PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



Motion made and carried that Bro. Curtis, of JoDaviess 

 county, be admitted as a delegate. 



Motion made and lost that third delegates from LaSalle 

 county be admitted. 



Yeas and nays called on above motion and lost. 



Motion made to reconsider. Lost. 



Motion made and carried to recommit the matter of third 

 delegate from LaSalle county. 



Motion made and lost to add Bro. W. H. Green to the dele- 

 gation from McDonoLigh county. 



Motion made and carried that the report of the Committee on 

 Credentials be adopted. 



Worthy Master delivered the following annual address: 



Brotliera and Sisters of the State Grange: — Another anniversary of our 

 State Organization calls us together in fraternal assemblage. The year 

 that is past, freighted, as it undoubtedly has been to all of us, with toil 

 and care, has also presented to us, as Patrons, manifold blessings, for 

 which I hope we are truly thankful. 



The history of Grange work in our State justifies, in a large degree, the 

 confidence and hope of its usefulness expressed in my last address to you. 

 Peace and liarmony reign within our borders. Tlie mass of our member- 

 ship are true to the fundamental principles of our organization. None 

 are less impressed witli the necessity of organization, union, and labor for 

 the improvement of the agricultural class, than they ever were. If this is 

 largely nianifested in a patient, trusting and waiting for the hoped for 

 good to come through this organization, and if too little is done in self- 

 help, it the more fixes upon this body the great responsibility of devising 

 tome means of stimulating the masses composing the Subordinate Grange 

 into that kind of exertion through which alone this good can ever come. 

 The executive officers are chosen from among you. They are like your- 

 selves in knowledge, experience and wisdom. Wherever their efforts 

 have fallen short of the measure of their duty, as of the requirements of the 

 occasion, it is now your mission and it is your duty to supply the defi- 

 ciency — to apply the remedy. I trust you will carefully study the situa- 

 tion of the Order — study your own responsibility toward it, seek to know 

 what ought to be done, and to do your work boldly, wisely and well. 



The reports of the Secretary, Treasurer and other Executive officers will 

 give you detailed information relating to their respective offices. 



I am charged with the duty of presenting, for your consideration, 

 important amendments to the Constitution submitted by the National 

 Grange for adoption or rejection. Most of them I heartily approve. 

 They indicate marked progress in adapting that instrument more per- 

 fectly to our wants. I shall take occasion to speak more particularly of 

 these amendments when they come before you for action. 



