Evening star., 1895-10-10
KNIGHTS OF THE EAGLE
Third Day Of the Annual Convention To-
day.
Appropriations Made for Salaries and
Expenses Business Transacted
Today and Yesterday.

Undiminshed interest in the proceedings
marked the third day of the sixteenth
annual session of the Knights of the
Golden Eagle, which was called to order
at o'clock this morning in the red parlor
of the Ebbitt House. The first business
of the day was report OF, the committee
appointed to consider the annual report of
the supreme chief. AS q result Of the
recommendations of Supreme Chief Aull
the minimum initiation fee in jurisdictions
of the order under Supreme Castle was
changed from s. to g. A recommends
ton was approved for, the establishment
of national castle. by which. members
of defunct custles will retain member
ship In the order on the payment of GER
tain dues and per capita taxes to Supreme
Castle officers who have charge of the
same and who are authorized to pay week
ly and funeral benefits to such members.
1t was agreed 10 remove the Office Of the
Supreme Castle in Philadelphia to the new
building Of the Grand Castle Of Pennsyl-
vania, Sl4-S16 Broad street. ''The Knights
of the Golden Eagle" was continued as the
$3.50 appropriated for subscriptions. 1t was
decided that when sufficient castles are
organized the ritual of the order be trans
lated into Spanish.
Appropriations Made.
The fee or premium Of SIS for the organi-
cation Of new castles was continued, and
the following appropriations made: Travel
ing expenses of the supreme chief and the
instituting of castles under the Supreme
| Castle, $1,000: salary of supreme master of
records. 81 800: salary of supreme keeper of
eAchequer. 500; supplies, 5000; printing
and stationery. $1,000; mileage, 500; eX-
penses of session at Washington, $3.50; in
cidentals, 5000; rent of office and expenses
of same, 5000.
Appropriations for the military branch:
Expenses Of lieutenant general $500; salary
of adjutant general. 500; salary of assist
ant adjutant general, $50; printing, postage
and incidentals, $500; supplies, 500.
The castle voted to confer the honors Of
past grand templar upon fourteen officers
of the grand temples, Ladies of the Golden
Eagle of Ohio and New Jersey, at the ex-
piration of their present terms of office.
These temples were but recently instituted.
The Next Meeting.
After recess the installation of the new
officers elected yesterday; took place. 1t
| was not known this afternoon whether or
not session would be held this evening.
| The Supreme Castle will finally adjourn to-
morrow.
1t is expected that the place for the next
annual meeting will be chosen late this
afternoon. The western. delegates intend to
make strong fight for the honor but
there is possibility of the session again
being held in the east. Reading, Pa, is
| mentioned prominently, and the Pennsyl-
vania division. which is the strongest in
! the order, will undoubtedly furnish urani-
nous support to that city.
Question of Taxation.
At the session yesterday afternoon the
| much-disputed question of taxation was de-
ce6ed. Instead of adopting the proposed
amendment providing that each member of
the order pay cents a year, instead of the
payment of 500 year by each jurisdiction
| regardless Of the number of It's members,
the supreme castle voted that hereafter all
jurisdictions having more than 1000 mem
| bers shall pay $4OO, and all jurisdictions
having less than 1000 shall pay cents per
i capita.
A motion that the sessions of the supreme
body be held biennially in the future in
| stead of annually was laid on the table in
| definitely. - =
| New Omcers.
AS was intirnated, the election Of officers,
which occurred late in the afternoon, was
probably the most spirited contest in the
history of the order. With the exception
OF the lieutenant general, who is the head
of the military branch Of the order, the
officers wete chosen for a term Of one year.
The election resulted as follows: Supreme
| chief, A. c. Lyttle of Pennsylvania; Sill
preme vice chief, w. Oscar Brown Of Della
| ware; supreme sir herald Anson s. Nc
Nabb of New York; supreme high priest.
| Arthur H. Alexander of Ohio; supreme
keeper of eXchequer, Timothy NJ. Mccarthy
Of Pennsylvania; supreme master OF rec
ords, William Culbertson of Pennsylvania;
supreme first guardsman, w. w. Canada of
Indiana; supreme second guardsman, How
ard Winslow Of Maine; supreme medical ex-
aminer. James E. Whitford of Maryland;
lieutenant general of military branch, II.
P. Reinecke Of Pennsylvania.
To Hold Memorial Services.
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