Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1898 — KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS DECISIONS [ARTICLE]

KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS DECISIONS

Action of the f upremc Tribunal in the New York Case. The supreme tribunal of the Knights of Pythias at Indianapolis decided the New York ense, being an appeal by Grand Chanceller Kauski of New York from the decision of the grand tribunal ns to whether the funds of a subordinate lodge can be used for other than funeral and weekly benefits. The decision Is thnt the grand tribunnl did have jurisdiction over the differences presented in the case and the decision of the grand tribunnl is therefore reversed, with an order that the caw* be dismissed from the docket below. In the absence of a now ense this practlcully disposes of the point at issue. The grand tribunal pf New York held 1 that the lodge had no authority to adopt a scctiou in Its by-laws for the trust funds of a lodge for other than the purposes indicated.