out  the  plan, 
'Tis  this,  the  Fatherhood  of  God,  the  brotherhood  of  man." 

With  such  a  creed  Masons  can  not  fail  to  achieve  the  great  pur- 
poses of  life.  The  battle  will  be  fought  and  the  victory  won.  Masonry 
looks  to  a  nobler  manhood.  It  teaches  abstract  truth  but  uses  this 
only  as  a  foundation  for  practical  living.  The  home  is  the  unit  of 
civilization.  Its  absence  makes  barbarism.  The  home  is  the  flower  of 
which  heaven  is  the  fruit.  Masonry  throws  its  mighty  arms  around 
this  vital  institution  of  civilized  life  and  protects  and  exalts  it.  The 
purity  of  womanhood  and  the  exaltation  of  childhood  are  cardinal 
doctrines  taught  in  every  lodge.  Our  mothers,  wives,  sisters,  and 
daughters  have  one  more  sworn  defender  in  every  man  who  rises  from 
the  altar  of  Masonry. 

Other  practical  life-duties  are  equally  the  certain  fruit  of  the 
teachings  and  obligations  of  our  great  institution.  Conduct  and 
character  can  but  be  uplifted  if  Masons  loyally  live  the  lessons 
learned  in  the  lodge  room. 

We  are  here  from  all  parts  of  our  mighty  state  to  contemplate 
the  past  and  i:)lan  for  the  future.  The  year  just  added  to  those  gone 
before  has  been  filled  with  trials  and  difficulties,  victories  and  defeats. 


Proceedings  of  the  [Oct.  5, 


Our  failures,  if  we  wisely  view  them,  will  serve  as  red  lij^rhts  o\  warn- 
injf  for  the  future.  Let  us,  then,  contemplate  our  work  and  [,'^ather 
new  strenfjth,  that  we  may  "do  the  right  as  Cod  jjfives  us  to  see  the 
ri<jht." 

We  pause  to  pay  our  tribute  to  the  fraternal  dead. 

THE  SILVER  CORD  IS  LOOSED. 

In  the  din  and  confusion  of  life's  battle,  few  of  our  valiant  sol- 
diers have  fallen.  Our  Heavenly  Father  has  been  most  gracious  and 
our  ranks  have  been  almost  unbroken.  When  the  reaper  did  come,  he 
•jarnered  a  ripened  sheaf.     On  the  evening  of  September  1, 

M.W.  BliO.  JEROME  R.  CJORIN 

lletlred  to  a  sleep  from  which  only  the  call  of  the  angel  of  the  resur- 
rection can  awaken  him.  When  his  daughter  called  him  in  the  morn- 
ing he  did  not  answer.  During  the  night  his  soul  had  taken  its  Hight. 
A  noljle  life  of  almost  fourscore  3'ears  enabled  him  to  'wrap  the  dra- 
pery of  his  couch  about  him  and  lie  down  to  pleasant  dreams." 

For  the  years  LStj()  and  1867  Brother  Gorin  served  this  Grand 
Lodge  as  its  Grand  Master.  Since  then  he  has  been  ever  faithful 
and  devoted  to  the  Craft  wherever  a  Masonic  duty  called  him.  Two 
years  ago,  though  a  layman,  it  was  mj'  privilege  to  ajjpoint  and  in 
stall  him  as  Grand  Chaplain.  He  has  gone  to  reap  the  reward  of  the 
faithful. 

GOODMAN  FERRE, 

For  a  lifetime  a  member  of  Bloomington  Lodge  No.  43,  died  at  his 
home  in  Bloomington  on  September  20,  1897.  Although  in  his  S)2nd 
year,  he  rarely  missed  a  meeting  of  his  lodge  until  during  the  illness 
of  the  last  few  months  of  his  life.  Few  men  grew  into  a  sweeter  old 
age  than  he.  His  sunny  disposition  led  him  to  the  discovery  of  the 
fountain  of  immortal  youth.  Though  time  had  piled  up  to  his  ac- 
count almost  a  centur}*,  he  nevertheless  had  learned  how  to  grow  old 
gracefully.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes  said  that  "it  is  far  more  com- 
fortable and  pleasant  to  be  seventy  3-ears  young  than  to  be  forty 
years  old."  Brother  Ferre  was  ninety  years  young.  His  genial  dis- 
position, pure  life,  and  spotless  character  were  a  benediction  to  all 
who  knew  him.  He  served  as  worshipful  master  during  the  year  185"). 
He  became  treasurer  of  his  lodge  in  18(13,  and  for  thirty-four  years 
thereafter  occupied  this  important  position.  In  all  places  he  was 
faithful  and  true.      A  noble  si)irit  has  gone  to  God  who  gave  it. 

A.  G.  BURLEY. 
On  August  2t)  another  Masonic  veteran  answered  to  the  long  roll 
of  death.     Bro.  Arthur  Gilman  Burley  was  made  a  Mason  in  Oriental 


1897.]  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois.  9 

Lodge  No.  33,  Chicag-o,  February  10,  1848,  being-  a  few  months  before 
the  present  Grand  Master  was  born.  For  forty-five  years  Brother 
Burley  faithfully  served  Oriental  Lodge  as  its  treasurer.  During  all 
these  years  he  has  been  true  to  his  trust,  and  merits  the  high  esteem 
in  which  he  was  held. 

SAMUEL  ULYSSES   BURNER, 

Worshipful  master  elect  of  Robinson  Lodge  No.  250,  died  December  30, 
189G.     He  was  a  man  zealous  and  true  in  the  great  cause  of' masonry. 

EDWARD   DEAN   COOKE, 

An  honored  member  of  Oriental  Lodge  No.  33,  died  in  the  city  of  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  .June  24,  1897,  while  serving  as  a  member  of  congress. 
His  lodge  says  that  "His  life  was  singularly  pure,  strong,  and  noble." 

FROM   OTHER   GRAND  JURISDICTIONS. 

The  following  distinguished  Masons  of  other  Grand  Jurisdictions 
have  jjassed  into  rest  and  refreshment: 

Rufus  Claghorn  Hatheway,  Past  Grand  Master  of  Michigan,  died 
December  9, 1896. 

Cicero  H.  Lewis,  Past  Grand  Master  of  Oregon,  died  January  5,, 
1897. 

John  Stedman,  Past  Grand  Master  of  Montana,  died  March  28, 1897. 

Joseph  Norton  Dolph,  Past  Grand  Master  of  Oregon,  died  March 
10,  1897. 

John  William  Morrison,  Past  Grand  Master  of  Prince  Edward 
Island,  died  April  11, 1897. 

Andrew  M.  Wolihin,  Grand  Secretary  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
Georgia,  died  February  22,  1897. 

Theodore  Schreiner,  Grand  Tyler  of  Grand  Lodge  of  Iowa,  died 
April  14,  1897. 

John  Headly  Bell,  Past  Grand  Master  of  Manitoba,  died  March 
16,  1897. , 

THE  CHARITY   FUND. 

Orders  have  been  drawn  on  the  charity  fund  for  $20  each  month 
for  the  relief  of  Past  Grand  Master  Harrison  Dills,  and  I  recommend 
that  this  be  continued  for  the  coming  year. 

Upon  the  recommendation  of  the  Committee  on  Charity,  orders 
were  drawn  for  $50  for  the  relief  of  the  widow  of  Andrew  Orme,  a 
member  of  a  lodge  now  defunct. 
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10  Proceedings  of  the  [Oct.  5, 

LODGES  CONSTITUTED. 

Pursuant  to  the  action  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  charters  were  deliv- 
ered to  the  following  lodges  and  the  same  were  duly  constituted: 
Park  Lodge  No.  843,  at  Rogers  Park,  Cook  count}-. 
Hopewell  Lodge  No.  844,  at  Hope,  Vermilion  county. 
Martinton  No.  84.>,  at  Martinton,  Iroquois  county. 
BlutT  Lodge  No.  846,  at  Bluffs,  Scott  county. 
Stronghurst  Lodge  No.  847,  at  Stronghurst,  Henderson  county. 

DUPLICATE  CHARTERS. 

Williamson  Lodge  No.  802,  located  at  Carterville,  having  lost  its 
charter  bj'  tire,  duplicate  was  issued  May  4,  1897,  pursuant  to  law. 

Du])licate  charter  was  issued  to  Virginia  Lodge  No.  5o4  on  August 
31,  to  take  the  place  of  one  destro3'ed  by  lire. 

DEDICATION  OF  MASONIC  HALLS. 

On  November  20,  1896,  I  dedicated  the  elegant  hall  of  St.  John's 
Lodge  No.  13,  at  Peru,  111.  R.W.  Bro.  R.  T.  Spencer  was  present  and 
assisted.  A  large  company  of  Masons,  their  families  and  friends,  as- 
sembled to  join  in  the  festivities  incident  to  this  auspicious  occasion. 

On  the  25th  day  of  February,  1897,  I  dedicated  the  hall  of  Friend- 
ship Lodge  No.  7,  at  Dixon,  III.  M.W.  Bro.  James  A.  Hawlej'  con- 
tributed largelj'  to  the  success  of  this  occasion.  One  of  the  finest  halls 
in  the  state  was  set  apart  for  the  uses  of  the  Craft. 

On  the  25th  day  of  March,  I  dedicated  the  hall  of  Charleston  Lodge 
No.  35.  R.W.  Bro.  Ginther  was  present  and  rendered  valuable  assist- 
ance. A  large  number  of  brethren  and  citizens  of  Charleston  were 
present  to  witness  the  ceremonies.  This  is  one  of  the  most  complete 
Masonic  halls  in  the  state. 

CORNER   STONE. 

On  the  29th  of  September  I  laid  the  corner  stone  of  the  First 
Cumberland  Presbyterian  Church  at  Decatur.  The  brethren  of  De- 
catur and  vicinity  turned  out  in  large  numbers,  while  Beaumanoir 
Commandery  No.  9,  K.T.,  generously  tendered  its  services  as  escort 
to  the  Grand  Lodge.  R.W.  Bro.  R.  T.  Spencer  was  present  and  as- 
sisted. There  was  a  large  attendance  of  citizens,  and  the  occasion 
was  a  most  enjoyable  and  profitable  one. 

LODGES  U.D. 

Five  dispensations  for  new  lodges  have  been  granted. 
On  October  10,  1896,  I  continued  the  dispensation  ft)r  a  lodge  at 
London  Mills.     This  dispensation  was  granted  i)rior  to  the  last  session 


1897.]  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois.  11 

of  this  grand  lodge,  but  the  time  was  not  sufficient  for  a  charter  to 
issue. 

January  1,  1897,  I  issued  a  dispensation  to  fifteen  brethren  for  a 
new  lodge  at  Palestine,  to  be  known  as  Palestine  Lodge.  On  January 
14,  1897,  R.W.  Bro.  G.  H.  B.  ToUe,  as  my  proxy,  instituted  the  same. 

January  8,  1897,  dispensation  was  issued  to  seventeen  brethren  at 
Chicago  Heights,  Cook  county,  for  a  lodge  to  be  known  as  Chicago 
Heights  Lodge.  R.W.  Bro.  W.  M.  Burbank  instituted  the  same  Jan- 
uary 12,  1897. 

January  15,  1897,  dispensation  was  issued  to  ten  brethren  at  East 
St.  Louis  for  a  lodge,  to  be  known  as  Gothic  Lodge.  The  same  was 
instituted  January  22,  by  R.W.  Bro.  W.  B.  Grimes. 

March  17  dispensation  to  nine  brethren  at  Latham,  Logan  county, 
for  a  lodge  to  be  known  as  Latham  Lodge.  Instituted  March  26,  by 
R.W.  Bro.  C.  F.  Tenney. 

Dispensation  was  issued  to  seventy-seven  brethren  at  Austin, 
Cook  county,  for  a  lodge,  to  be  known  as  Austin  Lodge.  Instituted 
June  8,  by  R.W.  Bro.  M.  B.  lott. 


GRAND  OFFICERS  INSTALLED. 

On  October  13,  1896,  M.W.  Brother  Goddard,  as  my  proxy,  pro- 
ceeded to  the  place  of  meeting  of  Waldeck  Lodge  No.  674,  and  in- 
stalled W.  Bro.  Adam  Ortseifen  as  Grand  Steward. 

On  September  14,  1897,  M.W.  Brother  Goddard,  as  my  proxy,  in- 
stalled as  Grand  Orator,  R.W.  Bro.  William  E.  Mason,  in  the  hall  of 
Garfield  Lodge  No.  686,  of  which  Brother  Mason  is  a  member.  R.W. 
Brother  Milburn  being  called  to  London,  and  not  being  able  to  re- 
turn in  time,  presented  his  resignation  as  Grand  Orator  and  Brother 
Mason  Avas  appointed  in  his  place. 

CHARTER  RESTORED. 

Pursuant  to  action  of  this  Grand  Lodge,  I  did,  on  October  13,  re- 
store the  charter  to  Sigwalt  Lodge  No.  813,  under  the  name  of  Hum- 
boldt Park  Lodge. 

CHARTER    SURRENDERED. 

But  one  lodge  has  ceased  to  exist.  Elbridge  Lodge  No.  579,  located 
at  Ferrell,  Edgar  county,  took  the  necessary  steps  under  the  law  to 
surrender  its  charter.  Accordingly,  by  my  direction,  on  May  19, 
R.W.  Bro.  R.  L.  McKinley,  D.D.G.M.,  went  to  Ferrell  and  closed  up 
this  lodge.  The  charter  and  effects  were  sent  to  the  Grand  Secretary. 
I  recommend  that  the  name  and  number  be  stricken  from  the  roll. 


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LODGES  CONSOLIDATED. 

Upon  a  full  compliance  with  the  law,  I  have  granted  a  new  char- 
ter to  Elgin  Lodge  No.  117.  as  consolidated  with  Clintonville  Lodge 
No.  511,  the  consolidated  lodge  to  be  Elgin  Lodge  No.  117.  On  May  7, 
in  company  with  R.W.  Bro.  Edward  Cook,  I  constituted  the  lodge  as 
above.  It  would  be  a  good  thing  if  many  of  the  smaller  and  weaker 
lodges  were  consolidated. 

REPRESENTATIVES. 

March  1.  1897,  I  appointed  V..  C.  Roth  well  as  representative  of 
this  Grand  Lodge,  near  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Quebec,  in  place  of  Alex- 
ander Chisholm,  deceased. 

July  16, 1  appointed  T.  C.  Carling  to  represent  this  Grand  Lodge  at 
the  Grand  Lodge  of  Georgia. 

August  3,  Silas  Armstrong  was  appointed  as  our  representative 
to  the  Grand  Lodge  of  the  Indian  Territory. 


DEPUTY  GRAND  LECTURERS. 

I  appointed  the  following  as  Deputy  Grand  Lecturers: 


James  Douglas,  Chester. 
Charles  F.  Tenney,  Bement. 
George  A.  Stadler,  Decatur. 
John  E.  Morton,  Perry. 
William  O.  Butler,  La  Harpe. 
William  E.  Ginther,  Charleston. 
Charles  Reifsnider,  Chicago. 
G.  H.  B.  Tolle,  Mattoon. 
T.  H.  Humphre3'S,  Du  Quoin. 
C.  Rohrbough,  Kinmundy. 
David  E.  Bruffet,  Urbana. 
G.  O.  Frcidrick,  Chillicothe. 
Charles  W.  Carroll,  Blandinsville. 
Sylvester  Thompson,  Galva. 
H.  S.  Hurd,  Chicago. 
I.  Harry  Todd,  East  St.  Louis. 
Orville  F.  Kirkpatrick,  Blandins- 
ville. 
J.  J.  Crowder,  Peoria. 

C.  S.  Grove,  Mt.  Carroll. 
Joseph  V.  Harris,  Canton. 
H.  T.  Burnap,  Upper  Alton. 

D.  B.  Hutchison,  Jacksonville. 
Chester  E.  Allen,  Galesburg. 
H.  C.  Yetter,  Chicago. 


William  F.  Sinclair,  Upper  Alton. 

Samuel  M.  Shoemann,  McLeans- 
boro. 

George  A.  Lackens,  Good  Hope. 

L.  C.  Waters,  Chicago. 

James  Dinsmore  Templeton,  De- 
catur. 

William  V.  Lambe,  Naperville. 

Thomas  W.  Wilson,  Springfield. 

William  K.  Bowling.  Virden. 

Richard  F.  Morrow,  Virden. 

John  Gilbert  Seitz,  Upper  Alton. 

Cornelius  M.  Erwin.  Bo  wen. 

Louis  J.  Forth,  Mt.  Vernon. 

William  J.  Frisbie.  Bushnell, 

Emerson  Clark,  Farmington. 

W.  M.  Burbank,  Chicago. 

John  B.  Kelly,  East  St.  Louis. 

George  G.  Goudy,  Enfield. 

Walter  Buchanan,  Bridgeport. 

John  F.  Clayton,  Glen  Arm. 

William  H.  Stevens,  Steelville. 

Rollin  R.  Strickler,  Galesburg. 

William  H.  Lathrop,  Newton. 

James  M.  Willard,  Decatur. 


1897.] 


Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois. 


13 


Frank  M.  Sherman,  Oak  Park. 

Delmar  D.  Darrah,  Bloomington. 

Hug-h  A.  Snell,  Litchfield. 

J.  W.  Quillen,  Ipava. 

H.  S.  Albin,  Chicago. 

J.  E.  Wheat,  Belvidere. 

Arthur  G.  Goodridge,  Irving  Park. 

George  A.  Martin,  Brownstown. 

W.  H.  Peak,  Jonesboro. 

S.  S.  Borden,  Chicago. 


Andrew  Hines  Story,  Norris  City. 
Henry  Werno,  La  Grange. 
Samuel  G.  Jarvis,  Victoria. 
Isaac  Cutter,  Camp  Point. 
Jerome  Heath  Thomas,  Belvidere 
Job  Eddy  Greenman,  Tampico. 
M.  Joy  Seed,  Sumner. 
Peter  P.  Clark,  Scottville. 
I.  A.  Foster,  Emma. 
Jas.  McCredie,  Earlville. 


SPECIAL  DISPENSATIONS. 


LODGE.                            NO.  FEE. 

Humboldt  Park 813  ^2  00 

Cambridge 49  2  00 

Columbian 819  2  00 

A.  T.  Darrah 793  2  00 

Greenup 12.5  2  00 

McHenry 158  2  00 

Springfield 4  2  00 

Xenia 485  2  00 

Grove  824  2  00 

Cleveland 211  2  00 

Triluminar 767  2  00 

Exeter 424  2  00 

Chicago 437  2  00 

Belvidere (50  2  00 

Hinckly 301  2  00 

Verona 757  2  00 

Patoka 613  2  00 

Robinson 250  2  00 

Omaha 723  2  00 

Potomac. 782  2  00 

Chats  worth 539  2  00 

Caledonia 47  2  00 

D.  C.Cregier 643  2  00 

Occidental 40  2  00 

South  Park    662  2  00 

Bureau 112  2  00 

Home 508  2  00 

Effingham 149  2  00 

Alma 497  2  00 

Seneca 532  2  00 

Herder 669  2  00 


LODGE. 


NO. 


PEE. 


Herder 669 

Sibley 761 

Palmyra 463 

N.  D.  Morse 346 

DeSoto 287 

Effingham 149 

Hinckly 301 

Meridian 505 

Henry 119 

Landmark 422 

Springfield. . . 4 

Bloom  ington 43 

Marion 130 

Germania 182 

Morning  Star 734 

Mithra 410 

Oriental 33 

D.  C.Cregier 643 

BenHur 818 

Keystone 639 

Waubansia 160 

Richard  Cole 697 

Beacon  Light 784 

Oriental 33 


$113  00 
Dispensations  for  five 
new  lodges 500  00 


$2  00 

2  00 

2  00 

2  00 

2  00 

2  00 

2  00 

2  00 

2  00 

2  00 

2  00 

2  00 

5  00 

2  00 

2  00 

2  00 

2  00 

2  00 

2  00 

2  00 

2  00 

2  00 

2  00 

2  00 

Total. 


$613  00 


REPORTS  OF  D.D.  GRAND  MASTERS. 

It  will  be  a  source  of  profit  to  read  carefully  the  reports  of  the 
District  Deputy  Grand  Masters  to  be  printed  in  the  proceedings.  Their 
work  has  been  well  done,  and  they  deserve  the  thanks  of  the  Craft 
for  their  efficient  and  unremunerated  services. 


14  Proceedinr/.s  of  the  [Oct.  5, 

WORTHLESS  NOTES   DESTROYED. 

Pursuant  to  the  recommendation  of  the  Finance  Committee,  I 
did  on  June  18  destroj'  four  notes  dated  March  9, 1875,  for  $409.56  each, 
signed  by  J.  M.  Smith  and  paj'able  to  the  master  and  wardens  of  Na- 
tional Lodge  No.  59G,  now  defunct.     Said  notes  were  wholly  worthless. 


THE  GRAND  LODGE  OF  EGYPT. 

By  the  hand  of  M.W.  Bro.  John  C.  Smith  I  received  a  letter  from 
the  Grand  Master  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Egypt.  This  letter  contains 
a  statement  of  the  regularity  of  that  body,  and  requests  the  fraternal 
recognition  of  our  Grand  Lodge.  I  submit  the  letter,  and  recommend 
its  consideration  by  the  proper  committee. 

AMENDHENTS  TO  THE  CONSTITUTION. 

Soon  after  the  close  of  the  Grand  Lodge  I  issued  the  following  to 
the  lodges: 

Grand  Lodge  of  the  State  of  Illinois,  ) 
Free  and  Accepted  Masons.  ) 

At  the  last  Annual  Communication  of  the  State  of  Illinois,  Free 
and  Accepted  Masons,  the  following  amendments  to  the  Constitution 
of  said  Grand  -Lodge  were  proposed  by  W.  Bro.  Joseph  D.  Everett, 
seconded  by  the  Grand  Lodge,  and  are  hereby  submitted  to  the  con- 
stituent lodges  for  their  approval  or  rejection,  to-wit: 

1.  Amend  Sec.  1.  Art.  XIV,  of  the  Constitution  of  the  Grand 
Lodge  by  adding:  ''The  district  may  be  changed  in  other  than  decen- 
nial years  upon  the  recommendation  of  the  Grand  Master,  confirmed 
by  the  Grand  Lodge,  and  the  districts  may  be  defined  by  territorial 
limits,  or  by  designating  what  lodges  shall  constitute  a  district.'" 

2.  Amend  Sec.  2,  Art.  XIV,  of  the  Constitution  of  the  Grand 
Lodge  by  adding:  "Provided  that  in  case  there  shall  be  more  than  one 
district  in  a  county,  the  deputies  for  suoh  districts  must  be  residents 
of  the  county  and  members  of  lodges  therein." 

(a)  If  the  above  amendments  are  approved  the  Grand  Lodge  will 
have  the  power  to  change  boundaries  of  the  districts  for  which  Dis- 
trict Deputy  Grand  Masters  are  appointed  at  any  time  when  the  in- 
terests of  Masonry  may  require  it.  As  the  law  now  is  the  change  can 
only  be  made  every  ten  years.  The  next  change,  under  the  present 
law,  cannot  be  made  until  1900.  and  could  then  be  made  by  the  Grand 
Master  without  action  of  Grand  Lodge.  Under  the  amendment  it 
could  be  made  at  any  session  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  upon  recommenda- 
tion of  Grand  Master  approved  by  Grand  Lodge. 

(b)  The  amendments  also  provide  that  the  districts  may  be  desig- 
nated by  the  numbers  of  lodges,  and  not  necessarily  and  solely  by  terri- 
torial limits  as  now. 


1897.]  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois.  15 

(c)  Amendment  No.  2  above  will  apply  only  to  Cook  county,  where 
there  are  three  districts.  Under  the  present  law  a  brother  must  be  a 
resident  of  the  district  and  a  member  of  a  lodge  therein.  The  amend- 
ment provides  that  a  deputy  may  be  appointed  who  does  not  reside  in 
the  district,  or  who  may  not  be  a  member  of  a  lodge  therein,  but 
must  be  a  resident  of  the  county  and  a  member  of  a  lodge  therein. 

The  worshipful  master  of  each  constituent  lodge  in  Illinois  is  re- 
quired to  submit  the  above  amendments  to  vote  of  his  lodge  at  the 
first  stated  meeting  after  this  is  received. 

It  is  ordered  that  this  circular  be  read  in  full,  in  open  lodge,  prior 
to  taking  the  vote  on  the  amendments. 

The  secretary  of  each  lodge  is  hereb}^  ordered  to  certify,  under 
seal  of  his  lodge,  the  result  of  the  vote  within  thirty  days  after  the 
same  is  taken,  and  forward  the  same  to  the  Grand  Secretary,  as  per 
accompanying  blank. 

Attest:  Owen  Scott, 

J.  H.  C.  Dill,  Grand  Master. 

Grand  Secretary. 

On  the  24th  day  of  May,  the  Grand  Secretary  certified  to  me  that 
the  required  number  of  lodges  had  voted  for  the  adoption  of  the 
amendments  to  the  Constitution.     Accordingly  I  issued  the  following 

proclamation. 

Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois  [ 

Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons.  | 

At  the  last  Annual  Communication  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  the 
State  of  Illinois,  Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  the  following 
amendments  to  the  Constitution  of  said  Grand  Lodge  were  proposed 
and  duly  seconded  by  the  Grand  Lodge: 

1.  Amend  Sec.  1,  Art.  XIV,  of  the  Constitution  of  the  Grand 
Lodge  by  adding:  "The  district  may  be  changed  in  other  than  de- 
cennial years  upon  the  recommendation  of  the  Grand  Master,  con- 
firmed by  the  Grand  Lodge,  and  the  districts  may  be  defined  by 
territorial  limits,  or  by  designating  what  lodges  shall  constitute  a 
district. 

2.  Amend  Sec.  2,  Art.  XIV,  of  the  Constitution  of  the  Grand 
Lodge  by  adding:  "Provided  that  in  case  there  shall  be  more  than 
one  district  in  a  count}%  the  deputies  for  such  districts  must  be  resi- 
dents of  the  county  and  members  of  lodges  therein." 

Pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  article  16  of  the  Constitution,  the 
foregoing  amendments  were  submitted  to  the  constituent  lodges  for 
their  approval  or  rejection.  Returns  from  the  various  constituent 
lodges  show  that  the  above  amendments  have  been  approved  by  two- 
thirds  of  all  the  lodges  of  Illinois. 


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Therefore,  I,  Owen  Scott,  Grand  Master  of  Masons  in  Illinois,  do 
hereby  proclaim  that  said  amendments  have  been  duly  adopted  and 
are  from  this  date  a  part  of  the  Constitution  of  the  M.W.  Grand 
Lodge  of  Illinois,  A.F.  and  A.M.,  in  full  force  and  effect.  It  is  hereby 
ordered  that  the  foregoing  proclamation  be  read  in  full  in  open  lodge 
at  the  first  stated  meeting  after  the  same  is  received. 

Given  under  my  hand  and  the  seal  of  the  Grand  Lodge  this  25th 
day  of  May,  1S97.  Owen  Scott, 

Attest:    .1.  H.  C.  Dill,  Grand  Master. 

Grand  Secretary. 


CHANGE  OF  DISTRICTS. 

Under  the  amendments  to  the  Constitution  now  in  force  I  recom 
mend  that  the  Masonic  districts  heretofore  existing  remain  as  they 
now  are,  except  districts  1,  2,  and  .3,  located  in  Cook  county.  It  has 
been  almost  an  impossible  task  to  make  an  equal  division  of  lodges 
on  geographical  lines.  I  have,  therefore,  made  the  districts  by  num- 
bers of  lodges,  and  recommend  the  following  division: 


I. 

II. 

III. 

.33  Oriental. 

81 

Vitruvius. 

141 

Garden  City. 

160  Waubansia. 

182 

Germania. 

209 

W.  B.  Warren. 

211  Cleveland. 

271 

Bianey. 

277 

Accordia. 

308  Ashlar. 

310 

Dearborn. 

311 

Kilwinning. 

314  Palatine. 

393 

Blair. 

409 

Thomas  J.  Turner 

410  Mithra. 

411 

Hesperia. 

422 

Landmark. 

437  Chicago. 

478 

Pleiades. 

508 

Home. 

524  Evans. 

526 

Covenant. 

540 

Harlem. 

557  Lessing. 

610 

Union  Park. 

611 

Lincoln  Park. 

639  Keystone. 

642 

Apollo. 

643 

D.  C.  Cregier. 

662  South  Park. 

669 

Herder. 

674 

Waldeck. 

686  Garfield. 

690 

Englewood. 

697 

Richard  Cole. 

711  Providence. 

716 

Calumet. 

717 

Arcana. 

726  Golden  Rule. 

731 

Harbor. 

739 

Lakeside. 

751  Lounsbury. 

758 

Mystic  Star. 

7()5 

Palace. 

767  Triluminar. 

768 

Mizpah. 

770 

LaGrange. 

774  Lakeview. 

776 

Grand  (..'rossing. 

1 1 1 

Ravenswood. 

779  Wrights  Grove. 

780 

Siloam. 

783 

Constantia. 

784  Beacon  Light. 

789 

Auburn  Park. 

795 

Myrtle. 

797  Normal  Park. 

800 

Kenwood. 

804 

Kensington. 

810  Tracy. 

813 

Humboldt  Park. 

815 

Lawn. 

818  Ben  Hur. 

819 

Columbian. 

832 

Magic  City. 

S.36  Windsor  I'ark. 

839 

Berwyn. 

841 

Woodlawn  Park. 

.S42  Fides. 

843 

Park.' 

1897.]  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois.  17 

COUNTY  AND  DISTRICT  MEETINGS, 

The  recommendation  that  district  meetings  be  held  throughout 
the  state  has  been  adopted  in  many  sections.  Excellent  meetings 
have  been  held  in  different  localities,  and  the  direct  advantages  from 
these  gathering  are  plainly  seen.  Renewed  zeal  and  greater  knowl- 
edge of  law  and  work  have  led  to  higher  conceptions  of  the  fraternity 
and  better  standards  for  the  future. 

Believing  that  a  more  thorough  system  of  supervision  of  lodges 
would  be  of  great  value,  I  issued  the  following  letter  of  suggestions 
and  instructions  to 

DISTRICT   DEPUTY   GRAND  MASTERS. 

Office  of  Grand  Master  i 

Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois,  A.  P.  and  A.  M.  > 
Bloomington,  III.,  December  15,  1896.    ) 
Dear  Brethren: 

You  hold  an  important  office  and  one  which  you  can  make  of  great 
service  to  the  Craft.  The  duties  of  District  Deputy  Grand  Master  are 
not  very  clearly  defined  in  the  laws  of  the  Grand  Lodge;  much  is  left  to 
your  good  judgment  and  discretion.  The  Grand  Master  will  some- 
times find  it  necessary  to  ask  of  you  particular  service  in  special 
cases.  To  secure  better  business  methods  and  management  of  lodges, 
I  desire  to  urge  each  District  Deputy  to  visit  every  lodge  in  his  dis- 
trict during  the  coming  winter  months.  If  it  is  not  possible  to  do  this, 
can't  you  hold  a  meeting  at  each  county  seat  or  other  available  point 
in  every  county  and  invite  the  masters,  wardens,  and  secretaries  of 
lodges  to  be  present?  These  meetings  can  be  made  of  untold  profit 
to  lodges  and  Masonry.  When  assembled,  what  shall  be  done?  Manj^ 
things.  A  few  may  be  suggested,  viz: 

1.  Inspect  the  records  of  secretaries  and  see  that  the  proceedings 
of  the  lodges  are  correctly  kept,  also  that  the  records  are  full  enough 
to  give  an  intelligent  idea  of  the  business  transacted.  See  that  things 
only  are  recorded  which  are  "proper  to  be  written."  Names  of  visi- 
tors and  members  should  be  put  into  the  records.  Has  the  secretary 
recorded  the  edict  against  fraudulent  books  dated  April  10,  1896.  and 
does  he  read  communications  from  the  Grand  Lodge  as  required?  The 
secretary  should  enter  on  his  record  at  each  meeting  the  amount  re- 
ceived, giving  the  names  of  persons  paying,  and  whether  for  degrees, 
dues,  or  from  other  sources.  Great  care  and  accuracy  in  this  will 
save  difficulty  to  the  lodges. 

2.  See  whether  or  not  lodge  dues  are  collected  and  urge  masters 
and  secretaries  to  enforce  prompt  payment  and  have  the  books 
squared  up  once  each  year.  Discourage  any  attempt  at  exemption 
from  dues  for  any  cause  except  where  a  brother  is  too  poor  to  pay. 


18  Proceedings  of  the  [Oct.  5, 

3.  The  officers  of  lodges,  both  masters  and  secretaries,  should  be 
urged  to  make  all  annual  and  other  reports  to  the  Grand  Secretary 
or  Grand  Master  promptly.     It  saves  much  trouble  and  labor. 

4.  Urge  masters  and  members  to  read  the  Grand  Lodge  By-laws 
more  frequently.  Before  asking  the  Grand  Master  for  "decisions,  see 
if  the  by-laws  and  decisions  in  the  blue-book  will  not  f  ull^-  cover  the 
case. 

5.  Urge  lodges  to  keep  their  property  fully  insured  and  their 
records  in  fire-proof  safes  or  vaults.  Every  lodge  should  have  a  fire- 
proof safe  in  the  lodge  room. 

o.  Discourage  life  memberships,  and  advise  lodges  to  change  their 
by-laws  so  as  to  avoid  the  dangers  arising  from  this  source.  The  best 
way  to  do  this  is  to  repeal  all  provisions  for  life  membership. 

7.  Lodges  should  be  given  clearly  to  understand  that  there  is  no 
cipher  or  key  to  the  work.  All  books  purporting  to  be  such  are 
fraudulent,  and  will  subject  Masons  to  discipline  for  even  having 
them  in  their  possession. 

8.  District  Deputy  Grand  Masters  are  not  expected  to  teach  the 
standard  work  unless  they  are  also  commissioned  as  Deput}'  Grand 
Lecturers. 

These  meetings  should  not  be  to  teach  the  work  that  is  done  in 
the  schools  and  by  Deput}'  Grand  Lecturers. 

By  earnest  work  along  the  lines  suggested,  together  with  many 
other  things  which  will  occur  to  you,  much  can  be  done  to  correct 
bad  business  methods  and  incorrect  practices  in  our  lodges.  Knowing 
your  zeal  for  Masonry  I  shall  expect  excellent  results  from  your 
labors.    Please  report  glaring  irregularities  to  me. 

Fraternally  yours,  Owen  Scott, 

Grand  Master. 

Following  the  above  I  felt  that  the  lodges  should  be  prepared  to 
cooperate  with  the  District  Deputies.     I  sent  out  the  following 

lkttek  to  constituent  lodges. 

Office  of  Grand  Master 
Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois,  A.  F.  and  A.M. 
Bloomington,  III..  December  24.  189G. 

3V>  Uh   Worshipful  Masters,  Wardens,  Secretaries,  and  Jirethren  of  Constituent 
Lodijcs: 

Dear  Brkthren:  Your  attention  is  fraternally  called  to  the 
following  extract  from  a  circular  letter  recently  sent  to  District 
Deputy  Grand  Masters.  Your  hearty  cooperation  in  making  these 
suggestions  bear  practiciil  fruit  is  earnestl}-  requested.     The  design 


1897.]  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois.  19 

in  creating  the  office  of  District  Deputy  Grand  Master  and  appoint- 
ing brethren  to  the  place  is  to  aid  in  promoting  the  best  interests  of 
the  entire  Fraternity,  and  to  bring  the  business  and  other  relations  of 
the  Craft  into  the  most  perfect  harmony,  uniformity,  and  utility. 
Those  holding  the  office  of  District  Deputy  Grand  Master  are  breth- 
ren of  experience  and  ability,  possessing  a  hearty  desire  to  do  all  in 
their  power  to  advance  the  prosperity  of  our  institution.  It  is  my 
most  earnest  desire  that  the  lodges  should  seek  the  acquaintance  of 
these  brethren,  invite  official  and  other  visits  from  them,  afford  every 
facility  for  the  examination  of  the  records,  and  in  every  way  contrib- 
ute to  the  success  desired  in  this  work.  From  the  circular  letter  sent 
to  District  Deputy  Grand  Masters,  mentioned  above,  the  following  is 
an  extract: 

"To  secure  better  business  methods  and  management  of  lodges,  I 
desire  to  urge  each  District  Deputy  to  visit  every  lodge  in  his  district 
during  the  coming  winter  months.  If  it  is  not  possible  to  do  this,  can't 
you  hold  a  meeting  at  each  county  seat  or  other  available  point  in 
every  county  and  invite  the  masters,  wardens,  and  secretaries  of 
lodges  to  be  present?  These  meetings  can  be  made  of  untold  profit  to 
lodges  and  Masonry.  When  assembled,  what  shall  be  done?  Many 
things.     A  few  may  be  suggested,  viz: 

''1.  Inspect  the  records  of  the  secretaries  and  see  that  the  pro- 
ceedings of  the  lodges  are  correctly  kept,  also  that  the  records  are 
full  enough  to  give  an  intelligent  idea  of  the  business  transacted. 
See  that  things  only  are  recorded  which  are  'proper  to  be  written.' 
Names  of  visitors  and  members  should  be  put  into  the  records.  Has 
the  secretary  recorded  the  edict  against  fraudulent  books  dated  April 
10,  1896,  and  does  he  read  communications  from  the  Grand  Lodge  as 
required?  The  secretary  should  enter  on  his  record  at  each  meeting 
the  amounts  received,  giving  the  names  of  persons  paying,  and 
whether  for  degrees,  dues,  or  from  other  sources.  Great  care  and  ac- 
curacy in  this  will  save  difficulty  to  the  lodges.  <. 

"2.  See  whether  or  not  lodge  dues  are  collected  and  urge  masters 
and  secretaries  to  enforce  prompt  payment  and  have  the  books  squared 
up  once  each  year.  Discourage  any  attempt  at  exemption  from  dues 
for  any  cause  except  where  a  brother  is  too  poor  to  pay. 

"3.  The  officers  of  lodges,  both  masters  and  secretaries,  should  be 
urged  to  make  all  annual  and  other  reports  to  the  Grand  Secretary 
or  Grand  Master  promptly.     It  saves  much  trouble  and  labor. 

"4.  Urge  masters  and  members  to  read  the  Grand  Lodge  By-laws 
more  frequently.  Before  asking  the  Grand  Master  for  decisions,  see 
if  the  by-laws  and  decisions  in  the  blue  book  will  not  fully  cover  the 
case. 


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"5.  Urge  lodges  to  keep  their  property  fully  insured  and  their 
records  in  fire-proof  safes  or  vaults.  Every  lodge  should  have  a  fire- 
proof safe  in  the  lodge  room. 

"6.  Discourage  life  membersliips  and  advise  lodges  to  change 
their  by-laws  so  as  to  avoid  the  dangers  arising  from  this  source.  The 
best  way  to  do  this  is  to  repeal  all  provisions  for  life  membership. 

"7.  Lodges  should  be  given  clearly  to  understand  that  there  is  no 
cipher  or  key  to  the  work.  All  books  purporting  to  be  such  are  fraud- 
ulent and  will  subject  Masons  to  discipline  for  even  having  them  in 
their  possession. 

"8.  District  Deputy  Grand  Masters  are  not  expected  to  teach  the 
standard  work  .unless  they  are  also  commissioned  as  Deputy  Grand 
Lecturers." 

With  anticipation  of  great  profit  from  these  meetings  to  your 
lodge  and  the  Craft  generally,  I  remain, 

Yours  fraternalh', 

Owen  Scott, 
Grand  Master. 

This  communication  is  ordered  to  be  read  at  the  first  stated  meet- 
ing after  it  is  received. 

RAVENSWOOD  LODGE. 

Complaint  was  made  to  me  against  Ravenswood  Lodge  No.  "77,  that 
material,  physically  disqualified,  had  been  received  and  the  degrees 
conferred.  Further  complaint  was  made  that  this  lodge  had  received 
the  petitions  of  nine  persons  from  a  distant  part  of  the  city,  under 
circumstances  which  indicated  that  some  agreement  had  been  made 
to  take  them  for  a  sum  less  than  the  minimum-fee  fixed  by  law.  A 
commission  was  appointed  consisting  of  M.W.  Bro.  L.  A.  Goddard, 
and  R.W.  Bros.  L.  C.  Waters,  and  D.  F.  Flannery,  to  make  thorough 
investigation.  The  report  showed  the  first  charge  to  be  completely 
sustained.  Three  persons  had  been  received  who  were  unable,  physi- 
cally, to  meet  the  requirements  of  the  law.  One  of  these  was  notori- 
ously disqualified.  On  the  second  charge  the  evidence  was  not  so 
clear,  but  enough  was  shown  to  leave  a  strong  suspicion  that  some 
understanding  was  had  that  either  directly  or  indirectly  there  was  to 
be  a  remission  of  some  part  of  the  fees. 

On  receipt  of  the  report  of  the  commission  I  went  to  Ravenswood 
Lodge,  July  12,  and  presented  the  charges  and  findings  of  the  commis- 
sion. After  a  full  hearing  T  felt  compelled  to  arrest  the  charter  of 
the  lodge. 

The  time  has  come  when  lodges  should  learn  that  obedience  to  the 
laws  of  this  Grand  Lodge  are  a  pre-requisi te  to  their  conti  nuance.   Too 


1897.]  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois.  21 

great  anxiety  for  numbers  and  too  much  consideration  for  swelling 
the  balance  in  the  treasury  are  fruitful  causes  of  unworthy  material 
being  received. 

After  a  suspension  for  two  months  M.W.  Bro.  Goddard,  as  my 
proxy — did,  on  September  13,  restore  the  charter  to  this  lodge.  This 
was  done  after  sufficient  evidence  of  repentance  and  full  assurances 
of  officers  and  members  that  they  would,  in  the  future,  cheerfully  con- 
form to  the  constitution,  laws,  and  edicts  of  this  Grand  Lodge. 

Ravenswood  Lodge  is  composed  of  intelligent  and  devoted  Masons 
and  their  lapse  from  the  true  path  was  through  over- zeal  rather  than 
intention.  I  have  no  doubt  that  in  the  future  this  lodge  will  be  loyal 
and  true. 

MECHANICSBURG. 

Complaint  was  made  to  me  that  Mechanicsburg  Lodge  No.  299, 
located  at  Mechanicsburg,  had  refused  to  receive  charges  made  by  a 
member  of  said  lodge  against  another  member.  The  accused  brother 
was  charged  with  one  of  the  gravest  Masonic  offenses  known  to  our 
law.  On  receipt  of  the  complaint  I  formulated  new  charges  and 
ordered  the  worshipful  master  to  call  a  meeting  and  summon  each 
member  and  present  them.  My  order  was  obeyed  but  the  new  charges 
were  rejected  by  almost  a  two-thirds  vote.  Whereupon,  I  ordered 
R.W.  Bro.  R.  D.  Lawrence,  D.D.G.M.,  to  arrest  the  charter  of  the 
lodge.  On  March  20,  this  was  done  and  all  papers  and  documents 
pertaining  to  this  case  are  submitted  herewith.  The  brother  against 
whom  Mechanicsburg  refused  to  receive  the  charges  was  put  upon 
trial  in  Springfield  Lodge  No.  4,  and  on  June  9  was  expelled  by  an  al- 
most unanimous  vote.  An  appeal  has  been  taken  from  the  decision  of 
the  lodge,  and  is  before  the  Committee  on  Appeals  and  Grievances. 
I  recommend  that  the  name  and  number  of  Mechanicsburg  Lodge  No. 
299  be  erased  from  the  roll  of  lodges. 


DISCIPLINE. 

One  of  the  greatest  tendencies  toward  violating  the  law  by  lodges 
is  in  connection  with  the  ballot.  Too  great  anxiety  for  members 
leads  to  wrong.  In  Waukegan  Lodge  No.  78  the  senior  warden,  as 
acting  master,  permitted  five  ballots  to  be  taken  on  a  petition  for 
the  degrees.  On  each  of  the  first  four  ballots  a  black  ball  was  cast. 
On  the  fifth  ballot,  after  several  members  had  retired,  no  black  ball 
appeared  and  the  candidate  was  declared  duly  elected.  Sec.  7,  Art. 
1-4,  part  2d,  says:  "If  only  one  negative  vote  appears,  the  master 
may  order  a  second  trial  of  the  ballot,  the  result  of  which  shall  in  all 
cases  be  final  and  conclusive  and  shall  be  then  and  there  so  declared." 
Because  of  this  flagrant  and  open  violation  of  the  law,  I  suspended 


22  Proceedings  of  the  [Oct.  5. 

the  senior  warden  from  office  for  sixty  da3's,  or  at  the  pleasure  of  the 
Grand  Lodge  or  Grand  Master. 

Complaint  having'  been  made  against  the  worshipful  master  of 
Chapel  Hill  Lodge  No.  719,  charging  him  with  unmasonic  and  im- 
moral conduct,  the  same  was  submitted  to  a  commission,  consisting 
of  R.  W.  Bros.  J.  M.  Burkhart,  District  Deputy  Grand  Master:  George 
W.  Hill,  and  .J.  F.  Taj'lor.  The  commission  made  a  full  and  complete 
investigation.  Upon  their  recommendation  I  did,  on  the  30th  da}'  of 
Januar}',  1897,  depose  the  worshipful  master  of  said  lodge  from  his 
office  and  place  the  senior  warden  in  charge  of  said  lodge  as  the  act- 
ing master.     Papers  and  documents  are  submitted  herewith. 

On  November  Ki,  1896,  complaint  was  made  to  me  against  the 
worshipful  master  of  Locust  Lodge  No.  623,  located  at  Owaneco, 
charging  him  with  grossly  immoral  and  unmasonic  conduct.  I  sub- 
mitted the  matter  to'R.W.  Bro.  Hugh  Snell,  District  Deputy  Grand 
Master,  for  investigation.  The  evidence  having  fully  sustained  the 
charges,  I  did  on  the  2nd  da}'  of  December,  1896,  depose  the  worship- 
ful master  of  said  lodge  from  office,  and  suspend  him  from  all  the 
rights  and  privileges  of  Masonry  until  this  session  of  the  Grand 
Lodge.    I  submit  papers  and  documents  herewith. 

LIFE  MEHBERSHIP. 

Renewed  evidences  have  come  to  me  that  the  perils  of  life  mem- 
bership were  not  overdrawn  in  my  report  last  j'ear.  Man}'  lodges 
suffering  from  the  blight  of  a  privileged  membership  have  repealed 
their  laws,  and  have  striven  to  reduce  the  bad  effects  to  the  mini- 
mum. This  Grand  Lodge  can  not,  with  safety,  do  less  than  pass  the 
amendment  suggested  by  the  Committee  on  Jurisprudence. 

THE  MASONIC  SCHOOLS. 

Progress  has  been  made  during  the  past  year  in  teaching  the  stand- 
ard work.  The  five  schools  have  been  largely  attended.  The  zeal  of  the 
Craft  has  been  unabated.  The  humblest  brother  aspires  to  great  pro- 
ficiency in  the  work.  Nearer  approach  is  made  year  by  year  toward 
a  perfect  uniformity  in  work  among  the  lodges  in  Illinois.  Few  states 
can  show  such  e.xcellent  results  from  any  system  of  instruction  as 
those  which  follow  our  superior  system  of  schools.  One  was  held  in 
Chicago.  It  has  been  difficult  heretofore  to  make  a  school  in  Chicago 
successful,  owing  to  the  great  numbers  which  have  over-crowded  the 
largest  halls.  To  avoid  this  the  Chicago  school  was  divided  into  three, 
one  in  each  division  of  the  city.  R.W.  Bro.  C.  F.  Tenney  was  added  to 
the  board  and  this  gave  two  members  to  each  of  the  divisions.  Added 
to  these  was  a  sufficient  number  of  Deputy  Grand  Lecturers  to  make 
the  number  of  permanent  workers  live  at  each  place.     Practically 


1897.]  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois.  23 

there  were  three  schools  held  in  Chicago  as  each  continued  for  three 
full  days.  Though  somewhat  of  an  experiment,  the  almost  unanimous 
verdict  was  that  the  Chicago  school  was  a  great  success  and  of  incal- 
culable benefit  to  the  lodges  of  the  city  and  Cook  county. 

It  is  but  fitting  here  to  acknowledge  that  much  of  the  success  is 
due  to  R.W.  Bro.  Edward  Cook,  the  three  Chicago  District  Deputy 
Grand  Masters,  and  the  many  Deputy  Grand  Lecturers  both  in  and 
out  of  the  city.  Many  of  these  came  from  far  away  points  at  their 
own  expense  and  contributed  freely  their  services.  In  all  the  schools 
the  plan  of  discussing  law  and  usage  was  continued  during  about  two 
hours  of  one  day  at  each  place.  I  was  present  at  all  the  schools  and 
am  confirmed  in  the  opinion  that  they  are  of  inestimable  value  to 
Masonry  in  Illinois. 


WASHINGTON   MEMORIAL. 

I  have  received  a  circular-letter  dated  Denver,  Colorado,  Septem- 
ber 19,  1896,  signed  by  a  committee  appointed  by  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
Colorado,  proposing  that  memorial  services  be  held  on  the  one  hun- 
dredth anniversary  of  the  death  of  George  Washington,  December  29, 
1899.  The  movement  originated  in  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Colorado.  It 
is  proposed  that  committees  be  appointed  from  all  the  Grand  Lodges 
of  the  United  States  to  make  the  necessary  arrangements  for  proper 
memorial  exercises  to  be  held  at  Mt.  Vernon  under  the  immediate  di- 
rection of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Virginia. 

This  is  an  excellent  suggestion.  Masons  delight  to  do  honor  to  the 
man  and  Mason  who  is  "first  in  the  hearts  of  his  countrymen."  His  life 
and  character  were  a  noble  example  of  the  true  worth  of  the  teachings 
of  our  ancient  institution.  George  Washington  was  scarcely  less  dis- 
tinguished as  a  patriot  and  soldier  for  freedom  than  as  a  Mason.  He 
thought  it  detracted  naught  from  his  worth  as  a  man  and  his  good 
name  to  don  the  white  apron  of  the  Craft  and  wield  the  Mason's  trowel 
to  spread  the  cement  of  brotherly  love  and  affection.  He  felt  honored 
in  presiding  over  his  lodge  and  in  laying  the  corner-stone  of  the  na- 
tional capitolwith  Masonic  ceremonies.  It  is  fitting  that  the  centen- 
nial of  his  death  should  be  observed  by  the  Masons  of  the  world.  Each 
lodge  in  Illinois  might  properly  hold  a  George  Washington  memorial 
service  December  29,  1899. 

I  recommend  that  this  Grand  Lodge  appoint  a  committee  to  con- 
fer with  similar  committees  from  other  grand  jurisdictions  to  arrange 
for  the  memorial  services  to  be  held  at  Mt.  Vernon  under  the  auspices 
of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Virginia,  and  for  suitable  observance  by  the 
lodges  of  Illinois. 


24  Proceedings  of  the  [Oct.  5. 

LODGES  APPEARING  IN  PLBLIC. 

Frequent  questions  have  come  to  me  regarding  the  appearance 
of  lodges  in  public.  In  all  such  cases  information  has  been  given  that 
no  lodge  can  take  part  in  any  parade  or  other  public  demonstration 
except  when  performing  a  Masonic  duty,  unless  bj^  special  dispensa- 
tion of  the  Grand  Master.  These  proper  occasions  are  in  burying  the 
fraternal  dead,  public  installation  of  officers,  laying  corner-stones, 
dedicating  Masonic  halls,  etc.  No  Masonic  lodge  can  properly  be 
seen  in  public  merelj'  for  show  or  to  help  others  make  a  show.  Lodges 
cannot  act  as  escort  to  an}'  other  body,  whether  that  other  organiza- 
tion be  composed  in  part  or  wholly  of  Masons.  The  frequency  with 
which  this  question  has  been  raised  must  serve  as  an  apology-  for 
stating  some  long-established  and  well-known  principles  underlying 
the  Fraternity. 

APPEALS  FOR  AID  TO  BUILD. 

One  of  our  lodges  had  the  misfortune  to  have  its  elegant  and 
comfortable  building  destroyed  by  fire.  It  was  partly  insured.  My 
approval  was  sought  for  an  appeal  to  the  lodges  of  the  state  to  assist 
in  rebuilding.  I  felt  forced  to  decline.  Many  lodges  in  the  state  are 
unable  to  own  buildings,  and  it  would  be  manifestly  improper  for 
those  lodges  which  have  their  own  buildings  to  be  permitted  to  solicit 
aid  to  repair  that  part  of  their  loss  not  covered  by  insurance. 

It  is  well  to  have  Masonic  edifices  where  they  can  be  built  to  ad- 
vantage. This,  however,  is  a  purely  business  matter  and  should  be 
so  regarded.  No  Mason's  obligation  enjoins  him  to  contribute  to  as- 
sist even  his  own  lodge,  much  less  others,  in  erecting  buildings. 

Appeals  for  aid  are  b\'  Masonic  usage  confined  to  the  assistance  of 
a  needy  worthy  brother,  his  widow  and  orphans.  It  is  well  to  keep 
these  simple  rules  steadily  in  mind,  and  draw  a  distinct  line  between 
Masonic  charity  and  business  enterprise. 

If  a  lodge  loses  its  building  and  cannot  of  itself  erect  another  it 
should  do  as  hundreds  of  excellent  lodges  have  done  for  ages,  rent  a 
suitable  and  safe  place  for  work  to  be  done  and  for  the  principles  of 
our  Craft  to  be  taught. 

RELIEF  OF  THE  DISTRESSED. 

There  isajiparently  a  growing  tendency  on  the  part  of  brethren  and 
lodges  to  Slight  appeals  for  aid  made  to  relieve  worthy  distressed  Mas- 
ter Masons,  their  widows,  and  orphans.  There  is  no  higher  obligation 
resting  on  a  Mason  than  to  assist  a  brother  in  distress.  This  is  purely 
voluntary,  but  it  is  none  the  less  binding  on  the  brethren  on  that 
account.  Its  beauty  is  in  its  freedom  from  all  restraint  except  the 
sense  of  brotherly  care  and  duty.    Only  two  conditions  are  imposed. 


1897.]  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois.  25 

It  shall  be  for  actual  necessity  and  in  such  sum  as  the  brother's  abil- 
ity will  permit,  in  justice  to  himself  and  family.  All  such  appeals 
must  be  approved  by  the  Grand  Master.  He  scrutinizes  the  case 
most  carefully,  and  when  the  appeal  goes  out  it  should  meet  with  a 
hearty  and  liberal  response.  Large  sums  are  not  expected,  but  every 
lodge  should  see  that  something  is  sent.  A  small  sum  from  each  makes 
a  considerable  amount  in  the  aggregate.  In  working  the  machinery 
of  Masonry,  let  us  not  forget  our  duty  to  a  distressed  worthy  brother. 

RELIEF  BOARDS. 

In  all  the  larger  cities,  but  more  especially  in  Chicago,  some  sys- 
tematic plan  should  be  devised  to  administer  to  the  relief  of  worthy 
brethren  who  seek  assistance.  Most  of  those  who  apply  for  aid  are 
impostors,  professional  beggars,  and  chronic  dead-beats.  It  is  a  Ma- 
sonic crime  to  give  to  such  any  assistance  whatever.  There  is,  how- 
ever, occasionally  a  worthy  brother  who  needs  and  merits  help  from 
his  brethren.  To  deny  to  him  the  assistance  he  deserves  in  the  time 
of  his  misfortune  is  to  render  nugatory  one  of  the  cardinal  principles 
of  Masonry,  and  to  defeat  one  of  the  chief  purposes  for  which  we  are 
bound  together.  To  avoid  the  evils  of  being  imposed  upon  by  impostors 
and  of  neglecting  to  care  for  worth}'  brethren,  a  carefully  arranged 
plan  should  be  devised  in  all  places  where  there  is  more  than  one 
lodge.  A  board  of  relief  constituted  of  representatives  of  the  various 
lodges  will  be  of  infinite  value.  One  brother  should  be  chosen  to  whom 
all  applicants  for  assistance  should  be  sent.  By  providing  a  thorough 
system  the  unworthy  will  be  detected  and  the  deserving  will  be  clad  and 
fed. 

Brethren,  let  us  see  to  it  that  we  are  not  negligent  in  our  duty  to- 
ward those  in  distress. 

HURRIED  WORK,   POOR  WORK. 

It  is  a  great  mistake  to  attempt  to  confer  too  many  degrees  in 
one  evening.  In  lodges  where  this  is  done  poor,  slovenly,  and  slighted 
work  is  the  inevitable  result.  No  lodge  can  afford  to  rob  the  degrees 
of  their  force  and  impressiveness  by  an  eft'ort  to  do  too  much  at  one 
time.  The  candidate  is  entitled  to  a  full  presentation  of  each  degree. 
When  lodges  attempt  to  confer  three  or  four  degrees  in  one  evening 
they  either  rob  the  candidates  of  what  they  should  receive  or  con- 
tinue the  meeting  until  all  are  worn  out  and  the  work  is  done  in  a 
lifeless  manner.  The  safe  course  is  to  plan  for  only  so  much  work  as 
can  be  well  done  at  one  meeting. 

OFFICIAL  NEGLECT  OF  DUTY. 

One  of  the  grooving  evils  is  the  laxity  of  lodges  in  making  reports 
to  the  Grand  Lodge.     Some  secretaries  are  exceedingly  negligent 
—3 


26  Proceedings  of  the  [Oct.  5, 

and  indiflerent.  It  became  necessar}'  to  send  two  District  Deputy 
Grand  Masters  to  lodjjes  to  procure  returns  of  election  and  installa- 
tion, and  reports  of  vote  on  constitutional  amendments.  The  Grand 
Secretary  wrote  them  over  and  over  ag^ain.  registering  the  letters. 
Though  he  held  the  receipts  of  secretaries  for  the  blanks,  etc.,  no  re- 
turns came  in  up  to  the  middle  of  May.  B}-  tnis  carelessness  the  work 
of  the  Grand  Master  and  Grand  Secretar}'  is  greatly  delayed  and 
hindered.  The  masters  of  lodges  are  equally  responsible  with  secre- 
taries, and  should  see  that  all  reports  are  promptly  made. 

TOO    MUCH    PUBLICITY. 

The  increasing  practice  of  lodges  and  brethren  in  publishing  the 
doings  of  Masonic  bodies  is  an  evil.  It  is  not  uncommon  to  find  the 
newspapers  announcing  the  details  of  Masonic  meetings.  \Yhen  the}' 
do  so  some  Mason  divulges  the  secrets  he  is  bound  b\'  his  obligations  to 
keep.  Not  long  since  a  Chicago  daih'  paper  published  nearh-  a  col- 
umn of  matter  pertaining  to  a  Masonic  transaction.  It  could  not 
have  done  so  except  on  information  given  b}'  Masons.  It  did  a  great 
injustice  to  the  brethren  who  were  interested  in  the  matter  and  to 
the  Fraternity.  If  the  brother  who  gave  out  the  facts  could  be 
known  there  would  be  good  ground  for  discipline. 

In  another  case  a  cashier  of  a  bank  answered  an  inquir}-  from  a 
business  house  b}-  stating  that  the  man  whose  standing  was  asked  for 
had  been  expelled  from  the  Masonic  lodge.  The  bank  official  was  an 
active  member,  and  participated  in  the  proceedings  by  which  the 
brother  was  disciplined.  The  person  to  whom  the  information  was 
given  was  not  a  Mason.  I  ordered  charges  preferred  against  this 
man,  who  would  prostitute  his  Masonry  for  business  purposes,  or 
would  wreak  his  vengeance  on  a  man  he  disliked.  He  was  tried  by 
his  lodge  and  suspended.  Brethren  should  realize  that  Masonrj-  does 
not  ask  publicity;  she  does  her  work  with  becoming  modesty.  Her 
left  hand  does  not  know  what  her  right  hand  doeth.  In  this  silent 
unobtrusiveness  is  the  strength  of  our  great  Fraternity. 

ANCIENT  FREE  AND  ACCEPTED  HASONS. 

All  lodges  should  be  designated  Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Ma. 
sons.  The  proi^er  initials  are  A.F.  and  A.M.  A  few  years  ago  in  some 
litigation  in  which  this  Grand  Lodge  was  interested  it  was  discovered 
that  in  the  act  of  incorjjoration.  passed  by  the  Illinois  legislature, 
the  corporate  title  of  the  Grand  Lodge  was  erroneously  given  as  "The 
Grand  Lodge  of  the  State  of  Illinois,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons.''  In 
every  other  place  in  the  act  it  was  given  correctlj-  as  "Ancient  Free 
and  Accepted  Masons.''  Some  confusion  has  arisen  among  lodges  in 
consequence  of  this.  All  lodges  should  use  .\.F.  and  .V.M.  on  letter 
heads,  blanks,  records,  etc. 


1897.  J  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois.  27 

PROTECT  THE  GRAND  LODQE  RECORDS. 

I  feel  constrained  to  recommend  to  this  grand  body  that  a  suitable 
location  be  chosen  and  a  building  erected  for  the  Grand  Secretary's 
office.  It  will  need  no  argument  to  show  the  inestimable  value  of  our 
records.  Should  they  be  destroyed  their  loss  would  be  irreparable. 
They  could  not  be  replaced  at  any  cost.  It  becomes,  therefore,  of 
first  importance  that  complete  protection  against  fire  be  provided. 
The  Grand  Lodge  records,  papers,  books,  and  documents  are  so  volu- 
minous that  it  is  not  easy  to  find  sufficient  room  with  access  to 
fire-proof  vaults  large  enough  to  receive  them.  An  entirely  fire-proof 
building  could  be  constructed  at  some  accessible  city  or  town.  The 
cost  would  not  be  great  and  the  absolute  safety  of  our  records  would 
be  assured.  A  portion  of  the  surplus  of  this  Grand  Lodge  might  very 
properly  be  applied  in  this  direction. 

LAW  AND  USAGE. 

Of  the  great  mass  of  questions  concerning  the  proper  construc- 
tion of  the  law,  few  for  answer  required  more  than  a  glance  at  the 
Grand  Lodge  By-laws.  Brethren  are  again  reminded  that  our  code  of 
laws  and  decisions  will  settle  almost  every  point  of  law  coming  up  in 
the  lodge. 

Not  many  questions  of  sufficient  general  importance  to  be  re- 
ported, have  arisen.     Most  of  these  are  embraced  in  the  following 

DECISIONS. 

L  Where  a  lodge  is  in  arrears  for  grand  lodge  dues  for  more  than 
one  year,  any  payment  made  must  be  applied  to  the  dues  of  the 
3'ear  farthest  back.  A  representative  of  a  constituent  lodge  is  not 
entitled  to  mileage  and  per  diem  unless  all  grand  lodge  dues  are  fully 
paid. 

2.  All  deeds,  mortgages,  and  other  legal  documents  should  be 
drawn  in  the  name  of  the  lodge  and  not  the  trustees.  Each  lodge  is 
made  a  body  corporate  and  politic,  by  the  act  of  the  Legislature 
incorporating  the  grand  and  constituent  lodges. 

3.  The  vote  to  suspend  for  non-payment  of  dues  or  other  cause, 
must  be  by  ballot. 

4.  The  name  of  an  objector  to  the  initiation  of  a  candidate  should 
be  kept  secret,  but  an  objector  to  advancement  to  the  degrees  of  F.C. 
and  M.M.  must  be  made  known,  if  demanded  hy  the  candidate. 

5.  A  lodge  by-law  exempting  members  over  sixty  years  of  age  from 
payment  of  the  dues  prescribed  in  the  by-laws  is  illegal  and  void. 
There  can  not  be  an}-  discrimination  between  members  on  account  of 
age.    Poverty  is  the  only  ground  on  which  a  member  can  be  exempted 


28  Proceedings  of  the  [Oct.  5, 

from  dues  and  this  can  only  be  done  after  dues  have  accumulated  and 
not  in  advance. 

6.  The  secretary  should  pay  over  to  the  treasurer  the  fees  of  an 
applicant  for  the  degrees  as  soon  as  received.  If  the  petitioner  is  re- 
jected the  lodge  should  draw  an  order  at  once  and  return  the  fee  to 
the  applicant.  In  no  case  should  the  lodge  use  any  part  of  the  fee 
until  the  petitioner  has  been  elected. 

7.  A  majority  of  the  committee  to  investigate  the  character  and 
qualifications  of  a  petitioner  is  not  sufficient.  Sec.  2,  Art.  13,  page 
57,  of  the  Grand  Lodge  By-laws,  provides  that  "each  member  of  said 
committee  shall  respectively  make  private  verbal  report  to  the  AV.M." 
The  law  contemplates  that  all  shall  report,  the  lodge  being  entitled 
to  the  information  derived  from  three  sources  of  inquirj-. 

8.  A  Mason  who  has  been  expelled  or  suspended  has  the  right  to 
appeal  from  the  action  of  the  lodge  by  giving  notice  of  his  intentions 
'•within  ninety  days  after  receiving  notice  of  its  action  or  decision,"' 
as  provided  in  Sec.  4,  Art.  6,  part  3,  Grand  Lodge  By-laws.  Failure  to 
give  notice  cannot  deprive  the  brother  of  his  rights.  He  can  take 
his  appeal  within  ninety  days  from  the  date  of  receiving  notice  as 
provided  above,  no  matter  how  long  dela3'ed  the  notice  may  be. 


CONCLUSION. 

It  has  only  been  possible  to  give  a  brief  resume  of  the  vast  amount 
of  business  transacted  during  the  year  closing.  The  routine  would 
be  needless  to  report.  Much  of  the  work  of  the  Grand  Master  is 
necessarily  taken  up  with  matters  of  apparently  minor  importance. 
Out  of  these  little  things,  however,  do  we  get  the  sum  of  the  achieve- 
ments of  our  noble  Craft.  Generally  it  may  be  said  that  harmony  has 
prevailed  throughout  our  grand  jurisdiction.  Few  things  have  oc- 
curred except  those  most  pleasing  and  satisfactor3\  The  stagnation 
in  business  has  had  a  telling  effect  on  our  growth.  More  suspensions 
for  non-payment  of  dues  in  consequence  of  the  hard  times  as  well  as  a 
smaller  number  able  to  petition  for  admission,  have  served  to  cut  down 
somewhat  the  gain  of  last  year.  There  has  been,  however,  a  health}' 
increase  in  membership.  Notwithstanding  the  unfavorable  economic 
and  industrial  conditions  prevalent,  Masonry  was  never  in  better  con- 
dition than  it  is  today.  There  were  never  so  many  who  were  willing 
to  sacrifice  their  ease  and  comfort  in  devotion  to  the  Craft. 

Ambitious  to  become  proficient  in  work,  willing  to  serve  wherever 
duty  calls,  and  anxious  to  bend  all  energies  to  uplift  the  cause  of 
the  Fraternity,  have  been  controlling  purposes  among  the  brethren 
throughout  our  grand  old  state.  On  every  hand  I  have  met  with  the 
greatest  alacrity  in  carrying  forward  our  work.     If  in  any  measure  I 


1897.]  Grand  Lodge,  of  Illinois.  29 

may  have  succeeded  in  meeting'  the  reasonable  demands  made  upon 
me  by  the  exacting  duties  of  this  exalted  station,  set  it  down  mostly  as 
the  result  of  the  hearty  cooperation  of  the  great  brotherhood  whose 
interests  have  been  committed  to  my  hands.  I  desire  especially  to 
mention  the  vital  assistance  rendered  by  the  distinguished  craftsmen 
who  have  been  associated  with  me  in  the  several  official  places  and 
stations.  At  all  times  they  have  done  their  duty  most  royally.  In 
surrendering  to  you  the  symbol  of  authority,  placed  in  my  hands  two 
years  ago,  permit  me  to  express  my  deepest  gratitude  to  the  Craft 
for  the  many  kindly  acts,  the  numerous  courtesies  and  the  cordial 
greetings  I  have  uniformly  met  in  the  discharge  of  official  duty.  As 
we  turn  to  the  future  let  our  cry  be  for  further  light. 

"I  asked  the  roses  as  they  grew 
Richer  and  lovelier  in  their  hue. 
What  made  their  tints  so  rich  and  bright? 
They  answered:     'Looking  toward  the  light.'  " 

OWEN  SCOTT, 

Grand  Master. 

M.W.  Bro.  Leroy  A.  Goddard  moved  that  the  Grand 
Master's  address  be  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Grand 
Master's  Address,  which  was  carried. 


30  Proceedings  of  the  [Oct.  5, 


REPORT  OF  THE  GRAND  TREASURER. 

The  (xrand  Treasurer  submitted  the  following"  report, 
toy^ether  with  his  books  and  vouchers,  which,  on  motion, 
was  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Finance: 

* 
Wiley  M.  Eg  an,  Grand  Treasurer. 

In  account  ivith  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois,  A.  F.  and  A.  M.: 

1896.  Dr. 

Oct.       .3,  To  credit  balances,  as  per  last  report — 

3,  General  Fund $44.44!)  .34 

3,  Charity  Fund 870  26 

$45,319  60 
Oct.       31,  To  Amount  received  from  Grand  Secre- 
tary, account  General  Fund S     232  00 

Oct.       31,         Amount  received  from  Grand  Secre- 
tary, account  Charity  Fund 12  00 

Nov.       30,         Amount  received  from  Grand  Secre- 
tary, account  General  Fund 4  oO 

Nov.       .30,        Amount  received  from  Grand  Secre- 

tar}',  account  Charity-  Fund 2  00 

Dec.       31,         Amount  received  from  Grand  Secre- 
tary, account  General  Fund 27  00 

Dec.       31,        Amount  received  from  Grand  Secre- 
tary', account  Charity  Fund   9  00 

1897. 
Jan.        7,  Interest  on  Citj' of  Chicaji'o  4 ff  bonds, 

account  General  Fund  (6  m.).. .    .     1,000  00 
11,         Dividend  on  A.  A.  Glenn's  life  insur- 
ance policy, account  General  Fund         43  50 
30,         Amount  received  from  Grand  Secre- 
tary, account  General  Fund     ....        332  75 

30,  Amount  received  from  Grand  Secre- 

tary, account  Charity  Fund   4  00 

Feb.  1,         Interest  on  United  States  4'r  bonds, 

account  General  Fund  (3  m.) 80  00 

27,        Amount  received  from  (Jrand  .Secre- 
tary, account  (ieneral  Fund 21  25 

27,         Amount  received  from  Grand  Secre- 
tary-, account  Charit}- Fund 27  75 

Marcli  31.         Amount  received  from  Grand  Secre- 
tary, account  General  Fund 110  50 

31,  Amount  received  from  (Jrand  Secre- 

tary, account  Charity  Fund 14  00 


1897.]  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois.  31 

April      30,         Amount  received  from  Grand  Secre- 
tary, account  General  Fund $         8  50 

30,  Amount  received  from  Grand  Secre- 

tary, account  Charity  Fund 7  00 

May       31,         Amount  received  from  Grand  Secre- 
tary, account  General  Fund 16  75 

31,  Amount  received  from  Grand  Secre- 

tary, account  Charity  Fund 21  00 

June      30,         Amount  received  from  Grand  Secre- 
tary, account  General  Fund 105  50 

30,  Amount  received  from  Grand  Secre- 

tary, account  Charit}"  Fund 21  10 

July        13.        Interest  on  City  of  Chica<jo  1%  bonds, 

account  General  Fund   (6  m.) 1,000  00 

13,        Interest  on  United  States  4%  bonds, 

account  General  Fund  (3  m.) 80  00 

31,  Amount  received  from  Grand  Secre- 

tar}',  account  General  Fund 23,795  75 

31.         Amount  received  from  Grand  Secre- 
tary, account  Charity  Fund 8  00 

Aug.        3,        Interest  on  United  States  4  %  bonds, 

account  General  Fund  (3  m.)    ....  80  00 

31,        Amount  received  from  Grand  Secre- 

tar}',  account  General  Fund 13,033  25 

31,        Amount  received  from  Grand  Secre- 
tary, account  Charitj^  Fund.    2  00 

Sept.     30,        Amount  received  from  Grand  Secre- 
tary, account  General  Fund 2,948  50 

30,         Amount  received  from  Grand  Secre- 
tary, account  Charity  Fund 14  75 


$43,062  35 


Received  from  Grand  Secretarv  dur- 
ing the  year,  account  Gen'l  Fund. .$40,636  25 

Received  for  interest  during  the  year, 

account  General  Fund 2,240  00 

Received  from  other  sources  during 

the  year,  account  General  Fund  . .  43  50 


Total  amount  received  during  the 

year,  account  General  Fund $42,919  75 

Total  amount  received  from  Grand 
Secretary  during  the  year,  ac- 
count Charity  Fund 142  60 


Total  receipts  for  the  year $43,062  35 

$88,381  95 


32  Proceedings  of  the  [Oct. 


0. 


1897.  Credit. 

.Tan.       11.  Bv  amount  paid  for  ei«:ht  $1.00<)  bonds  of 

the  TJnited  States  (a  $1.20«< 9,060  00 

Oct.  2.  Mileajje  and  per  diem  paid  officers 
and  committees  since  last  report, 
as  per  vouchers  returned  herewith  $  2,871  (50 
2,  Mileajje  and  per  diem  paid  represent- 
atives, since  last  report,  as  per 
vouchers  returned  herewith l.j,6r).'i  7(1 


Total  mileage  and  per  diem  paid..  $18,.j25  30 

Amount  paid  out  for  charity,  since 
last  report,  as  per  vouchers  num- 
bered 4.34.  43.').  44:.,  4r..-).  4r.7.  4r)<t.  4ti7, 
493,  510,  519,  524,  533,  541,  548,  and 
555,  canceled  and  returned  here- 
with    290  00 

Miscellaneous  items  paid  since  last 
report,  as  per  vouchers  numbered 
414.  and  420  to  5t)3.  both  inclusive, 
except  the  vouchers  enumerated 
above  as  charged  to  Charity  Fund  10,822  06 


Total  amount  paid  out  during 

the  year $39,297  36 

Balance  in  cash  to  credit  of  General 

Fund $48,361  73 

Balance  in  cash  to  credit  of  Charity 

Fund 722  86 


Total  credit  balance,  in  cash $49,084  59 


S88.381  95 


Your  Grand  Treasurer  on  January  11,  18!I7,  invested  S9,660  for  ac- 
count of  general  fund,  in  eight  United  States  bonds  of  the  denomina- 
tion of  $1,000,  paying  therefor  the  sum  of  $1,207.50  each. 

These  bonds  are  payable  in  the  year  1925,  and  draw  interest  at  the 
rate  of  four  (4)  per  cent  per  annum,  payable  quarterly,  on  the  first 
day  of  February,  May,  August,  and  November  of  each  year. 

In  addition  to  the  cash  balance  reported  above,  to  the  credit  of 
the  general  fund,  the  Grand  Lodge  has  investments  as  follows: 

City  of  Chicago  4'^  bonds  (par  value) S50.000  00 

United  States  4%  bonds  (par  value) 8,000  00 


Total $58,000  00 

Fraternally  submitted, 

WILEY  M.  EGAN, 

Grand  Treasurer. 
Chicago,  October  2,  1897. 


1897.]  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois.  83 


EEPORT  or  THE  GEAND  SECRETARY. 

The  Grand  Secretary  submitted  the  following  report, 
also  cash  book  and  ledg"er,  and  asked  that  they  be  referred  to 
the  Committee  on  Finance,  which  on  motion  was  so  referred: 

Host  Worshipful  Grand  Master  and  Brethren  of  the  Grand  Lodge: 

In  accordance  with  the  by-laws  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  I  herewith 
submit  my  annual  report  as  Grand  Secretary: 

ORDERS   DRAWN. 

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 

committees  in  attendance  at  last  communication $18,525  30 

To  Joseph  Bobbins,  Committee  on  Correspondence 

To  R.  R.  Stevens,  as  Grand  Tyler 

To  G.  H.  B.  ToUe,  as  Deputy  Grand  Secretary 

To  Z.  T.  Griffin,  stenographer 

To  R.  R.  Stevens,  expenses  last  communication ... 

To  Gen.  John  C.  Smith,  rent  Central  Music  Hall 

To  W.  M.  Jenkins,  securing  railroad  rates  for  Representa- 
tives   

To  Pantagraph  Ptg.  &  Sta.  Co.,  printing  reports 

To  John  A.  Ladd,  revising  and  correcting  mileage  and  per 

diem  list 25  00 

To  Fred  Stichter,  return  of  dues  paid  in  advance  to  National 

Lodge   .3  75 

To  W.  S.  Johnson,  by  return  of  fee  paid  Hinsdale  Lodge 10  00 

To  H.  George   Prouty,    services   as   Secretary   of   Hinsdale 

Lodge 12  45 

To  William   Evernden,    storage   of  furniture    of   Hinsdale 

Lodge 25  00 

To  F.  A.  Whitney,  services  rendered  Hinsdale  Lodge 4  90 

To  Harrison  Dills,  charity 240  00 

To  Mrs.  Andrew  Orme,  charity 50  00 

To  Pantagraph  Ptg.  &  Sta.  Co.,  printing  proceedings,  etc. .  1,474  00 
To  Pantagraph  Ptg.  &  Sta.  Co.,  miscellaneous  printing. .  ..  4(52  78 
To  Theodore  W.  Baird,  filling  charters  and  commissions. ...  25  'SO 

To  Grand  Master,  expense  constituting  Park  Lodge 14  70 

To  Pantagraph  Ptg.  &  Sta.  Co.,  binding  proceedings,  etc. ..  472  86 
To  Hugh  Snell,  expense  visiting  Locust  Lodge 7  46 


300  00 

100  00 

25  00 

50  00 

105  00 

500  00 

50  23 

417  54 

34                                      Proceedinr/s  of  the  [Oct.  o. 

To  Wiley  M.  Egan.  box  rent  safety  vault 5  tH) 

To  Grand  Examiner's  School  at  Centralia 190  90 

To  Grand  Examiner's  School  at  Quincy 214  80 

To  Grand  Examiner's  School  at  Bloominy^ton 184  50 

To  Grand  Examiner's  School  at  S^-camore 223  TO 

To  Grand  Examiner's  School  at  Chicagro 2oH  ;iO 

To  G.  H.  B.  Tolle.  expense  instituting  Palestine  Lodge 13  30 

To  John  M.  Pearson,  taxes  on  Missouri  land 39  25 

To  D.  D.  Hunt,  visiting  Corinthian  Lodge 8  50 

To  expenses  Finance  Committee tio  20 

To  expense  Grand  Secretary's  office,  postage 172  00 

To  incidentals.  Grand  Secretary's  office 15  98 

To  United  States  Express  Co 184  36 

To  American  Express  Co 282  79 

To  expense  Grand  Master's  office 299  71 

To  G.  F.  Foster  Sons  Co..  jewels  for  Grand  Officers 75  00 

To  E.  A.  Armstrong  Mnfg.  Co..  aprons  for  Grand  Officers. . .  82  25 

To  Owen  Scott,  salary  as  Grand  Master 1,500  00 

To  Wiley  M.  Egan.  salary  as  Grand  Treasurer 400  00 

To  J.  H.  C.  Dill,  salary  as  Grand  Secretary 2..500  00 

Total $29,609  81 

I  herewith  submit  an  itemized  account  of  all  moneys  received  by 
me  as  Grand  Secretary  during  the  past  year. 

All  of  which  is  fraternalh"  submitted. 

J.  H.  C.  DILL. 

Grand  Secretarv. 


1897.] 


Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois. 


35 


GEAND  SEORETAEY'S  ACCOUNT. 
J.  H.  C.  Dill,  Grand  Secretary,  in  account  loitk 

The  M.W.  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois,  A.  F.  and  A.  M.,  Dr. 

TO  LODGE  DUES  FOR  THE  YEAR  1897. 


LODGES. 

NO. 

DDES. 

LODGES. 

NO. 

DUES 

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48  75 

DeWitt 

Mitchell 

96  00 

Frienclship   

58  50 

30  75 

Rushville 

Mt.  Pulaski      

59  25 

St.  Johns            

67  50 

46  50 

129  75 

Temperance 

Metropolis                  

53  25 

Stewart 

Toulon .                        

73  50 

Clinton  .             

24  75 

Hancock  

Perry  .                 .         

47  25 

Cass                   

23  25 

St.  Clair             

195  75 

Taylor 

48  75 

Edwardsville 

Astoria 

Rockf ord  

67  50 

50  25 

Pekin 

181  50 

27  75 

45  75 

54  00 

Charleston 

Lancaster 

Versailles 

Trenton  

Lebanon      

21  75 
38  25 

33  00 

Olive  Branch 

26  25 

Herman 

Occidental       

Jonesboro 

Bureau 

Robert  Burns 

Marcelline 

Rising  Sun 

Vermont 

Elgin 

39  00 
71  25 

Mt.  Joliet         

40  50 

Bloomington 

36  00 

37  50 

32  "5 

Temple 

118  50 

Unity                 

Henry                

35  25 

Cambridge 

71  25 

Carrollton 

Mt.  Moriah 

Oquawka   

Cedar  

41  25 
79  50 

Benevolent 

Greenup  

Empire 

27  00 
43  .50 

Washington 

38  25 

Trio 

Raleigh   

Greenfield 

17  25 

Fraternal 

38  25 

New  Boston 

Belvidere 

Marion 

Golconda   

43  50 
34  50 

Mackinaw 

Marshall 

Sycamore 

Lima....          .           

24  75 

St.  Marks         

35  25 

Benton 

Euclid 

93  00 
29  25 

Pacific 

Hutsonville 

Polk  

12  75 

Acacia 

45  00 

Eureka  .           

Marengo 

Geneva  

Olnev    

Central  

35  25 

Chester 

49  ,50 

Rockton  

Garden  Cit}' 

411  00 

46  50 

Mt.  Nebo 

Richmond   

DeKalb          

38  25 

Prairie 

83  25 

Waukegan 

A.  W.  Rawson    

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Proceed iiKjs  of  the 


[Oct.  5, 


LODGE  DUES  FOR  THE  YEAR  1891— Continued. 


Lee  Centre 

Cla3'ton 

Bloomlield 

Effingham 

Vienna 

Bunker  Hill 

Fidelity 

Clay 

Russell 

Alpha 

Delavan 

Urbana 

McHenry 

Kewanee 

Waubansia 

Virden 

Hope 

Edward  Dobbins.. 

Atlanta 

Star  in  the  East . . 

Milford 

Nunda 

Evergreen 

Girard 

Wayne 

Cherry  Valle}' 

Lena  

Matteson 

Mendota 

Staunton 

Illinois  Central... 

Wabash 

Moweaqua. 

Germania  ... 

Meridian 

Abingdon 

Mystic  Tie 

Cyrus 

Fulton  City 

Dundee 

Farmington 

Herrick 

Freedom 

La  Harpe 

Louisville 

King  Solomon's  .. 

Homer 

Sheba 

Centralia 

Lavely 

Flora 

Corinthian 

Fairfield 

Tamaroa 

Wilmington 

Wm.  H.  Warren. . . 

Lincoln 

Cleveland 

Shipman 

Ipava 

Gillespie 

Newton 

Mason 

New  Salem 

Oakland 

Mahomet 

Lerov 

Geo.  Washington. 


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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 

Rob  Morris 

Golden  Gate 

Hibbard  

Robinson 

He3'worth 

Aledo 

Avon  Harmony 

Aurora 

Donnelson 

Warsaw 

Mattoon  

Amon 

Channahon 

Illinois 

Franklin  Grove 

Vermilion 

Kingston 

La  Prairie 

Paris 

Wheaton 

Levi  Lusk 

Blaney 

Carmi 

Miners 

Bvron 

Mlton 

Elizabeth 

Accordia 

Jo  Daviess 

Neoga 

Kansas 

Brooklyn 

Meteor 

Catlin 

Plymouth 

De  Soto 

Genoa 

Wataga 

Chenoa 

Prophetstown. . 

Pontiac 

Dills 

Quincy 

Benjamin 

Wauconda 

Hincklej' 

Durand 

Raven 


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1897.] 


Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois. 


37 


LODGE   DUES   FOR  THE   YEAR   1891 —Contmiied. 


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 

Summertield 

Wenona 

Milledgeville 

N.  D.  Morse 

Sidnej' 

Russellville 

Sublette 

Fairview 

Tarbolton 

Groveland  

Kinderhook  

Ark  and  Anchor. 

Marine 

Hermitage 

Orion 

Blackberry 

Prince  ville 

Douglas 

Noble 

Horeb 

Tonica '  

Bement 

Areola 

Oxford 

Jefferson 

Newman 

Livingston 

Chambersburg. . . 

Shabbona 

Aroma 

Payson 

Liberty 

Gill 

LaMoille 

Waltham 

Mississippi 

Bridgeport 


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407  25 
327  75 
132  00 
26  25 

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24  75 

18  00 
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111  75 

34  50 
63  00 

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77  25 

40  50 
37  50 

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102  00 
79  50 
86  25 

29  25 

43  50 

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11  25 

30  00 
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Kankakee 

Ashmore 

Tolono 

Oconee 

Blair 

Jerseyville 

Muddv  Point. .. 

Shiloh 

Kinmundv 

Buda 

Odell 

Kishwaukee  . . . 
Mason  Citj-. .  .♦. . 

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.. . 

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Watseka 

S.  D.  Monroe. .. . 

Yates  City 

Mendon 

Loami 

Bromwell 

New  Hartford. . 

Maroa   

Irving 

Nokoinis 

Moscow 

Blazing  Star 

Jeffersonville. . . 

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Tremont 

Palmyra 

Denver  

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38 


Proceedings  of  the 


[Oct.  5, 


LODGE  DUES  FOR  THE  YEAR  \mi— Continued. 


Cobden 

South  Macon 

Cheney's  Grove. . . 

McLean 

Rantoul 

Kendall 

Amitv 

Gordon 

Columbia 

Walshville 

Manito 

Rutland 

Pleiades 

W3'oming 

Momence 

Lexington 

Edge wood 

Xenia 

Bowen 

Andrew  Jackson. . 

Clay  City 

Cooper 

Shannon 

Martin 

Liber  tyville 

Tower  Hill 

Stone  Fort . 

Tennessee 

Alma 

Murphvsboro 

St.  Paul 

Stark 

"Woodhull 

Odin 

East  .St.  Louis 

Meridian  Sun 

O.  H.  Miner 

Home 

Parkersburg 

J.  D.  Moody 

Wade-Barnej- 

Bradford 

Andalusia 

Litchfield 

Abraham  Lincoln. 

Roseville 

Anna 

Illiopolis 

M(jnitor 

Chatham 

Evans 

Delia 

Covenant 

Rossville 

Minooka 

Adams 

Maquon 

Ash ton  

Seneca 

Altamont 

Cuba 

Sherman 

Plainlleld 

J.  R.  (iorin 

Lock])ort 

Chatsworth 

Harlem 

Sigel 


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Plum  River... 

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Dawson 

Lessing 

Leland 

Thomson 

Madison 

Villa  Ridge  .. 

Winslow 

Pleasant  Hill. 

Albanv 

Frank'fort    . . 

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Jacksonville.. 

Bardolph 

Gardner 

Pera 

Capron 

OPallon 

Viola 

Prairie  Citj-.. 
Hazel  Dell."... 

Dongola 

Shirley 

Highland 

\'esi)er 

Fisher  

Princeton 

Troy 

Fairmount . ... 

Gilman 

Fieldon 

Miles  Hart 

Cerro  Gordo. . . 

Farina  

Watson 

Clark 

Hebron  

.Streator 

Piper 

Sheldon.     

Union  Park  . . . 
Lincoln  Park.. 
Rock  River.   .. 

Patoka 

Forest 

Wadlev 

Milan,". 

Basco 

Uerwick 

New  Hope 

Hopedale 

Locust 


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Ridge  Farm 

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1897.] 


Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois. 


39 


LODGE  DUES  FOR  THE  YEAR  1897 — Continued. 


Keystone 

Coroet 

Apollo 

D.  C.  Cregier 

Oblong  City 

San  Jose 

Somonauk 

Blueville 

Camden 

Atwood 

Greenview 

Yorktown 

Mozart 

Lafa3'ette 

Rock  Island 

Lamljert 

Grand  Chain 

South  Park 

Phcenix 

Mayo 

Greenland 

Crawford 

Erie 

Burnt  Prairie 

Herder 

Fillmore 

Eddyville 

Normal 

Waldeck 

Pawnee 

A.  O.  Fay 

Enfield 

Illinois  City 

Clement 

Morrisonville 

Blue  Mound 

Burnside 

Gallatia 

Rio 

Garfield 

Orangeville 

Clifton 

Englewood 

lola 

Raymond 

Herrin's  Prairie. 

ShilohHill 

Belle  Rive 

Richard  Cole.   .   . 

Hutton 

Pleasant  Plains.. 

Temple  Hill 

Alexandria 

Braidwood 

Ewing 

Joppa 

Star 

Farmer  City 

Providence  

Collinsville 

Johnsonville 

Newtown 

Elvaston 

Calumet 

Arcana 

May 

Chapel  Hill 

Rome 


639 
641 
642 
643 
644 
645 
646 
647 
648 
651 
653 
655 
656 
657 
658 
659 
660 
66-J 
663 
664 
665 
666 
667 
668 
669 
670 
672 
673 
674 
675 
676 
677 
679 
680 
681 
682 
683 
684 
685 


688 
690 
691 
693 
693 
695 
696 
697 
698 
700 
701 
70^ 
704 
705 
706 
709 
710 
711 
712 
713 
714 
715 
716 

718 
719 
721 


$174  UO 

29  25 

241  50 

206  25 

21  75 

22  50 
48  00 
U8  50 
35  2.5 
44  25 
29  25 
31  50 
47  25 

15  00 
79  50 

102  00 

21  75 
79  50 

23  25 

22  50 

16  50 

14  25 
27  75 
21  00 

1--0  75 

54  75 
21  00 
44  25 

109  50 

47  25 

48  00 
38  25 
11  25 

25  50 

26  25 
51  00 

55  50 

15  75 

51  00 

340  50 

37  50 

20  25 

341  25 
8  25 

38  25 
33  00 

23  25 

15  75 

207  75 
48  75 
18  75 

16  50 

39  00 
109  50 

13  50 
ai  75 
72  00 

52  50 
51  75 
29  25 
33  00 
42  75 
16  50 
94  50 

195  75 

21  75 

27  75 
15  00 


Walnut 

Omaha 

Chandlerville. . . 

Rankin 

Golden  Rule 

Raritan 

Waterman 

Lake  Creek 

Eldorado 

Harbor 

Carman 

Gibson  

Morning  Star.. . 

Sheridan 

Arrowsmith 

Sullivan  Center. 

Lakeside 

New  Holland. .. . 

Danvers 

Scott  Land 

Goode 

Winnebago 

Weldon 

Centennial 

Alta 

Akin 

Lyndon 

Loundsbury  .... 

Allendale 

Ogden  

Pre-emption 

Hardinsville 

Verona 

Mystic  Star 

Hickory  Hill  ..   . 

Sibley 

Van  Meter 

Crete 

Sullivan 

Palace    

Littleton 

Triluminar 

Mizpah 

St.  Elmo 

LaGrange 

Bay  City  

New  Burnside.. . 

Mansfield 

Lake  View 

Grand  Crossing. 

Ravenswood, 

Gurney  

Wright's  Grove. 

Siloam 

Colchester 

Potomac 

Constantia ,     ... 

Beacon  Light 

Stanford 

Riverton  Union. . 

Morris , 

Lerna     

Auburn  Park.. .. 

Pittstteld 

Broadlands 

Calhoun 

A.  T.  Darrah 

Tadmor 


722 

$37  50 

723 

25  50 

724 

27  75 

725 

39  00 

726 

234  75 

727 

728 

26  25 

729 

19  .50 

730 

33  00 

731 

154  50 

732 

26  25 

733 

64  50 

734 

137  25 

735 

39  00 

737 

18  00 

738 

39  00 

739 

150  75 

741 

14  25 

742 

22  50 

743 

9  00 

744 

19  ,50 

745 

15  00 

746 

31  50 

747 

32  25 

748 

36  75 

749 

27  75 

750 

33  25 

751 

36  75 

7.52 

15  00 

754 

51  00 

755 

47  25 

756 

13  50 

757 

37  00 

758 

168  75 

759 

30  75 

761 

762 

34  75 

763 

31  50 

764 

53  25 

765 

143  25 

766 

21  00 

767 

93  75 

768 

373  75 

769 

33  00 

770 

90  75 

771 

16  50 

772 

773 

30  75 

774 

145  50 

776 

56  25 

777 

146  25 

778 

26  25 

779 

106  50 

780 

1.50  75 

781 

50  25 

782 

27  75 

783 

.59  25 

784 

33  00 

785 

14  35 

786 

40  50 

787 

38  35 

788 

33  25 

789 

114  75 

790 

55  50 

791 

27  00 

792 

39  75 

793 

27  00 

794 

16  50 

40 


Proceedings  of  the 


[Oct.  5, 


LODGE  DUES  FOR  THE  YEAR  1891— Continued. 


LODGES. 

NO. 

DUES. 

LODGES. 

NO. 

DUES. 

Mvrtle 

795 
796 
797 

798 
799 
hOO 
801 
30i 
803 
804 
805 
806 
807 
808 
809 
810 
811 
812 
813 
814 
815 
816 
817 
818 
819 
820 

162  25 
45  00 

186  00 
23  25 
33  75 

122  25 
25  50 
22  50 

28  50 

59  25 

60  00 

29  25 
15  00 

12  00 
25  50 
39  00 

13  75 
13  50 
78  00 
21  00 
56  25 
28  50 
35  25 
72  75 
68  25 
37  50 

New  Canton 

821 
822 
i<Zi 
824 
825 
826 
827 
829 
830 
831 
832 
833 
834 
835 
836 
837 
838 
839 
840 
841 
842 
843 
844 
845 
846 
847 

$27  75 

E.  M.  Husted 

Belknap 

Pearl 

Grove 

Arthur 

Mazon 

Sequoit 

21  75 

Normal  Park 

Sidell 

Colfax 

Kenwood 

37  50 
43  50 
19  50 

Sangamon 

"7  00 

Williamson 

20  25 

Neponset 

Rockfort 

24  75 

Kensington    

Findlav 

20  25 

S.  M.  Dalzell 

42  00 

Nebo 

Dean .'.  

Toledo 

Triple 

23  "'5 

Royal 

Cornland .. 

31  50 
22  50 

Gillham 

Tracv 

Melv'in 

"Windsor  Park 

Hindsboro 

Charity   

56  25 
27  00 
24  75 

DeLand  

Berwyn 

39  75 

Humboldt  Park 

21  00 

Ohio  

Woodlawn  Park 

Fides  

75  0) 

Lawn 

34  50 

Ridgway 

Park 

87  00 

Creal  Springs 

19  .50 

Ben  Hur 

Martinton    

Bluffs 

9  75 

Columbian  .     

12  00 

Henderson 

Stronghurst 

23  25 

DUES  PRECEDING  YEARS. 


Harmony 

Macon 

Caledonia 

Trio 

Euclid 

Perry 

Marshall 

Cherry  Valley... 

Pana 

Galva 

El  Paso 

Aledo 

Avon  Harmonv 
Prophetstown'.. 

Benjamin 

Mt.  Erie 

Tuscola 

Marine 

Noble 

Thos.  J.  Turner. 


3 

8 

47 

57 

65 

95 

133 

173 

226 

243 

246 

252 

353 

293 

297 

331 

332 

355 

362 

409 


1  50 

2  25 
1  50 

75 

83  25 

75 

53  25 

75 

1  50 

7  50 

75 

21  75 


32  25 


Kendrick 

Palmj-ra 

Lexington.. . 

Harlem 

Towanda 

Dawson 

AVinslow 

Miles  Han... 
Good  Hope... 
E.  F.  W.  Ellis 

Comet 

Rio 

Elvaston 

Omaha 

Golden  Rule.. 

Allendale 

Sibley 

Lerna 


430 
463 
482 
540 
542 
556 
564 
595 
617 
633 
641 
685 
715 
723 
726 

ra2 

761 


S  30  00 


75 

35  -ib 

75 

75 

75 

1  50 

75 

1  50 

75 

75 

21  75 

75 

$313  50 


1897.]  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois.  41 


DUES   FROM   L0DGP:S   U.    D. 

September  1,  1897,  London $    6  00 

Palestine 7  50 

Chicago  Heights 12  00 

Gothic la  75 

Latham 75 

Austin 14  25 

Total $  53  25 


DISPENSATION   FEES. 

Palestine  Lodge,  U.  D $10)  00 

Chicago  Heights  Lodge,  U.  D 100  (iO 

Gothic  Lodge,  U.  D 100  00 

Latham  Lodge.  U.  D 100  00 

Austin  Lodge,  U.  D 100  00 

Total $500  00 


RECAPITULATION . 

Dues  collected  previous  to  1895 $  6  75 

Dues  collected  for  1895 6  00 

Dues  collected  for  1896 300  75 

Dues  collected  for  1897 39,609  00 

Dues  collected  from  Lodges  U.  D 53  25 

Special  Dispensations  by  Grand  Master —  121  00 

Dispensations  for  Lodges  U.  D 500  00 

Grand  Lodge  By-laws  sold 17  50 

Books  of  Ceremonials  sold 10  50 

Grand  Lodge  proceedings  sold 1 1  50 

Total $40,636  25 


CHARITY   FUND. 

Dues  from  Defunct  Lodges $        62  60 

Certifying  Diplomas 80  00 

Total $     142  60 

Grand  Total $40,778  85 


42  Pi'oceedings  of  the  [Oct.  5, 

MOTION— Proceed  with  Election. 

M.W.  Bro.  Jame.s  A.  Hawle}'  moved  that  the  Grand 
Lodg"e  now  ])roceed  to  the  election  of  officers  for  the  ensu 
inj,''  year,  which  was  carried. 

The  Grand  Master  announced  that  the  District  Deputy 
Grand  Masters  would  act  as  distributinj,''  tellers,  and  the 
following"  brethren  as  counting  tellers: 

Bros.  C.  M.  Forman,  J.  W.  Rose,  Walter  Watson,  Jacob  Krohn, 
Daniel  J.  Avery,  H.  C.  Cleaveland,  Walter  A.  Stevens. 


INVITATION-To  Visit  Board  of  Trade. 

R.W.  Bro.  Wiley  M.  Egan,  at  the  request  of  the  Secre- 
tary of  the  Board  of  Trade,  extended  a  cordial  invitation 
to  the  Officers  and  Representatives  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  to 
visit  the  sessions  of  the  Board  of  Trade  at  an}'  time,  which 
was  accepted  with  thanks. 

REPORT— Committee  on  Grand  Master's  Address. 

R.W.  Bro.  Wm.  E.  Ginther  submitted  the  following  re- 
port from  the  Committee  on  Grand  Master's  Address,  which, 
on  motion,  was  adopted: 

To  the   Worshipful  Masters,  Wardens,  and  Brethren  of  the  JL  W.  Grand 

Lodge  A.F.  (tnd  A.M.  of  Illinois: 

Your  Committee  on  Grand  Master's  Address  has  g^iven  that  docu- 
ment due  consideration,  and  begs  leave  to  recommend  reference  as 
follows: 

All  relating-  to  our  "Fraternal  Dead,"'  to  the  Committee  on 
Obituaries. 

The  paragraphs  under  the  captions  of  ''Waukegan  Lodge," 
"Lodges  Appearing  in  Public,"  "Appeals  for  Aid  to  Build,"  "An- 
cient, Free,  and  Accepted  Masons,"  "Discipline,"'  and  "Decisions,"' to 
the  Committee  on  Masonic  Jurisprudence. 

All  pertaining  to  dispensations  granted,  to  the  Committee  on 
Lodges  U.D. 

The  letter  of  the  Grand  Master  of  the  (irand  Lodge  of  Egypt, 
containing  "A  Statement  of  the  Regularity  of  that  Body,"'  and  re- 
questing "fraternal  recognition  of  our  Grand  Lodge,""  to  the  Commit- 


1897.]  Grand  Lodge  of  Iliinois.  43 

tee  on  Correspondence,  to  accompany  the  resolution  for  recognition 
referred  to  that  committee  last  year. 

All  under  the  caption  of  "Mechanicsburg.'"  to  the  Committee  on 
Appeals  and  Grievances. 

The  parts  pertaining  to  the  protection  of  "Grand  Lodge  Rec- 
ords," and  "Washington  Monument,'"  to  the  Committee  on  Finance. 

Your  committee  further  recommends  that  the  Grand  Master's 
acts  of  his  constitutional  duties,  detailed  under  the  captions  of 
"Lodges  Constituted,"  "Duplicate  Charters,"  "Life  Membership,'' 
"Dedication  of  Masonic  Halls,"  "Corner  Stones,"  "Grand  Officers  In- 
stalled," "Charter  Restored,"  "Charter  Surrendered,"  "Lodges  Con- 
solidated," "Representatives,"  "Deputy  Grand  Lecturers,"  "Special 
Dispensations,"  "Reports  of  District  Deputy  Grand  Masters,"  "Worth- 
less Notes  Destroyed,"  "Amendments  to  the  Constitution,"  and  "Proc- 
lamation," "Ravenswood  Lodge,"  "Change  of  Districts,''  "County 
and  District  meetings,"  and  "Masonic  Schools,"  be  formally  approved, 
a,nd  that  his  recommendations  and  comments  under  the  heads  of 
■"The  Charity  Fund,"  "Lodges  Appearing  in  Public,''  "Relief  of  the 
Distressed,"  "Relief  Board,"  "Hurried  Work,  Poor  Work,''  "Official 
Neglect  of  Duty,"  and  "Too  Much  Publicity,"  be  concurred  in. 

In  conclusion,  your  committee  deems  it  its  duty  to  call  special 
attention  to  the  grand  thoughts  and  noble  sentiments  so  beautifully 
unfolded  in  the  opening  of  the  address,  and  to  the  praiseworthy  ex- 
ample of  the  M.W.  Grand  Master  to  his  learned  brethren  by  his  rapid 
progress  in  poetic  proficienc}'  and  rhythmic  perorations. 

The  conspicuous  success  of  this  administration  is  shown  by  the 
prevalence  of  entire  harmony  and  growing  prosperity  throughout 
this  Grand  Jurisdiction.  The  M.W.  Grand  Master  deserves  your  un- 
stinted gratitude  for  the  result  of  his  untiring  zeal  and  care  for  the 
best  interests  of  the  Craft,  and  conservation  of  respect  and  obedience 
to  the  laws,  and  your  committee  is  sure  that  your  love  and  affections 
will  accompany  him  in  his  retirement  to  the  ranks  of  the  Craft. 

All  of  which  is  fraternally  submitted. 

WILLIAM  E.  GINTHER, 
W.  F.  BECK, 
GEORGE  F.  HOWARD. 


EEPORT— Committee  on  Correspondence. 

M.W.  Bro.  Joseph  Robbins  presented  his  rei^ort  on  corre- 
spondence, which,  on  motion,  was  received  and  ordered 
printed  with  the  iiroceedings.  It  will  be  found  in  the  latter 
j)art  of  the  proceeding's. 


44  Proceedings  of  the  [Oct.  5, 

LETTER- Prom  Harrison  Dills. 

The  Grand  Secretary  read  the  following  letter  from 
M.W.  Bro.  Harrison  Dills,  Past  Grand  Master: 

Warrenburg,  Mo.,  .July  24,  1S!)7. 
Owen  Scott,  Grand  Master,  J.  H.  C.  Dill,  Grand  Secretary: 

Gentlemen — Permit  me  to  render,  through  you,  my  most  pro- 
found thanks  to  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois  for  the  help  they  have 
rendered  me.  I  must  have  suffered  this  season  if  I  had  not  received 
the  help  they  have  rendered  me.  May  you  be  blessed  in  your  good 
offices  to  the  afflicted.     I  am,  with  great  respect, 

HARRISON  DILLS. 


AMENDMENT-To  By-laws    Lost. 

M.W.  Bro.  DeWitt  C.  Cregier  called  up  the  following- 
amendment  to  section  2,  article  X,  part  II  (and  such  other 
sections  and  articles  as  may  be  necessar}^,  of  the  Grand 
Lodge  By-laws,  proposed  last  year  and  moved  its  adoption, 
which  was  lost: 

"Lodges  may  provide  by  law  for  the  grade  of  life  membership,  to 
which  their  oicn  members  onlij  shall  be  eligible,  upon  the  payment  of  a 
fee  by  such  member  or  members  of  not  less  than  $75  in  a  single  pay- 
ment. ^Life  membership^  shall  not  be  acquired  in  any  other  manner. 
Any  brother  availing  himself  of  these  provisions  shall  be  entitled  to 
all  the  rights  and  privileges  of  common  membership,  and  be  subject  to 
all  the  provisions  of  lodge  and  Grand  Lodge  by-laws  and  regulations: 
Prorided,  however,  nothing  hereiu  shall  be  construed  to  in  any  manner 
affect  any  right  acquired  by  brethren  of  the  constituent  lodges  b^- 
virtue  of  any  pre-existing  law  or  regulation  of  said  lodges." 


RESOLUTION-By  M.W.  Bro.  Leroy  A.  Goddard. 

M.W.  Bro.  Leroy  A.  Goddard  introduced   the  following 
resolution,  which  on  motion,  was  adoi)ted: 

Resolved,  That  we  consider  it  unwise  to  recommend  to  constituent 
lodges  the  ado])tion  of  anj*  form  or  system  of  life  membership. 


1897.]  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois.  45 

ANNOUNOEMENT-Of  Election. 

The  tellers  having-  collected  and  counted  the  several 
ballots,  reported  that  the  following  named  brethren  had 
received  a  majorit}?^  of  all  the  votes  cast: 

Edward  Cook,  Grand  Master. 

Charles  F.  Hitchcock,  Deputy  Grand  Master. 

George  M.  Moulton,  Senior  Grand  Warden. 

W.  B.  Wright,  Junior  Grand  Warden. 

Wiley  M.  Egan,  Grand  Treasurer. 

J.  H.  C.  Dill,  Grand  Secretary. 

MOTION-Amount  of  Bond. 

M.W.  Bro.  Daniel  M.  Browning  moved  to  fix  the  bonds 
of  the  Grand  Treasurer  and  Grand  Secretary  at  $30,000  each. 
Motion  carried. 

QUESTION-By  John  B.  Pithian. 

R.W.  Bro.  John  B.  Fithian  r.?ad  the  following  question 
and  asked  that  it  be  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Jurispru- 
dence, which  request  was  granted: 

Can  a  brother  indefinitely  suspended  from  his  lodge  for  any  cause 
be  reinstated  by  said  lodge  before  expiration  of  a  year  from  date  of 
of  such  suspension? 

EEPORT— Of  Committee  for  New  Regalia. 

The  Grand  Secretary  read  the  following  report,  which 
on  motion  was  adopted: 

Your  committee  appointed  to  procure  new  ajirons  and  jewels  for 
the  grand  officers  respectfully  report  that  samples  from  the  various 
regalia  houses  were  procured,  and  after  full  and  complete  inspection 
and  examination,  the  aprons  and  jewels  now  in  use  were  procured. 
The  cost  is  as  follows: 

20  jewels,  with  hangers $75  00 

20  aprons 82  25 

These  bills  have  been  approved  by  the  Finance  Committee  and 
orders  drawn,  and  the  same  have  been  paid. 

Fraternally  submitted, 

OWEN  SCOTT, 
WILEY  M.  EGAN. 


46  Proceedings  of  the  [Oct.  5, 

AMENDMENT-To  Grand  Lodge  By-laws,  Proposed. 

The  following"  amendment  to  the  Grand  Lodg"e  By-laws, 
signed  by  James  Clegg,  S.W.  of  Valley  Lodge  547,  was  read: 

Eesolved,  That  section  one  (1),  article  twentA'-five  (XXV),  part  II, 
Grand  Lodge  By-laws,  be  so  amended  as  to  read: 

Every  lodge  under  this  jurisdiction  shall,  on  or  before  the  first 
day  of  August,  annualh',  pay  into  the  treasury  of  the  Grand  Lodge, 
through  the  Grand  Secretary,  the  sum  of  fifty  cents  for  each  Master 
Mason  belonging  to  such  lodge  at  the  time  of  making  the  annual  re- 
turn. 

M.W.  Bro.  John  M.  Pearson  moved  to  amend  by  striking 
out  fifty  and  inserting  sixtj'  in  the  fifth  line,  which  amend- 
ment was  adopted. 

The  foregoing  amendment  as  amended  was  seconded  b}' 
the  Representatives  of  twenty  lodges,  and  lies  over  until 
next  3'ear. 

AMENDMENT-To  Grand  Lodge  By-laws,  Proposed. 

M.W.  Bro.  Joseph  Bobbins  introduced  the  follow hig 
amendment  to  section  B.  article  XIII.  part  I  of  Grand  Lodge 
By-laws,  and  it  being"  seconded  b}'  Re])resentatives  of  more 
than  twent}^  lodges,  lies  over  until  next  year: 

By  striking  out  the  word  "live"'  in  the  fourth  line  and  insert  in 
lieu  thereof  the  word  "four." 


CALLED  OFF. 

At  2  o'clock  p.  m.  the  Grand   Lodge  was  called   from 
labor  to  refreshment  until  ',»  o'clock  Wednesday  morning. 


1897.]  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois.  47 


SECOND  DAY. 

Wednesday,  October  6,  A.L.  5897.  | 
9  o'clock  a.  m.  f 

The  Grand  Lodgfe  was  called  from  refreshment  to  labor 
by  the  M.W.  Grand  Master.  Grand  Officers  and  Represent- 
atives same  as  preceding  day. 

REPOKT— 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  21.  W.  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois,  A.  F.  and  A.  M.: 

Your  Committee  on  Credentials  fraternally  report  that  the  fol- 
lowing brethren,  whose  names  appear  in  this  report,  are  present  and 
entitled  to  seats  in  this  Grand  Lodge. 

All  of  which  is  fraternally  submitted, 

JAMES  I.  MCCLINTOCK, 
P.  W.  BARCLAY, 
GEO.  W.  Ci'RUS, 

Committee. 
Chicago,  October  5,  A.D.  1897,  A.L.  5897. 

GRAND    OFFICERS. 

M.W.  Owen  Scott Gravid  Master. 

R.W.  Edward  Cook Deputy  Grand  Master. 

R.W.  Charles  F.  Hitchcock Senior  Grand  Warden. 

R.W.  George  M.  Moulton Junior  Grand  Warden. 

R.W.  Wiley  M.  Eg  AN Grand  Treasurer. 

R.W.  Joseph  H.  C.  Dill Grand  Secretary . 

R.W.  H.  W.  Bolton Grand  Chaplain. 

R.W.  W.  E.  Mason Grand  Orator. 

W.  GUSTAVUS  H.  B.  TOLLE Deputy  Grand  ISecretary. 

W.  C.  J.  LiNDLEY Grand  Pursuivant. 

W.  W.  H.  Peak Grand  Marshal. 

W.  Walter  Watson Grand  Standard  Bearer. 

W.  R.  F.  Spencer Grand  Sword  Bearer. 

W.  Edward  C.  Pace. Senior  Grand  Deacon. 


48  Proreedhif/s  of  the  [Oct.  6, 

W.  E.  H.  Allex Junior  Grand  Deacon. 

W.  J.  S.  McClellaxd Grnnd  Steward. 

W.  Wm.  H.  Johnson firund  Steimrd. 

W.  W.  VV.  Bruce Grand  Steimrd. 

W.  Adam  Ortseifen Grand  Steward. 

Bro.  R.  R.  Stevens Grand  Tyler. 

PAST    GRAND    OFFICERS. 

M.W.  DkWitt  C.  Cregier I'd'-^t  Grand  Master. 

M. W.  James  A.  Hawley P<ff<t  Grand  Ma.^ter. 

M.  W.  Joseph  Robbins /""s^  Grand  MaMer. 

M.W.  John  M.  Pearson  P".s?  Grand  Master. 

M.W.  John  C.  Smith P<i'<t  Grand  Master. 

M.W.  Monroe  C.  Crawford Past  Grand  Master. 

M.W.  Leroy  a.  Goddard Past  Grand  Master. 

M.W.  Danl.  L.  Browning •     Past  Grand  Ma!<ter. 

R. W.  A.  W.  Blakeslev Pci.'tt  Senior  G.  Warden. 

R.  W.  Wm.  H.  Turner  Pust  Junior  G.  Warden. 

DISTRICT   DEPUTY   GRAND   MASTERS. 

R.W.  Wellman  Morrison  Burbank First  District. 

R.  W.  Herbert  Preston Second  District. 

R.W.  Merritt  Bates  Iott Third  District. 

R.W.  Luman  T.  Hoy Fourth  District. 

R.W.  Jacob  Kroh.v Fifth  District. 

R.W.  C.  E.  Grove ^iJ^th  District. 

R.W.  D.  D.  Hunt Seventh  District. 

R.W.  Jno.  B.  Fithian Eighth  District. 

R.W.  W.  L.  MiLLiGAN Ninth  District. 

R.W.  T.  Van  Antwerp Tenth  District. 

R.W.  H.  C.  Cleaveland Eleventh  District. 

R.W.  O.  F.  KiRKPATRiCK Twelfth  District. 

R.W.  D.  D.  DU.VKLE Thirteenth  District. 

K.W.  Louis  ZiMGER Fourteenth  DL-^trirt. 

R.W.  Delmar  D.  Darraii Fifteenth  District. 

K.W.  W.  H.  BerGSTRESSKR Sixteenth  District. 

1  [.  W.  Robert  L.  McKinea v Seventeenth  District. 

1 1.  W.  (  'has.  F.  Tenney Eiyhttenth  District. 

I ;. W.  R.  D.  Lawrence yineteenth  Di.'^trict. 

1 1. \V.  A.  P.  Grout Twentieth  District. 

R.W.  W.  O.  Butler Twentji-.tirst  Di.^trict. 

R.W.  Alexander  H.  Bell. Twenttt-.^ecnnd  District. 

I ;.  W.  Hugh  Snell Twenl'l-third  Pi.^trid. 


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R.  W.  W.  H.  Lathrop Ticenty-fourth  Bistnd. 

R.W.  C.  ROHRBAUGH Twentu-fifth  Distiict. 

R.  W.  H.  T.  BURNAP Twmty-dxtk  District. 

R.W.  James  Douglas Twenty-seventh  District. 

R.W.  J.  M.  BuRKHART Twenty-nghth  District. 

R.W.  H.  T.  GODDARD Twenty-ninth  District. 

R.W.  .J.  M.  Jones Thirtieth  District. 

REPRESENTATIVES  OF  OTHER  GRAND  LODGES. 

James  A.  H awley Alabama. 

Monroe  C.  Crawford Arizona. 

Loyal  L.  Munn British  Columbia. 

Wiley  M.  Egan Canada. 

James  A.  Hawley Colorado. 

DeWitt  C.  Cregier Connecticut. 

DeWitt  C.  Cregier District  of  Columbia. 

John  C.  Smith England. 

John  C.  Smith Florida. 

Philip  Maas Idaho. 

DeWitt  C.  Cregier Indiana. 

Chas.  H.  Patton Indian  Territory. 

Wiley  M.  Egan Ireland. 

Geo.  M.  Moulton Kansas. 

Leroy  a.  Goddard Louisiana. 

Jacob  Krohn Manitoba. 

M.  B.  lOTT  Maryland. 

Jos.  E.  Dyas Michigan. 

Eugene  L.  Stoker Minnesota. 

DeWitt  C.  Cregier Mississippi. 

A.  B.  Ashley Montana. 

John  C.  Smith Nevada. 

Wm.  B.  Grimes New  Jersey. 

W.  A.  Stevens ISew  York. 

Edwd.  C.  Pace North  Carolina. 

John  M.  Pearson New  Zealand. 

Samuel  S.  Chance Ohio. 

Frank  W.  Havill Oregon. 

DeWitt  C.  Cregier Quebec. 

James  A.  Hawley Rhode  Island. 

Joseph  Robbins ; Scotland. 

Chas  H.  Patton South  Carolina. 

W.  L.  Milligan South  Australia. 

Edward  Cook Texas. 

Owen  Scott  Utah. 

1).  M.  Browning Virginia. 

Gil.  W.  Barnard Wisconsin. 


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COMMITTEES. 

Masonic  Jurlsj) rudence. 

DeWitt  C.  Cregier.   Chicago. 

.James  A.  Hawley Dixon. 

Daxl.  L.  Browning East  St.  Louis. 

John  C.  Smith Chicago. 

John  M.  Pearson —  Godf re}-. 


Appeals  and  G rievances. 

Monroe  C.  Crawford Jonesboro. 

Joseph  E.  Dyas Paris. 

AYm.  S.  Cantrell Benton. 

Geo.  W.  Hill Murphysburo. 

Eugene  L.  Stoker Evanston. 


Chartered  Lrxlgcs. 

Loyal  L.  Munn Freeport. 

Frank  N.  Havill Mt.  Carmel. 

George  A.  Stabler Decatur. 

James  L.  Scott Mattoon. 

Thomas  W.  Wilson Springfield. 


Masonic  Correspondence. 
Joseph  Robbins Quinc}-. 

Finance. 

Leroy  a.  Goddard Chicago. 

Gil.  W.  Barnard Chicago. 

S.  W.  Waddle Bloom Ington. 


Lodges  Undir  JJisptnsa.tion. 

Charles  H.  Patton Mt.  Vernon. 

Daniel  J.  Avery Chicago. 

Henry  C.  Mitchell  Carbondale. 

C.  J.  PvEUTER Lebanon. 

Samuel  S.  Chance Saleui. 


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Petitions. 

C.  M.  FORMAN Sparta. 

Benj.  Hagle Louisville. 

Asa  W.  Blakesley Quincy. 


Ohitimries. 

George  W.  Warvelle Chicago. 

N.  E.  Roberts Fairfield. 

G.  O.  Friedkich Chillicothe. 


Grand  Master's  Address. 

Wm.  E.  Ginther Charleston. 

Geo.  F.  Howard Paris. 

W.  F.  Beck Olney. 


Credentials. 

James  I.  McClintock Carmi. 

Philander  W.  Barclay  Cairo. 

George  W.  Cyrus Camp  Point. 


Mileage  and  Per  Diem. 

John  A.  Ladd Sterling. 

Wm.  B.  Wright Effing-ham. 

Ed.  L.  Wahl Vandalia. 


Bailroads  and  Transportation. 

William  Jenkins Dixon. 

Charles  H.  Morrell Augusta. 

To  Examine  Visitors. 

William  B.  Grimes  Pittsfield. 

A.  B.  Ashley La  Grange. 

Jos.  E.  Evans Monticello. 

John  W.  Rose Litchfield. 

James  R.  Ennis Burnt  Prairie. 


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65 
66 
67 
69 
71 


Chas.  A.  Bowen W.M. 

G.  A.  Bourland* " 

.John  R.  Davis J.  W, 

Richard  Lathrop W.M. 

Thomas  Cheatle " 

M.C.Herman " 

J.  D.  Templeton S.  W. 

D.  H.  Glass W.M. 

Herman  lirossman •• 

F.  E.  Robinson J.  W. 

Sam  Cofflnbirv W.M. 

J.  J.  Crowtier S.  W. 

F.  L    Tompkins* J.  W. 

EuE;ene  Stapp W.M. 

J.  W.  Bailey 

F.  K.  Blanc '• 

J  E.  Helfrich " 

Frank  M.  ?^ulks ■■ 

James  .\.  Farmer •■ 

W.  J.  Yenny •• 

Frank  Condra " 

Ailam  W.  Keed " 

Fred  W.  Soadv " 

A.  D.  Webb.    .". ■' 

Frank  T.  Wyatt J.  W. 

W.W.Watson W.M. 

Thomos  T.  Shoemaker '■ 

William  E.  iJirither* S.  W. 

Bernhard  Dittmer W.M. 

Dan  Q.  Webster •• 

M.  W.  Thompson ■■ 

T.  S.  Bunn J.  W. 

J.  H.  Weinhoener W.M. 

A  J.  Newell •• 

Ferdinand  Munch ■■ 

Frank  H.  Blose    •■ 

E.  A.  Perry • 

Fred  H.  Farrand     ■ 

Thomas  I.  Ballantine ■• 

Hall  Whiteaker •• 

W.  P.  Lillibridge - 

Frank  G.  Welton - 

.1.  B.  Nulton* •■ 

M.  W.  Miller • 

J.  P.  Bonjan •• 

E.  J.  Scarborough ■• 

.J.  R.  Aspley •■ 

David  J.  Sears • 

B.  F.  Uraig " 

Frank  Ives •■ 

J.  H.  Thomas* •• 

Elijah  D.  Richmond 

J.  ^^.  Andrews S.  W. 

Jake  Kirsch W.M. 

E.  E.  Sargent •■ 

Joseph  H  Randleson  •• 

(icorge  W.  Handall • 

Charles  H    Brandenburg '• 

Richard  Beet ■• 

Stephen  A.  Douglass* 

John  Watts '■ 

Jabez  Love 

.S.  W.  Tappen •• 

D.  <;.  Burr* " 

J.  H.  Mann* S.  W. 

Dewev  Hamilton W.M. 


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79 
80 
81 

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86 
87 
88 
89 
90 
91 


93 

95 
96 
97 
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100 
102 
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104 

105 
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110 
111 
112 
113 

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115 

116 
117 
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119 
122 
123 
124 
125 
126 
127 
138 
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130 
131 
132 

133 
134 
135 
136 
137 
i:?8 
139 
140 
141 


Jay  L.Brewster* J.  W. 

Fred  P.  Bacon W.M. 

Charles  Richerl • 

John  Hahn J  W. 

James  M.  Kirk W.M. 

J.  D.  Strait '■ 

Abram  Brown    " 

P.  H.  Oyler  •• 

(Jeorge  H.  Schwing •■ 

W.  D.  Abney I.  W. 

Herman  Felsenheld  W.M. 

James  L.  Elliott ■■ 

C.  Brown •• 

F.  E.  Richmond* S.  W. 

M.  J.  Overman W.M. 

John  E.  Morton •• 

D.F.Stevens '• 

H.  B.  Lichtenberger " 

H.  L.  Zimser '• 

William  H.  Glass " 

William  H.  Emmerson* " 

John  Barker " 

F.  A.  Turner •■ 

J.  R.  Maguire ■■ 

H.  A.  Davids(m*  J.  W. 

M.  L.  McDonough W  M. 

G.  M.  Savior '• 

S.  J.  Wilson  •■ 

A.  McDonald " 

H.  J.  Blanck J.  W. 

James  A.  Peak* W.M. 

A.  C.  Vedder - 

E.  J.  Glancy* " 

Ben  Lhn-d J.  W. 

J.  B.  Miller W.M. 

S.  C.  Litwiler •• 

R.  T.  Madden S.  W. 

J.  P.  Marshall W.M. 

Ole  Hanson '■ 

George  L.  Kimber 

O.  P.  Carroll S.  W. 

E.  A  Fish W.M. 

R.  B.  Trimble " 

C.  S.  Magner " 

W   H.  Ti-ent " 

H.  W.  Toennigs '• 

David  Murrie '• 

S.  M.  Horn '• 

R.  L.  MetcaU " 

J.  VV'  Johnson " 

D.  G.  Thompson '■ 

L.  H.Rogers 

Clarence  N.  Wilson* .s.  W. 

T.  W.  Clark W.M. 

J.  D.  Waterman " 

F.  M.Jacobs •• 

W.  L.  Bishop " 

W.  D.  Sharpe '• 

H.  W.  Richardson "' 

C.  W.  Grant '• 

J.  S  Freeman " 

Will  C.  Rood " 

Elmer  E.  Bast S.  W. 

r.,eoi)old  Alexander J .  W. 

C  C   Porvier W.M. 

W.  E.  Jones S.  W. 


*Proxy. 


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REPRESENTATIVES   OP   LODGES. 


R.  W.  Overton W.M. 

Thomas  J.  Adams '■ 

W.R.Winchester "■ 

J.  E.  Gray '" 

Fred  Kuritz. . .   

W.  T.  Watson '" 

David  L.  Wright '" 

Pleas.  T.  Chapman* '" 

H.  R.  Budd 

John  R.  Garaghty* " 

William  H.  Seibert " 

Almon  Stansberrv "' 

R.  R.  Strickler " 

A.  J.  Maclav 

D.  E.  Bruffett* " 

W.  A.  Cristy " 

A.  T.  Bovle.. " 

Fred  Schultz '• 

Eugene  T.  Pierce  S.  W. 

R.  F.  Morrow W.M. 

H.  T.  McKee " 

G.  D.  Rader "" 

William  J  Horrom •' 

I.  S.  Montgomery " 

E.  W.  Scott* " 

D.  M.  Brown " 

William  C.  Milner ■ 

C.  E.  Cooper* " 

George  W.  Bowers S.  W. 

E.  E   Cantrall  W.M. 

C.  W.  Buck " 

J.  M.  Rvbolt J.  W. 

F.  W.  Werner W.M. 

C.  P.  Gardner S.  W. 

C.  W.  Lillie W.M. 

W.A.Green " 

W.J.Warner S.  W. 

J.  P.  Deckard    W.M. 

Christoph  F.  Baum S.  W. 

Oscar  E.  Fehn J.  W. 

James  McCredie W.M. 

H.  H.  Town* S.  W. 

W.  G.  Purviance W.M. 

James  H.  Donaldson " 

J.  S.  Grove 

A.G.Jackson S.  W. 

Edward  M  Clark W.M. 

John  Wolters J.  W. 

W.  M.  Anderson W.M. 

John  Jackson " 

M.A.Warren " 

George  W.  Soule " 

C.  L.  Farris* " 

R.  W.  Greene " 

W.  W.  Mudge " 

T.W.Gibson " 

Jacob  Peifer " 

C.  C.  Vanmeter " 

I.  H.  Southwick •■ 

T.  H.  Stetler " 

L.  D.  Bennett* " 

Walter  R.  Kimzev " 

Robert  V^an  Der  Bogart  —     •' 

Lewis  Ridgewav "" 

Charles  E.  Clark* J-  W. 

N.  A.  W.  Sievers W.M. 


211 

212 
•>\3 
314 

216 
217 
218 
219 
220 
221 
222 
226 
287 
228 
»29 
230 
231 
232 
233 
234 

■~m 

237 
338 
239 
240 
241 
243 
245 
246 
247 
248 
249 
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251 
252 
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254 


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260 
261 
262 
263 
264 
265 
266 
267 
268 
269 
870 
271 
272 
273 
274 
275 
276 


278 
279 


S   W. 
W.M. 


S.  W. 


Arthur  C.  Helm ...S.  W. 

J.  F.  Sweet ■ 

George  W.  Marshal W.M. 

Lewis  M.  Cruson • 

Edward  F.  Schmidt* S.  W  . 

S.  B.  Brown* W.M. 

J.  A.  Gladson.     " 

B.  O.  Manker "■ 

M.  J.  Naphew 

F.  O.  Jahr 

John  A.  Tuthill 

Charles  E.  Downing* " 

John  P.  Mover '• 

R.  E  McNeal " 

M.  E.  Foster  ' 

J.  R.  Brown 

Isaac  A.  Foster "■ 

P.  A.  Millard " 

F.M.Jones '" 

Caleb  I.  Sanders ■' 

T.H.Humphrey " 

George  M.  Cummings " 

Arthur  F.  Smith . .   S.  W. 

Thomas  T.  Blanklev J.  W. 

William  F.  Gibson W.M. 

W.  C.  Bridges 

Mark  AVise 

T.  J.  Baddeley 

Thomas  J.  Elder 

S.  Thompson 

Joseph  G.  Wright.   ... 

J.  A.  Schofield W.M, 

Edwin  Harris •' 

G.  W.  Hamilton '■ 

J.  R.  Ash •■ 

Ed.  Rosenbaum " 

George  W.  Pumphrev " 

J.  W.  Edwards ■' 

J.  A.  Petterson " 

James  A.  Raymond  . 

Henry  G.  Gabel 

James  Little 

W.  H.  Young 

W.  K.  Worthen*  

Joseph  Withington      . 

I.  C.  Laffertv* 

C.  W.  Smith 

Isaac  M.  Hornbocker. 
A.  W.  Crawford  .     ... 

F.  V.  Barnett "■ 

W.M.Huffman " 

Charles  R.  Chinn S.  W. 

E.  L.  Wieder W.M. 

J.O.Clifford '    '■ 

Zimri  Smith. "' 

Charles  R.  Grout 

William  P  Tuley 

F.  P.  Stillman 

John  H.  Helm 

J.  A.  Miller " 

Elisha  L.  Robinson ' 

John  Brockman " 

William  Schumaschei" S.  W 

James  Weis J.  W 

C.  E.  Morton W.M 

J.  F.  Jarvis 


S.  W. 
J.  W. 

W.M. 


J.  W. 
W.M. 


*Proxy. 


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285 

286 

287 
288 
291 
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294 
295 
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297 
298 
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305 

306 
307 
308 
309 
310 


312 

313 
315 
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318 


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320 
321 
322 
323 
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327 
330 
331 
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333 
334 
335 
336 
337 
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340 
341 
342 
345 
346 
.347 

348 
349 
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351 
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W.  S.  Brown W.M. 

A.  Brad sh aw •' 

John  H    Latham S.  W. 

W.  N.  Uuff W.M. 

Arthur  Jones*  J.  W. 

Oscar  Holmes W.M. 

F.  W.  Phelps J.  W. 

Frank  Friedline W.M. 

C.  A.  Brown " 

C.W.Merrill " 

W.  G   Abbott " 

H.  A.  Sturtevant " 

Lora  T.  Dunn*  " 

Oscar  J.  Keese " 

Joseph  W.  Wall " 

Isam  Cutler    

James  Monahan S.  W. 

K.  A.  Hill     W.M. 

Lewis  P.  Voss ■■ 

W.  H.  McClain* " 

D.  F.  Ward* S.  W. 

C.  F.  Banta W.M. 

Ira  Applegate " 

Geo.  M.  Darling* " 

W.  C.   Wellington " 

Geo.  A.  Katz " 

P.  L.  Holland S.  W. 

W.  K.  Forsvth* J.  W. 

John  .Smith W.M. 

A.  Davis .  J.  W. 

W.  I.  Lowrv W.M. 

John  H.  Culver* S.  W. 

John  A.  Keller W.M. 

Andrew  Schmorr •' 

James  A.  Thome* " 

P.  K.  Cirigson  " 

F,.  C.  Hughes  • S.  W. 

P.  Wintleld* J.  W. 

J.  F.  Lindvall W.M. 

J.  V.  Reese " 

Alexander  McKaj' '• 

G.  A.  Kdwards " 

James  .Stewart " 

William  M.  (iregg " 

A.  A.  Adkisson " 

K.  C.  Sellon ' 

Alex.  S.  Jessop " 

John  W.  Kagsy 

M.  Ashlon  Jones '• 

M.  J.  Seed     " 

Christian  Klingel " 

Thos.  N.  Cummings " 

John  H.  Anderson* " 

Robert  Jenkins " 

John  W.  Augue  " 

I.e.  Duncan " 

H.  L.  Radtleld " 

W.  B.  Holly S.  W. 

Perry  R.  Leonard " 

Frank  Thompson W.M. 

J.  H.  McGee J.  W. 

John  P.  Weger W.M. 

J.  H.  Avres " 

J.  H.  Suvdam " 

C.  S.  Brydia S  W. 

F.  M.  Gragg W.M. 


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354 
3.55 

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3.59 
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361 
362 
363 
364 
365 
366 
367 
368 
369 
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373 
374 
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379 
380 
382 
383 
384 
385 
386 
388 
389 
390 
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392 
393 


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396 
397 

398 
399 

401 
402 
403 
404 
405 
406 
408 
409 
410 
411 
412 
414 
415 
416 
417 
418 
419 
420 
421 
422 

423 
424 
426 
427 


George  W.  Lawrence W.M- 

A.  P.  Lorton •• 

Oscar  H.  Gehrs •• 

Joseph  White* •' 

D.  A.  Hewit ..     •• 

John  W.  M(nvat ■• 

H.  J.  Cheesman  ...  " 

Charles  Rembe •' 

Chas.  E.  Palmer - 

M.  H.  Spence •■ 

Geo.  A.  Mc  Ferson '  • 

Homer  E.  Shaw " 

T.  L.  Vradenburg •• 

H.  G.  Shinn " 

H.Cornelius 

L.  E.  Root ■' 

Andrew  Hansen* •■ 

J.  W.  Smith •• 

A.  C.  Bloomingdale '• 

J.  C.  Danforth •• 

Charles  E.  Gabriel 

Zenos  Winget 

Richard  Boston •• 

John  Igou •• 

E.  L.  Watts  •• 

Charles  D.  Grouse " 

John  Gillespie " 

H.J   Strubinger •• 

Favette  S.  Hatch - 

O.  J.  Loser '• 

G.  W.  Manley " 

B.  F.   Roberts •' 

Geo.  S.  Haskell •' 

August  Semrad 3.  W. 

E.  F.  Bunn J.  W. 

Chas.  E.  Miner W.M. 

Lewis  \y.  Brown " 

John  E.  Schampp •• 

W.  W.  Lowe • 

F.  D.  Webb " 

T.  A.  Zink*  S.W. 

Charles  E.  Axt '• 

J.  S.  Brown W.M. 

C.  E.  Walsh " 

E.  E  Whitehorne " 

Sam  C.  Morrison 

J.J.Maxwell J.  W. 

W.  A.  Tweed v W.M. 

Joseph  B.  Burtt '• 

F.  H.  Roessler '■ 

J.  D.  Everett* - 

John  C.  Mever " 

T.  H.  Brigg's '• 

N.  E.  Xurss S.  W. 

H.  H.  Henderson W.M. 

J.  M.  Ferrell " 

Chris  Heiligenstein " 

Thos.  N.  Tavlor '• 

H.  E.  Wade'. •• 

W.  E.  Johnston* •• 

Fred  F   Danks " 

Isaac  Lanning S.  W. 

Chas.  Ohmsted W.M. 

Rufus  Funk " 

Peter  F.  Clark " 

John  W.  Law  " 


♦Proxy. 


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REPRESENTATIVES   OF   LODGES. 


D.  M.  Baird W.M. 

John  Burrill '• 

Chas.  C.  Whiteside S. W. 

R.  O.  Vangilder* W.M. 

Walter  Hanback " 

John  Stralej' " 

John  A.  Wiley " 

John  Shater.'Jr " 

David  Birkenstein " 

William  Willhartz J.  W. 

Georee  A.  Haines W.M. 

Andrew  J.  Parker S.  W. 

Rov  J.  Howe W.M. 

A.  E.  Do^baugh S.  W. 

Frank  Channing W.M. 

H.  C.  Frayser " 

S.  L.  Berryman " 

J.  N.  Pierce " 

Richard  Conover " 

Peter  Garrison* " 

Jacob  Funk " 

James  Greer " 

E.C.Watson ■' 

Geoge  H.  Ellis " 

J.W.  Beecher S.  W. 

J.H.Sterling W.M. 

C.  B.  McKinrie}- •• 

George  H.  Webster S.  W. 

George  E.  Whitten J.  W. 

W.  Y.  Davis W.M. 

T.  J.  Hilliard '• 

Harris  Thomas " 

D.  B.  McLean " 

T.  J.  Young " 

R.  R.  Richie S.  W. 

C.  M.  McMillan W.M. 

C.  H.  Phelps •• 

A.J.Hardin " 

H.  R.  Woodcock •' 

D.  Hurlej- " 

James  D.  Haise " 

B.F.Yates " 

John  Fitzgerald " 

John  E.  Norris " 

D.  R.  Wilkins " 

Jos.  M.  Arnin " 

A.  T.  Strange " 

J.  A.  McComas " 

W.  O.  Ensign " 

Alexander  C.  King        " 

John  C.  Leppert S.  W. 

Wm.  Mc Arthur J.  W. 

J    H.  Wriglev W.M. 

B.  L.  Tabler.' " 

James  V.  McCuUough* " 

Thos.  W.  Keple}- " 

James  R.  Sterrett " 

P.  N.  Hearn     " 

T.F.Shannon •' 

L.  C.  Stewart •' 

W.  W.  Booth •• 

Merritt  J.  Piatt 

R.  W.  Bulkley •• 

George  Corlev '" 

Marshall  Ozment '• 

John  G.  Dixon  .  .  " 


497 
498 
500 
501 
503 
503 
504 
506 


508 
509 
510 
512 
514 
516 
517 
518 
519 
520 
521 


532 
523 
524 
525 
526 
527 
528 
529 

530 
531 
532 
533 
.534 
535 
536 
537 
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 


Archie  Stewart 

James  A.  White 

Joseph  M.  Grout 

E.G.  Hill 

B.  F.  Woolums 

B.  F  Norris,  Sr 

Alfred  Holloway 

F.  T.  Strickler 

Henry  S.  Troy 

John  Faurote* 

E.  K.  Daniels 

F.  M.  Rash 

J.  A.  Irwin 

J.  B.  Holmes  — 

William  Weeks  

John  D.  Walton 

H.  Tinklepaugh 

John  T.  Da\ndson 

W.  A.  Carr 

F.  W.  Willard 

L.  G.  Metcalf 

C.  B.  Sutherland*.... 

S.  M.Garvey 

George  F.  Ringhoff  . 

Japh  Knotts 

Fred  E.  Trotter 

F.  J.  Davis 

Wm.  J.  Turnes 

Thos.  A.  Habel. 

W.  H.  Randall 

R.  E    Stewart 

I.  M.  Larimore 

G.  K.  Walker 

J.  M    Trostle  

Alden  C.  Barber 

George  U.  Grant.  ... 

F.  H.'Cole 

J.  S.  Burns      

A.  E.  Motinger 

G.  W.  Hastings 

Rudolph  Fox 

W.  H.  Herrick 

T.  P.  Mantz 

B.  F.  McAfferty 

J.  W.  Heany* 

R.  H.  Mann 

James  Clegg 

James  Charlton 

John  B.  Mackie 

B.  F.  Colehower 

G.  E. Schroeder 

Henry  Bestmann 

O.  P.  Redding 

Anton  B.  Kostock 

Frank  Falk 

Al.  A.  Clapsaddle  ... 
William  Livingston. 

Henrj'  Scharf     

John  A.  Waugh 

Henry  Gilbert* 

W.  E.  Bybee 

J.  W.  Langford* 

J.  A.  Baker 

C.  E.  Bagby 

W.  L.  Simpson 

Lewis  Wilson 


.W.M. 


.S.  W. 
.J.  W. 
.W.M. 


s.  w. 

W.M. 

.'s.  W. 

J.W. 

.  s.  w. 

.W.M. 


.J.  W. 
.W.M. 
.S.  W. 
.W.M. 
.J.  W. 
.S.  W. 
.W.M. 
S.  W. 
.W.M. 


S.  W. 
\V.  M. 


,S.  W. 

.W.M. 


56 


P)'Oceedings  of  the 


[Oct.  (). 


REPRESENTATIVES  OF  LODGES. 


574 
575 
576 
577 

.578 
580 
oHX 
.582 
583 
584 
585 
587 
.588 
590 
591 
592 
.595 
600 
601 
602 
603 
604 
607 


608 
609 
610 
611 


612 
613 
614 
616 
617 
618 
619 
620 
622 
623 
627 
630 
631 
632 
633 
•534 
635 
636 
639 


641 
642 


644 
645 
(M6 
(V47 
648 
651 


\V.  S.  Allison*  W, 

William  S.  Watson ' 

H   L.  Puffer ' 

Andrew  Moore • 

A.  M.  Pinkerton ' 

William  McKellip J. 

D    T.  Wisner W 

D  H.  Saiitord   ' 

J.  A.  Dillow ' 

J.  L.  Douglass • 

i^ouis  Metz  S. 

W.  Howard W, 

C.  W.  Coe  • 

E.  A.  Vaughan ' 

Elias  Hurk* 

W   M.  McCa.lisier* ' 

D.  W.  Miller ' 

Elias  F.  Brown • 

J.  S.  Hortenstene ' 

Aaron  C.  Do3'le " 

J.  W.  McCluer • 

J.F.Henderson • 

Charles  M.  Howard ' 

W.  M.  Miliar ■ 

J.  A.  Curry ' 

C.  Y.  Austin* S. 

Fred  W.  Fades       J. 

M.  L.  Sherman W. 

K.  B.  Mvers • 

John  B.  Marples ' 

Charles  T.  Neiglich ' 

Carl  Mueller S. 

Edgar  Bogardus ■.  J. 

Ed.  E.  Brenneman W. 

J.  K.  CJuayle 

John  Sawyer ' 

C.  H.  Tietsort   ' 

A.C.Sweeney ' 

Albert  Naegelin ' 

Wm.  Mills • 

James  Snyder " 

B.  H.  Schulte • 

E.  E.  Mull ' 

A.  H.  Brooks S. 

S.  M.  Burnett W. 

Wm.  F.  Hoyt J. 

John  H.  Davis S. 

Edward  J.  Hartwell ' 

William  McClave 

Chas.  B.  McClelland W 

A.  E.  Harken S. 

Wm  C.Clausen W 

Robt.  Sohms S. 

Edward  Beck J. 

R.  C.  Crihtield W 

Frank  Crozier* 

J.  F.  Campbell* S. 

F.  J.  Kueder J. 

William  Creer W 

S.  Arthur  Walther.     J. 

W.  S.  Brown W 

John  !•'.  Fryer 

J.  C.  SeatoD 

J.  J.  Davis 

A.  A.  Cavins    

J.  T   A.  Edmonson 


M. 


653 
655 
656 
657 
658 
659 


663 
664 
665 
666 
667 
668 
669 


670 
672 
673 
674 

675 
676 


677 
679 
681 
682 
683 
684 
685 

686 
687 
688 
690 


691 
692 
693 

695 
696 
697 
698 
700 
701 
702 
704 
705 
706 
70St 
710 
711 
712 
713 
714 
715 
716 


Homer  J.  Tice W.M. 

W.  0.  Stilson •■ 

Wm.  Muhe* •• 

H.  B.  McLoad •• 

F.  E.  Jenkinson " 

Frank  S.  Wood '• 

W.  P.  Capeland " 

John  J   ZoUen '• 

G.  A.  Larson S.  W. 

F.  H.  Richards J   W. 

James  Jones — W.M. 

John  Z.  Lewis ■• 

Samuel  D.  Larimore " 

Herbert  Athev     S.  W. 

Seward  A.  Eddy W.M. 

C.  W.  Hunsinger • 

David  J.  Brown '• 

William  Yuers  S.  W. 

Carl  Everman J.  W. 

G.  W.  Miller W.M. 

G.  W.  Fowler " 

George  Champion* " 

Julius  Ewart  " 

F.  Kowalski S.  W. 

T.  J.  Underwood* W.M. 

L.  O.  VanRiper " 

C.  G.Phillips S.  W. 

Wm.  J.  Obee J.  W. 

Edward  C.  Robinson W.M. 

Joseph  Ryan " 

J.  M.  Pence '• 

Henrv  Hofer " 

M.  R."Kellv " 

J.  C.  D  Carr " 

M.  Dickson " 

D.  L.  Rowe* J  W. 

John  H.  Nair W.M. 

G.  L  Cad  well " 

Peter  Wright "■ 

E.  W.  Bruiuiage ■" 

Harrv  Stafford S.  W. 

E.  L.  "Martin J.  W. 

C.  W.  Reiley W.M. 

Edward  Grimes • 

T.  J.  Sanson " 

W.  A.  Perrine J    W. 

H.  Shaw     W.M. 

W.  K.  Ross •' 

R.  K.  Sloan " 

J.  \'.  Hoseney '■ 

L  P.  Smith " 

H.  C.  Green " 

James  R.  McCall " 

John  Ray* 

John  M.  Darr .     " 

Richard  R.  Jones*    " 

R.  C.  Smally " 

George  H .  Mittan '" 

S.  A.  Revnolds " 

W.  E.  Hadlev ' 

J.  W.  Leathers " 

J.  W.  Johnston " 

L.  E.  Caldwell ■ 

Daniel  .V.  Murphv 

Fred  Dav "   S.  W. 

Jas.  Lewis J.  W. 


*Proxy. 


1897.] 


Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois. 


\y( 


REPRESENTATIVES   OP  LODGES. 


Henry  Wunnicke W.M. 

A.H.Story " 

N.  A.  Norris " 

I.  N.  Lantz S.  W. 

J.  K.  Walker " 

T.  H.  Irvin' W.M. 

J.  W.  Bowling 

Herman  Rethorn " 

C.  E.  Groves '• 

A.J.Cornell S.  W. 

W.  E.  Hyland J.  W. 

George  W.  Wakefield W.M. 

W.  V.  Armes " 

W.E.Webber '■ 

George  Carter 

James  Edmond.s ■' 

Amos  Ball " 

H.  B.  Heald " 

Ed.  J.  Smiih S  W. 

A.  G.  Barnes W.M. 

Chas.  F.  Ros.s '■ 

J.  M.  Finley " 

L.  J.  Perkins  S.W. 

Chas.  Stark J.  W. 

W.  H.  LaForge " 

M.  B.  Munsell W.M. 

A.  N.  Workman " 

J.  D.  Bellamy " 

Jas.  L.  McLain " 

Thos.  C.  Byland " 

Frank  Brewer S.W. 

W.D.Holmes W.M. 

CM.  Hudgins S.  W. 

Wm.  H.  Shaw W.M. 

L.  W.  Jackman J.  W. 

Simon  Holmes W.M. 

J.  H.  Seyler •• 

James  Shipman •' 

Wm.  A.  Small    ■■ 

R.  B.  Tapp ■• 

A.  G.  Scudamore 

I.  M.  Taylor " 

W.C.Trowbridge '• 

Opha  Tichenor J.  W. 

George  W.  Lorenz W.M. 

E.  M.  Webster " 

W.  A.  Nash S.  W. 

H.  W.  Burnard J.  W. 

Thomas  Hicks W.M. 

J.  E.  Burton J.  W. 

C.  W.  Bayles W.M. 

Howard  E.Patterson " 

Edwin  R.  McClellan S.W. 

Wm.  S.  Moseley '• 

J.  A.  Smith W.M. 

H.  F.  W.  Spilver        " 

Wm.  R.  Bruce " 

Edwin  F.  Seavey S.  W. 

James  W.  Gurmer J.  W. 

Oliver  Apgar W.M. 

William  H.  Eskew " 

James  Beaumont " 

A.  G.  Dlcus S.  W. 

John  W.  Foster  J.  W. 

Henry  S.  Albin W.M. 

W.  S.  Robinson J.  W. 


781 
782 
783 


793 
794 
795 


796 

797 


799 
800 


801 

802 
803 
804 
805 
806 
807 
808 
809 
810 


811 

812 
813 


814 
815 


816 

817 
818 

819 
820 
821 

822 
823 

824 

825 
826 

827 


James  Parnall W.M. 

W.  L.  Bentley •• 

John  Werkmeister* 

Ther  Lassig S.W. 

Albert  C.  Firleke W.M. 

M.  Gerbrick " 

George  Felter ■' 

G.  B.  Rodgers* J.  W. 

August  J.  Weinel W.M. 

Ralph  Jeffris •• 

George  Gordon S.  W. 

Oliver  Haughey W.M. 

E.F.Rowland S.W. 

Peter  H.  Peck*  J. 'W. 

S.  B.  Dawson S   W. 

Walter  H.  Towne W.M. 

E.  T.  Telling S.  W. 

S.  G.  Jarvis W.M. 

Nicholas  Pyle 

Mark  A.  Foote " 

Samuel  M.  St.  Clair S.  W. 

James  B.  Tallman* J.  W. 

O.  O.  Hodges W.M. 

H.  F.  Sawtell* ' 

H.  J.  Roovaart J.  W. 

R.  G.  Shobe W.M. 

F.  J.  Mittan S.  W. 

Milton  E.  Robinson W.M. 

Bert  S.  Church S.  W. 

James  E.  Church* J.  W. 

J.  O.  Palmer W.M. 

F.  A.  Sperling S.  W. 

Eli  D.  Roach W.M. 

J.  L.  Priestman " 

Alex.  Cruden 

WillE.  Dudley " 

J.R.Grant " 

John  B.  McGuyer " 

Wm.  McKie'' '• 

G.  W.  Kimbro " 

Wm:  H.  Roberts " 

John  A.  McKeever S.  W. 

Andrew  O.  Novander J.  W. 

E.  B.  Perry W.M. 

R.  B.  Moody " 

Chas.  W  Peck " 

Ellis  E.  McDermed S.W. 

O.  S.  Gauch J.  W. 

M.  E.  Cadwalader W.M. 

J.  R.  Hayden '• 

Thos.  Giunever S.W. 

M.J.  LaFlare  J.  W. 

B.G.Brooks W.M. 

Elbert  Mclnturff ■' 

K.  A.  Lantan " 

Wm.  Wallace* S.  W- 

Ch as.  W.  McAfee W.M. 

Arthur  W.  Fruit      S.  W. 

M.  D  Massie ' W.M. 

O.  M.  Fraim " 

J.  V.  Snow " 

G.  W.  Dow S.  W. 

F.  F.  Chesemann '■ 

C.  F.  Jenne W.M. 

Geo.  P.  Thomas 

John  Welch 


♦Proxy. 
—4 


58 


Proceedings  of  the 


[Oct.  6, 


REPRESENTATIVES   OF   LODGES. 


829 
830 
831 
832 


833 

834 
835 


837 

838 
839 


W.  Brock  Jones W.M. 

W.  T.  Barton " 

W.B.Wallace* " 

John  A.  Stout* " 

Fred  A.  Handle S.  W. 

James  Hyslop J.  W. 

Albert  L.  Martin W  M. 

RufusH.Smith " 

F.  Kohl •• 

S.  S.  Borden    " 

W  S.  Batcheller J.  W. 

(.'.  L.  Watson W.M. 

W.  F.  Spence " 

Charles  W.  Morris " 


839 

840 
841 
852 
843 


844 
845 


846 

847 


M.M.Hitchcock S.  W. 

J.  Perry  Bates J.  W. 

J.  F.  Blessinjr W.M. 

James  F.  Perching " 

Gregory  H.  Hovnanlan ■' 

Rol>ert  F.  Thorogood " 

H.  E.  Keeler     S.  W. 

H.  C.  Edwards J.  W. 

M.  S.  Campbell W.M. 

Cvrus  H.  Edison.      " 

William  J.  Webb* S.  W. 

F.  C.  Funk W.M. 

George  T.  Chant " 


*Proxy. 


PAST  MASTERS. 


W.A.Stevens No.  393 


RECAPITULATION. 


Grand  Officers  

Members  of  Committees 

Past  Grand  Officers  not  otherwise  enumerated 

District  Deputy  Grand  Masters 

Past  Masters 

Representatives  of  other  Grand  Lodges  not  otherwise  enumerated. 
Representatives 

Total 

Lodges  represented 


.  90 
.  46 
.  1 
.  30 
1 
.  1 
.819 

.918 
699 


1897.  J  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois.  59 

The  Grand  Secretary  moved  that  Barry  Lodg"e  No.  34, 
Noble  Lodg-e  No.  362,  and  New  Burnside  No.  772  having- 
paid  their  dues  after  the  time  prescribed  by  the  Grand  Lodge 
By-laws,  the  Representatives  be  entitled  to  mileag^e  and 
l^er  diem,  which,  on  motion,  carried. 

REPORT—Oommittee  on  Petitions. 

R.  W.  Bro.  C.  M.  Forman  submitted  the  following  report 
from  the  Committee  on  Petitions,  which  was,  on  motion, 
adopted: 

To  the  Most  Worshipful  Grand  Lodge  A.  F.  and  A.  M.  of  Illinois: 

Your  Committee  on  Petitions  would  respectfully  and  fraternally 
report  as  follows,  as  to  the  several  matters  referred  to  it: 

No.  1.  Petition  of  W.  F.  Smith,  expelled  by  the  Grand  Lodge  at 
its  session  of  1896.  The  petitioner  was  formerly  a  member  of  Creal 
Springs  Lodge  No.  817.  There  is  nothing  showing  that  the  said  lodge 
ever  voted  on  the  application  of  the  petitioner  for  restoration.  In 
fact,  the  papers  in  the  case  are  in  a  very  unsatisfactory  condition, 
and  your  committee  therefore  recommends  that  the  papers  in  this 
case  be  referred  to  said  Creal  Springs  Lodge  No.  817,  for  proper 
action  thereon. 

No.  2.  Petition  of  D.  L.  Moorhead,  indefinitely  suspended  by 
Grand  Lodge.  The  petitioner  was  formerly  a  member  of  El  Dara 
Lodge  No.  388.  There  is  no  petition  accompanying  the  papers,  and 
the  record  is  very  deficient.  Therefore,  the  case  is  referred  to  said 
El  Dara  Lodge  to  complete  the  same. 

No.  3.  Petition  of  Samuel  Baxter,  expelled  by  Newman  Lodge 
No.  369,  on  or  about  March  1,  1885.  The  papers  in  this  case  show  that 
the  petition  was  regularly  acted  upon  by  said  Newman  Lodge;  that 
of  the  attendance  at  the  said  lodge  meeting  when  action  was  taken 
thereon  all  but  one  member  voted  in  the  affirmative.  Your  committee 
recommends  the  restoration  of  the  petitioner. 

No.  4.  Petition  of  John  Sweeney,  expelled  from  Tamaroa  Lodge 
No.  207.  The  members  of  said  lodge  having  unanimously  voted  for 
the  restoration  of  said  petitioner,  your  committee  concurs  in  said 
recommendation. 

No.  5.  Petition  of  Lloyd  Y.  Eddy,  expelled  by  Erie  Lodge  No.  667. 
Two  years  ago  the  petition  of  said  Eddy  was  before  this  committee, 
as  well  as  at  the  last  session  of  this  Grand  Lodge,  and  your  commit 
tee,  owing  to  the  papers  at  each  time  being  deficient,  referred  same 
to  the  said  Erie  Lodge  for  proper  action  thereon.     The  offense  for 


60  Proceedings  of  the  [Oct.  6. 

which  the  petitioner  was  expelled  was  of  such  serious  nature  that 
your  committee  was  exceedingly  slow  to  recommend  the  restoration 
of  said  Edd}',  that  the  <rood  name  of  Masonrj'  might  be  preserved,  but 
your  committee,  after  duly  examining  into  the  merits  of  the  case,  is 
now  of  the  opinion  that  the  prayer  of  the  petitioner  should  be  granted, 
and  the  petitioner  be  restored  to  all  the  rights  and  privileges  of  Ma- 
sonry. The  said  Erie  Lodge  having  unanimously  petitioned  for  his 
restoration,  your  committee  now  concur  in  said  recommendation. 

No.  6.  Petition  of  Thomas  Edgar,  formerly  a  member  of  Sigwalt 
Lodge,  but  expelled  by  Ben  Hur  Lodge  No.  818.  There  are  many 
members  of  this  Grand  Lodge  who  are  thoroughly  familiar  with  the 
facts  in  connection  with  the  trial  and  subsequent  expulsion  of  the 
petitioner,  which  trial  was  conducted  by  said  Ben  Hur  Lodge,  by  rea- 
son of  the  fact  that  the  charter  of  said  Sigwalt  Lodge  was  arrested 
by  the  Grand  Master  for  good  and  sufficient  reasons.  The  petitioner 
was  at  the  time  of  the  trial  a  Past  Master  of  said  Sigwalt  Lodge. 
The  expulsion  occurred  on  or  about  May  14,  1896.  On  the  2nd  of  Sep- 
tember, 1897,  the  petitioner  petitioned  said  Ben  Hur  Lodge  for  its 
recommendation  to  the  Grand  Lodge  for  restoration,  and  out  of  an 
attendance  of  twenty- four  members  of  said  lodge,  twenty-three  thereof 
voted  favorably  upon  said  petition.  Subsequentl}',  viz:  On  Septem 
ber  28,  1897,  however,  at  a  communication  of  Humboldt  Park  Lodge 
No.  813,  which  lodge  is  the  same  as  Sigwalt  Lodge,  the  name  thereof 
having  been  changed,  the  question  of  restoration  of  the  petitioner 
being  brought  up,  a  resolution  was  presented  and  passed  protesting 
against  the  action  of  Ben  Hur  Lodge  in  recommending  the  restoration 
of  the  petitioner.  A  certified  copy  of  which  resolution,  under  the 
seal  of  said  Humboldt  Lodge  has  been  presented  to  your  committee, 
to  be  considered  in  connection  wuth  this  matter.  Representatives  of 
the  petitioner,  as  well  as  those  opposed  to  his  restoration,  have  ap- 
peared before  this  committee  and  been  accorded  a  patient  hearing. 
Your  committee  begs  leave  to  report  that  it  has  given  this  matter  a 
mdst  thorough  and  careful  consideration  in  all  its  bearings,  and  after 
duly  considering  the  same  is  of  the  opinion  that  the  welfare  of  Ma- 
sonry and  its  best  interests  can  be  promoted  b}-  the  granting  of  the 
prayer  of  this  petition,  and  would  recommend  that  Thomas  Edgar  be 
restored  to  good  standing  in  the  fraternity. 

All  of  which  is  most  respectfully  as  well  as  fraternally  submitted. 

C.  M.  FORMAN, 

BEN  HAGLE, 

A.  W.  BLAKESLEY, 

Committee. 


1897.]  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois.  61 

AMENDMENT  -To  Grand  Lodge  By-laws,  Proposed. 

R.W.  Bro.  C.  M.  Porman  presented  the  following  amend- 
ment to  the  Grand  Lodge  By-laws,  and  it  being  seconded 
by  more  than  twenty  representatives,  lies  ov^er  until  next 
year: 

Amend  section  4,  article  X,  part  III,  or  any  other  part  of  Grand 
Lodg'e  By-laws  relating  to  restoration  of  expelled  Masons,  by  insert- 
ing above  after  the  word  restoration,  where  said  word  occurs  the 
second  time:  "Which  petition  shall  be  presented  at  a  stated  communi- 
cation of  the  lodge,  and  be  acted  upon  at  the  next  or  a  subsequent 
stated  communication  of  said  lodge,  when,  if" 

AMENDMENT— To  Grand  Lodge  By-laws,  Proposed. 

R.W.  Bro.  A.  H.  Bell  presented  the  following  amend- 
ment to  section  1,  article  VIII,  part  III,  of  Grand  Lodge 
By-laws,  and  being  seconded  by  more  than  twenty  repre- 
sentatives, lies  over  until  next  year: 

Section  1.  The  payment  of  annual  dues  is  a  duty  incumbent  upon 
every  member  of  a  lodge,  and  the  neglect  or  refusal  to  fulfill  this  duty 
shall  be  (except  for  good  cause)  an  infraction  of  Masonic  law  and  a 
violation  of  a  Masonic  covenant  and  shall  subject  the  delinquent  to 
lodge  discipline,  and  no  lodge  shall  authorize  or  create  any  form  of 
life  membership  nor  in  any  manner  exempt  any  of  its  members  from 
the  payment  of  dues;  provided,  however,  that  a  lodge,  by  a  majority 
vote,  may  remit  the  whole  or  any  portion  of  the  dues  of  any  of  its 
its  members  then  due.  Nothing  herein  shall  be  construed  to  effect 
any  rights  heretofore  acquired  by  any  member  of  a  lodge  under  the 
by-laws  of  any  constituent  lodge. 

REPOET— Committee  on  Lodges  U.  D, 

R.W.  Bro.  Charles  H.  Patton  submitted  the  following 
report  from  the  Committee  on  Lodges  under  Dispensation, 
which  was,  on  motion,  adopted: 

To  tha  M.  W.  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois,  A.  F.  and  A.  Masons: 

Your  Committee  on  Lodges  U. D.  have  examined  the  work,  re- 
turns, and  by-laws  of  six  lodges  heretofore  working  under  dispensa- 
tion, and  herewith  fraternally  submit  our  report  upon  each  individual 
case  as  follows,  to-wit: 


62  Proceed inr/ 8  of  the  [Oct.  6, 

LONDON   LODGE, 

Located  at  London  Mills,  Fulton  county,  Illinois.  Dispensation  was 
dated  Aufjust  1,  A.D.  18%,  and  on  the  loth  of  October,  A.D.  1896,  the 
dispensation  was  continued  in  force  by  the  Grand  Master,  M.W.  Bro. 
Owen  Scott,  until  the  meeting^  of  the  Grand  Lodge  in  1897,  under  the 
authority  of  article  XXIII,  section  13,  part  II,  Grand  Lodge  By-laws. 

Your  committee  find  from  the  record  returned,  that  it  is  mainl}- 
correct,  but  the  secretary  persists  in  showing  the  nature  of  reports 
of  investigating  committees,  in  violation  of  article  XIII,  section  2. 
part  II,  Grand  Lodge  By-laws,  as  is  so  common  with  secretaries,  in 
spite  of  the  "thunderbolts  hurled  at  them,"  as  the  Committee  on 
Lodges  U.D.  puts  it,  in  their  report  for  1892.  Your  committee  have  a 
hope,  though  not  a  lively  one,  that  the  time  may  come  when  lodge  offi- 
cers will  learn  that  the  Grand  Lodge  By-laws  were  made  to  be  read 
and  obeyed.  The  secretary  is  also  admonished  to  make  his  records 
show  that  E. A.  retired  when  the  lodge  opened  on  the  second  and  third 
degrees.     The  record  of  its  work  is: 

Petitions  received 4 

Elected 4 

Rejected 0 

Initiated 4 

Passed  4 

Raised 4 

No.  named  in  dispensation  1(5 

20 
No.  named  in  dispensation  not  signing  petition  for 

charter 1 

Total  membership 19 

J.  F.  Luman,  H.  L.  Wilson,  W.  T.  Shreves,  J.  D.  Harkless,  John 
Armstrong,  John  Wagner,  I.  D.  Cadwallader,  Daniel  A.  Swegle,  Joseph 
Hughbanks,  William  S.  Luman,  C.  W.  Norval,  John  F.  Wilkin,  Irvin 
Fox,  W.  ii.  lionneberg,  ('.  N.  Hooper,  M.  H.  White.  Charles  A.  Mateer. 
A.  S.  White,  S.  B.  Beer. 

Finding  the  By-laws  correct,  your  committee  recommend  that  a 
charter  be  granted  to  that  lodge  as  London  Lodge  No.  848. 

PALESTINE  LODGE, 

Located  at  Palestine,  Crawford  count}-,  Illinois.  Dispensation  is 
dated  January  1,  A.D.,  1897.  Lodge  instituted  January  14,  1897,  by 
U.W.  Bro.  G.  H.  B.  Tollc,  Dc])uty  (irand  Secretary,  as  proxy  for  the 
Grand  Master. 


1897.]  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois.  63 

Your  committee  find  that  the  records  of  this  lodge  show  that  one 
brother  was  initiated,  passed,  and  raised  without  first  being  elected 
to  receive  these  degrees,  that  two  Fellow  Crafts  were  permitted  to 
enter  a  Master  Mason's  lodge  when  the  degree  of  Entered  Apprentice 
was  conferred,  and  that  at  a  stated  communication  two  petitions  for 
the  degrees  were  received  and  referred  and  one  brother  raised,  but 
the  record  fails  to  show  any  date  or  place  when  and  where  this  im- 
portant work  was  done.  The  record  also  shows  that  no  attention  has 
been  paid  to  article  XIII,  section  2,  part  II,  of  the  Grand  Lodge  By- 
laws which  emphatically  prohibits  the  secretary  from  entering  in  the 
record  the  nature  of  the  report  of  the  committees  of  investigation, 
as  stated  verbally  by  the  master. 

From  the  general  excellence  of  their  record  your  committee  are  in- 
clined to  think  that  these  errors  are  due  to  the  carelessness  of  the  sec- 
retary rather  than  to  the  actual  administration  and  are  not  inclined 
to  inflict  upon  the  brethren  of  this  growing  young  lodge  punishment 
for  the  faults  of  its  officers  by  refusing  to  recommend  the  granting  of 
a  charter.  But  we  realize  that  it  may  become  important  to  one  of 
these  brothers  to  be  able  to  prove,  by  the  records  of  his  lodge,  that 
he  had  been  duly  elected  to  receive  the  degrees,  and  to  the  other,  to 
prove,  by  the  same  records,  the  date  when,  and  the  place  where,  he 
was  raised  to  the  sublime  degree  of  Master  Mason;  and  that,  if  the 
facts  will  warrant  it,  that  the  lodge  record  should  be  corrected  to 
show  these  facts,  and  also  to  show  that  the  work  was  done  in  the 
proper  degrees,  with  none  present  but  those  who  were  entitled. 

Your  committee,  therefore,  recommend  that  a  charter  be  granted 
to  this  lodge  as  Palestine  Lodge  No.  849,  when  the  Grand  Master  has 
satisfied  himself  that  the  errors  above  mentioned  were  caused  by  the 
omissions  of  the  secretary  instead  of  the  actual  administration,  and 
when  the  records  of  this  lodge  have  been  corrected  under  his  direc- 
tion, and  that  the  matter  be  referred  to  the  Grand  Master  for  that 
purpose. 

The  record  of  its  work  is  as  follows: 

Petitions  received 11 

Elected 10 

Rejected   0 

Initiated 6 

Passed 5 

Raised : 5 

No.  named  in  dispensation 15 

20 
No.  named  in  dispensation  not  signing  petition  for 

charter 1 

Total  membership 19 


<54  Proccedinr/s  of  the  [Oct.  6, 

J.  S.  Thompson.  M.  H.  Hotchkiss,  M.  H.  Perrin.  J.  G.  Nelson,  R.  O. 
Wesner.  T.  L.  Conner.  F.  M.  Fox,  F.  M.  Shaw,  A.  11.  Taylor,  J.  L.  Pos- 
ton,  J.  D.  Mail.  (".  S.  Wigc<rinton.  l\.  .1.  White,  Nathan  Grimes,  Pearce 
Mills.  J.  i{.  Flannery,  Richard  Hotchkiss.  Isaac  Robinson.  F.  W- 
Mashur. 

AUSTIN  LODGE, 
Located  at  Austin,  Cook  county.  111.     Dispensation  dated  .Tune  8,  A.D. 
1897.     Instituted  June  12.  1897,  by  R.W.  Bro.  M.  Bates  lott.  District 
Deputy  Grand  Master  Third  District,  as  proxy  for  M.W.  Bro.  Owen 
Scott,  Grand  Master. 

Your  committee  have  examined  the  By-laws,  record,  and  return 
of  the  work  of  Austin  Lodg-e  U.D.:  are  again  reminded  thereby  that 
"a  thinji:  of  beauty  is  a  joy  forever."  Such  records  make  the  work  of 
your  committee  easy,  and  the  accuracy  running  throughout  this  ex- 
tensive record  makes  it  clear  that  the  officers  of  this  lodge  know  what 
Grand  Lodge  By-laws  were  made  for,  and  that  thej-  are  acquainted 
with  the  laws  and  usages  of  Masonry. 
The  record  of  its  work  is  as  follows: 

Petitions  received ...  .20 

Elected » 16 

Rejected 0 

Initiated 15 

Passed 10 

Raised 9 

No.  named  in  dispensation 77 

86 
No.  named  in  dispensation  not  signing  petition  for 

charter 4 

Total  membership 82 

R.  R.  .Jampolis.  W.  F.  Branston,  R.  B.  Wilson,  A.  E.  Barteline, 
L.  H.  Howell,  D.  01iphant,.J.  P.  Gardner,  B.  F.  Buck,  W.  L.  Bunton, 
F.  .1.  Erfert,  L.  Didier.  sr.,  C.  E.  Bassett.  L.  Didier,  jr.,  H.  K.  Strat- 
ford, W.  A.  Mitchell.  H.  Macdiarmid.  G.  M.  Leathers,  B.  W.  Crissey. 
T.  Langford.  .1.  D.  Haggard.  R.  ,1.  Martin.  B.  J.  Wayt.  .J.  S.  Way  man, 
H.  B.  Martin,  H.  M.  Gillett.  T.  A.  Snow.  1).  (J.  Stannard.  G.  B.  Burns. 
S.  C".  Elliott,  H.  Roberts,  A.  T.  Benson.  .1.  S.  Cleverdon.  R.  H.  Traill. 
C.  H.  Post,  G.  B.  D.  Koster,  A.  S.  Miilholland.  .1.  Kerr.  ,T.  Gardiner, 
•J.  V.  Huntress.  P.  M.  Baumgardner.  .1.  J.  Walser.  H.  G.  Teele,  T.  M. 
Hunter.  F.  A.  Outhank.  W.  G.  Davis,  W.  A.  Pillinger.  .1.  .1.  Miller, 
R.  C.  Newell.  S.  H.  Bolton.  \V.  F.  Horn,  C.  E.  Burke,  W.  Tevnan,  P.  G. 
Wing.  G.  N.  Sev fried,  F.  Emerson,  .\.  Barker,  T.  .1.  Cavey,  A.  S.  Green- 
wood, A.  A.  Strom,  S.  II.  Fveleth.  .1.  Carolan,  C.  A.  Stevens.  C.  S.  Cut- 


1897.]  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois.  65 

ting,  W.  O.  Cline.  J.  W.  Moreland,  W.  P.  Gunthorp,  S.  Pillinger,  C.  D. 
Gammon,  C.  E.  Jones,  F.  A.  Spink,  H.  L.  Goodrow,  F.  B.  Leavitt,  P.  L. 
Goss,  F.  J.  Didier.  S.  C.  Hig-ginson,  C.  0.  Wood,  C.  P.  Fink,  F.  Sher- 
wood, F.  Grant,  H.  H.  Rearden,  B.  C.  Brandstadt,  E.  Bugg. 

Your  committee,  finding  the  record, returns,  by-laws, and  work  cor- 
rect, recommend  that  a  charter  be  granted  to  this  lodge,  as  "Austin 
Lodge  No.  850. '' 

CHICAGO  HEIGHTS   LODGE, 

Located  at  Chicago  Heights,  Cook  county.  111.  Dispensation  dated 
January  8,  A.D.1897.  Instituted  January  12,  A.D.  1897,  by  R.W.  Bro. 
W.  M.  Burbank, District  Deputy  First  District,  as  proxy  for  M.W.  Bro. 
Owen  Scott,  Grand  Master. 

Your  committee  have  carefully  examined  the  by-laws,  work,  and 
returns  of  this  lodge,  and  find  the  same  neat,  accurate,  and  business 
like  in  every  particular.     The  record  of  its  work  is  as  follows: 

Petitions  received 6 

Elected 6 

Rejected 0 

Initiated 6 

Passed ■  •  •  6 

Raised 6 

No.  named  in  dispensation ...         17 

Total  membership 23 

George  A.  Hawkins,  John  Becker,  Thomas  Burns,  Emil  Walter) 
Adolph  F.  M.  Steen,  Henry  C.  Meyer,  George  C.  Planner,  Nicholas  M. 
Smith,  Carl  Howe,  Theodore  Weiderhold,  Jacob  E.  Strong,  Henry 
Shearer,  George  H.  Fuller,  Frank  Fellows,  Frank  L.  Steen,  Charles  R. 
Rhentan,  William  Elliott,  William  H.  Donovan,  David  Wallace,  Pres- 
ton T.  Large,  Otto  A.  Oswald,  Louis  F.  Walters,  John  W.  Thomas. 

Your  committee  recommend  that  a  charter  be  granted  to  this 
lodge,  as  ''Chicago  Heights  Lodge  No.  851." 


GOTHIC  LODGE, 

Located  at  East  St.  Louis,  St.  Clair  county,  Illinois.  Dispensation 
dated  January  15,  1897.  Instituted  January  22,  1897,  by  R.W.  Bro. 
W.  B.  Grimes,  Grand  Lecturer,  as  proxy  for  M.W.  Bro.  Owen  Scott, 
Grand  Master. 

Your  committee  have  carefully  examined  the  record,  by-laws, 
returns,  and  work  of  this  lodge  and  find  the  same  correct. 


66  Proceedings  of  the  [Oct.  6, 

The  record  of  its  work  is  as  follows: 

Petitions  received 10 

Elected 10 

Rejected 0 

Initiated 10 

Passed 9 

Raised   9 

No.  named  in  dispensation 10 

Total  membership 19 

John  B.  Kelley,  D.  S.  Hahn,  A.  H.  Behrens,  Frank  J.  Curtis,  John 
Wilson,  jr.,  Robert  Traubel,  W.  A.  West,  Thomas  A.  Metcalf,  R.  A. 
Cooke.  I.  H.  Todd,  C.  E.  H.  Behrens,  A.  Bean,  V.  C.  Amos,  Jacob  Hur- 
ler. .1.  H.  Thomas,  W.  H.  Roberts,  A.  H.  Knudsen.  Alexander  Wilson, 
J.  E.  Thoman. 

We  recommend  that  a  charter  be  granted  to  this  lodge  as  "Gothic 
Lodge  No.  852." 

LATHAM   LODGE, 

Located  at  Latham,  Logan  county,  Illinois.  Dispensation  dated  March 
17.  A.  D.  1897.  Instituted  March  27,  A.  D.  1897,  by  R.W.  Bro.  C.  Y. 
Tenney,  District  Deputy  Grand  Master  Eighteenth  District,  as  proxy 
for  M.W.  Bro.  Owen  Scott,  Grand  Master. 

Your  committee  have  fully  examined  the  by-laws,  work,  and  re- 
turns of  this  lodge  and  find  the  same  correct.  The  record  of  its  work 
is  as  follows: 

Petitions  received 2 

Elected 2 

Rejected 0 

Initiated 2 

Passed 2 

Raised 1 

No.  named  in  dispensation 9 

No.  named  in  dispensation  not  signing  petition  for        10 
charter 1 

Total  membership   9 

Mackenzie  M.  Vaughn,  .lames  Huston,  John  L.  Mann,  John  F. 
Mann,  Benjamin  F.  Markland,  Nicholas  P.  Gasaway,  Oscar  J.  Lucas. 
William  T.  Phillips,  Thomas  A.  Gasaway. 

We  therefore  recommend  that  a  charter  be  granted  this  lodges  a 
Latham  Lodge  No.  853.        Praternalh'  submitted, 

C.  H.  PATTON, 

C.  J.  REUTER. 
S.  S.  CHANCE, 

D.  J.  AVERY, 

H.  C.  MITCHELL. 
Committee  on  Lodges  U.D. 


1897.]  Ch-and  Lodge  of  Illinois.  67 

INVITATION-To  Visit  Garden  City  Lodge  No.  141. 

The  Grand  Secretary  read  an  invitation  from  Garden 
City  Lodg"e  No.  141,  to  visit  their  lodge  Wednesday  even- 
ing" to  witness  worlv  in  the  third  desfree. 


PEESENTATION— Eepresentative  for  Idaho. 

R.W.  Bro.  W.  M.  Burbank:  3/.  W.  Grand  Master:— I  have  the 
honor  to  present  you  a  certificate  of  my  appointment  as  the  Repre- 
sentative of  the  M.W.  Grand  Lodge  of  Idaho,  near  the  Grand  Lodge 
of  Illinois. 

The  M.W.  Grand  Master:  Brethren,  we  are  in  receipt  of  the 
credentials  of  our  distinguished  brother  as  the  Representative  of  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  Idaho  near  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois.  It  gives  me 
great  pleasure  on  behalf  of  the  Grand  Lodge  to  welcome  our  brother 
as  representative  of  this  young  and  vigorous  sister  jurisdiction. 
Brethren  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  you  will  join  with  me  in  according  our 
Brother  Burbank  the  grand  honors  of  Masonry. 

Brother  Burbank:  M.  W.  Grand  Master  and  Brethren  of  the  Grand 
Lodge: — I  assure  you  I  appreciate  the  honor  you  have  conferred  upon 
me,  and  I  thank  you  most  sincerely  for  your  courteous  and  fraternal 
recognition  of  me  as  the  Representative  of  the  M.W.  Grand  Lodge  of 
Masons  of  Idaho  near  this  Grand  Lodge.  1  assure  you,  M.W.  sir  and 
brethren,  that  I  shall  exert  my  best  endeavors  to  perform  the  duties 
of  the  office  to  which  I  have  been  so  unexpectedly  appointed.  I  sin- 
cerely hope  that  the  relations  and  fraternal  regard  that  at  present 
exist  between  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Idaho  and  this  M.W  Grand  Lodge 
will  continue  and  grow  stronger  and  become  of  more  practical  value 
as  the  years  go  by.     I  thank  you. 


PRESENTATION— Eepresentative  for  Arkansas. 

R.W.  Bro.  R.  T.  Spencer  presented  his  credentials  as 
Representative  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Arkansas,  and  was 
received  with  Masonic  honors. 

R.W.  Bro.  R.  T.  Spencer:  M.  W.  Grand  Master:— I  have  the  honor 
of  presenting  my  credentials  as  the  Representative  of  the  Grand  Lodge 
of  Arkansas  near  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois. 

The  M.W.  Grand  Master:  Brethren,  I  hold  in  my  hand  the  cre- 
dentials of  our  R.W.  Bro.  Spencer  as  the  Representative  of  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  Arkansas,  and  I  ask  you  to  join  in  according  to  him 


68  Proceedings  <>f  t/ir  [Oct.  6, 

that  welcome  and  greetinjj  that  is  due  from  this  Grand   Lodge  to  a 
sister  Grand  Jurisdiction. 

R.W.  Bro.  Spencer:  M.  IT  (irdud  Mdster  and  Brethren  of  the  State 
of  Illinois: — I  thank  you  sincerely  for  the  kind  reception  you  have  ac- 
corded me  as  the  Representative  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Arkansas 
near  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois  and  shall  take  great  pleasure  in  con- 
veying to  Grand  Master  Ayer  your  fraternal  greeting.  Arkansas 
has  four  hundred  and  forty-five  Lodges,  and  thirteen  thousand  three 
hundred  and  seventy  Masons,  and  though  not  as  densely  populated  as 
this  state  the  Masonic  representation  is  very  creditable. 

In  the  Grand  Jurisdiction  of  Arkansas  the  Illinois  brethren  will 
remember  is  the  birth  place  of  M.  W.  Bro.  Logan  H.  Root,  who  in  1883 
occupied  the  oriental  chair  as  Grand  Master  of  Masons  in  Arkansas 
and  whose  death  is  deeply  deplored  b}'  the  Craft  of  that  Grand  Juris- 
diction. I  shall  not  trespass  further  on  your  time  but  will  close  with 
the  hope  that  the  kindl}'  and  fraternal  relations  which  now  exist  be- 
tween the  two  Grand  Lodges  will  forever  continue. 


ADDITIONAL  EEPOKT— Oommittee  on  Correspondence. 

M.W.  Bro.  Joseph  Robbins,  from  the  Committee  on  Cor- 
respondence, made  a  verbal  report  on  the  recog"nition  of  the 
Grand  Lodg^e  of  Eg^ypt,  and  asked  for  further  time,  which 
on  motion,  was  granted. 

By  request  of  M.W.  Bro.  John  C.  Smith,  the  Grand  Mas- 
ter read  the  following"  letter: 

Cairo,  Feb.  27,  1897. 
Honorable  Oircn  Scott,  MoM  Wort^hipful  (.hand  Master  M.W.  Grand  Lodge 
of  Illinois,  U.S.A.,  Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons. 

De.-vr  Sir  and  M.W.  F^rother:  The  M.W.  National  Grand  Lodge 
of  Egypt,  being  a  Grand  Lodge  of  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  com- 
posed of  the  worshipful  masters  and  wardens  of  its  constituent  lodges, 
and  none  others,  and  owing  allegiance  to  no  other  body  of  any  name 
whatsoever;  being  desirous  of  cultivating  amicable  relations  with 
other  governing  Grand  Lodges  of  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  frater- 
nally asks  Masonic  recognition  of  the  M.W.  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois, 
U.S.A.,  of  Free  and  Accei)ted  Masons,  to  an  exchange  of  Representa- 
tives, the  better  to  cultivate  the  spirit  of  brotherly  love  and  friend- 
ship so  earnestly  taught  in  all  our  symbolic  lodges. 

The  National  Grand  Lodge  of  Egj-pt  was  regular!}-  organized  in 
the  year  1876,  by  lodges  of  Free  and  Accepted  Masons  which  taught 


1897.]  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois.  ()9 

and  do  now  teach  the  English  ritual  as  found  in  the  work  of  the 
Mother  Grand  Lodge  of  England,  presided  over  by  H.R.H.  the  Prince 
of  Wales,  M.W.  Grand  Master  of  all  English  Freemasons.  This  fact 
can  be  best  verified  by  that  distinguished  Freemason  of  England,  R.W. 
Bro.  William  J.  Hugan,  an  honorary  Past  Grand  Senior  Warden  of  this 
Grand  Lodge,  by  Bro.  H.R.  H.  the  Duke  of  Connaught,  also  an  honorary 
Past  Grand  Senior  Warden,  and  your  own  Past  Grand  Master,  the 
honorable  Gen.  John  C.  Smith,  who  is  the  honorary  Past  Grand  Mas- 
ter of  the  National  Grand  Lodge  of  Egypt,  and  has  frequently  visited 
our  Grand  and  Constituent  Lodges. 

By  reason  of  the  close  and  fraternal  relationship  which  has  arisen 
between  the  Egyptian  and  Illinois  Freemasons,  having  its  origin  in 
the  visitation  of  our  Egyptian  brethren  to  the  Illinois  lodges  during 
the  world-famed  Chicago  Exposition  of  1893,  and  the  return  visits  of 
traveling  brethren  from  Illinois  to  our  Egyptian  lodges,  we  seem 
nearer  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois  than  any  other  American  Grand 
Lodge,  and  for  these  reasons  we  first  ask  of  you  the  Masonic  recogni- 
tion so  cheerfully  accorded  us  by  the  Mother  Grand  Lodge  of  England, 
in  1S76,  and  all  other  Grand  Lodges  in  Europe  of  which  we  have  asked 
that  Masonic  courtesy. 

I  am,  M.W.  Grand  Master,  sincerely  and  fraternally  yours. 

Grand  Master  Idris. 


REPORT — Committee  on  Finance. 

M.W.  Bro.  Leroy  A.  Goddard  presented  the  following- 
report  from  the  Committee  on  Finance,  which,  on  motion, 
was  adopted: 

2b  the  M.  W.  Grand  Lodge,  A.  F.  and  A.  M.: 

Your  Committee  on  Finance  fraternally  reports  that  it  has  ex- 
amined the  reports  of  the  Grand  Treasurer  and  Grand  Secretary,  and 
finds  them  correct.  For  a  detailed  statement  of  receipts  and  disburse- 
ments reference  is  made  to  annual  reports  of  said  officers. 

The  condition  of  the  treasury  of  the  Grand  Lodge  is  found  to  be 
as  follows: 

GENERAL   FUND. 

Balance  in  hands  of  (Jrand  Treasurer  October  :}.  1896 $44,449  34 

Received  from  all  sources 42,919  75 

Total  receipts $87,369  09 


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CR. 

Paid  for  United  States  bonds  S  9,660  00 

Paid  {jrand  officers  and  committees 2,871  60 

Paid  mileage  and  per  diem  to  Representatives 15,653  70 

Paid  miscellaneous  orders 10,822  06 

Balance  in  hands  of  Treasurer  October  2.  1897 48,361  73 

Total $87,369  09 

CHARITY   FUND. 

Balance  on  hand  October  3,  1896 S      870  26 

Received  during  the  year 142  60 


Total $  1,012  86 

CR. 

Paid  on  orders S      290  00 

Balance  on  hand 722  86 

Total $  1,012  86 

CASH   AND    BONDS   IN   HANDS    OF   GRAND   TREASURER,    OCTOBER  2,    '97. 

Balance  on  hand,  General  Fund S  48,361  73 

Balance  on  hand,  Charity  Fund 722  86 

Cit}-^  of  Chicago  4  per  cent  bonds,  par  value 50,000  00 

United  States  4  per  cent  bonds,  par  value 8,000  00 


Total $107,084  59 

From  the  amount  of  cash  in  general  fund,  as  stated  above,  will 
be  paid  amount  of  appropriations  and  special  orders  recommended,  if 
approved,  which  will  reduce  the  said  fund  to  an  estimated  balance  of 
$12,646.57. 

We  estimate  the  expenses  of  the  Grand  Lodge  for  the  ensuing 
year  as  follows: 

Mileage  and  per  diem   $19,500  00 

Printing _. .     3,000  00 

Stationery,  postage,  and  e.xpress 1.200  00 

Schools  of  instruction 1,200  00 

Salaries  of  Grand  Officers 4,400  00 

Miscellaneous 5,000  00 


Total $34,300  00 

Your  committee  recommends  the  following  appropriations,  and 
that  orders  for  the  amounts  be  drawn  by  the  Grand  Secretary: 
M.W.  Bro.  .Joseph  Robbins,  Committee  on  Correspondence. .  .S    300  00 
liro.  R.  R.  Stevens,  Grand  Tyler 100  00 


1897.]  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois.  71 

Bro.  R.  R.  Stevens,  Grand  Tyler,  expense,  etc $    72  00 

John  R.  Lane,  janitor  20  00 

W.  Bro.  G.  H.  B.  Tolle,  Assistant  Grand  Secretary 25  00 

Bro.  Z.  T.  Griffin,  stenographer 50  00 

For  rent  of  place  of  meeting- 350  00 

Bro.  William  Jenkins,  mileage  and  per  diem,  securing  trans- 
portation for  Representative   57  91 

J.  F.  Tenny  Co,  rubber  stamps 1  35 

N.  Bommersbach,  floral  design,  etc 15  90 

Bro.  George  A.  Stadler,  expenses  committee  in  hall 15  50 

Pantagraph  Ptg.  &  Sta.  Co.,  printing  reports,  Grand  Master, 

Grand  Secretary,  and  Correspondent 407  50 

Total $1,435  16 

And  to  the  members  of  committees  the  usual  allowance  of  three 
dollars  a  day  in  addition  to  the  amounts  allowed  by  the  by-laws. 

In  May  last  your  committee  visited  the  Grand  Secretary's  office 
in  Bloomington,  and  made  a  thorough  examination  of  the  books  and 
accounts  of  the  Grand  Secretary  and  found  them  correct. 

Your  committee  further  reports  that  it  has  procured  a  book,  in 
which  is  registered  from  personal  inspection  the  identical  assets  owned 
by  this  Grand  Lodge  and  in  the  hands  of  the  Grand  Treasurer;  and  that 
on  January  26  last  we  visited  the  office  of  the  Grand  Treasurer  and  with 
his  representatives  went  to  the  safety  deposit  vaults  of  the  Royal 
Trust  Company,  where  said  bonds,  stocks,  etc.,  of  the  Grand  Lodge  are 
kept.  We  found  that  the  Grand  Treasurer  keeps  the  same  separate 
and  apart  from  other  assets,  so  that  they  could  be  identified  without 
difficulty. 

The  following  is  a  complete  list  of  the  assets  which  we  examined: 
City  of  Chicago  4%  bonds  due  1908,  interest  payable  January 
and  July,  five  bonds,  $1,000  each,  Nos.  303  R,  305  R,  306  R, 

307  R,  and  370  R;  July,  1897,  coupons  on $  5,000 

City  of  Chicago  4%  school  bonds,  due  1911,  interest  payable  Jan- 
uary and  July,  ten  bonds,  $500  each,  Nos.  S  821,  S  822,  S  823, 
S  824,  S  825,  S  826,  S  857,  S  828,  S  829,  S  830;  July,  1897,  cou- 
pons on 5,000 

And  one  bond,  same  description  as  above,  S  731 1,000 

City  of  Chicago  4%  River  Improvement  bonds,  due  1912,  interest 
payable  January  and  July,  twenty  bonds,  '$1,000  each,  Nos. 
23,  24,  25,  26,  27,  28,  29,  ,30,  31,  32,  61,  62,  63,  64,  65,  66,  67,  68, 

69,  and  70;  July,  1897,  coupons  on 20,000 

City  of  Chicago  4%  bonds,  due  1914,  interest  payable  January 

and  .July,  eleven  bonds,  $500  each,  Nos.  16,  17,  18,  67,  68,  69, 

70,  71,  72,  73,  and  74;  July,  1897,  coupons  on 5,500 


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City  of  Chicago  4%  bonds,  due  1921,  interest  payable  January 
and  July,  four  bonds,  S1,OOU  each,  Nos.  758,  759,  775.  and  3023. 

July,  1897,  coupons  on .8  4,(KX) 

City  of  Chicafro  4^  sewerage  bonds,  due  1911.  interest  payable 
January  and  July,  two  bonds,  Sl.dOO  each,  Nos.  o4  and  69, 

July  1897,  coupons  on 2,000 

City  of  Chicago  A'/r  school  bonds,  due  1911.  interest  payable  Jan- 
uary and  July,  live  bonds  of  $1,000  each,  Nos.  S  440,  S  590, 

S  727,  S  729,  and  S  730,  July  1897,  coupons  on 5,000 

City  of  Chicago  4%  Water  Loan  bonds,  due  1911,  interest  pay- 
able January  and  July,  four  bonds,  $500  each,  Nos.  1042,  1142, 

1143,  and  1250,  July  1897,  coupons  on 2,000 

City  of  Chicago  4%  World's  Columbian  Exposition  bonds,  due 

1921,  interest  payable  January  and  July,  one  bond.  No.  5647.        500 
United  States  4^  cou[)on  bonds,  due  1925,  interest  quarterly, 
eight  bonds  of  -51,000  each.  Nos.  63,033,  63,034,  63,035,  63,036, 

63,037,  65,467,  65,468,  and  75,416,  xMay  1897,  coupons  on 8,000 

Note  of  A.  A.  Glenn  and  papers  connected  therewith,  together 

with  paid  up  life  policy, iNo.  99,588,  Connecticut  Mutual  Life.  5,000 
Certificate  No.  844,  Masonic  Fraternity  Temple  Association  in 

name  of  National  Lodge  No.  296,  A. F.  and  A.M., eight  shares.        800 
Four  notes,  $509.56,  each  signed  by  J.  M.  Smith,  payable  to  Na- 
tional Lodge  No.  596,  A.  F.  and  A.M.,  due  September  9, 1875, 
December  9,  1875,  December  9,  1875,  and  March  9,  1876. 
These  notes  are  of  no  value. 

In  regard  to  the  certificate  of  stock,  eight  shares,  of  the  Masonic 
Fraternity  Temple  Association,  standing  in  the  name  of  National 
Lodge  No.  596,  said  lodge  being  now  defunct,  at  a  meeting  of  5'our 
committee  in  Bloomington,  111.,  on  May  27  last  we  recommended  that 
the  M.W.  Grand  Master  have  this  stock  transferred  to  the  name  of 
the  Grand  Lodge.  We  also  advised  the  Grand  Master,  Brother  Owen 
Scott,  to  destroy  the  four  notes  of  S409.56  listed  above,  signed  by  J.  M. 
Smith  and  payable  to  said  National  Lodge,  the  maker  of  said  notes 
having  died  several  years  ago,  leaving  no  estate,  and  the  notes  not 
only  being  outlawed  by  lapse  of  time,  but  are  absolutely  worthless. 
All  of  which  is  fraternally  submitted. 

L.  A.  GODDARD, 
GIL.  W.  BARNARD, 
S.  W.  WADDLE. 

Committee. 

INTRODUCTION  -Of  the  Grand  Orator. 

Thk  M.W.  (JRAND  Master:  Brethren  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  I  have 
a  pleasing  duty  to  perform  in  introducing  the  distinguished  crafts- 
man who  will  deliver  the  annual  oration.     That  he  is  a  Mason  none 


1897.]  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois.  73 

who  know  him  will  dispute.  He  has  probably  been  a  Mason  longer  for 
his  age  than  any  other  person  present.  He  became  a  Mason  in  his 
earliest  infancy  in  spite  of  landmarks  or  dispensations.  So  eager  was 
he  to  join  the  family  of  Masons  that  he  was  accorded  a  hearing  at  an 
age  some  twenty-one  years  before  the  time  fixed  for  others  less  fortu- 
nately conditioned.  He  was  born  a  Mason.  I  therefore  present  R.W. 
Bro.  William  E.  Mason,  United  States  Senator,  who  will  deliver  the 
annual  oration. 

ORATION. 
By  R.W.  Bro.  William  E.  Mason,  Grand  Orator. 

'  THE   EVOLUTION  OF  A  NATION. 

The  first  nation  was  formed  by  cells  arranged  so  as  to  best  protect 
themselves  against  the  elements.  It  was  a  daring  and  tragic  struggle 
made  by  nature  to  create  a  tadpole.  During  that  struggle  one  daunt- 
less microbe  set  sail,  without  boat  or  pilot,  across  an  untried  drop  of 
water,  returned  in  safety  to  his  friends,  and  was  ever  after  spoken  of 
in  microbic  literature  as  a  "moral  Columbus."  It  was  a  long  stride 
from  the  first  nation  (the  collection  of  cells)  to  the  creation  of  other 
nations,  such  as  a  swarm  of  bees,  a  school  of  fish,  and  a  band  of  our 
interesting  friends,  the  monkey.  It  was  also  a  long  stride  from  those 
nations  to  the  tribes  of  the  uncivilized  man,  in  forest  and  desert,  but 
a  greater  stride  has  Dame  Nature  made  in  reaching  the  present  so- 
called  civilized  nations,  the  best  of  which  we  believe  to  be  our  own 
United  States  of  America. 

I  have  spoken  of  the  monkey  as  an  "interesting  friend."  He  is  the 
very  first  parliamentarian,  so  far  as  I  can  learn.  For  centuries  they 
have  met  in  the  forests  and  taken  their  turn  in  expressing  their  views. 
They  may  never  has  ascended  (or  descended)  to  the  silver  question,  or 
the  tariff,  but  they  have  listened  attentively  to  the  speaker  and  duly 
applauded  him  when  finished.  Whether  the  applause  was  for  what 
he  said  or  because  he  quit  we  have  no  means  of  knowing.  We  have 
heard  men  say  that  the  monkey  imitated  the  man.  This  is  said  bj^ 
man  in  a  spirit  of  self-complacency,  if  not  conceit.  What  monkey  was 
it  that  visited  the  house  of  lords,  in  the  United  States  or  elsewhere, 
and  took  back  to  his  home  the  rules  of  parliamentary  law  and  practice? 
The  monkeys  indulged  in  this  "parleying"  or  talking  with  each  other 
(and  parliament  means  talking)  before  the  kings  allowed  the  par- 
liament. Mother  Nature,  when  toying  with  the  wheels  of  evolution, 
never  turns  them  backward,  and  if  there  is  any  imitating  I  fear  we, 
and  not  the  monkey,  are  the  guilty  ones. 

Man  was  the  first  and  only  animal  to  use  a  weapon.     Holding  a 
stick  or  branch  in  his  front  foot  one  day  to,assist  him  to  stand,  that 
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he  might  see  his  enemy  better  and  at  a  greater  distance,  he  was  sud- 
denly attacked,  and  used  his  club  in  his  front  foot  to  brain  his  enemy. 
The  constant  use  of  the  foot  changed  it  to  a  hand.  The  club  was  the 
first  weapon,  and  it  set  the  pace  for  civilization  from  that  day  to  this. 
Today,  Japan  eats  the  bread  earned  in  the  sweat  of  China's  face, 
because  she  has  the  best  club^the  latest  and  most  improved  methods 
for  killing.  England  maintains  her  historic  consistenc}'  by  using  her 
club  on  great  states  like  Guatemala.  The  poor  insurgents  of  Cuba 
may  have  libertj-  from  the  j'oke  of  Spain,  if  the  club  of  Spain  is  not 
too  strong.  Not  one  question  is  raised  of  right,  equity,  and  liberty: 
simply  who  can  kill  most:  and  we,  the  greatest  and  best,  as  we  claim, 
nation  in  the  world,  with  the  other  Christian  and  civilized  nations, 
render  no  encouragement  to  the  divine  right  of  self-government,  enun- 
ciated in  our  Declaration  of  Independence  more  than  one  hundred 
j'ears  ago.  It  maj'  well  be  remarked  in  passing  that  Spain  and  Eng- 
land, as  well  as  America,  are  dotted  with  churches,  with  countless 
spires  dedicated  to  the  worship  of  the  Nazarene  who  taught  nearlj- 
nineteen  hundred  years  ago  equal  rights,  "peace  on  earth,  and  good 
will  to  men." 

This  ma}'  be  a  digression,  but  its  observation  maj-  keep  down  our 
American  vanit}-,  and  compel  us  to  admit  that  there  is  room  for  a  few 
more  turns  of  the  wheel  in  the  evolution  of  a  nation. 

When  the  animal  man  first  cudgeled  the  brains  out  of  his  enemy, 
or  choked  him  to  death  with  his  front  foot,  the  family  and  friends  of 
his  enemy  came  next  day  for  revenge,  or  for  the  fruit  and  nuts  of  the 
battlefield.  The  animal  man  and  his  family  and  friends  were  pre- 
pared for  them,  and  thus  began  the  organization  of  nations  for 
mutual  self-defence;  then  began  the  art,  the  science,  the  cruelt}'  of 
war.  If  nations  began  in  war,  thej'  but  imitated  their  component 
parts — that  is  to  say,  mankind — for  has  not  man,  the  creature  of 
nature,  been  at  war  with  nature  since  his  birth?  Yes,  truly,  and  that 
in  imitation  of  his  friends,  the  other  animals,  and  the}-  in  turn  in  imi- 
tation of  the  vegetable  kingdom.  The  plant  will  selfishly  struggle  for 
the  last  drop  of  water  and  never  bow  its  head  to  give  air  or  sunshine 
to  its  neighbor.  The  cells  began  by  feeding  upon  each  other;  the 
fishes  of  the  sea  and  the  fowls  of  the  air  devour  their  smaller  breth- 
ren. The  microbe  of  small-pox  has  its  enem}-,  and  we  have  found 
him.  We  set  him  to  watch  the  citadel  of  artery  and  vein  to  kill 
the  small-pox  microbe  as  he  comes  in,  or  devour  his  pasture  lands, 
that  he  may  starve  before  he  fairly  sets  up  housekeeping  in  the 
blood. 

Men  live  upon  the  necessities  of  their  neighbors,  and  nations  war 
with  each  other  demanding  money  to  settle  an  insult.  They  struggle, 
bluster,  and  brag  of  their  merits,  and  seek  to  get  the  best  of  each 
other  in  trade  and  commerce.     Evolution  is  war:    The  flower  fights 


1897.]  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois.  75 

and  conquers  the  frost  in  the  sprin<j,  and  in  turn  dies  by  the  hand  it 
had  conquered.  The  mighty  rock  rears  its  head  in  the  ocean,  and  its 
fight  with  nature  begins.  Heat  expands  and  cold  contracts  it,  the 
waves  beat  against  it,  the  clouds  wet  it  and  the  sun  dries  it,  and  in  the 
very  war  of  the  elements  it  goes  down  again  to  the  sand  from  whence 
it  came,  but  only  to  sleep  till  the  passing  centuries  bid  it  again  to  lift 
its  giant  head  and  once  again  do  battle  for  life. 

And  so  Madam  Nature  seems  to  set  us  all  by  the  ears,  from  the 
microbe  to  the  nation  of  men,  as  though  she  was  quietly  enjoying  a 
game  of  solitaire,  which  we  call  "the  survival  of  the  fittest." 

This  shadow  is  not,  however,  all  of  the  picture.  Plants  and  trees 
sometime  help  each  other.  The  cells  marry  and  are  given  in  marri- 
age, and  some  of  the  toilers  of  the  sea  are  born  and  christened,  marry 
and  bless  their  children  and  their  grandchildren,  and  pass  on,  within 
the  rising  and  the  setting  of  the  sun,  yet  while  living  have  helped  to 
build  forts  to  protect  the  small  from  the  great.  The  bee  is  postman 
for  lovesick  flowers,  and.  unwittingly  perhaps,  trades  his  service  for 
hone}^  he  has  stolen  but  which  he  thinks  is  his.  So  the  bee  and  the 
flower  are  useful  to  each  other.  Mankind,  sometime  in  the  early 
dawn,  heard  the  whispered  word  ''duty, ''and  began  to  learn  its  mean- 
ing by  bearing  each  others  burdens,  by  learning  to  meet,  act,  and  part 
upon  the  square,  and  the  word  has  sounded  louder  and  louder  until  na- 
tions have  bent  a  willing  ear  and  are  seeking  to  prove  that  peace  and 
goodwill,  fair  trade,  and  commerce,  the  keeping  of  treaties  with  each 
other  is  to  be  the  ultimate  conduct  among  the  nations  of  the  world. 

