Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1888 — CONDITION OF THE K. OF L. [ARTICLE]

CONDITION OF THE K. OF L.

A. Carlton, a member of the general executive board of the K. of L. recently rettumed from an extensive Western tour, and says that the condition of the order is now .most excellent. He most emphatically refutgs the charge that they are bankrupt and that the general officers have not been able to secure their salaries and expenses incurred in traveling. He says that the general executive board, just before he left Philadelphia, expended SIO,OOO in the purfchase of a new printing press and will thereafter do their own printing. “The order is not weakening. We have to-day a membership in good standing of a half million. There are more good men in the order to-day than ever before. Last Novem"ber, when the general twenty-five cents assessment was evied, about 200,000 members dropped out, but they have joined the ranks again, or their places have been filled by otheys. The provislOiUUH Or vifllvflgOj" vHwBC WDv DOllClt wivCr^ the Richmond convention, are not making any - headway -now, -A-majority offhem have comeback Into the Fold.' The provision als only have a membership of 120.” l „ The United States Senate has removed the injunction of secrecy from all the proceedings of the Senate in reference to the fisheries treaty.