Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-03
KNIGHTS OFTHE NEW AGP
RICHMOND READY FOR THE
BIG CONVENTION,

Grand Master Workman Powd,rlv
Other Prominent Officers of the Ora
Already in the City-DeleRations fros,
the Assemblies Begin to Pour In
Changes in the Laws.
RICHMOND, VA, Oct. 2.-The apnro.os
ing meeting of the National Assembly .,
the Knights of Labor has been one OF tha
absorbing topics of interest here for son,o
days. Already many Knights have ar,
rived, including delegations from Neu
Orleans, Kansas City, St. LOUIS, Trcv
N. Y. Amsterdam, n. Y, Cohoes L.
banon, Pa, Blossburg, Pa, and Brood
lyn. Each incoming train brings new Ar.
cessions and it is expected that bv
Monday morning all the delegations will
have arrived. All the hotels will be fllod
and many OF the delegates will have nri-
vate quarters. The sessions of the al.
sembly will be held in the drill hall of
the First Virginia Regiment, the larges,
hall In the city, which is now being ar
ranged for the purpose.
AMPLE ACCOMMODATIONS,
There will be accommodations for seat
ing about 1000. although the convention
VIII bOb huhlOSI IuOIS IMAM I,UuU TO l. NM
Grand Master Workman Powderlv az
rived here tonight. His headuuarteT.
will be at Ford's Hotel. Grand SecretarV
Turner arrived yesterday and has since
been actively engaged in preparing for
the work of the assembly. Tbs
assembly will hold an open ses.
sion Monday. when Gov. Lee viii
formally welcome the Knights, ana Grand
Master Workman POwderly will respond
and deliver his annual address. The snh.
sequent sessions OF the assembly will he
secret, but the press will be furnished
with good accounto OF all important bust,
ness done which it is desired to make
public.
LEAVING PHILADELPHIA.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 2.-Grand Maste,
Workman Powderly and Messrs. Barry
Hayes and Bailey. OF the General Exeou
tive Board of the knights, LETT this cit,
at 1880 o'clock this morning for Rich
mond, Va, to attend the General Assembly
OF the Knights, which VIII convene IN
that city on Monday next. General Sec
rotary and Treasurer Turner left FOL
Richmond last evening.
CHANGES IN THE LAWS.
CHICAGO, Oct. 1.-The final detachment
of delegates to the Richmond convention
of the Knights of Labor, numbering 80
lett to-day. Of these Minnesota furnished
Is, Wisconsin %, Iowa and Illinois the
remainder. The sentiment among the
delegates who arrived last night was thai
the present system OF the government In
the order will be materially altered. Ii
is believed that the districts will either be
done away with or subordnated in large
degree to State assemblies. The order
has within the last year so COM
pletely Outgrown its old sys.
tenn that change of some sort
is deemed absolutely necessary. The pro
posed change will greatly lessen the i'm.
portance of the district assemblies. and
In cases like District Assembly No. 40, in
New York city, where a great socialistiC
machine has been built up, 1t will tend TO
take away most of their power. 1t is also
claimed that another Martin Irons strike
will be impossible under the new system,
and the matter will go into the hands Of
the State Assembly or its executive board
at once, and not be left in control of
few hot-heads in the executive board OF
the district assembly directly interested