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The Freemason , SATURDAY , J ANUARY 24 , 1874 .

The New Irish Lodge Constitutions.

THE NEW IRISH LODGE CONSTITUTIONS .

Our attention has been seasonably called by our able Bro ., P . M . J . H . Woodworth , to the proposed but objectionable Law No . 133 .

As we understand the matter , on a point of order , the previous debate and decision have been adjudged to be informal , and the discussion is to commence " de novo " when next the Grand

Lodge meets , on proposed Law 133 , and other laws in the New Book of Constitutions for Ireland . Very weighty are our Brother Woodworth ' s objections to such an enactment , the parallel of

which we venture to think never have been suggested to any Craft Grand Lodge before . For " ipso facto " it violates every principle of Masonic jurisprudence , nay , even of secular

legality and equity . In the first place , it is very like that famous law of old , which condemned a man first , and tried him afterwards . In the next place it positively refuses a

hearing to a member of the Craft , in his own Grand Lodge , and condemns him , unheard and irrevocably , on the sentence of an extern court , and of an alien tribunal .

It is proposed to be defended , it seems , on the ground of a " compact , " or " concordat" with other coequal jurisdictions . Now this position we entirely deny , and

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challenge as being both utterly unmasonic and untenable . If , indeed , the clause was defended on the ground , that the laws of the three Craft Grand

Lodges of England , Scotland , and Ireland , were so to say , interchangeable , and that a sentence of expulsion by one Grand Lodge was to be communicated to each Grand Lodge , and that

equal penalties would attach in each jurisdiction , even then , the unchanging principles of human justice , would , we think , dictate the propriety of an appeal , or at any rate a hearing , before the

sentence of one Grand Lodge . took effect in the jurisdiction of another . But , in this case , four bodies , however august or important , which have nothing to do with the

Craft Grand Lodge , claim equal authority with the Craft Grand Lodge itself , and their decisions are to be binding on , and unchallenged by , the members of the Craft Grand Lodge of Ireland .

Indeed , the rote of the Grand Lodge of Ireland under such circumstances , is a very passive and not a very dignified one . The Irish Grand Lodge is to register " sub

silentio " tha decision of another body of men , of whom many may not even be subscribing members of any Craft Lodge ! Altogether we never temember to have seen

or read such a thoroughly unmasonic proposition . How in 1874 , such a law could be framed , and above all submitted to Irish Craft Masons , we cannot pretend to understand or to explain !

We do not think , that , our good Bro . Woodworth need at all labour the question , in what position an expelled Craft Mason will be as regards the high grades . Our opinion long has

been , that , with every possible respect and goodwill for the high grades , we have nothing , 33 Craft Masons , to do with them , or they with us , —and that , they should legislate for

themselves , while we legislate , as Craft Masons , for ourselves . This is , we think , the only possible position for us mutually to take up , and most consistent with reciprocal courtesy and respect .

According to the general Regulations of Royal Arch Masons in this country , viz ., No . 10 , page 5 , " when the Grand Lodge or any other competent authority in the Craft , shall suspend or

expel any brother who is a Royal Arch Mason , the ) Grand Chapter shall , immediately on such suspension * or expulsion being communicated , proceed to declare such companion

suspended or expelled from his Arch Masonic functions , for the period while such Craft suspension or expulsion continues . " Thus , curiously enough , in England , the Grand Chapter registers

the decision of the Craft Grand Lodge , in respect of a Craft brother who is a Royal Arch companion ; whereas , in Ireland , by an inversion of the " natural order of things , " it is proposed

to make the Grand Lodge register the decision of the Grand Chapter , and of four alien , but apparently co-equal bodies . In England we wisely acknowledge the undoubted superiority

and supremacy of the Craft Grand Lodge . We therefore heartily echo our able correspondent ' s words , in the expression of our hopes

also , that , the good sense and discriminating judgment of our Irish brethren , will reject unhesitatingly this most dangerous innovation on the ancient laws and liberties of Craft Masonry