Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-22
FREE MASONRY.
The Annual Meeting of the Grand Lodge of COnnecticut-The Grand Masters Address-The Continued Prosperity of the Order-ReVteW of Wear.

necticut opened yesterday morning at Il o'clock in Masonic Temple, this city, corner of Chapel and Union streets. There was large attendance, about 300 brethren being present, including members from every sec tion of the State. The session will conclude to-day Grand Master Waugh, of Stamford,
 presided. His address, after appropriate ac-
 knowledgments of Gods mercy and prov1- dence, congratulated the young men present now sharing the labor with the old workers, gray in the service in the duties of Masons He bespoke spirit of fraternal love and kindness over the doings of the session. lie then spoke of the appointments made year ago of district deputy grand masters and | their acceptance of their respective offices. l These were: Isaiah Baker, jr., for Hartford ! county, Hugh Stirling for Fairfield county, A. E. Blakesfee for Litchfield county, Q. T. l Mckenzie for New London county, A. H. West for Middlesex county and B. H. Wells for Holland county. Worshipful Brother Baker has visited eighteen of the twenty-four lodges in his district, namely: Nos. 14, 2O, 25 33, 36, 56, 59, 62, S6, 9S, 94, e9, 1Ol, 109, IA and 11S and reports general improve ment in the work as com pared with the year l previous. He finds that some of the lodges 1 in his district do not comply with Grand l lodge by law 24, which requires the master l of every lodge to present each brother, when | he has received the third degree, with CODY of the constitution and bylaws of the 1 Grand lodge. Amount expended for chari- 1 ty, s1,013.
 The address recounted the granting ot
 dispensation for a new lodge, Northern Star, U. D., in New Hartford, and the appoint
 ment of ''Bretber t Nelson Brown to be its
 worshipful master, Brother George A. Spen-
 cer to be senior warden, and Brother Frank A. Case to be junior warden. The dispensa-
 tion will be returned to-day and charter l applied for; and as, from all can learn,
 they have been highly prosperous and sue
 cessful while under dispensetitn, fecoth- mend that charter be granted"
 The address then recounted the noble ac-
 tion of the Masonic body in this State in be-
 half of the Ohio sufferers. "The sum of 51, ,472 34 was in short time tai5ed. lii the
 meantime the whole country had been fully
 aroused, and liberal relief from all sections
 had so far forestalled our action that the
 grand secretary of Ohio telegraphed
 Brother Wheeler that h6 futthet aid was needed, and the money was l subsequently, returned to the lodges contribu-
 ting. Although, as events proved, the
 money was not required, I am glad the oc-
 casion offered to show that the Masons of
 Connecticut are ever ready, as they have
 been in times past, to respond to every ap-
 peal to Masonic charity"
 The grand master then speaking of the Ma
 sonic Veteran association's annual reurion at
 Norwich, which hs attended, eloquently said' "No one feature of our beloved order, it seems to me, should commend itself more
 fully to the sympathy and support of the
 whole body of the craft of Connecticut than
 this. If we can do aught to smooth the path
 way of these aged brethren, and to many of
 whom it's rays just pause foT a moment be-
 fore they slnk below the western horizon these aged brethren to whom the evil days
 have indeed come, and the grasshopper has
 indeed become burden, then should we
 most gladly embrace the opportunity. I
 most cordially recot1mend the usual ap- propriation toward the publication of their ! proceedings"
 The address then detailed the dedication | of Daskam IOuge u'tl1 1VauDrtU t1ro stt1I | of September last-a m st pleasant and inter esting occasion-and congratulated Worthy 1 Brother Rogue and the brethren of Daskam | lodge on the very successful completion of ! the undertaking. The address further said ! as follows:
 MASONIC LAW.
 l AS usual during the year various points of l Masonic law have come before the grand mas 1 ter for his official decision. Most of them 1 were questions already settled by our excel lent code of Masonic jurisprudence, or have been the subject of decisions by previous grand masters, and l have not deemed it nec- essary to occupy the time of the Grand lodge with their recapitulation. To those questions I which I have not found heretofore decided, and upon which 1 have been called to render | judgment. 1 here present the answers given: The officers of lodge U. D. cannot be in stalled.
 A lodge U. D. can use money received as fee from candidates only for it's current penses, or other purposes strictly Masonic. A lodge U. D. cannot appear i'll public, ex- cept 70 bury brother, and then only by per
 mission of the grand master.
 lodge U. D. cannot grant demits. Charges against brother, after having
 been received and referred to a committee, cannot be withdrawn without the consent of the lodge.
 Masonic residence being identical with legal residence, a person removing from town within the jurisdiction of one lodge, into a town within the jurisdiction of anoth- CT lodge, with the intention of there remain ing, loses his Masonic and legal residence in the town from which he removes and cannot become candidate for Masonry until he has lived in the town to which he removes the time prescribed by Masonic law.
 My attention has in several instances been l called to the matter of lodge bylaws, and l have found in those of some of the lodges | which 1 have examined great many need l less, not to say extraordinary, provisions. 1 Some contain bylaws and permanent resolu- | tions of the Grand lodge, which the 'subordi- nate lodges have seemed to think it necessa- " to re-enact Others have incorporated | decisions of grand masters on points of Masonic law and others encum- bered with long rules of order in violation of that fundamental principle of Masonic law which makes it the prerogative of the mas ter to determine all questions of order and the order of business in his lodge. This subject wGs called to the attention of the Grand lodge by my predecessor two years ago, and while I am not prepared to recommend any legislation at this time, would most earnest ly recommend that simple form of bylaws laid down in our Masonic law and practice, which it seems to is all that the great majority of our lodges can possibly need.
 MUSTER ROLL OF THE DEAD.
 The muster roll of the dead, that constant of our own mortality, is not so lengthy as in some preceding years. Among the names of those who have gone to 'tthe l land where our fathers have gone before us' is the name of Brother Roswell Hoyt, wor- shipful master of Union lodge No. 5 in the years 1882, 1888, 1884, and who died on the seventeenth day of May at the ripe age of S2 years. It my good for tune to be closely associated with Brother Hoyt, and I wish to place record my per soEal testimony to the sterling worth of this venerable brother, member of that little band who so manfully breasted that storm of fanaticism and persecution which swept | over the Masonic world before most of us now living had opened our eyes to Masonic light In Southington, died the 10th of October, Brother Oswald K. Newton, aged | 7S. At the restoration of the charter of lodge No. 33, in 1851, he was in- stalled it's senior warden, and in 1853 was elected it's worshipful master. His admins : ration of that office was highly prosperous md successful, and throughout his long life le was noted for his zeal and ardent love for | he order. ,
 GRAND SECRETARY wHEELER's REPORT. i
 The report of the grand secretary, J. K. z Wheeler of Hartford, shows that the contri- buttons for the Masonic Charity Foundation |