Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-02-04
A. O. q. W.
Annual Session Of the Grand Lodge Of
California-First pay.

Order of United Workmen, met at Turner
Hall at 10 A. NJ. yesterday, W. II. Jordan, G..
NJ. W., presiding. The hall has been fitted
up for the Grand Lodge by Union and Sacra-
mento Lodges, of this city. Over the Grand
Masters chair is mammoth coat of arms of
the Order, and above, twenty-foot inscrip-
ton, " Union and Sacramento Lodges to the
Grand Lodge, Welcome" Thanking these
are bannerets with tie shield and anchor en-
blazoned with the titles of the Sacramento
Lodges. Around the hall and in the panels
hang bannerets with devices representing the
emblems Of the Order also shields and scrolls
with the notices of the Order. The stage
and four official platforms are covered with
white cloth and crowned with canoples
hanked by United States flags. Throughout
the hall are banners with the coats of arms of
the various States, shields and scrolls, and
over the windows lambrequins, beneath which
are full white lace curtains From the cen
ter of the ceiling depend eight lines OF
streamers, which are caught up at various
points on the walls. The stage and gallery
fronts, and the door screens. are handsomely
dressed with parti-colored drapery. The
general effect is excellent, and converts the
dreary walls and dilapidated windows OF this,
the only large hall of the city, into something
like tit place Of assembly.
The first business of the Grand Lodge yes
terday was the appointment OF Committee
on Credentials, which, after an hours recess,
reported, and about 125 new Past Master
Workmen and representatives were admitted.
T. G. NJ. W., NJ. w. Fish and P. G. M.
Jordan comforting the Grand Lodge degrees.
tafi in ~31a Is
superior, and the body is thoroughly repre-
sentative of the very best elements of Cali
fornia society in some forty counties of the
State. The Grand Lodge was placed in
possession of the hall by the Sacramento
committee, and accepted the trust. An in
vitation to visit and meet with Sacramento
and Union Lodges last evening was accepted,
and also, in accepting the hall, an invitation
to attend social party aud literary and
musical entertainment, in honor of the Grand
Lodge Thursday evening. The Grand Lodge,
by vote, ruled that the corporate Directors
are members of the Grand body. 1t fixed
it's hours of meeting from 8 A. NJ. to II NJ,
and from 1:30 to P. NJ of each day, and at
1890 P. NJ. took recess for one hour, after
sending congratulatory dispatches to the
Grand Lodges of Iowa and Michigan, now in
session.
At the afternoon session of the Grand
Lodge the Grand Master submitted his re-
port Ia full synopsis appeared in the RECORD
UNION yesterday The report was read and
referred to the Committee on Distribution,
consisting of Representatives Barnes, Ed
wards and Reading. The reports of the
Grand Receiver and Grand Recorder were
presented, read, and had the same refer
ence.
The report of the Grand Trustees was re-
ceived and fled The report showed q thor
ough examination of the books of the officers,
and of all accounts, and that all were found
correct
The Finance Committee reported to like
effect, and that the receipts and dsburse-
ments reported by the Receiver and Recorder
were correct. The committee recommended
contingent fund OF 500, for use of the
Grand Recorder.
The Supreme Representatives filed their
report, and the same was read and fled.
The report of c.. H. Halle, Grand Receiver
shows the receipts for 1879 to have been
Sl09 $40 04, and the disbursements, S107,-
459 Al Adding the funds ON hand at the
beginning of the year, the total financial
showing represented SIP, 42S 50 on the first
of February, leaving on hand February l,
1880, s., 43S 40.
The report of the Supreme Representatives
by the Supreme body and the amendments
made to the Constitution and laws of that
body. The report was signed by M. w.
Fish and H. G.. Pratt, Supreme Representa-
tives, and covers eleven closely printed pages
Among the amendments proposed by the
Supreme Lodge to the laws of the Order and
submitted for judgment, one is reported pro-
viding that when the death-rate of any sepa-
rate or independent jurisdiction becomes so
great, by reason of epidemic or other ext
gency, as to become burdensome in the call
for assessments, such exigencY being deemed
to exist when the assessments number over
"a in one year, there shall be an assessment
of % cents per capita on all Master Work
men of all Jurisdictions such assessment to
be levied and collected as are other beneti-
ciary assessments. The fund thus created is to
be known as the relief fund, and used for the
relief of jurisdictions placed in stress as stated
But not more than two such extraordinary
assessments can be levied in one month 1t
the proposition is approved by the Grand
Lodge and becomes law in the Supreme
Lodge at the next session, then on promulga-
ton of the same by the S. Nj. W., the Su
preme Recorder is to notify the Grand Re-
corder of each Grand Lodge in the Order and
each Recorder of Subordinate Lodges under
the Supreme Lodge jurisdiction, requiring
them to issue at once a relief assessment,
which shall be held in the Subordinate Lodges
subject to the call of the S. NJ. w. and FL
nance Committee.
The report of the Grand Recorder H. G.
Pratt, gives the gain of Lodges for the year
as SO total Lodges, 100; membership, 5000
Ia gain of .4,500) deaths, AZ; assessments
levied. A. OF the yellow fever relief fund
for the Supreme Lodge there was collected
"a, 931 &c. His financial showings agree with
those of the Grand Receiver. Out of the
beneficiary fund there was paid the sum of
$50, 000 The general fundreceived SIS, 291 rs,
and had at the beginning of the year 81 ,052 q
on hand. The liabilities of the Grand Lodge
are 1904 So and the assets 81, 361 fl.
The Corporate Trustees submitted report
of the transactions OF the Board, which en-
braced a sketch of the organization of the
body and statement of the supervision 1t
had exercised over the property and affairs of
! the Grand Lodge.
The Lodge ordered that all resolutions sub
mitted be referred for examination and &C.
ton to committee of seven, and that all
resolutions be submitted in duplicate. The
appointment of the committee brought out a
vigorous debate, leading to vacation of the
appointments by consent, and the Grand
Master given until 10 A. N. to-day to name
the committee anew.
A resolution was offered by Mr.. Edwards,
locating the office of the Grand Recorder in
San Francisco
The Grand Lodge ordered committee of
five on Amendments to the Constitution, to
which shall be referred all amendments pro-
| posed.
An amendment was proposed to the Grand
! Lodge laws looking to the reduction of the
representation, so that the Grand Lodge
shall be composed of but one elected repre-
sentative from each Subordinate Lodge. Also,
an amendment providing for the semi annual
issuance Of blank forms for reports, etc, to
Recorders of Lodges Also, a resolution ex-
pressing it as the sense Of the Grand
| Lodge that the three degrees should be
consolidated into one, and instructing
Supreme Representatives to work for such
! an accomplishment. Also, an amendment
/ TO the laws of Subordinates, providing for
/ Lodge elections on the meeting subsequent to
the regular meeting, when the latter falls on
| legal holiday Also, providing that for de-
grees conferred on those over 80 years of age
an additional fee be charged, as the Subordi-
nate Lodge may determine. Also, to fix the
term of Office in Subordinates at one year.
! Also. petition to grant Lodge No 81 the
riebt To meet but fortniehtlv. All these were