Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-09-24

Palestine No. l, Palestine. Missouri.
Oriental No. So, Kansas City.
Grand Commandery of New York.
Grand Commandery of Connecticut.
Cyrene No. =, Sioux Falls, Iowa.
Grand Commandery of Tennessee.
La Nalette No. Is, Nashville, Ten
neSsee.
Columbia No. >, Columbia, South Caro-
lima.
The Grand Commandery of Kansas
City.
Leavenworth No. l, of Leavenworth,
Kansas.
Caprous No. >, Vinita, Iowa.
Wisconsin No. l, Milwaukee,
TT. Wayne No. l, Ft. Wayne, Indiana.
Huge De Payne No. %, Carrollton,
Illinois.
Grand Commandery of Colorado.
Colorado, No. /, of Denver.
Pontiac, No. >, Charlotte, No. :, of
Michigan.
Coruna, No. l, of South Bend, Indiana
Peninsula, No. s, of kalamazoo. Mich
igan.
Jackson (mounted), of Jackson, Mich
igan.
St. Louis club, of Philadelphia, Penn
sylvania.
Maysville, No. l, of Maysville, Ken
lucky.
San Jose, No. l, of San Jcse, Califor-
MIA.
st. John, No. l, of Centerville, Iowa.
st. John, No. l, of st. Joseph, Missouri.
Peoria, of Beardstown, Illinois.
Chicago, No. 10, of Chicago.
Mary, Philadelphia.
Oakland No. l, of Oakland, Cal.
Mount of Holy Cross, LeadviIle, Col.
Golden Gate, San Francisco, Cal.
Terre Haute No. l, Terre Haute, Ind.
Nebraska Grand Commandery.
Mount Nebraska No. II, Hastings, Neb.
Mount Olive No. ,, Nebraska City, Neb.
Mount Calvary No, l, Omaha, Neb.
Mount Hebron No. ,, Kearney, Neb.
Mount Tabor No. ., fremont, Neb.
Herman No. I, Beatrice, Neb.
Mount Zion No. >, Plattsmouth, Neb.
st. Bernard, Independence, Kas.
Aurora, Aurora, Ills.
Ellwood, Springfield, Missouri.
Lebanon, No. 10, Lebanon, Missouri.
Columbia, Washington.
New York State Battalion.
Demalay, Reeding, Philadelphia.
Parsifal, Paris, Missouri.
Molta, Ottumwa, Iowa.
Temple, No. 4. DesmOineS, Iowa.
Grand COmmandery of Iowa.
Cincinnati No ;, Cincinnati.
Coleman No. I, Troy, New York.
New Carlisle, Pleasant Hill, Missouri.
Hanslemann No. 16, Cincinnati.
Oriental, Kansas City, Missouri.
Anderson No. /, Anderson, Indiana.
Damascus, Keokuk, Iowa.
Richmond, Richmond, Virginia.
Detroit. No l. Detroit Michipgn
Washington, Washington, ID. c.
Atpleston, Danville, Illinois.
Palestine, Paris, Illinois.
St. Bernard, No. Is, East Saginaw, Mich
igan.
On an eastern special came
BODY OF KNIGHTS
distinguished by being selected as a
special escort of Grand Master Robert L
Withers. These were the Richmond com
mandry No. =, and Columbia. No. l, of
Richmond, Virginia. Under the Rich
mond banner was gathered the grand
commandry swelling the number to
sixty. With the Virginia commandry
came the Washington, d. c., knights,
who, in turn, acted as an escort of the
Virginia escort. In the Washington re
presentation were Washington, No. l, and
Demolay, mounted. In honor of their
relation to the grand master they were
accorded more than the usual welcome
One of
THE CHIEF SUBJECTS,
if not the main one for discussion an q de
termination at the meeting of the grand
encampment is the question of amending
the organic law of the order with re
gard to the powers and privileges of the
grand encampment. A meeting of
members of the grand encampmen has
been called for tomorrow at the Nebraska
headq uarters to decide what course the
opponents of the proposed changes shall
pursue. The call is addressed to all the
members of the grand encampment who
oppose its emasculation and the object set
forth is to devise ways and means to give
effec tive expression to the desire for re-
form if reform be needed, within our
order as now constituted and 10 defeat
the existing effort to weaken our general
| governing body thereby destroying its
| efficiency.
| A circular letter accompanying the call
| sets forth the matter in controversy. II
! quotes from the proceedings of the Grand
| Commandery of Nebraska, which ap.
! pointed a special detail of five in May of
! this year to prepare report on the
! proposition for changes made by the
Grand Commandery of Pennsylvania,
| and being adopted as the views of the
Iowa Grand COmmandery were formu
lated by the latter body in
FIVE RESOLUTIONS,
as follows:
ResoIred, That the grand encampm en-
of Knights Templar of the United States
| abandon the system of centralized ant
exclusive power which it now maintain:
and return to the general system devisfS
by its founders.
Resoired, That its constitution ane
code be revised and so simplitied as .,
include general principles only, leavis s
the grand Communicates the power, which
of right belongs to them, to legislat'
upon all matters of detail.
ResoIred, That the sovereign power b
| recognized as vested in the grand com
msnderies, and such general power onI,
in grand encampment as may be expresslJ
delegated to it.
ResoIred, That under the general legis
lation of the grand encsmpment, juris
dictiOn be vested on the grand com
manderies over the subjects of uniform
ritual and membership.
ReSoIred, That in order that the grand
emcampment may in peace and quietnes:
provide legislation necessary TO carr!
out the foregoing changes, it Is in dut!
bound TO positively prohibit all parade
nd entertainments at the time and
place, when and where its conclaves shall
be held.
The Nebraska commander as stately by
one of its members took mp the fghi
against this proposed change simply be
cause no other commandery saw fit to take
the initiative.
The question involved seems TO b'
what Is known in politics as the estates
rights" problem, and according to one
Of the Nebraska opponents of the pro
posed changes, the knights, speaking
in general terms, are divided on abou
the same geographical lines as thos'
/ which have heretofore marked the domi
nance of political parties upholdine
Estate rights" and @centralization" re
spectiyely-
Three Men Drowned.
UTICA Sept 20-By the czpsizing of
rovboat on the lake at Cazenoyia to-nighi
three men we're drowned and the fourfl