, 1874-02-14
THE CHANGERS.
The National Oranges Last
Days Session.
The Boston Grange Disfranchised and
Declared Extinct.
The Report on Transportation Presented
but Not Considered.
The Farewell Speech Distinguished for
Glowing Rhetoric and
Few Ideas.

Session OF tho Fattona4 6faHEes
Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune.
THE BOSTON GRANGE.
ST.. LOUIS. Feb. 13.-Tho National Grange has
been principally occupied to-day IN saying 1are-
well. Tie report OF the Committee on the Bos-
ton Grange was discussed and adopted last even
inr. bu. submitted to the public to-day.
The case has been prejudged ever since the dellV-
ory OF Master Adams address on tho first day. The
action Of the National Grange WIGS rather with .
view to sustaining Adams than on the real
merits Of tho case, which we're not lengthly
argued. Mr. Staples, delegate from Boston, WAS
not present when the Committee first considered
the subject, Allis, Master OF Massachusetts,
went alone before the Committee, and submitted
the petition sent you the other day. Mr.. Allis
complains that his position has been enbarrass-
ing. Mr. Adams, in his address, placing him IN
an attitude of rebellion as regards the Order.
Ho thinks the question should never have come
I'D, as the Eastern members went into the
Grange in good faith, not supposins they were
violating any rules of the Order. He left Tor
home to-nig ut with Mr.. Staples.
y1Evs or s1n. STAPLES.
Tho latter gentleman reached st. Louis last
Wednesday night, and since that time has sat IN
Ill the sessions Of the National Grange. BE ex-
Dresses L0e Cpullou L15L kAo 1on+oA ~AA"A q
matter ought to have been entirely ignored. and
says that most Of the members OF the National
Grange entertain the same view OF the matter The
Grange had como into the Order in good faith,
md though some OF the members had city inter-
ests. nearly all Of them lad farms. Mr. Hovey,
the seeds1nan, was member, and he is directly
interested in agriculture. A11. Staples himself
has a farm in the country; 80 have nearly all
the members to whom 80 much objection has
been mGdo Mr.. Staples says, further, TINT the
| Boston grain dealers are just IL much
| INTERESTED IN CHEAP TRANSPORTATION
as the Eastern farmers, and it was this that hrst
| drew them into the Grange. Then hue and cry
| was raised, and the report was circulated all
over the West that a Grange had been
! formed in Boston composed only Of mer~
| chants and grain-dealcrs. Mr. Adams came
| East to attend Horticultural Congress, and
| learning through third parties about the way in
t which the Grange was formed, not even consult
/ ing with any Of the members, came home and
| revoked tho d;speusation.
/ Mr.. Staples considers his Boston
| brethren to have been most un-
! Justly Disseminated against, innsmuch
| a. thore are hundreds Of Granses all over the
t East, md in all the cities and towns Of the
West, whose membership is no moro directly ass-
| ricultu1al than the membership Of the Boston
| Grange He sayB that it will probably rcorganize
| and again apply for admission. These are Alr-
| Staples' news and they deserve to have tho
| same currency given the report OF the Commit
| tee He 1idicules the idea that he aud the fe"
| men associated with him ever entertained tho
idea OF running Massachusetts politics.