Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-09
TEMPLARS ROW ENDS
Local Grand Lodge Officials
Adjured in Error.
ACTS DECLARED INVALID
Perseverance Lodge Suspension Not
Justified.
GOVERNMENT BY COMMISSION
E. Wavrinsky Of Sweden Reelected
President of International Body.
Elasticity in Ritual.
OvERNMENT BY COMMISSION

Troubles in the District of Columbia
Grand Lodge Of Good Templars were aired
in the meeting of the International Lodge
Of the order at the Pythian Temple this
morning.
BY a report adopted at the meeting the
grand chief templar and other officers of
the Grand Lodge of the District of Co
lumbia are declared to have acted in GER
tain matters beyond their authority. The
affairs Of the Washington lodges of Good
| remplars are taken out of the hands of
the Grand Lodge and given to special
commission. The Grand Lodge of the
| District of Columbia will not meet for
| eighteen months.
The report made by special commits
| sion appointed to investigate the trouble
| here and adopted by the International
| Lodge today sustains the contentious of
| the members of Perseverance Lodge. No.
,. and is adverse to the claims OF Grand
Chief Templar Daley and his supporters
| among Grand Lodge officers.
| The trouble. which ended in the investi-
cation by national commission. began
some months ago when perseverance
| Lodge. No. =. passed a resolution denying
a certain member of the order. who was
not member of that lodge. the right to
attend its meetings. The grand chief tenn
plar revoked the charter of Perseverance,
, Lodge.
That was followed by the suspension of
the grand secretary and the grand super
ntendent of junior work. the appointment
of new members in their places and the
issuance of charters to new lodges
through the new executive committee in
Guiding the newly appointed officers.
Findings of Commission.
The commission which investigated the
matter found that any lodge can deny
visitation to a person not member of the
lodge. except to Grand Lodge officers Wis
iting the lodge in their official capacity.
Therefore, Perseverance Lodge. No. :. did
not exceed its rights in denying the
privileges of it's meetings to person not
a member of it's lodge.
| 1t was also found that Perseverance
| Lodge has a right to it's charter. The
grand chief templar who forfeited it had
no authority to do so without the vote of
the executive committee of the Grand
Lodge
1t was further found that the grand
chief templar had no authority to remove
the grand secretary from office without a
trial. AS no trial was held. the grand
chief templar exceeded his authority In
doing so.
1t was found the grand chief templar
| removed from Office the grand superin-
| tendent of junior work on the ground
that she was a member Of Perseverance
Lodge. which had no chapter. and so had
port declares that as Perseverance Lodge
had right to it's charter and it had not
| been legally taken away from 1t. the
grand chief templar had no authority to
remove the grand superintendent OF
junior work.
On this line OF reasoning it was found
by the commission that the grand chief
| templar had no authority to appoint
| others in the place of these two officers
removed. and that certain meetings of
the executive committee Of the Grand
| Lodge were not legal because the two
newly appointed officers had no legal
| standing therein and without them no
| quorum was present.
Government by Commission.
The report provides there shall be no
| Grand Lodge meeting here until Deem
Der. 1909. and places the management of
| the District of Columbia lodges in the
hands of commission composed of A. NJ.
Leffingwell. grand chief templar Of New
York; H. A. Larson. grand chief templar
of Wisconsin: Chauncey II. Hayden,
| grand chief templar of Vermont: j. e.
| Daley. grand chief templar of the Dis
trict and c. c. Dinwiddie. deputy ma
tional grand chief templar, residing in
| this city.
The commission found that the charters
issued TO Neal Dow Lodge. No. 26: In
dependent. No. -: Benning. No. %: Good
will. No. %. and Golden Rule, No 81. are
not legal. but orders that charters be
| issued to them by the international sec
! rotary dated at the time the lodges were
| organized.
| The commission also recommended that
| ]. c. Daley, A. n. Frear. A. B. White and
J. W. Tull. Grand Lodge officers. against
| whom the commission decided. be given
| clearance cards by the international sec
| rotary.
| A member of the order stated that these
| four men were expelled from their re-
spective lodges during this trouble. and
that this action of the commission con-
tinues Them memD ars. with the right
to become members of any lodge which
will accept them.
Resides the adoption of these RECON-
mendations regarding the District of CO.
lumbia Grand Lodge. the morning session
today was taken up with the election of
International officers
Result of Election
! The election resulted as follows In
ternational chief templar, f. Wavrinsky
of Sweden; international counsellor
George F. Catteril: interna tional vice
templar. Mrs. G. A. Buason Of Manitoba
International superintendent of juvenile
work, j. f. Hopkins of England: inter
| national electoral superintendent, Guy
| Hayler of England: international secre-
tary. Tom Honeyman of Scotland; inter
national treasurer, Hermann Blume of
| Germany.
| On account of the spread of the order
| to all parts of the world and the or
ganization of lodges of persons of widely
different forms of faith. modes of wor-
ship and language. the committee on cere-
monials recommended that elasticity in
| the rituals of the order to conform with
these differences be allowed The rec
concentrations were agreed TO by a unan-
imous vote.