A  brief  review  of  the  past,  to  safely  judge  of  the  future,  and  an 
ambition  to  add  my  small  intellectual  microbe  hastening  the  day  of 
keeping  all  international  agreements,  the  abondonment  of  war,  the 
establishment  of  international  arbitration  is  my  only  excuse  for  my 
use  of  the  subject,  ''The  Evolution  of  a  Nation." 

The  abandonment  of  war  cannot  come  in  a  daj'^,  nor  can  we  at 
once  disband  our  army  and  navy,  but  by  projier  consideration  we  can 
hasten  the  day  when  a  civilized  nation  will  maintain  its  army  and  navy 
only  to  defend  itself  against  barbarism,  and  settle  all  international 
disputes  as  we  did  the  Behring  sea  controversy — by  international  arbi- 
tration. Every  European  nation  toda}-  has  more  than  double  the 
army  and  navy  it  needs  to  defend  its  own  people  and  its  own  terri- 
tory, each  one  anxious  to  levy  tribute  on  a  weaker  nation  and  have 
the  so-called  glor}^  of  floating  its  flag  over  political  serfs.  We  have 
many  good  and  loyal  citizens  who  talk  about  extending  our  territory 
and  annexing  this  country  and  that.  For  my  part  I  believe  that  to 
acquire  territory  by  war  is  barbarism.  To  acquire  it  by  diplomacy  is 
larceny.  I  would  never  set  this  flag  over  any  other  nation  except  by 
the  consent  and  wish  of  the  people  of  that  nation,  and  then  not  to 


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levy  tribute,  but  simpl}'  to  help  them  to  the  glories  and  responsibili- 
ties ofself-fjovernment.  I  believe  our  government  ought,  in  ever}-  wa}', 
help  plant  the  Hag  of  self-government,  especially  on  this  continent. 
We  ought  to  encourage  Hawaii  to  govern  itself.  We  ought  in  every 
possible  way  recognize  the  right  of  the  Cuban  insurgents,  so-called,  to 
float  his  own  flag  over  his  own  island,  not  to  help  the  United  States, 
but  because  it  is  in  line  with  God's  plan  in  the  evolution  of  nations. 

If  the  American  conscience  could  speak  today,  the  voice  would 
resound  around  the  world,  and  compel  Spain  to  listen  to  the  voice  of 
reason — the  voice  of  liberty.  The  success  of  the  Spanish  army  means 
the  delay  of  liberty  and  the  storing  up  of  the  day  of  wrath.  The  suc- 
cess of  the  home-rule  army  of  Cuba  means  another  flag  set  in  the  sky 
dedicated  to  self-governmeBt  and  human  liberty. 

We  are  constantly  told  that  the  Cuban  has  no  government.  No 
state  house  and  no  laws.  Well,  what  had  Washington  at  Valley  Forge? 
Our  fraternal  brethren  met  in  the  open  air,  the  sound  of  the  gavel 
in  the  east  may  be  made  on  stump  or  stone.  The  tylers  may  be  num- 
berless as  the  trees;  they  may  be  ragged  and  sore  about  the  altar, 
but  they  are  our  brothers  just  the  same.  They  may  have  no  capitol 
building,  but  if  they  meet  in  the  open  field  or  forest  with  only  God 
and  the  stars  to  cover  them,  I  am  for  that  government  just  the  same. 

Mr.  Lincoln  said  that  no  man  had  a  right  to  govern  another  man 
without  that  man's  consent.  It  is  also  true  that  no  nation  has  the 
right  to  govern  another  nation  without  that  nation's  consent.  Yet 
we  sit  on  our  peaceful  soil  while  the  great  nations  are  murdering  the 
citizens  of  the  weaker  nations,  and  look  each  other  in  the  face  and 
say:     "Am  I  my  brother's  keeper?'' 

You  ask:  Are  you  teaching  the  Monroe  Doctrine?  I  answer: 
Yes,  and  more.  This  is  the  natural  evolution  of  the  Monroe  Doc- 
trine, and  as  we  evolve  better  nations  and  better  laws  we  must  evolve 
better  international  law.  My  thought  is  addressed  to  the  conscience. 
You  ask:  What  can  conscience  do?  I  reply  that  it  has  and  can  do  all 
things.  Conscience  signed  the  Magna  Charta.  Conscience  signed  the 
Declaration  of  Independence.  Conscience  preserved  the  Union  and 
tore  down  the  slave  pen  and  whipping  post.  Conscience  bore  the  flag 
up  the  storm-swept  heights  of  Lookout  mountain.  Conscience  freed 
a  million  slaves  and  conscience  will  make  them  equal  before  the  law. 
Conscience  will  sometime,  in  the  evolution  of  time  and  nations,  do 
away  with  war,  and  real  glory  will  be  found  in  the  paths  of  peace, 
and  we  will  catch  the  true  meaning  of  him  who  said  "Peace  on  earth, 
good  will  to  men." 

The  evolution  of  a  nation  depends  \\\wn  tlu'  i-volution  of  the  men- 
women,  and  children  who  make  the  nation.  The  nation,  to  be  free, 
must  allow  its  citizens  freedom.     The  citizen,  to  be  free,  must  allow 


1897.]  Grand  Lodge  of  Tflinois.  77 

his  neighbor  freedom.  'Tis  the  lavs^  of  liberty,  as  it  is  the  law  of  love, 
the  more  you  give  the  more  you  have.  If  you,  by  prejudice,  restrain 
your  neighbor  of  his  right  of  conscience,  both  you  and  your  neighbor 
are  slaves  to  your  prejudice,  and  when  you  overcome  your  prejudice 
you  and  your  neighbor  are  both  free.  Our  dear,  bigoted,  brave  nar- 
row old  forefathers  came  here  to  find  freedom  to  worship  God,  and 
soon  began  to  make  kindling  wood  of  those  who  asked  the  same  thing 
for  themselves.  They  were  slaves  to  bigotry  and  prejudice.  For  one 
hundred  years,  with  this  dear  old  flag  above  us,  we  sang  "This  is  the 
land  of  the  free,"  and  sold  our  black  men,  and  women,  and  children  to 
the  highest  and  best  bidders  for  cash.  We  were  slaves  to  avarice — 
greed  for  gold.  No  picture  could  be  painted  of  our  commonwealth  in 
which  the  slave  pen  and  whipping  post  did  not  rear  its  head.  The 
music  of  this  Union  was  discordant  with  the  plaintive  song  of  the 
slave.  Columbia  ruined  her  fair  form  stooi)ing  to  hold  the  black  man 
in  the  dust;  and  when  Lincoln  struck  the  shackles  from  a  million 
slaves  they  also  fell  from  your  arm  and  mine.  And  here  I  make  a 
plea  for  personal  liberty,  wishing  only  to  impress  this  thought:  That 
you  receive  the  broadest  liberty  b}^  giving  it  to  others,  and  as  home 
is  the  foundation  of  the  nation,  the  better  and  freer  the  home,  the 
better  and  freer  the  nation. 

Give  your  wife  the  liberty  she  is  entitled  to.  I  have  known  men 
to  give  their  name  to  a  woman — make  her  the  mistress  of  his  heart 
and  home — and  then  be  afraid  to  trust  her  with  his  pocket-book. 
Where  are  the  $2  you  had  ChristmasV  I  know  one  man  who  success- 
fully managed  a  big  real  'estate  deal,  and  went  home  at  night  and 
quarreled  with  his  wife  about  where  the  bureau  should  stand,  and  the 
hanging  of  a  picture.  She  is  home  twenty-four  hours  a  day,  let  her 
run  the  house,  and  as  for  the  business,  let  her  at  least  imagine  she  is 
running  that,  it  pleases  her  and  does  not  hurt  you.  Do  not  forget 
when  you  popped  and  was  afraid  she  would  say  "no."  Do  not  forget 
the  vow  at  the  altar,  to  love,  honor,  and  cherish,  which  means  to  give 
her  the  liberty  of  being  happy. 

Give  your  children  liberty.  No  room  in  the  house  ought  to  be  too 
good  for  the  children.  Saving  the  best  room  for  occasional  use  for  a 
stranger,  is  barbarism.  I  have  heard  men  tell  how  much  such  boy  and 
girl  has  cost  them  in  money  for  education,  etc.,  as  though  it  were  a 
business  or  financial  investment  instead  of  laying  character  corner- 
stones for  time  and  eternity.  They  will  not  loaf  around  saloons  if 
home  is  interesting  and  happy.  Don't  slave  yourself  to  let  them 
know  that  as  soon  as  you  go  to  your  grave  they  will  be  provided  for. 
Teach  them  to  be  self-sustaining.  Tell  them  how  sweet  is  the  bread 
of  independence.  Give  them  good  minds  and  bodies.  Prepare  them 
for  the  conflict,  and  then  set  them  down  in  the  highway  of  life  and 
say:  "My  boy,  my  girl,  there  is  the  path;  be  industrious,  be  honest, 


78  Proceedings  of  the  [Oct.  6, 

and  under  this  tlafj  there  is  no  door  worthy  of  enterin«f  that  will  not 
open  to  you  if  you  are  worthy  to  enter." 

Give  your  parents  liberty.  Think  what  your  duty  is,  and  let  the 
twili<jht  of  their  lives  be  bright  with  your  tender  care. 

Give  the  baby  the  liberty  due  him.  The  baby  is  a  wellspring  of 
pleasure,  whether  at  home  or  ragged  and  dirty  on  the  street. 

Give  your  neighbor  the  liberty  due  him.  When  you  begin  to  re- 
spect '^'our  neighbor  for  his  true  worth,  regardless  of  whether  he 
agrees  with  you  in  politics  or  religion,  you  have  begun  to  live  up  to 
the  true  religion  of  the  American  citizen.  The  grand  evidence  of 
civilization  today  is  not  in  the  telegraph  or  the  railroad,  nor  is  it  the 
wealth  or  the  strength  of  the  nation,  but  in  the  schools  and  churches 
that  cover  our  land:  the  institutions  of  charity  all  about  us;  the  fra- 
ternal societies  for  mutual  and  not  selfish  benefit,  and  particularly 
our  own  beloved  order,  that,  amidst  the  rise  and  fall  of  nations,  the 
uprising  and  crumbling  of  the  dynasties  of  the  past,  it  has  continued 
to  teach  loyalty  to  home,  loyalty  to  country,  and  to  God. 

VOTE  or  THANKS-To  Grand  Orator. 

R.W.  Bro.  K.  T.  Spencer:— J/,  ir.  Grand  Jfasfer:  I  move 
that  the  thanks  of  this  Grand  Lodg-e  be  returned  to  R.W. 
Bro.  William  E.  Mason  for  his  excellent  oration,  and  that  it  be 
published  in  the  proceedin<js.    Motion  carried  unanimously. 

EEPORT    Committee  on  Appeals  and  Grievances. 

M.W.  Bro.  Monroe  C.  Crawford,  chairman  of  Committee 
on  Appeals  and  Grievances,  presented  the  following:  report, 
which  was,  on  motion,  ado})ted: 


vs. 
Cedar  Lodge  No.  12-4. 


i  Xo.  1. 


Action  set  aside  and  accused  restored  to  good  standing  in  the 
Fraternity. 


Apollo  Lodge  No.  042. 
r,s'. 


i  No.  2. 


Action  of  lodge  set  aside  as  to  the  first  four  defendants,  and  said 
four  defendants  are  found  guilty,  and  the  penalty  fi.xed  at  reprimand, 
and  that  the  reprimand  be  administered  by  such  brother  as  the  Grand 


1897.]  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois.  79 

Master  shall  appoint,  and  that  the  action  of  the  lodge  be  sustained  as 
to  the  fifth  defendant,  but  that  said  fifth  defendant  shall  not  receive 
the  third  degree  in  Masonry  until  he  shall  have  passed  a  clear  ballot 
in  accordance  with  the  By-laws  of  this  Grand  Lodge,  and  that  due 
notice  of  such  ballot  shall  be  given  to  all  resident  members  of  Appollo 
lodsre. 


rs.  \  No.  3. 

iLLiopoLis  Lodge  No.  521.  ) 

The  action  of  the  lodge  is  sustained  in  finding  the  accused  guilty, 
but  the  action  of  the  lodge  in  fixing  the  penalty  of  suspension  for  one 
year  is  set  aside,  and  instead  thereof  the  accused  is  expelled  from  all 
the  rights  and  benefits  of  Masonry. 


rx.  -No.  4. 

DeSoto  Lodge  No.  287.  ) 

Continued  with  instruction  to  DeSoto  Lodge  No.  287,  to  send  up  a 
transcript  of  the  complete  record. 


vs.  \  No.  .5. 

Fellowship  Lodge  No.  89.  ) 

Action  of  the  lodge  set  aside  as  to  the  charge  of  adultery,  there 
being  no  evidence  to  sustain  the  same,  and  under  the  plea  of  guilty 
of  gambling  the  defendant  is  suspended  from  all  the  rights  and  bene- 
fits of  Masonry  for  one  year. 


r.>j.  \  No.  6. 

Springfield  Lodge  No.  1.  ) 

Cause  reversed  and  remanded  for  new  trial. 


vs.  !-  No.  7. 

Pana  Lodge  No.  226. 

Cause  reversed  and  remanded  for  a  new  trial. 


1-8.  y  No.  8. 

Chebanse  Lodge  No.  424. 

Action  of  lodge  set  aside  and  the  appellant  restored  to  all  the 
rights  and  benefits  of  Masonry. 


^0  Proceedings  of  the  [Oct.  G, 


vs.  -No.  9. 

Wyoming  Lodge  No.  479.  S 

Action  of  the  lodjife  set  aside  and  the  appellant  is  restored  to  all 
the  rights  and  benefits  of  Masonry. 


No.  ]0. 


Providence  Lodge  No.  711. 

Action  of  the  lodge  sustained. 


vs.  -No.  11. 

Wyoming  Lodge  No.  477.  \ 

Action  of  the  lodge  sustained. 

Your  committee  further  report  that  so  much  of  the  Grand  Mas- 
ter's address  as  was  referred  to  this  committee,  being  that  portion 
which  refers  to  Mechanicsburg  Lodge  No.  299,  is  neither  an  appeal 
nor  a  grievance,  but  requires  a  construction  of  the  Grand  Lodge 
B\--law3,  and  therefore  3'our  committee  respectfull}-  submit  and  rec- 
ommend that  the  same  be  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Jurispru- 
dence. 

All  of  which  is  respectfully  submitted. 

MONROE  C.  CRAWFORD, 
.JOSEPH  E.  DYAS, 
WILLIAM  S.  CANTRELL, 
GEORGE  W.  HILL, 
EUGENE  L.  STOKER, 
Committee  on  Appeals  and  Grievances. 

Past  Grand  Master  J.  C.  Postlethwaite,  of  Kansas,  was 
introduced  and  "iven  a  seat  in  the  Grand  East. 


INVITATION-To  Visit  Illinois  Masonic  Orphans'  Home. 

K.W.  Bro.  Georj^e  M.  Moulton.  on  behalf  of  the  Board 
of  Directors  of  Illinois  Masonic  Orphans'  Home,  presented 
an  invitation  to  members  of  the  Grand  Lodi^'-e  to  visit  this 
institution. 

CALLED  orr. 

At  li*  m.  the  Grand  Lodj^e  \vas  called  from  labor  to 
refreshment  until  9  o'clock  Thursdaj^  morning". 


1897.] 


Ch^and  Lodge  of  Illinois. 


81 


THIRD  DAY. 

Thursday.  Oct.  7,  5897.  I 
9  o'clock  a.  m.  | 

The  Grand  Lodge  was  called  from  refreshment  to  labor 
b}'  the  M.  W.  Grand  Master.  Grand  Officers  and  Represent- 
atives as  yesterday. 

EEPOKT— Committee  on  Mileage  and  Per  Diem. 

W.  Bro.  John  A.  Ladd,  for  the  Committee  on  Mileage 
and  Per  Diem,  presented  the  following'  report,  which,  on 
motion,  was  adopted: 

To  the  M.  W.  Grand  Lodge  of  llUnoii:',  A.  F.  and  A.  Masons: 

Your  Committee  on  Mileage  and  Per  Diem  would  fraternalh'  re- 
port that  the  following  Grand  Officers,  members  of  Committees,  and 
Representatives,  members  of  this  Grand  Lodge,  are  entitled  to  mile- 
age and  per  diem  as  set  forth  in  the  following  pages. 

Fraternally  submitted, 

JNO.  A.  LADD, 
EDW.  L.  WAHL, 
WM.  B.  WRIGHT, 

Committee. 

GRAND   OFFICERS. 


Owen  Scott 

Edward  Cook 

Chas.  F.  Hitchcock 
George  M.  Moulton 

Wilev  M.  Egan 

J.  H.'C.  Dill 

H.  W.  Bolton  

W.  E.  Mason 

G.  H.  B.  Tolle 

C.  J.  Lindlev 

W.  H.  Peak.' 

Walter  Watson 

R.  T.  Spencer 

Ed.  C.  Pace 

C.  E.  Allen 

W.  W.  Bruce 

A.  B.  Ortseifen 

J.  S.  McClelland.... 

W.  H.  Johnson 

Robt.  R.  Stevens... 


Grand  Master 

Dep.  Grand  Master. . 
Senior  Gr.  Warden.. 
Junior  Gr.  Warden . . 
Grand  Treasurer  .. 

Grand  Secretary' 

Grand  Chaplain' 

Grand  Orator 

Dep.  Gr.  Secretary. . 
Grand  Pursuivant. . . 

Grand  Marshal 

Gr.  Standard  Bearer 
Gr.  Sword  Bearer  .. 
Senior  Gr.  Deacon. . . 
Junior  Gr.  Deacon. . . 

Grand  Steward 

Grand  .Steward 

Grand  Steward 

Grand  Steward 

Grand  Tyler 


14.5 
1 

126 
3 
4 

172 

249 
320 

186 
266 
163 
192 
4 
170 


$12  60 


^ 


14  50 
10 
20 

12  60: 
30 
40 

17  20 
24  90 
32  00 
26  30 

18  60 
26  60 

16  30 

19  20 
40 

17  00 
2  50 

10 


$12  60 
6  00 
20  50 
6  10 
20 
12  60 
6  30 
6  40 

23  20 
30  90 
.■18  00 
32  30 

24  60 
32  60 

22  30 

25  20 
6  40 

23  00 
8  50 
6  10 


RESIDENCE. 


Bloomington. 

Chicago. 

Peoria. 

Chicago. 

Chicago. 

Blooniington. 

Chicago. 

Chicago. 

Mattoon. 

Greenville. 

Jonesboro. 

Mt.  Vernon. 

llliopolis. 

Ashley. 

Galesburg. 

Casey. 

Chicago. 

Decatur. 

VVheaton. 

Chicago. 


82 


Proceedings  of  the 


[Oct. 


DISTRICT  DEPUTY  GRAND  MASTERS. 


W.  M.  Burbank 

Herbert  Preston 

M.  B.  lott 

Luman  T.  Koj 

Jacob  Krohn 

Chas.  E.  Groves 

Daniel  D.  Hunt 

John  B.  Fithian 

Wm.L.  Milligan 

T.  Van  Antwerp 

H.  C.  Cleaveland 

O.  F.  Kirkpatrick 

D.  D.  Dunkle 

Louis  Zinger 

D.  D.  Darrah 

W.  H.  Bergstresser. , 
Robert  L.  McKinlaj*. 
Chas.  F.  Tenne}-. ..'. . 

R.  D.  Lawrence 

Albert  P.  Grout 

W.  O.  Butler 

Alex.  H.  Bell 

Hugh  Snell 

W.  H.  Lathrop 

C.  Kohrbaugh 

H.  T.  Burnap 

James  Douglass.  ... 
J.  M.  Burkhart 
Henry  T.  (Joddard. . 
J.  M.  Jones 


S 

S 

ft 

o 

DISTRICTS. 

y: 

ft 

C 
ft 
B 

p 

RESIDENCE. 

1st  District. 

3 

30 

6 

6  30 

Chicago. 

2d 

4 

40 

6 

6  40  IChicago. 

3d 

12 

1  20 

6 

7  20  'Chicago. 

4th 

51 

5  10 

6 

11  10    Woodstock. 

5th 

114 

11  40 

6 

17  40  :Freeport. 

6th 

127 

12  70 

6 

18  70  iMt.  Carroll. 

7th 

55 

5  50 

6 

11  50  lUeKalb. 

8th 

37 

3  70 

6 

9  70 

Joliet. 

9th 

84 

8  40 

6 

14  40 

Ottawa. 

10th 

130 

13  00 

6 

19  00 

Sparland. 

nth 

162 

16  20 

6 

22  20 

Rock  Island. 

12th 

210 

21  00 

6 

27  00 

Blandinsville. 

13th 

179 

17  90 

6 

23  90 

Monmouth. 

14th 

158 

15  80 

6 

21  80 

Pekin. 

15th 

126 

12  60 

6 

18  60 

Bloomington. 

16th 

124 

12  40 

6 

18  40 

Danville. 

17th 

160 

16  00 

6 

22  00 

Paris. 

18th 

1.53 

15  30 

6 

21  30 

Bement. 

19th 

185 

18  50 

6 

24  50 

Springfield. 

20th 

235 

23  50 

6 

29  50 

Winchester. 

21st 

216 

21  60 

6 

27  60 

LaHarpe. 

22d 

224 

22  40 

6 

28  40 

Carlinville. 

23d 

231 

23  10 

6 

29  10 

Litchtield. 

24th 

222 

22  20 

6 

28  20 

Newton. 

25th 

229 

22  90 

6 

28  90 

Kinmundv. 

26th 

259 

25  90 

6 

31  90 

Upper  Alton. 

27th 

321 

32  10 

6 

38  10 

Checter. 

28th 

326 

32  60 

6 

38  60 

Marion. 

29th 

252 

25  20 

6 

31  20 

Mt.  Carmel. 

30th 

.353 

35  30 

6 

41  30 

NewGr.Chain 

COMMITTEES. 


APPEALS  AND  GRIEVANCES. 


Monroe  C.  Crawford 

Joseph  E.  Dvas 

Wm.  .^.  Cantrell 

Geo.  W.  Hill 

Eugene  L.  Stoker  . . . 


CHARTERED  LODGES. 


Loval  L.  Munn 

Frank  W.  Havill.    .. 

Cieorge  Stadler 

James  F^.  Scott 

Thomas  W.  Wilson. 


CORRESPONDENCE. 

Joseph  Robl)ins 


330 
160 
30  r 
316 
12 


114 
25'i 
170 
172 
185 


.1(33  00 

16  00 

.30  70 

31  60 

1  20 


11  40  20 

25  20  20 

17  00  20 

17  20  20 

18  50  20 


.|  68  00 
51  (K) 

65  70 

66  60 
36  20 


31  40 
45  20 
37  (X) 

37  20 

38  50 


RESIDENCE. 


Tonesboro. 

Paris. 

Benton. 

Muri>hys1}oro. 

Evanston. 


Freeport. 
Mt.  Carmel. 
Decatur. 
Mattoon. 
Springtield. 


2tK3     26  'M    15       41  .30   Quincy. 


1897.] 


Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois. 


83 


COMMITTEES — Contiu  ived. 


CKEDENTIALS. 


J.  I.  McClintock  , 
p.  W.  Barclay.... 
Geo.  W.  Cyrus  . . 


Lerov  A.  Goddard. . 

Gil.  W.  Barnard 

Samuel  W.  Waddle. 


GRAND  MASTER'S  ADDRESS. 


W.  E.  Ginther... 
Geo.  F.  Howard 
W.  F.  Beck 


LODGES  TINDER  DISPENSATION. 


Ctias.  H.  Patton.... 
Daniel  J.  Averv. . .. 
Henry  C.  Mitchell. 

C.  J.  Renter 

S.  S.  Chance 


MASONIC  JURISPRUDENCE. 


DeWitt  C.  Cregier. 
James  A.  Hawley  . . 

D.  M.  Browning 

John  C.  Smith 

John  M.  Pearson. . . 


MILEAGE  AND  PER  DIEM. 


John  A.  Ladd  . . 

Ed.  L.  Wahl 

Wm.  B.  Wright 


OBITUARIES. 


Geo.  W.  Warvelle. 

N.  E.  Roberts 

G.  O.  Friedrich. . . . 


PETITIONS. 


C.  M.  Forman — 

Benj.  Nagle 

A.  W.  Blakesley. 


RAILROADS  AND  TRANSPORTATION. 


Wm.  Jenkins. 
C.  H.  Morrell 


TO  EXAMINE  VISITORS. 


Wm.  B.  Grimes  . 

A.  B.  Ashley 

J.  E.  Evans 

J.  W.  Rose  

J.  R.  Ennis 


286 
365 
242 


1 
126 


182 
160 
234 


282 
1 
308 
286 
249 


28  60 
36  50 
24  20 


10 
12  60 


18  20 
16  00 
23  40 


20 
20 

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110 
230 

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228 
263 


226 


246 
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Carmi. 
Cairo. 
Camp  Point. 


Chicago. 
Chicago. 
Blooiriington. 


Charleston. 

Paris. 

Olney. 


Mt.  Vernon. 

Chicago. 

Carljondale. 

Lebanon. 

Salem. 


Chicago. 

Dixon. 

E.  St.  Louis. 

Chicago. 

Godfrey. 


Sterling. 
V  and  all  a. 

Effingham. 


Chicago. 

Fairfield. 

Chillicothe. 


Sparta. 

Louisville. 
Quincj'. 


Dixon. 

Augusta. 


39  60    Pittsfield. 
16  50  |La(.;range. 
29  50  jMonticello. 
38  10    Litchfield. 
43  30  [Liberty. 


84 


Proceedings  of  the 


[Oct.  7. 


REPRESENTATIVES. 


BocUey 

Equality 

Harmony 

SpringHeld ... 
Friendship   .. 

Macon 

Rushville 

St.  Johns 

Warren 

Peoria 

Temperance  . 

Macomb 

Clinton 

Hancock 

Cass 

St.  Clair 

Franklin  

Hiram 

Piasa  

Pekin 

Mt.  Vernon... 

Oriental 

Barrv 

Charleston  . .. 
Kavanaugh  . . 
Monmouth  . .. 
Olive  Branch. 

Herman 

Occidental 

Mt.  .Toliet 

Bloomington  . 

Hardin 

Grigg.sville  . . . 

Temple 

Caledonia 

Unity 

Cambridge  . . . 

Carrollton 

Mt.  Moriah. .. 
Benevolent. .. 

Jackson 

Washington. . 

Trio 

Fraternal 

New  Boston  . . 

Belvidere 

Lacon 

St.  Marks 

Benton 

Euclid 

Pacific 

Acacia 

Eureka 

Central  

Chester 

Rockton  

Roscoe  

Mt.  Nebo 

Prairie 

Waukegan  ... 


Chas.  A.  Bowen  . . 

G.  A.  Bourland 

John  K.  Uavis 

Richard  Lathroj) 

Thomas  Cheatle 

M.C.Herman 

D.  H.  Glass 

Herman  Grossman 

F.E.Robinson 

Sam  Coflinbarj' 

Eugene  Stapp 

J.  \V.  Bailey 

P.  E.  Blanc 

J   E.Helfrich 

Frank  M.  Fulks 

James  A.  Farmer 

W.  J.  Yenny 

Frank Condra 

Adam  W.  Reed 

Fred  \V.  Soadv 

A.  D.  Webb.    .". 

Frank  T.  Wvatt 

W.  VV.  Wats'on 

ThomosT.  Shoemaker 

Bernhard  Dittmer 

Uan  Q.  Webster 

M.  W.  Thompson 

J.  H.  Weinhoener 

40j.\.  ,j.  Newell 

4-|Kerdiiiand  Munch 

43'Frank  II.  Blose      

44|e.  A.  Perry 

45|Fred  H.  Farrand      

46  Thomas  I.  Ballantine 

47' Hall  Whiteaker 

4Si\V.  P.  Lillibridge 

49  I'rauk  G.  Welton 

50  J.  B.  Nulton 

51 IM.  W.  Miller 

J.  P.  Baujan 

E.J.Scarborough 

J.  R.  Aspley 

David  J.  Sears 

B.  F.  Craig 

Frank  ives 

t)0  J.  H.  Thomas 

tji  Eliiah  D.  Richmond 

6-i  J.  s;.  Andrews 

f>4  Jake  Kirsch 

65  K.  E.  .Sargent 

66  Joseph  B   Randleson  .... 

67(;eorge  W.  Randall 

6i>('harlos  H   Brandenburg.. 

71  Ricliard  Beet 

7:i  Steiiheii  A.  Douglass 

74  John  Watt.s 

"5  Jabez  Love 

76  S.  \V.  Tappen 

77jD.  G.  Burr 

TS'Dewey  Hamilton 


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23  90 
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Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois. 


85 


REPRESENTATIVES — Continued. 


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Whitehall 

Vitruvius 

DeWitt 

Mitchell 

Kaskaskia 

Mt.  Pulaski 

Havana 

Fellowship 

Jerusalem  Temple 

Metropolis 

Stewart  

Toulon 

Perry  

Samuel  H.  Davis. . 

Excelsior  

Taylor 

Edwardsville 

Astoria 

Rockf ord  

Magnolia   

Lewistown 

Winchester 

Lancaster 

Versailles 

Trenton  

Lebanon 

Jonesboro  

Bureau  

Robert  Burns 

Marcelline 

Rising  Sun 

Vermont 

Elgin 

Waverl}- 

Henry  ." 

Mound 

Oquawka   

Cedar  

Greenup  

Empire 

Antioch 

Raleigh   

Greentield 

Marion 

Golconda   

Mackinaw 

Marshall 

Sycamore 

Lima 

Hutsonville 

Polk  

Marengo 

Geneva  

Olney   

Garden  City 

Ames 

Richmond    

DeKalb   

A.  W.  Rawson     .. . 

Lee  Centre 

Clayton 

Bloomtield 

EflQngham 

Vienna 


Fred  P.  Bacon 

Charles  Richerl 

John  Hahn 

James  M.  Kirk 

J.  D.  Strait 

Abram  Brown     

P.  H.  Oyler  

George  H.  Schwing 

W.  D.  Abney 

Herman  Felsenheld  ... 
James  L.  Elliott 

C.  Brown 

M.  J.  Overman 

John  E.  Morton 

D.  F.  Stevens 

H.  B.  Lichtenberger 

H.  L.  Zimser 

William  H.  Glass 

William  H.  Emmerson. 
John  Barker 

F.  A.  Turner 

J.  R.  Maguire 

M.  L.  Mcbonough 

G.  M.  Savior 

S.  J.  Wilson 

A.  McDonald 

H.  J.  Blanck 

James  A.  Peak 

A.  C.  Vedder 

E.  J.  Glancy 

J.  B.  Miller 

S.  C.  Litwiler 

J.  P.  Marshall 


17  Die  Hanson. 


George  L.  Kimber. 
O.  P.  Carroll 

E.  A.  Fish 

R.  B.  Trimble 

C.  S.  Magner 

W  H.  Trent 

H.  W.  Toennigs 

David  Murrie 

S.  M.  Horn 

R.  L.  Metcalf 

J.  W.  Johnson 

D.  G.  Thompson 

L.  H.  Rogers 

T.  W.  Clark 

J.  D.  Waterman..   .. 

F.  M. Jacobs 

W.  L.  Bishop .. 

W.  D.  Sharpe 

H.  W.  Richardson  . 

C.  W.  Grant 

J.  S  Freeman 

Will  C.  Rood 

C.  C.  Pervier 

R.  W.  Overton 

Thomas  J.  Adams. . 
W.  R.  Winchester. 

J.  E.  Gray 

Fred  Kuritz 

W.  T.  Watson 

David  L.  Wright.  ... 
Pleas.  T.  Chapman. 


32  10 

30  00 

8  50 

20  80 

35  00 
39  40 
22  90 

24  80 

38  60 

9  80 

42  60 

21  90 

20  40 

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15  60 
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14  10 

15  50 

30  20 
20  70 
25  90 

39  90 


86 


Pt'oceeding.s  of  the 


[Oct. 


REPRESENTATIVES— C'0>l//«W€d. 


Bunker  Hill 

Fidclit}- 

('lav 

Kus><ell 

Alpha 

Delavan 

Ur))ana 

McHenr}- 

Kewane'e 

Waubansia 

\'ir(len 

H..pe 

Edward  Dobbins.. 

Atlanta 

Star  in  the  East . . 

Milford 

Nunda 

Evergreen 

Girard 

Wavne 

Cherr}-  Valle)" 

Lena  " 

Matteson 

Mendota 

Staunton 

Illinois  Central... 

Wabash 

Germania 

Meridian 

Abintrdon 

Mystic  Tie 

Cvrus 

Fulton  Cit}- 

Parmington 

Herrick 

Freedom 

La  Harpe 

Louisville 

King  Solomon's  .. 

Homer 

Sheba 

Centralia 

Lavelv 

Floral 

Corinthian 

Fairfield 

Tarn  an  )a 

Wilmington 

Wm.  H.  Warren.. . 

Logan 

Cleveland 

.^liipman 

Ipava 

(Jillespie 

Xewton 

Mason 

New  Salem 

Oakland 

Mahomet 

Lerov 

Geo.  %Vashington. 

Pana 

Columbus 

Lovington 

Manchester 


151  H.  R.  Budd 

15-.:  John  K.  Garaghtv 

I.'SS  William  H.  Seibert 

154  Almon  Stansberry 

155  H.  K.  Strickler 

1.5ti  A.  J.  Maclav 

157  D.  E.  Bruffett 

1.5S  W.  A.  Cristv 

159  A.  T.  Boyle' 

160  Fred  Schultz 

161  K.  T.  Morrow 

16->  H.  T.  McKee 

164  G.  D.  Kader 

165  William  J  Horrom 

166  I.  S.  Montgomery 

168  E.  W.  Scott 

16!<  D.  M.  Brown 

17(1  William  C.  Milner 

171  E.  E.  Cooper 

I7J  E.  E.  Cantrall 

173  C.  W.  Buck 

174  J.  M.  Rybolt 

175  F.  W.  VVerner 

176  C.  P.  Gardner 

177  C.  W.  Lillie 

178  W.  A.  Green 

179  J.  P.  Deckard 

182  Christoph  F.  Baum 

18.S  James  McCredie 

185  w.  G.  Purviance 

187  James  A.  Donaldson 

188  J.  S.  Grove 

189  Edward  M  Clark 

19'2  W.  M.  Anderson 

193  John  Jackson 

194  M.  A.  Warren 

195  George  W.  Soule 

196  C.  L.  Farris 

197  K.  W.  Greene 

199  W.  W.  Mudge 

200  T.  W.  Gib.son 

201  Jacob  Peit'er 

203  C.  C.  Vanmeter 

204  I.  H.  Southwick 

205  T.  H.  Stetler 

206  L.  D.  Bennett 

207  W^alter  R.  Kimzev 

■JOS  Robert  Van  Der  B'ogart. 
■20i*  Lewis  Ridgeway 

210  Charles  E.  Clark 

21 1  X.  A  W.  Sievers 

212  J.  F.  Sweet 

213  George  W.  Marshal 

214  Lewis  M.  Curson 

216  s.  H.  Brown 

2l7iJ.  A.  (Uadson 

'J\x\]i.  O.  Manker 

219  M.  J.  Naphew 

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1897.] 


Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois. 


REPRESENTATIVES — Continued. 


New  Haven 

Wyanet 

Farmers 

Blandinsville 

DuQuoin 

Dallas  City 

Charter  Oak 

Cairo 

Black  Hawk 

Mt.  Carmel 

Western  Star... 

Shekinah 

Galva 

Greenville. . 

El  Paso 

Rob  Morris 

Golden  Gate 

Hibtaard  

Robinson  

Hey  worth 

Aledo 

Avon  Harmony. 

Aurora 

Donnelson 

Warsaw 

Mattoon  

Araon 

Channahon 

Illinois 

Franklin  Grove. 

Vermilion 

Kingston 

La  Prairie 

Paris 

Wheaton 

Levi  Lusk 

Blaney 

Carmi 

Miners 

Byron 

Milton 

Elizabeth 

Accordia 

Jo  Daviess 

Neoga 

Kansas 

Brookl}'n 

Meteor 

Catlin 

Plymouth 

De  Soto 

Genoa  

Wataga 

Chenoa 

Prophetstown. . 

Pontiac 

Dills 

Quincy 

Benjamin 

Wauconda 

Durand 

Raven 

Onarga 

W.  C.  Hobbs .... 
T.  J.  Pickett. . . . 


::230  Isaac  A.  Foster 

231  P.  A.  Millard 

232  F.  M.  Jones 

233  Caleb  I.  Sanders 

234  T.  H.  Humphrey 

235  George  M.  Cummings.. 

236  Arthur  F.  Smith 

237  William  F.  Gibson 

238  W.  C.  Bridges 

239  Mark  Wise 

240  T.  J.  Baddeley 

241  Thomas  J.  Elder 

243  S.  Thompson 

245  Joseph  G.  Wright 

24t3  J.  A.  Schofield 

247  Edwin  Harris 

248  G.  W.  Hamilton 

249  J.  R.  Ash 

250  Ed.  Rosenbaum 

251  George  W.  Pumphrey. 

252  J.  W.  Edwards 

253  J.  A.  Petterson 

254  James  A.  Raymond 

255  W.  H.  Young 

257  W.  K.  Worthen 

260  Joseph Withington  . . . . 

261  I.  C.  Lafferty 

262  C.  W.  Smith 

263  Isaac  M.  Hornback. . . . 

264  A.  W.  Crawford 

S65F.  V.  Barnett 

266  W.  M.  Huffman 

267  Charles  R.  Chinn 

268  E.  L.  Wieder 

269  J.  O.  Clifford 

270Zimri  Smith 

271  Charles  R.  Grout 

272  William  P.  Tuley 

273  F.  P.  Stillman 

274  John  H.  Helm 

275  J.  A.  Miller 

276  Elisha  L.  Robinson..  .. 

277  John  Brockman 

278  C.  E.  Morton 

279  J.  F.  Jarvis 

280  W.  S.  Brown 

282  A.  Bradshaw 

283  John  H  Latham 

285  W.  i^.  Duff 

286  Oscar  Holmes 

287  Frank  Friedline 

288  C.  A.  Brown 

291  C,  W.  Merrill 

292  W.  G  Abbott 

293  H.  A.  Sturtevant 

294  Lora  T.  Dunn 

295  Oscar  J.  R.eese 

296  Joseph  W.  Wall 

297  Isaac  Cutter 

898  James  Monahan 

302E.  A.  Hill     

303  Lewis  P.  Voss 

305  W.  H.  McClain 

306  C.  F.  Banta. 


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88 


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[Oct.  7, 


REPRESENTATIVES. —CVj/J^//a«d. 


Ashlar 

Harvard 

DearViorn.     

Kilwinning 

Ionic 

York 

Erwin 

Abraham  Jonas.. 
J.  L.  Ander^5on.  .. 

Doric 

Creston 

Dunlap 

Windsor 

Orient 

Harrisburg 

Industry 

Altona 

Mt.  Erie 

Tuscola 

Tvrian 

Sumner 

Schiller 

New  Columbia. . . 

Oneida 

Saline 

Kedron 

Full  Moon 

Summertield 

Milledgeville 

N.  D.  Morse 

Sidney 

Kussellville 

Sublette 

Fairview 

Tarbolton 

Groveland   

Kinderhook  

Ark  and  Anchor. 

Marine 

Hermitage 

Orion 

Blackberry 

Princeville 

Douglas 

Noble 

Horeb 

Tonica 

Moment 

Areola 

Oxford 

Jefferson 

Newman 

Livingston 

Chamiiersburg. . . 

Shabbona 

Aroma 

Payson 

Liberty 

Gill 

LaMoille 

Waltham 

Mississippi 

Hridgeport 

Kl  Dara 

Kankakee 


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301)  W.  C.   Wellington 

3IO|Geo.  A.  Katz 

3lllJohn  Smith 

SIJ'W.  I.  Lowry 

31.S  John  A.  Keller 

31.t| Andrew  Schmorr 

316  James  A.  Thome 

3lX  F.  K.  Grigson 

319  J.  F.  Lindvall 

3,'0  J.  V.  Reese 

3:J I  Alexander  McKay.... 

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3iTj  William  M.  Gregg 

SerJA.  A.  Adkisson 

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John  W.  Kagey 

M.  Ash  Ion  Jones 

M.  J.  Seed   

Christian  Klingel. . 

Thos.  N.  Cummins. 

John  H.  Anderson. 

Robert  Jenkins     .. 
340; John  W.  Augue   .. 

34l|l  C.  Duncan 

342, H.  L.  Padtield 

345|VV.  H.  Holly 

346i  Perry  K.  Leonard 
347lFrank  Thompson. . 


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J.  H.  Avres 

J.  H.  Suvdam 

C.  S.  Brydia 

F.  M.  Gragg 

George  W.  Lawrence 

A.  P.  Lor  ton 

Oscar  H.  Gehrs 

Joseph  White 

D.  A.  Hewit 

John  W.  Mowat 

H.  J.  Cheesman 

Charles  Rembe 

Chas.  E.  Palmer 

M.  H.  Spence 

Geo.  A.  McFerson 

Homer  E.  Shaw 

T.  L.  Vraoenburg 

H.  G. Shinn 

H.  Cornelius 

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89 


REPRESENTATIVES— Continttfd. 


Ashmore 

Tolono 

Oconee 

Blair 

Jerse}'ville 

Muddy  Point... 

Shiloh 

Kinmundy 

Buda 

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 

.SunTieam 

Chebanse  

Kendrick 

Summit 

Murraj'ville 

Annawan 

Makanda 

Philo 

Chicago 

Camargo 

Sparland 

Case^' 

Hampshire  

Cave-in-Rock.. . 

Chesterfield 

Watseka 

S.  D.  Monroe 

Yates  City 

Mendon 

Loami 

Bromwell 

New  Hartford . . 

Maroa 

Irving 

Nokomis 

Moscow 

Jeffersonville. . . 

Plainview 

Tremont 

Palmyra 

Denver  

Huntsville 


O.  J.  Loser 

G.  W.  Manley 

B.  F.  Roberts 

Geo.  S.  Haskell 

Chas.  E.  Miner . 

Lewis  W.  Brown 

John  C.  Schampp 

W.  W.  Lowe 

F.  D.  Webb 

Charles  E.  Axt.... 
J.  S.  Brown 

C.  E.  Walsh 

E.  E.  Whitehorne. . . 
Sam  C.  Morrison. . . . 

J.  J.  Maxwell 

W.  A.  Tweedy 

Joseph  B.  Burtt 

F.  H.  Roessler 

J.  D.  Everett 

John  C.  Meyer 

T.  H.  Briggs 

N.  E.  Nurss 

H.  B.  Henderson 

J.  M.  Ferrell 

Chris  Herligenstein 

Thos.  H.  Taylor 

H.  E.  Wade 

W.  E.  Johnston 

Fred  F  Banks 

Chas.  Ohmsted 

Rufus  Funk 

Peter  F.  Clark 

John  W.  Law 

D.  M.  Baird 

John  Burrill 

Chas.  C.  Whiteside. 

R.  O.  Vangilder 

Walter  Hanback 

John  Straley 

John  A.  Wiley 

John  Shafer.  Jr..  . 
David  Birkenstein. . 
George  A.  Haines. . . 
Andrew  J.  Parker. . 

Roj'  J.  Howe 

Frank  Channing 

H.  C.  Frayser 

S.  L.  Berryman 

J.  N.  Pierce 

Richard  Conover . . . 

Peter  Garrison 

Jacob  Funk 

James  Greer 

E.  C.  Watson 

George  H.  Ellis 

J.  H.  Sterling 

C.  B.  McKinney 

George  H.  Webster. 

W.  Y^  Davis 

T.  J.  Hilliard 

Harris  Thomas 

D.  B.  McLean 

T.  J.  Young 

C.  W.  McMillan 

C.  H.  Phelps 


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90 


Proceedings  of  the 


[Oct.  7, 


REPRESENTATIVES— Con<i>UW'fZ. 


Cobden  

South  Macon 

Cheneys  Grove..  . 

McLean 

Rantoul 

Kendall 

Amity 

Gord(in 

Columliia 

Walshville 

Manito 

Rutland •• 

Pleiades 

Wytjming..   

Momence 

Lexington 

Xenia 

Bowen 

Andrew  Jackson.  . 

Clay  City 

Cooper 

Shannon 

Martin 

Liberty  ville 

Tower  "Hill 

Stone  Fort 

Tennessee 

Alma 

Murphysboro 

St.  Paul 

Stark 

WoodhuU 

Odin 

East  St.  Louis 

O.  H.  Miner 

Home 

Parkersburg 

J.  D.  Moody 

Waae-Barney 

Bradford 

Andalusia 

Litchfield 

Abraham  Lincoln. 

Roseville 

Anna 

lUiopolis 

Monitor 

Chatham 

Evans 

Delia 

Ciivcnant 

Kossville 

Miiiooka 

Adams 

Ma(iuon 

Ashton  

Seneca 

Altamont 

'Cuba 

Sherman 

Plaintleld 

J.  K.  (Jorin 

Chalsworth 

Harlem 

Sigel 


466  A.  J.  Hardin 

467  H.  K.  Woodcock 

46H  U.  Hurley 

46'.i  James  d'  Haise 

47U  B.  F.  Yates 

471  John  Fitzgerald 

472  John  E.  Norris 

473  D.  K.  Wilkins 

474  Jos.  M.  Arnin 

475  A.  T.  .Strange 

476  J.  A.  McComas 

477  W.  ().  Ensign 

47H  Alexander  C.  King  . 

479  J    H.  Wriglev 

4SI  B.  L.  Tabler." 

48,;  James  V.  McCuUough. 

4S5  Thos.  W.  Kepley 

4srj  James  K.  Sterrett 

487  P.  N.  Hearn    

4SS  T.  F.  Shannon 

4S9  L.  C.  Stewart 

490  W.  W.  Booth 

491  Merritt  J.  Piatt 

49-.>K.  W.  Bulkley 

49:?  George  Corle v 

49."i  Marshall  Ozirient.... 
496:.]()hn  G.  Dixon    


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James  A.  White... 
Joseph  M.  Grout. . 

E.G.  Hill 

B.  F.  Woolums.... 
M.  F  Norris.  Sr... 
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F.  M.  Rash 

J.  A.  Irwin 

J.  B.  Holmes 


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F.  W.  Willard 

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J.  S.  Burns  

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G.  W.  Hastings... 

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91 


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Towanda 

Cordova  

Virginia 

Valley 

Apple  River.. 

Sharon 

Long  Point. . . 
Plum  River. . . 

Humljoldt 

Daw.son 

Lessing 

Leland 

Thomson 

Madison 

Trinity   

Win.slow 

Pleasant  Hill. 

Albany 

Frankfort     .. 

Time 

Jacksonville. . 

Bardolph 

Gardner 

Pera 

Capron 

O' Fallon 

Viola 

Prairie  City.. 
Hazel  Dell.... 

Dongola 

Shirley 

Highland 

Vesper 

Fisher  

Princeton 

Troy 

Faifmount  ... 

Oilman 

Fieldon 

Miles  Hart 

Cerro  Gordo. . 

Farina  

Watson 

Clark 

Hebron  

Streator 

Piper 

Sheldon 

Union  Park  .. 
Lincoln  Park. 
Rock  River.   . 

Patoka 

Forest , 

Wadley 

Good  Hope 

Basco 

Berwick 

New  Hope 

Hopedale 

Locust 

Union 

Tuscan 

Norton 

Ridge  Farm.. 
E.  F.  W.  Ellis 


B.  F.  McAffeity 

J.  W.  Heany 

R.  H.  Mann 

James  Clegg 

James  Charlton 

John  B.  Mackie      

B.  F.  Colehower 

G.  E. Schroeder 

Henrv  Bestraann 

O.  P.  "Redding 

Anton  B.  Kosiock 

Al.  A.  Clapsaddle  ... 
William  Livingston. 

Henrj'  Sharp         

John  A.  Waugh 

Henry  Gilbert 

W.  E,  Bybee 

J.  W.  Langf ord 

J.  A.  Baker 

C.  E.  BagDy 

W.  L.  Simpson 

Lewis  Wilson 

W.  S.  Allison 

William  S.  Watson.. 

H.  L.  Puffer 

Andrew  Moore 

A.  M.  Pinkerton 

D.  T.  Wisner 

D.  H.  Sanford  

J.  A.  Dillow 

J.  L.  Douglass 

Louis  Metz   

W.  Howard 

C.  W.  Coe  

E.  A.  Vaughan 

Elias  Burk 

W.  M.  McCa.lisier... 

D.  W.  Miller  

E)iasF.  Brown 

J.  S.  Hortenstene 

Aaron  C.  Doyle 

J.  W.  McCluer 

J.  F.  Henderson 

Charles  M.  Howard.. 

W.  M.  Miller 

J.  A.  Curry 

M.  L.  Sherman 

R.  B.  Mvers 

John  B.'  Marples 

Charles  T.  Neiglich.. 
Ed.  E.  Brenneman  .. 

J.  R.  Quayle . 

John  Sawyer 

G.  H.  Tietsort 

A.  C.  Sweeney 

Albert  Naegelin 

Wm.  Mills 

James  Snvder 

B.  H.  Schulte 

E.  E.  Mull 

A.  H.  Brooks 

S.  M.  Burnett 

Wm.  F.  Hoyt 

John  H.  Davis 

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REPRESENTATIVES. — Continued. 


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Camden 

Atwood 

Greenview 

Yorktown 

Mozart 

Lafavette 

Rock"  Island 

Lambert 

(irand  Chain 

South  Park 

Phounix 

Mavo 

Greenland 

Crawford 

Erie 

Burnt  Prairie  — 

Herder 

l-'illmore 

Kadvville 

Normal 

Wakleck 

Pawnee 

A.  O.  Fay 

Enlield 

Illinois  City 

Morrisonville 

Blue  Mound 

Burnside 

Gallatia 

Rio 

Garfield 

Orangeville 

Clift.m 

Englewood 

lolk 

Raymond 

Herrin's  Prairie. 

ShilohHill 

Hi-lk-  Rive 

Richard  Cole.   .   . 

Button 

Pleasant  Plains.. 

Temple  Hill 

Ale.xandria 

Braidwood 

Ewing 

J'>l>l';i -,- 

Star 

Farmer  Citj" 

Providence  

Collinsville 

.lohnsonville 

Newton 

Elvaston 


6S4  William  McClave 

t;:?.!  Chas.  B.  McClelland  . 

0:W  A.  E.  Harken 

63'.i,  VV'm.  C.  Clausen 

641  JR.  C.  Crihtteld 

642  Frank  Crozier 

643  William  Creer 

644  W.  S.  Brown 

64.=)  John  F.  Fryer 

646  J.  C.  SeatoD 

647  J.  J.  Davis 

648JA.  A.  Cavins     

651 1  J.  T.  A.  Edmonson 

6.5.3  Homer  J.  Tice 

6.551  W.  C.  Stilson 

6.56  Wm.  Muhl 

6.57  H.B.  McLoad    

65><  F.  E.  Jenkinson 

6.59; Frank  S.  Wood 

660  W.  P.  Copeland 

66iJohnJ   ZoUen 

663  James  Jones 

664  John  Z.  Lewis 

665  .Samuel  D.  Larimore  . 

666  Herbert  Athev     

667] Seward  A.  Eddy 

66H  C.  W.  Hunsinge'r 

669  David  J.  Brown 

670  G.  W.  Miller 

672  G.  \V.  Fowler 

673j George  Champio  i 

674' Julius  Ewart 

675IT.  J.  Underwood 

676  L.  O.  VanRiper 

677| Edward  C.  Robinson. 

679  Joseph  Rvan 

681 1  J.  M.  Pence 

6S2JHenrv  Hofer 

683  M.  R.'Kellv 

684  J.  C.  D.  Carr 

()85  M.  Dickson 

686|John  H.  Nair 

687  G.  I.  Cadwell '. 

68,s| Peter  Wright 

690  E.  W.  Brundage 

C.  W.  Reiley 

Edward  Grimes 

T.  J.  Sanson 

H.  Shaw 

W.  R.  Ross 

R.  K.  .Sloan 

J.  V.  Hoseney 

I.  P.  Smith 

H.  C.  Green 

James  R.  McCall 

Ill  .John  Rav 

John  M.  Darr 

Richard  R.  Jones.     ... 

R.  C.  Smally 

George  H.  Mittan 

S.  A.  Reynolds 

W.  E.  Iladlev 

J.  W.  Leathers 

J.  W.  Johnston 

L.  E.  Caldwell 


93 

J  9  ;«) 

193 

19  30 

40 

4  00 

1 

10 

144 

14  40 

3 

30 

•) 

20 

216 

21  60 

163 

16  30 

61 

6  10 

202 

20  20 

239 

23  90 

160 

16  00 

180 

18  00 

121 

12  10 

126 

12  60 

333 

33  30 

162 

16  20 

26;i 

26  30 

353 

35  30 

6 

60 

158 

15  80 

223 

22  30 

214 

21  40 

214 

21  40 

133 

13  .30 

272 

27  20 

3 

30 

233 

23  30 

333 

33  30 

124 

12  40 

4 

40 

203 

20  30 

23 

2  .30 

276 

27  60 

187 

18  70 

211 

21  10 

184 

18  40 

225 

22  50 

307 

30  70 

16;^ 

16  30 

4 

40 

126 

12  60 

69 

6  90 

7 

70 

221 

22  10 

220 

22  00 

321 

32  10 

315 

31  50 

293 

2$»  ;w 

4 

40 

194 

19  40 

201 

20  10 

380 

38  UO 

172 

17  20 

57 

5  70 

298 

29  80 

208 

20  80 

99 

9  90 

130 

13  00 

10 

1  00 

286 

2.S  60 

252 

25  20 

134 

13  40 

239 

23  W 

1897.] 


Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois. 


93 


REPRESENTATIVES — Continued. 


g 

n 

rti 

|-< 

P 

« 

TO 

B 

$  1  60 

u 

30 

6 

28  40 

6 

32  30 

6 

27  10 

6 

11  00 

6 

29  10 

6 

20  10 

6 

11  10 

6 

10 

6 

6  40 

6 

32  00 

6 

29  70 

6 

1  20 

6 

21  30 

6 

11  00 

6 

18  20 

6 

6  60 

6 

12  60 

6 

8  30 

4 

30 

6 

16  80 

6 

13  60 

6 

15  10 

6 

29  50 

6 

9  40 

4 

14  30 

6 

14.  20 

6 

15  50 

6 

31  60 

6 

12  30 

6 

24  20 

6 

14  30 

6 

18  30 

6 

21  80 

6 

7  40 

6 

40 

6 

27  60 

6 

19  50 

6 

3  00 

6 

17  60 

6 

1  20 

6 

1  20 

6 

5) 

6 

21  70 

6 

1  50 

6 

38  40 

6 

32  30 

6 

13  10 

6 

50 

6 

1  00 

6 

35  10 

6 

50 

6 

40 

6 

21  10 

6 

12  10 

6 

30 

6 

1  00 

6 

13  90 

6 

19  10 

6 

30  30 

6 

17  80 

6 

80 

6 

24  60 

6 

15  60 

6 

Calumet 

Arcana 

May 

Chapel  Hill 

Rome .. 

Walnut 

Omaha 

Chandlerville. . . 

Rankin 

Golden  Rule 

Waterman 

Lake  Creek 

Eldorado 

Harbor 

Carman 

Gibson  

Morning  Star.. , 

Sheridan 

Arrowsmith 

Saunemin 

Lakeside 

New  Holland 

Danvers 

Scott  Land 

Goode 

Winnebago 

Weldon 

Centennial 

Alta 

Akin 

Lj-ndon 

Allendale 

Ogden  

Pre-emption 

Hardinsville..   .. 

Verona 

Mj'.stic  Star 

Orel     

Van  Meter 

Crete 

Sullivan 

Palace    

Triluminar 

Mizpah 

St.  Elmo 

LaGrange 

Bay  City  

NewBurnside. . 

Man.stield 

Lake  View 

Grand  Crossing, 

Gurney , 

Wright's  Grove 

Siloam 

Colchester 

Potomac 

Constantia.     ... 
Beacon  Light. .. 

Stanford  ". 

Riverton  Union 

Morris , 

Lerna    

Auburn  Park.. 

Pittstield 

Broadlands 


Daniel  A  Murphy 

Henrv  Wunnicke 

A.  H.  Story 

N.  A.  Norfis 

J.  R.  Walker 

T.  H.  Irvin 

J.  W.  Bowling 

Herman  Rethorn 

C.  E.  Groves 

A.  J.  Cornell 

George  W.  Wakefield 

W.  f.  Armes 

W.  E.  Webber 

George  Carter 

James  Edmonds 

Amos  Ball 

H.  B.  Heald 

Ed.  J.  Smith 

A.  G.  Barnes 

Chas.  F.  RO.SS 

J  M.  Finley 

W.  H.  LaForge ■ 

M.  B.  Munsell 

A.  N.  Workman 

J.  D.  Bellamy 

Jas.  L.  McLain 

Thos.  C.  Byland 

Frank  Brewer  

W.  D.  Holmes 

C.  M.  Hiidgins 

Wm.  H.  Shaw 

L.  W.  Jackman 

Simon  Holmes 

J.  H.  Seyler 

James  Shipman 

Wm.  A.  Small    

R.  B.  Tapp 

A.  G.  Scudamore 

I.  M.  Taylor 

W.  C.  Trowbridge .... 

Opha  Tichenor 

George  W.  Lorenz 

E.  M.'Webster 

Thomas  Hicks 

C.  W.  Bavles 

Howard  E.  Patterson 

Wm.  S.  Moseley 

J.  A.  Smith 

H.  F.  W.  Spilver 

Wm.  R.  Bruce 

Oliver  Apgar 

William  H.  Eskew 

James  Beaumont  ..   . 

Henry  S.  Albin 

James  Parnall 

W.  L.  Bentley  

John  Werkmeister.  . . 
Albert  C.  Firleke ...    . 

M.  Ger brick 

George  Felter 

August  J.  Weinel 

Ralph  Jeffris 

Oliver  Haughey 

.S.  B.  Dawson 

Walter  H.  Towne 


16 
3 
284 
323 
271 
110 
291 
201 
111 
1 

64 
320 
297 

12 
213 
110 
182 

66 
126 

88 
3 
168 
136 
151 
295 

94 
143 
142 
155 
316 
123 
242 
143 
183 
218 

74 

4 

276 

195 

30 
176 

12 

12 

5 

217 

15 

384 

323 

131 

5 

10 

351 

5 

4 

211 

121 

3 

10 
139 
191 
303 
178 
8 
246 
156 


S  5  60 
6  30 

34  40 
38  30 
33  10 
17  00 

35  lU 

26  10 
17  10 

6  10 
12  40 
38  00 
35  70 

7  20 

27  30 

17  00 
24  20 
12  60 

18  60 

12  30 
6  30 

22  80 

19  60 
21  10 

35  50 

13  40 

20  30 

20  20 

21  50 
37  60 

18  30 
30  20 

20  30 

24  30 
27  80 
13  40 

6  40 
33  60 

25  50 
9  00 

23  60 

7  20 
7  20 

6  50 

37  70 

7  50 
44  40 

38  30 

19  10 

6  50 

7  00 
41  10 

6  50 

6  40 

27  10 

18  10 

6  30 

7  00 

19  90 
25  10 

36  30 
23  80 

6  80 
30  60 

21  60 


94 


Proceedings  of  tlw 


[Oct.  7. 


•REPRESENTATIVES— Co>l//H(t€(L 


LODGES. 

NO. 

N.\MES. 

g 

g 

00 

? 

T3 

t 

O 
n 
3 

Total 

A.  T.  Darrah 

793 

794 
795 
79«) 
797 
798 
7!»9 
8(H) 
801 
80.' 
803 
804 
805 
80(5 
807 
808 
809 
810 
811 
812 
813 
814 
815 
816 
817 
81S 
819 
820 
821 
822 
823 
824 
825 
826 
827 
829 
830 
831 
832 
833 
834 
83.1 
831) 
837 
838 
839 
840 
841 
842 
813 
844 
845 
846 
847 

S.  G.  Jarvis 

1.57 

3;w 

236 

7 
147 
120 

5 
124 
317 
123 
.3 
104 
260 
316 
187 
253 
13 
100 
1.50 

5 
103 

9 

299 

336 

13 

155 
292 
346 
120 

21 
176 

71 

53 
154 
300 
204 

23 
321 
190 
277 

168 
197 

10 

332 

6 

17 

10 
126 

68 
232 
213 

$15  70 
33  00 

70 
23  60 

70 

14  70 
12  00 

.50 
12  40 
31  70 
12  30 
1  3U 
10  40 

26  00 

31  60 

18  70 
25  .30 

i  30 
10  00 

15  00 
,50 

10  3J 

90 

29  90 

3;l  60 

1  30 
70 

15  50 
25)  20 
•U  60 
12  00 

2  10 
17  60 

7  10 

5  30 

15  40 
:«  (K) 

20  40 
2  30 

32  10 

19  00 

27  70 
70 

16  80 
19  70 

1  00 

33  20 
60 

1  70 

1  00 

12  60 

6  80 
23  20 

21  30 

*6 
6 
6 
6 
6 
6 
6 
6 
6 
6 
6 
6 
6 
6 
6 
6 
6 
6 
6 
6 
6 
6 
6 
6 
6 
6 
6 
6 
6 
6 
6 
6 
6 
6 
6 
6 
6 
6 
4 
6 
6 
6 
6 
6 
6 
6 
6 
4 
6 
6 
4 
6 
6 
4 

.*21  70 

Taiiini>r 

Nicholas  Pyle 

39  00 

Mvrtle 

Mark  A.  Poote 

6  70 

H  M.  Hu.sted ... 

O.  O.  Hodges 

29  60 

Normal  Park 

Sidell 

Colfax 

Kenwood 

H.  F.  Sawtell 

R.  G.  Shobe 

V.  J.  Mittan 

Milton  E   Robinson 

6  70 
to  70 
18  00 

6  50 

J.  O.  Palmer 

Kli  D.  Roach 

18  40 

Williamson 

37  70 

Neponset 

Kensington    

S.  M.  Dalzell 

J.  L.  Priestman 

Alex.  Cruden 

18  30 
7  30 

WillE.  Dudley 

16  40 

Nebo 

J.  R.  Gaut '. 

.32  00 

Roval 

37  60 

Cofnland 

24  70 

Gillham 

Ci.  W.  Kimbro 

31  30 

Tracv 

Wm.  H.  Roberts 

7  30 

Melvin 

E.  B.  Perrv  

16  00 

DeLand  

R.  B.  Moody 

21  00 

Humboldt  Park 

("has.  W   Peck 

6  .50 

Ohio 

16  30 

Lawn 

J  R.  Harden. 

6  90 

Ridgway 

Creal  Springs 

Ben  Hur 

B.  G.  Brooks 

Elbert  Mclnturff 

K.  A.  Lantan ... 

('has.  \V.  McAfee 

Arthur  W.  Fruit     

35  90 
39  60 
7  30 

Columbian 

Henderson 

6  70 
31  .50 

New  Canton 

M.  D.  Massie 

35  20 

Belknap 

Pearl 

Grove 

Arthur 

O.  M.  Fraim        

40  60 

J.  V.  Snow 

F.  F.  Chesmann 

C.  F.  Jenne 

18  00 

8  10 

23  60 

Mazon 

Geo.  P.  Thomas 

13  10 

Secjuoit 

.John  Welch 

11  30 

Edgar 

21  40 

Rocktort 

Findlav 

VV.  T.  Barton 

W.B.Wallace 

John  .\.  .Stout 

Albert  L.  Martin 

36  00 
26  40 

Magic  City 

6  30 

Dean 

.38  10 

Toledo    

Kufus  H.  Smith 

25  00 

Triple " 

F.  Kohl 

.S.  S.  Borden  

3;i  70 

Windsor  Park 

6  70 

Hindsboro 

C.  L.  Watson 

22  80 

Charity 

W.  F.  -Spence 

25  70 

Berwvn 

Alto  Pass 

Charles  W.  Morris 

J.  F.  Blessing 

James  F.  Perching        

liregory  H.  Hovna'nian 

Robert  F.  Thorogood 

M.  S.  Campbell 

(-'vrus  H.  Edison 

F.  C.  Funk.   .     . 

r  00 
39  20 

Woodlawn  Park 

Fides 

4  60 
7  70 

Park 

7  00 

Hopewell 

Martinton    

Bluffs 

16  60 
12  80 
29  20 

Stronghurst 

George  T.  Chant 

25  30 

1897.]  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois.  95 

EEPORT— Committee  on  Chartered  Lodges. 

R.W.  Bro.  L.  L.  Munn  presented  the  following  report 
from  the  Committee  on  Chartered  Lodg'es,  which  on  motion 
was  adopted : 

I'o  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois,  A.  F.  and  A.2L: 

Your  Committee  on  Chartered  Lodges  fraternally  report  that 
thej'have  carefully  examined  the  returns  of  the  constituent  lodges  for 
the  3-ear  ending  June  30,  1897.  We  find  that  all  but  Raritan  Lodge 
No.  727  have  made  returns,  but  that  the  following  lodges  have  failed 
to  pay  their  Grand  Lodge  dues  to  the  Grand  Secretary,  viz:  Nos.  34, 
362,  458,  488,  727,  761,  and  772. 

We  submit  the  following  summary  of  the  tabulated  statement: 

INCREASE,  1896-7. 

Number  raised 2,642 

Number  reinstated 255 

Number  admitted 789 

Number  added  tor  error 37 

Total  increase 3,723 

DECREASE,  1896-1897. 

Number  suspended 1,125 

Number  expelled 31 

Number  dimitted 1,010 

Number  died 766 

Number  deducted  for  error 15 

Total  decrease 2,947 

Net  gain  in  membership 776 

Total  membership  June  30,  1897 53.285 

Resident  members 49,744 

Non-resident  members 3,689 

Number  initiated  2,706 

Number  passed 2,569 

Total  amount  received  for  dues $39,609  00 

Contributed  by  lodges  for  their  own  needy  members,  their 

widows  and  orphans  25,557  33 

Contributed  to  those  not  members 7.147  39 

Contributed  to  Illinois  Masonic  Orphans'  Home 1,354  75 

Total  contributions  for  charity $34,059  47 

All  of  which  is  fraternally  submitted. 

L.  L.  MUNN, 
FRANK  W.  HAVILL, 
GEORGE  A.  STABLER, 
THOMAS  W.  WILSON, 
JAMES  L.  SCOTT, 

Committee. 


96  Proceed inr/s  of  the  [Oct.  7. 

VERBAL  REPORT-Oommittee  on  Pinance. 

M.W.  Bro.  Leroy  A.  Goddard  presented  a  verbal  report 
on  the  recommendation  of  the  Grand  Master  that  a  suitable 
location  be  chosen,  and  a  building"  erected  for  the  protection 
of  the  Grand  Lodge  records,  and  asked  for  further  time, 
which,  on  motion,  was  granted. 


ADDITIONAL  REPORT-Oommittee  on  Finance. 

M.W.  Bro.  Leroy  A.  Goddard.  presented  the  following 
additional  report  of  the  Committee  on  Finance,  which  on 
motion,  was  adopted. 

To  the  M.  W.  Grand  Lodge,  A.  F.  and  A.  JL,  of  Illinois. ■ 

Your  Committee  on  Finance,  to  whom  was  referred  the  recom- 
mendation of  the  M.W.  Grand  Master  in  regard  to  memorial  services 
on  the  one  hundredth  anniversary  of  the  death  of  Bro.  George  Wash- 
ington, begs  leave  to  report  that  it  has  given  careful  consideration  of 
the  same.  It  is  assumed  that  it  is  referred  to  the  Finance  Committee 
that  an  appropriation  for  expenses  may  receive  attention.  No  direct 
information  appears  to  be  received  from  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Virginia 
under  whose  auspices  the  ceremon}-  is  proposed,  as  to  its  attitude  to- 
ward the  proposition.  Consequently  3-our  committee  is  of  the  opinion 
that  definite  action  should  be  deferred  until  some  official  request  or 
notice  is  received  from  that  source.  In  any  event,  it  would  be  diffi- 
cult at  this  time  to  estimate  what  amount  of  expenditure  would  be 
required,  considering  the  limited  information  that  is  in  the  possession 
of  3'our  committee.  Your  committee  does  not  wish  to  place  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois  in  the  position  of  an  obstructionist  to  the 
plan.  It  is  of  the  opinion,  however,  that  it  would  be  wise,  before  com- 
mitting itself,  to  know,  at  least  in  a  general  waj-,  the  position  assumed 
by  the  other  grand  jurisdictions  of  the  United  States.  Such  a  pro- 
posed observance,  to  be  successful,  and  carrj-  out  the  sentiment  for 
which  it  is  intended,  should  hardly  be  undertaken  in  the  face  of  an}- 
considerable  opposition. 

It  is  also  suggested  in  the  M.W.  Grand  Master's  report  that  the 
lodges  of  Illinois  be  requested  to  observe  appropriate  services,  ^'our 
committee  is  of  the  opinion  that  at  the  session  of  this  Grand  Lodge 
in  18U8  will  be  sufficient  time  to  determine  what  observances  should 
be  had,  if  any,  by  the  constitutent  lodges,  and  the  formulation  of  an 
appropriate  ceremony. 


1897.]  Chrand  Lodge  of  Illinois.  97 

In  conclusion,  your  committee  recommends  that  the  entire  propo- 
sition be  referred  to  the  M.W.  Grand  Master  for  further  considera- 
tion. 

Fraternall}'  submitted, 

L.  A.  GODDARD, 
GIL.  W.  BARNARD, 
S.  W.  WADDLE. 


AMENDMENT— To  Grand  Lodge  By-laws. 

R.W.  Bro.  John  B.  Fithian  moved  that  the  action  on 
the  amendment  to  section  1,  article  XXV,  part  II,  and  sec- 
tion 6,  article  IX,  part  I,  of  Grand  Lodg"e  By-laws,  pro- 
posed at  the  session  of  1895,  and  j^ostponed  at  the  session 
of  1896,  be  postponed  until  next  }■  ear. 

INTRODUCTIONS. 

R.W.  Bro.  Edward  Cook:— J/.  IF.  Grand  Master:  Permit  me  to 
introduce  M.W.  Bro.  John  A.  Ehrhardt,  Past  Grand  Master  of  Ne- 
braska: also  R.W.  Bro.  F.  H.  Young,  D.G.M.  of  that  state. 

The  M.W.  Grand  Master:— i^re^/u-e^i.-  I  take  great  pleasure  in 
presenting  to  you  M.W.  Bro.  Ehrhardt,  P.G.M.  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
Nebraska,  and  will  ask  you  to  join  with  me  in  according  him  the  grand 
honors  of  Masonry. 

M.W.  Bro.  Ehrhardt:  M.W.  Sir  and  Brother: — I  want  to  thank 
you  for  this  hearty  greeting.  I  remember  when  I  was  a  little  boy, 
living  in  this  state,  my  employer,  at  a  very  busy  time  in  the  year, 
said  to  me,  take  the  key  and  go  up  and  sweep  out  the  Masonic  lodge 
room.  It  was  just  between  darkness  and  daj'light  of  the  evening,  and 
unlocking  the  door,  I  went  in,  looked  around  timidly,  and  while  I 
might  have  been  indolent  and  lazy  at  some  work  that  I  did,  I  can  as- 
sure you,  my  brethren,  I  was  very  industrious  for  a  little  while  that 
evening,  and  I  never  was  more  relieved  in  my  life  than  when  I  got  out 
of  that  Masonic  lodge  room,  and  got  the  door  locked  behind  me.  But 
since  that  time  things  have  changed,  I  always  like  to  meet  my  breth- 
ren in  the  lodge  room,  and  it  is  not  a  question  now  to  get  away,  as  to 
stay.  As  you  are  here  for  business,  I  am  glad  of  this  reception,  and 
hope  that  your  meeting  will  be  prosperous,  and  that  when  you  come 
to  Nebraska  you  will  meet  with  us. 

The  M.W.  Grand  Master:  Brethren:—!  take  great  pleasure  in 
presenting  to  you  R.W.  Bro.  P.  H.  Young,  Deputy  Grand  Master  of 
the  Grand  Lodge  of  Nebraska. 


9'-'  Proceediufjs  of  the  [Oct.  7, 

Brother  Youni;:  M.  W.  Grand  Master  and  Brethren:— I  am  <,flad 
to  meet  ^-ou.  I  will  not  take  your  time  with  any  speech. 

REPORT- Committee  on  Obituaries. 

R.AV.  Bro.  Geo.  W.  Warvelle  submitted  the  followin^Te- 
port  from  the  Committee  on  Obituaries,  which,  on  motion, 
was  adopted  b}'  a  risin<,^  vote: 

To  the  M.  W.  Grand  Ladge  A.  F.  and  A.M.  of  Illinois: 

Brethren:  In  the  volume  of  the  law  it  is  written,  "It  is  appointed 
unto  all  men  once  to  die,''  and  as  a  result  of  this  inexorable  mandate 
we  are  affain  called  upon  to  mourn  the  loss  of  many  distinjjuished 
craftsmen  who,  during  the  past  year,  have  laid  down  the  implements 
of  earthly  toil  for  a  participation  in  the  higher  mysteries. 

Your  committee,  to  whom  was  referred  the  consideration  of  the 
lives  and  labors  of  these  departed  brethren,  would  respectfully  offer 
the  following  as  a  tribute  to  our  fraternal  dead: 

AT  HOME. 

Jerome  R.  Gorin,  a  Past  Grand  Master  of  this  jurisdiction,  died 
at  his  home  in  Decatur,  September  2,  1897,  at  the  ripe  age  of  eighty 
years.  For  nearly  seventy  years  he  had  been  a  citizen  of  the  state  of 
Illinois,  and  for  sixty-four  years  of  that  period  he  had  resided  in  the 
community  where  he  died. 

Brother  Gorin  was  born  at  Hopkinsville,  Christian  county,  Ky., 
October  12,  1817.  In  1828,  he  removed  with  his  parents  to  Illinois,  set- 
tling first  at  Vandalia  and  later  at  Decatur,  where  he  resided,  with 
but  a  brief  interval  of  absence,  until  his  death.  He  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  in  1842,  and  for  a  number  of  years  was  active  as  a  practi- 
tioner. In  18()1,  he  engaged  in  banking,  and  from  that  time  he  con- 
tinued to  be  prominently  identified  with  the  financial  and  business 
interests  of  his  adopted  city.  He  was  an  active  and  intluential  mem- 
ber of  the  Methodist  church,  and  devoted  much  of  his  time  to  Sundaj-- 
school  work.  In  the  community  at  large  he  exerted  a  wide-sjjread 
and  beneficial  infiuence.  no  man  standing  higher  in  public  esteem. 

Brother  Gorin  was  initiated  in  Macon  Lodge  No.  8,  at  Decatur. 
October  1(5.  1841,  and  two  days  later  was  raised  to  the  degree  of  Master 
Mason.  He  served  the  lodge  as  worshipful  master  for  man}-  years, 
and  in  18()()  was  elected  Grand  Master  by  this  Grand  Lodge,  a  position 
he  continued  to  occujjy  for  two  years.  In  tlio  other  departments  of 
Masonry  he  was  equallj'  conspicuous  and  had  received  signal  honors 
in  all  of  the  governing  bodies  of  the  Craft.     In  his  Masonic,  as  in  his 


1897.]  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois.  99 

social  and  business  relations,  he  was  ever  characterized  by  those 
qualities  and  attributes  which  serve  to  endear,  and  his  death  is  justly 
felt  to  be  a  personal  bereavement  by  all  who  knew  him. 

Arthur  G.  Burley,  a  well-known  and  highly  esteemed  citizen  of 
Chicago,  died  at  that  city  August  2S,  1897.  Brother  Burley  was  born 
at  Exeter,  New  Hampshire,  January  10,  1812.  He  came  to  Chicago  in 
183.3  and  was  identified  with  its  commercial  interests  from  that  time 
until  his  death.  During  his  entire  life  the  tenets  of  Freemasonry 
were  his  rule  and  guide,  and  of  him  it  is  said  that  "no  act  of  his  ever 
tarnished  its  Fraternal  principles."  He  was  made  a  Mason  in  Ori- 
ental Lodge  No.  3.3,  in  1848,  was  elected  treasurer  thereof  in  1849,  and 
re-elected  every  year  for  the  succeeding  forty-eight  years,  a  circum- 
stance that  in  itself  bears  eloquent  testimony  to  the  worth  of  the 
man  and  the  fraternal  affection  of  those  who  knew  him  best. 

Edward  D.  Cooke  died  at  Washington,  D.  C,  June  24,  1897.  He 
was  a  member  of  Oriental  Lodge  No.  33,  which  he  had  served  as  senior 
warden.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  in  the  public  service  as 
representative  of  the  6th  congressional  district  in  the  national  legis- 
lature. He  was  a  strong,  brave  man,  esteemed  for  his  many  virtues 
and  genial  qualities. 

Samuel  U.  Burner,  died  at  his  home  in  Robinson,  December  25, 
1896.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  the  worshipful  master-elect  of 
Robinson  Lodge  No.  2.50.  He  has  been  described  as  "one  of  a  rare 
type  of  men  whose  office  is  to  overcome  the  repugnancies  of  business 
life  by  amiability  of  character  and  the  practice  of  such  gentle  ameni- 
ties as  spring  intuitively  from  natures  that  over  run  with  human 
kindness." 

Goodman  Ferre,  one  of  the  oldest  and  best  known  Masons  in  cen- 
tral Illinois,  died  at  Bloomington,  September  20,  1897,  aged  91  j-ears. 
Brother  Ferre  was  born  at  Springfield,  Mass.,  January  10,  1806.  In 
the  fall  of  1841  he  removed  to  Bloomington  where  he  resided  continu- 
ously until  his  death.  He  was  made  a  Mason  in  Bloomington  Lodge  in 
October  1848,  serving  the  lodge  as  master  in  1855,  and  from  1863  until 
he  died,  as  treasurer.  Of  him  it  has  been  said  "he  ever  lived  a  just 
and  upright  man  and  Mason." 

ABROAD. 

Theodore  Schreiner,  born  at  Grosenbach,  Bavaria,  June  15, 
1811;  died  at  Mt.  Pleasant,  Iowa,  April  14,  1897.  Brother  Schreiner 
was  Grand  Tyler  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Iowa  from  1859  until  his  death, 
and  as  such  was  widely  known  throughout  all  of  the  western  country. 
"Father  Schreiner"'  was  the  name  by  which  he  was  best  known  and 
indicates  the  affection  in  which  he  was  held. 


100  Proceed  trigs  of  fhe  [Oct.  7, 

Andrew  M.  Wolihin,  died  February  22,  1897,  at  Macon,  Georgia. 
Brother  Wolihin  had  filled  man}'  stations  of  prominence  with  credit 
and  abilit}',  but  was  best  known  as  Grand  Secretar}-  of  the  Grand 
Lody^e  of  Geor^a.  Few  men  ever  commanded  the  respect,  esteem, 
and  love  of  his  fellow  men  to  a  greater  extent  than  he. 

John  H.  Bell,  born  at  London,  Ontario,  September  6, 1840;  died, 
Winnipeg,  Manitoba.  March  16,  1897.  Brother  Bell  was  of  the  best 
known  Masons  of  the  Dominion  of  Canada,  and  from  1880  to  1884  was 
Grard  Master  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Manitoba.  He  was  a  frequent 
visitor  to  Illinois,  where  he  was  as  highlj*  esteemed  as  at  his  own 
home.  He  filled  many  Masonic  offices,  the  duties  of  which  he  ever 
discharged  with  fidelity  and  zeal. 

Joseph  N.  Dolph,  born  October  19,  lS:r»:  died  March  10,  1897.  In 
civil  life  Brother  Dolph  was  well  and  f avorabl}'  known  as  United  States 
Senator  from  Oregon.  In  Masonry  he  had  been  equally  honored,  hav- 
ing been  Grand  Master  of  Oregon  in  the  year  1882.  His  numerous 
Masonic  orations  have  attracted  wide  attention  and  received  much 
favorable  comment. 

John  Stedman,  born  February  11,  1836;  died,  March  — .  1897. 
Brother  Stedman  was  a  Past  Grand  Master,  of  Montana,  ''a  useful 
citizen,  and  a  brave,  true  man.'" 

RUFUS  C.  Hatheway,  born  December  21,  18.37:  died,  December  9, 
1896.  Brother  Hathewa}',  enjoyed  the  honorable  distinction  of  a  Past 
Grand  Master  of  Michigan,  and  was  well  known  in  all  departments  of 
Masonry. 

John  W.  Morrison,  born  ,  1S20,  died,  April  11.  1897.     Brother 

Morrison  was  active  in  the  organization  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Prince 
Edward  Island  and  in  1890  became  its  Grand  Master,  serving  with 
honor  and  distinction. 

And  now,  as  we  render  this  tribute  of  fraternity  to  the  memory 
of  our  departed  brethren;  as  we  recall  their  services  to  humanity, 
their  excellencies  of  character,  their  amiable  acts  and  exemplar}- 
lives, does  notour  tribute  suggest  to  ourselves  the  momentousquestion. 
Have  our  own  lives  and  deeds  been  such  as  to  earn  the  commendation 
of  those  that  shall  survive  usV  Then  through  the  healthful  intluence 
of  the  example  of  these  departed  worthies  may  we  so  live  that  when 
life's  little  da}' is  passed  and  we,  too,  lie  in  death's  embrace,  it  shall  be 
said  of  us,  as  we  now  say  of  each  of  them,  "a  good  man  has  gone  to 

his  reward." 

I'Vaternally  submitted, 

GEO.  W.  WARVELLE, 
N.  E.  ROBERTS, 
G.  O.  FRIKDRICH, 

Committee. 


1897.]  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois.  101 

AMENDMENT-To  Grand  Lodge  By-laws -Proposed. 

M.W.  Bro.  Joseph  Robbins  presented  an  amendment  to 
section  1,  article  XIII,  part  2,  Grand.  Lodge  By-laws  by 
adding"  the  following,  and  it  being  seconded  b}^  Representa- 
tives of  more  than  twenty  lodges,  lies  over  until  next  j^ear: 

Every  petition  for  the  degrees  shall,  in  addition  to  the  questions 
and  statements  herein  prescribed,  bear  upon  its  face  the  following 
question,  viz.:  Masonry,  not  being  a  benefit  society,  have  you  seri- 
ously considered  whether  your  circumstances  will  enable  you  to  sup- 
port the  institution? 


EEPOEiT— Committee  on  Jurisprudence. 

M.W.  Bro.  DeWitt  C.  Cregier presented  the  following  re- 
port from  the  Committee  on  Masonic  Jurisprudence,  which, 
on  motion  was  adopted: 

To  the  M.  W.  the  Grand  Lodge,  State  of  Illinois,  A.  F.  and  A.  JL: 

The  Committee  on  Jurisprudence  has  considered  the  matters  re- 
ferred to  it,  and  fraternall}-  report  relative  thereto  as  follows: 

The  recommendation  embraced  in  the  last  two  lines  under  head 
of  Mechanicsburg  Lodge  No.  299,  to  be  found  on  pages  16  and  17  of 
Grand  Master's  printed  report,  was  referred  to  this  committee  by  the 
Committee  on  Appeals  and  Grievances.  Your  Committee  on  Juris- 
prudence suggest  that  the  Grand  Master's  recommendation  be  so  mod- 
ified that  the  arrest  of  the  charter  of  Mechanicsburg  Lodge  No.  299, 
stand  as  ordered  by  the  Grand  Master,  but  that  his  recommendation 
to  erase  its  name  and  number  from  the  roll  of  lodges, be  deferred  un- 
til annual  communication  of  the  Grand  Lodge  in  1898. 

In  'the  matter  of  Waukegan  Lodge  No.  78,  your  committee  ap- 
prove and  commend  the  action  of  the  Grand  Master  in  deposing  the 
Senior  Warden  from  office  for  sixty  days,  (such  being  the  limit  of  his 
official  authority  under  our  law)  but  in  view  of  "the  flagrant  and  open 
disregard  of  the  law"  by  the  said  Senior  Warden,  that  he  stand  sus- 
pended from  office  for,  and  during  the  full  period  of  the  unexpired 
time,  for  which  he  was  elected  and  installed  as  such. 

Your  committee  approve  the  action  of  the  Grand  Master  in  depos- 
ing the  Worshipful  Master  of  Chapel  Hill  Lodge  No.  719  for  good  and 
sufficient  reasons.  The  record  before  your  committee  does  not  disclose 
the  length  of  time  for  which  said  Worshipful  Master  was  deposed,  since, 
as  noted  above,  the  Grand  Master  is  powerless  to  inflict  punishment  for 
a  time  beyond  the  next  subsequent  meeting  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  hence 


102  Proceedings  of  the  [Oct.  7, 

the  highest  penalty  that  the  Grand  Master  can  officially  impose  durinjj 
vacation  amounts  to  delinite  suspension  only.  Your  committee  is  of 
the  opinion  that  the  case  under  consideration  comes  within  the  purview 
generally  of  article  IX,  part  III,  Grand  Lodge  B3'-laws,  and  especially 
section  4  of  said  article  IX  and  its  clauses  1,  2,  and  3  following.  There- 
fore, based  on  the  authority  cited,  and  in  view  of  the  circumstances 
narrated  by  the  Grand  Master,  your  committee  recommends  that  the 
said  Worshipful  Master  of  Chapel  Hill  Lodge  be  and  is  hereby  adjudged 

and  declared suspended  from  all  the  rights  and  privileges 

of  Freemasonry. 

In  the  case  of  the  complaint  made  against  the  Worshipful  Master 
of  Locust  Lodge  No.  (523,  very  similar  as  a  whole  and  in  detail  to  the 
case.of  Chapel  Hill  ne.\t-preceding,  and  for  same  reasons  therein  brietly 
submitted,  your  committee  regards  it  as  coming  within  the  authority 
of  the  law  quoted,  and  subject  to  like  consideration,  except  that  your 
committee  in  this  case  recommends  that  the  Worshipful  Master  of 

Locust  Lodge  No.  (523,  referred  to,  be from  all  the  rights  and 

privileges  of  Freemasonry. 

The  views  of  the  Grand  Master,  expressed  under  head  of  "Too 
Much  Publicity,"  are  fully  concurred  in  by  your  committee  and  are 
commended  to  the  careful  consideration  and  strict  observance  of  the 
lodges  and  individual  Craftsmen  every  where,  whose  attention  is  called 
to  the  fact  that  "too  much  publicity"  of  lodge  affairs  is  a  Masonic  of- 
fense and  therefore  a  subject  of  discipline. 

The  decisions  reported  by  the  Grand  Master,  numbered  from  1  to 
8  inclusive,  are  believed  to  be  not  only  wise  in  their  tendency  but  in 
strict  accord  with  our  written  code.  It  is  therefore  scarcely  neces- 
sary to  say  that  the  same  are  approved  by  your  committee. 

In  the  case  of  a  conflict  of  personal  jurisdiction  over  a  candidate 
for  the  degrees,  between  Yorktown  Lodge  No.  055  and  Princeton 
Lodge  No.  587,  both  of  Illinois,  and  submitted  to  the  Grand  Master 
for  decision  and  settlement,  your  committee,  at  the  request  of  the 
Grand  Master,  has  examined  all  the  ])apers  in  the  matter  and  being 
also  advised  of  the  somewhat  peculiar  conditions  which  involved  the 
conllict  of  jurisdiction  between  the  lodges,  and  resulted  in  a  com- 
plaint to  the  Grand  Master,  your  committee  is  clearly  of  the  opinion 
that  the  decision  and  orders  of  the  Grand  Master,  which  linally,  and 
as  your  committee  is  advised,  satisfactorily  disposed  of  all  the  ques- 
tions at  issue  between  the  interested  parties  were  fully  in  accord  with 
civil  and  Masonic  law,  as  well  as  equity  and  fairness  to  all  concerned. 

To  the  question  submitted  last  year  and  referred  to  this  commit- 
tee for  report  at  this  session,  to  be  found  on  page  104  of  proceedings, 
viz:  "Is  there  any  Masonic  law  in  force  in  this  Grand  Jurisdiction 
which  renders  the  objection  to  the  initiation  of  an  applicant  inopera- 


1897.]  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois.  103 

tive  and  void  if  made  or  renewed  before  the  expiration  of  the  bar  of  a 
3'ear — raised  by  a  former  objection?"     Your  committee  answers,  No. 

A  similar  query  is  propounded  at  this  session  as  follows:  "Can  a 
brother,  indefinitely  suspended  from  his  lodge  for  any  cause,  be  re- 
instated by  said  lodge  before  the  expiration  of  a  year  from  the  date 
of  such  suspension?"     To  which  your  committee  answers,  Yes. 

All  of  which  is  fraternally  submitted. 

DEWITT  C.  CREGIER, 
JAMES  A.  HAWLEY, 
DANIEL  M.  BROWNING, 
.JOHN  C.  SMITH, 
JOHN  M.  PEARSON, 

Committee. 

EE POET— Grand  Examiners. 

The  following  report  of  the  Committee  to  Examine  Vis- 
itors was  read  by  the  Grand  Secretar}^  and,  on  motion,  was 
approved: 

To  the  M.  W.  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois,  A.  F.  and  A.M.: 

Your  committee  appointed  to  examine  visitors  at  this  session  of 
Grand  Lodge,  would  beg  leave  to  report  that  we  have  examined  a 
number  of  visitors  and  representatives,  who  have  presented  them- 
selves, and  have  recommended  their  admission  to  Grand  Lodge. 

Fraternally  submitted, 

W.  B.  GRIMES, 
A.  B.  ASHLEY, 
J.  E.  EVANS. 
JOHN  W.  ROSE, 
JAMES  R.  ENNIS, 

Committee. 

STATUS  OF  BEO.  E.  SANPOED. 

A  question  having-  arisen  as  to  the  status  of  Bro.  E. 
Sanford,  under  report  of  Committee  on  Appeals  and  Griev- 
ances, the  Grand  Master  decided  that  inasmuch  as  the 
Grand  Lodge  had  adopted  report  of  committee  reversing 
the  verdict  of  the  lodge,  Brother  Sanford  was  thereby  re- 
stored to  membership  in  Cedar  Lodge,  as  well  as  to  good 
standing  in  the  Fraternity,  in  accordance  with  section  6, 
article  9,  part  3,  Grand  Lodge  By-laws. 


1"4  Proceedings  of  the  [Oct.  7, 

GRAND  OFFICERS  APPOINTED. 

The  Grand  Secretary  read  tlie  following-  list  of  grand 
officers  appointed  by  the  Grand  Master: 

11. W.  Rev.  Abel  M.  White.  .Grand  Chaplain Chicago. 

M.W.  John  Corson  Smith  . . .  Grand  Orator Chicago. 

W.  G.  H.  B.  Tolle.   Deputy  Grand  Secretary..  .Mattoon. 

W.  Cicero  J.  Lindley.   . . .  Grand  Marshal Greenville. 

W.  Joseph  D.  Everett Grand  Pursuivant Chicago. 

W.  Walter  Watson Grand  Standard  Bearer .  .'Mount  Vernon. 

W.  Adam  Ortseifen Grand  Sa-ord  Bearer Chicago. 

W.  Chester  E.  Allen  — Senior  Grand  Deacon Galesburg. 

W.  HaSWELL  C.  Clarke  .  .Junior  Grand  Deacon Kankakee. 

W.  Geo.  W.  Hamilton Grand  Steu-ard Prairie  Cit}-. 

W,  W.  W.  Watson Grand  Steward Barry. 

W.  J.  S.  McClelland Grand  Steimrd Decatur. 

W.  Samuel  Coffi^behky. Grand  Steward Peoria. 

Bro.  R.  R.  Stevens Grand  Tyler Chicago. 


INSTALLATION-Of  Grand  Officers. 

The  M.W.  Grand  Master:  /j?ref/uT»;— Having  learned  that  M.W. 
Brother  Cregier,  one  of  our  distinguished  Past  Grand  Masters 
in  years  gone  by,  had  brought  to  light  in  Masonry  the  incoming  Grand 
Master,  I  requested  him  to  conduct  the  installation.  With  his  char- 
acteristic modesty  he  has  declined,  and  insists  I  shall  do  this  myself. 

I  can  assure  you  that  it  gives  me  great  pleasure  to  induct  into 
the  grand  east  as  my  successor  the  distinguished  brother  you  have 
chosen.     M.W.  Brother  Cregier  will  kindly  act  as  Grand  Marshal. 


REMARKS-Of  Acting  Grand  Marshal  M.W.  D,  0.  Cregier. 

In  presenting-  R.W.  Edward  Cook,  Grand  Master-elect, 
for  installation.  M.W.  DeWitt  C.  Creg:ier  said: 

M.W.  Grand  Ma.stcr:  It  is  probably  the  experience  of  most  men 
that  as  the  years  glide  by  occasions  arise  which  call  to  mind  events 
and  incidents,  inconsequential  and  commonplace  in  themselves:  but 
to  one  who  was  closelj'  identified  a  generation  ago  in  an  event  not 
wholly  irrelevant  to  our  present  engagement,  I  may  be  e.xcused  for 
obtruding  upon  your  time  and  the  patience  of  the  Grand  Lodge. 
Morever,  Most  Worshipful  Sir.  recalling  a  portion  of  your  remarks 
made  at  the  commencement  of  these  ceremonies,  I  am  moved  to  saj^ 
a  few  words,  with  your  permission,  not  embraced  in  the  Ritual. 


1897.]  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois.  105 

M.W.  Grand  Master,  it  is  my  privilege  to  present  to  you  K.W. 
Edward  Cook,  Grand  Master-elect,  for  installation,  one  whom  I  have 
known  and  respected  for  more  than  a  third  of  a  century,  during 
which  time  our  intimacy,  socially  and  Masonically,  has  ripened  into 
personal  friendship— a  relation  born  of  probity,  rectitude,  and  fidel- 
ity on  the  part  of  him  of  whom  I  speak,  and  reinforced  by  strong  fra- 
■  ternal  ties. 

There  are  some  unusual  features  of  a  Masonic  nature  existing 
between  the  Grand  Master  elect  and  your  Marshal.  My  first  meeting 
with  Brother  Cook  was  on  the  ^'checkered  floor"  of  the  lodge,  where,  in 
official  capacity,  I  inducted  him  into  Freemasonry,  as  an  Entered 
Apprentice,  and  subsequently  into  the  "scoichtm."  Since  then  he  has 
been  an  active,  consistent,  and  zealous  Craftsman,  and  I  am  sure  he 
has  faithfully  observed  the  teachings  and  instructions  received  at 
the  time.  If  there  is  a  brother  among  this  large  gathering  who  knows 
aught  to  the  contrary,  let  him  respond  to  the  order  of  the  Grand  Mas- 
ter to  make  it  known  now. 

Most  Worshipful  Grand  Master,  I  beg  to  avail  myself  of  the  pres- 
ent moment  to  congratulate  you  and  your  associate  officers  upon  the 
administration  of  Masonic  affairs  in  our  state  for  the  past  two  years. 
I  beg  also  to  assure  you  of  my  appreciation  of  your  many  official 
courtesies  and  kindly  consideration. 

To  my  brethren  generally  I  desire  to  say  I  am  deeply  grateful  to 
Him  who  controls  our  destinies,  for  the  privilege  of  mingling  with 
you  on  this  interesting  occasion.  May  the  incoming  Grand  Master  so 
administer  the  charge  confided  to  him,  that  his  official  labors  may 
entitle  his  name  to  a  place  in  the  archives  among  those  of  his  prede- 
cessors who  have  earned  the  encomium  of  "Well  done,  good  and  faith- 
ful servant." 

May  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois  be  perpetuated  as  such  for  all 
time.  May  the  benign  mission  of  Freemasonry  continue  onward  and 
upward.  Maj'  the  blessing  of  God  rest  upon  the  institution  every- 
where, and  upon  the  brethren  individually  and  collectively,  at  home 
and  abroad,  who  are  engaged  in  the  work  of  disseminating  the  lofty 
and  humane  principles  of  Freemasonry. 

Most  Worshipful  Sir,  thirty-four  years  ago  in  my  official  capacity 
as  master,  I  guided  the  brother  who  stands  before  you,  in  his  initial 
step  in  Masonr}'.  Today  it  is  my  pleasant  task  to  assist  in  placing 
him  in  the  ''Grand  East"  as  Grand  Master  of  Masons  in  the  state  of 
Illinois;  these,  to  me,  interesting  circumstances,  recall  vividly  to  mind 
not  only  the  scenes  and  incidents  of  the  past,  but  impress  me  with  the 
significance  of  the  fleeting  years  of  life;  I  confess  therefore,  that  I  am 
deeply  touched,  and  sir,  if  during  these  remarks,  I  have  seemed  to  ex- 
perience some  degree  of  -feeling,  bordering  on  emotion,  I  beg  that 


106  Proceedings  of  the  [Oct.  7, 

such  evidence  will  not  be  regarded  as  a  weakness,  discreditable  to 
one's  manhood.  However  this  maj'  be  I  plead  guilty  at  this  time  to 
its  influence.  M.W.  Grand  Master  R.W.  Bro.  Edward  Cook  awaits 
your  further  will  and  pleasure. 

REMARKS-of  M.W.  Bro.  Edward  Cook. 
After  being"  installed  as  M.W.   Grand  Master,  Brother 
Cook  said: 

My  Dear  Friend  and  Brother: 

I  thank  you  for  the  kind  words  j'ou  have  spoken  in  the  presence 
of  these  brethren.  I  believe  that  those  werds  came  from  ^-our  heart, 
and  I  want  to  assure  3'ou  that  I  reciprocate  in  the  most  thorouphU- 
cordial  manner,  every  word  you  have  spoken  that  indicates  your 
friendship  and  your  fraternal  kindness  to  me.  I  remember  well  that 
time  thirt3'-four  years  ago,  when  you  placed  your  hand  solemnlj'  upon 
me  and  asked  in  whom  I  put  my  trust.  From  that  day  to  this  we  have 
been  close  friends,  and  I  hope  that  during  the  years  that  we  may  stay, 
whether  they  be  few  or  man}-,  that  friendship  will  remain  uninter- 
rupted.    I  thank  3'ou,  M.W.  Grand  Master,  for  what  you  have  said. 

Brethren  of  the  Grand  Lodge: 

You  have  made  me  the  happ3'  recipient  of  the  best  gift  at  your 
disposal.  To  be  selected  as  Grand  Master  b3'  the  chosen  representa- 
tives of  the  53,000  Masons  of  Illinois — men  who  are  themselves  the 
embodiment  of  what  is  best  and  noblest  in  the  manhood  of  a  great 
and  sovereign  state — is  a  distinction  and  an  honor  fit  to  make  one 
proud  as  well  as  happy. 

I  appreciate  this  preferment,  and  thank  3-ou  for  your  fraternal 
kindness  far  more  than  I  can  command  words  to  express.  The  heart 
is  willing  but  the  tongue  is  weak. 

Mingled  with  the  gladness  that  it  is  natural  I  should  feel  on  such 
an  occasion,  there  is  for  me  a  graver  note.  As  3'our  partialit3'  has 
advanced  me  step  by  step  nearer  to  this  highest  goal  of  a  Mason's 
ambition.  I  have  realized  more  and  more  deepl3'  the  weight3'  responsi- 
bility that  attaches  to  the  office  of  Grand  Master.  Things  which  at  a 
distance  seemed  easy  to  cope  with  on  nearer  approach  present  a  more 
difficult  and  serious  aspect,  so  that,  while  a  few  years  ago  I  should 
have  entered  the  office  with  great  confidence  in  my  abilit3'  to  fill  it. 
(had  I  then  by  an3'  chance  been  elevated  to  the  place)  I  now  take  up 
its  labors  with  an  anxiet3^  amounting  almost  to  apprehension.  And 
were  it  not  that  the  trust  I  expressed  when  I  first  entered  the  portals 
of  Masonry  is  still  a  living  faith  within  me.  I  might  well  shrink  from 
assuming  the  cares  and  responsibilities  of  the  station. 


1897.]  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois.  107 

The  coulidence  that  comes  from  this  trust  is  strengthened  by  the 
firm  conviction  that  the  friendship  and  good  will  you  have  so  often 
shown  me  in  the  past  will  not  desert  me  in  the  future.  I  shall  do  my 
best,  and  to  the  extent  that  I  am  right  in  my  efforts  I  am  sure  I  shall 
have  your  approval,  and  your  unswerving  and  loyal  supjiort. 

The  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois  has  been  a  stalwart  advocate  of  the 
doctrine  of  Grand  Lodge  sovereignty — a  vigorous  defender  of  the  in- 
dependence and  supremacy  of  Symbolic  Masonry  in  its  own  exclusive 
domain — a  champion  of  the  equal  and  royal  rights  of  all  who  loyally 
gather  on  the  checkered  floor,  and  in  every  way  a  conspicious  exam- 
ple of  what  is  highest  and  best  in  ancient  craft  Masonry.  Brethren, 
I  promise  you  my  best  effort  to  aid  in  maintaining  this  high  standard. 
Let  lis  strive  to  practice  and  illustrate  the  tenets  of  a  Mason's  pro- 
fession. 

Be  it  ours  to  stand  as  watchmen  on  the  walls  to  foisee  and  ward 
off  every  attack,  whether  open  or  covert,  upon  the  fundamental  prin- 
ciples of  our  institution.  Let  us  maintain  in  their  purity  and  pristine 
strength  the  original  landmarks  and  the  ancient  charges  of  Freema- 
sonry, and  let  us  be  alert  to  resist  every  attempt  to  make  innovation 
in  the  body  of  the  fraternity.  With  such  an  aim,  with  an  unfaltering 
trust  in  God,  with  loyalty  to  our  obligations  as  Masons,  and  with  an 
earnest  desire  to  see  and  to  do  the  right,  we  may  go  forward  with  full 
confidence  that  the  light  of  Masonry  in  Illinois  will  not  only  be  un- 
dimmed  in  the  future  but  will  shine  with  even  brighter  luster. 

M.W.  Bro.  Owen  Scott,  assisted  by  M.W.  Bro.  DeWitt  C. 
Cregier,  as  Grand  Marshal,  installed  the  following-  officers: 

M.W.  Edward  Cook Grand  Master Chicago. 

R.W.  Chas.  p.  Hitchcock  Deputy  Grand  Master Peoria. 

R.W.  Geo.  M.  Moulton Senior  Grand  Warden  . .  .Chicago. 

R.W.  Wm.  B.  Wright .Junior  Grand  Warden Effingham. 

R.W.  Wiley  M.  Egan Grand  Treasurer Chicago. 

R  W.  J.  H.  C.  Dill Grand  Secretary Bloomington. 

M.W.  John  Corson  Smith Grand  Orator Chicago. 

W.  G.  H.  B.  ToLLE  Deputy  Grand  Secretary .  ..Mattoon. 

W.  Cicero  .T.  Lindley Grand Marslml Greenville. 

W.  Walter  Watson ..Grand  Standard  Bearer.. Mt.  Vernon. 

W.  Adam  Ortseifen Grand  Sword  Bearer Chicago. 

W.  Chester  E.  Allen Senior  Grand  Deacon Galesburg. 

W.  Geo.  W.  Hamilton Gi  and  Steward  Prairie  City. 

W.  W.  W.  Watson Grand  Steward Barry. 

W.  .J.  S.  McClelland Grand  Steward Decatur. 

W.  Samuel  Coffinbury.  . .   Grand  Steward Peoria. 

Bro.  Robert  R.  Stevens Grand  Tyler Chicago. 


108  Proceedivgs  of  the  [Oct.  7. 

Prior  to  the  installation  of  the  Grand  Treasurer  and 
Cirand  Secretary  the  Grand  Master  announced  that  their 
bonds  had  been  received  and  approved. 

COMMITTEES. 

The  Grand  Master  announced  the  following'  appoint- 
ments: 

MASONIC  JURISPRUDENCE. 

DeWitt  C.  Cregier,  James  A.  Hawley.  Daniel  M.  Browning,  John  M. 
Pearson,  Owen  Scott. 

APPEALS   AND  GRIEVANCES. 

Monroe  C.  Crawford,  Joseph  E.  Dyas,  William  S.  Cantrell,  George  W. 
Hill,  Eugene  L.  Stoker. 

CHARTERED   LODGES. 

Loyal  L.  Munn,  Frank  W.  Havill,  George  Stadler,  Thomas  W.  Wilson, 

James  L.  Scott. 

LODGES   UNDER  DISPENSATION. 

Charles  H.  Patton,  S.  S.  Chance,  C.  J.  Renter,  Daniel  J.  Avery,  Henry 

C.  Mitchell. 

MILEAGE  AND  PER   DIEM. 

John  A.  Ladd,  Ed.  L.  Wahl,  E.  C.  Pace. 

P^INANCE. 

L.  A.  Goddard,  Gil.  W.  Barnard.  Samuel  W.  Waddle. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 

Joseph  Bobbins. 

GRAND   EXAMINERS. 

W.  n.  Grimes,  A.  B.  Ashley,  J.  M  Evans,  J.  W.  Rose,  J.  R.  Ennis. 

RESOLUTION-Thacks  to  Retiring  Grand  Master. 
M.W.  Bro.  James  A.  Hawley  ])resented  the  following-  res- 
olution, wiiich  was,  on  Tnt)ru)ii.  carried  bv  a  rising'  vote. 


1897.]  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois.         •  109 

Besolved,  That  the  M.W.  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois  hereby  extends 
its  grateful  thanks  to  M.W.  Past  Grand  Master  Owen  Scott  for  his 
able  and  valuable  services  to  the  Grand  Lodge  and  the  Craft  of  Illi- 
nois during  the  past  two  years. 

RESOLUTION-By  M.W.  Bro.  Owen  Scott. 
M.W.  Bro.  Owen  Scott  offered  the  following'  resolution, 
and  asked  that  it  be  referred  to  the  Finance  Committee. 

Resolved,  That  a  new  edition  of  the  Grand  Lodge  By-laws  be 
printed,  and  that  a  committee  of  three  be  appointed  by  the  Grand 
Master  to  re-arrange  and  superintend  the  printing  of  the  same. 

V 

ADDITIONAL  EEPORT-Pinance  Committee. 
M.  W.  Bro.  Leroy  A.  Goddard  presented  the  following" 
report  from  the  Committee  on  Finance,  which  on  motion 
was  adopted: 

To  the  M.  W  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois,  A.F.  and  A.M.: 

Your  Committee  on  Finance,  to  whom  was  referred  the  resolution 
of  M.W.  Bro.  Owen  Scott,  that  anew  edition  of  Grand  Lodge  by-laws 
be  printed  and  a  committee  be  appointed  to  superintend  the  same,, 
recommend  the  adoption  of  the  resolution. 

L.  A.  GODDARD, 
GIL.  W.  BARNARD, 
S.  W.  WADDLE, 

Committee. 

APPOINTMENT-Of  Committee  on  By-laws. 
The  Grand  Master  appointed  the  following"  a  committee 
to  rearrang-e  and  superintend  the  printing"  of  a  new  edition 
of  the  By-laws. 

M.W.  Bro.  Owen  Scott. 
R.W.  Bro.  J.  H.  C.  Dill. 
W.  Bro.  Herbert  Preston. 

CLOSED. 
At  12:10  p.  m.  no  further  business  appearing,  the  M.W. 
Grand  Master  proceeded  to  close  the  Grand  Lodg"e  in  ample 

FORM. 


110 


Proceedings  of  the 


[Oct.  7, 


^  BENEDICTION. 

May  thy  presence  go  with  us,  Most  Munificient  Father,  the  light 
of  Thy  countenance  shine  on  our  paths,  Thy  presence  grant  unto  us 
all  wisdom,  and  inspiration  for  the  claims  of  the  year  upon  which  we 
have  entered.  May  life  be  preserved,  and  health  and  strength  be 
given  all  those  officers  to  carry  out  all  the  works  to  be  performed  ac- 
cording to  the  principles  of  our  institution. 

Bless  us.  we  most  humbly  pray,  in  all  things  pertaining  to  life  and 
duty,  that  in  the  fulness  of  time  we  may  come  to  share  with  Thee  the 
bounties  of  heaven. 

And  now  shed  upon  us  the  light  of  Thy  countenance,  and  grant 
unto  us  the  joy  of  Thy  spirit,  that  in  all  things  we  may  walk  worthy 
of  our  profession  and  claims,  and  to  Thy  name  be  ceaseless  praises 
forevermore.     Amen. 


GRAND  SECRETARY. 


Grand  Master's  address: 

84  LaSalle  Street. 
Room  81.5. 

Chicago. 


1897.] 


Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois. 


Ill 


DISTRICTS  AND  DISTRICT  DEPUTY  GRAND  MASTERS. 

FOR  THE  YEARS  18',t7-8. 


POSTOFFICE  ADDRESS. 


COUNTIES  COMPOSING  DISTRICT. 


11 


W.  M.  Burbank. 


Herbert  Preston 


M.  B.  lott 

Luman  T.  Hoy 

Jacob  Krohn 

Chas.  E.  Grove 

Daniel  D.  Hunt 

John  B.  Fithian 

Fred'ck  E.  Hoberg 
T.  Van  Antwerp    . 

H.  C.  Cleaveland... 


ISO.  F.  Kirkpatrick. 
13  S.  G.  Jarvis 


Louis  Zinger 

Delmar  D7  Darrab. 

W.  H.  McClain 

Robt.  L.  McKinlay. 


18  Cbas.  F.  Tenney  . 

19  R.  D.  Lawrence.. 


Albert  P.  Grout. 

W.  O.  Butler 

Alex.  H.  Bell  . . . . 


Hugh  A.  Snell... 
William  H.Lathrop 


3035  So.  Park  ave.,  Chicago 


1188  W.  Adams  St.,  Chicago 


Monadnock  Blk,  Chicago.. 


Woodstock.  McHenry  Co  . 
Freeport, Stephenson  Co. . 

Mt.  Carroll. Carroll  county 
DeKalb.  DeKalb  county  . . 

Joliet,  Will  count}^ 

Peru.  La  Salle  county  

Sparland,  Marshall  Co 

Rock  Island,  Rock  Island 

county. 
Blandlnsville,McDonough 

county 
Victoria,  Knox  county  . . 
Pekin.  Tazewell  county  . . 
Bloomington.  McLean  "Co 
Onarga.  Iroquois  county. . 
Pari.s,  Edgar  county  ..... 

Bement,  Piatt  county 

Springfield.  Sangamon  Co. 

Winchester.  Scott  county. 
LaHarpe.  Hancock  county 
Carlinville,  Macoupin  Co. . 

Litchfield,  Montgomery  Co 
Newton,  Jasper  county. . . 


C.  Rohrbough Kinmund}-, Marion  county 


H.  T.  Burnap.... 
James  Douglas. 
J.  M.  Burkhart. 


Henry  T.  Goddard. 
J.  M.  Jones 


lUpper  Alton,  Madison  Co. 
Chester,  Randolph  county 
IMarion,  Williamson  Co 

Mt.  Carmel,  Wabash  Co . . 

New  Grand  Chain, Pulaski 
;        countj' 


Lodges  Nos.  33,  160,  211.  308,  311,  110, 
4,37,  524,557,(539.  (562,  686,  711,  726,  751, 

767.  774,  779.  784,  797,  810.  818.  836.  842, 
Chicago  Heights. U.D.  in  Cook  Co. 

Lodges  Nos.  81,  182,  271,  310,  393,  411, 
478,  ,526,610,642,  669,  690,  716,  731,  758, 

768,  776.  780,  789.  800,  813,  819,  839,  843, 
in  Cook  county. 

Lodges  Nos.  141,  209,  277,  311,  409,  423, 
.508,  540,  61 1, 643,  674,  697,  717,  7.S9,  765, 
770.  777.  783,  795.  804.  815.  832,  841, 
Austin.  U.D.  in  Cook  countj'. 

Kane,  McBenry,  and  Lake. 

Boone,  Winnebago,  and  Stephen- 
son. 

Jo  Daviess,  Carroll,  and  Whiteside. 

Ogle.  Lee.  and  DeKalb. 

Kendall,  DuPage,  Will. and  Grundy 

La  Salle  and  Li\-ingston. 

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 

I    Coles. 

Piatt.  Moultrie.  Macon,  and  Logan. 

Mason,    Menard,    Sangamon,    and 

I    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,  Eftlngham.  Fayette,  and  Ma- 
rion. 

Bond,  Clinton,  and  Madison. 

St.  Clair,  Monroe,  and  Randolph. 

Washington,  Jefferson,  Franklin, 
PerryTJackson.  and  Williamson. 

Wayne,  Edwards.  Wabash.  White 
Hamilton.  Saline,  and  Gallatin. 

Hardin,  Pope,  Massac.  Johnson, 
Union,  Pulaski,  and  Alexander. 


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114 


Proceedings  of  the 


[Oct.  7, 


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 

England 

Florida 

Georgia 

Idaho  

Indiana 

Indian  Territory 

Ireland 

Kansas 

Louisiana 

Manitoba 

Maine 

M  aryland  

Michigan 

Minnesota 

Mississippi 

Missouri   

Montana  

Nebraska 

New  Brunswick 

New  Hampshire    

New  Jersey 

New  Mexico 

New  York 

New  Zealand 

N  evada 

North  Carolina     ..     

North  Dakota 

Nova  Scotia 

Ohio  

Oregon 

Prince  Edward  Island 

Quebec  

Rhode  Island 

Scotland 

South  Australia 

South  Carolina 

South  Dakota 

Tennessee   

Texas   

Utah 

\'ermont 

Virginia  

Washington 

West  \'irginia 

Wisconsin   

Grand  National  Mother  Lodge  of 
the  Three  Globes,  Berlin, 
Prussia   

United  Grand  Lodge  of  Victoria. 

United  Grand  Lodge  of  New 
.South  Wales 


REPRESENTATIVE. 


W.  W.  Daffln 

Artemus  Louden  Grow 

R.J   Laughlin 

W.  W.  Northcott 

John  McMurry      

Geo.  C.  Davis." 

Henry  M.  Teller 

John  W.  Mix 

Geo.  M.  Jones 

L.  Cabel  Williamson 

Walter  Henry  Harris 

James  C.  Craver 

James  Whitehead 

Thomas  C.  Maupin 

B.  M.  Wiloughby 

Silas  Armstrong 

Obadiah  Ternan 

Matthew  M.  Miller 

Chas.  P.  Buck 

John  Leslie 

Joseph  A.  Locke 

John  S.  Berr3'  

A.M.Seymour 

Alcinous  Y.  Davidson 

Frederic  Speed 

Martin  Collins 

Cornelius  Hedges 

George  H.  Thummel 

J.  Henrv  Leonard 

Sewell  W.  Abbott 

Jos.  A.  Gaskill ... 

Harvev  Huston 

Wm.  D.  Critchersou 

William  Heilby 

Charles  E.  Mack 

Hezekiah  A.  Gudger 

James  C.  Gill 

Theo.  A.  Cossman 

O.  P.  Sperra 

W.  T.  Wright    

Henrv  M.  Aitkin 

E.  C.  Rothwell 

Newton  D.  Arnold 

Colonel  Patrick  Stirling.. . 

John  Trail  McLean 

John  V.  Ficken  

Oscar  S.  Gifford 

A.  V.  Warr 

Geo.  Lopas.  jr 

A.  Scott  Chapman 

Delos  M.  Bacon 

Beverlv  R.  Wellford,  jr.  .   . 

Louis  2iegler 

S.  D.  Engle 

John  W.Laflin 

Wm.  Bernhardi 

Edward  Edwards 

Harry  Passmore 


RESIDENCE. 


Grove  Hill. 

Tombstone. 

Bentonville. 

Victoria. 

Weaverville. 

London. 

Central  Cit}'. 

Yalesville. 

Dover. 

Washington. 

London." 

Sutherland. 

Warrenton. 

Boise  City. 

Vincennes. 

Wyandotte. 

Eriniskillen. 

Topeka. 

New  Orleans. 

Winnipeg. 

Portland. 

Baltimore. 

Detroit. 

Minneapolis. 

Vicksburg. 

St.  Louis. 

Helena. 

Grand  Island. 

Saint  John. 

Wolfeborough. 

Mount  Holly. 

Albuquerque. 

New  York. 

Hastings. 

Virginia. 

Asheville. 

Casselton. 

Halifax. 

Ravenna. 

Union. 

Charlottetown. 

Montreal. 

Providence. 

Kippenross. 

Adelaide. 

Charleston. 

Canton. 

Rossville. 

Houston. 

Salt  LakeCitv 

St.  Johnsbury. 

Richmond. 

Spokane. 

Mid  die  way. 

Milwaukee. 


Berlin. 
Melbourne. 


Sydney 


1897.] 


Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois. 


115 


REPRESENTATIVES 

OF  OTHER  GRAND  LODGES  NEAR  THE  GRAND  LODGE  OF  ILLINOIS. 


GRAND  LODGE. 


Alabama 

Arizona 

Arkan.sas 

British  Columbia 

California 

Canada 

Colorado 

Connecticut 

Delaware 

District  of  Columbia 

England 

Florida 

Georgia  

Idaho • 

Indiana 

Indian  Territory 

Ireland '. 

Kansas 

Louisiana 

Maine 

Manitoba 

Maryland 

Michigan 

Minnesota 

Mississippi 

Missouri 

Montana 

Nebraska 

New  Brunswick 

New  Hampshire 

New  Jersej' 

New  Mexico 

New  York 

New  Zealand 

Nevada 

North  Carolina 

Nova  Scotia 

Ohio 

Oregon  

Prince  Edward  Island 

Quebec 

Rhode  Island 

Scotland 

South  Carolina 

South  Australia 

South  Dakota 

Tennessee 

Texas 

Utah 

Vermont 

Virginia 

Washington 

West  Virginia 

Wisconsin 

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 

K.  T.  Spencer 

Loval  L.  Munn 

John  McLaren 

Wiley  M.  Egan 

James  A.  Hawlev 

DeWitt  C.  Cregier... 

John  O'Neill 

DeWitt  C.  Cregier. . 

John  C.  Smith 

John  C.  Smith 

W.  J.  A.  DeLance}-  . , 

W.  M.  Burbank 

DeWitt  C.  Cregier.., 
Charles  H.  Patton  ... 

Wiley  M.  Egan 

George  M.  Moulton., 
Leroy  A.  Goddard. . 
Charles  H.  Brenan  ., 

Jacob  Krohn 

M.  B.  lott 

Joseph  E.  Dyas 

Eugene  L.  Stoker 

DeWitt  C.  Cregier... 

Jerome  R.  Gorin  

A.  B.  Ashley 

John  M.  Palmer 

Malachi  Mavnard  . . . 
Henrv  E.  Hamilton. , 

W.  B."  Grimes 

Henry  E.  Hamilton. , 
Walter  A.  Stevens. . . 

John  M.  Pearson 

John  C.  Smith 

Edward  C.  Pace 

L.  B.  Dixon 

S.  S.  Chance 

Frank  W.  Havill 

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.  McCullough. 
Daniel  M.  Browning. 

John  R.  Thomas 

Vincent  L.  Hurlbut. . 
Gil.  W.  Barnard 

Thos.  S.  Simpson 

Wm.  Jenkins 

Wm.  Jenkins 


RESIDENCE. 


Dixon. 

Jonesboro. 

lUiopolis. 

Freeport. 

Chicago. 

Chicago. 

Dixon. 

Chicago. 

Chicago. 

Chicago. 

Chicago. 

Chicago. 

Centralia. 

Chicago. 

Chicago. 

Mt.  Vernon. 

Chicago. 

Chicago. 

Chicago. 

Chicago. 

Freeport. 

Evanston. 

Paris. 

Evanston. 

Chicago. 

Decatur. 

LaGrange. 

Springfield. 

Apple'River. 

Chicago. 

Pittsfleld. 

Chicago. 

Chicago. 

Godfre}-. 

Chicago. 

Ashle}'. 

Chicago. 

Salem". 

Mt.  Carmel. 

Mt.  Can-oil. 

Chicago. 

Dixon. 

Quincy. 

Mt.  Vernon 

Ottawa. 

Paris. 

Kankakee. 

Chicago. 

Bloomington 

Olney. 

Benton. 

Metropolis. 

Chicago. 

Chicago. 


Chicago. 


Dixon. 
Dixon. 


116 


Pi'oceedhyqn  of  the 


[Oct.  7, 


LIST  OF  GRAND  LODGES 

Recognized  by  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinoi.s.  together  with  names  and  addresses  of 

Grand  Secretarie.s. 

GRAND  LODGE. 


Alabama 

Arizona 

Arkansas 

British  Columbia 

California 

Canada 

Colorado  

Connecticut 

Cuba 

Delaware 

District  of  Columbia 

England 

Florida 

Georgia 

Idaho 

Illinois 

Indiana 

Indian  Territory 

Iowa 

Ireland 

Kansas 

Kentuck}- 

Louisiana 

Maine 

Manitoba 

Mar\-land  

Massachusetts 

Michigan 

Minnesota 

Mississippi 

Missouri 

Montana 

Nebraska 

N'evada 

New  Brunswick 

New  Hampshire 

New  Jersey 

New  Mexico 

New  York 

New  Zealand 

North  Carolina 

North  Dakota 

Nova  Scotia .. 

Ohio 

Oklahoma 

Oregon 

Penns\-lvania 

Prince  Edward  Island 

Quebec 

Rhode  Island 

Scotland 

South  Australia 

South  Carolina 

South  Dakota  

Tennessee  

Texas 

Utah 

United  Gr.  Lodge  of  Victoria. . . 

United  (irand  Lodge  of  New 
.South  Wales 

Vermont 

\'irgiiiia 

Washington 

West  Virginia 

Wisconsin 

Wyoming 

CJrand  National  Mother  Lodge 
of  the  Three  Globes,  Berlin, 
Prussia 


GRAND   SECRETARY. 

ADDRESS. 

Henry  C.  Armstrong 

George  J.  Roskruge.. 

Montgomery. 

Little  Rock. 

W.  J.  Quinlan 

George  Johnson 

J.  J.  Mason 

Ed.  C.  Parmalee 

Victoria. 

San  Francisco. 

Hamilton,  Ont. 

John  H.  Barlow 

Hartford. 

Benj.  F.  Bartram 

William  R.  Singleton 

Edward  Letchworth 

W.P.Webster 

W.  A.  Wolihin 

Washington. 

London. 

Jacksonville. 

Macon. 

Boise  City. 

Bloomington. 

Indianapolis. 

Atoka. 

J.  H.  C.  Dill 

William  H.  Smythe 

Theodore  S.  Parvin 

Archibald  St.  George,  D.G.  Sec. 
Albert  K.  Wilson 

Cedar  Rapids. 

Dublin. 

Topeka. 

Richard  Lambert 

Stephen  Berrv 

William  G.  Scott 

Jacob  H.  Medairy 

Portland. 
Winnipeg. 
Baltimore. 

Sereno  D.  Nickerson 

Boston. 

J.  S.  Conover 

Coldwater. 

Thomas  Montgomery        

St.  Paul. 

J.  L.  Power. 

Jackson. 

John  D.  Vincil 

St.  Louis. 

William  R.  Bowen 

Chauncev  N.  Noteware 

J.  Twining  Hartt 

Omaha. 
Carson  Citv. 
St.  John. 

George  P.  Cleaves 

Thos.  H.  R.  Redway 

Concord. 

Trenton. 

Albuquerque. 

New  York. 

Dunedin. 

Raleish. 

Edward  M.  L.  Ehlers  

Rev.  Wm.  Ronald-son 

John  C  Drewrj'  

Frank  J.  Thompson 

William  Ross  . . 

Haltfax. 

J.  H.  Bromwell 

Cincinnati. 
Stillwater. 

Jas.  F.  Robinson 

Eugene. 
Philadelphia. 

Neil  McKelvie.              

John  H.  Isaacson 

Edwin  Baker 

Montreal. 

Providence. 

Edinburg. 

Adelaide. 

Charleston. 

Flandreau. 

Nashville. 

J.  H.  Cunningham 

Charles  Inglesbv 

George  A.  Pettigrew 

John  B.  Garrett      

John  Watson 

Christopher  Diehl 

Houston. 

Salt  Lake  Citv. 

David  Meadowcrof t 

Melbourne. 

Arthur  H.  Brav 

Sidnev. 

W.  G.  Reynolds 

Burlington. 
Richmonu. 

Thomas  M.  Reed 

Geo.  W.  Atkinson 

Olympia. 
Charleston. 

John  W.  Latlin 

Milwaukee. 

Wm.  M.  Kuykendall 

Mathias  Hildebrandt 

Saratoga. 
Berlin. 

1897.]  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois.  117 


PEKMANENT  MEMBEES. 


M.W.  Bro.  Harrison  Dills,  P.G.M.,  Bodley  No.  1. 

M.W.  Bro.  DeWitt  C.  Cregier,  P.G.M.,  Blaney  No.  271. 

M.W.  Bro.  James  A.  Hawley,  P.G.M.,  Friendship  No.  7. 

M.W.  Bro.  Joseph  Bobbins,  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,  P.G.M.,  Jonesboro  No.  111. 

M.W.  Bro.  Leroy  G.  Goddard,  P.G.M.,  Fellowship  No.  89. 

M.W.  Bro.  Owen  Scott,  P.G.M.,  Wade-Barney  No.  512. 

R.W.  Bro.  Edward  Cook,  G.M.,  Blaney  No.  271. 

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.  Charles  F.  Hitchcock,  D.G.M.,  Temple  No.  46. 

R.W.  Bro.  Asa  W.  Blakesley,  P.S.G.W.,  Bodley  No.  1. 

R.W.  Bro.  Henry  E.  Hamilton,  P.S.G.W.,  Lincoln  Park  No.  611. 

R.W.  Bro.  Henry  C.  Cleaveland,  P.S.G.W.,  Trio  No.  57. 

R.W.  Bro.  George  M.  Moulton,  S.G.W.,  Covenant  No.  526. 

R.W.  Bro.  William  H.  Turner,  P.J.G.W.,  Oriental  No.  33. 

R.W.  Bro.  William  B.  Wright,  J.G.W.,  Effingham  No.  149. 


©ur  jFvaternal  IDeab 


ILLINOIS 


M.  W.  Bro.  Jerome  R.  Qorin 

PAST     GRAND     MASTER 
Died  September  1,  1897 


Goodman  Ferre 

BLOOMINCTON    LODGE   NO.  43 
Died  September  20,  1897 


A.  G.  Burley 

ORIENTAL   LODGE    NO.  33 
Died  August  26.  1897 


Samuel  M.  Burner 

ROBINSON  LODGE  NO.  250 
Died  December  30.  1896 


Edward  Dean  Cooke 

ORIENTAL   LODGE    NO.  33 
Died  June  24.  1897 


®ur  jFvaternal  H)eab 


OTHER    GRAND    JURISDICTIONS 

Rufus  Claghorn  Hatheway 

PAST  Grand  Master  of  M ichigan 
Died  December  9,  1896 

Cicero  H.  Lewis 

Past  Grand  Master  of  Oregon 
Died  January  5,  1897 

John  Stedman 

PAST  Grand  Master  of  Montana 
Died  March  28,  1897 

Joseph  Norton  Dolph 

PAST  Grand  Master  of  Oregon 
Died  March  10.  1897 

John  William  Morrison 

Past  Grand  Master  of  prince  Edward  Island 
Died  April  1  1,  1897 

Andrew  M.  Wolihin 

Grand  Secretary  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Georgia 
Died  February  22,  1897 

Theodore  Schreiner 

Grand  Tyler  of  the  Grand  lodge  of  Iowa 
Died  April  14,  1897 

John  Headty  Bell 

past  Grand  Master  of  Manitoba 
Died  March  16.  1897 


The  Grand  Secretary  desires  to  thank  the  editors  of  the  following' 
magazines  and  papers  for  kindlj'  suppl^'ing  his  office  with  their  publi- 
cations 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. 

The  Illinois  Freemason— Bloomington,  111. 

Masonic  Advocate— Indianapolis,  Ind. 

Masonic  Chronicle— Columbus,  Ohio. 

Masonic  Home  Journal— Louisville,  Ky. 

The  Freemason — Sidney,  New  South  Wales. 

Masonic  Tidings— Milwaukee,  Wis. 

The  Trestle  Board — 408  California  street.  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

The  Royal  Craftsman— Rahway,  N.  J. 

Masonic  Journal— Portland,  Me. 

The  Masonic  Constellation— St.  Louis,  Mo. 

The  New  Zealand  Craftsman— Dunedin. 

Square  and  Compass— Denver,  Colo. 

The  Texas  Freemason— San  Antonio.  Texas. 

The  American  Tyler— Detroit. 

The  Freemason  and  Fez— Cedar  Rapids,  Iowa. 

Masonic  Token— Portland,  Me. 

The  Masonic  Review— Tacom a,  Wash. 

Square  and  Compass— New  Orleans,  La. 


APPENDIX 

PART    I. 


REPORT  OF  THE  COMMITTEE  ON  FOREIGN 
CORRESPONDENCE. 


IN  DEX 


Grand  Lodge.  Page. 

Alabama 9 

Arizona . .  -   12 

Arkansas 14 

British  Columbia 17 

California 10 

Canada  (Ontario) 20 

Colorado 29 

Connecticut 37 

Delaware 39 

District  of  Columbia. 44 

Florida 4S 

Georgia 50 

Idaho 58 

Indiana  66 

Indian  Territory- 72 

Iowa 77 

Kansas 96 

Kentucky 112 

Louisiana 118 

Maine 125 

Manitoba 149 

Maryland 151 

Massachusetts 156 

Michigan 159 

Minnesota 166 

Mississippi 169 

Missouri 176 

Montana 180 

Nebraska ....    187 

Nevada 1!)2 

New  Brunswick 195 


Grand  Lodge.  Page. 

New  Hampshire 197 

New  Jersey 204 

New  Mexico 207 

New  South  Wales 210 

New  York 213 

New  Zealand 225 

North  Carolina 227 

North  Dakota 232 

Nova  Scotia 235 

Ohio 238 

Oklahoma 248 

Oregon 252 

Penns}'lvania 257 

Prince  Edward  Island 262 

Quebec 265 

Rhode  Island 268 

South  Australia 270 

South  Carolina 271 

South  Dakota 274 

Tennessee 277 

Texas 281 

Utah 285 

Vermont 288 

Victoria 291 

Virginia 294 

Washington 298 

West  Virginia 303 

Wisconsin 306 

Wyoming 309 

England 311 


i 


Report  of  the  Committee  on  Masonic 
Correspondence. 


To  the  Most  Worshijjful  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons: 

We  have  reviewed  in  the  following  pages  the  proceedings  of  the 
whole  round  of  North  American  grand  lodges,  fifty-seven  in  number; 
four  of  the  live  grand  lodges  constituting  the  Australasian  group, 
Tasmania — from  which  grand  lodge  we  have  for  some  unexplained 
reason  received  no  proceedings  since  1893 — alone  being  lacking,  and 
one  European  grand  lodge,  England,  sixty-two  in  all.  From  Ireland 
we  have  only  the  usual  eight-page  pamphlet  giving  besides  accounts 
and  statistics  the  names  of  the  grand  officers — the  Duke  OP  Abercorn, 
grand  master,  and  Lord  Castledown,  grand  secretary.  Scotland, 
unfortunately,  is  again  absent. 

Two  subjects  have  to  a  greater  or  less  extent  engaged  the  atten- 
tion of  a  larger  number  of  grand  lodges  than  lany  other  during  the 
period  covered  by  our  review — Masonic  relief  and  jurisdiction  over 
rejected  candidates. 

The  attention  given  the  first  of  these  subjects  by  many  grand 
lodges  has  been  largely  perfunctory,  extended  under  the  constraint 
of  courtesy  imposed  by  the  action  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Wisconsin 
in  resubmitting  its  proposition  giving  the  almoner  of  relief  to  the 
distressed  a  lien  first  upon  his  lodge  if  it  be  able,  and  if  not,  then  upon 
the  grand  lodge  chartering  it.  for  the  amount  judged  by  the  almoner 
to  be  requisite  to  relieve  present  necessities.  The  result  has  been 
that  the  topic  has  been  before  nearly  every  grand  lodge,  either  as  an 
original  question  or  upon  reconsideration,  but  its  interest  as  a  living 
proposition  in  nearl}^  every  grand  lodge  had  been  discounted  either  by 
previous  action  of  the  body  or  by  the  general  knowledge  that  it  was 
already  practically  dead. 

The  general  consensus  had  not  only  been  overwhelmingly  against 
it,  but  on  such  fundamental  grounds  as  to  leave  no  hope — or  fear — of 
a  change  of  front.  The  manner  in  which  it  has  been  handled  by  most 
grand  lodges  leaves  no  doubt  of  their  being  safely  grounded  in  the 
charitable  faith  which  reflects  the  primary  engagements  of  the  craft. 
There  was  need  of  the  reassurance  which  the  response  to  this  over- 
ture has  given.  The  open  advocacy  of  reimbursement  for  so-called 
charity;  the  legislation  against  non-affiliates — prompted  by  and  re- 
flecting the  theory  that  the  right  to  relief  in  distress  (as  well  as 
other  Masonic  rights)  is  contingent  upon  cash  contributions  and  not 
upon  the  possession  of  the  Masonic  status;  the  toleration  of  the  use 
by  business  enterprises  variously  called  mutual  benefit,  benevolent, 
indemnity,  or  insurance  associations  of  the  prefix  "Masons'  "  or  "Ma- 
sonic," and  the  fact  that  in  one  or  two  instances  grand  lodges  had 
taken  the  initiative  in  organizing  associations  so  named,  and  other 
outcroppings  from  a  common  commercial  root,  all  showed  that  Ma- 
sonry was  being  honey-combed  by  its  environment  of  imitative  socie- 
ties, from  which  its  ranks  were  largely  recruited,  and  yet  nobody 
knew  how  much. 


APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


It  still  remains)  true  that  so  long  as  Masonry  is  environed  b}-  num- 
berless such  societies,  formed  for  the  most  part  on  the  basis  of  fixed 
benefits  conting^ent  on  stated  contributions,  and  in  which  a  cessation 
of  payments  works  a  forfeiture  of  membership,  so  long  will  there  be 
abundant  reason  for  watchful  apprehension.  But  that  the  pendulum 
has  begun  to  swing  in  the  opposite  direction  is  attested  not  alone  by 
the  response  to  the  Wisconsin  circular:  it  is  shown  by  the  fact  (of 
which  these  pages  bear  evidence)  that  the  craft  is  beginning  to  get 
restive  over  the  prostitution  of  the  Masonic  name  bj-  insurance  so- 
cieties in  various  guise.  The  initiative  taken  by  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
Illinois  in  forbidding  by  positive  enactment  that  which  is  so  plainly 
antagonistic  to  all  the  teachings  of  Masonry  that  no  such  legislation 
ought  to  have  been  necessary,  has  precipitated  an  inqury  all  along 
the  line,  which  promises  to  make  an  end  of  this  use  of  Masonry  and 
the  Masonic  name  which  has  always  been  a  menace  and  a  scandal. 

In  this  connection  we  have  been  struck  with  the  wisdom  of  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  Victoria,  w-hich  requires  from  the  petitioner  for  the 
degrees  his  signature  to  a  question  substantial!}'  as  follows  in  the  form 
of  petition  which  its  lodges  are  required  to  use:  "Freemasonry  not 
being  a  benefit  society,  have  3'ou  reflected  whether  3-our  financial 
condition  will  enable  you  to  support  ity" 

The  discussion  which  ensued  on  the  attempt  of  the  Grand  Lodge 
of  Mississippi  to  formulate  a  general  consensus  of  grand  lodges  on  the 
question  of  jurisdiction  over  rejected  candidates,  has  been  opened 
afresh  by  an  overture  from  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Maine,  essaying  the 
same  thing.  The  Maine  proposition  steers  clear  of  the  ap])arent 
danger  of  sanctioning  a  tampering  Avith  the  secrecy  of  the  ballot, 
which  predestined  the  failure  of  its  Mississipj)!  forerunner,  and  as  it 
is  much  simpler  in  statement  and  suggests  a  common  standing-ground, 
with  perhaps  as  nearly  an  equal  sacrifice  of  preconceived  opinions  as 
can  be  reached,  stands  a  much  better  chance  of  becoming  the  basis 
of  ultimate  agreement. 

The  prospect  of  agreement  seems  remote  enough  at  present,  each 
grand  lodge  being  wedded  to  its  own  view  and  statement  of  the  law; 
but  the  discussion  has  been  profitable,  it  being  now  advanced  to  a 
stage  where  the  subsidiary  question  whether  a  wrong-doer  may  repent, 
or  an  unfit  candidate  outgrow  his  unfitness,  has  been  relegated  to  its 
properly  subordinate  place  as  one  having  been  already  generally 
answered  in  the  affirmative  by  the  provision  of  law  which  permits  a 
second  petition  after  the  lapse  of  a  certain  period  of  time,  and  one 
whose  intrusion  ought  not  to  obscure  the  main  points  in  the  debate. 
It  has  ])rofitably  brought  out  the  fact,  too— thanks  to  the  lucid  ex- 
position of  Brother  Drummond— that  the  implication  or  outright 
assertion  that  candidates  are  generally  rejected  from  unworthy  mo- 
tives, really  impugns  the  law  of  the  ballot  itself:  for,  as  he  well  says: 
"if  the  effect  of  the  operation  of  the  law  of  the  secret  and  unanimous 
ballot  is  such  as  to  justify  an  evasion  of  that  effect,  the  law  itself  is 
faulty,"  and  therefore,  ''the  argument  is  the  entering  wedge  for  the 
abrogation  of  the  secret  and  unanimous  ballot,  or  for  the  entire  eva- 
sion of  its  effect." 

As  the  minor  questions  fade  into  the  background  after  having 
thus  served  their  turn  of  bringing  out  the  deeper  ones,  the  conclu- 
sion widens  that  the  matter  is  one  that  should  be  approached  for 
settlement  from  the  Masonic  side,  rather  than  in  the  interest  of  the 
candidate,  whose  rejection  has.  after  all,  left  him  shorn  of  no  right 
or  immunity  or  eligibility  which  he  possessed  as  a  citizen  or  as  a  fac- 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE. 


tor  in  the  life  of  the  community  in  which  lie  dwells.  In  other  words, 
the  welfare  of  the  institution  and  the  integrity  of  the  principles 
ingrained  in  its  structure  are  paramount.  Actual  experience  with 
differing  regulations  has  demonstrated  that  regulations  which  may 
be  satisfactory  to  one  grand  lodge  and  to  the  craft  within  its  juris- 
diction, but  which  in  interjurisdictional  relations  practically  deny 
the  validity  of  the  acts  of  lodges  in  other  jurisdictions,  cannot  long 
endure  without  serious  danger  of  the  disruption  of  fraternal  relations. 

As  this  danger  becomes  recognized,  reflection  says  at  once  that 
the  question  whether  a  candidate  was  justly  or  unjustly  rejected  afore- 
time sinks  into  such  comparative  insignificance  that  it  had  better 
wait  than  jeopard  the  peace  of  the  Fraternity.  That  it  is  coming 
to  be  clearly  seen  that  there  must  first  be  an  agreement  between 
grand  lodges  that  the  validity  of  the  acts  of  the  lodges  of  each  in 
conferring  or  denying  the  Masonic  status  agreeably  to  the  regula- 
tions of  the  governing  bodies  shall  be  fully  recognized  on  either  hand, 
before  there  can  be  a  meeting  in  such  temper  as  may  give  promise  of 
modifying  those  regulations,  is  shown  by  the  action  of  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  New  York,  which  has  only  recentl}^  abandoned — within  its 
own  territory — what  it  confesses  was  the  "old  usage"'  of  perpetual  jur- 
isdiction. Upon  a  perfectly  clean  slate — for  its  constitution  is  silent 
on  the  extra-jurisdictional  rela.tions  of  ,the  question — it  has  volunta- 
rily elected  to  write,  that  until  a  uniform  agreement  is  reached  by 
grand  lodges  upon  this  subject,  it  ''must  be  governed  by  the  laws  of 
the  grand  lodge  under  whose  authority  the  candidate  was  rejected." 

The  recognition  by  a  strong  jurisdiction  like  New  York  of  this 
principle  as  being  only  a  just  requirement  of  inter-jurisdictional  com- 
ity, is  an  example  that  ought  not  to  be  lost  upon  smaller  and  corre- 
spondingly waspish  grand  lodges. 

Such  direct  results  as  have  been  achieved  during  the  year  by  the 
propaganda  which  in  this  country  is  engineering  the  recognition  of 
Gran  Dieta  Simbolica  of  Mexico,  and  thereby  fastening  upon  the  al- 
leged Masonry  of  that  republic  a  general  grand  lodge — such  as  the 
recognizing  grand  lodges  of  the  United  States  would  be  the  first  to 
repudiate  if  proposed  on  this  side  of  the  Rio  Grande — seem  likely  to 
be  lost  by  the  threatened,  if  not  already  accomplished,  disintegration 
of  that  unlineal  and  unsavory  hybrid. 

So  much  as  we  have  learned  as  to  the  progress  of  disintegration 
may  be  found  in  our  reviews  of  Iowa  and  Kansas.  It  seems  probable 
that  the  final  dissolution  of  the  gran  dieta  is  imminent,  and  that  the 
unveracious  factotum  who  was  its  chief  projector,  and  has  been  its 
chief  manager  and  promoter  in  Mexico,  will  soon  startle  the  Masonic 
world  with  some  new  project  to  enlist  the  missionary  zeal  of  those 
American  Masons  w^ho  have  suddenly  became  so  devoured  by  a  desire 
to  demonstrate  the  "universality"  of  Masonry,  that  they  are  ready  to 
call  anything  Masonry  which  claims  the  name. 

The  disappearance  of  the  gran  dieta,  with  its  "atmosphere  of  du- 
plicity," will  demonstrate  the  eternal  fitness  of  things,  but  it  will  not 
remove  the  menace  to  genuine  Masonry  which  its  career  has  helped 
to  uncover,  a  menace  whose  substantial  reality  needed  no  further 
demonstration  than  the  activity  of  the  campaign  for  its  recognition 
in  grand  lodges  irherc  no  request  for  recognition  hets  ever  been  received.  The 
history  of  the  craft  in  this  country  is  too  full  of  instances  where 
from  oversight  or  miscarriage  of  official  requests  for  recognition, 
grand  lodges  whose  lawful  parentage  and  regularity  of  formation 


APPENDIX. — PART   I. 


was  unquestioned,  have  remained  for  years  unrecognized  by  bodies 
failing^  to  receive  such  official  requests,  not  to  make  it  noticeable 
when  certain  grand  lodges  volunteer  their  recognition  of  a  body 
whose  parentage  was  more  than  doubtful,  and  which  was,  moreover, 
under  the  cloud  of  specific  charges  alleging  obnoxious  and  unlawful 
practices. 

Quite  as  significant,  too,  was  the  rapidity  with  which,  notwith- 
standing the  chorus  of  denials  that  there  was  anything  worth  talking 
about  in  the  position  we  assumed  as  to  the  genesis  of  the  lodges  com- 
posing the  gran  dieta,  the  discussion  "veered  round" — to  borrow  the 
expression  of  Bro.  R.  F.  Gould — from  the  alleged  unlawful  practices 
to  the  ground  on  which  we  placed  it  in  the  outset,  the  question  of  the 
competency  of  so-called  Scottish  Rite  lodges,  holding  charters  from 
no  grand  lodge,  to  create  a  recognizable  grand  lodge.  The  gran  dieta 
may  pass — if  it  has  not  passed  already — -but  the  heresj*  upon  which 
its  recognition  has  been  predicated  remains  and  behind  it  a  propa- 
ganda of  great  ability  which  will  lose  no  opportunitj- — and  will  even 
make  opportunity — to  push  its  claims. 

The  increasing  knowledge  of  recent  years  as  to  the  histor3'  of  the 
craft  and  the  accessibility  of  that  knowledge  through  the  labors  of 
the  present  generation  of  Masonic  historians,  really  the  first  genera- 
tion of  genuine  Masonic  historians,  has  furnished  materials  for  the 
discussion  to  a  finish  of  the  paramount  question  left  trailing  in  the 
wake  of  the  vanishing  gran  dieta:  a  question  upon  whose  settlement 
hangs  the  decision  whether  the  attempt  to  install  dissent  from  the 
original  plan  of  Masonry  upon  an  equal  footing  with  that  plan,  if  not 
to  install  it  on  its  vacant  throne,  shall  succeed  or  fail. 

The  historical  factor  is  of  such  importance  in  this  discussion,  that 
we  hail  with  especial  satisfaction  the  announcement  that  Bro. 
Robert  Freke  Gould  is  about  to  bring  out  in  cheap  form  a  revised 
edition  of  his  History  of  Freemasonry.  This  will  bring  the  knowledge 
requisite  to  a  clear  judgment  on  these  important  questions  within  the 
reach  of  all.  We  may  add  here  what  will  be  of  interest  to  all  Masonic 
students,  that  Bro.  Gould  is  just  bringing  out  a  histor}-  of  field  and 
naval  lodges.     A  work  of  unique  interest  and  value. 

We  again  avail  ourselves  of  the  statistical  labors  of  Bro.  Jesse 
B.  Anthony,  the  chairman  of  the  New  York  committee,  and  we  beg 
to  renew  our  grateful  acknowledgments  for  the  labor  which  has 
made  us  so  largely  his  debtor. 

His  statistical  tables  will  be  found  this  j'ear — as  for  the  last  two 
years — at  the  beginning  instead  of  at  the  close  of  our  report. 

We  again  tender  to  our  brethren  of  the  guild  our  acknowledg- 
ments for  over-generous  favors,  and  to  extend  to  them  our  fraternal 
greetings. 

JOSEPH  ROBBINS, 

Quincy,  111.,  Oct.  1,  1896.  Committee. 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE. 


STATISTICS. 

From  the  report  of  Past  Grand  Master  Jesse  B.  Anthony,  Chairman  of  the 
Committee  on  Foreign  Correspondence  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  New  York,  submitted 
June  1,  IWtV. 


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627 

415 

347 

265 

511 

542 

37 

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Arizona 

14 

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49 

23 

6 

8 

35 

14 

20 

Arkansas 

445 

13,670 

544 

363 

113 

257 

476 

484 

65 

262 

California 

262 

18.208 

1,192 

547 

185 

342 

380 

421 

4 

717 

Colorado 

91 

7,2.57 

392 

277 

32 

76 

210 

174 

7 

234 

Connecticut  — 

111 

16.813 

693 

108 

34 

281 

94 

204 

4 

181 

Delaware. 

20 

2.077 

97 

11 

3 

27 

13 

13 

1 

38 

D.  of  Columbia. 

2iS 

4,948 

253 

76 

49 

65 

86 

91 

134 

Florida 

153 

4,393 

268 

171 

73 

90 

214 

245 

7 

44 

410 

17,317 

975 

479 

Idaho 

30 

1,1.52 

69 

42 

5 

21 

32 

19 

2 

42 

Illinois 

719 

52..509 

3,346 

927 

306 

736 

1,128 

945 

15 

1,782 

Indiana 

481 

28,439 

1,815 

752 

230 

451 1 

758 

595 

24 

933 

Indian  Terrify. 

80 

2.90 -- 

323 

233 

22 

44 

174 

103 

326 

478 

26  890 

1,506 
995 

837 

220 

319 

789 

741 

27 

787 

Kansas 

353 

19,595 

5U1 

133 

225 

660 

368 

5 

371 

Kentuck}' 

4(59 

18,367 

1,406 

491 

399 

302 

636 

1,085 

24 

249 

Louisiana 

130 

5,761 

283 

94 

37 

136 

91 

179 

2 

16 

Maine 

193 

21,953 

837 

137 

50 

366 

209 

305 

3 

144 

Maryland 

100 

7,310 

476 

87 

30 

96 

107 

78 

7 

305 

Massachusetts* 

234 

35,913 

1,948 

2,300 

86 

481 

462 

330 

5 

1.210 

Michigan 

384 

38,668 

1,947 

507 

94 

548 

626 

403 

9 

962 

Minnesota 

205 

1,5,428 

761 

285 

57 

183 

373 

239 

15 

293 

Mississippi 

2"9 

9,061 

402 

251 

212 

193 

314 

289 

15 

54 

Missouri 

563 

30,160 

1,325 

871 

269 

458 

839 

817 

74 

277 

Montana 

43 

2,626 

194 

62 

17 

36 

85 

71 

3 

135 

Nebraska 

220 

11,836 

588 

238 

70 

113 

404 

408 

9 

66 

Nevada 

20 

948 

36 

25 

12 

17 

36 

27 

1 

8 

N'w  Hampshire 

77 

8,963 

428 

12 

168 

113 

43 

1 

125 

New  Jersey 

166 

16.094 

904 

191 

75 

240 

192 

315 

4 

419 

New  York 

737 

90,874 

5,726 

966 

1,131 

1,522 

1,023 

2,950 

27 

2,301 

New  Mexico*... 

21 

883 

63 

27 

6 

20 

28 

114 

43 

N'th  Carolina*. 

290 

10,041 

471 

180 

88 

171 

281 

272 

78 

63 

North  Dakota.. 

46 

2,535 

233 

64 

13 

15 

95 

25 

2 

173 

Oklahoma 

27 

1,085 

101 

109 

3 

10 

64 

43 

159 

Ohio 

498 

40,839 

2,507 

669 

883 

645 

735 

1,704 

49 

933 

Oregon 

102 

4,874 

267 

151 

42 

81 

119 

193 

7 

60 

Pennsylvania... 

425 

49,589 

2,487 

682 

834 

499 

719 

1,117 

Rhode  Island  . . 

37 

4,893 

315 

16 

8 

59 

26 

20 

1 

232 

181 

92 

5,725 
4,243 

320 

262 

112 
32 

177 
237 

191 
1.32 

8 

160 

South  Dakota. . 

91 

24 

32 

Tennessee 

425 

17,682 

755 

505 

161 

354 

523 

271 

68 

2115 

Texas 

609 

27,e.62 

1,491 

1,494 

257 

489 

1,539 

706 

103 

821 

Utah 

9 

763 

49 

33 

3 

9 

18 

32 

1 

Vermont 

102 

9,694 

433 

105 

35 

145 

137 

97 

214 

Virginia 

266 

12,652 

700 

285 

93 

222 

426 

318 

32 

80 

Washington 

101 

4,991 

239 

179 

48 

64 

183 

223 

11 

32 

West  Virginia  . 

110 

5,867 

459 

91 

45 

74 

1.58 

123 

6 

285 

Wisconsin 

235 

16,408 

936 

298 

85 

256 

310 

334 

39 

407 

Wyoming 

15 
11,448 

1,023 

64 
42,5.57 

28 

6 

15 

22 

9 

5 

47 
17,466 

763,689 

16, 795 

6,109 

11,662 

16, 647 

18,024 

814 

569 

Br'sh  Columbia 

24 

1,272 

111 

41 

2 

10 

68 

33 

1 

43 

Canada 

356 
54 

23,351 
2,413 

1,186 
167 

337 

84 

153 

20 

255 
13 

657 
11  lO 

587 
84 

11 
3 

166 
71 

Manitoba  

N.  Brunswick*. 

31 
64 

1.764 
3,351 

82 
216 

27 

82 

8 
22 

36 
43 

55 
86 

49 
77 

23 

Nova  Scotia  . . 

114 

Pr.  Edward  Il'd 

12 

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21 

9 

4 

3 

16 

7 

11 

Quebec 

56 

3,530 

216 

47 

11 

42 

99 

72 

3 

58 

597 

36,196 

1,999 

627 

230 

402 

1,081 

90! 

18 

462 

23 

Total 

12,045 

799,88.^ 

44,. 556 

17,422 

6,329 

12,064 

17.728 

18,933 

832 

17.938 

592 

*Last  year's  report. 


APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


STATISTICAL  COMPARISON. 


1894. 

189.5. 

1896. 

1  ^'.<r. 

.57 

57 

.57 

57 

11.6T6 

11,807 

11,493 

12,045 

43.930 

39.  .524 

41,543 

44..5.56 

14.807 

14,7ft4 

17,482 

17.422 

5..528 

5.316 

.5.804 

6..329 

10.278 

10.726 

11  262 

12.064 

17.509 

16.489 

17.449 

17.728 

13,«41 

15.0.52 

17,944 

18,933 

676 

7.54 

776 

8:12 

■47.492 

767.-61 

783.644 

799.8»« 

Grand  Lodges 

Subordinate  Lodges 

Raised 

Affiliated 

Restored 

Died 

Dim  it  ted  

Suspended  for  non-payment  of  dues 

Suspended  and  Expelled 

Membership 


Based  upon  the  tables  we  find,  in  the  Grand  Lodges  of  the  United  States,  the 
following  percentages: 


Accession  b}'  new  work 

Additions  by  affiliation  and  restoration 

Losses  by  death 

Losses  for  non-payment  of  dues 

Losses  by  dimission 

Net  gain  of  the  year 


1894. 

18^. 

1896. 
5.41 

5.88 

5.2.5 

2.82 

2.69 

3.03 

1.11 

1.45 

1  47 

1.84 

1.99 

2.33 

2.30 

2.25 

2.27 

3.31 

2  54 

2.07 

1897. 


5.69 
3.03 
1  54 
2.43 
2.26 
2.21 


In  numerical  standing  the  most  promi- 
nent rank  in  the  following  order: 


New  York 

Illinois, 

Pennsylvania. 

Ohio 

Michigan 

Massachusetts 

Missouri 

Indiana 

Texas 

Iowa 

Maine 

Kansas 

Kentucky 

California 


The    average    of  membership  to   each 
Lodge  is  greatest  in  the  following: 


District  of  Columbia 

Massachusetts 

Connecticut 

Rhode  Island 

New  York 

Pennsylvania 

New  Hampshire 

Maine 

Delaware 

Michigan 

New  Jersey 

Vermont. .'. 

Utah 

Ohio 


198 
1.53 
151 
132 
123 
116 
116 
114 
104 
101 
97 
95 
85 


The  jurisdictions  having  Lodges  of  the  largest  membership  are  in  the  follow- 
ing order: 


Grand  Lodge. 

Subordinate  Lodge. 

Location. 

Member- 

Name. 

No. 

ship. 

Minnesota 

Minneapolis 

Hiram  

19 

1 

.507 

526 

34 

19 

5 

20 

59 

21 

281 

1 

299 

Minneapolis 

823 

Connecticut 

New  H  a ven 

752 

New  York 

Genesee  Falls 

Rochester 

728 

Illinois 

684 

Michigan 

District  of  Columbia.... 

Grand  Rapids 

Grand  Rapids  

Washington,  D.C 

Denver 

603 
565 

Colorado 

Denver 

Magnolia 

558 

Ohio 

Columbus 

546 

I'ennsvlvanla 

Washington 

What  Cheer 

Roswell  Lee 

Preston .... 

California 

Temple 

Philadelphia 

.518 

Rhode  Island 

Ma-sachusetts 

Providence 

SpringHeld 

510 
507 

Kf iituckv   

Ijouisville 

.500 

('alift)rnia 

Missouri 

San  Francisco 

Kansas  City 

472 
435 

I 


R  e:  po  r  t 

OF    THE 

Committee  on  Masonic  Correspondence 

...J897... 


JOSERH       ROBBINS. 


ALABAMA,  1896. 

76th  Annual.  Montgomery.  December]. 

Twenty-three  jurisdictions  were  represented  in  the  diiilomatic 
corps.  W.  Bro.  William  W.  Baffin,  the  ambassador  of  Illinois,  was- 
present  and  a  member  of  the  committee  on  work. 

The  grand  master  (George  P.  Harrison)  announced  the  death  of 
Harry  A.  Lowe,  senior  grand  steward,  at  the  early  age  of  thirty- 
eight,  and  of  Past  Masters  Samuel  K.  McSpadden  and  Daniel  Smith, 
aged  seventy-three  and  sixty-seven  ^espectivel3^ 

He  submitted  twenty-six  decisions,  some  of  which  we  note: 

2.  That  a  Master  Mason  who  has  been  regularly  elected  and  in- 
stalled and  served  as  a  warden  of  a  lodge,  of  which  he  was  at  the 
time  a  member,  and  afterwards  dimits  from  said  lodge  and  affiliates 
with  another,  is  eligible  to  the  office  of  worshipful  master  in  the 
latter  lodge. 

7.  That  a  Masonic  obligation  taken  by  a  party  under  an  assumed 
name,  is  as  binding  upon  him  as  if  taken  in  his  proper  name. 

9.  That  every  lodge  has  a  right  to  try  its  own  members  for  offenses 
committed  within  its  jurisdiction.  For  offenses  committed  without 
its  jurisdiction,  either  the  lodge  to  which  the  brother  belongs  or  the 
lodge  within  whose  jurisdiction  the  offense  was  committed," may  try 
him. 

12.  That  a  subordinate  lodge  has  the  right  to  re-consider  its  ac- 
tion on  any  subject,  upon  a  motion  made  by  a  brother  who  voted  in 
the  affirmative  at  the  communication  next  succeeding  the  one  at 
which  such  action  was  taken. 

— b 


10  APPENDIX. — PART    1. 


14.  That  a  tjrand  master  has  no  ri<,'^ht  to  g^rant  a  dispensation  to 
fill  a  vacanc3'  caused  in  the  office  of  worshipful  master  whilst  either 
tlie  senior  warden's  or  junior  warden's  station  is  lilled  b3'  a  duly 
elected  and  installed  officer. 

16.  That  any  subordinate  lodge,  by  consent  of  all  parties  con- 
cerned, may  confer  one  or  all  the  deji^rees  of  Masonry  for  another 
lodjje,  and  in  such  case  the  membershi])  uf  the  person  so  initiated  or 
advanced  would  be  in  the  lodjje  for  which  the  work  was  done,  and  the 
fees  would  belong  to  it. 

18.  That  masters  of  subordinate  lodges  cannot  permit  the  mem- 
bers to  vouch  for  visiting  brethren  unless  they  have  sat  in  a  lodge 
with  them. 

20.  That  any  Mason  who  is  a  tippler  and  a  profane  swearer,  and 
who  captioush-  i)revents  any  minister  of  the  gospel  from  affiliation 
with  the  lodge  of  which  he  is  a  member,  simply  because  he  is  such,  is 
guilty  of  un-Masonic  conduct  and  should  be  dealt  with  bj'  his  lodge. 

21.  That  no  ballot  on  a  petition  for  initiation  can  be  taken  until 
the  expiration  of  one  month  from  the  time  of  filing  the  petition. 

2.').  That  a  profane  ma}'  present  his  petition  for  initiation  to  the 
lodge  of  his  choice,  though  he  resides  in  the  jurisdiction  of  another 
lodge,  and  the  lodge  receiving  such  petition  and  conferring  a  degree 
'or  degrees  without  obtaining  the  information  required  by  article  ti, 
section  13,  if  the  constitution,  is  liable  to  the  lodge  having  jurisdic- 
tion, for  the  fees. 

We  think  a  brother  does  not  lose  any  acquired  eligibilitj-  by 
changing  his  affiliation,  and  we  have  copied  No.  2  as  a  correct  state- 
ment of  the  law  because  those  who  are  yet  not  clear  upon  the  subject 
are  not  pent  up  in  Alabama.  No.  7  ought  to  go  without  saj'ing.  and 
No.  9  is  of  interest  as  showing  that  the  right  of  a  lodge  to  try  so- 
journing affilitates  for  offenses  committed  in  its  bailiwick  is,  as  it 
should  be,  tlrmly  established  in  that  jurisdiction.  Of  No.  12.  the 
jurisprudence  committee,  with  the  concurrence  of  the  grand  lodge, 
properly  say  that  its  correctness  would  depend  on  the  by-laws  of  the 
lodge,  each  lodge  having  the  right  to  regulate  the  matter.  The  com- 
mittee disputed  No.  14  as  too  broad,  as  being  possibl}'  an  invasion  of 
the  prerogative  of  the  grand  master,  but  the  grand  lodge,  in  accord 
with  Illinois  precedents  and  our  own  jiersonal  views,  sustained  the 
decision.  We  have  copied  No.  16  because  it  is  sometimes  questioned 
whether  a  lodge  may  properly  confer  ^lU  the  degrees  by  pro.xy.  as  well 
as  the  second  and  third,  which  it  is  generally  conceded  may  properly 
be  done.  Neither  the  committee  nor  the  grand  lodge  agreed  with 
No.  18.  There  is  no  limit  to  which  a  voucher  may  not  be  passed 
along  provided  three  are  present — the  person  vouched  for,  the  per- 
son avouching,  and  the  person  vouched  to,  the  first  two  and  the 
last  two  kuoirintj  each  other  to  be  Masons.  The  jurisprudence  com- 
mittee had  the  concurrence  of  the  grand  lodge  in  disapproving  No. 
20,  "for  the  reason  that  no  one  has  a  right  to  know  anything  whatso- 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  11 

ever  with  reference  to  a  ballot  in  a  Masonic  lodge,  how  it  was  cast, 
or  the  motives  which  may  or  may  not  have  actuated  the  member 
casting  the  ballot."  We  agree  with  the  committee  that  no  one  has 
a  right  to  inquire  how  a  member  voted,  but  if  a  member  not  only  vio- 
lates the  law  against  disclosing  his  vote,  but  in  so  doing  also  discloses 
his  motives,  it  is  no  invasion  of  the  sanctity  of  the  ballot  if  the  mem- 
bers who  have  had  this  knowledge  forced  upon  them  inquire  whether 
the  avowed  motives  and  their  resultant  act  unfit  the  offender  for  their 
society.  No.  21  was  approved,  but  the  grand  lodge  so  amended  its 
law  as  to  permit  lodges  meeting  semi-monthly  to  ballot  on  a  petition 
at  the  regular  meeting  succeeding  its  reference.  No  25  was  disap. 
proved  by  the  committee  but  sustained  by  the  grand  lodge,  the  action 
turning  on  the  interpretation  of  their  constitution.  We  have  copied 
the  decision  for  its  bearing  upon  the  question  whether  a  request  for 
waiver  of  jurisdiction  must  come  from  a  lodge  or  may  come  direct 
from  the  petitioner.     The  decision  sustains  the  latter  view. 

Among  the  special  dispensations  granted  is  one  which  shows  that  in 
Alabama  it  is  still  held  that  the  destruction  of  the  parchment  charter 
disables  a  lodge  from  labor  until  the  executive  comes  to  the  rescue. 

The  grand  master  recommended  an  annual  appropriation  to  the 
endownment  fund  for  the  preservation  of  Mt.  Vernon,  the  home  of 
Washington,  but  the  grand  lodge  agreed  with  the  committee  on  ad- 
dress that  the  funds  of  that  body  could  not  be  properly  applied  for 
that  purpose,  and  on  their  recommendation  sent  the  subject  to  a 
special  committee  to  bring  the  matter  to  the  attention  of  the  craft 
and  solicit  from  them  individual  subscriptions. 

The  grand  lodge  chartered  one  new  lodge,  continued  one  under 
dispensation,  granted  a  dispensation  for  another,  and  gave  a  forfeited 
charter,  name,  number,  and  jewels,  to  some  members  of  the  defunct 
lodge  and  other  petitioning  Masons;  sent  a  second  overture  from 
Wisconsin  on  the  subject  of  Masonic  relief  to  a  special  committee, 
and  one  from  Maine  on  the  status  of  rejected  candidates  to  the  com- 
mittee on  jurisprudence,  while  to  the  committee  on  work  was  com- 
mitted a  proposition  to  so  modif}'  the  law  forbidding  the  jDerformance 
of  the  burial  service  over  the  grave  of  a  deceased  brother  after  his 
interment — euphoniously  called  "funeralizing  the  dead,"  in  some  of 
the  southern  jurisdictions — as  to  permit  the  practice  where  the 
service  at  the  time  of  interment  "is  reasonably  impracticable  and 
inconvenient."     All  these  committees  will  report  next  year. 

James  A.  Bilbro,  of  Gadsden,  was  elected  grand  master.  Henry 
CLA.Y  Armstrong,  Montgomery,  re-elected  grand  secretary. 

The  report  on  correspondence  (178  pp.)  is  again  by  Past  Grand 
Master  Palmer  J.  Pillans.     It  is  an  exceedingly  interesting  paper 


12  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 

and  reflects  throuj^hout  the  abilitj-  and  sound  conservatism  for  which 
his  work  has  always  been  noted.  Illinois  proceeding's  for  181)5  and 
18!t().  receive  ample  notice.  In  his  notice  of  those  of  I8ii.").  he  refers  to 
the  oration  of  Bro.  John  C.  Black  as  being  replete  with  profound 
thought  and  most  original  in  design.  He  quotes  with  approval  from 
our  remarks  on  perpetual  jurisdiction,  and  on  the  scandal  involved  in 
the  recognition  of  the  Mexican  gran  dieta  by  grand  lodges  of  Free 
and  Accepted  Masons,  and  on  the  same  subject  in  his  review  of  our 
report  for  18!>(5,  he  ex])resses  the  opinion  that  the  defense  by  Past 
Grand  Master  Matthews  of  his  grand  lodge  (Texas)  in  its  recogni- 
tion of  that  body,  is  sufficient  to  show  the  unlawfulness  of  the  latter 
organization.  He  also  expresses  his  gratification  that  printed  rituals 
find  no  advocates  in  Illinois. 


ARIZONA,  1896. 

15th  Annual.  Tucson.  No\nEMBER,  10. 

Grand  Master  Artemus  Louden  Grow,  the  representative  of  Illi- 
nois was  one  of  the  fifteen  diplomats,  representing  twent\'  grand 
lodges,  present  at  the  opening. 

Grand  Master  Grow  stated  in  his  brief  but  comprehensive  address 
that  no  deaths  had  been  reported  in  the  jurisdiction,  which  at  once 
brings  the  suggestion  that  in  Arizona  with  its  phenomenally  drj' 
atmosphere  has  been  found  the  sanitarium  of  the  world.  Complete 
returns  of  the  lodg'es,  however,  show  a  loss  by  death  of  eight  out  of 
an  affiliated  membership  of  five  hundred  and  eighty-seven. 

He  enjoyed  the  rare  distinction  of  having  nothing  submitted  to 
him  which  called  for  an  opinion  on  any  question  of  law,  if  we  except 
the  following  case  in  which  an  opinion  was  reflected  in  the  act: 

June  4,  I  granted  a  special  dispensation  under  the  following  cir- 
cumstances: The  W.M.  of  Glendale  Lodge.  U.D.,  Bro.  Blackburn,  in- 
formed me  that  after  the  organization  of  Glendale  Lodge  they  had 
held  a  meeting,  at  which  one  or  more  applications  had  been  i)resented 
to  liave  the  degrees  conferred.  Committees  had  been  a])p(iiiited.  and 
that  said  committees  were  ready  to  report  favorably,  but  owing  to 
not  having  a  quorum  could  not  act.  It  was  shown  further,  that  after 
this  lodge  had  started,  some  of  their  members  had  gone  away  for  the 
season.     As  this  lodge  had  but  just  started,  and  would  prol)ably  be 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  13 


lost  to  us  unless  prompt  action  was  taken,  and  finding  no  precedent, 
I  concluded  to  establish  one,  and,  therefore,  caused  a  dispensation  to 
be  issued  to  Glendale  Lodg^e  to  convene  and  pass  on  these  ajjplica- 
tions,  with  six  members  present,  and  when  this  business  was  done  to 
return  said  authoritj^  to  the  grand  secretary'.     This  was  done. 

The  committee  on  jurisprudence  say  that,  like  the  grand  master^ 
the}'  can  find  no  precedent  for  such  action,  but  that  on  the  contrary 
the  authorities  are  against  doing  business,  except  conferring  degrees, 
with  a  less  number  than  seven  members  present,  and  cite  Anderson's 
Manual,  which  has  been  -adopted  as  the  Arizona  text-book,  to  the 
effect  that  "grand  masters  possess  no  powers  except  those  contained 
in  the  constitutions  of  Masonry  and  those  clearly  and  expressly  dele- 
gated to  them  by  their  brethren."     Continuing  the  committee  say: 

Grand  Master  Roskruge,  in  1890,  decided  that  seven  or  more  were 
required  to  form  a  quorum,  and  the  grand  lodge  of  that  3'ear  approved 
his  decision. 

Your  committee,  therefore,  recommends  that  the  act  of  the  grand 
master  be  not  approved,  but  as  the  lodge  acted  in  good  faith,  under 
the  direction  of  the  grand  master,  your  committee  recommends  that 
the  business  transacted  under  his  dispensation  be  confirmed. 

The  grand  lodge  concurred,  thus  furnishing  another  illustration  of 
the  fact  that,  as  a  rule,  however  much  grand  lodges  may  deny  the  dis- 
pensing liowers  to  the  grand  master,  yet  whenever  a  real  emergency 
arises  and  the  grand  master  meets  it  by  the  exercise  of  extra  consti- 
tutional authority,  his  action  is  sustained.  It  is  true  that  the  grand 
master's  act  in  this  case  was  formally  disapproved  but  its  lawfulness 
was  admitted  by  confirming  the  validity  of  the  business  done  under  it, 
the  grand  lodge  having  no  more  power  under  the  anti-prerogative 
theory  to  violate  its  own  recognized  law  than  the  grand  master. 

The  grand  master  deplored  the  lack  of  uniformity  in  the  work 
and  recommended  an  appropriation  to  cover  the  expenses  of  the 
grand  lecturer  in  visiting  the  lodges,  but  the  grand  lodge  agreed 
with  the  committee  on  address  that  the  scattering  of  their  few  lodges 
over  the  magnificent  distances  of  the  Territory  forbade  it. 

The  grand  lodge  chartered  two  new  lodges  and  continued  one  un- 
der dispensation;  concurred  in  the  opinion  of  the  correspondence  com- 
mittee that  the  grand  representative  system  is  beneficial  and  an 
inducement  to  the  brethren  to  attend  the  annual  meetings;  negatived 
a  proposition  to  make  the  payment  of  dues  optional  with  those  who 
have  paid  them  for  twenty-five  3^ears,  and  agreed  to  meet  next  jear 
at  Bisbee. 

William  Francis  Nichols,  of  Willcox,  was  elected  grand  mas- 
ter; George  J.  Roskruge,  Tucson,  re-elected  grand  secretary. 

There  is  no  report  on  correspondence. 


14  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 


ARKANSAS.  1S9(3. 

HTth  Anntal.  Little  Rock.  November  IT- 

Thirty-tive  grand  jurisdictions  were  represented  at  the  opening^, 
Illinois  b}-  Past  Grand  Master  R.  J.  McLaughlin,  who,  having  been 
recommissioned,  was  subsequent!}*  formalh-  received  and  welcomed. 

The  grand  master  (A.  G.  Washburn)  announced  the  death  of 
Frederick  Kramer,  past  grand  treasurer,  and  A.  H.  Gordon,  past 
district  deputy  grand  master,  and  we  also  find  a  memorial  tablet  in- 
scribed to  C  W.  MiLLERD,  representative  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Utah. 
The  grand  master  submitted  seven  decisions:  from  which  w-e  quote: 

1.  A  brother  has  paid  all  his  dues  to  the  lodge,  but  is  surety  on 
a  note  to  the  lodge  for  live  dollars,  and  asks  for  a  dimit.  Should  it 
be  granted? 

Yes.  If  otherwise  worth}-,  the  mere  fact  of  his  suretyship  on  the 
note  would  not  preclude  his  withdrawal  on  dimit.  The  granting  a 
dimit  would  in  no  way  release  him  from  his  obligation  on  the  note. 

3.  R.  W.  B.  G.  Andrews,  district  deputy  grand  master  Kith  district, 
states:  I  am  called  upon  to  install,  as  worshipful  master,  a  mem})er 
of  Omaha  Lodge  No.  r)04,  who  is  an  habitual  drinker  of  intoxicants, 
and  who  is  frequently  drunk.     And  asks:     What  is  m}-  duty? 

Refuse  absoluteh'  to  install  him.  and  direct  the  lodge  to  prefer 
charges  against  him  for  drunkenness.  Such  a  man  must  not  be  in- 
stalled into  any  office  in  a  Masonic  lodge,  and  if  he  refuses  to  desist 
from  drink  he  should  be  expelled. 

7.  Bro.  George  H.  Lyman,  secretary  of  Belle  Point  Lodge  No.  20 
says:  There  is  a  gentleman  here  who  was  balloted  for,  and  elected 
to  take  the  three  degrees,  by  a  lodge  in  Ohio,  but  as  he  had  to  leave 
there  before  he  could  receive  the  degrees,  we  are  requested  to  do  the 
work  for  them.  Will  he  have  to  petition  our  lodge  and  take  the  usual 
course?  Do  we  have  to  ballot  on  his  case?  What  course  shall  we 
pursue? 

A  lodge  cannot  confer  more  than  one  degree,  at  one  and  the  same 
communication,  without  a  dispensation  from  the  grand  master.  I 
know  of  no  law  or  decision,  nor  can  I  lind  anj'  now.  that  authorizes 
lodges  in  this  grand  jurisdiction  to  confer  degrees  for  and  in  behalf 
of  lodges  in  other  grand  jurisdictions. 

No.  1  is  so  obviously  correct  that  our  onl}-  excuse  for  quoting  it  is 
to  show  how  helpless  masters  frequentl}'  are  when  they  can't  lind  a 
precedent  to  guide  them.  Touching  No.  .S.  the  committee  on  law  and 
usage  keep  the  rights  of  the  lodge  in  view  and  say,  with  the  concur- 
rence of  the  grand  lodge: 

We  approve  the  sentiment  of  the  decision,  but  recommend  that 
the  language  of  the  grand  master  in  the  decision  be  so  mocHtied  as  to 
authorize  the  district  dei)uty  grand  master  to  (U?(/.s(  instead  of  ditivt 
the  lodge  as  to  what  it  should  do  in  the  case. 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  15 


A  district  deputy  grand  master  may  refuse  to  install  one  whom 
he  knows  to  be  whollj'  unfit,  and  should  give  the  lodge  any  informa- 
tion or  knowledge  he  has  of  the  character  of  such  officer  elect,  and 
advise  the  lodge  to  disapprove  of  his  election.  When  the  district  dep- 
uty grand  master  has  done  this,  he  has  discharged  his  duty  and  gone 
to  the  extent  of  his  authority. 

If  the  lodge  still  insists,  it  may  install  the  officer  elect.  But  a 
lodge  that  would  do  so  in  the  face  of  such  facts  should  be  reported  by 
the  district  deputy  grand  master  and  severely  disciplined  by  the 
grand  lodge. 

Referring-  to  No.  7.  the  committee  says: 

In  this  case  a  petition  is  unnecessary.  Belle  Point  No.  20  does 
not  have  to  ballot  on  his  case. 

The  course  to  pursue  is  for  Belle  Point  Lodge  to  decide  by  a  ma- 
jority vote  whether  or  not  they  will  grant  the  request  of  the  Ohio 
lodge  as  a  courtesy.  If  they  vote  to  do  so,  the}-  will  confer  the  de- 
grees according  to  our  ritual. 

Under  Alabama  we  copied  an  approved  decision  that  a  lodge 
might  confer  one  or  all  of  the  degrees  as  the  proxy  of  another  lodge. 
Arkansas,  it  will  be  seen,  also  gives  an  affirmative  answer  to  the 
question  which  has  recently  been  raised,  whether  a  lodge  might 
properly  so  confer  all  the  degrees,  as  well  as  the  second  and  third 
which  lodges  nearly  everywhere  have  been  accustomed  to  do  upon  re- 
quest. It  seems  that  the  grand  master  of  Arkansas  could  find  no  law 
or  decision  authorizing  Arkansas  lodges  to  confer  degrees  for  and  in 
behalf  of  lodges  in  other  grand  jurisdictions,  and  probably  other 
grand  masters  would  look  in  vain  for  such  a  statute  in  a  majority  of 
grand  lodges,  although  the  practice  might  prevail  in  all  of  them.  In 
jurisdictions  having  such  statutes  the  practice  is  older  than  the  writ- 
ten law,  being  simply  the  exercise  of  a  right  which  needs  not  to  be 
specified.  It  is  the  common  law  of  Masonr}^  that  the  lodge  is  compe- 
tent to  decide  whether  it  will  confer  degrees  at  the  request  of  another 
recognized  lodge. 

In  the  case  of  a  brother  rejected  for  drunkenness  after  his  peti- 
tion for  affiliation,  the  grand  master  ruled  that  the  lodge  should  keep 
his  dimit  on  file  and  proceed  against  him  for  the  offense  as  if  he  were 
a  member.  The  committee,  however,  properly  held  that  the  dimit 
should  be  returned  to  him  and  without  any  indorsement  thereon. 

In  a  case  where  a  resident  of  Missouri  made  a  bona  fide  removal  to 
Arkansas  on  the  2nth  dixy  of  February,  and  on  that  day  filled  out  and 
left  behind  a  petition  for  initiation  to  a  Missouri  lodge  which  received 
the  same  on  the  26th  day  of  March  and  subsequently  elected  him  and 
conferred  the  first  degree  upon  him,  the  grand  master  properly  held 
that  at  the  time  his  petition  was  received  he  was  the  material  of  the 
Arkansas  lodge  into  whose  jurisdiction  he  had  moved. 


16  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


On  matters  referred  durinjj  the  session,  the  committee  on  law  and 
usajje  reported  relative  to  burial  rites  on  reinterment,  that  when  a 
brother  has  already  been  buried  it  is  improper  to  perform  Masonic 
ceremonies  around  the  grave,  but  in  the  case  of  temporary  burial 
without  Masonic  ceremonies,  or  where  the  body  had  been  placed  in  a 
vault  temporaril}'  it  would  be  entirely  proper  to  perform  the  usual 
Masonic  rites  when  permanent  interment  was  had.  Of  the  Vv'isconsin 
l)roposition.  relative  to  Masonic  relief,  that  it  is  not  a  wise  one  and 
should  be  disapproved.  In  effect,  that  documentary-  evidence  may 
warrant  a  committee  of  investi<ration  in  reporting  an  applicant  for 
affiliation  to  be  a  Mason  in  good  standing,  and  warrant  the  lodge  in 
electing  him  to  membership,  but  that  when  he  enters  the  lodge  he 
must  of  course  either  be  examined  or  vouched  for,  and  that  the  regu- 
lation proposed  l)y  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Maine  that  the  personal  juris- 
diction over  rejected  candidates  should  be  limited  to  five  years,  is  a 
good  one  and  should  be  adopted,  to  all  of  which  the  grand  lodge 
agreed. 

Grand  Secretary  Hempstead  tried  to  secure  the  repeal  of  the 
inequitable  provision  of  the  Arkansas  law  by  which  dues  accrue 
against  suspended  Masons,  but  was  defeated. 

In  the  case  of  a  lodge  whose  charter  was  arrested  for  contempt  of 
the  officers  and  authority  of  the  grand  lodge,  wherein  inquirj'  was 
made  as  to  the  status  of  the  members  with  regard  to  obtaining  grand 
lodge  certificates,  the  view  prevailed  that  until  such  members  became 
the  subjects  of  charges  they  stand  in  the  same  attitude  as  members 
of  a  defunct  lodge  and  are  privileged  to  obtain  certificates  from  the 
grand  secretary,  if  otherwise  entitled  thereto. 

The  grand  secretary  reported  the  receipt  of  an  invitation  from 
the  Symbolic  Grand  Lodge  of  Hungary  to  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Arkan- 
sas to  be  represented  at  the  consecration  of  the  Freemasons"  palace 
during  the  celebration  of  the  millennial  celebration  of  the  existence 
of  Hungary  as  a  nation,  held  at  Buda  Pesth  last  summer,  and  saj's: 

I  extended  to  them  the  congratulations  of  this  grand  lodge  upon 
the  auspicious  occasion,  and  received  in  reply  an  appreciative  and 
cordial  letter  of  thanks  for  the  courtesy  and  encouragement  expressed 
to  them.  This  letter  I  have  duly  filed  among  our  archives  as  well 
worthy  of  i)reservation. 

As  we  have  not  the  Arkansas  constitutions  before  us  we  are  lost 
in  conjecture  whether  that  grand  lodge  leaves  the  question  of  recog- 
nizing alleged  Masonic  bodies  to  the  grand  secretary. 

The  grand  lodge  listened  to  a  strong  address  by  Grand  Orator 
John  T.  Hicks,  on  the  unlawfulness  of  keys  and  cijihers:  chartered 
six  new  lodges  and  continued  one  under  dispensation:  found,  hapi)il3', 
that  the  temi)le  deficit  was  only  five  hundred  dollars,  and  tliere  was  a 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  17 

fair  prospect  that  the  enterprise  would  be  hereafter  self-sustaining; 
and  gave  an  insurance  association,  doing  business  under  the  name  of 
Masoflr}',  its  customary  annual  advertisement  by  printing  the  report 
of  its  directors  in  the  proceedings. 

C.  C.  Ayres,  of  Fort  Smith,  was  elected  grand  master:  Fay  Hemp- 
stead, Little  Rock,  re-elected  grand  secretary. 

The  report  on  correspondence  (121  pp.)  is  again  from  the  well- 
poised  pen  of  Bro.  Sam  H.  Davidson.  Illinois,  for  1896,  gets  lost  in 
the  shuffle,  presumably  because  the  Illinois  volume  did  not  reach  him 
in  time  for  review. 

We  regret  to  learn  that  on  account  of  the  pressure  of  other  du- 
ties Bro.  Davidson  had  determined  to  ask  to  be  relieved  from  further 
service  on  the  committee,  and  as  the  grand  master  again  appointed 
him  1o  the  chairmanship,  we  trust  he  will  be  able  to  induce  him  to 
continue  the  work  to  which  he  has  brought  so  much  abilit}-  and  such 
an  excellent  spirit. 


BRITISH  COLUMBIA,  1896. 

2.5th  Annual.  Nanaimo.  .June  18. 

Twelve  grand  jurisdictions  were  represented  at  the  opening,  Illi- 
nois not  among  them. 

This  being  the  silver  anniversarj'  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  British 
Columbia,  the  grand  master  (Lacey  R.  .Johnson)  naturally  and  with 
pride  referred  to  their  material  and  moral  growth  since  the  three  Eng- 
lish and  five  Scotch  lodges  united  to  form  the  new  body. 

He  submitted  three  rulings,  two  of  which  turned  on  that  consti- 
tutional provision  requiring  a  brother  after  being  raised  to  pass  an 
examination  as  to  his  knowledge  of  the  third  degree  before  being 
entitled  to  sign  the  by-laws,  receive  his  diploma,  vote  or  hold  office. 
This  he  had  held  to  be  compulsory,  and  on  the  further  question 
whether  this  decision  was  retroactive,  applying  to  those  who  had  not 
only  signed  the  by-laws  and  received  their  diplomas  but  had  been 
elected  to  office  without  having  passed  such  an  examination,  he 
pointed  out  that  his  ruling  did  not  make  or  unmake  the  law,  but  sim- 
ply explained  the  law  already  in  existence;   hence  those  so  holding 


18  APPENDIX.  — PART    I. 


office  were  dointr  so  contrarj'  to  the  provisions  of  the  constitution. 
Still,  the  lodge  putting  an  ineligible  brother  into  office  was  the  chief 
sinner,  could  not  hold  the  delinquent  responsible  for  its  action,  and 
neither  would  the  grand  lodge  do  so. 

This  view  was  confirmed  on  the  recommendation  of  the  commit- 
tee on  address,  who  found  it  in  harmony  with  the  constitution  and 
Masonic  usage. 

The  grand  master  and  the  grand  wardens  were  last  jear  made  a 
committee  to  report  on  the  establishment  of  a  Masonic  home,  his 
predecessor  having  strongly  urged  the  project.  The  report  of  the 
committee,  which  was  adopted,  is  to  the  effect  that  the  purchase  of 
a  home  would  require  a  much  larger  sum  than  the  grand  lodge  is 
likeh'  to  have  for  some  time  to  come,  and  that  it  would  be  unwise  to 
rent  quarters  for  the  purpose  until  the  way  seems  clear  to  meet  the 
annual  expense,  taking  warning  in  this  from  jurisdictions  whose  mem- 
bership and  resources  vasth'  exceed  theirs.  As  an  initial  step  it  is 
arranged  that  in  cases  where  children  of  Masons  are  left  in  destitute 
circumstances  the  charity  committee  of  the  grand  lodge  is  author- 
ized to  arrange  for  their  care  in  orphanages  alread}'  established,  at 
an  expense  not  exceeding  SoOO  in  the  aggregate. 

The  grand  lodge  chartered  two  new  lodges:  heard  a  favorable 
report  on  the  Wisconsin  proposition  touching  Masonic  relief  and 
then  ordered  that  the  proposition  be  printed  in  full  in  special  circu- 
lars and  sent  to  each  member  of  the  grand  lodge  and  of  its  lodges, 
preparatorj'  to  a  consideration  of  the  question  by  the  grand  lodge 
next  j^ear;  took  the  initial  steps  toward  so  amending  the  constitution 
that  Entered  Apprentices  and  Fellow  Crafts  ma^-  not  be  able  to  say 
that  they  seek  advancement  of  their  own  free  will  and  accord,  but 
placing  them  under  so  much  of  duress  as  is  involved  in  a  re-balloting 
if  the}-  fail  to  advance  within  one  year:  chose  Victoria  for  its  next 
place  of  meeting,  and  on  the  evening  of  the  closing  da\'  of  the  session 
attended  divine  service  at  St.  Andrew's  Presbyterian  church — it 
being  then  open  in  ample  form — and  after  its  return  and  closing  was 
banqueted  royally  by  the  local  lodges,  at  the  opera  house. 

Alexander  Charlp^son,  of  Xew  Westminster,  was  elected  grand 
master;  William  J.  Quinlan,  Victoria,  reelected  grand  secretary. 

The  report  on  correspondence  (lOii  pp.)  is  again  the  work  of  Past 
Grand  Master  Makcus  Wolfe,  and  fully  realizes  the  promise  of  his 
former  work.  Illinois  for  18!t5  linds  a  place  in  his  review,  and  the  ad- 
dress of  Grand  Master  Godd.\rd  receives  the  compliment  of  being 
extensively  quoted.  The  report  on  correspondence  is  also  mentioned 
in  generous  terms.  Under  Maryland  Bro.  Wolfe  copies  in  full  the 
majority  and  minority  reports  on  the  question  whether  the   grand 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  19 


lodge  should  be  at  labor  when  doing  public  work,  and  the  lodge  at 
labor  when  burying  the  dead,  and  adds: 

In  British  Columbia  lodges  are  not  "called  off''  on  the  occasion  of 
funerals,  laying  of  corner-stones,  or  dedications  before  the  brethren 
leave  the  hall  to  perform  the  public  ceremonies. 

This  is  in  accord  with  the  minority  report  of  Bro.  Schultz  above 
referred  to,  and  with  the  practice  in  most  grand  jurisdictions,  includ- 
ing Illinois. 


CALIFORNIA,  1896. 

47th  Annual.  San  Francisco.  October  13. 

Following  the  same  trail  by  which,  in  the  absence  of  any  roster 
of  the  diplomatic  corps,  we  discovered  the  presence  of  the  represen- 
tative of  Illinois,  W.  Bro.  John  McMurry,  last  year,  we  now  dis- 
cover, if  not  his  absence  the  absence  of  any  signs  of  his  presence. 

The  grand  master  (Edwin  Myers  Preston)  strikes  in  the  follow- 
ing a  chord  which  we  have  often  sounded— one,  indeed,  which  none 
reflecting  on  the  principle  of  equality  as  an  immemorial  character- 
istic of  Masonry  can  well  miss: 

Masonic  law  is  not  an  arbitrary  code,  written  in  a  day,  or  a  year; 
it  is  an  evolution — the  outgrowth  of  centuries  of  human  experience 
and  observation.  Like  the  perfect  ashlar,  it  was  first  quarried,  then 
hewn  and  squared  by  the  experiences  of  ages,  until  it  has  stood  the 
test  of  the  master  workman's  square,  and  has  found  its  appropriate 
place  in  that  speculative  structure  which  our  forefathers  built  on 
the  traditions  and  allegories  of  operative  Masonry.  The  ultimate 
purpose  of  that  law  is  to  maintain  and  perpetuate  those  beneficent 
principles  of  Freemasonry  which  are  founded  on  the  fatherhood  of 
God  and  the  brotherhood  of  man — principles  as  humane,  beneficent 
and  liberalizing  as  those  upon  which  our  own  republic  is  founded; 
principles  which,  in  their  exemplification  in  the  Masonic  lodges  of 
the  Dark  Ages,  were  prophetic  of  the  dawn  of  human  liberty  for 
centuries  before  this  republic  of  liberty  and  equality  was  established. 

He  submitted  twenty  decisions,  all  of  which  were  approved.  Such 
as  we  copy  below  we  number  arbitrarily  for  convenience: 

1.  An  applicant  for  the  degrees  in  Masonry,  who  is  otherwise  wor- 
thy and  well  qualified,  is  not  ineligible  because  of  a  suspicion  of  Afri- 
can taint  in  his  blood.  There  is  no  requirement  in  Masonic  law  nor 
in  Masonic  tradition  for  refusing  to  receive  the  petition  of  a  worthy 


20 


APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


a])plicant,  or  for  refusinff  admission  to  a  Masonic  lodge  of  a  Mason 
of  recofjnized  <rood  standing,  merel}'  because  of  any  particular  color 
of  his  skin. 

2.  Lodge  funds  can  not  be  used  either  to  purchase  jewels  for  re- 
tiring officers  or  to  purchase  portraits  of  such  officers  to  ornament  the 
walls  of  a  lodge  room. 

.'{.  A  retiring  master  has  no  right  to  demand  or  receive  from  the 
funds  of  his  lodge  any  sum  whatever  in  return  for  his  services  as  in- 
stalling officer  of  his  successor  in  office. 

4.  For  a  lodge  to  pass  a  resolution  remitting  the  dues  of  all  its 
members  for  one  year,  or  for  an}-  other  stated  period,  or  to  adopt  a 
resolution  or  general  regulation  whereby  it  appropriates  a  stated  sum 
for  funeral  expenses  for  each  and  ever\'  member  that  dies,  is  a  mis- 
appropriation of  its  funds.  The  remission  of  dues  and  funeral  bene- 
fits are  charities  which  should  be  bestowed  on  the  needy  and  destitute 
only. 

5.  It  is  contrary-  to  Masonic  teachings  and  Masonic  usage  to  serve 
beer,  wine,  or  an}'  other  intoxicant  at  a  Masonic  banquet  given  in  a 
Masonic  hall. 

(i.  The  members  of  a  lodge  who  assemble  for  the  sole  purpose  of 
attending  religious  services  are  not  permitted  to  wear  their  regalia 
on  parade  or  at  church. 

7.  The  non-observance  of  the  first  day  of  the  week,  either  as  a  day 
of  rest  or  for  the  performance  of  religious  devotion,  does  not  consti- 
tute a  Masonic  reason  for  the  rejection  of  an  api)licant  for  the  de- 
grees of  Masonr}'.  Masonry  regards  neither  sect  nor  creed  in  its 
religious  requirements. 

8.  The  act  of  cremating  the  bod}-  of  a  deceased  Mason  does  not 
constitute  a  Masonic  burial.  The  performances  of  the  ceremonies  of 
our  ritual  for  burial  would  not  be  appropriate  on  such  an  occasion. 

No.  1  is  in  accord  with  Illinois  precedents  and  in  harmony  with 
principles  of  Masonr}-.  No.  2  was,  as  we  have  seen,  approved,  al- 
though the  grand  lodge  at  this  session  kept  up  its  commendable  cus- 
tom of  purchasing  a  portrait  of  its  retiring  grand  master  to  ornament 
its  walls,  and  made  also  an  appropriation  for  the  jewel  which  it  pre- 
sented to  him,  thus  showing  that  precept  and  example  do  not  always 
go  hand  in  hand.  No.  3  makes  one  wonder  what  sum  was  pa:id,  or  de- 
manded in  the  instance  which  called  it  forth.  No.  4  is  timel}',  for  the 
Craft  can  not  be  too  often  reminded  in  these  da\'s  of  commercial 
Masonry  that  real  need  is  one  of  the  fundamental  conditions  of  Ma- 
sonic relief.  No.  5  is  a  pleasant  surprise,  coming  from  a  wine-grow- 
ing countr}',  and  apart  from  this  is  interesting  as  showing  the  gradual 
evolution  of  the  definition  of  temperance.  Although  Masonry  has 
always  enjoined  the  avoidance  of  intemperance  and  excess,  time  was 
when  the  tavern  was  the  home  of  the  lodge — as  a  rule — and  when  a 
Mason,  like  a  profane,  was  not  considered  guilt)'  of  excess  unless  he 
fell  under  the  table.  Masonry  has  kept  fully  abreast  with  society  in 
its  interpretation  of  the  word  temperance,  until  it  now  means  that 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  21 

not  only  should  a  Mason  maintain  a  due  restraint  upon  his  appetites 
and  passions,  but  that  he  should  not  permit  temptation  to  be  placed 
in  the  way  of  a  brother,  and  thus  be  perchance  a  party  to  his  fall. 
No.  6  is  in  line  with  the  growing  and  commendable  sentiment  that 
Masons  should  not  appear  in  public  as  such  save  upon  strictly  Masonic 
occasions,  and  No.  7  goes  without  saying  in  a  society  which  lays  claim 
to  universality.  No.  8  is  true  in  so  far  that  the  rite  of  .cremation  is 
not  strictly  a  burial  rite,  nor  is  any  existing  Masonic  burial  service 
adapted  to  such  a  disposition  of  the  body  without  some  change.  But 
the  necessary  changes  would  be  very  slight,  and  they  are  not  barred 
by  any  unchangeable  law.  If  cremation  should  become  general  we 
may  be  sure  that  Masonry  would  adapt  itself  to  the  change. 

The  grand  master  reported  that  the  French  lodge  at  Los  Angeles 
(Valle  de  France  Lodge),  a  clandestine  body  to  which  reference  has 
occasionally  been  made  during  the  past  few  years,  had  ceased  to 
exist.  Its  charter  had  been  delivered  by  the  master  to  one  of  the 
grand  lodge  inspectors,  and  the  latter  had  mailed  it  to  the  "Grand 
Lodge  Symbolique  of  France."  It  being  understood  that  the  members 
wished  to  form  a  lodge  under  the  obedience  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
California,  the  grand  master  issued  an  authorization  to  the  master 
of  a  regular  lodge  in  Los  Angeles  to  heal  such  of  them  as  were  known 
to  have  received  the  degrees  in  a  properly  constituted  lodge.  Just 
where  the  healer  was  to  find  the  persons  who  came  up  to  this  specifi- 
cation the  grand  master  does  not  state.  At  all  events,  the  months 
from  May  to  October  had  passed  and  no  petition  had  been  presented. 
The  grand  master  had  refused  to  grant  a  dispensation  to  a  past  mas- 
ter of  a  California  lodge  now  residing  in  Paris,  France,  to  establish 
an  English  speaking  lodge  in  that  city,  holding  that  to  grant  it  would 
be  a  violation  of  the  law  of  exclusive  jurisdiction  which  his  grand 
lodge  strenuously  maintains.  The  grand  lodge  agreed  with  the  juris- 
prudence committee  in  approving  this  view,  but  no  one  identifies  any 
particular  governing  body  in  France  as  being  capable  of  establishing 
a  recognizable  Masonic  lodge. 

The  grand  master  recommended  a  purification  of  the  ritual,  hav- 
ing found  that  the  work  as  exemplified  in  many  of  the  lodges  con- 
tained numerous  expressions  at  variance  with  the  authorized  text. 
A  committee  on  revision  was  finally  appointed  to  restore  the  S3'stem 
as  it  was  adopted,  and  the  committee  were  also  instructed: 

In  addition  to  said  corrections  said  committee  will  further,  in  ac- 
cordance with  the  recommendation  of  the  grand  master  in  his  address 
and  affirmed  by  the  grand  lodge,  proceed  to  make  the  necessary 
changes  in  the  ceremonial  of  the  second  section  of  the  third  degree, 
to  harmonize  said  ceremonial  and  make  it  more  "in  conformity  with 
the  work  of  the  principal  grand  jurisdictions  east  of  the  Rock}'  moun- 
tains," and  to  suggest  such  changes  in  phraseology  as  shall  make  the 


APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


revised  ritual  '"consistent  with  tlie  traditions  upon  which  the  scenes 
exemplilied  are  founded." 

The  «,rrand  master  ur^^^ed  the  speedy  conclusion  of  the  Widows"  and 
Orphans"  Home,  and  sought  at  some  lenj^th  to  enforce  the  conclusion 
that  there  is  a  rapidly  i,rrowin«,' sentiment  in  favor  of  such  institutions 
as  the  most  practical  and  satisfactory  form  of  grand  lodge  charity. 
In  this  we  think  he  argues  rather  from  his  own  desires  than  from  at- 
tainable data  as  to  the  result  of  systematic  investigations  on  this 
subject.  Nearly  all  the  Masonic  homes  in  this  country  have  been  de- 
termined upon  on  the  spur  of  the  moment,  and  without  any  antece- 
dent study  of  facts  and  figures.  Where  it  has  been  most  exhaustively 
considered  the  conclusion  has  been  reached  that  the  institutional 
method  is  neither  the  most  economical  nor  the  most  desirable  method 
of  Masonic  relief,  and  on  the  whole  the  craze  to  build  homes  without 
reference  to  the  size  of  the  jurisdiction  has  probably  "passed  the 
center. ■■ 

The  laying  of  the  corner-stone  of  the  California  home  was  the 
great  event  of  the  session.  On  the  morning  of  the  second  day  the  grand 
lodge  moved  with  a  great  procession  to  Decoto,  where  the  stone  was 
^aid  by  Grand  Master  Preston:  a  brilliant  oration  was  delivered  by 
the  grand  orator,  Bro.  Jacob  Voorsanger.  and  the  multitude  par- 
ticipated in  a  barbecue  banquet  prepared  by  the  local  fraternity. 

A  resolution  asking  the  lodges  to  submit  to  a  per  capita  tax  of 
one  dollar  for  the  ensuing  year,  for  the  support  of  the  home,  was 
adopted,  after  being  &o  amended  as  to  request  the  lodges  to  subscribe 
that  amount  in  quarterly  paj  ments. 

An  aggregate  of  §8,900  was  appropriated  to  six  boards  of  relief 
in  as  many  cities.  The  reports  of  the  various  boards  show  that  four 
cases  from  Illinois  were  relieved  by  the  San  Francisco  board  (to  the 
amount  of  ST9.45):  two  cases  by  the  Oakland  board,  to  the  amount  of 
S?o5;  two  by  the  Sacremento  board,  SKi.lT).  Bro.  Henry  Lawson 
Bryant,  of  Lewiston  Lodge  No.  104,  of  this  jurisdiction,  was  buried 
with  Masonic  honors  under  the  direction  of  the  Los  Angeles  board. 
Covenant  Lodge  No.  52(i,  of  Illinois,  refunded  $25  to  the  San  Francisco 
board;  Ivanhoe  commandery  $;25  to  the  Los  Angeles  board;  Richard 
Cole  Lodge  No.  W»7,  $84.98  to  the  San  Diego  board. 

