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the California delegation, is quite i'll. Wher
| he left China six weeks ago he was in bar
health, and nothing could be done on shin
board to relieve him. He has been almos,
constantly travelling for six weeks, and i.
very much exhausted. Deputy Crane
RoOme, of New York, arrived this morning
The following communicates are among
those which have arrived: Topeka No, Is
Topeka, Kan; Askelon, Salina. Kan; Great
Bend, KAN; Demolay, Lawrence, Kan: As.
censlon, Joplin, Mo-; Cameron, Mo-; Kan
sas City No. 10, No.; Kadish, St. Joe, Mo.
Mount Olive, Wichita, Kan; Palestine No,
|, Palestine, Mo-: Oriental No. 81, Kansas
City, Mo-; grand commandery of New York
grand commandery of Tennessee: grand
commandery of Kansas; Leavenworth No.
| l, han; grand commandery of Colorado:
st. Joe No. l, st. Joe, Mo-; st. Bernard In
dependence, Kan; Aurora, of Aurora, Ill.
EllwcOd of Springfield, Mo-; Lebanon No.
10, Lebanon, Mo- New York state battalion:
Parsifal. Paris, No.; grand commandery of
Iowa; Pleasant Hill, Mo Oriental, Kansas
City, Mo.
One of the chief subjects, if not the main
one for discussion and determination at the
meeting of the grand encampment, is the
question of amending the organic law of the
order with regard to the powers and prlvi-
leges of the grand encampment. A meeting
OF the members of the grand encampment
has been called for tomorrow afternoon, at
the Nebraska headquarters, to decide what
course the opponents of the proposed change
shall pursue. A circular letter occupying
this CALL sets fourth the matter in contro-
versy. 1t quotes from the proceedings of the
rand commandery of Nebraska, which ap-
pointed special committee of five, in May,
of this year, to prepare report on the prop
osltlons for changes made by the grand
commandery of Pennsylvania, and being
adopted as the views of the Iowa grand COM
mandery, were formulated by the latter
body in five resolutions, as follows:
RESOLVED, That the grand encampment
Knights Templar of the United States aban-
don the system of centralized and exclusive
power which it now maintains, and return
to the general system devised by its foun-
ders.
ReSOlred, That its constitution and code
be revised and so simplified as to include
general principles only, leaving to the grand
communicates the power which of right be-
longs to them to legislate upon matters of
detail.
Resolred, That the sovereign powers be
recognized as vested in the grand comman-
derry, and such general powers only in the
grand encampment as may be expressly
delegated to it.
ReSOlred, That under the general legisla-
ton of the grand encampment, jurisdiction
be vested in the grand Communicates over
the subjects of uniform, ritual and member
ship.
ReSoIred, That in order that the grand en-
campment may In peace and quietness pro-
vide the legislation necessary to carry out
the foregoing changes, it is in duty bound to
positively prohibit all parades and enter
tainments at the time and place where its
COnclave shall be held.
The question involved seems to be what is
known in poll .cs as the Estates rights"
problem. The has circular issued by the Ne
braska commandery taken very strong
ing that their adoption would accomplish
the eventual ACKNOWLEDGMENT Of the grand
encamFment.