The Indianapolis journal., 1893-09-13
HAVING A BIENNIAL SESSION
The Supreme Lodge Knights and
Ladies of Honor Meets.
Radical Changes Are to Be Made in the
Form of GOvernment-Re-
ports of the Officers.

The Supreme Lodge of Knights and La
dies of Honor held its first meeting of its
biennial session yesterday morning at Lor-
raine Hall. Meetings will be held from 10
TO o'clock each day during the remainder
of the week. There are. including the Of
ficers about fifty representatives present.
from nearly every State in the Union. The
supreme protector of the organization Is l..
b. Lockard. of Bradford. Pa. Mr.. Lock-
ar6 is nephew of r. ID. Rockefeller, the
New York millionaire. The lodge holds
its national convention every two years.
Two years ago the session was held ct New
ark. n. j.
The business of yesterday morning con-
sisted in hearing the financial and other
reports of the supreme officers. AccOrdin 3
TO the reporte of the supreme secretary, G..
w. Harvey. OF this city. the order is In
hrst-class condition financially. Since tbe
inception of the order. up TO the present
time IS. OU0, 600 has been paid out in the way
OF benefits. Lsst year the benefits paid TO
heirs of deceased mem bers amounted to
Sl.000.000. The amount on hand in the
relief fund on Sept. l was 67.647, 20;
In the general fund: s22. 5gl. rs:
The expense in handling the 81. .O00. 900 paid
out in benefits last year was only $2S. .c2S %.
and the officers of the lodge have received
great deal of praise for their economical
management
At the time of the suspension of the Bank
of Commerce the order had Sos, 900 de-
posted, which has ever since been tied mp.
While banks were very slow to loan money.
the lodge had no trouble in securing $780,
00O from them.
According to the report of the secretary
the amount of insurance written In 1891 was
$40. 33i. 500. Last year 1t was SO. 624, 500. The
amount of insurance paid out last year
was 1904. 900. The total assets of the order
are placed at t237. .350.41 and the Liabilities
at S17,4S2.92
The total mem bership of the order Is
over 10000. A very satisfactory increase
In mem bershIp has been made since the
last supreme session. The report of the
supreme medical examiner, Dr.. l.. ID.
Wltherill, shows that within the past two
years Is, 742 applicants for mem hership have
been passed upon and i7.615 were accepted.
Since the inception of the order nearly
5000 deaths have occurred, and 172 of this
number died by suicide.
One OF the most important matters which
will be considered at this session ls the
revision of the code of the lodge. A CON-
mittee on the revision of the code, con-
eisting of the following mem bers was ap-
pointed yesterday: g. A. Foster of Massa-
chusetts; ID. Z. Austin. Of New York; u. T;
Lozier. of New Jersey; +. w. hastings. of
Pennsylvania; Z. Streck and Geo. A. BYRD.
iof Ohio; j. 3. Hartman. of Illinois: s.
american. of California; James q. Young,
of Missouri; Mrs. N. s. Gilbert of Ken
'tucky; w. l.. Grigsby. of Tennessee; w. L.
Cole of Texas; T. J. Wood. of Mississippi;
ID. w. McGaughey. of Alabama. and w. S.
McCulloueh. of Arkansas. This commit
tee Will probably spend two days on the
code of laws and O complete revision will
be made.
At the session yesterday morning seven
teen members of subordinate lodges were
admitted 10 the Supreme l. ,dge.
The supreme protector has suggested
some changes regarding the mem bership of
Grand Lodges. At present the number of
Grand Lodge members in each State is five
hundred. and the suprems protector
thought it ought to be increased to one
thousand.