Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-22
ALL AROUND the WORLD.

The Knights Templar at st. Louis
The New Silver Certificates
PleurO Pneumonia.
COMaANDERIEs AT ST. LOUIS.
A List of Sir Knights Having High Po-
sition In the Order.
ST. LOUIS, September 2O.-Among those
arrived are: Grand Commandery OF Colo
RADIO, No. 1, Denver; Pontiac, No. 2, and
Charlotte, No. Z, OF Michigan; Caruna, No
L, South Bend, Ind; Jackson, unmounted,
Jackson, Mich; California, No. l, San
Francisco; Detroit. No. 1, Detroit; St.
Louis Club. OF Philadelphia; Maysville, No.
l, of Maysville, KY; San Jose, No: -,
San Jose, Cal; No. 10, Chicago; Oakland,
No. l, of Oakland, CAL; Mount OF Holy
Cross, Leadville, Col; Golden Gate, San
Francisco, CAL; Terre Haute, No. l, Terre
Haute, Ind; Nebraska Grand Command
cry. Mount Nebraska, No. /, Hastings,
Neb.; Mount Olive, No. 2, Nebraska City,
Neb.; Mount Calvary No. 1, Omaha. Neb.
Mt. Hebron, No. 1, Kearney, Neb.; Mt.
Tabor, No. ., Fremont, Neb., and Mt. Her
man, No. z. Beatrice, Neb.
Ga the Eastern special came a body OF
knights distinguished as being selected as
the special escort of Grand Master r. e.
Withers. These were the Richmond Com
mandery and Columbia No. 1, OF Rich
mond, Virginia. Under the Richmond ban
ner was gathered the Grand Commandery,
swelling the number to so.
The following members OF the Grand En-
campment are in the city: Grand Hatter
Withers. Deputy Grand Master Roome,
Grand Captain-General McCurdy, Grand
Senior Warden Thomas, Grand Treasurer
Slmons, Grand Recorder Parvin. Grand
Prslate Belts, Grand Sword Bearer Par
sons, Grand Captain OF the Guard Smith,
Past Grand Master Palmer, Deputy Grand
Commander Glidden, Deputy Generalissimo
Col Card, Past Grand Commander Roy OF
Dakota, Past Grand Commander Dustin
OF Illinois, Past Grand Communicable
Grew, Deputy Buck, Past Grand Com
manders Gould, Brown, Anderson,
Hanna. Byington, Callahan, Waters,
Dewitt and Langdon, OF Kansas.
Grand Commander Lyle, Captain-G General
Montgomery and Past Grand Commanders
Bostwick and Shirley, OF Kentucky: Past
Grand Commander Panway, OF Maryland;
Grand Commander Burnham, Deputy
Chaplain. Generalissim Allen and Captain
General Freeman, OF Massachusetts and
Rhode Island; .. r. Spaulding, Past Grand
OF Michigan; Grand Comman-
der Stanley, Deputy Lytle and Captain
Henly, Deputy Mosby, Genera lissimo Will
son, Captain General Smith, Past Grand
Arken Foster, Haller and
Micklyn, of Tennessee; Grand Commander
Davis, Generalissimo Clone, Captain-Gen-
eral Mattari, Past Grand Commanders Rex
and Parnell, OF West Virginia; Captain
General Stevens OF New Mexico. Several
proxies are registered for other grand
officers.
SUBJECT OF DISCUSSION.
ST. Louls, September 2O.-Ore OF the
chief subjects, il not the main one for dis.
cussion 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 privileges OF
the Grand Enca mpment. A meeting OF the
OF the Grand Encampment has
been called for tomorrow afternoon at the
Nebraska Headquarters, to decide what
course the opponents OF the proposed
changes shall pursue. The call is addressed
to all members Of the Grand Encampment
who oppose it's emasculation and object.
and to devise ways and means to give ef-
fective expression to the desire for reform
(if reform is needed) within our order as
now constituted, and to defeat the exist
ing effort to weaken our general governing
body. thereby destroying it's efficiency.
A circular letter accompanies it and sets
forth thu matter in controversy. 1t quotes
from the proceedings Of the Grand Com
ma ndery OF Nebraska, which appointed
special detail OF five in May, this year, to
prepare a report on the proposition for
the changes made by the Grand Command
cry of Pennsylvania and being adopted.
AS to the views OF the Iowa Grand Com
mandery they were formulated by the lat
ter body in five resolutions, as follows:
Resolved, That the Grand Encampment
of Knights Templar OF the United States,
abandon the system OF centralized and ex.
elusive power which it now maintains and
returns to the general system devised by
its founders.
Resolved, That its constitution and code
be revised and so simplified as to include
general principles, only leaving to the
Grand Commanders a power, which OF
right belongs to them, to legislate upon all
matters OF det all.
Resolved, That the sovereign power be
recognized as valid in the Grand Com
manderies, and that such general powers
only in the Grand Encampment jurisdic-
ton be vested in the Grind Communicates
over subjects OF uniform, ritual and MEM
bership.
Resolved, That in order that the Grand
Encampment may be in peace and quiet.
ness, provide the legislation necessary to
carry out the foregoing changes, it is in
duty bound to positively prohibit all pa
rades and entertainments at time and
place when and where it's conclaves shall
be held.
The Nebraska Commandery, assisted by
one OF its members, took up the fight
against this proposed change, because no
other Commandery would take the initia-
tive. The question seems to be what is
known in politics as the States rights
problem according to one OF the Nebraska
opponents OF the proposed changes.
Knights, speaking in general terms, are di-
vided on about the same geographical lines
as those which have heretofore marked the
dominance OF the political parties uphold
ing Estates rights and "centralization'
respectively. The circular issued by the
Nebraska Commandery takes very strong
ground against the proposed changes
claiming that thus adopting them would
accomplish the eventual disintegration o.
the Grand EncampmeLt
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