Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-02-19
GAZETTE& VIRGINIA ADVERTISER
The wisconsin BishOpric.

A special to the New York Times in expla
ualion of the result of the special council re-
Gently held at Milwaukee for the election OF a
Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Wisconsin,
says:
De koyen was declared elected on the fourth
ballot. The laity then proceeded to vote by
parishes They voted in favor OF De hoVen, loi
against him, 81; divided. 8; necessary to Il
choice, 26. This result throws the matter, in
allowance until the regular annual council IN
June next and practically kills the chances OF
both ke koven and Hoffman. DR.. Lewis
kcmper is now regarded the coming man.
The laity vote was not reached until after one
o'clock saturday morning, when the convention
adjourned sine die. Rev. DR.. Martin summed
M, the whole matter by asking the chalrman II
the council was beer garden or a circus.
The entire afternoon was taken up with
wrsngling over the statements made against Dr
u. Kovcn Rev. Mr.. Martin was afraid the
.prit of God WAS not present. The whole city
and the whole country Were laughlng at them
They presented such spectacle Us had never
been seen on the face of the earth: II man
wants to talk i'll of his neighbor, all ne needs to
do is to be elected to church council. Dr.
Adams said: II call the gentleman to order ~
iConlusion and rapplng OF chairman hammerr.]
Rev Mr.. Martin retorted, You have had the
ioor thousand times" [Commotion.] He
contlnue1 his remarks saying if this thing goes
On the disgusted delegates will &c, rome. He
VA, Instructed to say that half the delegates
would leave in the morning 1t seems to be a
trap to keep discussion going till the lay dele,
pat.s lett DR.. Adams jumped to his feet amid
Cries Of Question:, DR.. Adams refused to give
up the floor [Applause and hisses: He then
,'si, y long speech. Rev. Mr.. Wilkinson read
y letter he had received from DR.. De koven,
s..ling that Mr.. Wilkinson had abused his con-
f3encc.
h. wanted to make was that De koven avowed
in his belief in the presence of the Divine body
ii the Lord Christ in the elements of the sacra-
melt Dr. De koven said he wanted the whole
al, the senten O. and read the remainder, it being
And not confined to the element" DR.. De
kuven remarked This makes the difference :"
Rev. Mr.. Wilkinson re!ortei, "Oh, 1t does;
does i,?' He said Dr. De koven had told him
In. only reason he did not light candles on the
altar was that hc did not dare A lay delegate
said the Bishop of Wisconsin had used lighted
candles before and SO had DR.. Hoffman. A bit
ter discussion followed, with charges and de-
mails and charges of talsehoods, amid storms OF
hi>ses Dr. Adams attacked DE koven In avery
bitter address, and De koven followed in an elo-
quent speech giving his theological views. DE
sni! the use of lights, vestnents and incense
docs Lot signify transubstantiation. de denied
using them, except in one instance. He added
that his ritual WAS not so high rs that OF Trinity
hurch, New York, and not higher than DR..
II lman's. He then took up the question of the
when Voluntarily offered. He believed priests
could not pardon sins; denied the charges as to
Invocation Of saints, and believed it right to
pray for the dead. The charges against hum, he
concluded were made for effect. His speech
closed amid great applause.