The record-union., 1893-04-28
Admission Day Not to be Celebrated
at Chicago.
THANKS FOR OUR HOSPITALITY.
The Proposition to Establish a Permanent
Place Of Meeting to be Settled
Next Year.
THURSDAY, April 27. 1898

THURSDAY April Zii 1870.
The Grand Parlor was called to order
at 10 o'clock, Grand President Flint pre-
siding.
On motion of John r. Aitken, the min
utes of the proceedings of yesterday, as
printed in this mornings RECORD
UNION, were approved.
The Committee on Credentials reported
favorably on the credentials of George II.
White of Piedmont Parlor, No. 10, and
he was admitted to a seat.
The hour for the special order having
arrived, the Chairman read the report of
the committee as submitted yesterday.
Past Grand President Decker moved
that the ritual be printed and sent to the
parlors of the order, if majority vote
favorably thereon; that it be promulgated
July 1st as the ritual of the order.
Dorm suggested that if the motion be
carried that the entire ritual as presented
by Observatory Parlor be printed; that
that portion proposed 10 be eliminated by
the Ritual Committee be printed in dis
tinctive tpye.
10 D. Sproul offered the following reso-
luton as a substitute:
Gesolued That the ritual as presented by
Observatory Parlor be referred back to said
parlor for such alterations and corrections as
said parlor may deem consistent with the
views expressed by the Grand farlor in dis
cussing the same; that the ritual, as thus
amended, be returned in manuscript to the
Grand secretary on or before May l5, 1898:
that the Grand Secretary, on or before june
15. 1898, have such ritual printed and dis
trlbuted to the subordinate parloi s; that the
incoming Grand President Instruct the in
coming District Deputies to the effect that be-
tween the 1st day OF July, 1898, and the LIST
day of September, l S93, the subordinate par
lors are 10 have such ritual exemplified at
least three times at regular meetings of the
larlor, and that after such eXempiifcation
each subordinate parlor, by resolution prop
erly passed at a regular meeting. express its
opinion, either tavoraOly or adversely, on
said ritual, and transmit the said opinion to
the Grand President; that on the lSt day of
September, 1898, or as near thereto as practi-
cable, tine Grand Officers meet and canvass the
result OF sucn opinions SO received, and if
from such canvass II appears that a ina lority
OF the subordinate parlors be found voting in
iaNor OF such ritual then IL Shall be the duty
OF the Grand President TO promulgate such
ritual as and for the ritual OF the order
After consultation by the mover of the
motion with the author of the ritual, the
resolution was amended by this addition:
And that in issuing said ritual for trial it be
ordered that in the event of the rejection of
such ritual, that said work, nor any part or
portion thereof, nor any idea contained there
In, shall be attached 10 or made n part of any
MOrk OF Sue uc5I6e IN any subordinate par
lor, and il shall be the DUTY of the District
Deputies to report 10 the Grand President
promptly any infringement on the rights OF
the authors of said ritual and all copies
thereof issued for such trial be returned TO the
Grand Secretary with the vote of the parlor.
The report was unanimously adopted
as a substitute for the report of the COM
mittee.
The Ritual Committee presented the
following as a substitute for the resolu-
ton of r. X. Ham:
This resolution in its entirety we do not ap-
prove, and in its stead submit the following:
ReS0t0ed, That the bear flag be the symbolic
emblem OF the order of the Native Sons Of the
Golden West; that II be furnished with the
other parlor supplies; that ii be displayed
over the hall during the day OF meeting of
such parlor, but such display be optional with
We move the adoption of the substitute
II. a. KELLER,
w. z. JOHNSON,
q. N. VAN ORDEN,
l.. }. CHIPMAN,
GEO. b. ALBEE,
Ritual Committee.
The report of the committee was
adopted.
James. p. Dockery announced that the
photographer was present and would
photograph the delegates at the noon re-
cess.
Broth. n. G. Rogers of the Committee
on Finance presented the following re-
port:
san JOSE, April 27, 1898.
To the Grand PdTtOr ". s. q. W.: Your un-
deTSigned Finance Committee, TO whom was
referred the communication OF Stanford Par
lor, No. 76, relative to providing Tor mileage
for Grand Parlor subcommittee. begS leave to
report adversely on the same ana recommend
that the communication be placed on file.
SAN JOSE, April 27, 1898.
To the Grand Pdrt0r ". s. @. w.: Your un-
dersigned Finance Committee, to whom was
referred the reports of the Grand Secretary
and Grand Treasurer, pages % TO "A, IN
elusive, and page So, hereby recommend the
adoption OF the same.
To the Q1iceTs and Members Of The Grand
Parlor ". s. G. W.: We, your undersigned
Finance Committee, beg leave 10 report that
YOUR late Finance Committee, consisting Of
Brothers l.. j. Lalande, y. \. Weihe and Jas
Patterson, Jr., report 10 US that they have eN-
amined the books and vouchers of the Grand
Secretary and Treasurer, and that they lind
the same correct.
We would recommend that Brother W. W.
Shannon be allowed $50 as Minute Clerk for
the session: that the sniary of the Grand Sec
retary be S2,7O0 for the coming year out of
which the salary of his assistant Shall be paid;
and that the per capita tax be fixed at 81 for
1898, and so cents payable January 1, 1884
Your committee, in fixing the per capita
tax at 81, have in mind that $4,000 is still
due 10 the Board of Relief of san FranciSco
mend that the said debt of $4,000 be paid as
soon as the first installment OF the per capita
tax for the ensuing yesir Is received.
we beg leave to report the following sched-
uIe o! mileage to the delegates Of the various
parlors:
No. 60 Amount.
and i've delo logates.--.................S3 S32 90
2-Sacralnento no miieage..--..........
6-Marysville, one Grand Officer
and two eiegates....-.............. IS
7-Stoclxton three delegates........-... so
s-Arronaut, one delegate............. so
9-PIacz rVille, two delegates..--...-.... 10
W dSil four = lJes egaies........ les 80 90
7l-Humboldt two delegates...-:-..--... As 90
i2-Amador' % one delegslte te.............. 75
l9-Visalia, two delegRtes...--..... % 90
2o-Arcata, two delegates .:-.--.----.; 90 90
iSS, two deIerai 4ne ,es'.1 -ee IL 90
22-San Jose, two delesates.-...-.........- 80
23-San Mateo, one delegate..--.....--- 20
24-HoSemite, one Grand Otncer
and one delegate..--.-..--..-....-.----1 10 90
26-Sunset, no mileage.
2S-Santa Rosa, two delegates......-...- 80