The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-22
SOVEREIGN GRAND LODGE l. o. 0. F.
Election of officers for the Ensuing Year-The
Next Meeting To Be Held in Denver.

BOSTON, Sept 2I-In the Sovereign Grand
Lodge of Odd-fellows, to-day, Representative
Underwood of Kentucky, from the committee
| on Patriarchs Militant Degree presented AN
exhaustive report, which was referred to the
| finance committee.
Representative Handle, of Missouri on behalf
OF his jurisdiction, invited the Sovereign
Grand Lodge to hold the session of 1888 in st.
Louis.
Representative Wilkinson, of Missouri, ad
dressed the Grand Lodge on the subject, when
the invitation was referred to the next session of
the Grand Lodge
The hour for the special order having arrived.
the Grand Lodge elected the following officers
for the next two years.
Grand sire. John H. White, New York deputy
grand SIRE j. G. Underwood, Kentucky; grand
secretary, T. A. Ross, New Jersey; grand treas
urer, A. Shepard, Pennsylvania,
The jurisdiction was called and large amount
of business was presented and referred to the
several standing committees.
A resolution was offered to permit the State
grand instructors to be present at this session to
inspect the secret journal After considerable
| discussion the matter referred to the COM
mttee on state of the order.
Representative Gibson, of Colorado, presented
an invitation to the Grand Lodge to hold the
session of 1887 in Denver, and the invitation
| was accepted.
| Constitutional amendments were then taken
| up. An amendment to Article l, Section 4. ON
| the matter of appeals to the Sovereign Grand
| Lodge, the decision appealed to stand until re-
| versed by the Sovereign Grand Lodge, and Civ
| ing every member of the lodge the right to ap-
] peal. was lost. An amendment to Article IL
| by striking out the word annual and inserting
| the word biennial" so that the Grand Lodge
shall meet biennially, was indefinitely postponed.
| An amendment to admit young eighteen
years of to age the order and leaving the question
| of age to local legislation in Australia, New
| Zealand, and other countries, not
the continent Of North America,
| was lost by a vote Of 81 to H. An amendment
| providing for the reduction of representation
! was indefinitely postponed. An amendment Civ
ing State grand bodies the power to construe the
| intent and meaning of the laws adopted by them
| for the government OF their subordinates, and
| providing that their decision shall be final and
conclusive, was indefinitely postponed An
| amendment leaving qualification as to age and
color to local legislation also Indefinitely post
| poned. committee was appointed to take into
consideration the change in the visiting cards of
Bay City Lodge. D. of r., of Michigan, and
| Martha Washington Lodge. d. of R., of Boston.
reunion Of past grand representatives to the
| Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd-felows was held
this evening in fremont Temple. The officers
| of the Sovereign Grand Lodge were present
| as guests. The evening was spent in social
intercourse, only few entirely informal speeches
being made.
| Using fine day for to Inorrow's parade. The ar
| rangements nearly completed, and the indi-
cations that fully 900 Odd-felloWs will be
| in line