Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-12-26
THE VACANT RISEEOPHEC.
2ffe Outlook as TO the Election OF Bisho p
RinXney's Successor.
From the Baltimore Sun.

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| The approaching visits of Bishops Lyman and
Burgess to administer the rite of confirmation
in the Protestant Episcopal churches of the
diocese OF Maryland has set churchmen specu-
lating again as to who will probably be the sue
cessor Of the late Bishop Pinkney. Bishop
Lyman presides over the diocese of North Caro-
| INA, and Bishop Burgess over that of Quincy
Ill. The former will come here in January and
the latter in February and March. Their only
duties will be to confirm and il there are any
candidates to ordsin.
1t IS said to be not at all unlikely that the
! next convention. which meets in May will be
| unable to elect bishop unless q clergyman can
| be found who will be acceptable to both parties
as 1t requires a two-thrds vote to elect and
| neither party commands that much strength
NO effort is being made at present to put for
ward any particular Clergyman, but it is thought
| that both parties will begin quiet canvass be-
| fore long. AS any number Of clergymen may
be put in nomination, it is said that there is
every reason to suppose that if bishop is
elected he will be somebody as yet unknown.
1t has always been difficult thing for this
diocese to elect its bishop. Three years passed
between the death of Bishop Kemp and the con-
| secration of Bishop Stone and after Bishop
stones death there was nearly as long period
| before Bishop Nottingham was consecrated.
Bishop Kemp died on October %, 1927. The
next annual convention met on June L. 1928
III.
| The Rev. DR.. Johns was the choice Of the clergy
| and the Rev. DR.. Wyatt of the laity. Three bal
lots were taken. FOrty-two votes were cast, of
| which twenty-eight were necessary to make
majority Of two-thlrds. The highest vote re-
ceved by DR.. Johns was twenty-five, and by DR..
Wyatt seventeen. After the third ballot it was
| resolved to refer the election to the next con-
ventiOn.
In the convention of 1929, before the voting
began, resolution was passed to have the
q nv hal l. with in
hours, for the consideration of the laity, failure
to do which postponed the election to the next
convention Five ballots were then taken in
vain, the vote on the last ballot being DR.. Johns
"a; DR.. Wyatt, Is; blank. 1. The substitution of
Mr. Henshaw's name for that of DIR. Johns ON
the fourth ballot had made no material differ
ence in the result. At the close of this conven-
ton various proposals for the amendment of the
constitution were discussed, and it was atength
| agreed to substitute "a majority for 'two-
thirds In the article governing the election
Action upon the final adoption of this amend
ment, however, was postponed next year till the
convention of 1881, and then it was defeated by
a single clerical vote. Meantime bishop had
been elected by the convention of 1880. At this
convention Francis Scott Key offered resou-
ton requesting THAT a committee of four cler-
ical and four lay delegates be appointed to con-
Ter together in spirit OF Christian Cancellation"
This committee recommended the Rev William
M. Stone, who received the requisite two-thirds
majority Of both orders.
Bishop Stone died February g. 1888. Dr.
| Johns and DR.. Wyatt were again put in nominal
ton for the bshOpric, but they united in letter
| to the convention declining the nomination and
| recommending the Rev. Alonzo Potter But the
| followers OF DR.. Johns were not willing to &C
| cept this compromise, and the Rev. Mr.. Chesley
nominated Mr.. Henshaw. whereupon Mr.. NOEL
| h1ney, who had at first nominated DR.. WYATT
| said that If any other person than DR.. Potter
were put in nomination the agreement between
| Dr. Wyatt and DR.. Johns was at an end
He then nominated DR.. Wyatt again. Nine bal
lots We're taken, on two OF which DR.. Potters
name was substituted for DR.. WAITS, ana
on two more DR.. Henshaws for that of
DIR. Johns. but it was all to no purpose. After
this tedious and fruitless voting, Judge Cham
| bers offered resolution similar to that of Mr..
Keys. which Lad proved successful in 1880. 1t
was passed, and the committee which was ap-
| pointed recommended the names of two distin-
guished clergymen, DR.. Hawks and DR.. East
burn. The report of the committee was
adopted and DR.. Eastburn elected But the
| struggle was not ended, for Dr.. Eastburn de-
chned, and a special convention was called,
meeting on August 2, 1888. Nine ballots were
| taken between DR.. Johns and DR.. Wyatt. On
several ballots DR.. Johns had a majority of
seven, but still lacked five Of the necessary two
thirds. On the tenth ballot. DR.. Henshaw was
voted for in place OF Dr. Johns, but the result
was pretty much the same. A committee of
conference was appointed as BEFORE but its
members were unable to agree Then
| more resolutions were passed and Joint ballot
tried, but nothing decisive resulted until Dr.
Johns and DIR. Wyatt withdrew their own names
and nominated Bishop Kemper. who was elected
on the thirteenth ballot Bishop Kemper de-
clined. The convention of May, 1885, was the
scene of another long contest, ending in the
election Of Rev. Benjamin Dorr. His opponent
was DR.. Hawks. The convention voted as
whole at first, and when DR.. Dorr received two
third vote he was presented to the clergy to be
| elected according to the forms of the cOnstitu-
ton DR.. Dorr declined special convention was
then called for November %, 1889, and the plan
OF voting was similar to that of the previous con-
vention. Nine ballots were taken between Dr.
Nottingham and DR.. Henry Johns. Other names
were substituted, with no result and after the
eighteenth ballot the convention adjourned. In
1910. however, q committee Of four clergymen
and four laymen unanimously recommended DR..
Whittingham, and he was elected on the first
ballot.
BETRAYED I'm HEART AND POCK EFT.