Amos and Andy are discussing the possible embezzlement of lodge funds by the Kingfish, when Andy shows Amos some proposed new by-laws of the lodge, drafted by the Kingfish. These by-laws allow the Kingfish to take whatever he needs.
The boys are discussing ways to pay back a loan that Andy took out for his girlfriend's furniture. They begin by writing a letter to her new husband, but the Kingfish arrives and suggests that the boys take the taxi company and themselves to New York, where the Kingfish has just been appointed lodgemaster of the New York Chapter of the Mystic Knights of the Sea.