Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1874 — Representation in the State Granges. [ARTICLE]

Representation in the State Granges.

Grand Master Adams and the Executive Committee of the National Grange have issued the following circular to the State Granges: In many of the States the number of members of the State Granges is so great, that for all to meet would not only form a body so large as to render proper transaction of business impossible, but entail upon the treasury a ruinous expense. The Masters of many State Granges have inquired by what means such a calamity may be lawfully averted. The National Grange having adopted the following resolution, viz.: “The National Grange recognizes the right of State Granges to have the legislative department of their body vested in representatives elected by Masters of Granges in the various counties,” we are of the opinion that, as the Masters and Executive Committee of a State Grange have power to do all acts for the good of the Order, between the meetings of the State Grange, they would be justified and have awful authority to issue, an order to the members of the State Grange fixing the ratio of representation, and appointing the time and place at which they shall meet and elect representatives to the legislative department of the State Grange.