Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Illinois - University Library

298 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS
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building for the Secretary's headquarters in this city. A motion was
made by Mr. Conkling that $5,000 be raised for this purpose and that
President Holbrook confer with Secretary Sikes in regard to the mat-
ter. The motion unanimously carried."
Yours respectfully,
HARRY M. SNAPE,
Secretary.
The Springfield Commercial Association.
Grand Lodge Constitution.
The following proposed amendments to the Constitution of the
Grand Lodge of the State of Illinois, of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, were presented at the Session of 1912, to be entered on the
Journal for consideration at the 1913 Session:
Original Section.
ROLL CALL.
Questions, How Decided.—Art. VII, Sec. 4.—All questions in the
Grand Lodge shall be decided by a majority of the members present
and voting, excepting upon a call of Lodges, when Representatives
only shall vote, and each shall cast the number of votes to which his
Lodge may be entitled. A call of Lodges may be required by any ten
Representatives, and, whenever the vote is taken this way, the yeas
and nays shall be recorded.
Proposed Amendment.
Journal 1912, Doc. No. 75.
Amend Section 4, Article VII. of the Grand Lodge Constitution by
striking the word ten and inserting the word fifty. The section when
amended will read: "A call of Lodges may be required by any fifty
Representatives, and whenever the vote is taken this way the yeas
and nays shall be recorded."
Laid over for one year.
Proposed Amendment.
"THE SENIOR COUNSEL."
To Art VI, Sec. 1, of the Grand Lodge Constitution, by adding a
committee to be known as "The Senior Counsel."
Resolved, That Section 1, Art. VI, of the Grand Lodge Constitution
be amended by adding sub-section 9 thereto, as follows: (9) A Com-
.