Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-08-22
-4.oarasms Prtses-rae Protest.

making up. their report. The three judges
after comparing their several scores, or
Wednesday evening, had announced thai
the communicates stood as follows: l.
Raper, Of Indianapolis; 2, De Molay, oi
Louisville; 3, Reed, of Dayton, O.; 4, Da.
mascus, of st. Paul. With respect to Monroe
commandsry, of Rochester, the judges in
formally announced that, owing to the fact
that the commander Of that organization
had utterallY failed to comply with the pro-
gramme laid down for the drill, they had
found it impossible to make up its score and
pro psrly determined its relative position, in
point of drill, with the other commands.
When the committee had assembled, at IL
O'Clock, q deputation from the Monroe COM
mandery was on hand, and
ASKED LHAvE TO SUBMIT
the following protest:
"HEApoUARTERs MONROE OoMMANDERY, No.
| l, CHICAGO, Aug. 10, 18SU.-To the Competitive
Drill Commlttee-Sir Knights and Gentlemen:
| 1t having come to the knowledge of the COM
mandery that in the competitive prize drill
| Monroe commandery has been utterly ignored,
| and their proficiency and degree of excellence
| in said drill not considered by the judges on
of said commandery to comply with a petty
technicality imposed by said judges at the last
moment without due previous notice, now,
therefore. in consideration thereof, Monroe
commandeIy desires, and does hereby most
earnestly protest against the decision of the
judges and their award of the prizes, for the
following reasons:
81. In compliance with the circular of the
triennial committee, issued some three months
since, and which contains the only authorized
rules governing said competitive drill, Said
commandery did, in compliance with rule K,
notify the triennial committee prior to Aug. l,
1880, and said commandery protests against
any commandery having been permitted to en-.
ter subsequent to that date.
"2. That rule /. is and should be construed
imperatively, no provision being made in said
rules for any modification thereof, and this
commandery protests against the action OF the
judges in permitting commandery to enter or
compete with less than thirty six Sir Kni hts.
IS. This commandery, having in good faith
and in every particular complied with every
rule and regulation in said circular, demand
that under rule v. the judges are imperatively
required to award the prizes to Those comman-
deries having exhibited the highest degree of
excellence in the several movements mention
ed, and in refusing to consider the proficiency
of Monroe commandery, the judges not only
acted without authority, but in hagraut viola
and governed.
'ts. That the technical ruling of the judges,
based solely upon notice attached to card
prescribing that the movements must be made
IN rotation, was unjust. arbitrary, and unau-
thorized, in that such notice was not appended
to the original printed circular and that 1t was
immaterial as affecting rule Y.
IS. The eminent commander, having noti-
fed the judges that il required to comply with
said notice he should respectfully Withdraw
said commandery from such competitive drill,
and having been permitted to drill with the
assurance that said commandery should be
duly scored in accordance with rule ", the
judges are barred from excluding them from
their full rights and just measure OF credit
under said rule.
6. The eminent commander having stated
to the judges his objection to drilling his COM
mand with card, stating that he had too
much respect for his command, for the judges,
and for the immense audience which had hon.
ored the competing commanderies with their
presence TO appear with card in his hand
from which to read his commands and upon
the assurance of said judges that he shonld be
permitted to drill his command and that they
would score him, requesting him to drill as
near as possible by the oard; he having done
so, and q score having been made, they demand
judgment under rule V, and protest in the
name of all that is Just and honorable among
ously excluded from consideration.
Most courteously, CHARLES 8. BAKER,
DANIEL T. HUNT,
d. 81. MULLER,
s. @. PIERCE,
Committee.
As the committee had not received the
formal report of the judges, the complaints
of the Rochester commandery was not dis
cussed except informally. Communications
from Damascus commandery, of st. Paul,
and Baysrd, of Saltwater, Minn., were also
read, in which the claim was made that
Reed cemmandery had drilled with less than
thirty-six men and ought not to be consider
ed a contestant. No attention was paid to
the Bayard commandery upon the ground
that the command had no standing before
| the committee by reason of the fact that it
had not complied with the rules in entering
for the composition. The committee ad-
journed shortly afterward to await the re-
ceipt Of
THE REPORT OF THE gUD GEs.
This was forthcoming at o'clock in She af-
ternoon, and was as follows:
| CHICAGO, ILL.,, Aug. I8.-Sir John Woad-
man, chairman com mpetitiYe drill commi' tee.
grand encampmen. Knights Templars-Sir:
We. the undersigned, judges appointed by the
petitive drill com mittee of the twenty rst
triennial conolave of Knights Templar at Chi
| csgo, have the honor to make the following
report:
Before the drill commenced we held a
meeting and fixed upon the following method
of scoring:
| For perfection, 10 was scored; for total fail
ure, o; for degree of excellence benween 10 and
o. The scoring was in accordance with each
degree.
We witnessed the drill of the different COM
manderies which presented themselves for com.
| petition at the Jockey Club grounds, in this
| city, and hereby award the prizes for the
highest degree of excellence exhibited by them
in the movements prescribed by the commit
tee, as follows:
"The first prize to RApier commandery, No.
1, of Indianapolis, which scored 3l3 out of q
possible350.
THE second prize to De Molay commandery,
No. IL, of Louisville, Ky.. which scored 267.
''The third pr,ze to Damascus commandery,
No. l, of st. Paul, Minn., which scored 208 2
"Reed commandery, No. 6, of Dayton, O..
appeard UPON the ground with g l as number
of Sir knights than required by rule No. OF
Il not being the duty of the judges to order
back any commandery, but simply to deter
mine as to its proficiency in the execu lion of the
prescribe movements. aud ~hilo permitted to
drill and score 256 it is by the above men,
| toned rule excluded from competition.
t'In consideration of this excellence and theil
close OBJ .ervsnce of the rules of the committee,
the judges recommend that they be awarded
an honorary prize.
s'Monroe commandery No. 10. of Rochester,