Morning journal and courier., 1888-05-12

Notes.
 NEW YORK, May 10. To the Editor of the JOURNAL COURIER:
 The conference at this time reminds one of l ship recently emerged from severe tenn pest She has had fearful shaking up, but l the timbers hold together and the machinery is all right. She is slightly disfgured-how could it be otherwise after the hard knocks given her, and especially since, in the exclu- | sion of the fair sisters, she has lost the most l ornamental part of her rigging; But the good ship still holds on her course. She will be a little belated by the storm, but she will get into port all the same. She will not, however, be able to boast at the end of her voyage, as one of the steamship lines does, I that she has s'never lost passenger" for she has deliberately pitched overheard quite 8 | number who had engaged berths, and, most sad to relate, while the brethren were taking | this action with reference to the women, the gIim-visaged monster enfolded in his icy em- brace two of the most honored of the breth- | ren, both, by singular coincidence, hailing l from New England: both dying on the same day, at the same hotel, and, as is commonly
 
 The death of these tive delegates has cast a gloom over the proceedings far greater even I than that which fell upon some of the more | ardent spirits in consequence of the exclusion of the women, and the two occurrences make certainly, taken in connection with the death | in this city but two days before of the beau tiful young lady who had come to the con- I ference with her father, 6 delegate from Washington territory, record of mortality for the first six days of this great gathering l which has no parallel in past conferences, and which all must fondly hope will find none i'll future assemblies of the kind.
 But it the storm is over the ocean is not yet entirely still, nor has the muttering thun- der ceased to remind this stately craft of the perils she has braved. If, as in the ballad | the strains of a famous harp echoed through | historic halls long after the hand evoking them had crumbled into dust, so do reverbe- | rations of the recent debate still echo through | this great opera house, and will doubtless | continue to do till the very close. It is the | judgment of many that these echoes will | play influential part in the impending 1 elections. This, no doubt, was one reason | why the final vote was taken in such way as to put every fellow on record. Doubtless ! too some were marked for the slaughter by | that operation, if this conference may be | judged by it's predecessors. In the debate | itself most of those who have been men | toned prominently for the episcepacy were | conspicuous for their silence. There were, l however, four notable exceptions to this rule, viz.: Drs. Buckley and Day of New York, | Dr. Neely of Pennsylvania and Dr. Hamilton of Boston. These evidently did not think l that discretion was the better part of valor;
 at all events they sailed in. Dr. Buckley, | with his accustomed aggressiveness, did so
 several times, mourning on that account, it is fea-ed, the secret displeasure of at least two ! hundred of the delegates, who tried in vain l to get an opportunity to speak once. But 1 Dr. Buckley as usual, was on the side that won, as were also Drs. Neely and Day, the l sole champion in the debate of womans side | among those who are regarded as prominent l candidates for the bishopric being the chival- I ric Bostonian, Dr. Hamilton.
 l This debate was one of the nest lengthy I in the history of the church. It occupied | the time of the conference during the larger l part of six sessions. It is the common re- | mark, too, that never before was a subject | contested in this body with such obstinacy, | not to say bitterness. The struggle to obtain recognition from the chair was 8 revelation
 to those who did not know previously how fond Methodists are of speaking in meeting. The instant the chairmans gavel fell, an-
 nouncing the termination of one speech, if ty delegates or more were on their feet, and from fifty stentorian voices rang out the pitt ful appeal, "Mr. Chairman" This was the order of affairs from the beginning of the debate to the close. One delegate who was
 finally recognized proved to be so hoarse from his protracted efforts to get the hool
 that it was with difficulty he could be heard | when he did get 1t. Another on being rec
 ognized said that the herculsan labors of two
 days were at length successful, and that his
 wife in the gallery would no doubt telegraph
 at once to his constituents that the kindly
 recognition had come just in time to savt him from insanity.
 The final vote, excllding the women from
 this conference and submitting the question
 of their eligibility to the annual conferences
 stood: To exclude and submit, 237; agains
 198, making majority of thirty-nine only
 of the total vote, while the laymen were SC
 evenly divided that the change of one vott
 would have tied them If now the aunua
 conferences shall decree, by three~fourthi
 vote of all the ministers present and voting
 that women are eligible, and if four year
 hence the general conference by two-third vote shall ratify that decree, the fair sister , will thereafter have free course in that body ) Otherwise they will still be tolerated only al mere lockers on. From the fact too tha
 many who voted to submit the matter to tn,
 annual conferences did so, not because the. wish the women to come in, but merely a the best method of getting rid of trouble . some question for the time being, it looks a
 though their chances of gaining admittano
 as delegates four years hence were little bet ter, if any, than in the present instance.
 For the benefit of their numerous friends and ss an interesting matter of record, giv
 here the names of those who took part il
 this great debate, indicating both the sid they championed and the order in which the
 several!y spoke. In favor of excluding th
 women addresses were made by Drs. J. M Buckley of New York, Alfred Wheeler o f Pittsburg, L. O. Queal of New York, Joh
 NJ. Miley of Drew seminary, J. R. Day c New York, 0. J. Little of Philadelphia, J = Rothweiler of the Central German confer encs, T. B. Nicely of Pennsylvania, H. Ora
 ham of New York, Alden Speare, Esq, c
 Massachusetts, Drs. Frank M. Bristol of Chi