The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-05-22

REPoKToF Thee sfsr1gTEE on ABSTAIN
/. BISHOP AND PROPOSED HELP TO AMEN
DIOeEsE-TrIE REPORr ADOPTED BY j
LARGE MAJoRYrYLPA II
i DE WRITTEN or THE EVIL OF INTEMpE
IA SCE-s r ASDI NC COMMITTEES RE
Errcrr G'-,n--cLERICAL sUPPoET-HEs,
CHURCHES Observation-Disclosures
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Especial telegram TO the DLspassN'.
/ ALEXANDRIA, Va, May 20.--At the mo- n
| ing session OF the Council to-day Rev. T. F.
Martin presented the report OF The Episco-
pal fund; which was read and received.
Routine reports from a number Of other
committees were also received. i 49, - l.
General Francis III. Smith presented a
preamble setting forth, the alarming pro-
gress OF intemperance in our land, and pro-
viding for select committee of six-three
Of each order-to consider the subject and
suggest some way to mitigate the evil, and
report to the, Council. Agreed to. !:
Rev. 81. Mason presented resolution
providing that one session OF the Council
shall be set apart for the consideration Of
diocesan missions and hearing reports from
individual missionaries. Agreed to.
SUBJECT oF ASSISTANT BISHOP.
Judge Shelley, from the select committee
appointed to confer with the Bishop on the
subject OF an assistant, submitted the report
which Itelegraphed the Dispatch last night.
The report was unanimously adopted.
Judge Shelley also submitted the report
Of the committee to whom was referred the
proposition for new diocese in West Vir-
ginia, as telegraphed you last night. The
report was discussed at some length
Rev. Mr.. Grammer, from Jefferson county,
protested against forcing delegates from
Jefferson and Berkeley counties, which pro-
perly belong to the Valley, to go across the
mountains into West Virginia. -
Mr.. Grammer moved to amend the report
so as to call for a conyocation OF all the
churches in West Virginia except the, pa
rishes in Jefferson and Berkeley counties.
Mr.. Gibbons and others urged the adop-
ton of the amendment, and hoped the top
OF the Allegheny mountains would be the
line. ,--...f
THE REPORT DISCUSSED.
The report was discussed very warmly
by nearly every delegate from West Yir-
ginia, and by some very excitedly.
On motion OF Dr.. Sprigg, the usual recess
at II O'Clock for divine service was dis
pensed with. 1.+ t"'t'
DR.. Peterkin moved to add Morgan coun-
ty to the counties named in the report.
Mr.. Grammer, from Jefferson county, w.
Va, said he believed the advancement of
the Church interest W ould be hindered by
the alliance with the Church in that State.
West Virginia had reached her arm away
over the Allegheny mountains and taken
the two richest counties in all that Valley.
Now these Church people want to reach
their arm away back over the Allegheny
mountains and take the richest Church
counties in the Valley. The speaker then
proceeded to speak at some length OF the
difference OF the people between the east
and west, and to say that it was equal to the
difference between Massachusetts and North
Carolina. There was no reason, except po7
litcal, why these counties should be included
any more than Augusta or Rockingham,
and certainly political matters ought not to
be considered. He said his first choice was
to have no division of the diocese, and he
would vote against it when it came to that.
PROPOSED AID TO NEW DIOCESE.
DR.. Norwood suggested that the Diocese
Of Virginia would pledge $1,000 for five
years to aid an independent diocese in West
Virginia. If at the end Of that time West
Virginia Is not able TO support bishop,
why, then, she can fall.
Mr.. Carter, OF Lancaster, presented res
olution to carry out this view, but the Chair
ruled it out OF order.
A motion to lay on the table was lost by a
large majority.
Bishop Whittle said that the question was
not the formation Of diocese, but merely
the calling OF conferences; and the amend
ment proposed merely embraced a different
territory from that proposed in the commit
tees report. lie thought, however, it
would be an outrage to exclude the coun-
ties in the Valley il they wanted to go. -
Dir. Grammer's amendment was then lost,
and the committees report adopted by a
large majority. Il Il ! r@.a.
THE INTEMPERANCE EVIL.
General Smith, from the Committee on
Intemperance, presented series OF resolu-
lions for pastoral letter from the Bishop,
to be read by the pastor OF each OF the
churches, on the subject Of intemperanee
that the clergy present to their congrega'
tions a wise, iudicious, and scriptural view
of the subject; that the laity be earnestly
eXhorted to consider the evil tendencies tc
themselves of social drinking, especially IN
public places, &c. Adopted.
- STATE OF CHURCH. aEr
Rev. Mr.. Walker, from the, Committee on
the State Of the Church, presented report
which states that the general condition O.
the Church is the same as it was last year
The other facts, or many OF them, have
already been covered in my dispatches.
a good deal Of routine business wa:
. transacted, and the usual resolutions o
! thanks passed. ~ 49, rs, I 90
| The standing committees Of last year were
reelected. rs H~ 2.
Judge Shefey, from the. Committee or
Clerical Support, reported that the churche:
were delinquent 1929, 174 in the payment
Of salaries of clergymen. seventy-seyer