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METHODIST EPISCOPAL.
The General Conference.
THE SAMOAN TROUBLE.
Consul Foster Removed.
REPAIRING THE OCEAN CABLES.
THE SAMOAN TROUBLE.
Consul Foster Removed.
REPAIRING the OCEAN CABLES.
HE METHODIST GENERAL con
FERENCE.


BALTIMORE, May e--Blshop Harris pre-
sided at the opening OF the Conferences this
morning. communication from the bish-
ops wss resd expressive OF pleasure and
qualification st the manner In which the fra-
ternal messengers from the last general con
ference bad been received by the general
conference OF theMethodist r. plscopsl Church
south. The paper was adopted aud ordered
published with the address OF the bisbops
Rev. j. Lanahan presented a CONNIE MICA
ton signed by certain ministers OF the Meth-
odist church In this city, which was referred
10 the committee on book concern, without
being read. The paper treats OF the manage
ment OF
THE SEVERAL BOOK CONCERNS.
and concludes a. follows: the following
conclusions 10 seems 20 your petitioners nat
urally suggest themselves as the outcome of
the facts stated in these annual exhibits
First, That the New YORK concern Is IN a
sound and sac financial condition, with
ao9ndant means and resources 10 pay every
collar OF It's Indebtedness. Second, That
from The large amoaut OF capital therein In
vested, now over one million dollars and
the steady increase In the amount of sales,
reaching now nine hundred thousand do l.
lars, there should be a better income than
eight per cent. Third. That the Western
BOOK Concern is practically insolvent, It's
Liabilities Low being so ,23O 80 over It's avail
able assets, and requiring the sale and con-
version OF lis entire stock OF hooks and sta
tionary I'm the houses OF Cincinnati, Chi
csgo, St Louis and Atlanta, to the payment
of It's outstanding obligations, ia order even
10 make the above exhibit Fourth. That
whilst the receipt OF the Western Book Con-
Germ Tor The quadrennium FOR sales average
seven hundred thousand dollars per annunI-
the profits are but little more than three
per cent, and that during one year the
concern actually failed TO meet its expenses
Fifth, That the church needs but one print
ing and publishing house. with depositories
located where needed, aud that two are GER
tainly too many when one is insolyent.
sixth, That the periodical department of
the western Concern, as nov consolidated, il
constant ard increasing loss % the church.
aDd mat Iewer publications would not only
meet the wants OF the church but result In
placing them upon secure and sound fnan-
cial basis. Seventh, That the general con-
ference should strictly require OF the book
agency q compliance with section ass OF the
discipline, and al its present session demand
nom then that they sci forth In their re-
port: The amount OF sales, receipts and ex-
peDditures for books, periodicals and deposit
taries under their control. with whatever
profit or losses may have accrued IN each,
and as IN duty bound, &C [Signed &c. Her.
Jesse L. Warfeld.
IL may be proper 20 add IN connection
the Book committee on the Western Book
Concern, presented yesterday, makes assets
S9S1 ,7i0 16; Liabilities, SiS6, 4S3 43. showing
which differs widely from the above.
Judge Lawrence, from the commission OF
six-thee ministers and three laymen-ap-
pointed by the bishops under a resolution of
the last general conference TO prepare a
Succinct Ccde OF Ecclesiastical Jurispru-
dence and Procedure, embracing general
principles applicable TO church trials-sub-
commission, he said, were Unanimous in
adopting the preliminary chapter, bat were
not OF one opinion as the code. He was in
structed by the majority 20 present a re-
pert, and DR.. hlley would present a minor
ity report. Both reports were presented and
ordered 10 be printed.