The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-10-25
THE ODD FELLOWS,
sEooNo oAY OF THE GRAND tooas.
n. rto.,,ain.. Or Y..t.isa,,a session Ii Dstall
Proposed Amendments Conssrnins SabordI.
nate Lodges Klllsd-l Neat prssenta.
iisa : onlstrs Nominated, Ete.

The West VirginiR Grand Lodgel. I. =.
met yesterday forenoon at 0 O'Clock in &C
cosdauce with the resolution adopted on
Tuesday. All the officers were in their
places, and the meeting wss opened with
due form.
The morning was principally taken up
with receiving and adopting the reports OF
committees.
At 10 o'clock a. N. the amendments pro-
posed TO the constitution for the government
of subordinate lodges were trken mp; the
consideration OF which wal, on moton Of
W. FL. Hunt.r, z. G, indefinitely postponed.
The Grand Lodge. through tho Grand
Master, presented Past Grand W. E. Ander'
son, OF Harper,s Ferry, a handsome silver
water pitcher, a. 4 small token OF the appre.
citation In which Fast Grand Andeis IN Is shield
By the members yf the Grand Lodge.
Mr.. Anderson, in response To the very APP
propriAte remarks of the 6rand Master, made
5 very feeling speech.
L. L. Carr offered the following resolution
which prevailed:
ResOtved, That annually al alphabetical
list of the members Of each subordinate lodge
Of this juristiction be printed In nonparetl
typein the journal of this Grand Lodge.
NOMINATION. or eRFtceEs.
This being the day for the nomination o.
officers for the ensuing year, the following
nominations were made:
For Grand Master, Past Grand Master OIL
J. Ellifritz nominated D. G. Master a. i
Lang.
Past Grand, nominated Grand Warden o. q
Mckinney.
For Grand Warden the following Pas
Grauds were put in nomination: VIM. Ell
ingham, James Youell, @. Shriver, W. I
| Wallace, q. 2. Snyder and VIM. II. Shieb.
For Grand Secretary: Grand Secretary L
A. Billingslea, and Past Grand Lewis saltei
bach, w. w. Campbell and Robert Alex
ander were nominated.
For Grand Treasurer: Grand Treasurer 81
Stamon and Pes. Grand Nm. E. Anderson
were nominated.
For Grand Representative: Grand Maste
Gano, Past GRAD Mastels Ellifritz ant
Brown and Past Grand Uthmaa were nomi
mated.
r. s. Browr, P. G. N. @. P. Snyder. P. G.
and Il. A. Uthman, P. e., were permitted Il
decline to be candidates for the offices TO
which they were respectively announced.
This morning at 10 o'clock was fixed IS tn
time for the election OF officers.
AMENDING Il CONSTITUTION
Clarence L. Smith, P, c., proposed the fol
lowing amendment u the Constitution:
THAT the following be added to Article 4.
Of the Constitution for the government O
subordinate LODGES:
"Provided further, That nothing in thil
article shall be so constructed Us to prohibit
any lodge paying benefits from the date o
sickness, shoulda mtjority OF tue member
present by vote 80 ordsr."
This was referred to the Committee on TIT
State Of the Order, which after due consideia
tion reported the aaid amendment back WITT
the recommendation Hat 1t be adopted. o.
vote the report Of the committee was ac
copied.
Past Grand Mas'e Edwards submitted az
appeal from Mound City Lodge No. ID
which was referred to the COMMITTEES on Ap
peals, which commi tee after due considefa
tioa reported that said appeal should be snh'
tanned. On vote the report OF the COMMITTEES
was adopted.
Ca motion of 7. W. Fleming. P. G.. NJ, the
vote by which Thursday at 2 O'clock !. N
was set apart Tor the exempliication Of the
unwritten work Of the order, wEs reconsider,
ed, and yesterday at 8 O'Clock +. N. was fixed
as the tins at which the lodge would go IN 9
secret session, at which time the lodge went
into secret session.
After some time the lodge receded from
secret session.
Amendments to the bylaws Of Lsbanon
Lodge No. SO were submitted and referred t.
the Committee on Bylaw. .
The Grand Lodge then adjourned. until
this morning.