Morning journal and courier., 1888-05-04
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. NO WOMEN NEED APPLY. Ruled Out of the MethO-
 dist Conference. NO ROOM FOR THE SALOONS. Republicans Must Put
 Them Down. THE KAISER IS STRONGER Archbishop Walsh May
 Stay in Dublin.
WOMAN IN THE CONFERENCE.

WOMAN IN THE CONFERENCE. l The Methodist Committee Reports Against Her Admisston-An Interest ing Discussion of the Matter by the Delegates.
 NEW YORK, May 3.-Bishop B. G. An drews presided at this mornings session of l the Methodist conference. The Rev. G. s. Dearborn read from the scriptures and Chap lain McCabe led the singing. The order of the day was the discussion of the report of the committee upon the eligibility of women as lay delegates to the conference. The com mittee yesterday reported against their ads mission The Rev. Dr. Pendleton, of Kansas, was the first to gain the floor. He moved that the women whose seats are contested be given seats on the floor during the debate. To this the Rev. Dr. Nicely, of Philadelphia, objected. The Rev. Mr. Creighton, of Neb raska, spoke in favor of ths motion. After considerable discussion the motion was lost. When the vote was being taken Mrs. Mary Mind of Minnesota, president of the Women's Foreign Missionary society, stood up to vote. Objection was made and her vote was not counted. The Rev. Dr. J. H. Potts, editor of the Michigan Advocate, who is deaf, was given permission to open the debate. He advocated the admission of the women as delegates. He asserted that the report did not interpret aright the law ot the church. It was expected that some men would oppose the admission of the ladies. There is nothing in the statutes, properly in- terpreted, he said, that would restrict women from exercising the same rights as men. In 1868 the rules were changed so that lay dele gates could be admitted, and in 1872 the general conference admitted lay delegates. There was no decision as to whether Clay delegates" meant men only, and the general understanding was that women were eligible to serve as lay delegates. More than two-thirds of the members of the church are women. Have they no rights Are they not to have some- thing to say in the government of the church which they aid so much in support ing? Without woman one half the churches would cease to exist. The Methodist church
 is too progressive and democratic to enter
 tain the ancient brutality displayed toward
 women and advocate their subjection. Wo-
 men cannot be left out without harm to the
 church. The Rev. William Brush of Dakota
 and the Rev. Theodore F. Flood, editor of
 the Chautauquan, made long and earnest
 pleas in favor of the admission of women.
 The Rev. Dr. Buckley, editor of the Chris
 tian Advocate, was the next speaker. He is
 firmly opposed to the admission of the wo-
 men delegates. As he began, his first sen-
 tence created laugh. He said: "The enemy cometh in like flood, but will lift up
 standard against him." He said the ques
 tion at issue is not one of person, but prin- ciples. 'sThe three speakers who precede
 me remind me of the three chapters of
 work of fiction. I have 8 claim to
 some knowledge of Methodist history
 and do not know of anything that tells
 us that women should be admitted" Dr.
 Buckley referred to the Episcopalians, the
 Baptists and Presbyterians, who did not ad-
 init women into their conferences and claim ed that there was not denomination in the
 world that would admit them. He did not
 consider that woman was in her place in
 such an mblage. There is nothing in
 the constitution of the church that gives
 them right to seat. Dr. Buckley then read
 letter from Senator Edmunds, in which he
 described the mode of procedure in the Sen
 ate when 8 seat is contested. The speaker said he stood to champion the holy cause of woman, but he also stood to challenge the right of women to representation in the body until the members of their sex had an opportunity to express their opinion on the subject. He called the of good and sentimentality and claimed that every time @ woman was put in a legislative body man was put out, to no advantage of that body. He closed with an impassioned plea for the support of the committees's re- port.
 The Rev. J. A. B. Wilson of Wilmington, Del, an advocate of the admission Of women, read a long essay in support of their rights. He said if women were allowed the right to preach and be officers of the church they were entitled to seats in the body.
 The Rev. G. W. Hughey, of St. Louis, re- futed some of the arguments of Dr. Buckley, which he considered absurd, and chanpioned the rights of women. The Rev. .Dr.A Wheeler, of Erie, took decided stand against their ad- mission.
 The debate was still on when a recess was taken.
 When the conference assembled this after noon pr. Hunter, of central Illinois, opened Ina wit ha Ariaa Rnnl | arise" Bishop Warren presided and stated that the organizing of the twelve committees would begin at once. Secretary Monroe then read the names of the different committees, | retired and elected in turn chairman and secretary On one committee alone one hun \ dred and ten names appeared. The other | committees contained less number. Each | delegate in consequence serves on more than | one committee. The chairman and secretary I of each are as follows:
 On episcopacy-w. H. oln of the Wyoming con | ference chairman; Arthur Edwards, editor of the | Northwestern Christian Advocate, secretary. On itinerancy-Dr. J. N. Buckley of New York, | chairman; J. ". Joyce of Cincinnati, secretary. | On boundaries-C. J. Clark, secretary bishop
 On reEEivsis@w F. whitlock of northern Ohio,
 chairman; c. Q. Wilber of New York. sscsetary On temporal economya,W. H. Craig of St. Louis, l retary.
 New York East conference, chairman, A. E. P. Al bert. Leuisiana, secretary.
 man; A W. McKenna, central Alabama, secre- | tarY.
 ! On missons-J. N. Thoburn of Indiana, chair man; A. B. Leonard, of Ohio, secretary. On education-Dr. c. H Payne, of Ohio, chair man; Dr. B. c. Fry. St. Louis, secretary. On church extension-J. B. Graw, New Jersey, | chairman: J. O. Jackson Ohio secrstary; On Sunday schools and tracts-J.W w. Mendelhall, Northern Ohio, chairman; Robert Forbes, Minne- | sota, secretary.
 On freedmen 8 aid and work in the South-James M. King, New York, chairman; E. W. s. Ham, \ mond of the Lexington conference. secretary. The first six of these committees will meet on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, the | other six on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Satur- | days. No other business was transacted and the conference adjourned until tomorrow | Y,,orpip0