Year: 1874

THURSDAY.


ST. LOUIS, February 12-In the ma
! tional grange to-day, the committee on the
constitution and bylaws completed their re-
port, but as amendments to the constitu-
ton viii have to be ratified by two thirds Of
the state oranges before they are effective
they are not given for publication. The com
port, which was adopted, as follows:


A new by-law-ka a itmasters are masters
who have been duly elected and in
the term for which they were elected
also, another, to the effect that vacancies may
be filled at any regular meeting of a grange;
also, that subordinate oranges may be con-
solidated in the mode, and upon such terms,
as may be prescribed by State oranges; also,
that the master of the national grange shall
be e1-oficio member OF the executive COM
mittee.


A resolution was adopted, directing the sec
retary of the national grange to Immediately
certify the amendments TO the constitution
adopted at this sess on, and send them to the
secretaries of all the State oranges for ratih-
cation or rejection; and prescribing the
manner in which State oranges shall act
upon them. If two-thirds of the State oranges
ratify the amendments, the secretary OF the
national grange is then to complete the con-
sritution as amended, and it is to be printed
unfer the supervision of the executive COM
mittee.


Colonel Chambers offered the following,
which was adopted:


Resolved, That it is the sense of the national
grange that the expression interest in agri-
cultural pursuits, In article OF the consti-
tuition, means, engaged in agricultural pur-
suitst and having no interest in conflict with
our purposes.


The evening session was devoted to the in
stallatton of officers and the consideration of
the report of the committee on the Boston
grange, but the result has not transpired


FRIDAY.


ST. LOUIS, February 13.-In the ma
tional grange this morning the committee
having in charge the matter concerning the
Boston oranges, repol ted to the following ef-
feet: THAT the secretary of the national
grange be instructed to notify all State oranges
within its jurisdiction that the Boston grange
Is no longer connected with the Patrons of
Husbandry, and.hencefOrth no fraterual re-
cognition can be extended to it by any grange
State or subordinate, and the master of the
Massachusetts State grange is hereby required
to make formal demand for the surrender of
the dispensatton and ritual of the Boston
grange, and when received return to the state
and ritual, and return them without delay 10
the ot1ce OF the secretary of the national
grange at Washington" The report was
adopted.


The report on transportation will probably
be considered this afternoon, and the grange
viii adjourn sine die this evening.


The national grange committee to whom
was referred the matter relating to the Bos-
ton grange, in their response to the national
grange use the following Language: ''We find
aged and sustained, by resolution passed at
a regular meeting, the Boston grange in its
acts of 1nsubOrdinatiOn and resistance to law
full authority, and therefore have rendered
themselves liable to censure by a violation
OF their obligation to inculcate strict ODE.
dlence to the lawful edicts, and proper Ru-
thority. We find that the action of the BOs-
ton grange, in refusing 10 surrender it's dis
pensation, and submit quietly to the rulings
of our head, until this meeting of the nation
al grange, when they could have applied for
redress by an appeal from the action OF the
worthy master, has been very demoralizing
and injurious to the interests of our order
throughout the entire west and south, and
the good OF the order imperatiyely requires
that such insubOrdinatiOn and persistent re-
siStance to authority must be checked with
out calling into question the integrity, moral
worth or friendly feelings which the persons
who formed the Boston grange may have for
the principles or success and prosperity
of our order. We fnd that this grange was
not, and is not now, composed of the material
declared by our order to be eligible to men,
bership. We find that they have been dere-
nct1n not obeying the requirements of our
worthy master when he demanded a surren-
der Of the dispensation under which they
were working, and that they are
still acting in defiance of the
which commanded them
to stop, and by such insubordination they
Patrons Of Husbandry in good and regular
Then follows the recommendations
which were telegraphed to the afternoon pa
pers."


The report of the committee on transpor-
taDon after being presented and partially dis
cussed, was withdrawn on the ground that it
was too specific and not general enough in its
character, and the whole matter lies over un-
til the next annual meeting


The grange then adjourned to meet in
Charleston, South Carolina, the first Wednes
day in February next


A number Of the members left for their
homes this evening, and the remainder will
leave tomorrow.