A  joint  committee  of  the  lodges  of  San  Francisco  memorialized 
the  grand  lodge  as  follows: 

There  is  in  the  city  and  county  of  San  Francisco  a  certain  private 
corporation  doing  business  under  the  name  of  the  Masonic  Cemetery 
Association  of  San  Francisco;  such  corporation,  although  using  the 
word  "Masonic,''  is  not,  and  never  has  been,  under  the  jurisdiction  of 
this  grand  body. 


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Such  corporation  has  in  its  treasur}^  such  a  sum  of  money  ($39,- 
212.07— also  stocks,  bonds,  and  notes  of  the  value  of  $45.00U,  the  same 
being  surplus  or  net  income:  also  various  tracts  of  land)  that  it  could, 
without  injury  to  itself,  donate  a  part  of  such  surplus  or  net  income 
to  the  Masonic  Widows'  and  Orplians'  Home  and  to  the  board  of  relief 
of  this  grand  lodge,  and  therebj'  comply  with  the  laws  of  this  state, 
under  which  it  is  incorporated. 

We  believe  that  no  corporation  in  this  state,  private  or  otherwise, 
should  be  allowed  to  use  the  word  "Masonic,'"  thereby  appearing  be- 
fore the  world  as  a  Masonic  institution,  without  being  under  tlae 
jurisdiction  of  this  grand  lodge. 

We  therefore  respectfully  move  the  adoption  by  this  grand  lodge 
of  the  following  resolutions: 

Be  it  Besolvcd,  That  no  person,  association,  or  corporation  be  per- 
mitted or  allowed  to  use  in  his  or  its  business  or  commercial  affairs, 
any  name  or  symbol  indicative  of  Masonr}-  or  Masonic  jurisdiction, 
unless  such  person,  association,  or  corporation  be  under  the  control 
and  jurisdiction  of  this  grand  lodge,  and  that  the  most  worshipful 
grand  master  do  take  such  proper  steps,  legal  and  otherwise,  to  carry 
out  tlie  purpose  and  object  of  this  resolution. 

Be  it  Resolved,  That  the  most  worshi^iful  grand  master  be  required 
to  take  such  proper  proceedings,  legal  and  otherwise,  to  compel  the 
trustees  of  the  Masonic  Cemeter}-  Association  of  San  Francisco  to 
comply  with  the  provisions  of  section  7  of  an  act  of  the  legislature  of 
this  state,  authorizing  the  incorporation  of  rural  cemetery  associa- 
tions, as  amended  January  13,  1804,  and  to  compel  said  trustees,  pur- 
suant to  said  act,  to  appropriate  the  surplus  or  net  income  of  said 
Masonic  Cemetery  Association  to  the  board  of  relief  of  this  grand 
lodge,  and  to  the  Masonic  Widows'  and  Orphans'  Home. 

For  the  following  reasons  the  jurisprudence  committee  recom- 
mended that  the  resolutions  be  not  adopted: 

We  have  carefully  considered  the  subject  matter  of  the  foregoing 
memorial  and  resolutions,  and  find  that  the  "Masonic  Cemetery  Asso- 
ciation of  San  Francisco"  is  a  private  corporation:  that  it  is  not  and 
never  has  been  under  the  jurisdiction  of  this  grand  lodge;  that  the 
grand  lodge  is  not  a  stockholder  in  said  corporation,  and  has  no  con- 
trol of  or  jurisdiction  over  it. 

There  are  legal  questions  involved  in  the  matter  which  your  com- 
mittee deem  unnecessary  to  discuss. 

After  discussion  the  report  of  the  committee  was  sustained. 

One  is  disinclined  to  weep  over  the  defeat  of  the  resolutions,  be- 
cause they  indicate  a  readiness  on  the  part  of  their  supporters  to 
condone  the  use  of  the  Masonic  name  for  commercial  purposes  if  the 
grand  lodge  can  be  admitted  to  a  share  in  the  profits  of  such  use. 
The  first  of  the  rejected  resolutions,  amended  by  substituting  the 
word  "Mason"  for  "person,"  and  the  words,  "or  some  subordinate 
lodge  within  this  jurisdiction'"  for  what  follows  the  words  "grand 
lodge"'  in  the  original,  was  again  offered  and  again  referred  to  the 
committee  on  jurisprudence,  as  was  also   the   following,  oft'ered  by 


24 


APPENDIX.— PART    I. 


James  Wright  Anderson,  whom  some  of  our  readers  will  remember 
as  formerly  chairman  of  the  committee  on  correspondence: 

liesolved,  That  this  g^rand  lodgre  hereby-  respectfully  notifies  all 
subordinate  lod^^es  of  this  jurisdiction,  and  all  members  thereof,  that 
no  corporation  or  organization  not  subject  to  the  control  of  this 
grand  lodge,  heretofore  formed  or  that  may  hereafter  be  formed, 
shall  have  any  Masonic  recognition  by  this  grand  lodge. 

The  committee  will  doubtless  report  on  them  next  year. 

The  grand  lodge  welcomed  Past  Grand  Masters  Wm.  H.  Scott,  of 
Illinois,  and  .Jacob  Mayer,  of  Oregon,  as  visitors;  listened  to  a  second 
address  by  Grand  Orator  Voorsanger,  who,  unfortunately,  was  after- 
wards too  ill  to  furnish  a  copy  for  the  proceedings:  chartered  two  new 
lodges:  recognized  the  grand  lodges  of  New  Zealand  and  Victoria: 
viewed  with  favor  the  Maine  proposition  to  limit  lodge  jurisdiction 
over  rejected  candidates  to  five  years,  but  not  with  sufficient  favor  to 
substitute  it  for  the  California  regulation  limiting  it  to  one  year:  de- 
clined to  be  further  interviewed  on  the  Wisconsin  proposition  touch- 
ing Masonic  relief,  having  nothing  to  add  to  its  former  deliverence  on 
that  subject:  appointed  a  committee  on  the  Washington  memorial 
centennial  as  requested  by  Colorado,  but  without  definitely  commit- 
ting itself  to  participation:  made  the  customary  allowance  for  the 
support  of  Past  Grand  Master  TUTT,  and  fixed  the  grand  secretary's 
salary  at  $:{.0U0  for  doing  the  work  of  two  hundred  and  sixty-two 
lodges— cheap  enough,  but  more  than  is  received  by  the  grand  secre- 
tary of  Illinois,  more's  the  pity,  for  doing  the  work  for  more  than 
seven  hundred. 

William  Thomas  Lucas,  of  Santa  Maria,  was  elected  grand 
master;  George  Johnson,  San  Francisco,  reelected  grand  secretary. 

The  report  on  correspondence  (153  pp.)  again  by  Past  Grand  Mas- 
ter William  A.  Davies,  is,  as  usual,  characterized  by  the  buoyancj- 
of  youth  and  the  wisdom  of  age,  so  much  of  the  former,  indeed,  as  to 
make  us  rub  our  eyes  and  look  again  when  he  intimates  that  he  is 
nearing  what  in  the  elder  days  before  men  had  learned  better  how  to 
live,  was  considered  the  allotted  span  of  human  life. 

The  Illinois  proceedings  for  ISi).')  are  carefully  reviewed.  There 
seems  to  be  just  a  shade  of  doubt  in  Bro.  Davies'S  mind  whether  the 
"fine  portrait  of  a  handsome  young  man,  engraved  ui)on  the  opening 
page,"  does  not  flatter  Grand  Master  Goddard,  but  we  can  assure 
him  that  we  have  fine  looking  men  on  this  side  of  the  great  divide  and 
that  occasionally  one  of  them  gets  into  the  grand  east. 

He  commends  Bro.  Goddard's  standards  of  excellence  in  the 
work  very  highly:  and  also  quotes  as  ''undeniable  truth"  his  remarks 
adverse  to  the  doctrine  of  perpetual  jurisdiction.    Bro.  Davies  views- 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  25 

the  doctrine  from  a  California  standpoint,  and  arches  his  e3'ebrows 
at  our  jurisprudence  committee  when  they  speak  of  it  as  a  system  of 
"inter-jurisdictional  comity."  "We  think,  however,  that  the  more  he 
reflects  on  the  present  status  of  the  question  the  more  certainly  he 
will  conclude  that  the  words  were  happily  chosen.  Within  the  bound- 
aries of  any  one  jurisdiction  the  question  is  one  of  law,  as  between 
two  or  more  jurisdictions  each  of  which  is  equally  bound  to  give  the 
same  measure  of  faith  and  credit  to  the  Masonic  acts  of  the  other's 
lodges,  comity  alone  can  be  invoked  to  keep  the  peace  when  it  is 
threatened  by  antagoi.iscic  regulations. 

We  are  glad  to  have  the  concurrence  of  Bro.  Davies'S  valued 
judgment  in  our  view  that  the  right  of  a  lodge  to  instruct  its  repre- 
sentatives in  grand  lodge  is  so  rooted  in  the  structure  of  the  institu- 
tion that  the  latter  body  cannot  rightfully  deny  or  modify  it.  He 
objects,  however,  to  our  criticism  of  Grand  Master  Orme's  decision 
that  a  man  who  has  both  eyes,  but  has  lost  the  sight  of  one,  cannot 
receive  the  degrees,  the  decision  being  strictly  in  accordance  with, 
tneir  constitutional  requirements.  This  excuses  Grand  Master  Orme^ 
but  what  shall  excuse  the  constitutionV 

Bro.  Davies  comes  up  with  great  gallantrj^  to  the  defense  of  the 
Eastern  Star,  in  his  review  of  Connecticut,  and  it  may  also  have  been 
his  gallantry  that  first  prejudiced  him  in  favor  of  the  Mexican  grand 
dieta,  the  regularity  of  which  he  now  seems  inclined  to  recognize.  He 
is  outspoken  in  his  condemnation  of  the  cypher  evil,  and  on  the  sub- 
ject of  non-affiliation  seems  to  be  in  sympathy  with  the  restrictive 
methods  of  his  grand  lodge,  as  he  thinks  Bro.  BOWEN  tells  the  whole 
story  in  a  few  words  when  he  says  that  a  non-affiliate  '"ostracises" 
himself  if  he  don't  belong  to  a  lodge,  just  as  our  citizen  'debars'  him- 
self from  voting  if  he  don't  register."' 

Bro.  Anderson,  Bro.  Davies's  predecessor,  put  the  same  idea 
quite  as  strongly  in  his  review  of  Illinois  in  1893,  and  we  beg  to  call 
Bro.  Davies"S  attention  to  our  reply  found  on  page  23  of  our  report 
for  1894. 


26 


APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


CANADA,  IX  THE  Province  of  Ontario,  1896. 


41.ST  Annual. 


Belleville. 


July  16. 


Thirty-three  jurisdictions  were  represented  in  the  diplomatic 
corps,  Illinois  by  Past  Junior  Grand  Warden  George  C.  Davis. 

Prior  to  the  openingf,  W.  Bro.  J.  E.  Walmsley,  mayor  of  Belle- 
ville, heading  a  deputation  from  the  city  council,  presented  an  ad- 
dress of  welcome  in  behalf  of  the  municipality  and  citizens,  and 
tendered  a  free  site  and  substantial  pecuniar\'  aid  in  case  the  g"rand 
lodge  should  erect  a  Masonic  home  in  that  city.  This  was  followed 
by  an  address  in  behalf  of  the  local  fraternity. 

The  grand  master  (W.  R.  White)  condemned  the  present  method 
of  allowing  the  chief  executive  his  actual  traveling  expenses  as  im- 
practicable as  well  as  beneath  the  dignity  of  either  the  grand  master 
or  the  grand  lodge.     Si)eaking  out  of  his  own  experience  he  said: 

I  would  recommend  most  strongly  that  grand  lodge  adopt  one  of 
two  courses,  either  revert  to  the  former  system  of  granting  the  grand 
master  an  annual  allowance  of  $500,  or  let  him  i)ay  his  own  expenses. 
Do  not  put  him  to  the  humiliating  necessity  of  making  an  entrj-  every 
time  he  pa3's  a  live  cent  car  fare. 

The  board  of  general  purposes  seconded  this  view,  and  the  grand 
lodge  restored  the  old  allowance  of  $500  for  the  incidental  expenses 
of  the  office. 

The  following  announcement  relative  to  the  clandestine  so-called 
Grand  Lodge  of  Ontario,  will  be  gratifying  to  the  loj-al  craft  every- 
where: 

I  am  very  much  pleased  to  be  able  to  report  to  this  grand  lodge. 
that  during  the  past  year  (j)ursuant  to  the  authority  granted  at  our 
last  meeting),  such  arrangements  have  been  made  with  the  members 
of  this  organization  as  effectuallj-  sweej)  this  body  out  of  existence  for, 
I  trust,  all  time  to  come.  Their  charter  (granted  by  the  Provincial 
Government)  has  been  transferred  to  myself  and  the  grand  secretary, 
as  trustees  for  this  grand  lodge,  all  warrants  issued  to  subordinate 
lodges,  the  seal  and  ail  other  books  and  i)roperty  of  this  so-called 
body  have  been,  or  are  being,  delivered  up  and  are  now  in  possession 
of  this  grand  lodge.  All  members  of  this  so-called  grand  body  who 
have  api)lied  have  been  healed  and  declared  their  allegiance  to  this 
grand  lodge.  Many  of  them  have  ajjplied  for  affiliation  to  our  lodges, 
and  are  now  active  and  useful  members  of  this  grand  hod\-.  The  sur- 
rendtr  is  voluntary  and  complete  -the  only  concession  granted  lieing 
that  members  of  "the  extinct  body  holding  the  rank  of  past  master 
therein  are  conceded  that  rank  in  any  of  our  lodges  with  which  they 
may  affiliate  or  to  which  they  may  be  admitted. 

The  grand  master  thought  the  conspicuous  services  of  some  of 
the  members  of  the  clandestine  body  in  bringing  about  this  settle- 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  27 

ment  merited  some  recognition,  and  on  the  recommendation  of  the 
board  of  general  purposes  his  successor  was  given  full  authorit}-  in  the 
matter. 

The  grand  master  reported  no  decisions.  Comparatively  few- 
questions  had  been  submitted  to  him,  and  he  thought  the  policy 
adopted  by  him  during  his  first  year  of  service,  of  declining  to  answer 
hypothetical  questions,  had  stopped  the  propounding  of  many  useless 
Masonic  conundrums. 

The  eloquent  report  of  Bro.  Wm.  Gibson  on  the  fraternal  dead, 
and  the  memorial  tablets,  show  that  death  had  been  busy  during  the 
year  among  the  past  grand  officers.  They  chronicle  the  departure 
of  Thos.  F.  Blackwood,  Peter  J.  Brown,  and  Francis  Rae,  past 
district  deputy  grand  masters:  C.  W.  Bunting  and  Thos.  Perkins, 
past  grand  deacons;  Edward  Burke,  past  assistant  grand  organist: 
Hugh  Kerr,  past  grand  pursuivant;  Walter  Miller,  Richard 
NOKES,  and  Arnold  P.  Booth,  past  grand  stewards:  D.  T.  Hind, 
past  grand  director  of  ceremonies,  and  Thos.  McCracken,  past  as- 
sistant grand  secretary. 

The  reports  of  the  district  deputy  grand  masters,  eighteen  in 
number,  occupy  155  pages  of  solid  matter,  reflecting  very  minutely 
the  condition  of  the  lodges,  and  the  vast  amount  of  labor  performed 
by  these  faithful,  hard-working  officers. 

Last  year  the  board  of  general  purposes,  reporting — in  obedience 
to  a  resolution  of  the  preceedmg  year — on  "the  objects  for  which  the 
asylum  fund  was  formed  and  the  best  means  to  be  adopted  for  carrj'- 
ing  these  objects  into  effect,*'  found  that  the  original  object  of  the 
fund  was  to  build  a  Masonic  home,  and  in  giving  the  reasons  why,  in 
their  opinion,  the  undertaking  had  so  far  been  a  failure,  gave  reasons 
which  seem  to  us  conclusive  why  the  asylum  system  should  not  dis- 
place the  efficient  system  of  relief  by  grants  from  the  grand  lodge 
fund  of  benevolence  which  now  prevails,  and  expressed  an  opinion 
that  it  was  inadvisable  to  undertake  the  construction  and  maintenance 
of  an  asylum  in  the  present  state  of  the  matter.  The  report  failed  of 
approval,  but  was  referred  back  with  instructions  to  amend  by  recom- 
mending the  appointment  of  a  committee  to  report  on  the  best 
means  of  ■carr3'ing  out  the  original  object  of  the  fund.  The  commit- 
tee so  appointed  reported  that  they  had  as  yet  been  unable  to  decide 
what  would  be  the  best  means,  and  at  their  request  were  re-appointed 
with  power  to  add  to  their  number,  and  directed  to  report  next  year, 
The  total  amount  granted  from  the  fund  of  benevolence  during  the 
year  was  $9,830. 

The  constitution  was  amended  to  make  it  more  elastic  relative 
to  the  qualifications  of  petitioners  for  the  degrees,  permitting  one  to 


28  APPENDIX. — PAKT   I. 

construe  as  his  residence,  the  place  where  he  is  constantly  em- 
plo3'ed  and  is  in  receipt  of  his  wages  or  salary,  if  he  so  elects,  instead 
of  the  place  where  his  family  resides.  An  amendment  restricting  all 
business  save  initiation  and  passing  to  a  lodge  opened  on  the  third  de- 
gree was  shouldered  out  of  consideration  V>3'  the  report  of  the  board 
of  general  purposes  that  it  was  barred  by  a  resolution  adopted  in 
1893  '"that  any  question  once  decided  effecting  the  constitution  shall 
not  be  open  to  reconsideration  at  an}'  time  within  five  3'ears  after  such 
decision,  except  upon  an  open  vote  to  reconsider,  such  vote  to  be 
taken  without  debate:"  and  the  opinion  of  the  board  that  the  five 
years  include  the  whole  of  the  five  annual  communications  which  follow 
such  decision,  and  hence  barred  the  consideration  at  that  time  of  a 
question  last  considered  and  settled  in  1891.  We  think  it  straining 
the  point  to  sa}-  the  least,  to  hold  that  the  five  years  necessaril}-  in- 
clude the  whole  of  the  fifth  succeeding  annual  communication,  and 
for  a  stronger  reason  we  are  quite  clear  that  unless  the  bar  attempted 
to  be  erected  in  1893  was  something  more  than  a  '"resolution,"  namelj', 
a  constitutional  amendment,  it  was  inoperative  after  the  close  of  the 
communication  which  adopted  it.  Another  elaborate  amendment 
providing,  among  other  things,  for  electing  grand  officers  on  a  simul- 
taneous ballot  combining  the  Australian  method  of  preparing  and 
marking  the  ballot  papers  with  the  open  method  of  casting  them 
went  over  for  a  year's  consideration  by  a  special  committee:  and  an- 
other, barring  the  collection  of  dues  after  the  lapse  of  one  year,  was 
lost. 

The  grand  lodge  chartered  four  new  lodges  and  continued  two 
under  dispensation;  authorized  members  of  Barton  Lodge  No.  6,  of 
Hamilton,  to  wear  in  lodge  as  a  Masonic  jewel  a  medal  made  to  com- 
memorate the  one-hundredth  anniversarj-  of  its  founding;  killed  a 
l)roi)Osition  to  reprint  its  proceedings  that  are  out  of  print,  and  voted 
to  meet  next  year  at  Brantford. 

William  Gibson,  M.P.,  of  Beamsville.  was  elected  grand  master; 
.J.  .T.  Mason,  Hamilton,  reelected  grand  secretary. 

The  report  on  correspondence  (IIG  pp.)  is  again  bj-  Past  Grand 
Master  Henry  Robertson,  whose  experience  and  discriminating 
judgment  enables  him  to  crowd  a  very  interesting  notice  of  fift}-- 
eight  jurisdictions  into  a  limited  compass.  Illinois,  for  189.").  receiving 
generous  space.  He  copies  the  decisions  of  Grand  Master  Goddard, 
and  notes  that  the  grand  lodge  refused  to  adopt  his  "ver\-  reason- 
able suggestion"' as  to  perpetual  jurisdiction:  reproduces  a  paragraph 
from  the  committee  on  address  recommending  increased  attention  by 
instructors  to  Masonic  symbology,  and  reproduces  nearl\-  the  whole 
of  the  introduction  to  our  rei)ort  on  corro?'i)ondence. 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  29 

He  quotes  at  considerable  length  from  Grand  Master  Garrison's 
reference  to  the  criticism  to  which  his  grand  lodge  (Texas)  had  been 
subjected  by  its  recognition  of  the  Gran  Dieta  of  Mexico,  but  judges 
from  the  letter  of  Grand  Secretary  Canton,  of  the  gran  dieta,  re- 
printed from  the  Texas  report  on  correspondence,  that  Mexican  Ma- 
sonry is  still  badly  mixed. 


COLORADO,  1896. 

36th  Annual.  Denver.  September  15. 

The  diplomatic  corps  was  out  in  good  force,  thirt3^-six  jurisdictions 
being  represented,  but  the  ambassador  of  Illinois,  Past  Grand  Master 
Henry  M.  Teller,  was  not  among  them.  The  first  business  of  the 
session  was  their  formal  reception,  with  a  response  in  their  behalf  by 
Past  Grand  Master  H.  P.  H.  Bromwell,  the  representative  of  New 
Brunswick,  characterized  by  the  quaintness  and  eloquence  so  well 
remembered  by  Illinoisans. 

The  grand  master  (William  D.  Pierce)  announced  the  death  of 
Past  Grand  Master  Webster  D.  Anthony,  aged  fifty-eight.  His 
name  was  as  familiar  in  the  public  annals  of  the  Territory  and  State 
of  Colorado  as  in  those  of  the  grand  lodge.  In  1861  he  was  private 
secretary  to  the  first  territorial  governor,  and  the  next  year  was  made 
clerk  of  the  district  court  of  the  first  judicial  district  of  Colorado. 
From  1865  until  his  election  to  the  legislature  in  1876  he  was  almost 
if  not  quite  always  the  incumbent  of  some  office  within  the  gift  of  the 
people  of  his  county  and  city.  He  was  the  first  speaker  of  the  lower 
house  of  the  legislature,  and  was  the  secretary  of  the  convention 
which  framed  the  constitution  under  which  the  state  was  admitted 
into  the  Union.  Entering  the  grand  lodge  in  1867,  the  first  year  of  his 
mastership  of  his  mother  lodge,  he  was  elected  junior  grand  warden. 
He  reached  the  grand  east  in  1873  and  was  re-elected  in  1874. 

Also  deceased  were  Benjamin  W.  Wisehart,  who  was  elected 
senior  grand  warden  in  1868,  serving  one  year,  fifty-five  years  old  at 
his  death:  and  Charles  M.  Elerick,  master  of  Manitou  Lodge  No.  61. 

The  grand  master  had  the  rare  pleasure  of  reporting  that  no  griev- 
ance of  any  moment  had  been  brought  to  his  notice  that  had  not  been 
amicably  adjusted. 


APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


Of  Mexican  Masonry  he  says: 

I  have  received  from  brethren  residinjj  in  Mexico,  inquiries  relat- 
in<4"  to  the  status  of  Masonry  in  that  republic,  and  if  they  were  ])er- 
mitted  to  visit  and  attiliate  witli  the  lod<^es  there.  M}-  reply  has  been, 
that  at  the  present  time  this  grand  lodge  was  not  in  fraternal  touch 
with  Masons  made  in  Mexico:  notwithstanding  some  of  the  lodges  were 
chartered  by  American  grand  lodges.  That  so  far  as  I  know,  Masonry 
in  Mexico  was  not  founded  upon  any  regular  authority,  arising  from 
an^-  known  and  recognized  Ivlasonic  body,  as  in  the  case  of  the  origin 
of  lodges  in  the  United  States.  I  could  onl}-  advise  them  to  be  ex- 
tremely cautious  in  whatever  they  attempted  to  do. 

And  of  the  Wisconsin  proposition  to  put  the  matter  of  Masonic 
relief  to  sojourners  on  a  purely  commercial  basis,  with  a  system  of 
debit  and  credit  between  lodges  and  between  grand  lodges,  he  says: 

I  find  that  some  grand  jurisdictions  have  adopted  it  as  presented; 
others  adopted  it  with  a  slight  modification:  a  few  have  the  matter 
under  advisement,  and  some  reject  it  promptl3^  At  first  thought,  my 
feelings  led  me  to  look  favorably  u])on  the  pro])Osition.  but  after  much 
research  and  consideration,  I  can  find  no  Masonic  law  or  precedent, 
either  ancient  or  modern,  which  can  justify  ])lacing  charit\-,  the  key- 
stone of  our  moral  arch,  on  the  same  level  with  health  insurance. 
And  no  one  can  reasonably  expect  a  grand  master  or  a  grand  lodge, 
in  cases  bordering  on  innovation,  to  act  affirmativeh'  on  any  proposi- 
tion, as  long  as  it  appears  unsupported  b}'  usage,  precedent,  or  the 
fundamental  principles  of  the  Craft. 

Both  of  these  subjects  went  to  the  committee  on  correspondence, 
to  whose  report  in  this  connection  we  shall  probabl}'  refer. 

Under  the  head  of  "Dispensations  Refused"'  we  find  the  following: 

April  2,  1896 — I  declined,  to  telephone  a  dispensation,  authorizing 
a  brother  to  act  as  my  deput}-,  to  preside  at  a  regular  communication 
on  that  date,  because  of  the  absence  of  the  worshipful  master  and 
wardens  from  the  jurisdiction. 

December  9,  189.") — I  declined  to  telephone  my  permission  or  give  an 
order  permitting  a  lodge  to  bur}-  with  the  rites  of  Masonry  a  brother, 
who  had  been  suspended  for  non-payment  of  dues  three  and  one-half 
years  before. 

We  are  left  in  doubt  whether  these  were  refused  primarily  because 
they  were  asked  to  be  granted  over  the  telephone  or  not:  there  would 
seem  to  be  no  other  reason  why  the  first  should  not  have  been  granted, 
while  we  presume  the  last  would  have  been  refused  if  one  of  Uncle 
Sam's  sworn  messengers  had  been  in  waiting  for  it. 

From  the  fourteen  decisions  reported  by  him  we  take  the  following: 

.3.  It  is  a  Masonic  offense,  for  the  master  or  wardens  of  a  lodge  to 
make  known  to  any  oni-.  the  number  of  blackballs  cast  in  the  rejec- 
tion of  an  ajjplicant.  A  brother  seeking  such  information  is  subject 
to  discipline. 

8.  To  be  in  good  Masonic  standing  as  required  by  the  constitution 
and  by-laws  of  our  grand  lodge,  a  brother  must  have  received  the  de- 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  31 


grees  of  E.A.,  F.C.,  and  M.M.,  in  a  just  and  reijularly  constituted  lodjje 
of  A.F.  &  A.M.,  and  be  a  member  of,  and  in  good  standing,  in  a  regular 
lodge. 

10.  If  a  deceased  brother  is  to  be  sent  to  some  distant  point  for 
burial,  the  brethren  ma}',  out  of  respect  to  his  memory,  open  the  lodge, 
form  procession,  and  escort  the  remains  to  the  railway  depot,  or  other 
convenient  place  of  transit;  and  then  return  to  the  lodge  room,  clos- 
ing in  due  form. 

11.  There  is  no  objection  to  a  lodge  using  its  hall  and  adjoining 
rooms  for  innocent  social  pleasures:  such  use  being  restricted  to  Ma- 
sons, their  families,  and  invited  guests. 

12.  It  is  not  regular,  nor  does  it  conform  to  the  ritual,  to  open  the 
lodge  on  the  first  degree,  and  then  open  on  the  third  degree,  omitting 
the  second  degree.  The  proper  form,  when  there  is  work  on  the  first 
and  third  degrees,  is  to  open  on  the  second  degree  also. 

No.  3  is  subject  to  the  exception,  in  Colorado  as  elsewhere,  that 
the  master  maj' indicate  the  presence  of  only  one  black  ball  by  order- 
a  second  ballot,  but  it  is  right  in  principle. 

No.  8  got  short  shrift  from  the  jurisprudence  committee,  as  it 
deserved,  and  came  out  in  wisdom,  strength,  and  beauty,  as  follows: 
"The  Masonic  standing  of  any  brother,  be  he  entered  Apprentice, 
Fellow  Craft,  or  Master  Mason,  is  only  impaired  by  a  sentence  of  a 
lodge,  after  due  trial."' 

Nos.  10,  11,  and  12  all  passed  muster.  The  first  two  reflect  the 
common  sense  view;  the  last  is  more  priggish  than  wise,  though  we 
take  it  for  granted  that  it  was  fairly  inferable  from  Colorado  ritual- 
ism. But  undiluted  ritualism  is  not  always  a  safe  or  practical  basis 
for  jurisprudence,  and  this  fact  is  never  more  apparent  than  when  a 
master  who  has  three  or  four  hundred  members  and  visitors  present 
for  the  sole  purpose  of  participating  in  the  work  of  the  third  degree, 
is  compelled  to  waste  a  good  part  of  the  night  in  two  superfluous  purg- 
ings  and  other  preliminaries  before  he  gets  his  lodge  open  on  the  only 
degree  in  which  there  is  anything  to  be  done,  and  then  to  conclude 
his  work  after  midnight. 

The  grand  master  recommended  the  enactment  of  a  by-law  au- 
thorizing the  grand  master  to  fill  vacancies  in  the  offices  of  grand 
treasurer,  grand  secretary,  or  an}'  of  the  appointive  offices,  but  the 
grand  lodge  concurred  in  the  following  from  the  jurisprudence  com- 
mittee: 

As  to  vacancies  in  appointive  offices,  we  believe  it  unnecessary  to 
add  anything  to  our  law,  feeling  that  the  grand  master  has  the  full 
right  to  fill  any  such  vacancies,  and  this  entirel}"^  within  his  preroga- 
tive, where  necessity  may  require  its  exercise. 

It  will  be  observed  that  the  committee  sa}'  nothing  about  the  elec- 
tive offices  mentioned  by  the  grand  master,  but  these  are  offices  of 


32  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


dail3'  necessity  and  when  a  vacancy  occurs  in  either  during^  the  recess 
the  <jrand  master  must  act.  There  are  few  grand  lodges  of  anj-  con- 
siderable age  in  which  the  executive  has  not  been  called  upon  to  till  a 
vacancy  in  one  or  both  of  them,  and  we  have  never  known  a  case 
where  his  power  to  do  so  was  disputed.  We  have  known  of  cases  where 
bis  power  to  create  a  vacancy  was  disputed.  Other  recommendations 
made  by  the  grand  master  bore  fruit  in  the  following  regulations 
shaped  by  the  jurisprudencee  committee: 

In  the  absence  of  any  work  in  the  degrees,  one  of  the  three  prin- 
cipal officers  of  the  lodge  is  required,  at  least  once  in  ever}'  two  months, 
to  deliver  one  of  the  three  lecture.s  of  the  degrees,  in  their  order,  and 
so  report  to  the  grand  master  or  grand  lecturer. 

No  lodge  shall  incur  any  indebtedness  bej-ond  SIO  per  capita,  with- 
out the  approval  of  the  grand  master  or  grand  lodge. 

The  grand  secretary  and  grand  treasurer  shall  be  required  to  fur- 
nish surety  on  their  official  bonds  of  some  reliable  surety  company,  to 
bo  api^roved  by  the  grand  master,  the  premium  therefor  to  be  paid  as 
other  expenses  of  the  grand  lodge. 

The  aim  of  the  first  is  good,  and  a  grand  master  ma;/  be  found  who 
will  require  the  rule  to  be  lived  up  to.  The  second  is  a  rule  which  it 
would  probably  be  well  for  lodges  generally  to  observe,  but,  to  our 
mind,  it  is  questionable  policj'  and  worse  law  to  put  the  lodges  in  strait 
jackets  touching  the  management  of  their  private  business  concerns. 
The  third  is  to  be  thoroughly  commended.  We  have  long  been  con- 
vinced that  it  is  the  only  rational  method  of  dealing  with  such  bonds, 
the  onl\f  method  which  promises  an}-  real  indemnit}'. 

Grand  Secretary  Parmelee  acknowledges  the  receipt  of  a  bound 
copy  of  Illinois  proceedings  for  1895. 

The  committee  on  the  Washington  memorial  service,  appointed 
in  1893,  reported  that  a  serious  difficulty  in  the  original  plan  proposed 
had  presented  itself  in  the  cumbersome  manner  of  arriving  at  a  con- 
census, as  it  required  that  committees  from  all  over  the  United  States 
should  meet  somewhere,  agree  upon  a  plan,  and  then  report  back  to 
their  respective  grand  lodges  for  approval  before  the  arrangements 
could  be  proceeded  with;  and  as  memorial  exercises  at  Mt.  Vernon 
would  necessarily  be  under  the  auspices  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Vir- 
giaia,  they  recommended  that  Virginia  be  formally  requested  to  take 
the  leadership  and  adopt  such  plans  as  might  seem  best,  the  commit- 
tee of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Colorado  to  co-operate  in  carr3'ing  them 
out.  They  also  recommended  thiat  efforts  should  be  made  through  the 
various  grand  lodges  to  secure  the  holding  memorial  services  in  every 
lodge  in  the  country  on  the  29th  of  December.  1899.  simultaneous!}' 
with  the  national  exercises  at  Mt.  Vernon.  The  recommendations 
were  concurred  in. 


I 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  33 

The  tjrand  lodge  adopted  the  brief  but  comprehensive  and  able 
report  of  Past  Grand  Master  Greenleaf  on  the  Wisconsin  proposition 
touching  relief,  closing  with  the  following: 

Resolved,  That  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Colorado  declines  to  endorse 
the  proposition  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Wisconsin,  for  the  reason  that 
it  is  opposed  to  the  introduction  into  the  system  of  Freemasonry  of 
any  feature  that  tends  in  the  direction  of  compulsory  relief. 

He  forcibly  and  truly  saj^s: 

The  movement  in  the  direction  of  "organized  charity"'  has  been 
steadih-  growing  for  many  j^ears  past,  with  the  result  that  the  sense 
of  individual  obligation  has  been  weakened  in  like  proportion.  We 
have  come  to  regard  applicants  for  relief  in  too  many  instances  as 
"suspects,'"  to  be  turned  over  to  relief  boards  or  to  the  dispensers  of 
"charit}^  funds,"  and  have  thus  grown  callous  and  indifferent  to  dis- 
tress just  in  proportion  as  charitj'  has  been  administered  upon  '"busi- 
ness principles.""  Every  brother,  in  his  inner  consciousness,  must  admit 
his  own  sin  of  omission  in  this  respect  and  the  truth  of  this  statement. 

Our  Wisconsin  brethren  claim  that  the  adoption  of  the  proposition 
will  not  do  away  with  the  duty  of  individual  charity,  as  man}-  contend, 
but  that  the  aim  is  '"to  put  lodge  charity  on  a  sj-stematic  basis,  instead 
of  the  present  chaotic  condition."'  While  such,  no  doubt,  is  the  inten- 
tion of  the  proposed  plan,  its  practical  effect  is  to  pattern  Masonry 
after  the  multitude  of  benefit  societies,  which  meet  us  on  ever}-  hand. 

Bro.  Greenleaf's  necrological  report  is  worthy  of  more  space 
than  we  can  give  it,  but  we  cannot  forbear  quoting  the  beautiful  lines 
with  which  he  closes  his  notice  of  Past  Grand  Master  Anthony: 

Thus  ends  the  scene  I    Earth's  fitful  strife  is  o  er, 

For  to  its  waiting  shore 

One  fateful  day. 
The  boatman  came,  and  with  his  dipping  oar 

Bore  him  awav. 
Peace!  brother,  peace!    But  O!  thou  boatman  pale, 

If  thou  can'st  e'er  reveal 

Thy  journey's  end; 
Tell  us  thy  secret:  wnither  didst  thou  sail 

With  him.  our  friend':" 

For  if  he  lives.— and  something  says  'tis  true,— 

Somewhere  beyond  the  blue, 

Or  far,  or  near. 
He  hath  not  quite  forgotten, — this  I  know, — 

His  brothers  here: 
And  he  would  send  us  greeting,  it  may  be, 

From  o'er  the  silent  sea. 

Our  hearts  to  cheer, 
Some  joyous  welcome:  perchance  would  send  b}'  Ihee 

"The  Master's  word."— 
Love's  sacred  key  to  holy  brotherhood. 

The  grand  lodge  chartered  two  new  lodges:  welcomed  Grand 
Master  Perkins,  of  North  Dakota,  as  a  visitor;  listened  to  a  note- 
worthy address  by  the  grand  orator  (.Joseph  W.  Milsom)  who  man- 
aged to  say  a  great  deal  that  was  practical  and  elevating,  and  ought 
to  be  fruitful,  in  a  few  words;  tossed  about  and  amended  a  proposition 
to  reduce  the  grand  secretary's  salary  until  its  'author  could  not  have 
recognized  it  and  then  let  it  die;  api)roved  the  purpose  of  the  Maine 


34  APPEXniX. — PART    T. 


proposition  relative  to  jurisrliction  over  rejected  candidates  and 
directed  the  committee  on  jurisprudence  to  shape  similar  let;'islation 
for  next  year,  and  in  the  face  of  the  indisputably  sound  statement 
of  Masonic  law  to  which  it  had  committed  itself,  that  the  Masonic 
standinjj  of  a  brother  could  only  be  impaired  by  a  sentence  of  a  lodge 
after  due  trial,  went  into  the  wholesale  impairment  of  standinjj  by 
legislation  by  adopting  the  following: 

83.  Non-affiliation  is  cause  for  discipline,  and  all  non-affiliates, 
who  have  not  made  ai)plication  for  membership  in  some  lodge  in  this 
grand  jurisdiction,  within  one  year,  shall  not  be  entitled  to  visit  any 
lodge  more  than  twice  during  the  year,  or  join  any  Masonic  procession, 
nor  be  entitled,  as  a  matter  of  right,  to  Masonic  relief  or  burial. 

George  W.  Roe,  of  Pueblo,  was  elected  grand  master:  Ed.  C. 
Parmelee,  Denver  (Masonic  Temple),  re-elected  grand  secretar}-. 

The  report  on  correspondence  (217  pp.)  is  up  to  grade  with  the 
excellent  reports  for  which  its  author.  Past  Grand  Master  LAWRENCE 
N.  Greenleap,  is  so  well  known.  He  gives  seventeen  pages  to  his 
usual  annual  digest  of  the  decisions  of  other  jurisdictions,  and  devotes 
seven  pages  to  the  Illinois  proceedings  for  IW).'),  giving  them  a  thorough 
examination. 

Of  our  remark,  touching  the  refusal  of  the  grand  master  of  Colo- 
rado to  grant  a  dispensation  for  the  public  installation  of  the  officers 
of  a  lodge  by  telegram,  that  we  would  not  make  a  general  rule  that 
would  forbid  the  use  of  the  telegraph  in  the  executive  powers,  he  says: 

This  subject  is  certainly  deserving  of  the  careful  consideration  of 
grand  lodges.  Already  the  telegraph  is  in  general  use  by  lodges  and 
Slasonic  boards  of  relief  for  the  purjiose  of  obtaining  speedy  informa- 
tion of  the  standing  of  applicants  for  relief.  It  is  possible  that  in  the 
near  future  its  use  may  be  enlarged  for  the  transmission  of  edicts, 
special  orders,  etc.,  in  cases  of  emergency,  the  telegram  in  each  in- 
stance to  be  supplemented  by  the  official  document  of  the  same  tenor 
by  mail. 

Taking  up  the  question  of  the  antiquit}-  of  Masonr\'  as  a  perfected 
system,  upon  which  we  had  exchanged  differing  views,  he  saj's: 

We  were  first  moved  to  the  discussion  of  this  question  by  the  con- 
stant reiteration  of  Masonic  writers  that  all  that  is  really  valuable  in 
our  esoter}'  was  formulated  in  ITIT.  This  we  have  endeavored  to  re- 
fute in  former  reports.  We  have  shown  upon  the  authority  of  Brother 
Condor's  history  that  i)rior  to  Ki.'U  there  was  a  lodge  of  Free  Masons 
attached  to  and  working  in  harmony  with  the  Masons"  Compan}',  of 
London,  and  holding  its  meetings  in  the  Masons'  hall.  Members  of  the 
companj",  unless  also  members  of  the  fraternity,  were  not  admitted  to 
the  lodge.  This  disposes  of  the  1T17  theory-  of  our  origin  and  corrobo- 
rates the  tradition  of  the  Craft  that  our  ancient  brethren  worked  both 
in  Gi)erative  and  Sjieoulative  Masonry.  There  is  nothing  unreason- 
aVjle  in  the  sup|)osition  that  this  lodge  of  Iti.'il  was  in  jjossession  of  the 
esoter\'  which  has  descended  to  us,  and  also  many  essential  features 
which  were  lost  when  Masonry  suffered  a  decline.     The  fact  that  the 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE  35 

3^ear  1717  is  referred  to  as  the  period  of  the  revival  is  evidence  of  the 
fact  that  there  was  somethin<i"  to  revive,  otherwise  the  word  is  a  mis- 
nomer. Our  esotery  embrances  all  that  was  in  the  possession  of  the 
four  old  London  lodges  which  formed  the  Grand  Lodg-e  of  Eng^land, 
to<jether  with  what  was  recovered  from  old  brethren  who  joined  in  the 
new  movement.  The  antiquity  of  Masonry  as  set  forth  in  its  tradi- 
tions is  thus  established  beyond  question.  Whether  the  system  was  the 
result  of  "a  flash  of  inspiration'"  or  prolonged  incubation  of  thought, 
that  it  was  "Divinely  inspired"  is  very  generally  admitted. 

The  difference  between  us  in  this  matter  is  a  radical  one,  Bro. 
Greenleaf  contending  that  Masonry  was  "a  perfect  system  at  the 
start,''  indeed  more  perfect  than  toda3^  while  we  have  no  doubt  that 
like  every  other  human  institution  it  is  an  example  of  evolution  from 
the  simple  to  the  more  complex.  If,  as  Bro.  Condor  says,  there  was 
a  lodge  of  Free  Masons  working  and  holding  secrets  apart  from  the 
bulk  of  the  members  of  the  Masons  Company  a  century  or  so  before 
1717,  it  does  not  show  that  degrees  as  now  known  in  Masonry  were 
known  at  that  time.  We  know  of  no  Masonic  writers  who  claim  that 
the  Masonic  esotery  was  first  formulated  in  1717.  While  there  are 
many  who  believe  that  up  to  that  time  the  ceremony  of  "mak- 
ing" contained  all  the  esotery  that  then  existed,  and  others,  like 
Bro.  G.  W.  Speth,  who  believe  that  two  degrees  existed  long  prior 
to  that  time,  and  that  these  two  degrees  contained  all  the  esoterie 
knowledge  of  the  present  three.  Bro.  Greenleaf  assumes  that  the 
reasonableness  of  the  supposition  that  the  lodge  of  1631  was  in  posses- 
sion of  the  esotery  which  has  descended  to  us,  must,  if  admitted,  es- 
tablish the  antiquity  of  Masonry  as  set  forth  in  its  traditions;  but  if 
it  were  a  known  fact  instead  of  a  reasonable  supposition  it  would  prove 
nothing  as  to  the  truth  of  traditions  which  refer  to  a  period  some 
thousands  of  years  earlier  as  the  date  when  Freemasonry  first  existed 
among  men:  The  first  known  date  of  the  existence  of  a  lodge  might 
be  set  back  several  more  centuries  before  it  would  bear  with  any  ap- 
preciable weight  upon  "the  antiquity  of  Masonry  as  set  forth  in  its 
traditions." 

In  his  conclusion  Bro.  Greenleaf  refers  to  Mexican  Masonry  at 
some  length.  We  are  not  surprised  to  find  him  favoring  the  recog- 
nition of  the  gran  dieta,  but  we  marvel  that  he  should  seem  to  think 
that  the  grand  lodge  had  to  be  managed  rather  tenderly  in  the  matter. 
After  the  action  of  1888  when  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Colorado  hastened 
out  of  its  way  to  abdicate  a  portion  of  its  sovereignty  in  favor  of  the 
supreme  council,  there  would  seem  to  be  no  logical  reason  why  it 
should  not  be  equally  swift  to  bolster  up  any  organization  whose  recog- 
nition tends  to  discredit  the  primacy  of  all  grand  lodges.  Bro.  Green- 
leaf seems  to  hold  that  whether  a  body  has  a  shadow  of  a  right  to 
charter  lodges  or  not,  it  has  only  to  exercise  the  power  and  that  proves 
its  authority.     He  saj's: 


36  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


However  much  we  ma}-  be  inclined  to  question  the  authority  of 
the  Scottish  Rite  to  establish  symbolic  lodg-es  in  that  or  any  other 
jurisdiction,  it  is  now  an  accomplished  fact,  and  as  such  demands  our 
most  serious  consideration.  Many  of  the  defects  have  already  been 
remedied,  and  there  has  been  a  large  addition  of  material  of  York 
Ivite  paternit}-. 

Having  said  that  the  gran  dieta  has  strictly  forbidden  the  recog- 
nition of  women-Masons  and  directed  the  restoration  of  the  Bible  to 
all  Masonic  altars,  he  continues: 

That  the  gran  dieta  is  determined  to  enforce  these  requirements 
is  evident  from  the  fact  that  within  the  past  year  the  grand  oHicers 
of  the  grand  lodges  of  the  Federal  District  and  the  states  of  Coahuila, 
Tamaulipas,  Vera  Cruz,  San  Luis  Potosi,  and  Oaxaca  have  been  ex- 
pelled for  non-compliance  with  the  same. 

When  Grand  Master  Tyler,  of  Texas,  reported  what  he  grandil- 
oquently called  the  "Treaty  of  Monterey,'"  he  reported  that  two  of 
the  bodies  refusing  to  recognize  the  authority  of  the  gran  dieta  were 
the  Gran  1  Lodge  of  the  Federal  District  and  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Vera 
Cruz,  but  these  he  whistled  down  the  wind  as  presenting  the  anomalous 
spectacle  of  grand  lodges  without  any  constituent  lodges.  Five  years 
later  these  bodies  turned  up  in  Bro.  Greenleaf's  report  as  having 
been  made  examples  of  for  non-compliance  with  the  orders  of  the  gran 
dieta  respecting  women-Masons  and  the  Bible.  This  serves  as  a  fresh 
illustration  of  the  value  of  most  of  the  information  we  get  about 
Mexican  Masonry.  If  our  memory  serves  us  aright,  neither  of  these 
bodies  has  ever  been  a  constitutent  of  the  gran  dieta  (hence  not  liable 
to  be  expelled  by  it);  neither  has  recognized  women  Masons,  but 
whether  they  shouldered  the  Bible  off  the  altar  we  cannot  say. 

Bro.  Greenleaf  refrains  from  formally  recommending  the  recog- 
nition of  the  gran  dieta  for  the  excellent  reason— if  there  were  no 
other— that  they  had  not  been  asked  to  do  so,  but  advises  that  pend- 
ing action  by  the  grand  lodge  the  lodges  be  permitted  to  admit  as 
visitors  the  members  of  Mexican  lodges  chartered  by  grand  lodges 
subordinate  to  the  gran  dieta.  This  will  be  entirely  satisfactory  to 
the  re  volutionary  propaganda  which  aims  to  establish  the  doctrine  that 
the  permission  of  a  grand  lodge  is  not  requisite  to  the  formation  of  a 
lawful  lodge,  and  to  place  dissenters  from  the  original  plan  of  Ma- 
sonry on  an  equal  footing  with  genuine  brethren.  If  the  revolution- 
ists get  the  kernel  the  formal  solemnity  of  throwing  in  the  husk  may 
be  postponed  indetinitely. 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  B7 

CONNECTICUT,  1897. 
109th  Annual.  New  Haven.  January  20. 

TheConnecticut  pamphlet  is  this  year  embellished  with  portraits 
of  the  retiring-  grand  master,  James  H.  Welsh,  and  of  Col.  Ephraim 
KiRBY,  who  was  secretary  of  the  convention  which  in  May,  1789,  met 
to  form  a  grand  lodge,  and  a  member  of  the  committee  selected  to 
formulate  the  plan  of  procedure.  He  held  several  offices  in  the  grand 
lodge  up  to  the  rank  of  senior  grand  warden.  He  served  with  honor 
in  the  war  of  the  Revolution,  was  much  in  public  life,  and  died  in  1804 
while  en  route  for  New  Orleans  to  assume  the  duties  of  federal  judge 
of  the  new  territory  of  Louisiana,  to  which  position  he  had  been  ap- 
pointed by  President  Jefferson. 

Twenty-nine  jurisdictions  had  their  diplomats  on  the  ground  at 
the  opening.  Illinois  was  most  amply  represented.  The  committee 
on  credentials  reporting  Past  Grand  Masters  John  W.  Mix  and  James 
L.  Gould  as  both  present  in  that  capacity. 

The  grand  master  (James  H.  Welsh)  announced  the  death  of 
Past  Grand  Master  Edward  B.  Rowe,  at  sixty-one,  and  of  Past  Grand 
Marshall  William  W.  Storey,  who  had  reached  nearly  four  score 
years. 

The  grand  master  reported  three  decisions,  all  of  which  were  ap- 
proved.    The  last  is  of  general  interest: 

3.  The  worshipful  master  and  both  wardens  of  a  lodge  being- 
absent,  the  district  deputy  was  sent  for,  and  opened  the  lodge. 

Question. — In  the  absence  of  the  master  and  both  wardens  can  the 
district  deputy  open,  the  lodge  without  special  directions  from  the 
grand  master? 

The  district  deputies  are  appointed  by  the  grand  master  and  are 
his  deputies  in  the  districts  to  which  they  are  appointed. 

The  directions  to  them  are  almost  always  general,  much  must  be 
left  to  their  judgment.  Their  acts  are  subject  to  the  approval  of  the 
grand  master.  In  my  opinion  the  action  of  the  district  deputy  in 
coming  to  the  relief  of  the  lodge  when  in  a  helpless  condition,  was 
commendable.  I  therefore  decided  that  there  was  no  violation  of 
Masonic  law,  and  the  action  of  the  district  deputy  had  my  approval. 

It  is  not  a  rare  thing  for  an  uninformed  district  deput}^  who 
magnifies  his  office,  to  be  misled  by  his  title  into  assuming  powers 
that  belong  only  to  the  office  of  grand  master,  but  we  have  never 
before  seen  such  assumption  approved  as  good  law  by  a  grand  master 
or  grand  lodge.  Their  powers  are  such  as  are  given  them  by  the 
regulations  creating  the  office.     If  clothed  with  other  power  by  the 


3H  appendix. — PART   I. 


•frand  master  in  an}'  fjiven  case,  they  are  not  exercising  such  power 
because  the}'  are  district  deput}'  {»^rand  masters,  but  because  the 
grand  master  has  chosen  to  make  a  deput}'  grand  master  his  prox}-  in 
that  case  instead  of  some  other  person.  The  language  of  the  grand 
master  in  the  case  reported  shows  that  in  Connecticut  the  powers  of 
the  district  deputies  are  not  defined  si)ecifically  by  law,  and  to  de- 
cide that  simply  because  the  lodge  needed  relief  the  deputy  had  not 
exceeded  his  powers  would  equall}'  justify  anj'  other  Master  Mason  in 
assuming  the  purple  who  found  a  lodge  in  a  helpless  condition. 

The  grand  master  urged  that  some  action  be  taken  to  relieve  the 
lodges  of  the  unjust  drain  of  paying  grand  lodge  dues  on  members 
who  have  dropped  out  of  sight  and  hearing  by  leaving  their  jurisdic- 
tion, and  the  grand  lodge  in  levying  the  per  capita  tax  for  the  year 
authorized  the  lodges  to  deduct  from  their  gross  membership  those 
whose  whereabouts  have  remained  unknown  for  five  years.  The 
lodges  were  also  authorized — so  far  as  simple  resolution  ma}'  be  opera- 
tive in  face  of  the  law — to  strike  from  their  rolls  without  giving  the 
lawful  notice,  such  members  as  have  not  been  heard  from  for  seven 
years. 

The  grand  lodge  seems  to  have  settled  down  upon  the  policy  of 
sui)])orting  its  charity  foundation,  now  materialized  in  the  Masonic 
home  at  Wallingford,  by  taxation,  having  followed  the  precedent  of 
last  year  by  levying  a  per  capita  tax  of  one  dollar  and  appropria- 
ting seventy-five  per  cent  to  the  home. 

George  A.  Kies,  of  Norwich,  was  elected  grand  master:  .Iohn  H. 
Barlow,  Shelton,  reelected  grand  secretary. 

The  report  on  correspondence  (187  pp.),  the  third  from  the  same 
pen,  is  the  work  of  the  grand  secretary,  Past  Grand  Master  John  H. 
Barlow,  and  is  a  courteous,  discriminating,  and  interesting  paper. 
Illinois  proceedings  for  18!)(),  receive  extended  notice  in  which  the  re- 
marks of  Grand  Master  ScOTT  on  life  membership  are  rei)roduced  at 
length,  and  the  new  regulation  forbidding  the  use  of  the  Masonic 
name  by  Masons  for  business  purposes  is  commended. 

In  his  conclusion  he  notes  the  fact  that  four  grand  lodges  have 
recognized  the  Gran  Dieta  Simbolica — as  the  Mexican  non-descript  is 
called — but  he  does  not  believe  that  the  time  has  come  for  general 
recognition. 

Of  the  now  Wisconsin  farce  he  says: 

A  brief  and  somewhat  i)essimistic  report  on  correspondence  is 
presented  by  Brother  (kibe  Bouck,  in  which  he  contends  such  report 
should  not  be  i)ubliMhed  without  being  considered  and  acted  u])()n  by 
the  grand  lodge.  Tills  report  was  referred  to  a  sjtecial  committee 
and,  upon  favorable  action,  was  adojited  and  ordered  published  with 
the  proceedings.     We  do  not  think  this  is  any  step  in  the  right  direc- 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  39 

tion;  these  reports  in  many  cases,  are  not  written  until  after  the  close 
of  the  <jrrand  lod^e  session  (thoug^h  such  is  not  the  case  in  Connecticut, 
as  our  report  is  always  printed  and  distributed  at  the  grand  lodge). 
The}'  consist  mainl}-  of  short  extracts  of  the  more  important  subjects 
presented  by  sister  jurisdictions,  and  the  opinions  expressed  are 
simply  those  of  the  committee  and  are  only  received  and  treated  as 
such. 

With  this  we  quite  agree,  but  not  with  his  criticism  of  the  Wis- 
consin ruling  that  in  voting  at  a  Masonic  trial  on  the  guilt  or  inno- 
cence of  the  accused,  the  vote  resulting  in  a  tie,  it  was  irregular  to 
order  a  second  ballot.  Bro.  Barlow  deems  a  second  ballot  necessary 
on  the  ground  that  the  lodge  has  taken  no  action.  On  the  contrary 
it  seems  clear  to  us  that  the  lodge  has  taken  action.  W^hether  the 
law  requires  a  two-third  vote  to  convict,  as  in  Illinois,  or  a  majority 
vote  as  we  judge  to  be  the  case  in  Wisconsin,  a  tie  vote  is  an  acquittal 
in  the  latter  case  just  as  one  vote  short  of  the  required  two-thirds 
would  be  in  the  former. 


DELAWARE,   1896. 

90th  annual.  Wilmington.  October  7. 

A  young,  bright,  scholarh^  face  looks  out  from  the  fly-leaf  of  the 
Delaware  pamphlet— that  of  the  retiring  grand  master,  Joseph  L. 
Cahall. 

Twenty-five  grand  jurisdictions  gave  Tidded  eclat  to  the  opening  by 
the  presence  of  their  representatives,  George  M.  Jones  api^earing 
for  Illinois. 

Many  varieties  of  style  crop  out  in  the  addresses  of  grand  masters. 
Grand  Master  Cahall  makes  a  distinct  contribution  in  this  direction. 
Referring  to  the  increased  zeal  and  earnestness  carried  awaj'  by  the 
brethren  from  the  preceding  annual,  he  sa3's: 

What  measure  of  success,  resultant  from  those  good  resolutions, 
worthy  motives,  and  lofty  purposes,  is  apparent,  not  alone  in  the  sev- 
eral returns  of  the  subordinate  lodges. 

It  is  rather  evidenced  by  an  appreciable  increased  acquaintance 
with  the  vast  mine  of  Masonic  lore  on  the  part  of  the  brethren;  in 
the  appropriation,  or  corporation  of  the  fundamental  principles  of 
Masonr}',  by  the  individual  brethren,  as  a  rule  and  guide  of  conduct 
in  their  relation,  one  with  the  other;  in  the  exaltation,  in  the  minds 
and  hearts  of  the  brethren  of  our  ancient  and  most  noble  institution 
upon  a  higher  level— yet  not  so  high  as  is  due  and  deserving,  in  the 


40  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 


mental  and  moral  uplift  consequent  upon  our  renewed  endeavors:  in 
the  increased  appreciation  of  our  Masonic  homes,  our  privilej^^es  and 
duties,  our  oblijjations  and  responsibilities  in  relation  thereunto. 

The  jrrand  master  announced  the  death  of  Robert  W.  Birnie, 
past  grand  junior  warden:  John  Thomas  Budd,  past  g^rand  treasurer, 
George  R.  Whartox,  master,  and  Henrv  Clayton  and  Francis  T. 
Jones,  past  masters. 

Of  grand  representatives  he  saj-s: 

I  have  continued  to  recognize  the  established  policj'of  this  grand 
lodge  respecting  the  S3'stem  of  grand  representatives.  I  fail  to  see 
any  sufficient  reason  justif\-ing  the  abandonment  of  this  policy. 
Courtesy  suggests  the  propriety  of  the  system.  The  occasion  maj- 
arise  when  the  existence  of  this  system  may  be  productive  of  good 
results  to  our  own  and  sister  grand  jurisdictions. 

The  following,  in  reference  to  the  lodge  of  instruction,  shows  that 
there  is  much  human  nature  about  the  Blue  Hen's  chickens: 

The  lodge  of  instruction  continued  regularly  to  hold  its  stated 
meetings,  however,  notwithstanding  the  depressing  effect  of  manifest 
indifference  on  the  part  of  the  craft.  Heroically  the\-  persisted  in 
the  performance  of  duty  with  practicall}'  little  evidence  of  symjia- 
thy,  or  intention,  or  wish,  on  the  part  of  the  brethren  to  profit  b}-  the 
golden  opportunit}'  which  lay  at  their  feet.  This  condition  prevailed 
during  the  year  until  the  approaching  election  of  officers,  whereupon 
the  lodge  of  instruction  became  the  mecca  for  ever}-  prospective  or 
newh-  elect  officer.  The  individual  members  of  the  lodge  of  instruc- 
tion suddenlv  became,  in  the  hour  of  need  of  these  brethren,  the  most 
popular  and  genial  good  fellows  in  the  jurisdiction.  When  necessity 
was  not  pressing,  the  worli  exemplified  by  the  lodge  of  instruction  was 
"fuss  and  feathers,"  when  danger  was  impending,  '"what  excellence!"' 
"how  superbl  I"'  "what  perfection!  !  !" 

We  noticed  the  i)assage  last  year  of  a  resolution  prohibiting  the 
lodges  from  receiving  and  acting  upon  a  petition  for  the  degrees  or 
for  membership  from  an}-  person  engaged  in  the  sale  of  intoxicating 
liquors  as  a  beverage.  In  the  case  of  a  brother  whose  petition  for 
affiliation  had  been  received  and  referred  prior  to  the  passage  of  this 
resolution,  and  whose  wife,  as  the  proprietor  of  a  hotel,  held  a  liquor 
license  in  her  own  name,  the  grand  master  ruled: 

I.  Bro.  A  is  not  the  owner  or  lessee  of  the  hotel,  nor  does  he  ob- 
tain license  for  the  sale  of  intoxicating  liquors,  nor.  in  fact,  is  he 
personally  engaged  in  its  sale,  and,  therefore,  he  does  not.  techni- 
cally, come  within  the  proscription  of  the  resolution  in  question. 

II.  This  resolution  has  not  a  retroactive  effect,  or  in  other  words, 
this  resolution  is  applicable  to  future,  and  not  j)ast  conditions.  l-\ir 
the  reason,  which  I  ajiprehend  is  a  general  rule  of  construction,  that 
a  re.solution  is  to  be  taken  as  jirospective  and  not  retrosjiective,  un- 
less its  language  is  inconsistent  with  that  interpretation.  Further- 
more, the  language  of  this  resolution  is  conjunctive  and  ])rohibits  the 
"receiving  and  acting  upon"'  a  petition  for  membershi]).  that  is,  it 
prohibits  the  joint  conditions  of  both  "receiving"'  and  "acting  upon" 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE  41 


subsequent  to  the  passag'e  of  the  resolution.  Were  the  lan<juage 
disjunctive,  that  is  "receiving;  or  acting  upon  the  resolution  would  be 
prohibitive  as  to  each  act  of  "receiving""  and  "acting  upon"'  and  hence 
"acting  upon"'  would  be  in  contravention  of  the  resolution.  But  the 
"receiving""  having  been  completed  before  the  passage  of  the  resolu- 
tion, and.  therefore,  lawful,  gave  the  petition  a  status  in lodge 

which  was  not,  nor  could  be,  modified,  altered,  or  changed  by  the 
subsequent  passage  of  this  resolution:  hence,  the  "acting  upon,"' 
logically  the  result  and  fruit  of  the  "receiving""  is  not  prohibited  by 
the  resolution. 

III.  Having  thus  defined  the  right  of  the  lodge  to  act  upon  the 
petition,  I  have  only  to  add,  that  whom  a  subordinate  lodge  shall  ad- 
mit to  membership,  ver}-  properh%  has  alwa3's  been  left  to  the  discre- 
tion of  said  lodge,  and  I  do  not  deem  it  competent  or  proper  for  me 
to  give  any  expression  of  opinion  as  to  who  may  or  may  not  be  thus 
admitted. 

This  was  approved  on  the  report  of  the  committee  on  address, 
but  the  recommendation  of  the  committee  that  the  resolution  re- 
ferred to  be  rescinded,  was  not  concurred  in.  The  reasons  assigned 
by  the  committee  for  their  recommendation,  which  we  believe  to  be 
entirely  sound,  substantially  cover  the  ground  on  which  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Illinois  declined  to  enact  a  prohibitory  law.  The  committee 
say: 

But  believing  that  the  enactment  of  said  resolution  was  a  mis- 
take, unwise,  uncalled  for,  and  un-Masonic,  in  that  it  erected  a  new 
disqualification  of  the  applicants  of  Masonry,  other  than  those  pro- 
vided by  the  ancient  landmarks,  which  your  committee  deny  the  right 
and  authority  of  any  Masonic  body  to  add  to. 

The  moral  qualifications  should  be  decided  by  the  members  of  the 
subordinate  lodges  in  each  and  every  case. 

The  jurisprudence  committee  reporting  on  the  codification  of  de- 
cisions of  grand  masters,  furnish  this  interesting  bit  of  information: 

With  the  great  assistance  and  research  of  our  grand  secretary 
we  have  examined  all  decisions  of  grand  masters,  commencing  with 
Grand  Master  William  T.  Read,  in  1851.  Whether  the  grand  masters 
in  the  early  histor}^  of  the  grand  lodge  delivered  any  addresses,  or 
made  any  report  of  the  work  done  by  them  during  the  time  between 
communications  we  do  not  know,  as  the  grand  secretaries  have  not 
reported  any.  in  fact  Grand  Master  Read  speaks  of  the  delivery  of  an 
address  as  an  innovation  introduced  by  him.  From  the  organization 
of  the  grand  lodge  in  1806.  up  to  1S51.  we  find  no  decisions. 

The  grand  lodge  adopted  the  following,  reported  by  the  commit- 
tee, modifying  a  decision  of  Grand  Master  Horner,  made  in  18(39: 

liesolved.  That  an  entered  apprentice  can  claim  the  right  of  visi- 
tation in  any  lodge  in  his  jurisdiction,  subject  to  proper  precautionary 
restrictions. 

The  generally  discarded  theory  that  a  warden  may  not  confer  de- 
grees unless  he  be  an  actual  past  master,  was  reaffirmed  in  the  follow- 
ing form: 

-d 


42  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


Resolved,  And  it  is  hereby  declared  to  be  the  law  and  custom  of 
this  jurisdiction,  that  in  the  absence  of  the  worshipful  master  of  a 
lodye.  the  senior  warden,  and  in  his  absence,  the  junior  warden  shall 
l)reside  over  and  transact  all  the  business  of  the  lodg^e.  except  con- 
ferrinjj  the  des^f^rees,  unless  he  be  an  actual  past  master:  proridid, 
however,  that  the  senior  or  junior  warden,  as  the  case  ma}'  be.  after 
the  transaction  of  the  reg'ular  business  of  the  lodtre.  may  call  a  past 
master  to  preside  for  the  purpose  of  conferring  the  de»^rees  only. 

The  urand  lodtje  declined  to  order  formulated  a  uniform  code  of 
by-laws  for  the  g"overnment  of  lodjjfes,  a  reassuring  si<fn  in  view  of  the 
prevailing  tendency  towards  stripping  the  lodges  of  the  last  vestige 
of  individuality  and  independence;  courteously  informed  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Wisconsin  that  it  deemed  it  inexpedient  to  take  favorable 
action  on  its  reiterated  proposition  touching  Masonic  relief:  post- 
poned for  one  year  the  consideration  of  the  Maine  proposition  re- 
specting jurisdiction  over  rejected  candidates,  and  wisely  adopted 
the  following  from  a  sjjccial  committee: 

Your  committee  to  which  was  referred  the  matter  of  considering 
the  formation  of  a  home  for  aged  and  indigent  Masons  respectfull}' 
report  that  they  deem  it  inadvisable  to  establish  a  home  for  the  pur- 
pose stated,  as  the  expense  to  the  Masons  of  the  jurisdiction  would 
be  greater  than  their  abilitj-  to  bear:  the}'  desire  that  the  committee 
may  be  continued,  to  consider  the  advisabilit}'  of  arranging  with  an 
established  institution  for  the  care  of  Masons  who  may  need  the  pro- 
tecting care  of  such  a  home. 

As  there  are  now  two  Masons  of  this  jurisdiction  in  the  care  of 
"Minquadale  Home  for  Aged  Men  and  Cou])les,""  we  would  recom- 
mend the  appropriation  of  one  hundred  dollars  from  the  grand  char- 
ity fund  toward  the  expense  of  that  institution. 

Grand  officers  reelected  or  reappointed  were  not  installed  and  so 
may  fairly  be  said  to  be  holding  office  under  a  prior  election.  The  grand 
lodge  banquetted  as  usual  during  the  session,  and  although  the  order 
drawn  for  this  item  of  expense  was  larger  than  for  any  other  single 
purpose,  we  are  inclined  to  the  opinion  that  as  an  investment  it  was 
the  most  profitable  of  all.  In  saying  this  we  are  not  to  be  understood  as 
belittling  anything  else  that  was  done,  for  as  a  whole  the  session 
was  reassuringly  fruitful  of  good,  conservative,  sensible  work,  wherein 
the  bod}'  hewed  close  to  the  line  of  genuine  Masonry  both  in  doing 
and  refraining. 

.1.  Paul  Lukens,  M.D.,  was  elected  grand  master:  Bex.iamin  F. 
Bartram,  reelected  grand  secretary,  both  of  Wilmington. 

The  report  on  correspondence  (88  pp.)  is  another  of  Past  Deputy 
Grand  Master  Lewis  H.  .Tackson's  remarkable  condensations,  re- 
markable that  in  so  little  space  he  manages  to  catch  and  reflect 
something  of  the  characteristics  of  each  of  the  sixty-three  jurisdic- 
tions noticed. 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  43 


Illinois  proceedings  for  1895  had  evidently  been  carefully  exam- 
ined. Referring  to  the  remarks  of  Grand  Master  Goddard  on  Ma- 
sonic funerals  and  the  report  of  the  jurisprudence  committee 
thereon,  he  says: 

In  Delaware  the  practice  is  to  perform  these  public  ceremonies 
under  the  authority  of  an  open  lodge,  the  procession  returning  to 
the  hall  after  the  ceremonies,  when  the  lodge  is  closed:  and  we  can 
see  no  objection  or  impropriety  in  the  lodge  thus  going  out  in  pubMc 
to  perform  a  ceremony  which  in  the  nature  of  things  cannot  be  done 
in  private. 

Although  Delaware  adheres  to  the  doctrine  of  perpetual  jurisdic- 
tion over  rejected  material,  he  confesses  that  his  own  predilection  is 
in  favor  of  a  limit  in  cases  of  removal.  He  quotes  discriminatingly 
from  Bro.  BLACK'S  "impressive  oration,"'  and  refers  in  generous 
terms  to  the  Illinois  report  on  correspondence. 

Occasionally  Bro.  Jackson  permits  himself  a  brief  expression  of 
his  own  views,  as  in  the  following  from  his  notice  of  Kentucky, 
wherein  he  speaks  with  refreshing  directness: 

Personally,  this  reviewer  has  no  predilection  for  the  thing  as  a 
deyree,  does  not  believe  its  ceremonies  should  be  characterized  and 
denominated,  or  recognized  as  a  degree,  because  it  is  an  innovation 
on  the  original  plan  of  A.C.  Masonry  of  "three  degrees  and  no  more." 
A  2^fi>'t  of  the  ceremonies  of  the  so-called  degree  are  undoubtedl}-  a 
part  of  the  ceremony  of  installation,  but  nowhere  in  the  old  "Consti- 
tutions and  Regulations"'  are  these  ceremonies  called  a  degree.  When 
a  brother  is  installed  master  of  his  lodge  he  has  certain  secret  infor- 
mation imparted  to  him  concerning  his  office  and  the  government  of 
his  lodge,  and  while  he  is  in  office  he  is  master;  after  his  term  of  office 
expires,  he  is  a  past  master,  but  all  the  stuff  communicated  to  him  in 
a  so-called  lodge  of  past  masters  about  "seating  in  the  oriental 
chair,"  and  most  of  what  follows,  is  simply  manufactured  nonsense, 
and  unworthy  of  the  dignified  name  of  a  Masonic  degree,  and  useless, 
as  well  as  totally  unnecessary,  as  a  qualification  to  preside  in  the 
east. 

Manifestly  he  has  correctly  sized  up  the  rusty,  superfluous  nail 
which  he  thus  hits  so  squarely  on  the  head. 


44  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


DISTRICT  OF  COLUMBIA,  1896. 

86th  Annual.  Washington.  November  11. 

Past  Grand  Master  L.  Cabell  Williamson,  the  representative 
of  Illinois,  was  one  of  the  twenty-one  diplomats  present  at  the  semi- 
annual communication,  and  of  the  equal  number  at  the  annual,  but 
not  among  the  fourteen  who  jjraced  the  installation  communication 
with  their  presence. 

At  the  semi-annual  communication  (May  1.3.  ISiHi)  a  case  came  up 
from  the  committee  on  grievances,  wherein  a  member  of  a  lodge  ap- 
pealed from  its  action  in  acquitting  a  brother  whom  he  had  charged 
with  assault.  The  testimony  not  being  lengthy,  the  committee  de- 
termined to  submit  it  to  the  grand  lodge  instead  of  passing  on  the 
merits  of  the  case.  The  finding  of  the  lodge  having  been  set  aside, 
and  the  accused  declared  guilt}-,  a  motion  was  made  and  carried  that 
those  who  had  not  heard  all  the  testimony  read  refrain  from  voting, 
a  conclusion  that  might  properly  have  been  reached  before  anj-  vote 
had  been  taken  in  the  case. 

The  grand  master  (George  W.  Baird)  submitted  the  question 
of  physical  fitness  in  a  case  which  in  his  judgment  came  near  the 
dividing  line  between  ability  and  inability  on  the  part  of  the  peti- 
tioner to  comply  with  the  constitutional  requirements  to  the  grand 
lodge.  Their  constitution  is  nearly  identical  in  language  with  the 
Illinois  statute  and  forbids  "the  initiation  of  an}-  candidate  whose 
physical  defects  prevent  him  from  being  properh*  instructed  or  con- 
forming literally  to  all  the  degrees  of  Ancient  Craft  Masonry." 
In  the  case  presented,  in  consequence  of  a  gunshot  wound  which 
severed  the  third  metacarpal  bone  of  the  right  hand,  the  third  finger 
was  removed  and  with  it  the  severed  portion  of  the  metacarpal  bone 
"leaving  the  hand  in  a  good  and  useful  condition.''  The  grand  master 
presented  two  sketches,  one  representing  the  bones  of  the  hand  of  the 
petitioner,  the  other  the  normal  hand,  and  said: 

There  is  no  question  of  the  ability  of  the  petitioner  to  impart  in- 
struction, having  once  obtained  it.  nor  of  his  thorough  competency 
to  comprehend  the  instruction  as  we  teach  it. 

The  ancient  charges  requiring  "a  ])erfect  j-'outh"  or  a  perfect 
man  referred.  I  believe,  to  the  ])rohibition  of  eunuchs  and  men  who 
had  lost  a  limb.  I  am  informed  by  Freemasons  in  the  East,  where 
eunuchs  are  still  found,  that  the  latter  are  rejected  even  when  free 
born.  The  pur])ose  of  rejecting  maimed  men,  by  the  ancient  oi)era- 
tive  Masons  was  to  prevent  the  craft  being  Inirdened.  These  reasons 
no  longer  e.xist,  though  the  landmarks  are  unchanged.     Our  constitu- 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  45 


tion  does  not  require  a  perfect  man,  but  inferentially  admits  that  he 
may  have  physical  defects,  but  to  a  limited  extent. 

The  grand  lodge  authorized  the  lodge  to  receive  the  petition  of 
the  injured  party. 

The  grand  lodge  by  resolution  granted  the  permission  to  a  chap- 
ter of  the  Order  of  Eastern  Star  to  meet  in  West  End  lodge  room 
which  the  grand  master  had  refused  a  month  earlier  in  conformit}- 
with  an  approved  decision  of  one  of  his  predecessors,  in  1885,  and 
authorized  him  to  grant  such  permission  toother  lodges  and  chapters 
at  his  discretion. 

The  Grand  Lodge  of  New  Zealand  was  recognized. 

At  the  annual  communication  Grand  Master  Baird  referred  to 
the  death  of  Past  Junior  Grand  Warden  Abner  T.  Longley,  who  was 
buried  bj-  the  grand  lodge  February  23,  1896.  He  was  in  his  seventy" 
fifth  year.  Others  dead  were.  Past  Masters  William  H.  Webster, 
Clement  W.  Bennett,  and  Frank  G.  Saxton. 

Referring"  to  the  "race  line"  the  grand  master  reported: 
On  the  6th  of  March  the  Rev.  E.  W.  Gains  (Negro)  called  upon  me 
for  advice  and  aid.  He  had  a  diploma  from  St.  John's  Lodge  No.  17.5, 
Greenock,  Scotland.  Fearing  his  race  barred  his  visiting  our  "white 
lodges,"  he  asked  the  propriet}-  of  visiting  and  asking  aid  from  the 
"colored  lodges."  I  gave  him  a  small  contribution  and  sent  him  to 
our  Board  of  Relief,  with  the  admonition  that  there  were  no  regular 
colored  lodges  in  this  city,  and  if  he  were  a  member  of  a  regular 
lodge,  he  must  not  visit  any  other  than  a  regular  lodge.  His  race  did 
not  preclude  his  visiting  our  regular  lodges. 

He  also  reported  the  following: 

On  the  3d  of  March,  answering  the  letter  of  the  master  of  Na- 
tional Lodge  No.  12,  and  referring  to  the  constitution  (15-XX-9),  I  de- 
cided that  as  a  lodge  could  not  take  a  second  ballot  on  the  application 
of  a  candidate  within  six  months  of  the  date  of  rejection,  it  should  not 
release  the  applicant  until  the  expiration  of  that  period.  By  releas- 
ing the  candidate  (who  had  moved  to  Colorado),  the  lodge  would  sur- 
render jurisdiction  over  him.  I  further  instructed  the  master,  that 
if  the  candidate  still  desired  to  become  a  member  of  National  Lodge 
he  might  renew  his  application  without  asking  for  a  release,  and. If 
elected,  the  lodge  would  be  at  liberty  to  request  a  lodge  in  Colorado 
to  confer  the  degrees. 

This  ruling  that  the  rejecting  lodge  might  receive  the  petition 
of  a  rejected  candidate,  although  he  had  removed  from  the  District 
and  was  then  a  resident  of  the  territory  of  a  Colorado  lodge,  was  not 
questioned,  not  being  referred  to  by  the  jurisprudence  committee  who 
reported  favorable  upon  his  decisions. 

In  1877  the  grand  master  of  Illinois  reported  the  following  decision: 

When  a  candidate  after  being  rejected  by  one  lodge  removes  into 
the  jurisdiction  of  another,  neither  lodge  can  receive  his  petition 
without  the  consent  of  the  other. 


46  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 

One  member  of  the  jurisprudence  committee  submitted  his  views 
in  writin<j^  dissentinjj  from  the  report  of  the  committee  approving:  the 
decision,  but  after  discussion  the  y^rand  master's  view  prevailed.  Two 
years  later  his  successor  reopened  the  question  and  the  subject  was 
sent  to  a  special  committee,  who,  one  year  later,  submitted  an  ex- 
haustive report  sustaining  the  decision.  This,  after  discussion,  was 
ordered  to  be  printed  in  the  proceedings  pending  final  action.  The 
next  year  after  a  most  thorough  discussion  which  went  as  well  to 
the  principle  involved  as  to  the  language  of  the  statute,  the  decision 
was  sustained  by  a  vote  if  820  to  578. 

Grand  Master  Baird  submitted  two  decisions,  both  turning  on 
local  regulations.  He  strongly  commends  the  Mason' c  Mutual  Relief, 
a  business  organization  doing  business  under  the  2v.  asonic  name,  and 
says  it  helps  Masonry.  It  may  help  temporarily  so  far  as  the  scram- 
ble for  numbers  is  concerned  because  it  tends  to  give  the  impression 
that  Masonry  has  a  commercial  basis  which  makes  it  profitable  as 
an  investment:  but  if  it  is  true  that  Masonry  is  realh'  the  gainer  by 
coming  to  be  regarded  as  an  insurance  or  benefit  society',  what  a  per- 
sistent mistake  it  has  been  to  require  ever}- candidate  to  repudiate  in 
advance  all  mercenary  motives  and  expectations!  The  insurance  or- 
ganizations which  in  the  District  of  Columbia  and  some  other  juris- 
dictions annually  get  the  indorsement  of  grand  masters,  and  in  some 
instances  of  grand  lodges,  maybe  under  the  management  of  insurance 
experts  and  experienced  investors  whose  skill  will  preserve  their  enter- 
prises from  final  collapse,  but  it  is  true  in  practice,  whether  so  intended 
or  not,  that  the  members  accept  the  fact  that  their  managers  are 
Masons,  rather  than  that  they  are  skilled  actuaries,  as  the  guarantee 
of  indemnity;  and  when,  as  has  already  repeatedlj'  happened,  failure 
ensues.  Masonry  is  not  helped  but  scandalized,  and  it  is  held  responsi- 
ble for  broken  promises  which  had  the  semblance  of  being  made  in  its 
name. 

A  lodge  having  so  amended  its  by-laws  as  to  except  from  the  re- 
quirement of  election  by  ballot  the  deacons  and  stewards  and  jjrovid- 
ing  for  the  appointment  of  the  junior  deacon  by  the  senior  warden, 
and  the  stewards  by  the  junior  warden,  the  grand  lodge  refused  to 
approve  the  same,  adopted  an  amendment  to  the  regulations  to  insure 
that  all  officers  not  elected  by  ballot  shall  be  appointed  by  the  master. 
This  is  in  accordance  with  repeated  Illinois  precedents. 

The  grand  lodge  confirmed  the  appointments  of  grand  representa- 
tives made  by  the  grand  master:  ordered  a  reprint  of  the  grand  lodge 
records  from  1811  to  184.")  (those  from  1811  to  1828  having  been  printed 
in  a  condensed  and  aVjbreviated  form,  and  those  from  1828  to  1845 
never  having  been  printed  in  any  form):  sent  the  Maine  i>roi)Osition, 
relative  to  jurisdiction  over  rejected  candidates,  to  the  jurisprudence 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  47 

committee  for  report  thereon:  took  steps  looking  to  the  acquisition 
of  a  site  for  a  new  temple,  and  appropriated  SlOO  for  the  relief  of 
the  widow  of  a  past  grand  master. 

Matthew  Trimble,  (1320  Rhode  Island  Ave.,  N.W.,)  was  elected 
grand  master:  William  R.  Singleton,  (909  F  Street,  N.W.,  Masonic 
Temple,)  reelected  grand  secretar}-. 

The  minutes  of  the  annual  communication  are  signed  by  William 
A.  Gatley,  assistant  and  acting  grand  secretary,  and  a  note  is  ap- 
pended stating  that  Grand  Secretary  Singleton  was  prevented  from 
attendance  by  sickness,  the  only  time  he  had  been  absent  from  the 
stated  and  special  communications  of  the  grand  lodge  since  he  was 
elected,  November  10,  187.3,  save  one  emergent  communication  in  1881, 
when  he  was  absent  from  the  city. 

We  are  glad  to  note  that  at  the  installation  communication,  De- 
cember 28,  1896,  the  venerable  grand  secretary  had  so  far  recovered 
that  he  was  at  his  post. 

At  this  communication  Past  Grand  Master  GiBBS  announced  the 
death  of  Past  Grand  Master  Robert  W.  Best,  and  the  decease  of 
Past  Master  Joseph  Brummett  was  reported  by  Past  Grand  Master 
Dixon. 

On  being  installed.  Grand  Master  Trimble  delivered  a  brief  ad- 
dress in  which  he  expressed  the  hope  that  the  corner-stone  of  the  new 
temple  might  be  laid  during  his  administration,  and  followed  the  ex- 
ample of  his  predecessors  in  commending  the  Masonic  Mutual  Relief 
Association. 

The  report  on  correspondence  (102  pp.),  the  twenty-seventh  of  its 
author,  is  by  the  grand  secretary,  Wm.  R.  Singleton.  The  following 
from  his  conclusion  explains  the  regretable  absence  of  Illinois  from 
his  reviews: 

In  cofisequence  of  the  sudden  illness  of  the  chairman,  before  the 
report  could  be  completed,  several  grand  lodge  proceedings  received 
indue  time,  especially  Missouri  and  Illinois,  have  not  been  reviewed. 

The  chairman  is  still  confined  to  his  home  at  the  printing  of  this 
report. 

Referring  to  the  decisions  reported  by  the  Grand  Master  of  North 
Dakota,  Bro.  Singleton  says: 

We  discover  from  his  answer  No.  5,  that  in  his  jurisdiction  the 
very  old  rule  in  regard  to  opening  a  lodge  prevails,  viz,  that  when  the 
lodge  of  Master  Masons  has  been  regularly  declared  open,  this  opens 
the  lodge  on  the  lower  degrees,  and  it  is  only  necessary  so  to  declare 
the  same.  When  we  worked  in  Missouri  in  the  forties,  it  was  usual  for 
the  worshipful  master  to  say.  "I  declare  this  lodge  of  Master  Masons 
duly  opened,  together  with  those  of  the  first  and  second  degree,"  or, 
sometimes,  "  those  of  the  Entered  Apprentice  and  Fellow  Craft,  and 


APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


now  ready  for  such  business  as  may  come  before  them."  It  was  then 
onh"  necessary  to  "dispense  with  the  labor  on  this  dej^ree  and  resume 
labor  on,"  etc. 

Bro.  Singlkton"s  reports,  always  interesting  from  their  ability, 
courtesy,  and  wide  knowledge  of  Masonic  matters,  are  made  doubly 
so  by  such  reminiscences  as  this  of  the  old  days  whereof  his  recollec- 
tion is  so  vivid. 


FLORIDA,  1897. 

68th  Annual.  Jacksonville.  January  12. 

Thirty-eight  grand  jurisdictions  were  represented  at  the  opening, 
and  at  a  later  period  were  formally  received.  The  representative 
of  Illinois  (James  C.  Graver)  was  not  present,  but  a  letter  from 
him  was  read  giving  acceptable  reasons  for  his  absence. 

The  grand  master  (James  W.  Boyd)  referred  to  the  deaths  of 
distinguished  Masons  in  other  jurisdictions,  but  happily  was  not  called 
upon  to  report  any  similar  bereavement  in  their  own.  They  had  not. 
however,  been  free  from  misfortune.  Of  the  great  tornado  of  last 
September  he  says: 

On  the  2i»th  day  of  September  a  terrific  storm  entered  the  state 
from  the  Gulf  of  Mexico  centrally  over  the  town  of  Cedar  Keys,  and 
swept  through  the  middle  part  of  the  state  in  a  northeasterly  direc- 
tion, cutting  a  swath  about  thirt}-  miles  wide,  leaving  in  its  wake  de- 
molished towns,  farms,  dwellings,  and  timber.  Many  lodge  buildings 
were  completely  annihilated,  and  the  brethren,  bereft  of  shelter,  with 
dwellings,  crops,  and  stock  destroyed,  were  in  no  condition  to  rebuild 
unaided. 

The  appeals  of  half  a  dozen  such  lodges  for  aid  to  rebuild  he  had 
approved,  but  of  another  class  of  cases  he  says: 

On  February  22  the  secretary  of  Providence  Lodge  Xo.  4(i  re- 
quested my  signature  to  a  package  of  circulars  issued  by  a  commit- 
tee, appealing  for  aid  on  behalf  of  a  brother  having  his  mill  burned, 
entailing  on  him  a  loss  of  about  $l.('.(»o.  Whilst  I,  together  with  all 
good  men.  could  sympathize  with  the  brother  in  his  misfortune.  I  diil 
not  believe  it  was" such  a  case  as  contemplated  by  the  Grand  Lodge 
for  the  grand  master's  approval.  I  so  stated,  calling  attention  to  the 
fact  that  owing  to  the  recent  freeze  and  the  resultant  ruin,  many  per- 
sons equally  deserving  had  the  fruits  of  their  labor  of  years  swept 
away,  and  if  the  policy  of  sending  out  ajjpeals  in  all  such  cases  should 
])revail,  each  lodge  in  the  end  would  be  called  upon  to  contribute  as 
much  as  would  provide  for  the  necessities  of  their  own  unfortunates— 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  49 

if  directly  applied  to  them — suggesting"  that  the  lodge  which  relies 
upon  its  own  exertions  to  provide  for  its  unfortunate  members  would 
be  the  stronger  and  more  enduring  by  reason  of  it.  I  returned  the 
circulars  without  my  signature. 

The  grand  lodge  declined  to  remit  the  dues  of  the  suffering 
lodges,  but  voted  to  give  them  whatever  time  was  required  in  which 
to  pay  their  dues,  holding  that  it  would  be  for  the  ultimate  good  of 
the  lodges  not  to  forgive  the  debt,  and  also  avoid  a  bad  precedent. 

Following  are  some  of  the  seventeen  decisions  reported  by  the 
grand  master  and  approved: 

I.  A  lodge  can  not  charge  dues  covering  time  during  which  a 
brother  was  not  a  member.  When  a  by-law  provides  for  payment  of 
dues  to  a  specified  time  in  advance,  then  dues  can  only  be  collected 
for  the  pro  rata  time  prior  to  granting  a  dimit.  Dues  are  in  arrears 
when  the  time  expires  for  which  they  are  charged. 

4.  White  gloves  and  aprons  are  badges  of  symbolic  Masonry,  and 
is  the  proper  regalia  to  be  worn  in  the  lodge  and  funeral  processions. 

5.  A  candidate's  legal  residence  is  his  Masonic  residence.  The 
place  where  he  is  qualified  to  vote  is>  prhyia  facie  his  legal  residence. 

II.  A  lodge  of  competent  jurisdiction  otherwise,  may,  upon  a 
proper  certificate  from  the  grand  secretar}-,  lawfully  finish  work  be- 
gun by  a  lodge  which  has  become  dormant,  and  advance  an  Entered 
Apprentice  or  Fellow  Craft  Mason. 

17.  A  Master  Mason  can  affiliate  in  any  regular  lodge,  regardless 
of  his  residence;  but  due  inquiry  should  be  made  of  the  lodge  nearest 
his  residence,  or  of  the  lodge  granting  his  dimit  as  to  his  Masonic 
standing. 

These  are  all  in  accord  with  Illinois  law  and  precedent  except  the 
concluding  portion  of  No.  17,  which  is  in  the  discretion  of  the  lodge. 

The  grand  lodge  listened — it  could  not  fail  to  listen — to  an  elo- 
quent address  by  the  grand  orator,  Reginald  H.  Weller;  chartered 
four  new  lodges,  but  was  compelled  to  revoke  the  charter  of  one 
lodge,  Miccosukie  No.  14,  an  event  much  to  be  regretted,  for  the 
name  ought  to  be  preserved  as  a  curiosity:  continued,  in  the  face  of 
some  murmurings,  the  special  per  capita  assessment  of  fifty  cents  for 
the  interest  account  and  sinking  fund  made  necessary  by  the  temple 
debt:  declined  to  give  the  fraternal  thumb-screw  for  the  jiunishment 
of  non-affiliates  a  fresh  twist  and  to  order  1  he  secretaries  of  lodges 
to  serve  annually  a  printed  notice  on  all  such  within  their  bailiwicks 
of  the  deprivations  required  by  law  to  be  inflicted  on  them;  also  de- 
clined to  require  the  payment  of  costs  by  a  brother  preferring 
charges  and  failing  to  sustain  them,  as  had  been  proposed  by  one  of 
the  lodges;  placed  the  charity  box  on  the  altar  and  realized  a  good 
sum  for  the  benefit  of  a  brother  present  who  had  become  totally  blind, 
and  decided  that  the  vocation  of  a  railroad  employee  which  took  him 
from  place  to  place  too  often  to  permit  him  to  acquire  the  proper 


50  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


local  status  for  a  petitioner  did  not  make  his  case  an  exception  to  the 
law  requiring  a  residence  of  six  months  before  making  application, 
which  shows  that  the  Florida  regulations  are  not  so  elastic  as  those 
of  the  neighboring  jurisdiction  of  Georgia,  where,  as  we  noted  last 
3'ear,  in  one  of  these  nomadic  cases  the  mountain  decided  to  go  to 
Mahomet. 

The  committee  on  revision  reported  the  completion  and  printing 
of  their  work. 

The  constitution  was  amended  to  make  all  past  grand  masters 
members  with  the  right  to  vote,  and  an  amendment  to  the  constitu- 
tion abolishing  the  district  deputy  grand  master  system  received  the 
majority  second  necessary  to  send  it  to  the  lodges  for  action. 

James  M.  Hilliard,  of  Pensacola,  was  elected  grand  master: 
WiLBER  P.  Webster,  Jacksonville,  re-elected  grand  secretary. 

There  is  no  report  on  correspondence.  Past  Grand  Master  Wil- 
liam A.  ^IcLeax  was  appointed  chairman  of  that  committee  for  the 
coming  year. 


GEORGIA,  1896. 

110th  Annual.  Macon.  October  27. 

Thirty-eight  grand  jurisdictions  were  represented,  but  the  repre- 
sentative of  Illinois  (James  Whitehead)  was  not  present. 

Twenty-eight  closelj'  printed  pages  rellect  another  bus}-  3'ear  on 
the  part  of  the  grand  master,  John  P.  Shannon. 

He  reported  that  sickness  and  suffering  had  been  laid  with  heavy 
hand  on  some  of  their  brightest  and  most  distinguished  members. 
Among  these  were  Past  Senior  Grand  Warden  William  Abram 
Love,  the  venerable  chairman  of  the  committee  on  jurisprudence,  and 
Trammell  Starr,  a  member  of  that  committee.  Before  the  address 
was  delivered  Bro.  Starr  had  gone  over  to  the  majority.  Bro.  LovE. 
whom  all  who  particii)ated  in  the  Masonic  Congress  of  ISitlJ.  remem- 
ber with  such  profound  regard  and  respect,  was  still  ill,  and  the  grand 
master  read  a  touching  letter  from  him,  the  jiathetic  record  of  suffer- 
ing and  sorrow  of  a  severe,  extensive,  and  most  excruciating  surgical 
operation,  and  the  added  shock  consequent  on  its  being  borne  without 
an.'L-sthetics:  the  terrible  bereavement  coincident  with  his  first  con- 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE  51 


valescence  of  the  loss  of  his  youngest  child,  a  son,  killed  by  a  railroad 
train,  the  lingering  prostration  from  pain  and  grief,  and  the  balm  of 
loving,  sympathetic  messages  from  the  grand  master  and  hundreds 
of  other  brethren,  closing  thus: 

I  had  hoped  to  be  with  you  now:  but  I  cannot — too  weak  to  walk, 
too  heart-broken  to  work  as  I  have  loved  to  do  in  your  body  for  near- 
ing  a  half  century:  the  wounds — surgical — on  my  spine,  not  yet  healed 
— though  doing  well — I  can  but  bid  you  God  speed  in  the  noble  and 
glorious  work  in  which  you  are  engaged.  In  the  coming  time — should 
it  be  the  will  of  Him  in  whom  we  all  put  our  trust— to  give  me  life  so 
long,  and  health  and  strength,  I  will  be  with  you  "when  yearly  you 
assemble,"'  to  try  to  do  my  duty.  But,  should  He,  in  his  will,  other- 
wise order,  I  trust  that  that  fraternity  I  have  loved  so  long  and  so 
well,  will  deposit  my  remains  in  a  place  prepared.  "God  be  with  us 
'till  we  meet  again,  *  *  *" 

The  grand  lodge  joined  with  the  grand  chaplain  in  prayer  in  his 
behalf,  and  wired  him  a  message  of  sympathy,  love,  and  hope,  to 
which  the  following  reply  was  received: 

Atlanta,  Ga.,  October  28,  1896. 
To  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Georgia,  Care  A.  M.  WoUliin: 

The  benedictions  of  a  house  of  sorrow  be  upon  you.  May  our  Su- 
preme Grand  Master  protect  and  direct  us  all  in  carrying  out  His 
grand  designs,  and  vouchsafe  to  us  a  happy  reunion  in  the  great  be- 
yond. In  deep  grief  and  fraternally, 

Wm.  Abram  Love. 

The  grand  master  announced  the  death  of  Grand  Steward  D.  F. 
GUNN,  and  the  committee  on  memorials  included  in  their  mourning 
pages  the  names  of  no  less  than  eighteen  past  masters. 

Fifty-four  decisions  were  submitted,  some  of  which  follow: 

4.  A  Mason  who  is  a  clerk  in  a  bar-room,  if  otherwise  unobjection- 
able, is  entitled  to  affiliation,  though  each  lodge  is  the  judge  of  its 
own  membership.  The  grand  lodge  of  Georgia,  upon  the  question  of 
dealers  in  spiritous  liquors,  has  gone  to  the  extent  of  saying  that  the 
"conferring  of  the  degrees  upon  saloon  keepers  should  not  be  encour- 
aged," but  this  of  itself  does  not  prevent  the  affiliation  of  a  Mason 
who  is  clerking  in  a  bar-room. 

6.  There  is  no  such  Masonic  punishment  as  indefinite  suspension 
for  non-payment  of  dues.  One  definitely  suspended  becomes  reinstated 
at  the  termination  of  his  suspension  and  upon  jiayment  of  dues  owing 
at  the  time  of  suspension,  not  including  the  dues  for  the  time  the  sus- 
pension was  operative.  One  indefinitely^  suspended,  though  such  pun- 
ishment is  illegal,  can  only  be  reinstated  by  unanimous  action  of  the 
lodge,  expressed  by  secret  ballot  and  payment  of  dues  owing  at  the 
time  of  suspension. 

14.  "A"  was  elected  worshipful  master.  He  had  committed  a  Ma- 
sonic ofi'ence  for  which  charges  had  not  been  preferred  at  the  time  of 
his  election,  but  the  same  were  preferred  before  his  installation: 
Held,  that  he  is  entitled  to  be  installed,  and  afterwards  his  trial  must 
be  by  a  lodge  summoned  by  the  grand  master.     Such  a  Mason  should 


52  APPENDIX. — PART    1. 


not  be  elected  master,  but  the  presumption  of  innocence  which  at- 
taches to  all  would  entitle  him  to  election  and  installation  until  his 
guilt  had  been  proven. 

15.  It  is  not  leffal  or  proper  for  a  senior  warden  to  open  a  lodg^e 
when  the  master  is  present.  The  master  must  open  the  lodfje  but 
after  it  is  opened,  the  senior  warden  or  junior  warden  can  act  as  the 
representative  of  the  master  at  his  request,  nor  can  the  master  open 
a  lodge  without  some  of  the  lectures  of  the  degree  or  some  part  of  the 
ritualistic  ceremonies. 

17.  It  is  unmasonic  for  a  Mason  to  electioneer  or  seek  office  in  a 
Masonic  lodge  in  any  way. 

IS.  This  query  was  propounded:  ''What  should  be  done  with  a 
worshipful  master  who  gets  beastly  drunk  occasionally,  and  what 
should  be  done  with  a  lodge  which  elects  such  a  master  knowingly  or 
tolerates  such  conduct  after  election?"  I  answer  the  master  should 
be  charged,  tried,  and  punished  for  beastly  into.xication,  and  the 
lodge  should  have  its  charter  arrested. 

21.  This  query  has  been  propounded:  "Is  there  any  Masonic  law 
or  edict  that  excludes  a  whisky  dealer  from  the  benefits  of  Masonr\-":''' 
I  answer  that  the  only  ruling  I)}-  the  grand  lodge  of  Cieorgia  upon  this 
subject  is  that  "the  election  to  the  degrees  in  Masonry  of  persons  en- 
gaged in  the  business  of  saloon-keeping  should  be  discouraged,"  and 
while  the  bare  fact  that  a  candidate  is  a  whisky  dealer  does  not  of 
itself  exclude  him  from  membership,  still  it  is  the  express  sentiment 
and  declared  policy  of  Masonry,  in  this  jurisdiction,  that  dealers  in 
spirituous  liquors  should  not  be  encourat;ed  to  enter  the  ranks  of 
Masonry. 

22.  Selling  intoxicating  liquors  without  license  is  a  violation  of 
the  law  of  the  land.  If  such  violation  involves  moral  turpitude,  it  is 
an  otTence  against  Masonr}-.  Whether  it  is  or  not  is  a  question  for 
each  lodge  to  determine  for  itself. 

24.  Where  there  are  several  candidates  for  the  same  degree  to  be 
balloted  for.  it  is  permissible  for  the  worshipful  master  to  direct  a 
ballot  for  all  the  petitioners  presented  for  that  degree,  and  if  no 
blackball  appears,  declare  them  all  elected.  But  if  there  is  one  or 
more  blackballs,  then  a  separate  ballot  must  be  had  on  each  petition. 

28.  What  is  meant  by  "a  secret  ballot"  is  a  ballot  by  the  use  of 
the  balls,  and  in  taking  a  secret  ballot  the  balls  sliould  be  employed, 
the  lodge  having  the  right  to  determine  arbitrarily  before  ballot  the 
effect  of  the  color  of  the  balls.  Written  ballots  are  not,  strictly 
speaking,  secret  ballots,  nor  is  it  unmasonic  to  reveal  how  such  a 
written  ballot  was  cast. 

30.  No  lodge  in  this  jurisdiction  without  dispensation  from  the 
grand  master  has  authority  to  ballot  or  confer  two  degrees  on  the 
same  candidate  at  one  communication. 

■}3.  Representatives  of  subordinate  lodges  in  the  grand  lodge  are 
the  agents  and  servants  of  the  several  subordinate  lodges  which  they 
represent,  and  it  is  the  right  of  tht-  lodges  to  instruct  their  represen- 
tatives as  to  their  wishes,  and  the  dut}'  of  the  representatives  to  obey 
the  wishes  of  the  lodge  which  they  severally  represent. 

37.  While  the  fact  that  one  applying  for  the  degrees  in  Masonry 
is  under  indictment  for  an  offence  not  involving  moral  turpitude  does 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  58 


not  of  itself  prevent  the  degrees  being  conferred  upon  him.  if  other- 
wise acceptable,  still  under  these  circumstances  the  character  of  the 
applicant  should  be  carefull}'  investigated.  Masonry  is  independent 
of  the  courts,  civil  or  criminal,  except  that  conviction  in  the  state 
courts  of- an  offence  involving  moral  turpitude  carries  with  it  the  pre- 
sumption of  guilt,  and  throws  ui)on  the  accused  the  burden  of  proving 
his  conviction  wrongful.     No  such  presumption  attends  an  indictment. 

39.  The  secretary  of  a  lodge  has  no  authority  to  receive  from  a 
dimitted  member  grand  lodge  dues.  The  grand  lodgfe  of  Georgia  re- 
ceives dues  only  from  members  in  good  standing  in  sulsordinate  lodges 
and  through  the  medium  of  subordinate  lodges.  A  dimitted  Mason  is 
not  entitled  to  be  borne  on  the  roll  of  a  grand  lodge  or  receive  the 
benefits  of  Masonry  in  any  way  until  he  properly  affiliates  and  through 
the  medium  of  a  subordinate  lodge  transmits  his  grand  lodg'e  dues  to 
that  body. 

40.  An  illegitimate,  whose  character  is  otherwise  such  as  to  en- 
title him  to  the  benefits  of  Masonry,  is  not  debarred  therefrom  in 
consequence  of  his  birth.  It  is  not  what  may  be  a  man's  birth,  pro- 
vided he  is  free  born,  but  what  is  his  real  character  that  entitles  him 
to  or  debars  him  from  the  benefits  of  Masonry. 

44.  A  petitioner  who  has  lost  all  the  fingers  of  his  left  hand  is  not 
Ijhysically  qualified  to  receive  the  degrees  in  Masonry. 

54.  The  proper  method  to  obtain  waiver  of  jurisdiction  is  for  the 
candidate  to  apply  to  the  lodge  where  he  seeks  membership  and  for 
this  lodg'e  under  its  seal  to  apply  to  the  lodge  having  jurisdiction  over 
the  candidate  for  waiver  of  jurisdiction,  which  waiver  must  be  granted 
by  unanimous  secret  ballot.  Any  other  method  of  obtaining  waiver 
of  jurisdiction  is  irregular  and  improper. 

It  will  be  noted  that  Nos.  4,  21,  and  22  refer  to  different  aspects 
of  the  same  subject,  and  the  first  two  of  these  were  confirmed  with- 
out qualification.  With  reference  to  the  third,  we  hardly  know 
whether  there  is  conscious  irony  on  the  part  of  the  committee  on 
jurisprudence  in  the  use  of  the  word  "confirm"  when  they  say,  "we 
confirm  this  decision,  striking'  out  the  last  sentence  and  the  word  'if 
in  the  second  sentence,"  seeing  that  the  process  of  confirming  had  so 
metamorphosed  it  that  its  parent  couldn't  have  recognized  it.  The 
action  of  the  committee,  with  the  concurrence  of  the  grand  lodge, 
paved  the  way  for  the  subsequent  adoption  of  the  following: 

Resolved  hy  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Georgia,  in  the  110th  annual  commu- 
nication assembled,  that  from  and  after  the  passag'e  of  this  edict,  no 
man  who  deals  or  traffics  in  intoxicating'  liquors  shall  be  eligible  to 
membership  in  any  lodge  in  this  jurisdiction.  This  shall  not  aft'ect 
the  standing  of  any  who  are  already  members  of  the  order,  but  the 
g'rand  lodg'e  most  earnestly  urges  all  brethren  engaged  in  the  liquor 
business  to  find  some  other  occupation  not  contrary  to  the  laws  and 
principles  of  true  Masonry  as  well  as  of  the  laws  of  God. 

We  have  repeatedly  stated  our  grounds  for  holding  such  legisla- 
tion improper,  and  we  have  seen  no  reason  to  change  our  views.  The 
conditions  of  eligibility  for  Masonry  are  defined  by  the  landmarks, 
and  the  grand  lodge  is  not  authorized  to  add  to  or  take  from  the  con- 


54  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 


ditions  thus  imposed.  The  power  to  determine  whether  a  man  is  en- 
gaged in  a  calling  so  disreputable  as  to  bring  his  character  within 
the  inhibitions  of  the  immemorial  law,  is  lodged  in  the  individual  Ma- 
son, and  he  is,  as  he  should  be,  answerable  to  his  own  conscience  for 
the  manner  of  its  exercise.  And  this  power  of  determining  whether 
a  candidate  is  of  good  report  is  safely  lodged.  The  experience  of  the 
fraternity  proves  that  the  sentiment  of  the  lodge  on  these  subjects, 
which  is  the  sentiment  of  its  best  element,  is  fully  abreast  of  that  of 
the  community  about  it. 

No.  6  was  qualified  as  follows: 

There  being  no  such  legal  penalty  as  indefinite  suspension,  we  de- 
cide that  when  a  lodge  in  fact  pronounces  such  a  penalty  it  is  to  be 
considered  as  definite  suspension  for  twelve  months,  and  at  the  expi- 
ration of  that  time  the  member  so  punished  is  restored  to  member- 
ship at  once  on  payment  of  dues,  if  any,  for  which  he  was  in  arrears 
when  suspended. 

No.  14  was  confirmed  except  the  last  sentence,  which  was  held  to 
be  liable  to  be  misunderstood.  No.  15  was  approved,  improperly,  we 
think  as  we  hold  that  the  matter  is  entirely  within  the  control  of  the 
master  and  that  he  can  call  the  tyler  or  a  high  private  to  the  east  if 
it  so  please  him.  No.  17  goes  without  saying  and  was  confirmed  with- 
out comment,  and  the  committee  confessed  to  their  approval  of 
No.  18.  We  have  heard  of  balloting  for  candidates  in  job  lots  as  in- 
dicated in  No.  2;{,  but  have  never  before  heard  of  its  finding  defenders 
on  a  jurisprudence  committee.  The  committee  struck  out  the  last 
sentence  of  No.  28,  and  of  No.  30  say: 

We  attirm  this  decision  with  the  addition  of  the  following  words: 
"It  being  the  opinion  of  this  committee  that  the  edict  of  1892,  den}-- 
ing  the  right  of  the  grand  master  to  grant  dispensations  to  confer 
two  or  more  degrees  at  one  communication,  is  a  contravention  of  the 
ancient  landmarks  and  therefore  void."" 

No.  37  was  confirmed  after  having  the  word  "except""  and  all  fol- 
lowing it.  In  No.  39  has  finally  achieved  a  position  that  we  think  is 
absolutely  unique  among  grand  lodges  that  have  legislated  on  the 
subject  of  non-attiliation  to  the  extent  of  attaching  any  deprivations 
to  that  condition. 

It  is  manifest  that  all  i)rivative  legislation  against  unaffiliated 
Masons  has  a  commercial  root,  because  as  long  as  a  brother  pays  his 
dues  he  may  absent  himself  from  his  lodge  and  refrain  from  all  par- 
ticipation in  its  concerns  indefinitely— save  for  some  rare  accidental 
emergency  requiring  a  general  summons— without  exciting  remark. 
The  moment,  however,  he  takes  a  dimit  and  quits  paying  dues  he  be- 
comes an  object  of  absorbing  interest,  the  mark  for  a  fusillade  from 
grand  masters  and  committees,  as  being  worthy  only  to  be  "shot  to 
death  as  a  deserter."'      And  so  one  grand  lodge  after  another  has 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  55 

subjected  him  to  increasing  deprivations  until  the  Grand  Lod<^e  of 
Georgia  has  reached  the  logical  conclusion  that  he  must  be  divested 
of  the  last,  lingering  right — the  right  to  chip  in  for  the  general  wel- 
fare. Thus  the  campaign  which  was  entered  upon  to  prove  that  he 
was  unworth}^  because  he  didn't  pay,  ends  in  the  triumphant  discovery 
that  he  is  too  worthless  to  be  permitted  to  pa}'. 

"End  of  the  wonderful  one-hoss  shay, 
Logic  is  logic— that's  all  I  say." 

No.  40  was  properlj'  approved,  and  No.  44  would  pass  muster  any- 
where, even  where  the  "perfect  youth"'  theory  does  not  prevail — 
unless  it  be  Rhode  Island.     No.  54  was  confirmed,  with  this  addition: 

''In  all  cities  where  there  are  more  than  one  lodge,  the  rule  shall 
be  that  any  one  of  said  lodges  shall  have  power  and  authority  to  grant 
a  waiver  of  jurisdiction." 

This  reverses  the  rule  in  Illinois,  where  under  such  circumstances 
the  consent  of  all  the  lodges  is  required,  on  the  ground  that  what  is 
equally  the  possession  of  all  no  one  can  give  awa}'. 

The  grand  master  prefaced  his  report  of  the  results  of  the  "Vin- 
cent Montgomery  resolution"  with  a  strong  appeal  for  the  building 
of  a  Masonic  home,  manifestly  doing  his  best  to  break  the  force  the 
adverse  sentiment  disclosed.     Of  this  he  says: 

This  resolution  provided  that  the  grand  master  should  send  to 
each  subordinate  lodge  a  letter  of  inquiry  as  to  the  desire  of  this 
lodge  with  reference  to  building  a  Masonic  home,  and  the  amount 
each  lodge  would  contribute  thereto,  responses  to  be  made  to  the 
grand  secretary,  who  was  to  consolidate  the  same  and  furnish  them 
to  the  grand  master.  This  duty  has  been  performed,  and  with  the 
following  results: 

Replies  have  been  received  from.  225  lodges.  Of  these,  157  are 
opposed  to  building  a  home,  and  sixty-two  are  in  favor  of  it,  and  six 
will  instruct  delegates. 

These  reports  confirm  what  I  have  stated  before — upon  the  ab- 
stract question  of  building  a  home  the  Craft  is  divided,  but  when  we 
set  the  example  bj'  making  our  compensation  as  delegates  correspond 
with  our  actual  expenses,  or  nearly  so,  the  membership,  generally, 
will  gladly  respond  and  do  their  whole  duty  in  this  grand  undertaking. 

It  is  true  that  there  is  a  certain  contagiousness  in  the  enthusiasm 
which  is  ready  to  make  sacrifices,  but  it  is  fair  to  presume  that  a 
good  proportion  of  the  large  preponderance  of  the  lodges  giving  an 
adverse  answer — nearer  three-fourths  than  two-thirds — were  governed 
by  other  considerations  than  simple  apathy.  The  wide-spread  a  pri- 
ori judgment  which  the  exhaustive  Iowa  report  demonstrated  to  be 
correct — that  the  institutional  method  of  Masonic  benevolence  is  the 
least  economical  in  all  save  the  largest  jurisdictions,  if  not  in  all;  the 
obvious  fact  that  it  can  make  no  provision  for  those  who  do  not  need 
continuous  aid,  and  the  known  fact  that  many,  needy  to  the  point  of 


56  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 

actual  suffering  are  di.sinclined  to  accept  the  shelter  of  an  eleemos}-- 
nary  roof,  cannot  fail  to  have  impressed  many  thoughtful  brethren 
in  Georgia  as  elsewhere,  and  in  cheir  minds  doubtless  outweighed  the 
ecldt  which  might  accrue  to  the  fraternity  from  the  possession  of  a 
palatial  home. 

The  grand  master,  after  showing  that  the  grand  lodge  was  not 
living  within  its  income,  made  a  strong  appeal  for  an  immediate  re" 
duction  of  expenses.  Of  the  method  which  should  be  resorted  to  he 
says: 

These  expenses  can  not  be  reduced  fairl}'  in  but  one  direction. 
Salaries  are  as  low  as  they  should  be.  but  the  mileage  paid  delegates 
is  too  much.  At  present  delegates  to  the  grand  lodge  are  paid  ten 
cents  a  mile  both  ways.  Those  who  travel  on  railroads  pay  three 
cents  one  way  and  return  for  one  cent,  making  the  railroad  fare 
four  cents  for'the  round  trip,  thus  allowing  a  prolit  of  sixteen  cents 
on  each  mile  of  railroad  travel.  This  is  too  much  profit  for  a  master 
who  is  honored  by  being  the  head  of  a  Masonic  lodge:  too  much  for 
the  grand  lodge  "officers  more  highly  honored:  too  much  for  a  past 
grand  officer,  who  has  reaped  all  the  honors  in  the  past. 

This  is  unexceptionable  and  is  enforced  by  a  tabular  showing  of 
the  rates  paid  by  other  grand  lodges  which  he  thus  summarizes: 

From  this  table  you  will  gather  that  of  fiftj'-one  jurisdictions, 
there  are  twenty-one  which  pay  nothing  from  the  grand  lodge  treas- 
ury: that  nine  jurisdictions  pay  the  delegates  on  the  basis  of  actual 
traveling  expenses  and  no  per  dian;  that  twent3'-one  pa}'  ptr  ditnt 
ranging  from  SLoO  to  S.j.OO  a  day:  that  the  mileage,  when  paid,  ranges 
from  three  cents  both  ways  to  five  cents,  and,  strange  to  sa}',  that  not 
a  single  jurisdiction  which  pa3^s  mileage  and  per  dkni  pa3's  as  much  as 
does  the  grand  jurisdiction  of  Georgia. 

The  grand  master  made  another  suggestion  by  which  further  re- 
duction might  be  made — a  suggestion  not  explicit  but  implied — by 
showing  that  some  representatives  drew  out  more  in  mileage  and  jici' 
diem  than  their  lodges  paid  into  the  treasury  in  dues,  and  that  in  this 
way  137  lodges  cost  SI, TIM. 90  more  than  they  pay.  This  is  to  be  re- 
gretted because  it  paved  the  way  for  the  final  adoption  of  the  follow- 
ing after  it  had  failed  when  linked  with  a  proposition  to  reduce  the 
mileage  from  ten  cents  to  five. 

The  representative  of  no  lodge, heretofore  or  hereafter  chartered, 
shall  draw  from  the  funds  of  the  grand  lodge  any  sum  greater  than 
that  paid  into  the  grand  lodge  treasury  by  his  lodge. 

This  action  is  a  blow  at  the  principle  upon  which  an  equitable 
mileage  and  per  diem  system  is  founded.  Instituted  as  it  is  to  the  ex- 
press end  that  the  craftsmen  in  every  portion  of  the  jurisdiction, 
members  of  the  weak  and  distant  lodges  as  well  as  members  of  the 
strong  and  near,  shall  be  represented  in  grand  lodge  at  an  equal  in- 
dividual cost,  the  per  capita  tax  is  levied  upon  the  affiliated  Masons 
of  the  whole  jurisdiction — collected  it  is  true  through  the  lodges— for 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  57 

the  benefit  of  the  whole;  and  the  member  of  the  weak  or  distant 
lodge  pays  just  the  same  as  the  member  of  the  strong  or  the  centrally 
located. 

But  this  was  not  the  only  way  in  which  the  majority  showed  its 
appreciation  of  sacrifice  so  long  as  it  was  vicarious.  The  allowance 
of  the  grand  secretary — $1,500  for  his  own  salary  and  S300  additional 
for  stenographer  and  assistant  secretary — was  reduced  to  $1,300  for 
both  himself  and  his  stenographer,  he  to  continue  to  receive  his  con- 
stitutional perquisites  of  $10  for  engrossing  a  charter  and  affixing 
seal,  and  $1.00  for  affixing  seal  to  any  document;  this  in  a  jurisdiction 
containing  over  four  hundred  lodges.  The  committee  on  correspond- 
ence was  cut  down  to  one  member,  who  is  to  receive  a  beggarly  $50 
for  an  amount  of  work  which  in  any  other  line  requiring  the  same 
ability  and  scholarship  would  be  cheap  at  ten  times  that  amount. 

The  most  notable  achievement  in  the  way  of  saving,  which  bears 
equally  upon  all,  was  that  for  which  Grand  Master  Shannon  received 
the  especial  thanks  of  the  grand  lodge,  the  feat  unprecedented  in  re- 
cent years  of  dispatching  all  the  business  in  two  days,  and  thereby 
lessening  the  expenses  by  about  $1,200. 

We  note — that  we  may  not  lose  the  opportunity  unfortunately- 
offered  to  reiterate  our  protest — the  customary  record  of  a  large  num- 
ber (84)  of  brethren  expelled  for  non-payment  of  dues,  against  a  much 
smaller  number  who  suffered  the  same  for  what  are  elsewhere  con- 
sidered more  heinous  offences,  such  as  embezzlement,  forgery,  drunk- 
enness, and  adultery. 

The  grand  lodge  forfeited  one  charter  and  granted  nine  for  new 
lodges;  negatived  a  recommendation  of  the  grand  master  to  return 
to  the  old  practice  of  one  ballot  for  all  the  degrees,  and  pronounced 
impracticable  a  plan  proposed  by  a  past  master  and  commended  by 
the  grand  master  to  secure  funds  to  build  a  Masonic  Home  by  each 
Mason  contributing  his  income  for  the  two  St.  John's  days;  instructed 
a  lodge  to  bring  to  trial  one  of  its  members,  who  as  a  member  of  a 
special  committee  of  the  grand  lodge  twice  collected  his  mileage  and 
per  diem  for  the  same  service  and  had  failed  to  redeem  his  promise  to 
return  the  amount  wrongfully  collected,  and  ordered  that  in  future 
the  reports  on  correspondence  be  printed  only  in  the  proceedings,  thus 
depriving  the  body  of  timely  information  which  might  prove  of  great 
value  in  shaping  its  legislation. 

James  W.  Taylor,  of  Luthersville,  was  elected  grand  master; 
Andrew  M.  Wolihin,  Macon,  reelected  grand  secretary. 


We  are  grieved  to  learn  from  the  Iowa  report  on  correspondence, 
kindly  furnished  us  in  advance  by  Bro.  CoxE,  that  Grand  Secretary 
—  e 


58  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 


WOLIHIN  died  at  his  home  in  Macon,  February  22,  1897.  He  was  in 
his  sixty-seventh  3^ear;  forty-five  years  a  Mason:  forty  j-ears  a  mem- 
ber of  the  grand  lodge,  and  grand  secretary  since  1885. 


The  report  on  correspondence  (J2(j  pj).)  is  the  customary' mosaic 
of  recent  3'ears,  the  work  of  three  members  of  the  committee  each 
working  independently  on  different  proceedings.  The  committee  was 
composed,  as  in  preceding  years,  of  A.  Q.  Moody,  W.  E.  Mumford, 
and  W.  S.  Ramsay,  the  latter  being  chairman. 

Bro.  Moody  devotes  four  pages  to  a  discriminating  and  chiefly 
complimentary  review  of  Illinois  proceedings  for  1895.  He  quotes 
from  the  report  on  perpetual  jurisdiction  with  the  prefatory  remark 
that  the  committee  made  "a  middle  of  the  road  report,"'  strictly  ad- 
hering to  the  perpetual  theory,  and  closes  the  subject  with  the  fol- 
lowing: 

This  opinion  of  the  committee,  though  sustained  by  the  grand 
lodge,  seems  to  us  very  much  like  mere  dogmatic  assertion,  while  the 
grand  master  has  decidedly  the  best  of  the  argument. 

He  speaks  in  complimentary  terms  of  the  oration  of  Bro.  Black, 
and  devotes  a  page  of  kindly  comment  to  the  report  on  correspond- 
ence. 

The  Georgia  committee  is,  as  before  stated,  reduced  to  one  per- 
son for  the  coming  year,  and  Bro.  W.  S.  Ramsay  is  the  committee. 


IDAHO,  1896. 

29th  Annual.  Boise.  September  8. 

The  Idaho  proceedings  are  adorned  with  the  portraits  of  the  re- 
tiring grand  master,  Isidore  S.  Weiler.  and  Past  Grand  Masters 
George  Ainslee  (1890)  and  James  A.  Finney  (1893). 

Twenty-one  grand  jurisdictions  had  representatives  present  during 
the  session.  Past  Senior  Grand  Warden  Thomas  C.  Maupin,  the 
representative  of  Illinois  and  a  resident  of  Boise,  was  not  present. 

Grand  Master  Weiler  found  in  the  labors  and  experiences  of  the 
year  the  material  for  an  able  address  of  twenty-six  pages.  He  an- 
nounced the  death  of  the  grand  tiler,  Past  Senior  Grand  Warden 
Augustine  Haas,  who  was  elected  to  the  grand  west  when  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Idaho  was  organized,  aged  sixty-four;  of  Past  Senior  Grand 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  59 

Warden  Edwin  A.  Jordan,  aged  fif ty-eig-ht,  and  Past  Master  Isidore 
Schmidt,  the  representative  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Maryland,  aged 
forty-six. 

Bro.  Haas  was  a  pioneer  of  California  and  of  Idaho,  and  had  been 
assessor  of  one  county  and  probate  judge  of  another.  Bro.  Jordan 
had  been  a  member  of  the  Idaho  legislature,  and  at  the  time  of  his 
death  was  a  regent  of  the  State  Normal  school  at  Albion.  Bro. 
Schmidt  had  been  county  treasurer  and  clerk  of  the  district  court. 

The  grand  master  made  quite  a  number  of  decisions  and  rulings, 
chiefly  of  interest  to  those  living  under  the  Idaho  regulations,  and  a 
few  of  general  interest,  among  them  the  following: 

''Must  we  recognize  as  a  Alason's  daughter  one  whose  husband  is 
a  profane  but  whose  father  is  a  Master  Mason,  but  living  apart  from 
his  family?"  I  answered  that  the  relationshiji  of  father  and  daughter 
never  ceased. 

Which  is  manifestly  correct;  and  in  answering  the  question  when 
a  lodge  should  hold  its  meetings  under  the  somewhat  ambiguous  pro- 
vision that  "regular  meetings  of  this  lodge  shall  be  held  on  Wednes- 
day evenings  on  or  after  the  full  moon  of  each  month,"'  he  clearly 
gets  at  the  intent  and  meaning  of  the  law: 

Held  that  the  construction  of  the  word  "month"  has  always  been 
construed  as  meaning  lunar  month,  and  not  calendar  month.  The 
phases  of  the  moon  would  therefore  indicate  the  time  on  which  to 
hold  their  meetings,  which  at  times  would  miss  a  calendar  month 
entirely,  and  again,  would  take  place  twice  in  one  calendar  month. 

Under  the  provision  of  the  grand  lodge  by-laws  that  "called  meet- 
ings of  a  lodge  may  be  had  at  the  pleasure  of  the  worshipful  master," 
he  ruled  in  reply  to  a  question  whether  the  wardens  have  any  right 
to  call  a  special  meeting  other  than  for  funeral  purposes,  or  a  special 
meeting  being  called  by  the  master,  whether  either  of  the  wardens 
or  a  past  master  can  open  the  lodge  if  the  master  is  absent,  he  ruled: 

As  long  as  the  worshipful  master  remains  within  the  jurisdiction 
of  his  lodge  he  is  the  only  person  who  can  exercise  the  prerogative  of 
master.  In  his  absence  from  the  jurisdiction,  the  senior  warden  be- 
comes acting  master  until  his  return.  When  the  master  is  in  the 
jurisdiction  he  alone  has  the  authority  and  power  to  call  "a  called"' 
or  "special"'  meeting.  In  his  absence  the  senior  warden,  as  acting 
master,  alone  has  that  power,  which  devolves  upon  the  junior  warden 
in  the  absence  of  the  senior.  A  special  meeting  being  called  by  the 
master,  that  of  course  being  a  legal  meeting,  the  senior  warden  suc- 
ceeds to  the  east  for  the  time  being,  during  the  absence  of  the 
master.  In  the  absence  of  the  senior  warden  the  junior  opens.  If 
the  senior  warden  is  present  he  must  act  as  worshipful  master,  al- 
though he  may  procure  the  assistance  of  a  past  master.  In  the  event 
of  the  absence  of  the  master  and  both  wardens,  the  lodge  can  not  be 
opened  for  the  transaction  of  business  (except  on  funeral  occasions), 
even  if  there  were  forty  past  masters  present. 


60  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


In  Illinois,  where  the  law  expressly  says  that  no  one  but  the  mas- 
ter can  call  a  special  meeting  while  he  is  within  the  jurisdiction  of 
the  lodge  and  able  to  authorize  a  call,  it  was  held  after  exhaustive 
discussion  that  a  warden  presiding  in  the  absence  of  the  master  is 
clothed  with  aU  the  prerogatives  of  the  master  for  the  time  being, 
and  if  while  so  presiding  the  necessity  for  a  special  meeting  becomes 
apparent,  he  is  authorized  to  call  it. 

All  the  decisions  were  approved  without  qualification,  except  the 
following: 

1.  Can  one  member  object  to  another  member  of  the  same  lodge 
sitting  in  the  same  lodge  at  the  same  time?  2.  Will  the  party  mak- 
ing the  objection  be  compelled  to  state  to  the  worshipful  master  his 
reasons  for  making  his  objection?  '.i.  Does  it  become  the  dutv  of  the 
worshipful  master  to  state  to  the  party  objectionable  why  he  is  not 
wanted  in  the  lodge  room? 

The  master  of  a  lodge  can  exclude  a  member  if  the  harmony  of  a 
lodge  ma}'  require  it.  (Decisions  and  Resolutions,  1871,  p.  60.  Grand 
Lodge  Constitution  and  By-laws.)  A  member  can  only  file  his  objec- 
tions with  the  master,  give  his  reasons,  and  after  investigation  by 
himself  the  worshipful  master  is  the  sole  judge  of  the  suHlcienc}'  of 
the  reasons,  and  may  exclude  or  not  simply  by  order,  as  per  the  reso- 
lution quoted. 

Of  this  the  committee  on  jurisprudence  sa}-: 

Your  committee  approve  all  of  the  decisions  of  the  grand  master, 
but  would  add  to  the  last  decision  that  when  the  worshipful  master 
finds  that  any  two  members  of  his  lodge  are  unwilling  from  anv  cause 
to  meet  in  the  lodge  and  fraternize  as  brethren,  he  should  call  those 
brethren  before  a  committee  of  three  members  of  his  lodge,  for  the 
purpose  of  adjusting  the  difficulties  between  those  brethren;  and  if 
either  or  both  of  said  brethren  will  not  settle  their  difficulties  as  de- 
cided by  said  committee,  then  the  worshipful  master  should  cause 
charges  to  be  preferred  against  one  or  both,  as  the  facts  may  war- 
rant. 

It  would  seem  from  the  questions  to  which  the  decision  was  an 
answer,  from  the  decision  itself,  and  from  the  language  of  the  com- 
mittee, that  no  such  emergency  is  here  contemplated — such,  for  in- 
stance, as  intoxication,  that  might  threaten  open  violence  in  the 
lodge  room  —  as  would  justify  a  master  in  acting  without  the  war- 
rant of  any  written  law,  and  therefore  that  the  approval  of  the  de- 
cision was  based  on  the  resolution  quoted  b}'  the  grand  master. 
Hence,  as  it  seems  to  us,  the  approval  is  to  be  regretted,  because  it 
concedes  that  in  the  absence  of  that  necessity  which  knows  no  law, 
one  of  two  brethren  whose  rights  in  the  lodge  are  equal  may  at  the 
instance  of  the  other  be  temporarily  deprived  of  his  rights -not  only 
on  an  ex  parte  hearing,  but  on  an  ex  parte  hearing  by  the  master  alone, 
instead  of  by  the  lodge,  who  are  declared  by  the  paramount  law  to 
be  "the  pro]icr  and  comjietent  judges  of  all  such  controversies."' 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE  61 

An  inquiry  from  a  lodg'e  which  had  received  the  petition  of  an  En- 
tered Apprentice  inclosed  the  following  naive  confession  in  behalf  of 
a  Quebec  lodge: 

Montreal,  March  19,  1896. 
To  the  Worshipful  Master,  Officers,  and  3£embers  of  Hailey  Lodge  No.  16, 

A.F.  and  A.IL: 

This  is  to  certify  that  our  worthy  brother,  John  Rafter,  was  initi- 
ated in  Zetland  Lodge  No.  12,  A.F.  and  A.M.,  Grand  Lodge  of  Quebec, 
in  the  city  of  Montreal,  on  the  14th  of  November,  1895,  and  that  owing 
to  unforseen  circumstamces  he  returned  to  his  home  in  Idaho  previous 
to  his  further  advancement,  and  at  his  request  the  worshipful  mas- 
ter, officers  and  brethren  of  Zetland  Lodge  No.  12  would  ask  your 
lodge  to  confer  the  second  and  third  degrees  upon  Bro.  John  Rafter, 
and  that  whatever  fees  your  by-laws  may  call  for  will  be  paid  by  him. 

Yours  fraternally, 

(Signed)  Henry  Dunne, 

Past  Master  and  Secretary. 

18  Brunswick  street,  Montreal. 

This  would  indicate  the  most  innocent  ignorance  on  the  part  of 
Zetland  lodge  that  there  exists  such  a  thing  as  a  jurisdictional  line; 
either  this  or  they  are  slier  than  Joe  Bagstock. 

Grand  Master  Weiler  replied  to  Hailey  lodge: 

This  grand  lodge  does  not  recognize  the  right  of  any  Masonic 
lodge  outside  of  its  jurisdiction  to  confer  any  of  the  degrees  upon  a 
resident  of  Idaho  without  first  obtaining  consent  of  the  lodge  within 
whose  jurisdiction  petitioner  resides  and  of  this  grand  lodge;  hence 
you  can  not  recognize  Mr.  Rafter  as  an  Entered  Apprentice,  and 
therefore  have  no  right  to  advance  him.  Zetland  Lodge  No.  12, 
Ancient,  Free,  and  Accepted  Masons,  of  Montreal,  has  clearly  tres- 
passed on  the  jurisdictional  rights  of  your  lodge  and  this  grand  lodge 
in  conferring  the  Entered  Apprentice  degree  on  Mr.  Rafter,  and  I 
shall  present  the  matter  to  this  grand  lodge  at  its  next  session. 

Illinois,  like  Idaho,  denies  the  right  of  any  lodge  outside  of  the 
one  within  whose  territory  the  petitioner  resides  to  make  him  a  Ma- 
son without  the  consent  (which  is  sufficient,  the  grand  lodge  having 
no  voice  in  the  question  of  waiver,)  of  the  lodge  having  jurisdiction. 
If  a  trespass  is  committed  by  a  lodge  in  Illinois  the  grand  lodge  will 
bring  the  offending  lodge  to  book  for  it;  if  by  a  lodge  elsewhere,  it 
will  complain  to  the  grand  lodge  whose  constituent  has  offended,  and 
endeavor  to  secure  indemnity  for  the  past  and  security  for  the  future; 
and  if  the  individual  who  has  irregularly  received  the  degrees  outside  of 
the  lodge  of  his  residence  has  obtained  them  by  fraudulent  representa- 
tions, it  will  endeavor  to  secure  his  proper  punishment.  But  after 
much  experience  and  careful  deliberation,  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois 
declines,  even  when  smarting  under  an  affront  to  itself  in  the  continued 
invasion  of  the  territory  of  its  lodges  in  the  face  of  repeated  protests, 
to  deny  the  Masonic  status  to  whoever  is  made  in  a  regular  lodge 
lawfully  at  labor  under  the  regulations  of  a  grand  lodge  recognized 


62  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 


as  the  lawful  Masonic  authority  in  that  {,rrand  jurisdiction.  To  deny 
the  validitj'  of  work  done  by  a  confessedly  regular  lodge  lawfully  at 
labor  is  to  invoke  Masonic  chaos,  because  such  validity  is  the  funda- 
mental postulate  upon  which  all  stability  rests.  The  temptation  to 
resort  to  it  under  the  aggravations  of  trespass  is  hard  to  resist,  be- 
cause it  is  the  handiest  efficient  weapon,  but  it  is  worse  than  a  boom- 
erang— which  in  skillful  hands  may  injure  only  the  enemy — because 
guilt}'  and  innocent  must  all  share  in  the  injury  it  intlicts. 

In  1895  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Idaho  adopted  the  Wisconsin  proposi- 
tion touching  Masonic  relief,  which  was  quite  nearly  in  accord  with 
its  own  previous  deliverances.  Grand  Master  Weiler  reports  his 
findings  in  a  case  in  point,  referred  to  him  for  report  at  the  preced- 
ing session.  He  found  that  a  lodge  which  had  paid  $80  for  nursing  a 
brother  injured  while  in  its  jurisdiction  was  entitled  to  be  reimbursed 
to  the  full  amount  of  its  claim,  and  that  the  injured  brother  had 
made  affidavit  that  he  was  unable  to  paj^  the  sum  himself.  The  juris- 
prudence committee,  the  grand  lodge  concurring,  held  that  the  reim- 
bursement should  be  by  the  lodge  of  which  he  was  a  member,  and 
being  satisfied  that  the  brother  was  then  able  to  paj-  the  eighty  dol- 
lars, recommended  that  his  lodge  demand  it  of  him  on  pain  of  expul- 
sion in  case  of  his  failure  to  pa}'  it  within  thirty  days. 

If  this  plan  succeeds  it  may  be  a  saving  to  the  grand  lodge,  as 
there  is  some  evidence  that  the  brother's  lodge  is  not  financially  able 
to  spare  the  money,  and  it  will  be  remembered  that  under  the  Wis- 
consin plan  the  burden  under  such  circumstances  rightfully  falls  on 
the  grand  lodge  from  which  the  cripi)led  lodge  holds  its  charter. 
The  case  is  instructive  as  showing  how  placing  the  matter  of  relief 
"on  a  business  basis"'  may  work  when  there  is  danger  that  the  dut3'of 
reimbursement  will  finally  fall  on  the  bod}'  which  holds  the  whip. 

The  grand  master  recommended  setting  apart  a  day  for  decorat- 
ing the  graves  of  the  fraternal  dead,  and  the  grand  lodge  adopted  a 
resolution  authorizing  the  lodges  to  open,  hold  memorial  services, 
and  participate  in  the  ceremonies  of  Decoration  day — May  .SO— for 
the  purpose  of  decorating  the  graves  of  the  Masonic  dead,  without 
other  dispensation  therefor.  The  grand  master's  recommendation 
seems  to  have  grown  out  of  the,  to  him,  noticeable  absence  of  flowers 
upon  Masonic  graves  on  the  last  recurrence  of  the  day  at  Boise.  He 
says: 

The  graves  of  the  dead  in  our  cemeteries  were  decorated  and 
strewn  with  lieautiful,  fragrant  flowers  by  their  comrades,  friends, 
relatives,  and  brothers,  and  it  was  a  noticeable  fact  on  this  occasion 
that  with  the  exception  of  a  few  no  flowers  were  laid  u))on  the  graves 
that  mark  the  last  resting  place  of  our  departed  brethren.  As  Ma- 
sons, then,  let  us  set  aside  one  day  and  pay  an  annual  tribute  of  re- 
spect to  our  own  dead. 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  63 

As  we  were  reflecting  on  the  real  value  of  an  observance  whose 
motive  was  in  part,  at  least,  a  desire  to  keep  up  with  the  procession, 
we  remembered  without  other  bidding'  the  story  of  two  New  Hamp- 
shire regiments  at  Port  Royal  during  the  late  war.  in  one  of  them 
a  religious  revival  was  in  progress,  and  when  this  was  reported  to 
the  colonel  of  the  other,  with  the  information  that  the  chaplain  had 
that  day  baptized  fifty  men,  he  at  once  ordered  a  detail  of  one  hun- 
dred men  to  be  baptized.     "I'll  be  d d,"  said  he,  "if  I  am  going  to 

have  Col. lay  over  me." 

Under  the  sub-heading,  "Masonic  (?)  Life  Insurance  Associa- 
tions," the  grand  master  discusses  a  subiect  which  is  likely  to  increas- 
ingly occupy  the  attention  of  the  craft.    He  says: 

The  time  has  arrived  for  action  on  the  part  of  grand  lodges  in 
whose  jurisdiction  exist  corporations  organized  for  the  purpose  of 
insuring  the  lives  of  Masons  only,  and  bearing  the  name  "Masonic." 
It  has  not  been  very  long  since  an  agent  representing  one  of  these 
associations  in  one  of  the  Middle  Western  states  passed  through  here 
and  settled  two  death  claims  with  a  promise  to  pay,  in  the  future,  as 
near  forty  per  cent  of  the  amount  injured  as  possible,  assigning  therefor,  as 
the  only  reason,  the  mismanagement  of  their  former  officials.  There 
are  a  number  of  Masons  in  this  jurisdiction  who  have  been  members 
and  paid  their  assessments  in  this  association  for  the  past  eight  years 
who  carry  no  other  insurance.  Some  of  them  are  now  aged  and  other- 
wise physically  disqualified  from  further  life  insurance,  and  what  is 
their  condition?  Not  only  have  they  lost  the  amount  paid  into  this 
association,  but  they  find  themselves  without  that  protection  to  their 
families  which  they  thought  they  had  provided.  Their  faith  in  the 
association  was  absolute.  Why?  Because  it  carried  with  it  the 
name  "Masonic,"  which  to  them  was  a  guarantee  for  honesty  and  for 
the  faithful  performance  of  the  obligations  made  to  them.  If  the 
grand  lodges  in  whose  jurisdiction  the  business  of  these  associations  is 
transacted  would  exercise  a  supervision  over  them,  by  appointing  a 
committee  to  examine  and  investigate  at  stated  periods  the  books 
and  general  financial  status  of  their  atfairs,  a  recurrence  of  such 
high-handed  practices  as  instanced  would  be  avoided,  and  the  craft 
protected  against  further  impositions  of  this  nature. 

A  special  committee  reported  and  the  grand  lodge  adopted  the 
following: 

Whereas,  There  are  a  number  of  life  insurance  associations 
doing  business  within  several  of  the  Masonic  grand  jurisdictions  of 
the  United  States,  and 

Whereas,  These  associations  invite  and  solicit  patronage  and 
membership  from  Master  Masons  in  good  standing  only,  and 

Whereas.  The  financial  responsibility  of  these  associations  is 
not  established:  therefore,  be  it 

Mesolved,  That  for  the  protection  of  the  members  of  our  fraternity 
against  imposition  by  fraudulent  or  irresponsible  associations  organ- 
ized for  the  purpose  of  insuring  the  lives  of  Master  Masons,  it  is  the 
sense  of  this  grand  lodge  that  the  attention  of  our  sister  grand  lodges 
in  whose  jurisdiction  these   associations   are   established  is   hereby 


64  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


directed  to  the  foregointj,  that  they  may  take  such  action  as  will  pre- 
vent a  further  recurrence  as  instanced  in  the  most  worshipful  {jrand 
master's  address  upon  this  subject. 

There  is  no  more  reason  whj'  <jrand  lodges  should  have  tolerated 
trading  on  the  Masonic  name  by  life  insurance  organizations  than  by 
any  other  reputable  business  enterprise.  Indeed,  there  are  stronger 
reasons  why  it  should  be  forbidden  to  them,  because  in  most  lines  of 
business  the  Mason  of  ordinary  intelligence  would  say  at  once  that 
there  could  not  be  any  authoritative  Masonic  guarantee  behind  the 
enterprise;  while  in  this  direction  it  is  to  be  remembered  that  there 
are  large  numbers  of  Masons  who  being  also  members  of  so-called 
fraternal  associations,  created  for  the  express  purpose  of  doing  an 
insurance  business,  and  therefore  predisposed  to  fall  in  with  the  im- 
plied if  not  direct  suggestion  that  in  this  line  there  is  an  added  guar- 
antee in  the  name.  To  attempt  to  engraft  the  insurance  feature 
upon  the  institution  itself  is  revolutionar}',  and  grand  lodges  in  per- 
mitting the  seeming  have  been  derelict  in  their  duty.  That  duty  is 
not  supervision,  but  prohibition:  and  we  are  more  relieved  than  we 
can  tell  that  Illinois  has  finally  led  the  way  to  that  end,  the  following 
then  pending  amendment,  copied  with  approval  bj'  Bro.  Stevenson 
in  the  Idaho  report,  having  since  become  a  law: 

No  Mason  shall  give  the  Masonic  name  to  any  business  concern, 
association,  or  calling  organized  or  prosecuted  for  profit  or  for  a 
livelihood.  No  Mason  shall  use  or  be  a  party  to  the  using  of  the  Ma- 
sonic name  as  a  part  of  the  style  and  title  or  designation  of  any  busi- 
ness firm,  concern,  company,  association,  or  enterprise,  unless  such 
business  shall  be  the  printing  or  ])ublishing  of  Masonic  books,  papers, 
or  periodicals,  or  the  manufacture  and  sale  of  Masonic  supplies. 

The  grand  lodge  chartered  two  new  lodges:  took  favorable  action 
on  the  Colorado  proposition  for  the  memorial  observance  of  the  cen- 
tennial anniversary  of  Washington's  death:  referred  the  matter  of 
the  invasion  of  the  jurisdiction  of  an  Idaho  lodge  by  Zetland  lodge, 
of  Quebec,  to  the  grand  master-elect  for  adjustment:  ordered  the 
compilation  and  printing  of  its  bjj^-laws,  decisions,  and  resolutions  in 
force:  directed  that  in  future  the  grand  treasurer  and  secretary 
should  give  bonds;  recognized  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Oklahoma;  enacted 
that  an  elected  candidate  might  be  barred  from  receiving  the  degree 
of  Entered  Apprentice  b}-  summary  objection:  appropriated  S2r>0  to 
enable  the  grand  master  to  visit  lodges:  sent  his  recommendation 
that  lodges  under  dispensation  be  clothed  with  disciplinarj-  powers  to 
a  special  committee  to  report  next  year:  levied  a  per  capita  tax  of 
eighty  cents  to  put  the  representative  fund  on  a  paying  basis;  re- 
stricted the  appointment  of  grand  representatives  to  members  of  the 
grand  lodge,  and  limited  their  tenure  of  office  to  five  years;  ban- 
quetted  with  the  local  fraternity  on  the  night  of  the  second  day  of 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  65 


the  session,  and  included  the  ladies  of  the  Eastern  Star  in  its  ac- 
knowledgments for  that  occasion. 

Fred  G.  Mock,  of  Nampa,  was  elected  grand  master;  Charles 
C.  Stevenson,  Boise,  re-elected  grand  secretary. 

The  report  on  correspondence  (168  pp.)  is  again  from  the  prac- 
ticed and  discriminating  hand  of  the  grand  secretary,  Charles  C. 
Stevenson,  who  reviews  the  proceedings  of  fifty  American  grand 
lodges,  including  those  of  Illinois  for  1895. 

He  summarizes  in  a  comprehensive  way  the  address  of  Grand 
Master  Goddard,  and  the  tone  which  indicates  his  general  satisfac- 
tion with  it  becomes  changed  when  he  comes  to  speak  of  what  he  calls 
the  extreme  view  of  Illinois  on  the  perpetual  jurisdiction  question. 
He  regards  the  perpetual  idea  as  an  innovation,  and  that  he  has  dis- 
covered another  we  can  not  deny.     He  says: 

A  learned  and  eloquent  oration  was  delivered  by  Bro.  John  C. 
Black,  grand  orator.  We  notice  an  innovation  in  his  style  of  address- 
ing the  grand  master,  he  using  the  profane  and  commonplace  saluta- 
tion of  '-J/r.  Grand  Master.'' 

In  the  report  on  correspondence  which  he  has  under  review,  we 
were  inclined  to  doubt  the  wisdom,  especially  in  a  new  country, 
of  a  provision  of  law  which  "makes  it  impossible  for  an  affiliated 
Mason  to  join  in  a  petition  for  a  dispensation  for  a  new  lodge  without 
having  his  membership  in  the  chartered  lodge  suspended  during  the 
life  of  the  dispensation,  and  terminated  if  the  new  lodge  receives  a 
charter,"  which  moves  him  to  say: 

The  learned  brother  apparently  does  not  comprehend  the  mean- 
ing of  our  new  amendment  concerning  petitions  for  lodges  under  dis- 
pensation. The  old  law  provided  that  no  one  could  sign  a  petition 
for  a  new  lodge  without  accompanying  the  petition  with  his  dimit. 
We  having  adopted  the  New  York  law  of  dimission  rendered  it  rather 
awkward  concerning  new  lodges;  hence  the  late  amendment.  As  it 
now  stands  the  lodge  to  which  a  brother  belongs  sends  to  the  pro- 
posed new  lodge,  to  which  the  brother  desires  to  connect  himself,  a 
certificate,  which  takes  the  place  of  a  dimit.  Upon  the  granting  of  a 
charter  his  membership  is  consummated  in  the  new  lodge;  otherwise 
he  returns  to  the  old  one.  There  is  no  such  thing  as  becoming  a  non- 
affiliate  in  Idaho. 

He  misses  the  point  of  our  criticism,  which  had  no  reference  to 
possible  non-affiliation,  but  referred  to  the  fact  that  it  prevented  an 
affiliated  Mason  from  lending  his  name  to  help  start  a  new  lodge  with- 
out losing  his  membership  in  his  own,  a  practice  that  prevails  almost 
everywhere. 

In  expressing  his  hearty  approval  of  the  Illinois  legislation  pro- 
hibiting the  use  of  the  Masonic  name  for  business  purposes,  he  ex- 
presses the  opinion  that  it  "should  also  refer  to  all  so-called  Masonic 
life  insurance  companies."     If  he  will  study  it  carefully  he  will  find, 


66  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


we  think,  that  its  meshes  are  not  lar<»'e  enough  to  let  fish  of  that 
size  slip  throujrh.  The  only  exceptions  to  its  sweeping  provisions  are 
"the  printing  or  publishing  of  Masonic  books,  papers,  or  periodicals, 
or  the  manufacture  and  sale  of  Masonic  supplies."' 

In  18i»3  we  spoke  of  Bro.  Stevenson  as  having  confounded  us  with 
some  one  who  had  been  "led  into  skeptical  utterances  not  worthy-  of 
the  man,"  and  said  that  when  he  had  carefully  and  vainly  searched 
what  we  had  written  for  something  npon  which  to  predicate  such  a 
statement  about  i<,s-,  we  should  be  ready  to  accept  his  apology.  He 
now  practically  confesses  that  his  search  thus  far  has  been  vain,  but 
the  apology  is  not  forthcoming. 

Bro.  Stevenson  reproduces  the  plea  of  the  grand  master  of 
Texas  for  the  recognition  of  the  Gran  Dieta  of  Mexico,  and  says: 

We  quote  the  above  for  the  information  of  our  Idaho  brethren, 
but  at  the  same  time  we  do  not  endorse  all  the  sentiments  therein 
expressed.  Masonry  is  not  a  reformatory  institution,  and  we  believe 
that  the  Gran  Dieta  should  be  left  alone  until  it  shall  have  arrived  at 
the  proper  understanding  of' Masonry.  If  the  charges  alleged  against 
Mexico  are  true,  American  grand  lodges  are  decidedly  out  of  place 
in  recognizing  her.     As  it  stands  now,  we  will  watch  and  wait. 

He  concludes  his  interesting  report  with  a  "Roll  of  Honor" — a 
list  of  the  grand  representatives  of  Idaho  who  w^ere  present  at  the 
meetings  of  their  respective  grand  lodges.     Illinois  is  not  in  it. 


INDIANA,  1897. 

7Gth  Annual.  Indianapolis.  May  2'). 

The  frontispiece  of  the  Indiana  volume  is  a  portrait  of  Grand 
Master  Niblack,  and  facing  it  is  a  cut  of  the  Masonic  hall  at  Indian- 
apolis, from  1848  to  187").  The  grand  secretary  has  also  been  able  to 
add  two  more  to  the  gallery  of  portraits  of  past  grand  masters  pub- 
lished last  year— John  Sheets,  grand  master  from  1821  to  18:13,  and 
William  Sheets,  grand  master  from  18.31  to  1832. 

Among  the  twenty-five  grand  jurisdictions  represented  was  Illi- 
nois, in  the  person  of  Benjamin  W.  Willoughby,  now  grand  marshal. 

The  grand  lodge  of  Indiana— always  abreast  of  the  procession- 
has  a  new  wrinkle:  when  the  grand  master  had  concluded  the  reading 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  67 


of  the  list  of  the  dead  he  paused  and  the  grand  chaplain,  the  Rev. 
GUSTAV  A.  Carstensen,  offered  a  prayer,  which,  like  his  invocation 
at  the  opening  is  a  model  of  comprehensive  brevity.  Our  busy  neigh- 
bors know  a  good  thing  when  they  have  it,  and  Bro.  Carstensen  was 
reappointed. 

The  grand  master  (Simeon  P.  Gillett)  reported  the  following  in 
which  his  own  action  seems  to  have  had  the  harmlessness  of  the  dove 
as  well  as  the  wisdom  of  the  serpent,  and  won  the  approval  of  the 
grand  lodge. 

November  12,  189(5,  I  received  from  the  grand  master  of  New  York 
a  request  to  recall  the  commission  of  Bro.  Joseph  R.  Short,  jr.,  as 
representative  of  this  grand  lodge,  and  to  aj^point  Bro.  Joseph  P. 
Abel  in  his  stead.  Bro.  Short  has  held  the  office  for  some  twenty- 
three  years,  is  a  worthy  Mason  against  whom  no  complaint  can  be 
urged,  other  than  that  he  is  growing  old.  Not  feeling  justified  in  re- 
moving a  faithful  servant  without  cause,  I  informed  the  grand  master 
of  New  York  that  I  would  gladly  comply  with  his  request,  if  Bro. 
Short  should  resign  his  commission.  Nothing  further  has  been  heard 
in  the  matter. 

The  following  unusual  case  was  not,  so  far  as  we  can  discover,  re- 
viewed by  the  grand  lodge. 

A  complaint  was  made  by  Bro.  J.  Winter,  an  E.A.,  against  Dar- 
lington Lodge  No.  186.  Bro.  Winter  was  made  an  E.  A.  At  the  con- 
ference of  the  second  degree,  he  made  objection  to  the  proceedings, 
and  said  that  he  did  not  care  to  proceed  under  the  circumstances 
and  demanded  a  return  of  two-thirds  of  the  fee.  The  lodge  refused. 
I  held  that  while  the  lodge  would  be  wise  to  let  such  material  go,  yet 
as  they  were  ready  and  willing  to  comjily  with  their  part  of  the  con- 
tract, and  Bro.  Winter  refused  to  proceed,  the  latter  only  was  in 
fault,  and  the  lodge  was  not  bound  to  refund  any  portion  of  the  fee. 

There  may  have  been  something  not  appearing  in  the  record 
which  influenced  the  grand  master  in  his  ruling,  but  for  all  that  does 
appear,  we  think  that  in  view  of  the  fact  that  the  progress  as  well  as 
the  entrance  of  a  candidate  is  of  his  own  free  will  and  accord,  the 
balking  brother  was  entitled  to  a  rebate  of  so  much  of  the  fee  as 
the  regulations  under  which  the  contract  was  made  apportioned  to 
the  second  and  third  degrees. 

The  grand  master  reported  a  case  of  well  grounded  complaint  of 
the  invasion  of  the  jurisdiction  of  an  Illinois  lodge  by  a  lodge  under 
dispensation  in  Indiana,  which  was  promptly  and  satisfactorily  settled 
by  his  ordering  the  latter  to  pay  over  to  the  former  the  fees  received 
from  its  rightful  material. 

In  a  case  reported  under  the  head  of  "Complaints"  and  including 
a  blanket  approval  of  his  decisions  and  opinions  in  such  cases,  the 
grand  master  on  verification  of  information  of  "a  trial  in  which  the 
testimony  was   utterly  ignored,  and   the  verdict  not  in  accord  with 


68 


APPENDIX. — PART    T. 


the  facts  proved,"  set  aside  the  verdict  and  ordered  the  lod<je  to  retry 
the  case.  As  he  does  not  speak  of  any  irrejfularity  in  the  proceedings, 
such  as  are  ordinarily  held  to  warrant  executive  interference,  we  in- 
fer that  in  Indiana  the  grand  master  is  given  appellate  powers  on  the 
merits  of  the  cause. 

The  grand  master  decided  that  under  the  wording  of  the  Indiana 
regulations  a  lodge  might  receive  the  petition  of  an  ai)plicant  prior 
to  his  attaining  his  twenty-tirst  birthday,  but  must  not  initiate  him 
before  he  is  of  full  age  (a  proceeding  that  is  barred  in  Illinois,  the 
law  expressly  prohibiting  the  reception  of  a  petition  from  one  under 
the  age  of  twenty-one);  that  the  statute  of  limitations  does  not  apply 
to  Masonic  offences,  and  announced  as  his  seventh  decision  the  fol- 
lowing: 

T.  I  received  this  telegram: 

"Grant  dispensation  to  confer  the  three  degrees  on  Brown  .Jr., 
immediately,  case  of  emergenc}'.  Brown.  Sr., 

3Iaster  No. ." 

It  can  not  be  done. 

Appearing  in  that  guise  we  take  it  to  be  Indiana  law  that  a  dis- 
pensation can  not  be  granted  by  telegraph. 

The  grand  secretary,  WILLIAM  H.  Smythe,  at  the  conclusion  of 
his  report  announced  the  projected  publication  on  his  own  account  of 
a  digest  of  Indiana  decisions,  to  embrace  almost  every  subject  con- 
tained in  the  general  regulations  of  the  grand  lodge  of  Indiana,  pro- 
vided the  grand  lodge  approved — which  it  did.  The  book  will  contain 
the  gleanings  of  twent3'-eight  active  Masonic  working  j-ears.  nineteen 
of  them  spent  in  the  service  of  the  grand  lodge,  and  must  prove  a 
work  of  great  value  not  only  to  Indiana  Masons  but  to  all  who 
wish  to  study  the  evolution  of  Masonic  jurisprudence.  The  jurispru- 
dence committee  had  lots  of  work  to  do,  did  it  well,  and  reported  the 
results  tersely  and  ably.  Under  its  lead  the  grand  lodge  reiterated 
its  total  but  fraternal  dissent  from  the  Wisconsin  proposition  that 
"it  is  the  duty  of  a  lodge  to  take  care  of  its  own  members  in  distress 
wherever  they  may  be:  and  that  in  case  of  its  inability  to  do  so  this 
duty  devolves  upon  the  grand  lodge  from  which  it  holds  its  charter." 
the  matter  having  been  again  considered  at  the  request  of  the  grand 
lodge  of  Wisconsin,  and  added: 

The  grand  lodge  of  Indiana  has  at  all  times  contended  and  held, 
that  a  Mason  in  distress  is  entitled  to  aid  and  assistance  from  the 
fraternit}-  wherever  he  may  be  at  the  time  of  his  need,  and  that,  as  a 
matter  of  law,  his  lodge  is  not  bound  to  make  anj*  restitution,  though 
it  may  always  do  so  at  its  own  option. 

Touching  the  action  of  the  grand  lodge  of  Mississippi  ordering 
that  the  commissions  of  grand  representatives  to  or  from  that 
grand  lodge  who  had  failed  for  two  years  to  attend  the  communica- 


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tions  of  the  bodies  to  which  they  are  accredited  be  withdrawn,  to 
which  action  the  grand  lodge  of  Mississippi  has  called  the  attention 
of  other  grand  lodges  by  a  circular  letter,  the  committee  temperately 
and  wisely  say,  the  grand  lodge  concurring: 

It  is  perfectly  competent  for  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Mississippi,  or  of 
any  other  grand  jurisdiction  to  revoke  or  withdraw  its  commission  to 
its  grand  representative  near  any  other  grand  lodge  for  non-attend- 
ance at  the  grand  lodge  to  which  he  is  accredited  for  any  certain 
period,  and  for  any  cause  it  may  deem  sufficient  in  obedience  to  its 
laws  and  regulations.  But  such  grand  lodge  has  no  power  to  revoke 
or  withdraw  a  commission  which  it  has  not  issued.  It  may  make  com- 
plaint to  the  grand  lodge  that  issued  the  commission  to  the  representa- 
tive, and  ask  to  have  such  commission  revoked  because  of  the  failure 
of  its  representative  to  actually  be  present  at  the  meetings  of  the 
grand  lodge  to  which  he  is  accredited  and  discharge  the  duties  of  his 
trust;  and  in  that  way,  in  a  proper  case,  the  commission  might  be 
revoked. 

The  committee  also  had  the  approval  of  the  grand  lodge  in  their 
strong  condemnation  of  the  unlawful  and  disreputable  use  of  cypher 
texts  of  the  work;  in  sternly  setting  their  faces  against  various  propo- 
sitions such  as  dropping  from  the  rolls,  dispensing  with  personal  ser- 
vice of  notice  of  charges  and  the  like  for  non-payment  of  dues, 
regarding,  as  they  say,  the  inestimable  rights  of  Masonry  as  far  too 
sacred  to  be  forfeited  by  the  mere  automatic  operation  of  law,  and 
declaring  that  "it  is,  and  always  has  been,  conceded  one  of  the  funda- 
mental laws  of  Masonry  that  no  brother  can  be  deprived  of  the  rights 
and  privileges  of  the  fraternity,  or  subjected  to  discipline  without 
due  notice  and  trial  by  his  lodge,"  in  which  we  heartily  concur;  and 
its  approval  also  in  declaring  the  status  of  members  of  a  suspended 
lodge  during  the  period  of  suspension  to  be  that  of  Master  Masons  in 
good  standing,  and  in  the  elaborately  argued  opinion  that  in  opening 
and  closing  the  lodge  the  knocks  begin  in  the  south,  basing  their 
opinion  upon  several  obvious  and  ingeniously  stated  analogies  and 
upon  the  usage  under  the  Webb-Preston  work,  which  they  style  the  only 
legitimate  ritual  of  the  fraternity. 

The  committee  successfully  opposed  a  proposition  to  qualify  the 
ban  laid  on  "the  use  of  intoxicating  liquors  as  a  beverage,"  by  insert- 
ing after  the  word  "the"  the  words  "excessive  and  habitual,"  as 
deftly  proposed  by  Bro.  Septimus  Vater,  "to  conform  the  law  to  the 
existing  fact,"  and  upon  the  ground  that  Masonry  is  already  cheap 
enough,  defeated  a  proposition  to  reduce  the  minimum  fee  for  the 
degrees  to  fifteen  dollars. 

The  grand  lodge  granted  six  charters,  took  favorable  action  on 
three  petitions  for  dispensations  for  new  lodges  and  referred  a  fourth 
to  the  grand  master,  and  revoked  the  charters  of  three  moribund 
lodges;  authorized  the  grand  secretary  to  cause  the  remains  of  Alex- 


APPENDIX. — PART   I. 


ANDER  BucKNER — the  first  ffrand  master  of  Indiana,  and  at  the  time 
of  his  death  United  States  Senator  from  Missouri— now  l3'ing  in 
an  unmarked  grave  on  a  farm  known  as  the  ''Looney  Place"  near 
Cape  Girardeau,  Missouri,  to  be  removed  to  Jackson  or  Cape  Girar- 
deau and  his  grave  marked  by  a  suitable  monument:  sent  a  message 
of  sympathy  and  encouragement  to  Past  Grand  Master  Andrew  J. 
Hay,  reported  as  then  lying  seriously  ill:  recognized  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  New  Zealand;  referred  a  proposition  for  holding  ''Masonic 
Institutes''--corresponding  to  our  schools  of  instruction — to  the  in- 
coming grand  master  to  consider  and  report  next  year:  agreed  to  do 
all  that  may  be  considered  reasonably  within  its  power  to  promote 
the  Washington  memorial  observance:  reduced  the  grand  lodge  dues 
to  twenty-five  cents  per  capita  and  one  dollar  for  each  candidate 
initiated;  made  provision  for  securing  a  historj-  of  Freemasonry  in 
Indiana  and  appointed  Past  Grand  Master  Daniel  McDonald  as 
historian,  and  adopted  the  following,  offered  by  Past  Grand  Master 
Bellamy  S.  Sutton: 

Whereas,  Individuals,  associations,  and  others  are  now  using  the 
words  "Mason"'  and  "Masonic"'  and  Masonic  emblems  as  designations 
for  the  advancement  of  their  business  and  personal  gains;  therefore. 

Ees(jlvcd,  That  this  grand  lodge  disapi)roves  of  all  such  methods 
and  schemes,  and  hereafter  it  shall  be  deemed  a  Masonic  offence  for 
any  Mason  or  Masonic  organization  to  use  such  words  or  methods  to 
further  their  business. 

Mason  J.  Niblack,  of  Vincennes,  was  elected  grand  master; 
William  H.  Smythe,  Indianapolis,  re-elected  grand  secretary. 

The  report  on  correspondence  (157  pp.)  reviewing  the  proceedings 
of  fifty-eight  English  speaking  grand  lodges  and  containing  notices 
of  a  large  number  of  foreign  grand  bodies  of  various  descriptions,  is 
the  work  of  Past  Grand  Master  Nicholas  R.  Ruckle.  Although  it 
Is  his  first  report  the  'prentice  hand  is  nowhere  visible.  It  is  charac- 
terized by  wide  knowledge,  quick  apprehension,  great  power  of  con- 
densation and  clearness  of  statement,  and  unfailing  courtesy  and 
fraternal  spirit. 

Four  pages  are  given  to  Illinois  proceedings  for  189G.  Among 
other  things,  he  says  this  of  Grand  Master  Scott's  address: 

He  is  strongly  opposed  to  life  memberships,  whether  created  bj' 
the  payment  of  a  lump  sum  in  advance,  or  by  the  payment  of  dues 
for  a  fixed  number  of  3'ears.  His  statement  of  the  disastrous  effects 
is  a  strong  one:  but  the  evils  may  be  avoided  b}'  fixing  an  amount  to 
be  paid  which  will  yield  a  sum  equal  to  the  annual  dues  for  the  calcu- 
lated expectancy  of  life. 

This  is  obviously  true  in  large  measure,  but  the  average  ma- 
jority of  the  average  lodge  does  not  often  demonstrate  its  capacity 
to  make  uniformly  productive  investments  or  its  appreciation  of  their 


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necessity  in  such  cases.  He  characterizes  Bro.  Stevenson's  oration 
as  beautiful  and  impressive,  and  pays  the  report  on  correspondence 
the  compliment  of  summarizing  the  views  of  the  author  on  subjects 
mentioned  in  his  introduction.  He  errs,  however,  in  crediting  the 
recommendation  that  the  Grand  Lodge  of  the  Island  of  Cuba  be  rec- 
ognized to  this  committee,  in  whose  view  the  recognition  of  that  body 
as  a  legitimate  governing  power  in  Masonry  by  a  grand  lodge  of  Free 
and  Accepted  Masons,  is  both  unwarranted  and  unwise. 

Of  the  logical  outcome  of  an  acceptance  of  the  Wisconsin  propo- 
sition relative  to  Masonic  relief — ''Charity  grown  wild, "he  terms  it — 
Bro.  Ruckle  says: 

No  one,  as  an  individual  or  as  a  Mason,  as  a  lodge  or  as  an  associa- 
tion of  lodges,  has  the  right  to  incur  for  any  person  or  Mason,  or  so- 
ciety of  Masons,  any  indebtedness  or  obligation  to  pay,  be  it  great  or 
small,  without  obtaining  explicit  consent,  however  meritorious  the 
object  or  however  great  and  sublime  the  benevolence.  If  it  is  de- 
manded that  Masons  shall  be  entitled  to  relief  at  the  expense  of 
their  particular  lodges,  at  the  option  of  other  lodges  or  persons,  it 
will  necessitate  the  raisin^  of  the  fees  and  the  annual  dues  to  an 
amount  that  will  pay  annuities  and  pensions.  Very  few  of  the  lodges 
in  the  country,  or  in  the  smaller  towns,  assess  annual  dues  to  exceed 
the  sum  of  the  actual  expenses  3^ear  by  year.  In  cases  of  distress 
brethren  are  provided  for  by  the  persoiial  aid  and  assistance  of  their 
fellows.  The  members  expect  to  profit  only  by  Masonic  fellowship 
and  brotherly  love  in  their  daily  walks.  And  nowhere  are  the  bonds 
of  Masonry  stronger  and  brighter  than  in  the  better  class  of  the 
small  lodges.  When  a  member  of  such  a  lodge  becomes  sick  or  dis- 
tressed away  from  home,  the  lodge  has  no  funds  from  which  to  repay 
the  amount  expended  for  the  relief  of  the  brother. 

If  Masonry  is  to  resolve  itself  into  an  accumulation  of  immense 
grand  lodge  charity  funds,  then  there  must  be  paid  at  initiations, 
such  equitable  sums,  as  will,  with  the  accumulations,  be  sufficient  to 
provide  relief  for  all  members  who  may  apply.  This  will  be  indeed  a 
great  benevolent  institution,  with  all  the  abuses  and  all  the  benefits 
that  grow  from  great  charities,  but  it  will  not  be  the  Masonry  of  the 
Ancient  Landmarks. 

Bro.  Ruckle  criticises  sparingly,  but  enough  to  indicate  his  views 
on  most  subjects  of  importance  and  we  should  be  glad  to  summarize 
them  if  time  permitted.  We  are  glad  to  note  that  he  is  continued  in 
the  service  for  the  coming  year. 


APPENDIX.— PART   I. 


INDIAN  TERRITORY,  1896. 

2;iRD  Annual.  Muscogee.  August  11. 

The  representative  of  Illinois,  Past  Grand  Master  Joseph  Samuel 
MURROVV,  was  present  and  on  duty  in  his  accustomed  i:)lace — the 
southeast. 

The  grand  master  (John  Coyle)  announced  the  death  of  David 
Dallas  Flow,  who  died  greatly  beloved  at  the  early  age  of  forty- 
three. 

The  grand  master  submitted  several  decisions  from  which  we 
take  the  following: 

2.  Has  a  non-affiliated  Mason  the  right  to  object  to  the  conferring 
of  the  degrees  on  a  candidate? 

No.  The  members  of  a  lodge  are  the  sole  judges  as  to  whom  they 
will  make  Masons. 

3.  A  man  petitions  a  lodge  and  is  rejected;  afterwards  there  is  a 
new  lodge  formed  and  he  lives  within  the  territor\'  of  this  new  lodge. 
Which  lodge  has  jurisdiction  over  him? 

Taking  it  for  granted  that  both  lodges  are  in  this  grand  jurisdic- 
tion, the  one  that  rejected  him  has  jurisdiction. 

4.  There  is  a  F.C.  in  our  lodge  who  wishes  to  take  the  M.M.  de- 
gree, but  a  member  of  our  lodge  objects  on  the  grounds  that  he  is 
indebted  to  him.  Has  the  master  power  to  stay  his  advancing,  or 
must  charges  be  preferred? 

The  master  can  stay  his  advancing  until  next  regular  meeting. 
If  charges  are  not  preferred  by  that  time  the  brother  should  be  ad- 
vanced. 

0.  A  lodge  asks  me  to  give  them  authority  to  have  two  stated 
meetings  in  each  month.  I  replied  that  article  VIII,  section  9,  of  the 
constitution  says  a  lodge  shall  have  not  more  than  one  stated  meeting' 
in  each  month. 

The  committee  on  law  and  usage  confessed  that  Xo.  2  was  so  far 
right  that  the  members  of  the  lodge  must  ultimately  be  the  sole 
judges  in  the  matter,  but  thought  committees  of  investigation  were 
bound  to  take  notice  of  any  information  bearing  upon  the  advisability 
of  making  the  petitioner  a  Mason.  No.  3  was  held  to  be  correct  under 
their  regulations.  In  Illinois  it  is  held  that  while  no  lodge  can  re- 
ceive the  ])etition  of  a  rejected  candidate  without  the  consent  of  the 
rejecting  lodge,  neither  can  the  rejecting  lodge  receive  it  if  he  has 
meanwhile  moved  elsewhere,  without  the  consent  of  the  lodge  of 
his  present  residence.  No.  4  is  commendable  as  doing  substantial 
justice  to  both  parties.     The  constitutional  i)rovision  mentioned  in 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE. 


No.  6  presumably  has  some  reason  for  existing,  but  as  we  can  see  no 
good  reason  for  forbidding  a  lodge  to  hold  two  or  more  stated  meet- 
ings in  each  month  if  business  and  the  convenience  of  the  members 
require  them,  we  copy  the  decision  hoping  Bro.  MuRROW  can  en- 
lighten us. 

The  grand  secretary,  Past  Grand  Master  MURROW,  reports  the 
number  of  suspensions  for  non-payment  of  dues  as  being  more  than 
twice  as  numerous  than  in  any  previous  year  of  their  history.  His 
remarks  on  this  subject  show  him  to  be  a  close  observer,  and  that  his 
preparation  for  Masonry  began  in  the  right  place — the  heart.  He 
wisely  saj^s  that  "an  ounce  of  prevention  is  worth  a  pound  of  cure," 
and  that  "dues  frequently  paid  in  small  sums  is  much  better  than  to 
allow  them  to  accumulate  until  they  are  so  large  that  the  debtor  is 
unwilling  or  unable  to  pay,  and  is  suspended  for  non-payment."  Con- 
tinuing he  says: 

I  repeat,  brethren,  that  a  good  secretary  needs  to  be  a  good  col- 
lector. On  the  other  hand,  lodges  should  be  very  lenient  towards 
members  who  are  poor.  Charity  and  fraternity  are  worth  more  than 
money.  I  am  glad  grand  lodge  excuses  the  lodges  from  paying  grand 
lodge  dues  for  old  and  poor  members  who  are  exempt  from  dues  in  the 
lodges.  I  believe  this  is  right.  Did  you  ever  think,  brethren,  that  a 
great  many  of  the  non-affiliates  are  old  men?  Once  they  bore  the 
burden  and  heat  of  the  day  in  their  lodges.  They  were  active,  paying 
members.  Gradually  they  gave  away  to  younger  men,  which  was 
right.  Old  age,  feebleness,  and  poverty,  have  forced  them  to  ask  for 
dimits,  perhaps  unwillingly.  They  would  gladly  have  their  names 
continue  on  the  roll.  Once  they  could  and  did  pay  their  dues  easily 
and  cheerfully.'  Now  their  income  is  very  small.  They  are  too  old  to 
make  money,  and  rather  than  become  a  burden  or  be  suspended,  they 
ask  for  dimits.  Brethren,  while  we  are  righteously  considering  the 
claims  of  the  orphan  children  and  widows  among  us,  let  us  not  forget 
or  neglect  our  old  brethren  who  are  poor  and  need3^ 

The  grand  lecturer  too  (W.  A.  McBride)  has  his  eyes  open  and 
makes  good  use  of  his  large  opportunities  for  observation.     He  says: 

Another  serious  matter  is  that  many  brethren,  who  are  by  no 
means  punctual  in  attendance  at  the  regular  meetings,  are  always 
present  at  the  annual  election  of  officers.  They  have  not  kept  posted 
as  to  who  is  qualified  and  often  vote  for  a  personal  friend  as  master 
regardless  of  his  fitness  for  the  position.  In  thi's  way  many  lodges 
are  burdened  with  inefficient  officers  and  healthy  growth  is  retarded. 
The  office-seeking  tendency  is  a  dangerous  one  and  the  result  is  dis- 
astrous.    In  Masonry  the  office  should  always  seek  the  man. 

The  grand  orator,  the  Rev.  Robert  W.  Hill,  D.D.,  read  a  long 
address  on  "The  Name  of  God."  Its  elegant,  easy-flowing  style  re- 
flects the  strong  mind  and  the  wide  and  profound  scholarship  of  its 
genial  author,  and  stamp  the  paper  as  a  remarkable  one,  at  once 
lifting  the  volume  which  contains  it  into  an  exceptional  place  in 
grand  lodge  literature. 

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APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


The  grand  lodge  chartered  six  new  lodges:  forraallj-  welcomed  as 
visitors  A.  W.  Fisher  and  DeFokest  D.  Leach,  deputj'  grand  master 
and  past  deputy  grand  master  of  their  daughter  grand  lodge,  Okla- 
homa: made  it  mandatory  that  seventy-five  per  cent  of  all  monies 
remaining  after  deducting  the  necessary  current  expenses  be  invested 
for  the  use  of  the  widows  and  orphans  fund;  fixed  upon  Ardmore, 
Chickasaw  Nation,  as  the  place  of  next  meeting;  made  past  masters 
members  of  the  grand  lodge  without  remuneration  for  attendance; 
took  up  a  handsome  altar  collection  for  two  worth}'  and  needy  objects 
of  charity  in  whose  behalf  an  appeal  had  been  made:  and  having  pro- 
vided for  a  system  of  visitation  and  lecturing  whose  possible  cost  was 
not  realized  until  a  startling  statement  of  Grand  Treasurer  McAl- 
ester  gave  warning  of  probable  disaster,  made  the  grand  master, 
grand  treasurer,  and  grand  secretary  an  executive  committee  with 
power  to  apportion  the  amount  expended  for  disseminating  the  work 
and  to  keep  the  expense  within  the  income  of  the  grand  lodge. 

Silas  Armstrong,  of  Wyandotte,  was  elected  grand  master: 
Joseph  Samuel  Murrow,  of  Atoka,  reelected  grand  secretary. 

The  following  minute  respecting  the  installation  is  of  more  than 
passing  interest: 

Grand  Master  Coyle  requested  Past  Grand  Master  J.  S.  Murrow  to 
install  Grand  Master-elect  Silas  Armstrong.  Grand  Master  Murrow. 
on  assuming  the  grand  east,  stated  that  for  nearly  forty  years  he  had 
been  a  missionary  among  the  Indians.  That  having  labored  for  this 
race  with  all  his  powers,  he  naturally  loved  the  Indian  people.  That 
ever  since  the  grand  lodge  was  organized  he  had  longed  to  see  some 
man  with  Indian  blood  predominating  qualifj-  himself  for  the  position 
of  grand  master.  That  his  hopes  were  now  realized,  and  that  it  was  a 
great  pleasure  to  him  to  install  into  the  office  of  grand  master  of 
Masons  of  Indian  Territory  an  Indian  by  blood  and  especially  so  good 
a  man  as  Grand  Master  Armstrong. 

The  report  on  correspondence  (156  pp.)  is  this  year  by  Past  (Jrand 
Master  Leo  E.  Benxett.  His  is  not  exactly  a  "prentice  hand,  as  he 
has  sometimes  lent  his  aid  in  reviewing:  but  this  is  his  first  full  re- 
])ort,  and  it  is  one  for  which  he  may  well  be  willing  to  stand  sponsor. 
Four  years'  service  in  the  grand  east,  and  active  participation  in  the 
labors  of  his  grand  lodge  at  every  session  since  he  was  made  a  Master 
Mason,  have  given  him  a  wide  practical  knowledge  of  Masonry,  its 
jurisprudence,  and  jurisdictional  relations,  with  which  under  the  guid- 
ance of  a  trained  mind  and  a  truly  Masonic  spirit,  to  enrich  his 
report. 

In  his  introduction  he  touches  more  or  less  at  length  upon  several 
subjects  now  uppermost.  Upon  perpetual  jurisdiction,  touching 
which  he  holds  the  views  of  his  grand  lodge,  whose  law  makes  juris- 
diction over  rejected  material  perpetual  as  between  lodges  of  its 
obedience,  only  to  lapse  entirely  whenever  it  passes  out  of  the  Terri- 


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tory;  upon  ''railroading'  in  Masonry,'"  or  conferring  degrees  out  of 
time,  which  to  him  is  an  evil  which  smacks  of  keeping'  pace  with  so- 
called  rival  societies  which  often  try  to  ape  Masonr}':  upon  nonaffilia- 
tion,  a  problem  to  whose  solution  he  confesses  his  inability  to  offer 
anything'  new,  but  which  he  treats  with  great  moderation,  and  upon 
publishing  the  ritual  which  he  justly  characterizes  with  great  severity, 
especially  condemning'  unsparing'ly  the  action  of  g'rand  lodg'es  who 
set  the  example  to  the  brethren  and  then  punish  them  for  following' 
it;  upon  the  grand  representative  system  which  he  agrees  with  the 
majority  is  productive  of  increased  fraternal  fellovvshij);  upon  the 
right  of  advancement,  anent  which  he  is  in  full  accord  with  their 
own  law, -which,  like  that  of  Illinois,  guarantees  to  whoever  they 
make  an  entered  Apprentice  that  he  has  attained  certain  rights  not 
granted  to  the  profane,  which  are  not  to  be  taken  away  or  nullified 
without  a  hearing,  a  guarantee  to  which  the  one  ballot  for  the  three 
degree  is  essential;  upon  the  Wisconsin  proposition  touching  Ma- 
sonic relief,  which  he  looks  upon  with  no  more  favor  than  it  has  met 
in  most  grand  lodges  who  have,  like  his  own  considered  it  only  to  con- 
demn it;  upon  electioneering  for  office  of  which  he  says  that  few 
grand  lodges  have  not  felt  its  demoralizing  effects,  and  he  might 
truthfully  have  said  that  many  lodges  have  felt  its  baleful  influence; 
and  upon  the  secrecy  of  the  ballot,  concerning  which  we  are  not  dis- 
Ijosed  to  dispute  his  assertion  that  it  ought  to  get  more  attention 
than  it  receives. 

Illinois  proceedings  for  1895  receive  careful  and  appreciative  at- 
tention.    He  says  of  the  grand  master's  face  and  address: 

The  perfect  features  of  Grand  Master  Leroy  A.  Goddard.  which 
adorn  the  volume,  beam  forth  upon  opening  the  book,  a  pleasant 
countenance  of  one  in  the  full  vigor  of  life.  His  address  is  a  masterly 
presentation  of  the  aft'airs  of  his  office,  to  the  service  of  which  he  has 
doubtless  given  a  great  deal  of  time  and  labor. 

He  disapproves  the  grand  master's  recommendation  that  the  Ma- 
sonic burial  service  he  conducted  without  opening  the  lodge,  but  thus 
expresses  his  approval  of  his  views  on  another  subject: 

He  is  opposed  to  the  Illinois  claim  of  perpetual  jurisdiction  which 
follows  an  unfortunate  victim  to  his  grave.  So  are  we,  as  a  commit- 
tee, and  the  "we"'  is  applicable  to  our  grand  lodge. 

And  yet  we  gather  from  his  review  of  Kentucky  that  in  his  own 
jurisdiction  the  same  claim  follows  the  unfortunate  victim  to  the 
same  bourne  unless  he  leaves  the  Territory  before  he  reaches  it. 

Bro.  Bennett  compliments  the  oration  of  Bro.  Black  very 
highly,  and  is  very  generous  in  his  characterization  of  the  Illinois  re- 
port on  correspondence.  He  says  of  our  attitude  towards  the  Mexican 
hybrid: 


APPENDIX. — PART   I. 


He  is  clearly  against  the  recognition  of  the  Gran  Dieta  Simbolica 
of  Mexico,  and  from  his  standpoint  is  able  to  arraj*  a  number  of  force- 
able  arguments  against  its  legitimacy- 

Which  reminds  us  of  the  diplomatic  rei)ly  of  Mr.  LiN'COLN  when 
his  opinion  was  asked  as  to  a  speech  he  had  heard:  "Well,  if  a  man 
likes  that  kind  of  a  speech,  it  was  about  the  sort  of  a  speech  a  man 
would  like." 

Further  on,  however,  we  find  the  following  comment  on  the  spe- 
cial report  of  Past  Grand  Master  Miller,  of  Kansas,  by  the  adoption 
of  which  the  Mexican  bod}' was  recognized  by  that  grand  lodge,  which 
indicates  that  our  statidpoints  may  not  be  very  far  apart: 

We  olTer  no  criticism,  though  we  incline  to  the  views  of  Bro.  Rob- 
bins,  of  Illinois.  At  least,  we  are  not  satisfied  of  the  correctness  of 
the  conclusions  arrived  at,  and  do  not  think  that  the  Gran  Dieta 
Simbolica  has  made  out  a  case  for  favorable  action. 

He  further  sa3's: 

He  copies  the  report  of  our  law  and  usage  committee  in  the  mat- 
ter of  the  petition  from  Savanna  lodge  in  regard  to  electioneering, 
and  comments  as  follows:  "We  heartilly  congratulate  the  grand  lodge 
that  they  are  able  to  properly  size  up,  at  long  range,  the  serpent  which 
has  happily  thus  far  been  unable  to  penetrate  this  aboriginal  Eden." 
We  regret  to  confess,  dear  brother,  that  we  have  been  tempted  quite 
successfully,  and  have  observed  some  marked  evidence  of  canvassing 
for  votes,  both  in  grand  lodge  and  in  subordinates.  Can  you  advise 
how  to  "freeze  'em  out':"' 

We  can  only  advise  him  to  keep  hammering  awa^-  until  the  uni- 
versal lip  service  to  the  time-honored  axiom,  "'Electioneering  for 
office  is  unmasonic,"  shall  become  universalh'  something  more,  so 
that  whoever  violates  it  either  in  lodge  or  grand  lodge  shall  find  him- 
self where  he  belongs— at  the  foot  of  the  poll. 

We  value  the  compliment  of  his  belief,  since  justified  by  the  event, 
that  if  we  revised  our  judgment  in  the  LaFa^-ette  case,  we  would 
say  so. 

Bro.  Bennett  submits  a  table  of  statistics  of  his  own  compila- 
tion from  the  proceedings  reviewed.  We  save  ourselves  a  mountain 
of  labor  by  filching  the  figures  of  Bro.  Anthony,  of  New  York,  the 
latest  that  come  to  our  hand. 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  77 

IOWA,  1897. 

54th  Annual.  Oskaloosa.  June  1. 

One  always  approaches  the  review  of  the  Iowa  proceedings  with 
a  sort  of  hopeless  feeling — there  is  such  an  embarrassment  of  riches. 
This  is  true  of  the  proceedings  themselves;  it  is  doubly  true  of  the 
large  amount  of  miscellaneous  matter — Masonic,  quasi  Masonic,  anti- 
Masonic,  non-Masonic  matter  embraced  between  the  attractive  cov- 
ers of  the  volume  under  review. 

The  volume  is  illustrated  with  portraits  of  Grand  Master  Dewey, 
Grand  Secretary  Parvin  (a  full-length  sitting  picture  taken  in  his 
office),  Theodore  Schreiner,  the  beloved  old  grand  tiler  who  has 
just  gone  over  to  the  majority,  and  Past  Grand  Master  James  R.  Hart- 
sock,  whose  ashes  or  whose  memory,  or  both,  are  still  so  much  of  an 
offence  to  the  grand  secretary  that  the  latter  identifies  him  without 
naming  him  when  he  explains  that  it  was  not  meant  that  the  portrait 
should  appear  last  year,  but  that  inadvertently  it  found  a  place  in  a 
number  of  the  volumes  as  they  were  bound  (as  it  did  in  ours);  with 
views  ot  the  Iowa  Masonic  Library,  exterior  and  interior,  and  by  fac 
simile  of  the  petition  for  and  the  dispensation  to  the  first  lodge  created 
after  the  organization  of  the  grand  lodge,  the  first  official  documents 
issued  by  the  latter. 

The  grand  master  (George  W.  Ball)  announced  the  death  of 
Theodore  Schreiner,  grand  tiler  from  June,  1859,  until  his  decease 
in  April,  1897,  or  nearly  thirty-eight  years.  He  was  in  his  seventy- 
sixth  year.  The  grand  master  also  referred  to  the  death  of  Mrs. 
Agnes  M.  Parvin,  wife  of  Grand  Secretary  Parvin,  in  her  seventy- 
eighth  year,  and  of  Mrs.  LuciEN  C.  Blanchard,  wife  of  Past  Grand 
Treasurer  Blanchard,  in  her  forty-seventh  year.  Both  were  ac- 
corded memorial  tributes  and  tablets  by  the  grand  lodge,  and  the 
husband  of  the  former  found  in  her  interest  in  what  had  been  to  him 
a  chief  interest  throughout  their  married  life  of  more  than  half  a 
century  and  her  acquaintance  and  friendship  with  all  the  prominent 
Masons  of  the  jurisdiction,  adequate  warrant  for  a  touching  and  ap- 
preciative tribute  to  her  character  and  memory  in  his  report  as 
grand  secretary. 

At  the  outset  of  his  address  the  grand  master  made  an  appeal  to 
the  galleries  by  a  fervid  reference  to  the  suffering  Cubans,  Cretans) 
and  Armenians,  and  this  was  re-echoed  by  the  committee  on  address, 
and  by  the  grand  lodge.  It  does  not  need  the  experiment  of  such  an 
appeal  to  demonstrate  the  sympathy  of  an  American  audience  with 


APPENDIX.  — PART   I. 


any  people  stru<^trl'"f^  ^'^^  liberty,  whether  that  audience  be  made  up 
of  Freemasons  or  not,  and  until  there  is  reason  to  believe  that  the 
world  suspects  the  Freemason  of  being  less  in  sympathy  with  the  op- 
pressed than  his  neighbor  outside  of  the  fraternit}-,  it  seems  ques- 
tionable wisdom  at  best  to  invoke  from  a  Masonic  bod\-  a  deliverance 
which  might  become  the  edge  of  a  wedge  of  broadening  precedents 
for  the  intrusion  of  subjects  clearly  barred  by  the  ancient  law,  and 
which  can  hardlj'  fail  to  strengthen  the  suspicion  of  those  who  fear 
that  Masonry  aims  at  becoming  a  factor  in  the  political  affairs  of 
states  and  nations. 

The  grand  master,  while  recommending  the  reconsideration  of 
the  Wisconsin  plan  of  Masonic  relief,  agreeable  to  the  request  of 
that  grand  lodge,  gives  strong  and  convincing  reasons  for  his  conclu- 
sion that  "when  such  a  law  is  adopted  the  Masonic  fraternity  loses 
its  character  as  a  purely  charitable  and  benevolent  organization,  and 
assumes  the  character  of  an  insurance  companj-,""  in  all  of  which  he 
had  the  concurrence  of  the  grand  lodge. 

The  grand  master  presented  the  subject  of  an  alleged  interna- 
tional Masonic  congress  to  be  held  in  Switzerland  next  year,  at  which, 
as  explained  b\  the  committee  of  the  Grand  Lodge  Alpina,  ''all  Masons, 
of  whatever  system  or  ritual,  will  be  invited  to  take  part,  but  its 
transactions  will  be  conducted  exclusively  upon  the  basis  of  Symbolic 
Masonry."'  In  view  of  the  fact  that  the  influences  are  still  uppermost 
which  for  the  last  decade  have  made  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Iowa  chiefly 
conspicuous  for  its  subserviency  to  the  claims  of  a  pinchbeck  impe- 
rialism, we  can  well  understand  the  reluctance  of  the  special  commit- 
tee to  which  this  invitation  was  referred,  to  forego  any  opportunit}-  to 
consort  with  every  form  of  dissent  from  the  original  plan  of  Masonry, 
and  their  confessed  embarrassment  when  confronted  with  the  alter- 
native of  giving  up  this  chance  or  incurring  the  expense  of  sending 
delegates  several  thousand  miles.  They  were,  however,  equal  to  the 
emergency,  and  obtained  the  assent  of  the  grand  lodge  to  a  proposition 
to  empower  the  grand  master  and  grand  wardens  to  appoint  delegates 
to  attend  the  congress  with  a  proviso  that  such  appointment  and  at- 
tendance shall  be  without  expense  to  the  grand  lodge.  Thus  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Iowa  is  committed  to  the  assumption  that  organized  dissent 
of  whatever  system  or  ritual  may  meet  on  an  equal  footing  the  grand 
lodges  of  the  original  plan  to  discuss  the  affairs  and  the  government 
of  Masonry:  the  brethren  appreciate  the  solicitude  of  the  committee, 
and  the  Propaganda  can  congratulate  itself  on  having  scored  its 
point  as  completely  as  if  the  grand  lodge  were  to  be  actually  repre- 
sented at  the  congress— and  all  without  cost  to  the  imperial  ex- 
chequer. 

The  grand  master  presents  as  a  part  of  his  address  a  brief  in  be- 
half of  the  Gran  Dieta  Simbolica  of  Mexico  and  its  request  to  be  re- 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  79 

cosifnized  as  the  lawful  governing  bod}'  of  Ancient  Craft  Masonry  in 
that  republic,  of  which  nothing  need  be  said  except  that  it  appears  to 
have  been  condensed  from  a  ''special  report"  on  Mexican  Masonry  by 
Grand  Secretary  Parvin,  or  to  have  been  inspired  by  the  author  of 
that  paper.  At  all  events  the  grand  master  got  side-tracked  early  as  a 
factor  in  the  business  of  recognizing  the  Mexican  hybrid,  the  reins 
being  taken  so  completel}-  in  hand  by  the  grand  secretary  that  even 
the  grand  lodge  seems  to  have  been  unable  to  direct  the  course  of  pro" 
cedure.  Immediately  after  the  reports  of  the  grand  officers  had  been 
submitted  and  automaticallj'^  referred  by  the  operation  of  law,  the 
grand  secretary  put  in  a  volunteer  paper  on  Mexican  Masonry  which 
he  calls  a  "special  report,"  although  he  does  not  appear  by  the  record 
to  have  been  commissioned  by  anybody  but  himself  to  air  his  views 
upon  the  subject.  This  paper — the  record  says— was  at  that  time,  ''by 
order  of  the  grand  master,  referred  to  the  special  committee  having 
under  consideration  so  much  of  the  address  of  the  grand  master  as  re- 
fers to  the  same  subject."  Now  there  was  then  no  special  committee  in 
existence  having  under  consideration  that  portion  of  the  address  refer- 
ring to  Mexican  Masonr}-,  and  that  no  such  committee  was  then  fore- 
shadowed seems  clear  from  the  fact  that  the  standing  committee  to 
whom  the  grand  master's  address  went  for  review  and  distribution 
under  the  law  had  not  reported,  and  when  it  did  report  later  in  the 
day  it  sent  the  whole  matter  —with  the  concurrence  of  the  grand  lodge 
— "to  the  committee  on  jurisprudence,  to  determine  whether  recogni- 
tion of  said  Gran  Dieta  Simbolica  is  at  this  time  feasible."  In  the 
journal  of  the  next  morning  we  find  a  minute  of  the  appointment,  ''in 
accordance  with  the  order  of  yesterday,''  of  three  special  committees 
and  among  them  a  committee  on  Mexican  Masonry.  The  other  two 
were  appointed  as  recommended  by  the  committee  on  address,  whose 
disposition  of  the  subject  we  have  already  noted,  and  repeated  dili- 
gent search  of  the  proceedings  subsequent  to  that  disposition  fails  to 
disclose  any  "order  of  yesterda\'"  touching  the  appointment  of  special 
committees  not  made  on  the  recommendation  of  that  committee.  At 
the  last  accounts  the  jurisprudence  committee  had  neither  reported 
on  the  feasibilit}'  of  present  recognition  nor  explained  how  the  sub- 
ject got  away  from  them.  The  question  was  disposed  of  on  the  report 
of  the  special  committee,  and  to  this  action  we  shall  have  occasion  to 
recur. 

The  general  report  of  Bro.  Parvin  as  grand  secretary  (his  fifty- 
first)  and  his  forty-eighth  as  grand  librarian  are  both  very  full,  the 
former  fuller  than  usual,  perhaps,  of  matters  for  whose  discussion 
the  brethren  elsewhere  are  accustomed  to  look  to  the  grand  east. 
Among  these  he  discusses  the  "(Tcneral  Masonic  Relief  Association 
of  the  United  States  and  Canada,"'  "Masonic  Insurance  Companies" 
and  "Lodge  Pensioners." 


80  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 

Under  the  latter  title  he  refers  (as  who  would  guess?)  to  lodges 
which  pay  into  the  grand  lodge  treasury  less  than  their  representa- 
tives draw  out  in  mileage  and  per  diem,  indorsing  the  views  of  the 
grand  secretary  of  Georgia,  whose  language  he  quotes.  In  our  review 
of  Georgia  we  have  discussed  the  fallacy  involved  in  this  complaint 
and  refer  those  interested  to  that  paper  for  our  views. 

Touching  Masonic  insurance  companies,  so-called,  his  solicitude 
seems  to  be  less  that  somebody  is  using  the  Masonic  name  for  the  pur- 
poses of  gain,  than  that  the  financial  standing  of  some  of  these  asso- 
ciations is  becoming  a  matter  of  increasing  doubt  and  there  is  a 
growing  belief  that  they  are  not  acting  upon  the  square  in  their 
assessments.  Th^matter  went  to  a  special  committee,  whose  lame  and 
impotent  conclusion,  which  commanded  the  concurrence  of  the  grand 
lodge,  indicates  that  the}'  accidentally  or  otherwise  lost  sight  of  the 
fact  that  the  grand  lodge  had  it  in  its  power  to  strike  at  the  tap  root 
of  the  mischief  by  a  regulation  forbidding  an}- Mason  to  use  the  name 
of  Masonry  for  trading  purposes,  whether  in  the  insurance  line  or  any 
other,  a  matter  which  state  legislation  could  not  touch.  Following  is 
the  substance  of  the  report: 

We  have  made  diligent  inquiry  into  the  matter,  and  while  we  are 
opposed  to  the  use  of  the  word  "Masonic''  in  the  names  of  corporations 
doing  an  insurance  or  other  business  which  is  not  strictly  under  the 
control  of  a  grand  lodge  of  Masons,  we  are  under  the  necessity  of 
recognizing  the  fact  that  the  grand  lodge  of  Iowa  has  no  authority  to 
act  in  this  matter,  but  it  is  purely  a  subject  for  state  legislation. 

The  grand  lodge  was  largely  occupied  with  the  problem  with  which 
it  wrestled  last  year — what  to  do  with  the  non-affiliate? 

For  the  oifence  of  not  being  affiliated  it  had  stripped  him  of  one 
right  after  another  until  the  farcical  conclusion  was  reached  that  he 
was  ineligible  to  join  in  a  petition  for  a  new  lodge,  thus  closing  one  of 
the  two  avenues  of  escape  from  the  condition  for  which  he  was  being 
punished.  That  climax  was  reached  last  year.  The  grand  lodge  sus- 
tained the  grand  master  in  a  forced  construction  of  the  law  which 
permited  its  being  evaded  and  then  set  out  to  mend  it.  The  subject 
having  been  opened  up  the  grand  lodge  conscience  found  that  it  could 
not  square  itself  with  another  phase  of  the  law  which  left  a  brother 
who  had  tried  to  affiliate  and  had  been  rejected,  still  suffering  its 
penalties  to  the  full  extent.  So  the  time  seemed  ripe  for  the  legisla- 
tion enjoined  by  the  second  of  the  following  sections  of  the  constitu- 
tion to  secure  the  right  guaranteed  by  the  first: 

"Section  1  (Art.  XIV).  The  right  of  every  Master  Mason  in  good 
standing  to  a  Masonic  home  is  absolute  in  the  particular  jurisdiction 
in  which  he  resides,  after  timely  residence  therein. 

"Sec.  2.  The  grand  lodge  shall  by  appropriate  legislation  secure 
to  every  non-affiliate  Master  Mason  the  right  guaranteed  by  the  fore- 
going section  of  this  article." 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  81 

Accordingly,  a  special  committee  determined  to  take  the  shortest 
cut  and  proposed  a  law  under  which  the  only  way  to  keep  a  petition- 
ing Master  Mason  out  of  a  lodge  would  be  to  prefer  charges  against 
him,  the  ballot  being  eliminated.  Encountering  opposition,  it  came 
over  with  a  proposed  amendment  to  the  session  under  review,  in  the 
custody  of  its  parent  committee. 

In  the  amendments  reported  this  year  and  adopted,  the  commit- 
tee gave  up  the  effort  to  conform  the  situation  to  the  constitution 
and  concluded  to  make  the  constitution  conform  to  the  situation. 
That  instrument  was  accordingly  amended  by  adopting  the  following 
in  lieu  of  the  provisions  above  quoted: 

Section  1.  The  grand  lodge  shall,  by  appropriate  legislation,  se- 
cure to  ever}^  non-affiliated  Master  Mason  of  good  moral  character 
and  good  Masonic  standing,  residing  in  this  grand  jurisdiction,  the 
right  of  petitioning  for  membership  in  the  lodge  of  his  local  jurisdic- 
tion, after  timel}'  residence  therein,  upon  such  terms  and  conditions 
as  will  best  subserve  the  honor  of  the  Craft  and  i^romote  and  maintain 
harmony  and  good-fellowship  in  such  local  lodge. 

Sec.  2.  Each  subordinate  lodge  shall  have  the  right  to  waive  its 
jurisdiction  over  any  such  non-affiliated  Master  Mason,  upon  proper 
application,  and  upon  such  conditions  as  may  be  provided  by  law. 

Considering  that  in  some  jurisdictions  the  right  of  a  person  hold- 
ing a  dimit  to  petition  for  affiliation  has  been  handicapped  with  the 
requirement  of  a  cash  bonus,  and  in  view  of  the  unstable  idiosyncra- 
cies  that  have  long  been  potent  in  Iowa  legislation,  it  is  something 
to  be  thankful  for  that  the  right  to  petition  for  affiliation  is  guar- 
anteed by  the  constitution.  So  far,  however,  as  the  rights  of  those 
already  affiliated  are  concerned,  the  difference  between  the  new  pro- 
vision and  the  old  is  one  of  degree  onl3%  By  the  framer  of  both,  the 
old  was  held  to  warrant  such  legislation  as  might  put  an  obnoxious 
petitioner  into  a  lodge  against  the  wishes  of  all  the  members;  by  him 
and  by  (the  jurisprudence  committee  who  gave  an  explicit  opinion 
that  the  new  legislation  under  it  is  constitutional)  it  is  held  that  if 
more  than  a  year  has  elapsed  since  the  dismission  of  the  petitioner, 
or  since  his  residence  within  the  jurisdiction  of  the  lodge,  it  shall  re- 
quire at  least  four  negative  ballots  to  reject,  and  that  if  he  has  not 
held  his  dimit  for  more  than  a  year  within  the  jurisdiction  of  the 
lodge,  he  may  become  a  member  against  the  wishes  of  one-third  of 
the  members  present  and  voting. 

Each,  of  course,  is  a  flat  denial  of  the  validity  of  the  old  regula- 
tion (Vlth)  which  recognizes  the  fact  that  "no  man  can  be  entered  a 
brother  in  any  particular  lodge,  or  admitted  to  he  a  member  thereof,  with- 
out the  unanimous  consent  of  all  the  members  of  that  lodge  then 
present." 


82  APPENDIX.— PART   I. 

We  have  no  disposition  to  overlook  the  fact  that  the  Old  Regu- 
lations (unlike  the  chargep  of  a  Freemason)  are  generall}*  held  to  be 
subject  to  chang^e  by  grand  lodges,  and  properh^  so,  as  some  of  them 
were  framed  to  meet  conditions  then  absolutely  new:  but  some  of  them 
are  not  jjroperlj'  subject  to  change,  because  they  are  manifestl}'  only 
re-statements  of  the  immemorial  law.  and  the  charge  above  quoted  be- 
longs to  that  categor}'.  We  are  left  in  no  doubt  about  this,  because 
the  charge  itself  expressh' states  that  the  privilege  of  dissenting  from 
the  unanimous  vote  required  to  admit  to  membership  is  an  ''inherent'" 
one.  not  "'subject  to  dispensation." 

For  the  rest  the  new  legislation  provides  that  sojourning  Master 
Masons  affiliated  with  lodges  in  grand  jurisdictions  where  dimissien  is 
not  granted  until  the  subject  of  it  has  been  elected  to  membership  in 
another  lodge,  shall  also  be  admitted  to  membership  in  Iowa  lodges 
upon  a  two-thirds  vote.  It  denies  that  Master  Masons  are  "free  of 
the  guild,"  compelling  them  like  profanes  to  petition  the  lodge  of 
their  residence,  and  imposes  upon  them  the  requirement  of  a  six- 
months  residence  before  petitioning,  which  is.  all  and  singly,  a  de- 
parture from  the  prevailing  usage  of  Masonr}',  and,  so  far  as  we  can 
see,  without  any  promise  of  compensating  benefit. 

As  the  legislation  leaves  the  definition  of  the  status  of  the  non- 
affiliate,  he  has  the  right  of  petitioning  for  affiliation  and  may,  at  the 
discretion  of  the  master,  visit  any  lodge  for  one  j'ear  after  dimissiou' 
or  for  one  year  after  becoming  a  resident  of  a  local  jurisdiction,  but 
not  thereafter,  and  moreover — 

He  shall,  after  one  j'ear  from  the  date  of  his  dimit.  have  no  other 
claim  upon  Masonic  charity  than  liave  the  needy  and  deserving  who 
are  not  and  never  have  been  Masons,  nor  be  permitted  to  walk  in  Ma- 
sonic processions,  nor  receive  Masonic  burial,  but  shall  still  be  subject 
to  Masonic  discipline,  and  remain  under  those  obligations  which  can 
never  be  repudiated  nor  liid  aside. 

