Wichita eagle., 1888-05-08
THE METHODIST CONFERENCE In
SESSION In NEW YORK
Has Voted to Exclude the Women
Lay Delegates from the
Present Meeting.
Landslide Causes Serious Damage to a
Circus Train-Digging for Buried
Treasure.
An American Freight Boat Sunk at Sea. il
Collision and Thirty Sailors
Go Down.

NEW DIRK, May I.-DlSnop Nlnue pre-
sided at today's session Of the Methodist
Episcopal conference. and Rev. j. M.
johnson of the Norway conference con-
Quoted the opening religious exercises.
It was resolved to suspend rules and con-
tinue the debate on the admission of wo-
men as lay delegates. Forty delegates at
once sprsng to their feet and claimed the
floor. Rev. 81. 81. Moore of the Erie con-
ference was recognized. He spoke In fa-
vor of admitting women.
Rev. j. T. Edwards, of the Detroit con-
ference opposed their admission at the
present time and favored the submission Of
the question to vote Of the church.
Judge S. n. Taylor, q lay delegate from
the st. Louis conference, got the floor and
argued against the motion.
The debate was closed about l o'clock
and vote was taken on the adoption of
Rev. David NJ. Moore's substitute for the
report of the committee.
1t proposed that the women elected as
lay delegates to the present conference be
seated and that the question Of their elgt-
gibility to future general conferences be
determined by vote of the churches and
a seat In conference. This substitute was
lost.
A vote was then taken on the amend
ment to the report offered by the Rev. DR..
Neel of Philadelphia. This amendment
excludes women from seats In the confer
ence and submits the question Of eligibility
to the future general conference to be an
nual conferences. 1t was adopted by d
vote of 349 yeas to 173 nays.
After the adoption of the amendment
the report of the committee on the amend
ment was adopted by the following votes
Ayes, ministerial, 159, lay, rs; nays, minis
terial, 1872; lay, 76.
ABIG BATCH.
New YORK, May To-day was a great
day at Castle Garden. Immigrants poured
in by the thousand, and so great was the
crush that the railroads decided not to send
out any immigrant trains tonight. They
were compelled to this course because the
immigrants, once In the garden, could not
be got back after registering to the floats
which were to take them to the railroad
depots. The jam was 30 great that the
registered ones had to stay where they
WeiS, poShOo AZ tAO ShAOCu' 1uo numUCi
of immigrants landed was $3.50, as fol
lows: Polaria, from Hamburg, S15; Rot
terdsm, from Rotterdam, 377; Gailia, from
Liverpool, 1878; Britannia, from Liver
pool, Oil; Lessing, from Hamburg, GIG;
and Lahn, from Bremen, 752. In addition
the Rhsetia, from Hamburg, with 1878,
and the Antella, from Naples, with 662,
arrived, but the immigrants could not be
landed In the garden, and remained on
shipboard over night. The grand total of
immigrants arriving today was thus 7,010,
third greatest day since the immigration
commission was started The record for
the year up to date is 121, 776, an increase
Of II 2S5 over the same period last year,
Three quarters oil the immigrants arriving
on the Lessing and Polaria were Hungar.
iaus and Poles bound for the coal mines
and unfinished railroads of Pennsylvania.
The Rotterdam immigrants were Holland
ers with big families and having the farm
ing lands of Michigan for their destination
The Gallia and Brittanics new corners were
Irish and Scandinavians. The former will
locate hereabouts, while the Norwegians,
Sweles and Danes will start for Mime
sofa.