Show SUPREME f LODGE If OF P New System of Transfer of Membership Member-ship Adopted Whisky Question Still Being Agitated Washington Sept 5The Supreme Lodge Knights of Pythias devoted its morning session today to discussing the proposed new statues and adopted a new system of transfer of membership member-ship Under former rules a member taking a card of withdrawal from a lodge ceased to be a member of the order and was obliged to apply for admission to another lodge on the same terms a one who had been initiated The new rules provide that by paying dues for ninety days a knight may retain his membership in his old lodge unless admitted to another within that time The committee to which was referred the question of the course to be taken toward the disloyal past supreme chancellors chan-cellors is ready to report but declines to make known the nature of its recommendations until the report has been submitted to the supreme lodge Three past supreme chancellors took part in the Indianapolis meeting of the German contingent when it was decided de-cided to defy the mandate of the supreme su-preme lodge forcing the printing of the ritual in the English language For their action Supreme Chancellor Black well recommended in his annual report re-port that they should be expelled from the lodge Tne reports of the committee favoring favor-Ing exclusion of liquor dealers from future membership in the order and the restraining of the German lodges from performing the ritual in their language are ready fQr presentation but will probably not be considered until un-til late in the session I Is understood under-stood the report upon several past supreme chancellors recommends that a committee be appointed to investigate the circumstances of the Indianapolis convention and if the election of that meeting Is found to constitute disloyalty dis-loyalty the past supreme chancellors who took part be discharged from participation supreme par-ticipation lodge In the proceedings of the |