In  these  deprivations  Iowa  is  not  a  sinner  above  all  other  jurisdic- 
dictions,  but  we  know  of  no  other  grand  lodge  that  has  put  a  sting  in 
the  tail  of  its  law  to  remind  the  non-affiliate  that  of  two  parties  to  an 
equal  obligation  the  weaker  may  not  repudiate  or  la^'  it  aside  although 
the  stronger  may  have  set  the  example. 

The  following,  referring  to  a  past  grand  chaplain,  illustrates  one 
of  the  possible  results  of  the  Iowa  law  permitting  the  master  of  a 
lodge  to  resign  during  the  term  for  which  he  is  installed: 

Grand  Master  Ball  announced  to  the  grand  lodge  that  charges 
of  unmasonic  conduct  had  been  filed  against  this  brother  bj^  a  brother 
of  his  lodge  (Trojan  Lodge  No.  i'AS),  at  Marion,  Iowa.  The  grand 
master  further  informed  the  grand  lodge  that  he  had  on  yesterday 
received  an  oilioial  communication  from  the  secretary  of  said  lodge 
notifvin"-  him  that  Brother  Ceiger  had  resigned  his  office  as  master 


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of  the  lod^e,  and  that  the  same  had  been  accepted.  Whereupon  the 
grand  master  further  announced  that  this  resignation  deprived  the 
grand  lodge  of  jurisdiction  in  the  case,  and  for  the  want  of  jurisdic- 
tion he — 

Ordered  the  grand  secretar}^  to  return  the  charges,  with  the  i)a- 
pers  accompan3'ing  the  same,  to  tlie  brother  who  liad  preferred  them. 

A  committee  appointed  to  take  testimonj-  in  the  case  of  a  past  sen- 
ior grand  warden  against  whom  an  information  had  been  filed  shortly 
before  the  annual  communication  of  1896,  charging  him  with  coi-ruptly 
conspiring  with  others  in  the  prosecution  of  pension  claims,  made 
report  of  their  findings  and  recommended  his  suspension  from  mem- 
bership in  the  grand  lodge.  A  minority  dissenting  from  the  report 
made  so  strong  a  case  in  his  favor  that  although  the  grand  lodge  found 
the  defendant  guilty,  when  the  question  was  taken  on  the  grade  of 
punishment  from  expulsion  successively  down  through  the  various 
grades,  the  grand  lodge  failed  to  inliict  even  so  light  a  punishment 
as  suspension  from  membership  in  its  body.  Whereupon  the  grand 
master  announced  that  having  found  the  brother  guilty,  the  penalty 
of  reprimand  must  be  inflicted,  as  provided  in  the  code,  without  a  vote 
of  the  grand  lodge.  The  brother  appeared  in  charge  of  the  senior 
grand  deacon,  and  was  placed  at  the  altar  and  there  reprimanded.  In 
spite  of  this  record  evidence  of  his  presence,  we  observe  that  he  was 
not  listed  with  other  past  senior  grand  wardens  as  among  the  perma- 
nent members  present.     We  presume  this  was  simply  an  oversight. 

The  grand  lodge  chartered  four  new  lodges  and  continued  one  un- 
der dispensation;  sent  a  telegram  of  sympathy  and  encouragement  to 
Past  Grand  Master  Phelps,  reported  by  the  grand  master  as  having 
been  stricken  with  paralysis  but  happily  himself  hopeful  of  final  re- 
covery; assented  to  the  Colorado  proposition  to  request  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Virginia  to  take  the  lead  in  the  Washington  memorial  ob- 
servance originalh'  proposed  by  the  former;  thanked  the  local  chapter 
of  the  Order  of  Eastern  Star  for  their  energetic  aid  in  feeding  the 
members  during  their  stay  in  Oskaloosa;  emphasized  its  reiteration  of 
the  doctrine  that  the  lodge  is  not  a  collection  agency,  recognizing  the 
fact  that  while  it  is  unfortunate  to  be  in  debt  and  unable  to  pay  all,  it 
is  not  necessarily  unmasonic:  provided  for  a  committee  to  investigate 
and  report  on  the  methods  used  in  other  grand  jurisdictions  to  impart 
instruction  in  the  ritual;  made  the  projected  raising  by  the  Masons 
of  England  of  an  endowment  for  their  Girls'  and  Boys'  school  in  com- 
memmoration  of  the  queen's  diamond  jubilee,  and  the  fact  that  her 
son  is  the  grand  master  of  Masons  in  England,  the  excuse  for  sending 
a  congratulatory  letter  to  Queen  Victoria  on  the  completion  of  her 
reign  of  sixty  3"ears,  and  recognized  the  Gran  Dieta  Symbolica  of 
Mexico,  excluding  from  Iowa  lodges  all  Masons  in  Mexico  not  in  affil- 
iation with  that  anomalous  aggregation. 


84  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 


We  have  already-  referred  to  the  part  played  in  this  business  of 
recognition  by  the  "special  report"  of  the  self-appointed  champion  of 
this  anomalous  bod}'  conceived  and  brought  forth  in  illegitimacy, 
nursed  in  duplicity,  and  now  probably  so  nearly  moribund  that  its  re- 
cognition by  the  few  lawful  grand  lodges  that  have  lined  themselves 
up  in  its  unsavory  compan}'  will  scarcely  retard  its  complete  disinte- 
gration. This  volunteer  paper  is  characterized  by  the  hand-to-mouth 
style  of  argument  v?hich  recklessly  or  forgetfully  ignores  the  positions 
and  facts  of  yesterday  to  sustain  the  positions  of  today,  whose  out- 
cropping in  the  productions  of  Bro.  Parvin  is  observed  by  the  Ma- 
sonic world  with  constantlj-  lessening  surprise. 

Bro.  Parvin  at  the  outset  draws  a  picture  of  the  alleged  Masonry 
of  Mexico  at  the  time  of  his  visit  to  that  country  in  January,  18(55: 
"The  Supreme  Council  of  Scottish  Rite  Masonry,  which  had  from  its 
organization  created  lodges  and  exercised  jurisdiction  over  them  and 
of  'Ancient  Craft"  or  'Symbolic  Masonry  of  the  three  degrees,"  did  in 
the  eighties  (1889)  relinquish  and  surrender  all  control  and  authority' 
over  the  degrees  of  Entered  Apprentice,  Fellow  Craft,  and  Master 
Mason." 

Bro.  Parvin  does  not  stop  to  explain  that  the  creation  of  lodges 
in  and  the  exercise  of  jurisdiction  over  the  three  degrees  was  utterlj' 
without  authority.  The  Supreme  Council  of  Mexico  was  the  direct 
offspring  of  the  Supreme  Council  of  the  southern  jurisdiction  of  the 
United  States,  the  mother  Supreme  Council  of  the  world,  the  same  of 
which  Bro.  Pakvin  is  the  deputy  for  the  Valley  of  Iowa. 

Bro.  Albert  Pikk,  at  the  time  of  his  death  and  for  many  years 
sovereign  grand  commander  of  this  parent  council,  everwhere  con- 
ceded to  be  the  highe.st  authority  living  or  dead  upon  all  matters  con- 
nected with  the  Scottish  Rite — including  the  constitutions  real  and 
pretended,  open  and  secret,  explicitly  stated  that  none  of  these 
constitutions  conferred  any  power  to  administer  or  meddle  with  the 
symbolic  degrees,  the  degrees  which  under  that  name  Bro.  Parvin 
identifies  as  the  degrees  of  Entered  Apprentice,  Fellow  Craft,  and 
Master  Mason.  If  the  members  of  the  Supreme  Council  of  Mexico — 
bound  by  the  same  constitutions  as  its  parent — had  all  been  lawful 
Master  Masons  made  in  lawful  lodges  instead  of  having  been  made  in 
confessedly  unauthorized  bodies,  and  hence  without  power  to  confer 
the  Masonic  status,  they  would  still  have  been  possessed  only  of  the 
authority  of  Master  Masons  and  hence  no  more  capable  of  creating  a 
lawful  lodge  than  any  like  number,  or  any  other  number  of  Master 
Masons  picked  up  anywhere  and  casually  met  together. 

But  to  return  to  Bro.  Parvin's  narrative:  "Thereupon,  in  ISOO, 
a  large,  very  large,  majority  of  the  lodges  and  grand  lodges  met  in 
convention  and  organized.  ;ifter  the  American  jilan.  the  '(Jran  Dieta 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  85 

Simbolica'— Grand  Diet  of  Symbolic  Masonry.  This  gran  dieta,  a 
national  body  or  general  grand  lodge  governing  Ancient  Craft  Ma- 
sonry, is  similar  to  the  national  bodies  in  this  country  governing  Royal 
Arch  and  Templar  Masonry." 

After  the  "American  plan"  in  what?  Not  in  Masonry,  as  no  one 
knows  better  than  Bro.  Parvin.  If  there  is  one  point  upon  which  all 
American  grand  lodges  are  nearer  a  unit  than  on  any  other  it  is  in 
opposition  to  the  creation  of  a  general  grand  lodge.  The  bare  recall 
of  the  early  abortive  attempts  to  create  such  a  body  in  this  country 
sent  a  shiver  through  pretty  much  every  jurisdiction  in  the  land  at 
the  time  the  preparations  for  the  Masonic  Congress  of  1893  were  tak- 
ing shape,  and  nearl}^  all  of  them  made  stipulations  that  are  well 
reflected  in  the  suggestion  of  Grand  Master  Phelps,  of  Iowa,  that 
the  delegates  whose  appointment  he  advised  "be  directed  to  withdraw, 
as  did  our  representatives  in  1859,  should  there  be  any  attempt  to  or- 
ganize a  supreme  Masonic  body."  The  grand  lodge  echoed  this  senti- 
ment without  a  dissenting  voice. 

But  Bro.  Parvin  and  his  Mexican  protege  were  in  straits  and 
some  sort  of  American  precedent,  or  simulacrum  of  a  precedent  must 
be  had,  and  so  the  general  grand  chapter  and  the  general  grand  en- 
campment were  seized  upon  for  the  moment.  That  they  are  a  misfit 
from  a  Masonic  standpoint  goes  without  saying,  but  as  we  -fear  from 
some  of  his  remarks  that  he  considers  our  standpoint  a  prejudiced  one, 
we  hope  to  show  by  italicizing  some  of  his  remarks  touching  the  Mas- 
sachusetts departure  that  we  have  not  been  carried  oft"  our  feet  by 
some  new-fangled  prejudice.  We  quote  from  the  Iowa  report  on  cor- 
respondence for  1884: 

The  grand  lodge  [Massachusetts]  sets  out  correctlj^,  wisely,  and 
well  in  its  declaration  that  it  "recognizes  no  degrees  in  Masonry  ex- 
cept those  conferred  under  the  regulations  of  the  grand  lodges  of  the 
various  states  and  territories  of  the  United  States,  and  the  govern- 
ments throughout  the  world."  Here  she  should  have  rested.  Her 
members  are  all  Master  Masons,  many  are  no  more,  and  the  grand 
lodge  has  no  right,  officially  and  authoritatively,  to  know  of  any  other 
degrees  or  bodies.  What  can  her  members  know  of  anything  beyond 
the  Master  Mason's  degree  when  they  have  gone  no  further  and  taken 
no  others?  Are  the  degrees  in  the  chapters,  councils,  and  commanderies  '^de- 
grees in  Masonry?  If  so,  what  makes  them  so,  pray  tell  us,  beyond  some  such 
decree  as  that  which  has  gone  forth  from  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Massachusetts?^' 

Here  follows  another  bit  of  coloring  in  his  picture  of  the  gran 
dieta: 

It  adopted  and  promulgated  a  constitution  and  code  of  statutes  in 
harmony  with  the  laws  governing  the  craft  in  this  country,  save  in 
this  one  particular:  The  law  required  the  use  of  the  "Book  of  Con- 
stitutions" upon  all  of  its  altars.  It  did  not  "exclude  (as  erroneously 
stated), the  'Great  Light'  from  its  altars,"  still  the  Bible  was  not  found 
by  us  upon  the  altars  of  the  Mexican  lodges — by  Mexican  I  mean  the 


86  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


membership  being  wholly  or  larjifely  Mexicans,  and  by  American  lodges 
those  in  which  the  Americans  predominated  in  its  membership,  and 
both  working  under  charters  granted  by  the  "'Gran  Dieta" — while  the 
American  lodges,  some  live  in  number,  all  used  it. 

"Erroneously  stated"  by  whom?  By  Richard  E.  Chism,  then 
master  of  Toltec  Lodge  No.  "liO,  who  lirst  gave  the  statement  to  the 
Masonic  world  in  his  pami)hlet  entitled  "An  Inside  View  of  Mexican 
Masonry,"  or  by  Bro.  Parvin  who  first  publicl}'  confirmed  itV 

In  a  letter  to  the  ]'oicc  of  Masonry,  published  in  the  .September, 
189"),  number,  Bro.  Parvin  said: 

In  addition  to  the  great  departure  from  what  are  called  the  "An- 
cient Landmarks"'  that  I  have  named,  I  may  add  that  ix  <tU  Ihe  Masonic 
lodijcs  and  hoilits,  both  of  the  York  and  Scottish  Rite,  which  I  visited 
in  the  national  capital,  and  in  many  of  the  state  capitals,  the  Great 
Light  of  Masonry  /.■<  excluded  fremi  the  altars  and  fremi  the  ladls,  and  the 
"Book  of  Constitutions'"  substituted  instead. 

Again,  in  a  letter  to  Past  Grand  Master  Miller,  of  Kansas,  Bro. 
Parvin  said  (under  date  of  January  11,  1896): 

Not  content  with  conferring  the  degrees  upon  women,  they  granted 
them  charters  creating  women  lodges:  and  while  they  did  not  by  any 
enactment,  either  of  the  constitution  or  in  its  laws,  prohibit  the  use 
of  the  Bible  in  their  lodges,  they  did  prescribe  and  require  the  Book 
of  Constitutions  therein,  and  ererijivltere  1  visited  in  Mixio  I  found  the 
Book  of  Constitutions  upon  the  altars,  and  no  Bible  anywhere  in  sight. 

Now  these  earlier  statements,  with  their  sweeping  averments  of 
the  absolute  exclusion  of  the  Bible  from  all  the  lodges  and  bodies, 
both  of  the  York  and  Scottish  Rite,  which  he  visited,  so  absolute  that 
nowhere  in  all  his  Masonic  visitations  in  the  republic  was  there  a 
Bible  anywhere  in  sight,  were  first  hand  information,  the  evidence  of 
an  eye  witness,  and  therefore  not  subject  to  correction  by  hearsay 
testimony.  And  yet,  before  having  an  opportunity  for  further  per- 
sonal observations,  that  is  as  earl}'  as  the  writing  of  his  contribution 
on  Mexican  Masonry  to  the  report  of  Bro.  COXE  in  June  of  last  year, 
we  find  him  saying  therein: 

During  my  visit  to  the  Republic  of  Mexico  in  the  months  of  Feb- 
ruary and  March  of  1895,  I  had  an  opportunity  to  satisfy  myself  upon 
these  subjects:  I  found  that  the  Gran  Dieta  did  not  by  any  law.  much 
less  constitutional  provision,  prohibit  or  exclude  the  Great  Light 
from  its  altars — it  did  and  does  permit  its  use:  it  does,  however,  re- 
quire by  law  the  u?e  of  the  Book  of  Constitutions  upon  its  altars.  I 
found  during  mj-  visit  to  lodges  and  grand  lodges  in  some,  and  csjKcially 
in  all  of  the  American  lodyes,  the  Greed  Light  open  upon  the  altar. 

This  revision  of  his  recollection  of  what  he  saw  in  Mexico  was 
made  after  the  meeting  of  the  supreme  council  (S.  J.)  in  October,  189."). 
when  the  deputy  for  Texas  reported  that  the  gran  dieta  had  with- 
drawn the  charters  of  the  women  lodges  and  ordered  that  the  Bible 
should  be  used  on  all  its  altars,  for  in  writing  to  Bro.  Miller  in  the 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE. 


following  January  he  states  that  since  that  meeting"  he  had  received 
further  assurances  on  those  points  and  says: 

1  am  further  assured  that  the  gran  dieta  does  not  require  that  the 
lodges  shall  place  the  Bible  upon  the  altar,  it  neither  forbids  it  nor 
interposes  any  objection  to  their  doing  so;  it  only  requires  that  they 
use  the  Book  of  Constitutions. 

It  will  be  seen  that  bj^  the  revision  referred  to,  that  the  amelior- 
ated view  of  the  situation  which  he  here  communicates  to  Bro.  Mil- 
ler apparently  on  the  strength  of  assurances  which  he  had  received 
since  they  met  at  the  supreme  council  in  October,  he  was  able  to  say 
in  his  contribution  to  the  report  of  Bro.  COXE,  as  quoted  above,  was 
the  result  of  a  personal  study  of  the  subject  made  on  the  ground  dur- 
ing his  February  and  March  visit.  Lost  in  admiration  at  the  pres- 
cience which  enabled  him  at  a  moment  when  he  was  overwhelmed 
with  the  conviction  that  a  "state  of  things'"  existed  which  made  the 
gran  dieta  unrecognizable  "as  a  lawfull}^  constituted  body  of  Masons," 
to  foresee  that  it  might  become  desirable  to  find  excuses  for  the  body 
under  whose  administration  these  "obnoxious  and  unmasonic  prac- 
tices" prevailed,  and  at  the  self-restraint  which  enabled  him  to  with- 
hold for  months  the  story  of  the  successful  study  of  the  laws  of  the 
outlawed  body  undertaken  with  that  end  in  view,  we  must  try  and  pull 
ourself  together  enough  to  examine  the  find,  because  it  has  been  used 
as  a  make-weight  in  securing"  recognition  by  at  least  two  grand  lodges, 
Kansas  and  Iowa.  In  the  former  the  conclusion  of  the  committee 
took  this  form:  "The  charges  against  the  Gran  Dieta  as  a  sovereign 
grand  lodge  are  shown  never  to  have  been  true  as  to  its  constitution 
and  by-laws;"  in  the  latter  it  is  less  warily  stated:  "I  found  that  the 
Gran  Dieta  did  not  by  any  law,  much  less  constitutional  provision? 
prohibit  or  exclude  the  Great  Light  from  its  altars — it  did  and  does 
permit  its  use;  it  does,  however,  require  by  laio  the  use  of  the  Book  of  Consti- 
tutions u^wn  its  altars.'- 

We  have  italicized  the  last  line  because  it  is  in  itself  the  most 
ample  evidence  that  the  gran  dieta  did  exclude  the  Bible  from  its 
altars  by  most  positive  enactment;  not  by  naming  the  book— for  that 
was  unnecessary — but  in  requiring  the  use  of  the  Book  of  Constitu- 
tions in  the  one  place  in  the  lodge  which  the  Bible  could  occupy. 

This  requirement  that  some  other  book  should  be  used  upon  the 
altars  was  just  as  potent  in  securing  the  exclusion  of  the  Bible  there- 
from as  if  in  good  set  terms  it  had  said  that  the  Bible  should  not  be 
used  there. 

When  the  Grand  Orient  of  France  eliminated  the  requirement  of 
belief  in  God  from  its  organic  law  it  did  not  mention  God,  it  only  failed 
to  mention  him  in  its  definition  of  the  basis  of  Freemasonry,  viz:  "Its 
basis  is  absolute  liberty  of  conscience  and  the  solidarity  of  humanity." 


88  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 

Yet  the  whole  Masonic  world  at  once  agreed  that  the  grand  orient 
had  excluded  the  requirement  of  the  belief  in  Diet}-,  and  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Iowa  was  among  the  lirst  to  take  that  view  and  act  upon  it. 

At  the  outset  of  his  "special  report''  Bro.  Parvln  refers  to  his 
contribution  to  the  report  of  Bro.  COXE  last  year,  and  says: 

Bro.  Coxe.  in  commenting  upon  my  article  and  discussing  the 
subject  suggested,  in  which  suggestion  we  concurred  (though  not  his 
reason  therefor),  that  "we  (the  Grand  Lodge  of  Iowa)  can  better  af- 
ford to  let  the  gran  dieta  wait  awhile  and  prove  the  genuineness  of 
its  reforms  and  its  thorough  loyalty  to  Ancient  Craft  Masonrj-,  than 
to  hastil}'  accord  recognition,  and  challenge  thereby  the  adverse  judg- 
ment of  nearly  the  entire  Masonic  world. 

Bro.  Coxe  still  sees  no  reason  to  change  his  convictions  as  to  the 
wisdom  of  delay.  Bro.  Parvin — for  reasons  which  he  states,  and  pos- 
sibly for  some  which  he  does  not — thinks  further  delay  inexcusable. 
The  former  says  in  the  introduction  to  his  report  on  correspondence: 

On  Mexican  Masonry  the  last  word  has  not  yet  been  spoken.  It 
has  been  a  matter  of  sincere  grief  that  there  should  have  been  such 
irregularities  and  flagrant  departures  from  the  teachings  and  prac- 
tices of  universal  Masonrj^:  that  there  should  have  been  such  duplic- 
it}-.  concealments,  and  denials  as  to  these  irregularities  on  the  part  of 
prominent  officials  in  our  neighboring  republic:  and  that  candor  still 
compels  the  judgment  that  not  all  statements  from  beyond  the  Rio 
Grande  are  conspicuously  exact  and  truthful.  In  the  conclusion  of 
our  report  last  year  we  summarized  our  arraignment  of  the  gran 
dieta,  and  then  counseled  making  haste  slowl}-  in  the  matter  of  official 
recognition.  We  regret  to  say  that  nothing  has  come  to  our  knowl- 
edge during  the  year  to  change  our  convictions:  on  the  contrary,  they 
have  been  confirmed  by  new  and  wholly  unexpected  evidence  which 
brings  to  our  mind  Paul's  characterization  of  the  people  of  Crete  in 
his  da}-. 

Bro.  Parvin  thus  briefly  tells  how  the  gran  dieta  had  "returned 
to  the  faith"  at  the  time  he  concurred  in  the  wisdom  of  Bro.  COXE'S 
counsel: 

In  August  of  that  year  (ISlif))  the  gran  dieta  repealed  it.s  obnoxious 
laws  on  the  subject  of  "women  Masonry''  and  revoked  the  charters 
granted  to  women  lodges.  It  went  further,  and  promulgated  a  new 
"Code  of  Statutes,''  in  which  by  statutory-  provision  it  forbid  (1)  "the 
making  of  women  Masons,''  (2)  "the  women  Masons  from  visiting 
lodges,"  and  ('A)  required  all  of  its  lodges  to  place  upon  their  altars 
the  "Great  Light"  of  Masonry:  thus  complying  in  all  respects,  and 
fully,  with  the  demands  we  had  made  in  behalf  of  the  Grand  Lodge 
of  Iowa  and  of  the  grand  lodges  of  the  United  States  and  of  the  world, 
as  a  condition  precedent  to  their  recognition  of  it  as  a  governing  body 
of  Masons  in  Mexico. 

He  then  ])resents  the  reasons  which  have  accrued  since  that  con- 
currence which  he  claims  leave  the  opponents  of  immediate  recogni- 
tion absolutely  without  standing  ground.  The  first  is  that  ''two  full 
2/ears"  had  then  passed  since  the  gran  dieta  inaugurated  the  reforms 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  "  89 

demanded  of  it.  Bro.  Chamberlain,  deputy  for  the  Valley  of  Texas, 
reported  that  the  decree  inauyuratinff  these  reforms  was  issued 
August  24,  189.3,  or  a  year  and  nine  months  prior  to  the  date  of  Bro. 
Parvin'S  writing.  But  perhaps  it  is  too  much  to  expect  to  look  for 
conspicuous  exactness  on  this  subject  on  either  side  of  the  Rio  Grande. 

Another  reason  given  is  that  a  full  year  had  elapsed  since  Iowa 
decided  that  it  were  best  to  make  haste  slowly,  and  "  'no  true  Chris- 
tian and  Mason  will  ever  place  his  Masonry  above  his  religion,  or  his 
lodge  above  his  church, 'by  requiring  a  longer  period  of  probation  for 
recognition  of  a  grand  lodge  than  the  church  demands  for  admission 
to  membership  I"'  And  further,  that  only  a  year's  residence  in  the 
state  is  required  of  a  profane  before  petitioning  for  the  degrees  of 
Masonry,  why  then  should  a  grand  lodge  have  to  wait  more  than  a 
year  for  a  favorable  answer  to  its  request  for  recognition':* 

One  feels  like  asking  pardon  in  advance  for  dignifying  such  stuff 
by  treating  it  as  sober  argument,  but  as  it  seems  to  have  had  weight 
with  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Iowa,  it  may  be  permissible  to  suggest  an- 
other illustration  that  may  not  be  an  absolute  misfit:  Only  one  month 
is  required  to  elapse  between  the  reception  of  a  petition  for  the  de- 
grees and  the  report  of  the  committee  of  inquiry.  If  in  the  prosecu- 
tion of  its  inquiries  the  committee  finds  that  the  applicant  has  been 
living  a  lawless  and  scandalous  life,  and  that  when  his  "obnoxious 
practices"  became  bruited  about  he  first  with  lying  tongue  denied  the 
truth  of  the  charges,  but  when  confronted  with  a  member  of  the  lodge 
in  high  standing  who  had  been  an  eye  witness  of  his  evil  courses,  ad- 
mitted them  but  urged  that  he  was  powerless  to  help  it,  owing  to  his 
surroundings,  and  only  when  he  found  he  must  reform  or  stay  out  sud- 
denh'  began  to  demonstrate  his  penitence  by  an  ostentatious  but  law- 
less persecution  of  his  partners  in  the  scandals,  why  should  the  lodge 
heed  the  request  for  further  time  to  report  made  by  the  prudent  com- 
mittee who  had  not  yet  been  able  to  satisfy  themselves  of  any  genuine 
change  in  his  character':' 

An  additional  reason  given  for  his  impatience  of  delay,  given  by 
Bro.  Parvin,  was  that  the  gran  dieta  had  proved  its  loyalty  to  An- 
cient Craft  Masonry  during  this  probationary  year,  under  "adverse 
circumstances,"  of  which  he  says: 

What  are  the  "adverse  circumstances"  to  which  we  have  referred':' 
Because  of  its  revocation  of  the  charters  to  the  (three)  women's  lodges: 
and  because  of  its  requirement  that  the  Holy  Bible,  the  "Great  Light" 
in  Masonrj',  be  used  upon  the  altars  of  its  lodges  as  upon  its  own,  a 
few  schismatic  (Chism-atic)  Masons,  with  the  grand  master  of  the 
grand  lodge  in  the  City  of  Mexico,  and  a  few  members  (less  than  the 
lawful  number  required  to  constitute  a  subordinate  lodge),  withdrew, 
seceded  from  the  gran  dieta,  and  organized  a  clandestine  grand  lodge. 
Beside  a  few,  very  few,  grand  lodges  and  some  subordinate  lodges  also 

—s 


90  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


withdrew,  and,  save  some  that  have  returned  to  their  alle^aance,  are 
in  open  rebellion  to  constituted  authority. 

This  bring^s  us  to  the  reason  which  we  before  remarked  was  one 
which  he  did  not  n'we  but  which  was  possibly  more  potent  than  those 
stated — the  fear  that  there  mifjht  soon  be  nothinj^  left  to  recognize. 
Bro.  Chism,  the  enfant  terrible  who  first  called  public  attention  to  the 
obnoxious  and  unmasonic  practices  of  Mexican  Masonry,  has  been 
talking  again,  and  he  says  the  gran  dieta  is  practically  dead.  The 
quotation  above  made  is  Bro.  Pakvin'.s  method  of  disposing  of  Bro. 
Chism's  statement  that  the  gran  dieta  is  in  a  moribund  condition, 
and  it  will  be  observed  that  it  gives  no  hint  to  the  extent  to  which 
Bro.  Chism  alleges  the  disruption  to  have  gone.  In  this  it  is  clearly 
akin  to  the  tactics  of  the  New  York  committee  who  gave  as  a  reason 
for  recommending  the  recognition  of  the  gran  dieta  that  the  charges 
against  it  had  been  fully  met,  when  the  subsequent  disclosures  of 
Bro.  Parvin  showed  that  they  had  simplj'  been  suppressed.  Neither 
Bro.  Parvin's  explanation  of  what  he  means  by  "adverse  circum- 
stances'' nor  in  his  subsequent  reference  to  Chism  is  there  anything  to 
lead  the  uninformed  to  suspect  that  his  present  offence  is  other  than 
that  of  being  a  leader  of  rebellion  and  a  traducer  of  his  former  asso- 
ciates.    The  subsequent  reference  to  which  we  refer  is  the  following: 

Can  it  be  that  hi ind  prejudice  will  hide  the  truth  and  give  heed  to 
the  onh/  opponent  in  that  country,  who  by  his  personal  and  official 
acts  has  caused  his  expulsion  from  his  lodge,  grand  lodge,  and  gran 
dieta,  and  also  the  ''American  Club."  a  large  and  influential  organi- 
zation composed  of  hundreds  of  the  best  American  residents  in  the 
capital  city?  He  it  is,  and  he  alone,  who  is  flooding  our  lodges  and 
grand  lodges  with  false  statements  in  a  "scurrilous  pamphlet."  to 
which,  strange  as  it  may  seem,  the  opponents  of  recognition  seem  to 
give  full  credit,  though  fully  and  com])letely  refuted  bj'  Bro.  Canton, 
grand  secretary;  by  Bro.  Dr.  Parsons,  worshipful  master  of  Toltec 
Lodge,  the  oldest  American  lodge  in  the  city:  by  Bro.  Agramonte, 
worshipful  master  of  Anahuac  lodge,  another  American  lodge:  by 
Bro.  De  Gress,  the  flrst  master  of  Toltec  lodge,  and  b}'  other  American 
and  Mexican  Masons,  including  ourself ,  whose  knowledge  was  obtained 
by  much  and  labored  investigation  of  parties  to  both  sides  of  the 
question. 

Now  the  damaging  parts  of  Bro.  Chism's  "scurrilous  pamphlets," 
so  far  as  the  gran  dieta  as  an  organization  is  concerned,  are  their 
statements  as  to  its  present  status,  because  if  true  they  show  that  its 
present  constituent  bodies  are  in  such  a  minorit}^  as  to  take  it  out  of 
the  category  of  recognizable  bodies,  according  to  usage  governing 
recognition,  even  if  the  question  of  the  legitimacy  of  its  constituents 
--individual  and  organic — is  not  raised. 

Tlu'  pamphlets  from  which  wf  (|U(ite  art-  entitled  res])ectively 
"Mexican  Symbolic  Masonry"  and  "More  I/ight  upon  Mexican  Syui- 
bolic  Masonry,"  by  llirnAm>  !•'..  CiliSM.  City  of  Mexico,  \f<U~,, 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  91 


The  author  says: 

The  Grand  Dleta  which  existed  at  the  time  of  Bro.  Parvin's  visit  in 
February  and  March,  1895,  has  since  died  a  natural  death,  having  been 
disrupted  on  August  13,  1895,  and  been  formally  dissolved  as  far  as  the 
action  of  its  constituents  could  do  so,  in  October,  1895. 

Every  grand  lodge  of  this  republic,  that  ever  recognized  the  Grand 
Dieta  (several  grand  lodges  never  did  so)  has  formally  withdrawn  from 
all  connection  therewith,  and  this  pretentious  body  now  only  governs 
four  subordinate  lodges  in  this  city  and  a  few  more  in  the  neighbor- 
ing states  to  this  capital. 

The  Grand  Dieta  now  has  no  real  existence  outside  of  the  so-called 
Grand  Lodge  of  the  Valley  of  Mexico.  The  same  persons  compose 
both.  The  same  person,  Don  Ermilo  G.  Canton,  the  Masonic  Fregoli, 
speaks  with  a  double  voice  to  the  Masonic  world,  sometimes  posing  as 
grand  secretary  (the  only  real  and  ruling  officer  of  the  sham  Grand 
Dieta)  sometimes  as  the  grand  master  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  the  Val- 
ley of  Mexico. 

The  Grand  Dieta  never  has  the  attendance  of  any  of  its  officers, 
who  are  such  only  nominally,  except  the  grand  secretary,  and  its 
meetings  are  mostly  fictitious.  Not  one  meeting  with  more  than  a 
han'dful  of  members  in  attendance  has  been  celebrated  for  over  three 
years. 

The  list  of  over  two  hundred  lodges  published  two  or  three  years 
ago  included  many  dead  and  some  imaginary  lodges,  and  the  same 
practice  is  still  kept  up,  as  appears  from  Dr.  Parsons'  "Brief  His- 
tory." 

Toltec  Lodge,  called  21-1,  Anahuac  Lodge,  called  141,  Germania, 
called  219,  and  Benito  Juarez,  called  No.  3,  are  the  only  lodges  under 
the  grand  dieta  in  this  city.  Toltec  Lodge,  claimed  by  Dr.  Parsons 
to  be  the  largest  Masonic  lodge  in  this  republic,  with  nearly  200  active 
members,  has  in  reality  less  than  100  members,  and  I  was  informed  by 
a  leading  member  thereof  a  short  time  ago  that  it  is  on  the  verge  of 
dissolution.  Anahuac  Lodge  has  about  70  members,  Germania  has 
only  25  active  members,  and  Benito  Juarez  Lodge  (the  only  Mexican 
lodge  they  have)  has  less  than  50  members.  In  all  about  250  members 
in  this  capital,  which  is  the  stronghold  of  Freemasonry  in  the  re- 
public. 

Dr.  Parsons  himself  states  that  the  grand  lodges  under  the  Grand 
Dieta  are  only  /b»7'  in  number,  one  in  this  city,  and  one  in  each  of  the 
capitals  of  the  states  of  Jalisco,  Coahuila,  and  Tamaulipas. 

There  are  27  states,  one  federal  district,  and  two  territories  in 
this  republic,  each  state  with  a  grand  lodge  of  its  own,  so  that,  ac- 
cording to  the  showing  of  its  best  friends,  the  Grand  Dieta  has  23  out 
of  27  grand  lodges  against  it,  and  cannot  claim  sovereignty  over  all 
Mexico  or  even  over  any  considerable  part  of  this  republic. 

Dr.  Parsons  further  asserts  (p.  644)  that  the  Grand  Dieta  has  112 
lodges  with  a  membership  of  16,029  Masons,  or  an  average  of  143  Ma- 
sons to  each  lodge.  Now  in  the  United  States,  a  Protestant  country, 
where  there  are  about  twice  as  many  Masons  as  in  all  the  rest  of  the 
world  together,  the  average  membership  is  rather  less  than  75  Masons 
per  lodge.  In  Canada,  where  the  conditions  in  some  respects  resem- 
ble those  of  Mexico,  the  membership  is  sixty  Masons  per  lodge. 


92  Al'PEXDIX.— PAUT    I. 

It  is  absurd  to  suppose  that  the  averajje  membership  in  Mexico, 
where  a  Freemason  is  a-marked  man.  under  the  ban  of  the  Catholic 
church  and  watched  b}- those  of  his  own  household,  where  lodjje  rooms 
outside  of  the  larjjest  towns  must  be  concealed  to  avoid  the  jtopular 
wrath,  directed  by  scheming  priests,  can  be  very  nearl}'  twice  as  lar^e 
as  it  is  in  the  United  States  and  more  than  twice  as  larg^e  as  in  Can- 
ada, both  countries  where  Freemasonry  is  honored  and  encouraged  on 
every  hand. 

The  facts  are,  as  I  have  stated,  that  the  whole  Grand  Diet  a  is  now 
composed  of  less  than  twenty  lodges,  with  possibly  1,000  members  all 
told. 

An)'  and  all  assertions  to  the  contrary  are  simply  falsehoods  pub- 
lished for  the  purpose  of  deceiving  the  foreign  grand  lodges  into  re- 
cognition of  a  non-existent,  sham  Masonic  power  which  has  been 
utterly  repudiated  by  every  legitimate  grand  lodge  in  this  republic. 

The  Grand  Lodge  of  the  Federal  District  of  Mexico  (a  district  an- 
swering to  our  District  of  Columbia)  was  one  of  the  rebellious  grand 
lodges  referred  to  by  Bro.  Parvin,  which,  according  to  Chism.  was 
known  as  the  Grand  Lodge  of  the  Valley  of  Mexico  during  the  time 
that  it  was  one  of  the  constituent  bodies  of  the  grand  dieta.  After 
the  disruption  of  the  13th  of  August,  lS9ri— which  Chism  says  was  re- 
commended by  the  grand  master  of  the  grand  dieta.  President  POR- 
PIRIO  Diaz — it  assumed  its  original  name  and  assumed  to  resume  also 
its  independent  powers  and  existence,  and  ,with  the  others  was  put 
under  the  ban  of  excommunication  bj-  the  gran  dieta. 

In  a  foot-note  toCniSM's  statement  that  "in  October,  189.J,  General 
PORFIRIO  Diaz,  the  president  of  Mexico, who  had  been  nominally  grand 
master  of  the  gran  dieta,  formally  resigned  his  position  as  grand 
master,"  he  states  that  "General  DiAS  never  attended  any  meetings 
of  the  gran  dieta  nor  took  any  part  in  its  proceedings." 

Bro.  Parvin  says  that  Bro.  Chism's  statements  have  been  fully 
and  completely  refuted  by  Grand  Secretary  Canton,  of  the  gran 
dieta,  Dr.  Parsons,  master  of  the  Toltec  Lodge  (under  the  gran  dieta), 
and  others;  but  judging  from  the  pamjihlets  before  us — Chism's,  Can- 
ton's, and  Parsons" — this  would  seem  to  be  rather  a  sweeping  state- 
ment even  if  Canton  and  Parsons  are  to  be  accepted  as  reliable 
witnesses.  It  is  to  be  remembered,  however,  that  Canton's  vigorous 
assertions  of  the  falsity  of  Chism's  original  charges  respecting  the 
obnoxious  and  unmasonic  practices  which  prevailed  in  Mexican  Ma- 
sonry (under  the  sway  of  the  gran  dieta)  were  shown  to  be  untrue 
upon  the  evidence  of  Bro.  Parvin  himself.  Of  Bro.  Parson's  relia- 
bility as  a  witness  we  know  only  that  in  the  March  number  of  the 
Comtdlation  (St.  Louis)  Grand  Secretary  Vincil  called  him  sharply 
to  account  for  stating  that  the  gran  dieta  had  been  recognized  by  the 
grand  lodges  of  California  and  Iowa,  Bro.  ViNCll.  having  first  verified 
his  own  recollection  by  writing  to  the  grand  secretaries  of  both  these 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  93 

jurisdictions  and  receiving  from  them  assurances  that  neither  grand 
lodge  had  done  so.  One  thing  seems  plain  to  us:  No  one  can  read 
these  pamphlets  without  feeling  that  the  "atmosphere  of  duplicity" 
which  Bro.  Gould  says  "encircles  all  the  official  spokesmen  who  tes- 
tify to  the  actual  procedure  under  the  Gran  Dieta  Simbolica,"  has  not 
yet  begun  to  clear  up.  Chism  on  the  one  side  and  Canton  and  PAR- 
SONS on  the  other,  hoot  at  each  other's  statements  as  utterly  unworthy 
of  credit.  We  are  without  sufficient  facts  from  disinterested  third 
parties  to  enable  us  to  strike  the  balance  between  the  opposing  fig- 
ures of  the  two  and  thus  reach  a  definite  judgment  as  to  the  extent  of 
the  partially  confessed  disruption  of  the  gran  dieta.  It  is  clear,  how- 
ever, that  as  between  Chism  and  Canton,  in  view  of  the  fact  that 
in  the  former  dispute  the  statements  of  Chism  were  substantially  ver- 
ified, while  those  of  Canton  were  proven  to  be  unveracious  under  cir- 
cumstances which  apparently  preclude  all  possibility  of  their  being 
unconsciously  so,  Chism's  statements  are  entitled  to  the  benefit  of 
whatever  doubt  may  exist. 

One  feature  of  the  correspondence  should  be  mentioned.  Canton 
says  that  Chism's  statement  that  Gen.  Diaz  and  other  prominent  Ma- 
sons have  retired  from  the  gran  dieta  and  recommended  that  it  be 
finally  dissolved  is  a  bare-faced  prevarication;  that  Diaz  resigned  the 
grand  mastership  for  the  expressed  reason  that  he  had  too  much  to 
do  in  the  profane  world  to  attend  to  it,  and  publishes  the  letter  of 
resignation,  the  text  of  which  is  quite  consistent  with  Canton'S  in- 
terpretation. But  Chism  has  the  fatal  advantage  that  he  is  able  to 
publish  another  letter  from  President  Diaz,  written  some  months 
later — viz,  March  12,  1896 — accepting  the  honorary  grand  mastership 
of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  the  Federal  District,  a  body  which  the  gran 
dieta,  or  what  there  was  left  of  that  organization,  had  assumed  to 
expel  from  Masonry  several  months  before.  It  is  noteworthy  in 
this  connection  that  while  Bro.  Parvin  made  much  last  year  of  Presi- 
dent Diaz'  connection  with  the  gran  dieta,  he  this  year  barely  refers 
to  him;  it  is  perhaps  superfluous  to  add  that  in  this  scanty  reference 
there  is  no  hint  that  the  gran  dieta  no  longer  enjoys  whatever  of 
prestige  attached  to  his  official  connection  with  it. 

Another  indication  of  the  probable  truth  of  the  allegation  that 
the  Mexican  hybrid  is  on  its  last  legs  is  the  anxiety  of  Bro.  Parvin 
to  get  recognition  extended  at  the  session  under  review,  to  do  which 
it  became  necessary  to  bring  in  a  special  report  upon  a  subject  which 
had  not  been  referred  to  him  and  by  hook  or  crook  to  get  that  subject 
out  of  the  hands  of  a  conspicuously  able,  unpartisan,  and  judicious 
committee  on  correspondence  with  whom  in  the  absence  of  other 
reference  it  naturally  and  properly  rested,  and  out  of  the  hands  of 
the  jurisprudence  committee  where  it  was  sent  by  the  grand  lodge, 
by  the  heading-off  report  of  a  special  committee. 


94  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 


The  question  asks  itself  at  once,  Why  this  haste  if  the  gran  dieta 
is  fallin<j  to  pieces?  Onlj'  one  sufficient  answer  suffs^ests  itself.  If 
the  gran  dieta  is  crumbling,  another  3'ear  may  make  this  so  apparent 
that  recognition  could  not  be  secured:  and  the  opportunity  to  make 
another  precedent  to  discredit  the  Masonry  of  the  original  plan,  the 
Free  and  Accepted  Masonry  of  the  charges  of  a  Freemason  would  be 
lost,  and  bj'  so  much  the  labors  of  the  revolutionary  propaganda  in 
removing  the  landmarks  set  up  by  the  fathers  would  have  been  vain. 
Moreover,  if  recognition  could  be  secured  at  this  session  it  might  in- 
duce like  action  on  the  part  of  other  grand  lodges  and  perhaps  check 
the  process  of  disintegration  long  enough  to  serve  the  purposes  of  the 
revolutionists  who  have  shown  themselves  ready  not  onlj'  to  recognize 
as  Masonic  an  organization  wanting  some  of  "those  fundamental 
principles  which  characterize  Masonry  as  defined  by  the  charges  of  a 
Freemason,"  "without  which" — as  declared  by  the  Chicago  congress 
with  the  "unequivocal  assent"  of  Bro.  Parvin — "the  institution  can 
not  be  identified  as  Masonry,''  but  to  foist  upon  the  United  States  of 
Mexico  a  general  grand  lodge,  the  idea  of  which  not  one  of  them 
dares  to  defend  as  applied  to  the  United  States  of  America. 

The  report  on  correspondence  (129  pp.),  rendered  doubly  valuable 
by  its  topical  index,  is  again  by  Bro.  James  C.  W.  Coxe.  The  elegance 
of  Bro.  Coxe's  style  is  by  general  consensus  the  despair  of  the  "guild," 
but  year  by  year  we  marvel  with  increasing  wonder  how  he  can  con- 
dense so  much  information  and  wise  comment  into  so  few  pages  and 
yet  lose  nothing  of  the  easy  flow  of  diction  which  is  so  enjoyable. 

His  fraternal  review  of  Illinois  reflects  a  thorough  and  painstak- 
ing examination  of  our  proceedings  for  1896.  He  quotes  Grand  Master 
Scott's  decision  touching  the  practice  of  instructing  some  one  to  cast 
the  vote  of  the  lodge  for  a  brother  named,  that  "there  must  be  a 
ballot  for  each  elective  office,  at  which  each  member  present  shall 
have  the  opportunity  to  vote,"  and  commends  it  "as  pre-eminently 
level-headed  common  sense" — and  so  say  we  all  of  us.  He  notes  the 
unanimous  adoption  of  the  law  against  the  use  of  the  Masonic  name 
for  business  purposes,  and  also  the  passage  of  the  resolution  expressing 
the  sense  of  those  then  assembled  that  the  grand  master  shall  not 
succeed  himself  in  office;  and  characterizes  the  oration  of  Vice- 
President  Stevenson  as  "a  noble  tribute  to  the  work  of  the  Craft 
and  the  high  principles  for  which  it  stands."  He  gives  the  report  on 
corresi)ondence  a  notice  that  is  generous  in  more  senses  than  one, 
and  referring  to  a  matter  heretofore  a  bone  between  us,  sa3's: 

Four  pages  are  given  to  the  Graves  case,  in  reviewing  which  our 
infelicities  and  shortcomings  are  excused  on  account  of  our  late 
coming  into  the  discussion.  We  are  grateful  for  the  kindness  which 
promjjts  this  utterance,  hut  are  not  prepared  either  to  plead  igno- 
rance or  to  confess  judgment  as  to  inaccuracy.     So  far  as  our  courts 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  95 


are  concerned  the  case  is  closed,  and  we  have  no  occasion  to  reopen 
it,  nor  cause  for  reviewing  the  issue.     Stare  decisis! 

We  have  already  given  so  much  space  to  Iowa  that  we  have  none 
left  for  an  adequate  notice  of  Bro.  COXE'S  report,  but  some  points 
must  be  mentioned.  Touching  the  approved  California  decision  against 
cremation,  in  which  the  grand  master  said  that  "the  performance  of 
the  ceremonies  of  our  ritual  would  not  be  appropriate  on  such  an 
occasion,"  he  says: 

Doubtless  not,  on  the  occasion  of  cremation;  but  how  about  the 
service  over  the  ashes  of  a  cremated  brother,  which  were  duly  taken  to 
the  cemetery  for  burialV  We  have  participated  in  one  such  service, 
and  saw  no  incongruity  in  the  case. 

Referring  to  the  women  made  Masons  in  the  Mexican  lodges, 
which  the  gran  dieta  and  its  defenders  now  make  it  a  virtue  to  have 
excluded,  he  says,  under  "Colorado:" 

Just  why  Bro.  Greenleaf  should  use  the  phrase  "so-called  women 
Masons"  we  are  at  a  loss  to  understand.  Lodges  for  women  were 
chartered  by  the  same  authority  which  chartered  lodges  for  men; 
the  same  form  of  charter  was  issued;  the  women  lodges  met  in  the 
same  hall  that  was  occupied  by  men:  the  charters  hung  side  by  side 
in  the  tj^er's  room;  and  more  than  once  men  and  women  sat  in  lodge 
together.  If  the  members  of  these  women's  lodges  are  "so-called" 
Masons,  are  not  the  men  who  have  been  initiated,  passed,  and  raised 
in  lodges  chartered  by  the  Gran  Dieta  "so-called"  Masons  as  well? 
The  lodges  existed  by  the  same  authority;  each  sex  passed  through 
the  same  ceremonies,  received  the  same  secrets,  are  possessed  of  the 
same  modes  of  recognition:  wherein  is  one  any  more  "so-called"  than 
the  other?  The  women  are  not  "clandestine"'  Masons,  unless  the  men 
also  are:  nor  were  they  '"irregularly-made"  Masons,  save  as  judged  by 
general  Masonic  law.  According  to  the  standard  of  the  Gran  Dieta  they  were 
as  regularly  ma<ie  as  any  3fasons  who  have  been  made  in  any  lodge  chartered 
by  that  body,  so  far  as  any  evidence  yet  adduced  shows.  They  were 
charged  with  no  Masonic  offense:  but  without  charge,  without  trial, 
without  even  the  decent  apology  of  an  assigned  reason  therefor,  they 
are  deprived  of  the  privileges  and  benefits  of  the  order,  and  turned 
out  with  the  slur  and  sneer  that  they  are  merely  "so-called"  Masons. 

He  is  in  accord  with  the  grand  master  of  Pennsylvania  who  pointed 
out  that  the  habit  of  calling  some  brother  from  the  floor  to  take  the 
West  in  the  absence  of  the  senior  warden,  is  an  invasion  of  the  rights 
of  the  junior  warden;  in  this  we  are  not  quite  prepared  to  agree  with 
him,  but  we  accept  without  question  his  statement  (under  Delaware) 
that  the  Past  Master's  degree — so-called,  "is  the  vermiform  appendix 
of  Freemasonry,"  and  gratefully  reflect  that  when  Illinois  some  years 
ago  kicked  what  Bro.  Gurney  called  "the  ancient  imposter"  down 
the  back  stairs,  she  also  unwittingly  averted  the  danger  of  any  future 
attack  of  a  disease  now  alarmingly  popular. 

His  conclusion  is  a  strong,  manly,  and  dignified  assertion  of  the 
sacredness  of  his  own  convictions  and  of  confidence  in  the  integrity 


96  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 


of  his  own  mental  processes  that  commands  our  profoundest  respect: 
and  the  temper  in  which  he  does  this  in  the  face  of  y^reat  provocation, 
challen<fes  our  admiration. 


KANSAS,  18U7. 

41sT  Annual.  Salina.  Febkuaky  iT. 

The  frontispiece  of  the  Kansas  proceedings  is  a  photot3'pe  of  the 
elegant  stone  mansion  at  Wichita,  purchased  for  the  centerpiece  of 
a  Masonic  Home  on  the  cottage  i)lan  as  designed  b\'  the  board  of 
directors.  Of  the  purchase  mone^-,  S21,OUO,  the  Masons  of  Wichita 
furnished  $."),000.  The  original  cost  of  the  property  was  about  $!)0,000- 
The  Home  was  dedicated  September  10,  18i)6,  a  special  communication 
being  held  for  the  purpose,  at  which  Hlinois  was  amplj-  represented 
by  Past  Grand  Master  M.  M.  Miller,  her  minister  resident.  The 
Home  was  presented  to  the  grand  lodge  by  its  president,  Past  Grand 
Master  Fuller  and  received  and  dedicated  with  eloquent  addresses 
by  Grand  Master  Coleman  in  person.  Not  less  eloquent  was  the 
comprehensive  praj-er  of  the  grand  chaplain,  who  spared  neither  age 
nor  sex,  nor  concordant  or  discordant  bodies  save  one,  invoking  bless- 
ings on  all  heads  save  the  fez-covered  head  of  the  Moslem:  the  Shrine 
was  the  one  straw  that  was  not  laid  on  the  camel's  ])ack. 

Five  weeks  after  the  dedication,  when  the  Home  had  four  in- 
mates, a  damaging  fire  occurred.  The  loss  was  happih*  covered  by  in- 
surance, but  applications  for  admission  had  to  await  rejjairs  until 
the  6th  of  December.  December  ."Jl,  1896,  there  were  nineteen  in- 
mates, all  that  can  be  advantageously  accommodated  until  certain 
extensions  are  made.  The  estimated  expense  of  running  the  Home 
as  then  constituted  is  S.'J.liOO. 

The  grand  representative  of  Illinois  was  in  evidence  at  the  annual 
communication,  and  six  other  past  grand  masters  were  present. 

The  grand  master  (Chilks  C.  ("OLK^L\N)  annouiioed  the  death  of 
Past  Grand  Master  OWEN  A.  Bassktt.  two  days  after  he  had  com- 
l)leted  his  sixty-second  year.  For  fort}  years  Bro.  Bassett  had  been 
a  conspicuous  figure  in  public  affairs  in  Kansas  and  for  thirty  years 
prominent  in  Kansas  Masonry.  He  was  in  the  grand  east  in  1873  and 
1874.  He  was  of  the  many  sided,  all  round  type  of  American  citizen, 
successively  a  teacher,  civil  engineer,  lawyer,  soldier,  and  jurist.  He 
was  a  distinguished  looking  man  of  unusual  stature  and  fine  presence, 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  97 

genial  and  companionable,  and  among  our  pleasantest  recollections 
are  those  of  the  many  hours  spent  in  his  society  and  that  of  Past 
Grand  Master  John  H.  Brown  in  Chicago  during  the  week  preceding 
the  great  fire,  when  the}'  were  visitors  at  our  annual  communication. 

All  of  the  addresses  delivered  at  the  services  held  in  memory  of 
Bro.  Bassett  were  of  high  average  excellence  and  some  of  them  ex- 
ceedingly interesting,  notably  the  eulogy  of  Past  Grand  Master  John 
Guthrie,  which  was  rich  in  reminiscences  of  Rees,  Saqui  and  others, 
who  laid  the  foundation  of  Masonry  in  Kansas:  and  the  address  of 
Grand  Chaplain  Busser,  marked  by  singular  beauty  and  trustfulness- 

The  grand  master  submitted  five  decisions,  three  of  which  follow: 

1.  One  who  is  the  agent  of  a  non-resident  brewing  company,  and 
as  such  is  in  charge  of  the  warehouse  and  sale  department  of  his  em- 
ployer, and  either  directly  or  indirectly,  superintends  and  directs  the 
sale  of  beer  and  other  intoxicating  liquors,  in  violation  of  the  state 
laws,  cannot  lawfully  receive  the  degrees  of  Masonry  in  this  state. 

2.  While  it  is  desirable,  it  is  not  absolutely  necessary  that  the 
pallbearers  at  a  Masonic  funeral  should  be  Masons. 

3.  Where  a  petitioner  for  the  mysteries  of  Masonry  permanently 
removes  from  the  jurisdiction  of  a  lodge  before  the  committee  of 
investigation  makes  its  report,  the  lodge  loses  jurisdiction  of  him, 
and  should  cause  his  petition  and  deposit  to  be  returned. 

All  were  approved.  No.  1  we  print  for  information;  No  2  to 
inquire  why  it  is  desirable  if  it  is  not  necessary,  and  No.  3  to  say  that 
we  presume  the  general  rule  that  jurisdiction  obtains  at  all  times 
after  the  receipt  and  reference  of  the  petition,  is  held  to  lapse  upon 
the  discovery  that  the  petitioner  is  ineligible. 

The  grand  master  suggested  the  importance  of  occasionally  pub- 
lishing the  roll  of  membership  as  recommended  by  his  predecessor, 
the  grand  secretary  recommended  that  it  be  published  in  1898,  and  a 
resolution  looking  to  its  publication  ever}-  five  years  went  to  the 
finance  committee.  The  grand  lodge  agreed  with  the  committee  that 
the  advantages  accruing  are  not  equal  to  the  cost. 

The  grand  lodge  chartered  two  new  lodges  and  continued  one 
under  dispensation:  held  an  evening  session  on  the  first  day  for  the 
dedication  and  consecration  of  the  new  Masonic  Temple  at  Salina, 
being  opened  at  the  time  on  the  first  degree;  listened  to  an  oration  by 
Bro.  .John  D.  Milliken  that  was  worthy  to  be  called  such,  wherein  the 
orator  ably  treated  Masonry,  first,  as^an  ideal;  second,  its  misconcep- 
tions; third,  its  lessons,  and  fourth,  the  duties  and  privileges  of  Ma- 
sons in  relation  to  it:  formally  received  the  members  of  the  diplomatic 
corps,  who,  on  being  introduced  by  the  grand  master,  presented  their 
reports:  negatived  a  proposition  to  require  a  petitioner  for  the 
degrees,  previously  rejected,  to  present  with  his  petition  a  waiver  of 

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98  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 

jurisdiction  from  the  rejecting  lodge,  an  insidious  attempt  to  commit 
the  jurisdiction  to  the  doctrine  which  Bro.  Vaux  called  perpetual 
objection,  but  generally  styled  perpetual  jurisdiction:  declined  to 
concur  in  the  "Maine  proposition"'  on  the  stated  ground  that  its  con- 
stitution would  not  admit  of  such  legislation,  thus  showing  that  in 
an}'  attempt  to  secure  a  general  consensus  ameliorating  the  doctrine 
of  perpetual  jurisdiction  the  alleged  obstinacj'  of  the  jurisdictions 
which  sustain  the  doctrine  is  likely  to  be  matched  by  those  which  ap- 
\).y  the  principle  for  a  shorter  term:  and  agreed  to  meet  next  3'ear 
at  Wichita. 

William  M.  Shaver,  was  elected  grand  master:  Albert  K.  Wil- 
son, re-elected  grand  secretary,  both  of  Topeka. 

The  report  on  correspondence  (187  pp.).  the  fourth  by  the  author, 
is  by  Past  Grand  Master  Matthew  M.  Miller.  It  is  an  able  paper 
and  fully  justifies  our  remark  after  reading  his  first  report,  that  hi^ 
continuance  on  the  committee  meant  enlightenment  for  the  Craft, 
no  snoring  in  the  guild,  and  a  literarj'  reputation  for  Kansas. 

Eleven  pages  of  his  report  are  given  to  Illinois  proceedings  for 
1896,  beginning  with  this  high  compliment  to  Grand  Master  Scott: 

Illinois  has  had  in  the  grand  masters  who  have  presided  over  her 
Grand  Lodge  of  Masons  many  brilliant  orators  and  distinguished 
men:  but  the  number  of  grand  masters  in  Illinois  or  any  other  juris- 
diction in  this  country  who  can  e.xpress  as  forcibh'.  beautif  ull}-.  and 
eloquently  what  they  have  to  say  as  did  Grand  Master  Owen  Scott,  in 
the  addresses  given  b}'  him  and  published  in  the  volume  before  us.  can 
be  counted  with  less  than  the  lingers  of  one  hand.  His  response  to 
the  address  of  welcome  at  the  corner-stone  laj'ing  at  Charleston  was  a 
perfect  gem  in  ai)propriateness.  in  the  elegance  of  its  diction  and  elo- 
quent utterance,  as  likewise  was  the  commencement  of  his  admirable 
address  at  the  opening  of  grand  lodge  at  its  annual  communication. 

He  brielly  summarizes  the  grand  master's  annual  address;  char- 
acterizes the  oration  of  Bro.  Stevenson  as  a  production  of  merit: 
notes  with  gladness  the  recognition  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Cuba,  and 
gives  the  residue  of  something  over  ten  ])ages  to  the  report  on  corre- 
spondence and  its  author,  who  also  gets  throughout  the  Kansas  report 
frequent,  more  or  less  copious,  sparkling  notices,  generally  bearing 
the  unmistakable  bouquet  of  the  imperial  vintage. 

Bro.  Miller  resurrects  his  old  comparison  of  DON  QuiXOTTE  ap- 
parently as  alone  adequate  to  illustrate  our  attitude  towards  the 
Holy  Empire,  and  says: 

Notwithstanding  our  innate  modesty  of  conception,  as  to  our  own 
ability  to  attract  the  attention  of  the  learned  and  facile  writers  of 
the  Guild,  we  confess  that  the  twenty  pages  which  Bro.  R.  has  w'rit- 
ten  for  our  instruction,  inspires  us  with  the  suspicion  that  possilily 
something  we  have  written  may  have  been  the  spur  to  this  unusual 
display  of  consideration  and  attention  to  the  Kansas  review. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  99 

Having  carefully  looked  through  the  pages  we  devoted  to  Kansas 
without  discovering  a  line  referring  to  him  in  which  we  transcended 
the  limits  of  courteous  discussion,  we  can  only  conjecture  that  in 
likening  us  to  Gulliver,  Munchausen,  and  Uriah  Heep,  and  his 
choice  and  varied  reference  to  us  as  a  whangdoodle,  a  pharisee,  and 
a  bigot,  he  is  not  speaking  in  his  own  proper  person  as  a  Mason  and 
a  gentleman,  but  simply  illustrating  automatically  and  unconsciously 
the  possibilities  of  the  imperial  vernacular. 

In  our  review  of  the  action  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Kansas  in 
recognizing  the  Mexican  grand  diet,  he  correctly  says  that  we  start 
out  (in  the  brief  epitome  we  gave  of  the  history  of  Masonry  in  that 
republic)  with  a  quotation  from  Bro.  Gould,  referring  to  the  Es- 
coseses  and  Yorkinos  Masonico-political  factions,  of  which  he  cannot 
see  the  pertinency,  "as  the  imaginative  historian  avers  they  both 
died,  and  the  historical  narrative  does  not  resurrect  either."  Neither 
is  its  value  apparent;  at  least  it  is  not  confessed,  but  inasmuch  as 
the  quoting  of  this  bit  of  surplusage  from  an  author  of  acknowledged 
standing  stamps  us  as  an  "imaginative  historian"  and  thus  furnishes 
him  with  the  stockbroth  of  his  argument,  he  should  be  the  last  to 
look  such  a  gift  horse  in  the  mouth. 

Continuing  he  says: 

We  are  then  treated  to  a  statement  concerning  an  organization 
called  the  "Mexican  National  Rite,"  which  "during  the  civil  war 
came  under  the  ban  of  government  and  church  and  practically  dis- 
appeared"— died  we  suppose,  through  the  reservation  implied  in 
"practically  disappeared"  might  indicate  continued  life  sub-rosa.  It 
occurs  to  us  to  remark  parenthetically  that  none  of  these  bodies 
came  up  to  the  exact  altitude  required  by  Bro.  Robbins's  plumb  line, 
but  as  the  Escoseses  wore  out  the  Yorkinos  and  then  through  inani- 
tion turned  up  their  toes  to  the  daisies  and  were  succeeded  by  the 
National  Rite,  which  did  not  satisfy  the  imperial  government  of 
Maximilian,  the  Roman  Catholic  church  or  even  Bro.  Robbins.  and 
consequently  deserved  to  die.  Bro.  R.  easily  clears  his  deck  for  action 
for  his  special  betenoir,  the  Holy  Empire.  Chronologically  Bro.  R.  then 
goes  back  to  1860,  etc. 

The  statement  respecting  the  Mexican  National  Rite  was  a  fair 
abridgment  of  Bro.  Gould's  reference  thereto,  in  which — being  an 
abridgment — quotation  marks  were  not  used.  Bro.  Miller  might 
have  saved  himself  his  parenthetical,  ill-directed,  and  untimely  wit 
in  coupling  our  name  with  the  imperial  government  of  Maximilian 
and  the  Roman  Catholic  church,  but  for  the  eagerness  to  discredit  us 
as  an  "imaginative  historian"  which  led  him  to  overlook  the  fact  that 
the  statement  referred  to  a  period  long  antedating  the  Austro-Prench 
invasion  of  Mexico. 

We  do  not  propose  to  follow  Bro.  Miller  through  all  his  exem 
plifications  of  the  lawyer's  rule  that  if  you  go  before  a  jury  with  a 
weak  case  you  must  pitch  into  the  opposing  counsel.     The  Craft  are 


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APPENDIX. — PART   I. 


not  interested  in  our  idiosyncrasies,  our  ambitions,  the  ••spells"'  that 
may  be  over  us,  except  in  so  far  as  they  bear  upon  the  question  under 
discussion,  and  we  shall  avoid  fritterinjr  away  our  space  with  personal 
matters  as  much  as  possible:  contentinj^r  ourself  as  nearly  as  may  be 
practicable  in  this  connection  with  the  sweepinj^  assurance  that  all 
our  statements  as  to  the  course  of  events  in  the  alleged  Masonry  of 
Mexico,  represented  by  our  brother — either  by  direct  assertion  or  by 
inuendo — as  the  fijjments  of  our  distempered  brain,  rest  upon,  and  are 
generally  very  nearly  in  the  language  of  writers  whose  labors  have 
made  the  Masonic  world  their  debtors.  For  the  conclusions  we  have 
drawn  from  these  facts — legitimate  objects  of  attack  by  any  who 
think  them  unwarranted— we  are  justly  responsible. 

Bro.  Miller  says  we  did  not  kill  off  the  grand  orient  (as  we  did 
the  Yorkinos  and  Escoseses — by  taking  note  of  the  announcement  of 
their  death),  and  this  is  correct,  but  as  Bro.  Parvin,  who  had  the 
same  interest  in  keeping  the  Yorkinos  alive  that  Bro.  Miller  has, 
saj's  that  it  had  "only  a  nominal  existence,"  we  were  justified  in  say- 
ing that  the  swaj'of  the  supreme  council  was  so  nearlj'  complete  that 
no  opposition  to  its  plan  was  feared  from  that  quarter.  Further  speak- 
ing of  our  reference  to  the  supreme  council,  he  says: 

He  speaks  in  one  breath  of  their  disclaimer  of  anj^  authority  over 
the  symbolic  degrees,  and  in  the  next  evolves  from  his  distempered 
mental  imagining  the  convocation  of  the  lodges  by  the  power  of  the 
supreme  council.  Further,  to  establish  a  connection  which  shall 
make  his  insinuation  plausible,  he  draws  again  upon  his  imagination, 
ousts  the  real  acting  sovereign  grand  commander  of  the  supreme 
council  of  Mexico,  Louis  Pombo,  from  his  office,  and  bestows  it  upon 
the  nominal  grand  master  of  the  grand  lodge  in  the  following  choice 
bit  of  intended  sarcasm: 

But  the  H0I3'  Empire  never  completelj'  relinquishes  its  hold  on 
anything  it  has  once  enjoyed,  if  it  can  help  it,  and  if  the  disclaimer 
didn't  have  a  string  to  it,  the  new  body  which  was  organized  in  conse- 
quence of  it,  did.  Gen.'Porfirio  Diaz,  the  sovereign  grand  commander 
of  the  supreme  council,  is  the  grand  master  of  the  Grand  Symbolic 
Diet,  a  feature  which  assimilates  the  new  bod\'  to  the  Grand  Orient 
family,  an  outgrowth  to  the  Scottish  Rite. 

If  Bro.  R.  had  desired  to  be  considered,  much  more  been  disjiosed 
to  be  fair,  he  would  not  have  asserted  as  true  on  one  page  that  which 
is  contradicted  on  the  next  page  b}'  himself,  when  he  refers  to  ''Dr. 
Pombo,  the  working  executive  head  of  that  bodj'."  which  assertion, 
to  make  the  most  charitable  comment  possible,  does  not  give  us  a 
proper  conception  of  the  entire  truth  when  compared  with  that  just 
above  quoted. 

Our  "assertion''  that  General  Porfirio  Diaz  was  the  sovereign 
grand  commander  of  the  supreme  council,  was,  as  Bro.  Miller  is 
aware,  strictly  true,  although  he  could  hardly  be  expected  to  ])ublish 
the  following  extract  from  Bro.  Parvin's  letter  to  the  I'oicr  nf  3[a- 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  101 


sonri/,  from  which  we  compressed  the  information  that   Dr.  POMBO 
was  "the  working  executive  head  of  that  body:" 

In  the  supreme  council  women  took  the  degrees  up  to  the  four- 
teenth, but  no  further,  as  I  was  informed  by  Dr.  Pombo,  the  head  of 
the  body,  although  President  Diaz  is  nominally  the  head  of  both  the 
supreme  council  and  the  gran  dieta.  The  former  is  governed  by  the 
deputy.  Dr.  Pombo,  and  the  latter  by  the  grand  secretary,  Canton. 

Bro.  Miller  characterizes  our  remarks  touching  the  Holy  Em- 
pire, quoted  above  as  "a  choice  bit  of  intended  sarcasm."  It  was  not 
intended  for  prophecy,  but  less  than  a  year  has  sufficed  to  show  how 
accurately  we  had  sized  up  the  imperial  outfit,  string  and  all.  Less 
than  a  year  finds  the  string  pulled  in;  the  gran  dieta  disrupted  and 
its  then  head.  Sovereign  Grand  Commander  Diaz,  -and  his  deputy 
grand  commander.  Dr.  Pombo,  enrolled  with  their  consent  as  honor- 
ary grand  masters  of  one  of  the  seceding  grand  lodges,  expelled  for 
its  part  in  the  disruption.  We  may  add  that  as  near  as  we  can  make 
out  (amid  the  rapid  changes  of  names  and  allegiance)  the  tangled 
web  of  Mexican  "Masonic"  history,  that  the  body  of  which  President 
Diaz  is  now  honorary  grand  master — or  was  at  last  accounts— seems 
to  be  the  one  in  whose  veins— according  to  Bro.  Miller's  account — 
flows  the  blue  blood  of  the  Yorkinos. 

We  may  further  add  that  if  Bro.  Miller's  contribution  to  the 
later  history  of  one  of  the  Mexican  bodies  is  correct,  the  Yorkinos 
were  not  murdered  either  by  Bro.  Gould  or  ourself ,  but  existed  as  an 
organized  remnant  until  they  became  felo  de  se  when  the  organization 
placed  itself  under  the  jurisdiction  of  a  supreme  council.  The  con- 
tribution referred  to  is  as  follows: 

Sometime  after  its  reestablishment  in  1865,  the  grand  lodge  Valle 
de  Mexico  No.  1,  working  the  York  Rite  exclusively,  through  the 
same  methods  by  which  our  ancestors  thought  it  not  incompatible  to 
work  the  chapter,  templar,  and  council  degrees,  under  warrants  ema- 
nating from  a  grand  lodge,  and  with  the  same  lack  of  information  as 
to  its  own  sovereign  character  which  characterized  eminent  American 
Masons  at  the  same  period— while  still  preserving  its  character  as  a 
grand  lodge,  placed  itself  under  the  jurisdiction  of  the  supreme  coun- 
cil of  Mexico.  This  continued  for  some  years,  until  1878,  when  the 
grand  lodge  Valle  de  Mexico,  No.  1,  declared  its  absolute  sovereignty 
as  a  Masonic  power.  It  then  comprised  fifty-one  symbolic  lodges.  In 
1879  it  organized  the  Supreme  Grand  Orient  of  Mexico— a  body  that 
as  late  as  January,  1890,  comprised  eighteen  grand  lodges  and  193 
subordinate  lodges. 

In  asserting  the  lineal  descent  of  this  body  from  legitimate  Ma- 
sonry of  the  Poinsett  era,  Bro.  Miller  maintains  that  the  several 
York  Rite  lodges  instituted  by  Minister  Poinsett  in  1825  united  in 
organizing  the  Grand  Lodge  Valle  de  Mexico,  the  first  grand  lodge 
ever  instituted  in  Mexico,  and  that  York  Rite  Masonry  thus  insti- 
tuted never  was  extinct;  that  one  of  the  lodges,  called  "Union  and 


102  APPENDIX. — PART  I. 

Fraternity, ■■  instituted  in  182"),  had  an  uninterrupted  existence  until 
18(55,  when,  with  a  membership  of  200.  it  divided  into  three  York  Rite 
lod<res,  one  working  in  Spanish,  one  in  German,  and  one  in  English, 
and  reestablishing  the  grand  lodge  under  its  old  name,  "the  Grand 
Lodge  Valle  of  Mexico,"'  adding  to  it  "No.  I,""  to  signify  that  it  was 
an  assertion  of  continued  existence  of  the  original  body,  and  points 
this  narrative  with  the  opinion  that  this  was  "just  as  valid  a  grand 
lodge  as  that  of  Michigan,  or  Maine,  or  any  of  those  that  bent  for  a 
time  before  the  Mor(;an  anti-Masonic  blast.'' 

The  period  when  the  grand  lodge  thus  "reestablished"  was  dises- 
tablished is  not  fixed  by  the  narrator,  nor  is  it  stated  whether  at  the 
time  of  the  segregation  of  the  lodge  Union  and  Fraternity  there  was 
also  a  segregation  of  the  name,  or  whether  during  the  time  when  the 
fragments  were  waiting  the  auspicious  moment  when  their  reunion 
should  reestablish  the  grand  lodge  they  had  mourned  as  orphans,  and 
subsequently  they  made  one  name  in  three  different  languages  serve 
for  the  whole  three  or  the  three  wholes  of  the  Siamese  triplets.  Desir- 
able as  this  information  is,  however,  the  lack  of  it  is  not,  perhaps,  so 
material  as  to  argue  the  want  of  a  proper  degree  of  imagination  on 
the  part  of  the  narrator. 

But  there  is  an  essential  feature  lacking  in  this  interesting  nar- 
rative— interesting  as  must  ever  be  the  story  of  a  body  whose  fertility 
of  resource  enabled  it  to  multiply  itself  by  division  and  manufacture  a 
new,  live  parent  who  should  be  identical  with  the  one  whose  death 
could  alone  put  these  resources  to  such  a  lest.  The  narrator  unfor- 
tunately fails  to  inform  us  whether  after  the  segregation  of  the  or- 
phaned lodge  and  before  the  coalescence  of  its  disjointed  parts  had 
created  a  new  grand  lodge,  the  old  charter  received  by  the  unit  from 
the  defunct  grand  lodge  served  for  all  three  of  the  fractions:  whether 
each  one  of  the  fractions  had  an  e(iual-sized  strip  of  the  ancestral 
parchment,  or  whether  three  whole  charters,  one  for  each  fraction, 
were  evolved  out  of  the  "environment."  Definite  information  as  to 
the  authority  under  which  these  bodies  worked  is  the  first  condition 
for  a  correct  judgment  as  to  the  validity  of  the  alleged  grand  lodge 
produced  by  them,  no  matter  how  "broad-gauged"  the  judge. 

But  even  if  the  lawful  character  of  the  parent  unit  is  beyond 
question,  if  it  can  by  splitting  itself  into  three  parts  fulfill  the  con- 
dition which  requires  at  least  three  lodges  to  join  in  forming  a  grand 
lodge — and  the  fact  of  the  splitting  shows  that  this  condition  was 
conceded  to  be  imperative — and  create  a  grand  lodge  as  valid  as  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  Michigan,  what  a  useless  waste  of  time  and  money  it 
was  for  three  of  the  Michigan  bodies  whoso  parent  grand  lodge  had 
bent  for  a  time  before  the  anti-Ma.sonic  blast,  to  apjily  to  another 
grand  jurisdiction  for  charters  in  order  to  "re-establish""  their  grand 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  103 

lodge  under  its  old  name,  when  one  body  (with  one  charter  thus  se- 
cured and  properly  carved  up  would  have  served  the  turn. 

We  have  already  seen  (in  the  quotation  in  which  we  said  Bro. 
Miller  referred  to  the  later  history  of  this  body)  that  some  time  after 
its  re-establishment  in  186,"),  the  Grand  Lodge  Valle  de  Mexico  No.  1, 
"working  the  York  Rite  exclusively,"  while  still  preserving  its 
character  as  a  grand  lodge  placed  itself  under  the  jurisdiction  of  the 
Supreme  Council  of  Mexico.  We  have  also  seen  that  this  continued 
until  1878,  when  the  Grand  Lodge  Valle  de  Mexico  No  1,  declared  it^ 
absolute  sovereignty  as  a  Masonic  power,  comprising  at  the  time 
fifty-one  symbolic  lodges.  That  it  was  intended  that  the  inference 
should  be  drawn  that  these  fifty-one  lodges  "worked  the  York  Rite  ex- 
clusively" is  plain  from  the  later  context  wherein  he  asserts  it,  if  not 
explicitly  then  implicitly,  by  asking  if  we  do  not  know  it  to  be  a  fact 
that  the  Grand  Orient  of  Mexico,  the  legitimate  successor  to  the 
Grand  Lodge  Valle  de  Mexico  No.  1  (by  which  it  was  organized  in  1879) 
maintained  the  "(New)  York  Masonry  kept  alive  and  vigorous  since 
its  first  inception  in  1825?" 

It  would  be  interesting  to  know  how  much  of  its  character  as  a 
grand  lodge  the  transformationist  of  the  Mexican  Valley  still  pre- 
served what  time  it  was  under  the  jurisdiction  of  the  Supreme  Coun- 
cil of  Mexico.  Did  it  issue  the  charters  of  the  fifty-one  symbolic 
lodges  it  comprised  in  1878,  or  were  they  issued  by  the  supreme  coun- 
cil? If  during  the  time  it  was  subordinate  to  the  supreme  council  it 
could  issue  a  so-called  charter  that  did  not  require  the  signature  of 
the  sovereign  grand  commander  to  make  it  valid,  then  it  enjoyed  a 
distinction  as  unique  as  that  of  its  second  birth  when  like  Macduff  i't 
was  from  its  "mother's  womb  untimely  ripped." 

According  to  Bro.  Miller  it  was  not  only  originally;  after  its  sec- 
and  birth  and  after  its  second  death  by  suicide  (when  it  gave  its  alle- 
giance to  the  supreme  council);  but  afterwards,  under  the  guise  of  the 
Supreme  Grand  Orient  of  Mexico — the  defender,  preserver,  and  propa" 
gator  of  "York  Rite  Masonry  kept  alive  and  vigorous  since  its  first 
inception  in  1825."  Bro.  Tyler,  of  Texas,  the  first  foreign  discoverer 
of  the  gran  dieta  (and  since  that  time  its  defender),  and  Bro.  Parvin 
both  say  that  the  supreme  grand  orient — the  link  by  which  Bro.  Miller 
connects  the  Masonry  of  the  Gran  Dieta  with  theYorkinos— was  the  out- 
growth of  a  schism  in  the  Supreme  Council  of  Mexico,  established  by  the 
Southern  Supreme  Council  of  the  United  States  in  1865.  When  doctors 
like  Miller  and  Parvin  (both  of  the  highest  grade  of  the  imperial 
school)  disagree,  the  only  thing  to  do  is  to  fallback  on  the  family  his- 
tory and  the  constitutional  tendencies  of  the  patient.  From  the  very 
nature  of  things  purely  Ancient  Craft  bodies  are  not  subject  to  the 
disease  of  grand  orientism.      The  conditions  are  all  wanting  that  can 


104  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


afford  a  proper  nidus  for  the  lodgment  and  development  of  its  germs: 
and  so  far  as  we  are  aware  there  is  no  instance  in  history  where  Free 
and  Accepted  Masonr}-  that  has  not  been  previously  crossed  with  high 
riteism  ever  spawned  a  grand  orient.  We  consider  it  more  probabU- 
therefore,  that  Bro.  Miller  has  been  mistaken  in  his  sources  of  infor- 
mation, than  that  the  bod\'  which  was  the  precurser  and  progenitor  of 
the  Supreme  Grand  Orient  of  Mexico — according  to  Bro.  Millkk's  gen- 
ealogical tracings — was  maintaining  the  Masonry  planted  in  Mexico 
by  a  grand  lodge  in  1825.  It  requires  a  greater  stretch  of  credulity  to 
believe  this  latter  alternative  possible,  than  to  accept  the  statement 
of  Bro.  Tyler  that  at  the  time  the  gran  dieta  was  organized  all  the 
lodges  in  Mexico  were  working  the  .Scottish  rite  except  Toltec  lodge, 
chartered  by  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Missouri  in  1883.  Another  reason 
for  doubting  that  the  Grand  Lodge  Valle  de  Mexico  No.  1,  was  of  the 
Masonic  family  planted  in  1825,  is  the  fact  that  it  was  in  this  body 
and  its  subordinates  that  women  Masonry  and  women  lodges  first  crop- 
ped out  under  the  sway  of  the  gran  dieta:  for  it  is  to  be  remembered 
that  it  was  in  the  Scottish  Rite  bodies  subordinate  to  the  supreme 
council  that  at  an  earlier  date  the  degrees  up  to  the  fourteenth  were 
conferred  on  women,  as  related  to  Bro.  Parvin  bj'  Dr.  Pombo,  the 
deputy  grand  commander  of  the  supreme  council,  and  as  indicated  by 
the  correspondence  on  the  subject  between  PoMBO  and  Albert  Pike* 
years  earlier. 

Presumably  to  show  the  injustice  of  our  remark  that  the  Holy 
Empire  never  completely  relinquishes  its  hold  on  anything  it  has  once 
enjoyed,  and  incidental!}'  to  show  that  the  jurisdiction  exercised  over 
the  three  degrees  in  Mexico  was  the  result  of  accident  rather  than 
design,  Bro.  Miller,  finding  our  "history"  printed  in  part  in  the  '"His- 
tory of  Freemasonry"  (Gould),  regrets  that  we  did  not  quote  more 
fully  from  it  [notwithstanding  the  quotations  were  explicitly  cred- 
ited to  an  article  by  Bro.  Gould  found  in  the  transactions  of  the 
Lodge  Quatuor  Coronati,  of  London,  for  the  year  1893],  for  instance 
the  following: 

"In  the  year  1858  or  1859,"  according  to  an  otticial  report.*  "Bro. 
Lafon  de  Ladebat  went  to  Mexico  with  authority  from  Bro.  Albert 
Pike  (of  Washington,  D.  G.)  to  organize  and  establish  Masonry  on  a 
sound  basis  in  that  country.  UnfortiDintcbi  Bro.  Ladilmt  did  not  oiymiizc 
(I  Grund  Lod<je  of  Sipniiolic  Masonrii  fn:^(.  (is  iustrurtid.  but  constituted 
the  supreme  council,  with  jurisdiction  over  the  three  degrees  of  En- 
tered Apprentice,  Fellow  Graft,  and  Master  Mason." 

Our  impulse  to  doubt  the  correctness  of  this  "official  report"  be- 
cause it  was  made  before  Bro.  Pike  had  satisfied  himself  that  the 
constitutions  of  tlie  .Scottish  Rite  did  not  authorize  supreme  councils 
to  create  and  govern  symbolic  lodges,  is  more  than  justified  b}-  the 
sweeping  assertion  of  Bro.  Pike  himself,  made  in  1890.  that  the  Su- 

♦Proceedings  Grand  Lodge  Louisiana.  18H4,  Appendi.x.  page  5. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  105 

preme  Council  for  the  Southern  Jurisdiction  had  "never  once  in  the 
eightj'-eight  years  of  its  existence,  even  for  a  moment,  thotight  of  es- 
tablishing  a  blue  lodtje.''    The  italics  are  his  own. 

Bro.  Miller  also  reproduces  the  following'  from  the  same  article 
in  "The  History  of  Freemasonry,'"  and  arches  his  brows  as  he  says  he 
cannot  conceive  how  it  escaped  our  notice: 

The  Supreme  Council  of  Mexico  in  a  Balustre  numbered  XXX, 
and  dated  April  25,  1883,  renounced  its  jurisdiction  over  the  Symboli- 
cal degrees  and  promulgated  a  variety  of  regulations  with  regard  to 
grand  and  subordinate  lodges. 

We  thank  him  for  calling  our  attention  to  it,  on  account  of  its 
bearing  on  the  following  illustration  of  imperial  manners: 

Now,  Bro.  R.,  we  distinctly  assert  that  you  draw  exclusively  upon 
your  imagination  in  the  following  claim,  viz:  That  the  supreme  coun- 
cil "set  on  foot  a  project  for  an  organization  which  at  last  nominally 
should  have  control  of  the  symbolic  lodges,  and  accordingly  on  the 
24th  day  of  December  of  that  year  (1889)  it  paved  the  wa}^  by  formally 
relinquishing  forever  all  claim  to  jurisdiction  over  the  first  three  de- 
grees." 

In  this  case  the  italics  are  ours.  Had  he  read  carefully  Gould's 
abridgment  of  "An  Inside  View  of  Mexican  Masonry,"  in  the  article 
from  which  we  had  confessedly  been  quoting,  he  would  have  been  less 
reckless  in  his  assertion.  We  quote  a  portion  of  what  he  doubtless 
overlooked: 

"It  will  be  seen  and  is  a  fact,"  observes  Bro.  Chism,  that  the  or- 
ganization of  the  Gran  Dieta,  which  now  claims  exclusive  jurisdiction 
over  Symbolic  Masonry  in  this  republic,  was  not  the  result  of  any 
convocation  or  convention  of  Masons:  it  was  the  act  of  the  Supreme 
Council  A.  and  A.  S.  K.,  which  called  the  Gran  Dieta  into  existence, 
and  it  still  exists  by  the  will  of  that  supreme  body-" 

It  will  be  seen  that  the  basis  for  our  claim  was  quite  ample  with- 
out drawing  upon  our  imagination,  but  we  are  free  to  confess  that 
this  basis  was  greatly  strengthened  by  our  observation  of  the  methods 
of  the  High  Rite  propoganda  in  recent  years,  on  both  sides  of  the 
Rio  Grande.  And  now  Bro.  Miller  has  contributed  largely  to  con- 
firm our  estimate  of  the  characteristics  of  the  imperial  outfit  on  the 
Mexican  side  of  that  historic  river.  Balustre  XXX,  to  which  he  calls 
our  attention  affords  another  excellent  illustration  of  renunciation 
with  a  string  to  it.  A  copy  of  a  document  which  we  have  before  us 
shows  in  detail  the  conditions  on  which  the  supreme  council  renounced 
its  jurisdiction  over  the  symbolical  degrees,  referred  to  by  the  his- 
torian as  "a  variety  of  regulations  with  regard  to  grand  and  subordi- 
nate lodges." 

The  "balustre"  before  us  was  promulgated  on  the  2Tth  day  of  May, 
1886.  By  its  terms  the  balustre  of  April  25,  1883,  is  rescinded  as  not 
being  sufficiently  explicit.     The  decree  of  May  27,  1883,  has  just  been 


106  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


recirculated  b}'  order  of  the  supreme  council,  that  "high  body"  hav" 
ing  "deigned  to  order"  it  to  be  circulated  again  because  of  "difficul- 
ties having  arisen,  of  late,  with  the  Symbolical  Masonry  of  Mexico 
about  its  regularity — a  regularity  which  is  disputed  by  several 
groups."  It  is  certified  to  by  the  grand  secretary  general,  Juan  N. 
Castellanos,  who  says  it  "has  been  in  force  since  its  promulgation, 
and  is  still  in  force  and  vigor  at  the  present  time." 

This  decree  lays  down  the  conditions  upon  which  grand  lodges  may 
"exercise  jurisdiction  over  symbolic  Masonry,  and  in  one  case  that  of 
the  Federal  district,  not  only  prescribes  that  the  grand  lodge  shall  be 
formed  "according  to  the  prescriptions  of  our  constitution,  '  but  fixes 
the  date  when  the  officers  shall  be  installed.  It  further  prescribes 
that  the  constitutions  shall  be  published  with  the  greatest  brevity 
possible,  and  lays  down  as  a  fundamental  condition  of  exercising  the 
jurisdiction  which  the  supreme  council  forever  renounces  (and  re- 
nounced again  in  1889)  the  "unalterable  preservation  of  the  formulas, 
rituals,  obligations,  signs,  grips,  and  passwords  lohich  are  knoicn  <oits." 

Touching  alleged  Pennsylvania  precedents  for  the  recognition  of 
grand  lodges  organized  bj^  unauthorized  bodies,  Bro.  Miller  says: 

The  speculation  that  lodges  dissolving  their  connection  with  a 
provincial  grand  lodge,  still  retaining  tlieir  warrants,  could  not  have 
lacked  authorit\'.  may  be  true,  but  that  is  not  the  issue:  the  issue  is 
upon  lodges  "which  dissolved  their  connection  with  a  provincial  grand 
lodge — repudiated  the  authority  of  their  icarrants  b;/  cnactmejit,  and  without 
warrants  or  any  other  authority,  through  their  representatives,  met. 
organized  a  grand  lodge,  and  started  in  business  as  Masons  without 
the  sanction  of  a  lawful  warrant  of  any  character." 

We  beg  to  insist  that  that  is  the  issue,  because  we  know  of  no  lodges 
in  Pennsylvania  that  dissolved  their  connection  with  an  English  pro- 
vincial grand  lodge  except  the  lodges  which  united  to  form  the  present 
Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsylvania,  and  thej' did  not  repudiate  the  author- 
ity of  their  warrants  by  enactment  in  any  other  sense  than  all  lodges 
do  when  met  to  organize  an  independent  grand  lodge.  They  simply 
"closed  the  provincial  grand  lodge  forever,"  and  immediatelj' organ- 
ized an  independent  grand  lodge.  The  question  whether  in  the  process 
of  dissolving  the  old  and  organizing  the  new  there  was  a  moment  of 
time  when  events  paused  on  the  "dead  centre"  and  left  the  lodges 
resting  on  nothing,  is  scarcely  worth  discussing,  it  being  identical 
with  the  question  whether  the  brethren  then  met  in  provincial  grand 
lodge  for  the  purpose  of  forming  an  indejiendent  grand  lodge,  by  the 
act  of  closing  the  former  revoked  the  charters  under  which  the  lodges 
acted  who  sent  them  there. 

Bro.  Miller  says  that  our  second  reason  for  holding  that  the 
unauthorized  lodge  or  lodges  with  which  Franklin  was  connected 
(prior  to  .June  24.  I7.'i4,)  had  never  once  had  and  then  lost  regularit}'. 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  107 

viz:  that  no  lodges  were  ever  constitituted  under  the  deputation  to 
Daniel  Cox  (1730)  appointing'  him  ijrovincial  grand  master  of  New 
Jersey,  New  York,  a.nd  Pennsylvania,  looks  "like  a  non-sequitur,^^  and 
we  presume  this  which  follows  consecutively  is  his  reason  for  think- 
ing so: 

Cox's  deputation  ceased  June  24,  1732,  when  Henry  Price's  began. 
To  him  he  made  application  for  duly  constituted  authority  to  hold 
his  lodge,  and  as  Bro.  Sereno  D.  Nickerson  demonstrates  in  his  article 
on  "Cosmopolitan  Masonry — First  Glimpses  in  North  America,"  in  the 
following: 

That  this  (duly  constituted  authority)  was  what  Franklin  asked, 
and  that  his  request  was  granted,  is  distinctly  and  positively  asserted 
in  the  record  of  the  first  Provincial  Grand  Lodge  of  New  England,  in 
the  following  words: 

"5734,  June  24th.  About  this  time  Our  Worsh'l  Bro'r  Mr.  Benj'n 
Franklin,  from  Philadelphia,  became  acquainted  with  Our  Rt.  Wors'l 
Grand  Master,  Mr.  Price,  who  further  Instructed  him  in  the  Royal 
Art,  and  said  Franklin,  on  his  Return  to  Philadelphia,  call'd  the 
Brethren  there  together,  who  petition'd  Our  Rt.  Worsh'l  Grand  Mas- 
ter for  a  constitution  to  hold  a  Lodge,  and  our  Rt.  Worsh'l  Grand 
Master  having  this  year  Rec'd  Orders  from  the  Grand  Lodge  in  Eng- 
land to  Establish  Masonry  in  allsNorth  America,  did  send  a  Deputa- 
tion to  Philadelphia,  appointing  the  Rt.  Worsh'l  Mr.  Franklin  First 
Master;  which  is  the  beginning  of  Masonry  there." 

Bearing  in  mind  that  until  Price  received  his  commission  none 
had  ever  been  sent  to  America  save  that  of  Cox,  which  was  issued 
in  1730,  but  under  which  no  lodges  were  organized,  it  follows  with 
tolerable  plainness  that  a  lodge  existing  before  and  during  the 
period  between  the  dates  of  these  commissions  had  never  had  any 
regularity  to  lose. 

"We  may  reftiark  in  passing  that  the  issue  of  Price's  commission 
as  provincial  grand  master  of  New  England  did  not  at  the  time  in 
any  way  affect  the  life  of  that  issued  to  Cox,  whose  jurisdiction  cov- 
ered the  middle  provinces.  Nobody  has  claimed  for  Price  that  his 
authority  was  extended  to  all  North  America  until  1734,  and  Price 
himself  fixes  the  date  at  L73.5.  Franklin's  letter  to  Price  disclosing 
the  fact  that  he  had  "seen  in  the  Boston  prints  an  article  of  news 
from  London,  importing  that  at  a  grand  lodge  held  there  in  August 
last  Mr.  Price's  deputation  and  power  was  extended  over  all  Amer- 
ica, was  dated  November  28,  1734.  The  entry  in  what  Bro.  Nicker- 
SON  calls  "the  record  of  the  first  Provincial  Grand  Lodge  of  New 
England,"  referring  to  this  matter  (and  quoted  above)  is  dated  June 
24,  1734,  some  months  previous  to  the  beginning  of  the  correspond- 
ence between  Franklin  and  Price  begun.  This  shows  that  the 
so-called  "record"  has  only  a  vague  value  as  evidence  and  "demon- 
strates" nothing  unless  supported  by  other  testimony.  It  is  now 
generally  understood  that  there  are  now  in  existence  no  early  min- 


lOR  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 

iitesof  the  first  Provincial  Grand  Lodjje  of  New  England  and  that 
what  passes  for  the  "'record"  from  its  orjjanization  until  IToO  or  1751 
is  a  compilation  of  brief  chronicles  made  by  Charles  Pelham  (whose 
name  appears  as  grand  secretary  about  that  time),  probabh'  from 
scraps  and  from  the  memorj'  of  others  than  himself.  For  the  first 
eighteen  years  of  the  '"records'"  no  secretary's  name  appears.  Pel- 
ham's  is  the  first,  and  the  record  is  all  in  his  handwriting  from  the 
beginning. 

There  is  no  other  evidence  than  this  chronologicalh'  dislocated 
chronicle  quoted  by  Bro.  Nickerson  that  Franklin  ever  received  a 
deputation  from  Price;  and  no  evidence  whatever  that  if  such  a  dep- 
utation was  sent  it  was  accepted,  but  much  to  the  contrarj-,  including 
the  known  incorrectness  of  the  statement  that  this  "was  the  begin- 
ning of  Masonry  there." 

Bro.  Miller  further  says: 

Masonry  existed  before  lodges  and  grand  lodges.  It  existed  in  the 
United  States  before  warranted  lodges  or  grand  lodges  were  thought 
essential.  It  is  a  law  to  itself,  and  when  it  developes  in  a  new  countr\- 
from  germs  implanted  by  English.  Scottish,  Irish,  or  Continental  Ma- 
sonry, or  all  of  them  combined,  and  spreads  over  and  exercises  sover- 
eign power  in  such  countr3^  it  must  be  judged  b}-  its  own  environment 
and  the  conditions  where  it  exists,  and  not  by  the  requirements  which 
centuries  of  evolution  have  perfected  in  one  particular  Masonic  juris- 
diction. 

The  first  part  of  the  statement  that  Masonr}^  existed  before  lodges 
and  grand  lodges  is  broader  than  we  would  dare  to  make  it,  but  so  far 
as  the  latter  part  of  it  is  concerned,  using  the  term  grand  lodge  in 
the  sense  which  has  attached  to  it  since  1717,  it  is  a  truism.  The 
statement  that  it  existed  in  the  United  States  before  warranted 
lodges  were  thought  essential  we  are  quite  sure  he  will  agree  was 
too  hastily  made  when  he  reflects  that  Franklin  in  his  letter  to 
Price,  referring  ^o  the  3Inso)iry  c((rliffif  existing  in  the  United  Statct<,  rec- 
ognized the  necessit}'  of  '"the  sanction  of  some  authority'  derived  from 
home;"  and  that  he  shows  that  grand  lodges  were  then  deemed  essen- 
tial by  referring  to  "the  privilege  they  [the  brethren  of  Pennsylva- 
nia] at  present  enjoy  of  holding  annuall}-  their  Grand  Lodge,  choosing 
Grand  Master,  Wardens  and  other  officers,  who  may  manage  all 
affairs  relating  to  the  Brethren  here  with  full  ])ower  and  authority 
according  to  the  customs  and  usages  of  Masons." 

"When  we  construe  the  condition  that  no  man  or  body  of  men 
have  power  to  make  innovations  in  its  body,"  says  Bro.  Miller,  "we 
must  not  forget  that  the  'body  of  Masonry  includes  those  universal 
usages  and  customs  of  the  fraternity  and  the  fundamental  and  un- 
changeable principles  upon  which  it  is  founded'  (Schultz),  as  well  as 
ancient  charges,  whose  adoption  or  sanction  is  now  questioned,  or 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  109 

landmarks  upon  which  no  two  Masons  agree,  or  rituals  which  every 
one  concedes  have  been  changed,  so  that  a  thirty-3'ear-old  Mason  can 
not  recognize  more  than  a  semblance  to  the  work  he  knew  in  perfec- 
tion in  the  days  of  his  youth.''  Bro.  Schultz  is  right,  and  it  is  be- 
cause the  fundamental  and  unchangeable  principles  are  so  well 
agreed  upon  that  when  an  attempt  is  made  to  legitimate  the  work  of 
dissenters  from  the  original  plan — who,  if  they  were  within  the  fra- 
ternity instead  of  outside  of  its  pale  where  Bro.  Drummond  says  the 
attempt  to  change  Masonry  puts  those  who  make  it,  would  constitute 
a  fraction  of  about  one-twentieth  of  the  whole  number — we  begin  at 
once  to  hear  about  the  "'environment"  and  "the  Masonic  law  there 
prevailing"  and  other  euphemisms  for  Masonic  lawlessness,  all  gravely 
put  forward  as  reasons  why  the  nineteen-twentieths  should  endorse 
the  attempt  of  the  other  twentieth  to  change  the  polity  ingrained  in 
the  structure  of  the  institution.  To  refuse  this  endorsement  they 
say  is  to  deny  the  universality  of  Masonry. 

While  it  is  true  that  it  is  difficult  to  secure  a  general  consensus  as 
to  the  landmarks  in  detail,  largely,  perhaps  chiefly  because  of  differ- 
ing definitions  of  the  word,  it  is  also  true  that  The  Craft  is  in  general 
accord  as  to  what  the  Masonry  is  in  whose  interest  the  landmarks  were 
set  up — the  Masonry  that  is  defined  and  bounded  by  the  charges 
of  a  Freemason.  The  conclusion  of  the  Masonic  Congress  of  1893  on 
the  subject  of  landmarks  was  as  follows: 

The  conclusion  of  the  congress  is,  that  the  ancient  landmarks  are 
those  fundamental  principles  which  characterize  Masonry  as  defined 
by  the  charges  of  a  Freemason,  and  imtliout  ivhich  the  institution  cannot  he 
identified  as  Masonry,  combined  with  the  essentials  of  the  unwritten 
language  by  which  brethren  distinguish  each  other  as  Masons." 

The  italics  are  ours.  This  "conclusion,"  which  was  offered  after 
two  or  three  other  definitions  had  been  essayed,  commanded  the  in- 
stant assent  of  the  congress  and  was  adopted  without  a  dissenting 
voice  by  the  one  hundred  or  more  representative  Masons  composing 
that  body,  including  Grand  Master  Thompson  and  Past  Grand  Mas- 
ters Bassett  and  Postlethwaite,  of  Kansas. 

Bro.  Miller  again  speaks: 

Bro.  Robbins,  with  a  "this  settles  it"  air,  gives  us  the  following: 
"At  the  time  when  the  charges  of  a  Freemason  were  agreed  to.  Free 
and  Accepted  Masonry  occupied  the  whole  ground,  and  there  is  no- 
where any  Masonry,  genuine  or  alleged,  that  has  not  been  directly  or 
indirectly  derived  from  it."  All  of  which  might  be  true,  and  then 
what  of  ity  We  have  seen  it  nowhere  alleged  that  Bro.  Robbins  has 
anywhere  unfurled  his  red  flag  of  annihilation  against  the  Royal 
Arch,  nor  does  the  cross  of  the  Templar,  his  feathers,  or  even  his  glit- 
tering blade,  appear  to  excite  his  contempt  or  derision;  and  yet  these 
were  unknown  "when  the  charges  of  a  Freemason  were  agreed  to"  if 
Bro.  Robbins  can  fix  the  time  when,  or  the  place  where,  that  import- 
ant event  first  took  place. 


110  APPENDIX.  — PART   I. 


If  Bro.  MiLi.KK  had  been  familiar  with  our  discussion  of  the  ques- 
tions <fro\vin<rout  of  the  '"Massachusets  departure"' be<,anning  with  our 
contribution  to  Bro.  Gukney'S  review  of  Massachusetts  in  1^83,  he 
would  have  been  abundantly  informed  as  to  our  attitude  towards  the 
Royal  Arch  and  Templar  dejifrees:  but  he  did  not  need  that  informa- 
tion to  enable  him  to  suggest  an  ample  reason  why  the  Capitular  and 
Templar  rites  were  not  brought  as  prominently  to  the  front  as  the 
Scottish  Rite:  he  knows  that  the  organic  relation  of  all  three  of  them 
to  Masonry  is  precisely  the  same — each  makes  the  possession  of  the 
three  degrees  of  Masonry  a  prerequisite  to  admission — and  he  also 
knows  that  of  these  the  Scottish  Rite  alone  has  ever  presumed  upon 
the  fact  that  their  members  are  also  Masons  to  claim,  either  for  the 
purpose  of  exercising  or  of  assuming  to  "waive,"  any  power  or  author- 
ity to  organize  or  administer  the  Masonry  of  the  lodge. 

All  of  these  rites  were  equally  unknown  when  the  "Charges  of  a 
Freemason"  (also  known  as  Anderson's  Constitution")  were  agreed 
to  by  the  Grand  Lodge  of  England  (March  22.  1722)  and  each  of  them 
for  one  or  more  reasons  lacks  or  possesses  characteristics  which  forbid 
its  being  identified  as  Masonry." 

Bro.  Miller  says,  as  we  have  seen,  of  our  statement  that  "at  the 
time  when  the  charges  of.  a  Freemason  were  agreed  to.  Free  and  Ac- 
cepted Masonr}^  occupied  the  whole  ground,  and  that  "there  is  nowhere 
any  Masonry,  genuine  or  alleged,  that  has  not  been  directly  or  indi- 
rectly derived  from  it,"  that  if  this  be  all  true  then  "What  of  it?" 

This  at  least:  The  law  being  fixed  defining  the  characteristics 
essential  to  the  identification  as  such  of  an\'thing  assuming  to  be 
Masonry,  and  the  Masonry  organized  under  it  and  capable  of  such 
identification  occupying  the  ichole  ground,  the  conclusion  can  neither 
be  escaped  nor  dodged  that  there  was  then  nowhere  any  "Masonic 
law  there  prevailing" — drawn  from  an  environment  or  any  other  vague 
limbo— under  which  might  be  organized  as  Masonry  something  that 
was  a  flat  denial  of  nearly  every  prescription  of  the  charges  of  a 
Freemason.  I<"'urther:  There  being  then  nowhere  in  existence  any 
Masonry  that  was  not  organized  on  the  plan  of  this  fixed  law,  if  there 
is  now  anything  calling  itself  Masonry  that  is  not  identifiable  as 
Masonry  by  reference  to  the  law — and  the  makeup  of  the  chorus  that 
is  now  whistling  the  unchangeable  law  down  the  wind  would  indicate 
not  only  that  there  is,  but  that  they  are  fully  conscious  of  its  limita- 
tions—it follows  that  it  was  brought  into  existence  b}-^  dissenters  from 
the  original  plan,  such  as  Bro.  Miller  requires  every  master-elect 
to  promise  to  discoiintenance,  as  a  condition  of  being  installed  into 
office.  It  also  follows  that  if  there  is  now  anywhere  a  Masonic  law 
"there  prevailing"  which  validates  the  work  of  so-called  lodges  built 
upon  dissent  from  the  original  plan,  it  h;is  been  derived  from  the 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  Ill 

same  lawless  source  as  the  bodies  whose  only  asgis  it  is,  and  being"  at 
once  the  product  and  the  inspiration  of  Masonic  anarchy  it  is  fully 
entitled  to  a  monopoly  of  the  "red  flag.'' 

Bro.  Miller  concludes  his  report  with  an  article  on  "Mexican 
Masonry,"  in  the  course  of  which  he  says: 

Illinois  having  recognized  Cuba,  and  having"  gone  one  farther  than 
most  grand  lodges  by  recognizing  a  g'rand  lodge  which  recognized  the 
colored  grand  lodge  of  Ohio  (See  Ohio  report)  must  ere  long  rise  to 
enquire  of  its  distinguished  jurisprudent  and  correspondent,  "Where 
are  we  atV" 

The  Ohio  report  does  not  bear  out  the  language  of  Bro.  Miller, 
but  says  that  "the  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois  recognizes  a  subordinate 
lodge  of  the  Grand  Lodge  League  in  Germany,  viz.,  the  Grand  Lodge 
Three  Globes  of  Berlin,"  and  M.W.  Bro.  Cunningham  is  careful  not 
to  say  that  the  Grand  Lodge  Three  Globes  had  recognized  the  colored 
grand  lodges;  nor  does  he  even  say  that  the  Grand  Lodge  League  had 
done  so.    What  the  Ohio  report  does  say  is  this: 

Bro.  Bobbins  is  also  aware  doubtless,  from  its  proceedings  that 
the  Grand  Lodge  of  Ohio  does  not  yet  recognize  the  Grand  Lodge 
League  for  reasons  fully  stated  in  the  report  of  your  committee  on 
correspondence  in  1892,  and  that  its  recognition  was  then  referred  to 
the  M.W.  Grand  Master  of  Masons  in  Ohio  with  power  to  act,  when 
assured  that  the  Grand  Lodge  League,  or  its  subordinates,  does  not 
recognize  the  so-called  colored  grand  lodges. 

The  impression  apparently  sought  to  be  conveyed  by  Bro.  Mil- 
ler's language  is  that  Illinois  had  recognized  a  grand  lodge  that  prior 
to  such  recognition  had  itself  recognized  the  colored  grand  lodges. 
If  Bro.  Cunningham  had  been  still  more  careful  of  his  language  and 
said  that  the  Grand  Lodge  of  the  Three  Globes,  which  had  been  recog- 
nized by  Illinois  several  years  before,  in  1871  became  confederated 
with  other'German  grand  lodges  in  the  German  Grand  Lodge  League, 
and  that  this  league  subsequently  recognized  the  colored  grand  lodges 
of  Ohio— perhaps  the  colored  grand  lodges  of  the  whole  country,  the 
impression  conveyed  would— so  far  as  Illinois  is  concerned — have  coin- 
cided very  exactly  with  the  facts. 


112  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


KENTUCKY,  1896. 
9Tth  Annual.  Lovisville.  October  20. 

No  less  than  fourteen  past  <rrand  masters  were  present. 

The  approachinfj  centennial  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Kentucky  (or- 
ganized October  IG,  1800)  begins  to  cast  its  shadows  before.  The 
grand  master  (Frank  Cloud  Gerard)  refers  to  the  grand  project  on 
foot  to  establish  an  old  Masons"  Home  on  the  one-hundredth  anniver- 
sar}-:  suggests  that  the  centennial  proceedings  should  contain  an 
illustrated  account  of  Freemasonry  in  Kentuck}* — room  being  made 
for  it  by  dispensing  with  the  printing  of  the  returns  and  boiling  down 
the  report  on  correspondence — and  also  that  the  propriety  of  holding 
a  Masonic  congress  at  that  time  be  considered. 

The  centennial  committee  report  gratifying  progress  in  securing 
subscriptions  for  the  proposed  home:  concur  in  the  suggestion  touch- 
ing the  centennial  proceedings  and  have  until  next  3'ear  to  report  in 
detail,  and  ignore  the  suggestion  respecting  a  Masonic  congress. 

Among  the  twenty-one  decisions  submitted  are  the  following: 

3.  A  dimit  was  granted,  but  before  the  certificate  of  this  action 
had  been  delivered  the  brother  deserted  his  family  and  run  away  with 
his  cook.  Held,  under  regulation  278,  also  under  the  general  rule  that 
an  act  maj^  be  rescinded  if  it  has  not  gone  beyond  the  reach  or  control 
of  the  body,  the  lodge  was  authorized  to  ''reconsider''  its  action  and 
])roceed  to  a  trial. 

4.  A  member  of  Lodge  No.  323  resided  on  the  side  of  Barren  river, 
opposite  the  lodge  room  and  of  the  residences  of  the  master  and  war- 
dens, who  were  not  informed  of  the  fact  of  his  death.  1  he  river  could 
not  be  forded,  being  out  of  its  banks  from  heavy  rains.  The  junior 
past  master  of  the  lodge  convened  some  of  the  brethren  and  under- 
took to  open  a  lodge  of  Master  Masons  without  knowledge  of  the  lodge 
officers  or  having  the  charter  present,  and  then  buried  the  deceased 
with  Masonic  ceremonies.  The  master  would  not  permit  this  proceed- 
ing to  go  to  record  as  the  action  of  the  lodge.  Held,  the  lodge  was 
not  opened,  nor  were  the  proceedings  the  action  of  the  lodge.  If  the 
master  or  wardens  could  not  be  reached,  in  fact,  still  the  deceased 
ought  to  have  been  decently  buried  by  his  brethren.  I  cannot  think 
they  committed  any  offence  in  performing  ceremonies  usual  on  such 
occasions,  but  they  had  no  semblance  of  authority  to  ojien  a  Masonic 
lodge  and  ought  riot  to  have  assumed  or  pretended  to  do  so.  Under 
the  circumstances  I  advised  the  master  to  have  the  facts  noted  on 
the  records. 

7.  The  regulation  (ISitf),  p.  41)  in  regard  to  saloon  keepers  does  not 
jjrohibit  lodges  from  making  a  saloon  keeper  a  Mason,  but  it  disap- 
proves of  the  business  by  declaring  it  '"inconsistent  with  his  profession 
of  moral  character  and  conduct  calculated  to  bring  the  order  into 
disrepute."     I  think  that  any  conduct  or  business  which  may  be  con- 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  113 


demned  in  such  words  by  the  grand  lodge  is  equivalent  to  declaring  it 
unmasonic  to  engage  in  it,  and  subjects  the  offender  to  discipline. 

11.  Soliciting  petitions  for  initiation  into  Masonry  may  not  be  a 
violation  of  the  written  law,  but  it  is  contrary  to  the  accepted  teach- 
ings of  the  fraternity,  therefore  unmasonic. 

17.  The  apron  is  worn,  1°,  bib  up;  2°,  bib  down;  3",  flowing  freely, 
as  in  the  2  \  except  when  worn  as  a  mark  of  distinction,  then  the  left- 
hand  corner  is  tucked  up.  This  is  according  to  the  teachings  in  the 
oldest  jurisdictions,  viz.,  Massachusetts,  Pennsylvania,  New  York,  the 
C'arolinas.  Georgia,  Virginia,  Connecticut,  Tennessee,  and  others  (see 
Connor's  Tennessee  report,  1892),  and  in  some  of  the  oldest  charts  and 
illustrated  manuals — Webb-Carson,  1858:  Moore,  1851,  etc. 

Number  3  was  approved  after  an  ineffectual  attempt  by  Past 
Grand  Master  Clarke  to  have  it  stricken  out.  We  do  not  know  the 
language  of  Regulation  278,  but  under  the  general  rule  appealed 
to  by  the  grand  master  we  think  Bro.  Clarke  was  right.  The  vote  to 
dimit  the  brother  terminated  his  membership  without  reference  to 
whether  he  had  been  furnished  with  a  copy  of  the  record  showing 
that  fact.  No.  4  was  concurred  in,  as  was  the  recommendation  of  the 
committee  on  jurisprudence  that  except  in  cases  of  absolute  necessity 
the  funeral  ceremonies  should  be  conducted  by  the  lodge.  No.  7  did 
not  pass  muster,  the  concurring  and  non-concurring  interpretation  of 
the  committee  being  favorable  to  the  "Kentucky  product,"  as  follows: 

As  to  the  decision  No.  7  we  are  of  opinion  that  the  resolution  of 
1895  (proceedings  "95,  page  -41)  was  only  a  declaration  of  opinion  and 
not  a  regulation.  We  concur  with  the  grand  master  that  it  does  not 
prevent  lodges  from  making  a  saloonkeeper  a  Mason,  but  cannot 
agree  that  continuing  in  the  business  makes  him  subject  to  discipline. 
Adopted. 

We  fully  agree  with  the  committee  in  this: 

Decision  No.  11  we  do  not  entirely  concur  in.  The  candidate  for 
Masonry  is  required  before  initiation,  to  affirm  certain  "written" 
propositions,  one  of  which  is  that  he  is  not  influenced  by  improper 
solicitations  of  friends.  We  therefore  think  that  solicitation  is  in 
conflict  with  both  the  written  and  unwritten  teachings  of  Masonry. 
Adopted. 

Illinois  might  have  been  included  with  the  jurisdictions  named  in 
No.  17. 

Under  the  head  of  decisions,  the  grand  master  detailed  a  case  in 
which  he  granted  permission  to  take  the  ballot  a  third  time  after  a 
second  ballot  had  been  properly  taken  to  verify  the  correctness  of  the 
first,  at  which  only  one  unfavorable  vote  appeared,  the  master  of  the 
lodge  having  written  him  that  every  member  present  had  signed  a 
paper  stating  that  some  mistake  had  been  made  and  they  desired  to 
have  another  ballot.  Having  frankly  confessed  that  his  action  was 
erroneous,  he  held  that  the  status  of  the  brother  initiated  in  pursu- 
ance of  an  election  thus  secured  was  that  of  a  lawful  Entered  Appren- 


114  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 


tice.  The  committee  included  the  case  with  the  others  approved 
without  comment,  apparently  takin<j  the  view  that  the  confession  of 
error  was  a  sufficiently  explicit  statement  of  the  law,  but  a  minority 
of  the  committee  (Past  Grand  Master  J.  SouLK  Smith)  induced  the 
j^rand  lodj^e  to  declare  that  the  act  of  permittiny^  a  third  ballot  was 
contrary  to  law,  but  properly  left  the  grand  master's  decision  as  to 
the  status  of  the  candidate  undisturbed. 

We  regret  to  see  that  the  committee  and  the  grand  lodge  assented 
to  the  following  remarks,  holding  as  we  do  that  the  right  of  burial 
and  the  right  to  visit  any  regular  lodge  are  not  properly  subject  to 
denial  by  grand  lodge  legislation,  even  if  they  may  be  properly  denied 
by  the  lodge  in  the  case  of  the  former,  or  b^-the  objection  of  a  brother 
in  the  case  of  a  proposed  visit: 

I  was  asked  to  bury  a  non-affiliate  who  dimitted  manj'  years  ago, 
but  refused  because  I  cannot  believe  that  a  man  ma}-  withdraw  his 
support,  moral  and  financial,  from  our  fraternity  and  have  grounds  to 
hope  that  his  memory  shall  be  especially  honored  b}-  the  Craft  in  its 
lodge  capacity.  What  encouragements  does  this  present  for  brethren 
to  bear  the  burdens  if  they  can  neglect  or  refuse  to  participate  therein, 
and  when  '"life's  litful  fever  is  over"'  receive  the  honors  of  the  Craft 
as  fully  as  the  most  laborious  and  faithful?  I  am  impressed  with  the 
idea  that  there  should  be  some  limit  to  all  this,  and  when  a  Mason  has 
been  dimitted  for  a  3'ear,  or,  at  most,  two  year,  lodges  should  be  for- 
bidden to  bury  him  Masonically.  The  non-affiliate's  right  or  privilege 
to  visit  should  also  be  limited  as  well. 

The  grand  master  told  a  master  who  wanted  to  know  how  he 
could  install  his  successor,  seeing  that  there  was  but  one  other  past 
master  within  forty  miles,  to  confer  the  degree  (Past  Master)  as  best 
he  could  and  install  his  successor  at  the  next  meeting.  He  thinks 
with  his  predecessor  that  there  ought  to  be  a  written  ritual  and  rules 
for  "the  useless  and  burdensome  'degree" — so-called,"  if  it  is  to  be 
continued  a  part  of  their  system.  The  committee  on  jurisprudence 
say,  with  grand  lodge  api^roval: 

We  regret  that  this  much  mooted  question  should  again  disturb 
us.  It  can  only  be  abolished  by  constitutional  amendment,  and  this 
the  grand  lodge  has  repeatedly  refused  to  do.  The  grand  master  has 
no  power  to  cause  its  secret  work  to  be  written — his  vows  are  the  same 
as  ours.  We  suggest  that  it  be  exemplified  at  ever}'  session  of  the 
grand  lodge. 

We  suggest  that  as  two-thirds  of  the  grand  lodge  don't  know  any- 
thing about  the  "degree"  or  its  requirements,  the  grand  masters  of 
the  future  might  profit  by  Grand  Master  Gerard's  example  and  by 
advising  the  installing  officer  to  go  it  alone,  reduce  the  burden  to  a 
minimum.     The  rest  never  would  be  missed. 

The  grand  lodge  adojjted  the  following  and  thereby  gave  still  an- 
other illustration  of  th(i  fact  that  the  grand  lodges  who  are  accused 
of  obstinacy  in  holding  to  the  doctrine  of  perpetual  jurisdiction  get 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  115 

scant  encouragement  when  they  proijose  to  meet  their  more  pliable 
neighbors  half  way. 

Touching-  the  communication  from  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Maine  with 
reference  to  perpetual  jurisdiction,  we  desire  onlj'  to  say  that  the 
doctrine  in  question  is  not  held  by  this  grand  lodge,  and  we  are  satis- 
fied that  it  does  not  desire  to  change  its  attitude  upon  this  question. 

The  following  well-aimed  deliverance  is  not  to  be  wholly  com- 
mended. Up  to  the  point  of  prescribing  an  unvarying  grade  of  pun- 
ishment it  is  unexceptionable;  but  it  is  hardly  possible  that  the  same 
degree  of  moral  turpitude  should  exist  in  all  cases.  It  is  easy  to  con- 
ceive of  cases  wherein  those  not  to  the  manner  born  might  fall  by 
the  wayside  under  a  lighter  load  than  could  be  borne  with  impunity 
by  those  seasoned  to  the  "Kentucky  product,"  but  whose  appetites 
entail  an  equal  degree  of  potential  if  not  actual  guilt: 

Besolved,  That  should  any  delegate  become  intoxicated  while  in 
discharge  of  his  duty  as  such,  and  should  it  come  to  the  knowledge  of 
the  grand  secretary,  it  shall  be-  his  duty  to  report  the  act  to  the 
subordinate  lodge  to  which  the  delegate  belongs,  to  be  acted  upon  by 
said  lodge,  and  the  punishment  shall  be  expulsion. 

Concurring  in  the  grand  master's  recommendation,  the  grand 
lodge  adopted  the  following  regulation,  providing  for  a  sort  of  cou- 
pon diploma  akin  to  the  "traveling  card"  in  use  among  some  of  the 
beneficiary  fraternities: 

Diplomas  can  only  be  granted  by  consent  of  the  lodge  to  which  the 
applicant  belongs,  and  for  a  time  specified  therein,  not  exceeding  one 
year,  for  which  time  the  brother  shall  have  paid  dues  in  advance.  It 
may  be  renewed  upon  the  same  conditions  by  indorsement  of  the  same 
document  or  by  certificate  under  seal  referring  thereto.  Diplomas, 
and  renewals  thereof,  must  be  regularly  registered  by  "stub"  in  a 
special  book  or  the  ledger  account  of  the  brother  whose  signature 
must  appear  on  the  diploma  before  being  delivered  into  his  keeping. 

The  grand  lodge  granted  eight  charters  and  continued  four  lodges 
under  dispensation;  exchanged  telegraphic  greetings  with  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Ohio  then  in  session;  emphasized  its  approval  of  the  grand 
master's  action  in  granting  dispensations  to  lodges  to  appear  in  pub- 
lic for  the  purpose  of  attending  church,  the  decoration  of  the  graves 
of  deceased  brethren,  to  celebrate  the  Fourth  of  July,  and  to  escort 
the  children  of  the  Orphan's  Home,  by  authorizing  lodges  to  attend 
divine  service  without  dispensation,  and  not  only  granted  them  a 
general  indulgence  for  the  month  of  June  to  go  in  procession  singly 
or  as  a  collection  of  lodges  to  decorate  the  graves  of  the  dead,  but 
provided  for  a  committee  to  arrange  a  suitable  ceremony  for  the 
occasion;  entertained  and  sent  over  for  action  next  year  a  proposed 
amendment  to  the  constitution  looking  to  the  imposition  of  a  fine  on 
lodges  delinquent  in  returns  and  dues;  unanimously  permitted  the 
withdrawal  of  a  pending  amendment  changing  the  mileage  of  dele- 
gates from  four  to  three  cents  per  mile;  recognized  its  obligations  to 


116  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 

Grand  Secretary  Grant  for  his  trouble  in  securinfj  portraits  of  nearlj- 
all  the  past  grand  masters  by  requestingc  him  to  have  one  of  himself 
taken  for  the  walls  of  the  grand  secretary's  office:  and  sent  to  a 
select  committee  for  report  at  the  next  session  a  resolution  restoring 
the  hierarchy  known  during  its  brief  existence  as  the  "College  of 
Custodians"  and  also  the  office  of  grand  lecturer. 

The  report  of  the  committee  on  foreign  correspondence  on  mat- 
ters referred,  which,  besides  the  following,  contained  recommenda- 
tions that  the  questions  of  what  relations  should  exist  with  the 
Masonic  authorities  of  Italy,  and  of  the  recognition  of  the  Scandina- 
vian grand  lodges  should  remain  in  the  hands  of  the  committee  for 
report  next  year,  and  also  that  the  Wisconsin  proposition  regarding 
Masonic  relief  be  recommitted  for  the  same  purpose,  was  adopted: 

Your  committee  on  foreign  correspondence  have  considered  cer- 
tain papers  emanating  from  the  governing  bodies  of  the  Scottish 
Rite  in  several  countries.  The  Grand  Lodge  of  Kentucky  is  not  of 
this  rite,  and  therefore  this  committee  asks  to  be  excused  from  further 
consideration  thereof,  as  these  papers  relate  to  matters  of  that  rite. 

Robert  Francis  Peak,  of  La  Grange,  was  elected  grand  master. 
Henry  B.  Grant,  Louisville,  re-elected  grand  secretary. 

The  report  on  correspondence  (157  pp.)  is,  as  usual  of  late,  by 
Past  Grand  Master  William  W.  Clarke,  one  of  the  strong  men  of 
the  guild.  In  his  courteous  notice  of  Illinois  for  1895  he  commends 
the  remarks  of  the  committee  on  grand  master's  address  touching 
the  better  cultivation  by  schools  of  instruction  of  the  field  which  lies 
outside  of  mere  proficiency  in  the  vocabular}',  and  notablj-  that  part 
of  it  which  includes  the  symbology  of  Masonry. 

Reproducing  the  remarks  of  the  grand  master  and  grand  mar- 
shal at  the  installation  of  Vice-President  Stevenson  as  grand  ora- 
tor, and  the  response  of  Bro.  Stevenson,  he  says: 

No  apology  is  made  for  the  following  quotation.  Kentucky,  the 
birthlandof  the  justly  distinguished  man  and  Mason  to  whom  it  chiefly 
relates,  joins  hands  with  Illinois,  the  land  of  his  adoption,  in  doing 
him  honor.  The  writer  of  this  was  raised  in  the  count}'  of  his  birth, 
and  joins  in  congratulating  the  Craft  in  Illinois,  that  one  whom  the 
nation  has  honored  can  find  time  to  devote  to  the  Craft  those  gifts  and 
graces  that  have  marked  him  among  statesmen.  His  distinguished 
kinsman,  Hon.  Jas.  A.  McKenzie,  is  a  Past  Grand  Master  of  Kentucky. 

He  criticizes  the  views  of  our  jurisprudence  committee  regarding 
perpetual  jurisdiction,  raising  the  following  points,  which  we  have 
already  briefly,  but  perhaps  sufficientlj-,  discussed  elsewhere. 

We  would  be  glad  to  have  this  committee  point  out  the  "comity" 
it  refers  to,  and  how  the  system  ])rotects  "the  rights  of  individual 
brethren;"'  in  what  manner  it  jiromotes  harmony  or  conserves  "the 
principles  of  a  conunon  brotherhood. 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  117 

In  his  kind  and  flattering  notice  of  the  Illinois  report  on  corre- 
spondence he  says  (and  we  are  glad  to  give  Bro.  Staton  the  benefit 
of  the  disclaimer): 

This  committee  desires  to  be  distinctly  understood  as  saying  that 
Grand  Master  Stanton's  contempt  for  the  grand  representative  system 
had  nothing  to  do  with  its  report,  nor  influenced  it  in  arriving  at  its 
conclusions.  We  do  not  believe  that  Bro.  Stanton  meant  to  be  offen- 
sive in  the  language  he  used.  We  know  him  so  well  that  we  are  sure 
he  did  not,  and  yet  we  admit  that  his  words  were  not  only  not  happily 
chosen  but  were  unfortunate.  It  is  to  be  greatly  deplored  that  two 
such  distinguished  and  such  true  Masons  as  Grand  Masters  Goddard 
and  Stanton  should,  even  terhporarily,  misunderstand  each  other. 

Further,  referring  to  our  report,  Bro.  Clarke  says: 

We  confess  to  our  inability  to  see  the  force  of  our  distinguished 
brother's  remark  when,  after  quoting  the  concluding  sentence  of  an 
argument  made  by  us  against  the  doctrine  of  perpetual  jurisdiction, 
and  the  conclusion  reached,  viz.,  that  which  is  legally  done  where 
done,  is  legal  everywhere,  he  says:  ''Does  not  this  principle  afford 
the  same  support  to  the  position  of  his  antagonists  that  it  does  to  his 
own?"  ' 

To  get  the  proposition  into  concrete  shape  let  us  ask  if  in  the  case 
of  a  candidate  who  has  been  made  a  Mason  in  a  Kentucky  lodge— con- 
formably to  Kentucky  reglations — without  the  consent  of  the  Penn- 
sylvania lodge,  by  whom  he  had  been  rejected,  Pennsylvania  is 
constrained  by  the  principle  referred  to,  to  admit  his  Masonic  status, 
does  not  the  same  principle  require  that  when  by  its  acts  conformable 
to  Pennsylvania  regulations  a  Pennsylvania  lodge  has  given  a  peti- 
tioner the  status  of  one  inelegible  to  be  made  a  Mason  without  its  con- 
sent, its  acts  shall  be  held  equally  valid. 

In  his  conclusion  Bro.  Clarke  again  considers  the  doctrine  of  per- 
petual jurisdiction  in  an  elaborate  and  closely  reasoned  argument  that 
government  by  grand  lodges  is  a  government  of  enumerated  powers 
and  that  it  does  not  and  can  not  include  the  power  to  vest  in  itself  the 
right  to  receive  the  petitions  of  candidates  and  make  Masons  unless 
the  whole  fraternity  consents,  it  being  a  right  or  privilege  that  be- 
longs to  all  Masons.  This  line  of  reasoning  constrains  him  to  deny 
the  right  to  impose  upon  a  lodge  a  charter  or  warrant  from  a  grand 
lodge  as  an  essential  to  valid  existence  and  work,  and  finally  brings 
him  to  this  admission: 

It  will  probably  be  asserted  that  this  line  of  reasoning  indicts  the 
grand  lodge  of  which  this  committee  is  a  part,  which,  by  prescribing, 
that  one  year  must  elapse  after  rejection  before  the  candidate  can 
again  petition,  has  violated  the  very  doctrine  here  asserted.  We 
simply  reply  that  this  being  true  proves  only  that  the  Grand  Lodge 
of  Kentucky  has  not  gone  quite  so  far  in  violation  of  an  ancient  and 
fundamental  principle  as  have  some  others. 


118  APPENDIX. — PART  I. 

Bro.  Clarke  has  no  sympathy  with  the  Wisconsin  proposition  as 
to  Masonic  relief,  nor  with  the  war  on  non-affiliates  as  carried  on  in 
several  jurisdictions,  and  we  are  f^lad  to  find  that  in  these  and  many 
other  things  discussed  in  his  excellent  report  "we  twa"  are  in  perfect 
accord. 


LOUISIANA,  1897. 

85th  Annual.  New  Orleans.  February  8. 

Seven  past  grand  masters  were  present,  M.  W.  Charles  F.  Buck, 
the  representative  of  Illinois,  not  among  them. 

The  address  of  Grand  Master  Albert  G.  Brice,  like  his  occa- 
sional addresses  at  the  laying  of  corner-stones — two  of  which  appear 
in  the  proceedings,  shows  a  philosophical  mind,  wide  scholarship,  and 
a  catholic  spirit.  He  announced  the  death  of  Past  Grand  Master 
Abel  G.  Norwood,  in  his  seventy-ninth  year,  and  of  Henry  Ham- 
burger, aged  eighty-two,  for  several  years  grand  pursuivant,  but 
better  known  as  the  Master  of  Louisiana  Relief  Lodge  No.  1,  over 
which  he  presided  and  carried  the  laboring  oar  of  its  merciful  work 
for  eighteen  years.  We  noted  last  j-ear  the  closing  words  of  what 
proved  to  be  his  last  report  of  the  work  of  Relief  Lodge,  which  even 
then  impressed  us  as  prophetic:  "I  have  been  among  you  man3'3'ears. 
many,  nay,  most  of  my  old  companions  and  colleagues  have  gone  from 
me,  and  await  me  in  the  realms  bej'ond:  mj-  time  is  at  hand.  It  is 
more  than  likely  I  shall  address  you  no  more." 

The  grand  master  made  few  rulings.  He  decided,  with  approval, 
among  other  things,  as  follows: 

Is  a  Master  Mason  prohibited  from  having  "illegal  carnal  inter- 
course" with  a  Master  Mason's  daughter,  if  she  be  a  lewd  woman? 

Yes.  The  obligation  of  a  Master  Mason  is  clear  and  explicit. 
It  imposes  moral  duties,  a  line  of  conduct  to  bo  observed.  Whatever 
be  the  character  of  a  Master  Mason's  daughter  cannot  be  received  as 
excuse  or  apology  for  failure  of  a  Master  Mason  to  conform  to  the 
line  of  conduct  the  duties  impose.  If  ever  a  brother  Master  Mason 
needs  the  symi)athy  and  support  of  his  brethren  it  is  when  his  daugh- 
ter becomes  lewd  and  abandoned.  Every  brother  should  use  what  in- 
tluence  he  may  have  to  reform  the  wa\-ward  child.  The  Master  Mason 
who  fails  to  do  this  fails  in  his  dut3\  But  when  he  invites  her  to  deeper 
depths  of  degradation  by  having  illegal  carnal  intercourse  with  her, 
he  violates  his  moral  duties  as  a  Master  Mason  and  is  guilty  of  "gross 
unmasonic  conduct." 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  119 

The  following  ruling  did  not  past  muster. 

Where  an  application  of  an  E.A.  or  F.C.  for  advancement  has 
been  rejected,  how  long  a  period  must  transpire  before  a  reapplica- 
tion  can  be  made? 

At  any  stated  meeting  of  the  lodge  thereafter. 

This  the  committee  on  jurisprudence  say  is  in  direct  conflict  with 
the  regulations  which  expressly  require  that  six  months  must  elapse 
before  a  second  ballot  can  be  taken  after  a  rejection  for  initiation  or 
for  degrees,  and  the  grand  lodge  approved.  This  is  quite  exceptional, 
the  rule  and  practice  being  generally  as  stated  by  the  grand  master. 

The  grand  master  wastes  some  time  on  the  active  efforts  made  in 
certain  quarters  to  convince  the  world  that  Masonry  means  atheism 
and  devil-worship.  If  the  2ifrsonnel  of  the  fraternity  is  not  a  sufficient 
answer  to  this  sort  of  thing,  then  nothing  else  will  be.  In  quarters 
where  the  work  of  the  fool-killer  has  been  neglected  it  is  not  desirable 
to  carry  any  defence  of  Masonry. 

Two  notable  events  of  the  session  were  the  presentation  of  the  fol- 
lowing testimonial  handsomely  engrossed  to  Past  Grand  Master  Sam- 
uel Manning  Todd,  the  occasion  therefor  being  indicated  in  the  text, 
and  the  reception  of  the  diplomatic  corps: 

The  Grand  Lodge  of  the  State  of  Louisiana,  F.  and  A.M.,  at  this 
their  eighty-tifth  annual  grand  communication,  confers  upon  our  ven- 
erable and  distinguished  brother,  Samuel  Manning  Todd,  P.G.M.,  this 
mark  of  their  fraternal  love  and  appreciation  of  an  allegiance  un- 
swerving, a  merit  unsurpassed,  and  a  service  of  great  honor,  covering 
this  day  a  completed  period  of  fifty  years  as  a  Master  Mason.  It  is 
superfluous  to  recapitulate  his  record — it  is  indelibly  stamped  upon 
the  annals  of  Masonry  in  Louisiana.  The  love  of  his  brethren  goes 
out  towards  him  and  they  wish  him  many  more  days  of  his  still  stal- 
wart manhood. 

Added  interest  was  given  to  this  occasion  by  the  fact  that  the 
testimonial  was  reported  by  Past  Grand  Master  J.  Q.  A.  Fellows, 
who  occupied  the  grand  east  for  six  years  immediately  following  Bro. 
Todd's  first  term  of  service  there  (1859),  who  said  that  this  was  the 
forty-fifth  session  of  which  he  also  had  been  a  member,  and  then, 
giving  his  remarks  a  personal  direction,  continued: 

I  may  not  be  j^ermitted  to  address  you  many  times  hereafter,  but 
if  this  should  be  the  last,  this  is  the  most  happy  occasion  of  my  life, 
to  be  the  organ  of  the  grand  lodge  in  presenting  to  you  this  fitting 
testimonial  to  my  friend  and  brother.  For  more  than  forty-five  years 
we  have  been  most  intimate,  and  during  all  that  time  there  has  never 
been  any  rivalry  or  contention  between  us  other  than  that  noble  con- 
tention, or  rather  emulation,  of  which  could  best  agree  and  best  work 
for  the  good  of  our  beloved  order  and  the  advancement  of  Free- 
masonry. 

The  brief  response  of  Bro.  Todd,  in  which,  while  gratefully  ac- 
knowledging the  gift,  he  recognized  the  effective  and  distinguished 


120  APPENDIX. — PART   I 


services  of  the  brothers  who  had  spoken  such  kindly  words  of  praise, 
was  most  admirable. 

At  the  reception  of  the  grand  representatives,  Grand  Master 
Brice  said,  in  the  course  of  his  remarks: 

I  am  speaking  the  feelings  and  promptings  of  mj-  own  heart.  I 
know  some  grand  Masonic  bodies  are  opposed  to  keei)ing  alive  the 
custom  of  grand  representatives.  They  think  representatives  amount 
to  nothing — mere  figures  without  souls. 

It  seems  to  me,  if  this  view  is  carried  out  to  its  legitimate  ends, 
we  would  separate  our  home  from  our  neighbor's  home,  and  turn  the 
wheels  of  civilization  back  to  the  period  when  might  made  right  and 
intercourse  with  neighboring  peoples  was  the  precurser  of  war  and 
desolation. 

Entertaining  these  views,  it  occurs  to  me  fraternal  feelings  are 
better  sustained  by  continuing  the  present  system  of  grand  repre- 
sentatives. 

The  record  discloses  that  the  diplomats  took  the  initiative  in  the 
matter  of  the  grand  honors,  something  we  have  not  elsewhere  no- 
ticed.    It  says: 

Response  for  the  representatives  was  made  by  Past  Grand  Master 
Todd,  Right  Worshipful  George  J.  Pinckard.  and  Past  Grand  Master 
Fellows,  who  returned  their  thanks  for  the  friendly  reception  and  fra- 
ternal greeting  of  the  most  worshipful  grand  master,  and  expressed 
the  same  by  giving  the  grand  honors. 

Past  Grand  Master  Todd,  the  dean  of  the  corps,  referred  to  the 
fact  that  Past  Grand  Master  Fellows  was  only  one  year  his  junior 
as  a  grand  representative,  having  represented  Vermont  since  1858, 
and  five  other  grand  lodges,  none  of  them  less  than  twent3'-eight 
years.  It  is  refreshing  to  read  of  such  service  as  this  in  these  latter 
days,  since  the  patronage  craze  is  on  and  short  lixed  terms  of  service 
are  the  rule  and  a  grand  representative  is  forbidden  to  hold  more 
than  one  commission,  no  matter  how  man}-  jurisdictions  may  desire 
to  honor  him — and  themselves. 

The  following  remarks  of  Past  Grand  Master  Fellows  are  ex- 
ceptionally interesting,  apart  from  their  disclosing  how  far  back  the 
custom  of  a  formal  collective  reception  goes  in  Louisiana: 

I  recall  the  first  reception  of  grand  lodge  representatives,  thirty- 
six  j'ears  ago,  at  a  time  when  the  strife  between  the  sections  of  our 
country  was  in  operation,  and  that  the  remarks  then  made  tended 
greatly  to  alleviate  the  hardships  of  war.  The  representatives  on 
that  occasion  were  from  all  sections  of  the  United  States,  and  the 
one  from  ('onnecticut.  Past  Master  Charles  M.  Emerson,  responded 
for  all — calling  forcibh-  to  mind  the  duties  of  members  of  the  craft 
to  each  other  in  any  and  all  emergencies,  even  on  the  field  of  battle. 

The  effect  of  our  institution  is  seen  in  the  recently  negotiated 
treaty  of  arbitration  between  the  United  States  and  Great  Britain. 
More  than  twenty  years  ago  the  Prince  of  Wales,  then,  as  now,  grand 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  121 

master,  in  a  Masonic  communication  addressed  to  a  Mason  of  this 
jurisdiction,  tliroug-h  his  g-rand  chancellor,  said:  "I  rejoice  to  make 
more  certain  to  you  that  the  Prince  of  Wales,  of  his  own  motion  and 
peculiar  favor,  has  conferred  upon  you,  his  brother  and  Sir  Knight, 
the  insig;nia  of  the  Grand  Cross  of  the  order,  in  hope  that  the  bonds 
of  fraternal  love  between  nations  united  in  blood  may  be  more  thor- 
oug'hly  drawn  together."' 

One  charter  was  granted,  one  lodge  continued  under  dispensation, 
and  two  new  dispensations  granted;  the  special  committee  appointed 
to  draft  a  charter  for  a  home  for  indigent  Master  Masons,  their  wid- 
ows and  orphans,  given  another  year  to  report,  and  one  thousand  dol- 
lars was  appropriated  for  the  relief  of  suffering  Masons  and  their  kin 
in  the  drouth-stricken  portions  of  the  state. 

Albert  G.  Brice,  grand  master,  and  Richard  Lambert,  grand 
secretary,  both  of  New  Orleans,  were  re-elected. 

The  report  on  correspondence  (81  pp.)  is  as  usual  by  Past  Grand 
Master  John  Q.  A.  Fellows,  and  on  his  customary  topical  plan,  with 
analytical  index.  It  is,  as  usual,  a  paper  of  great  interest  apart  from 
the  fact  that  the  plan  excludes  pretty  much  all  matter  that  does  not 
bear  on  live,  often  burning  questions,  an  interest  that  always  at- 
taches to  anything  from  the  pen  of  one  of  his  long  experience,  wide 
knowledge  of  men  and  events,  matured  views  on  all  Masonic  subjects, 
and  his  power  of  clear  and  forcible  expression. 

Illinois  is  laid  under  contribution  quite  freely,  and  in  one  matter, 
viz,  "Masonic  Advertising  of  Business,  etc.,"  the  matter  taken  from 
our  proceedings  constitutes  a  sub-topic  by  itself.  He  reproduces  the 
amendment  of  last  year  forbidding  such  advertising,  with  the  com- 
ment that  "there  is  too  much  of  this  parading  over  Masonry  in  busi- 
ness relations,  and  the  amendment  above  is  appropriately  necessary:" 

He  copies  in  full  the  remarks  of  Grand  Master  ScOTT  on  life 
membership  and  the  report  of  the  jurisprudence  committee  thereon. 
He,  himself,  still  maintains  the  opposite  view,  and  refers  to  what  he 
has  written  in  former  reports  combatting  the  position  taken  by  Bro. 
Scott;  beyond  this  he  contents  himself  with  the  following  comment: 

One  of  our  lodges  had  a  system  of  sixteen  years  of  continued  pay- 
ment of  dues  to  constitute  one  a  life  member;  and  it  was  remarked 
that  soon  all  members  of  the  lodge  w^ould  be  life  members,  and  the 
lodge  would  cease  to  exist.  The  reply  was,  if  a  lodge  had  ceased  work 
for  sixteen  years  it  ought  to  cease  to  exist. 

He  draws  on  our  report,  with  others,  on  the  subject  of  "Cypher 
Rituals,"  and  himself  says: 

The  difficulty  in  these  matters  arises  from  the  different  views  on 
the  subject  of  the  ritual.  Many  believe  that  there  must  be  an  exact 
uniformity,  even  to  the  dotting  of  an  "i"  or  the  crossing  of  a  "t,"  and 
so  insist;  and  that  the  work  they  have  is  the  simon  pure  original  work, 
and,  as  Bro.  Schultz  intimates,  is  a  landmark.     The  Grand  Lodge  of 


122  APPENDIX.— PART   I. 


Louisiana  long  ago,  as  heretofore  shown,  made  the  essentials  to  con- 
sist in  unitormity  in  the  tie  which  Vjinds  us  together  as  Masons,  and  in 
the  means  of  recognition— as  a  consequence.  I  may  sa}',  we  in  Louisi- 
ana have  had  no  use  for  printed  or  written  rituals  or  ciphers. 

He  quotes  with  full  and  heart}-  a])proval  our  views  on  non-affilia- 
tion as  expressed  in  the  introduction  to  our  report. 

Under  the  head  of  Foreign  Grand  Lodges,  he  reproduces  the  reso- 
lutions directing  this  committee  to  report  on  the  status  of  all  alleged 
grand  lodges,  with  the  remark  that  "there  has  been  too  much  loose- 
ness in  the  recognition  of  foreign  grand  bodies,"  and  that  "we"  (Lou- 
isiana) "had  to  retrace  our  action  as  to  various  Mexican  grand  lodges 
some  years  ago,"  and  reproduces  the  re])ort  of  our  committee  on  jur- 
isprudence, presented  by  Past  Grand  Master  Smith,  on  which  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  Cuba  was  recognized.  He  permits  our  report  to 
speak  with  others  on  the  subject  of  jurisdiction  over  rejected  material 
without  participating  in  the  discussion  himself,  and  also  quote?  in 
full  our  remarks  on  Mexican  Masonry,  found  in  the  introduction  to 
our  report.  He  quotes  also  from  the  Iowa,  Kansas,  Maine.  New  Hamp- 
shire. Quebec,  Washington,  (where  he  mistakenly  credits  the  remarks 
of  Bro.  Upton  to  Bro.  Reed,  the  chairman)  and  AYest  Virginia,  and 
under  "Kansas"  says: 

It  is  admitted  that  women  were  made  Masons  and  charters  were 
granted  for  lodges  to  females,  and  that  the  bible  was  not  placed  on 
the  altar.  From  information  received  this  has  been  changed,  so  he 
reports,  on  the  statement  of  various  persons,  but  not  from  any  offi- 
cial document  or  official  information. 

There  has  been  in  all  the  five  grand  lodges  who  have  acknowl- 
edged the  legitimacy  of  the  Gran  Dieta.  and  by  others,  too  much 
taken  for  granted.  The  "Book  of  Constitutions,''  which  replaced  the 
bible  on  the  altar,  was  used  indefinitely.  To  make  certain.  I  wrote 
Bro.  Parvin.  inquiring  what  the  book  was,  for  there  are  several 
books  called  the  Constitutions.  His  reply  was  that  it  was  a  Spanish 
edition  of  Anderson's  Constitution  of  1"2;5.  This.  I  suppose,  will  set- 
tle that  question. 

As  to  the  legitimacy,  which  is  discussed  bj-  Bro.  Miller,  I  shall 
speak  hereafter,  or  let  others  speak,  who  have  given  that  branch  of 
the  case  some  thought. 

In  concluding  the  topic  he  makes  the  following  timely  and  valu- 
able contribution  to  the  discussion: 

As  stated  by  Bro.  Coxe,  of  Iowa,  "opinion  divides  concerning  two 
phases  of  the  histor}'  of  the  Gran  Dieta— its  organization  and  its  ad- 
ministration. 

"Whence  did  the  lodges  which  formed  the  Gran  Dieta  derive  their 
authority— from  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Fngland  principally  or  from 
su])reme  councils?  And  if  from  the  latter,  can  they  l)e  recognized  as 
legitimate,  or  must  they  be  pronounced  clandestine:"  *  *  *  the 
second  point  involves  practices  which  are  now  generally  conceded  as 
facts.     *    *     *     such  as  "the  admission  of  women  to  lodges,  the  or- 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  123 


ganization  of  women  lodgfes,  and  the  exclusion  of  the  Great  Light, 
the  Book  of  Constitutions  being-  substituted  therefor." 

Bro.  Parvin.  in  his  statement,  gives,  generally,  a  history  of  Ma- 
sonry in  Mexico,  in  which  he  mentions  the  existence  of  "York  Rite" 
lodges,  side  by  side  with  "Scotch  Rite"  lodges,  but  a  careful  reading 
of  his  statement  will  show  that  all  these  lodges  of  either  rite  ceased  long 
prior  to  what  he  terms  the  revival  of  Masonry  in  Mexico. 

The  chairman  of  this  committee  well  knows  that,  in  1860,  Bro. 
Charles  Laffon,  of  New  Orleans,  then  a  member  of  the  supreme  coun- 
cil of  the  southern  jurisdiction,  went  to  Mexico  to  establish  Masonry 
and  a  supreme  council  in  that  country.  We  have  yet  to  learn  that 
there  was  a  single  lodge  in  existence  in  Mexico  at  that  time.  I  know 
that  he  made  a  number  of  sovereign  grand  inspectors  general  (Thirty- 
third  Degree  Masons),  established  tltc  supreme  council,  and  there 
being  no  affiliated  Masons  in  the  countrj- — so  I  understand  from  him 
on  his  return — he  made  Masons,  and  created  them  Thirty-thirds.  If 
there  were  lodges  or  Masons  in  Mexico  at  that  time,  he  did  not  so 
report  (and  there  may  have  been),  I  would  like  to  see  some  proof  of 
the  fact. 

Now,  I  do  not  think  Bros.  Drummond,  Miller,  Hedges,  or  Parvin 
will  fail  for  a  moment  to  admit  that  every  profane  made  a  Mason  by 
Bro.  Laffin,  in  1860,  was  a  clandestine  made  Mason,  and  that  though 
at  the  time  he  gave  them  the  degrees  up  to  the  Thirty-third  inclu- 
sive, they  were  still  clandestine  and  could  never  be  recognized,  not 
even  healed,  but  could  become  Masons  only  by  being  made  in  some 
legitimate  and  regular  lodge,  nor  can  they  but  admit  the  conclusion 
which  must  necessarily  follow,  that  these  clandestine  Masons  could 
do  no  legitimate  work,  not  even  if  they  had  the  Thirty-third  Degree 
and  they  were  a  supreme  council,  received  in  the  manner  above  set 
forth.  If  that  supreme  council — the  Supreme  Council  of  Mexico — 
thus  created,  has  made  Masons  of  profanes  and  constituted  lodges  of 
those  thus  made,  such  persons  are  clandestine  made  Masons,  and  the 
lodges  are  clandestine  and  incapable  of  forming  a  grand  lodge  and 
should  not  be  recognized. 

I  know  how  the  Supreme  Council  of  Mexico  originated  (as  above), 
and,  I  believe,  indeed  it  is  asserted  by  the  friends  of  the  Gran  Dieta 
and  by  Bro.  Parvin,  that  it  created  lodges,  and  that  these  lodges  are 
part  of  the  constituents  of  the  several  grand  lodges  of  Mexico  of  the 
past  and  of  the  Gran  Dieta. 

It  was  a  knowledge  of  these  facts  that  led  us  last  year  to  call  for  a 
tracing  of  the  genealogy — the  origin  of  the  lodges  which  formed  the 
Gran  Dieta.  There  may  have  been  real,  legitimate  lodges  in  Mexico, 
who  assisted  in  the  formation  of  the  grand  lodges  of  that  country. 
If  so,  we  want  to  know  it,  and  then  we  can  act  understandingly  on  the 
question  of  recognition. 

These  remarks  as  to  Mexican  Masonry,  apply  to  all  Grand  Lodges, 
or  Orients,  in  America,  south  of  us,  and  in  Europe,  other  than  in  the 
British  Islands  and  Germany — notwithstanding  Bro.  Drummond  to 
the  contrary, — all  Freemasonry  on  the  continent  of  Europe,  as  in 
America,  had  its  origin  in  the  British  Islands:  (Jermany,  France,  Spain, 
Portugal,  Denmark.  In  some  of  these  countries  Freemasonry  ceased 
to  exist,  and  now  shows  a  legitimate  descent  only  in  Germany  and 
Scandinavia,  if  it  really  exists  in  the  latter.  And  we  have  yet  to  learn 
of  the  existence  of  even  pretended  grand  lodges  in  Asia  or  Africa,  un- 


124  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


less  Egi'pt  be  excepted,  as  Bro.  Parvin  intimates.  We  do  not  propose 
to  refuse  recog^nition  to  the  various  <rrand  bodies  of  Masons,  other 
than  those  already'  recoj^nized.  but  onl}-  to  defer  such  recognition  un- 
til the}-  shall  prove  the  regularity  of  their  origin.  We  do  not  even 
assert  that  supreme  councils  cannot  create  lodges,  as  such  assertion 
is  not  necessary,  but  we  do  assert  that  no  3.3d  degree  Mason,  as  such, 
can  make  a  Mason,  nor  can  an}-  supreme  council  create  a  lodge  of  pro- 
fanes thus  made  Masons. 

And  now,  one  word  to  the  second  question,  the  administration  of 
Freemasonry  under  the  Gran  Dieta  of  Mexico.  It  was  denied  that 
women  were  Masons  or  that  there  were  women  lodges,  and  it  was  as- 
serted b}'  the  grand  secretarj-,  so  it  was  reported,  that  these  lodges 
were  after  the  order  of  the  Eastern  Star,  but  when  the  proof  of  their 
existence  became  positive,  it  is  asserted,  though  not  officially,  that 
these  women  lodges  have  been  abolished.  Again,  as  to  the  Great 
Light,  it  was  said  there  was  nothing  in  the  code  against  it.  as  though 
the  code  could  properly  have  anything  on  it  of  an  esoteric  nature. 
No  grand  lodge  iu  the  world  has  such  a  provision  in  its  statutes  or  con- 
stitution, and  yet  a  lodge  that  did  not  properh-  display  the  Great 
Light  would  at  once  have  its  charter  taken  from  it. 

But  these  objectionable  features  of  administration  is  an  indica- 
tion, I  might  say  proof,  almost  to  a  demonstration,  of  the  illegitimacy 
of  Mexican  Freemasonry.  Had  they  been  of  a  legitimate  origin,  it  is 
almost  impossible  to  conceive  that  such  practices  could  have  prevailed. 
Under  such  circumstances,  it  behooves  every  considerate  lover  of  Free- 
masonry to  require  very  strict  proof  of  the  origin  of  Lodges  in  Mexico. 

While  Freemasonry  is  justly  termed  universal,  it  is  such  only  as  to 
its  princi])les,  and  in  accepting  into  its  circle  men  of  all  races,  creeds, 
and  conditions:  but  of  course,  through  legitimate  methods,  in  lodges 
legally  constituted  and  by  the  consent  of  the  brethren.  It  is  not  uni- 
versaf  in  the  sense  that  anj-one  can  claim  recognition  who  ma}-  possess 
some  secrets  of  an  initiation  and  call  it  Freemasonry. 

The  Carbonnari  are  a  great  society,  but  they  are  not  Freemasons, 
and  so  is  the  Grand  Orient  of  France,  and  yet  a  refusal  to  recognize 
them  as  Freemasons  does  not  in  the  least  militate  against  the  univer- 
sality af  Freemasonry.  As  shown  last  year,  the  number  of  persons  in 
the  countries  named  is  so  limited  in  numbers,  that  a  refusal  to  i^ecog- 
nize  them  would  likewise  be  far  from  having  a  like  result.  In  all  we 
have  said  we  do  not  include  the  German  grand  lodges,  for  they  trace 
their  origin  from  the  old  Grand  Lodge  of  England,  as  did  France  and 
the  extinct  Grand  Lodges  of  Spain,  Portugal.  Mexico,  and  others. 
The  Grand  Orient  of  France  was  a  legitimate  descendant  of  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  England,  and  yet  we  refuse  to  recognize  it  as  a  legitimate 
Masonic  body,  because  it  has  repudiated  what  is  considered  a  land- 
mark. If  its  Masonry  were  legitimate,  its  practices  for  many  years  has 
been  equally  objectionable. 

We  desire  to  call  especial  attention  to  the  contribution  of  his  own 
personal  knowledge  of  the  manner  in  which  the  alleged  Masons  were 
made  who  composed  the  supreme  council  established  in  1860,  which 
body  all  writers  on  this  subject  have  heretofore  taken  for  granted 
was  erected  on  a  substratum  of  symbolic  Masonry,  of  sonu  rite,  al- 
ready existing  there.     We  wish  also  to  record  our  entire  agreement 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  125 

with  his  deduction  that  the  objectionable  features  of  administration 
under  the  gran  dieta  are  of  themselves  "proof,  almost  to  demonstra- 
tion, of  the  illegitimacy  of  Mexican  Freemasonry.'" 


MAINE,  1896. 

77th  Annual.  Portland.  May  5. 

The  representative  of  Illinois,  Joseph  A.  Locke,  was  in  his  place 
as  deputy  grand  master. 

The  grand  master  (Augustus  B.  Farnham)  announced  the  death 
of  Past  Grand  Master  David  Cargill,  in  his  seventy-eighth  year,  who 
was  elected  to  the  grand  east  in  1872  and  held  the  office  for  three 
years;  and  of  Ivory  H.  Robinson,  past  district  deputy  grandmaster, 
at  the  early  age  of  thirty-six. 

Among  dispensations  granted  we  note  the  following: 

May  25,  granted  dispensation  to  Waldo  Pettengill  and  others  to 
hold  a  lodge  of  instruction  at  Rumford  Falls. 

November  16,  to  C.  H.  Kingston  and  others  to  hold  a  lodge  of 
instruction  at  Vanceboro,  Maine. 

February  6,  to  Joseph  A.  Hobbs  and  others  to  hold  a  lodge  of  in- 
struction at  Waterboro. 

As  these  appear  to  be  something  apart  from  the  conventions  held 
by  the  grand  lecturers,  we  infer  that  they  are  volunteer  schools  or- 
ganized among  the  members  of  their  respective  lodges  for  mutual  in. 
struction,  and  we  are  puzzled  to  know  why  the  grand  master's  authority 
should  be  invoked  to  enable  them  to  exercise  what  seems  to  us  a  Ma- 
son's birthright. 

Among  his  rulings  the  grand  master  states  the  case  of  a  member 
of  Ashlar  Lodge  No.  247,  Canada,  residing  in  Maine  and  desiring  to 
affiliate  with  a  Maine  lodge  (Somerset),  asking  Grand  Master  White, 
of  Canada,  what  steps  were  necessary  to  meet  the  legal  requirements 
in  the  case  before  his  application  should  be  received.  The  Canadian 
executive  said  he  knew  of  no  reason  why  Somerset  lodge  should  not 
deal  with  the  brother's  application  in  the  same  way  as  with  that  of 
"any  other  unaffiliated  Mason."  "He  would,"  he  continues,  "certainly 
have  the  right  with  us  to  join  two  or  more  lodges,  and  I  do  not  see  any 
reason  why  he  should  not  join  Somerset  if  they  are  willing  to  have 


120  APPENDIX. — PART    T. 


him."'    On  this  statement  authorit\-  was  granted  to  Somerset  lodge 
to  receive  the  application. 

We  infer  that  the  brother  wan  a  member  of  the  Canada  lodge  not- 
withstanding the  expression  "an^-  other  unaffiliated  Mason,"  else  the 
correspondence  would  not  have  been  opened.  Maine  does  not,  so  far 
as  we  are  aware,  permit  dual  membership,  but  this  action  appears  to 
indicate  that  it  ma}*  be  permitted  if  one  leg  of  the  duality'  is  in  an- 
other grand  jurisdiction. 

The  reasons  for  its  being  are  strongly  stated  in  the  following: 

Is  it  in  accordance  with  Masonic  teachings  to  allow  the  intro- 
duction of  intoxicating  liquors  into  a  hall  or  apartments  that  have 
been  solemnly  dedicated  to  the  purposes  of  Freemasonry? 

It  most  certainly  is  not  in  accordance  with  the  principles  of  our 
order.  Temperance  is  one  of  the  four  cardinal  virtues,  and  we  are 
taught  that  it  should  be  the  constant  practice  of  every  Mason.  We 
should  exercise  at  all  times  the  greatest  care  never  to  place  tempta- 
tion before  a  brother  Mason.  The  strongest  ma\-  fall,  and  the  weak 
will  be  sure  to  fall.  Let  us  banish,  therefore,  at  all  times  from  our 
Masonic  halls  intoxicating  liquors  and  ever^'thing  that  will  cause  our 
brother  to  err. 

A  volume  of  Masonic  dut}'  is  compressed  into  a  line  when  the 
grand  master  says,  in  the  conclusion  of  his  address:  "Let  us  re- 
member that  one  kind  word  spoken  to  a  brother  in  life  is  worth  more 
than  countless  garlands  placed  upon  his  grave  after  death. "" 

The  following  charges,  signed  by  Past  Grand  Master  Estes,  were 
presented  by  Past  Grand  Master  Drummond,  and  referred  to  the 
committee  on  grievances  and  appeals: 

The  undersigned  respectfully  represents  and  charges: 

1.  Samuel  H.  Hart,  now  of  parts  unknown,  was  formerly  a  resi- 
dent of  Skowhegan  in  this  state,  and  while  so  a  resident,  on  the 
seventh  day  of  September,  A.  D.  18Sit.  duly  aj>))lied  to  be  initiated, 
passed,  and  raised,  in  Somerset  Lodge  No  34,  in  said  jurisdiction:  and 
that  said  lodge,  finding  that  it  had  jurisdiction  of  said  Hart,  accepted 
him  and  conferred  the  several  degrees  in  its  gift  upon  him,  so  that 
he  became  a  member  of  said  lodge  on  the  second  daj'  of  December. 
A.D.  1889,  and  has  always  since  remained,  and  now  is,  a  member  of 
said  lodge. 

2.  That  said  Hart  afterwards  removed  to  Buckley,  in  the  state  of 
Washington,  and  made  himself  known  to  the  Masons  of  that  jurisdic- 
tion, as  a  Mason  in  good  standing  in  said  Somerset  lodge. 

3.  That  said  Hart  thereby  gained  confidence  of  the  Masons  of  that 
vicinity,  and,  through  them,  of  other  people  in  said  Buckley  and 
vicinity. 

4.  That  about  the  lirst  da}-  of  November,  A.  D.  1891,  he  was  presi- 
dent and  sole  manager  of  a  certain  bank  in  said  Buckley,  known  as 
the  Buckley  State  Bank,  in  which  different  parties,  among  whom 
were  many  Masons,  deposited  money  for  safe  keeping. 


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5.  And  the  undersig'ned  charges  that  said  Hart,  on  or  about  the  18th 
day  of  November,  A.  D.  1893,  absconded  from  said  Buckley,  embezzling 
and  taking  away  with  him  all  of  the  moneys  and  valuable  assets  of 
said  bank,  thereby  causing  great  loss  to  said  depositors,  having  burned 
or  otherwise  destroyed  all  the  books  and  papers  of  said  bank. 

6.  That  the  proceedings  of  said  Hart,  in  thus  absconding  and 
carrjdng  away  the  deposits  of  said  bank,  became  a  matter  of  public 
notoriety,  and  full  accounts  of  his  said  crime  were  published  in  the 
newspapers;  but,  although  a  long  time  has  elapsed,  the  said  Hart  has 
never  returned  to  dispute  said  reports  or  make  any  defense  to,  or  ex- 
planation of  the  crimes  thus  publicly  charged  against  him;  but  on 
the  contrary  has  concealed  his  whereabouts  and  still  conceals  his 
whereabouts,  so  that  it  is  impossible  to  give  him  notice  of  any  charges 
which  may  be  filed  against  him  of  any  Masonic  body  of  which  he  was 
a  member. 

7.  That  the  undersigned  is  informed  and  believes,  and  therefore 
charges  that  said  Hart  was  overtaken  and  arrested  in  the  vicinity  of 
Baltimore,  but  by  some  technical  defect  in  the  papers  was  enabled  to 
escape  from  arrest,  and  has  ever  since  kept  in  hiding  to  avoid  being 
arrested,  and  taken  back  to  the  state  of  Washington  to  answer  for 
the  offences  with  which  he  has  been  publicly  charged. 

8.  That  said  Hart  has  been  guilty  of  gross  unmasonic  conduct,  as 
set  forth  in  the  above  specifications,  and  ought  to  be  held  to  answer 
therefor. 

9.  That  the  undersigned  is  informed  and  believes,  and  therefore 
avers,  that  the  lodge  in  Washington,  within  whose  jurisdiction  said 
crime  has  been  committed,  declines  to  proceed  against  said  Hart  on 
the  ground  that  he  is  not  a  member  of  said  lodge,  but  a  member  of 
Somerset  lodge  in  this  jurisdiction. 

10.  That  in  consequence  of  the  absconding  of  said  Hart,  and  hav- 
ing no  known  place  of  abode,  it  is  doubtful  whether  said  Somerset 
lodge  can  entertain  charges  and  proceed  to  the  trial  and  conviction 
of  said  Hart  thereon. 

11.  The  undersigned  therefore  prays  that  this  grand  lodge,  con" 
sidering  the  great  scandal  and  disgrace  to  Masonry  occasioned  by  the 
conduct  of  said  Hart  as  above  set  forth,  and  the  fact  that  he  has 
absconded  and  keeps  in  hiding,  although  knowing  that  charges  of 
serious  crimes  have  been  publicly  made  against  him,  will  take  juris- 
diction thereof  and  proceed  hereon  as  the  interests  of  the  fraternity 
and  justice  to  said  Hart  may  require. 

The  committee  reported  as  follows: 

In  the  matter  of  charges  of  gross  unmasonic  conduct  against 
Samuel  H.  Hart,  a  member  of  Somerset  Lodge  No.  34,  of  Skowhegan, 
where  the  charges  were  not  brought  in  his  lodge  on  account  of  his 
absconding,  and  whose  residence  is  unknown  to  said  lodge,  and  the 
same  is  brought  directly  to  this  grand  lodge  by  the  petition  of  Wil- 
liam R.  G.  Estes,  P.G.M.,  and  a  member  of  Somerset  lodges; 

Your  committee,  after  examining  the  evidence  adduced,  and  ma- 
ture deliberation  on  the  same,  recommend  that  this  grand  lodge  expel 
Samuel  H.  Hart  from  all  the  rights  and  benefits  of  Masonry. 


128  APPENDIX. — PART    1. 


And  thereupon  the  following  resolution  was  adopted: 

I{c.'<olred,  That  Samuel  H.  Hart  is  guilt}'  of  gross  unmasonic  conduct, 
as  set  forth  in  the  charge  and  specitications,  and  that  said  Samuel  H. 
Hart  be  expelled  from  all  the  rights  and  benelits  of  Freemasonry. 

We  have  copied  this  extraordinary  proceeding  in  full  because  it 
is  likely  to  be  apjjealed  to  as  a  precedent,  and  because  it  is  not  likely 
that  the  skill  shown  in  so  drawing  the  argumentative  charges  that 
they  shall,  as  far  as  possible,  justify  this  wide  a  departure  from  Ma- 
sonic usage,  will  be  often  equalled. 

We  have  not  time  now  to  discuss  this  matter  full}',  and  for  this 
reason  we  reproduce  here  the  argument  of  Bro.  Drummonu  in  justifi- 
cation of  the  method  of  procedure  adopted,  found  in  his  review  of 
Alabama,  beginning  with  his  statement  of  a  case  there  occurring 
which  he  holds  sanctions  his  view,  that  we  may  preserve  it  in  acces- 
sible form  for  future  reference: 

A  case  of  much  importance  was  before  the  grand  lodge.  There 
were  two  specifications  in  the  charge,  one  for  falsehood,  and  the  other 
for  forfeiting  his  bail  and  absconding  to  prevent  being  arrested.  He 
was  convicted  by  the  lodge  on  both  specifications,  and  the  grand  lodge 
sustained  both,  holding  in  effect  that  absconding  to  avoid  arrest  for 
crime  with  which  he  was  publicly  charged,  is  a  Masonic  offence.  We 
are  glad  to  find  such  a  decision,  which  we  endorse  most  heartily. 

This  leads  us  to  call  the  attention  of  the  craft  to  the  fact  that 
there  has  been,  and  still  is,  too  great  a  tenderness  for  the  rights  of 
the  individual  Mason,  when  his  conduct  has  caused  a  great  scandal 
to  the  fraternity.  We  confess  to  a  decided  change  of  views  in  one 
class  of  cases. 

A  Mason  commits  a  crime  and  absconds  to  parts  unknown:  the 
commission  of  the  crime  and  the  absconding  are  matters  of  public 
notoriety,  to  the  great  scandal  of  Masonry.  In  such  cases  it  has  been 
deemed  necessary  to  go  through  the  farce  of  attempting  to  give 
notice  to  the  accused,  though  it  is  well  known  that  it  /.%•  a  farce  and 
nothing  else.  The  result  is  that  usually  two  years,  or  even  more,  pass 
before  the  fraternity  succeeds  in  getting  rid  of  a  notorious  offender. 
A  recent  case  called  our  attention  to  this  matter  and  led  us  to  con- 
sider it  more  fully  than  ever  before,  and  in  consequence  to  change  our 
views.  Abs(;o)idhig  in  the  face  of  a  puhlic  charge  of  crime,  is  in  itself  not  onlij 
a  Masonic  offence,  hat  a  waiver  of  notice  of  any  charge  for  such  offence. 

An  able  committee  has  recently  said: 

"The  fact  that  for  the  last  nine  or  ten  months  the  charges  have 

been  notorious,  and  that has  neither  come  forward  to  vindicate 

his  honor,  nor  even  to  ask  for  a  susjiension  of  opinion,  but  remains  in 
hiding,  shows  that  he  has  forfeited  his  own  self-res])ect  and  has  ut- 
terly lost  that  sense  of  honor  and  ])ersonal  dignity  which  is  insepara- 
ble from  the  vows  of  Masonic  Knighthood."" 

********* 

"He  has  forfeited  his  Masonic  rights,  because  he  has  not  defended 
himself  from  the  degrading  charges  so  long  current,  just  as  truly  and 
seriously  as  he  has  violated  his  vows,  if  he  be  guilty  of  the  charges.'" 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  129 


"Nor  can  it  be  permitted  that  this  man  should  wander  a  fugitive 
over  the  earth,  with  any  apparent  sanction  of  his  character  or  con- 
duct" by  the  fraternity.  "He  must  be  repudiated."  [We  have  sub- 
stituted "by  the  fraternity"  for  the  name  of  the  body  in  which  the 
report  was  made.] 

"Suicide  is  confession,"  has  become  a  maxim,  but  absconding  and 
remaining  in  hiding,  in  the  face  of  public  charges  of  crime,  are  much 
more  truly  confession  than  suicide  is. 

When  a  man  absconds  to  parts  unknown,  he  knows  that  the  fact 
will  become  notorious  and  will  be  accepted  by  the  public  as  a  confes- 
sion of  guilt;  moreover,  he  has  voluntarily  made  it  impossible  for 
notice  to  reach  him,  and  thereby  has  forfeited  his  right  to  notice. 

Of  course,  the  fact  of  the  absconding  should  be  proved  beyond  a 
reasonable  doubt;  it  should  also  appear  that  a  crime  had  been  com- 
mitted or  a  public  charge  of  the  commission  of  a  crime  been  made,  or 
that  the  absconding  was  of  such  a  character  as  to  be  in  itself  a 
scandal  to  Masonry. 

Moreover,  we  would  not  have  a  lodge  act  finally  in  such  a  case; 
the  charges  might  be  filed  in  the  lodge,  the  testimony  taken  either 
before  the  lodge  or  b^'  affidavits,  and  the  matter  submitted  to  the 
grand  lodge:  but  we  would  prefer  to  have  the  matter  presented 
directly  to  the  grand  lodge;  which,  in  the  plenitude  of  its  power,  can 
proceed  in  each  case  as  it  may  deem  that  justice  alike  to  the  craft 
and  to  the  accused  requires. 

We  desire  to  repeat  that  the  decision  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Ala- 
bama, that  absconding  is  a  Masonic  offence,  is,  or  in  our  judgment, 
a  correct  exposition  of  the  law,  and  carries  with  it,  in  principal,  the 
sanction  of  the  correctness  of  our  position. 

We  do  not  think  that  the  Alabama  decision  quite  fits  the  Maine 
case,  or  that  it  fully  covers  the  dangerous  possibilities  involved  in  the 
practical  application  of  the  dictum  that  "absconding  in  the  face  of 
a  public  charge  of  crime,  is  in  itself  not  only  a  Masonic  offence,  but  a 
waiver  of  notice  of  any  charge  for  such  offence." 

In  the  Alabama  case,  the  grand  lodge  exercised  only  the  appel- 
late jurisdiction  for  which  it  finds  full  warrant  in  the  charges  of  a 
Freemason,  while  in  Maine  the  grand  lodge  assumed  original  jurisdic- 
tion, for  which,  as  it  seems  to  us,  the  paramount  law  aft'ords  no  justifi- 
cation. In  the  Alabama  case,  too,  the  accused  forfeited  his  bond  to 
escape  not  arrest  but  incarceration,  he  having  been  already  arrested 
and  therefore  fully  informed  that  a  crime  had  been  committed  and 
that  he  was  charged  with  it,  which  takes  it  out  of  the  category  of 
entirel}^  possible  cases  where  a  man's  disappearance  might  be  simply 
coincident  with  a  crime  of  which  he  knew  nothing— not  even  that  it 
had  been  committed— but  it  would  still  inevitably  place  him  under 
suspicion  of  guilt. 

The  report  of   the  able  committee  quoted  by  Bro.  Drummond, 
strongly  as  it  is  put,  loses  something  of  its  force  as  applicable  in  sup- 
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130  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


port  of  the  Maine  procedure  when  it  is  remembered  that  it  comes 
from  a  body  that  is  not  under  the  constraint  of  an  immemorial  law. 

Bro.  Drummond,  for  the  committee  on  jurisprudence,  submitted 
an  elaborate  and  most  valuable  report  on  the  Mississippi  proposition 
touchiny^  jurisdiction  over  rejected  material.  It  is  too  \oTig  to  copy 
entire,  covering,  as  it  does,  thirteen  pa<jes,  and  we  shall  have  to  pass 
over  most  of  his  cogent  arguments  for  the  more  cogent  arguments  of 
the  facts  which  his  painstaking  industry  has  collated. 

Of  the  dangers  lurking  in  the  present  unsettled  condition  of  the 
question,  he  says: 

It  has  already  caused  dissensions  and  protests,  and  it  is  only 
because  some  grand  lodges  do  not  have  "the  courage  of  their  convic- 
tions," or  are  willing  to  endure  what  they  deem  a  wrong  rather  than 
disturb  the  harmony  of  the  Craft,  that  a  disruption  of  Masonic  rela- 
tions between  some  of  our  sister  grand  lodges  has  not  alreadj-  taken 
place.  Such  disruption  must  sureU'  come,  and  it  is  onh'  a  question  of 
a  brief  time  when  it  will  come,  unless  some  common  understanding  is 
reached  in  relation  to  this  matter. 

Asking,  "What  is  the  meaning  of  the  action  of  the  lodge  in  bal- 
loting upon  the  petition  of  a  candidate,  especiall}'^  in  case  of  a 
rejection?"  he  saj's: 

It  has  been  the  universal  doctrine  that  the  onl}-  question  submit- 
ted to  the  lodge  in  balloting  upon  the  petition  of  a  candidate  is.  "Is 
he  fit  to  be  made  a  Mason?'  and  ever}-  member,  upon  his  honor  as  a 
Mason,  votes  as  he  conscientiously  believes.  The  declarations  by  those 
in  authority,  that  any  Mason  who  allows  personal  feeling  of  any  kind 
to  control  his  ballot  violates  his  duty  and  is  guilty  of  unmasonic  con- 
duct, are  so  numerous  that  it  is  unnecessary'  to  quote  them.  This  is 
conclusively  settled  by  the  not  infrequent  convictions  of  Masons  for 
rejecting  candidates  for  personal  and  unmasonic  reasons. 

But  it  is  said  that  good  men  are  rejected  from  imjiroper  motives. 
This  is  undoubtedly  true,  but  we  believe  not  so  frequenth-  as  those 
who  use  this  argument  would  have  us  believe.  To  admit  that  it  is 
true  is  only  to  admit  that  Masons  are  human,  and  some  of  them  guilty 
of  unmasonic  conduct,  as  is  shown  b}-  the  numerous  convictions  for 
other  offences.  But  the  conclusive  answer  is,  that  when  a  law  oper- 
ates so  unjustly  that  any  possible  evasion  of  its  effect  becomes  neces- 
sary or  justifiable,  the  law  itself  should  be  modified  or  repealed.  If  the 
effect  of  the  operation  of  the  law  of  the  secret  and  unanimous  ballot 
is  such  as  to  justify  an  evasion  of  that  effect,  the  law  is  faulty.  The 
law  necessarily  assumes  that  every  Mason,  in  casting  his  ballot,  will 
do  so  in  good  faith  and  in  accordance  with  Masonic  duty.  We  repeat, 
that  if  the  abuse  is  so  frequent  as  to  justify  a  general  provision  to 
avoid  its  effect,  a  modification  of  the  law  is  imperatively  demanded. 
While  no  one  as  i/et  has  gone  so  far  as  that  in  his  demand,  this  argu- 
ment is  the  entering  wedge  for  the  abrogation  of  the  secret  ami  unan- 
imous ballot,  or  for  the  entire  evasion  of  its  effect. 

The  rejection  of  a  candidate,  then,  is  the  decision  of  the  lodge — 
the  tribunal  to  which,  in  behalf  of  the  whole  fraternity,  the  law  of 
Masonry  entrusts  the  determination  of  that  ijuestion  without  appeal 
— that  the  candidate  is  not,  at  the  time,  fit  to  become  a  Mason. 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  131 


Of  the  question,  "What  is  the  effect  of  that  decision?"  he  says: 

It  is  undoubtedly  true  tliat  until  recently  the  generally  received 
law  and  Masonic  usage  were  that  a  rejected  candidate  could  be  there- 
after legally  accepted  only  by  the  lodge  which  rejected  him,  or  by 
another  lodge  with  its  consent,  if  in  existence.  If  any  code  of  law 
(except  in  a  single  instance)  provided  otherwise,  or  any  Masonic  writer 
held  otherwise,  until  within  less  than  forty  years,  it  has  escaped  the 
notice  of  your  committee  after  as  careful  and  minute  examination  as 
we  have  had  the  time  and  means  to  make. 

After  quoting  from  the  works  of  Simons  and  Mackey  on  jurispru- 
dence in  support  of  this  view,  and  referring  to  Charles  W.  Moore, 
of  Massachusetts;  William  P.  Mellen,  of  Mississippi,  and  William 
S.  Rockwell,  of  Georgia,  as  holding  the  same,  he  gives  in  detail  the 
results  of  an  examination  of  the  codes  of  forty-nine  American  juris- 
dictions supporting  his  statement  as  to  the  almost  universal  preva- 
lence of  the  rule  until  within  a  few  years.     He  says: 

It  is  thus  seen  that  formerly  the  overwhelming  preponderance  of 
opinion,  usage,  and  law,  was  that  the  rejected  candidate  could  only 
apply  to  the  rejecting  lodge  or  to  some  other  with  its  consent,  while 
some  held  that  he  could  apply  only  to  the  rejecting  lodge. 

While  several  of  the  grand  lodges  have  modified  the  old  law,  and 
the  younger  grand  lodges  have  adopted  a  limitation  of  time,  all  the 
grand  lodges,  without  a  single  exception,  place  a  rejected  candidate 
under  a  disability  for  a  longer  or  shorter  time,  which  only  the  rejecting 
lodge  can  remove  during  that  time,  when  it  can  be  removed  at  all 
This  disability  is  the  consequence  of  the  rejection,  which  is,  under 
Masonic  law,  the  decision  of  the  lodge  that  the  candidate  is  then 
unfit  to  be  made  a  Mason.  It  is  precisely  similar  to  the  decision  of  a 
lodge  when  it  suspends,  or  expels  a  Mason,  that  he  is  not-fit  to  remain 
a  Mason:  he  has  the  same  privilege  as  the  rejected  candidate;  he  can 
apply  to  the  same  lodge  for  restoration. 

********* 

We  conclude,  therefore,  that  the  rejection  of  a  candidate  is  a 
Masonic  decision  that  he  is  then  unfit  to  be  made  a  Mason,  and,  pre- 
cisely like  a  suspension,  the  disability  follows  him  wherever  he  goes, 
and  continues  for  the  time  for  which,  under  the  law,  it  was  imposed. 

The  next  inquiry  is,  ought  the  decision  of  the  lodge  to  be  per- 
petual, to  be  removed  only  by  the  rejecting  lodge? 

********* 

The  fact  that  a  rejected  candidate  is  allowed  to  apply  again, 
conclusively  establishes  the  presumption  of  Masonic  law  that  he  may 
become  fit,  or  show  that  he  is  fit  to  be  made  a  Mason.  It  is  now  the 
almost  universal  law,  at  least  in  this  country,  and  ought  to  be  every- 
where, that  a  candidate  shall  apply  where  he  is  best  known,  and  this 
is  assumed  to  be  the  lodge  nearest  his  home.  It  is  evident  that  this 
law  applies,  with  equal  force,  to  rejected  candidates,  when  they 
apply  a  second  time.  In  this  country,  where  men  frequently  move 
from  their  childhood's  home,  and  make  a  new  one  in  a  place  so  distant 
that  his  old  neighbors  have  little  or  no  knowledge  of  him  thereafter, 
it  would  follow  that  those  among  whom  he  lived  in  his  new  home, 
after  sufficient  time,  would  become  the  best  judges  of  his  fitness  to  be 
made  a  Mason;  this  is,  also,  true  of  different  localities  in  the  same 


Vi2  APPENDIX.  — PART   I. 


state.  It,  therefore,  follows  that  the  disabilit}*  caused  by  rejection 
should  be  controlled  by  the  rejectinjj  lod<^e  for  no  lon^jer  than  a 
reasonable  time,  and.  therefore,  that  its  continuance  should  be 
limited  to  a  reasonable  lensfth  of  time. 

"What  then  is  a  reasonable  timey"  he  asks,  and  with  reference 
to  the  considerations  that  should  govern  the  answer  he  correctly  says 
that  "it  f^oes  without  sayinjj  that  the  good  of  the  craft  and  the  well- 
fare  of  the  institution  should  be  the  absolutely  controlling  elements 
in  the  determination  of  this  question." 

He  believes  that  one  year  is  an  unreasonably,  dangerously  short 
time  within  which  to  limit  the  disability  of  a  rejection,  and  says: 

Our  own  grand  lodge  has  fixed  Jive  years  as  a  reasonable  time  for 
the  continuance  of  the  disability,  unless  removed  by  the  concurrent 
action  by  unanimous  vote  of  the  two  lodges:  while  the  Grand  Lodge 
of  Massachusetts  has  fixed  seven  ijcdrs,  unless  the  master  and  wardens, 
and  three  other  members  of  the  rejecting  lodge,  after  notice  to  the 
lodge  of  the  application,  and  time  for  y)resenting  objections,  shall 
give  the  i)arty  a  recemnnemhition  to  the  other  lodge.  This  last  rule  is 
not  open  to  the  objection  that  one  Mason,  and  perhaps  an  unworthy 
one,  can  keep  out  of  the  fraternity  a  good  man.  To  secure  uniform- 
ity, we  have  no  doubt  that  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Maine  will  reconsider 
its  action,  and  adopt  any  reasonable  rule  that  will  protect  the  welfare 
of  the  craft. 

The  following  resolutions  reflect  the  conclusions  of  the  committee 
and  of  the  grand  lodge: 

Itesolved,  That  this  grand  lodge  is  deeply  impressed  with  the  ne- 
cessity of  uniform  legislation  by  the  several  grand  lodges  in  relation 
to  the  admission  of  rejected  candidates. 

liesolved,  That  the  effect  of  a  rejection  should  be  limited  to  five 
years,  and  that  during  that  time  the  candidate  should  be  allowed  to 
petition  only  to  the  lodge  which  rejected  him,  or  to  another  lodge 
with  the  consent  of  that  lodge,  or  such  consent  of  officers  and  mem- 
bers of  that  lodge  as  may  be  prescribed  bj'  the  grand  lodge  of  the 
jurisdiction  in  which  the  rejection  occurs. 

Resolved,  That  each  of  the  representatives  of  this  grand  lodge  be 
requested  to  present  these  resolutions  to  the  grand  lodge  to  which  he 
is  accredited  and  request  for  them  fraternal  consideration. 

The  jurisprudence  committee  reported  on  the  decisions  of  last 
year  (found  on  pp.  122-123  of  our  report  for  189(5).  We  reproduce 
No.  2: 

2.  A  lodge  has  no  right  to  pay  out  of  its  treasury  the  expenses  of 
its  annual  receptions,  the  principal  feature  of  which  is  dancing.  Nor 
is  it  Masonic  to  advertise  Masonry  in  that  manner,  or  any  other. 

This  was  approved,  but  to  prevent  any  misunderstanding  the  com- 
mittee add  that  a  return  to  the  old  custom  of  having  refreshments  at 
every  meeting  of  the  lodge — discontinued  on  account  of  abuses  which 
now  could  not  occur — "would  be  for  the  benefit  of  the  craft,  and  that 
the  use  of  the  lodge  funds,  to  a  reasonable  amount,  considering  the 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  133 

circumstances  of  the  lodge  and  without  infringing  upon  the  savings 
of  former  years,  or  its  ability  to  relieve  distressed  worthy  brethren, 
maybe  used  for  that  purpose.  The  decision  that  it  is  not  permissible 
for  officers  of  a  lodge  to  wear  robes  was  approved,  but  of  another  the 
committee  say: 

The  fifth  decision,  that  an  unaffiliated  Mason  cannot  be  made  an 
honorary  member,  is  not  in  accordance  with  the  status  which  the  law  of 
this  jurisdiction  accords  to  unaffiliated  Masons. 

The  same  committee  submitted  a  masterly  report  on  the  Wis- 
consin proposition,  along  the  lines  often  urged  in  our  reports,  con- 
cluding with  the  following  resolution: 

BesoJved,  That  this  grand  lodge  cannot  accede  to  the  proposition 
of  our  Wisconsin  brethren,  because  it  holds: 

1.  That  every  Mason  is  under  equal  obligation  to  every  worthy 
brother  to  relieve  his  distress  according  to  his  necessity  and  his  own 
ability; 

2.  That  the  sole  claim  of  a  distressed  worthy  brother  for  relief 
grows  out  of  his  heirig  a  Mason,  and  not  out  of  his  having  contributed  to 
the  funds  of  a  particular  lodge. 

3.  That  the  association  of  Masons  in  a  lodge  in  no  manner  relieves 
them  from  their  individual  obligation,  and  that  when  they  act  as  a 
lodge,  their  duty,  and,  therefore,  that  of  the  lodge,  is  precisely  the 
same  as  that  of  the  individual  Mason. 

4.  71iat  Masonic  relief  is  never  purchased  or  sold,  and,  therefore,  never 
creates  a  debt. 

We  have  italicized  the  last  sentence  because  we  have  rarely,  if 
ever,  seen  a  more  pregnant  line. 

Attention  being  called  to  the  action  of  the  Chicago  congress  on 
this  subject,  the  committee  added  the  following  to  their  report,  with 
which  we  fully  agree,  and  it  was  then  adopted: 

We  do  not  fully  endorse  this  "conclusion;"'  if  it  is  once  established 
as  law,  that  "common  courtesy  and  duty"  require  a  lodge  to  reimburse 
under  any  circumstances,  it  opens  the  door  to  further  and  greater  de- 
partures from  the  old  law.  We  hold,  therefore,  that  it  is  for  the  lodge 
in  every  case  to  determine  what  it  will  do;  and  what  it  does,  it  must  do, 
not  under  the  duress  of  law,  but  of  its  own  free  will:  and  whatever  its 
conclusion,  no  one  has  any  Masonic  right  to  complain. 

One  new  lodge  was  chartered.  Another  lodge  under  dispensation 
was  refused  a  charter  because  it  lacked  the  recommendations  of  some 
of  the  lodges  whose  jurisdiction  would  be  affected,  and  it  did  not  ap- 
pear that  such  approval  was  "unreasonably  withheld." 

Augustus  B.  Farnham,  of  Bangor,  grand  master  and  Stephen 
Berry,  Portland,  grand  secretary,  were  reelected. 

The  report  on  correspondence  (274  pp.)  is  the  thirty-first  by  its 
author  Past  Grand  Master  Josiah  H.  Drummond. 


1^4  I  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 


He  opens  his  review  of  Illinois  for  180")  with  these  remarks: 

The  portrait  of  tHe  retirinjj  {jfrand  master  (Lero}'  A.  Goddard),  to 
eyes  which  wear  spectacles,  seems  that  of  a  youni^^er  man  than  one 
would  expect  to  be  jrr^nd  master  of  Illinois:  but  his  account  of  his 
official  action  shows  that  he  had  ably  and  effectively  administered  the 
affairs  of  the  craft. 

Touching  the  reference  of  the  resolution  recognizing  Cuba,  he 
says: 

We  shall  look  next  year  with  much  interest  for  its  report,  as  Illi- 
nois is  one  of  the  very  few  jurisdictions  which  have  not  recognized 
that  grand  lodge.  Whether  the  closing  of  its  subordinates  and  of 
itself  by  governmental  order,  as  stated  in  our  review  of  Florida,  should 
have  an}'  bearing,  is  a  ver}-  nice  question:  however,  the  status  may  be 
entirely  changed  by  the  time  the  committee  are  called  upon  to  report. 

Premising  that  the  grand  master  seems  to  have  imbibed  some  of 
the  ideas -of  the  few,  who  have  .  oncluded  that  Masonry  can  be 
improved  by  making  it  conform  to  their  views,  he  quotes  from  Bro. 
Goddard's  remarks  that,  either  at  labor  or  at  refreshment,  the  lodge 
did  not  appear  to  be  in  just  the  condition  to  consistently  perform  the 
funeral  ceremon}',  and  hence  suggesting  that  for  this  and  all  other 
public  Masonic  ceremonies,  the  proper  officers  and  the  brethren  should 
congregate  without  opening,  he  says: 

If  he  had  taken  Masonic  usage — the  original  source  of  all  Masonic 
law — into  consideration  he  would  have  perceived  his  error.  However, 
the  committee  say  that  the  burial  service  adopted  by  the  grand  lodge 
is  plain,  and  there  is  no  necessity  for  any  change. 

Quoting  in  full  a  section  (2)  of  the  by-laws  relating  to  the 
discipline  of  masters  of  lodges  as  amended  at  the  session  under 
review,  he  says: 

We  may  not  understand  this,  but  if  we  do,  we  do  not  like  so  much 
of  it  as  makes  the  decision  of  the  grand  master  final  in  case  of  disci- 
pline of  individuals  and  still  limits  his  power  to  suspension  for  so  brief 
a  time.  We  much  prefer  the  provisions  in  our  constitution,  which 
authorize  the  grand  master  to  bring  such  cases  before  the  grand  lodge, 
and  to  suspend  the  accused  till  the  grand  lodge  meets.  Of  course, 
this  is  not  done  without  investigation  similar  to  the  one  expressly 
provided  for  in  this  Illinois  by-law.  This  course  has  been  assailed  on 
the  ground  that  it  is  punishing  a  Mason  twice  for  the  same  offence; 
the  absurdity  of  this  contention  is  shown  by  the  fact  that  it  is  con- 
stantly done  under  the  civil  law,  which  expressly  prohibits  a  second 
punishment  for  the  snme  offence,  and  the  other  fact  that  these  very 
objectors  see  no  impropriety  in  suspending  a  master  from  office  pend- 
ing an  investigation,  and  then  removing  him  from  office  as  a  result  of 
the  investigation. 

Further  on,  when  he  reaches  our  report,  he  finds  the  explanation 
of  the  purpose  of  the  amendment.     Quoting  this,  he  says: 

We  agree  with  Bro.  Robbins,  that  the  power  of  expulsion  is  too 
great  to  be  vested  in  any  one  man:  we  also  hold  (and  we  may  go  fur- 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  135 


ther  than  Bro.  Robbins),  that  an  expulsion  or  indefinite  suspension 
(which  has  come  to  mean  about  the  same  thingr)  should  never  be  in- 
flicted without  the  action  of  the  grand  lodge.  But  we  do  think  that 
the  grand  master  should  have  the  power  to  suspend  pending  a  trial, 
as  we  have  already  stated. 

With  us  this  law  is  not  interpreted  just  as  he  understands  it.  The 
grand  master's  final  decision  may  be  reprimand,  suspension,  or  depo- 
sition from  office,  or  suspension  from  all  the  rights  and  benefits  of 
Masonry;  but  if  the  latter,  the  deprivation  cannot  on  his  fiat  extend 
beyond  the  recess.  He  may,  however,  cite  him  to  appear  before  the 
grand  lodge,  where,  under  the  provisions  of  the  amended  law  he  can 
be  personally  heard  in  his  own  defense,  to  be  dealt  with  as  the  wisdom 
of  that  body  shall  direct.  Or  if  the  charges  or  complaint  involve 
unmasonic  conduct  (as  distinguished  from  official  misconduct)  the 
grand  master  maj" — as  will  be  seen  by  section  3,  which  should  be  read 
in  connection  with  the  section  quoted  by  Bro.  Drummond — depose 
Mm  from  office  and  thus  bring  him  within  the  disciplinary  powers  of 
his  lodge  and  thus  to  speedy  trial. 

Like  our  Grand  Orator  BLACK,  of  whom  he  speaks  in  the  following, 
he  has  optimistic  hopes,  but  is  perhaps,  less  sanguine  of  their  early 
fulfillment: 

At  this  writing,  the  signs  of  the  times  do  not  indicate  the  near 
approach  of  the  day  which  our  brother  in  his  prophetic  vision  saw;  but 
let  us  hope  that  they  are  merely  clouds,  which  will  utterly  disappear 
before  the  lustre  of  the  sun  which  sooner  or  later  will  surely  rise! 

In  reply  to  our  question  whether  the  consent  of  any  outside  party 
was  necessary  to  enable  a  lodge  to  donate  a  part  of  its  funds  to  a  new 
lodge  formed  in  its  territory,  he  says: 

Yes:  the  question  related  to  the  charity  fund:  that  can  not  be  dis- 
posed of  by  the  lodge  except  in  accordance  with  the  terms  of  the  trust 
under  which  it  was  created;  and  can  not  be  transferred  to  another 
lodge  without  the  consent  of  the  grand  lodge,  and  even  then  only  to 
be  held  as  a  charity  fund:  the  civil  law  protects  it.  In  Vermont,  in 
Morgan  times,  a  lodge  voted  to  surrender  its  charter  and  divide  its 
funds  among  the  members;  the  aid  of  the  courts  was  invoked  and  the 
distribution  of  the  fund  was  prevented,  the  court  holding  that  if  the 
lodge  went  out  of  existence,  the  court,  if  necessary,  would  appoint  a 
trustee  to  administer  the  trust:  but  as  in  case  of  the  surrender  of  the 
charter  of  a  lodge,  the  grand  lodge  succeeds  as  trustee  under  the  Ma- 
sonic law,  there  was  no  occasion  for  the  appointment  of  any  other. 
We,  in  Maine,  have  held,  however,  that  by  the  consent  of  the  grand 
lodge,  the  supreme  Masonic  power,  a  lodge  may  transfer  to  a  new 
lodge  composed  in  part  at  least  of  the  former  members  of  the 
old  lodge,  a  part  of  its  funds  to  be  held  in  trust  according  to  the  origi- 
nal design.  When  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Maine  was  organized,  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Massachusetts  gave  it  .SI, 000  for  a  charity  fund  and  it  has 
alwa3^s  been  held  as  such.  Masonic  funds  are  not  owned  by  the  lodge 
but  are  lield  in  trust  by  it  to  pay  the  legitimate  running  expenses  of  the 
lodge,  as  sanctioned  by  Masonic  usage,  and  the  balance  for  charity; 
and  after  funds  have  been  formally  set  apart  as  a  charity  fund,  they 


136  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 


can  not  lawfully  be  used  to  pay  even  the  runninji  expenses.  On  the 
ground  of  their  being  trust  funds,  held  for  charitable  purposes,  the 
laws  of  ver}'  many  of  the  states  e.xempt  them  from  taxation,  though 
for  special  reasons,  in  many  states,  all  trust  funds  innsUd  in  re(.d  eMud  . 
for  the  production  of  income,  are  taxed:  those  reasons  are,  that  other- 
wise the  burden  of  the  exemption  is  thrown  upon  the  town  in  which 
the  real  estate  is  situated  instead  of  ujjon  the  people  of  the  whole 
state.  We  have  answered  Bro.  Robhins'S  question  thus  at  length, 
because  we  find  that  this  matter  is  not  generalh*  understood,  and  the 
impression  prevails  that  lodges  oini  their  funds  and  often  ask,  '"Can  I 
not  do  as  I  will  with  mine  own?"  Real  estate  owned  by  a  lodge  for  /7.n- 
fprn  jmrposi'si^  not  usually  taxed,  however,  on  the  ground  that  it  is  not 
income-producing  property. 

Another  of  our  interrogation  points  elicits  the  following,  and  we 
agree  that  it  is  a  good  deal  in  favor  of  the  Maine  regulation,  that  it 
obviates  a  complication  which  frequently  arises: 

His  lack  of  acquaintance  with  the  provision  of  our  law  requiring 
the  personal  2)rese))ce  as  well  as  legal  residence  of  a  candidate  within 
the  jurisdiction  of  the  lodge,  for  the  six  months  before  his  application 
is  received,  made  him  unable  to  see  any  reason  for  the  granting  of  one 
of  Grand  Master  Burbank's  dispensations.  The  provision  was  adopted 
to  prevent  complications  in  cases  of  young  men.  who  claim  their  old 
home  as  their  legal  residences,  though  the3'  live  elsewhere,  as  well  as 
to  make  sure  that  the  members  of  the  lodge  have  had  some  oppor- 
tunity to  observe  whether  the  candidate  is  a  tit  one  or  not. 

And  of  another  point: 

The  replj'  to  his  observation  upon  another  is,  that  our  constitu- 
tion, following  the  old  usage  and  law.  expressly  requires  the  presence 
of  the  charter  at  a  meeting  of  the  lodge,  or  a  lawful  substitute,  if 
there  is  no  charter.     A  warrant  must  be  present. 

In  1894  Bro.  Dkummoxd  chided  us  as  not  being  quite  fair  when 
we  said  that  in  his  account  of  the  Scottish  Rite  war  of  1860 — given  in 
his  review  of  Illinois  in  1S91 — he  had  unconsciously  borne  testimony 
to  the  mischief-making  capacity  of  High  Riteism,  a  capacit}-  which 
we  credited  to  the  fact  that  each  sovereign  grand  inspector  general 
is  a  sort  of  dynastic  protoplasm,  having  within  himself  the  promise 
and  potency  of  empire,  and  liable  at  any  moment  to  sprout  into  a 
supreme  council  possessing  full  imperial  powers  and  attributes. 

Without  saying  whether  each  sovereign  grand  inspector  general 
does  or  does  not  have  within  himself  this  germinating  potency,  he 
said  in  replj',  substantially,  that  if  he  had  (as  he  might  have  done 
with  equal  force)  said  that  the  existence  of  two  rival  grand  chapters 
in  a  jurisdiction  necessarily  involved  a  disturbance  of  the  Masonic 
harmony  therein,  that  we  would  have  had  just  as  much  warrant  for 
saying  that  our  grand  chapter  was  a  disturber  as  that  one  Scottish 
Rite  body  was,  and  it  followed,  of  course — although  he  did  not  i)ut  it 
in  words — that  we  might  then  have  as  justlj-  said  that  he  had  uncon- 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  137 

sciously  borne    testimony  to  the  mischief-making-   capacity  of   the 
Capitular  Rite.     Of  this  we  said: 

If  we  are  wrong  as  to  the  promise  and  potency  residing  in  each 
inspector  general  we  may  have  misinterpreted  him  in  supposing  that 
he  alluded  to  such  a  sprouting — under  the  stimulous  of  human  ambi- 
tion and  human  self-interest — after  the  peace  of  1867,  which  we  pre- 
sumed had  united  (dl  the  rival  factions.  In  this  case  Bro.  Drummond 
will  set  us  right.  If,  on  the  other  hand,  we  are  accurately  informed 
as  to  the  possibilities  latent  in  every  inspector  general,  then  we  could 
not  as  truly  have  argued  that  the  existence  of  one  grand  chapter  in  a 
jurisdiction  threatened  equally  with  one  supreme  council  the  contin- 
ued peace  of  the  bailiwick. 

He  rejoins: 

We  meant  no  more  or  less  than  the  same  "human  ambition  and 
human  self-interest"  that  has  been  the  moving  cause  in  all  revolts 
against  regular  Masonry,  that  have  ever  disturbed  the  peace  of  the 
fraternity  in  this  country,  or  the  world,  for  that  matter.  He  may 
just  as  properly  say,  for  instance,  that  the  recent  disturbance  in  Con- 
necticut was  due  to  the  mischief-making  capacity  of  the  grand  lodge 
as  to  charge  the  consequences  of  an  attempt  by  spurious  Masons  to 
disturb  the  peace,  to  the  Scottish  Rite.  Every  word  which  he  has 
written  upon  this  point,  would  be  as  true  if  he  had  said  York  Rite, 
instead  of  his  term  for  the  Scottish  Rite.  For  years  in  New  York, 
there  was  a  bitter  contest,  which  kept  the  whole  craft  in  a  state  of 
turmoil  and  excitement:  would  Bro.  Robbins  charge  this  to  the  "mis- 
chief-making capacity"  of  Ancient  Craft  Masonry? 

We  are  by  no  means  disposed  to  disagree  with  him  that  human  na- 
ture is  human  nature  the  world  over,  and  that  ambition  and  selfishness 
are  inseparable  from  it.  Nor  will  he  fail  to  agree  with  us  that  certain 
conditions  are  more  favorable  than  others  for  the  development  of 
these  elements  of  human  character,  and  offer  exceptional  opportuni- 
ties for  their  exercise.  Bro.  Drummond's  explanation  shows  that  our 
supposition  that  he  alluded  to  the  sprouting  possibilities  of  the  impe" 
rial  polity  was  erroneous,  but  he  does  not  say  that  we  are  misinformed 
in  our  understanding  that  each  sovereign  grand  inspector  general  has 
within  himself  the  germ  of  an  imperial  dynasty.  If  our  understanding 
is  correct  it  must  certainly  be  admitted  that  the  Scottish  Rite  affords 
a  nidus  exceptionally  favorable  to  the  development  of  ambition  and 
self  interest  such  as  cannot  exist  under  the  "York  Rite,"  so  that  what 
we  have  said  could  not  be  reasonably  expected  to  be  equally  true  of 
both,  although  the  individual  constituents  of  both  were  equally  en- 
dowed with  the  same  natural  tendencies.  Where  a  man  is  admitted 
to  have  the  inalienable  right  to  proclaim  himself  imperator,  it  is 
manifestly  much  easier  to  start  a  revolution  than  it  is  where  he  must 
first  convince  a  goodly  number  of  the  rank  and  file  that  their  inter- 
ests as  well  as  his  point  in  that  direction. 

But  whether  from  this  cause  or  not,  intestinal  broils  are  much 
less  frequent  in  the  representative  commonwealth  of  Free  and  Ac- 


188  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


cepted  Masonry,  with  its  common  level  of  rights  and  eligibilities, 
than  in  the  imperial  domain  of  caste  and  privilege  where  the  great 
mass  of  subjects  may  not  even  hope  for  admission  to  the  hierarchy 
within  whose  charmed  circle  resides  the  divine  right  of  succession. 

