Daily globe., 1879-06-05
YELLOW FEVER ASSESSMENT.
The A. O. u. ". Thinks 1t Is Being Piled on
Pretty Thick.

The A. o. u. W. Thinks 1t Is Being Piled on
Pretty Thick.
The attention of GLOBE reporter was
called, yesterday, to number of articles
and communications that have recently ap-
peared in the National d. 0. U. ". Bulle-
tin, Cincinnati, and the United Worhnen's
Journal, published at Davenport, Ia, con-
cerning the widespread dissatisfaction ex-
listing about the second special yellow fever
assessment that has been imposed on all the
members of the order living North. The
status of the affair may be appreciated by
the public, when it is sta ed that all North
ern members of the order wero previously
assessed at the rate of So per capita, which
makes total of 100000 already paid to
the widows and orphans OF deceased men,
bers who fell victims to the yellow fever
scourge, each family being entitled to the
sum of $4,000.
At meeting of the supreme lodge at
Nashville last April, q special call was issued
for an extra assessment of $3.50 per capita,
the same to apply on the amount still duo
the families of deceased members IN the
South, making the total assessment OF the
North amount to nearly one-half million dol
lars. Ever since the call for the additional
assessment has been issued feeling of dis
satisfaction has been manifested, which has
recently assumed shape in Illinois and Iowa,
where the grand lodges of the States have
passed resolutions protesting against the ex-
ira assessment on the grounds that such
action is coersive and subversive of the prin-
ciples of the order.
The position is also taken by the Eastern
lodges that the laws of the order provide i'm
munity against the independent jurisdiction
of the snpreme lodge, and that an attempt
to enforce compulsory assessment is illegal
in addition to which it is claimed the firs'
assessment was submitted to from feeling
of fraternal fellowship and charity, while i
is alleged that some of the Southern States
(notably Tenessee) have not furnished thei
share of the assessment.
The following is the substance of the reso
lutions adopted by the subordinate lodges o
Iowa and Illinois protesting against the ad
ditional, assessment:
WHEREAS, The supreme lodge at its late scs
sion in Nashville, Tennessee, passed resolution
providing for the compulsory assessments @
independent jurisdictions to pay death losse
caused by yellow fever in the South, and TO
which our laws provide immunity to such in
dependent jurisdictions; and
WHEREAS, We believe that such action of th
supreme lodge Is both coercive and subversiv
Of the fundamental principal OF our order
therefore belt
RESOLVED, That while taking this action "
do not in the least abate our sympathy for ou
suffering brothers in this yellow fever af1ictior
and that we shall cheerfuliy contribute toward
their relief.
The recorder was instructed to forward
copy of the above resolutions to the gran
master of the State, asking that previou
action in the matter be reconsidered.
It is understood that call has bee
issued for meeting to be held this evening
at which the six past masters will be presen
the object being to take measures egains
the second assessment, end which will n
doubt result in the adoption of resolution
similar to those given above. The impo1
tance of the measure may be realized whe
it is stated that the Ancient Order of Unite
Workmen is the largest and most inauenti
organization of its kind in the Unite
States, and that the present discussion Wi
probably result in the withdrawal of ALL
glance between the lodges of the North an
those of the South.