The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-07-24

- From the New York Herald. 80
B'nas. D'rsfh-Third Days sessi"n
Completion Of the List OF standtns

Committees Banquet at nfgn'
The third days session Of the grand con:
vention of the Independent Order OF d ha,
Birth, or Sons Of the Covenant, opehea
Tuesday at twenty minutes past III O'CLOCK
A. NJ, the President brother Ad0ipn
Moses) in the chair. -. .,uod
On motion of Mr.. Putzell, it was regois s1
to adjourn the days session at ~ I. NJ,
and to order oil the standing comtnlt.Seo, r.
remain in session and at work I'LL -, AZ.
On Brother Bien's motion, oil proposl.loLhs
for amendments of the Constitution OF tne
Order were then to be handed In 10 Tue
secretary, read, and referred without ae-
bate TO the Committee on Revision: oo"e
twelve or fourteen different propositions. o. o.
the kind, on various subjects connectea WIN
the constitutional revision, were READ win,
ont being very attentively listened to, ana
referred IA directed. An amendment 10
the rules was proposed to the enect thAt ~
addition to the standing committees pio'
vided there shall be appointed commit
fee on the general state OF the order' anu
Also that no delegate should be allowed 10
decline to serve on committee "hen ~
pointed by the Chair. This gave rise ~
some sharp debate, but it was ultin nl
passed by large majority. Inc Cha l
here announced the following as the slahu
ing committees which had not yet oeeh
appointed ,so1d
On Territorial observation-disclosures
chairman, and Brothers Wash, Koch, honn'
Putzler. Kramer, We'll, Hoffheimer, Rem
stein. Wolf, Heller, Sol. Sulzterger, das-
senheimer, Goldman, and Sachs.
On Finance.-Joseph Sulzberger, chair
man. and Brothers Ellsberger, Bondl, LIE
vyn. Aub, Hart, Berk, Rosenzweig, Strauss,
Hoffman,, Bien, Heller, Sachs, krieg, and
Binswanger.
and Brothers Goodman, Brandels' Sells
mann, Harsh, Drucker, Klein, Aoeles'
Moses. Frank, Sommerich, GreeneDaum'
King. Simpson, and Binswanger.
On State of the Order.-Emmanuel, Fox
Morris, Klein, Guttmann, Bamberger'
Herschfeld, Joseph Levy, Jacob Miller
7. Hart. Mannheimer, Woolf, Frank,
Goldmanu. We'll, and Gassenheimer.
Now arose Brother Bien, and as chair
man If the Committee on the Constitution
ba nronosed to submit preliminary re-
port to this effect:
at is the opinion of the Committee on
the Constitution that the annual meeting Of
the Constitution Grand Lodge, which should
constitutionally be held on the 26th instant,
should not take place; and this is most re-
spectfully submitted" etc.
A short but spirited discussion succeeded
this proposition, for by some few it was be-
lieyed to be the initial step to the entire
abolition of the Constitution Grand Lodge,
and on its passage the yeas and nays were
called. The call resulted in eighty-four
yeas, and the consequent adoption OF the
report so that for the present this Constl-
tuition Grand Lodge of the Order is COM
pletely shelved, and the Convention has de-
cided to exercise supreme and exclusive Ju-
risdiction. Having, after this, passed
resolution to admit all members of district
LODGES to seats in the hall, letter was read
from the managers of the Hebrew Orphan
Asylum in this city, in which it was stated
that nine of the orphans at the institute
had arrived at an age in which they should
be put to some vocation to work out their
own future and standing in society; that
New York city presents so many allure
ments and seductions on all sides to youth
that it is considered dangerous to keep them
in the city, and proposition is made that
the delegates from the interior might en-
deayor to procure places for these father
less youth. This proposition was greeted
with expressions Of appreciation, and a com
mittee ordered to be appointed to see 1t eff
fected. The committee was announced by
the Chair to consist of Brother ?. W. Frank
chairman, and Brothers Waterman, Arnold,
Sachs, and Aub. \ short recess was now
taken for lunch, during which the last
named committee had offers for the full
adoption by western men of four OF the
nine orphans, and the committee expect
that by this morning all Of them will have
been provided with homes.
After the recess but little of Importance
was done. The Committee on the Constl-
tuition submitted the first part or section OF
q new constitution. 1t was informally read,
and made the special order for this morn
ing. The Convention then adjourned at
half-past 2 O'Clock p. NJ. to meet again at
| 10 Wednesday morning, at which timeall the
standing committees will be ready to make
some report of their progress, and the &C
tual business Of the meeting will IN reality
qegin. Up to this all was preliminary and
preparatory for the grand contest-hrst,
upon q proposed change in the constitu-
| ton, and, second, upon 4 change OF the
ritual Of the Order. The great fight In the
committee, as well as in the Convention,
will in ali probability concentrate around
the effort to do away with the restrictive
principle embodied in the following pre-
amble and resolution passed and enacted as
law for the Order by the Constitution
Grand Lodge in the year 1851:
Whereas it is an established principle of
the |. 0. B. B. to use all it's means and in
| tluence energetically to work for the attain.
ment of its aims and objects only within
the sphere Of its own association, and in no
way impose upon itself duties which not
only would impair its efficiency, but would
be an assumption of prerogatives and obli-
cations properly devolving upon the public
at large: therefore
Resolved, That while the Order of Bnai
Birth desires all its members Individually
to interest themselves in all matters con-
corning our co-religionists, and to contri-
butte by all means in their power to every
appropriate and noble undertaking, we
nevertheless feel bound to declare that the
creation of public institutions by the Order
direct does not form part of its aspiration,
and therefore they never ought to be insti-
tuted by any section of the Order: but more
especially would the creation of Jewish
scholastic institutions, which, from their
| very nature, can only be considered as
| purely religious establishments, involving