The  comparatively  ephemeral  disturbances  in  the  grand  lodge  do- 
main in  Connecticut  and  New  York— and  that  in  Ontario  which  he 
might  have  mentioned  with  greater  force— together  make  a  meager 
showing  when  compared  with  the  dynastic  factional  broils  which 
with  but  brief  respites  have  rent  the  Scottish  Rite  throughout  the 
last  three-quarters  of  the  closing  century:  and  so  far  as  New  York  is 
concerned,  it  seems  doubtful  from  Bro.  Drummoxd's  own  history  of 
the  period  of  turmoils,  with  its  frequent  outcropping  of  the  names  of 
leaders  in  the  Scottish  Rite  war,  whether  with  the  exception  of  the 
decade  during  which  the  ''Phillips  Grand  Lodge"  existed,  that  period 
does  not  also  largely  illustrate  the  mischief  making  capacity  of  High 
Riteism. 

Our  interrogatively  stated  proposition  that  in  passing  laws  to 
settle  the  quarrels  of  contending  factions  of  Scotch  Riters,  the  grand 
lodge  is  compelled  to  adopt  a  definition  of  Masonry  different  from  that 
which  the  fundamental  law  compels  it  to  make  for  its  constitutent 
lodges,  still  appears  to  him  trivial.     He  says: 

His  proposition  that  the  law  in  question  prescribes  one  definition 
of  Masonry  for  lodges  and  another  for  individual  members,  it  is  almost 
impossible  to  treat  seriously.  How  does  a  lodge  practice  Masonry, 
save  b}^  the  acts  of  its  "individual  members':"*  But  he  goes  further 
and  insists  that  the  definition  makes  a  different  law  for  the  '"Scottish 
Riters."  I'lie  hac  is  for  «//,  in  whatever  capacity-  thev  ma}-  act:  of 
course,  its  penalties  are  denounced  only  against  those  who  violate  it; 
the  bogus  "Scottish  Riters"  can  no  more  complain  that  the  law  for 
them  is  different  from  the  law  for  other  Masons,  than  tliieves  can 
complain  that  the  law  against  larcenj'  is  for  them  different  from  the 
law  for  other  persons. 

He  saj's  he  is  not  sure  that  he  understood  us,  and  as  it  also  seems 
doubtful  to  us,  we  will  try  and  make  the  matter  plainer.  A  lodge 
practices  Masonry  by  the  acts  of  its  individual  members.  What  those 
acts  shall  be  is  determined  by  the  definition  of  Masonry  which  the 
grand  lodge,  acting  under  the  constraints  of  the  fundamental  law, 
makes  for  the  lodges  and  individual  Masons  of  its  obedience.  Is  it 
not  equally  true  that  the  acts  of  the  individual  which  constitute  the 
practice  of  the  rites  of  MasonrA'  thus  defined  must  be  practiced  in 
lodges  warranted  by  the  body  thus  defining  it  or  be  utterly  invalid":* 
Universal  usage  as  well  as  common  sense  gives  an  affirmative  answer. 

Now,  can  a  grand  lodge,  thus  constrained  by  the  fundamental 
law,  make  a  definition  of  Masonry  which  shall  permit  a  portion  or  all 
of  the  members  of  the  lodge,  to  practice  (is  Mdsimri/.  in  bodies  which 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  139 


it  does  not  create,  something'  other  than  the  Masonry  of  the  original 
definition? 

We  having  referred  to  the  idea  wliich  he  and  others  entertained 
during  the  Scottish  Rite  war  of  1860-67,  of  interdicting  by  grand 
lodge  legislation  all  the  rival  Scottish  Rite  bodies,  he  says: 

He  should  have  read  what  we  wrote  in  the  light  of  rnir  views,  in- 
stead of  his  own.  We,  and  those  acting  with  us,  held  that  while  we 
had  not  the  rightful  power  to  prevent  a  Mason's  joining  any  body 
which  he  saw  fit  to  join,  we  did  have  the  rightful  power  to  say  to  him, 
"you  shall  not  join  a  bodv,  the  existence  of  which,  whether  by  inten- 
tion, misfortune,  wicked  attacks  upon  it,  or  for  any  other  cause,  will 
destroy  that  harmony  which  is  the  strength  and  support  of  Masonry, 
and  remain  a  Mcison.^'  We  so  held  then;  we  so  hold  now.  We  may  be 
an  extremist,  but  we  hold  that  no  Mason  has  a  right,  save  in  obedi- 
ence to  the  law  of  God  or  his  country,  to  do  any  act  that  shall  bring 
disgrace  or  disaster  to  Masonry  or  dissensions  among  the  craft.  "6'aZtt.s 
reipuhlka'  suprema  lex^'  applies  with  special  force  to  our  institution. 

One  should  not  look  a  gift  horse  in  the  mouth,  and  so  we  do  not 
stop  to  inquire  whether  it  is  from  the  necessities  of  the  argument  or 
from  choice  that  he  is  at  last  found  on  tenable  ground.  The  fact 
that  we  so  largely  agree  with  him  in  the  foregoing  is  one  of  the  chief 
reasons  why  we  have  vigorously  condemned  the  action  which  he  has 
defended,  by  which  certain  grand  lodges,  in  recognizing  other  bodies 
within  their  respective  territories  as  "regularly  and  duly  constituted 
Masonic  bodies,"  have  tied  their  own  hands.  And  this  answers  suf- 
ficiently his  question  as  to  the  logical  outcome  of  prohibiting  the  use 
of  the  Masonic  name  in  business  affairs. 

Bro.  Drummond  does  us  the  honor  to  copy  as  a  statement  of  his 
own  views  our  conclusions  on  the  question  of  jurisdiction  over  rejected 
material;  on  the  Wisconsin  circular,  and  on  the  unwarranted  legisla- 
tion of  the  craft  against  non-affiliates. 

Under  "Mexico"  Bro.  Drummond  foreshadows,  as  it  seems  to  us, 
the  intention  of  recommending  the  recognition  of  the  gran  dieta  as 
soon  as  can  be  done  without  incurring  the  odium  of  a  too  close  connec- 
tion, in  point  of  time,  with  the  scandals  that  existed  in  some  of  its 
constituent  lodges  and  grand  lodges  at  the  time  of  its  recognition 
by  Texas  and  New  York — the  making  and  full  fellowship  of  women 
and  the  exclusion  of  the  Bible  from  the  lodges.  At  all  events  he  ex- 
presses the  hope  in  closing  that  Bro.  Miller's  information — which 
painted  the  thing  in  a  little  lighter  colors  than  Bro.  Parvin's — would 
prove  correct  and  that  this  might  be  made  certain  before  the  next 
annual  meeting  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Maine. 

Bro.  Drummond  leads  up  to  the  status  of  gran  dieta  by  discussing 
a  preliminary  question: 

A  preliminary  question  has  been  somewhat  discussed,  first  sug- 
gested about  twenty-five  years  ago,  by  Bro.  Theodore  T.  Gurney,  of 


140  APPENDIX.— PART    I. 


Illinois:  after  his  death  it  was  taken  up  in  earnest  by  Bro.  Joseph 
Kobbins,  his  successor:  his  views,  however,  met  with  little  favor,  save 
that  they  were  endorsed  by  Bro.  Richard  Vaux.  and  recently,  to  a 
very  limited  extent  by  Bro.  John  Q.  A.  Fellows.  The  claim  is  that 
lodf^es,  established  by  j^^rand  orients  or  sui)reme  councils  in  those 
countries  in  which  <rrand  orients  or  supreme  councils  are  the  only 
jTovernin<T  bodies.  Masonic  or  claiming  to  be  Masonic,  are  not  legal 
lodges  and  the  Masons  made  therein  are  clandestine  Masons.  The 
overwhelming  consensus  of  Masonic  opinion  and  the  Masonic  usage 
have  been,  and  are,  adverse  to  this  doctrine. 

At  this  point,  we  should  sa}'  that  while  the  Masons,  made  in  such 
lodges,  were  everj'where  recognized  as  Masons,  grand  lodges  declined 
to  recognize  as  (/rand  lodges,  any  governing  Masonic  body  which  was 
itself  under  the  obedience  of  a  higher  body,  as  was  the  case  in  the 
grand  orient  system:  they  recognized  and  exchanged  representatives 
with  the  grand  orients  themselves,  but  not  with  the  body  subordinate 
to  the  grand  orient,  but  (subject  to  such  subordination)  having  the 
government  of  the  symbolic  lodges.  In  consequence  of  this,  quite  a 
number  of  grand  lodges  were  organized  by  lodges  which  had  been  under 
the  grand  orient  system,  or  of  the  obedience  of  supreme  councils,  to 
which  grand  lodges  was  conceded  the  exclusive  jurisdiction  over  sym- 
bolic Masonry  in  their  several  jurisdictions. 

This  new  doctrine  seems  to  be  that  no  Masons  or  lodges  can  be 
recognized  unless  the}'  hold  under  grand  lodges  which  can  trace  their 
descent  directly  to  the  original  grand  lodge  of  England,  or  at  least  to 
one  of  the  three  British  grand  lodges.  It  is  deduced  by  its  supporters 
from  what  they  claim  to  be  the  application  of  fundamental  principles 
of  Masonic  government.  They  forget  that,  if  their  application  of 
these  principles  conllicts  with  Masouic  usage  from  earh'  times,  this 
fact  is  conclusive  evidence  that  they  are  wrong  in  their  conclusions. 

The  fact  that  the  three  grand  lodges  (those  o^  England,  Ireland, 
and  Scotland)  which,  the)'  claim,  are  the  only  sources  of  legitimate 
Masonry,  have  always  from  the  beginning,  and  do  now.  recognize 
these  bodies  as  legitimate,  and  exchange  representatives  with  them, 
and  admit  Masons  of  their  obedience  as  visitors,  settles  the  whole 
question,  beyond  cavil  even. 

To  prove  that  the  usage  has  been  the  same  in  this  country  as  he 
alleges  it  has  been  in  Europe,  he  cites  the  fact  that  Lafayette, 
though  hailing  under  the  Grand  Orient  of  France  when  he  visited 
this  country  in  1827,  was  everywhere  hailed  as  a  Mason  and  visited 
numerous  lodges  and  grand  lodges:  the  partial  American  recognition 
of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Colon^originally  formed  by  two  lodges  cre- 
ated by  the  Grand  Orient  of  Spain  and  one  chartered  b}'  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  South  Carolina— after  it  had  been  merged  in  a  supreme 
council  for  eight  years,  and  the  general  American  recognition  of  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  Cuba — formed  by  six  lodges  chartered  by  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Colon,  three  by  a  provincial  grand  lodge  created  by  a 
suj)reme  council  and  four  U.D.  by  the  provincial  grand  lodge  created 
by  the  (Jrand  Lodge  of  Colon— after  a  union  of  Colon  and  Cuba;  the 
recognition  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Peru,  created  by  five  lodges,  four 
of  which  were  chartered  by  a  supreme  council,  and  the  recognition 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  141 

extended  to  the  Grand   Lodge   of   Spain   by   some  American   grand 
lodges. 

It  will  be  observed  that  Bro.  Drummond  says  this  preliminary 
question  was  first  suggested  by  Illinois  brethren  about  twenty-five 
years  ago,  and  elsewhere  in  the  same  paper  he  speaks  of  it  as  the 
"New  departure  of  our  Illinois  brethren,"  but  in  elaboration  of  the 
Spanish  incident  he  copies  from  his  report  of  1881,  upon  which 
the  Grand  Lodge  of  Maine  recognized  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Spain, 
and  in  order  to  show  that  the  question  had  been  foreclosed  long  ago, 
cites  the  history  of  the  "Louisiana  Grand  Lodge"  (1847-1850),  in 
which  he  says  that  the  alleged  reason  why  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Mis- 
sissippi chartered  lodges  in  Louisiana  was  that  the  Masons  of  tlie  French 
and  Scotch  Bites  were  not  regular. 

In  that  report,  after  detailing  the  mixed  condition  of  Masonrj'^ 
in  Louisiana  from  the  prevalence  of  various  rites,  largely  owing  to 
the  influx  of  French  refugees,  who  had  been  connected  with  the 
grand  orient  system  in  France,  and  stating  that  in  1821  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Louisiana  adopted  resolutions  recognizing  the  regularity 
of  the  three  rites,  and  authorizing  its  lodges  to  receive  as  visitors, 
or  as  candidates  for  affiliation,  members  of  the  French  and  Scotch 
lodges,  he  says: 

"Ten  years  afterwards,  the  grand  lodge,  by  express  resolution, 
recognized  as  regular,  three  French  lodges  and  three  Scotch  lodges, 
none  of  them  holding  charters  from  it.  A  new  constitution  was  then 
adopted,  in  which  certain  powers  were  delegated  to  three  'Chambers,' 
one  for  each  rite,  which  had  the  power  of  granting  charters  for  that 
rite.  Thereupon,  the  French  and  Scotch  lodges  gave  in  their  adhe- 
sion to  the  grand  lodge,  some  taking  new  charters,  and  some  retaining 
their  grand  orient  charters.  In  1844  the  'Chamber'  system  was 
changed  to  a  'Council  of  Rites  in  the  bosom  of  the  grand  lodge.' 

"In  January,  1845,  Mississippi  Masons,  resident  in  New  Orleans, 
recognizing  as  genuine  only  the  York  Rite  as  taught  in  their  state, 
succeeded  in  inducing  their  mother  grand  lodge  to  appoint  a  com- 
mittee to  investigate  the  condition  of  Masonry  in  Louisiana.  The 
committee  went  to  New  Orleans,  visited  the  lodges  of  the  several 
rites,  and  were  received  in  the  grand  lodge,  in  which  they  stated  that 
they  should  deny  the  absurd  reports  which  had  been  circulated  in 
their  state  against  the  Masons  and  lodges  of  the  different  rites  in 
Louisiana.  The  project  of  forming  lodges  in  Louisiana  was  defeated 
for  the  time,  but  in  1847  it  was  carried,  and  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Mis- 
sissippi chartered  lodges  there;  the  alleged  reason  was  that  the 
Masons  of  the  French  and  Scotch  rites  were  not  regular.  Thereupon 
the  Grand  Lodge  of  New  York  recognized  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Loui- 
siana as  the  sole  authority  in  that  state,  requested  the  Grand  Lodge 
of  Mississippi  to  revoke  the  charters  and  dispensations  granted  by  it; 
declared  the  lodges  thus  created  irregular,  and  prohibited  all  inter- 
course with  them.  The  lodges  issued  a  circular  charging  that  clan- 
destine Masons  were  admitted  to  the  lodges,  and  to  the  grand  lodge 
itself — but  the  signers  of  the  circular  had  for  years  sat  with  them 
without  objection. 


142  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


"The  Grand  Lodg^e  of  Mississippi  sustained  its  lodges,  and  in  1848 
they  formed  a  grand  lodge,  which  existed  two  3-ears.  but  failed  to  pro- 
curi  reel  )ij  nil  ion  from  a  si)iiil(  (jiumd  lodije,  except  Mississippi.  At  least 
six  other  grand  lodges  followed  the  example  of  New  York.  A  union 
was  effected  in  18.")U:  the  new  grand  lodge,  in  their  proposition,  stated 
that  they  had  no  objection  to  tlie  Scotch  and  French  Rites,  "under  a 
distinct  jurisdiction,"  and  made  it  a  condition  that  these  rites  should 
be  separated  from  'Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masonry;'  the  old 
grand  lodge  refused,  holding  that  the  term  'Ancient  Free  and  Ac- 
cepted Masons'  comprit^rd  the  Mosons  of  the  Jirst  three  degrees  of  the  ISeotdi 
and  Frotch  liitrs.  us  irell  (ts  those  of  the  )'ork  Rite:  ihe  new  grand  lodge 
3'ielded,  and  the  union  was  the  result.  A  convention  was  held  to 
frame  a  constitution,  and  of  the  fifti/-six  lodges  represented  sij:  worked 
in  the  French  and  Scotch  Kites.  Some  of  these  are  still  in  existence; 
in  1874  the  writer  visited  one  of  them,  and  witnessed  their  work,  jjer- 
formed  in  English  for  the  Jirst  time  in  their  historij,  in  honor  of  their 
visitors. 

"If  this  'New  Departure"  of  our  Illinois  brethren  is  sustained,  the 
Grand  Lodges  of  Pennsylvania  and  South  Carolina  must  be  held  to 
have  issued  charters  to  clandestine  Masons. — the  Grand  Lodge  of 
New  York,  and  those  who  acted  with  her  in  1848,  must  be  deemed  to 
have  recognized  clandestine  Masons  as  against  regular  Masons,  and 
the  Grand  Lodge  of  Louisiana  must  be  declared  to  be  clandestine 
from  its  origin.  Your  committee  believe  that  our  grand  lodge  should 
not  enter  a  path  which  leads  to  such  an  end." 

The  deliberate  action  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Mississippi  in  grant- 
ing charters  to  lodges  on  the  grounds  stated,  after  having  considered 
the  subject  for  two  years,  shows  of  itself  that  the  '•preliminarj'  ques- 
tion" was  not  a  mere  figment  of  the  brain  of  the  brethren  of  Illinois, 
first  suggested  but  shortly  before  it  found  organized  expression  in  1878. 

The  general  tone  of  the  matter  we  have  copied  above  is  well  cal- 
culated to  give  the  impression  that  the  demonstration  of  Mississippi 
in  support  of  the  immemorial  law  never  did  amount  to  much,  and 
evoked  no  response  sufficient  to  indicate  that  the  preliminarj-  ques- 
tion was  not  already  considered  foreclosed  by  usage.  In  view  of  this, 
it  is  interesting  and  instructive  to  read  the  story,  as  retold  by  Bro. 
Drdmmond  with  more  particularity  eight  years  later,  as  we  find  it  in 
the  American  addendum  to  Gould's  History  of  Freemasonry.  Here  it 
is  manifest  that  he  is  in  possession  of  new  facts,  and  that  by  the 
light  of  recent  study  the  demonstration  takes  on  a  new  and  much 
more  impressive  aspect. 

Referring  to  the  same  period  (1831)  when  Harmony  Lodge  (York 
Rite)  had  refused  to  admit  deputations  from  the  three  lodges  char- 
tered by  the  Grand  Orient  of  France,  on  the  ground  that  they  were 
irregular  Masons  (not  being  of  the  Yord  Rite),  a  position  from  which 
it  first  partiallj-  receded  by  alleging  that  its  ojiposition  to  these  lodges 
was  not  because  they  worked  the  French  Rite,  but  because  thej'  owed 
allegiance  to  a  foreign  Masonic  power,  and  later  fully  surrendered 
under  the  duress  of  probable  danger  to  itself,  and  when  the  grand 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  143 


lodge  had  formally  recognized  the  three  French  Rite  and  the  three 
Scotch  Rite  lodges  (chartered  by  the  grand  consistorj'),  he  says: 

"The  next  movement  was  the  adoption  of  a  code  of  general  regula- 
tions which  entirely  subverted  the  grand  lodge  system  of  government. 
The  control  of  the  grand  lodge  was  in  fact  in  the  past  masters  resi- 
dent in  New  Orleans:  all  other  past  masters  were  excluded,  although 
there  were  but  six  lodges  in  the  cit}'  while  there  were  fourteen  in  the 
county.  Even  the  representatives  of  lodges  had  no  vote  on  questions 
before  the  grand  lodge,  or  in  the  election  of  grand  officers.  Tlie  pow- 
ers'of  the  grand  master  were  so  limited  that  he  was  merely  a  presiding 
officer.  Three  "Symbolic  Chambers,"  one  for  the  York  Rite,  one  for 
the  Scotch  Rite,  and  one  for  the  French  Rite,  were  created,  and  to 
them  the  government  of  the  craft  was  attempted  to  be  transferred: 
the  "Regulations"  were  in  direct  conflict  with  the  Constitution,  but 
that  fact  was  overlooked  or  deemed  of  no  consequence. 

The  S3^mbolic  "Chambers"  (each  consisting  of  fifteen  members) 
arrogated  to  themselves  all  the  power,  and  the  grand  lodge  and  grand 
master  became  mere  cj'phers.  *  *  *  During  all  this  time  the  real 
power  was  the  self-styled  grand  consistory.  The  members  of  the 
Symbolic  Chambers  were  active  members  of  it  and  controlled  every 
thing  in  its  interest. 

"On  October  27,  1839,"  says  the  historian,  "a  body  calling  itself 
the  Supreme  Council  created  itself."  This  we  presume  to  have  been 
an  instance  of  an  empire  sprouting  from  a  single  sovereign  grand  in" 
spector  general,  of  which  we  have  elsewhere  spoken.  "This  body  was 
at  once  recognized  by  the  grand  consistory,  the  grand  lodge,  and 
grand  chapter,  and  they  appointed  a  joint  committee  to  determine 
the  honors  to  be  paid  to  its  officers  when  visiting  their  subordinates. 
This  was  offensive  to  the  York  Rite  lodges,  but  they  could  do  nothing." 

In  1841  the  grand  chapter  undertook  to  expel  two  members  of 
Louisiana  lodge  (York  Rite)  from  all  their  M(Xsonic  rights:  and  at  about 
the  same  time  the  grand  consistory  assumed  to  expel  Prez  Snell,  a 
member  of  that  lodge.  The  grand  lodge  meekly  registered  the  decree 
of  the  grand  consistory  and  sent  out  notices  to  the  lodges  of  his  expul- 
sion. Snell's  lodge  resented  this  and  elected  him  master.  The 
lodge  was  summoned  before  the  grand  lodge  to  show  cause  why  its 
charter  should  not  be  arrested.  Snell  appeared,  protested  against 
the  action  of  the  grand  lodge,  and  was  thereupon  expelled.  A  major- 
ity of  its  members  were  also  expelled,  and  the  charter  was  arrested. 
Snell  died  years  after  and  was  denied  Masonic  burial,  and  it  was  not 
until  1873  that  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Louisiana  did  tardy  justice  to  his 
memory  by  rescinding  its  action  and  declaring  that  he  was  improperly 
expelled,  and  that  his  status  at  his  death  was  that  of  a  Mason  in  good 
standing. 

These  points  give  only  a  faint  idea  of  the  condition  of  aiTairs  at 
that  period,  a  condition  which  continued  without  material  ameliora- 
tion down  to  1845,  when  a  representation  of  Louisiana  York  Rite 


144  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 

Masons  visited  and  appealed  to  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Mississippi. 
That  body  sent  a  committee  to  New  Orleans  to  investigate  and  report. 
Of  the  severe  criticism  of  this  action  by  Bro.  James  B.  Scot,  the  his- 
torian of  Louisiana  Masonry,  Bro.  Drummond,  defending  it,  says: 

But  that  a  grand  lodge,  when  it  has  reason  to  believe  that  an- 
other grand  lodge  has  made  such  innovations  in  Masonry  as  to  take 
from  it  the  Masonic  character,  has  the  right  to  inquire  into  the  mat- 
ter, is  too  well  settled  to  be  open  to  debate.  Whether  the  facts  and 
information  in  its  possession  are  such  as  to  warrant  such  an  inquiry 
is  a  delicate  question,  and  one  which  the  grand  lodge  must  decide  for 
itself  at  the  peril  of  giving  to  the  other  just  cause  of  complaint. 

Bro.  Drummond  continues: 

The  committee  did  not  unite  in  a  report,  and  the  matter  went 
over  until  the  annual  session  in  January,  1847,  and  then  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Mississippi  granted  dispensations  for  two  lodges  in  Louisi- 
ana, and  during  the  recess  the  grand  master  granted  five  others. 
At  the  session  of  1848,  charters  were  granted  to  these  seven  lodges. 
Their  representatives  met  March  8,  1848,  and  in  a  regular  manner 
organized  the  ''Louisiana  Grand  Lodge."  This,  at  first,  obtained  recog- 
nition from  no  grand  lodge  except  Mississippi;  but  it  grew  rapidy,  and 
within  two  years  created  eighteen  lodges. 

The  italics  are  ours.     Bro.  Drummond  continues: 

In  the  meantime,  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Louisiana  took  the  usual 
course.  It  appealed  to  the  other  grand  lodges  to  sustain  it;  cut  off 
Masonic  intercourse  with  Mississippi;  declared  the  lodges  formed 
under  the  authority  of  that  grand  lodge  to  be  clandestine,  and  ex- 
pelled the  Masons  taking  part  in  or  visiting  them.  A  part  of  the 
English-speaking  Masons  sustained  the  grand  lodge.  The  other  grand 
lodges  did  not  agree  in  the  course  to  be  pursued.  New  York  censured 
Mississippi  and  declared  the  lodges  established  by  it  to  be  clandestine. 
This  did  not  move  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Mississippi,  but  it  claimed  the 
right  to  judge  for  itself  and  it  probably  had  a  better  knowledge  of 
the  facts.  But  the  success  of  the  neiv  grand  lodge  evidently  alarmed  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  Louisiana  especially  as  a  very  able  circular  published  by  the_ 
Mississippi  lodges,  designed  as  a  reply  to  the  action  ff  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
New  York,  was  producing  a  marked  effect.  The  Grand  Lodges  of  Missouri 
and  Florida,  while  deprecating  the  action  of  Mississippi,  withdrew 
recognition  from  the  old  grand  lodge;  Vermont  recognized  the  new  one; 
Maine  urged  the  old  one  to  recede  from  its  position,  so  that  a  union  of 
the  two  might  be  formed,  giving  notice  in  effect,  that,  if  this  was  not 
done,  it  woidd  be  necessary  to  recognize  the  new  grand  lodge.  This  action 
was  the  more  significant  because  the  Grand  Lodges  of  Alabama,  Con- 
necticut, District  of  Columbia,  Georgia,  New  Hampshire,  and  South 
Carolina,  acting  before  the  later  documents  were  received,  had  fol- 
lowed New  York.  The  old  grand  lodge  published  documents  defend- 
ing its  course  but  it  was  not  able  to  make  out  a  full  defense  to  the 
satisfaction  of  the  other  grand  lodges,  for  nearly  all  disapproved  of 
the  cumulation  of  rites. 

The  controversial  statement  from  Bro.  Drummond's  report  of 
1881  at  once  conveys  the  impression  that  the  action  of  New  York  and 
the  six  other  grand  lodges  which  lined  up  with  it  on  the  ex  parte  show- 
ing of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Louisiana,  was  simply  indicative  of  a  gen- 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  145 

eral  consensus  of  American  jjrand  lodges  in  the  same  direction  so 
overwhelming  that  the  new  grand  lodge  had  no  alternative  but  to 
get  under  cover  on  the  best  terms  possible.  The  later  account  shows 
that  Mississippi  by  no  means  stood  alone;  that  Missouri  and  Florida, 
while  deprecating  the  action  of  Mississippi,  gave  the  new  grand 
lodge  their  moral  support  by  breaking  otf  fraternal  relations  with 
the  old;  that  Maine  went  further,  and  threatened  to  recognize  the 
new  if  the  old  did  not  recede:  that  Vermont,  under  the  leadership  of 
that  king  among  men  and  Masons,  Philip  C.  Tucker — who  took  up 
the  pen  that  Haswell  laid  down,  and  wrote  his  grand  lodge  into 
the  very  front  rank  among  American  jurisdictions — recognized  the 
"Louisiana  Grand  Lodge,"  and  that  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Louisiana, 
thoroughly  alarmed  at  the  outlook,  was  the  first  to  seek  cover  and 
pave  the  way  to  peace  by  suspending  its  edicts  of  non-intercourse 
with  Mississippi  and  the  Louisiana  Masons  of  her  obedience,  and  by 
annulling  the  action  by  which  the  original  members  of  Mississippi 
lodges  in  Louisiana  were  expelled.  Further,  it  took  the  lead  in  pro- 
posing and  first  adopting  articles  of  union  in  which  it  was  provided 
that  no  lodge  should  be  constituted  "under  any  other  title  than  that  of 
Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,"  and  which  became  the  basis  upon 
which,  on  March  4, 1850,  the  new  grand  lodge  was  merged  into  the  old. 

It  is  true,  as  claimed  by  Bro.  Drummond,  that  the  validity  of  the 
Scotch  and  French  Rites  was  in  a  manner  assented  to  by  th^  new 
grand  lodge  in  this  settlement.  The  new  body  properly  insisted  that 
the  term  "Free  and  Accepted  Masonry"  did  not  include  bodies  that 
were  simply  organized  dissent  from  that  Masonry;  while  the  old  lodge 
held— according  to  Bro.  Drummond's  1881  report— "that  the  term 
'Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons'  comprised  the  Masons  of  the 
first  three  degrees  of  the  Scotch  and  French  Rites  as  well  as  those 
of  the  York  Rite." 

The  new  body,  the  "Louisiana  Grand  Lodge,"  at  first  refused  to 
adopt  the  articles  unless  its  interpretation  was  accepted,  but  after 
submitting  the  matter  to  its  constituent  lodges,  it  waived  the  point 
and  ratified  the  articles. 

This  clearly  brings  out  the  fact  that  the  leading  and  best  in- 
formed Masons  of  the  constituency  of  the  "Louisiana  Grand  Lodge" 
had  gone  to  the  bottom  of  this  "preliminary  question,"  but  that  the 
great  body  of  the  rank  and  file  had  not;  and  so  the  cockatrice  was 
only  scotched,  not  killed.  Considering  the  conditions  which  environed 
Masonry  in  Louisiana  from  the  beginning,  the  outcome  at  the  time  of 
this  settlement  was  as  satisfactory  to  the  defenders  of  the  Masonry 
of  the  original  plan  as  could  reasonably  be  looked  for. 

It  brought  peace,  relatively  speaking,  without  which  the  dispas- 
sionate consideration  of  the  exclusive  right  of  that  Masonry  to  occupv 
— k 


146  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 

the  whole  field  was  impossible  in  that  unhappy  jurisdiction.  Since 
peace  has  become  firmly  established  the  progress  in  the  right  direc- 
tion has  been  most  encouraging.  At  the  time  of  the  union  the  supreme 
council  claimed  that  the  grand  lodge  had  renounced  jurisdiction  over 
all  lodges  excepting  those  of  the  York  Rite,  and  under  the  lead  of  its 
sovereign  grand  commander.  Foulhouse,  "  'resumed"  its  authority 
over  all  'symbolic  lodges  of  the  Ancient  Free  and  Accepted  Masons  of 
the  Scottish  Rite,'"  and  succeeded  in  inducing  three  of  the  lodges 
working  in  the  French  and  Scotch  Rites  to  return  their  charters  to 
the  grand  lodge  and  go  under  the  jurisdiction  of  the  supreme  council. 
The  council,  however,  found  Foulhouse  too  much  of  a  burden  to  carry 
and  it  was  finally  dissolved  in  1855;  the  seceding  lodges,  renewing  their 
allegiance  to  the  grand  lodge,  found  no  difficulty  in  getting  reinstated. 
In  the  following  year  Foulhouse  and  two  others  formed  another  su- 
preme council  and  commenced  making  Masons  at  sight,  just  as  Bro. Fel- 
lows, of  Louisiana,  says  Charles  Laffon,  a  member  of  the  Supreme 
Council  of  the  Southern  Jurisdiction,  did  in  Mexico, in  1860,  when  he  built 
up  the  supreme  council,  whose  daughter  lodges  became  the  constituents 
of  the  gran  dieta.  Foulhouse,  in  1857,  persuaded  two  of  the  Scotch 
Rite  lodges  to  revolt  a  second  time  and  come  under  the  jurisdiction  of 
his  supreme  council,  but  the  now  firmly  seated  grand  lodge  pursued  a 
vigorous  course  and  within  two  years  they  were  anxious  to  get  back. 

They  only  succeeded  after  much  difficulty,  but  the  grand  lodge 
would  not  recognize  their  work  during  the  rebellion,  even  so  much  as 
to  allow  it  to  be  healed,  but  required  the  parties  so  made  to  petition, 
be  balloted  for  and  remade,  like  any  other  profanes,  in  order  to  gain 
admission. 

This  "new  departure"  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Louisana,  so  striking 
because  of  the  previous  history  of  that  grand  lodge,  proves  that  when 
not  dominated  by  supreme  councils,  grand  consistories,  and  grand 
chapters,  its  views  of  what  is  lawful  in  Masonry  do  not  differ  from 
those  of  other  grand  lodges  not  controlled  wholly  or  in  part  by  the 
same  influences,  and  must  be  accepted  as  justifying  the  Grand  Lodge 
of  Maine  and  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Vermont  in  holding  ten  years  earlier 
that  New  York  and  those  who  acted  with  her  in  1848,  recognized 
clandestine  Masons  as  against  regular  Masons. 

Bro.  Drummond  says  with  much  apparent  force  that  it  does  not 
lie  in  the  mouth  of  any  grand  lodge  which  now  maintains  Masonic 
relations  with  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Cuba,  to  deny  recognition  to  the 
Gran  Dieta  of  Mexico,  because  it  was  organized  by  lodges  created 
under  the  grand  orient  system,  especially  as  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
Colon  was  actually  organized  by  the  procurement  of  the  special  dep- 
uty of  the  supreme  council;  and  with  equal  force  he  might  confess 
that  it  does  not  lie  in  the  mouth  of  any  grand  lodge  which  found  in 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  147 

the  fact  that  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Louisiana  was  organized  in  part  by 
lodges  created  under  the  same  system  its  warrant  for  placing  it  under 
the  duress  of  threatened  extinction,  to  cite  its  organization  as  a  pre- 
cedent to  compel  the  recognition  of  the  Mexican  hybrid. 

It  does  not  lie  in  anybody's  mouth  to  say  that  because  forty  grand 
lodges  have  done  an  unconscious  wrong,  that  any  one  of  them  is  to  be 
constrained  by  the  plea  of  general  usage  to  do  what  in  the  face  of 
greater  light  becomes  a  conscious  wrong.  Time  was  when  it  was  gen- 
erally taken  for  granted  that  grand  orients  were  regular  Masonic 
bodies,  properly  recognizable  by  sovereign  and  independent  grand 
lodges,  and  many  grand  lodges  in  this  country,  including  New  York, 
either  formally  or  tacitly  entered  into  fraternal  relations  with  them. 
But  ueage  did  not  prevent  the  Grand  Lodge  of  New  York,  when  the 
structure  and  composition  of  these  bodies  became  better  understood, 
from  cutting  off  the  whole  brood,  as  it  did  in  1871,  by  the  adoption  of 
the  following,  reported  by  the  committee  on  jurisprudence: 

"The  question  of  the  recognition  of  our  correspondence  with  the 
regular,  disputed,  doubtful,  or  spurious  bodies  called  grand  orients, 
discussed  by  the  M.W.  grand  master,  has  been  considered  by  your 
committee,  and  for  reasons  stated  by  the  grand  master,  it  is  recom- 
mended that  such  recognition  and  correspondence  cease."' 

Nor  did  usage  prevent  the  other  grand  lodges  of  the  country 
from  generally  following  the  lead  of  New  York  in  this  matter,  either 
directly  or  by  the  assertion  of  the  principle  upon  which  the  action  of 
that  grand  lodge  was  predicated,  so  that  in  a  few  years  the  policy  of 
letting  grand  orients  alone  became  general. 

The  time  was  when  the  Grand  Orient  of  France  was  actively  or 
tacitly  in  fraternal  relations  with  pretty  much  all  grand  lodges.  It 
retained  the  recognition  which  it  had  received  when,  as  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Prance,  there  was  no  question  about  its  regularity;  as  new 
grand  lodges  came  into  existence  they  followed  the  example  of  their 
elders,  taking  everything  for  granted.  This  continued — although  the 
grand  lodges  on  this  side  of  the  Atlantic,  without  withdrawing  recog- 
nition, interdicted  intercourse  to  compel  it  to  withdraw  the  recogni- 
tion it  had  given  to  unlawful  lodges  in  Louisiana — until  long  after  it 
had  abolished  the  grand  mastership,  an  act  as  clearly  in  violation  of 
the  fundamental  law  forbidding  innovations  in  Masonry  as  the  act 
which  brought  upon  it  the  ban  of  general  outlawry — the  elimination 
of  the  requirement  of  belief  in  God  as  a  prerequisite  to  admission — 
and  which  led  to  Bro.  Drummond'S  masterly  restatement  of  that  law 
and  its  penalties,  viz., — "No  man  or  body  of  men  can  make  innovations 
in  Masonry.  To  attempt  this  does  not  change  Masonry,  but  puts  those 
xdho  make  the  attempt  outside  of  the  pale  of  the  institution.''^ 

What  then  shall  we  conclude? — that  usage  justifies  the  abolition 
of  the  grand  mastership  and  all  the  other  vagaries  and  innovations 


148  APPENDIX. — PART    I 


of  the  grand  orient  down  to  the  time  when  it  invoked  the  whirlwind 
by  compelling  grand  lodges  to  act  lest  their  own  orthodoxy  be  ques 
tioned.  The  fact  is  that  the  great  body  of  the  craft  knew  little  about 
what  the  grand  orient  was  doing,  and  the  better  informed  were  either 
too  indifferent  or  too  timid  to  take  hold  of  matters  far  from  their  own 
doors,  or  else  hesitated  to  open  up  questions  whose  discussion  might 
make  it  uncomfortable  for  associations  of  Masons  with  which  they 
were  connected  and  which  were  seeking  to  establish  themselves  as 
Masonic  bodies. 

Bro.  Drummond  and  others  who  maintain  that  the  gran  dieta  and 
other  bodies  not  of  grand  lodge  parentage  are  recognizable  as  Free 
and  Accepted  Masonry,  now  find  no  escape  from  his  statement  of  the 
effect  of  attempts  to  make  innovations  in  Masonry  but  by  setting  up 
the  plea  of  usage  against  principle  and  assuming  that  as  between  the 
two  even  axioms  must  go  to  the  wall. 

It  is  a  significant  fact  that  the  appeal  to  usage  is  usually  made 
in  behalf  of  some  dissent  that  has  been  tolerated  through  ignorance 
or  misapprehension,  while  the  usage  of  nine-tenths  of  the  Masons  of 
the  world  in  adhering  steadfastly  in  their  own  practice  to  the  prin- 
ciples and  polity  which  can  be  squared  to  the  charges  of  a  Freemason, 
usage  that  is  overwhelming  in  its  significance,  is,  if  not  studiously 
overlooked,  never  referred  to. 

The  excuse  of  those  who  have  received  the  Masonry  which  can 
thus  square  itself,  on  condition  that  it  shall  be  preserved  and  main- 
tained unchanged,  and  who  yet  maintain  that  bodies  can  be  recog- 
nized as  Masonic  which  have  destroyed  the  representative  character 
of  the  institution  and  substituted  a  self-perpetuating  hierarchical 
government  for  its  equality  of  rights  and  eligibilities,  is  that  when 
the  Masonry  whose  irrevocable  covenants  makes  them  Masons  organ- 
ized itself  on  the  grand  lodge  plan,  other  Masonry  existing  in  some 
vague  limbo  organized  itself  on  the  hierarchical  plan  and  grew  up 
pari  passu  with  it.  It  is  no  wonder  that  this  assumption  passed  muster 
when  all  were  equally  ignorant  of  the  history  of  the  institution,  and 
that  the  very  effrontery  of  the  claim  insured  for  it  consideration  on 
the  part  of  those  who  could  not  disprove  it. 

We  are  not  disposed  to  underrate  the  influence  of  the  precedents 
thus  established,  but  that  they  should  have  and  will  have  less  and 
less  weight  just  in  proportion  as  it  comes  to  be  understood  that  they 
were  based  upon  an  assumed  state  of  facts  which  never  existed,  is 
inevitable.  They  were  established  when  the  history  of  Masonry  was 
being  written  almost  wholly  from  the  imagination.  They  have  been 
more  and  more  honeycombed  with  every  minute  that  has  passed  since 
the  first  real  student  of  Masonry  brought  to  its  study  the  methods  of 
modern  historical  investigation,  until  now,  when,  but  for  the  vis  inertia 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE  149 

of  habit,  they  would  not  sustain  their  own  weight.  The  labors  of  the 
real  historians  of  the  institution  have  already  made  it  certain  that 
at  the  time  when  the  charges  of  a  Freemason  were  agreed  to  there 
was  no  Masonry  existing  anywkere  that  did  not  become  absorbed  by 
the  grand  lodge  system;  that  the  Installation  charges,  designed  to 
place  the  grand  lodge  structure  and  representative  character  of  Ma- 
sonry beyond  the  possibility  of  lawful  change,  ante-dated  by  years 
any  departure  from  the  then  existing  polity;  and  that  therefore 
there  is  not  anywhere  in  the  world  today  anything  claiming  to  be 
Masonry  that  is  not  descended  from  the  Masonry  whose  character 
and  polity,  metes  and  bounds  were  irrevocably  fixed  by  those  two  sets 
of  charges. 

When  the  craft  becomes  fully  apprized  of  these  facts,  no  "usage" 
based  upon  fiction  inconsistent  with  them  can  prevent  the  general 
recognition  of  the  inevitable  conclusion  that  whatever  in  the  alleged 
Masonry  of  the  world  is  antagonistic  to  the  Masonry  thus  defined  and 
bounded,  has  come  of  ''dissent  from  the  original  plan"  and  not  from 
independent  birth,  and  that  bodies  built  on  it  are  the  unmistak- 
able ofl'spring  of  vain  attempts  to  make  innovations  in  the  body  of 
Masonry,  whose  predestined  discomfiture  is  so  strongly  put  by  Bro. 
Drummond  in  the  statement  which  we  here  repeat  as  being  worthy  to 
be  written  in  letters  of  gold:  '"JVo  man  or  body  of  men  can  make  inno- 
vations in  Masonry.     To  attempt  this  does  not  change  Masonr-y,  but  puts 

THOSE  WHO  MAKE  THE  ATTEMPT  OUTSIDE  OF  THE  PALE  OF  THE  INSTI- 
TUTION. 


MANITOBA. 

21ST  Annual.  Winnipeg.  .Tune  10. 

The  grand  lodge  met  in  the  Masonic  Temple,  which  was  dedi- 
cated on  the  preceding  St.  .John's  day,  and  of  which  the  brethren, 
not  only  of  Winnipeg,  but  of  the  whole  jurisdiction,  are  justly  proud. 
It  enjoys  the  rare  distinction  of  being  the  only  building  in  Canada 
erected  and  owned  by  Masons  which  is  devoted  exclusively  to  Ma- 
sonic purposes. 

The  representative  of  Illinois,  John  Leslie,  helped  to  swell  the 
ample  proportions  of  the  diplomatic  corps — ^twenty-seven  jurisdic- 
tions being  represented— and  at  the  election  the  brethren  increased 


150  APPENDIX. — PART   1. 


his  honors  by  shearing  him  of  a  portion  of  his  title;  they  cut  off  two 
words  from  the  front  end,  and  left  it  deputy  grand  master. 

The  grand  master  (Charles  Napier  Bell)  reported  having  re- 
fused a  dispensation  to  confer  the  second  and  third  degrees  on  a 
candidate  at  one  meeting,  the  plea  advanced  being  that  the  brother 
resided  one  hundred  miles  distant  from  the  place  where  the  lodge 
meets,  and  the  committee  on  address  deem  this  the  correct  rule.  In 
that  country  of  magnificent  distances  one  hundred  miles  does  not, 
probably,  seem  far,  but  a  brother  who  thinks  enough  of  Masonry  to 
go  that  distance  to  get  the  degrees  ought  to  have  the  rule  bent  for 
him,  if  not  broken. 

The  grand  lodge  concurred  in  his  decision  that  to  open  a  lodge 
required  the  presence  of  seven  Master  Masons.  He  reported  two 
cases  of  healing,  the  subjects  of  it  having  been  members  of  lodges 
under  the  so-called  Grand  Lodge  of  Ontario.  Dimits  were  produced 
from  the  clandestine  lodges,  but  just  what  value  attaches  to  a 
dimit  from  a  body  which  could  not  confer  the  Masonic  status  is  not 
apparent. 

The  grand  master  brought  up  the  subject  of  intercourse  with 
foreign  grand  lodges,  of  which  he  says  in  part: 

This  grand  lodge  is  in  correspondence  with  but  few  grand  lodges 
outside  of  the  British  Empire  and  the  United  States,  indeed  with  none 
on  the  continent  of  Europe,  and  I  have  been  asked  to  define  the  stand- 
ing of  our  members  when  visiting  in  jurisdictions  where  grand  lodges 
exist  which  have  not  been  formally  recognized  by  us.  I  have  had  to 
state  frankly  that,  as  this  grand  lodge  has  never  considered  this  feat- 
ure of  Masonic  intercourse,  I  am  unable  to  define  its  policy  on  this 
matter.  If  we  have  never  formally  recognized  a  grand  lodge,  our 
members  have,  I  take  it,  no  means  of  knowing  whether  such  body  is 
a  legitimate  one,  and  the  question  arises,  that  even  if  admitted  to 
subordinate  lodges  in  such  a  jurisdiction,  have  our  members  our  per- 
mission or  the  right  to  enter  into  Masonic  intercourse  with  brethren 
of  such  grand  lodges  unrecognized  by  us? 

Again,  if  a  Mason  hailing  from  a  grand  lodge  not  formally  recog- 
nized by  this  grand  lodge,  presents  himself  as  a  visitor  at  one  of  our 
lodges,  has  the  master  a  right  to  permit  him  to  enter  after  a  proper 
and  satisfactory  examination  has  been  had?  In  other  words,  if  this 
grand  lodge  has  not  recognized  by  some  official  act  or  statement,  the 
grand  lodge  from  which  this  visitor  hails,  has  the  worshipful  master 
of  any  subordinate  lodge  the  right  to  decide  for  himself  whether  such 
grand  lodge  is  a  legitimate  one  and  that  its  Masons  are  to  be  freely  re- 
ceived into  our  lodges? 

The  committee  on  foreign  correspondence.  Grand  Secretary  Scott 
chairman,  reported  on  this  as  follows,  and  the  matter  went  over  for 
a  year: 

Referring  to  that  portion  of  the  grand  master's  address  relating 
to  intercourse  with  foreign  grand  lodges,  your  committee  finds  that 
all,  or  nearly  all,  foreign  grand  lodges  were  in  existence  prior  to  the 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  151 


organization  of  this  grand  lodge  and  that  formal  recognition  by  this 
grand  lodge  would  be  unwarranted;  but  your  committee  is  of  the  opin- 
ion that  this  question  should  be  left  in  its  hands  for  attention,  and 
report  at  the  next  annual  communication. 

Of  dispensations  to  attend  church,  the  grand  master  says: 

You  will  notice  that,  as  usual,  at  least  one- half  of  the  dispensa- 
tions granted  were  for  permission  to  attend  divine  service  in  regalia. 
Brethren,  in  my  opinion  either  no  dispensation  should  issue  for  this 
purpose,  or  all  lodges  should  regularly,  by  constitutional  enactment, 
be  permitted  under  simple  regulations,  to  enjoy  this  privilege,  for  it 
has  become  a  recognized  custom  in  this  grand  jurisdiction  for  lodges 
to  attend  divine  services  in  celebration  of  the  Festival  of  St.  John  the 
Baptist,  or  at  some  other  date.  A  proposed  amendment  to  the  con- 
stitution in  respect  to  this  matter  has  been  made  for  consideration  at 
this  communication. 

Amendments  were  brought  in  on  these  lines,  but  were  lost. 

The  grand  lodge  chartered  three  new  lodges  and  continued  a 
fourth  under  dispensation,  received  a  very  encouraging  report  on  the 
library;  presented  Past  Grand  Master  Tweed  with  a  handsome  chain 
collar,  and  ordered  the  purchase  of  a  suitable  testimonial  to  the 
retiring  grand  master,  and  voted  to  meet  next  year  at  Winnipeg. 

Corbet  Locke  of  Morden,  was  elected  grand  master;  William 
G.  Scott,  Winnipeg,  re-elected  grand  secretary. 

There  is  no  report  on  correspondence. 


MARYLAND,   1896. 

110th  Annual.  Baltimore.  November  17. 

A  fine  half-tone  portrait  of  William  Henry  Shryock  adorns  the 
fly-leaf  of  the  Maryland  proceedings,  an  honor  which  the  original 
owed  in  part,  perhaps,  to  his  affording  a  rare  instance  of  a  man  in  the 
prime  of  life  resigning  an  office,  though  chiefly  to  the  manner  in  which 
for  ten  years  he  had  performed  the  duties  of  grand  treasurer,  which 
the  committee  who  had  vainly  sought  to  induce  him  to  reconsider  his 
determination  to  retire,  thus  acknowledge: 

Coming  into  office  ten  years  ago  when  the  grand  lodge  was  finan- 
cially embarassed,  he  did  not  hesitate  to  interpose  his  own  responsi- 
bility as  a  guarantee  for  the  fulfillment  of  its  obligations,  and  at  no 
time  during  his  term  of  office  has  he  faltered  a  single  moment  in  ex- 
tending to  the  grand  lodge  any  assistance,  either  financially  or  other- 
wise, when  needed. 


152  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 

The  grand  lodye,  in  f  urtheracknowledgment  of  high  appreciation 
of  his  long,  faithful,  and  valuable  service,  and  of  affectionate  regard, 
•ordered  that  a  gold  medal  be  presented  to  him. 

At  the  semi-annual  communication,  May  12,  two  charters  were  re- 
stored and  two  granted  to  lodges  under  dispensation. 

The  proceedings  contain  an  account  of  the  assembling  of  the 
grand  lodge  (but  not  of  its  being  opened  or  closed)  and  of  the  craft — 
about  two  thousand  five  hundred  strong,  on  the  25th  of  June,  to  lay 
the  corner  stone  of  the  new  court  house.  Past  Grand  Master  John  M. 
Carter— he  of  the  "silver  tongue" — read  a  "Sketch  of  the  Old  Court 
Houses  of  Baltimore,"  and  the  Hon.  Wm.  Pinckney  White  delivered 
an  address,  both  of  great  historical  interest  and  both  worthy  of  the 
occasion. 

At  the  annual  communication.  Illinois  is  omitted  from  the  list  of 
grand  lodges  represented,  although  the  name  of  the  venerable  John 
S.  Berry  heads  the  list  of  past  grand  masters  present. 

The  brief  address  of  the  grand  master  (Thomas  J.  Shryock)  is 
chiefly  of  local  interest.  He  had  been  presented  by  Arcana  Lodge 
with  a  Masonic  bowl  of  great  antiquity,  presented  by  Bro.  George 
Washington  to  a  member  of  the  craft,  and  had  placed  it  in  charge 
of  the  Masonic  Veteran  Association  for  safe  keeping. 

Having  granted  a  dispensation  to  a  lodge  to  hold  each  alternate 
meeting  in  another  to\yn  where  there  was  no  lodge  and  to  which  a 
number  of  its  members  had  changed  their  place  of  residence,  with 
the  result  of  securing  a  large  accession  of  members  and  inspiring 
much  enthusiasm  he  trusted  that  the  grand  lodge  might  feel  war- 
ranted in  continuing  the  arrangement;  but  the  committee  on  address 
and  the  grand  lodge  did  not  think  it  best  to  have  more  than  one  place 
of  meeting  for  any  lodge,  and  directed  that  the  future  meetings  be 
all  held  at  the  new  location. 

The  grand  master  having  referred  the  Maine  circular  to  the  com- 
mittee on  correspondence,  they  say,  in  part: 

Your  committee  on  correspondence,  to  whom  was  referred  the 
resolutions  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Maine,  regarding  "rejected  candi- 
dates," respectfully  reDort  that  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Maryland  has 
always  held  the  doctrine  that  the  petition  of  a  rejected  candidate  for 
admission  into  the  fraternity  could  not  be  entertained  by  any  other 
lodge  without  the  unanimous  consent  being  first  obtained  of  the  re- 
jecting lodge. 

At  the  1894  annual  communication  of  the  grand  lodge  this  subject 
was  presented  by  your  committee  on  correspondence  in  a  special  re- 
port on  the  so-called  Mississippi  proposition  regarding  rejected  candi- 
dates, and  upon  their  recommendation  the  doctrine  of  perpetual 
jurisdiction  previously  held  by  the  grand  lodge  was  re-affirmed. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  153 


Your  committee  believe  that  the  doctrine  held  by  this  grand  lodge 
upon  the  subject  is  a  most  wholesome  one  and  in  accord  with  the 
polity  of  our  fraternity;  they,  however,  submit  for  the  consideration 
of  the  grand  lodge  the  views  of  the  able  law  committee  of  Maine,  who 
say: 


On  the  recommendation  of  the  committee,  the  whole  matter  went 
over  for  one  year. 

A  brother  gave  an  account  of  a  visit  made  by  him  to  Royal  Solo- 
mon Mother  Lodge  No.  1,  at  Jerusalem,  and  brought  the  fraternal 
greetings  of  the  lodge  to  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Maryland.  The  grand 
lodge  returned  the  greeting  and  ordered  that  with  it  should  go  a 
nicely  bound  copy  of  its  proceedings. 

In  receiving  tidings  from  this  lodge  we  think  Maryland  has  been 
more  favored  than  has  been  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Canada,  by  whom, 
through  the  intervention  of  Bro.  ROB  MORRIS,  it  was  established, 
about  twenty-five  years  ago. 

We  notice  that  in  the  appointment  of  officers  of  the  grand  lodge 
the  senior  grand  warden  appoints  the  junior  grand  deacon,  and  the 
junior  grand  warden  the  grand  stewards.  This  practice  never  pre- 
vailed in  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois,  but  it  prevailed  in  some  lodges 
until  a  few  years  ago,  when  it  was  brought  to  notice  by  the  committee 
on  lodges  under  dispensation  and  the  rule  explicitly  recognized  that 
all  non-elective  officers  must  be  appointed  by  the  master. 

Thomas  J.  Shryock,  grand  master,  and  Jacob  H.  Medairy,  grand 
secretary,  both  of  Baltimore,  were  reelected. 

The  report  on  correspondence  (127  pp.)  is  by  Edward  T.  Schultz, 
past  senior  grand  warden  and  one  among  the  strongest  of  those  who 
stand  ever  for  the  old  ways. 

Illinois  for  1893  is  briefl}^  noticed.  The  proceedings  were  received 
after  he  had  passed  the  proper  place  for  them  in  his  report,  and 
could  not  be  taken  up  until  he  was  in  the  last  pinch,  within  one 
working  day  of  the  meeting  of  the  grand  lodge.  He  expresses  great 
satisfaction  that  our  grand  lodge  had  ordered  a  report  on  recognized, 
recognizable,  and  non-recognizable  grand  lodges,  and  all  too  modestly 
confesses  that  he  had  been  deterred  from  his  half-formed  purpose  to 
make  such  a  list  himself  by  distrust  of  his  own  ability. 

Bro.  ScHULTZ"s  reports  are  certain  always  to  contain  much  that 
is  of  real  value,  as  well  as  of  passing  interest,  the  fruits  of  his  in- 
dustry and  long  experience.  Under  Ohio  he  discourses  on  the  grand 
honors: 

There  is  no  such  thing  a.s  Fanrral  Gnincl  Honors  mentioned  in  any 
of  the  early  text  books,  either  of  this  country  or  of  England.     The 


154  APPENDIX. — PART  I. 


term  employed  in  all  of  them  in  the  forms  for  the  laying  of  corner- 
stones, opening  of  bridges,  and  the  funeral  of  a  deceased  brother 
invariably  is  '"The  HONORS  OF  Masonry,"  or  "The  Public  Grand 
Honors."  The  words  used  in  some  jurisdictions — "We  cherish  his 
memory,"  etc.,  are  an  innovation  of  the  last  twenty-five  or  thirty 
years.  We  well  remember  the  first  time  we  heard  these  words  used. 
It  was  at  the  funeral  of  Past  Grand  Junior  Warden  Jordan  at  Cam- 
bridge, about  twenty  or  twenty-five  years  ago.  Their  use  was  sug- 
gested by  a  brother  present  who  had  heard  them  in  another  jurisdiction 
and  as  they  appeared  to  be  pretty  and  appropriate,  they  were  intro- 
duced and  since  then  generally  used  on  funeral  occasions  in  our 
jurisdiction.  When  it  was  discovered  those  words  were  inappropriate 
for  other  than  funeral  occasions,  something  else  had  to  be  substituted 
for  Grand  Honors  to  be  used  on  the  occasions  of  laying  corner-stones 
and  other  public  ceremonies,  and  the  ''battery"  3x3  was  introduced 
to  be  used  on  all  other  occasions  than  funeral,  and  the  so-called 
Mackey  -System  was  called  ^^Fioieral  Grand  Honors.''  But  In  order 
that  they  might  ^/il  the  new  words  an  actual  change  had  to  be  made  In 
them — the  third  motion — letting  "the  hands  fall  upon  the  thighs," 
was  changed  to  that  of  extending  the  hands,  palms  down,  towards  the 
open  grave. 

Bro.  Cunningham  admits  that  the  Mackey  method  prevailed 
largel}'  throughout  the  United  States,  and  that  they  were  "generally 
used"  as  the  Public  Grand  Honors  In  his  state  until  he  Introduced  the 
"battery"  as  the  Grand  Honors  to  be  used  on  other  than  funeral  occa- 
sions. 

He  verifies  Bro.  Cunningham's  statement  as  the  public  grand 
honors  of  former  usage  b}'  quoting  from  the  Ohio  regulations  of  1861: 

"Both  arms  are  crossed  on  the  breast,  the  left  uppermost,  and  the 
open  palms  of  the  hands  sharply  striking  the  shoulders;  they  are  then 
raised  above  the  head,  the  palms  striking  each  other,  and  then  made 
to  fall  upon  the  thighs.  On  the  occasion  of  funerals,  these  honors  are 
repeated  three  times:  each  time  accompanied  by  the  words — T/ie  iviJl 
of  God  is  accomplished:  so  mote  it  6e,'  audibly  pronounced  by  the  brethren. " 

And  says: 

These  then  were  the  only  Public  Grand  Honors  authorized  to  be 
used  In  Ohio  thirty-five  years  ago,  and  our  grand  lodge  has  declared 
the  same,  word  for  word,  to  be  the  "Grand  Honors  of  Masonry"  to  be 
used  on  all  ceremonies  of  the  craft  In  public. 

Brother  Cunningham  frankly  admitted  that  he  was  the  innovator 
upon  an  old  usage  of  his  own  and  most  of  the  other  jurisdictions  of 
the  country.  This  admission  of  his,  as  well  as  the  Incident  at  Cam- 
bridge we  referred  to,  show  how  easy  It  Is  to  make  Innovations  upon 
established  usages  and  customs. 

We  are  reliably  Informed  that  the  Grand  Lodge  of  England  does 
not  use  any  Grand  Honors  In  public.  At  the  public  dinner  given  by 
the  Grand  Lodge  of  the  District  of  Columbia  to  the  Earl  De  Gray, 
then  grand  master  of  England,  about  twenty  j^ears  ago,  he  was  re- 
ceived by  the  3x3  battery.  Some  of  the  brethren  present  jumped  to 
the  conclusion  that  these  were  the  Public  Grand  Honors  of  England; 
whereas.  It  was  simply  a  greeting,  similar  to  that  of  clapping  of  the 
hands  usually  given  on  the  appearance  of  a  distinguished  personage 
in  public. 


MASONIC   CORKESPONDENCE.  155 


Ag'ain  referring  to  the  "Mackey  Sj'stem"  he  says: 

Exactly  what  these  particular  motions  are  intended  to  imply,  is 
not,  and  perhaps,  never  will  be  known,  as  in  our  opinion  their  true 
significance,  like  that  of  many  other  of  our  forms  and  ceremonies, 
have  been  lost.  But  unless  we  are  prepared  to  substitute  something 
else  for  everything  in  Masonry,  the  true  significance  of  which  we  do 
not  fully  understand,  we  should  hold  fast  to  all  the  old  forms,  usages, 
and  ceremonies  as  they  have  come  down  to  us  from  the  misty  past, 
for  if  the  entering  wedge  of  innovation  be  permitted,  who  can  tell 
where  or  in  what  it  will  endV 

The  following  in  reply  to  Bro.  COXE,  of  Iowa,  refers  to  author- 
ized cypher  rituals: 

The  considerable  space  already  given  to  his  jurisdiction  prevents 
us  from  replying  as  fully  as  we  desire  to  the  above.  We  can  only  say 
now  that  the  "question  of  expediency''  cannot  be  entertained  for  a 
single  moment:  the  ban  is  clear  and  explicit,  prohibitory  of  the  use  of 
ciphers  no  more  nor  less  than  when  written  in  extenso.  Each  grand 
lodge  is  not  "allowed  to  be  the  sepreme  tribunal  for  itself"  upon  this 
question,  except  in  the  sense  that  the  Grand  Orient  of  France  is  su- 
preme, no  power  could  have  prevented  it  from  taking  the  action  it 
did  a  few  years  ago.  Bnt  we  all  know  how  that  action  was  regarded 
and  treated  by  other  grand  lodges.  "The  jug"  has  a  ^'handle  only  on  one 
szde,"  and  it  must  not  be  tampered  with,  or  dire  consequences  will 
ensue. 

We  agree  with  him  that  whatever  may  be  thought  of  the  present 
necessity  of  exercising  the  power  of  the  grand  master  to  make  Ma- 
sons at  sight,  it  has  so  long  been  recognized  as  a  prerogative  of  his 
person  and  office  that  it  cannot  now  be  reasonably  questioned. 

Touching  affirmation,  he  says  he  has  been  present  at  the  making 
or  Masons  who,  having  conscientious  scruples  as  to  taking  oaths,  were 
received  upon  affirmation,  and  as  it  is  recognized  in  all  our  courts  of 
justice  to  be  as  binding  as  an  oath,  he  cannot  see  why  it  should  not  be 
received  in  Masonry.  As  it  all  hinges  on  the  possibility  of  substitu- 
ting a  single  word  for  another  of  now  generally  recognized  equivalent 
meaning,  the  objection  to  its  being  so  received  does  not  seem  in- 
superable. 


156  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 

MASSACHUSETTS,  1896. 

105th  Annual.  Boston.  December  9. 

This  was  a  memorable  year  in  the  annals  of  Masonry  in  the  old 
Bay  State,  memorable  in  the  number  of  centenaries  of  Massachusetts 
lodg"es,  and  memorable  in  the  death  of  distinguished  men  and  Masons. 

Six  lodges  celebrated  their  one-hundredth  anniversaries,  the 
charters  of  all  bearing  the  signature  of  Paul  Revere  as  grand  master, 
viz.:  Washington  Lodge,  Roxbury;  King  Hiram's  Lodge,  Province- 
town;  Union  Lodge,  Dorchester;  Harmony  Lodge,  Northfield;  Cincin- 
natus  Lodge,  Great  Harrington,  and  Thomas  Lodge,  Palmer.  At  all 
these  celebrations  special  communications  of  the  grand  lodge  were 
held  and  at  each  a  felicitous  and  appropriate  address  by  Grand  Mas- 
ter Holmes  was  a  feature  of  the  exercises.  The  historical  addresses 
are  all  of  greal  local  interest,  and  most  of  them  much  more  than  this. 

The  necrology  of  the  year  includes  the  names  of  Past  Deputy 
Grand  Master  LUOIUS  R.  Paige,  D.D.,  aged  ninety-four,  nearly  sev- 
enty-three years  a  Mason  and  uninterruptedly  a  member  of  the  grand 
lodge  for  fifty-years;  Past  Deputy  Grand  Master  Benjamin  Apthorp 
Gould.  L.L.D.,  aged  seventy-two,  the  distinguished  astronomer,  who 
read  at  three  years  of  age,  translated  an  ode  of  Horace  at  five,  and 
though  so  busy  in  science  that  his  name  is  a  household  word  the  world 
over  in  that  departmentof  learning,  yet  found  time  to  devo.e  to  the  ac- 
tive duties  of  Masonry  to  the  end,  dying  senior  warden  of  St.  Andrew's 
lodge;  Lorenzo  H.  Gamwell,  past  senior  grand  warden,  aged  seventy- 
five,  lawyer,  judge,  and  legislator;  Alonzo  H.  Quint,  D.D.,  aged  sixty- 
eight,  for  three  years  chaplain  of  a  Massachusetts  regiment  during 
the  war,  preacher,  editor,  author,  and  for  the  last  twenty-five  years 
of  his  life  the  secretary  of  the  National  Council  of  Congregational 
churches;  Edmund  Dana  Bancroft, past  grand  lecturer,  aged  seventy- 
five,  state  senator,  postmaster,  and  customs  officer;  Bro.  John  H  Col- 
lamore,  aged  eighty,  the  founder  of  the  John  H.  Collamore  charity 
fund  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Massachusetts,  to  which  in  addition  to 
munificent  benefactions  during  his  life  he  bequeathed  $50,000  at  his 
death;  and  Bro.  Frederick  T.  Grebnhalge,  the  governor  of  the 
commonwealth,  from  whose  speech  at  the  Bunker  Hill  celebration  we 
quoted  in  our  last  year's  report. 

Portraits  of  Bros.  Paige  and  Gould  adorn  the  proceedings,  as 
does  also  the  portrait  of  the  grand  master,  Edwin  Bradford  Holmes. 

At  the  quarterly  communication  of  March  11,  the  Masonic  apart- 
ments now  occupied  by  the  grand  lodge  were  dedicated,  and  the 
grand  master  delivered  a  highly  interesting  address  on  the  places 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  157 

where  the  grand  lodge  had  met  in  the  past,  including  in  the  list  the 
meeting  places  of  the  English  Provincial  Grand  Lodge  (St.  John's), 
the  Scottish  Provincial  Grand  Lodge,  and  the  Massachusetts  Grand 
Lodge,  which  grew  out  of  it,  and  which,  in  1792,  united  with  the  St. 
John's  Grand  Lodge  to  form  the  present  Grand  Lodge  of  Massa- 
chusetts. 

At  the  quarterly  of  June  10,  another  check  for  $5,000  was  received 
from  Bro.  John  H.  Collamore  to  be  added  to  the  charity  fund  which 
bears  his  name. 

The  commissioners  of  trials  reported  a  case  in  which  the  court 
record  showing  that  the  wife  of  the  accused  had  been  granted  a 
divorce  from  him  for  adultery,  was  accepted  as  proof  of  his  guilt  of 
that  crime,  and,  upon  their  recommendation,  he  was  expelled. 

A  special  committee  reporting  favorably  on  the  grand  master's 
recommendation  that  the  costuming  of  the  Fellow  Crafts  be  discon- 
tinued, say: 

We  find  that,  as  a  general  thing,  the  costuming  destroys  that 
beautiful  and  impressive  simplicit}',  which  has  been  not  only  the 
peculiar  characteristic  but  also  the  strength  of  Masonic  work.  It 
places  in  the  background  the  elevating  lessons  of  the  ritual,  and  gives 
the  prominent  place,  with  its  lasting  impressions,  to  what  is  usually 
undignified  and  often  burlesque.  We  have  found  but  one  striking 
exception  to  this  rule.  This  lodge,  by  a  combination  of  artistic  cos- 
tumes, notable  intelligence,  and  fine  dramatic  ability,  has  shown  itself 
able  to  present  costumed  work  without  anj^  apparent  loss  of  dignity 
or  impressiveness.  But  legislation  by  this  grand  lodge  based  upon 
their  ability  is  impracticable,  and  to  imitate  them  would  be  impossi- 
ble for  most  of  us. 

In  conclusion  we  would  suggest  that  in  an  institution  whose  pre- 
cepts are  transmitted  as  are  ours,  it  should  always  be  a  cardinal  prin- 
ciple to  endeavor  to  inculcate  the  moral  precepts,  rather  than  to 
exhibit  our  dramatic  abilities, — to  appeal  to  the  higher  nature,  rather 
than  to  the  love  for  the  spectacular, — to  cultivate  the  substantial, 
rather  than  the  superficial,  elements  and  possibilities  of  our  work. 
And,  finally,  we  should  strive  to  cultivate  that  impressive  and  intelli- 
gent simplicity,  which  is  always  the  most  appropriate  vesture  for 
such  truths  as  our  ritual  is  designed  to  teach. 

The  views  so  convincingly  stated  prevailed  and  the  practice  was 
ordered  to  be  discontinued. 

At  the  September  quarterly.  Rev.  R.  Perry  Bush  and  James  T, 
Sherman,  two  of  the  delegates  commissioned  by  the  grand  master  to 
attend  the  millennial  festival  of  the  Hungarian  nation,  held  at  Buda- 
Pesth,  gave  interesting  accounts  of  their  experience  on  that  occasion. 

At  the  December  quarterly  (annual)  Grand  Master  Holmes  re- 
ported numerous  releases  of  jurisdiction  by  Massachixsetts  lodges  in 
favor  of  lodges  in  other  states,  which  had  passed  through  his  hands. 


158  APPENDIX. — PART    1. 

He  reports  the  following  condition  with  which  he  found  himself 
confronted: 

My  attention  having  been  officially  called  to  the  condition  of 
affairs  in  one  of  the  lodges,  I  felt  constrained  to  take  action  in  order 
to  sustain  the  constitutions  and  regulations  of  this  grand  lodge,  which 
in  my  opinion  were  being  violated.  I  was  informed  that  several  offi- 
cers of  a  lodge  in  this  jurisdiction  were  members  and  officers  of  a  so- 
called  Masonic  body  which  is  not  recognized  by  this  grand  lodge. 
Believing  that  such  a  condition  of  affairs  was  detrimental  to  the  in- 
terests of  our  fraternity,  I  endeavored  to  prevail  upon  the  officers  of 
the  lodge  who  were  also  members  of  that  body  either  to  renounce 
their  connection  with  said  body  or  give  up  their  offices  in  the  lodge. 

Failing  to  quietly  and  peacefully  arrange  the  matter  he  issued  an 
order  to  the  master  and  wardens  of  the  lodge  f  orbiding  the  installa- 
tion of  any  brother  so  offending. 

This  order  was  issued  just  after  the  election  of  officers  for  the  en- 
suing year  had  been  held,  and  being  read  in  the  lodge  at  the  next 
monthly  meeting  the  installation  was  indefinitely  postponed,  leaving 
in  office  certain  brethren  liable  to  the  pains  and  penalties  of  the  law. 
He  thereupon  declared  the  election  null  and  void,  ordered  the  lodge 
summoned  for  a  special  meeting  for  the  election  and  installation  of 
officers  before  a  certain  date,  and  declared  any  member  who  was  in 
violation  of  the  law  in  this  respect  ineligible  to  any  office,  unless,  pre- 
vious to  installation,  he  should  renounce,  in  writing,  according  to  a 
prescribed  form,  all  connection  with  any  and  all  organizations  placed 
under  the  ban  by  the  action  of  the  grand  lodge  on  the  14th  of  June, 
1882  (commonly  known  as  the  "Massachusetts  Departure").  The  lodge 
complied  by  electing  and  installing  new  officers,  and  order  reigns  in 
Warsaw. 

Favorable  report  was  made  on  the  Maine  proposition  relating  to 
jurisdiction  over  rejected  material,  and  amendments  proposed  to  as- 
similate the  constitution  to  the  Maine  law. 

Charles  Carroll  Hutchinson,  of  Lowell,  was  elected  grand 
master:  Sereno  D.  Nickerson,  of  Cambridge,  re-elected  recording 
grand  secretar}'.     The  address  of  both  is  Masonic  Temple,  Boston. 

At  the  stated  communication  of  December  29  the  grand  officers 
were  installed,  and  the  retiring  grand  master  was  presented  with  a 
past  grand  master's  jewel  in  behalf  of  his  lodge — Revere. 

Between  the  two  following  minutes,  copied  from  the  journal, 
were  sandwiched  four  hours  of  feasting,  wise,  witty,  and  often  touch- 
ing speech  and  jolly  good  fellowship. 

At  fifteen  minutes  after  six  o'clock  p.m.,  the  brethren  were  called 
from  labor  to  refreshment  and  proceeded  to  the  banquet  hall,  where 
the  Feast  of  Saint  -John  the  Evangelist  was  celebrated  in  due  and 
ancient  form,  after  the  manner  of  Masons. 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  159 


At  half-past  ten  o'clock  p.m.  the  brethren  were  called  from  re- 
freshment to  labor  again,  and  the  grand  lodge  was  closed  in  ample 
form. 

Last  year  the  brethren  were  compelled  to  go  to  a  club  house  to 
celebrate;  this  year  they  were  again  under  their  own  fig  tree,  in  their 
own  banquet  hall,  and  were  therefore  excusable  for  breaking  up  ten 
minutes  later. 


MICHIGAN,  1897. 
53rd  Annual.  Saginaw.  January  26. 

Arba  M.  Seymour,  the  representative  of  Illinois,  was  absent. 

The  grand  master  (.John  J.  Carton),  whose  clean-cut  face  looks 
from  the  fly-leaf  of  the  ample  volume,  announced  the  death  of  Past 
Grand  Masters  George  Enoch  Dowling  and  RuFUS  Claghorn 
Hatheway,  aged  fifty-seven  and  fifty-nine,  respectively,  and  of 
Alexander  McGregor,  grand  tiler,  aged  sixty-six.  The  funeral 
rites  of  each  were  performed  by  the  grand  lodge  and  half-tone  por- 
traits of  each  are  features  of  their  memorial  tablets.  Bro.  Hathe- 
way was  grand  master  in  1887,  and  Bro.  Dowling  in  1893.  Bro. 
McGregor  had  held  the  office  of  grand  tiler  continuously  since  1872. 

Two  past  grand  masters,  Henry  Chamberlain  and  Arthur  M. 
Clark,  had  been  sorely  bereaved;  the  first  had  lost  the  wife  of  forty 
years,  and  the  latter  the  companion  of  thirty-three.  Both  are  given 
appreciative  tributes  by  a  special  committee. 

The  grand  master  submitted  thirtj^-seven  decisions,  two  of  which 
were  qualified  by  the  committee  on  jurisprudence.  The  first  of  these 
referred  to  one  of  the  crew  of  a  steamer  running  between  Muskegon 
and  Chicago  in  the  summer,  and  between  Chicago  and  Milwaukee  in 
the  winter;  and  the  second  to  a  student  from  Illinois  at  Ann  Arbor. 
The  committee  say: 

The  M.W.  grand  master  says  unless  the  applicant  "claimed  Mus- 
kegon as  his  home  for  at  least  twelve  months  prior  to  the  time  of  mak- 
ing application  and  during  that  time  has  done  some  act  or  acts  which  go  to 
show  that  he  in  good  faith  intends  to  make  Muskegon  his  residence  then  you 
would  have  no  right  to  receive  his  petition." 

Again  he  says  "No  person  can  gain  such  a  residence  in  this  state 
as  will  entitle  him  to  petition  a  lodge  while  he  is  in  the  state  for  the 
purpose  of  attending  school." 


160  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


The  fact  that  a  person  is  in  a  locality  for  the  purpose  of  attend- 
ing' school  does  not  give  him  such  a  residence  in  that  place  as  enables 
him  to  vote  there,  nor  does  he  thereby  gain  such  a  Masonic  residence 
as  gives  to  a  lodge  jurisdiction  over  the  material,  but,  although  a  stu- 
dent, a  person  may  become  a  resident,  for  all  purposes,  of  the  place 
where  the  school  is  located.  If,  when  he  removes  to  that  place  or  if 
after  removal  there  he  forms  the  intention  to  make  that  place  his 
residence,  the  twelve  months  begins  anew  from  the  time  of  the  forma- 
tion of  that  intention  and  at  the  expiration  of  said  time  he  may  apply 
to  a  Masonic  lodge  in  that  place  for  initiation.  It  is  not  necessary 
that  he  should  vote  in  that  locality  or  do  any  other  act  tending  to 
show  that  he.  in  good  faith,  intended  to  make  that  place  his  residence, 
but  if  he  votes  at  all  and  does  not  vote  at  that  place,  such  act  would 
show  conclusively  that  he  did  not  at  that  time  intend  to  make  that 
place  his  residence. 

Whether  or  not  he  formed  an  intention  to  make  that  place  his  resi- 
dence is  a  question  of  fact  and  in  this  class  of  cases  investigation  should 
be  made,  to  ascertain  whether  the  applicant  has  done  any  act  incon- 
sistent with  the  formation  of  such  an  intention  at  the  time  claimed. 
While  the  lodge  must  determine  the  question,  it  must  be  careful  to 
make  inquiry  and  not  to  ignore  inconsistent  acts,  but  at  the  same  time 
the  applicant  need  not  be  required  to  show  affirmatively  other  acts  in- 
dicative of  the  purpose  formed  to  make  the  place  his  residence. 

Among  the  approved  decisions  are  the  following: 

6.  Our  lodge  has  been  invited  to  join  the  parade  here  on  Decora- 
tion day.     Have  we  a  right  to  do  so"? 

No.  A  lodge  has  no  right  to  go  out  as  a  lodge  on  any  but  a  Ma- 
sonic occasion.  A  Decoration  day  parade  is  not  such  an  occasion. 
We  should  take  part  in  the  Decoration  day  exercises  as  citizens  and 
not  as  Masons. 

7.  Our  lodge  has  an  invitation  to  lay  the  corner-stone  of  a  church. 
We  desire  to  accept  the  invitation  and  lay  the  corner-stone  if  we  have 
authority  to  do  so.     Have  we  such  authority'? 

No.  A  constituent  lodge  has  no  authority  to  lay  corner-stones  of 
public  buildings.  The  only  Masonic  body  authorized  to  do  such  work 
is  the  grand  lodge  of  the  state. 

8.  An  objection  made  prior  to  the  election  of  a  candidate  for  initia- 
tion is  of  no  force  whatever  and  should  be  disregarded  by  the  master 
of  the  lodge  to  which  the  candidate  has  petitioned. 

11.  No  brother  can  be  made  an  honorary  member  of  any  lodge  while 
he  is  a  dimitted  Mason.  To  entitle  him  to  honorary  membership  in  a 
lodge  he  must  be  an  active  member  in  some  other  chartered  lodge, 
and  when  he  fails  to  maintain  such  active  membership  his  honorary 
membership  ceases. 

13.  We  have  a  brother  who  was  initiated  an  E.A.  in  our  lodge  in 
1890.  Since  that  time  he  has  lost  one  of  his  arms.  He  now  wants  to 
take  the  two  remaining  degrees  and  become  a  Master  Mason.  Can 
you  grant  us  a  dispensation  to  confer  them  upon  him? 

Under  the  facts  above  stated  the  brother  is  disqualified  from  re- 
ceiving any  further  degrees,  and  I  have  no  power  to  grant  you  a  dis- 
pensation to  confer  them  upon  him. 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  161 


20.  Can  a  brother  who  has  been  elected  and  installed  senior  warden 
of  a  lodge  be  elected  worshipful  master  of  the  same  lodge  during  the 
year  for  which  he  was  elected  senior  warden  in  case  a  vacancy  occursV 

No.  He  must  remain  senior  warden  during  the  year  for  which  he 
was  elected,  and  if  a  vacancy  occurs  in  the  office  of  worshipful  master 
and  an  election  is  held  to  fill  the  vacancy  he  is  not  eligible  to  the  office. 

26.  Our  lodge  has  been  invited  to  attend  church  on  Sunday,  Decem- 
ber 27.  This  being  a  Masonic  festival,  have  we  a  right  to  go  as  a  lodge 
wearing  aprons,  gloves,  and  regalia? 

No.  Masonry  does  not  recognize  either  creed  or  denominations. 
It  leaves  its  members  free  to  attend  any  church  they  please,  and  only 
permits  them  to  assemble  as  a  lodge  on  Masonic  occasions  and  for 
Masonic  purposes. 

.3.3.  A  person  petitioned  our  lodge  for  iaitiation.  The  petition  was 
received  and  referred  to  a  committee.  After  it  had  been  referred  and 
before  the  committee  reported  he  moved  out  of  the  jurisdiction  of  our 
lodge.  Can  we  proceed  and  ballot  on  his  petition  and  if  elected  confer 
the  degrees  upon  him? 

Yes.  He  was  in  the  jurisdiction  of  your  lodge  when  he  petitioned, 
and  remained  there  until  the  petition  had  been  received  and  referred 
to  a  committee.  This  gave  3'our  lodge  jurisdiction  of  him  and  it  would 
have  the  right  to  act  in  all  respects  with  reference  to  his  petition  for 
initiation  and  his  subsequent  petitions  for  advancement,  as  though  he 
had  remained  in  the  territorial  jurisdiction  of  the  lodge. 

3-5.  A  resident  of  our  city  who  had  but  one  arm  went  to  Scotland 
in  an  official  capacity.  While  there  he  was  made  a  Mason  in  one  of 
the  lodges.  He  has  now  returned.  Have  I  the  right  to  permit  him  to 
visit  our  lodge? 

We  recognize  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Scotland  as  a  regular  Masonic 
bodj',  and  if  by  a  proper  examination  you  become  satisfied  that  he  is 
a  Master  Mason  in  good  standing  in  a  regularly  constituted  lodge, 
working  under  the  jurisdiction  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Scotland,  then 
you  would  have  a  right  to  permit  him  to  visit  your  lodge. 

We  regard  No.  6  as  good  law  well  put.  No.  7  is  timely,  as  once  in 
a  while,  here  and  there,  a  lodge  undertakes  to  don  the  purple  on  its 
own  hook;  but  we  should  have  answered  that  the  authority  lay  with 
the  grand  master.  No.  8  sustains  the  position  we  have  always  held — 
that  the  right  of  verbal  objection,  in  the  nature  of  things,  does  not 
come  into  existence  until  the  right  of  objection  by  ballot  has  been 
exhausted. 

Touching  the  question  involved  in  No.  11,  the  decision  of  Maine, 
the  reverse  of  Michigan,  accords  with  our  views  of  what  the  law 
ought  to  be.  On  No.  13  we  think  Michigan  stands  with  a  constantly 
lessening  minority;  the  prevailing  opinion  being  that  the  physical 
disqualification  refers  only  to  "making,"  the  unchangeable  law  ante- 
dating degrees  as  now  known.  We  do  not  agree,  fully  at  least,  with 
No.  20,  because  as  it  stands  it  might  be  held  to  apply  to  a  past  warden 
who  had  been  again  elected  and  installed,  and  we  do  not  admit  that 
he  could  be  thus  divested  of  his  eligibility  as  a  candidate  for  master 

—1 


162  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 

at  any  election  occurring  after  that  eligibility  had  been  acquired; 
and  indeed  we  inclined  to  the  opinion  that  such  eligibility  attaches 
from  the  moment  of  his  first  installation.  Touching  No.  26,  it  will  be 
found  elsewhere  in  this  report  that  the  opposite  view  prevails  in  some 
jurisdictions,  in  one  going  to  the  extent  of  authorizing  lodges  to  ap- 
pear in  public  for  that  purpose  without  a  dispensation,  but  we  think 
the  Michigan  view  is  correct.  Referring  to  No.  33,  it  will  be  seen  in 
our  notice  of  Arkansas  that  in  a  case  somewhat  akin — but  differing 
in  this,  that  in  the  Arkansas  case  the  petition  had  been  left  behind 
on  removal  but  had  not  been  presented  and  referred — the  opposite 
opinion  was  held;  and  upon  the  broad  ground  that  the  intention  of 
the  law  is  to  prevent  the  making  of  residents  of  other  jurisdictions. 
We  think  the  Michigan  case  should  have  been  decided  the  same  way. 

Under  the  head  of  "Masonic  Insurance,"  the  grand  master  called 
attention  to  the  methods  of  doing  business  by  two  companies  who,  by 
the  use  of  the  prefix  "Knights  Templar"  and  "Masonic"  seek  to 
obtain  the  confidence  and  business  of  Masons,  citing  the  cases  of  the 
"Knights  Templar  and  Mason's  Life  Indemnity  Compan}',"  and  the 
"National  Masonic  Accident  Association,"  of  Des  Moines,  Iowa, 
which  refused  to  pay,  the  first,  the  life  policy  of  Past  Grand  Master 
DowLiNG,  and  the  latter  the  accident  policy  of  Bro.  James  N.  Blake, 
on  technicalities  that  did  not  savor  of  the  fraternal.  He  quotes  from 
a  circular  issued  by  the  above-named  accident  company,  giving  the 
following  "Reasons  why  every  Mason  should  place  his  accident  insur- 
ance in  this  association:" 

1.  "It  is  composed  entirely  of  Masons. 

2.  It  affords  fraternal  as  well  as  legal  protection. 

4.  There  is  no  call  for  litigation;  all  differences  being  settled  in  a 
manner  purely  Masonic." 

There  is  nothing  like  a  concrete  example  to  arrest  the  attention, 
and  turn  it  to  an  obvious  truth,  whose  reiterated  statement  has 
awakened  no  interest.  In  this  case  it  enabled  the  grand  master  and 
the  grand  lodge  to  realize  the  enormity  of  the  mercenary  use  of  the 
Masonic  name,  and  the  following,  reported  by  the  committee  on 
jurisprudence,  was  adopted  by  a  nearly  unanimous  vote  after  the 
italicized  words  had  been  stricken  out: 

Resolved,  That  section  48  of  the  Grand  Lodge  By-laws  be  amended 
so  as  to  read  as  follows:  "Sec.  48.  The  use  of  Masonic  emblems  by 
Masons  as  business  signs  or  cards,  unless  such  business  be  exclusively 
or  largely  in  Masonic  goods,  and  the  use  of  the  word  'Masons,'  or 
'Masonic,'  or  'Free  and  Accepted  Masons,'  or  of  the  letters  'F.  and 
A.M.,'  in  connection  with  any  private  business  enterprise,  hereafter 
■established,  is  strictly  prohibited,  and  any  Master  Mason  who  shall 
solicit  business  for  any  person,  persons,  association,  or  corporation 
violating  the  provisions  hereof  shall  be  deemed  equally  guilty  with 
his  principal  or  employer." 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  163 


The  Michigan  Masonic  Home,  which  has  been  the  bone  of  so 
much  discussion,  has  finally  passed  into  the  hands  of  the  fraternity. 
The  plan  for  its  management  is,  briefly,  as  follows: 

All  life  and  active  memberships  in  the  association  to  be  released. 
The  property  conveyed  to  seven  trustees  in  trust  for  the  Masonic 
Fraternity  of  Michigan.  The  corporation  tobe  dissolved.  The  prop- 
erty to  be  managed  by  board  of  control,  to  be  chosen  by  the  Masonic 
grand  bodies  at  the  annual  meetings  thereof.  All  funds  for  the  main- 
tenance of  the  home  to  be  contributed  by  Masons  and  other  charita- 
bly disposed  people. 

********** 

1.  The  number  of  trustees  who  are  to  hold  the  title  to  the  property 
in  trust  for  the  fraternity  to  be  four;  one  to  be  chosen  by  the  grand 
lodge,  one  by  the  grand  chapter,  and  one  by  the  grand  council,  and 
one  by  the  grand  commandery. 

2.  The  board  of  control  to  consist  of  fifteen  members,  three  to  be 
chosen  by  each  of  the  grand  bodies  above  named,  and  three  by  the 
Grand  Chapter  Order  of  Eastern  Star.  This  board  to  have  power  to 
make  rules  and  regulations  for  the  purpose  of  its  own  organization 
and  control,  and  the  control  of  the  home,  as  well  as  the  admission  of 
inmates. 

3.  In  case  sufficient  funds  to  maintain  the  home  are  not  contri- 
buted the  board  of  control  is  to  report  that  fact  to  the  grand  bodies 
and  the  property  is  not  to  be  sold  for  two  years  after  such  fact  is  re- 
ported, and  if  during  said  two  years  sufficient  funds  are  contributed 
to  maintain  it  as  a  home,  then  it  is  not  to  be  sold. 

A  special  committee,  reporting  upon  the  above  plan  as  detailed 
by  the  grand  master,  reported  in  part  as  follows: 

The  Masonic  Home  Association  offers  to  the  Masons  this  property 
worth  nearly  $100,000.00  unconditionally  and  without  a  shadow  of  re- 
striction. 

Grand  lodge  is  to  assume  no  pecuniary  obligation,  only  to  join  in 
the  management  of  the  home  and  to  become  an  almoner  of  the  charity 
of  the  fraternity. 

In  the  opinion  of  that  committee,  grand  lodge  can  do  no  less  than 
to  accept  this  magnificent  gift  and  execute  the  trust  in  the  same 
generous  and  Masonic  spirit  that  animates  the  donor. 

Your  committee  therefore  recommend  that  grand  lodge,  in  con- 
nection with  the  other  Masonic  grand  bodies,  in  behalf  of  all  the 
Masons  of  the  state,  accept  said  property  as  recommended  by  the 
M.W.  grand  master,  it  being  understood  that  grand  lodge  by  this  ac- 
tion assumes  nopecuniarj^  obligation  in  behalf  of  the  home,  but  con- 
fidently relies  upon  the  voluntar}'  contributions  of  the  craft  for  its 
support  and  management. 

The  report  was  unanimously  adopted  without  discussion. 

We  congratulate  the  Fraternity  of  Michigan  upon  its  possession 
of  this  valuable  property,  and  we  congratulate  Past  Grand  Master 
Chamberlain  and  those  who  stood  with  him  upon  the  successful 
issue  of  the  contest  they  have  waged  to  keep  the  charitable  functions 


164  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 

of  tke  grand  lodge  in  harmony  with  the  purely  voluntary  basis  of  the 
law  of  the  institution,  as  grounded  in  the  primary  engagements  of 
the  individual  Mason. 

No  more  appropriate  place  than  this  can  offer  to  speak  of  the 
appreciation  of  the  true  nature  of  Masonic  charity  manifested  by 
our  brethren  at  Liverpool,  Eng.,  as  disclosed  in  the  following  letter 
from  Bro.  ARTHUR  T.  Stark,  a  member  of  Otsego  Lodge  No.  78,  and 
gratefully  acknowledged  by  the  grand  lodge  through  the  regular 
channels  of  correspondence: 

Mr.  G.  B.  Travis,  Kingston,  N.Y.,  December  28,  1896. 

Otsego,  Mich. 
Dear  Sir  and  Brother — You  may  have  heard  that  while  in  Eng- 
land last  February,  I  met  with  an  accident  which  nearly  cost  me  my 
life,  and  on  account  of  which,  I  am  still  on  crutches,  with  little  pros- 
pect of  being  able  to  walk  without  them.  I  sustained  a  compound 
comminuted  fracture  of  the  right  leg  and  other  very  serious  external 
and  enternal  injuries.  I  was  first  attended  by  Dr.  W.  J.  Fleetwood,  of 
Aintree,  Liverpool,  England,  a  brother  Mason  of  high  standing.  For  six 
months  I  laid  flat  on  my  back,  not  being  able  to  turn  on  my  side  nor  to 
sit  up  once  during  that  time.  1  was  constantly  visited  during  that  time 
by  Bros.  S.  Rennie,  4-1  Clarence  Grove,  Everton,  Liverpool,  and  P.  Arm- 
strong, Masonic  Hall,  Hope  St.,  Liverpool,  and  to  them  possibly  I  owe 
my  life.  After  I  was  pronounced  fit  to  tr^tvel,  my  injured  leg  was 
placed  in  a  rigid  iron  frame  and  encased  in  a  plaster  cast  from  hip  to 
toe.  Application  was  then  made  for  passage  to  four  different  steam- 
ship lines,  but  the  surgeon  of  each  line  rejected  me.  Finally  Dr. 
Fleetwood  offered  to  take  me  in  charge  and  without  any  hope  of  re- 
muneration, he  left  his  enormous  practice  and  accompanied  me  home. 
For  this  he  would  take  no  pay.  A  large  number  of  brothers  accom- 
panied us  on  board  the  ship  and  bade  us  God  speed.  The  ship's  com- 
pany charged  me  an  extra  rate  for  invalid  passage,  and  this  extra 
charge  was  paid  by  the  Masonic  Lodge  of  which  Bro.  Armstrong  is 
W.M.  Naturally  enough  I  feel  very  grateful  to  these  brothers  and  more 
than  ever  in  love  with  our  noble  order  and  it  is  my  wish  that  a  vote  of 
thanks  be  given  by  our  lodge  and  sent  under  seal  of  the  lodge  to  these 
brothers.  Will  you  kindly  bring  the  matter  before  the  lodge  at  the 
next  regular  and  inform  me  of  the  action  taken?  Wishing  to  be  re- 
membered to  all  my  brothers,  I  remain  truly  fraternally. 

The  jurisprudence  committee  reported  relative  to  the  "Grand 
Orient  of  Spain,"  whose  alleged  deputy  grand  master,  one  H.  Goode, 
of  Philadelphia,  had,  the  grand  master  said,  given  notice  that  on  and 
after  April  30,  1896,  the  grand  orient  would  enter  Michigan  and  make 
Masons  according  to  its  rite.  The  lodges  were  warned  against  him 
by  proclamation.  Subsequent  correspondence  from  the  same  source 
indicated  that  the  Grand  Lodge  of  New  Zealand  had  recognized  the 
predaceous  outfit,  which  we  take  to  be  a  different  body  from  the 
Grand  Orient  of  Spain  with  which  Maine  and  some  other  grand  lodges 
are  in  fraternal  relations.  The  jurisprudence  committee  seems  to 
think,  as  we  judge,  that  it  is  the  latter  body.  We  feel  confident  that 
the  Grand  Lodge  of  New  Zealand  on  becoming  informed  of  the  unlaw- 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  165 

ful  acts  of  the  grand  orient  will  sever  relations  with  it;  but  to  pro- 
vide against  all  contingencies  the  grand  master  was  authorized  in 
case  NewZealand  proved  to  be  a  conscious  sinner  and  persists  therein 
to  discontinue  all  recognition  with  that  body. 

Past  Grand  Master  Chamberlain  reported  as  chairman  of  a 
special  committee  on  the  re-submitted  Wisconsin  relief  plan  as  fol- 
lows: 

Your  committee  would  respectfully  report  that  were  it  not  for 
the  fact  that  the  circular  letter  which  embodies  the  above  proposition 
is  headed  with  the  words  Masonic  Relief  there  is  nothing  in  the  letter 
which  would  lead  them  to  even  suspect  that  it  came  from  a  grand 
lodge  of  F.  and  A.M.,  but  would  presume  that  it  came  from  some  one 
of  the  fraternal  orders  or  societies  whose  foundation  principles  are 
mutual  benefits  founded  upon  a  system  of  taxation. 

********* 

Your  committee  would  respectfully  call  the  attention  of  the 
brethren  in  Wisconsin  and  elsewhere,  who  seem  to  believe  that  the 
obligation  of  a  Freemason  binds  him  to  any  system  of  taxation  for 
the  relief  of  the  worthy  distressed,  that  under  our  system  it  is  the  in- 
dividual Mason  and  not  the  lodge  who  is  bound  to  the  extent  of  his  abil- 
ity, of  which  he  and  not  the  lodge  is  the  judge. 

And  we  invite  the  attention  of  all  true  Masons  to  sections  7  and 
13  of  the  General  Regulations  where  they  may  learn  that  the  char- 
ities were  voluntary  gifts  to  the  lodge  and  not  assessments.  His  neces- 
sity and  your  ability  control  Masonic  relief. 

On  the  Maine  proposition  relating  to  rejected  material,  the  grand 
lodge  refuses  to  modify  its  rule  which  recognizes  the  persistence  of 
jurisdiction  until  waived  by  the  rejecting  lodge,  saying: 

That  we  find  no  practical  difficulty,  under  the  rule  which  prevails 
in  this  jurisdiction.  Ordinarily  there  is  no  difficulty  in  procuring  a 
release  of  personal  jurisdiction  if  the  circumstances  warrant  it. 

The  jurisprudence  committee  got  the  proposition  of  the  grand 
master  to  enter  upon  the  futile  path  of  privative  legislation  to 
reduce  the  number  of  dimitted  Masons,  sent  to  the  incoming  com- 
mittee as  being  too  important  to  be  hastily  acted  upon.  He  proposed 
that  after  two  years  all  rights  under  the  dimit  be  forfeited  and  the 
holder  denied  the  privilege  of  visiting. 

The  grand  lodge  chartered  five  new  lodges;  sent  a  message  of 
sympathy  to  Past  Grand  Master  William  H.  Phillips,  detained  at 
home  by  severe  injuries  received  in  a  runaway  accident:  voted  to 
meet  next  year  at  Grand  Rapids;  adopted  a  new  and  complete  book 
of  ceremonials;  and  after  thanking  the  retiring  grand  master  for  the 
ability,  fidelity,  and  zeal  with  which  he  had  performed  the  duties  of 
his  office,  and  instructing  the  grand  secretary  to  procure  for  him  a 
suitable  past  grand  master's  jewel,  gave  him  a  genuine  surprise  by 
producing  the  jewel  and  decorating  him  then  and  there. 


166  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 

Lou  B.  WiNSOR,  of  Reed  City,  was  elected  grand  master;  Jef- 
ferson S.  CoNOVER,  Coldwater,  re-elected  grand  secretary. 

There  is  no  report  on  correspondence,  but  space  equal  to  that 
required  by  one  of  Bro.  Conover's  condensed  reviews  is  devoted  to 
"Masonic  Ceremonies"  and  the  "Compiled  Law  of  the  Grand  Lodge 
of  Michigan" — seventy-two  pages  of  the  former  and  two  hundred  and 
thirty-nine  pages  of  the  latter. 


MINNESOTA,  1897. 

44th  Annual.  St.  Paul.  January  13. 

The  representative  of  Illinois  (Alcinous  Y.  Davidson)  was  ab- 
sent. 

The  grand  master  (James  F.  Lawless)  whose  portrait  adorns  the 
fly-leaf,  announced  the  death  of  Past  Junior  Grand  Wardens  Christo- 
pher H.  Smith  and  Alonzo  Jay  Edgerton,  aged  respectively,  sixty- 
two  and  sixty-nine.  Both  of  the  deceased  brothers  were  typical  men. 
Bro.  Smith  received  a  common  school  education  in  his  native  Ver- 
mont, where  he  also  learned  the  trade  of  bricklayer  and  plasterer, 
and  later  took  a  course  at  an  academy;  removed  to  Ohio  where  he 
took  another  course,  worked  on  a  farm,  and  taught  school;  thence  to 
Wisconsin  where  he  farmed  and  taught,  served  as  county  clerk  and 
county  treasurer;  went  into  the  real  estate  business,  removed  to  Min- 
nesota, was  elected  county  treasurer,  was  appointed  receiver  of  the 
United  States  land  office  by  President  Garfield,  served  in  both 
houses  of  the  legislature,  and  had  been  insurance  commissioner  of  the 
state  for  five  years  at  the  time  of  his  death. 

Bro.  Edgerton,  born  in  New  York,  college  bred,  practiced  law  in 
Mississippi,  Illinois,  and  Minnesota,  went  into  the  war  as  captain  of 
a  Minnesota  regiment,  became  colonel  of  a  colored  regiment,  and  was 
mustered  out  with  the  brevet  rank  of  brigadier  general,  was  by  turns 
county  attorney,  state  senator,  railroad  commissioner.  United  States 
senator  by  gubernatorial  appointment,  chief  justice  of  the  supreme 
court  of  Dakota  by  appointment  of  President  Arthur,  and  United 
States  district  judge  of  the  district  of  South  Dakota  by  appointment 
of  President  Harrison,  at  the  time  of  his  death.  He  presided  over  the 
constitutional  convention  which  framed  the  constitution  of  South 
Dakota. 


I 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  167 

We  copy  two  of  the  five  decisions  submitted  by  the  grand  master: 

1.  Must  an  entered  apprentice,  against  whom  charges  have  been 
preferred  for  unmasonic  conduct,  be  tried  in  a  lodge  open  on  that 
degree'? 

No. 

4.  Has  an  expelled  Mason  any  right  to  assistance  from  his  former 
lodge,  and  has  a  lodge  the  right  to  vote  its  funds  to  aid  the  distressed 
family  of  a  brother  who  has  been  expelled? 

An  expelled  Mason  has  no  Masonic  rights  whatever,  but  Masonic 
charity  being  as  universal  as  the  institution  itself  may  well  be  be- 
stowed even  upon  an  erring  brother,  and  it  may  wisely  be  extended  to 
those  dependent  upon  him  who  were  not  directly  responsible  for  but 
rather  suffered  bv  his  downfall. 

The  first  of  these  is  contrary  to  general  usage;  the  laws  of  most 
jurisdictions  provide  that  the  accused  shall  be  tried  in  a  lodge  opened 
in  the  highest  degree  to  which  he  has  attained.  The  last  we  com- 
mend for  its  gospel,  as  well  as  its  law. 

The  grand  master  reports  having  approved  a  waiver  of  jurisdic- 
tion by  a  Minnesota  lodge  in  favor  of  a  lodge  in  North  Dakota,  an  act 
that  is  worse  than  superfluous  (unless  required  by  some  enacted  reg- 
ulation) because  of  the  danger  that  it  may  become  an  established 
precedent,  finally  leading  to  the  denial  of  the  right  of  a  lodge  to 
waive  jurisdiction  without  the  grand  master's  permission.  The  juris- 
diction of  a  lodge  over  the  material  in  its  territory  being  absolute, 
the  correspondingly  absolute  right  of  waiver  should  not  be  degraded 
to  a  qualified  right  by  nibbling  precedents. 

The  grand  master  made  a  proper  example  of  a  master  of  a  lodge 
who  brought  nearly  groundless  charges  against  another  lodge  in  his 
own  town,  by  submitting  to  him  the  alternative  of  an  apology  to  the 
master  whom  he  had  wantonly  caused  pain,  and  to  the  grand  master 
for  the  misstatements  made  to  him,  and  the  absolute  withdrawal  of 
the  charges  proved  groundless,  or  his  suspension  from  office  and  sub- 
sequent trial  before  the  grand  lodge  for  unmasonic  conduct.  He 
made  the  apologies. 

Past  Grand  Master  Theodore  S.  Parvin,  grand  secretary  of 
Iowa,  and  Past  Grand  Master  William  G.  Bell,  of  Manitoba,  were 
formally  welcomed  as  visitors,  the  former  as  the  oldest  grand  secre- 
tary in  service  (fifty-two  years)  in  the  world,  being  received  with 
unusual  honors. 

The  following  was  referred  to  the  committee  on  ancient  land- 
marks (an  appropriate  reference  inasmuch  as  the  resolutions  impose 
tests  of  eligibility  additional  to  those  fixed  by  the  landmarks)  reported 
back  without  recommendation,  taken  up,  discussed,  and  after  an  in- 
effectual attempt  to  refer  it  to  a  special  committee  for  report  next 
year,  adopted  by  a  nearly  unanimous  vote. 


168  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


Whereas,  The  aim  of  the  Masonic  fraternity  is  to  make  its 
votaries  wiser,  better,  and  consequently  happier:  and 

Whereas,  The  sale  of  intoxicating  liquors  as  a  beverage  tends 
only  to  degradation  and  misery; 

Resolved,  That  all  persons  engaged  as  saloonkeepers  or  bartenders 
in  the  sale  of  intoxicants  as  a  beverage  are  hereby  declared  ineligible 
to  receive  the  degrees  of  Masonry  in  this  grand  jurisdiction. 

Resolved,  That  from  the  time  of  the  adoption  of  this  resolution  it 
shall  be  unlawful  for  any  member  of  a  lodge  in  this  jurisdiction  to  en- 
gage in  the  sale  of  intoxicants  as  a  beverage,  and  that  any  such  mem- 
ber engaging  in  such  business  shall  be  liable  to  charges  and  discipline 
for  unmasonic  conduct. 

The  grand  lodge  chartered  three  new  lodges:  listened  to  an  excel- 
lent practical  address  by  the  grand  orator,  L.  B.  Barto;  recognized 
the  principle  that  pecuniary  obligation  may  be  imposed  by  "charity" 
by  commending  the  action  of  the  grand  master  in  causing  a  lodge  to 
reimburse  an  Idaho  lodge  for  expense  incurred  in  the  care  of  a  Min- 
nesota brother:  declined  to  accept  the  Maine  proposition  as  to  re- 
jected candidates,  being  unwilling  to  "indorse  the  policy  of  perpetual 
jurisdiction,  either  limited  or  unlimited" — whatever  that  may  mean; 
sent  the  question  of  approving  a  funeral  service  prepared  by  Past 
Grand  Master  Charles  Griswold,  to  the  board  of  custodians:  ordered 
250  copies  of  the  1895  edition  of  Iodd's  Digest  for  gratuitous  distribu- 
tion among  the  lodges  and  grand  officers;  and  after  discussing  the 
following,  offered  by  Past  Grand  Master  H.  R.  Wells,  postponed  ac- 
tion thereon  until  next  year: 

Resolved,  That  it  shall  be  deemed  unmasonic  for  any  Mason  to  be- 
come, or  to  remain  a  member  of  any  insurance  company,  or  an}^  organ- 
ization, company,  association,  or  business  enterprise  having  or  using 
the  term  Masonic,  or  refering  to  the  Masonic  fraternity  in  its  title, 
excepting  societies  for  Masonic  i^urposes  recognized  as  such  for  con- 
ferring Masonic  degrees  authorized  by  this  grand  lodge,  the  grand 
chapter,  grand  commandery,  and  other  Masonic  orders  in  this  grand 
jurisdiction,  and  it  shall  be  deemed  and  is  deemed  unmasonic  for  any 
Mason  to  hereafter  solicit  any  person  to  become  a  member  of  any 
such  organization  for  business  purposes  using  title  as  above  indicated; 
this  resolution  to  take  effect  January  1,  1898. 

James  F.  Lawless,  grand  master;  Thomas  Montgomery,  grand 
secretary,  both  of  St.  Paul,  were  reelected. 

The  report  on  correspondence  (86  pp.)  is,  as  usual,  by  Bro.  Irving 
Todd,  whose  newspaper  training  enables  him  to  compress  a  vast 
amount  of  information  and  mother  wit  into  a  limited  space.  He  sum- 
marizes the  Illinois  proceedings  for  1896;  quotes  from  the  address  of 
Grand  Master  Scott  respecting  "conclaves"  for  work,  and  from  the 
report  on  correspondence,  of  which  he  remarks: 

Under  the  he^d  of  Kansas  sixteen  pages  are  devoted  to  Mexican 
Masonrj^  the  most  exhaustive  review  of  the  subject  that  has  come  to 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  169 


our  notice.     Several  of  the  points  will  tax   the  ingenuity  of  Bros. 
Miller,  Matthews,  and  Anthony  to  successfully  refute. 

The  proceedings  of  the  fifth  annual  reunion  of  the  Masonic  Vet- 
eran Association  of  Minnesota,  included  in  the  volume,  are  illustrated 
with  portraits  of  Charles  K.  Smith,  first  territorial  secretary  of 
Minnesota  and  founder,  organizer,  and  first  master  of  the  first  Ma- 
sonic lodge  in  Minnesota,  and  of  Charles  P.  Scott,  the  first  Mason 
made  in  the  jurisdiction. 

The  acknowledgments  and  regrets  read  at  the  banquet  included 
letters  from  Past  Grand  Masters  John  C.  Smith  and  DeWitt  C. 
Cregier,  venerable  chief  and  past  venerable  chief  of  the  Illinois 
Veterans. 

George  R.  Metcalf,  president,  and  Giles  W.  Merrill  (St.  Paul), 
secretary,  were  re-elected. 


MISSISSIPPI,  1897. 

79th  Annual.  Biloxi.  February  11. 

Past  Grand  Master  Frederic  Speed,  the  representative  of  Illi- 
nois, was  at  his  post  as  usual. 

Grand  Master  James  F.  McCool,  whose  portrait  graces  the  fly-leaf 
of  the  volume,  and  who  had  been  too  feeble  since  his  installation  to  even 
attend  a  single  lodge  meeting,  and  more  than  half  the  time  prostrate) 
helpless,  and  almost  lifeless,  delivered  a  brief  address,  but  one  long 
enough  to  disclose  the  fact  that  the  two  authorized  sources  of  law 
during  the  recess  in  Mississippi  were  at  outs  on  the  composition  of 
the  board  of  custodians;  the  party  of  the  second  part — the  committee 
on  law  and  usage — holding  that  one  of  its  members  whose  time  had 
expired  was  still  a  member  because  the  appointment  of  his  successor 
had  not  been  legal,  while  the  party  of  the  first  part— the  grand  mas- 
ter— held  that  the  appointment  made  by  him  was  legal  and  etfective. 

The  dispute  turned  on  whether  the  law  relating  to  the  appoint- 
ment of  custodians  is  directory  or  mandatory,  the  grand  master  hold- 
ing that  it  is  the  former  only,  and  that  in  the  absence  of  nominations 
made  by  the  parties  with  whom  by  the  constitution  the  nominating 
power  is  lodged,  the  grand  master  has  plenary  power  to  appoint;  while 
the  committee  hold  that  under  the  provision  of  the  law  making  a 


170  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 

member  still  a  member  after  his  term  expires,  until  his  successor  is 
appointed,  the  absence  of  action  on  the  part  of  the  authorized  nom- 
inators postponed  the  occurrence  of  the  vacancy  which  alone  made  it 
possible  for  the  grand  master  to  act. 

Of  course,  a  question  of  this  kind  would  be  a  veritable  picnic  for 
a  body  so  given  to  reveling  in  discussions  of  law  points  as  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Mississippi;  and  the  fact  that  the  committee  had  during 
the  session  the  opportunity  of  reviewing  the  grand  master's  discus- 
sion of  the  point  which  their  function  as  a  sort  of  coordinate  foun- 
tain of  law  during  the  recess  enabled  them  to  raise  in  advance, 
supplied  the  last  condition  required  to  make  the  struggle  of  the 
Titans  interesting  when  it  comes.  The  lateness  of  the  hour  when  the 
committee  got  through  with  their  second  inning  led  them  to  move  a 
postponement  of  the  debate  until  next  year,  and  the  grand  lodge 
agreed  to  it. 

The  grand  master  gave  the  following  reasons  for  permanently 
locating  the  grand  lodge  at  the  capital: 

Domicile  of  grand  lodge  is  in  the  city  of  Jackson  by  law,  and  ordi- 
narily, it  should  be  held  there  annually.  Going  to  extreme  borders  of 
the  state  cost  over  a  thousand  dollars  more  than  when  the  grand 
lodge  is  held  at  Jackson;  besides,  the  delegates  of  our  lodges  at  great 
distances  cannot,  financially,  afford  to  attend,  as  in  this  year,  at 
their  own  expense,  since  they  are  allowed  no  compensation  in  excess 
of  their  contributions  to  the  grand  lodge.  There  is  no  longer  any 
good  reason  why  the  grand  lodge,  like  a  billy-goat,  jumping  from  hill 
to  hill,  or  a  locomotive,  running  from  place  to  place,  should  be  kept 
on  wheels,  to  its  detriment.     Let  it  he  permanent. 

But  the  grand  lodge  at  seventy-eight  felt  itself  too  young  to  set- 
tle down,  and  agreed  to  meet  next  year  at  Water  Valley. 

He  gave  no  reason  for  the  following  recommendation,  nor  can  we 
guess  any  unless  it  be  the  long  severe  strain  of  the  terrible  illness 
through  which  he  had  passed: 

Amendments  of  the  law  should  be  made  so  that  any  Mason  who 
had  taken  the  chapter,  council,  and  commandery  degrees,  should  be 
eligible  to  any  office  in  the  grand  lodge,  provided  his  election  or 
appointment  should  be  desired. 

The  yet  unconsidered  report  ef  the  law  committee  says  of  this: 

We  deem  the  suggestion  that  "any  Mason  who  has  taken  the 
chapter,  council,  and  commandery  degrees,  shall  be  eligible  to  office 
in  the  grand  lodge,"  so  radical  that,  with  all  due  respect,  we  feel 
compelled  to  decline  to  recommend  its  consideration. 

Before  closing  his  address  the  grand  master  supplemented  his 
reference  to  his  long  illness  with  the  following  remarks: 

He  is  forced  to  rely  upon  a  charitable  indulgence  of  his  brethren 
for  any  dereliction  in  duty,  or  any  imperfection  in  his  work.  The 
deepest  gratitude  is  extended  to  the  brethren  throughout  the  state 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  171 


for  their  fervent,  devout,  and  efficacious  prayers  for  his  recovery  to 
health,  and  the  restoration  of  which,  he  is  largely  of  opinion,  is 
attributable  to  their  zealous  and  faithful  prayers. 

The  recovery  of  three  g'rand  masters — Miller,  Riley,  and  the 
writer  —  appear  almost  marvelous,  and  must  have  resulted  from 
righteous  prayers,  for  all  which  blessings,  they  give  God  the  glory 
and  the  praise. 

The  following  includes  the  concluding  paragraph  of  the  resolu- 
tion on  subdivision  and  reference,  and  a  sentence  from  the  journal: 

16.  So  much  of  the  grand  master's  address  as  refers  to  the  resto- 
ration to  health  of  Past  Grand  Masters  Miller,  Riley,  and  his  own,  to 
the  gratitude  of  the  brethren,  and  the  suggestion  is  made  that  the 
grand  lodge  now  unite  in  singing,  "Praise  God  from  whom  all  bless- 
ings flow." 

The  members  of  the  grand  lodge  thereupon  arose  and  united  in 
singing  the  Hymn  of  Praise,  as  suggested  in  the  preceding  paragraph. 

The  report  of  the  committee  on  law  and  jurisprudence  on  ques- 
tions presented  during  the  recess,  submitted  by  the  chairman.  Past 
Grand  Master  Speed,  fills  something  over  twenty-nine  closely  printed 
pages,  and  bristles  all  over  with  his  extraordinary  ability  and  versa- 
tility. 

The  committee  answer  the  question  "Is  a  bastard  eligible  for 
initiation?"  in  the  negative,  basing  the  answer  on  the  IVth  of  the 
ancient  charges,  which  says  that  the  candidate  "should  be  descended 
of  honest  parents,"  which  they  think  was  founded  upon  an  older  regu- 
lation, in  which  the  words  used  are  "and  no  bastard."  In  this  they 
follow  Mackey,  but  we  think  the  point  is  far-fetched,  and  as  illegiti- 
macy is  not  hinted  at  in  the  unwritten  law  we  do  not  think  it  was  al- 
luded to  in  the  charges  of  a  Freemason. 

Touching  the  point  of  liquor  selling,  the  following  question  was 
asked: 

7.  Is  one  who  travels  for  a  wholesale  grocery  house,  and  who,  in 
addition  to  soliciting  orders  for  groceries,  also  solicits  orders  for 
wines  and  liquors,  eligible  for  initiation? 

Past  Grand  Masters  Paxton  and  Harrison  say  he  is  ineligible 
under  their  regulation  and  subsequent  construing  legislation.  The 
chairman  insists  that  the  rule  against  selling  liquor  to  be  used  as  a 
beverage  does  not  warrant  the  answer,  but  goes  further  and  warns 
against  the  logical  outcome  of  broadening  i^recedents.     He  says: 

The  question  we  are  considering  is  the  eligibility  of  a  candidate 
for  initiation.  I  stand  as  squarely  as  my  associates  against  the  ad- 
mission, or  retention  of  those  who  peddle  out  hell  by  the  glass,  which, 
in  my  judgment,  is  what  is  meant  by  selling  intoxicating  liquor  as  a 
beverage.  There  is  no  telling  the  use  the  liquor  sold  by  this  appli- 
cant is  to  be  put  to;  it  may  be  to  cure  a  mule  of  the  colic,  to  preserve 
peaches,  or  in  the  communion  in  a  church.     The  regulations  were  not 


172  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 


intended  to  cover  all  uses  to  which  the  liquor  might  be  put,  but  was 
limited  to  the  single  condition  that  it  was  to  be  used  as  a  beverage, 
and  limited  to  this,  the  regulation  and  rule  meet  with  my  hearty 
approbation,  and  cannot  be  too  stringently  enforced;  but,  I  am  im- 
pressed with  the  thought  that  there  is  such  a  thing  possible  as  carry- 
ing a  reform  too  far,  and  that  it  is  now  but  one  single  step  from  the 
lodge  to  the  total  abstinence  society's  hall;  to  cross  the  line  but  one 
more  decision  is  necessary.  If  some  one  has  not  the  perception  to 
see  the  direction  in  which  we  are  rushing,  and  the  courage  to  cry  out 
a  warning,  that  step  will  be  taken.  Thinking  that  I  see  it,  I  reluct- 
antly raise  my  voice,  and,  without  abating  one  jot  or  tittle  from  the 
position  I  have  held  for  many  years,  that  the  business  of  making  men 
drunk  is  not  compatible  with  Freemasonry,  I  think  we  have  gone  just 
as  far  as  it  is  safe  to  go,  unless  we  are  bent  upon  making  Masonry 
something  else  than  what  it  has  been  from  the  beginning,  a  temper- 
ance society,  but  not  a  total  abstinence  club.  I  believe,  that  con- 
sistently with  the  written  law  of  this  grand  lodge,  though  perhaps 
not  with  the  sentimental,  this  candidate  is  eligible. 

When  the  report  came  up  for  action  the  grand  lodge  divided  on  a 
motion  to  substitute  the  word  "eligible'' for  "ineligible"  in  the  answer 
of  the  majority,  and  it  failed  on  a  call  of  lodges  by  a  vote  of  299  yeas 
to  310  nays. 

The  committee  agree — and  we  agree  with  the  committee — that  a 
lodge  may  decline  to  entertain  a  petition  for  the  degrees;  and  that 
although  this  should  be  done  by  formal  unanimous  vote  it  would  not 
be  a  rejection. 

Touching  non-affiliation  the  committee  say,  with  much  more: 

Some  years  ago  the  idea  became  prevalent  that,  as  a  man  came 
of  his  own  free  will  and  accord  to  the  doors  of  the  lodge,  he  should 
be  allowed  to  go  out  of  his  own  volition,  and  at  his  convenience.  No 
society  ever  indulged  in  a  more  pernicious  heresy  or  one  better  cal- 
culated to  sap  its  very  foundations  It  is  not  now,  and  never  was, 
true,  that  Masonry  is  a  voluntary  organization  into  which  a  man  may 
come  at  pleasure,  and  depart  at  will.  The  only  voluntary  act  is 
signing  the  petition,  and  ever  afterwards  it  is  submission  to  lawful 
will  and  authority. 

********* 

A  radical  misconception  of  the  meaning  of  a  single  word,  em- 
ployed in  the  third  of  the  ancient  charges,  is  the  foundation  upon 
which  is  built  the  whole  doctrine  of  non-affiliation.  It  is  therein  said 
"A  lodge  is  a  ])lace  where  Masons  assemble  and  work;  hence,  that 
assembly,  or  organized  society  of  Masons,  is  called  a  lodge,  and  every 
brother  ought  to  belong  to  one,  and  be  subject  to  its  by-laws,  and  tke 
general  regulations. 

The  committee  say  that  by  contemporary  usage  the  word  ought 
should  be  read  must.  One  need  not  consult  the  written  law  to  see 
whether  "the  only  voluntary  act  is  signing  the  petition,"  as  by  a  refer- 
ence to  the  unwritten  law  which  every  brother  carries  m  his  heart,  or 
head,  or  both,  it  will  be  seen  that  emphasis  is  placed  on  the  fact  that 
every  step  of  the  candidate  is  taken  of  his  own  free  will  and  accord. 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  173 

The  committee  recommend  and  formulate  amendments  to  effect 
a  change  from  three  ballots  and  three  fees  to  a  single  ballot  (as  in 
Illinois)  and  a  single  fee  for  the  degrees.  We  doubt  the  wisdom  of 
the  single  fee;  we  have  none  whatever  of  the  wisdom  of  the  single 
ballot,  which  is  the  original  practice  and  never  departed  from  in  the 
grand  lodges  of  England,  Ireland,  and  Scotland,  and  in  the  older  jur- 
isdictions in  this  country. 

The  same  committee  reported  on  the  Maine  proposition  relative 
to  rejected  candidates  and  the  grand  lodge  unanimously  adopted  the 
report.  To  understand  the  full  significance  of  this  action  our  readers 
should  recall  the  fact  that  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Mississippi,  itself 
holding  to  the  doctrine  of  perpetual  jurisdiction,  led  off  with  a  propo- 
sition to  modify  its  law  in  the  hope  of  finding  a  common  ground  upon 
which  all  the  grand  lodges  of  this  country  could  unite,  and  thus  re- 
move a  menace  to  the  public  peace  which  the  present  diversity  of 
regulations  threatens.  With  this  fact  in  mind  the  concluding  por- 
tion of  the  report,  which  follows,  will  be  fully  understood: 

While  we  are  not  in  a  position  to  say  whether  the  suggested  uni- 
form rules  proposed  by  this  grand  lodge  have  been  fairly  considered 
upon  their  merits,  we  know  that  they  are  not  acceptable  to  the  other 
grand  lodges  upon  this  continent,  and  while  we  believe  still  that  they 
are  as  liberal  as  a  due  regard  for  the  safety  of  the  Masonic  institu- 
tion will  permit,  waiving  all  pride  of  opinion,  we  yield  to  whatever 
shall  seem  best  to  the  majority  of  grand  lodges.  Of  course  we  are 
not  prepared  to  recommend  to  this  grand  lodge  that  it  yield  its  pre- 
dilections in  favor  of  the  ancient  law  of  Masonry,  which  we  still 
believe  to  be  wise  and  salutary,  yet,  as  further  adherence  to  it  may 
prove  a  source  of  danger  to  the  Masonic  craft,  we  advise  the  adop- 
tion, in  part,  of  the  proposal  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Maine,  to  limit  the 
jurisdiction  of  lodges  over  rejected  candidates  to  five  years  from  the 
date  of  rejection;  but  we  think,  however,  that  during  that  period 
the  safety  of  Masonry  demands  that  the  petitioner  should  not  be 
allowed  to  enter  the  threshold  of  Masonry  with  the  consent  of  a  part 
of  the  membership  of  the  rejecting  lodge,  and  we  cannot,  therefore, 
recommend  that  portion  of  the  proposition  be  adopted. 

We  think,  moreover,  that  there  ought  to  be  added  to  the  proposal 
an  agreement  regulating  the  time  when  the  proposition  is  to  take 
effect;  we  therefore  recommend  the  adoption  of  the  following  reso- 
lutions: 

Resolved,  That  when  a  majority  of  the  grand  lodges  in  America 
shall  agree  "that  the  eft'ect  of  a  rejection  shall  be  limited  to  five 
years,  and  that  during  that  time  the  candidate  sliall  be  allowed  to 
petition  only  to  the  lodge  which  rejected  him,"  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
Mississippi  will  so  amend  its  laws  as  to  make  such  agreement  effective 
and  binding  upon  the  lodges  of  its  obedience. 

Jiesolved,  That  it  fraternally  rejects  so  much  of  the  proposition  of 
the  most  worshipful,  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Maine,  as  would  permit  a 
candidate  to  renew  his  petition  in  another  lodge  unless  the  same  shall 
be  amended  so  that  the  same  shall  require  the  consent  of  all  the 
members  of  the  rejecting  lodge. 


174  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 


The  report  of  the  same  committee  adverse  to  the  Wisconsin  prop- 
osition relative  to  Masonic  relief  was  adopted  with  like  unanimity. 
We  copy  a  portion  of  the  conclusion  of  the  report: 

Sweet,  ever  sweet,  will  remain  the  recollection  of  the  great  over- 
flowing of  the  hearts  and  money  of  our  northern  brethren  towards  us 
of  the  south  in  the  hour  or  our  deep  distress,  when  death  held  high 
carnival  in  our  midst. 

*  w  *  *  *  **  *.* 

Such  debts  are  not  to  be  discharged  with  money,  else  principal 
and  interest  would  have  been  paid  long  ago.  But  there  remains  a 
mortgage  on  every  southern  home  which  is  extinguishable.  It  will 
only  be  satisfied  in  the  Grand  High  Court  of  Chancery  when  '"we 
shall  meet  upon  the  level  there,  when  the  gates  of  death  are  passed." 

It  was  true  Masonry  which  came  rushing  to  answer  the  cry  of 
distress,  unbidden,  and  with  no  thought  of  recompense.  So  it  is  true 
Masonry  to  fly  to  the  relief  of  the  distressed,  wheresoever  we  may 
find  them,  having  no  thought  of  the  debt  which  is  being  created,  or 
the  bond  by  which  it  is  secured  to  be  paid. 

We  stand  debtor  to  Wisconsin,  and  never  can  hope  for  a  release 
from  that  obligation,  and  we  honor  and  esteem  the  true-hearted 
Mason  from  whose  brain  emanated  this  proposed  departure  from  the 
fundamental  principles  upon  which  our  craft  is  builded.  If  it  were  a 
mere  question  of  courtesy  to  the  one,  or  respect  and  affection  for  the 
other,  we  should  not  be  found  amongst  those  who  opposed  any  jiropo- 
sition  coming  from  that  source,  but,  as  we  view  it,  there  is  involved 
a  Masonic  principle  which  cannot  be  sacrificed  to  inclination.  And, 
therefore,  we  submit  the  following: 

Besolved,  That  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Mississippi  tender  its  fraternal 
respects  to  the  most  worshipful,  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Wisconsin,  and 
in  declining  to  accede  to  its  first  or  second  propositions  relating  to 
the  adoption  of  a  uniform  rule  regulating  the  liability  of  lodges  for 
disbursements  made  for  its  members  in  distress  by  another  lodge, 
begs  leave  to  assure  its  sister  that  it  is  not  actuated  by-  any  but  the 
warmest  motives  of  fraternal  love  and  affection. 

The  following,  offered  by  Past  Grand  Master  Speed  and  unani- 
mously adopted,  is  interesting  as  a  phase  in  the  evolution — or  in- 
volution— of  the  grand  representative  system.  The  effect  of  the 
introduction  of  a  new  ingredient  into  the  cauldron,  possibly  to  work 
a  charm  of  powerful  trouble,  just  as  the  ebullition  caused  by  the 
attempted  abolition  of  the  system  had  subsided,  will  be  watched  with 
interest: 

Whereas,  A  number  of  the  grand  representatives  of  other  grand 
lodges  to  this  grand  lodge,  now  on  the  roll,  have  neglected  to  attend 
its  annual  communications  for  several  j-ears,  and  it  is  the  opinion  of 
the  grand  lodge  that  the  honor  of  being  a  grand  representative  ought 
to  be  confined  to  those  who  are  regular  in  their  attendance  at  the 
annual  communications:  be  it 

Besolred,  That  the  exequator  of  all  grand  representatives  of  other 
grand  lodges  to  this  grand  lodge,  who  w^ere  not  present  at  its  last 
annual  communication,  and  who  are  not  present  at  this  annual  com- 
munication, be  withdrawn,  and  that  the  grand  secretary  be  directed 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  175 


to  give  notice  to  the  several  grand  lodges  which  will  thereby  be  left 
without  representation,  of  the  vacancies  created  hereby,  and  to  re- 
spectfully request  that  the  same  be  filled  in  the  usual  manner. 

Eesolvcd,  further  That  it  is  the  opinion  of  this  grand  lodge  that 
the  grand  master,  in  making  nominations  of  grand  representatives, 
ought  to  confine  the  honor  to  those  Masons  who,  by  their  attendance 
at  the  annual  communications,  enables  them  to  intelligently  dis- 
charge the  duties  of  the  office. 

Be  it  further  Resolved,  That  the  commissions  of  all  grand  repre- 
sentatives from  this  grand  lodge  to  other  grand  lodges,  who  have 
failed  to  attend  the  annual  communications  of  the  grand  lodges  to 
which  they  are  respectively  accredited,  for  tw^o  years  last  past,  be, 
and  the  same  are  hereby  withdrawn,  and  that  the  grand  secretary  is 
hereby  directed  to  inform  the  several  grand  masters  of  this  action, 
and  that  this  grand  lodge  will  be  pleased  to  commission  such  active 
Masons  as  they  may  be  pleased  to  nominate  to  fill  the  vacancies. 

The  grand  lodge  chartered  five  new  lodges,  granted  one  dispensa- 
tion, and  forfeited  the  charters  of  three  lodges  for  non-payment  of 
dues  for  a  period  of  two  years;  levied  an  assessment  of  two  and  one- 
half  cents  per  capita  for  a  grand  lodge  charity  fund,  and  seven  and 
one-half  cents  for  a  grand  relief  fund  for  the  aid  of  persons  having 
no  claims  on  any  particular  lodge  and  to  supplement  the  relief  work 
of  lodges  unable  to  carry  its  burdens,  and  appropriated  therefrom 
the  customary  annual  donation  to  the  Natchez  Protestant  Orphan 
Asylum;  appropriated  fifty  dollars  for  the  relief  of  a  past  grand  mas- 
ter needy  from  protracted  illness;  one  hundred  dollars  for  the  relief 
of  the  Louisiana  sulferers,  and  fifty  dollars  respectively  for  the  suf- 
ferers in  Armenia  and  India;  and  for  the  Masonic  Home  levied  an 
assessment  of  twenty  cents  per  capita,  and  sent  to  the  lodges  a  prop- 
osition to  set  apart  annually  fifty  cents  per  capita  for  its  endowment, 
that  will  come  up  for  action  next  3'ear. 

John  S.  Cobb,  of  Verona,  was  elected  grand  master.  John  L. 
Power,  Jackson,  re-elected  grand  secretary. 

The  report  on  correspondence  (74  pages)  is  as  usual  the  work  of 
Past  Grand  Master  Andrew  H.  Barkley,  who  furnishes  this  year  a 
seven  page  introduction,  a  practical  and  highly  interesting  disserta- 
tion on  "What  to  Do,  How  to  Do,  and  When  to  Do."  Illinois  finds  a 
place  in  his  brief  review,  receiving  complimentary  and  fraternal 
notice. 


176  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 

MISSOURI,  1896. 

76th  Annual.  St.  Louis.  October  20. 

Martin  Collins,  past  senior  grand  warden,  the  representative 
of  Illinois,  was  present. 

The  address  of  the  grand  master  (A.  M.  Hough),  a  brief,  terse 
record,  reflects  the  manifest  success  of  his  avowed  effort  to  give  the 
craft  a  plain,  practical  business  administration.  He  refused  all  re- 
quests of  lodges  to  appear  in  public  on  other  that  Masonic  occasions. 
He  was  able  to  dispose  of  all  matters  presented  without  making  any 
decisions.  He  recommend  that  twenty  petitioners  be  required  to  join 
in  the  application  before  a  dispensation  for  a  new  lodge  should  issue, 
because  of  the  difficulty  of  obtaining  a  quorum,  and  because  it  re- 
quires at  least  fifteen  to  confer  the  degrees  with  perfection  or  sol- 
emnity. The  jurisprudence  committee  concurred  and  initiated  the 
required  steps  for  so  amending  the  law.  It  is  a  mere  matter  of  opin- 
ion, but  we  doubt  the  wisdom  of  so  large  a  hard  and  fast  limit  even  in 
so  old  a  state  as  Missouri,  because  there  is  yet  so  much  of  its  territory 
undeveloped,  and  many  localities  where  new  railroads  will  create  new 
centers  of  assured  growth  affording  good  fields  for  lodges,  but  where 
the  proposed  law  will  perhaps  work  unreasonable  delay  before  Ma- 
sonic privileges  can  be  enjoyed. 

The  grand  master  recommended  that  steps  be  taken  to  secure, 
under  penalty,  the  reading  of  the  reports  of  the  jurisprudence  and 
appeals  committees  every  year.  The  jurisprudence  committee  heart- 
ily second  his  opinion  as  to  the  importance  of  having  these  reports 
read,  but  could  not  see  its  way  clear  to  impose  a  penalty  for  non-per- 
formance of  the  duty  imposed  by  the  installation  charges. 

It  is  certain  that  if  a  lodge  could  hear  read  every  year  such  re- 
ports on  jurisprudence  as  those  submitted  by  Past  Grand  Master  An- 
derson and  his  predecessors,  and  such  reports  on  appeals  as  that 
submitted  by  Bro.  Orear  at  the  session  under  review,  it  would  be 
much  better  equipped  for  the  performance  of  its  Masonic  duties  than 
those  not  so  favored. 

Of  the  clear,  forcible  style  of  the  former  the  following  is  a  good 
example,  but  we  copy  it  here  because  it  reflects  the  judgment  of  the 
grand  lodge  upon  the  subject  of  which  it  treats,  as  it  does  also  our 
own: 

As  to  the  proposition  made  by  Worshipful  Bro.  Goldsmith  and 
referred  to  your  committee,  that  the  grand  lodge  should  bear  the 
funeral  expenses  of  a  brother  Master  Mason  who  has  taken  a  "dimit, 
with  privileges,"  and  dies  before  the  expiration  of  the  year  from  its 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  177 


date.  Your  committee  find  some  difficulty  in  the  proper  solution  of  the 
question,  and  hesitate  to  establish  a  precedent  or  declare  a  liability 
which  would  open  the  door  for  imposition  of  a  charge  upon  the  grand 
lodge,  in  many  cases  w^iich,  if  left  to  the  promptings  of  charity,  or  a 
sense  of  Masonic  duty,  would  not  have  been  incurred.  We  think  a 
brother  ought  not  to  apply  for  a  "dimit,  with  privileges,"  until  he  has 
made  up  his  mind  as  to  what  other  lodge  he  proposes  to  affiliate  with, 
so  that  no  time  may  be  lost  in  his  transfer  of  membership;  but  if  he 
takes  his  dimit  without  any  definite  idea  as  to  when  or  where  he  will 
deposit  it,  and  suspends  his  active  Masonic  life  and  voluntarily  as- 
sumes the  risks  incident  thereto;  then,  if  he  should  die,  it  becomes  a 
question  of  Masonic  dut}-,  on  the  part  of  the  lodge  under  whose  juris- 
diction he  may  die.  as  to  whether  they  will  afford  him  a  Masonic 
burial  and  pay  the  expenses  incident  thereto.  While  in  some  cases 
the  performance  of  such  rite  may  work  a  hardship  upon  the  lodge, 
which  the  consciousness  of  having  shown  their  appreciation  of  true 
Masonic  charity  may,  to  some  extent,  offset,  yet  we  can  but  think 
that  when  such  cases  occur,  the  lodge  having  voluntarily  chosen  to 
perform  the  service,  ought  not  to  calculate  on  reimbursement  from 
other  sources.  At  any  rate,  with  the  lights  before  us,  we  do  not  feel 
like  committing  this  grand  lodge  to  such  liability,  and  thus  lessen  the 
chances  which  the  brother  takes  who  does  not  hasten  to  keep  up  his 
Masonic  affiliation  and  fully  guard  his  Masonic  life.  We  do  not  mean 
to  say  that  a  case  may  not  occur  in  which  our  committee  on  charity 
might  not  be  justified  in  making  an  appropriation  to  meet  such  ex- 
penses, but  think  it  time  enough  to  cross  that  bridge  when  we  come 
to  it. 

''Every  man  to  his  trade"  is  an  old  adage  and  one  which  comes 
forcibly  to  mind  on  turning  to  the  report  of  the  special  committee  on 
the  Wisconsin  proposition  concerning  Masonic  relief.  The  chairman, 
Bro.  Martin  Collins,  the  efficient  president  of  the  St.  Louis  Board 
of  Relief,  seems  to  see  in  the  matter  nothing  but  a  question  of  method 
of  managing  the  relief  work  of  a  grand  lodge.  He  says,  with  the 
concurrence  of  the  grand  lodge: 

Your  committee  appointed  to  consider  a  plan  of  Masonic  relief, 
proposed  by  a  committee  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Wisconsin,  respect- 
fully beg  leave  to  report  that  they  have  carefully  examined  the 
"Wisconsin  Proposition"' — namely,  the  appointment  of  a  grand  lodge 
committee  to  dispense  the  charities  of  the  grand  lodge — but  would 
recommend  to  this  worshipful  grand  lodge  that  no  plan  of  official 
Masonic  relief  other  than  the  one  now  in  operation  be  adopted  wlthirh 
this  jurisdiction.  We  already  have  efficient  boards  of  Masonic  relief 
at  the  principal  points  within  this  jurisdiction,  organized  under  the 
laws  of  this  grand  lodge,  some  of  which  have  been  at  work  for  the 
past  forty  years  doing  efficient  work,  and  no  complaint  is  made  of 
the  efficiency  of  the  present  system. 

The  present  boards  of  relief  are  constituted  for  prompt,  intelli- 
gent, and  discriminating  work.  A  relief  committee  of  the  grand 
lodge  would,  from  its  composition,  necessarily  be  less  efficient  in 
doing  such  work  as  is  now  well  done  by  the  board  of  relief. 

We  would,  therefore,  recommend  that  the  proposed  plan  of 
benevolent  work  be  not  adopted. 


178  APPENDIX. — PART  I. 


The  grand  lodge  chartered  five  new  lodges;  visited  the  Masonic 
Home,  and  witnessed  an  exhibition  given  by  the  children  of  that  in- 
stitution; reduced  the  minimum  fee  for  the  degrees  from  thirty 
to  twenty  dollars;  withdrew  from  its  connection  with  the  General 
Masonic  Relief  Association  of  the  United  States  and  Canada;  made 
several  appropriations  for  the  relief  of  needy  parties,  but  agreed  with 
the  charity  committee  that  since  the  Home  has  become  an  established 
fact,  appropriations  for  the  relief  of  individual  Masons,  with  the  ex- 
ception of  past  grand  officers,  should  cease,  being  made  to  the  lodges 
to  which  the  individuals  belong,  if  at  all;  and  received,  read,  and  laid 
over  for  action  next  year,  several  important  amendments  to  the  by- 
laws, among  them  one  to  more  closely  define  its  prohibition  legis- 
lation by  substituting  for  the  words  "saloon  keeping,"  the  words 
"Masons  who  either  as  principal,  agent,  employee,  or  in  any  other 
capacity,  shall  sell  intoxicating  liquors  to  be  used  as  a  beverage, 
habitual  drunkenness,  gambling,  blaspheming,  profanity,  and  prac- 
tices of  kindred  character;"  another  proposes  substantially  to  adopt 
the  New  York  law  respecting  dimission  which  requires  that  a  brother 
shall  be  elected  to  a  new  affiliation  before  he  shall  be  dimitted  from 
the  old  but  permits  him  to  "withdraw"  from  membership  if  he 
chooses  to  accept  the  penalty,  the  disabilities  of  non-affiliation,  which 
after  one  year  are  inability  to  visit  a  lodge,  join  in  a  Masonic  proces- 
sion, and  deprivation  of  the  right  to  receive  Masonic  relief  or  burial 
— a  law  that  has  proved  no  more  satisfactory  than  the  other  expedi- 
ents that  have  been  expected  to  check  unaffiliation:  and  still  another 
amendment  providing  that  at  least  two  negative  ballots  shall  be  re- 
quired to  reject  a  petitioner  for  affiliation. 

The  grand  lodge  also  had  under  consideration  a  drastic  report 
from  the  committee  on  ways  and  means  in  condemnation  of  disburse- 
ments made  in  excess  of  appropriations.  The  consideration  of  the 
portion  copied  below  was  postponed  until  next  year: 

Your  committee  has  also  examined  the  existing  method  of  keep- 
ing the  funds  of  the  grand  lodge  and  deems  it  expedient  that  a 
change  should  be  made  in  this  respect.  We  are  of  the  opinion  that 
the  funds  of  the  grand  lodge  should  be  deposited  in  some  bank  or 
banks,  or  trust  company  or  trust  companies,  to  the  credit  of  the 
grand  lodge.  We  are  impressed  that  by  such  a  course  the  grand 
lodge  will  receive  interest  upon  its  daily  balances. 

Your  committee  therefore  recommends  that  in  the  future  the 
funds  of  the  grand  lodge  shall,  as  soon  as  received  by  him,  be  by  the 
grand  treasurer  deposited  to  the  credit  of  the  grand  lodge  in  some  bank 
or  banks,  trust  company  or  companies,  to  be  designated  by  a  special 
committee  of  three,  to  be  appointed  each  3-ear  by  the  grand  master; 
that  said  funds  shall  only  be  paid  out  on  the  warrant  of  the  grand 
secretary  drawn  upon  the  grand  treasurer,  and  that  each  warrant  so 
drawn  shall  upon  its  face  state  the  particular  item  of  appropriation 
against  which  it  is  drawn.  That  it  be  the  duty  of  the  grand  treas- 
urer to  refuse  to  pay  any  warrant  or  portion  of  any  warrant  against 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  179 


any  particular  item  of  appropriation  when  that  item  shall  have  been 
exhausted. 

DORSEY  A.  Jamison  was  elected  grand  master;  John  D.  Vincil 
reelected  grand  secretary,  both  of  St.  Louis. 

The  report  on  correspondence  (158  pp.)  is  the  nineteenth  by  its 
author,  the  grand  secretary,  Past  Grand  Master  John  D.  Vincil. 
It  is  almost  entirely  in  his  own  language,  a  plan  that  gives  full  play 
to  his  mastery  of  English,  and  is  marked  by  the  ripeness  of  thought 
which  comes  of  long  experience. 

Illinois  proceedings  for  1895  are  ver}-  thoroughly  reviewed,  some- 
thing over  two  of  his  seven  pages  being  given  to  the  address  of  Grand 
Master  Goddard,  of  which  he  says  in  conclusion: 

The  conclusion  of  the  verj-  able  and  admirable  address  of  my  per- 
sonal friend  and  brother,  Goddard  is  as  neat  and  chaste  as  anything 
I  have  met  with  in  the  prelections  uttered  by  grand  masters.  It  is 
proper  to  state  in  this  connection  that  the  address  was  denominated 
an  '"important  document"  by  a  proper  committee,  and  that  the  great 
care  and  extraordinary  activity  of  the  grand  master  exercised  during 
his  terms,  as  well  as  his  signal  success  in  carrying  forward  and  dis- 
seminating Masonry  in  that  jurisdiction,  entitled  him  to  the  lasting 
regard  and  affection  of  the  fraternity. 

The  report  of  our  committee  on  appeals  is  thus  commended: 

The  committee  on  appeals  and  grievances  presented  a  report 
which  forms  an  admirable  object  lesson  to  all  sister  jurisdictions.  No 
names  are  given,  either  as  to  the  accused  or  appellant,  but  only  the 
name  and  number  of  the  lodge,  followed  by  the  statement  of  the  action 
of  the  lodge,  sustained  or  remanded,  as  the  case  might  be.  Thus  the 
journals  of  that  grand  lodge  are  free  from  the  accumulation  of  much 
objectionable  matter  set  forth  in  detail  by  some  of  our  committees 
on  appeals  and  grievances. 

Bro.  Black's  oration  is  characterized  as  an  address  of  rare  merit 
and  beauty,  at  once  strong  and  practical;  and  the  report  on  corre- 
spondence is  generously  spoken  of. 

We  having  said  that  a  decision  that  a  non-affiliate  of  tvrelve 
months'  standing  could  not  join  in  a  petition  for  a  new  lodge,  was 
jurisprudence  run  mad,  Bro.  ViNCiL  says,  substantially,  "You're  an- 
other," because  from  our  attitude  we  must  hold  that  a  Mason  not  in 
good  standing  can  be  restored  to  good  standing  independent  of  lodge 
action.  It  strikes  us  that  the  initial  trouble  with  his  ''logical  one- 
hoss  shay"  is  in  the  premise  that  because  a  brother  has  been  deprived 
of  certain  of  his  rights  by  legislation  he  is  not  in  other  respects  in 
good  standing.  He  is  "in  good  "standing"  in  the  Masonic  acceptation 
of  the  term,  else  he  could  not  petition  a  lodge  for  affiliation  and  obtain 
membership  by  ballot  without  being  first  ''reinstated"  by  competent 
authority.  The  particular  feature  of  the  case  which  elicited  from 
us  the  remark,  "jurisprudence  run  mad,"  was  the  assumption  that 


180  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 

he  was  in  good  standing  enough  to  secure  affiliation  in  the  usual  way 
in  a  chartered  lodge,  but  not  in  good  standing  enough  to  reach  the 
same  desirable  end — the  end  which  the  duress  of  privative  legislation 
is  expressly  designed  to  compel — by  affiliating  with  other  Masons  in 
starting  a  new  lodge. 

Touching  another  matter,  he  says: 

Referring  to  our  proceedings,  where  it  is  shown  that  several  par- 
ties were  reinstated  by  vote  of  the  grand  lodge,  who  had  lost  their 
membership  by  the  death  of  their  lodges,  Bro.  Bobbins  seems  to 
question  the  correctness  of  our  methods.  Perhaps  our  record  was 
silent  as  to  the  facts  lying  behind  such  action,  and  it  will  remove  the 
mists  from  his  vision  when  I  inform  him  that  these  parties,  thus  rein- 
stated, had  been  suspended  and  so  stood  for  j^ears,  for  non-payment 
of  dues,  and  when  their  lodges  ceased  to  exist  they  were  left  in  that 
condition,  not  only  without  membership,  but  under  Masonic  disabili- 
ties. Their  applications  for  reinstatement,  properly  endorsed,  could 
only  be  considered  by  the  grand  lodge.  The  facts,  together  with  the 
payment  of  their  former  indebtedness,  being  made  clear  to  the  grand 
lodge,  it  voted  to  reinstate  them,  and  directed  the  grand  secretary 
to  issue  them  certificates. 

It  does  indeed  remove  the  mists  from  our  eyes  to  learn  that  the 
brethren  referred  to  were  under  suspension.  Upon  this  state  of  facts 
our  criticism,  expressed  or  implied,  was  misplaced. 

Bro.  ViNCiL  comments  at  some  length  on  our  remarks  touching 
the  then  proposed  basis  of  a  mileage  and  per  diem  system — the  same 
substantially  as  was  adopted  one  year  later.  As  we  are  unable  to 
find  an  itemized  report  of  the  committee  or  payroll— and  we  infer 
from  the  index  that  no  such  report  was  made — we  are  unable  to  dis- 
cuss the  operation  of  the  system  intelligently.  We  have  briefly  indi- 
cated our  views  on  the  general  subject  in  our  notice  of  Georgia. 


I 


MONTANA,  1896. 

32nd  Annual.  Butte.  September  16. 

Our  Illinois  brethren  will  understand  that  the  traditional  reputa- 
tion of  the  Montana  royal  line  drops  no  stitch  by  the  printing  of  the 
retiring  grand  master's  portrait,  when  we  say  that  one  might  easily 
mistake  it  for  that  of  George  W.  Hill,  of  our  grand  lodge  appellate 
bench,  a  strong  factor  in  helping  Egypt  to  hold  the  blue  ribbon  for 
good  looking  men. 

Past  Grand  Master  Cornelius  Hedges,  the  representative  of 
Illinois  was  present,  his  Atlas-shoulders  bearing — besides  the  burden 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  181 

of  the  <jrand  secretariat — the  diplomatic  responsibilities  of  two  other 
grand  jurisdictions,  to  remind  us  of  the  better  days  of  the  grand  repre- 
sentative system. 

The  brief  exordium  of  the  address  of  the  grand  master  (James  H. 
Mills)  shows -him  firmly  seated  in  the  saddle  of  style.  If  it  is  am- 
bitious, you  fear  no  fall.  He  announced  the  death  of  John  S.  Mend- 
ENHALL,  past  senior  grand  warden;  George  ,W.  Dart,  past  junior 
grand  warden,  and  Past  Masters  George  C.  DOUGLAS  and  John  C. 
Williams.  To  the  latter  category  later  returns  compel  the  grand 
setretary  to  add  the  names  of  A.  P.  Sears,  Albert  Minger,  and 
Charles  M.  Rogers. 

Of  the  effect  of  returning  to  the  ancient  system  of  the  ballot  the 
grand  master  says: 

The  one-ballot  system  for  all  the  degrees,  which  was  adopted  at 
the  last  grand  lodge  to  supersede  the  ballot- for-each-degree  system 
previously  in  force,  has  taken  its  place  as  day  succeeds  the  dawn. 
There  has  been  no  jar  or  friction  brought  to  my  notice,  and  but  one 
inquiry  as  to  methods  has  reached  me.  If  it  has  not  given  entire  sat- 
isfaction, I  have  not  been  advised  of  the  fact.  This  is  the  more  grati- 
fying, as  in  several  preceding  grand  lodge  communications,  discussions 
in  which  serious  apprehensions  of  its  eft'ect  were  disclosed,  consumed 
many  hours  of  time. 

We  copy  three  of  his  eight  decisions  submitted: 

2.  A  lodge  may  exist  and  its  papers  be  authenticated  without  a 
seal;  but  the  failure  of  lodges  having  a  seal  to  so  authenticate  their 
papers  is  due  to  carelessness  that  should  not  continue. 

3.  The  laying  of  corner-stones  is  the  exclusive  prerogative  of  the 
grand  lodge. 

4.  Unless  a  Masonic  body  is  in  charge  and  conducting  the  services, 
it  is  in  violation  of  established  Masonic  usage  for  a  Masonic  lodge  to 
participate  in  funeral  services  as  a  lodge;  but  this  does  not  prevent 
the  participation  of  members  as  individuals  or  as  members  of  other 
bodies. 

These  were  all  approved.  Doubtless  a  lodge  might  exist  elsewhere 
than  in  Montana  and  its  papers  be  authenticated  without  a  seal,  but 
the  seal  is  required  by  universal  usage,  and  doubtless  by  law  in  most 
jurisdictions — as  in  Illinois — lodges  are  required  to  have  and  to  use 
them  to  authenticate  all  official  papers. 

Referring  to  No.  3  we  think  it  is  a  misuse  of  terms  to  say  that 
anything  is  the  prerogative  of  the  grand  lodge— as  a  prerogative  is 
something  which  attaches  to  a  personal  executive.  We  think  that  al- 
most universally  the  laying  of  corner-stones  is  recognized  as  the  pre- 
rogative of  the  grand  master,  and  we  presume  that  even  in  Montana 
if  an  invitation  to  lay  one  is  received  by  the  grand  master  he  would 
decide  whether  it  should  be  done  without  first  calling  the  grand  lodge 
together.     We  fully  agree  with  No.  4. 


182  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 


The  following  is  amongf  the  list  of  special  dispensations: 

To  Missoula  Lodge  No.  13,  authorizing  it  to  ballot  upon,  and  if 
elected,  to  confer  the  M.M.  degree  at  a  special  meeting  on  an  F.C. 
who  resided  remote  from  Missoula,  who  had  started  by  train  to  be 
present  at  its  regular  meeting,  but  by  delay  of  the  train  failed  to 
reach  the  lodge  in  time,  and  would  be  put  to  heavy  expense  and  loss 
of  time  if  required  to  make  another  trip  for  that  purpose.  It  was 
required  that  the  secretary  give  notice  of  such  special  meeting  as 
fully  as  possible  to  all  resident  members. 

And  it  illustrates  a  common  sense  use  of  the  grand  master's  pre- 
rogative. 

The  grand  master  recommended  a  change  of  the  time  of  meeting 
of  the  grand  lodge  from  September  to  February,  the  autumn  meet- 
ing falling  at  times  when  business  activities,  home  and  foreign  fes- 
tivities, and,  biennially  at  least,  political  movements  engross  the  time 
and  attention  of  the  members,  but  a  failure  of  those  who  desired  a 
change  to  get  together  as  to  the  best  date,  resulted  in  leaving  the 
time  unchanged. 

Two  points  of  view  are  illustrated  in  the  report  of  Grand  Secre- 
tary Hedges.  He  had  made  no  charge  for  affixing  the  seal  and  certi- 
fying to  a  private  diploma,  because  there  had  never  been  any  law 
authorizing  it.  One  of  his  predecessors  had  made  such  a  charge  and 
justified  himself  by  saying  that  there  was  no  law  requiring  him  to  do 
it  for  nothing.  The  grand  lodge  agreed  with  Bro.  Hedges  that  fifty 
cents  would  be  a  reasonable  fee  and  authorized  him  to  exact  it.  The 
Illinois  law  exacts  one  dollar  for  the  service — and  it  goes  into  the 
grand  treasury. 

The  grand  secretary  having  been  authorized  to  procure  and  pre- 
sent a  suitable  testimonial  to  the  retiring  grand  master  of  the  preced- 
ing year  (Monteath),  selected  a  beautiful  pair  of  candelabra  and  a 
pair  of  fruit  plates  of  silver,  and  in  his  letter  accompanying  the  gift 
gracefully  said:  "Its  value  to  you  will  be  more  than  doubled  I  am 
sure,  by  the  fact  that  your  good  wife  can,  even  more  than  yourself, 
enjoy  its  silvery  light,  and  you  will  be  more  frequently  reminded  of 
the  good  wishes  and  grateful  esteem  of  your  brethren,  than  by  an 
official  jewel,  to  be  worn  only  on  state  occasions." 

Pending  the  election  of  grand  officers  a  question  arose  which  the 
grand  master  settled  by  deciding  that  under  their  constitution  a 
brother  who  was  both  a  past  master  and  a  present  master  of  a  lodge 
in  that  jurisdiction  was  entitled  to  cast  two  votes — one  in  each  capac- 
ity. A  brother  appealed  from  the  decision.  The  right  of  appeal  was 
questioned  by  a  brother,  but  under  the  circumstances  the  grand  mas- 
ter preferred  to  have  the  question  passed  upon  and  placed  the  motion 
before   the   grand  lodge,  and   on  a  vote   his  ruling   was  sustained. 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE  183 


Immediatel}"  followin<j;  the  election,  however,  the  law  was  so  amended 
that  no  brother  could  cast  vote  in  more  than  one  capacity. 

We  infer  that  the  appointments  of  subordinate  officers  and  com- 
mittees made  by  the  incoming  grand  master  in  Montana  are  really 
nominations  only,  as  we  notice  that  they  were,  upon  formal  motion, 
confirmed  by  the  grand  lodge. 

It  was  decided  through  a  report  from  the  committee  on  jurispru- 
dence, adopted  by  the  grand  lodge,  that  an  elective  officer  of  the 
grand  lodge  may  under  certain  conditions  transfer  his  membership 
from  one  lodge  of  the  jurisdiction  to  another  during  his  official  term 
without  vacating  his  office. 

The  grand  lodge  also  chartered  three  new  lodges,  and  having  re- 
vived the  dispensation  of  one  of  them  in  order  to  enable  it  to  exem- 
plify the  work  in  the  presence  of  the  grand  lodge,  the  next  day  did 
the  same  thing  for  the  other  two,  empowering  them  to  continue  labor 
until  dul}^  constituted  under  their  charters;  made  the  law  plain  that 
mileage  should  be  allowed  only  from  the  location  of  the  lodge  when 
the  membership  and  the  actual  residence  of  the  representatives  do 
not  coincide:  permitted  a  brother  who  had  prepared  a  new  monitor, 
to  publish  it  under  grand  lodge  authority  but  not  at  its  expense;  voted 
to  meet  next  'year  at  Helena;  and  recognized  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
Oklahoma  and  the  Gran  Dieta  Simbolica  of  Mexico,  the  latter  con- 
fessedly in  part  as  a  missionary  enterprise,  as  will  be  seen  by  the 
following  preambles,  adopted  with  the  resolution  of  recognition  which 
we  also  include: 

Whereas,  Evidence  has  been  presented  satisfying  us  that  Ma- 
sonry in  our  sister  republic  of  Mexico  has  been  reorganized,  purged, 
and  consolidated,  with  separate  and  independent  government  for  the 
lodges  of  symbolic  Masonry,  under  the  central  authority  of  the  gran 
dieta  simbolica;  and 

Whereas,  We  readily  recognize  the  important  influence  that 
Masonry  must  exert  in  elevating  and  liberalizing  its  adherents,  pro- 
moting peace  among  nations,  and  leading  to  more  intimate  relations 
for  mutual  benefit;  now,  therefore,  be  it 

Resolved,  That  the  Grand  Lodge  of  A.  F.  and  A.  M.,  of  Montana, 
hails  and  greets  the  Gran  Dieta  Simbolica  of  the  republic  of  Mexico 
as  an  independent  Masonic  body,  whose  friendship  we  shall  prize 
and  in  whose  future  growth  and  welfare  we  shall  rejoice. 

A  motion  to  refer  the  resolution  to  the  jurisprudence  committee, 
to  report  on  next  year,  was  lost.  Perhaps  the  discussion  brought  out 
what  it  was  of  which  the  Masonry  of  Mexico  had  been  purged;  the 
special  report  of  the  committee  on  correspondence,  upon  which  the 
action  was  predicated  does  not  enlighten  the  craft  upon  that  point, 
nor  does  it  indicate  that  any  request  for  recognition  had  ever  been 
received  from  the  gran  dieta. 


184  APPENDIX. — PART   T. 

Charles  H.  Gould,  of  Miles  City,  was  elected  "rand  master; 
Cornelius  Hedges,  Helena,  reelected  grand  secretary. 

The  report  on  correspondence  (151  pp.)  by  the  grand  secretary, 
Past  Grand  Master  Cornelius  Hedges,  is  another  of  those  delight- 
ful essays  with  which  the  whole  Masonic  world  has  become  familiar, 
with  the  result  that  everywhere  fraternal  feeling  takes  on  a  warmer, 
tenderer  glow  when  the  name  of  his  jurisdiction  is  mentioned. 

It  is  not  often  that  Bro.  Hedges  drops  into  poetry,  but  when  he 
does  a  wonderful  amount  of  suggestive  illustration,  cause  and  effect, 
current  politics,  and  aspiration  get  into  four  lines,  as  in  those  sug- 
gested for  the  temporary  epitaph  of  Tin  Cup  Lodge,  Colorado,  which 
died  because  the  mining  camp  whence  it  derived  its  euphonious  name 
had  vanished: 

Alas!  for  the  fate  of  Tin  Cup  Lodge, 

It  met  a  snag  that  it  could'nt  dodge. 

When  the  silver  tide  again  shall  flow 

May  it  fill  the  cup  of  our  quondaga  Joe. 

In  the  generous  space  which  Bro.  Hedges  gives  to  the  proceed- 
ings of  our  annual  communication  of  1895,  he  ranges — 
"Prom  grave  to  gay,  from  lively  to  severe." 

Of  our  grand  master  he  says: 

Bro.  Grand  Master  Goddard,  whose  fine  picture  welcomes  every 
one  who  opens  the  volume  of  printed  proceedings,  was  in  command 
at  the  close  of  two  years  of  successful  administration,  prepared  to 
render  a  good  account.  The  address  was  rather  brief,  but  of  the  best 
quality.  In  naming  the  illustrious  Masons  departed  during  the  year, 
he  mentions  our  own  Hickman,  whom  he  visited  several  times  during 
his  long  sickness. 

Of  the  corner-stone  laying  at  DeKalb: 

For  this  occasion  Past  Grand  Master  General  .John  C.  Smith  fur- 
nished the  corn,  wine,  and  oil  from  Jerusalem,  whence  he  had  recently 
returned.  There  was  once  that  Jacob  had  to  send  down  to  Egj^pt  for 
corn.  Illinois,  too,  has  an  Egypt,  almost  as  famous  for  corn.  We  hope 
Bro.  Smith  will  save  enough  of  that  oil  from  the  Mount  of  Olives  to 
anoint  their  jurisprudence  committee  and  see  if  they  cannot  reach 
some  broader  and  more  liberal  views,  so  that  they  could  recognize 
brotherhood  among  the  Cubans.  Grand  Master  Goddard  urged  this,  as 
well  as  the  abandonment  of  the  unreasonable  doctrine  of  perpetual  jur- 
isdiction. But  the  jurisprudence  committee  nayed  them  both  out  of 
court. 

We  also  quote  the  following: 

Bro.  Goddard  in  his  address  mentioned  the  case  of  a  certain  resi- 
dent of  Montana,  who,  after  being  thrice  rejected  at  home,  was  taken 
in  and  made  a  Master  Mason  in  a  Chicago  lodge.  For  having  stated 
falsely  that  he  had  never  been  rejected,  the  lodge  tried,  convicted, 
and  suspended  him  for  one  month.  The  grand  master  well  described 
this  as  a  mockery  of  justice,  and  ordered  the  case  sent  up  to  grand 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  185 


lodge.  The  record  only  shows  that  the  action  of  the  lodjje  was  sus- 
tained. This  would  go  to  show  that  the  doctrine  of  perpetual  juris- 
diction was  chiefly  held  by  the  committee  on  jurisprudence. 

In  the  case  referred  to  we  find  that  the  only  reference  to  Mon- 
tana therein  is  the  following:  "It  having  become  known  that  said 
Holmes  had  been  rejected  three  times  by  lodges  in  Montana,  charges 
were  accordingly  filed,  a  trial  had,  and  the  accused  found  guilty  as 
charged  and  suspended  one  month."  The  absence  of  any  intimation 
that  Holmes  was  at  that  time  a  resident  of  Montana  by  a  grand 
master  of  Bro.  Goddard's  alert  and  comprehensive  perception,  makes 
it  certain  that  the  Illinois  lodge  had  unquestioned  territorial  jurisdic- 
tion of  the  material,  and  takes  the  point  out  of  our  brother's  wit. 

Referring  to  the  report  of  our  jurisprudence  committee,  he  says: 

In  their  treatment  of  the  Wisconsin  resolutions  concerning  relief 
and  reimbursement,  it  seems  to  us  that  the  real  issue  is  evaded  by 
substituting  the  term  "charity"  for  "relief."  Charity  is  then  defined 
to  be  an  individual  grace  with  which  Masonry  has  nothing  to  do.  But 
how  is  it  with  "relief?"  We  notice  in  one  of  the  reports  in  this  vol- 
ume that  the  lodges  of  Illinois  contributed  over  $25,000  to  the  relief 
of  their  own  members,  their  widows,  and  orphans,  and  over  $6,000  to 
those  not  members.  This  was  done  by  the  lodges,  and  not  given  by 
individual  members,  therefore  not  charity.  Can  we  suppose  that  this 
sum  of  money  was  donated  by  the  lodges  unless  a  majority  of  the 
members  considered  that  there  was  some  sort  of  a  valid  claim  that 
they  were  bound  to  recognize  in  foro  conscientiacf  The  same  principle 
is  recognized  in  Illinois  as  elsewhere.  It  rests  on  no  express  agree- 
ment so  far  as  the  lodge  itself  is  concerned,  but  as  the  common  trus- 
tee of  all  the  members,  holding  means  that  all  have  contributed,  it  is 
voted  out  of  the  common  fund,  so  that  all  may  have  a  share  in  con- 
tributing relief.  When  a  member  i)ays  his  dues  he  is  obeying  two 
points  in  his  obligation,  he  is  contributing  to  help,  aid,  and  assist  a 
worthy  bother  in  distress,  not  immediately  and  directly,  for  that  would 
be  difficult  and  in  many  cases  impossible.  But  he  is  doing  it  none  the 
less  in  effect  and  in  fact.  The  individual  brother  rarely  meets  a  case 
of  distress  face  to  face,  and  has  no  means  then  of  knowing  the  merit  of 
the  claim.  The  kind  of  charity  that  the  jurisprudence  committee 
speaks  of  does  mighty  little  business  compared  with  the  relief  boards, 
and  what  it  does  give  is  often  unworthily  bestowed.  We  believe  the 
funds  of  a  lodge  should  be  held  as  charged  to  relieve  its  members  in 
distres.s,  and  should  be  sacredly  guarded  accordingly,  and  we  see  no 
reason  to  shirk  that  primary  responsibility  if  a  member  falls  into  dis- 
tress away  from  home.  Such  an  one  may  have  claim  upon  individual 
Masons  but  he  has  none  at  all  upon  any  lodge  but  his  own.  If  the 
funds  of  a  lodge  are  properly  chargeable  to  the  relief  of  its  members, 
those  who  contribute  to  those  funds  ought  to  be  regarded  as  having 
some  claim  superior  to  those  who  have  not  so  contributed.  Though  most 
grand  lodges  have  refused  to  assent  to  the  Wisconsin  resolutions,  we 
believe  they  are  sound  and  correct  in  principle  and  will  yet  be  accepted 
when  Masonry  gets  its  eyes  wide  open.  Wouldn't  it  concern  a  grand 
lodge  if  one  of  its  subordinates  allowed  a  "decayed  member''  to  be 
sent  to  the  poor  house  instead  of  contributing  to  his  relief?  There  is 
some  ultimate  responsibility  upon  grand  lodges. 


186  APPENDIX. — PART   1. 


It  will  be  observed  that  Bro.  Hedges  makes  the  grand  lodge  and 
Masonry  synonymous  terms,  a  thing'  which  the  committee  did  not  do, 
their  position  being  unmistakably  stated  in  the  following: 

Charity  embraces  something  more  than  the  mere  giving  of  alms; 
it  assumes  many  and  varied  forms,  and  the  bestowal  of  Masonic 
charity,  in  any  form,  is  not,  and  cannot  properly  become  a  subject  of 
grand  lodge  legislation,  except  as  such  actirm  may  relate  to  its  own  funds. 

Charity  is  fixed  by  the  law  of  Masonry,  and  the  free  exercise  of 
this  ennobling  virtue  resides  with  each  individual  Mason. 

Admitting  that  the  grand  lodge  might  properly  make  it  its  con- 
cern if  one  of  its  lodges  allowed  a  decayed  member  to  be  sent  to  the 
poor  house  instead  of  supporting  him  elsewhere,  it  would  not  touch 
the  position  of  the  committee  regarding  legislation.  A  grand  lodge 
ma3^  call  a  lodge  to  account  for  the  manner  in  which  it  performs 
duties  enjoined  by  the  general  law  of  Masonry,  where  that  law  also 
makes  the  individual  the  judge  in  the  matter,  as  in  the  familiar  illus- 
tration of  the  abuse  of  the  guaranteed  independence  and  irresponsi- 
bility in  the  use  of  the  ballot  until  it  becomes  a  scandal  too  great  to 
be  borne,  but  when  it  so  interferes,  it  does  so,  not  because  the  essen- 
tials of  the  ballot  are,  or  can  become  a  proper  subject  of  legislation, 
but  from  its  right  to  suspend  or  revoke  a  charter  which  it  has  granted, 
when  it  becomes  convinced  that  it  is  lodged  in  the  hands  so  ill  assorted 
as  not  to  be  able  to  reach  a  creditable  consensus  of  Masonic  duty. 

Bro.  Hedges  notes  the  fact  that  Past  Grand  Secretary  Munn  is  still 
an  active  worker,  and  says  of  the  statistics  reported  by  him  as  chair- 
man of  the  committee  on  chartered  lodges,  that  it  is  a  good  record  for 
a  year  of  such  general  depression,  and  of  Grand  Orator  Black's  ora- 
tion, "a  grand  picture,  opening  to  an  ever  grander  future  near  at 
hand,"  he  says,  "We  believe  it  all,  and  that  a  half  has  not  been  told.' 

As  usual,  he  speaks  of  the  Illinois  report  in  generous  terms,  but 
the  adherence  of  our  jurisdiction  to  the  doctrine  of  perpetual  juris- 
diction— and  perhaps  our  own  persistence  in  believing  that  our  pri- 
mary engagements  as  a  Mason  mean  what  they  say — leads  him  to  feel 
that  together  we  are  lacking  in  that  liberality  of  views  which  looks 
to  the  spirit  rather  than  the  letter. 

A  postscript  to  the  proceedings  states  that: 

In  accordance  with  the  general  request  of  last  3'ear,  there  was  no 
banquet  by  either  of  the  grand  bodies,  and  it  aided  much  to  the  pro- 
gress of  business,  and  was  a  subject  of  congratulation  among  those 
who  expressed  themselves.  It  was  a  good  time  and  place  to  begin  this 
new  order  of  things,  for  the  Butte  craft  were  abundantly  able  and 
willing  to  provide  a  banquet,  and  did  spread  a  lunch  accessible  at  all 
times." and  the  O.E.S.  sisters  gave  a  handsome  reception,  with  music, 
oratory,  and  a  concluding  lunch. 

The  attempt  to  render  Burns's  Adieu,  resulted  in  a  bloodless 
massacre. 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  187 

We  find  ourself  in  doubt  whether  the  failure  of  Burns's  Adieu  was 
because  of  too  much  lunch  or  whether  the  thoughts  of  those  who 
essayed  to  sing'  were  wandering  with  Hugh  Duncan  and  the  lang 
syne. 


NEBRASKA,  1896. 

39th  Annual.  Omaha.  June  10. 

Fourteen  past  grand  masters  were  present,  GEORGE  H.  Thum- 
MEL,  the  representative  of  Illinois,  not  among  them.  Twenty-seven 
grand  jurisdictions  were  represented. 

The  address  of  the  grand  master  (Henry  H.  Wilson)  is  a  strong 
paper.     After  a  brief  but  fine  exordium  he  says: 

We  meet  in  the  thirty-ninth  annual  communication  of  this  grand 
lodge.  Civilization  had  hardly  gained  a  foothold  on  the  western  bank 
of  the  Missouri  when  this  grand  lodge  was  organized.  The  history  of 
this  grand  lodge  is  closely  interwoven  with  the  history  of  the  territory 
and  state  of  Nebraska.  A  history  of  the  state  would  be  meagre,  indeed, 
that  did  not  include  the  work  of  those  sturdy  pioneers  whose  names  are 
treasured  up  in  the  archives  of  this  grand  lodge.  No  one  familiar  with 
both  can  doubt  that  Masonry,  its  precepts  and  doctrines,  has  had  a 
powerful  infiuence  in  shaping  the  growth  and  development  of  the 
state.  That  this  intiuence  has  been  beneficient,  the  moral  and  intel- 
lectual condition  of  our  people  is  the  best  evidence. 

He  announced  the  death  of  three  well  known  Nebraska  Masons, 
two  of  whom  were  members  of  the  grand  lodge — James  W.  Chadduck, 
past  senior  grand  warden,  who  died  at  a  ripe  age,  and  Present  Master 
Frank  High  King,  in  his  thirtieth  year. 

The  grand  master  submitted  twenty-three  decisions,  of  which  we 
take  the  following: 

2.  When  a  candidate  has  been  elected  for  initiation  and  objections 
have  been  filed  wath  the  master  to  his  receiving  the  degrees,  the  lodge 
cannot  entertain  a  second  petition  from  the  same  candidate  unless  the 
objections  are  withdrawn,  even  though  six  months  have  elapsed  since 
the  objections  were  filed. 

3.  A  refusal  of  a  member  of  a  lodge,  without  sufficient  cause,  after 
due  notice,  to  watch  \yith  a  sick  brother  or  furnish  a  substitute  is  a 
Masonic  offense. 

11.  When  a  candidate  is  elected  to  receive  and  does  receive  the 
Master  Mason's  degree,  he  becomes  at  once  a  member  of  the  lodge 
electing  him,  and  such  lodge  has  no  power  to  make  the  passing  of  a 
satisfactory  examination  in  the  work  of  that  degree  a  condition  pre- 
cedent of  lodge  membership. 


188  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


14.  The  installation  of  a  master  of  a  lodg'e  before  he  has  received 
the  past  master's  degree  is  void,  and  he  should  be  reinstalled  after 
receiving  that  degree. 

15.  Where  several  lodges  have  concurrent  jurisdiction,  a  waiver 
of  jurisdiction  over  one  who  resides  therein,  but  has  never  petitioned 
any  of  them,  to  be  effectual,  must  be  granted  by  each  of  the  several 
lodges. 

18.  While  it  is  irregular  to  pass  a  ballot  with  no  blackballs  in  it, 
yet  an  election  upon  such  a  ballot  will  not  be  void. 

23.  Where  a  subordinate  lodge  finds  a  brother  guilty  and  imposes 
the  penalty  of  suspension  for  one  year,  and  upon  appeal  to  the  grand 
lodge  this  sentence  is  set  aside  and  a  sentence  of  indefinite  suspension 
is  imposed  by  the  grand  lodge,  the  subordinate  lodge  may  reinstate 
such  brother  by  a  two-thirds  vote,  and  no  action  of  the  grand  lodge  is 
necessary  for  that  purpose. 

Referring  to  No.  2,  we  infer  that  a  rejected  petitioner  may  apply 
again  at  the  expiration  of  six  months.  We  are  at  loss  to  know  upon 
what  principle  an  objection  is  made  more  enduring  in  its  effect  than 
a  blackball.  No.  3  is  not  in  accord  with  Illinois  precedents,  which 
class  watching  with  the  sick  with  other  charities  and  thus  recognize 
the  right  of  the  individual  Mason  to  judge  for  himself  whether  such 
ministration  is  within  the  scope  of  his  ability.  No.  11  strikes  us  as 
well-grounded,  and  we  think  the  inhibition  might  well  be  held  to  ap- 
ply to  grand  lodges,  some  of  which  have  adopted  regulations  of  that 
nature.  No.  14  seems  like  an  echo  from  the  tombs,  so  long  is  it  since 
the  possession  of  the  "Past  Master's  degree"  ceased  to  be  a  prerequi- 
site to  installation  in  Illinois.  No.  15  is  in  accord  with  Illinois  law 
and  we  think  is  correct  in  principle,  though  the  contrary  is  held  by 
Bro.  Drummond  and  some  other  good  jurists.  No.  18  deserved  the 
emphatic  disapproval  it  received  at  the  instance  of  the  jurisprudence 
committee,  who  say: 

6.  A  ballot  taken  where  the  opportunity  to  cast  a  white  or  black 
ball  is  withheld  is  void,  and  all  officers  or  members  conspiring  to  take 
away  from  any  Master  Mason  in  good  standing  the  right  to  a  secret 
ballot  should  be  disciplined  by  the  grand  master  or  other  proper  Ma- 
sonic authority. 

Referring  to  No.  23,  it  has  been  held  by  our  grand  lodge— although 
as  in  Nebraska  the  power  to  reinstate  from  indefinite  suspension  re- 
sides in  the  lodge  when  the  sentence  has  been  imposed  by  it— that 
where  the  grand  lodge  substitutes  that  sentence  for  a  lighter  one,  on 
appeal,  only  the  grand  lodge  can  reinstate.  The  letter  of  our  law  is 
silent  on  this  phase  of  the  subject;  the  practice,  as  above,  rests  on 
general  principles. 

In  addition  to  the  regular  accretions  to  the  volume  of  ''The  Law 
of  Freemasonry  in  Nebraska"  through  the  submission  and  review  of 
decisions  made  in  actual  practice  by  the  executive,  the  grand  lodge 
seems  to  have  a  sort  of  farmers'  institute  question  box  open  to  all 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  189 

sorts  of  queries,  hypercritical,  conditional  and  unconditional,  which 
the  jurisprudence  committee  has  to  answer  and  the  grand  lodge  pass 
upon.  Tt  is  not  so  much  of  an  educator,  perhaps,  as  the  judicial  mill 
of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Mississippi,  which  grinds  during  the  recess,  in- 
dependent of  the  executive,  because  as  it  is  in  operation  only  during 
the  session  the  answers  are  necessarily  short,  if  not  also  sometimes 
curt,  and  the  steps  by  which  the  committee  reach  their  conclusions 
cannot  always  be  plainly  seen.  This  year  thirty-one  conundrums 
were  fired  at  the  committee.  The  following  is  an  example  of  the  re- 
tort curt: 

Is  the  brother  referred  to  in  decision  No.  18  of  the  grand  master's 
address  of  this  session  a  regular  or  clandestine-made  MasonV 

Decision  No.  18  does  not  refer  to  any  brother  receiving  the  degree. 

The  following  is  on  a  point  variously  decided  in  dififerent  juris- 
dictions: 

1.  In  case  a  rejected  petitioner  for  the  mysteries  of  Masonry  desires 
a  waiver  of  jurisdiction  by  the  rejecting  lodge,  how  should  such  waiver 
be  sought;  through  written  request  of  the  lodge  to  which  he  petitions, 
or  by  his  own  written  request,  direct  to  the  rejecting  lodge? 

By  the  lodge. 

An  unsuccessful  motion  that  the  queries  and  the  committee's 
report  thereon  be  not  published  in  the  proceedings  may  perhaps  indi- 
cate a  growing  feeling  that  the  system  is  getting  too  burdensome  for 
the  profit. 

Under  the  head  of  "Relief"  the  grand  master  says: 

Bro.  IS.  H.  Davison. — Application  was  made  to  me  for  the  relief  of 
Bro.  S.  H.  Davison,  an  Illinois  Master  Mason,  residing  in  Lincoln, 
Nebraska.  I  made  his  conditions  known  to  the  grand  master  of  Illi- 
nois, and  suggested  that  Brother  Davison's  lodge  be  notified  and  given 
an  opportunity  to  aid  him.  I  was  informed  that  Brother  Davison  had 
been  a  member  of  Alpha  Lodge  No.  155.  at  Galesburg,  Illinois;  that 
he  had  been  suspended  for  non-payment  of  dues,  and  that  on  Decem- 
ber 29,  1893,  he  having  paid  all  dues  to  that  date,  that  lodge  "rein- 
stated him  to  good  standing  in  the  fraternity,  but  not  to  membership 
in  that  lodge."  The  grand  master  of  Illinois  thereupon  wrote  me  as 
follows:  "The  brother  having  been  suspended  three  times,  at  present 
not  affiliated  with  any  lodge,  and  not  a  resident  of  Illinois,  I  can  not 
see  wherein  I  am  able  to  do  anything  officially."  The  brother's  con- 
dition was  called  to  the  attention  of  the  local  lodges  at  Lincoln,  and 
the  matter  placed  in  their  charge.  This  matter  is  here  reported  to 
call  your  attention  to  the  Masonic  law  of  Illinois,  by  which  a  subordi- 
nate lodge  seems  to  have  the  right  to  reinstate  a  suspended  brother 
to  good  standing  in  the  fraternity  and  still  deny  him  membership  in 
the  lodge.  Thus  a  lodge  has  the  power  to  place  the  fraternity  at  large 
under  Masonic  obligation  to  the  reinstated  brother,  while  such  lodge 
declines  to  assume  any  responsibility  for  his  conduct  or  any  duty  to- 
ward him.  Brother  Davison  has  since  gone  to  that  Grand  Jurisdiction 
where  all  who  are  worthy  are  affiliated,  and  where  the  eternal  princi- 
ples of  equity  are  not  defeated  by  legal  technicality. 


190  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 

The  committee  to  whom  the  subiect  was  sent  reported  thus: 

Your  committee  on  relief  fraternally  report  that  having  consid- 
ered the  matter  of  aid  for  Bro.  S —  H.  Davidson,  a  former  member  of 
Alpha  Lodge  No.  155,  grand  jurisdiction  of  Illinois,  by  vocation  a  loco- 
motive engineer,  had  the  misfortune  to  be  suspended  for  non-payment 
of  dues;  this  occurred  three  or  four  times  in  ten  or  twelve  years,  and 
as  often  he  was  reinstated  to  full  membership,  until  finally,  on  Decem- 
ber 29.  A.L.  5893,  upon  his  application  for  reinstatement  he  was  rein- 
stated to  good  standing  in  the  fraternity,  but  left  a  non-affiliate, 
without  allegiance  or  claim  upon  any  lodge. 

Thus  Brother  Davidson  has  been  sent  forth  by  the  action  of  Alpha 
Lodge  No.  155,  and  the  exceedingh^  curious  (un)Masonic  usage  of  Illi- 
nois, a  Mason  without  Masonic  rights  or  privileges— without  legal 
right  to  appeal  to  any  particular  lodge  in  his  distress  and  need  of  aid. 
From  disease  he  became  in  a  helpless  condition  within  this  grand  juris- 
diction. Our  grand  master  brought  the  matter  to  attention  of  the 
grand  master  of  Illinois,  requesting  that  steps  be  taken  in  that  grand 
jurisdiction  to  give  to  Brother  Davidson  such  relief  as  his  case  requires. 

In  answer  the  grand  master  of  Illinois  made  it  plain  that  no  relief 
for  the  brother  would  be  granted  from  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois  or 
any  lodge  thereof.  This  brother  was  placed  under  the  care  of  our 
Lincolnlodges  and  afterwards  departed  this  life,  but  doubtless  with 
the  consciousness  that  he  had  no  legal  claim  upon  any  grand  jurisdic- 
tion or  any  lodge. 

Your  committee  are  of  opinion  that  the  legal  liability  rested  upon 
the  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois,  or  upon  Alpha  Lodge  No.  155,  and  that  any 
relief  granted  by  this  grand  lodge  would  have  been  a  voluntary 
charity;  and  we  return"  the  papers  without  recommendation,  inas 
much  as  no  legal  obligation  rests  upon  this  grand  jurisdiction  nor  upon 
any  of  its  lodges. 

Your  committee  approve  and  commend  the  action  of  our  Grand 
Master  Wilson  and  the  Lincoln  lodges  in  the  care  they  bestowed  upon 
the  brother. 

The  craft  of  Illinois  will,  we  are  sure,  join  with  the  committee 
and  with  all  right-minded  Masons  everywhere,  in  commending  the 
Lincoln  lodges  for  extending  to  him  the  brotherly  care  which  under 
the  commercial  rules  adopted  by  the  grand  lodge  for  the  government 
of  Masonic  relief  in  that  jurisdiction  they  were  under  no  more  con- 
straint to  render  to  him  than  to  a  profane  or  to  any  other  non-affil- 
iated Mason. 

The  oracular  remark  of  Grand  Master  Wilson  that  "thus  a  lodge 
has  the  power  to  place  the  fraternity  at  large  under  obligation  to  the 
reinstated  brother,  while  such  lodge  declines  to  assume  any  respon- 
sibility for  his  conduct  or  any  duty  towards  him,"  whose  implication 
is  echoed  in  the  reference  of  the  committee  to  the  "exceedingly  curi- 
ous (un)  Masonic  usage  of  Illinois,"  might  lead  one  to  suppose  that 
the  Grand  Lodge  of  Nebraska  never  restored  a  Mason  to  good  stand- 
ing in  the  fraternity  and  left  him  unaffiliated. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  191 

In  doing  this  the  lodge  in  Illinois  exercises  no  greater  and  no  dif- 
ferent power  than  when  it  places  the  fraternity  at  large  under 
Masonic  obligation  to  a  profane  when  it  makes  him  a  Mason — an  un- 
affiliated Mason  unless  and  until  he  elects  to  avail  himself  of  the 
privilege  of  lodge  membership  by  signing  the  by-laws  of  the  lodge 
that  makes  him.  Moreover  it  places  no  other  lodge  under  any  respon- 
sibility or  duty  by  reinstating  the  brother  to  good  standing  in  the 
fraternity  at  large,  that  it  does  not  likewise  impose  upon  itself;  nor 
does  it  place  the  fraternitj'  at  large,  or  any  lodge  thereof  under  any 
different  obligation,  or  relieve  itself  of  either  to  any  greater  extent 
than  when  it  dimits  a  brother  from  membership  in  the  usual  way; 
and  whether  dismissed  from  membership  by  the  one  process  or  the 
other,  his  former  lodge  is  equally  powerless  to  promise  him  that  in 
the  event  of  his  falling  into  distress  in  some  few  of  the  jurisdictions 
of  this  country  he  will  escape  the  question — which  under  the  views  of 
Masonic  relief  there  prevailing  is  a  matter-of-course  one — If  we  help 
you,  who  is  going  to  pay  us? 

The  venerable  Robert  C.  Jordan,  the  first  grand  master  of 
Nebraska,  being  too  feeble  to  come  without  assistance.  Past  Grand 
Masters  Black  and  Lininger  were  deputed  to  bring  him  in  a  car- 
riage to  such  sessions  as  he  could  attend.  He  was  able  to  appear  on 
the  morning  of  the  second  day  and  was  received  with  the  grand  honors, 
with  flowers,  and  with  many  expressions  of  friendship  and  brotherly 
love.  He  was  too  feeble  to  make  himself  heard,  and  at  his  request 
Grand  Master  Wilson  responded  m6st  appropriately  and  eloquently 
in  his  behalf. 

The  grand  lodge  chartered  eight  new  lodges,  continued  one  lodge 
under  dispensation,  and  discontinued  one,  requiring  the  brethren 
raised  in  it  to  pay  dues  to  the  grand  lodge;  listened  to  an  excellent, 
practical  oration  by  the  grand  orator,  Frank  G.  Simmons;  extended 
the  time  for  payment  of  the  notes  given  for  the  repayment  of  loans 
from  the  relief  fund  disbursed  through  lodges  in  aid  of  the  drouth 
sufferers  of  1894;  so  amended  its  law  as  to  permit  lodges  to  exempt 
from  annual  and  grand  lodge  dues  any  Master  Mason  who  has  been  in 
good  standing  thirty  j^ears  and  is  sixty-five  years  of  age,  and  gave  the 
committee  on  foreign  correspondence  further  time  to  consider  a  com- 
munication from  Prof.  J.  Wm.  Wennerbirg,  relative  to  Masonry  in 
Sweden. 

Charles  J.  Phelps,  of  Schuyler,  was  elected  grand  master; 
William  R.  Bowen,  Omaha,  re-elected  grand  secretary. 

The  report  on  correspondence  (61  p.)  is  as  usual  (when  we  get  an}^ 
by  Grand  Secretary  William  R.  Bowen,  who,  out  of  his  long  expe- 
rience and  much  thought,  always  gives  his  readers  something  to  think 
of,  whether  cramped  into  the  limits  of  the  review  under  considera- 


192  APPENDIX. — PART   I 


tion,  or  when  he  has  elbow  room  for  a  reasonably  fair  fling.  Illinois 
for  1895  gets  a  twenty-one  line  notice  constructed  on  the  plan  of  the 
younger  Weller's  model  love  letter — it  makes  one  wish  there  was 
more  of  it. 


NEVADA,  1896. 

32nd  Annual.  Winnemucca.  June  9. 

Past  Grand  Orator  Charles  E.  Mack,  the  representative  of  Illi- 
nois, was  absent. 

The  grand  lodge  of  Nevada  has  been  sorely  stricken,  being  twice 
called  in  emergent  communication  to  bury  those  who  had  received  its 
highest  honors. 

The  grand  master,  John  Clarke  Hazlett,  died  after  a  brief  ill- 
ness October  3,  1895,  in  his  sixty-eighth  year.  A  man  of  the  highest 
character,  he  had  held  many  positions  of  honor  and  trust  in  the  gift 
of  his  fellow-citizens  in  Nevada,  and  earlier  in  Iowa.  From  the  year 
of  his  majority  he  had  been  an  active  Mason. 

At  his  funeral,  Past  Grand  Master  John  E.  Jones  was  appointed 
chairman  of  a  committee  to  present  a  memorial  of  the  deceased  grand 
master  at  the  annual  communication,  but  on  the  10th  of  the  following 
April  he  too  went  over  to  Bro.  Hazlett  and  the  majority.  He  was 
in  his  fifty-sixth  year.  A  native  of  Wales,  he  came  to  this  country  at 
the  age  of  sixteen  and  with  his  parents  settled  in  Iowa,  removing  to 
Nevada  in  1869.  He  was  twice  elected  surveyor  general  of  the  state, 
and  was  governor  of  the  commonwealth  at  the  time  of  his  death,  hav- 
ing been  elected  in  November,  189-4.  He  was  grand  master  in  1893. 
The  first  part  of  the  funeral  ceremonies  took  jilace  at  the  state  capi- 
tol,  where  the  body  lay  in  state,  and  the  record  says: 

After  the  rendition  of  the  ritualistic  ceremonies  of  the  order, 
W.  J.  C.  Stubbs,  grand  orator,  delivered  an  eloquent  address  on  the 
life  and  character  of  the  deceased,  after  which  the  resident  clergy, 
viz..  Revs.  G.  R.  Davis,  J.  B.  Eddie,  F.  L.  Nash,  J.  M.  Wilson,  and 
Father  Gartland.  each  pronounced  brief  eulogies.  This  was  in  ac- 
cordance with  the  expressed  desire  of  the  deceased  during  his  life- 
time. 

W.  T.  Hanford,  the  private  secretary  of  the  late  governor,  read 
a  brief  eulogy  submitted  in  behalf  of  the  Nevada  Press  Association, 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  193 


and  followed  it  with  a  touching-  tribute  to  his  late  friend  and  patron; 
and  then — 

The  grand  lodge  again  formed  in  procession,  and  with  the  gov- 
ernor's staff,  the  organized  companies  of  the  state  militia,  and  the 
cadets  of  the  State  University,  acting  as  escort,  conveyed  the  remains 
of  our  deceased  brother  to  the  Masonic  cemetery,  where  they  were 
deposited  in  the  grave  with  the  solemn  ceremonies  of  the  order. 

The  deputy  grand  master  (Enoch  Strother)  presided  at  the  an- 
nual communication.  He  had  decided  that  the  loss  of  the  thumb  of 
the  left  hand  did  not  incapacitate  for  Masonic  labor  within  the  mean- 
ing of  their  regulations,  and  this  was  approved. 

He  made  the  following  recommendation: 

I  would  suggest  the  propriety  of  having  a  uniform  system  of 
giving  the  public  grand  honors  in  this  jurisdiction.  As  it  is  today, 
each  lodge  has  its  own  way  of  giving  the  public  grand  honors.  It  is 
indeed  amazing  to  witness  the  variety  of  grand  honors  given  at 
funerals.  And  should  }^ou  adopt  a  system  of  grand  honors,  I  would 
further  recommend  that  3'ou  make  it  obligatory  on  all  masters  to 
instruct  all  candidates,  on  being  raised  to  the  third  degree,  in  the 
grand  honors. 

He  also  submitted  the  report  of  the  senior  warden  (Daniel  W. 
Virgin),  who  was  acting  grand  master  during  a  portion  of  the  term, 
the  deputy  grand  master  being  absent  from  the  jurisdiction.  This 
period  included  the  time  of  Grand  Master  Hazlett's  death  and  burial, 
and  of  this  occasion  Bro.  Virgin  says: 

There  was  submitted  to  me,  the  moment  of  my  arrival  at  Dayton, 
a  very  important,  delicate  and  perplexing  question  of  law,  usage, 
and  propriety,  viz:  Was  a  mixed  funeral  ceremony  permissible  upon 
this  occasion,  under  the  circumstances  of  this  particular  case,  our 
deceased  grand  master  being  also  a  past  grand  master  of  Odd  Fellows, 
and  that  order  desiring,  for  that  reason,  to  participate  with  us  by 
alternately  performing  a  portion  of  the  burial  service,  and  having 
some  members  of  their  order  act  as  pall-bearers. 

The  emergency  demanded  an  immediate  decision;  there  was  no 
time  for  discussion,  or  to  look  for  precedent  or  authority.  Several  of 
the  persons  who  desired  a  mixed  ceremony  were  old,  experienced 
members  of  our  order,  and  of  this  grand  lodge,  consequently  I  felt 
some  diffidence  in  disposing  of  the  matter;  but  my  understanding  and 
recollection  of  the  rule  was  that  such  a  ceremony  could,  under  no 
circumstances,  be  permitted,  and  I  so  decided. 

He  urged  that  the  question  should  be  taken  up  by  the  grand  lodge 
and  definitely  settled.  The  grand  lodge  concurred  in  the  judgment 
of  the  jurisprudence  committee  that  his  decision  at  the  funeral  of 
Grand  Master  Hazlett  was  correct,  and  also  in  the  following  opin 
ions  of  the  committee,  which  in  all,  save  the  concluding  paragraph, 
are  definite  enough  to  save  the  master  from  perplexity: 

It  is  the  request  of  the  brother  that  makes  it  the  duty  of  his 
lodge  to  bury  him. 
— n 


194  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


It  has  become  a  custom  for  members  of  a  lodge  to  assume  that 
their  lodge  will  bury  them  without  a  formal  request,  and  for  the 
lodge  to  assume  that  such  request  has  been  made  unless  the  contrary 
appears. 

These  assumptions  are  proper  and  natural  enough  unless  there  is 
some  special  reason  to  question  them.  In  all  cases  such  request  of  a 
brother  should  be  respected  and  complied  with. 

If  a  brother  should  be  a  member  of  some  other  charitable  and 
fraternal  order,  which  has  a  funeral  service,  and  should  request  that 
such  other  order  should  perform  its  funeral  rites  and  services  over 
him,  his  request  should  also  in  that  case  be  respected.  In  such  case 
his  Masonic  lodge  would  have  no  formal  duty  to  perform.  In  such 
case,  however,  it  would  be  proper  for  Masons,  as  individuals,  to  attend 
such  funeral,  and  pay  sincere  respect  to  the  services. 

If  a  brother,  also  a  member  of  some  other  fraternal  order, 
should  request  his  Masonic  lodge  to  conduct  his  funeral  services,  the 
worshipful  master  and  his  lodge  should  take,  and  assume  exclusive 
control  of  the  luneral  ceremonies. 

If  a  brother,  being  also  a  member  of  some  other  fraternal  order, 
should  die  without  having  made  a  formal  request  concerning  his 
funeral,  it  would  be  proper  for  his  lodge  and  its  worshipful  master  to 
consult  and  respect  the  wishes  of  his  nearest  surviving  relatives,  but 
in  no  case  should  a  lodge,  or  its  master,  suffer  itself  or  himself  to  be 
drawn  into  any  controversy  or  rivalry  concerning  the  burial  of  our 
dead. 

We  can  see  no  reason  why  a  Masonic  lodge  should  not  accept  the 
escort  of  a  Royal  Arch  chapter,  or  of  a  command  ery  of  Knights 
Templar  on  funeral  occasions. 

Our  funeral  service  seems  to  contemplate  that  at  a  proper  time 
the  master  may  permit  religious  services  by  the  clergyman  of  such 
church  as  the  deceased  brother  may  have  been  a  member  of,  and  we 
can  see  no  good  reason  why,  in  lieu  of  church  services,  the  funeral 
services  of  some  other  fraternal  order,  of  which  the  deceased  was  a 
member,  might  not  be  permitted,  subject  always  to  the  sound  discre- 
tion and  good  judgment  of  the  lodge  and  its  master. 

The  grand  lodge  chartered  one  new  lodge;  found  no  employment 
for  its  committee  on  grievance;  included  the  ladies  of  the  East- 
ern Star  with  the  local  craft  in  its  thanks  for  a  musical  and  literary 
entertainment  and  banquet  tendered  to  its  members  on  the  first  even- 
ing of  the  session,  and  voted  to  meet  next  year  at  Elko. 

Enoch  Strother,  of  Virginia  City,  was  elected  grand  master; 
Chauncey  N.  Noteware,  Carson  City,  reelected  grand  secretary. 

The  report  on  correspondence  (76  pp.)  is  again  by  Bro.  Robert 
LiEWERS,  who,  working  under  cramping  limitations  still  makes  a  very 
interesting  review. 

In  his  brief  notice  of  Illinois  for  1895,  he  says: 

We  notice  among  the  decisions  of  the  grand  master  one  stating 
that  naturalization  is  not  a  prerequisite  either  for  initiation  or  affil- 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  195 


iation,  which  is  only  another  way  of  saying  that  Masonry  is  world 
wide,  and  knows  no  country. 

He  assigns  for  his  opposition  to  perpetual  jurisdiction  over  re- 
jected material,  the  common  reason  that  a  man's  character  may 
change,  and  that  it  is  safest  to  let  that  lodge  judge  the  person  in  whose 
territory  he  resides.  In  this  he,  like  others  who  think  with  him,  as- 
sumes that  the  lodge  of  the  rejected  candidate's  new  residence  will 
get  no  opportunity  to  pass  upon  his  character  unless  the  rule  is  abro- 
gated. Possibly  not;  but  the  chances  are  that  after  a  reasonable 
time  has  elapsed  if  a  waiver  is  asked  for  it  will  be  granted. 


NEW  BRUNSWICK,  1896. 
29th  Annual.  Saint  John.  August  25. 

Seventeen  grand  jurisdictions  were  represented,  Illinois  by  J. 
Henry  Leonard,  deputy  grand  master  and  president  of  the  board  of 
general  purposes. 

Closing  a  brief  fraternal  exordium,  the  grand  master  (Julius  T. 
Whitlock)  in  his  address  says: 

And  there  have  not  been  wanting  kindly  deeds  to  enforce  these 
sentiments.  Of  many  touching  incidents  in  the  affairs  of  private 
lodges  and  individuals,  which  from  time  to  time  have  come  to  my 
knowledge  during  the  year,  I  will  mention  only  one  of  recent  occur- 
rence—in the  case  of  our  late  Bro.  E.  L.  Morrison,  of  Zion  lodge,  who 
passed  from  his  earthly  labors  a  few  weeks  since  at  Canon  City,  Colo. 
An  unknown  traveler  in  that  distant  land,  when  his  strength  failed 
him  and  he  reached  "the  bound  of  life  where  we  lay  our  burdens  down," 
he  would  have  died  alone  and  friendless,  had  not  a  Masonic  emblem 
which  he  wore  brought  to  his  bedside  Worshipful  Master  Stewart,  of 
Mount  Moriah  Lodge.  In  him  the  dying  man  found  a  friend  and 
brother,  who  ministered  to  his  latest  needs  with  an  affectionate  care 
that  has  won  the  gratitude  of  our  brethren  of  Zion  Lodge,  while  it 
displays  the  true  spirit  of  Masonic  brotherhood.  The  world  is  wide; 
but  distance  cannot  place  us  beyond  the  reach  of  a  Mason's  charity. 

He  announced  the  death  of  two  prominent  members  of  the  grand 
lodge — Henry  Duffell,  past  deputy  grand  master,  aged  eighty,  and 
Edwin  J.  Wetmore,  past  grand  secretary  and  past  deputy  grand  mas- 
ter, aged  sixty-seven. 

Referring  to  a  visit  to  Alley  Lodge  at  Upper  Mills,  the  grand 
master  thus  appreciatively  speaks  of  St.  Croix  lodge,  of  Calais, 
Maine: 


196  APPENDIX. — PART    I 


In  this  connection  I  cannot  refrain  from  mentioning  the  continued 
kindness  and  unselfishness  of  St.  Croix  Lodge  in  waiving  jurisdiction 
over  candidates  living  in  Baring,  Me.,  who  apph'  for  admission  into 
Alley  Lodge.  At  present  the  worshipful  master  of  Valley  Lodge  and 
man}'  of  its  members  reside  in  Baring,  and  most  of  its  initiates  are 
drawn  from  that  place.  If  it  were  not  for  the  generosity  of  St.  Croix 
in  this  matter.  Alley  would  find  it  difficult  to  maintain  its  standing. 

At  the  request  of  the  grand  master  of  New  York  he  had  revoked 
the  commission  of  the  representative  of  New  Brunswick  near  the  for- 
mer grand  lodge  and  appointed  another  in  his  stead. 

Two  of  their  lodges  had  celebrated  their  fiftieth  anniversaries,  at 
one  of  which— Carleton  Union  No.  8 — among  those  present  was  the  only 
surviving  charter  member,  D.  W.  Clark,  father  of  the  present  master. 

In  conclusion  he  raises  a  timely  voice  of  warning: 

The  interests  of  Masonry  are  in  our  keeping.  Even  now,  in  conti- 
nental Europe,  evil  days  have  fallen  upon  the  royal  craft,  and  a  spur- 
ious Freemasonry  has  usurped  its  name  When  most  of  us  were  still 
young  in  Masonry,  or  before  we  had  entered  its  doors,  the  grand  orient 
of  France  had  departed  from  the  ancient  landmarks  and  stricken  the 
sacred  name  of  God  from  its  laws  and  ritual.  Manj'  lodges  in  other 
lands  have  since  come  under  its  irreligious  influence  and  affiliated  with 
it,  and  are  now  engaged  in  promoting  social  and  political  movements, 
and  in  fomenting  revolution.  It  is  little  to  be  wondered  at,  perhaps, 
that  a  counter  movement  has  begun,  and  a  congress  of  the  clerics  and 
conservatives  of  Europe  been  called  to  meet  in  the  Tyrol  for  the  pur- 
pose of  denouncing  Freemasonry  as  known  to  them. 

He  says  what  is  true  of  us  all — that  "we  have  no  fellowship  with 
the  Grand  Orient  of  France,"  but  unfortnnately  it  is  not  true  of  all 
cis-atlantic  grand  lodges  that  they  have  no  fellowship  with  European 
bodies  calling  themselves  Masonic  that  maintain  fraternal  relations 
with  that  grand  orient,  and  with  other  European  alleged  Masonic 
bodies  so  mixed  up  with  the  state  and  with  state  politics  that  they 
cannot  identify  themselves  as  Masonic  by  the  tests  we  have  inherited. 

