Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-18
THE GRAND LODGE.
An Amendment Proposed 10 the COnsli'
tutiOn-kffort TO Change the
Time Of Meeting.
Fun Ltst OF the District Deputy Grand Mas
ters Appointed as well as subordin-
nte Grand Oncers.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
HousToN, Tx, Dec. 1.-THE grand
lodge resumed its labors this morning at
10 O'Clock. The principal business was
the hearing of committee reports on the
various branches at work.
The finance committee reported on
abolishing the lodge of sorrow. Minor
ity and majority reports were submitted,
and the proposition was debated at
great length and with much
feeling. Many able speeches were
made some OF them by the prominent and
most learned members OF the order. Final
action was In favor OF the majority report,
resolution providing r the holding OF q
lodge OF sorrow by the grand lodge at
each annual communication.
The several committees on grievances
and appeals submitted their reports,
which brought out heated debates On q
number Of questions involving nice con-
stitutional points.
The committee on Masonic iurispru-
dence reported in regard to the resolu.
lions providing for a change In the con-
stiiution in regard to the election of the
committee on work, and submitted the
following as an amendment to the consti-
| tuition: "That the committee be re-
elected every i've years, the first commit
tee to be apportloned into members of
one, two, three, four and five years.
standing, thus necessitating the election
of one member every year and making the
existence OF the committee perpetual
under the resolution ~
A resolution introduced by Col. Slmp-
kins Of COrsicana tn change the mode OF
disseminating work by organizing schools
of instruction throughout the state was
tabled, and the old motion requiring
subordinate lodges to send delegates so
that they would arrive here ten days in
stead OF one week before tie meeting of
the grand lodge was entertained
Upon recommendation of the COM
mittee ON lodges, charters were
granted 10 fifteen new lodges which had
been working under dispensatiohs of the
grand master. Several other lodges
we're continued under dispensation 10
the next meeting of the grand lodge.
BY resolution dispensation was form
ed for the convenience OF the coast
counties of Chambers, Jefferson, Liberty
and Orange.
The afternoon session was taken up
mostly with the installation of the grand
! & fllsers. Several committees also made
tn 4ir reports but here was not much OF
public interest contained in them.
A motion was made to change the
time of meeting of the grand
lodge from December to May
1t was laid over for final action till the
next annual meeting. There was consid-
cradle discussion on the motion to change
the time OF meeting, there being very
strong feeling against the change by the
farming element which was very numer.
Gus In the lodge.
The grand officers were duly installed
and the following appointment OF district
deputy grand masters was announced
C. w Preston, Galveston, First district
Rufus Price, San Augustine, second; j ii
Taylor Marshall, third; Morris, At
lanta, fourth; ID. II. Fowler, pullman fifth
John Watson, Clarksvllle, sixth; Gus
Garrison, Sulphur Springs, seventh; j
p, Blount, Canton, eighth; j. W. Som
mers, Rusk, ninth; j. j. Cannon, Mos
COW, tenth; w. Leslie, Willis, eleventh
! T. IT, Lubbock, Houston, twelfth
NJ, B. Stoddard, BRYAN, thirteenth
j d. Lillard, Fairfield, fourteenth; w
W. Honeycut, NJ irshall, fifteenth; j. S
Miller, Athens, SIXTEENTH John l. Ter
rell, Terrell, Seventeenth; -, WaXa
hachle. eighteenth; j. ID Keston, Dallas
nineteenth; G. II. Wysong, Melissa
twentieth; II. T. Tuck, Sherman, twenty
first; w. II. Wilson, Fortburg, twenty
second; A. G. McClung, Fort Worth
twenty-third; j Ii. Walling, Whitney
twenty fourth; Frank Steiner, Waco
twenty fifth; A. G. Isascs, Rlckdale,
twenty-sixth; A. &. Murray, Caldwell
twenty-seventh; French Simpson
Columbus, twenty eighth; j, b.
Robertson, Goliad, twenty ninth
b. Il Alternately, Gonzales, thlrtieth; T
B Giles, Manorth City, thirty irst; j Il
Pritchard, San Nj lrcos, thirty-second; w
} II. Smith, Pleasanton, thirty third; Nor
ton Moses, Strickland, thlrty.fourth; "
II, Browning, Lsmpasas, thirty fifth; N
Frank, evansville, thirty-sixth; A Leach
} Weatherford, thirty'seventh; G Fin
ley, Graham, thirty eighth; j. N, Brown
Ing, Mobeetie, thirty-ninth; j G. keenan,
Seymour, fortieth; w. ID. Il. Mcconnell
Brentwood, forty-frsti c. X Strib
ling, Fort Griffin, Forty-secopdi
j, N. p. Cramer, San Angelo
forty third; j A. Elder, Aurora, forty.
fourth; X G Lightbody, El Psso, forty.
fifth; David Duole; Mason, forty-sixth
John W. Shear, Blsnco, torty-seventh
j, l.. Burden, Pearsail, forty.eigh,h; A
s Foster, Laredo, forty-nlnth; William
Kelly, Brownsville flftieth; JEFF Chaison,
Beaumont, hfty-hrst; j. T.. Martin,
Brochet, fifty second; also The following
appointments were made; Il. b. Miller
grand chaplain; w. X. Holman, grand
orator; Robert Burns, grand marshal; r
G Chlldress, grand senior deacon; IL @
Pritchett, Huntsville. grand junior deacon
j. b Mansfield, Eagle Lake, grand pur-
sueyanti s. Conrad, grand tller The
lodge fiulsneo its work about O'Clock
and closed permsnently. Many mem
bers retained TO their homes to-