St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-30
MAY ADJOURN TONIGHT.
BUSINESS or THE BROTHERHOOD
ABOUT COMPLETED.
LONGEST SESSION VET HELD.
Hepart on By-Laws and Resolu-
tionS Approved - Financial
Matters Claimed Much Atten-
tion-COm mittee Voted Thanks
and 500 Each - Youngson
Will Have All Expenses Paid.

All signs point to the ending of the B.
of l.. E. convention today. The dele
gates feel that they must work today.
though they would much prefer to show
due Difference to Decoration day. This
session is the longest ever held by the
body. and much work of great impor-
lance to the body has been transacted.
Yesterday morning a short time was
spent in listening to further reports
regarding the Great MOI thern strike.
and the action OF Chairman Nolan and
his associates was fully Endorsed, as
stated in yesterdays GLOBE. Then
followed the discussion of the report on
bylaws and resolutions, which was
generally approved and adopted, part
by part. Financial matters relating to
appropriations and fixing of salaries
also claimed much of the time. The
local committee of arrangements, ten in
! number, has worked itself nearly sick,
and has done most nobly in providing
entertainment and in looking after all
matters that could possibly claim its
action. The members were each given
complimentary vote of thanks and
500 i'll cash. $1,000 being set aside for
the ten: Their names are as follows,
all st. Paul and Minneapolis delegates:
Messrs. Maher, chairman; Hathaway,
Hayes. Golf. Root, Mortimer, Koran,
O'Nail. StinSon and Layton.
Official salaries will remain tine same
as heretofore, except that Assistant
e t,nx al ir
expenses paid, instead of being limited
to an expense account of $500 per year.
Chief Arthur receives yearly salary of
5000; his assistant, A. b. -Youpgson,
$1,000 and expenses; L. S. Ingraham,
first grand engineer. $4,000; Z. Ii. Sal
mons, second grand engineer, 50. 800;
Delos Everett, third grand engineer,
s.. 900.
Liberal pensions were also granted
engineers of the brotherhood who are
out of employment because of particle
patton in strikes. Thirteen Lehlgh men
receive S25 month each until the next
meeting of the convention. About fif-
teen Lake Shore men are to receive from
the brotherhood treasury the same
amount month they drew from the
road as salary. One OF these receives
$50, two others SIS each, and so on.
Others on the Ann Arbor, 20" line and
other roads will get $40 a month each as
long as the funds on hand and to be
called for in the July and November
assessments last (abOut eight months),
or until they obtain employment. These
two assessments are for so cents each,
or 81 in all. to be paid by each me mber
of the brotherhood. These large sums
are made available by assessments, and
also by the profits on the Brotherhood
journal, which are considerable, as it
has nearly 10000 circulation.
At Atlanta two years age the eXecu-
tive committee disbursed $4,000 in
claims made by INDECENT and crippled
members or their families. This year,
owing to large. increase in funds,
principally due TO the rapid growth Of
the brotherhood, they have already ex-
pended $50. 600, and The special commit
tee on claims will appropriate at least
$4,000 more, making $4,000 in all.
Three old engineers, PierSon, Van
WOrmer and Woods, receive regularly
$500 year as a pension. Van Wormer
was one of the original twelve who
founded the brotherhood, and Pierson
is an old O fficial. This shows one of the
points of the brotherhood's strength,
and speaks well for its care of those
otherwise helpless.
Today's work will be the picking up
of the hundreds of odds and ends that
drag along till the end of such meet
ing. The executive committee will
also present its final report. A night
session is possible if the WORK cannot
all be finished in the day time.