The  board  of  general  purposes  was  instructed  to  report  the  cost 
of  procuring  portraits  of  past  grand  masters;  to  print  a  new  edition 
of  the  constitution  with  amendments  to  date,  and  to  consider  the 
Maine  proposition  respecting  rejected  candidates  and  report  thereon 
next  year. 

The  pending  constitutional  amendment  prohibiting-dual  member- 
ship— of  which  notice  was  given  last  year — was  defeated. 

Julius  T.  Whitlock,  of  St.  Stephen,  grand  master,  was  reelected; 
Freeman  W.  Wisdom,  St.  John,  reappointed  grand  secretary. 

A  circular  letter  of  the  date  June  8,  1897,  announces  the  resigna- 
tion of  Bro.  Wisdom,  and  the  appointment  of  J.  Twining  Hartt,  of 
St.  John  (120  Prince  William  street),  to  fill  the  vacancy. 

There  is  no  report  on  correspondence. 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE  197 

NEW  HAMPSHIRE,   1895. 

108th  Annual.  Concord.  May  19. 

Sewall,  W.  Abbott,  past  district  deputy  grand  master,  the  rep- 
resentative of  Illinois,  was  present  at  the  semi-annual  communica- 
tion for  the  exemplification  of  the  work  at  Manchester,  December  29, 
1896.  These  are  s!^reat  occasions  because  the  brethren  always  eat  salt 
(and  other  New  Hampshire  luxuries)  tog"ether. 

Our  representative  was  not  present  at  the  annual. 

The  grand  master  (Henry  A.  Marsh)  reported  the  death  of  Past 
Deputy  Grand  Master  Richard  N.  Ross,  at  eighty,  and  Past  District 
Deputy  Grand  Masters  Jeremiah  D.  Parker  (sixty-three),  and 
George  H.  Larrabee  (fifty-six).  The  latter  had  also  been  grand 
lecturer. 

Considerable  public  work  had  been  done,  among  which  was  the 
laying  of  the  corner-stone  of  the  Weston  Observatory,  on  Oak  Hill,  in 
Derryfield  Park,  Manchester,  when  Trinity  Commandery  K.T.  invited 
every  commandery  in  the  state  to  attend  as  their  guests  and  assist 
them  in  giving  the  grand  lodge  "the  largest,  the  most  brilliant  and 
inspiring  escort  ever  witnessed  in  New  Hampshire. 

The  grand  master  submitted  only  two  decisions,  neither  present- 
ing any  new  point.  He  submitted  the  report  of  the  Rev.  Bro.  John 
Vannevar,  appointed  to  represejit  the  grand  lodge  at  the  dedication 
of  the  Masonic  temple  at  Budapest,  during  the  millennial  festival  of 
Hungar}',  whose  presence  in  company  with  Grand  Chaplain  Bush,  of 
Massachusetts,  we  noted  in  reviewing  the  proceedings  of  that  grand 
lodge. 

The  grand  master  called  the  trustees  of  the  Masonic  Orphans' 
Home,  the  district  deputies,  and  lecturers  together  and  requested 
them  in  their  official  visitations  to  bring  the  subject  of  constructing 
a  building  for  the  home  to  the  attention  of  the  lodges,  in  the  hope  of 
raising  one  dollar  per  capita,  but  had  had  no  report. 

Being  informed  that  alleged  copies  of  the  ritual,  printed  in  initial 
letter,  were  being  sold,  he  located  one  offender  and  received  his  prom- 
ise to  recall  the  sales  and  refund  the  money,  and  issued  a  letter  to  the 
masters  of  lodges  enjoining  upon  them  a  watchful  enforcement  of  the 
prohibitory  law  against  such  publications. 

The  committee  on  jurisprudence  reported  adversely  on  the  Maine 
proposition  touching  rejected  candidates,  and  at  their  own  request 


198  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


were  discharged  from  the  further  consideration  of  the  subject.  The 
committee  argue  the  question  exclusively  from  the  standpoint  of  the 
interests  of  Masonry,  and  arg'ue  with  much  force  that  it  is  unwise 
to  attempt  to  popularize  the  institution  by  acceding  to  views  orig- 
inating outside,  or  to  encourage  by  any  relaxation  of  a  strict  observ- 
ance of  the  ancient  rules  and  landmarks  an  unwise  and  dangerous 
emulation  among  lodges  to  enlarge  their  membership  without  regard 
to  the  character  and  previous  records  of  the  candidates.  They  do  not 
think  that  as  a  rule  injustice  is  done  by  rejection,  and  indeed  it  seems 
to  us  impossible  to  take  any  other  ground  without  conceding  that  any 
law  of  the  ballot  requiring  unanimity  is  a  failure.    The  committee  say: 

Isolated  cases  may  have  happened  where  the  reason  for  objection 
after  a  time  ceases,  but  such  instances  are  very  rare:  and  whenever 
good  cause  has  been  shown  why  consent  should  be  given  that  a  person 
who  has  formerh'  been  rejected  in  our  state  should  be  made  a  Mason 
in  some  other  state,  consent  has  generalh'been  given.  However  that 
may  be  practicall}-,  it  is  the  duty  of  the  fraternit}-  in  this  state  to 
maintain  its  integrity  and  protect  its  members,  and  prevent  all  influ- 
ence which  will  serve  to  disturb  the  harmonious  and  satisfactory  re- 
lations contemplated  by  the  institution  among  all  its  members.  The 
profane  world  has  no  riyht:^  with  reference  to  the  fraternity:  member- 
ship is  given  and  privileges  are  conferred  by  the  fraternity,  but  no 
rights  with  reference  to  that  subject  exist. 

The  establishment  of  any  term  of  3^ears  bej'ond  which  jurisdiction 
should  be  relinquished  is  in  principle,  and  must  be  in  practice,  as  dis- 
astrous to  the  prosperity  of  the  fraternity  as  to  abolish  the  observ- 
ance of  the  rule  altogether. 

********* 

Why  should  the  fraternity  open  the  door  to  all  these  difficulties 
and  troubles?  Why  should  they  relax  the  time-honored  and  wise  rule 
of  action?  Simply  because  persons  who  have  been  rejected,  presuma- 
bly for  good  and  sufficient  reasons,  wish  to  get  the  benefit  of  the  insti- 
tution against  the  protest  of  those  who  are  entitled  to  its  rights  and 
privileges.  What  benefit  do  those  who  are  within  the  fraternitj-  claim 
is  to  be  derived  from  a  change  in  this  respect?  Simpl}-  that  in  some 
other  states  rejected  material  can  obtain  the  benefits  of  Masonry 
among  those  who  are  less  capable  of  judging  of  their  fitness,  b}^  reason 
of  more  limited  knowledge  as  to  the  history  and  character  of  the  ap- 
plicant. 

The  same  committee  had  under  consideration  a  request  from  one 
Albert  E.  Ingram  that  he  might  be  received  as  a  visitor  to  the 
lodges  of  New  Hampshire  and  other  papers  relating  to  Masonry  in 
Mexico. 

We  copy  a  portion  of  the  report  of  the  committee  for  the  infor- 
mation it  contains  about  the  alleged  Masonry  of  Mexico,  and  for  the 
incidental  light  thrown  upon  the  reported  disintegration  of  the  hy- 
brid general  grand  lodge  known  as  the  Gran  Dieta  Simbolica  of  Mex- 
ico, to  which  we  have  elsewhere  referred: 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  199 


One  paper  is  signed  by  Albert  E.  Ingram,  and  is  addressed  to  the 
most  worshipful  grand  lodge,  and  contains  a  statement  to  the  effect 
that  he  was  regularly  initiated,  passed,  and  raised  in  Washington 
Hidalgo  Lodge  No.  224,  in  the  city  of  Chihuahua,  state  of  Chihuahua, 
United  States  of  Mexico.  That  the  charter  was  granted  by  the  Gran 
Dieta  Simbolica,  signed  by  the  supreme  grand  master,  who  is  Presi- 
dent Diaz,  and  worked  under  their  jurisdiction,  organized  November, 
1894,  and  that  all  of  the  charter  members  were  made  Masons  in  the 
United  States  of  America.  It  also  contains  the  statement  that  there 
is  "no  York-Rite  Grand  Lodge"  in  the  whole  republic  so  far  as  he  is 
aware.  The  Washington  Hidalgo  lodge  works  in  the  English  language 
only,  following  exclusively  the  Illinois  ritual.  That  there  are  no  Mex- 
icans made  in  this  lodge  or  affiliated,  and  he  makes  the  further  state- 
ment that  he  considers  himself  a  Master  Mason  in  good  standing,  and 
as  such  would  like  to  visit  the  lodges  of  this  state.  Paper  dated  .June 
25,  1895. 

.January  29,  1897,  he  addressed  another  paper  to  the  grand  master 
of  New  Hampshire,  with  some  documents  which  purport  to  be  a  declar- 
ation of  assumption  of  sovereignty  for  the  state  of  Chihuahua,  Mexico, 
separate  from  and  in  obedience  to  a  decree  of  the  Gran  Dieta  Simbol- 
ica. These  papers  seem  to  be  a  copy  of  a  decree  in  the  Spanish  lau- 
guage,  in  substance  conceding  or  granting  to  the  grand  lodges  of 
some  of  the  states  of  Mexico  their  independence  from  the  control  and 
authority  of  the  Gran  Dieta.  with  exclusive  jurisdiction  over  the  sj'm- 
bolical  degrees  within  the  limits  of  their  respective  states  or  districts. 

The  other  papers  are  letters  from  the  Grand  Lodg^e  of  Chihuahua 
to  the  Grand  Lodge  of  New  Hampshire,  asking  for  recognition  of  their 
independent  jurisdiction  and  fraternal  relations  with  those  who  were 
made  Masons  under  their  authority. 

The  committee  (whose  report  is  presumably  the  work  of  the  chair- 
man, Bro.  Fellows)  says  that  Mr.  Ingram's  request  is  irregularly 
before  the  grand  lodge,  his  proper  course  being  to  apply  to  the  lodge 
which  he  wishes  to  visit.  If  the  lodge  is  in  doubt  it  can  apply  to  the 
grand  master  who  may  report  his  decision  to  the  grand  lodge  and 
thus  have  the  question  considered.  This  may  be  a  valuable  pointer 
for  the  promoters  of  the  recognition  of  the  Mexican  counterfeit  as 
regular  Masonry  by  the  grand  lodges  of  this  country,  and  we  incline 
to  the  opinion  that  if  the  Gran  Dieta  Simbolica  lasts  long  enough  this 
is  the  manner  in  which  the  question  of  its  recognition  will  get  before 
the  Grand  Lodge  of  New  Hampshire. 

This  opinion  is  strengthened  b}^  the  fact  that  the  report  is  for  the 
most  part  a  defence  of  the  gran  dieta.  It  tells  the  story  of  its  "re- 
forms"— its  decrees  directing  the  use  of  the  Bible  in  the  lodges  and 
abolishing  "woman  Masonry,"  and  says  that  by  this  action  of  the 
Gran  Dieta  Simbolica  "it  would  seem  that  the  objections  which  were 
formerly  in  the  way  of  fraternal  correspondence  have  been  substan- 
tially removed." 

He  says  that  several  of  the  state  grand  lodges  revolted  against 
this  movement  and  declared  that  they  would  not  use  the  Bible  in  the 


200  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


lodges,  nor  would  they  submit  to  the  decree  abolishing  woman  Ma- 
sonry, and  that  the  "Grand  Lodge  of  Chihuahua"  under  whose  juris- 
diction the  Washington  Hidalgo  Lodge  is  working,  was  one  of  these 
rebellious  state  grand  lodges. 

We  suppose  this  part  of  his  statement  rests  upon  the  testimony 
of  Bro.  Parvin  (as  he  states  that  some  of  them  are  founded  upon  in- 
formation for  which  he  has  that  brother's  personal  authority)  because 
it  is  in  direct  conflict— so  far  as  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Chihuahua  is 
concerned — with  the  papers  in  his  hands  showing  that  the  declaration 
of  that  body  assuming  Masonic  sovereignty  for  the  state  of  Chihua- 
hua was  in  obedience  to  a  decree  of  the  gran  dieta.  We  mention  this 
chiefly  for  the  reason  that  it  offers  a  fresh  illustration  of  the  difficulty 
of  getting  any  reliable  information  from  any  official  source  of  the  ex- 
act condition  of  affairs  in  Mexico. 

We  return  for  a  moment  to  his  remark  about  the  substantial  re- 
moval of  the  objections  which  formerly  existed  to  the  recognition  of 
the  gran  dieta,  and  his  further  remark  that  it  is  very  desirable  that 
full  fraternal  relations  should  exist  between  the  fraternity  in  Mexico 
and  the  craft  in  the  United  States. 

The  removal  of  the  objectionable  practices  referred  to  leaves  the 
question  whether  full  fraternal  relations  are  desirable  to  be  settled 
on  other  grounds,  and  these  grounds  have  heretofore  been  stated  very 
clearly  by  Bro.  Fellows.  In  1894,  referring  to  the  recognition  of  the 
Mexican  aggregation  by  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Texas,  he  said: 

The  fundamental  principles  on  which  Masonic  recognition  is  per- 
mitted were,  so  far  as  aught  appears,  entirely  ignored.  The  '"Ma- 
sonry'" of  the  Grand  Orient  of  the  "Mexican  National  Rite.'"  or  the 
Rite  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  the  "Federal  District."  or  of  the  Supreme 
Grand  Orient  of  the  Scottish  Rite  or  the  Reformed  Scottish  Rite,  may 
have  been  the  rite  that  our  distinguished  M.  W.  brother  iraternized 
with.  Such  bodies  have  from  time  to  time  existed  there  and  claimed 
supreme  authority.  A  combination  of  part  of  these  many  organiza- 
tions forms,  and  is  controlled  by,  the  "Gran  Dieta"'  of  Mexico,  prob- 
ably, and  its  position  and  claim  that  it  represents  the  fuf<ion  of  all 
pre-existing  rites  raises  a  very  serious  inquiry  as  to  its  legitimacy,  and 
makes  against  rather  than  for  it.  It  is  well  known  that  originally  it 
included  the  word  "Scottish"  in  its  title  but  afterwards  dropped  that 
out,  taking  the  name  of '  "Grand  Symbolic  Dieta. "  Also  that  its  grand 
secretary.  Canton,  claims  that  this  grand  body  is  neither  a  York  nor  a 
ScottisJi  Rite  body,  but  that  it  practices  '^'Universal  'Masonry, ^^  embracing  all 
rites.     We  understand  pretty  well  what  that  means  here. 

The  differences  between  the  rituals  of  those  bodies  and  the  sym- 
bolic degrees  are  very  great.     They  involve  the  abandonment  of  the 
most  important  landmarks  of  Craft  Masonry. 
*  ****  *x-***  * 

This  question  should  be  determined  upon  grounds  that  shall  put 
to  the  test  the  character  of  the  institution  and  the  legitimacy  of  its 
establishment.     They  should  be  examined  in  the  light  of   Ancient 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  201 

Craft  Masonry  and  its  recogfnized  usages.  So  far  as  has  come  to  our 
knowledge  no  such  test  has  been  applied  and  no  sufficient  evidence 
has  been  obtained  to  warrant  this  grand  lodge  to  authorize  one  of  its 
subordinates  to  confer  the  degrees  of  Fellow  Craft  and  Master  Mason 
upon  a  candidate  whose  Masonic  qualifications  rest  upon  a  degree  re- 
ceived in  a  Mexican  lodge. 

The  conditions  under  which  the  Mexican  general  grand  lodge  was 
established — the  antecedent  history  and  genesis  of  the  bodies  compos- 
ing it — have  not,  of  course,  been  changed,  and  will  not  be,  for  as  Bro. 
Fellows  well  says  in  the  report  from  which  we  have  just  quoted, 
'"Declaration  by  resolution,  or  other  modes  of  recognition,  does  not 
make  so-called  grand  Masonic  bodies  legitimate,  and  a  grand  lodge 
can  in  no  way  change  the  character  of  an  irregular  organization  any 
more  than  it  can  add  to  or  take  from  the  landmarks  of  the  craft." 
In  any  future  recognition,  therefore,  of  the  gran  dieta  by  a  grand 
lodge  of  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  "the  fundamental  principles  on 
which  Masonic  recognition  is  permitted"  will  necessarily  be  as  en- 
tirely ignored  as  they  were  by  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Texas. 

But  all  the  same  we  expect  to  see  the  Grand  Lodge  of  New  Hamp- 
shire swing  to  the  side  of  recognition  if  the  gran  dieta  lasts  long 
enough — and  a  very  small  remnant  will  answer  the  purpose  of  the 
promoters. 

For  the  present  one  Albert  E.  Ingram  remains  3fr.  Ingram. 

The  Grand  Lodge  of  New  Zealand  was  recognized;  the  instructions 
given  the  candidate  as  to  the  manner  of  wearing  the  apron  in  the 
second  and  third  degrees  was  ordered  to  be  transposed,  and  the  grand 
secretary  was  authorized  to  have  the  proceedings  of  1859  and  1860  re- 
printed. 

Henry  A.  Marsh,  of  Nashua,  grand  master,  and  GEORGE  P. 
Cleaves,  Concord,  grand  secretary,  were  reelected. 

The  report  on  correspondence  (156  pp.)  is  as  usual  by  Bro.  Albert 
S.  Wait,  a  guarantee  at  once  of  its  interest  and  ability.  He  gives 
something  over  four  pages  to  our  proceedings  for  1896. 

The  address  of  Grand  Master  Soott  is  characterized  as  a  strictly 
business  paper;  of  his  decision  that  "When  a  lodge  ceases  to  exist,  its 
rejected  material  can  petition  any  lodge  having  territorial  or  concur- 
rent jurisdiction.  *  *  *  Personal  jurisdiction  belongs  to  the  lodge  and 
ceases  when  it  becomes  defunct — "  he  says: 

The  doctrine  of  the  former  has  been  denied  in  some  jurisdictions, 
and  by  some  Masonic  scholars  of  acknowledged  ability  and  learning. 
We  believe  it  to  be  the  sound  and  correct  law  of  the  subject,  and  have 
heretofore  so  expressed  our  opinion. 

He  is  somewhat  puzzled  as  to  the  meaning  of  a  manifestly  hur- 
riedly written  resolution  directing  the  committee  on  correspondence 


202  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 

to  report  on  the  status  of  certain  alleg'ed  grand  lodges.  The  under- 
stood design  of  the  resolution  was  that  the  committee  should  report 
whether  or  not  the  individuals  of  their  obedience  are  eligible  to  visit 
our  lodges. 

Bro.  Wait  takes  some  space  to  show  that  he  did  not  intentionally 
misstate  what  we  said  about  all  lawful  Masonry  existing  being  ''de- 
scended from  the  Masonry  of  the  British  Isles."  We  had  acquitted 
him  in  advance  of  any  intention  to  misquote  when  in  his  conclusion 
he  undertook  to  state  our  position  in  a  general  way  and  substituted 
for  the  above  expression  the  words  "derived  either  mediately  or  imme- 
diateh"  from  the  Grand  Lodge  of  England:"  and  indeed  we  called  atten- 
tion to  it  less  as  a  matter  of  complaint  than  as  showing  that  he  had 
written,  as  we  thought,  carelessly  throughout  the  remarks  of  which 
the  expression  was  a  part.  We  did  think  it  important  to  be  exact,  be- 
cause he  had  been  kind  enough  to  say  of  the  following,  which  he  quoted 
from  our  review  of  New  York,  that  "'if  this  assumption  of  our  Illinois 
brother  is  well  founded,  it  at  once  justifies  him,  without  further  argu- 
ment, in  his  denunciation  of  the  act  of  recognizing  the  Mexican  grand 
body."  and  as  he  had  thus  expressed  a  willingness  to  stake  the  entire 
argument  upon  it,  we  thought  there  ought  not  to  be  left  any  question 
as  to  what  the  language  was.     We  said: 

We  hold  it  to  be  an  indisputable  fact  that  there  is  no  lawful  Ma- 
sonry anywhere  that  is  not  descended  from  the  Free  and  Accepted 
Masonry  of  the  British  Isles — the  Masonry  of  the  charges  of  a  Free- 
mason— which  crystallized  into  the  grand  lodge  system  in  the  early 
part  of  the  eighteenth  century,  and  that  there  is  no  alleged  Masonry 
anywhere  that  is  not  either  this  or  a  departure  or  dissent  from  this, 
such  dissent  or  departure  occurring  after  the  grand  lodge  was  fully 
evolved  and  with  its  structure  and  polity  identified  as  a  part  of  the 
original  plan. 

Of  this  he  now  says: 

It  was  this  language  which,  when  we  came  to  speak  in  more  gen- 
eral terms  in  our  conclusion,  we  construed  as  an  intended  assertion 
that  there  was  no  legitimate  Masonry  not  derived,  either  mediately 
or  immediately,  from  the  Grand  Lodge  of  England.  We  still  think 
the  inference  warranted,  but  if  Bro.  Bobbins  says  he  meant  something 
else,  we  recognize  his  right  to  place  his  own  interpretation  upon  the 
language  he  uses.  We  cannot  see.  however,  that  this  explanation 
shows  his  views  to  be  substantialh^  different  from  what  we  understood 
them  at  first,  and  so  are  unable  to  discover  that  the  argument  is 
changed.  We  do  not  think  a  return  to  the  subject  will  at  present  be 
profitable:  our  brethren  have  what  we  have  said,  which  we  do  not  wish 
to  change:  they  have  the  strictures  of  Bro.  Bobbins  upon  it,  and  we 
are  quite  willing  they  should  read  the  two  together. 

We  are  sorry  that  after  reaching  an  agreement  as  to  what  is 
the  essential  point  in  the  discussion  of  the  subject,  viz.  the  correct- 
ness or  incorrectness  of  our  assumption — he  does  not  now  think  it 
will  be  profitable  to  notice  the  arguments  by  which  we  sought  to 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  203 


show  that  it  is  correct.  Without  quarreling,  however,  with  his  dis- 
inclination to  pursue  the  discussion  upon  a  confessedly  pivotal  point, 
and  without  expecting- to  elicit  any  reply  from  Bro.  Wait,  but  simply 
to  show  that  the  assumption  referred  to  has  the  support  of  the  fore- 
most of  Masonic  historians,  we  copy  from  the  fourth  of  Bro.  Robert 
Freke  Gould's  articles  on  "Freemasonry  in  Mexico,''  appearing  in 
the  proceedings  of  the  Lodge  Qilatuor  Coronati,  who  after  observing 
that  "The  chief  interest  in  the  present  controversy,  which  in  the 
first  instance  had  centered  in  the  initiation  of  women,  has  now  veered 
around  to  the  competency'  (or  otherwise)  of  bodies  of  the  so-called 
Scottish  Rite  to  constitute  symbolic  (or  craft)  lodges,"  and  citing 
some  expressions  pro  and  con,  says: 

Another  member  of  the  guild,  Bro.  Albert  S.  Wait,  also  demurring 
to  Bro.  Bobbins'  dictum  "that  there  is  no  legitimate  Masonry  existing, 
which  is  not  derived  either  mediately  or  immediately  from  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  England,  affirms, — 

"That  Masonry  existed,  not  only  in  England,  but  on  the  Continent 
of  Europe,  indefinite  ages  before  the  Grand  Lodge  of  England  was 
formed.  So  far  from  the  Grand  Lodge  of  England  having  the  right 
to  assert  its  own  exclusive  legitimacy,  its  own  legitimacy  was  at  its 
formation  open  to  criticism  from  the  legitimate  Masonry  of  the  Eu- 
ropean continent.  At  any  rate  the  test  of  legitimacy  in  Masonry  is 
not  its  traceability  to  an  English  grand  lodge  origin." 

The  answer  to  the  foregoing  is  so  beautifully  expressed  and  dis- 
poses of  the  points  at  issue  in  such  a  masterly  manner  that  I  shall 
gratify  all  true  students  of  the  craft  by  reproducing  it.  Bro.  Bobbins 
says: — "Original  Masonry  did  not  spring  from  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
England,  but  the  Grand  Lodge  of  England  and  the  other  grand  lodges 
of  the  British  Isles  sprang  from  the  original  Masonry,  and  the}/  absorbed 
it  all.  How  long  Masonry  may  have  existed  in  England  and  Scotland 
before  the  formation  of  the  first  grand  lodge  in  1717  may  be  still  an 
open  question;  but  so  far  from  its  being  an  ascertained  fact  of  historj-^ 
that  it  existed  ages  before  that  time  elsewhere,  if  there  is  a  scrap  of 
evidence  that  a  lodge  of  Freemasons  existed  on  the  continent  of  Eu- 
rope one  hour  before,  or  indeed  until  it  had  been  planted  there  by  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  England,  the  leading  Masonic  students  of  the  world 
will  be  most  grateful  to  Bro.  Wait  if  he  will  produce  it.  That  Masonry 
could  have  been  evolved  also  on  the  continent  of  Europe,  and  then 
have  disappeared  so  completely  as  to  leave  no  trace  behind  at  the 
time  the  fraternity  took  on  its  completed  form  in  Great  Britain,  is 
most  improbable.  But  whether  such  an  evolution  took  place  else- 
where or  not  is  not  material,  for  if  it  did  the  product  was  not  perpet- 
uated." 

In  his  brief  conclusion  Bro.  W'ait  touches  upon  some  of  the  upper- 
most topics  and  considers  those  of  the  most  prominent  present  interest 
to  be  Mexican  Masonry,  and  the  prerogative  of  the  grand  master  to 
make  Masons  at  sight.  He  thinks  neither  of  them  fraught  with  inter- 
ruption of  the  generally  prevailing  harmony. 


204  APPENDIX.— PART   I. 

NEW  JERSEY,  1897. 

110th  Annual.  Trenton.  January  27. 

Thirty-five  grand  jurisdictions  were  represented,  Illinois  by  JO- 
SEPH H.  Gaskill,  chairman  of  the  committee  on  finance. 

From  force  of  habit,  we  presume,  the  grand  secretary  says  the 
grand  lodge  was  opened  in  ample  form  when  he  meant  due  form,  the 
deputy  grand  master  (JosiAH  W.  Ewan)  being  in  the  chair,  owing  to 
the  illness  of  the  grand  master,  George  W.  Fortmeyer,  from  whom 
a  brief  letter  expressing  his  great  disappointment  over  his  enforced 
absence  was  received,  and  of  which  sympathetic  acknowledgment 
was  made  by  telegraph  and  mail. 

Past  Grand  Master  Robert  M.  Moore,  formerly  the  representa- 
tive of  Illinois,  also  sent  regrets  on  account  of  sudden  illness  from 
which  his  many  friends  in  this  jurisdiction  will  hope  that  he  promptly 
recovered.  Regret  at  his  absence  was  acknowledged  by  an  official 
letter.* 

Past  Grand  Master  William  Sherer,  of  New  York,  was  formally 
welcomed  as  a  visitor,  and  telegrams  of  regret  were  received  from 
Grand  Master  William  Kelly  and  Past  Grand  Master  Michael 
Arnold,  of  Penns3'lvania,  who  had  hoped  to  be  present. 

At  the  request  of  the  acting  grand  master,  the  annual  address  of 
the  absent  grand  master  was  read  by  Past  Grand  Master  Hamilton 
Wallis. 

The  grand  master  announced  the  death  of  Past  District  Deputy 
Grand  Masters  Martin  Issler  and  Josiah  Matlack,  and  of  no  less 
than  forty-seven  past  masters,  a  number  so  large  as  to  suggest  at  once 
the  great  age  of  the  jurisdiction. 

He  submitted  as  a  part  of  his  address  his  letter  to  the  grand  mas- 
ter of  Masons  in  England,  written  pursuant  to  the  motion  adopted  the 
previous  year,  inquiring  as  to  the  feasibility  of  holding  a  Masonic 
congress,  or  world's  grand  lodge,  which  our  readers  will  recognize  as 
the  proposition  of  Bro.  Jacob  Ringle,  which  has  been  the  nightmare 

*On  taking  up  the  New  York  proceedings  we  are  shocked  and  grieved  to  learn 
from  the  address  of  Grand  Master  Stewakt  that  this  illness  of  Brother  Moorb 
proved  fatal,  his  death  occurring  February  13,  1897.  We  first  met  Brother  Moobe 
at  the  Masonic  Congress  of  1893— in  which  he  was  a  prominent  figure— and  the  per- 
sonal acquaintance  thus  begun  ripened  rapidly  into  a  friendship  that  was  very- 
close  and  trustful.  His  engaging  personality  and  always  gentlemanly  instin  ts 
made  him  a  welcome  guest  in  every  circle  he  entered,  but  his  companionsliip  was 
most  delightful  when  everything  that  passed  was  "under  four  eyes,"  as  the  Ger- 
mans say.  He  gave  of  himself  so  generously  in  his  friendship  that  it  cost  us  an 
added  pang  on  seeing  the  announcement  of  his  death  to  remember  that  we  were 
his  debtor  for  an  unanswered  letter.  Death  came  very  close  to  us  when  he  took 
genial,  loyal,  lovable  Bob  Moore. 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  205 

of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  New  Jersey  since  1894,  and  which  it  required 
at  last  royal  assistance  to  let  g'o  of.  This  assistance  was  rendered 
in  the  most  delicate  but  effective  way,  as  after  a  lapse  of  six  months, 
no  reply  to  the  letter  had  been  received. 

The  grand  master  submitted  three  decisions,  of  which  the  follow- 
ing alone  is  of  general  interest: 

Every  ballot,  whether  upon  petition  for  membership  or  for  sus- 
pension or  restoration,  must  be  inspected  by  the  wardens  before  the 
result  is  announced  by  the  master. 

The  address  reflects  an  administration  marked  by  less  than  the 
usual  number  of  annulling  edicts,  by  which  accomplished  facts  are 
wiped  out  and  made  to  be  as  if  they  had  never  been,  but  we  note  one 
such  in  order  to  save  our  protest.  In  this  case  a  candidate  had  been 
elected  to  the  degrees  and  had  received  one  of  them,  when  it  was 
discovered  that  he  had  previously  been  rejected  in  another  lodge. 
The  petition  stated  that  the  applicant  had  not  made  application  for 
the  degrees  to  any  other  lodge,  but  the  blanks  were  not  in  his  own 
handwriting,  as  required  by  law,  and  hence  the  petition  should  not 
have  been  received.  The  grand  master  declared  all  the  proceedings 
in  the  case  null  and  void,  thus  reiterating  what  New  Jersey  grand 
masters  have  of  late  years  frequently  assumed,  that  it  is  possible  for 
a  regular  lodge  regularly  at  labor  to  confer  the  degrees  of  Masonry, 
or  one  of  them,  upon  a  man  without  giving  him  a  Masonic  status.  To 
this  we  can  not  agree. 

The  grand  lodge  chartered  one  lodge  working  under  dispensation, 
and  if  we  correctly  understand  the  record,  granted  another  warrant 
outright  without  the  customary  period  of  probation;  witnessed  an 
exemplification  of  the  work  in  the  three  degrees;  sent  the  Maine 
proposition  as  to  rejected  candidates  to  the  jurisprudence  commit- 
tee, who  have  not  yet  reported;  recognized  the  Grand  Lodge  of  New 
Zealand;  formally  received  the  diplomatic  corps;  so  amended  the  law 
that  the  district  deputy  grand  masters  will  hereafter  be  known  as 
district  deputies;  found  that  the  Jersey  craft  had  been  on  its  good 
behavior,  leaving  the  grievance  committee  to  enjoy  a  complete  holi- 
day; decided  that  a  lodge  has  a  right  to  refuse  to  receive  a  petition 
for  the  degrees  and  that  therefore  a  motion  to  return  such  petition 
would  be  in  order,  and  this  whether  the  petitioner  had  been  previously 
rejected  by  the  lodge  or  not;  also  that  the  proper  place  for  a  Masonic 
lodge  in  a  funeral  procession  when  other  organizations  join  in  the  ob- 
sequies of  a  deceased  Mason  is  immediately  preceeding  or  surrounding 
the  hearse;  laid  over,  under  the  rule,  a  proposed  addition  to  the  con- 
stitution making  the  grand  master  ineligible  for  re-election;  and 
adopted  the  following  resolution  by  unanimous  vote: 

Resolved,  That  a  standing  committee  be  appointed  at  this  com- 
munication, and  each  year  thereafter,  by  the  M.W.  grand  master. 


206  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


which  shall  consist  of  the  M.W.  grand  master  and  five  other  members 
of  the  grand  lodge,  to  be  known  as  the  committee  on  Masonic  home. 

That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  such  committee  to  obtain  a  proper 
building  and  surrounding  property  to  be  used  as  a  home  for  indigent 
or  helpless  Masons,  their  widows  and  children;  to  adopt  all  necessary 
rules  and  regulations  for  the  government  thereof:  to  prescribe  the 
qualifications  for  admission  to  such  home  and  generally  to  exercise 
full  control  thereof,  subject  to  the  direction  of  the  M.  W.  grand  lodge. 

That  such  committee  shall  have  power  to  inaugurate  such  meas- 
ures as  they  shall  deem  best  for  raising  funds  necessary  for  the  per- 
formance of  the  duties  hereby  imposed  upon  them,  and  are  authorized 
to  make  use  of  the  permanent  charit}-  fund  of  the  grand  lodge  for 
such  purposes. 

The  grand  lodge  charity  fund  amounts  to  $11,333.97. 

George  W.  Fortmeyer,  of  East  Orange,  grand  master:  Thomas 
H.  R.  Redway,  Trenton,  grand  secretary,  were  re-elected. 

The  report  on  correspondence  (169  pp.).  again  by  Bro.  George  B. 
Edwards,  reviews  the  proceedings  of  sixty  grand  lodges.  It  is 
almost  wholly  in  the  language  of  the  author,  and  is  an  exceedingly 
entertaining  and  sparkling,  as  well  as  able  paper.  Illinois  for  1896 
receives  full  notice,  albeit  in  one  particular  he  read  a  little  hastily, 
and  in  consequence  says  that  the  National  Grand  Lodge  of  Egypt 
was  recognized.  The  question  of  recognition  was  referred  to  the  com- 
mittee on  correspondence  for  report.     Of  another  matter  he  sa3's: 

After  the  election,  in  which  all  the  elective  officers  were  honored 
by  re-election,  a  resolution  prevailed  prohibitor\-  to  a  grand  master 
succeeding  himself.  Legislation  for  establishing  a  one-term  occu- 
pancy', of  doubtful  property.  Presume  a  case:  Bro.  Scott  has  been 
elected  to  serve  a  second  term;  at  the  next  annual  should  the  breth- 
ren refuse  to  elect  anj-  other  to  fill  his  place,  and  persist  in  casting 
their  ballots  for  Bro.  Scott,  and  no  other,  who  would  be  grand  master? 

Bro.  Edwards's  supposititious  case  don"t  fit  because  there  was  no 
legislation.  To  so  change  the  law  as  to  render  the  grand  master  in- 
eligible to  succeed  himself  would  require  that  the  proposed  amendment 
receive  a  second  of  twenty  representatives,  lie  over  one  j'ear,  and  then 
command  a  two-thirds  vote  in  its  favor.  The  custom  of  giving  a  grand 
master  two  terms  which  has  long  prevailed  in  our  grand  lodge  rests  on 
the  free  will  of  the  brethren;  they  have  been  under  no  constraint  but 
that  of  habit,  or  their  own  good  judgment. 

The  Illinois  report  on  correspondence  receives  pleasant  recogni- 
tion. 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  207 

NEW  MEXICO,  1896. 

19th  Annual.  East  Las  Vegas.  October  5. 

This  neat  pamphlet,  which  bears  the  imprint  of  a  Santa  Fe  print- 
ing house,  contains  two  tine  portraits,  those  of  Past  Grand  Masters 
Joseph  H.  Kuhns  (1892-1893)  and  Richard  English  (1891-1892).  Photo- 
types so  fine  as  these  at  once  sugg'est  a  quality  of  the  atmosphere  re- 
markably adapted  to  sun  printing.  Seven  grand  jurisdictions  were 
represented,  Illinois  not  among  them.  The  grand  secretary's  table  of 
grand  representatives  near  the  Grand  Lodge  of  New  Mexico,  does  not 
include  Illinois,  and  we  infer  that  no  appointment  has  been  made  to 
fill  the  vacancy  caused  by  the  death  of  Bro.  Harvey  E.  Huston,  noted 
in  our  report  of  last  year. 

The  address  of  the  grand  master  (James  H.  Wroth)  indicates  a 
good  degree  of  material  prosperity  in  the  lodges.  He  had  rendered 
no  decisions  but  had,  been  so  frequently  called  upon  to  explain  the 
meaning  of  the  grand  lodge  by-laws  as  to  impress  him  with  their  am- 
biguous wording  and  of  the  necessity  of  a  speedy  revision.  An  appro- 
priation was  made  to  meet  the  necessary  expenses  of  the  committee 
on  revision  and  their  report  is  looked  ior  next  year. 

He  suggested  that  the  grand  lodge  place  itself  on  record  towards 
business  organizations,  such  as  building  associations,  insurance  com- 
panies, etc.,  who  have  taken  as  part  of  their  title  the  word  "Masonic." 
On  this  subject  the  following  from  the  committee  on  address  was  ap- 
proved by  the  grand  lodge: 

Your  committee  begs  leave  to  say,  concerning  the  timely  remarks 
of  the  grand  master  in  relation  to  the  entrance  into  this  territory  of 
so-called  Masonic  insurance  companies,  building  associations,  and  the 
like,  that  this  committee  knows  of  no  way  to  legally  restrain  such 
associations  from  so  doing.  Your  committee  highly  approves  of  the 
action  of  the  grand  master  in  calling  attention  to  this  growing  evil, 
and  respectfully  calls  the  attention  of  the  craft  throughout  this  juris- 
diction to  this  abuse  and  to  warn  them  against  any  connection  with 
any  such  institutions.  They  have  no  connection  with  the  Masonic  fra- 
ternity and  in  most  cases  are  utterly  unreliable  from  a  business  stand- 
point. 

The  grand  master  gave  the  meager  particulars  known  to  the  gen- 
eral public  of  murder  m  the  preceding  February  of  Col.  Albert  J. 
Fountain,  past  deputy  grand  master,  supposed  to  have  taken  place 
at  a  point  about  forty  miles  from  his  home  in  Las  Cruces,  and  stated 
that  the  work  of  ferreting  out  the  murderers  was  in  the  hands  of  a 
committee  known  only  to  the  master  of  Bro.  Fountain's  lodge  and 
the  grand  master.     His  concluding  remarks  suggest  the  possibility 


208  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 


that  in  the  faction-rent  county  Masonry  may  furnish  the  only  nucleus 
of  mutual  confidence,  as  it  did  in  the  reign  of  lawlessness  in  Montana, 
and  the  rallying  point  of  the  defenders  of  law  and  order.     He  says: 

Owing  to  the  intense  feeling  in  the  county  and  the  general  feel- 
ing of  distrust  existing  among  all  classes  of  citizens,  it  has  been 
deemed  advisable  not  to  divulge  any  of  the  information  that  has 
been  up  to  this  time  obtained.  This  is  the  more  necessary  as  the 
bodies  have  not  yet  been  found.  I  have  therefore  left  the  matter  in 
the  hands  of  the  sheriff  and  the  committee,  directing  them  to  make 
no  report  until  the  sheriff  sees  his  way  clear  to  a  successful  issue. 

This  care  seems  to  be  the  more  necessarj^  as  the  investigation  pro- 
ceeds, on  account  of  the  mutual  distrust  existing  among  the  various 
factions  in  that  county,  and  I  would  suggest  to  this  grand  lodge  the 
propriety  of  leaving  it  entirely  in  the  hands  of  the  incoming  grand 
master  until  further  evidence  is  attainable  or  the  case  brought  to 
trial. 

I  will  content  myself  with  the  statement,  that  if  the  evidence 
now  in  the  hands  of  the  committee  can  be  substantiated  on  trial,  it 
will  disclose  a  depth  of  public  depravity  that  should  call  forth  the 
condemnation  of  all  reputable  citizens,  and  that  will  require  the  con- 
certed action  of  all  classes  to  purify  and  preserve  the  good  name  of 
the  territory  and  of  the  craft. 

The  craft  is  getting  on  dangerous  ground  when  it  undertakes  in 
its  organized  capacity  to  bear  a  hand  in  civil  affairs  even  for  so  praise- 
worthy an  object  as  bringing  criminals  to  justice,  but  we  are  not  dis- 
posed to  criticize  such  action  too  harshly  where — as  we  judge  to  be 
the  case  in  New  Mexico — a.  thin  film  of  apparent  respect  for  law 
covers  an  actual  reign  of  terror. 

Notwithstanding  the  material  prosperity  of  the  fraternity,  the 
grand  master  draws  a  pessimistic  picture  of  its  moral  condition.  He 
says: 

In  conclusion,  it  is  clearly  my  duty  to  call  the  attention  of  this 
grand  lodge  to  the  rapid  and  extensive  growth  of  a  disease  that  is 
threatening  the  very  existence  of  the  fraternity,  that  is,  the  fre- 
quency with  which  the  Masonic  obligations  to  protect  the  reputation, 
person,  and  well-being  of  a  brother  Mason  are  constantly  disregarded 
in  this  jurisdiction. 

Brethren,  unless  we  set  about  changing  this  condition  of  affairs. 
Masonry  deserves  to  become  a  fit  subject  for  scoffing — a  byword  in  the 
land.  Have  we  come  to  regard  the  blue  lodge  merely  as  an  institu- 
tion to  formally  qualify  its  members  for  admission  into  other  more 
modern  orders? 

All  Masons  must  now  unite  in  upholding  Masonic  obligations, 
duties,  and  honors  in  every  degree  of  the  fraternity.  When  they  do 
this  the  principles  of  Freemasonry  will  be  preserved  in  their  pristine 
purity,  to  the  benefit  not  only  of  Masons,  but  of  the  entire  world.  If 
they  do  not,  the  institution  should,  as  it  certainly  will,  perish  from 
the  earth. 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  209 


How  can  it  be  done?  How  can  the  desired  result  be  brought  about? 
The  answer  is  eas}'.  Let  you  and  me,  and  every  one  of  us — your  subor- 
dinate lodge  and  mine — do  its  duty.  Do  not  wait  for  anybody  else  to  do 
it.  Let  it  once  be  understood  that  no  violation  whatever  of  Masonic 
law  will  be  tolerated  by  any  Mason,  high  or  low,  in  politics,  in  busi- 
ness, in  Masonry,  or  elsewhere,  and  the  end  will  be  obtained.  Do  not 
wait  for  the  injured  brother  to  become  the  accuser.  Do  not  allow 
any  compounding  of  the  crime.  Both  parties  may  be  guilty,  and  it 
is  the  dut3'of  the  lodge  to  act  and  act  promptly.  I  repeat,  if  we  have 
not  the  intent  to  enforce  Masonic  obligations,  let  us  stop  administer- 
ing them. 

The  committee  on  address  reporting  on  the  action  of  the  grand 
master  in  granting  a  dispensation  to  confer  the  third  degree  out  of 
time  upon  a  proficient  Fellow  Craft  who  had  been  duly  elected  to  re- 
ceive it  and  who  was  about  removing  to  a  locality  in  Mexico,  where  it 
would  be  impossible  to  receive  the  degree,  disapprove  and  say: 

In  the  case  reported  from  Socorro  Lodge  No.  9,  wherein  the  grand 
master  granted  a  dispensation  to  confer  the  Master  Mason's  degree 
upon  a  Fellow  Craft  without  waiting  for  the  proper  period,  wherein 
such  could  be  lawfully  done,  jour  committee  feel  constrained  to  dis- 
approve of  such  action,  and  quote  the  following  by-law:  Article  16, 
section  4,  "one  lunar  month  must  intervene  between  the  conferring 
of  two  degree  upon  any  one  applicant."  If  the  right  to  dispense  with 
this  by-law  is  claimed  upon  the  ground  of  the  ancient  prerogative  of 
the  grand  master  to  make  Masons  at  sight,  it  may  be  said  that  such 
power,  if  it  exists,  can  not  be  delegated.  In  modern  times  such 
powers  have  been  assumed  by  grand  lodges  themselves  and  their  ex- 
ercise by  the  grand  master  is  regulated  by  constitutions  and  statutes 
of  grand  lodges. 

Discussion  seems  to  have  convinced  the  committee  that  it  had 
gotten  into  deep  water,  and  they  agreed  to  the  following  substitute 
which  was  presented  by  the  chairman,  Past  Grand  Master  Childers, 
and  it  was  adopted: 

In  the  case  reported  from  Socorro  Lodge  No.  9,  wherein  the  grand 
master  granted  a  dispensation  to  confer  the  Master  Mason's  degree 
upon  a  fellow  craft,  without  waiting  for  the  proper  time  wherein  such 
should  be  done  in  accordance  with  section  4,  article  16,  of  the  by-laws 
of  this  grand  lodge,  this  committee  desires  to  say,  without  now  dis- 
cussing or  passing  upon  the  question  of  prerogatives  and  powers  of 
the  grand  master  as  laid  down  in  the  ancient  regulations,  that  such 
powers  should  be  exercised  very  sparingly  and  with  the  utmost  caution. 

The  Maine  overture  respecting  jurisdiction  over  rejected  candi- 
dates, was  referred  to  the  committee  on  foreign  correspondence,  and 
was  not  reported  upon  at  this  session. 

The  local  lodge  and  the  local  chapter  of  the  Order  of  the  Eastern 
Star  were  yoked  up  together  in  the  resolution  of  thanks  for  courtesies 
received. 

The  grand  lodge  fixed  the  minimum  fee  for  the  degrees  at  fifty 
dollars,  and  generally  manifested  a  disposition  to  follow  out  the 
— o 


210  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 

grand  master's  suggestion  to  tighten  up  the  lines  in  the  enforcement 
of  the  regulations,  disciplinary  and  otherwise.  An  invitation  to  hold 
another  communication  away  from  home  was  declined,  and  next 
year's  meeting  will  be  held  at  Albuquerque,  their  permanent  location. 

Charles  Bowmer,  of  Lucero,  was  elected  grand  master;  Al- 
PHEUS  A.  Keen,  Albuquerque,  reelected  grand  secretary. 

The  report  on  correspondence  (97  pp.)  is  again  the  free  will  offer- 
ing of  Past  Grand  Master  Max  Frost,  the  well  equipped  man-of-all- 
work  of  the  jurisdiction,  who  says  in  his  compressed  introduction: 

I  have  made  the  reviews  as  brief  as  possible,  and  have  selected 
quotations  on  such  topics  only  as  I  believe  will  prove  of  interest  to 
this  jurisdiction  or  on  live  questions  before  this  grand  lodge.  I  have 
done  this  work  now  for  this  grand  lodge  for  fourteen  years,  without 
aid. without  pay,  simply  as  a  labor  of  love  and  of  esteem  for  the  craft 
at  large  in  general  and  my  New  Mexico  brethren  in  particular. 

We  greatly  regret  that  Illinois  is  not  included  in  his  review. 


NEW  SOUTH  WALES,  1896. 

9th  Annual.  Sydney.  June  10. 

This  grand  lodge  holds  quarterly  communications,  that  of  June 
being  the  annual. 

At  the  quarterly  of  September  11,  1895,  the  deputy  grand  master 
(Thomas  E.  Spencer)  presided  and  announced  tne  death  of  Past 
Grand  Master  W.  G.  Sedgwick,  who  passed  peacefully  away,  full  of 
years  and  honors. 

The  report  of  the  board  of  general  purposes  was  presented  by  Past 
Deputy  Grand  Master  Alfred  Rolfe,  and  adopted,  including  para- 
graph 10  referred  to  in  the  following  judicious  protest  to  the  grand 

master: 

Parliament  House,  Sydney,  10th  September,  1895. 

Dear  Sir  and  Brother: — In  the  report  of  the  board  of  general 
purposes,  I  notice  a  paragraph  in  reference  to  the  Grand  Orient  of 
Italy.  The  matter  appears  to  be  one  of  so  strong  a  political  charac- 
ter that  I  do  venture  to  hope  that  the  grand  lodge  will  not  for  a 
moment  entertain  the  same,  as  to  do  so  would  be  to  associate  the 
Grand  Lodge  with  the  politics  of  a  foreign  nation,  from  which  we 
should  at  all  times  keep  clear. 

I  am  sorry  that  I  shall  not  be  able  to  attend  the  Grand  Lodge  to- 
morrow night.     I  am,  dear  sir  and  brother. 

Yours  fraternally,  J.  P.  ABBOTT. 

To  Right  Worshipful  T.  E   Spencer,  Deputy  Grand  Master. 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  211 


The  paragraph  referred  to  is  as  follows: 

10.  Grand  Orient  of  Italy. — A  letter  was  received  from  this  body, 
asking  this  grand  lodge  to  send  a  representative  to  the  celebration 
of  the  anniversary  of  the  unification  of  Italy,  to  be  held  at  Rome  on 
20th  September,  1895.  The  board  resolved  that  the  M.W.  the  grand 
master  be  invited  to  cable  the  fraternal  congratulations  of  this  grand 
lodge  to  the  Grand  Orient  of  Italy  on  the  important  occasion  re- 
ferred to. 

A  motion  to  erect  in  the  grand  lodge  room  a  memorial  tablet  to 
the  late  Sir  Robert  William  Duff,  who  died  while  grand  master, 
was  referred  to  the  board  of  general  purposes. 

At  the  winter  quarterly  (December  11,  1895),  the  deputy  grand 
master  presiding,  the  record  says: 

Confirmation  of  Minutes. — A  question  arose  as  to  whether  a  con- 
firmation of  the  minutes,  as  a  correct  record  of  the  former  meeting, 
was  the  confirmation  required  under  clause  60  regarding  alterations 
in  the  Book  of  Constitutions,  etc.,  when  the  R.W.  the  deputy  grand 
master  ruled,  "That  the  minutes  of  a  meeting,  if  a  correct  record  of 
the  proceedings  of  such  meeting,  must  be  confirmed,  but  that  it  is 
competent  for  any  brother  to  move  the  non-confirmation  of  any  por- 
tion of  such  minutes,  or  the  confirmation  of  any  matters  which  re- 
quired to  be  confirmed  before  it  became  valid."  The  minutes  were 
therefore  confirmed  and  signed. 

The  deputy  grand  master  reported  that  the  grand  master  had 
presented  an  address  to  the  governor.  Viscount  Hampden,  tender- 
ing a  welcome  in  behalf  of  the  craft  and  read  the  cordial  reply  of  the 
governor. 

The  report  of  the  board  of  general  purposes  was  adopted  except 
the  following  clause: 

"This  board  being  of  opinion  that  an  honorary  member  (that  is  a 
member  who  does  not  contribute  the  ordinary  dues  to  the  funds  of  the 
lodge),  is  not  entitled  to  any  privileges,  but  merely  the  privilege  of 
attending  the  meetings  of  the  lodge  without  the  necessity  of  an  in- 
troduction." 

The  following  motion  prevailed  instead: 

"That  the  grand  lodge  refuses  to  endorse  the  view  set  forth  in 
paragraph  No.  1  of  the  report  of  the  board  of  general  purposes,  and 
expresses  the  opinion  that  all  members  of  lodges  whose  dues  are  paid 
to  grand  lodge  are  entitled  to  all  the  privileges  of  lodge  members." 

At  the  quarterly  of  March  11, 1896,  the  deputy  grand  master  apolo- 
gized for  the  absence  of  Grand  Master  Abbott,  who  had  made  all  ar- 
rangements to  attend  the  meeting  but  had  been  unavoidably  detained. 

Two  paragraphs  of  the  report  of  the  board  of  general  purposes 
failed  of  adoption,  viz.,  A  resolution  to  request  the  grand  master  to 
withdraw  his  consent  to  permit  a  lodge  whose  place  of  meeting  the 
board  regarded  as  unsatisfactory,  to  continue  to  meet  in  its  present 


212  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 

lodge  room,  and  the  following  touching  the  erection  of  memorial  tab- 
lets in  the  grand  lodge  room: 

The  board  is  of  opinion  that  the  present  wall  space  will  be  insuffi- 
cient in  a  short  time  to  continue  the  erection  of  marble  memorials, 
and  that  a  suitable  design  in  brass  should  be  procured  for  this  pur- 
pose. 

Both  of  these  subjects  were  referred  back  to  the  board.  The 
board  was  sustained  in  the  following  rulings: 

A  letter  was  received  from  Wor.  Bro.  J.  E.  Lee,  P.M.  of  Lodge 
Kilwinning  Orient  No.  14,  complaining  that  at  a  ballot  for  an  affilia- 
ting brother,  a  member  of  the  lodge  stated  that  he  had  put  in  a  black 
ball  by  mistake,  and  as  two  black  balls  appeared  in  the  ballot  box  the 
Wor.  Master  caused  the  ballot  to  be  taken  again,  but  with  the  result 
that  two  black  balls  again  appeared.  Bro.  Lee  contended  that  the 
candidate  ought  to  have  been  declared  accepted  on  the  first  ballot,  it 
being  alleged  that  one  of  the  black  balls  was  put  in  by  mistake.  The 
board  ruled,  "That  the  action  of  the  Wor.  Master  in  taking  a  second 
ballot  was  within  his  rights." 

A  letter  was  read  from  Bro.  P.  M.  Hart,  stating  that  he  had  been 
refused  admission  to  Lodge  Tarrant  after  invitation  by  one  of  the 
members.  The  board  decided  that  the  Wor.  Master  had  acted  within 
the  powers  vested  in  him  under  Clause  87  of  the  Book  of  Constitutions. 

One  warrant  was  surrendered  from  inability  longer  to  carry  on 
the  lodge. 

A  special  communication  was  held  .June  9,  1896,  for  the  nomina- 
tion of  grand  officers.  The  grand  master  was  re-nominated,  which, 
no  other  name  being  presented,  was  equivalent  to  an  election.  Harry 
Passmore,  the  representative  of  Illinois,  was  under  like  conditions 
named  for  senior  grand  warden. 

At  the  quarterly  of  June  10,  1896,  the  deputy  grand  master  pre- 
sided. 

The  following  item  from  the  report  of  the  board  of  general  pur- 
poses shows  that  our  former  representative  has  left  the  jurisdiction: 

Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois. — A  letter  was  received  from  R.W.  Bro. 
the  Rev.  Dr.  Frackleton,  P.G.W.,  resigning  his  position  as  Grand 
Representative  for  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois,  as  he  had  removed  to 
Queensland.  The  board  accepted  the  resignation  with  regret,  and 
recommended  R.W.  Bro.  Harry  Passmore  for  the  vacant  position. 

The  board  declined  to  vary  its  opinion  as  to  the  erection  of  mem- 
orial tablets,  but  recommended  immediate  steps  to  erect  one  in  bronze 
to  the  late  grand  master.  Sir  Robert  Wii^liam  Duff.  The  grand 
lodge  again  referred  the  matter  back  to  the  board.  Two  warrants 
were  surrendered. 

At  a  special  communication  of  June  29,  1896,  the  grand  master 
presided.  Letters  of  apology  for  absence  were  read  from  our  repre- 
sentative, Bro.  Harry  Passmore,  and  others.     The  grand  represen- 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  213 


tative  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  New  South  Wales  at  Victoria  was  an- 
nounced and  received,  and  then — 

Wor.  Bro.  Frederick  Harvey,  grand  director  of  ceremonies,  pro- 
claimed M.W.  Bro.  Sir  Joseph  Palmer  Abbott,  K.C.M.G.,  speaker  of 
the  Legislative  Assembly  of  New  South  Wales,  grand  master  in  the 
east,  west,  and  south,  who  was  saluted  according  to  ancient  custom. 

The  grand  master  made  a  brief  address  and  announced  the  re- 
appointment of  the  deputy  grand  master  (Thos.  E.  Spencer).  Ar- 
thur H.  Bray,  Sydney  (Masonic  Hall,  Castlereagh  street),  remains 
grand  secretar}-. 

There  is  no  report  on  correspondence,  although  the  following  was 
received  from  the  chairman  of  the  committee  at  the  June  quarterh^: 

The  committee  on  foreign  correspondence  beg  to  report  that  they 
are  busily  engaged  reviewing  the  reports  of  44  foreign  lodges,  as  enum- 
erated in  the  report  of  the  library  committee,  and  that  the  result  of 
their  labors  will  appear  in  extenso  in  the  annual  report  of  grand  lodge. 

DONELLY  Fisher,  Chairman. 


NEW  YORK,  1897. 

116th  Annual.  New  York.  June  1- 

This  sumptuous  volume  of  480  pages  contains  fine  steel  portraits 
of  two  past  grand  treasurers,  John  J.  Gorman  and  Jerome  E.  Morse, 
the  former  recently  deceased. 

Fifty-four  grand  jurisdictions  were  represented,  Illinois  by  Wil- 
liam D.  Critcherson. 

Grand  Master  George  W.  Fortmeyer,  and  Deputy  Grand  Master 
JosiAH  W.  EwAN,  of  New  Jersey,  Matthew  Trimble,  grand  master, 
Henry  S.  Merrill,  past  grand  master,  and  William  G.  Henderson, 
junior  grand  warden  of  the  District  of  Columbia,  were  present  and 
were  received  with  the  customary  honors. 

The  grand  master  (John  Stewart)  announced  the  death  of  Dan- 
iel T.  Walden,  Charles  T.  McClenachan,  and  William  Peter- 
kin,  representatives  of  Alabama,  New  South  Wales,  and  Delaware, 
respectively,  John  C.  Robinson,  formerly  lieutenant-governor  of 
New  York,  and  John  K.  Oakley,  and  Frank  G.  Bolles,  past  district 
deputy  grand  masters. 


214  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


Two  notable  events  are  referred  to  by  the  grand  master  in  his  re- 
port of  public  ceremonies  performed.  The  first  of  this  was  notable 
for  the  generous  consideration  shown  by  the  grand  master. 

The  magnificent  temple  erected  by  the  brethren  at  Albany  was 
dedicated  on  the  8th  day  of  October,  by  M.W.  James  Ten  Eyck,  past 
grand  master,  assisted  by  the  officers  of  the  grand  lodge.  I  did  myself 
the  honor  of  attending  this  ceremony,  but  insisted  that  it  should  be 
conducted  by  him  through  whose  personal  efl'orts  more  than  any  other 
our  capital  city  is  now  adorned  by  a  splendid  building  devoted  for  all 
time  to  the  purposes  of  the  craft.  The  procession  preceding  the  cere- 
mony was  large  in  number,  dignified  in  character,  and  the  exercises 
at  the  temple  were  commensurate  with  the  grand  result  achieved  by 
our  Albany  brethren. 

The  second  was  the  dedication  of  a  monument  to  Bro.  General 
Nicholas  Herkimer,  near  Little  Falls,  and  the  home  of  the  hero  of 
the  battle  of  Oriskany.  The  grand  master  being  unable  to  be  pres- 
ent, he  deputed  Grand  Secretary  Ehlers  to  perform  the  ceremonies, 
who  delivered  a  very  striking  address,  full  of  historic  interest.  Past 
Grand  Master  Vrooman,  the  chairman  of  the  monument  commission 
appointed  by  the  governor — in  whose  veins  Bro.  Ehlers  says  fiows  the 
blood  of  the  Herkimers — made  a  brief  address,  but  adequate  to  his 
great  theme. 

The  coincidence  of  a  complaint  against  a  city  lodge  for  having 
conferred  the  degrees  upon  a  resident  of  Pennsylvania,  without  the 
consent  of  the  lodge  having  territorial  jurisdiction,  and  a  pending 
trial  in  the  same  lodge,  of  a  rejected  candidate  of  a  lodge  in  Massachu- 
setts, and  at  the  time  of  his  initiation  a  resident  of  that  state,  led  the 
grand  master  to  institute  an  investigation  as  to  all  the  material  ac- 
cepted during  the  past  three  or  four  years,  which  disclosed  a  laxity 
truly  astounding: 

In  addition  to  the  two  cases  cited  above,  ten  others  were  found, 
the  candidate  in  each  case  having  been  initiated  in  the  lodge  in  utter 
disregard  of  all  law  and  without  proper  scrutiny  as  to  his  qualifica- 
tions for  membership.  Several  of  these  had  been  previously  rejected 
in  neighboring  states,  which  fact  was  not  noted  in  their  petitions  for 
membership.  All  gave  fictitious  residences:  several,  entirely  lost  to 
common  decency,  gave  a  place  of  questionable  repute  for  the  pur- 
pose of  establishing  a  domicile  in  this  city. 

Charges  were  brought  and  eleven  in  all  were  convicted  of  fraudu- 
lent devices  in  obtaining  membership  and  expelled.  A  petition  from 
the  junior  warden  and  eight  other  brethren,  supplemented  by  further 
investigation  and  experience,  led  him  to  arrest  the  charter  of  the 
lodge;  and  the  grand  lodge  wiped  out  the  blot.  This  experience  per- 
suaded the  grand  master  that  the  law  ought  to  hold  the  proposer  of  a 
candidate  responsible  for  his  worthiness.  Of  New  York  as  the  gate- 
way of  the  western  world  and  natural  rendezvous  of  a  class  of  Bohemi- 
ans for  which  the  craft  should  find  no  place,  he  sajs: 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  215 


Therefore,  if  by  reason  of  the  cosmopolitan  character  of  this  city, 
it  is  impossible  in  many  instances  to  trace  the  life  of  a  candidate, 
such  candidate  should  have  the  door  of  Masonry  firmly  closed  against 
him.  The  man  who  is  worthy  of  membership  in  our  fraternity,  can 
readily  furnish  testimonials  of  his  worthiness.  The  man  who  has  not 
resided  in  our  midst  a  sufficient  length  of  time  to  enable  the  lodge  he 
petitions  for  membership  to  submit  his  worthiness  to  the  jury  of  the 
vicinage,  should  be  treated  as  undesirable  material  for  the  temple  we 
are  striving  to  erect. 

Of  the  work  of  the  boards  of  relief  he  says: 

We  in  New  York  do  not  recognize  the  right  of  a  board  of  relief 
to  file  a  bill  of  expenses  incurred  in  the  relief  of  a  Mason  who  is_"a 
stranger  in  a  strange  land,"  nor  to  collect  from  a  sister  jurisdiction 
the  funeral  director's  fee  for  the  commitment  of  his  poor  remains  to 
their  last  resting  place. 

He  appends  to  his  address  an  encyclical  issued  to  the  lodges  within 
a  few  weeks  after  his  installation  calling  attention  to  twenty-four 
points  in  which  the  new  book  of  constitutions  radically  differed  from 
the  old  law,  citing  to  the  section  or  decision,  which  must  have  been  of 
great  utility  to  his  administration.  He  appends  also,  a  supplementary 
circular  called  out  by  inquiries  as  to  the  status  of  candidates  rejected 
prior  to  the  adoption  of  the  new  book  of  constitutions,  and  thus  con- 
strues the  law: 

It  intends  very  clearly  to  apply  to  all  rejected  candidates  irre- 
spective of  the  time  when  rejected,  and  gives  any  lodge,  within  whose 
jurisdiction  such  material  resides,  the  right,  if  twelve  months  have 
elapsed  since  rejection,  to  receive  a  petition  therefrom  and  act 
thereon  without  the  consent  of  the  lodge  in  which  such  material  was 
rejected;  and  I  so  decide. 

He  then  proceeds  to  make  law  covering  a  point  upon  which  the 
constitution  is  silent,  and  in  doing  so  fully  recognizes  the  principle 
upon  which  we  have  insisted  that  all  grand  lodges  must  agree  as  a 
necessary  condition  precedent  to  any  successful  attempt  to  bring 
about  uniformity  of  rule: 

Our  present  law  is  silent  upon  the  question  of  candidates  rejected 
by  sister  grand  lodge  jurisdictions,  now  resident  of  the  state  of  New 
York.  It  seems  to  me,  although  perpetual  jurisdiction  has  been  abol- 
ished by  this  grand  lodge,  it  is  only  fair  and  in  that  spirit  of  comity 
which  should  exist  between  grand  lodges,  to  respect  the  laws  of  each 
other;  therefore,  in  all  cases  of  applicants  for  initiation  and  mem- 
bership in  the  lodges  of  this  jurisdiction,  previously  rejected  by  lodges 
under  the  jurisdiction  of  grand  lodges  with  which  we  are  in  fraternal 
relation,  ike  law  governivg  in  suck  jurisdiction  must  be  complied  with  before 
such  candidate  can  be  initiated  in  this  jurisdiction. 

The  italics  are  ours,  as  they  are  also  in  the  following,  which  we 
quote  from  the  committee  on  jurisprudence  reporting  on  the  Maine 
overture.  Its  adoption  by  the  grand  lodge  fully  sustains  the  decision 
of  the  grand  master: 


216  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 


Your  committee  on  jurisprudence  have  fully  considered  the  com- 
munication from  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Maine,  urginfj  "uniform  legis- 
lation by  the  several  grand  lodges  in  relation  to  the  admission  of 
rejected  candidates,"  and  urging  that  the  effect  of  a  rejection  shall 
be  limited  to  five  years,  and  that  during  that  time  the  candidate 
should  be  allowed  to  petition  only  to  the  lodge  which  rejected  him, 
except  with  the  consent  of  such  lodge. 

Our  grand  lodge,  after  due  consideration,  has  recently  abandoned 
the  old  usage  of  perpetual  jurisdiction,  and  at  the  adoption  of  our 
revised  constitution  in  1896  fixed  the  limit  at  one  year  (Sec.  116.) 

We  are  not  prepared  at  this  time  to  recommend  an  extension  of 
that  time  to  five  years  merely  for  the  sake  of  uniformity,  and  until 
suck  urdforin  legislation  is  adopted,  ve  must  he  governed  by  the  laws  of  the 
grand  lodge  under  whose  authority  the  candidate  was  rejected. 

A  case  of  great  and  far-reaching  importance  got  before  the  grand 
lodge  on  an  appeal  from  the  decision  of  the  master  of  a  lodge.  A 
member  of  the  lodge  was  offered  for  admission  to  the  Masonic  Home 
at  Utica,  and  rejected  because  he  was  addicted  to  the  use  of  mor- 
phine. The  lodge  having  received  a  "tip"  that  if  cured  of  the  habit 
he  would  be  eligible  for  admission,  levied  an  assessment  of  two  dol- 
lars each  upon  its  members  to  secure  for  him  treatment  for  the  cure 
of  the  habit.  At  a  subsequent  meeting  the  master,  after  hearing 
argument,  declared  the  action  of  the  lodge  in  levying  the  assessment 
illegal  and  unconstitutional,  in  that  it  was  not  "for  strictly  Masonic 
purposes,"  as  required  by  section  63  of  that  instrument,  and  from  this 
decision  an  appeal  was  taken.  On  the  recommendation  of  the  com- 
mittee on  jurisprudence,  who  said  the  only  question  properly  before 
them  was  the  construction  and  proper  meaning  of  section  63  of  the 
constitution,  the  case  was  sent  to  the  committee  on  appeals,  with 
the  law  thus  construed: 

We  are  of  the  opinion  and  unanimously  decide  that  it  is  a  ^'strictly 
Masonic  purpose,^^  within  the  provisions  of  said  section,  for  a  lodge  to 
levy  an  assessment,  in  accordance  with  the  rules  and  regulations  of 
this  grand  lodge  and  the  subordinate  lodge,  to  provide  for  the  neces- 
sities of  a  worthy  indigent  brother  in  good  and  regular  standing. 

In  this  case  the  vote  by  which  the  assessment  was  levied  was  four- 
teen to  nine,  but  if  the  principle  were  established  that  even  twenty- 
two  out  of  the  twenty-three  present  might  lawfully  judge  for  the  other 
how  much  he  could  afford  to  give  for  the  relief  of  a  distressed  brother, 
then  it  seems  to  us  that  the  foundation  is  laid  broad  enough  to  sustain 
a  system  of  sick  benefits  such  as  the  grand  master  condemns,  to  include 
also  the  reimbursement  feature  insisted  upon  by  Wisconsin,  or  any 
other  feature  whereby  a  mutual  benefit  association  may  be  differen- 
tiated from  a  charitble  society. 

The  report  of  Past  Grand  Master  Jesse  B.  Anthony,  superin- 
tendent of  the  Masonic  Home  at  Utica,  thus  summarizes  the  material 
side  of  the  year's  work: 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  217 


The  average  for  the  past  year  is  equal  to  164.5  inmates. 

The  total  current  expenses,  including  home,  repairs,  farm,  and 
barn,  is  $31,505.45,  representing-  a  per  capita  cost  of  $191.52  predicated 
upon  a  full  year. 

We  doubt  whether  this  ratio  of  expense  can  be  maintained  the 
coming  year.  The  character  of  the  work  and  the  additions  thereto 
will  necessarily  entail  additional  expenses.  There  should,  however, 
be  no  very  marked  increase,  and  in  any  event  prudence  and  economy 
will  be  the  governing  factors. 

The  total  cost  of  the  home  and  appurtenances  to  date  is  $323,633.93. 

The  reserve  fund  amounts  to  $202,041.05  as  against  $189,777.11  on 
the  same  date  the  preceding  year. 

The  grand  lodge  chartered  four  new  lodges;  wired  to  Past  Grand 
Master  Gibson  a  message  of  regret  at  his  absence  and  best  wishes  for 
his  speedy  restoration  to  perfect  health;  to  W.  Bro.  Adna  A.  Treat, 
Denver,  Colorado,  the  following:  "The  Grand  Lodge  of  New  York 
sends  heartfelt  greetings  to  the  eldest  of  its  ninety-three  thousand 
craftsmen,''  and  directed  R.  W.  Bro.  Joseph  J.  Little  to  cable  the 
grand  master  of  England  as  follows: 

As  your  representative  near  the  Grand  Lodge  of  the  State  of  New 
York,  it  being  now  in  annual  session,  it  gives  me  great  pleasure,  by 
its  direction  and  on  its  behalf,  to  transmit  to  you,  and  through  you 
to  your  august  mother,  its  congratulations  upon  the  unparalleled 
event  about  to  be  celebrated  in  her  honor.  That  the  blessing  attend- 
ant upon  the  past  sixty  years  of  her  reign  may  be  but  the  prelude  of 
the  continuation  of  many  times  sixty  years  of  joy  and  prosperity  to 
her  people,  is  the  wish  of  the  great  Masonic  fraternity  throughout 
the  state  of  New  York. 

The  following  is  from  the  report  of  the  committee  on  jurisprudence: 

The  worshipful  master  of  La  Clemente  Amitie  Cosmopolite  Lodge 
No.  410  desires  this  grand  lodge  to  authorize  subordinate  lodges  to 
heal  and  admit  by  affiliation  any  Freemasons  hailing  from  lodges  in 
France,  upon  satisfactory  proof  of  their  good  standing  in  their  mother 
lodges. 

If  this  is  intended  to  include  those  hailing  from  the  clandestine 
lodges  under  the  jurisdiction  of  the  Grand  Orient  of  France,  this  com- 
mittee most  emphatically  dissent  therefrom,  and  reiterate  the  posi- 
tion taken  by  this  grand  lodge  in  June,  1896,  when  they  adopted  the 
following: 

'^Besolved,  That  we  fully  recognize  the  legitimacy  of  Master  Ma- 
sons made  in  lodges  of  the  A.  and  A.  rite  in  countries  where  that  is 
the  dominant  rite,  and  welcome  them  to  the  right  of  visitation  and 
affiliation  under  the  usual  Masonic  restrictions,  the  same  as  if  made 
in  lodges  of  our  obedience,  those  of  the  obedience  of  the  Grand  Orient 
of  France  alone  excepted." 

We  see  no  reason  for  modification  of  the  position  then  taken,  but 
must  reaffirm  the  same. 

Your  committee  do  not  believe  that  a  clandestine  Mason  can  be 
healed  by  any  grand  or  subordinate  lodge,  but  that  he  can  heal  him- 


218  APPENDIX.  — PART   I. 


self  by  renouncing  all  connection  with  the  clandestine  body,  and  then, 
as  pure  as  any  other  profane,  he  may  petition,  and,  having  passed  a 
favorable  baliot.be  regularly  initiated  in  a  regular  lodge.  We  know 
of  no  other  way  of  his  becoming  a  Mason  and  becoming  entitled  to 
visit  or  acquire  membership  in  any  lodge  under  the  jurisdiction  of 
the  Grand  Lodge  of  New  York. 

Upon  the  heels  of  the  adoption  of  this,  the  master  of  La  Sincerite 
Lodge  No.  376,  offered  the  following,  which  was,  on  motion,  returned 
to  its  proposer: 

Be  it  Resolved,  That  Freemasons  hailing  from  lodges  in  France,  and 
furnishing  satisfactory  proof  of  good  standing  in  their  lodges  and 
having  satisfactorily  stood  due  trial  and  strict  examination  and  ac- 
knowledged the  existence  of  a  Supreme  Being,  may  be  healed  by  and 
affiliate  with  or  visit  any  lodge  under  the  jurisdiction  of  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  the  State  of  New  York. 

William  A.  Sutherland,  of  Rochester,  was  elected  grand  mas- 
ter: Edward  M.  L.  Ehlers,  New  York,  reelected  grand  secretary, 
both  b}^  acclamation. 

The  report  on  correspondence  (217  pp.)  is  so  far  as  the  review  of 
English-speaking  grand  lodges  is  concerned,  the  work  of  Past  Grand 
Master  Jesse  B.  Anthony,  who  has  for  years  maintained  the  high 
reputation  of  New  York  in  this  department. 

The  transactions  and  reviews  of  non-English  speaking  grand  bodies 
is  again  by  Bro.  Ernest  Ringer,  M.  D.,  who  made  his  debut  last  year 
as  the  successor  of  Bro.  Charles  Sackreuter.  Bro.  Ringer's  eru- 
dition and  his  infusion  with  the  spirit  of  English-speaking  Masonry 
eminently  fit  him  to  catch  at  once  the  salient  points  in  the  proceed- 
ings, discussions,  and  speculations  of  continental  bodies,  and  the  result 
is  a  report  both  interesting  and  instructive.  We  advise  all  our  breth- 
ren who  have  access  to  it  to  read  it,  and  thereby  get  some  idea  of 
where  the  alleged  Masonry  of  continental  Europe  still  touches  and 
where  it  has  departed  from  the  Masonr}-  of  the  fathers. 

Bro.  Anthony  accords  seven  pages  to  the  Illinois  proceedings  for 
1896,  giving  them  a  very  thorough  examination.  He  finds  space  for 
the  exordium  of  Grand  Master  Scott'S  address.  Referring  to  the 
latter's  remarks  anent  the  difficulties  arising  from  the  different  pro- 
visions respecting  life  membership,  he  thinks  much  of  this  arises  from 
the  want  of  a  correct  principle,  and  in  this  he  is  doubtless  measurably 
right.  As  we  have  elsewhere  said,  the  average  lodge  is  apt  to  have 
among  its  members  few,  if  any,  who  have  the  expert  knowledge 
required  to  strike  the  right  rule.  Of  Grand  Master  Scott's  recommen- 
dation for  the  abolition  of  all  provisions  for  life  membership  involv- 
ing exemption  from  paying  an  equal  share  in  lodge  and  grand  lodge 
dues,  he  says: 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  219 


The  grand  lodg-e  did  not  accede  to  this  radical  view,  and  a  uni- 
form reg^ulation  was  adopted  permitting  this  exemption  on  the  ad- 
vance payment  of  seventy-five  dollars  We  should  say  that  the 
amount  to  be  paid  is  a  matter  for  lod<je  consideration.  What  is 
wanted  for  uniformity  should  be  the  establishment  of  provisions  to 
guard  such  trust  funds,  so  that  they  can  not  be  diverted  from  their 
intended  purposes. 

We  agree  with  him  that  the  amount  to  be  paid  should  be  a  mat- 
ter of  lodge  consideration,  but  some  facts  in  the  possession  of  the 
committee  induced  them  to  recommend  a  minimum  sum  of  seventy- 
five  dollars. 

Referring  to  Bro.  Scott's  decision  touching  the  scope  of  the 
duties  of  a  committee  apioointed  to  take  evidence,  he  says  that  under 
the  New  York  law  the  commissions  are  authorized  to  try  the  case  and 
report  their  findings  for  lodge  action.  The  Illinois  law  requires  the 
trial  to  be  in  the  lodge;  the  sole  duty  of  the  committee  is  to  take  tes- 
timony which  can  not  be  introduced  in  open  lodge,  and  report  it  at 
the  trial. 

He  sees  no  objection  to  the  course  condemned  by  Bro.  ScOTT's 
decision,  often  pursued  at  elections,  of  instructing  some  brother  to 
cast  the  vote  of  the  lodge,  "if  it  is  done  by  unanimous  consent  and 
the  brethren  have  the  privilege  of  voting  if  they  desire  to  do  so.''^  With 
us  two  objections  have  always  been  held  sufficient  to  condemn  the 
practice;  there  is  always  a  shade  of  duress  in  a  motion  of  that  kind, 
particularly  on  the  less  informed  and  more  timid  brethren,  who  are 
startled  by  the  sound  of  their  own  voice  in  public.  But  a  stronger 
reason  is  that  there  is  a  question  of  the  legality  of  an  election  so 
held,  and  as  all  Illinois  lodges  are  corporate  bodies  under  the  civil 
law,  it  is  thought  safest  not  to  jeopard  property  rights. 

Of  other  matters  he  says: 

The  amendment  proposed  last  year  prohibiting  the  use  of  the 
word  "Masonic"  in  connection  with  any  business,  unless  such  as  would 
be  germane  to  the  title,  was  adopted,  and  the  duty  of  planting  "an 
evergreen  tree  at  the  head  of  the  graves  of  all  Masons  buried  with 
Masonic  ceremonies  was  very  wisely  left  to  'individual  inspiration,'  " 
as  not  being  subject  to  grand  lodge  legislation. 

The  adoption  of  a  resolution  "that  it  is  the  sense  of  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Masons  of  the  state  of  Illinois  assembled,  the  grand  master 
shall  not  succeed  himself  in  office,"  we  apprehend  will  be  regarded  as 
a  dead  letter.  Regardless  of  this  resolution,  at  the  present  commu- 
nication the  grand  master  succeeded  himself,  and,  in  our  judgment, 
will  honor  the  grand  lodge  by  another  year's  service. 

Grand  Orator  Stevenson's  address  is  characterized  as  an  intel- 
lectual treat,  and  of  its  optimistic  peroration — which  he  transfers  to 
his  pages — he  says:  "Possibly  the  time  has  not  yet  arrived  when  his 


220  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 


anticipations  of  a  peaceful  solution  of  contested  matters  between 
nations  can  be  realized,  but  the  leaven  is  working." 

Four  pages  are  given  to  the  Illinois  report  on  correspondence. 
He  does  us  the  honor  to  quote  from  our  introductory  remarks  on  the 
question  of  jurisdiction  over  rejected  material,  and  to  say  that  they 
must  be  a  correct  exposition  of  the  principle  which  must  be  allowed. 

Brother  Anthony  does  not  like  the  position  we  hold  in  reference 
to  High  Riteism  and  our  attributing  to  some  members  of  the  Scottish 
Rite  acts  and  influences  whereby  the  integrity  of  genuine  Masonry  is 
threatened,  although  he  graciously  gives  us  credit  for  honesty  of  pur- 
pose. He  regards  the  alleged  danger  as  wholly  imaginary,  and  ap- 
parently believes  that  all  others,  who,  like  himself,  are  members  of 
both  rites,  are  also  like  himself  such  ardent  believers  in  the  primacy  of 
Ancient  Craft  Masonrj^  that  they  will  "admit  of  no  substitute  there- 
for nor  allow  any  interference  with  that  faith."     He  says  also: 

We  have  that  confidence  in  the  good  sense  and  fidelity  of  the 
craft,  the  wisdom  of  those  eminent  in  its  councils,  to  believe  that 
Ancient  Craft  Masonry  stands  upon  a  foundation  which  will  not  coun- 
tenance any  deviation  from  its  ancient  customs,  usages,  and  law. 

However,  he  further  says: 

We  do  not  believe  that  the  Freemasonry  of  the  world  is  to  be 
gauged  by  certain  requirements  in  reference  to  organization  that  are 
peculiarly  germane  to  the  Grand  Bodies  of  the  tjnited  States  or  of 
this  continent.  The  claim  of  the  universality  of  Freemasony  will  not 
admit  of  its  curtailment  to  home  limitation  wholly.  The  principles 
of  liberty,  equality,  and  fraternity,  when  qualified  by  the  essential  of 
regularity,  must,  in  our  judgment,  govern. 

We  are  a  member  of  both  rites,  but  our  duty,  and  equally  the 
duty  of  every  Scottish  Rite  Mason,  is  toward  the  bodies  of  Ancient 
Craft  Masonry,  termed  at  times  the  York  Rite. 

This  much  and  more  is  prefatory  to  a  bill  of  particulars  upon  which 
he  takes  us  sharply  to  task  for  the  matter  and  the  manner  of  our  criti- 
cism of  his  grand  lodge  and  its  committee  on  jurisprudence,  and  in  a 
tone  alternating  between  a  depreciating  pity  for  one  who  is  a  little 
daft  and  hence  unable  to  see  some  things  as  others  do  and  an  outraged 
patience  which  has  been  tried  beyond  endurance,  intimates  with  little 
circumlocution  that  we  are  presumptuous  and  ill  mannered.  We  re- 
gret that  because  we  find  ourselves  in  a  rapidly  tightening  pinch  of 
space  and  time  we  can  not  quote  or  notice  all  that  our  brother  says, 
but  must  content  ourself  with  a  part.  After  alluding  to  some  con- 
temptuous expressions  anent  the  New  York  proceedings  for  1896,  which 
without  specifying  he  passes  by  as  unworthy  of  notice,  he  says: 

We  cannot,  however,  forego  attention  to  one  particular  point. 
The  report  of  the  committee  on  juris])rudence  with  reference  to  the 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  221 

recognition  of  foreign  grand  lodges  and  of  members  under  tiieir  obe- 
dience comes  in  for  his  unqualitied  condemnation.  He  even  goes  to 
the  extent  of  saying  "'that  the  Grand  Lodge  of  New  York  has  turned 
its  back  upon  the  landmarks  and  repudiated  the  conditions  which  af- 
ford the  only  excuse  for  its  existence,"  and  practically  charges  that 
said  grand  lodge  no  longer  acknowledges  "the  constraints  of  the 
charges  of  Freemasonry." 

We  desire  to  say  at  the  outset  that  we  acquit  Bro.  Anthony  of 
any  knowledge  of,  and  much  less  any  sympathy  with,  an  unofficial 
revolutionary  propaganda  such  as  we  alluded  to  in  the  introduction 
of  our  last  year's  report.  We  do  not  for  a  moment  doubt  the  earnest- 
ness of  his  confession  that  his  duty  "and  equally  the  duty  (as  he  con- 
ceives it)  of  every  Scottish  Rite  Mason  is  toward  the  bodies  of  Ancient 
Craft  Masonry."  There  is  in  his  severe  criticism  no  echo  of  imperial- 
istic assumption,  but  the  ring  of  natural  if  not  righteous  indignation. 
So  much  in  justice  to  him — and  to  our  own  sense  of  fair  play. 

We  think,  however,  that  he  has  been  rendered  unduly  sensitive 
by  the  humiliating  position  into  which  his  grand  lodge  was  led  by 
the  jurisprudence  committee  in  the  matter  of  the  alleged  Masonry 
of  Mexico.  The  committee,  after  having  had  a  year  in  which  to  get 
at  the  facts,  reported  that  the  charges  of  obnoxious  practices  under 
the  gran  dieta  simbolica  had  been  fully  met  by  that  body — notwith- 
standing they  had  the  warning  of  Bro.  Anthony  himself  that  they 
were  sustained  by  the  testimony  of  reliable  witnesses  (New  York  Ma- 
sons) who  were  personally  cognizant  of  the  facts— and  thus  compassed 
the  recognition  of  that  body  at  just  about  the  time  when  the  impossi- 
bility of  further  concealment  forced  the  confession  of  the  truth  from 
the  Masonic  authorities  of  Mexico  themselves.  It  will  scarcely  be 
claimed  that  in  the  face  of  this  record  future  deliverances  of  the  com- 
mittee should  be  accepted  without  at  least  the  same  examination 
that  the  work  of  a  committee  in  the  service  of  any  other  grand  lodge 
would  receive. 

We  were  entirely  justified,  in  view  of  the  conditions  under  which 
the  committee  spoke  last  year,  in  saying  that  modesty  would  be  a 
becoming  grace;  but  when  in  place  of  this  they  push  themselves  for- 
ward beyond  the  demands  of  the  subject  they  were  called  upon  to 
report,  to  make  an  obiter  declaration  subservient  to  the  claims  of 
organized  dissent  from  the  original  plan  of  Masonry,  and  put  that 
declaration  forward  as  the  consensus  of  the  Masonic  world,  neither 
they  nor  the  grand  lodge  which  follows  their  lead  have  a  right  to 
complain  if  their  report  is  not  handled  gingerly  by  those  who  repudi- 
ate their  conclusions. 

When  a  grand  lodge,  whose  reason  for  existing  is  that  it  is  the 
conservator  within  its  territorial  limits  of  the  Masonry  whose  land- 


222  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 


marks  it  acknowledges  by  its  constitution  to  be  the  first  and  highest 
source  of  the  law  which  rightfully  governs  Freemasons,  alike  in  lodges 
and  grand  lodges,  volunteers  the  concession  that  something  calling 
itself  Masonry  elsewhere — no  matter  whether  in  this  country  or  some 
other — which  is  organized  upon  a  plan  other  than  that  of  the  land- 
marks and  the  grand  lodge,  can  also  rightfully  control  and  confer 
the  degrees  of  Symbolic  Masonry  and  thereby  give  its  affiliates  the 
same  Masonic  status  as  that  acquired  by  receiving  the  degrees  in  its 
own  (Ancient  Craft)  lodges,  it  has,  if  we  may  be  permitted  without 
personal  offence,  abdicated  its  right  to  decide  for  those  who  deny  the 
validity  of  the  departure  which  it  condones,  what  is  Masonic  criti- 
cism. 

The  Grand  Lodge  of  New  York  has  gone  even  further  than  this  in 
bolstering  up  the  pretensions  of  the  dissenters.  For  one  hundred  and 
fourteen  years,  at  least,  the  jurisdiction  of  New  York  had  not  been 
open  territory.  It  had  been  fully  occupied  by  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
New  York.  This  was  a  fact  not  merely  tacitly  assented  to,  but  one 
emphasized  and  brought  into  such  prominence  that  it  could  not  be 
forgotten,  when  the  declaration  of  the  absolute  and  exclusive  nature 
of  its  sovereignty  as  against  the  invasion  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Ham- 
burg, invoked  and  secured  for  New  York  the  prompt  and  aggressive 
support  of  every  existing  American  grand  lodge.  Yet  at  its  one  hun- 
dred and  fifteenth  annual  communication,  the  Grand  Lodge  of  New 
York,  unasked,  concedes  that  it  owes  the  completeness  of  its  authority 
over  the  symbolic  degrees  to  the  relinquishment  of  the  authority  pos- 
sessed by  some  unidentified  Supreme  Council  of  the  Scottish  Rite, 
which  must  have  come  into  existence  at  least  twelve  years  after  that 
grand  lodge  occupied  the  whole  ground,  inasmuch  as  the  parent  su- 
preme council  of  the  world  is  now  only  ninety-five  years  old! 

As  the  details  of  the  New  York  report  whose  adoption  warrants 
the  above  statements  may  have  passed  out  of  the  minds  of  our  readers, 
we  reproduce  here  (from  page  212  of  our  last  year's  report)  so  much 
of  it  as  is  required  to  demonstrate  their  correctness  and  their  fair- 
ness— the  italics  being  ours: 

The  papers  presented  to  your  committee  do  not  furnish  sufficient 
evidence  that  either  of  these  grand  lodges  seeking  recognition  {both 
of  ScottiM  Rite  origin  and  originally  receiving  their  authority  from  and  be- 
ing under  the  control  of  a  siqyrcme  council  of  the  A.A.S.  Rite)  have  separated 
therefrom,  and  witii  the  consent  of  the  supreme  council  become  inde- 
pendent of  and  taken  entire  control  of  the  three  symbolic  degrees. 
We  do  not  question  the  right  of  supreme  councils  of  the  A.A.S.  Rite 
to  control  and  confer  the  first  three  symbolic  degrees  in  all  countries 
where  that  is  the  dominant  rite,  and  we  recognize  Master  Masons 
made  under  that  authority  as  regular,  and  as  much  entitled  to  our 
regard  and  recognition  as  if  made  under  our  authority,  but  until  the 
supreme  council  has  relinquished  its  authority  over  the  three  symbolic 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  223 


degrees  (as  has  been  done  in  this  and  other  jurisdictions) ,  and  the  control 
of  the  three  symbolic  degrees  has  been  relegated  to  the  symbolic 
grand  lodges  entirely  independent  of  other  authority,  we  cannot 
recognize  the  grand  lodge  organization. 

In  addition  to  what  we  have  already  quoted  from  Brother  An- 
thony's strictures,  we  take  the  following: 

With  all  due  respect  to  the  superior  erudition  of  our  brother,  we 
think  it  will  be  found  that  the  consensus  of  opinion  among  the  laest 
minds  of  the  craft  will  sustain  the  opinion  assumed.  "Masonry  is 
recognized  throughout  the  world  as  just  as  legitimate  in  all 
countries  where  the  three  symbolic  degrees  are  controlled 
and  conferred  by  the  bodies  of  the  scottish  rite,  as  in  this 
country,  where  they  are  solely  under  the  control  of  the  york 
Rite.  ' ' 

We  deem  this  position  to  be  sound,  and  (with  all  respect)  no  un- 
biased mind  will  question  it.  We  could  not  expect  our  brother  to 
assent  to  it.  for  under  no  circumstances  can  he  perceive  any  good  in 
anything  which  savors  of  Scottish  Rite  Masonry.  Fortunatel}^  a 
broader  conception  of  Freemasonry  i:>revails  among  brethren  whose 
loyalt}'  to  the  Ancient  Craft  is  equally  unquestionable,  and  whose  de- 
votion to  the  best  interests  of  a  universal  Freemasonry  entitles  them 
to  fair  and  honest  consideration. 

The  entire  wisdom  of  the  craft  is  not  embodied  within  the  brain  of 
our  brother,  although  his  ridicule  of  the  views  of  the  committee  and 
the  action  of  the  grand  lodge  would  naturally  create  that  impression. 
We  do  not  object  to  fair  criticism,  but  that  of  our  brother  we  regard 
as  an  unjustifiable  attack  on  the  motives  of  those  who  are  his  equal 
in  every  respect,  and  a  reflection  upon  the  action  of  the  Grand  Lodge 
of  New  York,  unwarranted  and  (un)  Masonic. 

Neither  the  Grand  Lodge  of  New  York  nor  its  committee  on  juris- 
prudence pretends  to  make  laws  for  other  grand  jurisdictions:  neither 
arrogates  to  itself  the  position  that  all  the  wisdom  of  the  craft  is  em- 
braced within  its  territorial  limits;  but,  with  all  due  respect,  it  does 
claim  the  right  to  manage  its  own  affairs  according  to  its  own  judg- 
ment, being  therein  controlled  by  principles  which  for  one  hundred 
and  fifteen  years  (as  noted  by  our  brother)  have  been  a  safe  and  sure 
guide,  and  have  enabled  it  to  control  its  affairs  without  a  member  like 
unto  our  distinguished  brother. 

The  Grand  Lodge  of  New  York  has  had  more  than  one  occasion 
to  invoke  and  to  receive  the  aid  of  the  grand  lodges  of  other  jurisdic- 
tions as  against  invasion  from  without  and  rebellion  within,  and  in 
each  of  these  instances  all  the  allied  grand  lodges  found  a  sure  and 
safe  guide  in  a  principle  conspicuously^  the  reverse  of  that  which  con- 
trols these  concessions  to  dissent  from  the  original  plan  of  Masonry. 

We  desire  to  recur  for  a  moment  to  that  portion  of  report  of  the 
New  York  committee  on  jurisprudence  which  we  reproduced  from  page 
212  of  our  last  year's  report,  for  the  purpose  of  reproducing  in  their 
proper  connection  the   questions   which  Bro.  Anthony  manifestly 


224  APPENDIX.— PART   I. 


finds  it  easier  to  denounce  as  unfair  criticism  than  to  answer  satis- 
factory to  himself.     We  asked: 

If  the  right  of  the  supreme  councils  of  the  Scottish  Rite  to  con- 
trol and  confer  the  first  three  degrees  of  Masonry  in  Chili  or  San 
Domingo  is  unquestioned,  and  the  products  of  their  work  as  regular 
and  as  much  entitled  to  recognition  as  Master  Masons  as  if  made  such 
under  the  authority  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  New  York,  then  in  the 
name  of  common  sense,  by  what  right  does  New  York  ask  the  supreme 
councils  to  relinquish  the  control  of  the  symbolic  degrees?  Why  is  it 
desirable  to  relegate  the  control  of  these  degrees  to  symbolic  grand 
lodges  when,  as  the  New  York  committee  hastens  out  of  their  way  to 
admit,  such  transfer  can  add  nothing  to  the  regularity  of  the  bodies 
in  which  they  are  conferred? 

The  by-play  of  making  a  stand  in  favor  of  the  grand  lodge  form 
of  organization  by  ostentatiously  declining  to  recognize  a  grand  body 
which  lacks  it,  when  the  terms  in  which  that  declination  is  couched 
lack  nothing  that  can  define  recognition,  does  not  elicit  our  highest 
admiration,  but  we  hesitate  to  characterize  it  lest  we  stumble  upon 
a  word  that  would  be  offensive;  we  will  let  Brother  Anthony  select 
the  word  which  he  thinks  will  describe  it  fitl}'.  The  subject  grows 
upon  us  and  we  wish  we  could,  as  we  hoped  to  do  when  we  made  the 
quotation,  refer  at  some  length  to  the  matter  which  Brother  An- 
thony has  put  in  small  capitals;  but  the  old  man  with  the  scythe 
and  the  printer  are  both  at  our  heels,  and  we  must  content  ourself 
for  the  present  with  referring  him  to  matter  found  in  our  notices  of 
Kansas,  Louisiana,  Maine,  and  New  Eampshire,  for  views  bearing 
upon  the  question  of  bias. 

We  bespeak  Brother  Anthony's  kind  permission  to  again  make 
use  of  his  statistics,  and  we  avail  ourself  of  this  opportunity  to  thank 
him  in  advance  for  the  careful  labor  that  has  made  so  many  of  us  his 
debtors,  not  only  in  this  but  in  many  other  matters  by  which  we  have 
profited' in  his  valuable  report. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  225 

NEW  ZEALAND,  1897. 

8th  Annual,.  Invercargill.  April  28. 

Our  last  notice  of  this  grand  lodge  included  the  annual  communi- 
cation (April  30)  of  1896. 

We  have  before  us  the  proceeding's  of  the  semi-annual  of  Octo- 
ber 21,  1896,  held  at  New  Plymouth,  and  of  the  annual  communication 
of  1897,  at  both  of  which  Grand  Master  Barron  presided. 

We  are  unable  to  determine  whether  the  representative  of  Illi- 
nois, R.W.  William  Beilby  was  present  at  either  or  both  of  these 
but  from  his  activity  we  think  it  probable  that  he  was  at  both.  At 
the  annual  he  was  appointed  deputy  g"rand  master. 

The  board  of  general  purposes  reported  at  the  semi-annual  com- 
munication that  one  lodge  had  transferred  its  alleg-iance  from  the 
Grand  Lodg-e  of  England  to  New  Zealand,  and  two  new  lodg-es  had 
been  consecrated. 

A  monument  had  been  erected  in  Welling-fon  cemetery  to  the 
memory  of  Past  Grand  Master  E.  T.  Gillon,  which  an  engraving  pub- 
lished in  the  proceedings  shows  to  be  a  chaste  and  elegant  piece  of 
work. 

At  the  annual  communication  the  board  of  general  purposes  re- 
ported as  follows  on  regalia;  the  figures  show  that  our  brethren  in  the 
southern  seas  don't  put  up  with  cheap  stuff: 

4.  Grand  Lodge  Regalia.— Acting  on  the  resolution  of  grand 
lodge,  your  board  has  since  the  last  annual  communication  procured 
from  the  firm  of  Bro.  T.  H.  Lamb  the  regalia  for  the  deputy  grand 
master,  three  grand  superintendents,  and  grand  secretary.  The  total 
cost  (including  duty  and  charges.  £32  9s  6d,)  was  £166  4s  5d. 

The  board  reported  that  they  were  still  without  official  informa- 
tion of  their  recognition  by  the  Grand  Lodge  of  England,  of  which, 
however,  unofficial  communications  left  no  doubt.  We  hope  that  this 
wise  act  on  the  part  of  the  Grand  lodge  of  England  may  at  once  bear 
its  legitimate  fruit,  and  that  soon  the  extensive  jurisdiction  of  New 
Zealand  will  be  unvexed  by  the  presence  of  lodges  of  a  foreign  obe- 
dience.    In  this  connection  the  board  says: 

Every  mail  from  America  brings  letters  couched  in  the  most  cour- 
teous and  fraternal  terms  from  grand  lodges  which  have  not  yet  for- 
mally recognized  this  grand  lodge.  The  intimation  of  the  proposed 
recognition  of  this  grand  lodge  by  the  Grand  Lodge  of  England  has 
reached  the  grand  lodges  of  America,  and  in  consequence  thereof 
many  congratulations  have  been  tendered  to  our  grand  lodge.     Refer- 

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226  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


ence  having'  been  made  in  this  correspondence  to  the  lines  on  which 
this  grand  lodge  was  inaugurated  and  consecrated,  as  laid  down  by 
Bro.  Paton,  in  his  work  on  Masonic  law  and  jurisprudence,  the  grand 
secretary  of  Illinois  replies:  "Paton's  statement  of  the  law  respect- 
ing the  organization  of  grand  lodges  is  correct:  such  a  view  of  the  law 
as  Illinois  has  stood  by  through  thick  and  thin,  even  to  interdiction 
of  fraternal  intercourse  with  jurisdictions  that  disregard  it."  It  may 
not  be  generally  known  that  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Quebec  refused  rec- 
ognition on  the  terms  required  by,  and  still  holds  non-intercourse 
with,  the  Grand  Lodge  of  England  on  that  account.  All  lodges  in 
that  territory  which  do  not  acknowledge  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Quebec 
are  treated  as  irregular  lodges,  and  Quebec  refuses  fraternal  inter- 
course with  them. 

The  grand  lodge  assented  to  an  arrangement  proposed  by  the 
Grand  Master  of  South  Australia  for  a  joint  message  of  congratula- 
tions to  the  queen  on  the  completion  of  the  sixtieth  year  of  her  reign, 
and  also  voted: 

.  That  in  order  that  the  craft  should  in  some  practical  way  spe- 
cially celebrate  the  Queen's  record  reign,  the  board  of  general  pur- 
poses be  instructed  to  recommend  the  worshipful  masters  of  all  lodges 
in  the  jurisdiction  to  initiate  a  subscription  with  a  minimum  of  say 
one  shilling  per  member,  to  form  the  nucleus  of  a  fund  to  carry  out 
the  objects  referred  to  in  the  report  of  the  committee,  presented  by 
Bro.  Wetherilt,  as  to  aged  indigent  Masons. 

The  grand  master,  William  Barron,  was  reelected,  and  the  fol- 
lowing record  of  the  installation  ceremony  shows  a  sharp  contrast  to 
the  simple  proceeding  which  characterizes  the  usual  performance  of 
the  ceremony  in  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois: 

Installation  of  the  Mt.  Wor.  Grand  Master.— The  Mt.  Wor. 
Acting  Grand  Master  then  instructed  the  grand  director  of  ceremo- 
nies to  select  a  deputation  of  eight  worshipful  masters  and  four 
grand  stewards  to  withdraw  for  the  purpose  of  introducing  Mt.  Wor. 
Bro.  William  Barron,  grand  master  elect. 

The  grand  director  of  ceremonies  announced  that  the  Mt.  Wor. 
grand  master  elect  was  waiting  admission  into  grand  lodge.  The  Mt. 
Wor.  Acting  Grand  Master  gave  instructions  that  he  be  admitted. 

The  Masonic  orchestra  here  played  the  "War  March  of  the 
Priests,"  from  "Athalie."' 

The  Mt.  Wor.  William  Barron,  grand  master  elect,  then  entered 
grand  lodge,  under  a  canopy  borne  by  four  worshipful  masters,  with 
two  grand  stewards  on  each  side,  preceded  by  two  stewards,  two  wor- 
shipful masters  bearing  on  cushions  the  regalia  of  the  grand  master 
elect,  and  two  worshipful  masters  following  behind.  The  Mt.  Wor. 
Grand  Master  elect  was  saluted  with  grand  and  royal  honors  nine 
times. 

On  reaching  the  east  the  procession  halted,  and  the  Mt.  Wor. 
'Grand  Master  elect  was  presented  to  the  installing  grand  master  by 
Rt.  Wor.  Bro.  A.  H.  Burton,  past  deputy  grand  master. 

Anthems  by  the  Masonic  choir,  "God  Bless  Our  Noble  Craft." 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  227 

Prayer  by  the  grand  chaplain,  followed  by  the  anthem,  "Behold, 
How  Good  and  Joyful,"  by  the  Masonic  choir. 

Mt.  Wor.  Grand  Master  Obligated. — The  grand  master  elect 
was  then  duly  obligated  by  the  Mt.  Wor.  Acting  Grand  Master,  Bro. 
H.  Thomson. 

The  ode,  "Hail  Masonry  Divine,"  to  the  tune  of  "Moscow,"  was 
then  sung',  after  which  Mt.  Wor.  Bro.  Barron  was  invested  by  Mt. 
Wor.  Bro.  Thomson. 

Address  by  past  deputy  grand  master,  Bro.  Burton. 

Proclamation,  with  trumpet  call,  by  the  Mt.  Wor.  Bro.  H.  Thom- 
son, in  the  east  in  ample  and  ancient  form,  with  grand  honors  nine 
times.  The  same  was  given  in  the  west  by  the  senior  grand  warden, 
and  in  the  south  by  the  acting  junior  grand  warden,  and  the  Masonic 
choir  rendered  the  odes,  "In  Wishes  True  and  Hearty,"  and  "Great 
Architect,  to  Thee  we  Raise." 

Among  the  grand  lodge  proceedings  whose  receipt  is  acknowl- 
edged, are  two  copies  of  the  Illinois  proceedings  for  1896,  with  volume 
containing  reprint  of  the  proceeding  of  our  grand  lodge  from  its  or- 
ganization in  1840-1850,  a  book  of  ceremonials  and  book  of  constitution. 

The  Rev.  William  Ronaldson  remains  grand  secretary.  His 
address  is  Dunedin. 


NORTH  CAROLINA,  1897. 

110th  Annual.  Raleigh.  January  12. 

This  really  elegant  volume,  adorned  with  half-tone  portraits  of 
the  retiring  grand  master  (Francis  M.  Moye)  and  Past  Grand  Mas- 
ter Robert  W.  Best,  bears  the  imprint  of  the  Oxford  Asylum  Print- 
ing Department.  Its  execution  reflects  great  credit,  and  justifies  the 
claim  of  its  managers  that  the  department  can  turn  out  work  equal 
to  the  best. 

Sixteen  grand  jurisdictions  were  represented  by  their  ambassa- 
dors, Illinois  by  Past  Grand  Master  Hezekiah  A.  Gudger. 

The  address  of  Grand  Master  Moye  is  pitched  in  a  lofty  and  in- 
spiring key,  which  is  fully  justified  by  the  record  of  prosperity  en- 
joyed by  the  craft  under  his  administration. 

He  announced  the  death  of  Past  Grand  Master  Robert  W.  Best, 
aged  sixty-two,  at  the  national  capital,  where  he  had  recently  held 
official  positions  in  the   agricultural  and   census  departments.     In 


228  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 

North  Carolina  he  had  been  clerk  of  the  superior  court  of  his  county, 
and  also  secretary  of  state. 

The  grand  master  says  of  the  grand  representative  system: 

In  the  face  of  the  argument  advanced  by  some  looking  to  its  dis- 
continuance as  a  useless  and  unnecessary  proceeding,  I  wish  to  record 
my  unqualified  approval  of  our  present  system  of  grand  representa- 
tion, it  being  to  my  mind  not  only  eminently  wise  and  proper,  but  in 
the  iaest  interests  of  the  order. 

From  his  decisions  we  take  the  following,  numbering  them  for 
convenience: 

1.  A  Mason  is  not  entitled  to  recognition  in  a  Blue  Lodge  as  past 
master  by  virtue  of  having  received  the  past  master's  degree  in  a 
Royal  Arch  Chapter. 

2.  A  Mason's  widow  having  married  one  not  a  Mason,  forfeits  all 
claims  upon  the  order  for  assistance. 

3.  A  lodge  must  first  be  opened  on  the  third  degree,  and  a  special 
communication  called  for  the  purpose  only  of  conferring  either  of  the 
other  degrees,  furnishes  no  exception  to  the  rule. 

4.  I  find  to  my  surprise  that  the  question  of  lawful  age  which  I  had 
supposed  was  well  understood,  is  a  subject  of  discussion  in  some  of  the 
lodges.  While  in  certain  countries  it  is  different,  in  the  United 
States  the  usage  is  general  that  a  candidate  shall  not  be  less  than 
twenty-one  years  of  age  at  the  time  of  his  initiation. 

5.  While  profanity  and  drunkenness  are  declared  to  be  high  Ma- 
sonic crimes,  I  know  of  no  law  to  punish  a  Mason  for  the  manufacture 
or  sale  of  intoxicating  drinks,  but  if  in  conducting  said  business  he 
acts  in  such  a  manner  as  to  constanth'  and  openly  violate  every  prin- 
ciple of  moral  law,  and  by  continued  association  with  low,  vile  men. 
brings  reproach  upon  his  lodge  and  shame  upon  the  order,  he  would 
for  these  reasons  be  guilty  of  a  grave  Masonic  offence,  and  ought  to 
be  arraigned  and  punished  for  the  same. 

No.  1  is  threadbare  but  correct,  and  the  necessity  for  its  rejDeti- 
tion  will  doubtless  continue  indefinitely  until  the  question-asking  class 
learns  to  think  for  itself.  No.  2  will  be  found  answered  differently  else- 
where in  this  report.  We  presume  some  statutory  necessity  exists  in 
North  Carolina  for  the  course  prescribed  in  No.  3,  as  we  do  not  see 
that  it  lies  in  the  nature  of  things  any  more  than  that  one  should 
put  hair  in  his  mortar  when  the  job  in  hand  was  exclusively  bricklay- 
ing. We  copy  No.  4  because  we  share  the  grand  master's  surj^rise. 
No.  5  we  consider  good  sense  and  good  law. 

The  management  and  needs  of  the  Oxford  Orphan  Asylum  largely 
occupied  the  time  of  the  grand  lodge.  The  grand  faith  manifested 
in  this  institution  by  our  North  Carolina  brethren  from  the  begin- 
ning has  been  something  inspiring,  and  now  it  is  abundantly  justify- 
ing itself  by  the  results  of  its  contagiousness.    The  grand  master  says: 

From  minute  personal  observation,  I  feel  warranted  in  saying  that 
we  have  cause  to  be  thankful  for  the  present  prosperous  and  harmo- 


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nious  condition  of  affairs  in  every  department  of  the  asylum.  With 
the  addition  of  the  five  handsome  and  substantial  new  buildings  now 
nearing  completion,  for  which  we  are  indebted  to  the  noble  gener- 
osit}'  of  that  kind-hearted,  christian  gentleman,  Mr.  B.  N.  Duke,  of 
Durham,  the  comfort  of  the  children,  and  the  facilities  for  more  and 
better  work  will  be  largely'  increased.  The  purchase  by  the  Board  of 
Directors  of  the  Hundley  Bros,  machinery  plant,  which  is  to  become 
one  of  the  industrial  enterprises  of  the  institution  for  the  benefit  of 
the  boys,  will,  I  hope  and  believe,  prove  to  be  a  wise  and  timely  in- 
vestment. 

The  printing  department  is  now  splendidly  equipped  with  im- 
proved machinery  and  we  are  prepared  to  do  work  as  well  and  cheap 
as  can  be  obtained  any  where  in  the  state.  Our  paper  is  a  credit  to 
the  order  and  the  ten  thousand  Masons  is  North  Carolina  can,  if  they 
will,  make  it  a  grand  success. 


I  do  not  advocate  any  compulsory  measure  on  the  part  of  the  grand 
lodge,  but  most  earnestly  appeal  to  the  lodges  to  adopt  my  sugges- 
tion and  incorporate  it  in  their  by-laws  as  a  simple,  easy,  and  effective 
method  of  making  regular  monthly  contributions  to  the  asylum,  which 
I  feel  every  Mason  is  in  honor  bound  to  help  support. 

As  our  building  fund  is  growing  uncomfortably  small,  it  is  ex- 
pected that  all  outstanding  subscriptions  of  lodges  and  individuals 
made  to  secure  the  amount  of  Mr.  Duke's  second  propositicm,  will  be 
paid  at  once.  The  work  must  stop  if  this  is  not  done  and  I  urge  the 
brethren  to  give  the  matter  immediate  attention. 

(Mr.  Duke's  two  propositions  were  alike  $5,000  each,  provided  the 
fraternity  would  raise  a  like  amount.)  The  plan  of  establishing 
varied  industries  in  connection  with  the  asylum  gives  promise  of 
helping  materially  to  solve  the  problem  of  its  maintenance,  besides 
sending  the  inmates  out  skilled  in  various  lines. 

The  committee  on  jurisprudence  wrestled  with  the  Wisconsin 
proposition,  and  reported  as  follows: 

1.  That  we  believe  it  to  be  the  duty  of  each  lodge  to  take  care  of 
its  own  members  in  distress,  wherever  they  may  be. 

2.  We  do  not  think  that  the  grand  lodge  should  be  taxed  on  ac- 
count of  the  inability  of  the  subordinate  lodge  to  take  care  of  its  dis- 
tressed members.  Therefore,  we  recommend  that  we  take  no  definite 
action  until  we  receive  further  light. 

After  discussion  it  was  recommitted,  with  instructions  to  send  a 
copy  to  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Wisconsin,  the  committee  to  seek  fur- 
ther information  and  report  back  next  year.  The  committee  will 
also  report  at  that  time  on  the  following  proposed  radical  departure: 

"When  an  applicant  for  degrees,  who  has  lost  a  hand  or  foot,  and 
is  otherwise  physically  sound,  and  morally  upright,  shall  be  eligible 
to  receive  the  degrees  in  Masonry." 

A  special  committee  reported  the  following  and  it  was  adopted. 


230  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


We,  your  committee,  to  whom  was  referred  the  questions  of  ap- 
peals for  assistance,  respectfully  recommend  that  no  appeal  for  assist- 
ance be  entertained  in  a  subordinate  lodge,  for  any  one  not  a  member 
of  the  lodge,  unless  approved  by  the  grand  master.  And  that  the 
grand  master  approve  no  appeal  until  it  is  certified  to  him  over  sig- 
nature of  the  master  and  seal  of  subordinate  lodge. 

1.  That  it  is  a  case  of  true  Masonic  charity. 

2.  That  the  brother  making  the  appeal  is  really  in  a  destitute  con- 
dition, and  actually  needing  assistance. 

3.  The  actual  amount  of  loss  sustained,  and  the  amount  already 
contributed  by  his  own  lodge. 

4.  Any  other  facts  that  would  throw  light  on  the  appeal. 

Begging  circulars  are  an  uncomfortable  nuisance  sometimes,  but 
it  is  a  question  whether  immunity  from  the  infliction  ought  to  be 
purchased  at  the  expense  of  putting  the  lodge  in  leading  strings. 
It  is  a  question  whether  it  will  not  soon  be  impossible  for  a  lodge  to 
pay  its  fuel  bills,  or  a  brother  to  ask  permission  to  retire  without  a 
dispensation  from  the  grand  master.  If  a  lodge  is  going  to  retain 
judgment  enough  to  repair  a  roof  when  it  leaks,  or  a  brother  retain 
knowledge  enough  to  go  in  when  it  rains,  they  must  be  left  under  the 
burden  of  some  little  responsibility. 

By  what  token  does  a  grand  master  or  a  grand  lodge  claim  the 
right  to  forbid  a  distressed  brother  to  ask  charity  or  relief  from  any 
Mason  or  body  of  Masons  except  itself?  We  are  not  now  talking  at 
North  Carolina  as  a  sinner  above  all  others— albeit  the  bill  of  particu- 
lars required  in  the  regulation  quoted  above  does  draw  it  a  little  finer 
than  any  we  remember  to  have  seen.  But  whether  the  lines  are  drawn 
a  little  tighter  or  not,  the  principle  remains  the  same,  and  the  gar- 
ments of  Illinois  are  not  of  snowy  whiteness  in  this  particular. 

The  grand  lodge  chartered  seven  new  lodges  and  continued  one 
under  dispensation;  exemplified  the  work — which  if  we  remember  cor- 
rectly, takes  on  the  prefix  of  "Stevenson"  in  the  old  North  State; 
listened  to  an  oration  by  the  grand  orator,  Charles  B.  Aycock, 
which  possesses  other  merits  besides  brevity — a  clear  conception  of 
duty  and  a  direct  way  of  enforcing  it  in  fit  speech;  placed  all  past 
elective  grand  officers  on  the  pay  roll;  had  Grand  Master  Jacob  T. 
Barron,  of  South  Carolina,  for  a  visitor  and  drew  on  him  for  some 
remarks  that  were  much  enjoyed;  presented  the  retiring  grand  mas- 
ter with  a  well-earned  jewel,  and  voted  to  meet  next  year  at  Oxford. 

Walter  E.  Moore,  of  Webster,  was  elected  grand  master;  John 
C.  Drewry,  Raleigh,  reelected  grand  secretary. 

The  report  on  correspondence  (176  pp.)  is  by  Bro.  John  A.  Collins, 
the  first  from  his  hand.     It  is  a  non-controversial  review,  written  in 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  231 


pleasing  st^'le,  full  of  information  and  very  interesting'.     In  his  intro- 
duction he  thus  records  the  impression  left  on  him  by  his  work: 

A  partial  surve}^  of  Masonry  as  it  is  today  discloses  a  countless 
host  of  brothers,  the  noblest  men  in  all  the  world,  welded  together  as 
one  man  in  the  effort  to  make  the  world  better;  and  it  will  show,  too, 
immense  aggregations  of  men  and  money  having  no  other  purpose 
than  that  of  showering  benefactions  upon  the  widow  and  the  orphan. 

This  is  the  simple  story  your  committee  has  to  tell,  and  it  is 
enough  to  warm  the  heart,  quicken  the  pulse,  and  make  every  Master 
Mason  proud  of  being  found  worthy  to  stand  in  the  ranks  of  this  noble 
brotherhood. 

Illinois  for  1895  gets  a  three  and  one-half  page  notice,  at  the  out- 
set of  which  he  reflects  the  impression  made  upon  him  by  the  face  of 
Grand  Master  Goddard: 


nology  of  art  we  cannot  give  the  picture  its  technical  designation, 
but  it  clearly  shows  the  original  to  be  young  and  handsome,  and  to 
possess  as  well  the  elements  of  energy,  strength,  and  rirmness.  Indeed 
if  he  did  not  have  these  qualifications,  and  more,  it  is  not  likely  one  so 
young  would  have  been  called  upon  to  preside  over  the  destinies  of 
this  powerful  grand  jurisdiction  If  the  picture  should  invoke  par- 
tiality, the  annual  address  of  the  grand  master  will  justify  the  friendly 
bias. 

Liberal  extracts  are  made  from  the  address,  including  the  grand 
master's  remarks  on  perpetual  jurisdiction,  which  commend  them- 
selves to  him  as  eminently  fair  and  proper.  Contribution  is  also  levied 
on  the  address  of  Grand  Orator  Black,  and  on  the  brief  speech  of 
Brother  Stevenson  when  installed  as  his  successor,  and  the  report 
on  correspondence  receives  fraternal  mention. 

Three  more  of  his  pages  are  given  to  Illinois  for  1896,  chiefly  in 
his  own  language.  Among  other  things  we  find  again  the  statement 
that  the  National  Grand  Lodge  of  Egypt  was  recognized  as  a  regularly 
formed  and  independent  grand  lodge  of  Ancient  Craft  Masonry.  This, 
as  we  have  said  of  the  same  error  noted  elsewhere  in  this  report,  is  at 
least  premature. 

Of  other  matters  he  says: 

An  amendment  to  the  by-laws,  forbiding  the  use  of  the  Masonic 
name  in  any  kind  of  business,  except  it  be  for  the  publication  of 
Masonic  literature  or  the  manufacture  of  Masonic  supplies,  was  car- 
ried unanimously.  This  action  will  require  a  change  of  name  in  some 
insurance  companies,  and  in  other  lines  of  business. 

Another  amendment  was  proposed  and  laid  over  to  next  year,  look- 
ing to  an  increase  of  salary  of  the  grand  secretary,  making  it  three 
thousand  dollars. 

The  following  resolution  was  adopted,  showing  that  the  brethren 
of  Illinois  are  not  unlike  those  in  North  Carolina  in  their  desire  for 
rapid  rotation  of  the  incumbents  of  the  Grand  East: 


232  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


Resolved,  That  it  is  the  sense  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Masons  of  the 
State  of  Illinois,  assembled,  that  the  grand  master  shall  not  succeed 
himself  in  office. 

The  grand  orator,  R.W.  Adlai  E.  Stevenson,  the  Vice-President  of 
the  United  States,  delivered  an  eloquent  and  beautiful  address  upon 
the  accomplishments  of  Masonry,  and  its  possibilities  in  the  future. 

We  appreciate  his  kind  reference  to  the  Illinois  report  on  corre- 
spondence, and  note  with  pleasure  that  he  has  discovered  on  our  left 
arm  the  professional  strawberry  mark  which  proves  us  kin. 


NORTH  DAKOTA,  1897. 
8th  Annual.  Fakgo.  June  8. 

The  fly-leaf  of  this  neat  pamphlet  bears  a  half-tone  portrait  of 
the  retiring  grand  master,  and  later  on  appears  a  group  of  all  the 
grand  masters  of  North  Dakota  (taken  after  the  election),  seven  in 
number.  It  was  a  happy  fortune  that  brought  the  whole  unbroken 
line  together. 

The  diplomatic  corps  was  out  in  force,  thirty-one  grand  jurisdic- 
tions being  represented.  Illinois  was  not  among  them,  her  represen- 
tative, Bro.  James  C  Gill  having  died  January  30,  189".  At  the 
time  of  his  death  he  was  chief  clerk  of  the  state  senate.  In  1895  he 
was  speaker  of  the  North  Dakota  house  of  representatives. 

The  opening  sentence  of  the  address  of  the  grand  master  (Wil- 
liam T.  Perkins),  "Life  is  made  up  of  hopes  and  disappointments," 
was  spoken  out  of  his  experience  as  the  chief  executive.  He  had 
comprehensive  designs  on  his  trestle-board,  but  in  November,  before 
the  work  of  the  year  had  hardly  begun,  business  interests  called  him 
to  Colorado,  and  through  the  remainder  of  the  year  the  craft  were  in 
charge  of  the  deputy  grand  master,  Robert  M.  Carothers. 

Grand  Master  Perkins  submitted  six  decisions,  three  of  which 
we  copy: 

1.  Is  a  person  eligible  for  the  degrees  who  has  lost  his  thumb 
between  the  first  and  second  joints,  but  has  good  use  of  what  is  left, 
and  can  reach  every  knuckle  on  the  back  of  one's  hand? 

Yes.  One  who  has  lost  his  thumb  between  the  first  and  second 
joints,  but  can  properly  use  the  remaining  portions,  is  suitable  mate- 
rial. 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  233 


3.  If  a  candidate  allows  a  year  or  more  to  intervene  between 
taking  of  deg'rees,  is  it  necessary  to  take  another  ballot  before  he 
can  advance? 

Yes.  Section  27,  grand  lodge  by-laws.  This  answer  may  be  mod- 
ified by  stating  that  if  it  is  the  fault  of  the  lodge  that  the  degree 
was  not  conferred,  and  not  of  the  candidate,  then  another  ballot  is 
not  necessary. 

4.  A  man  has  lived  in  the  town  of  "A"  some  five  or  six  years.  He 
removes  to  the  town  of  "B"  in  the  same  county,  and  within  four 
months  applies  to  the  lodge  at  "B"  for  admission.  The  lodge  at  "B'' 
asks  the  lodge  at  "A"  to  waive  jurisdiction,  he  having  never  applied 
to  the  lodge  at  "A."     Have  they  any  jurisdiction  to  waive? 

No.  Neither  can  the  lodge  at  "B"  receive  his  petition  until  he 
has  been  a  resident  in  the  jurisdiction  of  that  lodge  for  six  months. 
By  his  permanent  removal  from  the  lodge  located  at  "A,"  they  lose 
jurisdiction  over  him,  and  the  lodge  at  "B"  does  not  gain  jurisdiction 
over  him  until  he  has  lived  within  its  jurisdiction  six  months. 

The  committee  on  jurisprudence  locked  horns  with  him  on  Nos.  1 
and  3;  of  the  first  they  say: 

1.  It  appearing  satisfactorily  to  the  committee  that  the  defect- 
ive thumb  is  on  the  right  hand  of  the  applicant,  and  believing  that 
by  reason  of  such  defect  he  cannot  properly  give  the  tokens,  we  rec- 
ommend that  the  decision  be  not  approved,  and  further  recommend 
that  the  rule  established  under  the  decision  of  Past  Grand  Master 
McGregor,  1894-5,  be  strictly  adhered  to. 

The  rule  established  by  the  McGregor  decision  is  that  that  de- 
gree of  disability  "which  prevents  the  candidate  from  communicating, 
receiving,  or  performing  all  the  requirements  of  the  several  obliga- 
tions and  lectures,  or  of  passing  through  the  various  ceremonies  un- 
aided by  artificial  means,"  renders  the  candidate  ineligible.  The 
report  of  the  committee  prevailed. 

The  committee  disapproved  all  of  No.  3,  after  the  word  by-laws, 
but  the  grand  lodge  sustained  the  equitable  view  of  the  grand  master. 
We  note  nothing  in  the  decisions  of  the  deputy  grand  master  requir- 
ing comment.  He  made  one  recommendation,  or  suggestion  rather, 
cfiiefly  of  interest  for  the  fruit  it  bore  in  the  hasty  conclusion  of  the 
special  committee  to  which  it  went,  who  apparently  thought  they  had 
to  recommend  some  action  to  justify  their  assignment.  He  had  no- 
ticed that  on  some  lodge  seals  the  emblems  were  not  displayed  on  the 
Master  Mason's  degree,  and  thought  it  would  be  more  appropriate 
that  they  should  not  be  displayed  on  the  previous  degrees.  The  com- 
mittee says: 

While  we  do  not  consider  the  design  of  the  seal  to  be  of  any  par- 
ticular importance,  yet  we  believe  that  the  adoption  of  a  uniform  seal 
to  be  used  by  all  lodges  in  this  grand  jurisdiction  would  be  advisable. 
We  would  recommend  that  such  action  be  taken  by  this  grand  lodge 
as  will  secure  the  adoption  and  use  of  such  seal. 


234  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 


The  grand  lodge  wisely  agreed  to  a  motion  that  the  report  be  not 
concurred  in. 

The  grand  secretar}^  (Past  Grand  Master  Frank  J.  Thompson) 
reported  apropos  of  the  resolution  adopted  the  previous  year  direct- 
ing a  compilation  of  the  constitution,  by-laws,  resolutions,  and  ap- 
proved decisions,  that  upon  close  scrutiny  he  found  that  although  the 
resolutions  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Dakota  Territory  had  been  included 
in  a  former  compilation,  they  had  never  been  adopted  by  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  North  Dakota.  Thej^  had  been  taken  for  granted  as  a  part 
of  the  law  of  the  latter,  and  had  been  governing  factors  in  the  affairs 
of  the  latter  body.  The  attention  of  the  deputy  grand  master  being 
called  to  this  condition  of  things,  he  appointed  a  committee  to  look 
over  the  resolutions  and  report  such  as  should  be  retained.  This 
committee  reported  in  favor  of  retaining  all  except  one  adopted  in 
1877,  providing  that  in  the  absence  of  any  expressed  provision  in  the 
constitution  or  by-laws  the  principles  laid  down  by  Mackey  should 
govern  and  guide  the  masters  of  lodges  in  their  decisions.     They  say: 

Our  reason  for  recommending  that  said  resolution  be  not  adopted 
is  that  the  most  important  of  Mackev  "s  principles  have  been  so  largeh'' 
modified  or  ignored  by  our  grand  lodge,  that  the  adoption  of  the  resolu- 
tion would  lead  to  confusion.  At  the  time  said  resolution  was  adopted, 
the  conditions  which  surrounded  Masonry  in  the  territory  were  much 
different  than  the  present,  and  at  that  time  it  was,  undoubtedly,  a 
wise  provision.  The  expediency  for  this  provision  has  passed,  not  only 
by  reason  of  the  large  number  of  approved  decisions  of  our  grand  mas- 
ters upon  various  matters  aft'ecting  lodges  and  Masons,  but  the  decis- 
ions of  the  grand  masters  of  other  jurisdictions  are  now  published  in 
form  accessible  to  those  who  desire  light  upon  Masonic  jurisprudence. 

The  grand  lodge  concurred. 

The  committee  on  foreign  correspondence  (Frank  J.  Thompson) 
reported  that  under  the  action  of  the  previous  year  leaving  the  ques- 
tion of  exchanging  representatives  with  the  Grand  Orients  of  Italj'  and 
Greece  to  the  discretion  of  the  grand  master,  an  exchange  of  repre- 
sentatives had  been  effected  with  the  Grand  Orient  of  Greece,  but 
nothing  had  as  yet  been  consummated  with  regard  to  Italy.  The  com- 
mittee had  nothing  to  report  relative  to  the  action  of  the  grand  lodge 
last  year  looking  towards  recognition  of  the  Scandinavian  grand 
bodies.  He  submits  no  review  of  grand  lodges  for  the  double  reason 
that  he  was  too  busy  with  his  register  and  his  compilations,  and  that 
he  wanted  to  save  mone}-  enough  to  get  the  grand  lodge  on  a  good 
financial  footing. 

The  grand  lodge  chartered  two  new  lodges;  provided  for  a  compul- 
sory school  of  instruction  of  one  day's  session  of  each  lodge  for  the 
ensuing  year,  each  lodge  to  pay  a  fee  of  five  dollars  and  the  grand 
lodge  to  pay  the  traveling  expenses  of  the  grand  lecturer;  amended 
its  law  to  permit  concurrent  border  jurisdiction  with  Minnesota  pro- 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  235 

viding  the  latter  reciprocates;  changed  the  time  for  holding  the  an- 
nual communication  from  the  second  to  the  third  Tuesday  in  June, 
and  postponed  for  further  and  more  deliberate  consideration  a  propo- 
sition to  require  proficiency  in  the  Master  Mason's  degree  before 
being  entitled  to  its  rights  and  benefits,  a  proposition  which,  consider- 
ing all  its  bearings,  we  think  might  better  be  postponed  indefinitely. 

The  grand  secretary's  record  tells  how  the  work  was  exemplified: 

There  being  no  preparation  made  for  the  exemplification  of  the 
work,  the  grand  master  appointed  the  junior  grand  warden  elect, 
Edwin  H.  James,  as  interlocutor,  the  grand  lecturer  to  act  as  critic. 
The  grand  master  announced  that  the  interlocutor  would  begin  at 
one  end  of  the  hall  and  ask  the  questions  of  the  several  lectures  to 
each  one  in  turn,  who  was  to  answer,  and  the  grand  lecturer  to  cor- 
rect any  mistakes  in  the  questions  or  answers.  A  considerable  num- 
ber of  members  had  at  this  time  very  urgent  business  and  desired  to 
be  excused;  while  others,  doubting  that  the  grand  master  would  grant 
permission,  silently  stole  away.  There  were,  however,  a  large  number 
of  brave  craftsmen  who  remained  to  pass  through  the  ordeal.  The 
grand  master  expressed  his  gratification  after  the  ordeal  was  over, 
at  the  proficiency  of  those  present. 

Robert  M.  Carothers,  of  Grand  Forks,  was  elected  grand  mas- 
ter; Frank  J.  Thompson,  Fargo,  reelected  grand  secretary. 


NOVA  SCOTIA,  1896. 

31ST  Annual.  Halifax.  June  10. 

At  an  emergent  communication  held  at  Halifax,  September  26, 
1895,  to  hear  the  report  of  a  committee  appointed  to  devise  means  for 
paying  off  the  debt  on  Freemason's  hall,  a  majority  of  the  committee 
favored  investing  in  some  building  society  in  the  Dominion  of  Canada. 
Discussion  turned  on  this:  on  a  proposition  to  insure  the  lives  of  one 
or  more  members  of  the  craft  in  a  reliable  insurance  company  doing 
business  in  Canada;  on  an  investment  with  the  Canadian  Mutual  Loan 
Association,  of  Canada,  and  on  establishing  a  sinking  fund,  the  latter 
proposition  prevailing. 

Twenty-six  grand  jurisdictions  were  represented  at  the  annual 
communication,  Illinois  by  Past  Deputy  Grand  Master  Theodore  A. 
COSSMAN. 

The  morning  hour  was  spent  in  attending  divine  service  at  St. 
Paul's  church,  where  the  grand  chaplain,  the  Rev.  Canon  Brock, 


236  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 

preached  a  learned  and  eloquent  sermon   from  the  text,  "God  said 
let  there  be  light  and  there  was  light." 

The  address  of  the  grand  master  (William  P.  MacCoy)  suggests 
the  possible  benefit  that  would  be  derived  from  a  meeting  of  repre- 
sentatives from  the  various  grand  lodges  in  the  Dominion  of  Canada 
"to  discuss  Masonic  matters,  and  consult  together  as  to  the  best 
means  of  uniting  and  consolidating  Masonry  in  Canada,"  and  says 
such  is  the  modern  tendency  of  all  organized  bodies.  Of  course  this 
contains  the  germ  of  a  general  grand  lodge.  We  doubt  whether  the 
various  grand  lodges  in  the  Dominion  are  any  less  jealous  of  their 
individual  sovereignty  than  are  those  in  the  United  States,  where  a 
kindred  proposition  could  hardly  find  advocates  enough  to  make  a 
quorum  for  a  lodge.  The  matter  is  not  referred  to  by  the  committee 
on  address. 

The  grand  master  commends  very  highly  the  way  in  which  the 
district  deputies  have  performed  their  duties. 

He  approves  the  project  initiated  by  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Prince 
Edward  Island  for  a  Masonic  home  for  the  Maratime  provinces.  Dur- 
ing the  session  a  communication  from  the  Grand  Lodge  of  New  Bruns- 
wick was  read,  stating  that  that  body  had  appointed  a  committee  of 
conference,  and  thereupon  similar  action  was  taken.  Past  Grand 
Master  Darrach,  of  Prince  Edward  Island,  was  a  visitor,  and  was 
doubtless  doing  missionary  work  among  the  members. 

In  recognition  of  the  services  of  Bro.  T.  B.  Flint  on  the  commit- 
tee on  correspondence,  he  having  for  many  years  performed  a  large 
proportion  of  the  work,  the  rank  of  past  deputy  grand  master  was 
conferred  upon  him,  an  honor  worthily  won.  The  Rev.  Dr.  Willet,  of 
King's  College,  Windsor,  who  for  two  years  past  had  rendered  valu- 
able service  on  the  same  committee,  received  a  vote  of  thanks. 

Bro.  Theodore  A.  Cossman,  our  representative,  offered  the  fol- 
lowing motion:  "That  at  all  entertainments  of  grand  lodge  and 
subordinate  lodges  the  use  of  spirituous  liquors  and  wines  is  strictly 
prohibited."  This  evoked  a  lengthy  discussion,  which  led  to  its  with- 
drawal and  submission  in  the  following  form,  in  which  the  italicized 
words  show  the  changes  from  the  original:  '^That  it  is  recommended 
that  at  all  entertainments  of  grand  lodge  and  subordinate  lodges  the 
use  of  spirituous  liquors  and  wines  he  strictly  prohibited."  In  this 
form  it  carried. 

The  grand  lodge  found  its  grievance  committee  rusting  in  idle- 
ness; was  the  recipient  of  an  oil-painting  of  the  W.  Bro.  John  Tay- 
lor, for  many  years  grand  tiler;  conferred  past  rank  upon  its  faithful 
district  deputies;  enjoyed  an  "at  home"  with  the  city  lodges,  at  which 
both  sexes  were  present;  voted  to  meet  again  next  year  at  Halifax, 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  237 

and  closed  with  the  singing  of  the  national  anthem  as  a  part  of  the 
ceremonies. 

John  W.  Ruhland  was  elected  grand  master;  Hon.  William 
Ross  reelected  grand  secretary,  both  of  Halifax. 

The  report  on  correspondence  (161  pp.)  is  by  the  accustomed  hands, 
chiefly  the  work  of  the  chairman,  Bro.  T.  B.  Flint  and  Bro.  Rev. 
Charles  R.  Willets,  D.C.L.,  with  help  from  Bro.  Thomas  Mowbray 
and  the  grand  secretary,  who  disposed  of  a  few  jurisdictions  which 
the  committee  could  not  attend  to  for  reasons  given  by  Bro.  Ross, 
who  says: 

R.W.  Brother  Flint  was  an  exceedingly  busy  man  during  the  past 
year,  being  in  his  place  during  two  sessions  of  parliament  at  Ottawa, 
and  contesting  an  election  for  Yarmouth  county,  in  the  Dominion 
House  of  Commons.  It  is  needless  to  say  that  he  was,  as  usual,  elected 
by  a  handsome  majority. 

Worshipful  Brother  Willet,  we  most  sincerely  regret  to  say,  had  a 
sore  trial  during  the  year,  sickness  in  his  family  compelling  him  to 
make  a  prolonged  stay  in  New  York,  where  it  was  necessary  that  an 
operation  requiring  great  surgical  skill  should  be  performed  on  one 
most  dear  to  him. 

In  his  brief  conclusion  the  chairman  says: 

We  have  a  high  ideal  of  what  a  report  on  correspondence  should 
be;  and  possibly  the  day  may  come  when  leisure  and  study  may  place 
us  in  a  position  to  measurably  realize  it.  Our  communion  with  the 
able  men  in  other  jurisdictions,  whose  reports  we  are  privileged  to 
peruse,  but  not  to  study  as  carefully  as  we  would  desire,  has  been  of  a 
most  invigorating  character.  We  see  in  every  jurisdiction  the  noblest 
traditions  of  the  craft  earnestly  followed,  and  its  banner  nobly  upheld 
by  a  band  of  worthy  and  devoted  leaders.  Nowhere  are  there  signs  of 
stagnation  or  decay. 

The  review  of  Illinois  for  1895  is  by  Brother  Flint,  who  evidently 
gave  our  proceedings  a  careful  examination.  The  oration  of  Brother 
Black  receives  very  high  praise,  and  the  report  on  correspondence 
is  mentioned  in  favorable  terms.     In  conclusion  he  says: 

The  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois  occupies  a  notable  position  in  the 
great  sisterhood  of  grand  bodies.  It  is  second  only  to  that  of  New 
York  in  the  number  of  Masons  who  owe  allegiance  to  her  and  her 
business,  as  well  as  judicial  affairs  appear  to  be  managed  with  great 
prudence  and  sagacity  by  abandof  earnest,  able,  and  devoted  brethren. 

Brother  Willet'S  share  in  the  work  is  excellent  in  spirit  and  in 
style. 


238  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 


OHIO,  1896. 

87th  Annual.  Cincinnati.  October  21. 

The  frontispiece  of  the  Ohio  volume  is  a  portrait  of  the  retiring 
grand  master,  William  B.  Melish.  Opposite  is  a  group  of  eleven 
full-length  portraits,  the  grand  masters  for  1875  to  1896.  With  eight 
of  the  number  the  almond  tree  flourishes  quite  conspicuously,  but 
their  work  shows  no  signs  of  age  save  wisdom. 

Grand  Master  Melish  reported  the  death  of  Past  Grand  Master 
Asa  H.  Battin.  aged  sixty-six,  and  W.  H.  Sedgwick,  aged  sixty-two, 
district  grand  lecturer. 

The  grand  master  discovered  a  fly  in  the  ointment,  the  revision  of 
the  code  published  in  1893  proving  to  be  full  of  obsolete  and  conflicting 
provisions.  This  was  most  apparent  in  the  provisions  relating  to  the 
use  of  lodge  rooms  by  organizations  of  the  Eastern  Star.  The  latest 
of  these  permitted  the  use  of  lodge  rooms  by  the  Eastern  Star  bodies 
with  the  consent  of  the  grand  master.  He  had  decided  that  the  en- 
tire code  was  readopted  as  law  when  the  revision  was  approved,  and 
this  action  being  subsequent  to  the  approval  of  the  favorable  de- 
cision referred  to,  that  earlier  adverse  decisions  were  therefore 
also  in  force.  A  page  or  two  of  discussion  by  the  jurisprudence  com- 
mittee enabled  the  grand  lodge  to  see  the  thing  differently,  arriving 
at  the  proper  conclusion  that  where  two  or  more  decisions  conflict,  the 
one  latest  rendered  prevails  over  the  others.  Hence  the  Eastern 
Stars  may  twinkle  in  lodge  rooms  with  the  joint  consent  of  the  bodies 
controlling  them  and  the  grand  master. 

The  same  view  of  the  equally  binding  force  of  all  decisions  or 
opinions  touching  the  physical  qualifications  of  candidates  compiled 
in  the  code  enters  somewhat  into  the  grand  master's  discussion  of 
that  subject,  but  here  the  trend  of  his  argument  is  against  all  restric- 
tions, although  he  stops  short  of  that  in  his  recommendation,  the  fol- 
lowing being  suggested: 

A  candidate  suffering  from  a  physical  disability  may  be  initiated 
if  the  disability  is  not  such  as  to  prevent  him  complying  with  the 
forms  and  ceremonies  set  forth  in  the  Masonic  ritual,  and  his  admission 
will  not  be  considered  as  an  infringement  of  the  '"Ancient  Landmarks," 
but,  on  the  contrary,  will  be  deemed  consistent  with  the  spirit  and 
intent  of  the  institution. 

The  committee  on  jurisprudence  have  some  excellent  remarks'on 
the  subject  in  which  they  keep  clearly  in  view  the  fact  that  the  con- 
straints of  the  law  rest  on  the   grand  master  as  well   as  upon  the 


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lodge,  while  the  latter's  opportunities  for  knowing  the  facts  in  a 
given  case  are  generally  better  than  his.     They  say: 

It  is  true  the  language  of  the  ancient  charges,  in  its  literal 
signification,  addresses  itself  to  the  requirements  of  ancient  opera- 
tive Masonry,  but  when  interpreted  in  the  light  of  speculative  Ma- 
sonr\%  we  believe  the  law  as  hereinafter  stated  is  sufficiently  broad 
and  liberal  for  Freemasonry,  either  ancient  or  modern.  The  difficulty 
pointed  out  by  the  grand  master  seems  to  arise  out  of  some  decisions 
referred  to  by  him.  All  of  these  are  expressions  of  opinions  by  for- 
mer grand  masters  on  questions  of  fact  arising  in  particular  cases,  and 
are  by  no  means  statements  of  the  law. 

A  stiff  knee  may  or  may  not  be  a  disqualification,  and  the  loss  of 
one  eye  may  make  no  difference  when  the  other  eye  is  good. 

It  is  the  province  of  the  grand  master  to  interpret  the  laic,  and  his 
decision  in  this  regard,  when  approved  by  the  grand  lodge,  has  the 
force  of  a  precedent  contmlUng  like  cases.  It  is  not  his  province  to  decide 
facts  referred  to  him  by  subordinate  lodges,  and  when  he  does  so  his 
expression  simply  relates  to  the  facts  of  the  particular  case,  and  does 
not  become  a  rule  for  the  determination  of  other  cases  upon  other 
facts.  A  candidate  for  Masonry  must  have  the  required  physical, 
intellectual,  and  moral  qualifications.  No  one  in  this  world  is  perfect 
in  either  of  these  qualities.  What  degree  of  excellence  in  either  or 
in  all  of  these  will  flt'a  candidate  for  Masonry  must  be  determined  by 
the  subordinate  lodge,  for  perhaps  its  members  alone  have  sufficient 
information  to  determine  them.  They  should  not  be  referred  to  the 
grand  master,  who  is  probably  remotely  situated  and  a  stranger  to 
the  candidate,  and  has  no  more  information  to  enable  him  to  pass 
upon  the  physical  than  he  has  to  pass  upon  the  mental  and  moral 
fitness  or  unfitness  pf  the  candidate.  He  can  only  state  the  law  and 
give  the  rules  for  guidance,  leaving  it  to  the  lodge  to  apply  them. 

Perhaps  it  would  be  better  for  grand  masters  always  to  refrain 
from  deciding  whether  a  given  defect,  either  physical,  mental,  or 
moral,  disqualifies  or  not.  It  requires  him  to  give  a  conclusion  of 
fact,  and  he  usually  only  knows  what  some  letter  informed  him,  which 
rarely  states  all  the  circumstances  or  gives  clearh^  the  character  and 
deejree  of  infirmity.  When,  however,  he  yields  to  importunities  and 
thus  concludes  on  a  fact,  it  should  not  be  reported  as  a  decision, 
and  when  so  reported  it  never  becomes  a  rule  of  law.  We  think  if 
these  considerations  are  not  overlooked,  the  decisions  referred  to  will 
lead  no  one  astray.  We  add  that  decision  64  differs  from  the  others 
mentioned  by  the  grand  master  in  his  address,  for  this  is  a  construc- 
tion of  the  law,  and  correctly  observes  that  the  physical  require- 
ments set  forth  in  the  ancient  charges  apply  only  to  apprentices,  and 
for  reasons  obvious  on  reflection,  do  not  apply  to  Fellow  Crafts  or 
Masters. 

We  recommend  the  following  as  a  true  construction  of  the  law  on 
the  subject: 

A  candidate  for  the  degree  of  entered  apprentice  should  be  able, 
physically  as  well  as  intellectually,  to  receive  and  impart  all  the 
essentials  for  Masonic  recognition,  and  this  the  lodge  may  determine. 

This  was  adopted. 

The  grand  master's  recommendation  for  a  committee  to  make  a 
complete  revision  of  the  compilation  did  not  prevail  in  that  form,  but 


240  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 

a  committee  was  appointed  to  examine  and  compare  and  to  report 
next  year  all  omissions,  substitutions,  discrepancies,  conflicts,  and 
errors,  if  any,  with  recommendations. 

Among  the  requests  for  dispensation  refused  was  one  indicated 
by  the  following: 

I  am  of  the  opinion  that  the  observance  of  Ascension  Day  cannot 
be  called  a  Masonic  occasion  according  to  the  Blue  Lodge  definition. 
We  have  within  the  Masonic  fraternity,  in  the  Blue  Lodge  member- 
ship, many  men  of  many  religions;  among  them  especially  notable  are 
those  of  the  Hebrew  faith;  hence,  in  my  opinion,  the  Blue  Lodge 
should  not  celebrate  a  day  so  essentially  Christian  in  its  meaning  and 
observance  as  Ascension  Day  has  become.  It  may  well  be  left  to  the 
Order  of  Knights  Templar,  as  it  is  distinctly  a  Christian  organiza- 
tion. I  am,  as  you  are  doubtless  aware,  a  believer  in  the  Christian 
religion;  but  I  am  compelled,  for  the  reasons  above  given,  to  decline 
granting  a  dispensation  to  your  lodge  to  unite  with  the  Knights  Tem- 
yjlar  on  the  occasion  named. 

The  grand  master  announced  the  final  termination  of  the  litiga- 
tion growing  out  of  the  participation  of  the  grand  lodge  in  the  "Cer- 
neau  War"  of  the  Scotch  Riters,  the  supreme  court  of  Ohio  having 
since  the  last  preceding  annual  communication  decided  the  case  of 
Hershiser  vs.  Williams,  wherein  Hershiser  and  others  who  were 
members  of  Goodale  Lodge,  at  Columbus,  enjoined  Goodale  Lodge 
and  Grand  Master  Williams  from  action  to  deprive  them  of  their 
Masonic  rights  for  affiliating  with  the  Cerneau  faction  in  defiance  of 
a  resolution  of  the  grand  lodge  forbidding  it.  The  decision  affirmed 
the  judgment  of  the  courts  below  to  the  effect  that  a  Masonic  lodge 
"is  a  society,  not  for  profit,  but  for  Masonic  purposes,  and  that  it  has 
power  to  expel  one  or  more  of  its  members  for  unmasonic  conduct, 
and  to  determine  wherein  unmasonic  conduct  consists,  and  that  this 
court  has  no  jurisdiction  to  restrain  the  lodge  from  proceeding  to 
expel  a  member  or  members  for  an  alleged  irregularity  by  the  lodge, 
or  its  proper  officers,  in  the  exercise  of  its  powers  of  expulsion."  The 
injunction  being  dissolved,  Hershiser  and  eight  others  were  expelled 
by  Goodale  Lodge.     Another  case  of  expulsion  was  the  following: 

The  other  case  was  the  expulsion  from  all  the  rights  and  benefits 
of  the  order  of  Granville  A.  Frambes,  formerly  of  Columbus,  by  La- 
fayette Lodge  No.  81,  F.  and  A.  M.,  of  Cincinnati.  The  charge  was 
gross  unmasonic  conduct,  in  attempting  to  organize  within  the  state 
of  Ohio  bodies  of  men  into  Masonic  lodges,  so  called,  without  authority 
so  to  do  from  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Free  and  Accepted  Masons  of  Ohio. 
This  fellow  came  within  the  penal  jurisdiction  of  Lafayette  Lodge,  to 
practice  his  schemes  upon  the  unwary,  and  was  promptly  handled. 
Frambes  is  a  notorious  peddler  of  clandestine  degrees,  and  has  been 
expelled  from  lodge,  chapter,  commandery,  and  Scottish  Rite  in  turn. 

He  was  for  a  time  affiliated  with  Wigton  lodge,  in  Hart,  Michigan, 
but  took  a  dimit  on  February  last.  He  claimed  to  be  a  regular  Mason, 
and  as  such  was  taken  in  by  Lafayette  lodge  and  stamped  "counter- 
feit."    Frambes  has  visited  Newark,  Coshocton,  Cincinnati,  Colum- 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  241 


bus,  and  other  points,  tn'ing  to  make  spurious  Masons,  and  the  lod^^es 
in  Ohio  are  warned  to  be  on  the  lookout  for  him,  and  warn  the  credu- 
lous against  his  irregular  and  clandestine  work. 

The  Wisconsin  proposition  anent  Masonic  relief  went  to  the  com- 
mittee on  charity,  and  at  their  request  was  held  over  for  another  year. 
The  same  committee  endorsed  the  following  recommendation  of  the 
grand  master: 

I  hope  to  see  the  grand  lodge  indorse  the  work  of  the  board  of 
management  of  the  Home,  and  authorize  the  grand  master,  or  a  spe- 
cial committee,  or  the  board  of  trustees,  to  organize  a  "Masonic 
Home  League,"  with  a  membership  of  Masonic  bodies,  and  individuals, 
who  will  make  annual  subscription,  which,  when  added  to  the  amounts 
contributed  by  the  grand  bodies,  will  enable  the  trustees  of  the  home 
to  open  that  institution  within  sixty  days,  and  carry  it  on  to  the  end 
of  time. 

The  grand  master  stated  that  the  means  were  already  in  sight  to 
place  the  home  out  of  debt  by  the  tifteenth  of  November,  1896,  and 
the  following  plan  was  agreed  upon  to  raise  money  for  immediate  use: 

EesoJved,  That  the  grand  master  be,  and  he  is  hereby,  instructed 
to  appoint  the  worshipful  master  of  each  subordinate  lodge  in  this 
jurisdiction  a  committee  of  one  to  solicit  a  subscription  from  each  of 
the  members  of  their  respective  lodges  of  the  sum  of  fifty  cents,  for 
the  use  and  benefit  of  the  Masonic  Home;  and 

That  the  grand  secretary  formulate  and  send  a  blank  for  the 
purpose  to  the  several  masters  of  such  subordinate  lodges,  and  that 
the  subscription  list  and  money  obtained  thereon  be  forwarded  to  Bro. 
-John  W.  Parsons,  superintendent  of  the  home,  within  sixty  days  from 
this  date. 

Near  the  close  of  the  session  the  opponents  of  joint  occupancy  of 
lodge  rooms  with  the  sisters  of  the  Eastern  Star  and  brothers  of  the 
Mystic  Shrine  made  a  rally  and  took  up  a  position  for  next  year.  Bro. 
E.  T.  Carson — backed  by  four  seconds— offering  the  following: 

Section  79.  No  subordinate  lodge  in  this  jurisdiction  shall  permit 
its  lodge-rooms  to  be  used  by  any  other  society  or  order  whatsoever, 
nor  shall  any  lodge  occupy  any  hall  or  rooms  jointly  with  any  other 
society  or  order,  except  temporarily  and  by  special  permission  of  the 
grand  lodge  or  grand  master.  But  nothing  in  this  section  shall  be 
construed  to  prohibit  a  subordinate  lodge  from  occupving  rooms 
jointly  with  a  chapter  of  Royal  Arch  Masons,  with  a  council  of  Royal 
and  Select  Masters,  with  a  commandery  of  Knights  Templars,  or  with 
a  body  of  the  Ancient  and  Accepted  Scottish  Rite  under  the  jurisdic- 
tion of  the  supreme  council  of  the  Northern  Masonic  jurisdiction  of 
the  United  States  of  America;  these  organizations  and  no  other  so- 
ciety being  recognized  as  Masonic  by  this  grand  lodge. 

Which  lies  over  under  the  rule. 

Past  Grand  Master  Parvin,  of  Iowa,  grand  secretary  of  that  juris- 
diction, was  formally  welcomed  as  a  visitor,  and  in  acknowledging  the 

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242  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


courtes}'  referred  to  the  fact  that  he  was  initiated  into  the  fraternity 
in  N.  C.  Harmon}'  Lodge  No.  2,  of  Cincinnati. 

One  new  lodg'e  was  chartered. 

Barton  Smith,  of  Toledo,  was  elected  grand  master:  Jacob  H. 
Bromwell,  Cincinnati,  reelected  grand  secretar3^ 

The  report  on  correspondence  (349  pp.)  is  from  the  pen  of  our 
esteemed  and  distinguished  brother,  Past  Grand  Master  William  N. 
Cunningham,  whose  work  in  this  department  has  so  long  shed  lustre 
upon  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Ohio.  He  is  one  of  the  prophets  who  is  not 
without  honor  in  his  own  country.  The  grand  master  in  his  annual 
address  reproduced  a  poetical  tribute  written  in  his  honor  by  Senior 
Grand  Warden  Nelson  Williams  on  the  fortieth  successive  year  of 
Bro.  Cunningham's  attendance  on  grand  lodge,  in  1895.  May  he  be 
spared  to  reach  in  harness  the  golden  milestone  of  1905. 

Bro.  Cujjningham  gives  twenty-two  full  pages  to  Illinois  for  1895, 
nearly  sixteen  of  which  are  devoted  to  the  report  on  correspondence. 

He  notes  the  absence  of  the  grand  representative  of  Ohio  from 
our  annual  communication.  We  are  glad  of  this  opportunitj^  to  say 
that  the  absence  of  Brother  Chance  was  not  of  his  own  free  will,  but 
from  sheer  inability  to  be  present.  He  commends  the  action  of  Grand 
Master  Goddard  in  arresting,  and  the  grand  lodge  in  revoking  the 
charter  of  a  lodge  for  violating  the  law  prohibiting  lodge  meeting  on 
Sunday,  except  for  funeral  purposes,  and  sa^'s  of  the  suggestion  of 
the  committee  on  address  that  more  attention  should  be  given  to 
distinctive  instruction  in  the  symbology  of  Masonry,  that  it  is  of 
much  importance  and  should  be  followed  in  other  jurisdictions  as 
well. 

He  calls  attention  to  the  introduction  and  reception  with  the 
grand  honors  of  Bro.  Thomas  S.  Thompson,  representative  of  the 
Grand  Lodge  Three  Globes,  of  Berlin,  as  showing  that  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Illinois  is  in  fraternal  relations  with  a  body  that  is  not  an 
independent  grand  lodge,  the  Berlin  body  being  a  constituent  of  the 
Grand  Lodge  League  of  German}^  and  elsewhere  reminds  us  that  he 
had  in  1892  reported  that  an  exchange  of  representatives  with  either 
of  the  eight  grand  lodges  composing  the  league  would  be  out  of  place, 
neither  of  the  eight  being  now  an  independent  sovereign  grand  body. 

We  acknowledge  that  we  were  derelict  in  duty  in  not  urging  the 
•Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois  to  formally  discontinue  fraternal  relations 
with  the  Grand  Lodge  of  the  Three  Globes  and  some  other  German 
grand  bodies  with  which  we  used  to  exchange  representatives  or  pro- 
ceedings, at  the  time  they  entered  into  the  German  Grand  Lodge 
Xieague.  For  other  reasons  we  had  as  far  as  possible  ceased  to  culti- 
vate fraternal  relations  with  continental  bodies,  and  permitted  them 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  243 


to  fall,  so  far  as  they  mig-ht  without  formal  action,  into  innocuous 
desuetude.     In  our  report  of  1873,  we  said: 

In  our  reports  for  two  previous  years  we  have  refrained  from 
noticing  the  proceedings  of  the  g'rand  bodies  of  Continental  Europe, 
because  the  so-called  Masonry  of  those  countries  is  semi-political  in 
its  character,  and  its  polity  is  so  changed  by  its  subserviency  to  the 
civil  government  as  to  make  it  doubtful  whether  it  is  not  a  misnomer 
to  call  it  Masonry.  The  recent  formation,  however,  of  the  Ueutcher 
Gross-Logen  Bund,  or  Union  of  German  Grand  Lodges,  is  a  matter  of 
such  importance,  in  view  of  its  possible  effect  upon  our  own  relations 
with  these  bodies,  that  we  deehi  it  our  duty  to  lay  the  facts  before  the 
grand  lodge. 

*  ******** 

The  confederated  bodies  are  the  three  Prussian  grand  lodges  [the 
Grand  Lodge  of  the  Three  Globes,  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Prussia 
('•Royal  York  of  Friendship'"),  and  the  National  Grand  Lodge  of  Ger- 
many, all  at  Berlin];  the  Grand  Lodge  of  the  Eclectic  Union,  at 
Frankfort-on-the-Main;  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Hamburg,  at  Hamburg; 
the  Grand  Lodge  of  Saxony,  at  Dresden;  the  Grand  Lodge  "Zur 
Eintracht"  (Concord),  at  Darmstadt,  and  the  Grand  Lodge  "Zur 
Sonne"  (the  Sun),  at  Bayreuth. 

The  autonomy  of  the  several  grand  lodges  composing  the  Bund  is 
recognized  (subject  to  minor  restrictions),  as  are  the  existing  systems, 
or  rites,  as  practiced  by  them — but  no  other. 

The  administrative  powers  of  the  Bund  are  vested  in  a  diet  of  the 
grand  lodges  {Gross  Logentag),  composed  of  the  grand  master,  deputy 
grand  master,  and  a  delegate  of  each,  meeting  annually.  *  *  *  To 
the  diet  also  is  entrusted  the  entire  control  of  the  foreign  relations  of 
the  Band,  including  the  recognition  of  new  grand  lodges,  the  forma- 
tion of  new  alliances,  and  the  dissolving  of  those  already  existing. 
Thus  it  will  be  seen  that  several  grand  lodges  with  which  we  have  es- 
tablished fraternal  relations  are  so  confederated  with  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Hamburg,  with  which  we  have  declared  non-intercourse,  as 
to  have  it  in  their  power  to  compel  that  body  to  withdraw  from  its 
unwarrantable  intrusion  upon  the  jurisdiction  of  New  York  and  of 
New  Jersey.  If  upon  a  proper  representation  being  made  to  the  diet 
it  shall  fail  to  enforce  this  act  of  simple  justice,  then  all  its  constit- 
uents should  be  held  equally  guilty,  and  all  fraternal  relations  with 
them  should  cease. 

The  grand  lodges  composing  the  Bund  have  so  far  recognized  the 
doctrine  of  exclusive  jurisdiction  as  to  unite  in  a  request  to  the  "Most 
Illustrious  Protecter,"  Kaiser  William,  that  lodges  on  German  soil 
holding  charters  from  foreign  grand  lodges,  be  imperatively  ordered 
to  either  dissolve  or  affiliate  with  a  German  grand  lodge;  and  they 
should  be  taught  by  the  unanimous  action  of  all  American  grand 
lodges  that  our  territory  must  be  equally  respected. 

The  Grand  Lodge  of  the  Eclectic  Union,  at  Frankfort-on-the-Main, 
has  already  recognized  the  clandestine  body  established  by  Hamburg 
in  New  .Jersey,  "as  a  daughter  lodge  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Hamburg." 
Whether  any  other  of  the  confederated  grand  lodges  have  done  so  is 
not  yet  apparent.  Should  it  become  apparent  that  the  rest  of  the 
German  grand  lodges  give  their  countenance  and  support  to  this  Ijody. 
established  in  defiance  of  the  jurisdictional  rights  of  New  Jersey,  the 
time  for  action  will  have  come. 


244  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 

These  suggestions  were  not  acted  upon  b}'  the  grand  lodges  im- 
mediately interested  and  so  the  matter  dropped  so  far  as  Illinois  was 
concerned.  The  proceedings  of  the  German  bodies  have  continued 
unnoticed  by  us  by  tacit  consent  of  grand  lodge,  and  since  some  time 
prior  to  the  formation  of  the  league  all  the  German  grand  lodges,  with 
which  we  maintained  fraternal  relations,  have  disappeared  from  our 
printed  list  of  grand  lodges  with  which  we  maintain  an  exchange  of 
representatives,  except  the  Grand  Lodge  of  the  Three  Globes.  Since 
Brother  Cunningham  mentions  the  fact  that  the  league  recognized 
the  colored  grand  lodges  of  this  country,  and  also  that  Ohio  is  still 
waiting  for  assurance  that  neither  the  league  nor  its  subordinates 
now  recognize  them  before  recognizing  the  general  body,  it  is  proper 
for  us  to  say  that  the  only  constituent  of  the  league  with  which  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois  has  been  in  fraternal  relations  since  the  Grand 
Lodge  League  recognized  the  colored  bodies  is  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
the  Three  Globes,  and  that  our  relations  with  that  body  were  estab- 
lished long  before  the  league  was  formed. 

Brother  Cunningham  quotes  with  approval  from  our  introductory 
remarks  on  the  present  aspect  of  the  grand  representative  question? 
and  on  the  futile  and  unmasonic  character  of  much  of  the  legislation 
against  non-affiliates. 

He  refers  at  length  to  several  subjects  of  difference  between  us, 
but  our  necessities  will  compel  us  to  touch  them  briefly  if  at  all. 
Hence  if  we  should  be  so  abrupt  as  to  seem  curt,  Brother  Cunning- 
ham will  not  misunderstand  us. 

He  refers  to  the  case  which  he  had  cited  two  years  before  to  show 
that  the  one-man  power  against  which  we  had  inveighed  when  exer- 
cised in  Ohio,  also  existed  in  our  grand  lodge,  partly  to  express  his 
surprise  that  we  should  admit  that  his  point  was  well  taken.  We 
acknowledge  the  left-handed  compliment  which  lurks,  unconsciously 
no  doubt,  in  this  confession  of  surprise,  because  he  is  not  overmuch 
given  to  complimenting  us  except  when  we  are  talking  about  matters 
that  are  not  an  issue  between  us.  For  the  rest  he  recurs  to  the  case 
whereof  our  criticism  was  the  provocation  for  the  "you're  another" 
argument  referred  to.  In  this  case  he  defended  the  action  of  the 
grand  master  of  Ohio  in  forbidding  the  installation  of  a  senior  warden 
elect,  on  the  ground  that  the  banned  official  was  an  avowed  Cerneau. 
We  said  that  he  did  not  avow  himself  such  when  called  upon  to  de- 
clare that  he  was  not  such  at  the  price  of  installation  and  that  the 
record  did  not  show  him  to  be  one,  but  did  show  that  he  declined  to 
make  the  declaration  on  other  grounds,  whereupon  Brother  Cunning- 
ham says  of  us: 

And  then  he  endeavors  to  justify  the  contumacious  action  by 
saying  that  the  so-called  Cerneau  "based  his  declaration  upon  the 
ground  that  the  requirement  was  subversive  of  the  principles  of  Ma- 


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sonry,  an  innovation  that  he  was  in  duty  bound  to  resist;  and  if  he 
was  recognized  as  a  member  of  the  lodge  in  good  standing,  tlie  point 
was  indisputably  well  taken." 

Does  our  M.W.  brother  intend  us  to  infer  that  a  member  who  is 
in  avowed  rebellion  against  the  enactments  of  a  grand  lodge,  or  if 
even  against  whom  such  a  charge  had  only  been  preferred,  is  in  good 
standing,  or  justified  in  refusing  to  purge  himself  of  the  charge  if 
innocent? 

The  record  does  not  show  that  he  was  in  avowed  rebellion  against 
the  enactments  of  the  grand  lodge:  hence  there  is  no  basis  of  perti- 
nency for  that  portion  of  the  question. 

To  the  question  whether  a  person  against  whom  such  a  charge 
had  been  made,  but  not  yet  proven,  is  in  good  standing,  we  answer 
unhesitatingly  that  we  think  he  is,  and  that  in  so  thinking  and  hold- 
ing we  are  in  accord  with  the  opinions  of  Masonic  jurists  generally — 
outside  of  Ohio.  The  question  whether  he  is  justified  in  refusing  to 
purge  himself  of  the  charge  if  innocent,  is  tantamount  to  asking 
whether  when  one  is  charged  with  an  offence  the  burden  of  proof  lies 
primarily  upon  the  prosecution,  or  on  the  defence?  To  this  question 
all  jurisprudence,  worthy  of  the  name,  whether  civil  or  Masonic,  gives 
but  one  answer. 

The  following  is  from  the  address  of  the  grand  master  of  Ohio  in 
1890,  under  the  head  of  Decisions: 

Question. — 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  authorizing  it  done.  Is  it  legal  to  furnish 
higher  bodies  with  a  certificate  of  suspended  or  expelled  members? 
If  legal,  is  it  imperative? 

Answer. — Bodies  recognized  by  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Ohio  as  "Ma- 
sonic," and  who  make  the  degrees  of  Ancient  Craft  Masonry  a  pre- 
requisite to  membership  in  their  own  body,  and  who  are  occupants  of 
the  territorial  jurisdiction  occupied  by  the  lodge  suspending  or  ex- 
pelling a  member,  may  be  officially  notified  under  seal  of  the  lodge. 

Whereupon  we  said: 

The  statement  that  Masons  in  Ohio  who  have  been  suspended  for 
non-payment  of  dues  remain  in  good  standing  in  the  '"Higher  Bodies" 
indicates  that  they  are  simply  excluded  from  the  p^rivileges  of  their 
own  lodge,  and  the  term  susjyensloti  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  certifi- 
cates 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  with  the  answer  illustrates  the  process  by  which  Grand  Orientism 
is  being  evolved  there. 

In  the  face  of  this  record.  Brother  Cunningham,  who  at  first  said 
that  the  impression  we  sought  to  convey  was  unwarranted,  now  says 


246  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 

that   our  statement  (as  reproduced  above)  was   unwarranted.     We 
leave  him  to  bis  idols. 

Touching-  the  Ohio  denial  of  the  right  of  a  lodg^e  to  instruct  its 
master  on  any  question  to  come  before  the  grand  lodge,  a  right  which 
we  said  that  a  hundred  and  seventy  years  of  unvarying  usage  had 
recognized  as  indefeasible,  he  says,  referring  to  us: 

Neither  has  he  brought  forward  any  proof  other  than  his  own 
assertions  that  there  has  been  "a  hundred  and  sevent}^  years  of  unvary- 
ing* usage"  in  its  observance.  On  the  contrary-,  it  is  a  sufficient  ex- 
ception to  say  that  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Ohio,  in  whose  constitutions 
such  an  enactment  was  not  incorporated,  was  organized  in  1809,  only 
eighty-six  years  after  the  collation  of  Anderson's  General  Regulations 
in  1723,  and  four  years  j^rior  to  the  union  of  the  Ancients  and  Moderns, 
and  the  formation  of  the  United  Grand  Lodge  of  England,  in  1813. 

He  says  much  more  than  this  in  the  three  pages  which  he  gives  to 
the  discussion  of  the  subject,  endeavoring  to  show  that  the  right  is  not 
a  landmark  chiefly  by  showing  that  others  of  the  old  regulations  are 
not  so  regarded.  But  our  point  was  that  a  hundred  and  seventy  years 
of  unvarying  usage  showed  that  this  regulation  had  been  so  regarded, 
and  the  point  sought  to  be  made  b}-  the  statement  that  the  Grand  Lodge 
of  Ohio  had  not  reenacted  the  regulation  in  its  constitution  does  not 
touch  our  argument  at  all  unless  he  can  show  that  before  the  end  of 
that  hundred  and  seventy  years  the  absence  of  such  an  enactment 
had  been  construed  as  a  denial  of  the  right.  In  the  course  of  his  ar- 
gument he  makes  this  significant  admission  as  to  usage; 

Before  concluding  the  subject  of  representation,  it  is  proper  to 
state  that  in  Ohio,  where  the  master  and  wardens  of  a  subordinate 
lodge  for  any  reason  decline  to  attend  the  grand  lodge,  it  has  always 
been  conceded  that  a  representative  appointed  by  the  lodge  to  act  as 
such  in  its  behalf,  should  observe  and  be  governed  by  any  instructions 
given  by  such  lodge. 

This  is  doubly  significant  because  from  his  language  it  is  mani- 
fest that  the  right  to  instruct  the  representative  thus  appointed, 
and  the  duty  of  obedience  by  him,  do  not  rest  upon  an  express  enact- 
ment. But,  notwithstanding  this,  if  Brother  Cunningham  will  find  a 
single  instance  in  the  history  of  his  grand  lodge,  prior  to  1887,  where 
the  right  of  instruction  had  been  denied,  we  shall  concede  that  minor 
arguments  ma}'  properh'  command  consideration.  The  urgent  de- 
mands of  the  printer  for  "cop3^"  compels  us  to  pass  over  his  remarks 
in  denial  of  our  statement  that  the  Templar  degrees  violate  the  plan 
of  Masonry  defined  by  the  charges  of  a  Freemason,  with  the  remark 
that  he  somehow  strangely  misconceives  us  or  has  read  his  proof 
badly  (a  glaring  fault  of  our  own),  when  he  makes  us  speak  of  the 
"narrower  (religious)  basis"  of  the  charge  "Concerning  God  and  Reli- 
g-ion,"  when  we  spoke  of  a  basis  narrower  than  that  found  there:  and 

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MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  247 


also  to  pass  very  briefly  over  what  he  says  about  the  recognition 
which  we  said  Ohio  had.  volunteered  to  vouchsafe  to  certain  European 
bodies.     He  says  in  part: 

And  he  then  quotes  the  last  paragraph  from  the  report  of  your 
committee  noted  above.  To  which  it  is  only  necessary  to  say  that 
your  committee  denies  the  statement  that  ''the  committee  ^masked 
hastened  to  authenticate,"'  etc.;  the  statement  also  of  "the  haste  as 
being  so  pressing  that  it  could  not  wait  to  find  out  whether  these 
bodies  desired  to  recognize  Ohio,''  etc.,  is  equally  without  any  founda- 
tion whatever;  that  the  expression  "if  desired  on  their  part,"  should 
have  been  written  "if  officially  desired  on  their  part,"  is  doubtless 
true;  but  as  the  subject  had  been  brought  up  in  grand  lodge,  and 
resolutions  adopted  in  that  connection  the  previous  year,  it  was  not 
then  deemed  necessary  to  be  more  explicit  "upon  a  point  well  under- 
stood in  grand  lodge;  and  as  it  has  implicit  confidence  in  its  grand 
masters,  and  has  alwaj^s  shown  itself  capable  of  managing  its  own 
business  affairs,  it  was  not  deemed  necessary  to  enter  into  any  further 
details;  suffice  it  to  say  that  the  recognitions  so  referred  to  the  M.W. 
grand  master  have  not  even  vet  been  extended. 

One  would  infer  from  this  that  the  record  of  the  preceding  year 
would  show  that  requests  from  the  Grand  Lodges  of  Denmark,  Hun- 
gary, and  Sweden,  and  the  Grand  Orient  of  the  Netherlands  (whose 
recognition  we  said  had  been  proposed  "unasked"),  but  that  these  re- 
quests were  possibly  unofficial,  and  that  notwithstanding  their  un- 
official character  they  had  become  the  subject  of  resolutions  in  the 
grand  lodge. 

We  feel  quite  confident  that  we  did  not  find  anything  of  the  kind 
in  the  record  of  1891,  because  we  did  not  mention  it.  We  find  that 
we  did  say  this  of  that  record  in  1892; 

At  the  instance  of  some  of  the  Toledo  brethren  of  German  nation- 
ality, he  (Grand  Master  Goodale)  had  endeavored  to  open  up  corre- 
spondence with  the  grand  lodges  at  Berlin,  but  without  success.  In 
reporting  on  this  portion  of  his  address  the  committee  on  correspond- 
ence give  an  incomplete  list  of  the  grand  bodies  in  the  German  Em- 
pire— and  as  they  were  in  possession  of  no  printed  proceedings  from 
any  of  them,  recommended  that  the  further  consideration  of  the  sub- 
ject be  postponed.     The  grand  lodge  concurred. 

We  think  this  was  the  only  action  had  by  the  grand  lodge  on  the 
subject  of  the  recognition  of  foreign  grand  bodies.  If  we  are  mistaken 
in  this,  or  if  what  we  said  did  not  fairly  reflect  what  was  done,  Brother 
Cunningham  will  kindly  correct  us.  If  it  did  fairly  reflect  the  action 
had— and  the  scope  of  it — no  additional  comment  upon  the  remarks 
last  quoted  from  him  would  seem  to  be  necessary. 


248  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 


OKLAHOMA,  1897. 

5th  Annual.  Norman.  February  9. 

Grand  Master  Henry  Rucker,  a  half-tone  portrait  of  whom 
makes  the  frontispiece  of  the  pamphlet,  had  no  deaths  of  members 
of  the  grand  lodge  to  report.  He  makes  a  part  of  his  address  the  cor- 
respondence between  the  grand  master  of  Texas  and  himself — initi- 
ated by  the  former — relative  to  the  status  of  two  lodges  situated  in 
Greer  county,  which  territory  Texas  had,  until  a  recent  decision  of 
the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States,  claimed  as  a  part  of  her 
own,  and  there  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Texas  had  planted  the  two  lodges 
above  referred  to.  Grand  Master  Abernethy  had  no  official  knowl- 
edge of  the  existence  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Oklahoma,  the  fact  of 
its  organization  not  having  been  yet  reported  to  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
Texas;  but  wisely  concluding  that  it  was  desirable  to  have  the  future 
of  the  two  lodges  settled  before  any  clash  should  arise — Congress  hav- 
ing supplemented  the  decision  of  the  supreme  court  by  an  act  attach- 
ing Greer  county  to  the  territory  of  Oklahoma — at  once  expressed 
the  opinion  to  Grand  Master  Rucker  that  the  lodges  would  neces- 
sarily fall  under  the  jurisdiction  of  the  latter  grand  lodge,  but  sug- 
gested that  to  i^revent  any  complications  that  Oklahoma  refrain  from 
exercising  any  jurisdiction  in  the  county  until  the  meeting  of  the  two 
grand  lodges,  he  meanwhile  promising  to  establish  no  new  lodges 
there.  The  Grand  Lodge  of  Texas  met  in  the  December  following 
and  the  annual  of  Oklahoma  occurred  in  the  succeeding  February. 
At  the  former  Past  Grand  Master  J.  H.  McLeary  made  the  follow- 
ing report,  which  reflects  the  subsequent  steps  taken  by  the  two 
grand  masters: 

Whereas,  The  Grand  Lodge  of  Oklahoma,  A.F.  &  A.M.,  was  duly 
organized  with  the  consent  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  the  Indian  Terri- 
tory, on  the  10th  day  of  November,  1892.  and  strictly  in  accordance 
with  the  American  rule  and  Masonic  custom,  therefore  be  it 

Besolved,  That  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Texas  hereby  recognizes  the 
said  Grand  Lodge  of  Oklahoma,  and  extends  to  her  our  fraternal 
greetings. 

As  your  committee,  appointed  to  consult  with  Bro.  C.  M.  Barnes, 
who  is  in  attendance  on  this  grand  lodge  as  the  representative  of  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  Oklahoma,  in  regard  to  the  jurisdiction  over  Mangum 
Lodge  No.  085  and  Altus  Lodge  No.  711,  said  lodges  being  located  in 
Greer  county,  Oklahoma,  and  to  whom  was  referred  that  part  of  the 
M.W.  grand  master's  address  to  the  grand  lodge  in  relation  to  this 
matter,  I  have  the  honor  to  report: 

That  Greer  county,  until  recently,  formed  a  part  of  the  state  of 
Texas,  and  said  lodges  were  rightfully  and  duly  chartered  by  this 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  249 


grand  lodge.  Now,  however,  by  a  decision  of  the  Supreme  Court  of 
the  United  States,  said  county  has  been  held  to  be  no  part  of  the  state 
of  Texas,  and  by  act  of  congress  the  same  has  been  attached  to  and 
made  a  part  of  the  territory  of  Oklahoma,  and  all  civil  and  political 
relations  with  this  state  have  been  abrogated  and  have  ceased. 

It  is  manifest,  therefore,  that,  following  the  American  rule  and 
Masonic  custom,  that  these  lodfjes  should  of  right  be  transferred  to 
the  grand  jurisdiction  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Oklahoma  Territory, 
and  the  adoption  of  the  following  resolution  is  recommended,  towit: 

liesolved,  first,  That  Greer  county,  having  become  a  part  of  the 
geographical  and  political  subdivision  of  our  country  known  as  Okla- 
homa Territory,  the  Grand  Lodye  of  Texas  hereby  waives  and  yields 
jurisdiction  over  the  said  Mangum  Lodge  No.  685  and  Altus  Lodge  No. 
711,  located  in  said  county,  to  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Oklahoma,  to  take 
effect  and  be  in  force  from  the  first  day  of  the  next  annual  communi- 
cation of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Oklahoma. 

Resolved,  second,  That  said  lodges  shall  continue  to  work  under  their 
present  charters  with  all  the  rights  and  j)owers  granted  by  said  char- 
ters from  this  grand  lodge  until  the  next  annual  communication  of 
the  Grand  Lodge  of  Oklahoma,  and  until  said  grand  lodge  shall  as- 
sume jurisdiction  and  issue  new  charters  to  said  lodges,  then  the  char- 
ters under  which  said  lodges  are  now  working  shall  be  surrendered  to 
this  grand  lodge,  and  the  authority  conferred  thereby  shall  cease. 

This  was  adopted  by  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Texas;  the  grand  secre- 
tary of  Oklahoma  invited  the  two  lodges  to  be  present  by  their  repre- 
sentatives at  the  annual  communication  of  the  grand  lodge — the 
session  now  under  review — and  there  a  special  reported  the  following, 
which  was  adopted: 

We,  your  committee,  to  whom  was  referred  so  much  of  the  grand 
master's  address  as  relates  to  the  lodges  in  Greer  county,  for  recom- 
mendation as  to  what  further  action  should  be  taken  to  transfer  said 
lodges  from  the  jurisdiction  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Texas  to  the  juris- 
diction of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Oklahoma,  beg  leave  to  report  that  we 
have  considered  the  matter  submitted  to  us  and  would  recommend 
that  the  joint  action  of  the  grand  master  and  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
Texas  and  the  grand  master  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Oklahoma  in  re- 
lation to  this  matter  be  commended  and  approved;  that  charters  be 
granted  to  said  lodges  under  the  name  and  designation  of  Mangum 
Lodge  No.  29  and  Altus  Lodge  No.  30,  and  that  the  brethren  repre- 
senting these  lodges  in  this  communication  of  the  grand  lodge  be  ad- 
mitted and  recognized  as  regular  delegates  from  their  several  lodges. 
We  further  recommend  that  all  past  masters  who  are  members  of  said 
lodges  be  declared  permanent  members  of  this  grand  lodge. 

The  journal  of  the  proceedings  tells  the  rest: 

The  grand  secretary  submitted  and  read  the  charters  prepared 
for  the  lodges  in  Greer  county,  and  on  motion  of  Brother  Fisher  they 
were  approved  and  issued. 

The  grand  master  then  directed  the  grand  senior  deacon  to  con- 
duct Bros.  J.  F.  Mathews,  secretary  and  representative  of  Mangum 
Lodge  No.  29,  and  L.  B.  Toney,  W.M.  and  representative  of  Altus 
Lodge  No.  30,  to  the  altar,  when,  calling  up  the  grand  lodge,  he  in  a 


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250  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 


few  earnest  and  well  chosen  words,  presented  each  with  the  charter 
of  his  lodg'e  and  welcomed  their  lodges  into  the  sisterhood  of  lodges  in 
this  jurisdiction,  and  themselves  as  fully  accredited  deleges  to  a  seat 
and  vote  in  this  session  of  the  grand  lodge. 

This  almost  perfect  example  of  how  things  should  be  managed  is 
in  sharp  contrast  with  the  ill-grace  with  which  in  some  instances  in 
this  country  the  inevitab_e  has  been  reluctantly  recognized.  The 
timely  wisdom  of  Grand  Master  Abernethy  and  the  good  sense  and 
Masonic  spirit  of  all  the  parties  concerned  is  abundantly  demon- 
strated. 

We  have  spoken  of  this  as  an  almost  perfect  example.  This  qual- 
ification refers  only  to  a  single  matter  of  detail;  we  think  it  would 
have  been  ideally  perfect  if  the  lodges  had  been  permitted  to  retain 
their  Texas  charters  after  being  properly  indorsed  by  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Oklahoma. 

From  the  grand  master's  decisions  we  take  the  following: 

4.  Kingfisher  No.  8  asked  if  it  could  open  on  Sunday  to  assist  D.G.M. 
in  laying  corner  stone  of  Baptist  church. 

Yes. 

6.  Alva  No.  25  asked:  Is  one  who  is  named  as  a  partner  in  a  cold 
storage  depot  and  wholesale  dealer  in  malt  liquors  disqualified  for  re- 
ceiving the  degrees  in  Masonry? 

No. 

8.  Kingfisher  No.  8;  answer:  The  vocation  of  a  brother  in  no  case 
exempts  him  from  the  payment  of  his  dues.  In  this  jurisdiction  a  min- 
ister of  the  gospel  is  on  the  same  footing  as  a  brother  in  any  other 
vocation. 

9.  Remus  No.  26  asked:  Can  a  brother,  a  non-affiliate  against 
whom  charges  are  preferred,  insist  on  having  witnesses  sworn  by 
officer  qualified  to  administer  oaths?    Has  he  the  right  to  exact  it  of 

M.M"s.? 

Yes. 

13.  Shawnee  No.  27:  A  dimitted  brother  who  lives  just  over  the 
line  in  the  Seminole  country  desires  to  make  application  for  member- 
ship in  our  lodge.  Residing  outside  our  grand  jurisdiction,  can  we 
entertain  the  petition? 

A  dimitted  brother  can  apply  to  any  lodge  of  his  choice  anywhere 
in  the  world  for  membership.  You  can  entertain  the  petitiou  of  such 
a  brother. 

The  grand  lodge  sustained  the  committee  on  law  and  usage  in 
disapproving  No.  4,  on  the  ground — as  we  infer  from  the  following 
recommendation  of  the  grand  master— that  the  constitution  forbids: 

I  recommend  that  section  30  of  the  constitution  be  so  amended  as 
to  permit  subordinate  lodges  to  be  opened  on  Sunday  for  the  purpose 
of  laying  corner  stones.     Said  section  as  it  now  reads  is  intended  to 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  251 


prevent  any  profanation  of  the  Sabbath.  If  a  society  of  people  who 
worship  God  and  believe  in  the  observance  of  the  Sabbath,  deem  it 
not  a  profanation  of  that  day  to  la}'  the  corner-stone  of  a  church 
building"  erected  for  and  dedicated  to  the  worship  of  the  Great  I  Am, 
then  surely  it  would  be  no  profanation  for  a  Masonic  Lodge  to  assist 
therein. 

The  committee  also  disapproved  No.  fi,  but  their  report  was  non- 
concurred  in  and  the  decision  sustained.  No.  8  was  approved,  but  the 
committee  disapproved  of  the  grand  master's  ruling  in  the  special 
case  which  led  to  the  statement  of  the  principle.  This  was  an  ap- 
peal from  the  ruling  of  a  master  in  the  chair: 

The  appeal  shows  that  Bro.  Washington  Savage  was  duly  sus- 
pended for  non-payment  of  dues  at  a  regular  meeting  of  the  lodge. 

The  appeal  also  shows  that  Brother  Savage  is  a  minister  of  the 
gospel. 

A  motion  was  made  to  re-instate  Brother  Savage  by  remitting  his 
dues,  which  motion  the  W.M.  refused  to  entertain  by  declaring  the 
same  out  of  order. 

From  said  ruling  Bros.  David  Belt  and  J.  J.  Raymaker  appeal,  and 
ask  the  grand  master  to  rule  upon  said  motion  for  the  reasons  taken 
at  the  time,  that  we  claim  that  as  provided  by  the  by-laws  that  if  a 
brother  is  suspended  for  non-payment  of  dues,  by  a  vote  of  said  lodge, 
that  said  lodge  has  a  perfect  right  to  remit  said  dues  and  re-instate 
the  brother,  as  it  is  customary  in  most  lodges  and  jurisdictions  of  the 
United  States  to  remit  the  dues  of  ministers  of  the  gospel. 

The  grand  master  judged  from  the  above  statement  of  the  grounds 
of  appeal  and  from  the  absence  of  evidence  that  the  brother  had 
asked  for  remission  of  dues,  or  for  further  time,  or  of  intimation 
from  any  source  of  his  inability  to  pay,  that  the  master  properly  re- 
garded the  motion  to  be  based  upon  the  view  that  remission  was  his 
right  because  he  was  a  minister  of  the  gospel,  and  was  therefore 
right  in  refusing  to  entertain  it,  the  law  of  Oklahoma  making  no  dis- 
tinction on  account  of  vocation.  The  grand  lodge  took  the  same  view 
and  sustained  the  grand  master. 

No.  9  was  approved,  not  because  it  was  essentially  right,  but  be- 
cause it  was  in  accord  with  their  law,  which,  on  the  recommendation 
of  the  committee,  was  amended  as  follows,  thus  bringing  it  into  har- 
mony with  prevailing  usage; 

All  testimony  of  Masons  shall  be  taken  upon  their  honor,  but  pro- 
fanes shall  be  sworn  by  some  officer  qualified  to  administer  oaths,  and 
such  testimony  as  cannot  be  taken  before  the  lodge  shall  be  taken 
before  a  committee  of  three  members  of  the  lodge,  appointed  by  the 
master  for  that  purpose,  and  who  shall  give  the  prosecution  and  de- 
fense previous  notice  of  the  time,  place,  and  purpose  thereof. 

No.  13  was,  we  are  glad  to  note,  approved  without  question. 


252  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 


The  Wisconsin  proposition  respecting  Masonic  relief  went,  on  the 
recommendation  of  the  committee  on  relief,  to  the  committee  on  law 
and  usage  for  report  next  year. 

Three  lodges  under  dispensation  received  charters;  one  lodge  was 
chartered  outright  (the  usual  fee  for  both  dispensation  and  charter 
being  charged),  proper  showing  of  their  proficiencj-  in  the  work  hav- 
ing been  previoush'  made  before  the  grand  master:  and  the  following 
was  adopted: 

We,  3'our  committee  to  whom  was  referred  that  portion  of  the 
grand  secretarj^'s  report  relating  to  new  charters,  ordered  issued  at 
last  session  of  grand  lodge,  beg  leave  to  report  that  they  have  con- 
sidered the  matter  referred  to  them  and  would  recommend  that  this 
grand  lodge  adopt  the  form  of  the  Illinois  charter  for  all  future  is- 
sues, and  that  new  charters  under  this  form  be  issued  to  all  of  the  sub- 
ordinate lodges  now  chartered  in  this  jurisdiction. 

We  further  recommend  that  the  ten  lodges  of  this  jurisdiction, 
chartered  by  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Indian  Territory,  be  permitted  to 
retain  their  charters  issued  by  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Indian  Territory 
and  new  ones  be  issued  in  lieu  thereof. 

Albert  W.  Fisher,  of  Norman,  was  elected  grand  master;  James 
S.  Hunt,  Stillwater,  re-elected  grand  secretar}-. 

El  Reno  was  selected  as  the  place  of  next  meeting. 

There  is  no  report  on  correspondence. 

After  closing  the  grand  lodge  was  entertained  by  the  Commercial 
Club  of  Norman  at  a  banquet  which  included  a  musical  program  and 
addresses. 


OREGON,  1897. 

47th  Annual.  Portland.  June  16. 

Portraits  of  the  retiring  grand  master,  Phil  Metschan,  and  of 
Past  Grand  Masters  Morton  D.  Clifford,  Philip  S.  Malcolm,  and 
Julius  C.  Moreland,  show  the  peculiar  excellence  of  phototypes 
executed  on  the  Pacific  slope. 

Eleven  past  grand  masters  were  present,  among  them  W.  T. 
Wright,  the  representative  of  Illinois. 

Grand  Master  Metschan  announced  the  death  of  Past  Grand 
Master  Joseph  Norton  Dolph,  in  his  sixty-second  year.  He  repre- 
sented Oregon  for  two  full  terms  in  the  United  States  senate.     Also 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  253 

tbe  death  of  Cicero  H.  Lewis,  past  deputy  grand  master,  in  his 
seventy-first  year,  for  many  years  a  strong  factor  in  the  mercantile 
life  of  Portland.  He  was  elected  grand  master  in  1867,  but  declined 
to  serve. 

From  the  twenty  generally  well  considered  decisions  of  the  grand 
master,  we  select  the  following: 

2.  Can  objection  to  initiation,  after  election,  be  made  by  mail? 
Objection  by  mail  has  the  same  effect  as  if  made  otherwise. 

6.  Can  a  subordinate  lodge  in  this  jurisdiction  receive  and  act  upon 
a  petition  from  a  non-affiliate  who  does  not  reside  within  the  geographi- 
cal jurisdiction  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Oregon? 

No. 

12.  The  consent  of  a  lodge  having  concurrent  jurisdiction  is  neces- 
sary in  the  case  of  a  petition  for  the  degrees  to  another  lodge,  when 
the  petitioner's  residence  is  an  equal  distance  from  both  lodges. 

14.  A  non-affiliated  Mason,  whose  petition  for  membership  has  been 
rejected  by  some  lodge,  has  the  right  to  petition  any  other  lodge  in 
this  jurisdiction,  six  months  thereafter,  without  obtaining  the  consent 
of  the  lodge  which  rejected  him.  A  rejection  for  membership  does 
not  deprive  a  brother  of  his  rights  and  privileges  as  a  Mason  until, 
after  due  trial  and  conviction,  he  is  debarred  therefrom. 

n.  If  a  lodge  elects  a  brother  to  an  office  who  is  in  arrears  for  dues 
for  one  year,  and  duly  installs  him  without  a  protest,  his  tenure  in  such 
office  can  not  be  disturbed  or  questioned. 

A  visitor,  against  whose  admission  no  objection  has  been  raised, 
has  a  right  to  ballot  upon  the  petition  of  any  person  for  the  degrees 
in  Masonry,  in  any  lodge  in  this  jurisdiction,  providing  such  visitor  is 
a  member  in  good  standing  in  some  lodge  in  this  jurisdiction.  An  ob- 
jection to  his  ballot  can  not  be  maintained. 

To  No.  2  the  jurisprudence  committee  added:  "Provided  the 
brother  making  the  objection  and  the  party  objected  to  are  properly 
identified.''  No.  6  was  approved.  This  being  so,  can  an  Oregon  Lodge 
retain  as  a  member  one  who  has  moved  out  of  that  jurisdiction?  We 
can  only  guess  that  No.  12  means  that  when  two  lodges  have  concur- 
rent jurisdiction  over  a  petitioner  because  he  resides  at  an  equal 
distance  from  both,  neither  lodge  can  receive  his  petition  without 
the  consent  of  the  other. 

The  jurisprudence  committee  properly  struck  out  the  words  "six 
months  thereafter"'  from  No.  14.  No.  17  was  approved.  Could  it  not 
be  disturbed  by  striking  from  the  roll — which  the  Oregon  law  per- 
mits— for  non-payment  of  dues?  In  other  words,  does  his  installation 
bar  proceedings  for  non-payment  of  dues  during  the  official  term? 

The  following  explains  itself,  so  far  as  the  facts  are  concerned: 

Your  committee  on  law  and  jurisprudence,  having  had  the  peti- 
tion of  Bro.  S.  A.  Smith,  of  Halsey  Lodge  No.  61,  under  consideration 


254  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 


and  having-  examined  the  same  and  heard  the  statement  of  Brother 
Francis,  W.M.,  of  said  lodge,  would  respectfully  report: 

That  said  worshipful  master,  without  trial  or  charges,  made  an 
order  suspending  Brother  Smith  on  account  of  some  alleged  infraction 
of  Masonic  duty. 

This  your  committee  deem  beyond  the  power  of  the  master.     If  an 
offense  is  committed,  charges  should  be  preferred  and  trial  had. 

Your  committee  therefore  recommend  that  said  action  be  set 
aside,  and  that  Brother  Smith  be  restored  to  his  former  standing  in 
said  lodge. 

The  characterization  of  the  master's  extraordinary  break  in  this 
case  b}'  the  committee  is  exceedingly  mild.  We  do  not  think  it  hyper- 
critical to  suggest  that  the  committee  should  have  declared  that  the 
standing  of  Brother  Smith  had  never  been  impaired  by  the  unwar- 
ranted proceeding  which  temporarily  deprived  him  of  the  privileges 
incident  thereto. 

The  grand  lodge  had  two  orations,  one  by  the  regular  grand  ora- 
tor, Bro.  W.  E.  Carll,  and  an  extra  by  Bro.  the  Rev.  Jacob  Voor- 
SANGER,  past  grand  orator  and  past  grand  chaplain  of  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  California,  whose  accidental  presence  in  the  city  led  to  his 
being  invited  and  welcomed  to  the  grand  lodge,  to  which  welcome  he 
responded  with  address  upon  the  aims  and  duties  of  Masonry. 

Another  notable  visitor  was  Bro.  J.  C.  Bell,,  who  was  present  at 
the  Grand  Lodge  of  Missouri  in  1847,  when  the  dispensation  was  granted 
to  open  the  first  lodge  on  the  Pacific  coast — Multnomah  Lodge  No.  1 — 
at  Oregon  City,  in  the  then  territory  of  Oregon,  and  who  was  received 
with  the  usual  honors. 

In  reporting  a  case  wherein  a  California  lodge  presented  a  large 
claim  against  an  Oregon  lodge  for  aid  extended  to  a  member  of  the 
latter,  and  in  which  he  recommended  that  the  grand  lodge  assume 
the  burden,  the  grand  master  took  occasion  to  indorse  the  Wisconsin 
overture  respecting  Masonic  relief  and  to  recommend  its  adoption. 
The  subject  went  to  a  special  committee  to  report  next  year. 

The  following  was  adopted: 

Whereas.  The  first  three  degrees  of  Masonry  are  the  foundation 
on  which  all  Masonry  rests;  and 

Whereas,  The  Royal  Arch,  Knights  Templar,  and  Scottish  Rite 
bodies  have  regulations  which  prescribe  penalties  to  be  inflicted  upon 
members  who  are  suspended  or  expelled  by  their  lodges;  and 

Whereas,  It  is  impossible  for  the  Royal  Arch,  Knights  Templar' 
and  Scottish  Rite  bodies  to  discipline  members  unless  they  have  offi" 
cial  notice  of  the  action  of  the  lodge; 

Be  it  resolved,  That  the  grand  secretar}^  notify  the  grand  high  priest, 
the  grand  commander  of  K.T.,  and  the  active  inspector-general  of  the 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  255 


A.  &  A.  Scottish  Rite  for  the  southern  jurisdiction  of  all  suspensions 
and  expulsions. 

We  confess  that  we  do  not  appreciate  the  dignity  or  the  propriety 
or  the  equity  of  making'  special  provision  whereby  a  portion  of  the 
membership  of  a  lodge  shall  be  put  in  possession  of  information  which 
another  portion  can  only  obtain  by  attending  its  meetings. 

We  find  nothing  in  the  record  of  proceedings  to  throw  any  addi- 
tional light  upon  the  obscurity  of  the  following,  from  the  grand  mas- 
ter's address: 

It  has  come  to  my  knowledge  that  certain  persons  have  organized 
lodges  in  our  jurisdiction,  claiming  that  they  are  legitimate  lodges 
of  the  A.  F.  &  A.  Masons,  and  that  members  of  their  organizations 
were  recognized  as  Masons  by  the  fraternity  of  this  state,  I  desire 
to  call  the  attention  of  all  concerned  to  the  fact  that  no  lodge  of  Ma- 
sons, in  this  jurisdiction,  is  legitimate,  or  can  be  recognized,  except 
it  holds  its  warrant  of  authority  from  this  grand  lodge,  and  that  all 
persons  claiming  to  have  received  the  degrees  in  any  of  said  so-called 
Masonic  lodges,  or  being  members  of  the  same,  are  clandestine  and 
can  not  be  admitted  to,  or  be  recognized  by,  any  lodge  under  our  juris- 
diction. 

The  subject  is  still  in  the  hands  of  the  jurisprudence  committee. 

The  committee  on  charters  and  dispensations  found  themselves 
without  business. 

W.  H.  HoBSON,  of  Salem,  was  elected  grand  master;  James  F. 
Robinson,  Eugene,  reelected  grand  secretary. 

The  report  on  correspondence  (170  pp.)  is  again  from  the  facile 
and  able  pen  of  Past  Grand  Master  Robert  Clow,  who  gives  nearly 
five  pages  to  the  Illinois  proceedings  for  1896. 

Referring  to  the  report  of  our  jurisprudence  committee  on  the 
subject  of  life  membership,  he  observes: 

It  will  be  seen  that  the  committee  are  in  full  accord  with  the  rul- 
ing of  our  Grand  Master  Malcolm  on  this  question,  and  are  careful  to 
recommend  that  existing  relations  between  lodges  and  brethren,  whom 
they  have  made  life  members  by  the  methods  heretofore  in  force, 
should  not  be  disturbed. 

The  oration  of  Brother  Stevenson  is  commended  as  an  address 
of  great  merit,  and  further  complimented  by  being  quoted  at  some 
length.  Of  matters  discussed  in  the  introduction  to  our  report,  he 
says: 

With  his  views  concerning  jurisdiction  over  rejected  candidates, 
the  status  given  rejected  material  under  the  properly  administered 
law  of  a  grand  lodge,  recognized  as  the  legitimate  and  competent  law- 
giver within  its  own  territory,  we  are  in  full  accord;  so  also  as  to  the 
"authorized  printing  of  cipher  rituals  by  grand  lodges." 

We  are  not  now  prepared  to  discuss  the  question  of  recognizing 
the  Gran  Dieta  of  Mexico,  but  if  time  and  space  permit  we  may  have 


256  APPENDIX. — PART    I'. 


something  to  say  on  that  score  before  closing  this  report,  as  we  under- 
stand our  grand  secretary  has  been  furnished  with  a  formal  applica- 
tion for  recognition  of  that  body.  However,  we  might  add  here  that 
with  our  present  light  upon  that  subject  (and  say  it  with  due  defer- 
ence to  the  opinions  of  the  eminent  brethren  of  the  Guild  who  have 
expressed  themselves  as  in  favor  of  its  recognition)  we  are  not  yet 
prepared  to  recommend  the  recognition  of  the  Gran  Dieta  Symbolica. 

He  quotes  our  remarks  in  opposition  to  the  barring  from  advance- 
ment candidates  maimed  after  initiation,  but  sees  in  them — to  our 
regret — nothing  to  change  his  adverse  view.  In  his  concluding  sur- 
vey of  the  field,  he  says: 

No  new  questions  have  come  to  the  front,  and  the  discussions  have 
been  in  the  main  along  the  lines  of  former  years.  The  grand  repre- 
sentative question  has  been  practically  settled  in  favor  of  the  system 
by  a  large  majority  of  the  grand  lodges  with  which  we  are  in  cor- 
respondence. 

On  the  subject  of  jurisdiction  over  rejected  candidates,  a  specific 
proposition  has  been  submitted  by  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Maine,  which 
limits  personal  jurisdiction  to  five  years.  The  proposition  has  been 
received  with  more  favor  than  the  rules  proposed  by  the  Grand  Lodge 
of  Mississippi,  and  there  appears  to  be  a  better  understanding  among 
the  grand  lodges  on  the  subject,  and  the  discussion,  with  an  exception 
here  and  there,  has  been  more  conciliatory  and  there  seems  to  be  a 
desire  to  settle  the  question  on  the  basis  of  the  Maine  proposition  or 
some  other  that  will  be  satisfactory  to  all. 

The  modified  plan  of  relief  to  needy  and  distressed  brethren  sent 
out  by  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Wisconsin  seems  to  have  fared  no  better 
than  the  first  in  that  it  has  been  pretty  generally  rejected,  though  a 
deeper  interest  on  the  subject  is  manifest. 

The  recognition  of  the  Gran  Dieta  Symbolica  of  Mexico,  and  in- 
cidentally Mexican  Masonry,  is  the  all-absorbing  topic,  and  overshad- 
ows all  other  public  questions.  The  Mexicans  are  not  at  one  on  the 
question.  This  being  the  case,  it  seems  to  us  the  better  plan  will  be 
to  await  developments.  The  following  grand  lodges  have  recognized 
the  Gran  Dieta,  viz:  California,  Kansas,  Montana,  New  Hampshire, 
New  York,  North  Dakota,  and  Texas. 

Iowa  should  be  added  to  the  list  of  recognizing  grand  lodges,  and 
California  and  New  Hampshire  should  be  taken  therefrom;  their  in- 
clusion in  the  list  is  at  least  premature.  As  indicating  his  views  upon 
the  underlying  question  chiefly  concerned  in  the  matter  of  recogniz- 
ing the  Mexican  body,  we  note  that  he  recommends  the  report  of  the 
New  York  committee  on  jurisprudence  on  Chili  and  San  Domingo  as 
an  impartial  statement  of  the  rights  and  privileges  of  Masons  every- 
where, and  says  that  the  prominence  of  the  seven  past  grand  masters 
who  compose  the  committee  will  render  their  report  of  more  than 
ordinary  importance.  With  the  last  proposition  we  agree;  we  have 
elsewhere  sufficiently  indicated  our  dissent  from  the  first. 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  257 

PENNSYLVANIA,  1896.  ' 

111th  Annual.  Philadelphia.  December  28. 

The  Pennsylvania  volume  is  this  year  embellished  with  steel  en- 
graved portraits  of  Past  Grand  Masters  John  K.  Mitchell,  M.D., 
and  Henry  M.  Phillips. 

The  volume  opens  with  the  minutes  of  an  "emergency"  communi- 
cation held  January  30,  1896,  for  the  exercise  of  the  grand  master's 
prerogative  of  making  a  Mason  at  sight.  In  point  of  speed  Grand 
Master  Henderson  maintained  his  record  of  the  previous  year.  The 
time  occupied  in  opening,  conferring  the  three  degrees,  and  closing 
was  the  same — 2:10. 

