The Irish standard., 1894-06-16

1894.
state convention, as in my judgmen
both the state and national auditing
com m3ttees have too short time during
| the convention to examine and pass upor
the reports and accounts Of our officers
i It was unanimously decided at the ma.
honal convention to appropriate fifty
Thousand dollars to endow Hibernian
chair in the Catholic University at Wash.
ington, D. c., tor the perpetuity of our
mother language special assessment of Is
cents each for raising faid amount will
be made some time during the coming
two years and I trust that Minnesota
| will not be behind her sister states in
bearing her respective share of this bur-
den.
invite your attention to the state di-
rectory published in The IRISH STAN
DARD, Of Minneapolis, for several years
past. This directory I believe you will
all conclude has been of great benefit to
the order enabling members at any time
roy reference to the columns of this pa
per to tell any and all of tthe officers Of
the various divisions through the state
and any change of the same that are
made from time to time. Now the own
ers Of this paper are not publishing this
directory for their health, neither are
they running the paper for the same pur-
pose. They have expected and are desir
GUS of fair compensation for. their work
and many divisions have recognized it's
value and responded generously for the
same while other divisions receiving the
same benefits have never given one cent
for the many years this directory has
been published. However, you may Diff
fer as to the value of those services they
are certainly worth something and it is
not in the spirit of justice and fairness
that should actuate Hibernians to re-
ceive those services without returning
In the past two years the angel OF
death has visited our home, taking from
us twenty five, amongst which were
some Of our most active members. 1t is
impossible in the short space allotted to
me to pay tribute to them Individually
but can bear testimony to the fact that
many Of our brothers. who have passed
into the valley of the Shadow of Death
during the past term we're men who were
faithful, Jealous and untiring, whose
wise counsel and unselfsh devotion to
the orders best interests made them
valuable to us as co-laborers in the good
cause. We loved those men in life and
do honor to their memory. Now that
they are dead let their faults be written
on the sands and their good deeds on
che tablets Of your love and memory and
may God grant to their souls and to the
souls of all our brothers deceased, eter-
nal peace and rest.
And now, in conclusion let us, brother
delegates, approach theiwork of this con-
vention with conscientious desire to do
| our full duty to the organization upon
every question arising here. I am sure
that under the divine protectlon and
guidance our work will be so well done
as to result in honor to ourselves, to our
country, to the Church and to the be-
| loved A. O. FL. of Minnesota.
| The second days session of the bien-
nial state convention Of the Ancient Or
der Of Hibernians opened at a. m.
Wednesday. Very little business was
done in the forenoon, and, as the various
com mittees were not in readiness to SUBJ
NIT their reports, the time was largely
occupied by informal speechmaking.
At the afternoon session State Secre-
tary Kervick read his report. This
showed, among other things, that de.
spite the hard times within the past two
years, the order had made material ad.
van cement in Minnesota. After all pay.
mente Of benefits had been made there
was still goodly surplus in the treas
ury. The death record for the two years
was shown to be only twenty-five-the
lowest in a long period. This report
was referred to the auditing committee
The military committee was the next
to report. It showed that the Hibernian
Rifles, of Hennepin county, commanded
by Capt. Doyle, OF Minneapolis, had given
an exhibition drill at Chicago during the
Worlds Fair last summer. They had
| received honorable mention for their
skill in the manual Of arms, as there
shown. The committee also reported
that they had been commended
for the fine showing made at the recent
Memorial ::day exercises at Minneapolis.
The organic alton of the Ramsey county
Hibern ian Rifles was also reported.
The next committee to report was the
com mittee on resolutions These, sih
their regular order, were as follows; i
The reeOlutions In their preamble con-