The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-04-13
THE M. E. GENERAL CONFERENCE.
Preparations for the Approaching Ses-
si0n..Plan Of Organization to
Facilitate the Work.

ohu AypOTtS Vi tilc pTOCetulugS Ol Tie NeH-
eral Conferences shows that much time has
been consumed in the appointment and Or
ganization of committees; In obtaining the
consent of the conference to the change of
members in the several delegations, and
the consequent changes in the membership
OF the several committees; and in the or
dering OF special committees, and in OBJ
tanning their appointments and organization.
During the last General Conference two
resolutions were adopted, which suggested
that an improvement in the organization
of committees is desirable, and is believed
10 be possible. The first resolution was
unanimously adopted on the twenty-third
day of the session, as follows:
Resolved, That the Chairmen of the
several standing committees of this body
be and they hereby are appointed com.
mittee to devise, If possible, some plan
which we may recommend to the favorable
consideration OF the General Conference OF
1880 for the more speedy and efficient Or
ganization Of the standing committees and
of the conference" "..
The Chairmen not having made report,
the following resolution was adopted, with
out dissent GA the last day of the ses-
sion:
Resolved, That the Chairmen of the
standing committees be and they hereby
are instructed to prepare plan to improve
the list of standing committees, and sug-
gest a method for their speedy organizes
ton, and publish it in our newspapers pre-
vious to the meeting of the General Con-
| ference of 1880"
In accordance with this resolution, the
committee esignated-namely, Bishop E.
| G. Andrews, DR.. M. DC. Crawford, Hon.
| Henry Price, DR.. E. O. Haven, Dr.. ]. M.
Walden, DR.. G. D. Foss, Amos Shinkle,
ESQ.,, DR.. D. Curry, General G. B. Fisk and
Hon. D. N. Cooley-have carefully consid-
cred the subject, and have embodied their
conclusions in the resolutions herewith
submitted:
We have found that all the General Con-
ferences from 1872 to 1876, have been &C.
customed to appoint standing committees,
to consist of one from each annual confer
ence. We find also, that as the annual
conferences increase in number objections
have arisen to these committees, both OH
account of their great number and on ac-
count of their great size, now consisting of
about ninety members each, instead of
eight members each, as at first.
As there would be some advantage in
having standing committees of one from
each annual conference as heretofore, to
consider certain important subjects, we
recommend that five large committees of
this kind be appointed, instead of from ten
to twelve, as has usually been the case
And as there are twelve General Confer
ence districts, comprising about an equal
number of delegates, we recommend that
the standing committees to consider the
benevolent and other connectional objects
be composed of three delegates from each
General Conference district.
To avoid loss of time in debating about
and ordering special committees one at a
time. we recommend that those hereinafter
named be constituted at the beginning of
| the session by selecting for each committee
one delegate from each General Conference
District.
We also recommend that the Committee
on Correspondence with FrateTnal Bodies
and the Committee on Rules of Order be
| omposed of seven members each, appoint
ed by the Bishops, and that the Secretaries
of the General Conference and agents Of
the Book Concerns be a Committee on Pub
fishing Manual.
This will make list Of twenty-four
committees-a smaller number than served
in the last General Conference.-The of
about ninety members each, seven of thir-
bers each, and the three smaller ones last
named, all ordered by one resolution.
These committees will probably be sutfi-
Gent to consider and prepare all the busi-
ness of the General Conference.
/ rl,n Cop, mi ttoo hovo thorofOrn tNrnpo rod
resolutions emboiying these views, which
will be presented with a recommendation
that they be adopted by the Convention.
The Committee have also prepared supple.
mental recommendations for the govern.
ment of the General Conference, one o
which is that the election OF officers shall
be the order Of the day not later than the
18th.
The General Conference Districts as con
stituted in 1875 are as follows:
First District-East Maine, Maine, New
England, New Hampshire, Providence
Vermont
Second District-Foochow, Newark, New
Jersey, New York, New York East
Troy.
THIRD District-East Genesee, Central
New York, Northern New York, North
ln0la SOulu 1uuAds VcSteAA A'SW Av.A
Wyoming.
Fourth District-Central Pennsylvania,
East Ohio, Erie, Philadelphia, Pittsburg
North Ohio.
Fifth District - Baltimore, Delaware
Florida, Liberia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Virginia. Washington, West Vir
ginia, Wilmington.
Sixth District-Central Ohio, Cincinnati
Indiana, Kentucky, Lexington, North In
diana, Ohio, Southeast Indiana s-
Seventh Observation-Disclosures, Arkansas
Central Alabama, Georgia, Holston, Louisi
ana Mississippi, Savannah, Tennessee, Tex
as, West Texas.
Eighth District-CentralI Illinois, Detroit
Michigan, Northwest Indiana, Norway
Rock River, Sweden.
Ninth District-Des Moines, Minnesota
Northwest Iowa, Upper Iowa, West Wis
consin, Wisconsin.
Tenth District-Illinois Iowa, Kansas
missouri, st. Louis, Southern Illinois, Soutl
Kansas.
Eleventh District-California, Colorado
Columbia River, Nebraska, Nevada, Ore
Igon. Rocky Mountain, Southern Califor
mia.
Twelfth District-Central German, Chi
cago, German East German, Germany ant
Switzerland North west German. Southern