The Washington bee., 1896-10-31
DUAL MASONIC GRAND BODIES IN DC.
BY D. F. SEVILLE.

The true reasons today of the cause
of the two sets of Masonic bodies in
the District of Columbia come from
the followin: FIRST, finance; second,
niggerism third, the impossibility to
obtain Justice in the various bodies
owing to organized rings banded to-
gether to work degrees of hatred;
fourth, women; fifth, lack of proper
comprehension of the various obliga-
tions. For illustration there appeared
in a cclored paper last week a
cutof Mr.. Louis H. Wayne, R. E. G..
c. and at the same time it gave an &C
count of the expelling of certain Sir
Knights from the order. Just before
start in, these Sir Knights who were
published as being expelled were ex-
PEELED for the following reasons
First, they were not under the obe-
dIence of this grand commandry sec
ond, none Of them have ever had
trial. Page 9 of constitution of the
grand commandry specifies how these
things should be managed. The way
the matter came about was as follows:
Simon commandry No. I, K. T. of
Washington, D. c., decided to observe
ascension by going 10 church to COM
memorate the ascension of our Sa-
| viour. Now, watch the christian and
magnaimous spirit that was displayed
| by these christian Knight Templars.
The invitation was open to all Sir
| Knights in good standing. Sir J. 0.
| Holmes, past senior grand warden of
the grand commandry; Sir John N.
Adams, present junior grand warden |;
Sirs w. H. Lee and d. F. Seville,
members of the grand commandry,
appeared at the asylum to go to church.
| When the time came to fall in, there
was an objection by several knights.
| asked the eminent commander what
was the trouble. He replied that there
was an objection against four Sir
| Knights, viz: Holmes, Seville, Adams
and Lee. The lines being formed the
! Sir Knights filed out and there remain
| ed in the asylum the following. Sir
Knights: L. H. Wayne, w. H. Lee,
P. B. Brooks, G.. w. Philips. J. H.
Hawkins, o. R. King, K. A. Washing
ton, ]. o. Holmes, D. F. Seville,
asked Mr.. Wayne in the presence of
| these fraterS if there were any rights
| that we had as Knight Templars II
| good standing that were we to be re-
| spected. Mr.. Wayne answered that
| he had nothing to do with the matter
that it was the affair of the commandry
and not his, with that he went out of
| the room. The next morning the emil
nent of Simon stopped by and saw J..
H. Mcdowell, of N. and he told Sir
Mcdowell that he hoped that the Sir
| Knights of No. would not feel hard
with him, because had he let us parade
that he would have been suspended.
| The day following | ran across this
same eminent who repeated the same
to me. | saw there was lie some
where, so the next week there appear
| ed in THE BEE the following: dom
| blame the body or presiding officer,
| but the big chief was the one that
| played with the truth. Mark you all,
no ones name being called. In few
days received the following:
TO be Continued next week.
Holland, Vice Grand Commander, K. T
Continued from last week.
Resolved, That each commandry
under the jurisdiction of the United
| Grand Commandry of the state of
| PENNSYLVANIA shall be authorized to
| organize ladies auxiliaries or helping
hand associations or auxiliary courts
and membership in the same to consist
| of the female relatives, the wives, Sis
tiers, mothers, daughters, orphans and
destitute widows of Knight Templars,
such associations or courts shall be
| beneficial within themselves. At
| tached to all subordinate commandries
| throughout the jurisdiction of Penn
sylvania and to assist them in enter
! tainments and banquets. And they
| shall elect their own officers and draft
/ their own constitution for their own
government and manage their own
Nmeetings, and a copy of this resolu-
Aion to be forwarded to each comman-
dry by the grand recorder, Sir w. F.
Howell.
\Sir Knight Holland having estab-
| lished the first one, he deemed it nee
| e1sary to organize in Pennsylvania ;
| therefore be it known the Royal court
| of ST. lanes was the first to be under
! Stl lanes commandry No. 6 of Penn
{ sylvania second, Mary No. under
| Sti Alban commandry No. 8; third,
| Damoley of Wilmington, Del. No I
under St. Johns commandry, Will
mfugton, Del. Those commandries re-
ceived these courts as their auxiliary
bodies of female court of Cyrenne
and there is not any better Mason than
Sir Knight Holland, of Philadelphia,
Under that ritual today he has the
pleasure to say to the world that there
are 600 white courts now working un-
der that ritual. This grand body in
incorporated under the laws of the
United States of America. We think
that the proceedings of this special
concIave of the District of Columbia
has been a great help to the grand
conrt of Cyrenne, for we are establish
ing courts in every state throughout
the United States. We kindly thank
you for your grand and noble trouble.
ITO be continued later.)
The papers in the case being in the
archives of these courts. You speak
in open proceedings relative to the
| adopted rite of free-masonry.. Sir
| Knight Isaac Holland is aware of such
rite and whence it came in the United
| States and where from. This rite
came from France in I74o, in those
days females and Masons met together