The San Francisco call., 1909-05-13
COMMITTEES OF THE
GRAND LODGE NAMED
Odd Fellows Have Busy Session
in the Consideration of
Numerous Reports
Rebekahs Go to Gilroy to In
spect the Orphanage Main-
tanned by the Order

The grand lodge of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows held but one ses-
sion in the auditorium of the building
trades temple yesterday. The greater
part of the session was taken up in
the consideration of reports of COM
mittees on laws for subordinates, cor
respondence, printing and the Odd
Fellows Nome at Thermalito. They
were all adopted as read
DEBATE ON AN APPEAL
The report of the committee on ap-
peals and grievan noes was concurred in
except as TO the last case. which was
debated at great length. This was the
appeal of T. NJ. Gilbert of Redding
lodge, No. I'll, who was tried in his
lodge on a charge OF conduct unbe-
coming an Odd Fellow in maintaining
house of i'll fame. by renting and being
in company with the inmates OF the
same place, said house being situated
in Anderson. Shasta county" The ac-
cused was tried and found guilty. and
then filed a bill of exceptions. which
was sustained by the lodge. but at a
subsequent meeting the action sustain
ing the bill of exceptions was recon
sidered and Gilbert was expelled by a
vote of q 30 L.
The committee. consisting Of P. s
Gosbey. L. L. bennett, II. s. Selvage and
]. D. Murphy. set the Judgment OF the
lodge aside on the ground that it erred
in not being more careful and particu-
lar in the fling of the charges, holding
that the charges did not inform the
accused where he committed the alleged
ofense
A motion to concur in the report of
the committee. which contains the rec
ommendation that the accused should
have been given two weeks time to an
swer after the charges are amended
and made certain as to time was de-
feated. The matter viii be taken TO
the sovereign grand lodge on appeal
COMMITTEES APPOINTED
The grand master appointed the fol-
lowing committees:
Finances. y. wyckof. W. Fl. Blunden,
: LesisIssion.H. e Station F. G. wuln. A. ?. John
son Jr.. ". NJ Avis. T. D. Macbeth. George Z
Miesse-J H Graves. J. s Collins, S. A
MeCollufn William d. Deny, George E Peters
Printing! D.. Richardson. grand secretary
Rebekah lodges-G. ". stockvell. P: G. N:
H. F. Sloat. W. W Watson, F. g. NJ; p =
Doris. R. L. Thompson r.
Appesis-bavis Louderback. P. ?. Goebey.
L. L bennett t. H selvare. ]. D. Murphy
Petitions-w. T. schlosser. J. P. Spooner.
C. &. Lloyd. A. A Piddington. A F. SoUzs-
Laws OF suhordinatss-H- Newburgh. Charles
Trautner. ". ". Lyman. E l. Marshall, W E
State Of the order-s- B. smith. Karl c
Brueek, George W Cartwright. L ~ King
T. W. Hovey-
The grand master appointed the fol-
lowing special committees:
To distribute daily Isroceedines-Geozge ".
Tonkin. A. E. Leedr. Peter Millike1. " Anker.
81. G. johnson. c. A. Mathews. A. Z. Brooks
g. ". B. Yocunl ". s. Rodgers. o. S Church
Z. e. Morforj. Hans Peterson. n. H; Alfred
ON examination of district deputies-F- +.
ogden. grand representative; W ". Phelps.
grand representative: G. ". Houghtoo J. y
Russell A. A. Jones. ]. H. Schoheid. William J.
Hickey. Y. A. Phillips. c. II. Connick. J. ".
Benner. II. A. SCHNEIDER. L. Lorenzen. 2. o.
Reeder. C. E. Msrer, e r. Longley. F. ].
Walter. r. Metzger.
The following resolution was re-
ferred TO the committee on Iegislation-
BY Past Grand William Nichols Jr..
That no trustee of the Odd Fellows
home shall Succeed himself to the Of
fee TO which he has been elected"
An effort will be made to have
1888. unexpended balance of money
contributed to the earthquake relief
fund. turned over to the Odd Fellows
home fund.
The grand body will meet at o'clock
this morning to hold the annual cleo
ton of officers. The contests will De
for warden and trustees for the home