At  the  quarterly  communication  of  March  4,  1896,  Grand  Master 
Joseph  L.  Cahall,  of  Delaware,  was  a  visitor  and  addressed  the 
grand  lodge.  A  novel  souvenir  of  the  lamented  past  grand  master, 
Richard  Vaux,  a  handsomely  executed  engraving  on  slate,  was  pre- 
sented on  behalf  of  Past  Master  Joseph  Welch,  and  given  a  place 
among  the  art  treasures  of  the  temple. 

At  the  quarterly  of  June  3,  the  grand  master  (Matthias  H.  Hen- 
derson) announced  the  death  of  grand  secretary.  Past  Grand  Master 
Michael  Nisbet.  He  was  in  his  sixty-seventh  year.  Born  in  Phila- 
delphia, he  was  of  a  Scotch  family  whose  records  are  traceable  in  the 
churches  of  Scotland  back  to  1092.  He  was  a  member  of  the  grand 
lodge  forty-two  years;  was  elected  grand  master  in  1879,  and  grand 
secretary  in  1880,  remaining  in  that  office  until  his  death.  The  grand 
master  appointed  the  grand  tiler,  William  A.  Sinn,  grand  secretary 
ad  interim'. 

At  the  September  quarterly  the  deputy  grand  master  (William 
J.  Kelly)  presented  an  appreciative  and  adequate  memorial  of 
Brother  Nisbet,  and  eloquent  tribute  was  paid  to  his  memory  and 
character  in  volunteer  eulogies. 

At  the  quarterly  of  December  2,  William  J.  Kelly  was  elected 
grand  master;  William  A.  Sinn,  grand  secretary,  both  of  Philadel- 
phia.    The  postoffice  address  of  both  is  Masonic  Temple. 

The  report  of  the  trustees  of  the  Girard  bequest  of  $30,000  shows 
that  the  fund  has  increased  to  over  $o3,000.  The  report  of  the  trustees 
of  the  grand  lodge  cnarity  fund  shows  its  securities  deposited  to  the 
amount  of  $74,000. 

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258  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


The  committee  on  library  reported  Volume  II  of  the  reprint  of 
the  minutes,  covering  the  period  from  1801  to  1810  as  having  been 
issued  in  October,  1896,  and  the  probable  issue  of  the  next  volume 
early  in  the  present  year.  The  price  of  the  book  is  low — $1  for  a 
five-hundred-page  book. 

At  the  annual  communication  the  following  was  submitted  by 
Past  Grand  Master  Michael  Arnold,  chairman: 

The  committee  on  correspondence,  by  its  chairman,  reports  that 
it  has  not  been  able  to  prepare  the  usual  review  of  the  proceedings 
of  the  various  grand  lodges  with  which  we  are  in  fraternal  corre- 
spondence, and  therefore  the  brethren  will  be  deprived  of  the  informa- 
tion and  pleasure  which  such  review  affords. 

There  are  several  questions  relating  to  grand  lodges  which  have 
not  yet  been  recognized,  pending  before  the  committee,  which  will 
receive  careful  consideration  and  disposition  in  due  time.  The  ques- 
tion of  recognizing  the  German  grand  lodges  is  before  a  special  com- 
mittee, which  will  report  during  the  coming  year. 

The  chairman  of  the  committee  reports  that  he  made  a  visit  to 
the  Most  Worshipful  Grand  Lodge  of  England  at  its  communication 
held  on  September  2,  1896,  and  was  received  and  treated  with  the  re- 
spect which  that  grand  lodge  always  shows  to  duly  accredited  visit- 
ing brethren.  While  there  he  was  informed  by  the  right  worshipful 
grand  secretary  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  England,  Bro.  Edward  Letch- 
worth,  that  the  most  worshipful  grand  master  of  England  has  discon- 
tinued the  practice  of  appointing  grand  representatives,  following 
the  example  set  by  the  Right  Worshipful  Grand  Lodge  of  Pennsyl- 
vania. 

In  his  annual  address,  Grand  Master  Henderson  thus  treats  of  a 
subject  which  has  also  caused  much  thought  outside  of  his  grand  juris- 
diction: 

A  subject  which  has  caused  me  much  thought  is  the  following: 
A  candidate  is  initiated  with  some  informality  on  the  part  of  the 
lodge.  The  grand  master  issues  his  edict  striking  him  from  the  roll 
of  members  for  an  error  which  was  not  his,  while  those  who  were  re- 
sponsible for  it  escape  without  even  a  reprimand.  The  innocent  suffer 
and  the  guiltj-  go  unpunished.  While  I  have  known  for  years  that 
this  was  the  case,  it  has  never  come  home  to  me  with  such  force  as 
since  I  have  been  grand  master  and  have  myself  issued  the  edicts 
which  blighted  the  aspirations  of  some  brother,  who,  after  intrust- 
ing himself  to  others,  finds  that  he  must  bear  the  consequences  of 
their  misdeeds,  and  be,  like  Mahomet's  coffin,  suspended  between 
heaven  and  earth,  neither  a  Mason  nor  a  profane.  The  edict  must 
issue,  because  what  the  candidate  has  received  unlawfully  he  has  no 
right  to  enjoy,  and  I  do  not  agree  with  the  Masonic  jurists  who  main- 
tain that  those  who  receive  the  degrees,  even  though  it  be  done  in  an 
irregular  manner,  are  nevertheless  Masons,  and  should  be  recognized 
as  such.  I  am  firmly  of  the  opinion  that  the  quickest  way  to  cure 
this  evil  is  to  inflict  punishment  where  it  is  deserved,  and  when  it  can 
be  clearly  shown  that  the  unlawful  initiation  was  not  the  result  of 
any  statements  of  the  applicant,  and  was  the  fault  of  the  lodge,  that 
with  the  edict  disfranchising  the  applicant  should  go  another  remov- 
ing the  worshipful  master  or  secretary,  or  both,  from  office.     In  the 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  259 

case  of  the  worshipful  master  this  would  be  particularly  severe,  as  it 
would  deprive  him  of  membership  in  the  grand  lodge. 

By  what  authority  this  punishment  is  to  be  inflicted  I  am  not  at 
present  prepared  to  say.  Whether  it  should  be  by  an  amendment  to 
the  Ahiman  Rezon,  or  whether  the  power  rests  in  the  grand  master 
may  be  considered,  but  I  believe  it  is  of  sutRcient  importance  to  en- 
gage the  serious  consideration  of  the  grand  lodge.  These  infractions 
of  our  law  have  occurred  too  often,  and  the  only  way  to  stop  them  is 
to  inflict  a  penalty  on  those  who  are  responsible  for  them.  Grand 
Master  Edward  Coppee  Mitchell  treated  this  subject  in  his  address 
December  27,  1885;  but,  while  he  deplored  the  loose  methods  which 
made  such  edicts  necessar}^,  he  did  not  suggest  any  remedy,  and  noth- 
ing' has  been  done. 

Among  the  decisions  reported  by  him — not  submitted,  for  in  Penn- 
sylvania the  decisions  of  the  grand  master  are  not  subject  to  review 
by  the  grand  lodge — are  the  following: 

I.  The  Ahiman  Rezon,  in  article  XVI,  section  3,  says  the  past 
master's  jewel  is  of  silver.  That  does  not  mean  that  it  may  have 
decorations  of  gold  or  enamel.  Silver  alone  is  permissible,  and  no 
color  should  be  displayed  except  the  natural  color  of  the  metal. 

3.  A  man  who  is  not  able  to  speak  above  a  whisper  and  one  who  is 
cross-eyed  are  not  physically  disqualified  for  initiation.  The  one  is 
not  dumb,  nor  is  the  other  blind. 

4.  The  worshipful  master  can  call  special  meetings  of  his  lodge 
whenever  the  business  requires  it;  on  the  afternoon  and  evening  of 
the  same  day,  if  necessary.  Only  five  brethren,  however,  can  be  made 
(initiated)  on  the  same  day.  I  am  aware  that  the  Ahiman  Rezon  and 
the  language  of  our  ritual  is  "one  and  the  same  session  of  the  lodge," 
but  the  framers  of  these  authorities  did  not  contemplate  more  than 
one  session  on  one  and  the  same  day. 

7.  A  lodge  of  Master  Masons  cannot  hold  a  lodge  of  sorrow.  If  a 
lodge  wishes  to  honor  the  memory  of  its  deceased  members  it  can  do 
so  by  appointing  one  or  more  brethren  to  prepare  memorials  of  them, 
to  be  read  at  a  meeting  of  the  lodge,  in  the  presence  of  Master  Ma- 
sons only. 

II.  It  is  not  a  qualification  for  initiation  that  the  applicant  be 
a  naturalized  citizen. 

15.  In  a  case  where  a  member  of  a  lodge  had  been  convicted  in  the 
civil  courts  of  keeping  a  house  of  ill-fame,  and  was  fined  and  sentenced 
to  imprisonment,  charges  were  brought  against  him  on  the  above  spec- 
ifications, which  were  referred  to  a  committee,  which  reported  him 
not  guilty.  Many  members  of  the  lodge  considered  that  the  evidence 
submitted  by  the  defence  did  not  warrant  the  committee  in  recom- 
mending his  acquittal,  and  the  question  was  asked  me  if  the  lodge 
could  refuse  to  adopt  the  report,  and  could  adopt  a  resolution  declar- 
ing him  guilty,  and  impose  sentence  of  suspension  or  expulsion  with- 
out further  reference  to  a  committee. 

I  decided  that  it  could,  subject,  of  course,  to  his  right  of  appeal. 

I  can  find  no  precedent  for  such  a  decision,  but  if  there  is  none  I 
have  made  one. 


260  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


Among  the  things  which  impressed  him  on  his  tour  of  grand  visi- 
tations was  the  following: 

An  error  that  we  found  quite  prevalent  is  the  habit  of  the  worship- 
ful master  of  appointing  a  brother  from  the  floor  to  fill  the  station  of 
the  senior  warden  when  that  officer  is  absent  and  the  junior  warden  is 
present.  A  moment's  reflection  by  any  one  who  has  witnessed  the 
installation  of  these  officers  will  convince  him  that  this  is  wrong.  The 
junior  warden  at  his  installation  obligates  himself  to  take  the  senior 
warden's  station  when  that  officer  is  absent  from  the  meeting,  or 
when  he  is  fllling  the  station  of  the  worshipful  master,  and  it  is  his 
right  as  well  as  his  duty  to  do  so.  If  the  worshipful  master  should  so 
far  forget  himself  as  to  attempt  to  appoint  a  brother  over  the  junior 
warden,  it  would  be  that  officer's  duty  to  remind  him  of  his  vested 
right  and  to  insist  upon  the  enjoyment  of  it. 

As  we  have  elsewhere  in  this  report  criticised  this  decision  and 
expressed  the  opinion  that  the  matter  was  one  properly  within  the 
control  of  the  master,  it  is  proper  to  say  that  the  data  on  which  we 
based  our  opinion  did  not  include  a  knowledge  of  the  fact  that  in 
Pennsylvania  the  junior  warden  obligates  himself  as  stated  by  the 
grand  master,  a  procedure  we  have  not  encountered  elsewhere. 

He  reports  the  celebration  by  Lafayette  Lodge  No.  71,  at  Phila- 
delphia, of  its  one  hundredth  anniversary.  He  also  reports  the  con- 
stitution of  three  new  lodges. 

The  grand  master  has  the  following  under  the  head  of  "Moon 
Lodges:" 

There  are  one  hundred  and  forty-eight  lodges  in  this  jurisdiction 
that  regulate  their  stated  meetings  by  the  full  moon,  and  it  is  a  not- 
able fact  that  those  which  fell  into  error  last  year  in  the  date  of  hold- 
ing their  elections  were  all  moon  lodges.  I  have  heard  of  thrifty 
housewives  who  would  not  boil  a  kettle  of  soap  unless  the  moon  was 
in  the  proper  quarter,  and  of  honest  yeomen  who  would  not  shingle 
their  barns,  plant  their  crops,  or  cut  their  hair,  unless  the  moon  fa- 
vored the  enterprise.  Even  if  it  does  exercise  a  potent  influence  for 
good  or  evil  in  such  everyday  occurrences,  it  is  no  argument  in  favor 
of  permitting  it  to  regulate  the  meetings  of  a  Masonic  lodge,  in  which 
it  is  often  a  mischief-maker.  In  early  days, when  lodges  were  located 
at  country  cross-roads,  with  a  membership  scattered  for  miles  over  a 
sparsely  settled  district,  I  can  appreciate  the  convenience  and  advan- 
tage moonlight  nights  would  be  to  the  brethren  who  were  obliged  to 
plod  through  ill-kept  rural  byways  to  their  distant  homes.  But  in  this 
nineteenth  century,  the  age  of  street  cars,  and  electric  lights,  which 
shine  every  night  and  make  the  moon  look  pale,  and  when  our  lodges, 
with  few  exceptions,  are  held  in  communities  supplied  with  these  lux- 
uries, with  an  attending  membership  living  within  a  radius  of  a  mile 
from  the  lodge-room,  I  fail  to  see  why  the  moon  should  have  anything 
to  do  with  our  meetings. 

Speaking  in  all  seriousness,  and  with  the  good  of  these  lodges  at 
heart,  I  would  recommend  that  they  amend  their  by-laws,  pay  no 
attention  to  the  moon,  and  regulate  their  meetings  ijy  the  method 
adopted  by  the  great  majority  of  the  lodges.  It  would  save  them  from 
errors  and  consequent  trouble,  and  lessen  the  correspondence  between 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  261 


them  and  the  grand  secretary.  It  is  in  the  power  of  the  committee 
on  by-laws  to  do  much  in  the  way  of  reformation  in  this  matter,  as 
they  act  upon  such  by-laws  as  may  hereafter  be  presented  to  them. 

The  first  thing  that  strikes  one  in  this  is  the  hair-raising  incon- 
gruity of  humor  in  the  grand  east  of  Pennsylvania;  and  the  next  is 
that  it  is  no  joke  to  depend  on  the  moon  when  there  is  a  risk  of  error, 
in  a  jurisdiction  where  lesser  informalities  elicit  edicts  that  cause 
accomplished  facts  to  become  the  things  that  never  were. 

Illinois  has  seen  something  of  electioneering  for  Masonic  office — 
enough  to  lead  to  a  prohibitory  regulation,  but  never  anything  to 
match  the  conditions  reflected  in  the  following: 

In  1890  it  was  decided  that  "It  is  not  permissible  to  open  any  head- 
quarters outside  of  the  Masonic  Temple,  where  brethren  may  partici- 
pate in  a  complimentary  luncheon  immediately  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."  I  fear  that  this  admonition  has  not 
been  as  strictly  observed  in  recent  times  as  it  should  have  been.  Such 
a  method  of  obtaining  favor  in  the  minds  of  electors  savors  more  of 
ward  politics  than  it  does  of  Masonic  elections,  and  appeals  to  their 
grosser  appetites  instead  of  to  their  intelligence.  I  hope  it  will  not 
be  a  cause  for  further  comment. 

The  grand  officers  were  installed  and  the  new  grand  master 
(William  J.  Kelly)  delivered  a  brief  address  in  which  he  thus  refers 
to  a  charity  that  is  not  under  grand  lodge  auspices  and  is  maintained 
by  voluntary  contributions: 

THE   MASONIC  HOME. 

The  great  Masonic  charity,  the  Masonic  Home,  organized  under 
the  auspices  of  a  part  of  the  lodges  and  other  Masonic  bodies,  also 
by  individual  Masons  who  were  willing  to  contribute  of  their  means 
for  so  meritorious  an  object,  is  a  fixed,  worthy,  and  creditable  insti- 
tution, and  I  hope  will  receive  the  best  thoughts  of  our  fraternity.  I 
can  conceive  no  higher  aspiration  or  pleasant  duty  than  to  consider 
and  alleviate  the  pains  and  cares  of  the  aged  and  depressed.  When 
a  brother  lives  through  a  full  ordinary  lifetime,  who  has  battled  with 
the  world,  finds  at  last  that  he  is  beaten  in  the  race,  that  further 
etfort  is  useless,  that  he  must  give  up  the  struggle,  and  yet  that  ex- 
istence is  his.  His  only  possession,  that  of  a  future,  dark  on  every 
side,  because  of  the  discouragement  and  almost  despair  that  is  within 
him.  A  good  brother  discovers  his  distress;  he  cheers  him;  his  lodge 
is  a  member  of  the  home,  knows  its  rule,  knows  its  willingness  to  aid 
the  distressed  brother,  and  turns  him  from  darkness  to  sunshine.  Can 
anything  be  more  blessed?  Is  there  anything  in  this  world  more 
noble  than  to  succor  him  who  is  for  the  second  time  a  child,  and  give 
him  a  home  of  comfort,  rest,  and  content?  The  Masonic  Home  is  a 
practical  charity — it  has  passed  beyond  the  experimental  stage,  yet 
it  is  crippled  for  want  of  a  permanent  income.  It  has  now  invested 
in  its  permanent  fund  forty  thousand  dollars.  It  should  have  two 
hundred  and  fifty  thousand.  I  trust  that  our  whole  jurisdiction  will 
become  interested,  and  that  they  will  find  some  means  to  increase 
this  amount  until  it  may  reach  the  sum  named.  Since  the  home 
v?as  organized  it  has  taken  care  of  eighty  aged  brethren.     It  now  has 


262  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 


thirty-six  inmates.  Its  entire  salary  list  is  only  1660  per  annum,  so 
that  money  paid  to  it  goes  to  supporting  our  brethren.  It  is  not  local 
in  its  charity,  nor  is  an  applicant  asked,  Where  do  you  come  from? 
If  he  is  found  worthy,  he  is  given  a  home  in  everything  that  sweet 
word  implies.  I  wish  to  place  upon  record  my  sincere  confidence  in 
the  officers  and  managers  of  that  institution.  Having  been  a  mem- 
ber of  the  board  myself,  serving  for  several  years  in  that  capacity,  I 
can  and  do  testify  to  their  intelligence,  devotion,  and  labor  to  get  the 
best  results  out  of  that  which  is  given  them.  My  brethren,  let  me 
commend  it  to  your  best  consideration;  help  as  liberally  as  you  can, 
with  the  assurance  that  what  you  give  or  cause  to  be  given  will  be 
well  expended. 

He  closed  with  a  high  tribute  to  his  predecessor  in  office,  and  the 
grand  lodge  supplemented  this  with  a  decoration  and  tha  following: 

The  official  term  of  Bro.  Matthias  H.  Henderson  as  Right  Wor- 
shipful Grand  Master  of  Masons  in  Pennsylvania  having  ended  this 
day,  it  is  fitting  that  the  grand  lodge  should  place  on  record  its  high 
appreciation  of  the  dignity  and  courtesy  manifested  by  him  in  his 
official  intercourse  and  of  his  resolute  adherence  to  and  enforcement 
of  the  constitution  of  the  grand  lodge,  and  the  ancient  usages,  cus- 
toms, and  landmarks  of  the  fraternity,  therefore  be  it 

Resolved,  That  this  minute  shall  be  suitably  engrossed,  signed  by 
the  grand  officers,  and  presented  to  R.W.  Past  Grand  Master  Hender- 
son. 

Bro.  James  M.  Lamberton  presented  Grand  Master  Kelly  with 
a  ring  containing  an  amethyst  in  which  is  cut  the  private  seal  of  the 
grand  master  of  Pennsylvania,  which  was  used  by  his  late  father, 
Robert  A.  Lamberton,  while  he  was  grand  master,  and  explained 
that  it  was  given  with  the  intention  that  it  might,  if  the  grand  mas- 
ter pleased,  be  worn  on  official  occasions  by  that  officer  and  trans- 
mitted to  his  successors:  a  transmission  which  the  recipient  promised 
to  inaugurate. 


PRINCE  EDWARD  ISLAND,  1897. 

22nd  Annual.  Charlottetown.  June  24. 

This  pamphlet  contains,  besides  the  record  of  the  annual  com- 
munication, the  minutes  of  two  "emergency  meetings,"  the  first  of 
"which  was  held  for  the  burial  of  Past  Grand  Secretary  Benjamin 
Wilson  Higgs.  The  record  of  the  other  is  a  novelty,  describing  the 
obsequies  of  a  past  grand  master  without  telling  who  he  was.  By  ref- 
erence to  the  proceedings  of  the  annual  communication  he  is  iden- 
tified as  Past  Grand  Master  John  William  Morrison. 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  263 

Illinois  was  not  among  the  twenty-eight  grand  jurisdictions  rep- 
resented at  the  annual. 

The  reference  of  the  grand  master  (John  L.  Thomson)  to  the  dis- 
tinguished dead  shows  that  each  of  the  deceased  past  grand  officers 
was  born  in  1820,  Brother  HiGGS  at  St.  George's,  Bermuda, and  Brother 
Morrison  at  Tahane,  Nova  Scotia. 

The  grand  master  stated  that  in  October  the  centennial  anniver- 
sary of  St.  John's  Lodge,  at  Charlottetown,  would  be  celebrated. 

Past  Grand  Master  John  W.  Ruhland,  of  Nova  Scotia,  was  for- 
mally received  as  a  visitor,  and  made  a  felicitous  speech. 

The  following  is  symptomatic  of  a  general  epidemic: 

Whereas,  Soliciting  votes  in  a  Masonic  lodge  (grand  or  subor- 
dinate) for  a  Masonic  office  is  contrary  to  the  spirit  of  Freemasonry, 
therefore, 

Besolved,  That  no  brother  shall  declare  himself  a  candidate,  or  to 
use  or  cause  to  be  used  any  influence  to  advance  his  election;  and 
further, 

Besolved,  That  any  brother  so  transgressing  shall  be  subject  to 
trial,  and  if  found  guilty  punished.     Unanimously  agreed  to. 

The  following  grew  out  of  the  project  mentioned  last  j'ear  in  our 
notice  of  Prince  Edward  Island,  of  a  Masonic  home  for  the  Maratime 
provinces: 

R.  MacNeill,  P.G.M.,  chairman  of  the  committee  appointed  by 
grand  master  to  confer  with  a  joint  committee  from  the  Grand  Lodge 
of  Nova  Scotia  and  New  Brunswick,  which  met  in  the  town  of  Monc- 
ton.  May  12,  1897,  submitted  the  following  report: 

At  a  meeting  of  the  joint  committees  from  Masonic  Grand 
Lodges  of  Nova  Scotia,  New  Brunswick,  and  Prince  Edward  Island, 
in  reference  to  the  establishment  of  a  Masonic  home,  the  following 
resolutions  were  unanimously  adopted: 

Besolved,  That  this  meeting,  while  affirming  the  desirability  of 
establishing  a  Masonic  home  for  the  Maritime  Provinces,  is  strongly 
of  opinion  that  the  establishment  of  a  sufficient  fund  should  precede 
any  other  action  to  that  end. 

Besolved,  That  the  whole  matter  be  referred  to  the  different 
grand  lodges,  with  a  request  that  each  grand  lodge,  besides  appeal- 
ing to  their  subordinate  lodges  for  contribution,  will  year  by  year 
contribute  to  a  fund  looking  to  the  foundation  of  such  a  home. 

Besolved,  That  in  case  of  the  foregoing  resolution  being  carried 
out,  that  each  grand  lodge  shall  elect  a  trustee,  who  collectively 
shall  be  the  custodians  of  such  fund,  said  fund  to  be  known  as  the 
Maritime  Home  Fund;  and  further 

Besolved,  That  a  copy  of  the  foregoing  resolutions  be  sent  to  each 
of  the  grand  lodges  in  the  Maritime  Provinces. 

(Signed)  Thomas  Walker,  M.D.,  P.G.M., 

Secretar}-  to  Committee. 


264  APPENDIX.  — PART   I. 


The  following  action  was  also  had  at  the  same  conference: 

The  following  resolution  was  adopted  by  the  joint  committees. 
and  a  copy  ordered  to  be  transmitted  to  each  grand  lodge,  A.F.  and 
A.M.,  in  the  Maritime  Provinces: 

The  joint  committee  here  assembled  embraces  the  opportunity  of 
impressing  its  strong  conviction  that  closer  fraternal  relations  be- 
tween the  grand  lodges  of  Free  and  Accepted  Masons  of  the  provinces 
of  Nova  Scotia,  New  Brunswick,  and  Prince  Edward  Island  would 
tend  greatly  to  promote  the  object  of  our  order.     Therefore 

Resolved,  That  this  matter  be  referred  to  the  several  grand 
lodges,  to  the  end  that  each  grand  lodge  be  requested  to  appoint  a 
committee  to  jointly  promulgate  a  scheme  for  the  closer  union  of 
their  grand  lodges,  and  report  the  same  in  the  year  1898  to  the  before 
mentioned  grand  lodges,  respectively. 

(Signed)  Thomas  Walker,  M.D.,  P.G.M., 

Secretary  to  Committee. 

The  following  overture  was  received  from  the  Grand  Lodge  of 

Nova  Scotia: 

At  a  communication  held  of  the  grand  lodge  on  the  9th  inst.,  a 
committee  consisting  of  M.W.  Bros.  W.  F.  McCoy,  C.  A.  Smith.  Am- 
herst; J.  Murray  Lawson,  Yarmouth;  W.  B.  Alley,  Truro,  and  William 
Ross,  Halifax,  was  appointed  to  confer  with  a  committee  to  be  ap- 
pointed by  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Prince  Edward  Island,  with  the  view 
of  preparing  the  conditions  on  which  your  grand  lodge  might  consoli- 
date with  that  of  Nova  Scotia.  I  may  state  that  the  union  would  be 
favorably  received  by  the  members  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Nova 
Scotia.  After  your  committee  would  be  appointed,  you  might  so 
inform  me,  mentioning  the  names  of  committee  in  due  course. 

(Signed)  William  Ross,  Grand  Secretary. 

A  revision  of  the  constitution  was  reported  and  adopted;  a  con- 
gratulatory message  sent  through  the  Dominion  governor  to  Queen 
Victoria  on  attaining  the  sixtieth  year  of  her  reign;  St.  John's  Lodge 
No.  8  given  permission  to  wear  blue  and  gold  regalia  in  recognition  of 
reaching  their  centenary,  and  the  following  was  adopted: 

Whereas.  This  grand  lodge  has  adopted  a  charity  or  benevolent 
fund,  and  have  now  the  amount  invested;  and 

Whereas,  It  is  necessary  that  some  provision  should  be  made  to 
supplement  that  fund;  therefore, 

Eesolved,  That  each  subordinate  lodge  be  asked  to  collect  from 
its  members  annually  the  sum  of  ten  cents,  which  amount  they  shall 
forward  to  the  grand  secretary  with  the  annual  returns.  Which  was 
on  motion  of  grand  lodge  passed. 

Leonard  Morris  was  elected  grand  master,  Neil  MacKelvie 
re-elected  grand  secretary,  both  of  Summerside. 

The  grand  officers  were  installed  by  Past  Grand  Master  Ruh- 
LAND,  of  Nova  Scotia. 

There  is  no  report  on  correspondence. 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  265 

QUEBEC,  1897. 

27th  Annual.  Montreal.  January  27. 

This  grand  lodge  has  inaugurated  the  custom  of  publishing  por- 
traits of  its  distinguished  men,  and  this  year  contributes  portraits  of 
three  past  grand  masters,  John  Hamilton  Graham,  James  Dunbar, 
and  Melbourne  McT.  Tait,  none  of  whom  fall  below  our  ideal  of  the 
strong'  men  who  so  staunchly  guided  the  fortunes  of  their  grand 
lodge  in  the  stormy  period  of  its  existence. 

Thirty  grand  jurisdictions  were  represented,  Illinois  not  among 
them. 

The  grand  master  (Col.  Fred  Massey)  says: 

Masonry  is  not  a  political  organization,  yet  she  looks  with  the 
keenest  interest  upon  every  event  that  tends  to  the  welfare  of  man- 
kind. Our  order  has  nothing  whatever  to  do  with  conspiracies;  she 
creates  no  revolutions;  she  discountenances  the  shedding  of  blood. 
Hence,  it  is  with  profound  thankfulness  from  a  Masonic  point  of  view 
that  I  advert  to  the  fact,  that  in  the  providence  of  God,  the  most  de- 
plorable of  all  catastrophies,  war,  has  been  averted.  As  Freemasons 
we  have  much  cause  to  rejoice  in  that  fraternal  understanding  be- 
tween our  great  empire  and  the  United  States  which  led  them  to  enter 
into  negotiations  with  a  view  to  drawing  up  an  arbitration  treaty 
which  will  tend  towards  placing  war  far  beyond  the  region  of  proba- 
bilities. 

He  announced  the  death  of  Past  Grand  Chaplain  William  John 
Smythe  and  Past  Deputy  Grand  Master  Alexander  Chisholm,  who 
down  to  last  year  was  the  grand  representative  of  Illinois. 

The  grand  chaplain  (the  Rev.  Charles  G.  Rollit)  delivered  a 
discourse  in  which  he  answered  in  a  brief,  practical  way  the  question, 
"What  is  Freemasonry?" 

In  answer  to  a  suggestion  of  apparent  inconsistency  of  the  con- 
stitutional provision  respecting  eligibility  for  office  in  the  constitu- 
ent lodge  the  grand  master  ruled,  that — 

"No  brother  under  the  rank  of  Master  Mason  is  eligible  for  any 
office  in  a  lodge  unless  by  special  dispensation  of  the  grand  master." 

The  Maine  overture  respecting  rejected  candidates  was  sent  to 
the  committee  on  jurisprudence,  whose  report  thereon,  as  follows, 
was  adopted: 

Your  committee  would  remind  grand  lodge  that  the  question  re- 
ferred to  in  the  resolutions  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Maine  has  already 
been  considered  by  this  grand  lodge  at  its  annual  communication, 
January,  1895,  (proceedings  1895,  page  83,)  when  this  grand  lodge  de- 


266  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


cided  to  adhere  to  its  own  rules  that  the  application  by  a  profane  for 
initiation  does  not  place  the  applicant  under  the  jurisdiction  of  the 
lodge  to  which  he  may  apply,  but  prevents  him,  in  case  of  rejection, 
from  again  applying  for  initiation  for  the  term  of  one  year;  and  that 
it  is  the  duty  of  the  committee  of  inquiry  to  inform  themselves  care- 
fully of  and  report  upon  the  moral  character  of  the  candidate. 

We  believe  grand  lodge  still  adheres  to  this  position  and  recom- 
mend that  the  M.W.  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Maine  be  so  advised. 

The  committee  on  the  state  of  Masonry  say  with  reference  to  the 
social  element: 

In  noting  the  hospitality  and  social  entertainments  extended  by 
lodges  to  visiting  officials,  as  well  as  their  appreciation  of  same,  we 
undoubtedly  fully  value  the  social  element  in  Freemasonry,  promot- 
ing as  it  does  harmony  and  good  fellowship  and  being  the  means  of 
bringing  us  more  into  touch  with  one  another  in  aiding  the  interests 
of  the  craft,  but  we  are  led  to  consider  the  growing  practice  of  having 
lodge  refreshments  after  labor,  and  as  a  warning  to  our  lodges,  es- 
pecially city  ones,  to  ask  is  it  not  the  practice  to  allow  lodge  funds  to 
bear  too  great  a  proportion  of  the  consequent  expense?  The  direct 
advantages  are  to  the  individuals  of  the  lodges,  and  the  expense  should 
be  borne  by  those  participating  or  from  funds  provided  for  that  special 
purpose,  so  as  not  to  interfere  with  revenue  which  should  be  devoted 
to  regular  lodge  expenses. 

The  grand  master,  at  the  request  of  a  member,  ruled  as  follows: 

In  cases  where  the  district  deputy  grand  master  cannot  be  com- 
municated with  in  time  to  obtain  his  sanction  for  a,  Masonic  funeral 
to  be  given  to  a  dimitted  brother,  such  funeral  cannot  be  given. 

The  following  action  was  had: 

Bro.  Lorenzo  Prince,  J.  W.  of  La  Loge  Coeurs  Unis  No.  45,  by  per- 
mission of  most  worshipful  grand  master,  addressed  grand  lodge, 
asking  in  the  name  of  his  lodge  and  of  the  large  number  of  brethren, 
members  of  the  craft  speaking  the  French  language,  that  the  consti- 
tution of  grand  lodge  be  published  in  the  French  language.  After 
some  discussion  on  the  subject,  it  was  moved  by  W.  Bro.  Robert  Wil- 
son, seconded  by  R.W.  Bro.  G.  P.  Tabor, 

That  the  question  of  the  translation  of  the  constitution  into  the 
French  language  be  referred  to  the  finance  committee,  with  the 
recommendation  to  put  the  same  into  effect  as  soon  as  possible  and 
the  funds  of  grand  lodge  will  permit. 

The  motion  was  carried. 

E.  D.  T.  Chambers,  of  Quebec,  was  elected  grand  master;  John 
H.  Isaacson,  Montreal,  re-elected  grand  secretary. 

The  report  on  correspondence  (108  pp.)  is  the  work  of  a  familiar 
hand,  E.  D.  T.  Chambers,  who  now  goes  to  the  grand  east  equipped 
with  the  training  of  the  best  school  to  make  a  ready,  broad-minded, 
and  self-poised  grand  master.  In  his  concluding  remarks  he  thus 
refers  to  the  change: 

We  cannot  close  this  report  without  a  word  of  salutation,  of 
thanks,  and  it  may  be — of  final  adieu,  to  those  with  whom  we  have 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  267 


labored  for  the  last  eleven  years  in  the  field  of  foreign  correspondence. 
Vaux,  Connor,  Vehslag'e,  Chadwick,  Wheeler,  and  others  are  beyond 
the  reach  of  human  words.  To  those  of  our  co-workers  who  remain, 
and  their  names  and  their  work  are  now  and  will  forever  remain 
familiarly  near  and  dear  to  us,  we  tender  our  grateful  thanks  for  the 
instruction  we  have  deawn  from  them  and  from  the  very  generous 
and  very  fraternal  consideration  with  which  they  have  ever  received 
and  reviewed  onr  work.  To  them  we  feel  that  we  do  not  appeal  in 
vain,  when  we  crave  for  our  successor  in  this  work — R.W.  Bro.  Will 
H.  Whyte, — the  same  generous  welcome  and  consideration  that  have 
been  extended  to  us.  It  shall  be  our  earnest  hope  and  faithful  en- 
deavor to  merit,  in  the  more  important  station  to  which  we  have  been 
called  in  the  grand  east  of  our  grand  lodge,  a  continuance  of  that 
Masonic  approval  and  support  which  has  stimulated  and  encouraged 
us  in  our  work  as  grand  lodge  reviewer. 

Brother  Chambers  gives  the  Illinois  proceedings  for  1896  very 
generous  notice.  He  says  of  Grand  Master  Scott's  address  that  it  is 
brightly  decked  with  the  gay  flowers  of  rhetoric,  and  in  evidence  of 
this  gives  an  ample  citation  from  its  exordium.  Grand  Orator 
Stevenson  is  credited  with  a  very  beautiful  oration,  and  the  report 
on  correspondence  receives  appreciative  notice.     Of  it  he  says: 

Glad,  indeed,  are  we  to  note  his  outspoken  criticism  of  what  our 
zeal  for  genuine  Masonry  compels  us  to  regard  as  the  ill-advised  ac- 
tion of  some  grand  lodges  in  recognizing  the  Gran  Dieta  of  Mexico. 
Approving  our  stand  in  this  matter  he  adds: 

Brother  Chambers's  opposition  to  recognition,  however,  seems  to 
lie  wholly  against  the  practice  rather  than  the  parentage  of  the  gran 
dieta,  for  if  we  correctly  understand  him  he  inclines  to  the  doctrine 
that  some  other  Masonry  than  the  Masonry  of  the  charges  of  a  Free- 
mason— Free  and  Accepted  Masonry — may  under  certain  conditions 
create  lodges  that  are  recognizable  as  a  lawful  basis  for  a  grand 
lodge. 

We  are  careful  not  to  answer  our  good  brother  too  clearly  on  this 
matter,  declining  to  pronounce  the  sentence  of  excommunication 
against  those, — not  responsible  for  their  alleged  illegitimacy, — who 
are  doing  and  have  done  for  some  time  past  all  that  lies  in  their  power 
to  regularize  themselves. 

Benjamin  Franklin  and  Lafayette  are  universally  honored  amongst 
Freemasons  with  the  title  of  brother,  notwithstanding  the  origin  of 
the  Freemasonry  in  the  bosom  of  which  they  were  initiated. 

And  what  has  Brother  Bobbins  to  say  of  the  origin  of  the  Free- 
masonry of  the  Grand  Orient  of  France,  which  was  recognized  almost 
universally  up  to  the  time  of  its  introduction  of  practices  opposed  to 
the  fundamental  principles  of  the  order?  We  do  not  care  to  conceal 
the  fact,  however,  that  we  are  growing  more  and  more  suspicious  of  the 
genuine  character  of  the  Freemasonry  of  many  of  these  rites  and 
orients  in  the  Latin  countries  of  both  Europe  and  America.  At  the 
risk  of  giving  sore  offence  to  those  who  are  honestly  endeavoring  to 
promote  such  an  idea  of  the  universality  of  Masonry,  as  to  make  it 
include  all  that  is  called  by  its  name,  we  are  compelled  to  admit  that 
there  are  such  frequent  instances,  now-a-days,  of  the  use  of  so-called 
Masonry,  in  foreign  lands,  to  cloak  religious  and  political  conspiracies, 


268  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


as  in  the  recent  case  of  the  Grand  Orient  of  Italy,  that  it  may  before 
long  become  necessary  for  us  to  seriously  consider  whether  these  ori- 
ents and  similar  organizations  are  ht  and  proper  associates  for  the 
adherents  of  that  legitimate  Free  and  Accepted  Masonry  which  was 
from  the  beginning. 

Elsewhere  in  this  report  we  have  had  our  say  about  the  aforetime 
general  recognition  of  the  Grand  Orient  of  France,  and  we  need  not 
discuss  with  him  the  general  question.  It  is  manifest  that  events  are 
doing  with  his  mind  what  our  discussion  might  not  effect. 

In  further  reference  to  our  report  he  says: 

Reference  is  made  to  the  fact  that  at  our  communication  in  1896 
Illinois  was  represented  by  Bro.  Alexander  Chisholm.  Since  the  date 
of  that  comoaunication  Brother  Chisholm  has  responded  to  the  last 
great  summons,  and  a  good  man  and  Mason  is  mourned  amongst  us. 
It  has  just  fallen  to  the  lot  of  this  writer,  as  one  of  his  first  official 
acts  as  grand  master,  to  recommend  the  name  of  a  successor  to  our 
lost  brother  as  a  representative  near  Quebec  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
Illinois.  In  W.  Bro.  Rothwell,  both  Illinois  and  Quebec  will  lind  a 
worthy  successor  of  the  late  R.W.  Bro.  Chisholm. 

He  also  does  us  the  honor  to  quote  from  our  introduction  our 
reference  to  the  Mexican  gran  dieta. 


RHODE  ISLAND,  1896. 

105th  Annual.  Providence.  May  18. 

The  representative  of  Illinois  was  not  present  at  either  the  semi- 
annual or  annual  communications.  The  record  does  not  show  what  dip- 
lomats were  presentat  the  "festival  communication"  which  convened 
at  the  Masonic  Temple,  Boston,  on  the  morning  of  the  great  triennial 
parade  of  the  Knights  Templar,  as  the  especial  guests  of  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Massachusetts. 

We  have  here  also  the  record  of  a  special  communication  con- 
vened to  "consecrate"  an  altar  with  a  big  A,  which  had  been  presented 
to  Mount  Vernon  Lodge  No.  4,  by  its  master.  The  elaborate  cere- 
monial used  is  given  in  extenso.  Our  brethren  of  the  Providence 
plantations  are  prolific  of  ceremonials,  and  at  the  present  rate  of 
evolution  we  shall  soon  see  a  consecration  of  the  candles — and  cuspi- 
dors. The  simplicity  of  the  Masonry  our  fathers  knew  gets  elbowed 
pretty  roughly  in  that  tight  little  jursidiction. 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  269 

At  the  annual  communication,  the  grand  master  (Edward  P. 
LOWDEN)  announced  the  death  of  Darius  B.  Davis,  grand  treasurer, 
which  occurred  at  Atlanta,  Ga.,  while  enroute  to  Florida  for  his 
health.  He  was  only  fifty-live.  He  was  as  well  known  in  public  and 
social  life  as  in  Masonry.  His  memorial,  prepared  by  Grand  Chaplain 
Henry  W.  Rugg,  is  very  fine.  Deceased  also  were  Past  Masters  La- 
fayette Reynolds,  aged  seventy;  Francis  M.  Jeffers,  sixty-one; 
Frank  E.  Whipple,  thirty-nine;  Albert  D.  Remington,  fifty-five, 
and  Thomas  Phillips,  sixty-eight. 

The  grand  lodge  suffered  great  loss  by  the  burning  of  Freemasons' 
Hall,  Providence.     The  grand  secretary  says: 

For  twenty-four  years  the  personal  property  of  the  grand  lodge 
has  been  in  the  custody  of  the  grand  secretary,  all  of  which,  save  the 
material  for  clerical  work  and  a  few  copies  of  past  proceedings,  and 
other  printed  matter  were  kept  in  the  Freemasons'  hall.  Everything, 
save  the  exceptions  noted,  was  totally  destroyed  by  the  fire,  March  19. 
None  of  the  regalia  was  saved,  excepting  chain  collars  and  jewels, 
and  those  in  a  very  bad  condition,  and  scarcely  worthy  of  any  at- 
tempt at  restoration,  so  badly  were  they  burned,  and  the  white  and 
purple  trimmed  linen  aprons,  which,  fortunately,  were  in  the  grand 
tyler's  hands  for  repairs.  The  safe  delivered  its  contents  in  a  fairly 
good  condition,  the  bindings  of  the  books  being  badly  charred.  This 
safe  contained  the  old  record  books,  old  and  valuable  papers,  and 
some  of  the  oldest  bound  volumes  of  annual  returns.  All  books  and 
papers  are  in  a  legible  condition,  the  most  valuable  being  without 
serious  harm.  The  safe,  which  was  an  old  one,  was  in  a  terribly  hot 
fire,  and  was  the  only  safe  from  the  ruins  which  was  cut  open.  Other 
than  the  articles  mentioned,  there  was  not  a  single  vestige  of  grand 
lodge  property  left. 

The  committee  on  reprint  of  the  early  proceedings  reported  that 
all  the  copies  of  Volume  I  of  the  reprint  were  lost  in  the  fire;  the  sec- 
ond volume  was  still  in  the  printer's  hands.  Two  hundred  dollars  was 
appropriated  to  complete  it. 

The  c  >mmittee  on  foreign  correspondence  reported  in  two  lines — 
no  matters  had  been  referred  to  them  during  the  year  requiring  action 
by  the  grand  lodge. 

The  per  capita  tax  was  fixed  at  fifty  cents. 

A  past  grand  master's  jewel  and  apron  was  ordered  for  the  retir- 
ing grand  master. 

A  festival  communication  was  held  at  Warren,  June  24,  1896,  to 
help  Washington  Lodge  No.  3  celebrate  its  centennial.  The  features 
were  a  reception  to  the  grand  master  in  the  lodge  parlors,  a  banquet 
in  the  town  hall,  and  after  the  cigars  were  lighted  an  interesting  his- 
torical sketch  by  the  long-time  secretary  of  the  lodge,  Charles  B. 
Mason;  an  address  by  the  grand  master,  and  other  speeches  and  an 
appropriate  surprise  in  the  presentation  on  behalf  of  the  craft  of  the 


270  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 

state  of  a  casket  containing  a  full  set  of  sterling  silver  chain  collars 
and  jewels  for  the  officers  of  the  lodge,  capped  by  another  surprise  of 
a  past  master's  jewel  to  the  master. 

William  H.  Crawley,  of  Warren,  was  elected  grand  master; 
Edwin  Baker  (care  Henry  Baker  &  Son),  Providence,  reelected 
grand  secretary. 


SOUTH  AUSTRALIA,  1897. 
13th  Annual.  Adelaide.  April  21. 

The  representative  of  Illinois  was  not  present. 

At  the  half-yearly  communication  (October  21,  1896.)  the  grand 
master  in  the  chair,  the  board  of  general  purposes  reported  that  one 
lodge  had  surrendered  its  warrant  on  account  of  scattered  member- 
ship; one  new  lodge  had  been  warranted,  and  one  lodge,  after  more 
than  a  vear's  recess,  had  resumed  labor,  sanguine  of  success. 

The  Maine  overture  respecting  rejected  candidates  was  presented 
and  referred  to  the  board  of  general  purposes  for  report. 

At  the  annual  communication  the  deputy  grand  master  (Philip 
Sansom)  presided.  The  grand  master  and  many  other  distinguished 
Masons  were  absent  because  they  were  in  attendance  on  a  federal  con- 
vention then  in  session  at  Adelaide. 

The  board  of  general  purposes  reported  on  the  Maine  proposition 
and  the  following  was  adopted: 

To  strike  out  all  the  words  after  "Candidate,"  in  sixth  line.  Add — 
"That  the  effect  of  such  exclusion  shall  be  limited  to  five  years,  and 
that  during  that  time  the  candidate  should  be  allowed  to  petition  only 
to  the  lodge  which  rejected  him,  or  to  another  lodge,  with  the  consent 
of  the  first-mentioned  lodge,  by  a  resolution  carried  by  a  majority  at 
a  regular  meeting,  after  due  notice  of  such  resolution  has  been  given. 

A  proposition  for  a  joint  address  to  the  queen,  congratulting  her 
on  the  completion  of  the  sixtieth  year  of  her  reign,  by  the  grand 
lodges  of  Australasia,  was  adopted;  but  a  series  of  propositions  for  the 
founding  of  a  "Royal  Masonic  Scholarship  of  South  Australia"  in 
commemoration  of  the  event,  was  lost. 

The  Rt.  Hon.  S.  J.  Way,  lieutenant  governor  and  chief  justice  of 
South  Australia,  was  reelected  grand  master;  the  Hon.  J.  G.  Jenkins 
was  elected  deputy  grand  master;  J.  H.  Cunningham,  Adelaide,  grand 
secretary. 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  271 

SOUTH  CAROLINA,  1896. 
120th  Annual.  Charleston.  December  8. 

Illinois  was  represented  by  John  F.  Ficken. 

The  grand  master  (Claude  M.  Sawyer)  announced  the  death  of 
Past  Grand  Master  John  Doby  Kennedy,  who  died  suddenly  at  the 
early  age  of  fifty-six.  An  eloquent  memorial  of  him,  prepared  by  a 
special  committee,  shows  him  to  have  been  a  brave,  strong,  but  gen- 
erous and  gentle  character. 

Entering  the  war  on  the  heels  of  being  admitted  to  the  bar,  just 
as  he  had  attained  his  majority,  he  at  first  commanded  a  company, 
but  in  three  years  was  a  brigadier  general,  with  a  reputation  for  gal- 
lantry seldom  surpassed.  Later  he  served  in  the  legislature,  was 
lieutenant-governor,  and  consul  at  Shanghai.  He  was  elected  grand 
master  in  1881. 

The  grand  master  reported  a  very  varied  assortment  of  requests 
for  dispensation,  one  of  them  virtually  to  grant  one  to  make  a  Mason 
at  sight. 

Among  his  decisions  were  the  following: 

1.  A  lodge  duly  elected  officers,  but  when  the  installing  officer  came 
to  perform  that  duty  he  held  that  it  was  not  necessary  to  require  the 
officers  to  take  the  prescribed  obligation  in  the  Ahiman  Rezon,  but  all 
that  was  necessary  was  to  read  the  charge  or  lecture  to  them.  I  ruled 
that  those  officers  had  not  been  installed  and  the  old  officers  must  hold 
over  till  the  newly  elected  officers  were  duly  installed:  that  a  dispen- 
sation would  be  granted  to  install  them  after  the  festival  of  St.  John. 
It  is  necessary  to  administer  the  obligation  laid  down  in  the  Ahiman 
Rezon  when  installing  officers,  otherwise  the  installation  is  null  and 
void. 

3.  A  profane  was  duly  elected.  Before  he  could  be  initiated  it  was 
charged  that  he  had  been  guilty  of  grossly  immoral  conduct,  in  that 
he  had  been  drunk  on  the  public  streets  of  a  large  city,  and  had  vio- 
lated his  marital  vows  by  visiting  houses  of  ill-fame  for  grossly  im- 
moral purposes.  The  question  was  asked,  "Could  the  master  of  the 
lodge  refuse  to  initiate  him?"  I  ruled  that  he  could,  and  that  it  was 
his  duty  to  refuse  to  confer  the  degree  till  he  could  make  a  thorough 
investigation,  and  if  the  charges  were  true,  that  the  money  ought  to 
be  refunded  to  the  petitioner  and  an  entry  made  upon  the  minutes  of 
the  lodge  showing  in  full  his  action  and  reasons. 

It  appears  that  many  are  in  doubt  as  to  the  power  of  a  master  under 
such  circumstances,  some  claiming  that  the  applicant  has  the  right 
to  demand  his  degree.  This  grand  lodge  has  often  held  that  a  master 
has  the  power  to  arrest  the  progress  of  a  candidate  at  any  stage,  if  he 
be  found  deformed  or  maimed  in  any  way.    Thus  clearly  establishing 


272  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


the  right  and  the  power  of  the  master.  The  question,  therefore,  is 
simply  whether  or  not  he  should  exercise  his  power  under  such  cir- 
cumstances. It  is  very  clear  to  my  mind  that  it  is  his  duty  so  to  do. 
The  master  shall  see  that  no  immoral  man  be  initiated  or  affiliated. 
The  master  is  responsible  for  the  work  of  his  lodge. 

5.  Can  a  Mormon  be  received  into  the  mysteries  of  Freemasonry? 
To  this  question  I  answered  in  the  affirmative. 

These  were  approved.  Referring  to  the  third,  the  querist  evi- 
dently  overlooked  the  fact  that  the  master  does  not  lose  his  right  to 
object  to  an  elected  candidate  because  of  his  official  character,  but 
the  grand  master  was  right  in  holding  that  it  was  his  official  duty  to 
refuse  to  initiate  a  candidate  whom  he  knew  to  be  unfit.  The  com- 
mittee on  jurisprudence  qualified  the  fifth  by  adding:  Provided  the 
Mormon  does  not  practice  polygamy,  and  is  in  other  respects  eligible, 
a  proviso  that  might  well  be  insisted  upon  if  the  petitioner  belonged 
to  any  other  sect. 

The  committee  had  the  Maine  proposition  before  them,  and  con- 
tent themselves  with  saying: 

Your  committee  find  that  the  law  and  practice  of  this  jurisdic- 
tion is: 

The  applicant  is  in  perpetuo  the  material  of  the  lodge  to  which  he 
applied,  even  though  he  remove  from  this  jurisdiction. 

Mackey's  Masonic  Jurisprudence,  p.  149-151. 

Decision  No.  25,  p.  5,  Digest  South  Carolina  (1881,  p.  9). 

A  district  deputy  ruled: 

"An  applicant  for  degrees,  employed  for  many  years  in  the  rail- 
way mail  service,  whose  route  lay  partially  in  Georgia.  North  Carolina, 
and  South  Carolina,  had  not  been  resident  in  any  one  state  for  twelve 
consecutive  months  in  ten  years." 

Ruled — That  by  reason  of  the  cosmopolitan  character  of  his  em- 
ployment, he,  equally  with  an  officer  of  the  army,  was  entitled  to 
extraordinary  consideration,  and  that  the  lodge  could  entertain  his 
petition. 

The  committee,  however,  properly  says: 

In  this  ruling  your  committee  can  not  concur,  because  the  com- 
mittee is  of  opinion  that  the  citizenship  of  a  party  is  not  affected 
by  his  employment  and  that  he  is  the  Masonic  material  of  the  nearest 
lodge  to  the  place  in  the  state  from  which  he  was  appointed  to  the 
railway  service. 

The  grand  master  objected  to  the  ironclad  rules  relative  to  phys- 
ical fitness,  holding  that  when  a  petitioner  comes  with  such  physical 
qualifications  as  will  enable  him  to  conform  literally  to  the  require- 
ments of  our  initiation  we  ought  to  accept  him,  but  the  committee 
on  address  had,  we  regret  to  say,  the  approval  of  the  grand  lodge  in 
the  following: 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE,  273 


With  regard  to  "physical  qualification"  we  adhere  to  the  view 
held  so  fixedly  by  this  grand  lodge,  and  notwithstanding  the  able  pre- 
sentation of  the  grand  master  we  recommend  that  the  rule  and  law 
as  administered  in  this  jurisdiction  be  rigidly  applied. 

A  committee  reported  a  uniform  code  of  by-taws  for  the  govern- 
ment of  lodges  with  the  recommendation  that  all  lodges  be  required 
to  adopt  them.  After  some  dilatory  motions  had  failed  the  report 
was  adopted.     Whereupon: 

R.W.  Bro.  W.  G.  Mazyck  made  the  point  of  order  that  the  re- 
port of  the  special  committee  on  by-laws,  just  adopted,  was  violative 
of  article  91  of  the  constitution,  which  guaranteed  to  warranted  lodges 
the  power  of  making  by-laws  for  the  government  of  their  own  mem- 
bers, provided  such  by-laws  are  consistent  with  the  ancient  landmarks, 
the  constitution  of  the  grand  lodge,  and  the  laws  of  the  land. 

The  grand  master  ruled  that  the  point  was  well  taken,  and  that 
the  report  of  the  special  committee  just  adopted  was  inoperative  until 
article  91  of  the  constitution  be  amended. 

Thereupon  an  amendment  was  offered  limiting  the  power  to  "make" 
by-laws  to  filling  in  the  blanks  in  the  uniform  code,  and  unanimous 
consent  asked  for  its  immediate  consideration.  Objection  was  made 
and  the  amendment  went  over  for  a  year,  the  uniform  code  meanwhile 
is  "in  the  air,"  where  it  ought  to  be  unless  voluntarily  adopted  by  the 
lodges  themselves. 

Five  new  lodges  were  chartered  and  one  dormant  lodge  revived; 
one  dispensation  was  surrendered,  five  charters  revoked  for  non-pay- 
ment of  dues,  and  one  declared  forfeited;  the  Grand  Lodge  of  New 
Zealand  was  recognized;  a  codification  of  the  laws  of  the  grand  lodge 
ordered,  the  work  being  put  into  the  very  competent  hands  of  Grand 
Secretary  Inglesby;  the  number  of  district  deputies  increased  from 
ten  to  eighteen  and  the  state  redistricted  on  those  lines,  and  Charles- 
ton agreed  upon  as  the  place  of  next  meeting. 

J  ACOB  T.  Barron,  of  Columbia,  was  elected  grand  master;  Charles 
Inglesby,  Charleston,  grand  secretary. 

The  report  on  correspondence  (124  pp.)  is  of  course  the  work  of 
Grand  Secretary  Inglesby,  and  bespeaks  its  ability  and  interest. 
But  his  work  ought  to  have  a  better  setting.  The  type  is  too  small 
to  be  read  with  comfort. 

The  report  is  very  largely  in  the  author's  own  words.  Illinois  for 
1895  finds  a  place  in  his  review,  our  proceedings  receiving  a  thorough 
examination.     In  his  epitome  of  the  grand  master's  address,  he  says: 

Perpetual  jurisdiction  over  rejected  material  is  the  law  in  Illinois 
as  it  is  in  South  Carolina.  The  grand  master  dissents  from  this  and 
suggests  that  it  be  at  least  so  modified  as  to  apply  only  so  long  as  the 
rejected  applicant  remains  in  the  jurisdiction— or  at  least  that  there 
should  be  a  limit  as  to  the  length  of  time  of  such  control,  when  the 

— s 


274  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 


person  rejected  leaves  the  state  and  locates  in  another  territory. 
Again,  however,  the  committee  differed  and  decided  to  stand  by  the 
old  ways — being  of  opinion  that  such  a  change  would  be  an  "innova- 
tion."   Hurrah  for  the  committee. 

His  hope  that  the  committee  on  charity  would  deal  generously 
with  the  needs  of  a  venerable  past  grand  master  were  realized  in 
fact,  although  the  proceedings  did  not  show  their  action  until  the 
following  year. 

We  regret  that  the  codification  of  laws,  with  its  consequent  in- 
crease of  printing,  led  to  an  agreement  to  dispense  with  the  report 
on  correspondence  for  the  next  succeeding  year. 


SOUTH  DAKOTA,  1897. 

23rd  Annual.  Mitchell.  June  8. 

South  Dakota  this  year  publishes  two  portraits — those  of  James 
Lewis,  the  retiring  grand  master,  and  George  H.  Hand,  past  grand 
master,  deceased. 

Oscar  S.  Gifford,  the  representative  of  Illinois,  was  among  the 
nine  past  grand  masters  present. 

The  grand  master  (James  Lewis)  announced  the  death  of  Asa 
CoviLL,  past  grand  treasurer,  and  Malcolm  L.  Clark,  the  represen- 
tative of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Rhode  Island. 

Touching  the  Wisconsin  overture  the  grand  master  says: 

I  received,  through  the  office  of  the  grand  secretary,  a  circular 
letter  from  the  committee  appointed  by  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Wiscon- 
sin, re-stating  and  explaining  their  proposition  relating  to  Masonic 
relief.  Our  grand  lodge  took  such  decided  action  on  this  question 
at  the  last  annual  communication,  as  to  leave  nothing  more  to  be 
said.  I  therefore  courteously  directed  their  attention  to  the  report 
of  the  committee  on  resolutions  adopted  by  this  grand  lodge  at  its 
last  session. 

This  was  approved. 

Among  the  special  dispensations  granted  we  note  the  following: 

I  granted  a  special  dispensation  to  Aberdeen  Lodge  No.  38,  to  at- 
tend divine  services  Easter  Sunday,  under  the  escort  of  Damascus 
Commandery  No.  10,  K.T.,  not  deeming  it  beneath  the  dignity  of  a 
Masonic  lodge  to  attend  divine  services  upon  this  occasion. 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  275 


This  was  disapproved,  tlie  jurisprudence  committee  wisely  saying: 

Witli  but  one  exception,  we  approve  the  dispensations  granted 
and  reported.  The  exception  is  in  the  case  of  dispensation  granted 
to  Aberdeen  Lodge  No.  38,  to  attend  divine  services  on  Easter  Sun- 
day. Membership  in  a  Masonic  Lodge  is  denied  to  no  one  on  account 
of  creed  or  religion.  Our  membership,  while  largely,  if  not  nearly  en- 
tirely composed  of  those  professing  Christianity,  yet  we  have  mem- 
bers of  diverse  faiths.  A  lodge,  therefore,  should  as  such,  do  nothing 
in  which  each  and  every  member  cannot  conscientiously  participate, 
and  which  by  precedent  has  a  tendency  to  encourage  practices  sub- 
versive of  our  boasted  and  liberal  universality. 

The  Maine  overture  was  thus  disposed  of  by  the  law  committee: 

The  proposal  of  the  M.  W.  Grand  Lodge  of  Maine  looking  toward  a 
uniform  legislation  upon  the  subject  of  jurisdiction  over  rejected 
material  is  contrary  to  the  law  as  adopted  by  this  grand  lodge.  It  is 
a  subject,  however,  which,  both  from  its  importance,  and  as  an  act 
of  comity  due  the  M.W.  Grand  Lodge  of  Maine,  and  the  eminent  Ma- 
sonic jurist  who  introduced  and  favors  the  proposal  deserves  full  and 
candid  consideration. 

Your  committee,fully  imbued  with  this  view  of  the  subject,  recom- 
mends that  action  upon  the  same  be  deferred  until  the  next  annual 
communication,  to  enable  the  particular  lodges  to  consider  the  pro- 
posal before  any  action  is  had  by  this  grand  lodge. 

It  appearing  that  some  of  the  lodges  had  elected  some  members 
to  "honorary  membership,"  for  the  purpose  of  exempting  them  from 
dues,  the  committee  says: 

This  grand  lodge  has  at  no  time  permitted  honorary  membership, 
in  its  proper  Masonic  sense,  in  the  particular  lodges  under  its  obedience. 
Neither  has  it  permitted,  for  any  cause,  the  permanent  exemption 
from  the  payment  of  annual  dues  of  any  member  of  a  lodge.  The  ex- 
emption of  the  secretary  of  the  lodge  from  such  payment  is  in  part  a 
remuneration  for  his  services  and  cannot  in  equity  be  considered  an 
exemption.  Inability  to  pay  is,  and  should  be,  the  sole  cause  justify- 
ing exemptions  from  the  payment  of  dues,  and  such  exemption  can 
not  be  legally  granted  until  the  delinquency  has  occured.  Masonic 
duties  of  every  kind  and  upon  all  lines  are  perpetual  during  Masonic 
life  while  the  ability  for  their  performance  exists. 

Among  the  grand  representatives  nominated  by  the  grandmaster 
was  Past  Grand  Master  Oscar  S.  Gifford,  to  succeed  himself  from 
Illinois.  Brother  Gifford  responded  for  the  diplomatic  corps  at 
its  formal  reception. 

The  grand  lodge  chartered  two  new  lodges;  removed  all  distinc- 
tions of  classes  by  striking  from  its  law  a  provision  that  clergymen 
might  be  admitted  gratuitously  by  unanimous  consent  of  the  lodge; 
voted  to  meet  next  year  at  Sioux  Falls,  and  made  partial  provision 
for  the  celebration  of  its  twenty-fifth  anniversary  in  1899,  by  provid- 
ing a  program  committee  and  selecting  Past  Grand  Master  William 
Blatt,  as  grand  historian  for  the  occasion. 


276  APPENDIX.— PART    I. 

Albert  W.  Coe,  of  Deadwood,  was  elected  grand  master;  George 
A.  Pettigrew,  Flandreau,  reelected  grand  secretary. 

The  report  on  correspondence  (104  pp.)  is  as  usual  by  Past  Grand 
Master  William  Blatt,  and  throughout  its  condensed  pages  is 
marked  by  ability,  conservatism,  and  strong  common  sense.  He  in- 
cludes Illinois  for  1896  in  his  review.  He  characterizes  Grand  Master 
Scott's  address  as  "a  masterpiece  of  eloquently  expressed  thought," 
and  briefly  epitomizes  its  exordium.  On  the  subject  of  life  member- 
ship, he  says: 

The  grand  lodge  felt  compelled  to  propose  legislation  to  reduce 
the  ill  effects  of  this  pernicious  custom  to  a  minimum,  and  judging 
from  the  "readings"  would  prohibit  the  same  if  it  could  be  done, 
without  doing  those  who,  by  this  agreement,  are  receiving  its  bene- 
fits, an  injustice.  This  should  be  a  warning  to  those  younger  jurisdic- 
tions who  have  thus  far  been  free  from  the  discontent  and  ill  effects 
of  laws  permitting  life  membership  upon  any  terms. 

In  his  generous  notice  of  our  report,  he  says: 

He  quotes  the  decision  of  Grand  Master  Files  as  to  our  mode  of 
proceedure  in  the  restoration  of  an  expelled  Mason.  It  is  true  that 
we  do  not  know  of  another  grand  lodge  which  permits  a  constituent 
lodge  to  restore  expelled  members.  All  other  grand  lodges  reserve 
this  right  to  themselves  and  so  it  should  be.  Our  grand  lodge  virtually 
does  the  expelling  and  it  should  have  the  power  to  restore.  There 
are  other  very  valid  reasons  in  favor  of  this  proposition,  but  we  can 
state  these  verbally  if  occasion  offers.  The  eminent  brother  pays  us 
the  compliment  by  stating  that  we,  "often  serve  as  a  balance  wheel 
in  South  Dakota  Masonry."  The  brother  has  only  read  our  printed 
proceedings.  Our  unprinted  ones  might  lead  him  to  conclude  we  were 
serving  as  fifth  wheel.  Under  Wisconsin  he  refers  to  the  action  of 
the  grand  lodge  in  its  proposed  withholding  of  its  reports  on  corre- 
spondence until  after  its  annual  communications  and  until  the  same 
has  been  approved.  He  expresses  the  conviction,  which,  by  the  way, 
is  very  apparent,  that  the  universal  strong  criticism  of  the  relief 
proposition  of  that  grand  lodge  has  caused  its  originators  and  advo- 
cates to  endeavor  to  hide  their  errors  before  the  craft  in  their  own 
state.  Under  Kansas  Brother  Bobbins  devotes  sixteen  pages  to  a  dis- 
quisition upon  the  subject  of  the  recognition  of  the  Gran  Dieta.  A 
perusal  of  the  history  of  Masonry  in  our  Sister  republic  as  given  by 
the  brother  can  not  fail  to  convince  the  reader  that  the  Gran  Dieta 
really  has  no  history.  He  calls  it  "the  unlineal  conglomeration  which 
in  Mexico  assumes  functions  of  a  modified  grand  lodge." 

In  his  concluding  survey  of  the  field  Brother  Blatt  says  of  the 
Wisconsin  proposition,  which  he  styles  "a  new  departure  in,  or  rather 
from,  Masonry:" 

While  this  proposition  has  met  with  almost  universal  disapproval, 
its  consideration  by  grand  lodges  has  had  a  most  salutary  effect.  It 
has  brought  the  craft  back  to  a  realization  of  first  principles  and 
fundamental  ones.  Masonic  charity  is  an  individual  duty.  Reim- 
bursement has  no  place  in  our  Masonic  vocabulary.  It  is  not  measured 
by  anything  under  the  heavens  or  above  the  earth,  except  solely 
the  needs  of  the  worthy  distressed,  and  the  ability  of  the  Mason  to 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  277 

relieve.  This  verdict,  so  nobly  rendered  and  emphatically  expressed 
at  every  hand,  will,  we  hope,  settle  for  all  time  further  attempts  at 
innovation. 

Of  another  prominent  question  he  says: 

The  recognition  of  the  Grand  Dieta  Simbolica  of  our  sister  Repub- 
lic, Mexico,  has  been  fruitful  of  extended  discussion.  Six  fjrand  lodges 
have  taken  favorable  action,  to-wit:  Texas,  New  York,  Kansas,  North 
Dakota,  Montana,  and  one  other  which  we  can  not  now  call  to  mind. 

Legitimacy  of  origin  seems  to  have  been  relegated  to  the  rear  by 
most  grand  jurisdictions  and  committees  upon  the  subject.  The  sole 
question  upon  which  recognition  by  many  grand  lodges  hinges  is  the 
violation,  in  practice,  of  important  and  essential  landmarks  of  Ancient 
Craft  Masonry.  The  existence  of  those  practices  in  the  immediate 
past  is  denied  by  no  one,  its  continuance  is  in  controversy.  We  re- 
ceived a  very  few  years  ago,  accompanying  the  request  for  recogni- 
tion, a  pamphlet  containing,  printed  in  full,  in  the  Sjicmish  language,  the 
whole  of  the  secret  ritual.  We  have  laid  it  up  in  the  archives  of  the 
Levoy  library. 

In  closing,  he  repeats  what  he  calls  his  "annual  exhortation"  to 
the  brethren  of  the  grand  lodge,  to  study  the  past  history,  laws,  and 
landmarks  of  the  institution,  and  be  convinced  that  no  changes  are 
needed,  no  new  departures  admissable. 


TENNESSEE,  1897. 

83rd  Annual.  Nashville.  January  27. 

A  fine  half-tone  portrait  of  the  long-headed  grand  master  (Sloan) 
forms  the  frontispiece  of  the  Tennessee  volume. 

Tennessee  has  not  yet  returned  to  the  grand  representative  sys- 
tem, so  none  of  the  fourteen  past  grand  masters  present  wore  diplo- 
matic honors. 

The  grand  master  (Philip  N.  Matlock)  announced  the  death  of 
past  grand  master  Joseph  M.  Anderson,  in  his  eighty-first  year, 
greatly  beloved  as  a  Mason,  a  physician,  and  citizen.  The  following 
incidents  from  an  ap])reciative  memorial  prepared  by  Past  Grand 
Master  Morgan,  show  what  manner  of  man  he  was: 

He  was  an  ardent  friend  of  the  South  in  that  momentous  strug- 
gle, and  made  no  attempts  to  conceal  his  views,  but  so  gained  the 
confidence  of  the  federal  authorities  that  he  stood  as  a  great  bul- 
wark of  protection  for  his  people.  I  have  it  from  his  own  lips  that 
on  one  occasion,  when  a  band  of  soldiers  were   preparing   to  take 


278  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 


away,  without  compensation,  several  of  his  finest  horses,  he  came 
into  their  presence  and  asked  if  there  were  anj^  Masons  in  the  com- 
mand. An  officer  answered,  "Yes,  but  that  is  all  done  away  with 
during  war  times."  Dr.  Anderson  quickly  said,  "My  dear  sir,  when 
did  you  have  an  interview  with  God  Almighty  and  get  released  from 
your  obligations  to  your  brother?"  This  brought  the  soldier  to  a  line 
of  thought  in  harmony  with  the  great  principles  of  right  taught  as  a 
part  of  the  Masonic  creed,  and  though  under  the  stern  rules  of  war 
Dr.  Anderson  had  to  give  up  his  horses,  the  same  were  promptly 
paid  for. 

At  one  time  he  offered  himself,  and  was  held  as  a  hostage,  for  a 
friend  condemned  to  die,  until  that  friend  could  go  and  get  witnesses 
to  prove  his  innocence  of  the  charges  upon  which  his  life  had  been 
declared  forfeited.  Always  finding  his  statements  literally  true,  he 
came  to  be  implicitly  relied  on  by  the  military  authorities,  and  in  his 
integrity  of  character  lay  the  secret  of  his  success. 

Dr.  Blythe,  a  very  close  friend  of  his,  was  attacked  by  smallpox, 
and  the  community  was  almost  stampeded.  Dr.  Anderson  took  him 
to  an  isolated  cabin,  shut  himself  away  from  home,  friends,  and  fam- 
ily, cooked  his  own  meals,  and  nursed  him  back  to  life,  keeping  the 
disease  from  spreading  in  the  neighborhood.  "Greater  love  hath  no 
man  than  this,  that  he  giveth  his  life  for  a  friend." 

Of  the  twenty-seven  decisions  submitted  by  the  grand  master,  we 
take  these: 

1.  Mount  Pleasant  lodge  No.  57  has  not  had  a  meeting  in  over  two 
years,  and  made  no  returns  nor  had  any  representative  in  the  grand 
lodge.  Can  Columbia  Lodge  No.  31  receive  and  act  on  petition  in 
jurisdiction  of  Mount  Pleasant  Lodge  No.  57,  after  asking  waiver  of 
jurisdiction,  and  said  lodge  can  not  get  a  meeting  to  act  on  the 
subject? 

The  above  statement  being  verified  by  the  grand  secretary,  I 
ruled  that  Columbia  lodge  has  the  right  to  receive  and  act  on  peti- 
tion until  the  Mount  Pleasant  lodge  complies  with  the  constitution 
and  edicts  of  the  grand  lodge. 

6.  *  *  *  I  therefore  hold  that  a  respectful  response  to  a  summons 
ought  to  be  treated  p7'mia  facie  as  an  answer,  its  sufficiency  to  be  de- 
termined by  the  lodge  in  each  case. 

9.  When  a  lodge  sustains  charges  it  must  inflict  a  penalty. 

13.  A  lodge  can  receive  and  elect  a  non-affiliate  who  can  neither 
read  nor  write. 

16.  A  lodge  can  not  give  the  degrees  to  a  minister  of  the  gospel 
free  of  charge,  nor  refund  any  portion  of  the  fees,  under  penalty  of 
forfeiting  its  charter.     (See  Code,  p.  65,  items  7  and  8.) 

20.  A  committee  refusing  to  report  may  be  tried  and  dealt  with 
for  contumacy.     (See  Code,  p.  56,  item  3.) 

No.  1  nearly  restates  our  law.  If  an  Illinois  lodge  ceases  to 
work  for  six  months,  the  next  nearest  lodge  may  make  material 
from  its  territory  unless  satisfactory  reasons  for  such  cessation  shall 
be  presented  to  the  grand  master.  No.  9  and  No.  16  are  also  restate- 
ments of  our  regulations.     We  agree  with  No.  6  and  No.  13,  although 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  279 

our  law  requires  petitioners  for  the  degrees  to  be  able  to  both  read 
and  write.     No.  20  is  new  to  us,  but  is,  we  believe,  good  law. 

The  grand  master  recommended  that  lodges  be  permitted  to  ad- 
vertise suspended  or  expelled  Masons,  but  the  jurisprudence  commit- 
tee thought  it  would  be  fraught  with  danger  and  declined  to  relax 
the  rule.  The  committee  also  disapproved  of  three  of  the  grand  mas- 
ter's special  dispensations,  as  follows: 

1.  The  dispensation  to  Whitwell  Lodge  No.  563,  to  elect  and  install 
junior  warden  to  fill  vacancy  caused  by  dimit  and  removal  to  another 
jurisdiction,  ignored  the  provisions  of  the  Code,  pp.  29  and  30,  which 
forbid  election  to  fill  vacancy  until  the  annual  election. 

2.  For  the  same  reason  the  dispensation  to  Vesper  Lodge  No.  248, 
to  elect  and  install  senior  warden  to  fill  vacancy  caused  by  death,  was 
unauthorized  by  law. 

3.  Likewise,  the  dispensation  to  Crockett  Lodge  No.  534,  to  elect 
and  install  master  to  fill  vacancy  caused  by  death,  was  contrary  to 
the  doctrine  and  practice  in  Tennessee,  as  shown  by  text-book,  p.  284. 
In  such  case,  the  senior  warden  presides. 

In  the  third  instance  the  committee  state  the  law  of  Masonry  as 
well  as  that  of  the  text  book. 

The  directors  of  the  Masonic  Widows'  Orphans'  Home,  having  rat- 
ified the  acceptance  of  the  title  and  control  of  the  home  by  the  grand 
lodge,  the  jurisprudence  committee  reported  rules  for  the  manage- 
ment of  the  institution,  which  were  adopted. 

The  same  committee  condemned  the  practice  which  had  cropped 
out  in  some  lodges  of  dropping  names  from  the  rolls  in  punishment 
for  non-payment  of  dues,  as  "a  vain  thing,  and  does  not  affect  the 
standing  of  the  brother."  No  such  proceeding  is  now  allowed  in  Ten- 
nessee. 

On  the  subject  of  the  Maine  overture  the  committee  reported  and 
the  grand  lodge  adopted  the  following: 

Resolved,  1.  That  this  grand  lodge  is  in  sympathy  with  the  pur- 
pose and  spirit  of  this  movement,  and  will  rejoice  to  see  any  probable 
cause  of  discord  among  grand  lodges  of  the  United  States  removed. 

2.  That  to  this  end  this  grand  lodge  would  favorably  consider  a 
regulation  requiring  three  years'  probation  of  a  candidate  rejected 
in  any  other  grand  jurisdiction. 

The  committee  on  accounts  compliment  Grand  Secretary  Gar- 
rett for  the  efficient  ordering  of  things  in  his  office  and  for  "the  uni- 
form kindness,  patience,  and  courtesy  shown  to  every  brother  having 
business  in  his  office,"  and  to  this  we  wish  to  add  from  a  delightful 
personal  experience  that  the  same  qualities  are  conspicuous  when  a 
brother's  only  business  there  is  to  say,  "How  are  you?" 


280  APPENDIX.— PART    I. 

The  grand  lodge  chartered  seven  new  lodges;  gave  favorable 
answer  to  three  petitions  for  disi^ensations  and  the  cold  shoulder  to 
two  more;  sent  a  loving  greeting  to  their  oldest  living  past  grand 
master,  A.  M.  Hughes,  now  eighty-six,  for  the  first  time  absent  after 
forty-four  3^ears  of  attendance  on  the  annual  communications:  and 
recognized  the  Grand  Lodges  of  Oklahoma,  New  Zealand,  and  Vic- 
toria. 

Archibald  N.  Sloan,  of  Chattanooga,  was  elected  grand  master; 
John  B.  Garrett,  Nashville,  reelected  grand  secretary. 

The  report  on  correspondence  (87  pp.),  the  first  effort  of  Past 
Grand  Master  George  H.  Morgan,  is  a  forcibly  and  delightfully 
written  paper,  brimful  of  interest.  We  regret  that  we  cannot  give 
ourself  the  pleasure  and  the  craft  the  profit  of  summarizing  his  opin- 
ions. The  following,  from  his  notice  of  Vermont,  touching  the  right 
of  dimission,  is  an  example  of  his  clear,  direct  style  and  sound  judg- 
ment: 

This  is,  or  should  be,  the  law  of  Masonry  everywhere.  The  candi- 
date enters  of  his  own  free  will  and  accord.  If  he  complies  with  all 
the  requirements  and  regulations  of  Masonry,  though  not  relieved 
from  the  performance  of  his  general  duties,  he  is  still  a  free  man, 
and  can  retire  when  it  suits  his  sense  of  duty  to  himself,  without  giv- 
ing any  reason  for  his  action.  Forced  affiliation  is  contrary  to  the 
idea  of  freedom  of  conscience  that  is  held  up  before  the  mind  of  the 
candidate  at  every  step  he  takes  in  Masonry. 

Illinois  for  1896  is  given  very  generous  space.  He  adds  to  lesser 
compliments  to  Grand  Orator  STEVENSON'S  address  the  greater  of 
copying  it  in  full. 

We,  last  year,  spoke  approvingly  of  the  adverse  report  of  the 
committee  on  jurisprudence  on  a  decision  of  his  while  in  the  grand 
east  last  year,  that  a  Mason  who  avails  himself  of  the  statute  of  limi- 
tations to  plead  an  honest  debt  out  of  date,  is  a  proper  subject  for 
Masonic  discipline.  He  gives  the  facts  in  justification  of  his  ruling, 
and  while  we  still  agree  with  the  committee  on  the  general  proposi- 
tion of  law,  we  are  free  to  say  that  they  show  that  a  great  mistake 
was  made  when  the  accused  in  this  case  was  subjected  to  the  attempt 
to  make  a  Mason  of  him.  He  was  never  prepared  at  the  essential 
point. 

We  are  glad  to  see  that  Brother  Morgan  remains  at  the  head  of 
the  committee. 


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TEXAS,  1896. 
61ST  Annual.  Houston.  December  1. 

The  representative  of  Illinois,  GEORGE  Lopas,  jr.,  was  present. 

The  grand  master  (B.  R.  Abernethy)  announced  the  death  of 
James  Wight  and  Robert  Brewster,  past  junior  grand  wardens, 
and  Harry  T.  Youens,  district  deputy  grand  master. 

He  urges  a  strong  and  definitive  statement  as  to  physical  qualifi- 
cations, and  in  support  of  an  ironclad  rule,  cites  Mackey's  statement 
of  the  rule,  but  the  misfortune  is  that  Mackey  quotes  from  some- 
thing other  than  the  charges  of  a  Freemason,  which  do  not  warrant 
the  grand  master's  view. 

Of  their  certificate  of  dimission  to  apprentices  one  of  his  decisions 
says: 

No.  The  certificate  of  dimission  mentioned  in  resolution  78  is  in 
the  nature  of  a  general  waiver  of  jurisdiction,  in  favor  of  any  lodge 
to  which  the  applicant  for  advancement  might  properly  apply;  and 
the  lodge  holding  membership  can,  upon  proper  application,  by  unan- 
imous vote  grant  the  same,  regardless  of  whether  or  not  the  applica- 
tion for  advancement  had  been  previously  rejected. 

Another  takes  this  proper  view  of  jurisdictional  residence  as  a 
factor  in  the  eligibility  of  a  master: 

8.  Can  a  member  of  a  lodge,  who  is  transient,  or  who  resides  in 
the  territorial  jurisdiction  of  another  lodge,  be  installed  as  master  of 
his  lodge? 

Any  member  of  a  lodge  in  good  standing,  and  who  has  served  as 
warden,  is  eligible  to  the  position  of  worshipful  master,  regardless  of 
his  place  of  residence,  or  whether  he  has  any  fixed  residence. 

Another  decision  makes  a  contribution  to  the  history  of  "side 
degrees:" 

2.  In  a  communication  from  R.  W.  Bro.  Anson  Rainey,  past  grand 
master,  he  informed  me  that  some  of  the  members  of  Dallas  Lodge 
No.  7(30  desired  to  confer  the  "Super-excellent"'  degree,  in  the  lodge 
room,  as  a  side  degree,  on  Council  Masons  in  Dallas  and  neighboring 
towns,  and  receive  a  small  fee  for  the  same,  the  revenue  arising 
therefrom  to  go  into  the  treasury  of  Dallas  Lodge.  Brother  Rainey 
desired  my  opinion  as  to  the  propriety  of  such  action;  whether  I 
thought  it  clandestine  or  in  conflict  with  any  other  jurisdiction.  My 
information  is  that  the  Super-excellent  degree  was  formerly  one  of 
the  Cryptic  or  Council  degrees;  that  since  about  A.D.  1860  it  has  been 
practically  abandoned  in  nearly  all  the  states  of  the  American  Union; 
that  recently  it  has  been  revised,  and  is  conferred  in  nearly  every 
grand  jurisdiction,  not  as  a  Council  degree,  but  as  a  sort  of  social 
wind-up  of  the  "American  rite;"  the  exception  being  the  two  Vir- 


282  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 


ginias,  Pennsylvania,  and  Texas.  My  answer  was  that  there  was 
nothing  improper  or  clandestine  in  such  action,  provided  none  but 
Master  Masons  in  good  standing  were  allowed  to  participate,  and  pro- 
vided that  nothing  was  done,  or  permitted,  contrary  to  the  constitu- 
tions, resolutions,  or  edicts  of  the  grand  lodge:  and  that  the  degree 
not  being  conferred  or  recognized  by  the  Grand  Royal  Arch  Chapter 
of  Texas,  there  was  no  conflict  of  jurisdiction. 

Of  this  the  jurisprudence  committee  say: 

It  is  the  opinion  of  the  committee  that  the  so-called  degree  of 
"Super-excellent  Master"  is  a  matter  of  which  neither  the  grand 
master,  this  grand  lodge,  or  any  subordinate  lodge  has  any  knowl- 
edge, or  in  which  they  are  concerned,  and  any  action  recognizing  the 
existence  of  any  such  degree  should  not  meet  with  approval.  Free- 
masonry cannot  prescribe  the  qualifications  of  those  who  may  desire 
to  receive  degrees  foreign  and  unknown  to  it  nor  have  any  connection 
with  them,  not  even  by  accepting  funds  emanating  from  them  as  a 
quasi  appendage  to  any  subordinate  lodge. 

The  following  from  the  committee  on  jurisprudence  sufficiently 
indicates  the  decision  of  which  it  treats,  and  the  case  suggesting  it, 
to  warrant  the  adoption  of  the  resolution  which  we  append  to  their 
remarks,  as  a  conservative  precaution: 

We  are  of  the  opinion  that  the  grand  master  is  correct  in  holding 
that  the  result  of  a  trial  in  the  courts  of  the  state  can  not  be  consid- 
ered in  the  trial  of  a  brother  upon  a  charge  identical  with  that  in  the 
courts,  but  that  a  lodge  must  proceed  upon  the  testimony  before  it. 
The  decision  of  the  grand  master  arose  from  the  conviction  of  a 
Mason  in  the  courts  of  murder  and  his  incarceration  in  the  peniten- 
tiary for  a  term  of  twelve  years,  and  his  subsequent  acquittal  on  the 
same  charge  in  Iowa  Park  Lodge  No.  71.3,  of  which  he  was  a  member. 
The  situation  evolved  by  the  action  of  the  lodge  is  one  of  very  grave 
importance  to  this  grand  lodge. 


Resolved,  That  whenever  a  brother  has  been  tried  and  convicted 
in  the  courts  of  the  country  of  a  felony,  and  he  is  subsequently  tried 
by  a  lodge  and  acquitted,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  junior  warden  to 
appeal  the  case  to  the  grand  lodge  for  revision. 

The  following  touching  special  dispensations  reflects  the  prudence 
of  a  wise  grand  master: 

Several  lodges  applied  for  dispensations  to  confer  the  degrees  on 
candidates  before  the  lapse  of  the  constitutional  limit  time.  No  great 
urgency  being  apparent  in  either  case,  the  applications  were  severally 
refused.  In  this  connection,  I  desire  to  express  the  opinion  that  this 
"letting  down  of  the  bars' '  to  the  approach  to  Masonry  is  entirely  too 
common;  and  that  the  "ever  restless  spirit  of  innovation"  is  nowhere 
more  oj^enly  manifest  than  in  this  desire  to  permit  candidates  for 
Masonic  honors  to  avoid  the  delays  and  difficulties  of  the  prescribed 
paths,  and  to  permit  them  to  slip  in  at  the  back  door.  The  old  ways 
may  be  tedious  and  difficult,  but  they  are  safe  and  sure. 

The  grand  master's  address  and  the  journal  of  proceedings  reflect 
the  negotiations  with  Oklahoma  anent  the  lodges  in  Greer  county,  so 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  283 


creditable  to  all  concerned,  which  we  have  given  in  our  notice  of  Ok- 
lahoma. 

Seven  lodges  were  chartered  outright  on  report  of  the  committee 
on  petitions  and  five  more  formerly  under  dispensation. 

The  directors  of  the  Widows'  and  Orphans'  Home  reported  ten 
proffers  of  sites  for  the  location  of  the  home,  of  which  only  two  come 
up  to  the  essential  requirements  for  a  location — North  Galveston  and 
Temple — and  as  between  these  the  advantages  are  greatly  with  the 
former;  and  they  recommend  its  selection. 

The  following  shows  the  final  action  of  the  session: 

Besolved,  That  the  report  and  resolutions  of  the  board  of  directors 
locating  the  Widows'  and  Orphans'  Home  be  postponed  until  the  next 
grand  annual  communication  of  this  grand  lodge,  and  that  said  board 
be  directed  to  continue  to  invite  bids  for  such  location,  and  submit 
report  thereon  with  such  recommendations  as  they  may  think  proper 
to  make,  at  said  next  annual  communication. 

On  motion  of  Bro.  J.  F.  Miller,  past  grand  master,  the  considera- 
tion of  the  location  of  the  home  was  set  as  a  special  order  for  10  o'clock 
on  Thursday  of  the  next  annual  communication,  and  the  grand  secre- 
tary was  directed  to  fully  inform  the  lodges  that  action  would  be  had 
on  the  location  of  the  home  at  that  time. 

A  special  committee  reporting  on  a  memorial  asking  the  grand 
lodge  to  intervene  in  behalf  of  a  Texas  Mason  imprisoned  in  Mexico 
on  what  was  apparently  a  wrongful  conviction — a  case  appealing  very 
strongly  to  the  sympathies  of  the  committee — wisely  advises  against 
such  action,  concluding  as  follows: 

These  are  the  sentiments  inspired  in  our  hearts  by  the  facts  con- 
nected with  the  imprisonment  of  our  unfortunate  brother. 

While  thus  expressing  these  sentiments,  we  deem  it  proper  to 
state  that,  so  far  as  we  are  informed,  no  similar  question  has  ever 
been  before  this,  or  any  other  grand  lodge,  and  we  are  entirely  with- 
out a  precedent  to  guide  us.  We  do  not  believe  that  this  grand  lodge 
or  the  subordinate  lodges  of  Texas,  as  Masons,  have  any  jurisdiction 
of  such  matters,  and  any  action  that  we  might  take  as  a  grand  lodge 
would  be  improper  and  hurtful  to  Masonry.  If  a  Mason  is  convicted 
in  Texas  and  sentenced  to  the  state  penitentiary  under  the  forms  of 
law,  would  the  grand  or  subordinate  lodges  of  Texas  officially  petition 
the  Governor  of  Texas  for  his  pardon  under  any  circumstances?  Cer- 
tainly not.  Would  Masons,  as  such,  do  so?  Again  we  answer,  no. 
A  Mason  would  sign  such  a  petition,  if  at  all,  in  his  individual  ca- 
pacity, and  not  then  as  a  Mason,  but  as  a  citizen.  Masonry  in  its 
ancient  landmarks  enjoins  us  to  be  good  citizens  and  to  obey  the  civil 
magistrate,  which  means  that  we  should  support  the  legally  consti- 
tuted civil  and  political  authorities  of  the  state  in  the  execution  of  the 
laws  enacted  for  the  government  of  all  the  citizens — whether  Masons 
or  not — and  for  the  protection  of  life,  liberty,  and  property.  A 
Mason  guilty  of  crime  is  amenable  to  the  general  law  and  should  be 
punished  the  same  as  others.  There  never  was  a  greater  slander  of 
Masonry  than  the  assertion,  often  made   by  non-Masons,  that  if  a 


284  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


Mason  commits  a  crime  his  Masonic  brethren  will  shield  him  and  se- 
cure his  exemption  from  punishment. 

We  believe  that  it  does  not  comport  with  the  dignity  of  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  Texas  to  petition  the  civil  authorities  of  this  or  any 
other  state  or  country  for  the  pardon  of  a  Mason  convicted  and  im- 
prisoned under  the  forms  of  law,  and  for  that  reason  we  recommend 
that  no  further  action  be  had  by  the  grand  lodge  in  this  matter. 

The  grand  lodge  concurred. 

A.  B.  Watkins,  of  Athens,  was  elected  grand  master;  John  Wat- 
son, Houston,  reelected  grand  secretary. 

The  report  on  correspondence  (136  pp.)  is  from  the  accustomed 
hand  of  Past  Grand  Master  Thomas  M.  Matthews,  which  at  once 
bespeaks  its  ability,  courtesy,  and  continuous  interest. 

In  his  conclusion  he  refers  to  a  paper  of  which  we  have  already 
spoken: 

Just  as  we  were  closing  our  report  we  received  through  the  cour- 
tesy of  Bro.  R.  F.  Gould,  of  London,  the  author,  a  sixteen-page  pam- 
phlet "reprinted  from  the  Fyeemason,-'  entitled  "The  Family  of  Grand 
Lodges.''  It  is,  however,  as  we  think,  a  severe  criticism  of  the  action 
of  the  grand  lodges,  primarily  of  Texas,  New  York,  Kansas,  and 
North  Dakota  for  recognizing  the  "Gran  Dieta  Symbolica  of  Mex- 
ico." He  pays  special  attention,  too,  to  Bro.  Theodore  Sutton  Parvin, 
M.  M.  Miller,  and  this  writer  for  what  we  have  written  in  defense,  if 
you  choose,  of  the  action  of  our  several  grand  lodges,  and  for  the  po- 
sition we  have  taken  upon  the  subject.  For  our  part  we  do  not  intend 
to  reply  to  the  strictures  of  our  learned  brother  or  attempt  a  refuta- 
tion of  his  statements.  We  believed  at  the  first,  that  the  Grand  Lodge 
of  Texas  did  the  best  thing  possible,  not  only  for  her  own  adherents 
and  the  Masons  of  Mexico,  but  also  for  the  best  interests  of  the  gen- 
eral craft,  and  that  in  so  doing  she  made  a  long  step  in  the  direction 
of  accomplishing  good,  one  of  the  chief  aims  of  Masonr5^  We  believe 
so  yet.  Time  has  served  only  to  strengthen  our  convictions.  We  are 
willing,  therefore,  for  the  future  to  let  the  subject  rest,  and  we  will 
henceforth  be  a  silent  looker  on,  letting  others  wrangle  over  it  who 
may,  and  to  their  heart's  content. 

Happily  receiving  our  proceedings  for  1896  in  time  for  review,  he 
notes  the  presence  of  the  representative  of  Texas,  Deputy  Grand 
Master  Edward  Cook;  examines  the  address  of  Grand  Master  Scott 
to  the  conclusion  that  it  is  a  plain,  practical,  business  paper,  and 
characterizes  the  address  of  Grand  Orator  Stevenson  as  a  master- 
piece, full  of  deep  thought  and  solid  sense. 

He  refers  kindly  to  our  report,  saying  of  our  introduction: 

With  his  views  upon  the  jurisdiction  over  rejected  material,  the 
status  given  a  rejected  candidate  under  the  properly  administered 
law  of  a  grand  lodge,  recognized  by  us  as  the  competent  law-giver 
within  its  territory:  as,  also,  with  his  views  in  regard  to  the  rights 
and  wrongs  of  non-affiliates,  and  the  use  of  "cipher  rituals,"  we  can 
and  do  fully  and  heartily  agree.  Not  so,  however,  with  his  expres- 
sions in  reference  to  the  recognition  as  legitimate  of  the  gran  dieta. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  285 


The  cap  which  he  makes  for  the  advocates  of  its  recognition  (of  which 
we  have  been  and  stili  are  one)  that  they  are  actuated  by  "the  influ- 
ence of  the  rite  to  which  the  lodges  composing  the  gran  dieta  owe 
their  existence,  and  their  members  the  alleged  Masonry  which  they 
practice,"  does  not  fit  us,  and  we  shall  not,  therefore,  appropriate  it. 
Of  the  "rite"  referred  to,  w^e  are  wholly  and  profoundly  ignorant. 
We  do  not  wish  or  intend,  however,  to  discuss  the  question  further, 
either  now  or  hereafter.  In  all  that  we  have  heretofore  said  about, 
or  of  it,  we  have  been  entirely  honest  and  sincere,  and  we  have  noth- 
ing to  take  back,  or  to  apologize  for,  and  so  having  nothing  more  to 
say,  like  unto  our  good  Brother  Vincil,  of  Missouri,  as  in  the  conclu- 
sion of  his  correspondence  report,  he  says,  "PFe  quit." 

It  gives  us  great  pleasure  to  say  that  we  never  counted  Brother 
Matthews  as  one  of  the  propaganda  to  which  we  have  alluded.  He 
is  not  made  of  that  kind  of  stuff. 

Our  comments  last  year  on  one  of  the  grand  master's  decisions 
brings  out  the  fact  that  in  Texas,  as  in  Oregon,  visiting  brethren  of 
other  Texas  lodges  have  the  right  to  vote  on  petitions  for  the  de' 
grees.     Of  another  matter  touched  in  our  report  he  says: 

That  a  waiver  can  not  be  given  by  a  Texas  lodge  to  a  lodge  in  an- 
other jurisdiction  is  the  Texas  law.  We  are  not,  however,  going  to 
try  to  defend  it,  because  individually  we  do  not  agree  with  it.  Our 
opinion  is  that  in  the  matter  of  making  Masons  of  legitimate  material, 
the  lodges  should  have  full  and  complete  control  in  their  appropriate 
territory,  and  that  they  should  have  the  right  to  waive  or  relinquish 
their  jurisdiction  whenever,  and  in  favor  of  whatever  sister  lodge 
they  see  fit. 

In  this  he  hits  the  foundation  of  the  right  of  waiver.  It  exists 
because  the  lodge  rightfully  has  full  and  complete  control  within  its 
territory;  the  statute  flows  from  the  right,  not  the  right  from  the 
statute. 


UTAH,  1897. 

26th  Annual.  Salt  Lake  City.  January  19. 

Being  unable  to  finish  and  adequately  furnish  their  new  quarters 
in  Salt  Lake  City  and  also  raise  money  sufficient  for  such  a  celebra- 
tion of  the  twenty-fifth  anniversary  of  the  grand  lodge  as  they  con- 
templated, the  Utah  craft  wisely  abandoned  the  latter  and  have  put 
their  spare  funds  into  something  enduring,  and  for  which  posterity  will 
rise  up  to  thank  them.  They  have  illustrated  their  anniversary  volume 
with  portraits  of  their  whole  line  of  grand  masters;  with  exterior  and 
interior  views  of  their  new  Masonic  apartments  in  Salt  Lake  City,  and 


286  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 


with  views  of  other  buildings  in  the  state  having  historical  value  for 
the  craft,  and  also  with  half-tone /ac  simile  of  two  historical  charters. 
As  a  rule  the  portraits  are  unusually  fine  examples  of  half-tone, 
that  of  Grand  Secretary  Chris  Diehl— the  Atlas  of  the  jurisdiction- 
being  indeed  a  speaking  likeness.  Those  who  have  followed  his  course 
from  the  day  of  small  beginnings  will  be  most  interested  in  an  interior 
view  of  the  elegant  office  of  the  grand  secretary,  with  Brother  Diehl 
seated  therein.  It  warms  the  cockles  of  our  heart  to  see  him  so  com" 
fortably  installed. 

The  new  hall  was  dedicated  March  19,  1896,  with  great  eclat,  the 
evening  reception  which  fitly  closed  the  incident  being  characterized 
by  the  daily  press  as  the  greatest  event  of  the  kind  ever  witnessed  in 
the  city. 

The  representative  of  Illinois,  Arvis  Scott  Chapman,  was  among 
the  eight  past  grand  masters  present  at  the  annual  communication. 

The  grand  master  (William  Thomas  Dalby)  announced  the 
death  of  John  Boylan  Farlow,  past  grand  standard  bearer,  at  the 
early  age  of  forty-two. 

He  submitted  no  decisions.  He  made  two  recommendations  (apart 
from  that  which  bore  fruit  in  the  illustrations  referred  to)— that 
their  law  permitting  a  brother  suspended  for  non-payment  of  dues  to 
reinstate  himself  by  paying  up  arrears,  be  so  changed  as  to  require 
also  a  majority  vote  of  the  lodge,  and  that  dancing  in  lodge  rooms  be 
prohibited.  The  jurisprudence  committee  divided  on  both  these 
questions,  and  on  both  the  non-concurring  reports  were  adopted.  The 
majority  report  on  dancing  says: 

We  beg  leave  to  report  on  that  portion  of  the  grand  master's  ad- 
dress discountenancing  dancing  in  Masonic  halls,  and  recommending 
a  mandate  prohibiting  the  same,  that  in  our  opinion  the  recommen- 
dation should  not  be  adopted,  but  to  the  contrary,  that  with  other 
harmless  social  features  should  be  encouraged. 

The  committee  were  united  on  the  overtures  from  Wisconsin  and 
Maine,  reporting  as  follows,  with  grand  lodge  concurrence: 

Proposition  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Wisconsin. — Your  committee 
begs  leave  to  report  on  the  communication  from  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
Wisconsin  that  we  reiterate  the  sentiments  expressed  by  our  grand 
master  and  will  continue  to  dispense  true  Masonic  charity,  wherever 
needed  to  the  extent  of  our  ability,  regardless  of  the  ability  or  dispo- 
sition of  the  lodge  to  which  the  brother  may  belong,  to  reimburse  us 
for  our  outlay. 

Proposition  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Maine. — Your  committee  begs 
leave  to  report  on  that  portion  of  the  grand  master's  address  refer- 
ring to  the  communication  received  by  him  as  representative  of  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  Maine;  that  we  see  no  reason  for  deviating  from  the 
established  rule  made  by  this  grand  lodge  that  one  year's  residence 
within  this  jurisdiction  entitles  a  profane  to  petition  for  the  degrees; 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  287 


and  the  further  protection  that  he  shall  state  in  his  petition  whether 
or  no  he  has  been  rejected  within  six  months,  affords  ample  safeguard 
against  unworthy  applicants. 

The  status  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Sweden,  which  got  before  the 
jurisprudence  committee  in  the  shape  of  a  letter  from  Bro.  Prof. 
J.  W.  Wennerberg,  of  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  who  seems  to  be  a  sort 
of  volunteer  "promoter"'  of  the  recognition  which  that  grand  lodge 
has  not  applied  for  to  American  grand  lodges,  was  referred  to  the 
committee  for  report  next  year. 

The  proceedings  do  not  disclose  how  the  postponed  decision  of 
last  year,  viz:  "A  visiting  brother  has  no  right  to  demand  an  in- 
spection of  the  lodge  charter,''  has  been  disposed  of:  it  was  referred 
to  the  committee  on  revision  of  the  standard  work,  but  we  find  no 
report. 

The  grand  master  suggested  that  the  pioneer  library,  first  started 
as  a  Masonic  librarj-,  but  afterwards  broadened  in  scope  and  receiv- 
ing assistance  from  the  general  public,  turned  over  b}^  resolution  of 
the  grand  lodge  to  a  General  Library  Association,  to  fall  again  into 
its  hands  when  the  city  council  discontinued  its  annual  subvention, 
be  made,  with  its  10,000  volumes,  the  nucleus  of  a  free  public  library. 
Majority  and  minority  reports  were  made  on  the  subject  and  the  ques- 
tion was  not  settled,  but  there  is  a  fair  prospect  that  the  library  will 
again  be  brought  into  public  use.  Pending  the  settlement  of  one  of 
the  warmly  debated  questions  of  the  session  it  was  decided  by  the  law 
committee  that  excepting  amendments  to  the  constitution  and  elec- 
tions, past  masters  are  entitled  to  one  vote  each  on  all  questions  sub- 
mitted. 

A  revision  of  the  constitution  was  reported  and  adopted. 

Abram  Dale  Gash,  of  Provo,  was  elected  grand  master;  CHRIS- 
TOPHER DiEHL,  Salt  Lake  City,  reelected  grand  secretary. 

The  report  on  correspondence  (82  pp.)  is  of  course  by  Grand  Sec- 
retary DiEHL,  whose  earnest  naivete  and  the  sterling  qualities  of  his 
mind  have  given  him  a  place  as  one  of  "our  home  folk"  in  the  affec" 
tions  of  every  grand  lodge  in  correspondence  with  Utah. 

Epitomizing  the  salient  points  of  our  proceedings  for  1896,  he 
quotes  the  decision  that  an  objection  to  the  initiation  of  an  eligible 
candidate  must  come  before  the  lodge  begins  to  confer  the  degree, 
with  the  remark  that  "it  may  be  of  service  to  our  Utah  masters." 

Anent  the  resolution  directing  the  preparation  of  a  list  of  all  the 
grand  lodges  of  Ancient  Craft  Masonry  in  the  world,  and  another  of 
all  alleged  grand  lodges  or  other  bodies  pretending  to  exercise  author- 
ity over  Craft  Masonry,  he  says: 


288  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


That  means  woe  to  all  Grand  Orients  and  Grand  Councils  who 
claim  authority  over  blue  lodge  Masonry.  The  lists  will  be  very 
handy  in  the  office  of  a  g'rand  secretary. 

Of  Grand  Orator  Stevenson's  "eloquent  and  beautiful"  address 
he  says: 

It  is  one  of  the  best  we  have  ever  read,  and  coming  from  the  Vice- 
president  of  the  United  States  we  would  have  given  much  could  we 
have  heard  it.  While  we  differ  with  Brother  Stevenson  as  to  the  age 
of  the  present  form  of  Masonry  we  agree  with  him  that  its  princi- 
ples have  existed  in  the  times  of  Confucius,  Buddah,  David,  and  Sol- 
omon. 

Referring-to  our  report  he  says: 

Under  Idaho  he  says:  "We  congratulate  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
Idaho  upon  this  abandonment  of  its  assumption  of  the  right  to 
amend  the  landmarks  of  Masonry."  If  Brother  Bobbins  will  consult 
the  proceedings  of  Illinois  of  J841  to  '43,  he  may  be  convinced  that  in 
those  days  the  party  referred  to  amended  the  landmarks,  and  the 
same  party  would  do  it  todaj^  if  it  could.     There  is  no  change. 

At  the  close  of  the  grand  lodge  journal  we  find  this  postscript: 

At  9  o'clock  p.m.,  the  brethren  partook  of  a  banquet  given  by  the 
three  local  lodges.  Grand  Master  Gash  as  toast-master  was  a  great 
success.  The  menu  was  excellent.  Tea  from  China,  coffee  from  Java, 
and  water  from  Citj'^  Creek  as  clear  as  crystal,  were  the  liquids 
served  at  the  festive  board,  and  yet  the  speeches  were  all  happy  and 
appropriate.  In  the  opinion  of  the  grand  secretary  it  was  an  ideal 
Masonic  banquet. — C.  D. 

What  with  their  sumptuous  new  meeting  place,  their  lively  de- 
bates, the  closing  banquet,  and  its  elegant  volume,  the  twenty-fifth 
anniversary  of  the  grand  lodge  got  pretty  adequately  celebrated 
after  all. 


VERMONT,   1897. 

104th  Annual.  Burlington.  June  9. 

The  strong  face  of  Kittredge  Haskins,  the  retiring  grand  mas. 
ter,  reproduced  in  a  line  and  stipple  engraving  on  steel,  forms  the 
frontispiece  of  this  elegant  volume. 

Twenty-seven  grand  jurisdictions  were  represented,  Illinois  by 
Delos  M.  Bacon,  one  of  the  seven  past  grand  masters  present. 
Grand  Master  Haskins  feelingly  referred  to  the  dead  of  other  juris- 
dictions, but  fortunately  had  no  deaths  to  report  in  their  own  official 
ranks. 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  289 

His  address  is  devoted  largely  to  the  affairs  of  the  new  temple, 
and  besides  appropriating  an  additional  $30,000  for  its  completion, 
which  his  exposition  showed  to  be  requisite,  the  grand  lodge  made 
him  a  member  of  the  advisory  board  overseeing  its  erection. 

He  made  no  decisions,  although  frequently  called  upon  to  look  up 
the  law  for  querists  who  found  it  easier  to  write  a  letter  than  to  look 
it  up  themselves — the  strawberry  mark  of  kinship  with  the  brethren 
of  other  jurisdictions.  His  refusal  of  a  dispensation  to  a  lodge  to  ap- 
pear in  public  at  the  centennial  celebration  of  the  town  Burke,  on  the 
Fourth  of  July,  on  the  ground  that  it  was  a  non-masonic  occasion, 
merited  the  approval  it  received  from  the  law  committee. 

He  reported  some  difficulty  in  securing  waiver  of  jurisdiction  from 
lodges  in  other  states,  who  disclaimed  having  it,  but  in  most  instances 
succeeded  at  the  request  of  their  grand  master,  as  an  act  of  courtesy 
to  enable  Vermont  lodges  to  comply  with  a  standing  regulation  on  the 
subject.  At  the  suggestion  of  the  law  committee  the  grand  lodge 
went  so  far  towards  Mahomet  as  to  add  the  following  proviso  to  the 
regulation  referred  to: 

Provided,  however,  that  if  the  grand  master  in  the  jurisdiction 
where  the  applicant  last  resided,  disclaims  jurisdiction,  the  consent 
of  the  lodge  shall  not  be  necessary,  but  its  favorable  recommendation 
of  the  application  shall  invariably  be  had,  before  acting  upon  his  peti- 
tion. 

He  discusses  the  subject  of  honorary  membership,  which  came  to 
the  front  upon  the  levying  of  an  additional  per  capita  tax  of  thirty 
cents  on  account  of  the  temple.  The  law  committee,  of  which  Past 
Grand  Master  Alfred  A.  Hall  is  chairman,  fully  indorsed  his  views 
and  the  grand  lodge  indorsed  their  report  as  follows: 

Lodges  may  or  may  not  provide  for  dues;  they  may  permit  mem- 
bers to  commute  their  dues;  they  may  exempt  members  from  dues,  or 
place  them  upon  the  honorary  roll,  but  their  membership  is  not  af- 
fected thereby. 

The  grand  lodge  by-laws  provide  for  an  annual  assessment  against 
the  subordinate  lodges  upon  the  basis  of  membership,  and  no  action 
or  failure  to  act  upon  the  subject  of  lodge  dues  by  the  subordinate, 
can  affect  such  basis. 

Every  lodge  is  bound  to  obey  the  constitution,  by-laws,  and  resolu- 
tions of  the  grand  lodge,  and  in  case  of  an  assessment  under  the  by- 
laws in  question,  the  lodge  must  return  the  amount  computed  upon 
the  basis  of  its  entire  membership. 

The  report  of  the  finance  committee  shows  that  the  revenue  from 
the  sale  of  "rituals"  and  hand-books  has  fallen  off  somewhat  from  last 
year,  but  this  is  in  part  made  up  by  that  derived  from  the  sale  of 
past  masters'  rituals.  There  is  another  item  of  revenue,  "For  eighty- 
eight  sets  of  lectures,  $44" — which  we  do  ,not  understand,  and  prob- 

— t 


290  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 

ably  it  is  not  essential  that  we  should  understand;    but  we  like  to 
keep  track  of  these  thing's.     One  new  lodge  was  chartered. 

Daniel  N.  Nicholson  was  elected  grand  master;  Warren  G. 
Reynolds  reelected  grand  secretary,  both  of  Burlington. 

The  report  on  correspondence  (157  pp.)  is,  as  usual,  by  Past  Grand 
Master  Marsh  O.  Perkins,  and  is  as  sparkling  as  its  predecessors. 
In  his  survey  of  the  field  he  encounters  abundant  criticism  ef  his 
g'rand  lodge  in  the  matter  of  printed  rituals,  but  sheds  it  as  a  duck's 
back  sheds  water,  leaving  the  impression  that  so  far  as  he  is  aware, 
Vermont  and  all  other  jurisdictions  have  always  come  down  stairs 
that  way. 

Illinois  proceedings  for  1896  are  accorded  a  very  thorough  notice. 
He  quotes  from  the  oration  of  Brother  Stevenson,  and  with  approval 
reproduces  our  conclusion  as  to  the  essential  condition  precedent  to 
any  successful  attempt  to  harmonize  conflicting  views  respecting  juris- 
diction over  rejected  candidates.     Of  another  matter  he  says: 

Brother  Robbins  errs  in  his  statement,  that  when  a  person  from 
another  state  makes  a  bona  fide  settlement  within  the  territory  of  a 
Vermont  lodge,  the  latter  has  jurisdiction  instanter.  A  twelve  months' 
residence  is  required  as  in  Illinois,  and  for  the  same  reasons.  Should 
a  resident  move  beyond  the  jurisdiction,  however,  the  lodge  would  lose 
jurisdiction  immediately. 

The  error  here  seems  to  lie  in  the  supposition  that  we  meant  that 
a  Vermont  lodge  might  at  once  assume  jurisdiction  over  him  as  a 
candidate,  when  we  meant  only  that  it  at  once  had  territorial  jurisdic- 
tion, that  negative  jurisdiction,  so  to  speak,  which  enables  it  to  say 
that  no  lodge  shall  "make"  him  without  its  consent,  the  only  kind  of 
jurisdiction  ever  possessed  by  the  lodge  whose  bailiwick  he  has  just 
left  and  in  quitting  which  he  left  them  nothing'  to  waive. 

We  also  quote  the  following — for  information  and  to  express  our 
gratitude  that  the  trouble  did  not  go  so  deep  as  we  feared: 

Our  brother  errs  again  in  thinking  "there  is  a  fly  in  the  pot  of 
ointment;  either  the  hand-book,  the  grand  reports,  or  the  ritual  must 
be  revised."  Nothing  of  the  kind,  and  no  "unexpected  outlay,"  in 
fact  no  outlay  will  be  required,  or  present  itself  as  an  obstacle  in  the 
way  of  the  new  temple.  The  grand  lecturer  spoke  of  a  certain  dis- 
crepancy in  the  title  of  certain  officers  of  the  grand  lodge  and  sug- 
gested a  change  for  uniformity.  That's  all.  Brother  Robbins.  No 
"obolescent  portions  of  the  primary  engagements  of  the  initiate"  in 
that.  If  it  had  been,  Brother  R.  might  indeed  have  rightfully  found 
something  "humorous"  in  the  report  of  Brother  Montague.  Brother 
Robbins  called  the  past  master's  ritual  a  "romance  that  has  been  copy- 
righted." Whatever  it  may  be,  many  have  found  the  plot  far  from 
dull  and  uninteresting,  and  we  don't  know  but  that  his  name  for  the 
work  is  altogether  good.  However  that  may  be,  we  are  pleased  to 
note  his  appreciation  of  the  hard  and  effective  work  done  by  a  corps 
of  faithful  district  deputies,  and  to  acknowledge  our  appreciation  of 
his  courteous  and  pleasant  references  to  our  report. 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  291 


He  further  comments: 

He  asserts  that  the  authorized  printing-  of  cipher  rituals  by  grand 
lodg-es,  thirty  years  ago,  would  have  set  the  whole  fraternity  in  a  blaze 
of  indignant  excitement,  and  attributes  the  "languid  interest"  in 
the  question,  today,  to  him,  the  root  of  all  Masonic  evil,  the  so-called 
high  rites,  which  in  his  opinion  have  done  much  to  blunt  "the  keen 
edge  of  sensibility,  which  the  craftsman  bring^s  from  the  process  of 
his  "making."  Signs  are  not  wanting,  however,  he  vigorously  declares, 
"that  the  dulled  and  sleeping  conscience  of  the  craft  will  assert  itself 
and  demonstrate  that  it  has  not  permanently  succumbed  to  the  influ- 
ences which  not  only  in  this,  but  in  other  directions  threaten  the  in- 
tegrity of  genuine  Masonry."  Referring  to  the  Gran  Dieta  of  Mexico, 
he  repeats  with  renewed  earnestness  his  warning  to  his  brethren  to 
let  it  severely  alone,  and  in  its  recognition  by  others  he  can  find  but 
another  attack  upon  "the  integrity  of  genuine  Masonry." 

We  note  elsewhere,  however,  that  without  being  oppressed  with 
this  consideration  of  the  integrity  of  genuine  Masonry,  he  thinks 
nothing  will  be  lost  by  making  haste  slowly  in  the  matter  of  recog- 
nizing the  Mexican  grand  diet.  However  true  this  may  be  in  one 
sense,  it  may  not  be  in  another.  At  the  present  writing  there  are 
not  wanting  signs  that  there  will  soon  be  nothing  left  of  it  but  a  diet 
for  worms. 


VICTORIA,    1897. 

8th  Annual.  Melbourne.  March  — . 

Our  last  notice  of  this  grand  lodge  closed  with  the  quarterly  com- 
munication of  March  16,  1896.  We  now  have  before  us  the  proceed- 
ings of  the  remainder  of  the  year  1896,  but  lack  those  of  the  March 
quarterly  of  1897. 

At  the  grand  anniversary  festival  meeting  of  May  4,  1896,  the 
grand  master  (Sir  William  J.  Clarke,  Bart.,)  invited  the  grand 
master  of  South  Australia,  the  Hon.  S.  J.  Way,  to  install  his  suc- 
cessor, which  he  did,  and  thereupon — 

The  grand  master  having  been  duly  obligated,  invested,  and  in- 
stalled, the  grand  director  of  ceremonies  proclaimed  Bro.  the  Rt.  Hon. 
Thomas,  Lord  Brassey,  K.C.B.,  governor  and  commander-in-chief  in 
and  over  the  colony  of  Victoria,  D.C.L:,  etc.,  etc.,  as  M.W.  grand  mas- 
ter of  the  United  Grand  Lodge  of  Victoria  for  the  ensuing  twelve 
months. 

The  M.W.  the  grand  master  announced  that  he  had  appointed 
M.W.  Bro.  Sir  W.  J.  Clarke,  Bart.,  pro  grand  master,  and  M.W.  Bro. 
George  Baker,  P.G.M.,  deputy  grand  master. 


292  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


The  pro  grand  master  was  invested  by  the  grand  master  of  Tas- 
mania (C.  E.  Davies),  and  the  deputy  grand  master  by  Past  Grand 
Master  George  S.  Coffin,  of  Victoria. 

At  the  quarterly  of  June  15,  1896,  the  pro  grand  master  (Sir  Wil- 
liam J.  Clarke)  presided. 

The  board  of  general  purposes  had  much  to  report.  Clause  3  is  as 
follows: 

3.  A  complaint  was  laid  against  the  W.M.  of  the  "Star  of  the 
East"  Lodge,  Omeo,  by  Bro.  H.  G.  Marsden,  on  behalf  of  himself  and 
other  members  of  the  lodge.  The  board  summoned  both  the  W.M. 
and  Bro.  Marsden  to  attend  in  person,  and  after  hearing  Bro.  Mars- 
den in  support  of  the  complaint,  and  reading  a  communication  from 
the  W.M.  in  explanation,  arrived  at  the  following  decision — "That 
the  W.M.  of  the  'Star  of  the  East'  Lodge,  having  refused  to  put  a  mo- 
tion for  the  confirmation  of  a  portion  of  the  minutes,  which  had  been 
duly  proposed  and  seconded,  is  guilty  of  a  Masonic  offence,  and  that 
the  complaint  of  Bro.  Marsden  be  upheld."  Also,  "that  the  W.M. 
of  the  'Star  of  the  East' Lodge,  having  failed  to  convene  a  meeting  of 
the  lodge  for  the  following  regular  meeting,  for  the  election  of  a 
W.M.  —after  the  minutes  of  the  previous  regular  meeting  had  not  been 
confirmed — is  guilty  of  a  breach  of  Rule  112  of  the  Book  of  Constitu- 
tions.' Further,  "that  the  W.M.,  being  unfit  for  the  position,  be  sus- 
pendedd'uring  the  pleasure  of  the  board;  and  that,  in  consequence  of 
the  W.M.  having  been  suspended  from  his  office,  the  lodge  be  instructed 
to  proceed  in  accordance  with  Rule  123,  and  in  the  event  of  both  war- 
dens refusing  to  call  a  meeting  of  the  lodge,  the  I. P.M.  is  authorized 
to  act  until  the  next  election  of  W.M."     (Adopted.) 

Other  clauses  of  general  interest  are: 

12.  In  answer  to  a  question,  the  board  decided  that  past  grand 
lodge  officers  were  not  members  of  grand  lodge,  unless  they  were  sub- 
scribing members  of  a  private  lodge.     (Adopted.) 

17.  A  letter  was  received  from  a  member  of  the  order,  asking  if 
the  board  would  recommend  a  warrant  to  be  granted  for  the  purpose 
of  opening  a  lodge  in  Perth,  Western  Australia,  to  which  a  reply  was 
ordered  to  be  sent  to  the  effect  "that  this  grand  lodge  has  no  juris- 
diction." 

21.  A  senior  warden  of  a  country  lodge  wrote,  stating  that  his 
W.M.  being  absent,  assumed  that  he  was  the  principal  officer  to  rule 
the  lodge  until  the  next  installation.  To  this  the  past  masters  of  the 
lodge  demurred,  relying  on  Rule  123,  of  the  Book  of  Constitutions, 
which  they  considered  supported  the  claim  of  the  I.  past  master  to 
officiate  and  work  the  lodge.  The  board  approved  the  action  of  the 
past  masters.     (Adopted.) 

28.  The  board  recommends  the  M.W.  grand  master  to  issue  a  war- 
rant to  open  a  new  lodge  at  Mortlake,  to  be  called  the  Mount  Shad- 
well  Lodge.     (Adopted.) 

No.  12  is  in  accord  with  our  law.  No.  21  was  adopted  after  an  un- 
successful attempt  to  refer  it  back  for  further  consideration.  No.  17 
was  the  subject  of  the  following  action: 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  293 


Clause  17  provoked  some  discussion;  eventually,  R.W.  Bro.  W. 
Gane,  P.J.G.W.,  moved  that  it  be  adopted,  which  was  seconded  by 
R.W.  Bro.  P.  Blashki,  P.D.G.M.  W.  Bro.  W.  B.  Edwards,  P.G.  Dir.  of 
Cer.,  moved,  as  an  amendment,  that  the  clause  should  read — "That 
this  grand  lodge  does  not  desire  to  assume  jurisdiction."  After  re- 
marks had  been  made  by  several  brethren,  R.W.  Bro.  Ed.  Edwards, 
P.S.G.W.,  seconded  the  amendment,  which  was  carried. 

The  amendment  reflects  the  American  view  of  the  law,  Western 
Australia  being;  in  that  view  clearly  open  territory,  if,  as  we  take  to 
be  the  case,  it  is  either  autonomous  or  not  included  in  any  other 
autonomy. 

At  the  September  21  quarterly,  the  deputy  grand  master,  Past 
Grand  Master  George  Baker,  presided. 

The  board  of  general  purposes  reported  the  receipt  of  a  letter 
from  the  grand  secretary  of  England,  referring  to  a  report  that  had 
reached  him  that  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Victoria  had  entertained  an 
application  from  brethren  in  Western  Australia  for  a  warrant  to  es- 
tablish a  lodge  there,  and  pointing  out  that  the  granting  of  such  a 
warrant  would  be  a  most  flagrant  act  of  aggression,  and  one  that 
would  be  naturally  resented  by  the  Grand  Lodge  of  England,  under 
whose  jurisdiction  the  colony  is.  The  decision  that  "This  grand  lodge 
does  not  desire  to  assume  jurisdiction,"  reached  at  the  June  quarterly, 
was  communicated  in  reply. 

Warrants  for  six  new  lodges  were  recommended  and  issued. 

Clause  15  of  the  report  is  as  follows: 

15.  A  letter  was  received  from  the  W.M.  of  a  country  lodge,  stat- 
ing that  the  brethren  were  desirous  of  electing  as  W.M.  a  brother  who 
had  not  served  as  warden  under  the  Victorian  Constitution,  but  had 
served  the  full  term  as  warden  in  a  lodge  in  Victoria,  previous  to  the 
formation  of  this  grand  lodge;  and  asking  if  they  could  do  so.  The 
board  was  of  opinion  that  the  brother  was  eligible  for  election  as 
W.M.,  in  accordance  with  Clause  2  of  the  Articles  of  Union.  (Adopted.) 

At  the  quarterly  of  December  21,  1896,  the  grand  master,  LORD 
Brassey,  presided  and  was  nominated  for  reelection.  There  being 
no  other  nomination  this  is  equivalent  to  an  election. 

The  board  of  general  purposes  reported  among  other  matters  the 
receipt  of  the  Maine  communication  relative  to  rejected  candidates, 
but  made  no  recommendation  thereon,  and  when  the  clause  (16)  came 
up  for  action,  the  record  says: 

Clause  16  was  read,  and  Bro.  B.  D.  Smith,  P.P. B.C. P.,  as  grand 
representative  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Maine,  requested  fraternal  con- 
sideration for  the  communication. 

R.W.  Bro.  T.  H.  Brain,  P.S.G.W.,  moved  the  adoption  of  the 
clause.  Objection  having  been  taken  to  adopting  the  resolution  con- 
tained in  the  communication,  the  M.W.  the  grand  master  pointed  out 


294  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 


that  the  clause  contained  no  recommendation,  but  simply  stated  that 
a  communication  had  been  received,  therefore  there  was  nothing  to 
adopt.     The  clause  was  passed. 

Clause  15  of  the  report  is  as  follows: 

15.  A  past  master  of  a  suburban  lodge  wrote,  asking  "whether 
it  was  right  for  a  Mason  below  the  rank  of  an  installed  Master  to  per- 
form the  ceremony  of  the  tradition,  and  raise  the  brother  on  the  5  P. 
of  F.  in  a  regularly  constituted  lodge  opened  in  the  third  degree." 

It  was  resolved:  "That  in  the  opinion  of  the  board,  while  it  does 
not  consider  it  improper  for  the  ceremony  to  be  worked  by  an  M.M., 
it  does  not  think  it  advisable.     (Adopted.) 

An  illuminated  address  was  presented  to  the  pro  grand  master, 
Sir  William  J.  Clarke,  in  recognition  of  his  faithful  service  for 
seven  years  in  the  office  of  grand  master,  a  well  earned  compliment. 

Past  Senior  Grand  Warden  Edward  Edwards,  the  representa- 
tive of  Illinois,  was  present  at  all  the  communications  we  have  had 
under  review. 

John  Braim,  of  Melbourne,  remains  grand  secretary. 


VIRGINIA,    1896. 

119th  Annual.  Richmond.  December  1. 

A  half-tone  portrait  of  George  W.  Dame  forms  the  frontispiece 
of  this  volume,  a  most  venerable  and  striking  figure. 

The  volume  contains  the  proceedings  of  a  special  communication 
held  at  Richmond  July  2,  1896,  when  Grand  Master  Fitzgerald  laid 
the  corner-stone  of  a  monument  to  Jefferson  Davis. 

Past  Grand  Master  Beverly  R.  Wellford,  jr.,  the  representa- 
tive of  Illinois,  was  present,  as  he  was  also  at  the  various  sessions  of 
the  annual  communication. 

At  the  latter  the  grand  master  (J.  P.  Fitzgerald)  announced  the 
death  of  George  W.  Dame,  who  was  grand  chaplain  from  1863  to  1895, 
at  the  ripe  age  of  eighty-three.  He  was  long  one  of  the  most  striking 
personalities  in  Virginia  Masonry,  with  which  he  was  identified  for 
more  than  half  a  century.  He  presided  over  his  lodge  at  Danville  for 
twenty-eight  years. 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  295 

Also  deceased  were  Grand  Lecturer  William  H.  Turner  at  fifty- 
four,  and  John  Clinton  Boude,  and  W.  G.  Bottimore,  district  dep- 
uty grand  masters,  aged  respectively  sixty- three  and  eighty. 

The  grand  master  submitted  no  decisions.  His  patience  must 
have  been  sorely  tried  by  the  duty  of  examining  codes  of  by-laws  to 
have  evoked  this  extreme  view  of  the  master's  prerogatives: 

Two  lodges  forwarded  propositions  to  change  a  by-law,  so  that 
the  time  for  holding  stated  communications  could  be  changed.  Upon 
each  document  I  endorsed  as  a  suggestion  to  the  worshipful  master 
something  similar  to  this:  ''It  cannot  possibly  make  any  difference  to 
a  grand  master,  nor  can  I  imagine  how  the  interest  of  the  craft  at 
large  is  involved  in  the  question  of  the  time  when  a  subordinate  lodge 
is  assembled  by  its  master  in  stated  communications,  provided  he  so 
assembles  it  once  in  each  calendar  month,  as  the  law  requires.  That 
if  I  were  clothed  with  his  authority,  and  laeld  his  prerogative,  and  it 
seemed  to  me  to  be  to  the  interest  of  the  lodge  I  governed  to  change 
the  time  at  which  I  would  assemble  the  lodge  in  stated  communica- 
tion, whether  I  had  come  to  that  conclusion  from  my  own  determina- 
tion or  because  the  members  had  so  expressed  themselves.  I  would 
make  the  change,  any  by-law  to  the  contrary  notwithstanding,  and  I 
would  so  make  it  by  my  order  entered  as  such,  at  a  stated  communi- 
cation, which  would  be  accompanied  by  an  order  that  tMe  secretary 
notify  the  members  of  the  change,  and  under  his  hand  and  the  seal 
of  the  lodge  give  information  thereof  to  the  grand  secretary  and  to 
the  district  deputy  grand  master." 

He  recommended  that  some  means  be  employed  to  induce  non- 
affiliates  to  renew  their  membership  and  Masonic  activity,  but  on 
this  point  the  distinguished  committee  on  address — consisting  of  five 
past  grand  masters,  say,  with  approval: 

Your  committee  fully  realize  all  the  evils  of  non-affiliation,  as  set 
out  by  the  grand  master,  but  they  cannot  see  the  way  clear  to  any 
satisfactory  legislation.  The  suggestion  of  the  grand  master  has 
been  not  un'f  requently  before  previous  grand  lodges,  and  on  every  occa- 
sion there  has  been  a  pronounced  rejection  of  any  proposition  to 
change  the  existing  law. 

Of  the  Maine  overture  the  same  committee  thus  express  the 
views  of  the  grand  lodge: 

This  subject  was  considered  at  our  last  grand  annual  communica- 
tion in  the  report  of  the  committee  upon  the  correspondence  of  the 
grand  master  with  the  grand  masters  of  Illinois  and  Pennsylvania. 
In  that  correspondence  our  grand  master  assumed  as  the  Masonic  law 
of  Virginia,  that  our  lodges  did  not  claim  for  themselves  or  recognize 
in  lodges  of  different  jurisdiction  any  right  of  perpetual  jurisdiction 
over  rejected  profanes.  The  report  of  the  committee  approved  his 
action  as  in  full  conformity  to  the  established  Masonic  law  of  Vir- 
ginia, and  that  report  was  adopted  by  the  grand  lodge.  In  view  of 
this  recent  and  well-considered  action  — with  all  fraternal  deference 
to  the  differing  opinion  of  our  brethren  in  Maine — we  see  no  occasion 
for  anj^  reconsideration  of  this  question. 


296  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 


And  of  the  Wisconsin  proposition: 

In  regard  to  the  proposition  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Wisconsin, 
that  "it  is  the  duty  of  each  lodge  to  take  care  of  its  own  members  in 
distress  wherever  they  may  be.  In  case  of  its  inability  to  do  so,  this 
duty  devolves  upon  the  grand  lodge  from  which  it  holds  its  charter, 
it  being  understood  that  in  no  case  is  the  grand  lodge  furnishing  re- 
lief and  asking  reimbursement,  to  go  beyond  actual  necessities  with- 
out express  authority  from  the  reimbursing  lodge."  Your  committee 
cannot  assent  to  its  wisdom  or  propriety.  This  is  a  large  subject,  and 
for  its  intelligent  consideration  much  time  and  discussion  would  be 
necessary.  For  any  practical  difficulty,  in  the  absence  of  further 
legislation,  we  would  suggest  the  resort  of  our  brethren  of  all  sister 
jurisdictions  to  the  aid  of  the  General  Relief  Association  of  the 
United  States. 

The  committee  on  jurisprudence  reported  adversely  on  a  proposi- 
tion to  amend  at  this  time  the  digest  to  add  an  additional  twenty-five 
cents  per  capita  for  the  benefit  of  the  Masonic  Home.  They  say,  with 
grand  lodge  approval. 

Your  committee  is  in  full  and  thorough  sympathy  with  all  that 
can  be  said  or  done  looking  toward  the  advancement  of  the  interest 
of  this  splendid  Masonic  charity,  but  at  the  same  time  we  realize  the 
fact  that  the  real  supporters  of  this  institution  are  to  be  found  in 
the  ranks  of  the  brotherhood  of  the  Masons  of  Virginia,  and  in  our 
judgment  the  grand  lodge  should  be  very  careful  to  take  no  step,  not 
imperatively  necessary,  which  might  in  any  way  tend  to  weaken  the 
hold  of  the  Masonic  Home  on  the  affections  of  the  brethren,  for  the 
craft  very  justly  regards  every  increase  of  the  dues  of  the  grand 
lodge  as  a  Masonic  tax,  levied  by  the  grand  lodge  on  the  resources  of 
the  individual  Mason,  and  the  exercise  of  this  power  by  the  grand 
lodge  should  always  be  carefully  guarded,  and  at  all  times  limited  to 
actually  existing  demands. 

Charters  were  granted  to  five  new  lodges,  and  two  were  continued 
under  dispensation. 

A  proposition  to  dispense  with  the  banquet  given  each  night  in 
the  grand  lodge,  or  in  some  way  to  curtail  expenses  so  as  to  pay  mile- 
age to  at  least  one  delegate,  was  negatived  by  the  committee  on 
propositions,  and  the  following  reported  by  the  same  committee  was 
adopted: 

Resolved,  That  the  M.W.  grand  master  appoint  a  special  commit- 
tee consisting  of  five  members  of  this  grand  lodge,  vvho  shall  take  into 
consideration  the  general  subject  of  the  relation  of  the  Knights  Tem- 
plar and  Masonic  Indemnity  Company,  of  Chicago,  to  the  Masons  of 
Virginia,  and  also  of  such  special  cases  of  Masonic  insurance  in  said 
compan}"-  as  may  be  brought  to  their  attention,  and  report  to  the 
grand  lodge  at  its  next  annual  communication,  what  action,  if  any, 
should  be  taken  by  the  grand  lodge  on  the  subject. 

Alfred  Ransom  Courtney  was  elected  grand  master;  George 
William  Carrington  reelected  grand  secretary,  both  of  Rich- 
mond. 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.    '  297 


The  report  on  correspondence  (67  pp.)  is  by  the  old,  beloved  hand 
of  Past  Grand  Master  William  F.  Drinkard,  to  whose  continued  ill- 
health  the  absence  of  these  reports  for  several  years  has  been  due. 
His  conclusion  explains  the  peculiarities  of  the  report: 

In  the  first  place  several  questions  are  discussed  more  than  once 
under  the  head  of  different  grand  lodges.  This  is  done  first  to  let  our 
Virginia  brethren  know  the  general  attitude  of  the  Masonic  world 
toward  each  of  these  questions,  and  secondly,  to  prevent  the  matter 
being  overlooked  by  a  reporter  who  will  certainly  read  our  review  of 
his  own  proceedings.  In  addition  to  this,  some  of  these  questions 
come  up  under  such  different  aspects  as  to  require  different  comment. 
Some  of  the  prominent  questions  are  those  we  in  Virginia  consider 
fundamental,  and  we  must  treat  opposing  views  as  vigorously  as  we 
think  will  plainly  show  -our  attitude,  hoping  to  influence  others  to 
come  to  our  position,  but  in  no  degree  meaning  to  criticise  them  for 
holding  views  different  from  ours.  For  example,  the  constitutional 
form  of  government  we  consider  totally  out  of  place,  and  an  innovation 
calculated  to  pull  us  down  from  our  high  position  as  a  unique  society, 
the  oldest,  noblest,  and  most  perfect  of  human  organizations,  auto- 
cratic in  the  extreme,  and  at  the  same  time  democratic  in  the  extreme, 
and  thus  typifying  the  fatherhood  of  God  and  the  brotherhood  of  man. 
Essential  to  this  is  the  grand  master's  prerogative  to  rule  and  govern 
absolutely,  make  Masons  individually,  as  well  as  to  do  so  collectively 
by  dispensations  to  form  lodges. 

It  has  been  thought  oest  to  pay  attention  to  giving  each  grand 
lodge  reviewed  equal  notice,  or  to  go  into  details  and  statistical 
statements.  This  report  is  intended  to  put  Virginia  as  nearly  as  may 
be  up  to  date  on  Masonic  questions,  as  she  would  have  been  could  our 
former  reports  have  been  continued  to  date.  The  committee  has 
aimed  to  show  to  our  brethren  and  to  the  Masonic  world  just  what  we 
conceive  to  be  right  on  each  subject  treated,  not  from  any  desire  to 
be  captious,  but  to  do  good,  and  if  wrong  to  be  brought  to  see  it. 

Illinois  proceedings  for  1892  and  1895  receive  notice.  Of  the  re- 
mark we  quoted  from  Brother  Drummond  reflecting  his  opinion  that 
the  Eastern  Star  has  come  to  stay,  and  that  the  best  method  of  treat- 
ing it  is  a  question  of  serious  importance,  Brother  Drinkard  says: 
"Hardly.     Ignoring  will  do  capitally." 

We  greatly  rejoice  at  Brother  Drinkard's  restoration  to  health 
and  activity. 


298  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


WASHINGTON,  1897. 
40th  Annual.  Seattle.  June  8. 

Twelve  past  grand  masters  were  present. 

The  grand  master  (Yancey  Crawford  Blalock)  whose  fine 
Italian  face  looks  out  from  a  half-tone  on  the  fly-leaf,  reports  that 
the  grand  lodge  had  been  twice  convened  for  the  burial  of  past  grand 
officers:  At  Walla  Walla,  September  27,  1896,  for  the  burial  of  Past 
Deputy  Grand  Master  Lewis  P.  Berry,  the  grand  master  conducting 
the  services,  and  again  May  4,  1897,  for  the  burial  of  Past  Grand 
Master  Granville  O.  Haller,  when  by  telegraphic  authority  from 
him  Past  Grand  Master  James  R.  Hayden  opened  the  grand  lodge  at 
Seattle  and  invited  Past  Grand  Master  Louis  Ziegler  to  conduct  the 
funeral  services.  The  record  of  this  funeral  communication  shows 
that  the  Masonic  burial  service  was  supplemented  by  the  service  of 
the  Scottish  Rite.     This  order  of  exercises  elicited  no  comment. 

Past  Grand  Master  Haller  must  have  been  of  the  best  type  of 
men  to  have  inspired  the  feeling  reflected  in  his  eulogy  by  Past 
Grand  Master  David  E.  Baily: 

To  the  memory  of  M.  W.  Past  Grand  Master  Haller  more  than  this 
should  be  said,  but  we  feel  inadequate  to  the  task  of  doing  full  justice 
to  one  whose  life  was  spent  in  the  service  of  his  country,  to  the  craft, 
and  to  the  whole  human  race.  A  larger  and  warmer  heart  beat  not 
than  his.  Courteous  in  his  demeanor  to  all,  with  a  sense  of  right  and 
justice  that  knevv  "no  variation  or  shadow  of  turning;''  with  intellect- 
ual qualities  which  placed  him  in  the  rank  of  the  highest  in  the  land, 
we  could  but  point  to  him  and  saj^,  "There  was  a  man."  And  as  we 
pay  this  tribute  to  the  memory  of  one  so  high,  yet  so  blameless;  so 
rich  in  intellectual  gifts,  yet  so  modest;  so  distinguished,  yet  so  un- 
assuming; so  exalted  in  station,  yet  so  kind  and  loving  in  his  daily 
walk  and  conversation,  we  can  only  say,  with  dimmed  eyes  and  sorrow- 
ing hearts.  Farewell.  Oh  friend  and  brother!     Peace  and  farewell! 

The  grand  master  gave  a  lodge  permission  to  appear  in  public  to 
attend  church  on  St.  John's  day.  He  submitted  six  decisions:  all  were 
properly  approved.     Following  are  some  of  them: 

1.  Among  the  names  of  those  declared  dropped  from  the  roll  for 
N.P.D.  one  brother  was  present  at  election  and  was  api^ointed  and 
acted  as  teller.     Is  the  election  legal? 

Yes. 

3.  Does  a  Master  Mason,  traveling  and  meeting  with  a  stranger 
whom  he  recognizes  by  any  of  the  means  known  to  the  craft  as  being 
a  Mason,  have  a  right  to  proceed  by  strict  trial,  etc.,  to  satisfy  him- 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  299 


self  that  he  is  a  Mason,  and  being  so  satisfied,  hold  Masonic  conversa- 
tion with  him,  onl}-  the  two  being  present? 
Yes. 

4.  Can  past  masters  of  other  jurisdictions  and  past  masters  from 
the  Royal  Arch  assist  in  conferring  the  degree  upon  one  who  is  to  be 
installed  as  W.M.  of  the  lodge? 

Any  past  master,  having  been  elected  and  installed  W.M.  of  a 
regularly  constituted  lodge,  and  having  received  the  P.M.  degree  in 
a  lodge  specially  called  for  that  purpose,  can  assist,  but  one  who  has 
only  received  the  P.M.  degree  in  the  chapter  cannot  officiate  nor  be 
present. 

6.  What  is  the  status  of  a  Mason  in  this  state  who  has  been  sus- 
pended for  N.P.D.  by  a  lodge  in  another  jurisdiction?  Can  he  visit 
a  lodge,  or  is  he  entitled  to  Masonic  benefits  in  this  state? 

His  status  in  this  state  is  the  same  as  in  the  state  where  sus- 
pended. Some  jurisdictions  suspend  from  all  rights  and  benefits  of 
Masonr}',  others  from  lodge  privileges  only. 

The  jurisprudence  committee,  enlarging  on  No.  3  and  speaking  of 
due  examination  by  a  committee,  say: 

This  committee  should  consist  of  three  or  more  Master  Masons,  so 
that  when  the  brother  has  been  proven  by  due  examination,  each 
member  of  the  committee — a  symbolic  lodge— can  say  he  has  sat  in 
lodge  with  the  brother. 

We  think  in  practice  an  examining  committee  rarely  consists  of 
more  than  two,  and  that  when  of  more  the  idea  of  a  symbolic  lodge  is 
not  involved.  We  should  not  feel  warranted  in  saying  that  we  had 
sat  in  a  lodge  with  a  brother  unless  we  had  met  him  within  a  tiled 
lodge  with  a  master  at  its  head. 

We  fraternally  request  to  be  counted  in — symbolicallj^ — any  way 
in  the  following: 

After  the  reading  of  the  grand  secretary's  report,  the  R.W.  senior 
grand  warden  reminded  the  M.W.  grand  master  that  on  last  evening 
(June  7)  the  M.W.  grand  secretar}',  Thomas  Milburne  Reed,  completed 
his  fiftieth  year  as  a  Master  Mason.  Whereupon,  the  senior  grand 
warden  offered  the  following  resolution: 

^'Eesolved.  That  as  a  grand  lodge  we  congratulate  M.W.  Bro.  Reed 
upon  the  completion  of  his  first  half-century  as  a  Master  Mason:  we 
recognize  his  inestimable  services  to  Masonry  throughout  the  whole 
history  of  this  grand  lodge:  and  we  tender  him  our  most  hearty  good 
wishes  for  his  happiness  and  prosperity  in  the  years  to  come." 

The  resolution  was  unanimously  adopted  by  a  rising  vote,  amidst 
many  warm  expressions  of  congratulations  and  fraternal  regard. 

The  report  of  the  "code  commissioner,"  Senior  Grand  Warden 
William  Henry  Upton,  signalizing  the  completion  of  the  annotated 
Masonic  Code  of  Washington,  closes  as  follows: 

In  conclusion,  I  desire  to  most  earnestly  and  sincerely  express  my 
appreciation  of  the  extraordinary — perhaps  unique — compliment  paid 


300  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 

me  by  the  grand  lodge  in  authorizing  the  printing  of  my  work  without 
previous  approval  or  examination.  Appreciation  of  the  confidence 
reposed  has  carried  with  it  a  heavy  sense  of  corresponding  responsi- 
bility; and  it  will  be  a  great  relief  to  me  to  learn  that  my  earnest  en- 
deavors to  meet  the  expectations  of  my  brethren  have  been  in  some 
degree  successful. 

Through  his  kind  thoughtfulness  we  have  been  favored  with  a 
bound  copy  of  the  code,  and  partly  from  such  hasty  examination  as 
we  could  give  it  and  still  more  from  our  impressions  of  it  as  reflected 
in  practice,  we  think  his  claim  for  it  is  warranted: 

But,  even  as  they  are,  I  believe  no  grand  lodge  in  the  world  has  a 
body  of  statutes  more  nearly  perfect  than  ours,  or  one  which  adheres 
more  closely  to  the  original  plan  and  spirit  of  Masonry. 

His  annotations  represent  a  mountain  of  well  directed  labor  of  a 
kind  that  reflects  both  ability  and  study,  and  whoever  familiarizes 
himself  with  the  completed  whole  will  possess  a  liberal  Masonic  edu- 
cation. 

The  jurisprudence  committee  being  called  upon  to  interpret  a 
section  of  the  code  relating  to  dropping  from  the  roll  for  non-payment 
of  dues,  considered  them  self-operating  and  olTered  the  following: 

'"Resolved,  That  all  members  in  this  jurisdiction  who  were  in  ar- 
rears in  the  sums  specified  on  said  day,  be  considered  as  dropped  from 
the  roll  on  that  day,  unless  the  lodge  had  theretofore  otherwise  pro- 
vided by  by-law,  duly  approved. 

Discussion  on  an  amendment  of  the  verbiage  of  the  resolution 
was  followed  by  a  motion  to  indefinately  postpone,  pending  which  the 
committee  got  unanimous  consent  to  withdraw  their  report. 

The  same  committee  reported  in  an  actual  case  as  follows: 

Your  committee  are  of  the  opinion  that  the  provision  of  our  law 
requiring  one  year's  residence  of  a  petitioner  for  the  degrees  cannot 
be  dispensed  with  by  the  grand  master,  and  that  is  not  within  the 
power  of  the  grand  master  to  authorize  by  dispensation,  or  otherwise, 
a  lodge  of  this  jurisdiction  to  receive  the  petition  of  one;who  is  not  a 
resident  of  the  state  of  Washington,  and,  therefore,  a  waiver  of  juris- 
diction by  the  grand  master  of  Idaho  could  not  give  a  lodge  of  this 
state  jurisdiction  to  receive  the  petition  of  said  person. 

After  much  discussion  the  report  was,  properly,  we  think,  re- 
committed for  report  next  year. 

The  grand  orator  (John  Arthur)  made  a  very  interesting  ad- 
dress to  consist  of  a  synopsis  of  a  BlackwoocVs  Magazine  article  of 
about  seven  years  ago  on  "The  Druses  of  the  Holy  Land,"  which  says 
the  origin  of  Masonry  is  to  be  traced  to  the  ancestors  of  the  Druses, 
the  Phoenician  mountaineers  of  Lebanon;  and  a  synopsis  of  a  lee  cure 
delivered  seventeen  years  ago  before  Ionic  Lodge  No.  178,  at  Amoy, 
China,  aiming  to  show  the  existence  of  Masonry  in  China  antedating 
Solomon's  time. 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  801 


Consideration  of  the  "liquor  traffic"  coming  over  from  last  year, 
finally  ended  in  the  adoption  of  the  following: 

'■'■Resolved,  That  hereafter  it  shall  be  a  Masonic  offence  for  a  Ma- 
son in  this  jurisdiction  to  enter  into  the  business  of  selling  intoxica- 
ting liquors  as  a  beverage:  Provided,  This  shall  not  apply  to  Masons 
now  in  the  business. 

A  special  committee — T.  M.  Reed,  W.  H.  Upton,  and  J.  E.  Ed- 
MISTON — will  consider  and  report  next  year  on  the  following: 

A  communication  was  presented  to  the  grand  lodge,  and  read  by 
the  grand  secretary,  from  Con.  A.  Rideout  and  others,  claiming  to  be 
"Free  and  Accepted  Masons  of  African  Descent,"  and  appealing  to 
this  grand  lodge  to  "devise  some  ways  whereby"  they  "as  true,  tried, 
and  trusty  Masons  can  be  brought  in  communication  with  and  enjoy 
the  fraternal  confidence  of  the  members  of  the  craft  in  this  state.  " 

No  new  lodges  were  established  during  the  year. 

The  grand  lodge  and  visiting  brethren  were  banqueted  on  the 
evening  of  the  first  day  of  the  session  by  the  craft  of  Seattle,  and 
later  a  proposition  from  the  corporation  owning  the  Masonic  Temple 
building  in  which  the  grand  lodge  holds  its  meetings,  to  have  the 
grand  lodge  own  the  property,  was  entertained,  and  will  be  reported 
on  next  year. 

Archibald  W.  Frater  (puns  barred),  of  Snohomish,  was  elected 
grand  master;  Thomas  Milburne  Reed,  Olympia,  reelected  grand 
secretary. 

The  report  on  correspondence  (107  pp.)  is  by  WliiLiAM  H.  Upton, 
who  indicates  the  plan  of  the  report  and  the  reasons  for  it  in  fewer 
words  than  we  can  tell  it: 

Having  accepted  the  very  courteous  invitation  of  the  committee 
on  correspondence,  M.W.  Thomas  Milburne  Reed,  to  prepare  this  re- 
port, it  seemed  to  me  desirable,  on  account  of  the  expense  incurred 
by  the  grand  lodge  this  year  in  printing  the  code,  and  the  general 
hard  times,  that  the  report  should  be  made  much  shorter  than  usual. 
After  ascertaining  that  this  idea  met  with  Brother  Reed's  approval, 
I  determined  to  carry  it  into  effect,  notwithstanding  the  fact  that  it 
requires  much  more  time  and  labor  to  prepare  a  satisfactory  short 
report  than  one  the  length  of  which  is  not  limited. 

Having  adopted  the  idea,  how  to  carry  it  out  became  a  question 
of  some  difficulty.  Grand  lodges  have  become  so  numerous  and  their 
proceedings  so  voluminous  and  interesting,  that  writers  are  few  who 
can  give  any  adequate  account  of  the  latter,  in  the  ordinary  form  of 
a  review,  in  less  than  two  or  three  hundred  pages.  Many  correspond- 
ence committees,  impelled  by  a  desire  to  economize,  have  attempted 
to  materally  condense  their  reports,  but  with  the  result,  almost  with- 
out exception,  of  being  compelled  to  refrain  from  quoting  wise  and 
thoughtful  words  of  leading  Masons  which  are  of  untold  value  to  the 
readers  of  such  reports,  and  to  abstain  from  discussing  important 
questions  which  are  before  the  Masonic  world;  while  in  some  instances, 
it  has  seemed  to  me,  the  use  of  fifty  or  an  hundred  pages  necessary  to 


302  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


record  matters  of  mere  routine  has  compelled  them  to  almost  wholly 
omit  matters  of  far  greater  interest  and  importance.  It  has  ap- 
peared to  me,  knowing  my  own  inability  as  a  condenser,  that  it  would 
not  be  wise  for  me  to  attempt  to  follow  in  a  path  where  abler  writers 
have  met  with  but  moderate  success,  and  that  I  might  do  better  serv- 
ice by  adopting  almost  the  opposite  course,  namely,  by  omitting  mere 
matters  of  routine  and  devoting  more  space  to  matters  of  general  im- 
portance. However  ill  I  may  have  succeeded  in  this  experiment,  the 
brethren  need  not  fear  a  permanent  abandonment  of  the  form  of  re- 
port which  has  proved  so  satisfactory  in  the  past;  for  while  it  may 
not  be  unprofitable,  once  in  ten  years  or  so,  to  pause  and  take  a  bird's- 
eye  view  of  the  field  of  Masonry,  undoubtedly  next  year — the  need  of 
excessive  brevity  being  removed— the  usual  form  of  report  will  be  re- 
sumed by  the  committee.  And  that  there  may  be  no  break  in  our 
reports  as  an  historical  record  of  the  American  Grand  Lodges,  the 
historical  details  usually  embodied  in  reviews  is  tabulated  at  the  lat- 
ter end  of  this  report. 

The  matter  in  the  following  pages  is  arranged  under  five  heads: 

1.  Criticisms  of  the  Proceedings  of  this  Grand  Lodge. 

2.  Masonic  News. 

3.  Selected  Decisions. 

4.  Quotations  and  Discussions. 

5.  Tabulated  Data. 

He  makes  a  most  interesting  report — he  could  not  fail  to  do  that, 
whatever  its  form — a  report  that  is  all  pie  and  no  crust. 

Illinois  gets  into  it  in  many  ways — in  some  that  we  should  like  to 
notice,  but  necessity  knows  no  law  and  the  printer  is  like  unto  it — 
and  so  we  must  pass  them  all  this  time. 

His  work  as  a  reviewer  fully  justifies  this  from  his  conclusion: 

To  the  brethren  of  the  guild,  we  hardly  know  how  to  word  our  fare- 
well. We  have  visited  your  charmed  circle  now  a  third  time,  hardly 
as  a  member,  rather  as  a  proxy;  and  you  have  treated  us  most  kindly. 
Some  of  you  have  hinted  that,  dropping  down  among  you  from  no- 
where, unknown  and  unheralded,  we  have  sometimes  disturbed  peace- 
ful slumbers,  and  perhaps  ignored  traditional  conventionalities  of  the 
guild.  Well,  we  don't  blame  you  for  disliking  our  faults.  We  dislike 
them  ourselves.  If  we  took  our  Masonry  less  seriously,  if  it  were  to  us 
a  thing  of  no  great  consequence,  you  would  never  find  us  harsh  or  pug- 
nacious or  sarcastic.  We  could  roar  you  gently  as  a  sucking  dove,  and 
could  scatter  compliments  on  every  side.  And  we  know  there  are  men 
among  you,  as  earnest  as  we,  who  never  utter  a  harsh  word  or  awaken 
antagonism.  But  that  is  simply  their  advantage.  They  are  above 
us.  We  can  admire,  but  cannot  imitate  or  approach  them.  The 
choice  before  us  was  to  do  our  work  in  our  own  poor  way  or  not  at  all; 
and  we  can  only  hope  that  it  was  better  so  done  than  not  done  at  all. 
Yet,  in  all  our  pleasant  jousts,  we  have  never  struck  the  weak  or  the 
defenseless.     We  came  to  our  tourney,  a  young  esquire  with  untried 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  303 


targe,  and  it  was  with  mighty  knights  of  standing  and  renown,  armed 
cap-a-pie,  that  we  crossed  swords, 

"All  for  that  Maiden  fair. 
Men  clepen  Masonrie." 

"Why  blame  us,  then,  that  we  have  fought  our  best 
And  never  cried  'Enough.'" 

We  decline  to  accept  his  farewell  as  final.  After  he  shall  have 
concluded  his  service  in  the  grand  east — from  which  he  is  now  but  one 
remove,  we  shall  hope  to  see  if  not  to  meet  him  again  among  the 
guild.  We  may  expect — perhaps  fear — that  his  pen  will  be  a  little 
less  free,  for  no  one  writes  again  with  the  same  abandon  who  has 
been  compelled  by  responsibility  to  weigh  every  word  for  two  or  three 
years. 


WEST   VIRGINIA,  1896. 

31ST  Annual.  Wheeling.  November  12. 

Half-tone  portraits  of  the  incoming  grand  master  and  Past  Grand 
Master  George  E.  Thornburg  embellish  this  volume. 

The  representative  of  Illinois  (S.  D.  Engle)  was  absent. 

The  grand  master  (John  M.  Collins)  submitted  two  decisions, 
one  to  the  effect  that  no  lodge  can  for  any  cause  abridge  the  rights 
and  privileges  of  its  members  without  due  notice  and  fair  trial  (which 
ought  to  be  good  law  anywhere),  called  out  by  a  question  whether  a 
by-law  forfeiting  the  right  to  ballot  or  vote  of  any  member  in  arrears 
to  the  amount  of  $1.50  could  be  enforced,  and  the  other  as  follows: 

Who  has  the  right  to  convene  a  past  master's  lodge?  Is  that 
power  not  vested  in  the  master  of  the  lodge  under  which  the  same  is 
holden? 

The  worshipful  master  of  the  lodge  should  convene  the  past  mas- 
ter's lodge,  and  in  case  of  his  absence  the  senior  warden.  In  case  of 
the  absence  of  the  worshipful  master  and  senior  warden,  then  the 
junior  warden. 

This  shows  that  the  "ancient  impostor,"  the  past  master's  "de- 
gree," is  not  only  still  cherished  in  West  Virginia,  but  is  fenced  in 
with  barbed  wire. 

The  grand  master  has  the  following  sagacious  remarks  respecting 
the  projected  orphans'  home: 


304  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 


It  is  undoubtedly  true  that  we  ought  to  do  more  good  with  the 
funds  in  our  hands,  and  be  able  to  render  a  bftter  account  of  our 
stewardship.  But  would  we  be  any  more  entitled  to  commendation 
if  we  expended  in  the  purchase  of  large  grounds,  the  erection  of  a 
stately  building,  and  the  employment  of  a  corps  of  officers  and  as- 
sistants, all  duly  equipped  for  the  support  of  indigent  orphans,  a  sum 
wliich  when  applied  through  agencies  already  existing,  would  sup- 
port ten  times  the  number  of  those  who  could  avail  themselves  of  our 
charity?  Out  of  every  ten  dollars  in  charity  thus  bestowed,  only  one 
dollar  would  reach  the  true  aim,  only  one  dollar  would  be  expended 
for  the  personal  good  of  the  orphan. 

If  I  may  be  permitted  to  offer  advice  to  the  grand  lodge  upon  this 
question,  I  would  urge  the  expenditure  of  greater  sums  by  the  several 
lodges  for  the  relief  of  the  orphans  of  indigent  brethren;  but  that 
these  moneys  be  expended  through  the  already  organized  agencies  to 
that  end  in  numerous  localities  in  the  state,  rather  than  in  the  at- 
tempt to  build  and  maintain  an  exclusively  Masonic  home. 

A  report  embodying  resolutions  for  the  creating  of  a  sinking  fund 
for  building  purposes  and  for  a  committee  to  consider  locations  for  a 
home  was  finally  recommitted  and  afterward  sent  to  the  lodges  for 
action. 

The  grand  master  refers  briefly  to  the  cypher  question,  approving 
the  action  of  his  predecessor  in  opposition  to  them  and  expressing  his 
gratification  that  one  or  more  grand  lodges  that  had  authorized  them 
had  called  them  in. 

The  overtures  from  Maine  and  Wisconsin,  respectively,  referring 
to  jurisdiction  over  rejected  candidates  and  to  the  subject  of  Masonic 
relief,  were  formally  presented  and  read  by  the  representatives  of 
those  jurisdictions  at  the  reception  of  the  diplomatic  corps.  The 
grand  lodge  approved  the  suggestion  of  the  jurisprudence  committee 
to  agree  to  adopt  the  Maine  proposition,  and  agreed  to  the  following 
respecting  that  from  Wisconsin: 

In  this  jurisdiction  it  has  always  been  considered  to  be  the  duty 
of  each  lodge  to  provide  for  the  necessities  of  its  members,  whereso- 
ever dispersed,  but  it  has  never  been  obligatory  on  this  grand  body 
to  reimburse  any  lodge  in  another  jurisdiction  which  may  have  con- 
tributed to  the  relief  of  a  worthy  brother,  and  your  committee  deem 
it  inexpedient  now  to  so  legislate. 

The  committee  on  doings  of  grand  officers,  reviewing  the  report 
of  the  grand  lecturer,  recommended  the  reestablishment  of  a  school 
of  instruction,  to  remain  in  session  two  days  after  the  closing  of  the 
grand  lodge,  but  this  was  negatived. 

A  pope's  bull  against  the  comet  was  adopted  in  the  following: 

Refiolved,  That  it  is  the  sense  of  this  grand  lodge  that  no  person 
should  be  elected  to  preside  over  any  Masonic  lodge  in  the  state  of 
West  Virginia  except  he  be  able  to  confer  the  three  several  degrees 
and  deliver  the  lectures  pertaining  to  the  same  in  an  efficient  manner. 


MASONIC    CORRESPONDENCE.  305 

The  grand  lodgfe  listened  to  a  half-hour  exposition  of  the  history 
and  symbolism  of  the  apron  we  wear,  by  Past  Grand  Master  Odell 
S.  Long;  chartered  four  new  lodges,  and  agreed  to  meet  next  year 
at  Charlestown. 

Braxton  D.  Gibson,  of  Charlestown,  was  elected  grand  master; 
George  W.  Atkinson,  Charlestown,  reelected  grand  secretary. 

The  report  on  correspondence  (202  pp.)  is  as  usual  from  the  busy 
hand  of  the  grand  secretary,  Past  Grand  Master  George  W.  Atkin- 
son, the  governor  of  the  commonwealth.  He  must  be  of  tough  fiber 
to  stand  up  under  so  much  labor  and  responsibility.  We  wish  that  as 
commander-in-chief  he  would  order  his  printer  to  set  up  his  quota- 
tions "solid;"  it  would  be  so  much  easier  and  pleasanter  for  his  re- 
viewers. He  gives  five  pages  to  our  proceedings  for  1896,  epitomizing 
Grand  Master  Scott's  "entertaining  and  very  readable"  address,  and 
agreeing  with  him  that  "no  peripatetic  man  should  be  made  a  Ma- 
son." He  lays  Brother  Stevenson's  oration  under  contribution  for 
liberal  space,  and  does  us  the  honor  to  copy  from  our  introduction 
our  remarks  relating  to  the  Gran  Dieta  of  Mexico.     He  says: 

I  agree  with  my  learned  brother  that  there  have  been  too  many 
conflicting  statements  by  prominent  officials  of  the  dieta  to  justify 
any  American  Mason  to  believe  that  there  are  no  female  Masons  in 
MexicOj  and  that  the  Holy  Bible  is  not  ignored  by  a  large  majority  of 
Mexican  lodges. 

In  his  conclusion  he  makes  this  confession,  in  the  line  of  our  re- 
flection: 

My  work  has  been  done  in  twMa  res  and  under  the  greatest  possi- 
ble embarrassments.  The  past  six  months  have  been  the  busiest  of 
my  life.  I  have  simply  been  overwhelmed  with  duties  and  responsi- 
bilities, public  and  private,  and  in  the  midst  of  them  all  I  have  writ- 
ten this  report.  It  is  therefore  necessarily  incomplete,  but  under 
existing  circumstances  it  is  the  best  that  I  could  do. 

Here  also  he  touches  very  briefly  the  Maine  and  Wisconsin  propo- 
sitions. Mexican  Masonry  and  cyphers,  saying  of  the  latter  that 
"the  best  sentiment  of  Masonry  all  over  this  continent  is  against 
their  use,  and  they  will  soon  be  a  thing  of  the  past." 


306  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 


WISCONSIN,   1897. 

53rd  Annual.  Milwaukee.  June  8. 

The  representative  of  Illinois,  John  W.  Laflin,  was  at  his  accus- 
tomed post  in  the  southeast. 

The  grand  master  (Aldro  Jenks)  announced  the  death  of  two 
past  senior  grand  wardens,  Robert  Wootton  and  John  C.  Heit" 
bahn;  of  Georgp:  B.  Worth,  who  was  deputy  grand  master  in  1859' 
and  of  Gen.  Geo.  W.  Jones,  at  the  advanced  age  of  ninety-two  years, 
of  whom  he  says: 

Brother  Jones  had  led  an  eventful  life.  He  was  a  drummer-boy  in 
the  war  of  1812,  and  won  distinction  in  the  Black  Hawk  war.  He  was 
the  last  delegate  to  congress  from  the  territory  of  Michigan,  the 
first  delegate  from  Wisconsin,  and  the  first  United  States  senator 
from  the  state  of  Iowa,  and  selected  the  names  Wisconsin  and  Iowa. 
He  had  known  every  president  since  Monroe,  was  a  business  partner 
of  Daniel  Webster,  was  the  colleague  in  congress  of  Thomas  H.  Ben- 
ton, Charles  Summer,  Stephen  A.  Douglas,  William  H.  Seward,  and 
James  Buchanan,  and  was  the  intimate  friend  of  John  C.  Calhoun, 
Martin  Van  Buren,  Henry  Clay,  John  C.  Fremont.  Jefferson  Davis,  and 
Franklin  Pierce.  In  December,  184.":!,  he  attended  the  first  annual  ses- 
sion of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Wisconsin,  and  was  appointed  its  first 
grand  pursuivant  by  Benjamin  T.  Kavanaugh,  our  first  grand  master. 

From  the  grand  master's  decisions  (all  of  which  were  approved, 
although  the  committee  on  jurisprudence  held  that  a  master  appoint- 
ing an  officer  has  the  right  to  remove  him,  and  recommended  that 
No.  6  be  so  modified,)  we  select  the  following: 

4.  Lodges  A  and  B  are  two  lodges  in  this  grand  jurisdiction.  A 
profane  who  has  never  presented  a  petition  to  any  lodge,  and  who  has 
been  a  resident  for  many  years  of  the  territorial  jurisdiction  of  lodge 
A,  removed  from  the  territory  of  that  lodge  and  took  up  his  perma- 
nent residence  in  the  territorial  jurisdiction  of  lodge  B.  He  now  de- 
sires to  present  his  petition  to  lodge  B  before  he  has  resided  one  year 
in  its  jurisdiction. 

What  is  the  proper  procedure? 

Lodge  B  can  act  upon  this  petition  upon  procuring  a  dispensation 
from  the  grand  master.  Lodge  A  should  not  be  asked  for  consent,  for 
it  has  no  jurisdiction  whatever  over  him. 

6.  Has  the  master  power  to  summarily  remove  an  appointive  offi- 
'Cer,  such  as  a  deacon,  during  his  term  of  office,  without  charges  and 
a  trial? 

No.  "A  vancacy  can  only  happen  by  death,  dimit,  or  final  judg- 
ment of  suspension  or  expulsion,"  Constitution  page  27. 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  307 


8.  It  is  unmasonic  for  a  Mason  to  send  out  cards  or  ciruclars  call- 
ing attention  to  the  fact  that  he  is  a  candidate  for  a  civil  office,  and 
that  he  is  also  a  Mason. 

15.  A  lodge  has  no  right  either  as  a  lodge  or  in  a  body,  to  join  in 
the  funeral  procession  of  a  deceased  Mason  who  is  being  buried  by  the 
Knights  Templar,  in  accordance  with  their  ritual.  Under  our  consti- 
tution, the  grand  master  has  no  power,  by  dispensation  or  otherwise, 
to  authorize  the  same. 

16.  Where  a  master  of  a  lodge  removes  to  and  becomes  the  resident 
of  another  state,  but  still  remains  affiliated  with  the  lodge  of  which 
he  is  master,  his  office  does  not  thereby  become  vacant. 

All  of  these  are  to  be  commended  on  general  principles,  although 
it  may  be  said  of  No.  6  that  even  in  Wisconsin,  if  for  contumacious 
disobedience  within  the  lodge  the  master  should  assume  to  remove  an 
appointed  officer  the  grand  lodge  would  probably  find  itself  constrained 
to  sustain  his  action.  Many  Masons  get  muddled  on  the  subject  of 
No.  4;  the  grand  master  did  not. 

Another  decision — on  physical  qualifications — denied  the  validity 
of  the  proviso  implied  in  the  following  edict,  adopted  in  1895: 

"The  landmark  as  to  physical  qualifications  to  be  strictly  con- 
strued. The  candidate  must  be  hale,  sound,  of  entire  limb.unmutilated, 
not  deformed,  dismembered,  lame,  maimed,  stilTened,  or  defective  in 
body,  limb,  or  member  of  the  body,  that  will  in  any  wise  prevent  or  im 
pare  a  perfect  conformity  to  and  performance  of  all  the  requirements 
of  the  ritual  and  obligations. 

The  grand  master,  after  discussing  the  matter  at  some  length, 
for  reasons  which  we  deem  inconclusive,  reached  the  following  con" 
elusion,  which  the  grand  lodge  sustained: 

Believing  this  edict  to  be  void,  I  have  accordingly,  uniformly  held, 
that  where  a  candidate  was  maimed,  mutilated,  or  deformed,  he  was 
ineligible  for  initiation,  notwithstanding  he  might  be  capable  of  con- 
forming to  all  the  requirements  of  the  ritual  and  obligation. 

We  regard  the  proviso  as  fully  warranted  by  the  Charges  of  a 
Freemason. 

The  following  query  was  referred  to  the  committee  on  jurispru- 
dence: 

If  a  lodge  of  Master  Masons  is  opened,  the  officers  installed,  and 
the  lodge  closed:  immediately  following  the  close  of  the  lodge  a  chap- 
ter of  Eastern  Star  is  opened  in  the  same  room,  many  of  the  same 
persons  being  present,  the  officers  of  the  chapter  then  installed,  after 
which  the  parties  to  both  installations  partake  of  a  banquet  together; 
is  this  a  joint  installation  in  the  meaning  of  that  term  as  used  in  the 
ruling  of  the  grand  master  upon  this  subject,  made  in  1893. 

The  committee  answer  "yes"  and  add  the  following: 

That  a  joint  installation  may  be  defined  to  be  that  two  or  more 
installations  constituting  one  event,  held  consecutively  at  the  same 
time  in  the  same  place,  and  practically  before  the  same  assemblage. 


308  APPENDIX.— PART    I. 


The  committee  on  Masonic  relief  reported  progress,  submitting 
as  the  main  portion  of  their  report  the  argumentative  circular  sent 
to  the  grand  lodges,  in  defence  and  explanation  of  the  original  over- 
ture, and  adding: 

We  are  pleased  to  report  that  our  proposition  is  gaining  ground, 
though  slowly.  It  has  been  formally  adopted  by  the  jurisdictions  of 
California,  Arizona,  Montana,  Nebraska,  Wyoming,  and  Wisconsin; 
while  Connecticut,  Missouri,  and  South  Carolina  have  practically  the 
same  system. 

We  are  of  opinion  that  other  jurisdictions,  as  soon  as  they  can 
disabuse  their  minds  of  the  erroneous  impression  that  it  is  intended 
to  relieve  Masons  of  their  individual  obligations,  and  that  it  is  an  in- 
ovation  in  Masonry,  will  fall  into  line.  In  nearly  all  the  grard  lodges 
the  subject  is  under  discussion,  and  we  hope  the  principal  will  ulti- 
mately prevail,  as  the  only  method  yet  proposed  that  will  ensure  re- 
rief  at  a  minimum  of  cost. 

As  we  overlook  the  field  we  see  no  evidence  that  the  process  of 
disabusing  the  minds  of  most  jurisdictions  of  the  impression  that  the 
eftect  of  the  proposition,  if  adopted,  would  be  to  relieve  Masons  (in 
their  own  minds)  of  their  individual  obligations,  and  that  it  is  an 
innovation  in  Masonry,  is  becoming  any  more  active  than  at  first. 

The  committee  was  continued. 

In  offering  the  following,  which  was  adopted,  the  distinguished 
chairman  of  the  committee  on  relief,  Past  Grand  Master  Swain,  has 
struck  a  chord  that  will  be  everywhere  responsive: 

Whereas,  It  is  a  well-settled  principle  in  Masonry  that  every 
applicant  for  its  mysteries  must  come  in  of  his  own  free  will  and  ac- 
cord; and 

Whereas,  It  is  expressly  made  a  Masonic  offence  to  ask  or  solicit 
a  profane  to  become  a  Mason;  and 

Whereas,  There  are  indications  that  some  of  our  younger  breth- 
ren, in  their  zeal,  have  either  forgotten,  or  have  not  learned  this  well- 
settled  Masonic  principle;  therefore 

Resolved,  That  this  grand  lodge  hereby  reaffirms  its  condemnation 
of  this  unmasonic  practice,  and  strictly  enjoins  all  Masons  of  its  obe- 
dience, from  even  the  slightest  hint  to  a  profane,  that  his  member- 
ship in  the  fraternity  is  desirable. 

Besolved,  That  the  grand  secretary  be  directed  to  send  a  copy  of 
the  above  to  every  lodge  in  the  jurisdiction,  with  instructions  that 
they  be  read  in  the  lodge  at  least  four  times  in  each  year. 

The  following,  offered  by  the  representative  of  Illinois,  was 
adopted: 

Besolved,  That  all  the  members  of  Masonic  fraternity  in  attend- 
ance upon  the  Supreme  Council  of  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Work- 
men now  in  session  in  this  city,  be  extended  the  fraternal  courtesies 
of  the  grand  lodge,  and  invited  to  attend  its  deliberations,  should  they 
(ind  it  convenient  to  do  so. 


t 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  309 

As  we  do  not  see  the  proceedings  of  the  Workmen,  we  are  unable 
to  say  whether  similar  action  was  had  by  that  industrious  body. 

A  revised  constitution  was  adopted;  two  charters  were  granted, 
and  the  grand  secretary  of  Missouri,  Past  Grand  Master  John  D. 
ViNCiL,  was  welcomed  as  a  visitor,  making  an  eloquent  response. 

Nathan  C.  Giffin,  of  Pon  du  Lac,  was  elected  grand  master; 
John  W.  Laflin,  Milwaukee,  reelected  grand  secretary. 

There  is  no  report  on  correspondence. 


WYOMING,   1897.    • 

22nd  Annual,.  Sheridan.  September  8. 

Excellent  phototype  portraits  of  three  past  grand  masters — 
Prank  M.  Poote  (1880),  Leroy  S.  Barnes  (1889),  E.  A.  Abry  (1890), 
and  of  Grand  Secretary  William  L.  Kuykendall  adorn  this  volume, 
the  latter  appropriatelj'  forming  the  frontispiece. 

The  grand  master  (Fenimore  Chatterton)  called  the  roll  of  the 
dead  of  the  year,  and  found  among  them  Orlando  North,  the  first 
grand  master  of  Wyoming,  of  whom  he  says: 

He  was  a  pioneer  of  the  west,  and  a  man  who  had  won  honors,  po- 
litical and  Masonic,  by  merit,  and  the  esteem  and  love  of  his  neighbors 
by  his  honorable  private  life. 

Pollowing  is  one  of  the  three  special  dispensations  granted: 

December  19,  1895,  to  Sundance  Lodge  No.  9,  to  wear  regalia  at 
the  public  installation  of  the  Eastern  Star  chapter  on  December  27, 
1895. 

Pavors  to  the  fair  come  readily  in  the  regions  where  the  women 
are  in  a  minority. 

The  grand  master  submitted  no  decisions,  but  called  attention  to 
a  question  received  and  his  answer  thereto,  which  we  give  below.  We 
think  he  is  mistaken  in  saying  that  there  is  statutory  law  on  the  sub- 
ject in  most  jurisdictions,  but  of  this  we  are  not  sure: 

Is  there  any  Masonic  law  prohibiting  a  lodge  from  conferring  de- 
grees upon  one  who  is  engaged  in  a  general  saloon  business? 

My  answer  to  that  question  was  as  follows:  There  is  no  statutory 
law  upon  this  subject  in  this  jurisdiction,  as  there  is  in  most  jurisdic- 


310  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 


tions.  But  in  section  89  of  the  by-laws  of  the  grand  lodge  we  find  that 
it  is  "made  the  imperative  duty  of  lodges  in  this  jurisdiction,  as  far 
as  possible,  to  restrain  the  crime  of  intemperance,''  and  in  section  70 
it  is  provided  that  "No  lodge  shall,  on  any  pretense,  introduce  intoxi- 
cating liquors,  or  permit  their  use  as  a  beverage,  in  any  room  used  by 
such  lodge." 

If  intemperance  is  a  Masonic  crime,  how  much  more  so  is  the 
offering  for  sale  that  which  not  only  produces  the  crime,  but  drags 
men  bodily,  mentally,  and  spiritually  down  to  the  lower  levels  of  sin? 
If  the  introduction  of  liquor  into  our  lodge  rooms  is  and  should  be  pro- 
hibited, how  much  more  so  should  the  vendor  of  intoxicating  iniquity 
be  excluded  from  the  high  privileges  of  Masonic  rights'?  In  the  light 
cast  b}'  the  spirit  of  these  two  sections  referred  to,  I  can  not  see  how 
a  committee  can  favorably  report  upon  the  application  of  a  liquor 
dealer,  if  they  have  the  good  of  the  order  at  heart. 

As  a  result  of  very  close  observation,  I  am  firmly  convinced  that 
the  extension  of  Masonic  rights  to  this  class  of  applicants,  sooner  or 
later,  brings  discredit  upon  the  order,  and  places  not  only  the  individ- 
ual lodge  and  its  members,  but  the  fraternity  at  large,  in  a  position 
of  deserved  adverse  criticism  and  often  of  censure,  and  I  trust  that 
the  Masons  of  Wyoming  will  not  brave  that  possibility.- 

His  earnest  recommendation  that  some  direct  legislation  be  en- 
acted on  the  subject  bore  fruit  in  the  adoption  of  the  following  by* 
law: 

It  shall  be  and  is  hereby  made  the  imperative  duty  of  lodges  in 
this  jurisdiction  to  restrain  as  far  as  possible  the  crime  of  intemper- 
ance; and  hereafter  no  subordinate  lodge  shall  admit  by  initiation  or 
affiliation  any  person  engaged  in  the  manufacture  or  sale  of  intoxi- 
cants. Engaging  in  such  business  hereafter  by  any  brother  shall  be 
considered  a  Masonic  offence,  and  if  after  trial  he  be  found  guilty  of 
the  charges  he  shall  be  suspended  or  expelled,  as  the  case  may  require; 
and  for  the  faithful  performance  of  this  duty  each  lodge  shall  be  held 
accountable  to  the  grand  lodge.  Provided,  That  the  above  provisions 
shall  not  be  deemed  to  apply  to  persons  who  are  regularly  engaged  in 
the  business  of  druggist,  and  inn  keepers,  nor  to  dealers  in  liquors  used 
exclusively  in  the  arts  and  sciences. 

A  resolution  that  proxies  should  not  be  recognized  unless  signed 
by  the  officer  entitled  to  the  seat,  and  attested  by  the  seal  of  the 
lodge,  went  into  the  hopper  of  the  law  committee  and  came  out  as  a 
by-law  properly  framed,  which  was  adopted  as  follows: 

Whenever  the  master  or  wardens  of  a  lodge  can  not  attend  any 
communication  of  the  grand  lodge  in  person  they  may  appoint  some 
member  or  members  to  act  in  his  or  their  stead  and  represent  the 
lodge.  Such  appointment  shall  be  in  writing  and  shall  be  signed  by 
the  officer  making  such  appointment. 

The  grand  secretary's  salary  was  fixed  at  $.500,  and  the  following 

was  adopted: 

Resolved,  That  the  amount  of  railroad  and  stage  fare  by  the  most 
practicable  route  and  actually  expended  be  paid  by  the  grand  lodge 


MASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  311 


to  one  representative  from  each  subordinate  lodge  and  each  grand 
officer  to  the  next  annual  communication  of  the  grand  lodge. 

The  record  of  the  election  of  grand  officers  reflects  the  more  than 
doubtful  practice  of  instructing  some  brother  to  cast  the  unanimous 
ballot  of  the  grand  lodge  for  a  named  candidate. 

Deforest  Richards,  of  Douglas,  was  elected  grand  master;  Wil- 
liam L.  KUYKENDALL,  Saratoga,  reelected  grand  secretary. 

The  report  on  correspondence  (59  pp.)  is  as  usual  by  the  grand 
secretary,  William  L.  Kuykendall,  who  because  of  a  change  in  the 
time  of  meeting  of  his  grand  lodge  last  year,  covered  a  longer  period 
than  usual  in  his  report  for  1895,  and  now  evens  the  thing  up  by  com- 
pressing this  one  into  narrower  limits  than  usual. 

Illinois  for  1895  is  included  in  his  review.  He  commends  the 
remarks  of  Grand  Master  Goddard  on  the  perpetual  jurisdiction 
"'dogma,"  and  finds  that  we  two  are  in  accord  in  holding  that  the  loss 
of  a  charter  by  fire  entails  no  disability  on  the  lod^e. 

Some  reviewers  have  been  much  inclined  to  regard  Brother  Kuy- 
kendall as  something  of  an  iconoclast.  We  having  said  that  we 
shared  the  generally  prevalent  suspicion  that  his  hoofs  and  tail  were 
not  so  long  as  he  "let  on,"  he  says: 

We  construe  this  to  mean  that  our  brother  reads  what  we  write 
sufficiently  to  understand  our  position  upon  questions  treated,  and 
does  not  jump  at  conclusions.  On  the  other  hand,  if  he  thinks  the 
hoofs,  etc.,  are  not  so  long  when  it  comes  to  w-riting  what  we  honestly 
believe  and  standing  thereby  faithfully,  then  he  is  mistaken. 

His  construction  is  correct;  but  if  we  had  ever  suspected  that  his 
hoofs  were  not  long  enough  and  broad  enough  to  hold  him  to  a  stead- 
fast expression  of  his  convictions,  one  glance  at  the  portrait  which 
an  appreciative  grand  lodge  ordered  published  in  the  proceedings 
before  us  would  cause  the  suspicion  to  vanish. 


ENGLAND,   1897. 

Our  last  notice  of  the  mother  grand  jurisdiction  was  of  a  special 
grand  lodge  held  July  29,  1896. 

At  the  quarterly  communication  of  September  2,  1896,  the  pro- 
ceedings were  of  purely  local  interest.  At  the  quarterly  of  Decem- 
ber 2,  William  Wither  Bramston  Beach,  M.P.,  provincial  grand 


312  APPENDIX. — PART   I. 

master  for  Hampshire  and  the  Isle  of  Wight,  in  the  chair,  a  question 
was  asked  of  the  president  of  the  board  of  general  purposes,  Sir  Rich. 
ARD  LovELAND  LovELAND,  designed  to  elicit  information  respecting 
matters  in  New  Zealand,  but  it  turned  out  that  the  president  had  not, 
as  the  inquirer  supposed,  received  an  important  letter  known  to  have 
been  sent  by  the  District  Grand  Lodge  of  Otago  and  Southland,  but 
instead  it  had  gone  to  the  grand  master.  The  president  could  there- 
fore give  no  information,  but  said  the  precedent  set  by  the  Earl  of 
Zetland  in  the  Canadian  case,  might  be  carried  out  in  this  matter,  and 
then  it  would  be  laid  before  grand  lodge  to  ratify  and  confirm  what 
the  grand  master  might  do. 

At  the  quarterly  of  March  3,  1897,  the  Earl  of  Lathom  on  the 
throne,  a  motion  which  stood  in  the  name  of  the  grand  master  to  vote 
one  thousand  guineas  to  the  Indian  Famine  Relief  Fund,  was  carried 
unanimously. 

W.  Bro.  George  Lancelot  Eyles,  P.M.  197,  P.G.S.,  proposed 
His  Royal  Highness  the  Prince  of  Wales  for  re-election  as  grand 
master,  this  being  seconded  by  W.  Bro.  Malcom  Alexander  Morris, 
P.G.S.,  the  motion  was  put  and  carried  unanimously.  The  Prince  of 
Wales  was  then  proclaimed  grand  master. 

The  following  addition  was  made  to  the  book  of  constitutions: 

Every  brother  who  has  been  initiated  into  Masonry  in  a  regular 
lodge  not  under  the  constitution  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  England 
shall,  previously  to  his  becoming  a  member  of  any  lodge,  declare  in 
open  lodge  his  adhesion  to  the  book  of  constitutions,  and  promise  due 
obedience  to  the  grand  master  and  the  rules  and  regulations  of  grand 
lodge,  and  the  fact  shall  be  recorded  on  the  lodge  minutes. 

In  this  country  the  point  to  which  this  was  directed  is  considered 
sufficiently  covered  by  every  brother's  primary  engagements. 

Judge  Philbrick,  Q.C.,  grand  registrar  (law  officer  of  the  grand 
lodge)  offered  the  following  additions  to  the  book  of  constitutions: 

218ft.  In  a  colony  or  foreign  part  in  which  a  district  grand  lodge 
exists,  if  the  district  grand  master  shall  think  proper  to  grant  a  dis- 
pensation for  that  purpose,  it  shall  be  lawful  for  any  lodge  to  hold  a 
special  meeting,  or  meetings,  to  discuss  and  resolve  on  the  question 
of  the  formation  of  a  sovereign  grand  lodge  for  or  including  the  dis- 
trict or  part  thereof,  or  any  neighboring  district  or  part  thereof,  or 
any  lodges  not  in  a  district. 

4.  Immediately  after  such  meeting,  a  full  copy  of  the  minutes  a.nd 
a  list  from  the  signature  book  of  all  members  attending,  together  with 
the  numbers  voting  for  and  against,  shall  be  sent  to  the  grand  secre- 
tary, verified  under  the  hand  of  the  presiding  master,  and  counter- 
signed by  the  secretary  of  the  lodge. 

5.  No  second  meeting  shall  be  called  to  discuss  the  above  ques- 
tions without  the  special  leave  of  the  grand  master. 


iMASONIC   CORRESPONDENCE.  313 


It  being  urged  that  these  additions  should  go  to  the  board  of  gen- 
eral purposes  for  due  consideration,  a  colloquy  took  place  between 
the  grand  registrar  and  others,  evoked  by  the  question  put  to  him: 
"Are  you  including  New  Zealand  by  the  addition  that  is  now  proposed 
to  be  made  to  the  book  of  constitutions"?  It  has  not  been  recognized." 
He  replied  thas  it  had.     This  being  denied,  he  said: 

I  stand  here  with  full  knowledge  that  I  am  the  responsible  adviser 
of  grand  lodge.  I  said  the  Grand  Lodge  of  New  Zealand  has  been  rec- 
ognized lawfully,  and  that  it  has  been  entrusted  to  the  grand  master  in 
New  Zealand. 

A  division  on  a  proposed  amendment  sending  the  matter  to  the 
board  of  general  purposes  showed  a  majority  against  the  reference, 
but  opposition  was  withdrawn  and  the  whole  matter  went  to  a  special 
committee. 

At  the  annual  grand  festival,  on  the  28th  of  April,  the  Earl  OF 
Lathom  presiding,  after  the  Prince  of  Wales  had  been  formally 
proclaimed  grand  master,  the  Earl  OF  Lathom,  having  been  reap- 
pointed, was  proclaimed  pro  grand  master,  and  the  Earl  OF  Am- 
HKRST  deputy  grand  master.  In  the  evening  the  officers  and  members 
dined  at  Freemasons'  Hall. 

At  a  special  meeting  summoned  by  the  grand  master  for  June  14, 
to  move  an  address  to  the  Queen  on  completing  the  sixtieth  year  of 
her  reign,  the  grand  master  of  Ireland,  the  Dcjke  of  Abercorn,  with 
his  deputy  grand  master,  senior  grand  warden,  and  senior  grand  dea- 
con, were  visitors.     The  Prince  of  Wales  presided. 

His  Royal  Highness  the  Duke  of  Connaught,  proposed  the  ad- 
dress, which  was  seconded  by  the  Earl  OF  Amherst,  and  put  by  the 
grand  master  and  carried  enthusiastically. 

At  the  quarterly  of  June  2,  1897,  the  additions  to  the  book  of  con- 
stitutions at  the  March  quarterly,  were  reported  back  in  the  follow- 
ing amended  form,  and  adopted  as  follows: 

218a.  In  a  colony  or  foreign  part  in  which  a  district  grand  lodge 
exists,  if  the  district  grand  master  shall  think  proper  to  grant  a  dis- 
pensation for  that  purpose,  it  shall  be  lawful  for  any  lodge  to  hold  a 
special  meeting  or  meetings,  to  discuss  and  resolve  on  the  question  of 
the  formation  of  a  sovereign  grand  lodge  for  or  including  the  district 
or  part  thereof,  or  any  neighboring  district  or  part  thereof,  or  any 
lodges  not  in  a  district.  Such  dispensation  may  be  granted  subject 
to  any  conditions  that  the  district  grand  master  may  deem  proper, 
and  also  to  provisions  enabling  two  or  more  lodges  to  unite  in  the 
special  meeting:  and  if  the  district  grand  master  or  masters  should 
refuse  to  grant  a  dispensation  an  appeal  may  be  made  to  the  grand 
master. 

218b.  Whenever  grand  lodge  shall,  with  the  assent  of  the  grand 
master,  recognize  a  grand  lodge  as  a  regular  and  independent  sov- 
ereign body,  having  jurisdiction  in  any  colony  or   foreign   part  where 


314  APPENDIX. — PART    I. 


a  district  grand  lodge  or  lodges  not  in  a  district  exist,  and  the  grand 
master  shall  sig-nify  it  is  not  his  intention  to  grant  for  the  future  any 
warrant  for  a  new  lodge  in  that  iurisdiction,  the  followinir  rules  shall 
apply: 

1.  Within  six  months  after  recognition  the  master  of  everv  lodge 
in  such  jurisdiction  shall  convene  a  special  meeting  of  the  lodge  on 
not  less  than  twenty-one  days'  notice  to  every  member:  failing  the 
master,  the  district  grand  master  or  the  acting  deputy  shall  convene 
such  meeting  and  preside  thereat. 

2.  The  brethren  present  at  such  meeting,  whose  names  appear  as 
subscribing  members  on  the  last  return  filed  with  the  grand  secretary 
shall  decide  whether  they  desire  that  the  lodge  shall  continue  under 
the  Grand  Lodge  of  England  or  not. 

If  the  decision  be  to  join  the  new  grand  lodge,  the  brethren  shall 
at  the  same  meeting  decide  in  whom  the  property  and  effects  of  the 
lodge  shall  be  vested,  and  the  warrant  shall  be  forthwith  returned  to 
the  grand  secretary  to  be  delivered  up  to  the  grand  master.  A  major- 
ity of  two-thirds  of  the  members  present  shall  be  required  to  carry 
such  resolution. 

3.  No  question  shall  be  discussed  or  put  at  such  meeting  other 
than  those  above  prescribed. 

4.  Immediately  after  such  meeting,  a  full  copy  of  the  minutes 
and  a  list  from  the  sig'nature  book  of  all  members  attending,  together 
with  the  numbers  voting  for  or  against,  shall  be  sent  to  the  grand 
secretary,  verified  under  the  hand  of  the  presiding  master,  and 
countersigned  by  the  secretary  of  the  lodge. 

5.  No  second  meeting  shall  be  called  to  discuss  the  above  ques- 
tions without  the  special  leave  of  the  grand  master. 

These  provisions  will  render  impossible,  in  the  future,  the  wrang- 
ling and  bad  blood  which  have  sometimes  attended  the  transfer  of 
allegiance  by  English  lodges  when  independent  grand  lodges  have 
been  formed  in  outlying  British  possessions. 

Want  of  time  forbids  our  noticing  other  matters  of  interest.  Ed- 
ward Letchworth,  London,  (Freemasons'  Hall)  remains  grand  sec- 
retary. 


APPENDIX 

PART    II. 


LODGE  DIRECTORY. 

TABULATED  STATEMENTS. 

REPORTS  OF  DISTRICT  DEPUTY  GRAND 

MASTERS  AND  OTHER  OFFICERS. 


APPENDIX. — PART    II. 


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19 


Alphabetical  List  of  Fostoffices. 


GIVING  NAME  AND  NUMBER  OF  LODGE  LOCATED  AT  EACH- 


POSTOFFICE. 


Abingdon 

Albany 

Albion 

Aledo 

Alexis  

Allendale.  .   

Allen's  Springs  . 

Alta 

Altamont 

Alton 

Alton 

Altona 

Alto  Pass 

Ambo}- 

Andalusia 

Anna 

Antioch 

Apple  River 

Areola  

Arlington  

Arrowsmitli 

Arthur 

Ashley 

Ashmbre 

Ashton 

Assumption  — 

Astoria 

Atkinson 

Atlanta 

Atwood 

Auburn 

Augusta 

Aurora 

Aurora 

Austin 

Ava 

Avon 

Bardolph 

Harrington 

Barry 

Basco 

Batavia 

Bay  City 

Beardstown 

Beecher  City 

Belknap 

Belle  Rive 

Belleville 

Belvidere 

Bement 

Benton 

Birds 

Berwyn 

Bethalto 

Blandinsvilie j  Hlandinsville 

Bloom  ingtun jlSlnomington. 

Bloomington |  Wade-Barney 


Abingdon 

Albanj' 

Hermitage 

Aledo 

Alexandria 

Allendale 

Gurney  

Alta 

Altamont 

Piasa 

Erwin  

Altona 

Alto  Pass 

Illinois  Central 

Andalusia 

Anna     

Sequoit 

Apple  River  — 

Areola 

Levi  Lusk 

Arrowsmith 

Arthur 

Clay 

Ashmore 

Ashton 

Bromwell 

Astoria 

Annawan 

Atlanta 

Atwood 

Ark  &  Anchor  — 
J.  L.  Anderson  . . . 
Jerusalem  Temp. 

Aurora 

Austin U.  D. 

Dean 

Avon  Harmony  . . 

Bardolph '. . . . 

Lounsbury 

Barry 

Basco 

Batavia 

Bay  City 

Cass 

Greenland 

Belknap 

Belle  Rive 

St.  Clair 

Belvidere 

Bement 

Benton 

S.  D.  Monroe 

Berwj-n 

Bethalto 


POSTOFFICE. 


18.5 
566 
356 
252 
702 


748 

315 
330 

840 
178 
516 
.o20 
827 
548 
366 
270 
737 
825 
1,53 
390 
531 
451 
100 
433 
165 
6ol 
354 
318 
90 
254 

833 
253 

7.51 

34 

618 

404 

771 

23 

665 

822 

696 

24 

60 

365 

64 

447 

839 

406 

233 

43 

512 


Bloomington 

Blue  Island 

Blue  Mound 

Bluffs 

Bowen 

Bradford 

Braidwood 

Bray  field 

Bridgeport 

Brighton 

Broadlands  

Buckley 

Buda 

Bunker  Hill 

Burnside 

Burnt  Prairie 

Bushnell 

Byron 

Cabery 

Cairo 

Camargo 

Cambridge 

Camden    

Cameron 

Camp  Point 

Campbell  Hill . . . 

Canton 

Capron 

Cantrall 

Carbondale  

Carlinville 

Carlyle 

Carman  

Carmi  

CarroUton 

Carterville 

Carthage 

Casej^ 

Catlin 

Cave-in-Rock  . . . 

Centralia 

Cerro  Gordo 

Chambersburg  . 

Champaign  

Chandlerville  . . . 

Channahon 

Charleston 

Chatham 

Chatsworth 

Chebanse 

Chenoa 

Cherry  Valley . . . 

Chester 

Chesterfield 

Chicago 

Chicago 

Chicago 


Mozart 

Calumet 

Blue  Mound 

Bluffs 

Bowen 

Bradford  

Braidwood 

Goode 

Bridgeport 

Hibbard  

Broadlands  

Buckley 

Buda 

Bunker  Hill 

Burnside 

Burnt  Prairie.. . 

T.  J.  Pickett 

Byron 

Norton 

Cairo 

Camargo 

Cambridge 

Camden 

Berwick , 

Benjamin 

Shiloh  Hill 

Morning  Star  . . , 

Capron 

Van  Meter 

Shekinah 

Mt.  Nebo 

Seott 

Carman  

Carmi 

CarroUton 

Williamson 

Hancock 

Casey 

Catlin 

Cave-in-Rock  . . 

Centralia 

Cerro  Gordo 

Chambersburg. 
Western  Star  . . 
Chandlerville  .. 

Channahon 

Charleston 

Chatham 

Chatsworth 

Chebanse 

Chenoa 

Cherry  Valley .. 

Chester 

Che.sterfleld  .... 

Accordia  

Apollo 

Arcana 


656 
716 
682 
846 
486 
.514 
704 
744 
386 
249 
791 
634 
399 
151 
683 
668 
307 
274 
631 
237 
440 

49 
648 
619 
297 
695 
734 
575 
762 
241 

76 

79 
732 
272 

50 
803 

20 
442 
285 
444 
201 
600 
373 
240 
724 
262 

35 
523 
539 
429 
292 
173 

72 
445 
277 
642 
717 


20 


APPENDIX. — PART   II. 


ALPHABETICAL  LIST  OF  POSTOFFICES— Continued. 


posTorncE. 


Chicago 

Chicago 

(Auburn  Park) . 

Chicago  

Chicago  

Chicago  

Chicago  

Chicago  

Chicago  

(Lawndale) 

Chicago 

Chicago 

Chicago 

Chicago 

Chicago 

(Englewood).... 

Chicago 

(West  Pullman) 

Chicago 

Chicago 

Chicago 

Chicago 

Chicago 

(G'nd  Crossing) 

Chicago 

(So.  Chicago) . . . 

Chicago 

Chicago 

Chicago 

Chicago 

Chicago 

(Kensington)  .. 

Chicago 

Chicago 

Chicago 

Chicago 

Chicago 

Chicago 

Chicago 

(Chicago  Lawn) 

Chicago  

Chicago  

Chicago  

Chicago  

Chicago  

(Irving  Park)... 

Chicago 

Chicago 

(Englewood).... 

Chicago 

(Norwood  Park) 

Chicago  

Chicago  

(Pullman) 

Chicago 

(RodgersPark) 

Chicago 

Chicago 

(Jefferson) 

Chicago 

(Raven  swood) .. 

Chicago 

Chicago 

Chicago 

Chicago 

Chicago 

(Tracy) 


Ashlar 

Auburn  Park. .. 

BenHur 

Blair 

Blaney 

Chicago 

Cleveland  

Columbian 

C;onstantia 

Covenant 

D.  C.  Cregier 

Dearborn 

Englewootl 

Fides 

Garden  City 

Garfield 

(jcrmania 

Golden  Rule  — 

Grand  Crossing. 

Harbor 

Herder  

Hesperia 

Home 

Humboldt  Park 

Kensington 

Kenwood 

Keystone 

Kilwinning 

Lakeside 

Lake  View 

Landmark 

Lawn 

Lessing 

Lincoln  Park. . . 

Mithra 

Mizpah 

Myrtle 

Mystic  Star 

Normal  Park. . . 

Beacon  Light .. 
Oriental 

Palace 

Park .' 

Pleiades 

Providence 

Ravenswood..  .. 
Richard  Cole.... 

Siloam 

South  Park 

Thos.  J.  Turner 

Tracv 


789 
818 
393 
271 
437 
211 

819 
783 
526 
643 
310 

690 

842 
141 
686 
182 
726 


731 
669 
411 

508 
813 

804 
800 
639 
311 
739 
774 
422 

815 
557 
611 
410 


795 

758 


843 

478 


697 
780 
662 
409 

810 


POSTOFFICE. 


Chicago 

(So.  Chicago) . .. 

Chicago 

Chicago 

Chicago 

Chicago 

(Windsor  Park) 

Chicago 

Chicago 

( Woodlawn  Pk) 
Chicago 

( Wright's  Gro.) 
Chicago  Heights 

Chillicothe 

Chrisman 

Clay  City 

Clavton 

Clifton 

Clinton 

Coal  Valley 

Cobden 

Cohn 

Colchester 

Colfax 

Collinsville 

Colono 

Columbia 

Columbus 

Compton 

Concord 

Cordova 

Corinth 

Cornland 

Cowden 

Crab  Orchard 

Creal  Springs  — 

Creston 

Crete 

Cuba 

Dallas  City 

Danvers 

Danville 

Davis 

Dawson 

Decatur 

Decatur 

De  Kalb 

De  Land 

Delavan 

Denver 

De  Soto 

De  Witt 

Diona 

Dix 

Dixon 

Dongola 

Donnellson 

Downers  Grove.  . 

Dundee 

Du  Quoin 

Durand 

Dwight 

Earlville 

East  Dubuque  — 
East  St.  Louis  — 
East  St.  Louis — 

Eaton 

Eddyville 


Triluminar 

Union  Park 

Waldeck 

Waubansia 

Windsor  Park  . . . 
Wm.  B.  Warren.. 

Woodlawn  Park.. 

Wright's  Grove... 
Chicago  HtsU.  D. 
Geo.  Washington 

Bloomtield 

Clay  City 

Clavton 

Clifton 

DeWitt 

Valley 

Cobden 

New  Hope 

Colchester 

Colfax 

Collinsville 

Clement 

Columbia 

Columbus  

Brooklj-n 

N.  D.  Morse 

Cordova 

Andrew  Jackson.. 

Cornland  

Joppa 

Blazing  Star 

Creal  Springs  — 

Creston 

Crete 

Cuba 

Dallas  Cit}- 

Danvers  . " 

Olive  Branch 

Evening  Star 

Dawson 

Macon 

Ionic 

De  Kalb 

De  Land 

Delavan 

Denver 

De  Soto 

Amon 

Hutton 

Rome 

Friendship 

Dongola 

Donnellson 

Grove 

Dundee 

Du  Quoin 

Durand 

Livingston 

Meridian 

Martin 

Ea.st  St.  Louis  — 

Gothic U.D. 

Crawford 

Eddyville 


APPENDIX. — PART   II. 


21 


ALPHABETICAL  LIST  OF  FOSTOFFICES— Continued. 


POSTOFFICE. 


Edgewood 

Edinburg 

Edwardsville. . . 

Effingham 

Elburn 

El  Dara 

Eldorado  

Elgin 

Elgin 

Elizabeth 

Elizabethtown.. 
EUiottstown.... 


Edgewood 

Blueville 

Edwardsville. 
Effingham.  . . . 
Blackberry. . . 

El  Dara.  .." 

Eldorado  

Elgin 

Monitor 

Kavanaugh.. . 

Elizabeth 

Delia 


Ellis  Grove iKa.skaskia. 

Elmwood 

El  Paso 

Elvaston 

Enfleld 

Equality 

Erie " 

Etna 

Eureka 

Evanston 

Ewing 

Exete'r 

Fairbury 

Fairfield 

Fairmount 

Fairview 

Fairweather 

Farina 

Farmer  City 

Farmington 

Fieldon 

Fillmore 

Findlay 

Fisher" 

Flat  Rock 

Flora 

Forrest 

Frankfort 

Franklin 

Franklin  Grove. 

Freeburg 

Freedom 

Freeport 

Freeport  

Fulton 

Galena 

Galesburg 

Galesburg 

Gallatia 

Galva 

Ganntown 

Gays 

Gardner 

Geneseo 

Geneva  

Genoa 

Georgetown 

Gibson  Citj' 

Gillespie 

Gilman 

Girard 

Glasford 

Golconda 

Golden 

Good  Hope 

Goreville 


Horeb 

El  Paso 

Elvaston 

Enfield 

Equality 

Erie 

Wabash 

W.C.  Hobbs 

Kvans 

Ewing 

Exete'r 

Tarbolton 

Fairfield 

Fairmount 

Fairview 

Kingston 

Farina 

Farmer  City 

Farmington 

Fieldon 

Fillmore 

Findlay 

Sangamon 

Russellville 

Flora 

Forrest 

Frankfort 

Wadley 

Franklin  Grove. 

Freeburg 

Freedom 

Excelsior 

Evergreen 

Fulton  City 

Miners 

Alpha 

Vesper 

Gallatia 

Galva 

New  Columbia... 

