The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-08
LOOKS LIKE ST. PAUL
MAJORITY OF wOODMEN DELE
GATES SAID TO BE PLEDGED
TO: THIS CITY
WILL BE FIXED ON FRIDAY
to Be Held VIII BE Selected at
That Tfme-MinnesOta VIII BE
y Routine of Work Taken Up by,
the Convention.
the Convention.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, June 7.-(Special.)
There is no getting around the fact that
the eleventh camp of Modern Woodmen
is big affair Its members are every
where. 1t is believed st. Paul will secure
the next session, although Grand Rapids
is putting up a stiff fight. Minnesota will
be great feature in Thursdays parade,
with 500 men in line and with degree
teams of seventeen men each from Min
neapolis, Duluth and st. Paul. The mar
shals will be dressed in white from head
to foot and will ride black and white
horses. George Irish will be at the head
of the Minnesota division. Grant Gill
lette's cowboy band and the Shelbyvile,
ILL.,, quartette serenaded the Minnesota
boys today. There are 10000 visitors in
the city and more are expected.
The selection of the convention city will
be made on Friday Kansas, Nebraska,
Iowa and Illinois delegates all want to
go north. The Star says 2S3 out of 3S3
delegates are pledged to minnesota, but
it is impossible to verify the statement.
Early in the convention session today
Il. S. Simpson offered an amedment to the
bylaws, in an attempt to secure recon-
S~N-SA NNNAOAA "a
yesterday in excluding distillery and
brewery employees from the order. Sew
eral speeches were made The conven-
ton finally, for second time, refused to
alter the old law and the decision was
received with deafening applause.
The convention decided to exclude from
the benefits of insurance any members
who should in the future become brake
men or conductors of freight trains, loco
motive firemen or engineers, switchmen,
yardmasters, yard foremen, miners, mine
inspectors, mine track layers, pit bosses,
jockeys, employees in factories making eX-
plosives, glass blowers, oil well shoot
ers,' aeronauts, sailors, pillow grinders,
professional base ball players, profession
al firemen, submarine workers, soldiers
in time of war or workers in smelters.
An amendment excluding steel workers
was offered by member from PennSyl-
vania. After debate of twenty minutes
the words were changed to steel blasters
and the amendment was carried Nearly
thirty members of the order, it was as
serted, would have been debarred had the
first carried.
The following committee on reserve
fund was announced: R. E. Murphy,
Jenkins, Nebraska; Harry Franklin, Min
nesota. The head camp, by resolution,
appointed w. A. NorcOtt chairman. The
committee reported at the afternoon ses-
sion. The plan that it recommends it
that twelve regular assessments be made
each year. The assessments are now
made only the money is needed In pay
ing the faces of beneficiary certificates
The committee suggested that all the sur
plus from the assessments be placed in
the reserve fund. The fund is only to
be drawn upon when more than the
twelve assessments are necessary in the
year. or in cases of epidemics of disease
The report was taken up for debate at
once.
Head Counsel Northcott was the first to
speak on the report. He estimated that
the surplus from the assessments by the
plan recommended by the committee
would make fund of s., 100000 In a year,
and suggested that when this sum had
been reached 1t be invested in govern
ment bonds.
Against the proposal to order assess
ments for the creation of a reserve fund
1t was argued that the head camp would
not be justified in taking such radical
action without having given the 400 600
members of the order ar opportunity to
discuss the proposition and instruct their
delegates to the head camp.
A r. Talbot, of Nebraska, offered as a
substitute for the committee recommen-
dalton a resolution providing for the sub
mission of the question to the member
ship of the society, with instructions to
the head clerk to report the result of the
ballot to the head camp at it's next meet
ing in 1901
The substitute resolution was adopted
by large majority.
The election of officers will occur to-
morrow.