Ii8 WHAT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED. 



The Committee also directs all purchases, and audits all bills; 

 so that not a dollar is expended without its knowledge. The 

 Treasurer keeps an accurate account of all moneys, and counter 

 signs orders before they are paid by the financial agent. Ac 

 counts are opened upon the books of the Secretary with the 

 several State Granges, and each is duly credited with all moneys 

 received from it, and charged with whatever is disbursed for 

 its benefit. The balance, less its proportional share of the ex 

 penses of the National Grange, shows what we will call the de 

 posit of that Grange with the National Grange. These balances 

 or deposits are held as sacred trusts for the benefit of the State 

 Granges, to be used, as during the past year, to the amount of 

 more than twelve thousand dollars, in the relief of suffering, or 

 in such other manner as may be determined on hereafter. 

 More than twelve thousand dollars has been expended during 

 the year for the relief of suffering from grasshoppers, from 

 floods, and from other disasters; the several amounts having 

 been paid back to the State Granges, out of their deposits, and 

 so far as possible in proportion to those deposits. 



The general disposition of the Order is toward a reduction of 

 salaries, the abolition of the supply feature, and, disregarding 

 all party ties, to act unitedly for the common good of all classes, 

 and for the whole country. 



CHAPTEE XI. 



WHAT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED. 



GROWTH CAUSES or NUMERICAL STRENGTH GRANGES OF THE FIRST AND SEC 

 OND GROWTH INVESTMENTS AND SAVINGS GENERAL AND INCIDENTAL BENE 

 FITS WORTHY MASTER ADAMS ADDRESS AT CHARLESTON: SUMMARY OF PRO 

 CEEDINGS: WHAT WAS DONE ABOUT THE TEXAS PACIFIC EAILROAD, AND WHY 

 IT WAS DONE. 



IN 1873 ten States were represented in the meeting of the 

 National Grange. In 1874 the number had swelled to thirty- 

 one, and the business of the Central Bureau, at Washington, 

 required a heavy staff for its successful prosecution. No great 

 enterprises are moved without a corresponding outlay of brain 

 and money power; but it was marvelous to the uninitiated, 

 to see what the &quot; little drops of water and little grains of 