Miles  Hart 

Gardner 

Stewart  

Geneva 

Genoa 

Russell 

Gibson 

Gillespie 

Gilman 

Girard 

Lancaster 

Golconda 

LaPrairie 

Good  Hope 

Saline  


484 
647 

99 
149 
3,59 
388 
730 
117 
523 

36 
276 
525 

86 
363 
246 
715 
677 

667 
179 
306 
.=>24 
705 
424 
351 
206 
590 
350 
266 
601 
710 
192 
.592 
670 
831 
801 
348 
204 
614 
567 
616 

•zm 

418 
194 

97 
170 
189 
273 
155 
584 
684 
243 
336 
595 
573 

92 
139 
288 
154 
733 
214 
.^91 
171 
106 
131 
267 
617 
339 


POSTOFFICE. 


Grafton  

Grand  Tower 

Gray's  Lake 

Grayville 

Greenfield 

Greenup '.. 

Greenview 

Greenville 

Grigg.sville 

Grove  City 

Groveland 

Hamilton 

Hamletsburg 

Hampshire 

Hardinsville 

Hardin 

Harrisburg  

Harristown 

Harvard 

Harvey 

Havana 

Hazel  Dell 

Hebron 

Henderson 

Henry  

Herrin's  Prairie, 

Hej'worth 

Hickory  Ridge 

Highland  

Highland  Park. . 

Hillsboro 

Hinckley 

Hindsboro 

Holcomb 

Homer 

Hoopeston 

Hopedale 

Hope 

Hume 

Huntsville 

Hutsonville 

Illinois  City 

lUiopolis 

Indianola 

Industry 

lola 

Ipava 

Iroquois 

Irving  

luka 

Jacksonville 

Jacksonville 

Jeffersdnville 

Jersey  ville 

Jcihnsunville 

Johnston  City 

Joliet 

Joliet 

Jonesboro  

Kane 

Kankakee 

Kansas 

Karber's  Ridge  . 

Kenney 

Kewanee 

Keithsburg 

Kinderhook 

Kingston 


Full  Moon 

Lafayette 

Rising  Sun 

.Sheba 

Greenfield 

Greenup 

Greenview 

Greenville 

Griggsville 

Plsher  

Groveland 

Black  Hawk 

Bay  City 

Hampshire 

Hardinsville 

Calhoun 

Harrisburg 

.Summit  

Harvard 

Magic  City 

Havana . .'. 

Hazel  Dell 

Hebron  

Hiram 

Henry  

Herrin's  Prairie. 

Hevworth 

Dills 

Highland  

A.  O.  Fav 

Mt.  Moriah 

Hinckley 

Hindsboro 

Meridian  Sun 

Homer 

Star 

Hopedale 

Hopewell 

Edgar  

Huntsville 

Hutsonville  

Illinois  City 

Illiopolis 

Vermilion 

Industry 

lola 

Ipava  

O.  H.  Miner 

Irving  

J.  D.  Moody 

Harmony 

Jacksonville 

Jeffersonville 

Jerseyville 

John.sonville 

Lake  Creek 

Mt.  Joliet 

Matteson 

Jonesboro  

King  Solomon 

Kankakee 

Kansas 

Tadmor 

Henderson  

Kewanee 

Robert  Burns 

Kinderhook  ..  .  . 
Kishwaukee 


341 

657 
115 
200 
129 
125 
653 
245 

45 
585 
352 
238 
771 
443 
756 
792 
325 
431 
309 
832 

88 
580 
604 

26 
119 
693 
351 
295 
583 
676 

51 
301 
837 
505 
199 
709 
622 
844 
829 
465 
136 
679 
521 
265 
327 
691 
313 
506 
455 
510 
3 
570 
460 
394 
713 
729 

43 
175 
111 
197 
389 
280 
794 
820 
1,59 
113 
353 
402 


22 


APPENDIX. — PART   II. 


ALPHABETICAL  LIST  OF  POSTOFFICES.— Continued. 


POSTOFFICE. 


Kinmundy 

KirkwoocT 

Knoxville  

Lacon 

LaFaj-ette 

LaGrange  

LaHarpe 

Lake  Creek 

La  Moille 

Lanark 

LaSalle 

Latham 

Lawn  Ridge . . . 
Lawrenceville 

Lebanon 

Lee  Center 

Leland 

Lena 

Lerna 

Le  Roy 

Lewistown .... 

Lexington 

Liberty 

Libertyville . . . 
Lick  Creek  .... 

Lima 

Lincoln 

Lisbon 

Litchfield 

Litchfield 

Littleton 

Loami 

Lockport 

Loda 

London  Mills. . 

Long  Point 

Louisville 

Lovington 

Ludlow 

Lyndon  

Lynnville 

McHenrj' 

McLean" 

McLeansboro. 

Macedonia 

Mackinaw 

Macomb 

Macon 

Magnolia 

Mahomet 

Makanda 

Manche.ster. . . 

Manito 

Mansfield 

Mapleton jPhoenix 

Maquon iMaquon 

Marcelline  .. 

Marengo 

Marine 

Marion 

Maroa 

Marseilles  . . 

Marshall 

Martinsville 
Martinton  .. 
Mascoutah  . 

Mason 

Mason  Cit}'.. 


Kinmundy 

Abraham  Lincoln 

Pacific 

Lacon 

Stark  

LaGrange 

La  Harpe 

Lake  Creek 

La  Moille 

Lanark  

Acacia 

Latham U.  D 

Lawn  Ridge 

Edward  Dobbins. 

Lebanon 

Lee  Center 

Leland 

Lena 

Lerna 

Le  Roy 

Lewistown 

Lexington 

Liberty 

Libertyville 

Union 

Lima 

Logan 

Orient 

Charter  Oak 

Litchfield 

Littleton 

Loami 

Lockport 

Abraham  Jonas. . 

London  U.  D. 

Long  Point 

Louisville 

Lovington 

Pera 

Lyndon  

Gill 

McHenry  

McLean  

Polk 

Royal 

Mackinaw 

.M  acomb 

South  Macon 

Magnolia 

Mahomet 

Makanda 

Manchester 

Manito 

Mansfield 


Marcelline. . 
Marengo  — 

Marine 

Fellowship. 

Maroa 

Marseilles... 

Marshall 

Clark 

Martinton  . . 

Douglas 

Mason 

Mason  Citv  . 


398: 
518 

66 

61 
501 
7T0 

lys 

38i5 

423 

67 

415 
164 

no 

146 
558 
174 
788 
2-21 
104 
48-2 
380 
492 
627 
135 
210 
323 
236 
517 
766 
450 
538 
316 

552 
196 
228 
574 
750 
382 
158 
469 
137 
807 
132 

17 
467 
103 
220 
434 
229 
476 
773 
663 
530 
114 
138 
355 

89 
4.54 
417 
133 
603 
845 
361 
217 
403 


POSTOFFICE. 


Mattoon 

Mazon 

Medora 

Melvin 

Mendon 

Mendota 

Meredosia 

Metropolis  City 

Milan ". 

Milford 

Millburn 

Milledgeville. .. 

Milton 

Minier 

Minonk 

Minooka 

Moline 

Momence 

Monmouth 

Monticello 

Montrose 

Morris 

Morrison 

Morrisonville  . . 

Moscow 

Mound  City 

Mound  Station. 
Mount  Auburn. 

Mt.  Carmel 

Mt.  Carroll 

Mt.  Erie 

Mt.  Morris 

Mt.  Pulaski 

Mount  Sterling 

Mt.  Vernon 

Moweaqua 

Murphy sbori). . . 

M  array  ville 

Naperville 

Nashville 

Nebo 

Neoga  

Neponset  

New  Boston  .... 
New  Burnside . . 

New  Canton 

New  Douglas. .. 
New  Grand  Chain 
New  Hartford . . 

New  Haven 

New  Holland 

Newman . 

New  Salem 

Newton 

New  Windsor  . . 

Noble 

Nokomis 

Normal 

NorrisCitA" 

Norwood  Park.. 

Nunda 

Oakland 

Oak  Park 

Oblong 

Oconee 

Odell 

Odin 

O'Fallon 


Mattoon 

Mazon 

Fidelity 

Melvin 

Mendon 

Mendota 

Benevolent 

Metropolis 

Eureka 

Milford 

Antioch 

Milledgeville.  ... 

Milton 

Comet  

Rob  Morris 

Minooka 

Doric 

Momence 

Monmouth 

Fraternal 

Prairie  Cit}' 

Cedar .' 

Dunlap 

Morrisonville  . . . 

Moscow 

Trinity 

Kendfick 

Kedron 

Mt.  Carmel 

Cvrus 

Mt.  Erie 

Samuel  H.  Davis 

Mt.  Pulaski  

Hardin 

Mt.  Vernon 

Moweaqua 

Murphysboro 

Murravville 

Euclid" 

Washington 

Nebo  ..." 

Neoga 

Neponset 

New  Boston 

New  Burnside . . . 

New  Canton 

Madison 

Grand  Chain  . ... 
New  Hartford . . . 

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 


APPENDIX. — PART   II. 


23 


ALPHABETICAL  LIST  OF  POSTOFFICES— C'oniMn<ecZ. 


POSTOFFICE. 


Ogden 

Ohio 

Olmsted 

Olney 

Omaha 

Onarga 

Oneida 

Opdj'ke 

Oquawka  

Orangeville 

Oregon 

Orion 

Oswego 

Ottawa 

Ottawa 

Owaneco 

Palatine 

Palestine 

Palm3'ra 

Pana 

Paris 

Paris  

Parkersburg 

Patoka  

Pawnee 

Paw  Paw 

Paxton 

Payson  

Pearl  City 

Pecatonica 

Pekin 

Pekin 

Pellonia 

Peoria 

Peoria 

Peoria 

Peoria 

Peotone  

Perry  

Peru 

Petersburg 

Philo 

Pilot 

Pinckneyville 

Pittsfield 

Piper  City 

Plaintield 

Plainview 

Plainville 

Piano  

Pleasant  Hill 

Pleasant  Plains . . 

Plymouth 

Pocahontas  

Polo 

Pontiac 

Pontoosuc  

Port  Byron 

Potomac 

Prairie  City 

Pre-emption 

Princeton 

Princeton  

Princeville 

Prophetstown 

Quincy 

Quincy 

Quincj- 


Ogden 

Ohio  

Caledonia 

Olney  

Omaha  

Onarga 

Oneida 

Jefferson 

Oquawka 

Orangeville 

Oregon  

Sherman 

Raven 

Occidental 

Humboldt 

Locust 

Palatine 

Palestine....  U.D. 

Palm}'ra 

Pana". 

Prairie 

Paris  

Parkersburg  

Patoka  

Pawnee 

Corinthian 

Paxton 

Payson 

Pearl 

A.  W.  Rawson 

Pekin 

Empire 

Farmers 

Peoria  

Temple 

Illinois 

Schiller  

Peotone  

Perry  

St.  Johns 

Clinton 

Centennial 

Newtown 

Mitchell 

Pittsfield 

Piper  

Plainfleld 

Plainview 

Adams 

Sunbeam  

Pleasant  Hill  . . . . 
Pleasant  Plains. 

Plymouth 

Gcirdon 

M3'stic  Tie 

Pontiac 

Herrick 

Philo 

Potomac 

Golden  Gate 

Pre-emption 

Bureau  

Princeton 

Princeville 

Prophetstown 

Bodley 

Herman 

Quinc}' 


754 
814 

47 
140 
723 
305 
337 
368 
123 
687 
420 
535 
303 

40 
555 
623 
314 

463 
226 

268 

509 

613 

675 

205 

416 

379 

823 

145 

29 

126 

232 

15 

46 

263 

335 

636 

95 

13 

19 

747 

714 

85 


536 
461 
529 
428 
565 
700 
286 
473 
187 
294 
193 
436 
782 
248 
755 
112 
587 
360 
293 
1 
39 
296 


POSTOFFICE. 


Quincy 

Raleigh 

Ramsey 

Rankin 

Rantoul  

Raritan 

Raymond 

Red  Bud 

Richmond 

Ridge  Farm 

Ridgway 

Rio 

Riverton 

Robinson 

Rochelle 

Rochester  

Rockford  

Rockford  

Rockford  

Rock  Island 

Rock  Island 

Rockport 

Rockton 

Roodhouse  

Roscoe  

Rose  Bud 

Roseville 

Rossville 

Rushville 

Rutland 

Sadorus 

Saint  Charles.. 

Saint  Elmo 

Salem  

Sandwich  

San  Jose 

Saunemin 

Savanna 

Say brook 

Scott  Land 

Scottville 

Seaton 

Seneca 

Shabbona 

Shannon  

Shawneetown . . 

Sheffield 

Shelby  ville 

Sheldon 

Sheridan 

Shipman 

Shirley 

Sibley  

Sidell 

Sidney 

Somohauk  

Sparland 

Sparta  

Springfield 

Springfield 

Springfield 

Springfield  

Spring  Hill 

Spring  Valley- . . 

Stanford  

Staunton  

Steeleville 

Sterling 


Lambert  

Raleigh 

Ramsey 

Rankin 

Rantoul  

Raritan " 

Raymond 

Red  Bud 

Richmond 

Ridge  Farm 

Ridgway 

Rio 

Riverton  Union.. 

Robinson 

Horicon  

Rochester 

Rockford  

.Star  in  the  East. 
E.  F.  W.  Ellis.... 

Trio 

Rock  Island 

Rockport 

Rockton  

E.  M.  Husted 

Roscoe 

Tempel  Hill 

Roseville 

Rossville 

Rushville 

Rutland  

J.  R.  Gorin 

Unity 

Saint  Elmo 

Marion 

Meteor 

San  Jose 

Saunemin 

Mississippi 

Cheney's  Grove.. 

Scott  Land 

Scottville 

Charity 

Seneca 

Shabbona  

Shannon  

Warren 

Ames 

Jackson  

Sheldon  

Sheridan 

Shipman 

Shirley 

Sibley  

Sidell 

Sidney 

Somohauk  

Sparland 

Hope 

Springfield 

Central 

Tyrian 

St.  Paul 

Bollen 

S.  M.  Dalzell 

Stanford 

Staunton 

Alma 

Rock  River 


128 
405 
725 
470 


427 
143 
632 
816 
685 
786 
250 
244 
635 
102 
166 
633 

57 
658 
830 

74 
796 

75 
701 
519 
527 
9 
477 
537 


130 
283 
645 
738 
385 
468 
743 
426 
838 
532 
374 
490 

14 
142 

53 
609 
735 
212 
582 
761 
798 
347 
646 
441 
162 
4 

71 
333 
500 
412 
805 
785 
177 
497 
612 


24 


APPENDIX. — PART    II. 


ALPHABETICAL  LIST  OF  FOSTOFFICES— Continued. 


POSTOFFICE. 


Stewardson 

Stockton  

Stone  Fort 

Streator  

Strons;hurst. . .. 

Sublette 

Sullivan 

Summer  field 

Sumner  

Sycamore 

Tamaroa 

Tampico 

Taylorville 

Tennessee 

Thompsonville . 

Thomson 

Time 

Tiskilwa 

Toledo 

Tolona 

Tonica 

Toulon 

Towanda 

Tower  Hill 

Tremont 

Trenton 

Trilla 

Troy 

Tro}'^  Grove 

Tunnell  Hill 

Turner 

Tuscola 

Union 

Upper  Alton 

Urbana 

Utica 

Vandalia 

Venice 

Vermilion  ^ 

Vermont 

Verona 

Versailles 

Victoria 

Vienna 


Sigel 

Plum  River 

Stone  Fort  

Streator 

Stronghurst  . . 

Sublette 

Sullivan 

Summerfield . . 

Sumner 

Sycamore 

Tamaroa 

Yorktown 

Mound 

Tennessee  

Akin 

Thomson 

Time 

Sharon 

Toledo 

Tolono 

Tonica 

Toulon 

Towanda 

Tower  Hill 

Tremont 

Trenton 

Muddy  Point . . 

Troy 

Shiloh 

Reynoldsburg. 

Amity  

Tuscola 

Orion 

Franklin 

Urbana 

Waltham 

Temperance. . . 

Triple 

Stratton 

Vermont 

Verona 

Versailles 

A.  T.  Darrah  . . 
Vienna 


541 
554 
495 

607 
847 
349 
764 
342 
334 
134 
207 
655 
122 
496 
749 
559 
569 
550 
834 
391 
364 

93 
542 
493 
4(i2 
109 
396 
5SS 
397 
419 
472 
332 
358 

25 
157 
384 

16 
835 
408 
116 
757 
108 
793 
150 


POSTOFFICE. 


Viola 

Virden 

Virginia 

Waldron 

Walnut 

Walpole 

Walshville 

Warren 

Warsaw 

Washburn 

Washington.. . 

Wataga 

Waterman  . . . . 

Waterloo 

Watseka 

Watson 

Wauconda 

Waukegan 

Waverly 

Wayne  City 

Waynesville .. . 

Weldon 

Wenona 

Wheaton 

Wheeling 

White  Hall 

Williamsville  . 
Willow  Hill.... 
W^ilmingtou  ..  . 
Winchester. . . . 

Windsor 

Winnebago. . . . 

Winslow 

Winterrowd . . . 

Woburn 

Wolf  Creek  . . . . 

Woodhull 

Woodstock  . . . . 

Wyanet 

Wyoming 

Xenia 

Yates  City 

York 

Yorkville 


Viola 

Virden 

Virginia 

Aroma 

Walnut 

Tuscan  

Walshville.. 
Jo  Daviess . . 

Warsaw 

Washburn.. 

Taylor 

Wataga 

Waterman  . 

Morris 

Watseka 

Watson 

Wauconda.. 
Waukegan.. 

Waverly 

Orel 

Wayne 

Weldon 

Wenona 

Wheaton 

Vitruvius.  . . 
White  Hall . 

Lavely 

Cooper 

Wilmington 
Winchester. 
Windsor .. .. 
Winnebago . 
Winslow.  . .. 

Mayo 

Gilham 

Chapel  Hill . 
Woodhull... 
Saint  Marks 

Wyanet 

Wyoming  . . 

Xenia 

Yates  City.. 

York 

Kendall  .... 


577 
161 
544 
378 
722 
630 
475 
278 
257 
421 
98 
291 
728 
787 
446 
602 


118 
7.59 
172 
746 
344 


203 
489 
208 
105 
322 
745 
564 
664 
809 
719 
503 
63 
231 
479 
485 
448 
313 
471 


APPENDIX. — PART   II. 


25 


List  of  Lodges  by  Districts. 


FIRST  DISTRICT. 


33 
160 
211 
308 
314 
410 
437 
534 
55- 
639 
663 
686 
711 
726 
751 
767 
774 
779 
784 
797 
810 
818 
836 
842 


Oriental 

Waubansia 

Cleveland 

Ashlar 

Palatine 

Mithra 

Chicago 

Evans 

Lessing 

Kej-stone 

South  Park 

Garfield 

Providence 

Golden  Rule 

Lounsbury 

Triluminar 

Lake  View : 

Wright's  Grove 

Beacon  Light 

Normal  Park 

Trac}' 

Ben  Hur 

Windsor  Park 

Fides 

Chicago  Heights U.  D. 


LOCATION. 

PLACE  OF  MEETING. 

Chicago 

Chicago 

Chicago 

78  Monroe  St 

Masonic  Temple 

Randolph  and  Halsted  Sts 

Masonic  Temple 

Palatine 

257  N.  Clark  St 

Chicago 

Masonic  Temple 

62  N.  Clark  St 

Chicago 

Chicago 

64  N.  Clark  St 

274-276  57th  St 

1250  West  Madison  St    

Jefferson 

Barrington 

Chicago 

227  92d  St 

Chicago 

Chicago 

Chicago 

Chicago 

Chicago 

Lincoln,  Racine  &  Diversy  Aves 
1631  N.  Clark  St 

69th  St.  and  Stewart  Ave 

Chicago 

Chicago 

Chicago 

Milwaukee  and  North  Aves 

Chicago  Heights 

SECOND  DISTRICT. 


81 
182 
271 
310 
393 
411 
478 
526 
610 
642 
669 
690 
716 
731 
758 
768 
776 
780 
789 
800 
813 
819 
839 
843 


Vitruvius 

Germania 

Blaney 

Dearborn 

Blair  

Hesperia 

Pleiades 

Covenant 

Union  Park 

Apollo 

Herder 

Englewood    

Cafumet 

Harbor 

Mystic  Star 

Mizpah 

Grand  Crossing 

Siloam 

Auburn  Park... 

Kenwood 

Humboldt  Park 

Columbian 

Berwyn 

Park 


LOCATION. 


PLACE  OF  MEETING. 


62  N.  Clark  St . . . 

78  Monroe  St 

31 18  Forest  Ave. 


Wheeling 

Chicago 

Chicago 

Chicago 

Chicago iMasonic  Temple 

Chicago i78  Monroe  St 

Chicago j785  West  Madison  St 

Chicago Masonic  Temple 

Chicago iMadison  and  Robe3^  Sts. 

Chicago 3118  Forest  Ave . 

Chicago 

Chicago 

Blue  I.sland 

Chicago 

Chicago 

Chicago 

Chicago 

Chicago 

Chicago 

Chicago 

Chicago  

Chicago 

Berwyn 

Chicago 


3.58  Blue  Island  Ave 

63d  and  Yale  Sts 


91st  St.  and  Commercial  Ave., 

State  and  44th  Sts 

4341  South  Halsted  St 

7(ith  St.  near  Dobson  Ave 

I249Maais(m  St 

79th  and  .Sherman  Sts 

4308  Cottage  Grove  Ave 

Armitage  and  Keeney  Aves.. 
1812  W22dSt 


Clark  St.  and  Greenleaf  Ave. 


26 


APPENDIX. — PART   II. 


LIST  OF  LODGES  BY  DISTRICTS— Continued. 
THIRD  DISTRICT. 


141 

209 
277 
311 
409 
422: 
508, 

540: 

611 
643 
674 

697 
717 
739 
765 

"™ 

783 
795 
804 
815 
832 
841 


Garden  Citv 

W.  B.  Warren 

Accordia 

Kilwinning 

T.  J.  Turner .. 

Landmark 

Home 

Harlem 

Lincoln  Park 

D.  C.  Cregier 

Waldeck 

Richard  Cole  

Arcana 

Lakeside 

Palace 

LaGrange 

Ra venswood 

Constantia 

Myrtle 

Kensington 

Lawn 

Magic  City    

Woodlawn  Park 

Austin U.  D, 


LOCATION. 


Chicago. 

Chicago 

Chicago  — 
Chicago. ... 
Chicago  — 
Chicago — 
Chicago  — 
Oak  Park . 
Chicago. .. 
Chicago. . . 
Chicago. . . 
Chicago.   . 

Chicago 

Chicago 

Pullman . . , 
LaGrange 
Chicago  . . 
Chicago. . . 
Chicago. . . 
Chicago... 
Chicago. . . 
Harvey. . . . 
Chicago. . . 
Austin 


PLACE  OF  MEETING. 


Masonic  Temple 

Masonic  Temple 

62  North  Clark  St 

Masonic  Temple    

Masonic  Temple 

3636  Cottage  Grove  Ave. 
3118  Forest  Ave 


Clark  St.  and  Center  Ave  . . 
406  and  408  Milwaukee  Ave . 

44th  and  State  St 

2941  Archer  Ave 

Halsted  and  Randolph  Sts . 
3120  Forest  Ave 


Wilson  St.&  E.Ravenswo'd  Park 

2701  South  Park  Ave 

Irving  Park 

Henderson's  Hall 


FOURTH  DISTRICT. 


NO. 

NAME. 

LOCATION. 

COUNTY. 

48 
90 

Unity 

Jerusalem  Temple 

St.  Charles 

Kane 

117 

Elgin 

Elgin 

Geneva 

Dundee 

Aurora  

Elburn 

139 

190 

Dundee 

Aurora 

"54 

359 

404 

Batavia 

Batavia 

Kane              

443 

63 
138 

Elgin 

St.  Marks 

Woodstock 

Marengo 

Marengo 

McHenrv  

143 

Richmond 

158 

McHenry 

Nunda 

Harvard 

Orion 

Hebron  

Waukegan 

Rising  Sun 

McHenry 

McHenrv 

169 

309 

358 

Union 

McHenrv  

604 

78 
115 

Waukegan 

Grav's  Lake 

Lake 

Lake 

1-^7 

Antioch 

Millliurn 

Waucf  )nda 

"98 

Wauconda 

49" 

676 

827 

A.  O.  Fay 

Sequoit 

Highland  Park 

Antioch 

Lake 

Lake 

APPENDIX. — PART   II. 


27 


LIST  OF  LODGES  BY  DISTRICTS— Continued. 
Flf^TH  DISTRICT. 


NO. 

NAME. 

LOCATION. 

COUNTY. 

60 

Boone 

Capron 

Boone 

74 

Rockton  

75 

Winnebago 

102 

145 

A  W   Rawson 

Winnebago 

Winnebago 

Winnebago 

166 

173 

Cherry  Valley  

Cherry  Valley 

Durarid 

Rockford  

Winnebago 

302 
633 

Durand 

E  F  W.Ellis 

Winnebago 

Winnebago 

745 

97 

Freeport 

Stephenson 

170 

Evergreen 

174 

Lena 

Stephenson 

Stephenson 

Stephenson 

414 
564 

Evening  Star 

Dayis 

687 

823 

Pearl 

Peari  City 

Stephenson 

SIXTH  DISTRICT. 


36  Kavanaugh  . . . 

273  Miners 

278  Jo  Daviess 

491  Martin 

548  Apple  River 

554  Plum  River  . . . 

188  Cyrus 

345  Milledgeville. . 
385  Mississippi .   . 

423[Lanark 

490;Shann(>n 

559  Thomson 

189;  Fultnn  City.  ... 
293iProphetst6wn . 

321  Dunlap 

412iBollen 

5661  Albany 


LOCATION. 


612 
655 

667 


Rock  River 
Yorktown  . . 
Erie 


750IL}'ndon. 


Elizabeth Jo  Daviess . 

Galena iJo  Daviess. 

Warren Jo  Daviess 

East  Dubuque Jo  Daviess . 

Apple  River Jo  Daviess 

Stockton Jo  Daviess . 

Mt.  Carroll Carroll 

Milledgeville Carroll 

Savanna Carroll 

Lanark Carroll 

Shannon Carroll 

Thomson Carroll    . .  . 

Fulton Whiteside  . 

Prophetstown Whiteside  . 

Morris(  )n Whiteside  . 

Spring  Hill Whiteside  . 

Albany Whiteside  . 

Sterling Whiteside  . 

Tampico Whiteside  . 

Erie Whiteside  . 

Lyndon Whiteside  . 


SEVENTH  DISTRICT. 


187 
244 
274 
320 
420 
505 
7 
146 


Samuel  H.  Davis. 

Mystic  Tie 

Horicon 

Byron 

Creston 

Oregon 

Meridian  Sun 

Friendship 

Lee  Centre 


LOCATION. 


Mt.  Morris Ogle 

Polo |Ogle 

Rochelle Ogle 

Byron iOgle 


178iIllinois  Central. 


Creston 

Oregon 

Holcomb... 

Dixon  

Lee  Centre 
Amboy 


Ogle. 
Ogle. 
Ogle. 
Lee  . 
Lee  . 
Lee  . 


28 


APPENDIX. — PART    II. 


LIST  OF  LODGES  BY  DlSTniCTS— Continued. 
SEVENTH  DISTRICT— Continued. 


205  Corinthian 

264 1  Franklin  Grove 

282!Brooklyn 

349|Sublette 

531  Ashton 

134'Sycamore 

144|De  Kalb 

283!Meteor .'... 

288  Genoa  

301 1  Hinckley 

374'Shabbona 

402,Kishwaukee 

646|Somonauk 

728lWaterman 


LOCATION. 


Paw  Paw 

Franklin  Grove 

Compton 

Sublette 

Ashton 

Sycamore 

De  Kalb 

Sandwich 

Genoa  

Hinckley 

Shabbona 

Kingston 

Somonauk 

Waterman 


Lee 

Bee 

Lee  

Lee  

Lee  

De  Kalb. . 
De  Kalb.. 
De  Kalb.. 
De  Kalb. 
De  Kalb. 
De  Kalb. . 
DeKalb.. 
De  Kalb. . 
De  Kalb. . 


EIGHTH  DISTRICT. 


NO. 

NAME. 

LOCATION. 

COUNTY. 

303 
3-^3 

Raven  

Oswego 

Lisbon   

Piano  

Ivendall 

4-^8 

471 

Yorkville   

Kendall 

fiT 

Euclid 

Naperville 

Wheaton 

Turner '. 

Du  Page  

Du  Page 

Du  Page 

"tiQ 

47-' 

Amity  

Grove 

S-M 

Downers  Grove 

Du  Page 

Will 

4-^ 

Mt  Joliet 

Matteson 

Wilmington 

Joliet 

Joliet           ..         

^7's 

Will 

208 
262 

Wilmington 

Will 

Will 

536 

538 

Plainfield 

Lockport 

Plaintield 

Lockport 

Peotone  

Will  ....• 

Will 

636 

Peotone  

Will 

704 

Will 

763 

Crete 

Crete 

Will 

1"4 

Cedar 

Morris 

Grundy 

Grundy 

Grundy 

Grundy 

Grundy 

5-^8 

Minooka 

573 

Gardner 

757 

Verona  

Verona 

Mazon 

826 

Mazon 

NINTH  DISTRICT. 


NO. 

NAME. 

LOCATION. 

COUNTY. 

13 

St.  John's  

Occidental 

Peru 

La  Salle 

40 

Ottawa : 

La  Salle 

67 

Acacia 

Mendota  

Meridian 

Freedom 

La  Salle 

176 
183 

Mendota  

Earlville 

Freedom 

Tonica 

La  Salle 

La  Salle 

1')4 

La  Salle 

374 

Tonica   

La  Salle    

384 

Waltham  .   . 

Utica 

Troy  Grove 

La  Salle      

3P7 

Shiloh  ....            

La  Salle            

417 

Marseilles 

Rutland 

Seneca 

Ottawa 

La  Salle 

477 

Rutland 

La  Salle 

53-' 

Seneca 

La  Salle 

555 

Humboldt 

La  Salle 

APPENDIX. — PART   II. 


29 


LIST  OF  LODGES  BY  BISTRICTS-Contimtcd. 
NINTH  DISTRICT— Continued. 


NAME. 

LOCATION. 

COUNTY. 

Leland. ...             

Leland 

La  Salle 

La  Salle 

Sheridan 

Pontiac 

Fairburj' 

Dwight 

Odell 

Chatsworth      

La  Salle    . 

Pontiac 

Tarbolton      

Livingston 

Livingston 

Odell 

Chatsworth 

Livingston ..  . 

Long  Point 

Forrest    

Saunemin 

Long  Point 

Forrest 

Saunemin 

Livingston 

Livingston 

Livingston 

TENTH  DISTRICT. 


LOCATION. 


112  Bureau 

142  Ames 

231  Wyanet.  .  . 
270  Levi  Lusk  . . . 
383  La  Moille.... 

399  Buda 

550  Sharon 

587  Princeton  . . . 

722  Walnut    

SOSINeponset  .... 
8051 S.  M.  Dalzell 

814  Ohio 

lOSjMagnolia   ... 

61  Lacon 

liglHenr}-    

344;Wen6na 
415jLawn  Ridge. 
44l!Sparland  ... 

93  Toulon    

479 [Wyoming  ... 

50l|Stark 

514  Bradford  ... . 


Princeton 

Sheffield 

Wyanet 

Arlington    . . . 

La  Moille 

Buda 

Tiskilwa  .... 

Princeton 

Walnut 

Neponset 

Spring  Valley 

Ohio 

Magnolia 

Lacon 

Henry  

Wenona 

Lawn  Ridge.. 

Sparland 

Toulon  . .    

Wyoming  ... 
La  Fayette. . . 
Bradford  


Bureau  . . 
Bureau  . . 
Bureau  . . 
Bureau . . 
Bureau . . 
Bureau . . 
Bureau  . . 
Bureau . . 
Bureau . . 
Bureau . . 
Bureau . . 
Bureau  . . 
Putnam  . 
Marshall 
Marshall 
Marshall 
Marshall 
Marshall 
Stark  .... 
Stark.   ... 

Stark  . 

Stark  


ELEVENTH  DISTRICT. 


319 
436 


49  Cambridge  . 

92  Stewart 

159  Kewanee  . . . . 

243,Galva   

433  Annawan. .. . 
502lWoodhull  ..  . 

535jSherman 

680  Clement 

57  Trio 

Eureka 

Doric 

Philo 

516  Andalusia  .. . 
543, Cordova  .   .. . 

547  Valley 

658IRock  Island  . 


LOCATION. 


Cambridge  . 

Geneseo  

Kewanee  . . . 

Galva 

Atkinson  . . . 
Woodhull... 

Orion 

Colono 

Rock  Island 

Milan 

Moline 

Port  Byron . 
Andalusia  . . 

Cordova  

Coal  Valley 
Rock  Island 


,Henry 

Henry  

Henry  

Henry  

Henry  

Henry  

Henry  

Henry    

Rock  Island. 
Rock  Island. 
Rock  Island 
Rock  Island. 
Rock  Island. 
Rock  Island. 
Rock  Island . 
Rock  Island. 


30 


APPENDIX. 


-PART    II. 


LIST  OF  LODGES  BY  DISTRICTS— Continued. 
ELEVENTH  DISTRICT— Continued. 


LOCATION. 


679  Illinois Citv.... 
59!  New  Boston  .. , 
113  Robert  Burns 


252 
367 

577 
755 

838 


Aledo  

Oxford 

Viola 

Pre-emption  , 
Charity 


Illinois  Cit}-  .. 
New  Boston. . 
Keithsburg. . . 

Aledo 

New  Windsor 

Viola  

Pre-emption . 
Seaton 


Rock  Island. 

Mercer 

Mercer 

Mercer 

Mercer 

Mercer 

Mercer 

Mercer 


TWELFTH  DISTICT. 


17  Macomb 

233  Blandinsville. . . 
248  Golden  Gate.. .. 
307  T.  J.  Pickett.... 

327  Industry 

496  Tennessee 

572  Bardolph 

617, Good  Hope 

781  Colchester 

100  Astoria 

104  Lewistown 

116  Vermont 

192,Farmington 

213  Ipava 

253  Avon  Harmony. 

350  Fairview 

534  Cuba 

734  Morning  .Star  . . 

I London  

9  Rushville 

465  Huntsville 

648  Camden  

766  Littleton 


LOCATION. 


.U.  D. 


Macomb McDonough  . 

Bladinsville McDonough  . 

Prairie  City McDonough 

Bushnell McDonough  , 

Industry McDonough 

Tenness'ee McDonough 

Bardolph 'McDonough 

Good  Hope McDonough 

Colchester McDonough 

Astoria  Fulton 

Lewistown Fulton 

Vermont Fulton 

Farming  ton Fulton 

Ipava Fulton 

Avon Fulton 

Fairview Fulton 

Cuba jFulton 

Canton iFulton 

London  Mills iFulton 


Rushville... 
Huntsville 
Camden  . . . 
Littleton.. . 


Schuyler. 
Schuyler. 
Schuyler. 
Schuyler. 


THIRTEENTH  DISTRICT. 


26  Hiram 

66  Pacillc 

155  Alpha 

185  Abingdon 

291  Wataga 

330  Altona 

337  Oneida 

448  Yates  City 

530  Maquon 

584  Vesper 

685  Rio 

793  A.  T.  Darrah 

37|  Monmouth 

518  Abraham  Lincoln 

519;Roseville iRoseville 

619|Berwick [Cameron 

702]  Alexandria 'Alexis 

123  Oquawka jOquawka. 

727]Raritan iRaritan 

732|Carman Carman 

847lStronghurst iStronghurst 


LOCATION. 


Henderson Knox . 

Knoxville Knox . 

Galesburg Knox. 

Abingdon Knox . 

Wataga Knox . 

Altona Knox . 

Oneida Knox . 

Yates  City 'Knox . 

Maquon Knox . 

Galesburg     Knox. 

Rio Knox. 

Victoria iKnox. 

Monmouth Warren. 


Warren 

Warren. ... 

Warren. 

Warren. 

Henderson. 
Henderson. 
Henderson. 
Henderson. 


APPENDIX. — PART   II. 


31 


LIST  OF  LODGES  BY  DISTRICTS— Continued. 
FOURTEENTH  DISTRICT. 


NO. 

NAME. 

LOCATION. 

COUNTY. 

15 

Peoria 

Peoria 

Peoria 

46 

Peoria 

Peoria 

106 

Lancaster 

George  Washington 

Illinois 

Schiller. 

Glasford  

Chillicothe 

Peoria 

Peoria 

Princeville 

Elmwood 

Mapleton 

Alta 

Peoria 

222 

Peoria 

263 
335 
360 

Peoria 

Peoria 

Peoria 

363 
663 

748 

Horeb 

Phoenix 

Alta 

El  Paso 

Rob  Morris 

Wm.  C.  Hobbs 

Washburn 

Pekin 

Peoria 

Peoria     

246 
247 
306 

El  Paso 

Minonk  

Eureka 

Woodford 

Woodford 

421 

Washburn 

Woodford 

'X| 

Pekin 

Tazewell 

Q8 

Tavlor 

Tf.rrmirp 

Washington 

Pekin 

126 

132  Mackinaw 

Mackinaw 

Delavan 

Groveland 

Tazewell  

156  Delavan 

352  Groveland 

Tazewell 

Tazewell 

462  Tremont 

Tremont 

622  Hoiiedale 

Hopedale 

Tazewell 

641 

Comet 

Minier 

Tazewell 

FIFTEENTH  DISTRICT. 


43 
221 
251 
292 
468 


512 
542 
582 
656 
673 
73' 
742 
785 


172 
261 
710 
746 
820 
416 
608 
631 
733 
761 
811 


Bloomington  . . . 

Le  Roy 

Heyworth 

Chenoa 

Cheneys  Grove. 

McLean 

Lexington 

Wade  Barney.. 

Towanda  

Shirley 

Mozart 

Normal 

Arrowsmith  .  . . 

Danvers 

Stanford  

Colfax 

De  Witt 

Wayne 

Amon 

Farmer  City 

Weldon 

Hender.son 

Paxton 

Piper  

Norton 

Gibson  

Sibley  

'Melvin 


LOCATION. 


Bloomington.. 

Le  Ro}- 

Heyworth 

Chenoa 

Say brook  

McLean 

Lexington  .  . . 
Bloomington 

Towanda 

Shirley 

Bloomington 

Normal 

Arrowsmith  . 

Danvers 

Stanford  

Colfax 

Clinton 

Wavnesville. 

De  Witt 

Farmer  City 

Weldon 

Kenney  

Paxton 

Piper  City.. . 

Cabery 

Gibson  City . . 

Sibley 

Melvin 


McLean. 
McLean. 
McLean. 
McLean. 
McLean. 
McLean. 
McLean. 
McLean. 
McLean. 
McLean. 
McLean. 
McLean. 
McLean 
McLean. 
McLean. 
McLean. 
De  Witt. 
De  Witt. 
De  Witt. 
De  Witt. 
De  Witt. 
De  Witt. 

Ford 

Ford 

Ford  ... 
Ford .... 

Ford 

'Ford  ... 


82 


APPENDIX. — PART    II. 


LIST  OF  LODGES  BY  DISTRICTS— Cuntinued. 
SIXTEENTH  DISTRICT. 


378  Aroma 

389jKankakee 

481iMomence 

168  Milford 

305|Onarga 

316;  Abraham  Jonas . 

4i9iCheljanse 

446,Watseka 

506,0.  H.  Miner 

591  Gilman 

609  Sheldon 

634'Bucklev 

688  Clifton". 

845  Martinton 

38  Olive  Branch.... 

154'Russell 

265!  Vermilion 

285Catlin 

527  Ro.><sville 

590  Fairmount 

632  Ridge  Farm 

709;Star 

714  Newtown 

725'Rankin 

782  Potomac 

798  .sidell 

S44  Hopewell 


LOCATION. 


Waldron 

Kankakee  . . 

Momence 

Milford 

Onarga 

Loda 

ChelDanse  . . . 

Wat.seka 

Iroquois 

Gilman 

Sheldon 

Buckley 

Clifton: 

Martinton... 

Danville 

Georgetown 
Indianola. .. 

Catlin 

Rossville 

Fairmount.. 
Ridge  Farm 
Hoopeston.  . 

Pilot 

Rankin 

Potomac 

Sidell 

Hope 


Kankakee  , 
Kankakee  . 
Kankakee 
Iroquois    . . 
Iroquois  . . 
Iroquois  . . 
Iroquois    . . 
Iroquois  . . , 
Iroquois  . . . 
Iroquois  . . 
Iroquois  . . . 
Iroquois  . . . 
Iroquois  . . . 
Iroquois  . . , 
Vermilion 
Vermilion  , 
Vermilion 
Vermilion 
Vermilion 
Vermilion  , 
Vermilion 
Vermilion  , 
Vermilion  , 
Vermilion  , 
Vermilion  . 
Vermilion  . 
Vermilion  , 


SEVENTEENTH  DISTRICT. 


157|Urbana 

199  Homer 

220  Mahomet 

240  Western  Star 

347  Sidnev 

391  Tolono 

470  Rantoul  

537,J.  R.  Gorin.... 

574  Pera 

747. Centennial 

754;Ogden 

791|Broadlands  . . 
soil  Sangamon  . . . 

332;Tuscola 

366[  Areola 

369  Newman 

440  Camargo 

825' Arthur 

837|Hindsl)oro. . . . 

77lPrairie 

148Bloomfield.... 

268  Paris 

280  Kansas 

408;stratton 

743]  Scott  Land.... 
829|Edgar  

35  Charleston 

179  Wabash 

219lOakland 

260:Mattoon 

390:Ashmore 

396j Muddy  Point.. 

788  Lerna 

698  Hutton 


LOCATION. 


Urbana 

Homer 

Mahomet 

Champaign. 

Sidney  

Tolono 

Rantoul 

Sadorous 

Ludlow 

Philo 

Ogden 

Broadlands. 

Fisher  

Tuscola 

Areola 


Champaign. 

Champaign. 

Champaign. 

Champaign. 

Champaign . 

Champaign. 

Champaign 

Champaign. 

Champaign. 

Champaign 

Champaign . 

Champaign. 

Champaign. 

Douglas  .   . 

Douglas  . . . . 


Newman Douglas 


Camargo. 

Arthur 

Hindsboro . 

Paris 

Chrisman. . 

Paris 

Kansas 

Vermilion  . 
Scott  Land. 

Hume 

Charleston. 

Etna 

Oakland  ... 

Mattoon 

Ashmore  .. 

Trilla 

Lerna 

Diona 


Douglas 
Douglas 
Douglas 
Edgar. . . 
Edgar. . . 
Edgar. . 
Edgar. . . 
Edgar. . . 
Edgar. . . 
Edgar. . 
Coles  .... 
Coles  . . . . 
Coles .. . 
Coles  . . . . 
Coles  — 
Coles  ... . 
Coles  .... 
Coles... 


APPENDIX. — PART   II. 


33 


LIST  OF  LODGES  BY  DISTRICTS— Continued. 
EIGHTEENTH  DISTRICT. 


NO. 

NAME. 

LOCATION. 

COUNTY. 

"18 

Piatt 

Piatt 

Piatt 

Piatt 

Piatt 

Piatt 

SRt 

Bement 

Bement 

(inn 

Cerro  Gordo 

fi'il 

77? 

Mansfield 

De  Land 

81-' 

De  Land 

Lovington 

•^•'8 

Lovington 

Moultrie 

Moultrie  

Moultrie 

Macon 

Macon 

5q's 

Miles  Hart 

Gays 

Sullivan 

Decatur  

7&1 

8 

Sullivan 

Macon 

31" 

481 

Summit 

Harristown 

454 

Macon 

Macon 

Macon 

Logan 

4R7 

Macon 

Blue  Mound 

68-' 

Blue  Mound 

87 

Mt.  Pulaski 

Mt.  Pulaski 

165 

Atlanta 

Atlanta 

"in 

Logan 

Lincoln 

Logan 

Logan 

Logan 

Logan 

741 

New  Holland 

Cornland 

8n8 

Cornland 

Latham U.  D. 

NINETEENTH  DISTRICT. 


403 
476 
645 

19 

653 

4 

71 
203 
333 


1  Havana 

Mason  City 

Manito 

San  Jose 

>  Clinton 

1  Greenview 

Springfield 

Central 

;  Lavely 

;  Tvrian 

3.54iA"rk&  Archor..  . 

4.50  Loami 

.500  St.  Paul 

52lillliopolis 

.5:^3, Chatham 

556iDawson 

635;Rochester 

675  Pawnee 

700  Pleasant  Plains. 

7631  Van  Meter 

786  Riverton  Union. 

23'Cass 

544' Virginia 

724  Chandlerville. . .  . 


LOCATION. 


Havana 

Mason  City 

Manito 

San  Jose 

Petersburg 

Greenview 

Springfield 

Springfield 

Williamsville . . 

Springfield 

Auburn 

Loami 

Springfield 

lUiopolis 

Chatham 

Dawson 

Rochester  

Pawnee 

Pleasant  Plains 

Cantrall 

Riverton 

Beardstown 

Virginia 

Chandlerville  .. 


Mason 

Mason 

Mason 

Mason. . 
Menard  . .. . 

Menard 

Sangamon. 

Sangamon. 

Sangamon. 

Sangamon. 

Sangamon 

Sangamon. 

Sangamon 

Sangamon- 

Sangamon. 

Sangamon. 

Sangamon. 

Sangamon. 

Sangamon. 

Sangamon. 

Sangamon. 

Cass  

Cass  

Cass  


34 


APPENDIX. — PART   II. 


LIST  OP  LODGES  BY  DISTRICTS— Continued. 
TWENTIETH  DISTRICT. 


44 
108 
430 
3 
52 
118 
346 
382 
432 
570 
616 
105 
229 
424 
846 
34 
45 
95 
218 
275 
353 
373 
388 
453 
565 
569 
790 
806 
821 
830 


Hardin 

Versailles 

Kendrick 

Harmony 

Benevolent . .. . 

Waverly 

N.  D.  Morse 

Gill  

Murray ville  .. . 
Jacksonville  . . 

Wadley 

Winchester  . . . 
Manchester  . . . 

Exeter 

Bluffs 

Barry 

Griggsville  .... 

Perry  

New  Salem .... 

Milton 

Kinderhook  . . . 
Chambersburg 

El  Dara 

New  Hartford. 
Pleasant  Hill.. 

Time 

Pittslield 

Nebo 

New  Canton . . . 
Rockport 


LOCATION. 


Mt.  Stering 

Versailles 

Mound  Station 
Jacksonville ... 

Meredosia 

Waverly 

Concord 

Lynnville 

Murray  ville  ... 
Jacksonville ... 

Franklin 

Winchester  

Manchester  ... 

Exeter 

Bluffs 

Barry 

Griggsville 

Perry  

New  Salem.  , .. 

Milton 

Kinderhook  . .. 
Chambersburg 

El  Dara 

New  Hartford. 
Pleasant  Hill.. 

Time 

Pittsfield 

Nebo 

New  Canton... 
Rockport 


Brown  . . 

Brown  . . 

Brown  . 

Morgan., 

Morgan.. 

Morgan.. 

Morgan.- 

Morgan.. 

Morgan., 

Morgan., 

Morgan. 

Scott . . . . 

Scott  .... 

Scott.... 

Scott..  .. 

Pike 

Pike 

Pike 

Pike 

Pike 

Pike 

Pike 

Pike 

Pike 

Pike.... 
Pike .... 
Pike.... 
Pike .... 
Pike .... 
Pike .... 


TWENTY-FIRST  DISTRICT. 


1 
39 
114 
135 
147 
227 
266 
267 
296 
297 
379 
380 
449 
529 


Bodley 
Herman 
Marcelline 
Lima. 

Clayton  

Columbus  . 
Kingston  . . 
La  Prairie. 

Quincy 

Benjamin. 
Payson  — 

Liberty  

Mendon 

Adams 

659j Lambert  .. 
20  Hancock. 

193 

195 

235 

238 

257 

286 


Herrick. 

La  Harpe 

Dallas  City 

Black  Hawk 

Warsaw 

Plymouth 

295:Dills 

318'J.  L.  Anderson  , 

464  Denver  

486  Bowen 

618Basco 

683|Burnside 

715  Elvaston 


LOCATION. 


Quincy 

Quincy 

Marcelline 

Lima 

Clayton  

Columbus  

Fairweather  . 

Golden 

Quincy 

Camp  Point 

Payson 

Liberty  

Mendon 

Plainville 

Quincy 

Carthage 

Pontoosuc    . . . . 

La  Harpe 

Dallas  City  .... 

Hamilton 

Warsaw 

Plymouth  

Hickory  Ridge 

Augusta 

Denver  

Bowen 

Basco 

Burnside 

Elvaston 


Adams.. . 
Adams  . . 
Adams.. . 
Adams. . . 
Adams . . . 
Adams.. . 
Adams  . . 
Adams.. . 
Adams.. . 
Adams. . . 
Adams.. . 
Adams.. . 
Adams.. . 
Adams. . . 
Adams.. . 
Hancock. 
Hancock. 
Hancock . 
Hancock. 
Hancock. 
Hancock. 
Hancock. 
Hancock. 
Hancock. 
Hancock . 
Hancock. 
Hancock. 
Hancock. 
Hancock. 


APPENDIX. — PART   II. 


35 


LIST  OP  LODGES  BY  DISTRICTS— Continued. 
TWENTY-SECOND  DISTRICT. 


129 
197 
796 
341 
394 
592 
76 
151 
152 
161 
171 
177 
212 
214 
249 
426 
445 
461 
463 


Calhoun 

Carrollton 

Whitehall  .... 

Greentield 

KingSolDmon 
E.  M.  Husted . 

Full  Moon 

Jersey  ville 

Fieldon 

Mt.  Nebo 

Bunker  Hill  .. 

Fidelity 

Virden 

Girard 

Staunton 

Shipman 

Gillespie 

Hil)bard 

.'^rottville 

Chestertield  .. 

Plainview 

Palmyra 


LOCATION. 


Hardin 

Carrollton  . 
Whitehall.. 
Greenfield  .. 

Kane 

Roodhouse.. 

Grafton 

Jerseyville.. 

Fieldon 

Carlinville  . 
Bunker  Hill 

Medora 

Virden 

Girard 

Staunton.... 
Shipman.... 

Gillespie 

Brighton 

Scottville. 
Chesterfield 
Plainview  . . 
Palmj'ra  — 


Calhoun... 

Greene 

Greene 

Greene 

Greene 

Greene 

Jersey 

Jersey 

Jersey 

Macoupin 
Macoupin 
Macoupin 
Macoupin 
Macoupin 
Macoupin 
Macoupin 
Macoupin 
Macoupin 
Macoupin 
Macoupin 
Macoupin 
Macoupin 


TWENTY-THIRD  DISTRICT. 


51 
236 
255 
455 


Mount  Moriah. 

Charter  Oak... 

Donnellson 

Irving 

456|Nokomis 

475VVaLshville 

517  Litchfield 

670  Fillmore 

6921  Raymond 

122|Mound 

226  Pana 

340  Kedron 
451 
585 
623 
647 
681 
53 
180 
322 
392 
493 
541 
706 
831 


Bromwell  

Fisher  

Locust 

Blueville 

Morrisonville., 

Jackson  

Moweaqua 

Windsor 

Oconee 

Tower  Hill.... 

yigel  

Joppa 

Findlay  


LOCATION. 


Hillsboro 

Litchfield 

Donnellson 

Irving 

Nokomis 

WaLsh  ville 

Litchfield 

Fillmore 

Raymond 

Taylorville 

Pana 

Mount  Auburn. 

Assumption 

Grove  City 

Owaneco 

Edinburg : 

Morrisonville  . 

Shelby  ville 

Moweaqua  

Windsor 

Oconee 

Tower  Hill 

Stewardson 

Cowden 

Findlay  


Montgomery 
Montgomery 
Montgomery 
Montgomery 
Montgomery 
Montgomery 
Montgomery 
Montgomery 
Montgomery 

Christian 

Christian 

Christian 

Christian 

Christian 

Christian 

Christian 

Christian 

Shelby 

Shelby 

Shelby 

Shelby 

Shelby 

Shelby 

Shelby 

Shelby 


36 


APPENDIX. — PART    II. 


LIST  OF  LODGES  BY  BISTKICTS— Continued. 
TWENTY-FOURTH  DISTRICT. 


125 
S79 
580 
834 
133 
313 
442 
603 
620 
136 
250 
348 
644 
666 
756 


140 
362 
509 
164 
334 
386 
447 


Greenup  

Neoe:a 

Hazel  Dell 

Toledo 

Marshall 

York 

Casev 

Clark 

Newhope 

Hutsonville 

Robinson 

Russellville 

Oblong  City 

Crawford 

Hardinsville 

Palestine U.  D 

Newton 

Cooper  

Olnev 

Noble 

Parkersburg 

Edward  Dobbins 

Sumner 

Bridgeport 

S.  D.  Monroe 


LOCATION. 


Greenup 

Neoga 

Hazel  Dell 

Toledo 

Marshall 

York 

Casej' 

Martinsville .   . 

Cohn 

Hutsonville.. . . 

Robinson 

Flat  Rock 

Oblong 

Eaton 

Hardinsville . . . 

Palestine 

Newton 

Willow  Hill.... 

Olney 

Noble 

Parkersburg . . 
Lawrenceville. 

Sumner 

Bridgeport  .... 
Birds 


Cumberland. 
Cumljerland. 
Cumberland. 
Cumberland. 

Clark 

Clark 

Clark 

Clark 

Clark 

Crawford 

Crawford 

Crawford 

Crawford 

Crawford  

Crawford 

Crawford 

Jasper 

Jasper  

Richland 

Richland 

Richland 

Lawrence 

Lawrence 

Lawrence 

Lawrence 


TWENTY-FIFTH  DISTRICT. 


196 
204 
485' 
488 
691 1 
149 
217, 
484 
525 
533 
578 
602 
664 
665 
16 
405 
601 
769 
130 
201 
398 
503 
510 
613 


Louisville  . . . 

Flora 

Xenia 

ClavCitv 

I  [Ola ". 

Effingham 

Mason 

Edge  wood  . .. 

Delia 

Altamount. .. 
Prairie  City. 

Watson 

Mayo 

Greenland. . . 
Temperance 

Ramsey 

Farina" 

St.  Elmo 

Marion 

Centralia 

Kinmundy  . . . 

Odin ,.. 

J.  D.  Moodv. . . 
Patoka 


LOCATION. 


Louisville  . . . 

Flora 

Xenia 

Clay  Citv 

lola....: 

Effingham 

Mason 

Edgewood . . . 
Elliottstown. 
Altamount.. . 

Montrose 

Watson 

Winterrowd 
Beecher  City. 
Vandalia  ...'., 

Ramsej' 

Farina" 

St.  Elmo 

Salem 

Centralia 

Kinmundv 

Odin "..... 

luka 

Patoka 


Clay 

Clav 

Clav 

Clav 

Clay 

Effingham. 

Effingham. 

Effingham. 

Effingham. 

Effingham. 

Effingham . 

Effingham 

Effingham. 

Effingham. 

Fayette 

Favette... 
Favette... . 
Fayette... . 

Marion 

Marion 

Marion 

Marion 

Marion 

Marion 


APPENDIX.  — PART   II. 


37 


LIST  OF  LODGES  BY  DISTRICTS— Continued. 
TWENTY-SIXTH  DISIRICT. 


2-15 

473 

809 

79 

109 

25 

27 

99 

315 

355 

406 

560 

583 

588 

712 

835 


Greenville. 
Gordon  ... 
Gillham  ... 

Scott 

Trenton 

Franklin.. . 
Piasa , 


LOCATION. 


Greenville... 
Pocahontas.. 

Woburn 

Carlyle 

Trenton 

Upper  Alton. 
Alton 


Edwardsville Edwardsville. 


Erwin 

Marine 

Bethalto.... 

Madison 

Highland.. . 

Troy 

ColHnsville . 
Triple 


Alton 

Marine 

Bethalto 

New  Douglas. 

Highland 

Troy 

Collinsville. .. 
Venice 


Bond 

Bond 

Bond 

Clinton.. 

Clinton.., 

Madison 

Madison  , 

Madison  , 

Madison 

Madison 

Madison  . 

Madison 

Madison  . 

Madison 

Madison 

Madison 


TWENTY-SEVENTH  DISTRICT. 


24 

110 
342 
361 
418 
504 
576 


86 
162 
427 

497 


St.  Clair 

Lebanon 

Summertield .. 

Douglas 

Freeburg 

East  St.  Louis. 

O'Fallon 

Gothic 

Columbia 

Morris 

Chester 

Kaskaskia 

Hope 

Red  Bud 

Alma 


.U.  D. 


Belleville 

Lebanon ■ . 

Summertield . . 
Muscoutah  . . . . 

Freeburg 

East  St.  Louis. 

O'Fallon 

East  St.  Loui?. 

Columbia 

Waterloo 

Chester 

Ellis  Grove 

Sparta  

Red  Bud 

Steeleville 


St.  Clair  . . 
St.  Clair.. 
St.  Clair  .. 
St.  Clair  . . 
St.  Clair  . . 
St.  Clair  . . 
St.  Clair.. 
St.  Clair.. 

Monroe 

Monroe 

Randolph. 
Randolph. 
Randolph. 
Randolph. 
Randolph . 


TWENTY-EIGHTH  DISTRICT. 


1531 
31 
368 
696 
721 
64 
567 
705 
744 
749 
85 
207 
234 


Washington 

Clay 

Mt.  Vernon 

Jefferson 

Belle  Rive.. 

Rome 

Benton 

Frankfort .. 

Ewing 

Goode 

Akin 

Mitchell .... 
Tamaroa  . . . 
Du  Quoin.  .. 


LOCATION. 


Nashville 

Ashley 

Mt.  Vernon 

Opdyke 

Belle  Rive 

Dix 

Benton 

Frankfort 

Ewing 

Brayfield 

Tho'mpsonville 
Pinckneyville, 

Tamaroa 

Du  Quoin 


Washington. 
Washington. 

Jefferson 

Jefferson 

Jefferson 

Jefferson 

Franklin 

Franklin 

Franklin 

Franklin 

Franklin 

Perry  

P6rry 

Perry 


38 


APPENDIX. — PART  II. 


LIST  OF  LODGES  BY  BISTHICTS— Continued. 


TWENTY-EIGHTH  DISTRICT— Continued. 


NO. 

NAME. 

LOCATION. 

COUNTY. 

241 

287 

De  Soto          

De  Soto  

434 

Makanda..           

498 

657 

W'i 

ShilohHill 

Campbell  Hill 

Jackson  

833 

Ava     

Jackson         

89 

458 

Crab  Orchard 

Williamson 

487 

Andrew  Jackson 

Herrins  Prairie.- 

Chapel  Hill           .              

Corinth  

Herrins  Prairie 

Wolf  Creek    

WillianisDn 

693 
719 

Willitimsdn 

Williamson 

729 

Lake  Creek 

8(1'> 

Carterville 

817 

Creal  Springs 

Creal  Springs 

Williamson 

TWENTY-NINTH  DISTRICT. 


206 
331 
460 
713 
759 
356 
239 
752 
200 
272 
668 
677 
718 
137 
630 
807 
128 
325 
495 
684 
730 


LOCATION. 


Fairfield Fairfield 

Mount  Erie.  .• Mt.  Erie 

Jeff  ersonville Jeffersonville . 

Johnsonville Johnsonville.. . 

Orel Wayne  Citj^  .   . 

Hermitage Albion " 

Mount  Carmel Mount  Carmel . 

Allendale Allendale 

Sheba Grayville 

Carmi Carmi 

Burnt  Prairie IBurnt  Prairie . 

Enfield Enfield 

May Norris  City.    . . 

Polk iMcLeansboro 

Tuscan 

Royal 

Raleigh 

Harrisburg 

Stone  Fort 

Gallatia 

Eldorado 

Equality 

Warren 

New  Haven |New  Haven 

Omaha Omaha 


14 
230 
723 
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Waj'ne 

Wayne 

Wayne 

Wayne 

Wayne.   .. 

Edwards.. 

Wabash. . . 

Wabash... 

White 

White 

White 

White 

White 

Hamilton . 

Walpole iHamilton. 

Macedonia 'Hamilton. 

Raleigh Saline 

Harrisburg Saline 

Stone  Fort Saline 

Gallatia jSaline 

Eldorado 'Saline 

Equality 'Gallatin.. 

Shawneetown Gallatin  . . 

Gallatin  .. 

Gallatin  . . 


Ridgway Gallatin 


APPENDIX. — PART   II. 


39 


LIST  OF  LODGES  BY  DISTRICTS -Continued. 


THIRTIETH  DISTRICT. 


276 
444 
794 
131 
672 
701 
771 
91 
231 
336 
150 
339 
419 


822 
111 
457 
466 
520 
581 
627 
41 
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Elizabeth 

Cave-in-Rock 

Tadmor  

Golconda 

Eddvville  

Temwle  Hill . . 

Bay  City 

Metropolis 

Farmers 

New  Columbia 

Vienna 

Saline 

Reynoldsburg. 
New  Burnside . 

Gurnej- 

Belknap 

Jonesboro 

Moscow :   . 

Cobden 

Anna 

Dongola 

Union 

Caledonia 

Grand  Chain  . . 

Trinity 

Cairo 

Alto  Pass 


LOCATION. 


Elizabethtown.  .. 

Cave-in-Kock 

Karber"s  Ridge  . . 

Golconda 

Eddyville 

Rose  Bud 

Hamletsburg, 

Metropolis 

Pellonia 

New  Columbia.... 

Vienna 

Goreville 

Tunnel  Hill 

New  Burnside. . . . 
New  County  Line 

Belknap 

Jonesboro 

Moscow 

Cobden 

Anna 

Dongola 

Lick  Creek  

Olmsted 

New  Grand  Chain 

Mound  City 

Cairo 

Alto  Pass 


Hardin 

Hardin 

Hardin 

Pope 

Pope 

Pope 

Pope 

Massac 

Massac 

Massac 

Johnson 

Johnson 

Johnson 

Johnson 

Johnson 

Johnson 

Union 

Union 

Union 

Union 

Union 

Union 

Pulaski 

Pulaski 

Pulaski...  . 
Alexander. 
Union 


40 


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.00    ■  oi    •  —  «^  to  -^  —  in  00  —  o>  M^  in  in  CO  'x;  —  in  1-  to  01  01  in 


Membership 
1896. 


—  on-  o  m  I-  CO  OS  —  oo  o  CO  03  CO  CO  0-.  o  —  05  in  o  00  01  CO  —  o!  in  01  i~  t~  oo  -t<  CO  -^ 
t-o}Oiinco'^i-'.D^-f!0-^oo5  0i  —  i-cooi-T'Oi- osoocoomtTinotoxinoi 


01        —  —1  — 


i  01        —  0!  — 


<(!0 


bia<u 


—  oi 
^  rt  nj 


>^--3  O  bO_  !=> 

O  T^    •/■    rH    S  *J 


T:Q 


raw  3  is-n-g  0  ^5 1:^^  S'S  g-2>  S  ^^  S 1 1^ 


S  be 
biD-.:^  — 


H  g  K  X  ^  fi.  rH  S  a  W  a  cofeKPi^Soxp  W_S^q 


Lodge  No. 


o  crn! 

.MHW 

-HOicO'^i^oociCO-t*in".ot-OiOcoTfin?ot~Oi-^co-i*in?Di^oo 


,    _. _-         .  -     . _-  OS  O  01 

OlWOiMOiOKMCOCOCOCOCOCOCOCOTfTt* 


—  pS  >-i  (U 


APPENDIX. — PART   II. 


45 


O  O  Q  O  O 
O  CC'  o  o  o 

in  !0  CC  CO  in 


^iC^OlXMOtOlCOO^D'T^DtOOOOC^DOO 


oo  oo  oo  o 

iC  O  O  IC  o  »c  o 
l^  00  to  00  !M  —  1(5 


omoooooooQo 
omoooootoooo 

o  to  00  r-  •£!  1}  o  « in  w  »} 


tn  I*    •  ^    •  o 


oo  >n  QQ 
o  o  I-  o  o 

!o  iM  II  i~  in 

—  IT} 


o    •  o  oo 


oomt*Oin^co'?>co«oo^o?oa^i^cd>ooX'^'riOini*ini*cocc'^-*OicctC'Oin.-^-^  —  ocotDOin-rc»-fco 


^cc-r'*ooooi^'Mi^:DcCi:*cci*oo!Oin«DaicotDco^tDootO'MCOto 


■-^^CD'^-^'-'COtD 

CCiO  —  «— ■«— I'l-  —  M^^in^-o-M« 

•  Tl  to  CO  ?(  ?J  ^ 

— .    •  in  ^  w  CO  0--  ^  CO  o>  I- 

e»5 

•  eo  — inineo  — !Min 

ojoo-^-^NNNini-iin^-^comMOs-H 

171  in  in  oi  Tf  ^H 

0}     -l^NJlCOOS-^CO^Oi 

M 

...  rH      ....  Tj^ 

.J5      .     .      ■«      -M      ■      •      •      •      ^CO  — 

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OiOOOirtifJOOQOiOiCtfSOmOOiCiiCvftOiCiOOOiftOOiOOOiCiCOOireiCOiCiftiCiCiCOiOOifiiO 

1ft  3^  ifi  o  1-*  i^  o  o  o  o  i>  b- 1^  »n  C'i  ^  u^  I*  t--  i*  o  c-*  i^  in  lO  !ri  ic  in  w  o  ift  i>-  c-i  »c  »n  i>  c^  ic  i^  w  t^i  I*  i^  u^  w  ifi  i^  i^ 

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1-f  G-J  -^  o  CC  7-J  (©  CJ  I-  i-  (?>  o  —  CO  ' 


•  Cl  I-  ^  C'}  iC  f-^  I?}  Cl      ■  CJ  ■*  Tf  IC  GC  '^  W  l^  1—  00  CO  1--  CO  c 


.^,-iCs)^^::O^GQOO      .^tH^t*<      -CO^      -WW      .      .w-^rfw^      .t-( 


•-HC^^CO      .T— CO      ■      .^T-..—  CJ      -i-t 


.    .    .to    •    -CO 

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CO —    .    •  oi    •  CO  m    ■    •  CO    •    •        .    .  o!    •    • 

—  -r  — ■  -t"  I-  in  to 

CO  CO 

.-!— .— .eOtOlONXCOCO 

i-mi-0!o>  —  co-HOiTCOcoi»o.i-*coco  —  to^m— 'mcoi~— 'm 



.  «        .^N  r-  2» 

■^ 

.«tO— irtCO      .  —  —  01" 

■  —     .o>m     •     .--.     •OJlN'^     -COWIM  —  CO  —  --I  —  rt"     ..-1     .to     -Si 

:  :  :  i'^  i"^ 

::.:  ~  :::-':  : 

.    .    .CO—    •—    .—    •    .—    •    .  —  —  M eo-H    . 

•CO«C0  ■*  TCO 

cox 

•  —  m    ■  —  co-*T-.m  —  o! 

•  tomm-t<x  —  —  —  tooJOJOjTf    .  —  —  x    -oiso  —  —  'I'eox    -co 

00  CO  -^  X  in  o  o> 
—  mm  OiX  CO  .- 

—  ommxmoiMmmxcocomoxc3iOiasm'-^mDotoxX'i^'*'-ttotD-r-r»-<-t*i*c)i^xtoo 
(-  i>.  05  to  oo  to  I-  o;  X  t- 1-:  )1^  m  TT  ^  T(.  X  2  1:; "  =t  ■■c> « I-  CO  t-  X  to  1-;  i~  00  CO  to  CO  m  to  ov  to  CO  CO  to 

^ 


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—  5  C   (U 

r)  rt  <U  !h 


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<«  ^^  C  £ 
>  -*  J-'  o  '^ 

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n3  3 


o  •/:    .  rt  :;  c  x:  i  ^ 


—  3  oj 


-  -^  -  rt  y:  - 


!-^  0)  0)  5 

a>i—  -^  ^ 


<Ua3>1rt'Cxorai; 


t*ooasQ^HO^ccmi>xa^Q  —  cO'tmtoi^c. .—  oi-rmtoi*xoiO^-^mtot^xo50— <ojcointot>xo5 

—  —  —  .-*,  ..^  .^  .^  .^  ■"  ■"  ■"  -^  ■"  -^  ■''  to  to  to  to  l»  l»  1»  I-  l»  l»  £-.  1--  X  X  X  X  X  X  X  X  OS  OS  OS  C»  OJ  O;  05  05  OS 


i-XOSQ 

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ifiifi  in  \o  imfi  kfi 


«5  to  to  to 


goico-^ 
ooo 


46 


APPENDIX. — PART   II. 


Con.  to  Illinois 
Masonic    Or- 
phans' Home. 


Contributed  to 
those  not  Mem- 
bers  


Con.  to  Memb's, 
their  widows 
and  orphans.. 


o  o  o  c    :  o  o  ^ 

00  <M  -H  l~      ■  Cvi  -^  IC 


o  o  o 


O     •  —  US'* 


O  00  CO      ■  iC 


Memb"p    resid- 
nsr  in  Illinois 


^occo^o^iiccc-tcofMasaoccoooi^^iftos^T-H-M^tnincQi^ccccooomco 


Passed. 


.  ^^       .      .!0 


.^^^^Tf1i^G««>t-t5D 


•  OJ  r-l  —  l-HlC 


^rtna-^ei 


Initiations. 


^  -H  t*  t*  -N  00  ^  ^  ^  -^  ^      .  ^  *>!  T-  CI 


—<  ■*■*««] 


Rejections, 


Dues  1897. 


O  i^  (M  O  C^t  O  Ci  in  O  iC  Cl  »0  W  ^J  (M  W  in  O  in  C^l  C»  W  iCin  t*  S-J  O  OQ  ?^  O  l^  Cl  *c  o 

■<^^H00cc:DOs  —  orci>c>oo  —  ift^^05Wccxi-.-oocc'^Tt"in«ai^inmino5^ 

iLfSCiOOCOC^CCl^^CCCOCO— inCCl*'^l'"CQ-^C0^«'^CCOlCCOi(M^TTrCO'*^ 


Present    Mem- 
bership, 1897.. 


CQai"-rinriin-roococcooaii-..iniC:ot^x  —  CO  —  oo^^t^-^oswo^i'-woD 
t^nin-pcoicoiin-^iC'^intO'^a-icoccinincjicin'-rcC'^ojro-.^tc^D'^^."^ 


Total  Decrease. 


sDOJOjoj^in'M^'-ici-Hm-j)— .«    -Meooj— M^"        .myjo-^oiccmoo- 


Ded.  for  er- 
ror  


Died. 


Dimitted 


Expelled. 


Suspended 


■  -H  -H      .  CO      •         (M 


Total  Increase. 


n  m  rr  oi -^  I- 01    ■ '>i  si  ^  a^  oz  7i  ^ -".d    .^    -f-H05"Cocoo 


Add.  for  er- 
ror  


Admitted. 


Reinstated  . 


Raised. 


C,}«  —  rt 


(MM^-t      -in  CI      .— -^  —  a^CCCIOOr-^tD      •  01 


.  O}  „  „  „  I, 


Membership 

1896.... 


lOoooaTrinoinmi^coeoMocto  —  ^eoo^^OTM-t-oineooJO  —  oCMcDQOjfig 
t»c-iT^'^ccino5ifiTPin'*in!X)-^05ioo'^iniC'Minin-*co'*WTr-HCDm'^i^cg 


fl  o 


^^.'£ 


"       S  C  '^  2 


0)  o 

?  c  > 


3  <u  rt 


Lodge  No. 


£  11  r. 

in5DooaiO-HOJcOTtHin«ot^ooosOTco-Tfin?Dt^oDOiOT-HC>co-t<  ir^^?6 1-  oo  cs  o  ^h 

0000-H^,-.^^«,-.^,-.^OTC'(CJW(MCJOJO>COCOCOCCCOCOCCCOCOCO'<i<-<i« 


APPENDIX. — PART    II. 


47 


O     ; 

8 

°  ': 

;  ;S 

12  00 
11  00 
30  00 
10  00 

6  15 

"500 
10  36 
10  00 
4  00 
a  50 
8  30 

8  00 
4  OiJ 
4  00 

13  50 

'4 '60 
45  00 
4  70 
18  25 
10  00 

9  00 
6  25 

"2 '66 
2  00 

8888 

X  0  l~  I- 

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0  0  -  in  0  —    . 

oi  0  X  CO  i~  to    ■ 

8883 

0»010JrH 

:  -S 

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f,^  :2  : 

888  :  ;8  : 

0-.  X  01     ;     ;  —     • 

CO  "^  ""      •     •  "^ 

S8  : 

01  S>     ; 

8 

CO 

■:^accocooir:cr-ocscc^>co-+Cia:X'0--'icco^C'?Ci-t'';D!©i*Ti"in  —  :Dai'-'if: 
■'J'  (M  ic  I-  iri  ir:  T  cc  ^  -^  -f  i-  cc  '^!  0  ^  -X3  -j^  ^  T  to  irt^  M  cr.  -0  ^  -^  ic  0  w  Tf  t-  CO  c. 

01 

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!D  irt  CO  —  01 

-r  — 

.      .-?<  —  1-  —  C-.      .ff      .rf.  —  —  CO      ■ 

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Ninxoi 

to  — ■  CO  -^ 

o>  — ■  —  X  -^)  X  CO  i»  X  CI  CO  0  OS  —  ^  —  OS  1^  -^  0  -XJ  -JS  0  -f  T!  Oi  0  •£!  i-  0  ^  —  M  t-  in  w  to  31  0  -r  -r  -r  0 
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k:  CO  to  I-  TT  X 

0 

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.    .    .    .  TJ1      to    . 

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5  aj  c  :-3,a  "^  55  c|  rt  o'C  £  "^5  i;">^5:  «i5  i  0.5  o  rt  c 


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.-^..^..Jl-^.•^.•^-^Olnlnlnlnlnlnlnln•ntoto 


01  -t  in  to  X 
to  to  to  to  S 


C-.  O  —  01  CO  -K  -C  to  W  X  31  O  Ol  CO  in  t~  X  Oi  O  O!  CO  ■ 
to  I-  l~  I-  l~  I-  l~  l»  l»  l»  i-  X  X  X  X  X  X  X  31  3J  0>  C 


48 


APPENDIX. — PART    II. 


'S 


Con.  to  Illinois 
Masonic    Or- 
phans' Home. 
Contributed   to 
those  not  Mem 

bers 

Con.  to  Memb'.s. 
their  widows 
and  orphans.. 


Memb'p    resid- 
ingin  Illinois 


OO     . 

o    .    .    .    . 

;;;;;;;;;;•;    ;0    ;;.    • 

OOiOOfOOOOOOOiOOO 

loon-oojoooo  —  001100 
CO  I-  -r  —  o  I-  Oi  O!  o  ci  i-  lo  o  o  — 

—1               — '  ^H               C>J  Oi  CO 

OO     -OOOOtOaO     -iCOOOiCOOO 

c&Tt"    -coin,  i-oooio    ;  —  050»!0in  —  t~ 

:88  :S??  :  :  .§82S?2  : 

•Tri»    ■— .—    ■    '■    •  —  CO  —  coco    • 

.  CC  —      ■  — —      .      .      .05        IC        CO      . 

.»        .            ...          c)      _    . 

.  o  if5  o    ■    .OOO    .o    -o    •    -ooo 
•i/;ojo    .    .ooo    ;m    -in    ■    -oico 

•oDOO    .    ^ino-    '  kO    'u5    •    -oootc 

■  ?D  —  —      .     .  CO  :D  —      1            .|C      ■      -ICCDCO 

ooco«DC'jift<:ooOTtci^oo:CiCoicco»oa5i^-tcioaoo50i*n'ir^':c  —  I- c>  —  -p-^ 

"^iOWCJOCOlTj^CDCOGCiC  —  <©C-}^'>I»CCQ..J'irtC0iCl-..O5'r»?OC0  —  COCJOGO-^ 


Passed. 


Initiations. 


Rejections, 


Dues  1897. 


Present    Mem- 
bership, 1897.. 


Total  Decrease. 


Ded.  for  er- 
ror  


Died. 


Dimitted 


Expelled. . . 


Suspended . 


Total  Increase. 


Add.  for  er- 
ror  


Admitted. 


Reinstated  , 


Raised. 


Membership 


c-i  lO  f>i  ^  t-^  r^  0-i  i~  T^  (>i  ^  CC  ir>  ^ 

•CQ 

•  ^(N  w 

1'"' 

CO  CO  CO 

to 

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CO  (M  in     . 

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'. '"' 

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OC0O007tib^«D55^C0«'--00O  —  ^—  O^WCOOlOOS'^tDOO^'^COC'Iif:  —  (Ci'Xi 


coTfco-— ocG'jrrcoiriC'i'^'-'aooiMifiOi'^cic 


3CO?Ol*r->iCC>i-iCt^COtDCO 


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—  CO  ^  CO  TI>      -      .  —  —  !>(      ■  —  I)      .  -)■  OS  M            .      .      .      .  —  OJ  ?> 

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r 

"  i 

—    -in  —  ino-}—    -05    -Of    .    .-Of    •    ■      — ooim-    .    •  — 

TiH  u3  CO  CO  o  CO  iM  CO  -t<  If:  lO  t^  —  —  —  —  —  01  o>  01  oj  —  CO  CO  in  « in  oj 

coaoi»    . 

.  Ol  —     . 

C0TPC0C05O  —  01!M  —  OOTTCOinO      .—      •—  OJO!         — WMCOOllO- 

COOJ-f     . 

OSTtfOiinTTCO-l'OOOCOO'MO-^'I-OSOOtDi-COi-'MC'tOOtDtOClOStO—  e-lTf<CO 
TTini^Ot  —  CO5D-^«DC10000  —  OOll^COCDCOlCtO^inoO—  .^ttoco-Mcocioooin 

ho  : 


'S    :  P. , 


a  rt  rt  •  r^  '^f  li 


3 
,^  5  c  h 


s-^n 


3gS^S 

5  f^  O  Ih  S 


^fe 


n.'V  u.i:  hoil  be 


Bc^^SS^ 


SB  J  8  ;'S^55g-asox 


>(/}t'^'^t' 


i  hCri.QX3 


,5  -rt  "3  bi)^ 


-  g  &'  .  OS 
^^■^  U  C  G 
pj  rt  ,ij  u  (^ 


0  O  u:  > 

^S'SrSa 


C.50 

^  G  oj 
ilGoj 


Lodge  No. 


tOW050  —  C0-+in«^l-00050  —  01CO.rJH«Oi 
050505000000000  —  —  —  —  —  —  ' 

—  —  —  01(M(M01C1010}010}<N01C>}(MCM(MC 


)050  —  tOltOWOOOSO  —  OICO. 


050505000000000-  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  01  TOOIOIOIOI '^^COCOC0COCOC0 


I  Ol  Ol  Ol  OJ  Ol  Ol  01  OQ  01  03  01  01  Ol  01 


APPENDIX. — PART   II. 


49 


:^ 

: ;  ;8  ; 

ox 

39  52 

59  50 

13 '66 
8  00 
10  00 

"5  00 

7  00 

1  00 
17  50 

5  00 
10  00 

8  00 

6  00 

"e'oo 
3  no 

12  38 

'i6'6o 

5  10 

6  75 
31  00 

5  00 
12  00 
8  50 

2  00 

;8S88 

|l«OSCO00 

s§ 

;8 

;0 

00 00 4n    -ic-t    ■    •      00    •    -OO    ■    •    -icio    ■ 

oic o»ni*    -Mos    ■    •    -OO    •    'Oin    •    •    --s-cc    • 

OO!     •     • lO-l-O     -to^     •     •     -O-*     •     -CO^O     •      •     -OO!     • 

CC  X Ct  C-i            ■'-■' .0      ■••.-<  ^^     ••  CO            •      .     •  M' l^      • 

■00 
;lOO 

3  00 
60  00 
37  CO 

io'oo 

S  : 

^  : 

—  0Q.nc»irtaiO-rot-ccr!t~ot~!C3i-i3-^oo  —  t-i-cr.  xco  —  oooooi  —  MODicinioruooji^cn^M  —  rroj 
i»xinxcoo5x«0'a«3oou:c050ini-cotDcoi-x^cooc>!mTr":).'Miccocoi--oeoinojtDx^'Mcoi-xin!o«5M 

-^  in    ■  iR  i~ 

— ■  CO  oj    •  -M      -H    •  -.o  -M  in 

CO  — I'M  CO 

ooto  0>     • 

r"" 

^^    •w^.-^^-tin-^T-i 

CO    ■  X  «o  135  in    • 

^  -T  —  l^  X 

•  ;c  CO  ^  'J  (  —  ^  —  l»  M  t- 

ei    ■oiiD 

XXrt  — c 

•.-H5DeO 

-H    .oieo.-.-i>ojrt 

CO    -intoio— '    • 

■  .-     -IN -hC 

CCSrt      .CO 

^  — N     -tDtSi     • 

OS  l»  X  -r 

c-oim  c. 

1» 

- 

X 

i~ 

2  r^ 

K 

ic:  '^  io  in  X 

0 

—  CT.  0  i  - 

X  CO  X  cr. 

.n 

" 

oojoinco  —  C-.  — '-^.ncoo-.  —  O5:oxi^coo3c»oo5a3ino 
— ■cOTT^Tfcoinco'iii-wcoas'MtoaiTjicocoi^osincoTOco 

cc 

Jl  K>  t- 

l~ 

cc 

cc 

CO  r; 

■XI 

0 

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I J  in 

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11 

•^co.n  CO 

^^ 

to  CO  l- 

--in 

=  " 

•  in  '^  CO 

" 

CO  TJ.  to  TJi  rj< 

in  to 

"  r-i  -^  -^       - 

r* 

!    i '"'    i 

C! 

—      -CO 

" 

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" 

"  ; 

•' 

CO     ■  — 

01 

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"" 

^  " 

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in  —  CO 

CO 

—  TPCOOl 

--•Ol 

—     .  CO     •     • 

•V 

—  NTT  ^ 

" 

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—  ?J 

" 

r 

'"' 

as 

—  CO-* 

'"' 

neo 

•CO  M  — 

;      ^O}      ; 

" 

CO      -—(N 

:  ^   ;  ^^   \ 

in 

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.  .^      . 

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.     .—.CO     . 

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in 

0! 

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.  0!  CO  CO  ^  0!  -H  to  Ol  'i' 

.  t^ 

—  0  in  OT  to  M 

-"IM 

•  — « 

.CO—"-—      .      •      •  —  — 0!      .CO      •      •-»■ 

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.  -0^^ 

-  — '  ^I  -^      .  —      .      .  — I  — < 

•IN 

—  —        CO  —  — I. 

'^  : 

^     ;  ^^ 

.-<    -MeQ    •    .  — ' «    .    .    .—    .      —1 

" 

;  ;^  ; 

:::.::::  :** 

'in 

«.* 

.  -*i~ 

— .  CO  (M      .  —  CO  — 1      .  t»  5!  in  —  JJ  O)  ^  rt 

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in 

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•  — X  01 

■  X  inxin    - 

oooi^oi'T-oxtDtDi-*cCiCTj^ioici^coo-t'G005Tt'cO'^ec'^'*'^coinccoi^i--co^cc(©0'^cccoxaoinift?^ 


o  e  '-J 


rt  ™  o 


:^^§§; 


g    •  Mo 
p  rt  C  rj' 


^c 


■  a  : 


a)i3'C'C:3;iSCo  h&^  ni  5  o  pi3  0)  "'  "'  '^  "-:  "1  a 


i  ■   •   !  ;  I   .   !   ;  !   ;  ri   ;  ;   ;  :   I  I  !  I  I   !  r 


•XiW^HKCSK 


ffi^<;-tiQ 


!  M  ^J  ?> 

—d 


■:  to  1-  X  3 

01  Oi  I>  ?}  II  i!  C*  ?!  OJ  I! 


in  t*  o  —  c*  CO  -f  in  to  I*  X  c.  o  "  o>  r?  -?■  in  to  i^  X  :^  o  '^?  ^t  if:  to  i^  X  — 
in  iC  to  to  to  to  to  -o  to  to  -jd  to  i-  t^  i-  i-  i-  t-  i-  !-  i~  i»  x  x  x  x  x  x  x  m 

0}  Oi  !■»  0!  OJ  mi  CI  O!  CJ  JJ  01  IM  OJ  OJ  mj  OJ  H  .>J  O!  11  CJ  J!  N  OJ  0}  CQ  0}  (M 


50 


I! 


APPENDIX.  — PART    II. 


Con.  to  Illinois 
Masonic  Or- 
phans' Home. 
Contributed  to 
those  not  Mem 
bers 


Con.  to  Memb's, 
their  widows 
and  orphans.. 


Memb"p    resid- 
insr  in  Illinois 


Passed. 


Initiations. 


Present    Mem 
bership,  1897. 


Total  Decrease 


O 

< 

Q 

< 

P 
W 


Rejections, 


Dues  1897. 


oooc 


T—     oiif:  5-( 


o  o  :r^  It;  o  o 
o  I*  iC  01  o  o 


in  ;o  ^  o  Qo  o 


o  m  o  o  o  3 


coO"^    .T-i!M    .i^ift«(rjc0CQO>iCTt*inO5 


I  ■*  .-•  Tj<  CO  CO  00 


--.—  comn    •■*  —  o>i-* 


.—  ^-C>»CQCC^^^^H      .CO      ..-H 


iftioooiooidooOiCtf:Lfto»niOioommicoicinoo»ooireooooo 


(NC<JiCOCTOl~l-00 

coin  — 050OT  •i'O coo   ,-,_„  .    -    .    -,  _   ,    . .     , . .-  _  i-„  ,-  .. 

in?DtO        OOOWCOCOCO'^'^inOi.^OC^lCOWTrC'i^HiO— ■C05D'^CMl*'*J«C0^H«DO 


i*  -ri  to  7^1  oi  i^  o  oj  c  M^  o  oj  i^  in  o  i^  iri  (^j  lO  ic  in  in  o 

o>  o  gc  I-  i»  i~  CT  -x>  ■*  -^  CO  o  •—  ■*  CO  in  in  i»  o  i--  OS  (~  ^} 

-  ~  C\>  CO  ^*  TP  C')  .— I  lO  -^  —  —     .    --  -        .    —         —  — 

CO  r- 


Ded.  for  er 
ror 


Died. 


Dimitted 


Expelled.. 


Suspended 


Total  Increase 


ifs  i^  oi  o-M^  i*  CO  -H  -r  o  a;  t*  i^  00  CO  CO  i^  ^  in  OS  ^  -^  t-..  o»  ^  -^  — ■  ^  CO  -*  o  «o  o  :d 
,    -^  -^     .  ^  -^ ..  —  _.-  .^  .«  -^  j^^  —,  ^  ^  j^^  J*  .« .  .^  ..^  ^  — 

'^^  ^  in  -^  ^ 


i^GOX  —  oooco^-^-*ifiic?oi^o^coi^coincofM:C!0':toc?ocooinin!Mosco 


00  -f  CO  oi  CO  in  C'}  c^* 


Add.  for  er- 
ror. .  . . 


Admitted. 


Reinstated 


Raised. 


Membership 
1896... 


Lodge  No. 


■T.-'COT-.tl-OSOSOO 


.^  —  CO  O'i  in  CO  r-. 


■T-hC'J     •■*«cococo 


■^  oi  CO .-'  CO  lO  i^  '^>  — i  3^ 


M    -co      in  -f  —  o!  -^ 


CO  1--  c*  i^  ^  -M  ^  ic  1 ^  CO  i^  CO  in 


M  CO        C^  —  'N  -H  ■^ 


1  CO  CD  in  CO  CO  CD  .-^  ^i  ^  CO  CO 


•  —  CO  W  CT 


i^cDCiCQ  —  ^QOinin--o    ■^-cO'^-vc^i    -Tti.—  o^^.—  o^ 


—  i-O-* 


t^incocDXJC-icOinr-"  — ^Tt^iCcoosino^o^Hcooiooicoico  —  ^nooo^Ht* 
ooDcococo"*icincDcooo)--^cocococoo}cocoinoocDcooiniC(Wosco 


.  C  1^ 


JSI  c  rt  3.MW  S  c  o'gO'gffi'g'g  o  j-'^'c  D'c'g  ^is-g  c5Q  o  ^™fl 


qj  nj  n 
bjDbjO 


c  p. 
<u  o 


rtK 


Co 

C  yj 


oj 


aj^-^sojc^^   .  y:  rt  0):-:  g  c  ni  i-i.::'^  o  S:;  ; 


C^ 


_0  CL,  Oh  Q  O'M  ^  M  Q  K  O  P^  &^  <!  B  Q  W  M  >^  Oh  H  <5 1^;  Q  OQ?  O 


:  --  -^J  CO  'C  !•-  O  —  fM  CO 
f  Ol  C'J  O?  C'>(>J  CO  CO  CO  CO 


APPENDIX.  — PART    II. 


51 


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OU  UHJ 

OOXO       o  o 
OO  ■*  o    :oo 
t-  -f  to  in     ;?)•>! 

3  50 

8  00 

9  00 
11  00 

4  00 

8  00 

27  00 

3  00 

o 
o 

X 

3  00 
5  UO 

'  6 '66 

7  00 

4  00 

7  00 

BBS 

05  TTCO 

5  00 

26  25 

3  00 

4  00 
14  00 

8  00 

5  00 

$25 '66 
83  12 

75'6o 
49  00 

o 

o 

i  ;  ;  ^  •  •" 

:S8  : 

■  ox     ; 

<35     ■  O      -O     •      ■ 
rr      •  O      -O      ■ 

X     •  -.     •  OJ     ■     ■ 
(N     ;           ;           [ 

S   :8 

in     ;CC 

'2!  06 

.56 '6c 

15  00 

0  N  to  — '  M  X  •«  -i<  0  ec  '^!  c<3  0  —  1^  »:!  71  ic  i~  0  CT.  to  0  TT  T>  i>  0 1-  0  CO  ^  -i  CO  0  in  in  CO  0  C--  ^  i~  m  -^! !~ 
oiHCOlnr^^^!to  —  ^0  —  inTJMini^jjjjincoto  —  in'3'cojii-intDOco^(too!Wco  —  toiMCQ'-'^.-^ 

05  to  l^  OS 

in  to    ■—    •    -^    ■    -in  —  I- «co«    --^    -i^ojotooirtTi"    _    --hco    -s!    -x— ■    .— c-hos    •    -m    .-h 

-tMS-J^OCCt-lftfMrMQOi—      --HCC      -CC      •XT'l 


oin»(rooooicoicc>ic»oiftOiftin.ftioicic»ftin»no 


i>GOC^l'<*'^(M-^'-'CO-*i-«CO-<-'^"<T"Xi»-*^-^CQmi-iTjiCC(M 


OtfiO»f^ooi^»n»nm>f3icooooo»noiciOifi 


ifi('^jiC(r-»miC!Wi--i*<Mi--'MOOOinot-o-'>ji*(M 


001>05OaDOSO0000i:DCSl'-00C0mi>OOl-^C^OiT-i 


?DinascO'^>o-t'ifiOX''*aD'^coaoi^co»nciiCiO— 'U7ii-*'+'Cricoco:Dt^aotoi-*iCic*occica;'rooo« 


■  1-H     .1— «f-H     .     -C^     -1— <CCC^-^CQ     ■'>13''>» 


.—(CC     --^     ■C^iiftCC^i-'^     -rsC^     ■      •      -W^CCrt^     -CO 


•  CO      •      •      -CO 


■  O^  CI      -co      •  (M      •      .  CO  -^J 


.  i^j     •cOCOOSCi'^ifiift  —  ^■^^'-'•*^        i'-^      -OI-^OJ     •     -00^  OJ 


•  C^l      •  to  C^J  1--  l>  CO  fM  CO 


i--OOCD'*0  —  I-*  —  --CDWCJCCOOCCCCOiOSSD'^DOT^il 


3COCOOtD(MinOO--incOSOCO'?f-^— ocomi-co- 


a>-^icins^cc?D'---*^'-^iC5^}oitnoosQWi^cowwin'*cO'^i'-<©^— Trcoi^'^09co^ocoiMC<iiC'--iococoic 


ft  J-i 
__Ci  —  co-fxoi0  7icofintoxciO^ 

_  _  to  to  J*  i^  l^  l^  l^  X  X  X  X  X  X  X  X  Ci  Oi 

cocococococococococococor:cQcoco:ococo 


52 


APPENDIX. — PART   II. 


Con.  to  Illinois 
Masonic  Or- 
phans' Home. 
Contributed  to 
those  not  Mem 
bers 


Con.  to  Memb's, 
their  widows 
and  orphans.. 


Membp    resid- 
ing in  Illinois 


O  iC  o  -=  o  o  o  o  o  o 


O  CO 
—  X 


o  ooo  o  o  o 

0  o  o  o  o  o  o 

01  »C  ?}  CO  O  ■n'  f-i 


o  ec  oo 


oc  o  o 


ooooo 


in-t-xi^TPCi-roG  —  Oi^OincDOQDC^jco': 
— ,    .  -n  ic  --  a;  C" 

.-I  —TO 


-  _-   .  --      '  TO  —  '.o  'T  o  05  CI « «o  ira  -H  CI  o  o  i- 

TOTO:0(;!TOiiiTO'7*i*l^"*»0C(TOiC--a;TO'^TOl^l-TOTOGCTOiriCTO'^'?>'^-^TO 


Passed. 


•  ;0  — TO      -TOTO. 


'  !0  —  C!  ■*  —  —  O  —  C> 


Initiations. 


■  Ci  —  Ci      •  TO  TO  !-<  CO  r- 


?(  -f  c>i  »n  —  in  —  —  -t'  -H 


Rejections, 


Dues 


icooiftotcooiooooioir^oidfioOiCinicicooooicoicooifto 
CI  tn  o  i^  o  w  »f3  o  c»  o  o  iC  c^t  ci  o  i^  CJ  »^  o  ^J  (M  '^J  oi  »n  o  o  iC  ^  o  ^?  o  o  ci  o 

cot- »<..-i^-H--.  —  TOTOOJOO»ftOOOlCTOCDCDOSCDCJ05-^05t*l*CIQOTOC}0 

CI00K5CQOJ'<tTOOIlC«3TO"^OlTOCia5CICiTOCi.niOWCI<OCtOi-*GQTO— 'TOTOTO 


Present    Mem- 
bership, 1897.. 


tr;  —•  C>  Oi  CC  31  lO  X  -I'  ; 


—  —  ■*. 


1  O  C!  CI  to  TO  t-  TO  -"T  TO  O 


Total  Decrease. 


.-■  CO  CO    .  -..  c)  -p  —  —  TO  —  c(  -^  —  C)  m  "C  CO  ci  —  in^  to  — 


Ded.  for  er- 
ror  


Dimitted 


Expelled. . 


Suspended 


—  —  —        OJ—      ■—      .-t-hOCJ 


TO     .  1^  ■»*'  Tf     .  —  —     .  C*  CI 


Total  Increase. 


cocxji^incico  —  -^i^-^ 


Add.  for  er- 
ror  


Admitted. 


Reinstated 


Raised. 


CO  —  TO— TO-^  —  ic- 


es CI  rj-  —  — 


i  CI  "^  CI  CO  —     •  ^  T^ 


Membership 


ifiOiCOCOCDl^lOXOSCDCI  —  Ot^O-^  —  IfitCCOTt^DOt*- CD-T'OOOtni^l^'^COO 
TO  TO  W  CI  TO  lO  -^  CI  COXlCiftTO-^iCCI- TO-^TOWt^COTOl^CQCOCOTfTOCI'^TO''*' 


OJ   O     ■ 


fl  O  OJ  o 
;/}0>-;0 


^fl-^   ■ 


M  ■,-'  ij  E  '<!  o  2i ""  '.zj  "*  .y  .y  .M 


nj  O  PI' 


Lodge  No. 


<N  TO  ■*  CD  l^  X  0-.  —  CI  TO  -T  ■";  CO  X  »  O  —  CI  -l"  •(;  CO  t^  X  0-.  C  —  C! 
TOTOTOTOTOTOTO^-^-^Tf-.l'-t"'^'^ 


03  ><  ,_ 

CC  -f  «D  1--  00  Ol  O 


APPENDIX. — PART   TI. 


53 


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§ 

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00  01 

00  Z 
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00  91 

01  T 
00  I 
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00  i 
00  01 
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00  11 
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8  :8S§88 

to     ;5000in«0 

§888  :;S82SS 

oowtoo     -ODOiO-^O 

:8 

36  00 
12  50 
190  00 

"i  56 

'i6'66 
4  75 

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17  34 

5  00 

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15  00 
30  00 

5  no 

7  00 
3  50 

859 '75 
18  00 
43  75 

J>  CO  OS  CO  iC  «D  -H  Ttt  i*  CO  W  T^  if:  1--  --  -TJ  as  CO  'X=  X  I/:  05  X  O)  lO  C-}  CO  CO  OS  TfH  00  t»  03  C^  00  ^  CO  »C  '^t  t^  01  OS  -X>  CO  ^  -^  CO  ■* 

■^-'C-ico^n»nOin'*'^co!^l"*Or-*Trlnu^'X'Tf"XT-HCOl-^cocococolOc^IOi■^^-'*^--*iCl•^ 


•  «  —  0! 

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03  to 

•(M!M 

(NrH(N      . 

.       .CC  --  .-Ht-I 

•   T-  M  to  -H    . 

<^3 

•  CO 

•  m  c-}  — 1  e<3  00     0 

"^  : 

■rt  rtCOlN 

—  in 

i*^ 

M«D 

■rtCOOJOl      ■ 

"^ 

IN-* 

•  m  o«  rt  ej  in ,-( 0 

■  to 

ooioo-.  inireM-f-pcct-Mtoox-iiiOJCotDi-i^osiCoomt^co^co— ■■n'ooKii 


^  Oi  »0  lO  l^  CJ  o  10  i^  CO  to  ' 


—  i»MiK--oojiO'7'coco'M-*o«-t<mtO'^Ti'Oi  —  'j'-HcocococomcoojioccTri-mini-rte^t-'COCoooeoi^eocoM 


•l^MlOlOino-.  !»  —  «oo     ■     .Ol"  —  tococo-*     -Win     •eOmCl^tOd^'JiCO' 


•  ci  to  i~  ^1  ■»    •  >-■ 


•  — T-c      .      -IM 


dot     -(MOT     •COO!>—eO  —  «tO     •     .IN-H     .CO     -Ol     •     •--—        COCOJJ—     -in  —  co  — 


•CO     •      ■  01  iC  CO  -^ 


.Tj<        .TjH        .^^        .COl"-»'f 


•04COCOC0— W  —  CO^«CO-J'     .  —  T^-^t'^^'—  (MCI 


■  —  ojioin  —  cO'-in    ■■*  —  — icoo  —  tO'-c  — 


•  W  C-(  ^  ^     .  rt 


. ,-,    .    .  rr 


■  CO  C!     .  —  r-.  CO 


>  CI  CJ  —      ■  CI  -<  CO      .  CO  «  rH  Cf  I- 


}-1"OC0»nC0l^-^OOt0C.100OCiC0CCC0C0t0'-fC0'*'*OCii*C}C0t0tD 

^lo-^ci-f  —  —  'j'tototCirroiCj^^-^cocococomcoctinQO'^i^iOiOi*  — 


^  0}  CO  Tj-  -c  i^  O  -^  O"*  CO  "^  iC  'X'  I-  X  OS  O  -H  CO  -f  "^  "^  '"•  'X  O  ' 

cocococococO'-*-rj4^^rt"-t'-f-r-r-riCiCiCi.Onr:ir:iOir:'X't 


54 


APPENDIX. — PART   II. 


I 

<^ 
H 
m 

Q 
fa 

<1 

m 
<: 


Con.  to  Illinois  I 
Masonic    Or- 
phans' Home.  I 
Contributed    to  i 
those  not  Mem 

bers I 

Con.  to  Memb'p.  I 
their  widows  ( 
and  orphans..  | 


>  o  o  o  o  o  o  It;  o  1 


:  o  o      o  o  It;  o    -  o 


:  o  tr:  o  o  If;  o 


•ooooinooot-ocoio 
•  o  —  cc  i^  c»  i^  o  ■>? .—  -r)  o .—  — ■ 


OiOO  oo 
in  i~  OS  o  o 

i~  CO  to  in  00 
CO  C^  r.H  ci  o 


— i-K  -CJ 


Memb'p    resid- 
ing in  lUinoi- 


Passed. 


Initiations. 


Rejections, 


Dues  1897. 


Present    Mem- 
bership, 1897 


Total  Decrease. 


Ded.  for  er- 
ror.   


Died. 


Dimitted 


Expelled.. 


Suspended 


Total  Increase 


if;Goir;i*cO'XOco-tHTrQOOOscoif;ioi*o;ooo;';>!>?DC;"^cOD;i^oO}oii*w 
mtMiococo^i^-^ojicjoi^Mcoo^oico-^-^co^o-.  cocoi-cocoioinov  CO*— ' 


in  «    •  'a-  cj  — 1    -T^ 

.  ^^50 

X  COCJ  —  OJ 

(.-  wj:  «  OS     • 

in .-.      -^  0^  ^H    .  ^H 

0*,.  ini- 

DC  r-  TP  t^     . 

OSIM^  ■£>?( 

Tj-  M  O  «  —      ■ 

.    .    .    .  M    .  «rt 

.-    .rtiN 

^    .    .^    . 

•  ■;»     ;  — '  — ' 

;  — —      ^CO     • 

Oinoinoinininoinininooinoininoininooicinooinininininino 
in  i^  in  i*  in  oj  CQ  t^  o  o»  (>j  I*  in  in  i^  o  o5  oi  lO  ;^  i^  o  o  i^  o»  in  in  w  c^  w  c-t  I*  ^i  in 

CO.—  cot^int^coco  —  oco-H  —  o»!>«t~oso  —  '3'ini-ocoi'rttD-t"cc-rooco 
■*OJ-*!Mij  —  incoinSQS^ooto  —  e}!Ni»(NT)'ooOT«aceoe.!cocoN-*co-.ococo« 

CI  .-        01 

6© 

Qoo^ooi^Tt'CoojinoDi^^osC'ioi^oDcoa^-^incootD  —  ^«?c>moi— 'C5.— 1*30 
in;^incocowi*'<*<«ooicooco!Mcoc>jocoini^coC'i— 'TCO-n'Tj.coinin^-'j^o^^ 

—1  --  CO  — I  «        CO 


co^D-H!ococoln!^!cOrtrtOcocOrt    •<oc->'-'00 


^    .  CO  co- 


co «  —  -H 


■  X  I!  —  — 


(_  —  rt    -in— I 


CO  in  o?  CO  M  CO    ■  ci  -H  c^ 


to  O  0}  —  c> 


CO  CO     .  —  — 


— <      .  (M      ■  — 


■  I-  oj  to  in  —  —  <N  -*  in  sj  CO 


—  50:0-i<  — 


Add.  for  er- 
ror. .  . . 


Admitted. 


Reinstated 


oj    -in    .CO 


Membership 

1896. . . . 


C-}  ■*  —  (M  — 


t-1  CO  f     ■  — • 


o.  in  X  CO  » 


j;'^osO'?>-r'^inxxoxcoOitDXC<»CiOiXfMinoc5i*:::osooD05i*  —  :ox 
incoin-^co(Mi>intDt;tcooi*wcoot  —  co-n'incow  —  cot-j-^cotttp-^  —  ■•^-fT-i 

— .  —  CO  —  (N       CO 


o  d 


.'  OJ  O  rt 

-H  nj  TO  O 
Oi-oOH, 


i^O)  o  o  o  '^i 


■^^'^hoiS 


,2^"^m2^^§ 


^   '2        — '   >^  O   M   iiCi   M   U   r   rrt 


n!.' 


'r-^Sgo; 


^c.c 


Co 


moog7^Hi-3Ha}EHc/iScfii-]g^OHa-i:!oP-iMam<;i-jaW'iiaaqo6qH 


Lodge  No. 


^•■a 


^■^   :=^ 


•.:2  c  ■ 
■  cc  • 

:'-'c  d 


^r^.a-^ 


ojS 


cnj-i'ijcs 


ixS 


71  CO'  . 


50  t*  X  CI  O  - 

ooxxX'OiCiCiO-ocr. 


H<ga:x^oH  Sob 

5  !>  X  O  «  ~i  CO  -r  ir;  to  X  o-.  t_)  T!  ■»  tLJ  l~  ou 
-  C-. C-. ocooopoco  —  —  . —  — 


•l^'l 


z  c  c  C  -j  nj;:^ 


to  t-xc 
inioininiCininini 


APPENDIX. — PART  II. 


55 


:   :  :  :8  :  :   : 

■    ■    •    -o 
•    ;    •    :o 

■    !    !    •  "^    ^    I    ! 

'    !    *    !  *"* 

e 

jSgogojcgogoggo    .0 

•  0 

•  0 

00000  =:  0 
•00  0  _  0  00 

■  00 

8  :8  : 

■  oc  00 
0000 

00000 

i~ 

i~  tC  0  C!  --O  i-  T  —  -i  i~  —  CM  3i      •  Irt 

:" 

•  X  ffiin  00  —  WM 

■O-trr 

to     ;-H     ; 

•  l^  CC  30  H 

0  OVOCO-H 

8 

:  :   :   :  .sn   :  :   :  :S  :8o   : 

:   .  :   :S  :8  : 

:  30  •   • 

000 
000   •    • 

i 

.  :  :  :    S  :  :  :  .S  :g??  : 

]  ■  \   [^  ]^  \ 

•  M      ■      • 

00  iC     •     • 

CO  -^  C-l   .  -^  'M  CC  «D  CC  CI  I-  7) 


m  i-i  u:;  CI  ^  ^ 


CO  ■  —  01  -CC  I*  ■<--"— CO  •■^ 


^^^  -CJ  i>C^ 


CsKM-^lOOOCil^C^ 


CO  CO  Tt"  CC  ^^  ^-i 


^in^  wca 


OiOiCioooifticooinooooicoooiciooinoooiCimraooiCifiiOfCoooicicooiCifttfiifrico 

O^C^l^OiC3*l--iniCCICiO0OS^irtiCOi^l'*ir5WiC0i0l-C^t*tCiCOTi^C^WOiC»i5l^l--O»r2WCvICIl-'C'lO 

occcitco  —  c3iC^-*w^-»ftO'*'-^^-'£':Dc>>osco«Dt^oc^IcoffI?D'*o>^-l■^l-<rt'osaoaalOc^I'<*^oQ^^Jc^ 
TrlCcococcccG^i«--':oco^-■^:Dl^IcOl-ll— ^T}«eocoTt'.-l^-T^Tt'^-c^»c^^•-^cot-ccQTr3Ql--«l^^^^'*c^'^ 


O— 'COOO'M-HOOOCCOOC>3rcO'M'?i:DCOiftCICO'^'-DCSl-»iCCO*X;OC0035Ci'rOrtil'-Tr'X>OCCCO  —  ire 


tGOireotoxcooc^'Tioiintn'^tociaiif^ioaicocociiocicQireccciocoirecoirecoTrfCico' 


5  iret 

■ICOC 


.  ^  M  ^  ^  (j^  TT 'Tf      .  ^  Tf  Ci  CI  CO  ^ 


•  XifscoTrcococ-idco  —  CO— ' 


I  0  C'l  ■'T  ^  *-«  ^  W  ^  oc  CC  d 


■CO      •  Tj<  CI  ^  « 


^^M^coi'-3'J'-HC-i'*'ireiretDcoo5^^'--«?ci    -00    .i-^ai-^i-«cj    -co—'    ■c>i-<cooo      cooo    -(Mtt    .^«    .-^ 


•  CI    'COtDci    •-^cocoiretC'-'Oci    ..—  toci    .ire    -ire^i^i— if-.— . 


.  CO  O     -  CI  c^ 


>^_  —  ootc-*  —  x)Oootoxc»QOCic>^o--«xcoireocoot*TfG03iire— 'OOi-Ht'-.'tD^irei^csoire  —  cixt- 
cowTfire'*'ccTt"cixirec3iirei^coxwcocjiretre-*irec^iai!DireocococQ-*cicoirecociocoirecoirec>i^cicoccccco 


C  0)  >-. 

o>0 


o  -  : 


5a 

^  c  o 


5s  9;^  1) 


2X3    -^ 


=51: 


d  c 


rt; 


V 


bO'-'S  >  C  i- 


"  S  -; 
1)  3  n 

c  2  ^  )5  '5 

5j  --;  3  's-  — 


l-J  C  Ij 

=^  S  ^  rf 

rj  Ox:  ri 


o  ^-  C  o  "~ 

"p 


o>o<rHjj}OQoi-lEH2>:g^<;feB>-;p30i-;ao>ga 


5.^  ho 


DC 

«5t*G0C:O--''^''CC'r''^!Dl^0CCiO  —  •>>C0'Tl^0CO'MTfift«Dl^00CiOC'?-^«C^l*C;O'?'>CC*P  i:t  o  i>-"x  o  "^  c>^  cc 

ojw?j7tcc«ccccccMccr:ccccT'^-r^-p^'^i:t.(^t.-^»niCi^iCir:ooo5DOtD5Di>i^i^wt*i*t^t^xaooo30 


56 


APPENDIX. —PART   II. 


Con.  to  Illinois 
Masonic    Or- 
phans' Home. 
Contributed   to 
those  not  Mem 

bers 

Con.  to  Memb's. 
their  widows 
and  orphans.. 


:Sg 

-.s 

ss 

1.C  ■s 

....  0    . 

;     ;     ;      -O     . 

cjooo    .00    -oo    .0    .0000  —  —  0000:30 
—  oicic    ^oo    ;oo    ^o    •comooooooooo 

;  0    -c    1  oc  in 
■rp     •  —     ;  0  i-  OI 

0 

CC      *  X      ; 

Sg§   .   :   ■ 

5Sg 

g 

I-  If:  c»    •    ■    • 

Membp    resid- 
ine  in  Illinois 


X  o  X  —  X  oc  -^T  -rj  i-  —  ^i  - 

-r  re  o  fv; -r  -!  -!  -r  I- -r  r:  ■ 


Passed. 


1-1  .  T-l  CC  w 


Initiations. 


'M-^J>^5QI^50     .oj— ■     -in     .XW^  —  CCO^!l-CC 


Rejections, 


-r     ■  —     .  X 


Dues  1897. 


Present     Mem- 
bership, 1897.. 


Total  Decrease. 


cooo»f:ooo»noir:if;oooinoiiti?:oO'^m.f:oooJii(^oooiCift 
oif:mint-mir:or^ot-:?iinoin^i»ni-rTjiCici^?i7iinooi-^ioooi*i-~ 

o^>ao»^^0'^J^cca;cc-t■m-T-to— 'X^occcct — t-ooxasxooc;"?Oin 
OJ'^^xc^ico^  —  ccificcwcccc^-^TTCccc  —  Tf^c^TTO*"  —  CO  —  7jccccic:d-h 

ooo-*OiOw-*Oimo5^:-«f^3'r50o:c-.  i^xxi^Cii^'T-fOjmi-.OMXo  — 
tccc«e»5.3.coi.c*t--*cc-*-Ti!tif:ii;  —  -T-rK:mccioN-^(Nici(N-MTj"m;ooiw 


:<Mweci>j  — eC'-i  —  '^'S'cco  — ; 


.(M    '.OiW      ■flO'^-.J'CO 


o 

[a 
<! 
CC 


Ded.  for  er 
ror 


Died. 


Dimitted 


Expelled. 


Suspended 


■OJtO— (MWt>!CIJ' 


M      •  — ?!(M?! 


•  —  "      •      .  «  —      •  CO  « 


O  IICC      •  — . 


Total  Increase 


.  CO  —  CC  IC  CO 


■CC  —  :c  —  —  rjcxmootosoic—    .    .  —  i^    .«■!    .x    .rr 


—         e^!M 


Add.  for  er- 
ror  


Admitted. 


Reinstated 


—     •  —  II     •  N 


Raised. 


05      .X-^S^l-'I'CC      .COCO-^-^— Ci— COtO— IfiCOlCin 


.in     .  —     .X     .CO 


Membership 
1896. 


:cjiico;r-o**?ccctcinx  —  CO 


CO  C!  ^.  -f  l~  -M  C:  I-  -4-  iC  m  !~  i»  o  o  c>  o  ■ 


•t>.'TCC'.r-rin>nino-r-rinmcoinc^  —  cj^oi^i^ifti-cicQ 


Lodge  No. 


t  ':£  rt  5  O  1) 


C  2   y; 


OSS  ;Odess2^s  =  =  5f 


•■6 


^i>xo  —  ■^^o— o>cc".ri^X3;o  —  ■>>cCT:ci-xcsp^icct-o  —  -T'cc-r 
:  in  tr:  in  in  in  tri  cs  "ccS  !:o?5:sS:DtO!E?E55to«o«DSoi5^^i5?c?DtD?D 


APPENDIX. — PART    II. 


57 


OOOO'^OO     -OOOOOO—OOX'OiOO       OO     -OOOinmO     -ooo 


ooo  oomo 
coai<Ntooc-.cin 


■  ooooooomoixiOi~o 

^O        CO  rt 


OO 


•oom  5J  i>o 

■  if5  .-I  -.r  iC  00  o 


•  ooo 


■  OOOOOOOiCOOO 

•  oooooooii;ooo 
•oii>i~ooinioffl'-xi- 


.  ooo    •  lo    ■  OO    -in 


:8  :t 


:8? 


•00     -CCOW     -tOfM        CO     -OOO     -O     •!(;!> 
■  CO      •  -^  00  •  ^H  ■  •  «v>  ^»  5l      •  '^      •  -^  ^^ 


•  in    •  ^H  1(3    .CO    •  CO ic 


•OO 

■COO 


•  —    •  g^  If; 

Oi  CD  a:  CO  o:  cc  i>  i~  ■*  cc 

CJ  CO  —  CC  a-.  -O  3>!  OJ  CC  CO 


t»cx:i~00'Xi^WTt"'fOOOOs  -roocoocciCT)--Hoo05T)'cDcoico>o 

T'CCOTCO  —  0-.  C-JMC-.  COCOOJ"COOjmt-INlO-*COlC-»^(MeOCD£-W 


1-  -f  i(M~  CC  — '  O  M 
iO '>1  ^  f>i  O-t  r^  ^rl -rt* 


■  coin 

:^:::- 

C) 

■:>  CO 

•  CO 

0! 

OJ  35 

COrt      • 

•(Mil  — -£      • 

(NOSCO  t- 

^ 

.•^CO 

— .-!«  —  wincoao 

—  inr- 

■  coos 

•  ro-woi 

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COCl 

.  70 

^ 

TfOJ 

l^   ■   • 

■  OjiMNeo    . 

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■      •         (M               CM 

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.     .CO 

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'.'^    '. 

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:'"'  ; 

o  o  m  m  in  m  o 
in  in  w  cj  eo  (M  o 

o  WO-JOOOOCO 


■•-HXc»ci'^^lnaiOtnoo^^ool'^»cDococoaicD  —  c^joi^oo— ■cooooscoco'^.—  in-t^inoc^^^ooTi^oi^in^H^-^ 
co'^coccT»i*'r»cococo'*'cDco'^:cc(Occ(>}Ococow^coc*cot>c^iinTrcocoin^cccocoi^^co»nir;o^in^in'* 


•  coin    ' -^      « cc  .-< CO  ^ 


•  ?!  gj  'M     ■  OS  «  ci     •  CO  «  .—  • 


^  03  0»  00      .  CO  C  CO  (M  T^ 


■r^      .00      .0000 


.  «     .     .  .-.CD     -OS 


•  O     •  CO  Oi  CO 


©H>1-'— OOiOJ     •ri^'MCO     •OS  C}      •  OS  CD  — CO -H     .      .  ?!  M     •  £~  Tf  «  CO  ■>"^' CD  —     ■  "M  (M      ••*.-"■*  00  CO  ■*  — -H  l^  Ol 


tNl»-*     .t~0>—      •Nr-iQ»in      •CO'?!      -l-CO     .CO 


•  C*  W  ■*  ^  —  •    O! 


■  co-H  —  ooinco'*  —  Tj""-! 


0^00300S-**^0  1^  —  inO^COinOOOCOOSOS  —  O-ft^i'OCD  —  COI^COOS  —  ^-COCOCOCI-^TJCC-r-rcO-rCOCDCO 

cOTfoicooi^wcoco^-^co-^cocoojoiT-fC^oscocow  —  cocoini>.coincoincDin  —  cocoi*i^o»coco-roicor-Tr-* 

M        CO  OJ  —  rt  —  -f  TJ< 


c  .-n  o  N  o  c  cj 

rtK.oraoo>.j,i:; 


^t^rS: 


'-.J-^-M 


;  •"  .Z  t>  ^ 


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"^,  C  M ;-.  be  M  WJ  C 

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o  c ."  c  ..=..-  .^  n 

0<U.C"-.GX3.2rt 


rt  3  C 

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O  OJ  ^  C   '-^ 

mcD  OS  —  ?> 

CO  CO  CO  't'  -r 

«D  CO  CD  CD  CD 


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-f  -f  -ri 

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■  v^    :^ 


c  5  ^ 


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CO  CO  CD 


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OS  O  *»  CO  ■ 


!=!■«  £ 


'&-2- 


5i3 


■  CO 

iC  CD 


4  d  <u 


5  5  ':;  rt  5  ^  '£  .E  ;^  'k  3  ^  -3 


P  o.^^  ni 
5?::oo 

—  CO  Kt  CD 

in  .r:  .c  ir: ..________ ,    ,    -    .    ^    .    ^    --  -- 

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.<  n  ,  -*.  r,^  --  r  *^  'v^ 


(-  X  OS  o  -:> 


-r  in 


in  .n  in  in  CD  CD  CO  CO  CD  CD  CO  CD  CD  i-  t~  i^  i-  i~  (»  i-  i^ 


00  X  i 


'^  --  in  CD  »^  X  o  — 1  '^j  CO 

X  XXXOSOSOSOi 
COCDCDCOCDCOCOCD 


58 


APPENDIX. — PART    II. 


Con.  to  Illinois 

Masonic    Oi"- 

phans'  Home. 

Contributed    to 

those  not  Mem 

bers 

Con.  to  Memb's, 
their  widows 
and  orphans.. 


oo 

N50 


o  3  =  O'  o  o  It:  <=  o  o  o 


.00 


o  00  t^oo 
00  o  «oo 

lO  ^  -^  '-  O  l- 

00  o 


Memb'p    resid- 
ing in  Illinois 


—  «3eo  — ■  K  OS 

CO  (M  -^  ~-  CO  l>- 


Passed. 


rt      .  -.J.      .  «      -^30 


Initiations. 


Rejections, 


OTrt«Tj>  — rtcc'-.inou 


'^t     *Otft^-.—  CO^liCO— ' 


DueSil897. 


ii7imr^iCiCOOooif:oo»t:tr:o»nooiCimcooo»co»c 
ci  I* i^  i-^  i^ »c  o ifi  iCi*  o »c  i*  71  o i^ icio  i^ i^ i^ c in  ici* o  i> 

!MrtpTj..-.^CCO-HJll*iClC7JCCT— OSOS'MTl  —  CO(^iCMCCCC 


kf20  o  o  in  o 


w  T-'  cc  tn  CI  ?D 


Present     Mem- 
bership, 1897.. 


Total  Decrease. 


■ ^i^iCinC^iC^i^DXCS^DOC.  Oi' 


'  )~  Wi>  —  05  W  3  O  I-  I 

■  -  -)«  y  c 


.  Ci  CO  —  in  :o  -^  ?o  t[^  !0 


ec  u  i~  -,0  01  (N  in  -*  "  oj  0-.  i~  -.c  CO  -T  in  11 «  ^  i^j  CO  SI  in  cc  CO  in  —  m  CO  :m  T  ~  CO  00 


'-^-^.n'*— "oct^co'M    -^ 


ClOiM  —  :OX«OCOOi 
.—       0>  — 


CI  -^  W  OS  00 


?)  ?}  ^  in  ct  CO 


Ded.  for  er- 
ror  


Died. 


Dimitted 


Expelled. 


Suspended 


(^CJ—OS-^COCOCOl^ 


■£>      •        rt 


Total  Increase. 


CO  — »  — cococc«: 


cooiininin  —  "^-^inoDci 


Add.  for  er- 
ror. .  . 


Admitted. 


Reinstated  . 


rM-^l^COOi        fMin— to     -OS 


TTC 


IM    01  —  -)  -H  ■.)> 


«^  •- 


Raised. 


CO  —  CO      ■  .-i  0»  — 'to 


CO  —  II  CO  ji    •  CO  J!  in  m  : 


—  CO  ^CO  • 


Membership 

1896.... 


•  tcDccoi^tocoo'—  ininco-sOco-f-fOiCiO-ooo- 


a>  rt  ji  nJti 


ot!0-5CP<crt-'rtl'l-?*c;irt!-5cCJ=l.'r;a3h'^'-'--w-^      "-,    ^ 


<^  M  t^  5i  •  — 


a  ■ 

4-.W 


:So 


,5  '^'^.i 


<<;myot 


r-.  ^  '^  '^  '5  .T^  i^ 


.  ti     '.->-'  <V     .    .     .  ■'     .    .     ■  ZS   - 

Cd   •  v-^  «    ■    •    •  1-^    •   •    '  2  iJ  o    _ 
g_,c^iH    -^    :  u  ^  o  fl  S '^'^  o  C 

i  -^  f^'C'4-  :  c-S  c.!sj  ni.-_;  oj  .1}  ^  fi  c 

3-^  t:;  O  X  rt  b  2  5-S  b  ni'i^'C-2  b 
.-..COk,.^;.   !3,ci  mn  ro>^  ra^,a  ^ 


is 


■c  o 


;  *;;  1)  D  ^3 


K 


C  1) 

TO  0)  O     . 


<t;HS*^xf^jHa>^^w^<;§o 


OC5 


Lodge  No. 


:  to  {»  CO  o  —  ^''  -f  'O  :c  ^  c 


o  — 
cotototot^t^^t^t^i^i^i^tC 


S^StSSPPPPPP'^'"''-'^^  —  — '-^  — ^-^  —  .-^o>6>oj?>o>o)CJo'Mcococo 


^  ffi  i~  X  Oi  o  ■ 

!0>MC!0J?5e.  - 

•  t»  t-  t~  t~  l^  l»  t»  l»  t»  i 


APPENDIX. — PART    II. 


59 


as  o  CO    •  ^  ^ 


O  i»  C(  o 

rr  CO  ,^!  01 


00  0^»r;oOOOC;'^r:0' 


>5  t»  »  l~  lO  — 


oaooooo 

COO!  Tt-o^  -  CO 


COO  o 

^eoio 


OOCOOSCDOiOO  —  moo  l^Ol^Ol>"  05-^C^  in  XOl^COGOOCOtCiniCCOaO'-'C'J^COaGCOiO  I- t-ciictnoioico 

ooSo'3^3s.--N'-<o»03'VCO't<cocoi'*'  —  totD^coo-*(Mcocoi-i^O!  —  'TT  —  oioi-^x-oxcocoxincoi^-T'  —  ira 


oi  w  50  CO  -*  .-1    •    _ "  •*    :    ;  *~  "" 

■Or-.—. 

.."I-    .^^"^-< 

O  IC  OJ  to  '»•  Oi  ■*  0>  OJ  CO     •  Oi 

7-t             Qi             T-f    ^^ 

©icocscotn    ■    -    ."CO    ■ " in " 

in    -Tr"    • 

i^  .—  f-l 

•  —  eo    •  X  •-«    •  X  ^^ 

•  •      w    ■ 

(JJ"C5;0  05l~COSQ05-*      -IN 

'^iii'^:::;.'"'""": 

N      ;(N      •      ; 

"*"       1 

■     •     ■ "  w       :x     ■ 

TfCICO     -Tti-JS     .     .     .)M     .     . 

137  25 
39  00 

18  00 
39  00 

150  75 

14  25 
22  50 

9  00 

19  50 

15  00 

31  50 

32  25 
36  75 
27  75 

36  75 
15  00 
51  00 
47  25 
13  50 
27  no 

168  75 

30  75 

' '  '24  7.5 

31  50 
53  25 

143  25 
21  00 
93  75 

273  75 
33  00 
90  75 
16  50 

30  75 

145  50 
56  25 

146  25 

26  25 
106  50 
1.50  75 

50  25 

27  75 
59  25 
33  00 
14  S5 
40  50 

t,  cvj  Tt-  cc  —  OS  o  C3  ^  o  C'j  CO  CO  i^  --  Oi  c:j  oc  CO  GO  '£)  ^-  -^  Oi  cc  cvj  i-"  —  CO  ic  ur:;  TT1  ^  c»  -r  ^  -T-  lo  ic  ic  cj  ^  t--  < 
„ —      _.  -,  _  ^ ^  — ^  .^    ^ -rf  i-  ci  c^)  ci  "x>  -t*  c»  r ^  •  '    * —  — 

„      ^co       ^ 


co»CNiCO'-'Co^ci7>-+Trincocot"rt'©?D'-<coc'^-' 


)  -t<  c »  O)  iM  '^r  a;  I-  Oi  CO  -T  o  o  CO  I*  Tp  — ■  m 


g 

o 

*" 

CO 

rf  (M«0 

in  — 

OlTf 

■^  .- 

1- 

tc 

0 

Tf 

^  0-1  I-  Tf  I- 

Olt-X^XOlrPCOCOCOO 

CO 

•      ■  CO 

Tf 

01 

~  : 

^-  "  " 

CO 

Ol 

^~' 

— 1  Tt"      ■  01  0^  ~ 

O^OlOl  "  — .Ci 

■  CQ 

'"' 

CO 

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""" 

to 

l^  " 

Ol  01  CO 

01  —  -^co  — ■ 

-<■<»>  01  —  —  Ol 

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" 

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- 

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- 

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- 

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in 

OI«  -- 

■- 1» 

X     •  O!  01  -*  -^  —  CO  rt  i-      •  X  «  O! 

1-  —  -X^  CO  !-  01 

„•»"«{- _l»^COX-H« 

^^' — 

-H  Ci 

—  01  CO  0-.  H  " 

--  t-  —  to  X  I-  I-  CO  TP  l^ 

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tlTP 

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tc 

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4-!Min  — 

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mote 

■^  to  in  oi  Tf  -.J* 

—  0-1 

Ol 

o  —  ojO't<i-ocoxtoin'roitoo5tooiotDt~toooo»wx-Mtoo3ini^coaii-oeootoini~toxcot>.xoi<3sm 
rtin  —  moi  —  CO  —  o-i  —  •T"*incoo-iTt<  —  toto  —  cooi'^oicOTi^cjoi  —  M"Tt<  —  oico'^05i^t~coojxtocoi--co-^ira 

OJ-H  O!  —        —CO-  —        —        — — 


.  p    -rt    •    •    ■ 
•  bfl   ■  be   •    "  n 

fi  ni  :■■-'  :  cc 


p^  !-i  O  ^ 


.d   : 

Mfi 

5o 


SB 


r^  rt  v:  ~  :  c  .,  y  .^  r ._  r- •-< -^  r    :  rt  ^  '^ T  i;    :  C    •  ™    ■  -^    :  >^  :    :  *^   :    •  r    :   :    :    :    :    :    ;  ?  e    :    :  i j  " 
Sri^.::  o  o  "Tit^ruBDj^r  S^fl^s^  I-  oSortS®  oooonio  p'S-Sooo  po  o  "i>o  oScS 


f|JS^sli||ll5Sa|>ppili|||f 

-     '■i-.:Z  rt  ;!:  3  rt-ti  C--^  nj  rt  (L>  t^  rt  !^  nj  3.^.7:  c  O  o  <ui3.S 

_     .... _c  cv  —  oi  CO  -^  ift  to  I*  X  OS  o  —  •>"»  CO  -p  to  i^  X  cr.  o  —  01  CO  t.  'C  to 

in  in  in  in  in  ic  in  in  in  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  to  t*  i^  t^  i^  i*  i^  i*  i^  t^  x  x^  x  x  x  x  ao 

t~  l^  t~  t-  l~  t~  l^  I-  l^  I'  l~  i>  £^  t~  l^  I-  l-  i~  t-  I-  t-  l»  l^  i^  t»  1> 


SO  — 

•  in  in  --. 

•  t- 1^  i» 


60 


APPENDIX. — PART    II. 


Con.  to  Illinois 
Mason'c  Or- 
phans' Home. 
Contributed  to 
those  not  Mem 
bers 


Con.  to  Memb's, 
their  widows 
and  orphans.. 


Memb'p    resid- 
ing in  Illinois 


Passed. 


Initiations. 


Rejections,     ... 


c  o  o  o  o  o  o  o  iQ  o  o  o  If: 

OOlClCOOOOWOOC^CO 


oo 


o  oo  oo 
o  oooo 

-.o  ^  «  «  ire 


oooooooo 


T(<-*OSl-- 

rt(M 

■  0150M  tP 

;  ^^ 

CO      ■ 

Tr(>iir5WifiOT}i05 

^inotx) 

<N(M 

00  c-i  to  wa<  i~ 

r-l(M  00  — CO 

. »-. 

IM     ; 

to  (M  CO  N  l~  Ol  «  OS 

M    • eo  sj  — 

tO-H  m        ■_        ■•-< 

•      .«0}     • 

CO    -CO    •    -rr  coii 

Dues  1897. 


Present    Mem 
bership,  I8S7 


Total  Decrease 


»oireiCooicooicooio»cicoooico.noooou^ooOinoicin»co 
(r>  c^M^  »re  o  i^  o  »re  71  o  o  ->?  i*  w  tre  lO  ic  -M  o  ci  o  o  lo  o  i^  »o  o  o  O'j  ire  c}  i.*  c^  m 

oocO'j"irei^i35i~50'>.)ire«ococor)irej!ooo»oo>iOC-jireoi'McOQO-H«ooom«ooi^ 
co'^»  —  irewccc^t  —  tOT}iocciccc»'MCQf7»»re!o:^"— 'C^oo  —  —  i^wireo^coi^toco 

OB 

~i-i  —  co-^cocoofMcoocxj  —  ireco  —  oxa;ociotO'n''r>i^oG^aoiCooi*i^  —  o 
icccireb-co»cccwoDtC'^co^^cococoi'-oocow^^coir5i-i--o<?ji*co  rr-oi  a  ire 


co-HTf^i'H  —  »}-^  —  i^to-Hccirecoi-H    -o    •  —  • 


.  —  rt    .  ■♦-Hire 


o 


Ded.  for  er 
ror 


Died. 


— .     ■      -0!     ■  — 


Dimitted 


■  —  CO    ■—    -(M    ■'^i»-vai    ■— .— 


.  —     .     .  ■^^ oj 


Expelled. . 
Suspended 


•  —     •  W      •  00  CO  ■*  w 


Total  Increase 


-*OJf^0OCOOJ—      ■O»-*-t<'M'*Q0      •      ■C005-*'<r  —  —      ■50M  —  ■T»ClaD^*tOCOlO00 


A.dd.  for  er- 
ror  


Reinstated 


Raised. 


—  —  '>)  —  CO 


—  o>  •»    •    •  iC 


■  ^  -H         00  ^(  0>  ■>!  ■*  CO 


T 1 1--  CO  -^  -H  —    -to  —    .  T)  cj  ire  CO  li^  li:  Tj*  00 


Membership 
1896. 


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oMoofeo!2;oM;2;So;>o§OoooKooo» 


^  Oj  ft  -    -      . 

oi  JJ—  ni  rt  d 


rt  iiqU'd 


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OJ  Ph  o3 

>>  .  o 


;  o  v:'  ■*-*  -t-J  ^H 
!  c!  d  1^  b/}rt 


■OS 
c  o 


•j:o 


Lodge  No... 


t^QOOio  —  o>co-f*iretbi^oooi 


o  —  c-jco-n^iretoi^oDOiO  —  c<tco^^iretDi>ooos 

OOOOOOOOOO— '— i-H— <  —  -H— .  —  —  — 


5S 


oDODQOososciajosasoiasOiOsoooooooooo  —  -H-H-H  —  —  —  —  —  —  C-) 

t'.  !>  i~  r~  I-  l^  l~  t-  t-  t^  t>  l~  t-  00  00  00  00  00  00  00  00  00  00  00  00  00  00  00  00  00  00  00  00  00 


APPENDIX. — PART   II. 


61 


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1>  00  Oi  (T!  ift  (*  to  to  ^  *-  O  —  O  ?0  T»  CC  CO  OH-^  t- 

CQ  (W  ■^t'  in  w  CO  CO  CI  CO  c^  ic  00  "^  Ci  i^  CO  cc 


irs  G^  05 -^^  ■^  c^j  T-.  — .  CO  T-1  ^  ^   ^ 


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•'— Tpiri'Ti—   -CCWTJ-^OO 


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CO  CM  IC  iC  'rj  ^  CO 


c>  m  CO  Tt(  CO  i-^  CO  CO  ic  C-* 


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O  'S'  —  C'*  ^  1—  CO        ^  —  —.        ^ 


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62  APPENDIX. — PART   II. 


Reports 


OF 


District  Deputy  Grand  Masters. 


FIRST  DISTRICT. 

Chicago,  Aug.  19,  1897. 
Owen  W.  Scott,  Grand  Master: 

Dear  Sir  and  Brother:  In  conformity  with  the  requirements  of  the 
Grand  Lodge  F.  &  A.  M.,  I  herewith  submit  my  report  as  District 
Deputy  Grand  Master  for  the  First  Masonic  District. 

It  has  been  my  g'ood  fortune  to  be  able  to  visit,  since  the  last  session 
of  the  Grand  Lodge,  all  the  lodges  composing  this  district,  including 
Chicago  Heights  Lodge,  U.D.,  forty-one  in  all,  and  some  of  them  sev- 
eral times. 

In  all  the  lodges  of  this  district  I  have  found,  with  few  exceptions, 
evidences  of  advancement  in  the  direction  of  pure  symbolic  Masonry 
as  exemplified  by  the  Board  of  Grand  Examiners  of  this  Grand  Juris- 
diction. 

As  a  rule,  my  visits  have  been  of  a  semi-official  character.  In  a 
few  instances  they  have  been  in  response  to  special  invitations  to  in- 
stall officers,  or  to  witness  an  exemplification  of  work.  In  every  in- 
stance, however,  my  reception  of  the  most  cordial  and  fraternal  nature. 

Follow^ing  the  annual  elections  in  the  several  lodges,  by  invitation, 
I  installed  the  officers  of  several  lodges,  in  two  of  which  the  installa- 
tions were  public,  to-wit:  Magic  City  No.  832  and  Kensington  No.  804; 
in  both  the  ceremonies  were  impressive,  the  brethren  were  in  good 
form,  the  ladies  charming,  and  the  banquets  following  with  social 
features  attendant,  will,  I  am  sure,  long  be  remembered  with  pleasure 
by  all  who  were  present.  By  special  invitation  I  have  visited  both 
Magic  City  and  Kensington  Lodges  since,  and  in  the  latter  witnessed 
the  conferring  of  the  Master  Mason's  degrees;  the  work  was  of  the 
best  both  as  to  ritual  and  ceremonies.  \ 


APPENDIX. — PART   II.  63 

My  official  services  have  not  been  solicited  by  any  lodge  of  the 
First  District  during'  the  year  now  drawing  to  a  close,  and  so  far  as  I 
am  at  present  advised,  harmony,  unanimity,  and  concord  prevail 
throughout  this  district. 

On  the  12th  of  January  last,  I  had  the  pleasure  of  instituting  Chi- 
cago Heights  Lodge,  U.D.,  on  which  occasion  I  was  most  cordially 
received  and  entertained:  the  attendance  of  the  brethren  of  Crete 
Lodge  No.  763,  W.  C.  Trowbridge,  W.M.,  greatly  contributed  to  the 
success  of  the  occasion.  By  special  invitation  I  have  since  visited 
this  new  lodge  and  witnessed  the  conferring  of  the  Master  Mason's 
degree.  The  work  was  well  done.  I  am  sure  no  mistake  was  made 
when  a  dispensation  was  issued  to  the  brethren  of  Chicago  Heights. 

Congratulating  you  on  your  able  and  successful  administration, 
and  with  sincere  thanks  for  honors  conferred  upon  me,  I  remain 
Fraternally  yours, 

W.  M.  BURBANK, 

D.D.G.M.  First  District. 


SECOND  DISTRICT. 

Chicago,  III.,  Aug.  24,  1897. 
Owen  Scott,  Grand  Master. 

Dear  Sir  and  Brother:  As  your  Deputy  for  the  Second  Masonic  Dis- 
trict I  have  no  official  acts  to  report.  I  have  visited  all  the  lodges  in 
my  charge  one  or  more  times,  and  am  pleased  to  say  the  utmost  har- 
mony and  fraternity  prevail.  I  am  also  pleased  to  report  a  ready 
compliance  on  the  part  of  secretaries  and  officers  with  your  circular' 
letter  of  December  24,  189(). 

The  school  of  instruction  held  in  this  city  in  March,  I  am  per- 
suaded, was  productive  of  much  good,  and  it  appears  to  me  that  the 
number  of  Masons  in  this  city— nearly  one-fourth  of  those  in  the  state, 
I  believe— entitles  the  brethren  of  Chicago  to  one  of  the  schools  each 
year. 

With  thanks  for  the  many  marks  of  your  esteem,  and  the  honor 
conferred,  I  remain.  Fraternally  yours, 

HERBERT  PRESTON, 

D.D.G.M.  Second  District. 


64  APPENDIX. — PART   II. 


THIRD  DISTRICT. 

Chicago,  III.,  Aug.  26,  1897. 
Owen  Scott,  Grand  Master. 

Bear  Sir  and  Brother:  As  the  Masonic  year  is  rapidly  drawing  to 
a  close,  I  am  reminded  that  a  report  of  my  labors  as  your  District 
Deputy  for  the  Fifth  Masonic  District  should  be  made. 

I  have  visited  all  of  the  lodges  in  my  district  with  the  exception 
of  two,  and  shall  endeavor  to  see  them  before  the  close  of  the  year. 
Many  of  the  lodges  I  have  visited  two  and  three  times,  and  in  every 
instance  the  courtesy  extended  to  me  by  the  worshipful  master  and 
brethren  has  been  most  pleasing  and  gratifying.  There  seems  to  be 
a  general  desire  to  conform  to  our  standard  work  as  taught  by  the 
Grand  Examiners,  and  in  fact  several  are  nearly  perfect.  I  feel  it 
my  duty  to  make  special  mention  of  Lake  View  Lodge  No.  774,  al- 
though their  quarters  are  not  what  I  wish  they  might  be.  Still  they 
are  doing  splendid  work,  and  are  as  nearly  perfect  as  poor,  frail  hu- 
manity can  hope  to  reach. 

I  have  four  German  Lodges  in  my  district,  and  while  I  am  not 
able  to  judge  of  the  correctness  of  their  work,  being  unable  to  either 
speak  or  understand  the  German  language,  yet  they  inform  me  that 
they  are  doing  their  best  to  conform  to  the  standard  work.  When  it 
comes  to  good-fellowship  and  brotherly  love,  it  would  be  well  for 
many  of  the  American  speaking  lodges  to  emulate  their  example. 

In  June  last  I  had  the  honor  of  instituting  Austin  Lodge  U.D., 
located  at  Austin,  111.  They  started  out  with  eighty-two  good  and 
true  Masons,  and  in  the  short  time  they  have  had  to  work  have  raised 
nine  Masons.  They  are  certainly  to  be  congratulated  on  their  good 
showing.  I  visited  Them  last  Tuesday  evening,  and  witnessed  the 
conferring  of  the  Sublime  Degree  by  them,  and  their  work  was  cer- 
tainly very  commendable. 

And  now,  my  dear  Grand  Master,  I  w^ish  to  sincerely  thank  you 
for  the  great  honor  j'ou  have  conferred  upon  me  in  appointing  me  to 
this  responsible  and  honorable  position.  I  trust  my  labors  have  been 
satisfactory  and  acceptable,  and  that  our  future  relations  may  be 
equally  as  pleasant.  Fraternally, 

M.  B.  lOTT, 
D.D.G.M.  Third  District. 


APPENDIX. — PART   II.  65 

FOURTH  DISTRICT. 

Woodstock,  III.,  Aug.  25,  1897. 

Owen  Scott,  Grand  Master. 

Dear  Sir  and  Brother:  I  have  but  little  to  report  from  the  Fourth 
Masonic  District. 

I  have  been  called  upon  to  make  no  official  visits  during  the 
Masonic  year  now  drawing  to  a  close,  and  therefore  infer  that  the 
"brethren  are  dwelling  together  in  harmony." 

Nearly  all  the  lodges  in  my  jurisdiction  are  in  a  reasonably  pros- 
perous condition  and  doing  a  fair  amount  of  work. 

The  officers  of  the  various  lodges  are  exhibiting,  each  year,  more 
of  a  determination  to  acquire  and  do  the  standard  work,  which,  to  my 
mind,  is  one  of  the  best  indications  of  a  lively  and  healthy  condition 
that  I  can  report. 

I  have  answered  all  communications  addressed  to  me  to  the  best 
of  my  ability,  by  referring  the  correspondents  to  the  particular  sec- 
tion of  the  Grand  Lodge  By-laws  applicable  to  their  case. 

Thanking  you  for  the  honor  conferred,  I  am 

Fraternally  yours, 

L.  T.  HOY, 
D.D.G.M.  Fourth  District. 


FIFTH  DISTRICT. 

Freeport,  III.,  Aug.  10,  1897. 
Owen  Scott,  Grand  Master: 

Bear  Sir  and  Brother:  Once  more  a  Masonic  year  has  come  and 
gone,  and  the  pleasant  privilege  is  given  me  to  make  a  report  of  what 
has  transpired  during  that  period. 

It  gives  me  pleasure  to  state  that  the  year  has  been  a  fairly  pros- 
perous one,  all  the  lodges  in  the  Fifth  District  having  accomplished 
as  much  as  could  reasonably  be  expected  of  them,  considering  the 
depression  and  the  generally  unsettled  condition  of  affairs  that  exists 

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66  APPENDIX. — PART  II. 


in  the  business  world,  all  of  which  tends  more  or  less  to  affect  the 
work  in  the  lodges. 

The  prospects  for  general  prosperity  for  the  coming  year  are, 
however,  very  bright,  and  as  a  result  I  can  safely  predict  that  there 
will  be  more  work  accomplished  in  the  lodges. 

In  accordance  with  your  order,  I  visited  Orange ville  Lodge  No. 
687,  of  which  I  made  full  report  to  you.  No.  687  is  one  of  the  best 
lodges  in  my  district,  and  it  was  very  surprising  to  me  that  such  com" 
plaint  should  be  made,  but  it  was  occasioned  b}'  the  removal  of  the 
head  officer. 

I  am  pleased  to  be  able  to  say  that  the  lodge  is  doing  good  work, 
and  with  the  improvement  in  business  which  we  may  now  expect,  I 
feel  confident  in  saying  that  peace  and  prosperity  will  exist  in  all  the 
lodges  of  the  Fifth  District  and  that  there  will  be  much  excellent 
work  accomplished  during  the  coming  j'ear. 

Thanking  you  for  the  honor  conferred,  I  am 
Fraternally  yours, 

JACOB  KROHN, 
D.D.G.M.  Fifth  District. 


SIXTH  DISTRICT. 

Mt.  Carroll,  III.,  Aug.  14,  1897. 
Owen  Scott,  Grand  Master. 

Dear  Sir  and  M.  W.  Brother:  I  take  pleasure  in  forwarding  vay  re- 
port as  District  Deputy  of  the  Sixth  Masonic  District. 

I  have  the  pleasure  to  announce  that  everything  seems  to  be 
TQOving  along  very  smoothly  throughout  the  district.  Peace  and  har- 
mony prevails,  and  prosperity  smiles  on  the  fraternity.  Nothing  has 
arisen  to  mar  the  peace  and  harmony  of  the  brethren.  Owing  to  busi- 
ness engagements  I  have  not  had  the  pleasure  of  visiting  as  man}' 
-lodges  as  I  desired. 

Thanking  you  for  the  honor  conferred,  with  best  wishes  for  the 
iprosperity  of  the  fraternity,  and  with  kind  personal  regards,  I  remain 

Fraternall}'  yours, 

C.  E.  GROVE, 
D.D.G.M.  Sixth  District. 


APPENDIX. — PART   II.  67 


SEVENTH  DISTRICT. 

De  Kalb,  III.,  Aug.  12,  1897. 
Owen  Scott,  Grand  Master. 

Dear  Sir  and  Brother:  Due  notice  was  given  to  every  lodge  in  my 
district  of  my  willingness,  so  far  as  possible,  to  visit  them  officially 
when  desired,  for  the  purjjose  of  settling  or  adjusting  any  differences 
that  might  have  arisen,  but  I  am  happy  to  report  that  I  have  not  been 
called  upon  for  this  purpose,  and  have  only  been  asked  to  visit  some 
of  the  lodges  socially. 

So  far  as  heard  from,  every  lodge  in  the  Seventh  District  is  in  a 
healthy  and  prosperous  condition.  My  absence  from  home  during  the 
winter,  spring,  and  until  nearly  the  middle  of  June,  prevented  me 
visiting  many  of  the  lodges  in  my  district,  which  I  regret. 

Your  success  in  administering  the  affairs  of  the  craft  as  the  Most 
Worshipful  Grand  Master  is  an  example  worthy  of  imitation,  and  I  feel 
like  saying  to  your  successor  in  office  when  elected  and  qualified,  "Go 
thou  and  do  likewise." 

With  the  compliments  of  the  season  and  fraternal  greeting,  I  am 
Very  respectfully  and  fraternally  yours, 

D.  D.  HUNT, 
D.D.G.M.  Seventh  District. 


EIGHTH  DISTRICT. 

JOLIET,  III.,  Aug.  24,  1897. 
Owen  Scott,  Grand  Master. 

Dear  Sir  and  Brother:  I  am  pleased  to  be  able  to  report  that  as  I 
am  advised  harmony  prevails  throughout  the  Eighth  Masonic  Dis- 
trict. 

Owing  to  the  press  of  other  Masonic  duties,  I  have  been  unable 
this  year  to  visit  many  lodges,  although  I  have  responded  to  calls 
made  upon  me,  except  one,  where  two  came  for  the  same  evening. 

I  had  hoped  to  be  able  to  report  the  holding  of  two  District  Schools 
in  accordance  with  your  suggestion,  the  district  being  so  situated 
geographically  that,  while  not  impossible,  it  would  be  very  inconven- 


68  APPENDIX. — PART   II. 

lent  to  gather  all  the  lodges  into  one.  It  was  desired  to  arrange  date 
and  locations  convenient  for  lodges,  and  in  endeavoring  to  compass 
too  much  in  that  direction,  resulted  in  my  being  unable  to  report  the 
holding  of  even  one.  The  suggestion  was  a  good  one,  and  no  doubt 
more  satisfactory  results  can  be  obtained  by  that  method  than  by 
separate  visitations. 

Fraternally  yours, 

JNO.  B.  FITHIAN, 
D.D.G.M.  Eighth  District. 


NINTH  DISTRICT. 

Ottawa,  III.,  Sept.  9,  1896. 

Owen  Scott,  Grand  Master. 

Dear  Sir  and  Brother:  I  have  the  pleasure  of  reporting  peace  and 
harmony  prevailing  in  the  Ninth  Masonic  District.  I  have  had  but 
iew  calls  for  official  visitations,  and  none  of  a  conciliatory  character. 

Thanking  you  for  the  honor  you  saw  fit  to  confer  upon  me,  I  remain, 

Fraternally, 

W.  L.  MILLIGAN, 
D.D.G.M.  Ninth  District. 


TENTH  DISTRICT. 

Sparland,  III.,  Aug.  20,  1897. 
Owen  Scott,  Grand  Master: 

Bear  Sir  and  Brother:  The  year  now  drawing  to  a  close  has  been 
a  very  successful  and  prosperous  one  Masonically.  While  the  increase 
in  membership  may  not  be  as  large  in  this  district  as  it  was  last  year, 
I  think  that  the  lodges  are  in  a  more  prosperous  condition  and  doing 
better  work. 

On  February  19  I  visited  Wyoming  Lodge  No.  479.  I  had  pre- 
viously invited  the  officers  and  members  of  Bradford  Lodge  No.  514, 
Toulon  Lodge  No.  93,  and  Stark  Lodge  No.  501  (composing  the  lodges 


APPENDIX.  — PART   II.  69 

of  Stark  county)  to  be  present.     Each  lodge  was  represented  except 
Stark  No.  501. 

I  found  the  records  in  good  shape  and  that  the  secretaries  of  the 
lodges  were  endeavoring  to  collect  all  dues  up  to  date.  I  also  found 
that  the  officers  of  each  lodge  were  proficient  in  the  standard  work, 
or  nearly  so. 

I  have  been  called  upon  to  make  but  one  visit  in  my  official  capac- 
ity, that  of  Wenona  Lodge  No.  3-14,  of  which  a  special  report  was 
made  to  you  June  30,  1897. 

On  July  20,  I  held  a  District  School  of  Instruction  at  Princeton, 
111.,  assisted  by  Deputy  Grand  Lecturers  C.  E.  Allen,  of  Galesburg, 
G.  O.  Friedrich,  of  Chillicothe,  and  Isaac  Cutter,  of  Camp  Point,  and 
many  other  well  posted  Masons.  Great  interest  was  manifested  in 
the  work.  There  were  nearly  200  members  of  the  district  present, 
and  nearly  every  lodge  in  Bureau  county  was  represented. 

I  have  visited  many  of  the  lodges  and  have  met  the  Master  of 
each  lodge,  except  one,  in  this  district.  I  have  assisted  in  conferring 
the  degrees  on  many  candidates.  I  find  all  the  lodges  in  good  working 
order,  except  one.  I  have  advised  the  members  of  the  several  lodges 
to  be  careful  in  selecting  their  officers. 

In  conclusion  will  say  that  peace  and  harmony  prevail. 

Thanking  you  for  the  honor  conferred,  and  congratulating  you 
on  your  successful  administration,  with  kindest  personal  regards,  I 
remain  Fraternally  yours, 

T.  VAN  ANTWERP, 

D.D.G.M.  Tenth  District. 


ELEVENTH  DISTRICT. 

Rock  Island,  III.,  Sept.  1,  1897, 
Owen  Scott,  Grand  Master. 

Dear  Sir  and  Brother:  I  take  great  pleasure  in  reporting  the  con- 
dition of  the  Craft  in  the  eleventh  district  as  being  prosperous.  Noth- 
ing has  occurred  during  the  past  year  to  my  knowledge  whereby  the 
peace  and  harmony  of  the  fraternity  has  been  disturbed. 

I  find  that  nearly  all  the  lodges  in  this  district  are  doing  their 
work  thoroughly  and  in  conformity  to  all  requirements. 


70  APPENDIX. — PART  II. 

Thanking  you  for  the  honor  conferred  upon  me  as  your  representa- 
tive in  the  Eleventh  District,  I  remain, 

Fraternally  yours, 

HENRY  C.  CLEAVELAND, 

D.D.G.M.  Eleventh  District. 


TWELFTH  DISTRICT. 

Blandinsville,  III.,  Aug.  2-4,  1897. 

Owen  Scott,  Grand  Master. 

Dear  Sir  and  Brother:  I  herewith  submit  my  annual  report  as  your 
representative  in  this  District  for  the  Masonic  year  now  closing. 

I  take  pleasure  in  reporting  that  peace  and  harmony  prevail. 

On  receiving  notice  of  my  appointment,  I  notified  all  the  lodges 
and  extended  them  my  intentions  and  willingness  to  make  them  an 
official  visit  when  practicable. 

I  have  held  schools  of  instruction  at  Blandinsville,  January  13; 
Macomb,  March  23;  Farmington,  April  8,  and  Canton,  Mav  19.  The 
standard  work  was  exemplified  in  the  three  degrees  and  a  part  of  the 
afternoon  session  at  each  of  these  schools  was  devoted  to  the  work  of 
District  Deputy  Grand  Master.  Questions  were  asked  and  answered 
in  regard  to  Masonic  law  and  usage.  I  was  ably  assisted  at  these 
schools  by  R.W.  Brethren  C.  W.  Carroll,  W.  J.  Frisbie,  J.  V.  Harris, 
and  E.  Clark,  of  this  District;  R.W.  Brethren  C.  E.  Allen,  R.  R.  Strick- 
ler,  and  D.  D.  Dunkle,  District  Deputy  Grand  Master  of  the  Thirteenth 
District;  R.W.  Bro.  W.  O.  Butler,  District  Deputy  Grand  Master  of 
the  Twenty-first  District,  and  R.W.  Bro.  Isaac  Cutter,  of  the  Twenty- 
first  District.  These  schools  were  well  attended,  and  verj'  profitable 
to  those  who  attended  them. 

I  have  visited  several  lodges,  and  find  their  meetings  well  attended 
and  a  great  deal  of  interest  is  manifested  by  the  Craft  throughout 
the  District. 

Thanking  you  for  the  honor  conferred,  I  am 

Fraternally  yours, 

O.  F.  KIRKPATRICK, 
D.D.G.M.  Twelfth  District. 


APPENDIX. — PART   II.  71 

THIRTEENTH  DISTRICT. 

Monmouth,  III.,  Aug.  11,  1897. 
Owen  Scott,  Grand  Master. 

Dear  Sir  and  Brother:  As  j'our  representative  in  the  Thirteenth 
District,  I  herewith  submit  an  account  of  my  stewardship.  My  first 
official  act  was  the  constituting  of  Stronghurst  Lodge  No.  847,  and 
installing  the  officers  thereof.  Notwithstanding  this  is  the  youngest 
chartered  lodge,  it  affords  me  pleasure  to  state  that  it  already  as- 
sumes the  status  of  older  lodges,  both  in  membershii^  and  work.  Its 
officers  are  young  men,  enthusiastic  and  zealous,  and  I  predict  a  bril- 
liant future  for  our  baby  lodge.  As  j^et,  I  have  not  found  it  con- 
venient to  visit  all  lodges  in  the  district,  but  hope  to  do  so  before 
October. 

In  all  of  my  visitations  I  have  been  accorded  a  cordial,  fraternal 
welcome."  I  have  found  that  the  brethren  are  desirous  of  living  up 
to  the  requirements  of  the  Grand  Lodge,  both  as  to  standard  work 
and  the  proper  recording  of  their  proceedings,  and,  with  one  excep- 
tion, I  found  that  your  circular  letter  of  April  10,  1896,  had  been 
placed  on  the  records  (either  written  in  full  or  pasted  on).  There 
have  been  no  grievances  reported,  hence  I  infer  that  harmony  pre- 
vails. 

Doubting  my  ability  to  visit  all  of  the  lodges  in  the  district,  I 
gladly  acted  upon  your  recommendation  and  held  one  conference  and 
school  of  instruction  in  each  county,  in  which  I  had  the  pleasure  of 
meeting  representatives  from  the  various  lodges.  In  this  connection 
I  desire  to  express  my  hearty  approval  of  those  district  meetings. 
They  are  pleasant,  from  a  social  standpoint,  and  of  untold  value  as 
an  instructive  medium. 

In  addition  to  our  own  meetings,  I  enjoyed  two  others  held  under 
the  direction  of  R.W.  Bro.  Kirkpatrick  in  the  Twelfth  District.  The 
interest  manifested  throughout  was  truly  gratifying.  All  who  at- 
tended were  favorably  impressed  with  benefits  derived  therefrom. 
The  success  of  these  meetings  was  in  a  great  measure  due  to  the 
cheerful  cooperation  of  the  Deputy  Grand  Lecturers  who  were  ever 
ready  to  further  the  good  work;  this,  too,  without  hope  of  fee  or  re- 
ward. 1  am  pleased  to  state  that  there  are  several  lodges  in  this 
jurisdiction  which  are  masters  of  the  standard  work.  Others  are 
somewhat  mixed,  but  all  show  a  disposition  to  become  proficient 
workers. 

While  peace,  joy,  and  happiness  has  prevailed,  the  Grim  De- 
stroyer has  made  frequent  visitations  throughout  the  district.  Chief 
among   his  victims  I  would  mention  that  distinguished  citizen  and 


72  APPENDIX. — PART   IL 


brother,  Oscar  F.  Price,  of  Vesper  Lodge,  Galesburg,  who  obeyed  the 
summons  of  the  Grand  Warden  of  Heaven,  on  the  seventh  of  this 
month.  Thus  we  are  ever  being  reminded  that  we  should  also  possess 
the  standard  qualifications  requisite  to  gaining  admission  to  that 
Celestial  Lodge  where  the  Supreme  Grand  Master  forever  presides. 

And  now  in  closing,  permit  me,  dear  brother,  to  tender  sincere 
thanks  for  the  honor  you  have  pleased  to  confer  upon  me.  Trusting 
to  have  merited  the  confidence  thus  reposed,  I  am, 

Truly  and  fraternally  yours, 

D.  D.  DUNKLE, 
D.D  G.M.  Thirteenth  District. 


FOURTEENTH  DISTRICT. 

Pekin,  III.,  Aug.  24,  1897. 
Owen  Scott,  Grand  Master: 

Dear  Sir  and  Brother:  Time,  in  its  unrelenting  flight,  admonishes 
us  that  our  stewardship  under  your  administration  is  drawing  to  a 
close,  and  to  report  to  you  the  condition  of  the  Craft  in  this  jurisdic- 
tion. 

I  am  pleased  to  be  enabled  to  say  that  since  my  appointment  I 
have  visited  all  the  lodges  in  the  district,  except  three.  Some  little 
confusion  has  existed,  of  which  you  had  full  knowledge,  and  when  in- 
vestigated and  disposed  of,  have  been  fully  reported  and  approved  by 
you,  and  seemingly  to  those  who  were  interested. 

The  lodges  very  nearly  all  are  acquiring  new  members,  and  the 
work  in  done  in  an  excellent  manner  and  close  to  the  standard.  I 
have  been  treated  with  the  utmost  courtesy  by  the  Craft,  for  which  I 
return  them  my  grateful  thanks. 

With  best  wishes  and  fraternal  greetings,  I  remain,  as  ever, 
Fraternally  yours, 

LOUIS  ZINGER, 
D.D. G.M.  Fourteenth  District. 


APPENDIX. — PART   II. 


FIFTEENTH  DISTRICT. 

Bloomington,  III.,  Sept.  1,  1897. 
Owen  Scott,  Grand  Master. 

Dear  Sir  and  Brother:  The  past  year  in  the  Fifteenth  Masonic 
District  has  been  a  very  quiet  one.  As  your  deputy  I  have  received 
no  calls  of  an  official  character  worthy  of  mention.  I  have,  however, 
kept  in  close  touch  with  the  lodges  of  the  district,  and  am  pleased  to 
report  them  in  a  prosperous  condition  and  doing  a  fair  amount  of 
work.  Thanking  you  for  the  confidence  expressed  in  my  re-appoint- 
ment to  this  position,  I  beg  to  remain, 

Fraternally  yours, 

DELMAR  D.  DARRAH, 
D.D.G.M.  Fifteenth  District. 


SIXTEENTH  DISTRICT. 

Danville,  III.,  Aug.  16,  1897. 
Owen  Scott,  Grand  Master. 

Dear  Sir  and  Brother:  In  submitting  my  report  as  District  Deputy 
Grand  Master  of  the  Sixteenth  Masonic  District,  I  can  say  that,  to 
my  knowledge,  everything  is  peaceful  and  harmonious.  On  March  .31 
I  was  called  to  Chebanse  to  help  the  brethren  there  out  of  a  little 
difficulty,  of  which  I  wrote  you  fully  at  the  time.  From  reports  re- 
ceived, my  action  at  that  time  has  been  of  great  benefit  to  the  lodge 
and  its  members.  I  have  not  been  able  to  visit  as  many  lodges  in  my 
district  as  I  would  like,  on  account  of  the  unhandy  situation  of  some 
of  them,  and  think  if  they  were  more  compactly  situated  the  District 
Deputy  Grand  Master  could  do  more  effective  work. 

The  coming  year  promises  an  increase  of  work  in  this  district, 
which  I  hope  will  be  realized.  Thanking  you  for  the  honor  conferred, 
I  remain,  Yours  fraternally, 

W.  H.  BERGSTRESSER, 

D.D.G.M.  Sixteenth  District. 


74  APPENDIX. — PART    II. 

SEVENTEENTH  DISTRICT. 

Paris,  III.,  Aug-.  10,  1897. 
Owen  Scott,  Grand  Master. 

jDear  Sir  and  Brother:  In  the  Seventeenth  Masonic  District  we  have 
had  a  year  of  peace  and  harmony  and  from  sucli  information  as  I  have 
received  the  lodges  have  been  reasonably  prosperous.  Have  not  been 
called  upon  to  act  officially  excepting  in  the  instance  of  taking  pos- 
session of  the  property  of  Elbridge  Lodge  No.  579,  by  your  direction 
on  the  surrender  of  the  charter  of  said  lodge  of  which  due  report  of 
my  action  was  made  to  you. 

With  highest  regards  and  best  wishes,  I  am, 
Fraternally  yours, 

ROBERT  L.  McKINLAY, 
D.D.G.M.  Seventeenth  District. 


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EIGHTEENTH  DISTRICT. 

Bement,  III.,  Aug.  28,  1897. 
Owen  Scott,  Grand  Master. 

Dear  Sir  and  Brother:  1  believe  I  reported  to  you  everything  of 
importance  to  the  Craft  that  has  occurred  in  this  district  during  the 
year. 

I  heartily  endorse  what  was  said  in  your  last  annual  address  un- 
der the  head  of  ''District  Meetings,"  but  believe  it  should  be  left  dis- 
cretionary with  each  District  Deputy  to  call  such  a  meeting  or  visit 
each  lodge  without  invitation  and  without  previous  notice. 

Owing  to  the  financial  stringency,  and  after  consulting  with  sev- 
eral eminent  Masons  in  the  district,  I  decided  not  to  call  a  volunteer 
meeting,  as  was  suggested  later,  being  assured  that  but  very  few,  if 
any,  of  the  brethren  of  the  weaker  lodges  would  feel  able  to  bear  the 
expense  such  a  meeting-  would  incur. 

On  the  evening  of  March  26,  by  virtue  of  your  proxy,  I  instituted 
Latham  Lodge,  located  at  Latham,  Logan  county,  and  hope  their 
work  has  been  such  that  they  will  merit  and  receive  a  charter  at  our 
next  Grand  Communication. 

Fraternally  yours, 

C.  F.  TENNEY, 
D.D.G.M.  Eighteenth  District. 


APPENDIX. — PART   II.  75 


NINETEENTH  DISTRICT. 

Springfield,  III.,  Aug.  24,  1887. 
Owen  Scott,  Grand  Master. 

Dear  Sir  and  Brother:  I  have  but  little  to  report  at  this  time  that 
will  be  of  interest  to  the  Craft,  having"  made  two  partial  reports  to 
you  before. 

One  as  to  Mechanicsburg  Lodge  No.  399, and  Illiopolis  Lodge  No. 521. 

The  lodges  in  my  district  are  generally  harmonious  at  this  time, 
and  are  doing  their  usual  amount  of  work  so  far  as  I  am  able  to  learn. 

I  look  for  a  large  increase  in  our  work  in  the  near  future  as  times 
are  now  gradually  growing  better  and  money  more  plentiful. 

I  think  there  is  an  improvement  in  the  way  the  records  of  the 
lodges  are  kept;  there  is  certainly  in  the  lodges  that  I  have  visited. 

Thanking  you  for  uniform  courtesies,  I  am 

Truly  and  fraternally  yours, 

R.  D.  LAWRENCE, 
D.D.G.M.  Nineteenth  District. 


TWENTIETH  DISTRICT. 

Winchester,  III.,  Aug.  25,  1897. 
Owen  Scott,  Grand  Master: 

Dear  Sir  and  Brother:  The  past  Masonic  year  has  been  a  most 
uneventful  one  in  the  Twentieth  District. 

A  fair  degree  of  prosperity  has  been  enjoyed  by  the  lodges  of  the 
district.  There  are  indications  at  the  present  time  of  a  revival  of 
interest,  and  the  near  future  will  no  doubt  show  a  considerable  in- 
crease in  membership.  Everything  betokens  a  healthy  and  harmo- 
nious state  of  affairs  that  cannot  fail  to  add  to  the  welfare  of  the 
Order.  Fraternally  yours, 

A.  P.  GRANT. 
D.D.G.M.,  Twentieth  District. 


76  APPENDIX. — PART   II. 

TWENTY-FIRST  DISTRICT. 

LaHarpe,  III.,  Aug.  16,  1897. 

Owen  Scott,  Grand  Master. 

Dear  Sir  and  Brother:  As  District  Deputy  of  the  Twenty-first  Dis- 
trict my  work  lias  been  pleasant.  I  made  an  official  visit  to  Warsaw 
in  the  interest  of  the  old  dispute  between  Lima  Lodge  No.  135  and 
Warsaw  No.  257,  regarding  the  jurisdiction  line. 

Early  in  the  year  I  announced  a  school  at  LaHarpe,  assisted  by 
R.  W.  Bro.  Kirkpatrick,  District  Deputy  of  the  Twelfth  District,  which 
was  pronounced  a  success  by  the  many  Deputy  Grand  Lecturers  and 
brethren  in  attendance,  and  we  feel  much  good  was  accomplished. 

I  met  the  brethren  of  Adams  county  at  the  school  at  Quincy  and 
so  far  as  I  have  ascertained  all  is  harmony  in  the  district. 

Thanking  you  for  the  honor  conferred,  I  am 

Fraternally  yours, 

W.  O.  BUTLER, 
D.D.G.M.  Twenty-first  District. 


TWENTY-SECOND  DISTRICT. 

Carlinville,  III.,  Aug.  11,  1897. 
Owen  Scott,  Grand  Master. 

Bear  Sir  and  Brother:  As  your  District  Deputy  for  the  Twenty-sec- 
ond District  of  Illinois  I  beg  to  report  that  I  have  heard  of  no  dissen- 
tions  among  the  Craft  in  this  District  during  the  year  past. 

All  of  the  lodges  with  the  possible  exception  of  one  or  two  are  in 
vigorous  condition  and  all  together  are  moving  forward  in  the  dis- 
charge of  our  great  and  glorious  mission  among  men. 

I  presume  that  the  best  report  that  can  be  made  is  that  all  is  well, 
the  sky  is  clear,  that  no  troubles  have  been  visited  upon  us,  and  that 
none  are  threatened.     This  I  report  for  this  district. 

I  desire  to  cordially  congratulate  you  on  the  peace  and  harmony 
that  have  prevailed  and  the  progress  that  has  been  made  during  your 


APPENDIX. — PART    II. 


administration  of  the  great  office  to  which  the  generous  favor  of  your 
brethren  has  called  you. 

Fraternally  yours, 

ALEXANDER  H.  BELL, 
D.D.G.M.  Twenty-second  District. 


TWENTY-THIRD  DISTRICT. 

Litchfield,  III.,  Aug.  24,  1897. 
Owen  Scott,  Grand  Master. 

Dear  Sir  and  Brother:  My  report  as  District  Deputy  Grand  Mas- 
ter for  the  Twenty-third  Masonic  District  will  certainly  be  devoid  of 
interest,  and  therefore  discretion  prompts  it  to  be  short. 

My  official  duties  have  been  very  pleasant,  and  as  your  represen- 
tative I  received  marked  courtesies  in  many  cases. 

1  have  made  twelve  social  visits  to  lodges  in  this  District,  and  as- 
sisted in  installations,  work,  and  burying  of  the  dead. 

I  find  in  all  lodges  a  particular  interest  in  "standard  work,"'  and 
some  exceedingly  close  to  perfection. 

In  conclusion,  will  say  I  believe  peace  and  harmony  prevails  in 
this  District,  and  congratulate  you  on  the  good  work  you  have  done 
for  the  Craft  in  general,  and  sincerely  thanking  you  for  special  hon- 
ors conferred,  I  am,  Fraternall}^  yours, 

HUGH  A.  SNELL, 
D.D.G.M.  Twenty-third  District. 


TWENTY- FOURTH  DISTRICT. 

Newton,  III.,  August  2.3,  1897. 
Owen  Scott,  Grand  Master. 

Dear  Sir  and  Brother:    I  herewith  submit  to  you  my  report  as  your 
Deputy  for  the  Twenty-fourth  District. 

Upon  receipt  of  notice  of  my  appointment  I  sent  circular  letters 
to  the  lodges  constituting  this  district,  advising  them  of  my  readiness 


78  APPENDIX. — PART    II. 

to  visit  them  or  to  give  them  such  advice  and  assistance  as  they 
might  require.  I  have  visited  as  many  lodges  as  my  time  would  per- 
mit, and  from  my  own  observation  and  from  the  fact  that  I  have  re- 
ceived no  calls  officially,  I  feel  warranted  to  report  that  peace  and 
harmony  prevail  throughout  this  district.  There  are  many  lodges, 
however  in  this  district  that  stand  greatly  in  need  of  instruction  in 
the  ritualistic  work.  These  lodges  are  located  in  very  small  towns 
with  only  a  very  limited  jurisdiction,  and  consequently  their  opportu- 
nities for  work  are  equally  limited.  It  was  my  intention  to  call  a 
District  School  of  Masonic  Instruction,  but  my  duties  as  a  member  of 
the  State  Legislature  so  occupied  my  time  that  I  have  not  found  it 
possible  to  accomplish  this  work. 

Thanking  you  for  the  honor  you  have  conferred  upon  me,  I  am 

Fraternally  yours, 

W.  H.  LATHROP, 
D.D.G.M.  Twenty-fourth  District. 


TWENTY-FIFTH  DISTRICT. 

KiNMUNDY,  III,.,  Sept.  4,  1897. 
Owen  Scott,  Grand  Master. 

Dear  Sir  and  Brother:  The  Masonic  year  now  drawing  to  a  close 
has  been  quiet  and  harmonious  in  this  district. 

All  official  questions  presented  to  me  by  correspondence  or  other- 
wise have  been  answered  and  amicably  settled. 

Upon  receipt  of  your  letter  to  District  Deputy  Grand  Masters,  I 
proposed  to  hold  a  meeting  in  every  county  comprising  my  district, 
but  was  prevented  by  sickness  during  the  most  convenient  season  for 
Masonic  instruction,  although  late  in  the  season  we  arranged  for  a 
meeting  at  Salem,  which  was  held  on  the  15th  day  of  July.  The  at- 
tendance and  interest  were  good  and  we  hope  will  be  of  lasting  benefit 
to  all  who  were  present. 

The  need  of  such  meetings  for  the  purpose  indicated  in  your  letter 
of  instruction  to  District  Deputy  Grand  Masters  is  too  obvious  to  any 


APPENDIX. — PART   II.  79 

one  who  will  carefully  look  into  the  business  methods  of  many  of  our 
lodg-es.  The  greatest  short-coming- 1  find  on  the  part  of  secretaries, 
who  are  careless  in  the  keeping  of  the  minutes  of  the  business  of  the 
lodge  and  also  of  the  ledger  accounts  of  members. 

Lodges  cannot  be  too  careful  in  the  selection  of  secretaries,  and 
when  a  lodge  gets  a  good  one  it  should  hold  on  to  him.  The  larger 
part  of  suspensions  for  non-payment  of  dues  is  owing  to  the  negligence 
of  the  secretary — a  good  one  will  hustle  to  collect  the  dues  and  bal- 
ance the  ledger  account  of  his  members  at  the  end  of  each  year. 

I  have  visited  a  number  of  lodges,  installed  their  officers,  and  ex- 
amined the  lodge  records  and  have  encouraged  the  officers  to  be  pro- 
gressive and  proficient  in  their  work,  and  the  brethren  to  be  good  and 
true  men  in  their  vocations  of  life,  and  so  regulate  their  daily  con- 
duct that  every  aspersion  may  be  removed  from  our  honorable  insti" 
tution. 

And  now  permit  me  to  express  my  unfeigned  gratitude  for  the 
honors  you  have  bestowed  upon  me  as  your  representative,  and  the 
many  courtesies  you  have  shown  me  from  your  boyhood  days  when 
you  were  a  pupil  in  the  Kinmundy  schools  struggling  with  hard  math- 
emetical  problems. 

With  best  wishes  for  your  future  w^elfare,  I  am 
Fraternally  yovirs, 

C.  ROHRBOUGH, 
D.D.G.M.  Twenty-fifth  District. 


TWENTY-SIXTH  DISTRICT. 

Upper  Alton,  III.,  Aug.  19,  1897. 
Owen  Scott,  Grand  Master: 

Dear  Sir  and  Brother:  As  your  Deputy  for  the  Twenty-sixth  Dis- 
trict I  have  very  little  to  report.  I  have  not  been  called  upon  in  my 
official  capacity  during  the  past  year  for  anything  of  a  more  serious 
nature  than  an  installation. 

Following  the  suggestion  made  in  your  circular  of  December  12,  I 
issued  an  invitation  to  the  worshipful  masters  of  the  lodges  in  my 
district  to  meet  me  at  Edwardsville,  Madison  county,  on  March  19,  for 
consultation.     Unfortunately,  the   day  selected,  like  several  which 


80  APPENDIX. — PART   II. 

preceded  it,  was  a  rainy  one  and  the  attendance  was  consequently 
small.  The  interest  taken  in  the  meeting,  however,  by  those  who 
were  present  was  verj^  gratifying.  The  morning  and  afternoon  ses- 
sions were  devoted  to  the  discussion  of  questions  of  Masonic  law  and 
usage.  In  the  evening  the  third  degree  was  conferred  by  R.W.  Bro. 
John  W.  Kose,  Grand  PLxaminer,  assisted  b}*  R.W.  Bros.  Snell,  Todd, 
and  Sinclair,  Deputy  Grand  Lecturers,  and  a  number  of  past  masters. 

Between  the  morning  and  afternoon  sessions  the  visiting  brethren 
were  entertained  at  an  elegant  banquet  as  the  guests  of  Edvvardsville 
Lodge  No.  99. 

Taken  as  a  whole,  notwithstanding  the  small  attendance,  the 
meeting  was  a  perfect  success,  and  to  the  Edwardsville  brethren  and 
all  others  w^ho  assisted  in  making  it  so,  I  desire  to  tender  my  sincere 
thanks. 

In  conclusion,  I  desire  to  recommend  to  you  and,  through  you  to 
the  Grand  Lodge,  some  action  by  which  these  district  meetings  shall 
in  the  future  receive  official  recognition. 

I  desire,  also,  to  suggest  that  section  2,  Article  V,  Part  2,  Grand 
Lodge  By-laws,  should  be  so  amended  as  to  provide  that  the  District 
Deputy  Grand  Masters  shall  receive  "a  duly  certified  list  of  the  names 
of  the  newly  installed  officers"  in  their  respective  districts. 

Thanking  j'ou  for  honors  conferred,  I  am 

Fraternally  3'ours, 

H.  T.  BURNAP, 
D.D.G.M.  Twenty-sixth  District. 


TWENTY-SEVENTH  DISTRICT. 

Chester,  III.,  Aug.  24,  1897. 
Owen  Scott,  Grand  Master. 

Dear  Sir  and  Brother:  It  affords  me  great  pleasure  to  once  more 
report  my  official  acts  as  District  Deputy  Grand  Master  of  this  dis- 
trict for  the  twenty-third  time. 

According  to  3^our  instructions  I  visited  Alma  Lodge  No.  494,  at 
Steeleville  Illinois,  on  three  different  stated  communications,  for  the 
purpose  of  urging  the  master  and  secretary  to  proceed  to  collect  at 
once  the  outstanding  lodge  dues  of  several  members  of  the  lodge,  a 
report  of  my  visits  w^as  forwarded  to  you  at  the  same  time. 


APPENDIX. — PART    11.  81 


I  am  informed  by  the  secretary  that  several  of  the  delinquents 
have  paid  up,  some  have  paid  a  part,  and  some  have  had  their  dues 
remitted.  I  am  also  informed  that  those  members  were  amply  able 
to  pay,  and  at  the  next  stated  communication  a  few  will  be  suspended 
for  non-payment  of  dues. 

I  have  done  considerable,  visiting  some  of  the  lodges,  installing 
officers,  and  rendering  a  little  assistance  in  conferring  degrees. 

Everything  is  harmonious  in  the  district,  and  all  endeavoring  to 
attain  the  standard  work. 

Thanking  you  for  the  honor  of  the  appointment  and  with  personal 
regard,  I  am  Fraternally  yours, 

JAMES  DOUGLAS, 
D.D.G.M.  Twenty-seventh  District. 


TWENTY-EIGHTH  DISTICT. 

Marion,  III.,  Aug.  21,  1897. 
Owen  Scott,  Grand  Master. 

Bear  Sir  and  Brother.-  I  submit  this  my  report  as  District  Deputy 
Grand  Master  of  the  Twenty-eighth  District  for  the  closing  of  this 
Masonic  year. 

With  a  few  exceptions  my  duties  have  been  pleasant,  and  peace 
and  harmony  prevails  in  m}-  District. 

I  was  chairman  of  a  commission  appointed  by  yourself  to  investi- 
gate a  complaint  against  the  worshipful  master  of  No.  719  last  winter, 
of  which  a  report  was  made  at  the  time  in  detail.  I  am  now  pleased 
to  report,  from  information  received  since,  that  their  troubles  are 
about  settled  and  harmony  again  prevails  among  the  brethren  of  that 
lodge. 

I  also,  by  your  request,  made  investigation  in  regard  to  the  re- 
moval of  Lodge  Hall  No.  241  and  made  report  at  the  time. 

With  the  exception  of  a  few  questions  asked  on  Masonic  law  and 
usage,  no  complaints  other  than  mentioned  have  been  made  to  me, 
from  which  I  infer  that  peace  and  harmony  prevail. 

Some  of  the  lodges  in  my  district  have  done  little  work;  others 
seem  to  be  prosperous,  and  have  done  good  work  and  are  anxious  to 
become  proficient  in  the  work  of  Masonry. 

Accept  my  sincere  thanks  for  the  honor  conferred,  and  congrat- 
ulations for  the  manner  in  which  you  have  conducted  your  office. 
I  remain  Fraternally,  "  J.  M.  BURKHART, 

D.D.G.M.  Twenty-eighth  District. 

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82  APPENDIX.  — PART    II. 


TWENTY  NINTH  DISTRICT. 

Mt.  Carmel,  III.,  Aug.  20,  1897. 
Owen  Scott,  Grand  Master. 

Dear  Sir  and  Brother:  I  am  pleased  to  report  that  so  far  as  I  am 
informed  the  past  year  has  been  one  of  peace  and  harmony  among 
the  brethren  of  the  Twenty-ninth  District,  no  complaints  of  of  impor- 
tance having  been  made  to  me. 

Not  finding  it  convenient  to  visit  each  county  in  the  district 
officially,  as  suggested  by  you,  at  the  suggestion  of  quite  a  number  of 
the  brethren  a  district  school  of  instruction  was  held  at  Norris  City 
April  13,  14,  and  15.  While  the  attendance  was  not  as  large  as  ex- 
pected, yet  I  had  the  pleasure  of  meeting  and  conferring  with  quite 
a  number  of  the  brethren.  A  pleasant  and  profitable  meeting  was 
held. 

Congratulating  you  upon  your  second  successful  year  of  adminis- 
tration, I  am,  Fraternally  yours, 

H.  T.  GODDARD, 
D.D.G.M.  Twenty-ninth  District. 


THIRTIETH  DISTRICT. 

New  Grand  Chain,  III.,  Aug.  30,  1897. 
Owen  Scott,  Grand  Master. 

Dear  Sir  and  Brother:  In  submitting  my  annual  report  for  the  Ma- 
sonic year  now  closing,  harmony  and  concord  has  seemed  to  prevail 
in  general  during  the  past  year.  No  requests  for  official  visitation 
have  been  made,  and  have  had  but  few  questions  to  answer.  In  the 
social  visits  that  I  have  made  I  find  much  interest  and  activity  has 
been  manifested  by  many  of  the  lodges  in  the  district,  and  more  and 
better  work  has  been  the  result. 

Congratulating  you  on  your  successful  administration  of  our  noble 
Craft,  and  thanking  you  for  the  honor  you  have  conferred  and  confi- 
dence reposed  in  me,  I  assure  you  of  my  personal  esteem. 

Fraternally  yours, 

J.  M.  JONES, 
D.D.G.M.  Thirtieth  District. 


APPENDIX. — PART   II.  83 


Report  of  Grand  Examiners 

FOR  THE  YEAR  1897. 


Litchfield  III.,  Aug-.  1,  1897. 
Owen  Scott,  Grand  Master. 

Dear  Sir  and  M.  W.  Brother:  I  herewith  submit  to  you  a  report  of 
the  several  Masonic  Schools  of  Instruction  held  by  the  Board  of  Grand 
Examiners,  pursuant  to  your  order  during  the  current  year  as  follows: 

CENTRALIA. 

At  the  school  held  at  Centralia  on  the  19th,  20th.  and  21st  days  of 
January,  A.D.  1897,  there  were  present  M.W.  Bro.  Owen  Scott,  Grand 
Master;  R.W.  Bros.  Edward  Cook,  D.G.M.;  Edward  C.  Pace,  S.G.D.; 
J.  H.  C.  Dill,  Grand  Secretary;  W.  B.  Grimes,  President  Board  Grand 
Examiners;  John  W.  Rose,  Secretary;  A.  B.  Ashley,  J.  E.  Evans,  and 
James  R.  Ennis,  members  of  the  Board;  D.  B.  Hutchison,  William  E. 
Ginther,  Sam  M.  Shoemann,  Isaac  A.  Foster,  L.  J.  Forth,  A.  H.  Story, 
W.  S.  Buchanan,  C.  E.  Allen,  C.  Rohrbough,  George  A.  Martin, 
G.  H.  B.  Tolle,  G.  G.  Goudy,  T.  H.  Humphrey,  W.  H  Stevens,  and 
H.  S.  Hurd,  Deputy  Grand  Lecturers. 

Two  hundred  and  nineteen  names  were  registered,  seventy-one 
lodges  and  seven  grand  jurisdictions  were  represented. 

QUINCY. 

At  the  school  held  at  Quincy  on  the  2(3th,  27th,  and  28th  days  of 
January,  A.D. ,1897,  there  were  present  M.W.  Bros.  Owen  Scott,  Grand 
Master;  Joseph  Robbins,  Past  Grand  Master;  R.W.  Bros.  Edward  Cook, 
D.G.M.;  George  M.  Moulton,  J.G.W.:  R.  T.  Spencer,  G.S.B.;  W.  B. 
Grimes,  President  Board  of  Grand  Examiners;  John  W.  Rose,  Secre- 
tary; A.  B.  Ashley.  Joseph  E.  Evans,  and  James  R.  Ennis,  members- 
W.  O.  Butler,  Isaac  Cutter,  D.  B.  Hutchison,  O.  F.  Kirkpatrick,  C.  W. 
Carroll,  and  John  E.  Morton,  Deputy  Grand  Lecturers,  and  Louis  Zin- 
ger.  District  Deputy  Grand  Master  Fourteenth  Masonic  District. 

Two  hundred  and  sixty-four  names  were  registered.  Representa- 
tives from  fifty-nine  lodges  and  three  grand  jurisdictions  were  present. 


84  APPENDIX. — PART   II. 

BLOOMINGTON. 

At  the  school  held  at  Bloomington  on  the  9th,  10th,  and  11th  days 
of  February,  1897,  there  were  present  M.W.  Bro.  Owen  Scott,  Grand 
Master:  R.W.  Bros.  Edward  Cook.  D.G.M.:  C.  F.  Hitchcock,  S.G.W.; 
George  M.  Aloulton,  J.G.W.:  J.  H.  C.  Dill.  Grand  Secretary:  W.  B. 
Grimes,  President  Board  Grand  Examiners:  John  W.  Rose,  Secretary; 
A.  B.  Ashley,  Joseph  E.  Evans,  and  James  R.  Ennis,  members:  L.  C. 
Waters,  C.  E.  Allen,  AY.  M.  Burbank,  James  M.  McCredie,  D.  E.  Bruf- 
fett,  Emerson  Clark,  J.  Frank  Clayton,  Rolin  R.  Strickler,  and  George 
A.  Stadler,  Deput}'  Grand  Lecturers;  Louis  Zinger,  District  Deputy 
Grand  Master  Fourteenth  Masonic  District. 

Three  hundred  and  sixt^'-one  names  were  registered  and  repre- 
sentatives of  ninetj'-three  lodges  were  present. 

SYCAMORE. 
At  the  school  held  at  Sycamore  on  the  16th,  17th,  and  18th  da^^s 
of  February,  1897,  there  were  present  M.W.  Bro.  Owen  Scott,  Grand 
Master;  R.W.  Bros.  Edward  Cook,  Deputy  Grand  Master:  George  M. 
Moulton,  J.G.W.;  D.  D.  Hunt,  District  Deputy  Grand  Master  Seventh 
Masonic  District;  W.  B.  Grimes,  President  Board  of  Grand  Examiners; 
John  W.  Rose,  Secretar}':  A.  B.  Ashley,  Joseph  E.  Evans,  and  James 
R.  Ennis,  members:  J.  E.  Wheat,  J.  H.  Thomas,  J.  E.  Greeman,  C.  E. 
Grove,  James  M.  McCredie,  W.  M.  Burbank.  Henr}'  Werno,  and  A.  L. 
Goodridge.  Deputy  Grand  Lecturers. 

Two  hundred  and  sixty-four  names  were  registered,  fifty-two  lodges 
and  ten  grand  jurisdictions  were  represented. 

CHICAGO. 

At  the  School  held  at  Chicago  on  the  9th.  10th,  and  11th  days  of 
March,  1897,  there  were  present  M.  W.  Bros.  Owen  Scott,  Grand  Mas- 
ter: D.  C.  Cregier,  Past  GrandMaster;  R.W.  Bros.  Edward Cook,D.G.M.: 
George  M.  Moulton,  J.G.W.;  J.  H.  C.  Dill,  G.S.;  W.  B.  Grimes,  President 
Board  Grand  Examiners:  John  W.  Rose,  Sec;  A.  B.  Ashley,  Joseph  E. 
Evans  and  James  R.  Ennis,  members:  also  Bro.  Charles  F.  Tenney,  mem- 
ber of  the  Board  for  this  School  only:  W.  M.  Burbank,  M.  B.  lott,  and 
Herbert  Preston.  D.D.G.M.'s:  Isaac  Cutter,  H.  S.  Albin,  H.  T.  Burnap, 
Hugh  A.  Snell.  James  McCredie.  R.  F.  Morrow,  J.  J.  Crowder,  C.  Reif sni- 
der, Henry  Werno,  A.  L.  Goodridge,  H.  C.  Yetter,  H.  S.  Hurd,  C.  E.Allen, 
and  Seymour  S.  Borden,  D.G.L.'s.  At  this  school  three  divisions  or 
sections  were  held  simultaneously,  to-wit:  One  division  on  North  Side 
at  Germania  Hall,  64  North  Clark  street;  one  division  on  West  Side  at 
Halstead  and  West  Randolph  streets,  and  one  division  on  South  Side 
at  .3120  Forest  avenue,  two  members  of  Board  being  with  each  of  the 
different  divisions  and  in  charge  of  the  work. 


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APPENDIX. — PART   II.  85 

The  registration  was  as  follows: 

South  Side,  four  hundred  fourteen  names  were  registered;  seventy 
Illinois  lodges,  twenty-three  foreign  lodges,  and  seventeen  grand 
jurisdictions. 

On  West  Side,  three  hundred  forty-nine  names  were  registered; 
sixty-six  Illinois  lodges,  eleven  foreign  lodges,  and  twelve  grand 
jurisdictions  were  represented. 

On  North  Side  two  hundred  eighty  names  were  registered;  sixty- 
eight  Illinois  lodges,  thirteen  foreign  lodges,  and  twelve  grand  juris- 
dictions were  represented. 

At  each  of  these  Schools  and  at  each  section  or  division  of  the 
Chicago  School  the  whole  ritual  of  Masonry  was  fully  rehearsed  and 
exemplified  in  regular  lodges  and  with  actual  candidates.  The  official 
reception  of  the  Most  Worshipful  Grand  Master  was  also  a  feature  of 
each  School.  At  each  place  of  meeting  an  address  was  given  by  M.  W. 
Bro.  Owen  Scott  on  the  duties  of  officers  and  business  management  of 
lodges,  which  was  greatly  appreciated,  especially  by  the  Worshipful 
Masters  and  Secretaries  present.  This  was  a  feature  introduced  into 
the  Schools  in  January,  1896.  We  believe  it  adds  largely  to  the  use- 
fulness of  the  schools,  and  that  it  should  be  continued. 

Since  last  session  of  Grand  Lodge  we  have  recommended  the  fol- 
lowing named  brethren  for  appointment  as  D.G.L.'s,  to-wit:  Job  Eddy 
Greenman,  Tampico;  James  M.  McCredie,  Earleville;  Isaac  Abram 
Foster,  Emma;  Seymour  Skiff  Borden,  Chicago;  William  H.  Peake, 
Jonesboro;  M.  Joy  Seed,  Sumner. 

In  conclusion,  we  beg,  M.  W.  Sir,  to  express  our  appreciation  of 
the  honors  conferred  upon  us,  and  to  thank  the  Grand  Lodge  officers 
for  their  encouragement  and  assistance.  Especially  we  desire  to  thank 
the  Deputy  Grand  Lecturers  and  District  Deputy  Grand  Masters  for 
their  help. 

All  of  which  is  fraternally  submitted. 

BOARD  OF  GRAND  EXAMINERS. 
Jno.  W.  Rose,  Secretary. 


86  APPENDIX. — PART   II. 


AMENDMENTS  TO  GRAND  LODGE  BY-LAWS-Proposed. 


That  section  1,  article  XXV,  part  I,  Grand  Lodge  By-laws,  be  so 
amended  as  to  read: 

Every  lodge  under  this  jurisdiction  shall,  on  or  before  the  first 
day  of  August,  annually,  pay  into  the  treasury  of  the  Grand  Lodge, 
through  the  Grand  Secretary,  the  sixm  of  sixty  cents  for  each  Master 
Mason  belonging  to  such  lodge  at  the  time  of  making  the  annual  re- 
turn. 


That  section  6,  article  XIII,  part  I,  of  Grand  Lodge  By-laws,  be 
amended  by  striking  out  the  word  "five"  in  the  fourth  line,  and  in- 
serting in  lieu  thereof  the  word  "four." 


Amend  section  4,  article  X,  part  III,  or  any  other  part  of  Grand 
Lodge  By-laws  relating  to  restoration  of  expelled  Masons,  by  insert- 
ing above  after  the  word  restoration,  where  said  word  occurs  the 
second  time:  "Which  petition  shall  be  presented  at  a  stated  com- 
munication of  the  lodge,  and  be  acted  upon  at  the  next  or  a  subsequent 
stated  communication  of  said  lodge,  when,  if." 


That  section  1,  article  VIII,  part  III,  of  Grand  Lodge  B3'-laws  be 
amended  to  read  as  follows: 

Section  1.  The  payment  of  annual  dues  is  adut}-  incumbent  upon 
every  member  of  a  lodge,  and  the  neglect  or  refusal  to  fulfill  this  dutj- 
shall  be  (except  for  good  cause)  an  infraction  of  Masonic  law  and  a 
violation  of  a  Masonic  covenant  and  shall  subject  the  delinquent  to 
lodge  discipline,  and  no  lodge  shall  authorize  or  create  any  form  of 
life  membership  nor  in  any  manner  exempt  any  of  its  members  from 
the  payment  of  dues:  provided,  however,  that  a  lodge,  b}'  a  majority 
vote,  may  remit  the  whole  or  any  portion  of  the  dues  of  an}-  of  its 
members  then  due.  Nothing  herein  shall  be  construed  to  effect  any 
rights  heretofore  acquired  by  any  member  of  a  lodge  under  the  by- 
laws of  any  constituent  lodge. 


That  section  1,  article  XIII,  part  II,  of  Grand  Lodge  B3--laws  be 
amended  by  adding  the  following: 

Every  petition  for  the  degrees  shall,  in  addition  to  the  questions 
and  statements  herein  prescribed,  bear  upon  its  face  the  following 


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APPENDIX. — PART    II. 


question,  viz.:  Masonrj^,  not  being  a  benefit  societ}^,  have  you  seriously 
considered  whether  your  circumstances  will  enable  j'ou  to  support  the 


institution: 


The  following-  amendments  were  proposed  by  R.W.  Bro.  John  B. 
Fithian  at  session  of  1895,  and  action  thereon  postponed  by  vote  of 
Grand  Lodge: 

Amend  section  1,  article  XXV,  part  II,  Grand  Lodge  By-laws,  by 
adding  thereto  the  following: 

Excepting  life  members  paying  no  lodge  dues. 

Amend  section  1,  paragraph  6.  Article  XI,  part  I,  Grand  Lodge 
By-laws,  by  inserting  between  the  words  "this  jurisdiction,'"  and  the 
words  "seventy-five  cents,"  the  following: 

Excepting  life  members  paying  no  lodge  dues. 

The  sections  as  amended  will  read  as  follows: 

Section  1.  Every  lodge  under  this  jurisdiction  shall,  on  or  before 
the  first  day  of  August  annually,  pay  into  the  treasury  of  the  Grand 
Lodge,  through  the  Grand  Secretary,  the  sum  of  seventy-five  cents 
for  each  Master  Mason  belonging  to  such  lodge  at  the  time  of  making 
the  annual  return,  excepting  life  members  paying  no  lodge  dues. 

6.  For  each  member  of  every  chartered  lodge  under  this  jurisdic- 
tion, excepting  life  members  paying  no  lodge  dues,  seventy-five  cents 
annually,  except  such  members  as  are  exempted  from  the  payment 
of  dues  to  the  chartered  lodges,  on  account  of  their  poverty. 


INDEX. 


I  NDEX 


Address—  page. 

Of  Grand  Master 7 

Appointments — 

Of  Committees 5,  108 

Of  Grand  Officers 104 

Of  Deputy  Grand  Lecturers   12 

Of  Deputy  Grand  Masters Ill 

Of  Committee  on  By-laws 109 

Amendments  to  By-laws — 

Acted  upon 44 

List  of  (in  Appendix,  Part  2d) 86 

Proposed  and  seconded 46,61,  101 

Postponed 97 

Alphabetical  List  of  Lodges  (in  Appendix,  Part  2d) 2 


Alphabetical  List  of  Postoffices,  with  Name  and  No.  of  Lodges 

(Appendix,  Part  2d) 19 

Appeals  and  Grievances — 

Committee  on 5,  108 

Report  of 78 

Benediction 110 

Committees — 

Appointment  of 5,108 

Appeals  and  Grievances,  report  of 78 

Chartered  Lodges,  report  of 95 

Correspondence,  report  of  43,  68 

Credentials,  report  of ... .      47 

Finance,  report  of 69,  96,  109 

Grand  Master's  Address,  report  of 42 

Jurisprudence,  report  of 101 

List  of 5,  108 

Lodges  U.D.,  report  of 61 

Mileage  and  Per  Diem,  report  of  81 

Obituaries,  report  of 98,  94 

On  By-laws,  appointment  of 109 

Petitions,  report  of 59 

Chartered  Lodges — 

Committee  on 5,  108 

Report  of 95 

Tabular  Statement  of  (in  Appendix,  Part  2d) 44 

Correspondence — 

Committee  on 5.  108 

Report  of  43,  68 

Report  of  (in  Appendix,  Part  1st) 1 


INDEX.  89 


Credentials—  page. 

Committee  on 5,108 

Report  of ^"^ 

Deputy  Grand  Lecturers — 

Referred  to,  in  Grand  Master's  Address 12 

District  Deputy  Grand  Masters — 

List  of Ill 

Reports  of  (in  Appendix,  Part  2d) 62 

Election — 

Of  Grand  Officers -12,  45 

Finance — 

Committee  on 9^  108 

Report  of 69,  96, 109 

Grand  Lodges^ 

List  of 116 

Grand  Master — 

Address  of ''' 

Committee  on. 6 

Committee  on   report  of •  •    42 

Grand  Examiners — 

Committee  on 6,  108 

Report  of 103 

Report  of  (in  Appendix,  Part  'J.d) 82 

Grand  Officers — 

Election  of 42,  45 

Appointment  of  Appointive  Officers 104 

Installation  of 104 

List  of 2 

List  of  Elected  Grand  Officers  from  formation  of  Grand 

Lodge  to  date 112 

Present 3 

Grand  Secretary — 

Reported  a  constitutional  number  of  lodges  represented. .  5 

Report  of 33 

Submitted  his  books  and  accounts 34 

Grand  Secretaries — 

List  of 116 

Grand  Treasurer- 
Report  of 30 

Invitations — 

To  visit  Board  of  Trade 42 

To  visit  Garden  City  Lodge 67 

To  visit  Illinois  Masonic  Orphans'  Home 80 

Installations — 

Of  Grand  Officers 104 

Introduction  of  Grand  Orator ^2 


90  INDEX. 


Jurisprudence —  PAGE. 

Committee  on 5,  108 

Report  of 101 

Letter  from  Harrison  Dills   44 

Lodges  Constituted 10 

Lodo-e  Directory— (in  Appendix,  Part  2d) 2 

List  of  Defunct  Lodg-es  (in  Appendix,  Part  2d) 40 

List  of  Lodges  by  Districts  (in  Appendix,  Part  2d) 25 

Lodges  Under  Dispensation — 

Committee  on 5,  108 

Report  of 61 

List  of  Masonic  Papers 120 

Memorial  Pages 118 

Minutes — 

Reading  of  dispensed  with 6 

Mileage  and  Per  Diem — 

Committee  on 5,  108 

Report  of 81 

Obituaries — 

Committee  on 5 

Report  of 98 

Officers  of  Grand  Lodge 2 

Oration 73 


Petitions — 

Committee  on 5 

Report  of , 59 

Permanent  Members — 

List  of 117 

Prayer — 

By  Grand  Chaplain   4 

Presentation  of  Representative  for  Idaho .  67 

Presentation  of  Representative  for  Arkansas 67 

Question  by  John  B.  Fithian 45 

Railroads — 

Committee  on 6 


Representatives — 

Of  Constituent  Lodges 52 

Of  other  Grand  Lodges  near  this  Grand  Lodge 115 

Of  this  Grand  Lodge  near  other  Grand  Lodges 114 


INDEX.  91 


Reports—  page. 

Of  Grand  Master 7 

Of  Grand  Secretary 33 

Of  Grand  Treasurer 30 

Of  Committee  on  Appeals  and  Grievances 78 

Of  Committee  on  Chartered  Lodges 95 

Of  Committee  on  Credentials _     47 

Of  Committee  on  Correspondence 43,  (58 

Of  Committee  on  Finance <ji',  !*G,  109 

Of  Committee  on  Jurisprudence 101 

Of  Committee  on  Lodges  Under  Dispensation   61 

Of  Committee  on  Grand  Master's  Address 42 

Of  Committee  on  Mileage  and  Per  Diem 81 

Of  Committee  on  New  Regalia 45 

Of  Committee  on  Obituaries 98 

Of  Committee  on  Petitions 59 

Remarks — 

By  M.  W.  D.  C.  Cregier 104 

By  R. W.  Edward  Cook 106 

Restoration — 

Of  Samuel  Baxter 59 

Of  John  Sweeney 59 

Of  Lloyd  E.  Eddy 59 

Of  Thomas  Edgar 60 

Resolutions — 

By  M.W.  L.  A.  Goddard 44 

By  M.W.  Owen  Scott 109 

Of  thanks  to  retiring  Grand  Master 109 

Schools  of  Instruction — 

Report  of  Secretary  (in  Appendix,  Part  2d) 82 

Tabulated  Statement — 


Showing  amount  of  dues,  number  of  members,  etc.  (in  Ap- 
pendix, Part  2d) 44 

Vote  of  Thanks — 

To  Grand  Orator     78 

To  retiring  Grand  Master 109 


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