Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-23
Grand Lodge, A. 0. u. w. Will
Meet There Next Year.
REDUCTION OF SALARIES
Fund to Be Created For the Purpose
of Increasing the Membership
1.-The COtter Case.

The most important business transacted
at the morning session of the grand lodge,
Ancient Order of United Workmen, was
the selection of next years meeting place.
Helena, Anaconda, Butte, Great Falls
and Twin Bridges were named, and after
some discussion Helena was chosen by
reclamation.
A resolution was adopted this morning
which levied a special per capita tax of
81 upon the entire membership for the
purpose of raising the extension fund for
the increase of membership. 1t is to be
paid out in ware for obtaining new
members. Each organizer who brings a
new candidate into the lodge, or secures
the reinstatement of one who has been
suspended for more than three months,
shall receive IS.
A proposition, very earnestly discussed,
was a proposed amendment to the laws
providing that an applicant for member
ship may be balloted upon before taking
the medical examination. The measure
was defeated.
The finance committee recommended
that the salary of the grand recorder be
reduced from $1,000 to $1,000 per annum,
and that the difference of $500 per annum
be placed in the grand master workman's
expense account. Also that the grand re-
c~eiver's salry Of $500 be discontinued and
the amount saved also be placed to the
credit of the grand master workman's
expense account. The recommendations
We're warmly opposed on the ground that
the amount saved should go to the extern
H.. c--l ~~l f&o M avo l. die
cussion further action was postponed un-
til after the election of officers. The
salaries will undoubtedly be reduced.
The election of officers was made a
special order for 2 O'Clock. There is quite
a lively contest over the position of grand
recorder, the principal candidates being
James Sullivan of Helena, the present in
cumbent, William Zastrow, also of Hell
ena, and Waldemar Stein of Great Falls.
John w. Pace of Whitehall has also been
named, but it is doubtful whether he will
allow his name to go before the grand
lodge.
Late yesterday afternoon a special
committee to which had been referred the
somewhat celebrated Cotter claim re-
ported recommending that the claim OF
81, 900 he paid in full, and the report was
adopted by unanimous vote. This dis
poses of the only litigation against the
order. D. H. Cotter was a member OF
the Butte lodge in 1895, failed to pay his
dues and was suspended. Subsequently
he was reinstated. Shortly after this he
died, and when Mrs. Mary Cotter, his
beneficiary, presented her claim for the
insurance money, it was found that the
local lodge had neglected to notify the
grand lodge of his reinstatement. HI
was therefore not in good standing or
the grand lodge records, and payment
was refused. Mrs. Cotter then brought
suit in the district court and obtained {
verdict. Motions for a non-suit and fol
a new trial were denied. The supreme
court reversed the case on the grounds
that the plaintiff had not exhausted hel
remedy in the grand lodge by submitting
the matter to a beard of arbitration be
fore bringing action against the CRANE
lodge, and thds was the status of the claim
when the grand lodge took 1t up yester'
day. -.
The lodge will probably conclude it.
session tonight. Tomorrow the Crane
lodge of the Degree of Honor will con
vene. continuing the session for tive
days.
THE NEW OFFICERS.
At 2 O'Clock this afternoon the election
of grand lodge officers, which was mad
the special order Of the hour, was take
up. When the Inter Mountain went t.
press the following a been chosen:
Grand Master Workman-James NJ
Rhoades Of Miles City.
- Grand Foreman-J. w. Pace OF White
hall.
Grand Overseer-George T. Young O
Livingston.
UP to this time there had been no con
test, the three first officers being elected
by acclamation.
For the office of grand recorder jaime
Sullivan of Helena, William ZastroW
also of Helena, and Waldemar Stein O
S EAsONABLE GROCERIES