Morning journal and courier., 1888-05-11
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The COnunddrum Proposed 10 ths
 Conference By . Delegate From

 The Conunddrum Proposed 10 the
 Conference By a Delegate From
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 NEW YORK, May 10-This was the ninth day of the Methodist Episcopal general con- ference, Bishop Fowler presided and D. W. Hayes, a colored delegate from East Tennes see, conducted the devotional exercises. Committees were appointed on support of superannuated ministers to nominate trustees of church institutions; to arrange for Memo rial services; to arrange plans of general conferences; on temperance and legal pro- hibition, and on American Bible society. .t
 Sfa Sek Ona, delegate from Foo Choo,! presented @ memorial asking if converts from heathenism having more than one wife can still retain more than one wife and at the same time be good Methodist. The matter was referred to the committee on the state of the church. Rev. Dr. Buckley's motion to change rule xxix. of the law allowing bishops to appoint ministers for the fourth or fifth year on recommendation of the ma- jority of quarterly conferences or unanimous recommendation of presiding elders was re- fe1red to the committee on the state of the church. Lay Delegate Pullman, of the New York conference, moved that a committee be appointed on unacceptable preachers and hear objectors. Referred te the committee on itinerancy. Rev. Dr. Wentworth, of the Genesee conference, presented the folio wing resolutions
 Resolved, That the delegates chosen by the an nual and lay electoral conferences in the ways and with the qualifications specified in the discipline are the sole and only members of the general con-
 Resolved, That when these delegates thus elected assembled the first day of May in session in the place and at the hour fixed upon by the preced ing general conference ,sor by committee or com- ference, and being duly called to order are legal
 Resolved, That the conference thus assembled has uurestrfct exclusive right itself in the ab sence of any rules upon the subject enacted by it's
 l matters rsiatng to the perfecting of it's organis tion and for defining its methods of procedure in
 Resolved, That the enunciation and practical en- forcement of the doctrine by the Episcopal board the i bishops~ss the interpreters of law for the church-lfes the authority to prescribe and dictate % & take ing that result, including among other things the decide upon the present. eeca of cenees to the right of seats in tnls 6ody and to say whose mes whose called Is unprecedented in history alarm
 m s e in orer foF th R s any misunde andilg upon the subject we do here, electoral conferences shall send to the eecretrg of
 the last general conference and also furaish to the said delegates and reserves a soon after their cleo tion as practicable so that roll of members may ssId seeretary s as sscretary of the ne1 general conference and shall have sole guardian | ship ference shall have elected its secretary Sec ond, in calling the roll at the opening of general tion shall have been thus regularly certified shall be called and no challenges of the right of mem bers to their seats shall be entertained, unless | such challenges are presented in writing in open session properly signed by the challengers Third no challenge of member to the legality of his | election shall be deemed to have invalidated the claim of said member to his seat until after que consideration of his case and decision against him shall have been reached by the conference But in no instance 1ehall challenged member be allowed to vots upon the decision of his own title tc membership in the body. es s@ -aGS+-1s.St @''s | Resolved. That the committee on reyisals he in
 structed to insert the provisions contained m the
 last preceding resolution in their approprate pises | in the discipline.
 The matter was referred to the committee Il On episcopaey, which will probably act favor I ably upon. the resolutions s The house voted to go into the elactieneef bishops and of off
 cers of the general conference on May IT 8
 10 o'clock a. m. The conference then ad journed.