The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-05-16
NEW L.O.O.F. OFFICERS
Grand Lodge Closes Its Session
With the Election.
REeALlA OR BADGE QUESTION.
Sovereign Grand Lodge Asked to Decide
Two Appeals-Mourning for p. G.
NJ. George ID. Hill.

The Grand Lodge, ]. o. o. F., has finished its
work for this year and adjourned yesterday
afternoon sine die, having been IN session four
days Officers were elected and installed for the
ensuing year rs follows:
Grand master, C. A. Hasbrouck, Of Tacoma;
deputy grand master, W. g. Alban, of Walia
Walla; grand warden, J. C. Mitchell, of Seattle;
grand secretary, lie F. A. Shaw, OF Walla Walla;
grand treasurer, George W. Hail. of Seattle, and
grand representative, o. c. White, Of Olympia.
Those are all the elective officers: the others
are all appointed. Following are the new ap-
pointive officers:
Grand marshal, ]. B. Krienbuhl, of Spokane;
grand conductor, f. E. Butler, OF North Yak
ina; grand inside guard. Dr. Phillip Frank of
Pnyellup; grand herald, Frank L. Wait, OF Day
ton, and grand chaplain, W. n. Nofsinger, OF
Pomeroy.
District deputy grand masters, by counties
Lewis county, II. L. Meade, of Centralia; Thurs
ton, n. s. Porter, of Olympia; Chehalis, Joseph
Graham. of Aberdeen; Yakima, J. NJ. Stout, of
North Yakima cowlitz, n. R. Smith, OF Marys-
Vile; Kittitas, w. A. Stevens, of Ellensburg;
Kitsap, ]. II. Yates, of Port Gamble; Skagit, r.
II. Ball, of La Conner; Lincoln, DsM. Glasgow.
of Davenport Pacific, James Armstrong, of
South Bend; Douglas, f. NJ Scheble, of Water
vile: Clark, II. L. Hathaway, of Vancouver;
San Juan, G. Z. Hills, of East Sound; Garfield,
c. II. Mowrey, of Pomeroy; Spokane, ]. B.
CLARITY, of shelton; Whitman, Zell NJ. Beebe. OF
Colfax; Asotin. H. E. Benedict, of Asotin; Clal-
lam, T. L. Fisher, of Port Angeles; Columbia,
Frank l.. Wait of Dayton: Snohomish, J. v.
Bowen, of Snohomish; jefferson, G. Pink, of
Port Townsend; Adams, F. r. French, of Ritz
vile; Klickitat, Mcdonald Pierce. of Golden
dale: Whateom, B. w. Mcintosh, of Whatcom,
and King, A. 7. Van dc Vanter, of Kent.
The customary speech making was the feature
n "a q
the general exchange of compliments consti-
tuted feast of eulogy for the listeners.
= The Grand Lodge decided that hereafter its
elective officers should be chosen on the first
day of the session instead of the last as hereto
fore.
Past Grand Master Henry E. Holmes has ap-
pealed from the decision of the Grand Lodge
relative to the wearing of scarlet ribbons in
stead OF the regular regalia. He contends that
under the legislation OF the order the substitu-
ton of the ribbon instead OF the collar by the
representatives is permissible. Accordingly he
has been allowed to appeal to the Sovereign
Grand Lodge
proposition was made TO amend the consti-
tuition so as to change the basis of representation
in the Grand Lodge to one for every charter, and
one for every 100 subordinate members 1t was
lost. however, the old basis of one for
every charter and of one for every
fifty members being adhered 10. second
proposition was subsequently made, embodying
the same change as the first, and in the form of
resolution signed by number of representa-
tiyes. This puts the matter in such a sha pc
that 1t lays over and must be considered by the
next Grand Lodge.
In the matter of the appeal OF l. 7. Haynes VS..
Clallam Lodge, No. -, of Port Angeles, the &C
ton of the subordinate lodge was confirmed.
Haynes was subsequently permitted to perfect
his appeal to the Sovereign Grand Lodge.
Haynes was expelled by the respondent lodge
for not having maintained high degree OF in
tegrity. He was entrusted to purchase a piece
OF real estate for the lodge but failed afterward
to convey the property to the lodge, alleging
that his wife refused to sign deed of convey
ance. He maintains that he was unjustly ex-
PEELED.
The committee on mileage and per diem
recommended total mileage and per diem ag-
gregating s., 933.5l. It's report was adopted. 1t
was decided that any representative leaving for
home, without first obtaining consent, should
not be allowed per diem and mileage. Com
mencing with the next annual meeting all
representatives not answering roll call on the
morning of every session, shall not be allowed
per diem for the day or days on which they are
to be absent and representatives leaving for
home without consent are not to receive either
per diem or mileage.
A per capita tax of 20 cents semi-annually was
fixed upon, and the bonds of the grand secretary
and grand treasurer were fixed at 81, 900 per an
mum.
The committee on obituary reported suitable
resolutions in memory of the thirty-five men,
bers of the order reported deceased by the grand
master for the year, and on their recommends
ton the flag on the building was lowered to
half-mast in honor of the departed. and the por-
trait of the late George d. Hill, who had served
the lodge as grand treasurer, grand warden, dep
uty grand master and grand master, was ordered
draped in mourning. Copies of the obituary
resolutions were ordered sent to the relatives of
the deceased.
Grand Secretary Shaw distributed to each sub
ordinate lodge copy of the report of the pro-
ceedings of the Sovereign Grand Lodge, which
convened ut Topeka, Kas., last September.
Mr.. Henry z. Holmes, one of the past grand
masters, is engaged in compiling Q digest of all
the laws and decisions of the Grand Lodge of
Washington since its first session at Olympia, in
october, 1873.