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than small party cliques in Grand Lodge . He thought the complaint before Graud Lodge came with an ill grace from Bro . Binekes , a member of an organized party , which , by their movements last year excluded him from the Board of General Purposes in favour of a member of the same Lodge who never attended the Board , and would not have allowed himself to be put in nomination if he had known it .

Bro . Stebbing regretted that Bro . Savage ' s first speech from the dais should be iu support of what he considered the improper conduct of a Grand Officer . There was no doubt that a meeting had been held in Bro . Roxburgh's chambers , and an arrangement made to secure the election of certain brethren on tho Board of General Purposes . His conduct at that meeting was tantamount to that of a clerk of the peace who would pack a jury to decide ou the liberties of the people . ( No , no ) . As au Englishman he protested against such unconstitutional conduct . He was as ready as any man to denounce partyand should he be placed upon the Board ho should

, pursue a straight and uudeviatiug line of conduct , and endeavour by all means to put an end to a practice which he regarded as unholy and unworthy of Grand Lodge . Bro . Gregory thought thc weakness of the case had been shown iu the way Bro . Biuckes had addressed Grand Lodge in an appeal ad misericordiam . Thc motion itself bore every mark of an obstructive party spirit , and ho therefore wished to move an amendment upon it . They had alreadheard from Bro . Savage that the

y statement was grossly untrue , aud the mover himself admitted that the paragraph on which it was founded was , ill regard to the name of Bro . Havers , an embellishment—a mild word for a gratuitous falsehood—and he ( Bro . Gregory ) could not but admire the dexterity with . which thc names of brethren known to be popular in thc Craft were introduced as dissentients ; Bro . Savage was one of those , and he could tell them , that although there might have been differences of opinion expressed upon some pointsthey were animated but bone mindaud that not a

, y , single name on the list had been suggested by the Grand Registrar . He invited a number of the brethren to meet together , and asked them not to leave the business to bo brought before Grand Lodge entirely to the dais , but to work for themselves , and he ( Bro . Gregory ) could not sec anything very unconstitutional in that —( hear , hear )—and yet he held that if Bro . Roxburgh , or those who met in his chambers ,

were inclined to get up what was called a house list , they had a perfect right to do so . The statement that the list was a packed one , was , ho would not say intentionally false , but perfectly erroneous , for it would be seen that the names were taken from all classes of tho Craft . The charge embodied in the motion ought to have beeu investigated by the Board of General Purposes , the proper and constitutional tribunal , before it was placed on the agenda paper : If he was out of order in denouncing it as au " election dodge , " he would withdraw the observation , and say that there was something behind it—that the object was not on the face of itIt

. was he considered , a cowardly attack upon Bro . Roxburgh , for when Bro . Whitmore placed it there , he knew , or rather thought , that it would not come on for discussion thttt evening , and that thus the calumny would bo allowed to remain before the Craft uncontradicted . That had been thc policy of the obtructives , and tho M . W . Grand Master himself had been similarly attacked —( Question , question ) . The Most Worshipful Grand Master said Bro . Gregory had a right to refer to whatever in the past illustrated his argument , but hoped he would bear in mind

the time of Grand Lodge . Bro . Gregory would do so , but he had in his hand three different notices of motion , brought forward at different times , by the members of the party to whom he alluded , attacking his lordship in covert language , not one of which had ever come before Grand Lodge for discussion . He would now implore Grand Lodge to deal fairly with the feelings of a brother whose character and good name they were bouud to supportand to give them an opportunity of so doinghe would moveas an

, , , amendment , " that this Grand Lod ge is of opinion that tho charge implied against the Grand Registrar is unfounded , aud that the giving notice of motion imputing misconduct to any brother upon insufficient grounds , or a mere assumption of facts , is deserving of severe censure . " Bro . Mclntyrc seconded the amendment , He had been present at the meeting ,