The San Francisco call., 1897-04-28

OF fellow-delegates. Mayor Phelan had to
open the Women's Congress in San Fran
cisco, hence he came late in the day, but
the warmth of greeting extended to him
was not diminished by the lateness Of his
coming.
Leonard S. Calkins OF Nevada City won
his fight to-day for his mountain town.
and the Grand Parlor will go to Nevada
CITY in 1898.
The Grand Parlor met at 10 O'Clock this
morning. Charles M. Belshaw called up
the following resolution offered by him in
1895, as an amendment to the resolution
providing that the next session of the
Grand Parlor should be held in Nevada
City:
Resolred That article ", grand constitution,
be amended as follows: Strike out the words
land shall continue TO meet at such time and
place as may be agreed upon" and insert lat
the City and County of San Francisco, and
shall continue to meet at said City"
The resolution to amend was declared
out of order.
On motion of Leonard s. CaIkins the
place for holding the session of 1898 was
adopted.
L. w. Juilliard of Santa Rosa intro
duced the following resolution:
Resotued, That the general Admission day
celebration on September 8. 1897, be held at
the city OF Santa Rosa.
The resolution was unanimously
adopted.
The committee on state of the order
reported recommending that the several
reports submitted be received and referred
to appropriate committees. In conclu.
sion the report says:
I'VE have carefully examined the re-
ports of the various grand officers and
district deputies, and from them we find
the order to be in fiourishing condition
financially and otherwise. There has
been a considerable increase of member
ship throughout the State. but owing to
the laxity of the secretaries OF some Of the
subordinate parlors in fling their reports
with the grand secretary, We have been
unable to arrive at an accurate conclusion
relative TO the increase or decrease of the
finances of the order. We earnestly rec
ommend that the Nom bers of the visitin z
board i'm press upon the secretaries of SUBJ
ordinate par!ors the Importance of fling
accurate reports with the grand secre-
tary."
The following amendment to article II,
section /, of the constitution, relating 10
membership OF subordinate lodges, was
submitted:
Section 1. It's memb bers shall be conf ned TO
white males who were born within the State
of California prior TO the year 1900 and to
their male descendants born within said State.
Mr.. Decker moved that the anne I'D ment
be printed and distributed to eac i subordi-
nate parlor of the order for its action, ana
their reports transmitted to the grand
secretary, and that final action be take n
thereon at the next Grand Parlor.
At first glance ono might infer that the
color line was involved in the foregoing
amendment. but the change refers to q
limitation of time, and is designed to ex-
clude from the order those not norn in the
nineteenth century. The Pioneers drew
the limit at 1S49. Even the Phone ers
themselves recognize that many estimabIe
people came here as late as tho "spring OF
80. but the line had to be marked, and
it was run close to the center of the GEN.
tury.
| The Native Sons will talk over the 1900
proposition during the year to come, ami
may decide to establish an exclusive or