The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-10
GRAND BANQUET SPREAD
The Supreme Representatives
Elected at the Final
Session.
IMPORTANT CHANGES MADE.
New Rulings and Amendments as
TO the Subordinate Courts
Adopted.

SAN JOSE, CAL, May 9.-The third
days session of the Grand Court, A. y. II.
of A., was opened in regular form this
morning by Grand Chief Ranger c. ?.
Rendon. The following supreme repre-
sentatives were elected: c. III. Bremen,
Alameda; Sol Peiser, San Francisco; G. P.
Rendon, Stockholm w. A. Ryan, Los An
geles; Henry Ryan, San Francisco; Her
man Fisher, Sacramento; Samuel l..
Waller, San Francisco; c. NJ. Dexter,
Riverside; George Healing San Francisco;
A. A. Brown, San Jose; J. B. Lungate,
San Francisco; J. G. Howe, San Francisco
r. Rasmussen, San Francisco; w. D. S.
Harrington, San Francisco.
A strong effort was made at the morning
session to reduce the salaries of the grand
secretary and the per diem of other grand
officers on the plea of economy, but the
salaries were fixed at the same figures as
last year. The grand secretary will re-
ceive $2100 for the year, the grand record
ing secretary $50 for the session and other
grand officers IS per day during the session.
The office of grand auditor has been aboI-
ished. The three auditors who were elected
yesterday will serve during the ensuing
year, but after that the examination of
the books and accounts of the order will
be placed in the hands of the auditing
committee to be appointed by the grand
chief ranger, and it is the intent of the
new law that none but competent account
ants shall be eligible to such appointment.
One amendment which will appeal par
ticularly to subordinate courts which are
slow in paying their per capita tax was
adopted. After this no delegate will be
seated in the Grand Court if the subordin-
ate court which he represents is not clear
upon the books of the Grand Court five
days before the session of the Grand Court.
Heretofore the courts have been given a
great deal of latitude in the matter of pay
ing per-capita tax, with the result that
| the Grand Court treasury has been pretty
nearly drained when the expenses of the
annual session were paid. Several i'm
portant amendments relating to the mode
of procedure in cases of appeals were
adopted. This is one point on which the
present laws have been defective, but,
strangely enough, the matter has been
overlooked until now. The method prac-
ticed in the matter of taking appeals here
tofore has been very unsatisfactory, and,
in fact, the law on the subject has been SO
vague that almost any construction could
| be place upon it to suit any particular case.
The new amendment is the result OF
| considerable study by the legal lights OF
the order, and through their energy and
zeal the forestic laws of California are now
the most comprehensive and at the same
time the simplest laws of any fraternal in
stitution. This evening the grand officers
attended a banquet which had been pre-
pared in their honor at Turn Verein Hall
Covers were laid for $50 guests, and there
was a bountiful supply of the solid and
liquid good things of this life, which, it is
needless to say, were thoroughly enjoyed
and demolished by the visitors. Music
and numerous toasts and responses, inter
spersed with the popping of corks, was the
order of the evening, which was kept up
until the rosy flush which precedes the
coming day reminded the visitors that they
had some much-needed sleep coming.
During the evening letter from Herman
Cohn, one of the leading lights in the or
der, was read, in which the writer con.
veyed his regrets that he was unable to be
present, and extending an invitation to all
the newly elected officers to grand recep-
ton to be given in their honor in San
Francisco in the early part of the coming
| week.