The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-05-23
Last Days Proceedings OF the
Episcopal Convention.

eao ASSSAseo' AouS AoI'Saso ;, =
number Of other committees were also
received. Eg
General Francis II. Smith presented q
preamble setting forth the alarming pro.
gress OF intemperance in our land, and
providing for select committee Of six
three Of each order-to consider the sub
ject and suggest some way to mitigate the
evil, and report to the Council. Agreed
to.
Rev. II. Mason presented resolution
providing that one session OF the Council
shall te set apart for the consideration
Of diocesan missions and hearing reports
from individual missionaries. Agreed
TO.
SUBJECT OF ASSISTANT BISHOP.
Judge ShefIey, from the select commit
tee appointed TO confer with the Bishop
or. The subject OF an assistant, submitted
the report which | telegraphed the Dis
patch last night. The report was unani-
mously adopted. +
Judge Shefey also submitted the re-
port OF the committee to whom was re.
lerred the proposition for new diocese
in West Virginia, "a ] telegraphed you
last night. The report was discussed at
some length.
Rev. Mr.. Grammer, from Jefferson
county, protested against forcing dele
gates from Jefferson and Berkeley coun.
ties, which properly belong to the Valley,
TO 90 across the mountains into West Nir-
ginia..
Mr.. Grammer moved 10 amend the re-
portso as 10 call for conyocation OF all
the churches IN West Virginia except the
parishes in Jefferson anl Berkeley cOnn-
ties. 4
Mr.. Gibbons and others urged the
adoption OF the amendment, and hoped
the top Of the Allegheny mountains
would be the line.
THE REPORT DISCUSSED.
The report was discussed very warmly
by nearly every delegate from West Virr
ginia, and by some very excitedly.
On motion Of DR.. sprigg, The usual re-
cess at IL o'clock for divine service was
dispensed with.
DR.. Pcterkin moved TO add Morgan
county 10 the counties namedin the re-
port. ~ 49,. ,.-4tt! ,
Mr.. Grammer, from Jefferson county,
W. Va, said he believed the advance
ment OF the Church interest would be
hindered by the alliance with the Church
in that State. West Virginia had reach
er her arm away over the Alleghany
mountains and takep the two richest
counties in that Valley.
Now these Church people want 10 reach
their arm away back over the Allegheny
mounties and take the richest Church
counties in the Valley. The speak,
or then proceeded 10 speak at some
leugth OF the difference Of tho people be.
tween the east and west, and 10 say TINT
Il was equal to the difference between
Massachusetts, and North Carolina. There
was no reason, except political, why
these counties should be included any
more than Augusta or Rockingham, and
certainly political matters ought not 10
be considered. He said His first choice
was 10 have no division Of the diocese
and he wonld vote against it when il came
10 that.
PROPOSED AID TO NEW DIOCESE.
DR.. Norwood suggested that the Dio-
ccse of Virginia would pledge 81 900 for
five years 10 aid an independent diocese
in West Virginia. II al the end OF that
time West Virginia ia not ableto support
a bishop, why, then, she can fall.
Mr.. Carter, OF Lancaster, presented d
resolution to carry out this view, but the
Chair ruled it out of order.
A motion TO lay on the fable was lost by
a large majority.
Bishop Whittle said that The question
was not The formation of diocese, but
merely the calling Of q conference; and
the amendment proposed merely en-
braced a different territory from that
proposed in the committees report. He
thought, however, il would be an Outrage
10 exclude the counties n'the Valley i
they wanted togo. =, ~
Mr.. Grammer's amendment was ther
lost, and the committees report adopted
by a large majority
/, THE ISTEMPERAHcE.E EVIL.
General Smith, from the Commitie on
Intemperance, presented . series Of reso-
lutions for o pastoral letter from the
/ Bishop, to be read by the pastoe Of each
Of the churches, on the subject of intem-
perance, that the clergy present 70 their
congregations q wise, jndicious' and scrip
tural view OF the subject; that the laity
be earnestly exhorted 10 consider theeyi
tendebcies 10 themselves OF social drink
ing, especially in public places, &c
Adopted; ~
STATE OF CHURCH.
Rev. Mr.. Walker, from the COMMITTEES
on the State Of the Church, presented .
report which states that the general con
ditionl OF the Church is the same as II
was last year. The other facts, or many
Of them, have already been covered ID
my dispatches.
i A good deal of routine business was
transacted, and the usual resolutions o.
thanks passed.
The standing committees Of last year
we're reelected.
Judge Shelley from the Committee OF
Clerical Support, reported that The
churches were delinquent $S29, ,l74 in tht
payment Of salaries OF clergymen. Sey.
enty.seyen churches in fifty.three parishes
were reported delinquent. Accompany
ing the report was resolution insisting
upon the prompt payment Of clcrgymen''
i salaries.
| ADJOURNED SINE DIE. .. =
| On motion OF Mr.. Dashiell, the Council
after devotional exercises, adjourned sin'
die. ..r -
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