The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-18
THE METHODISTS
Denounce the Way Their Colored
Brother Is Treated.
The Management Of the New York Book Con
Germ Receives Roasting
Other Business

OMAHA, May 17-Bishop Bowman pre-
sided at the mornings session of the Meth
odist conference.
The committee on itineracy reported in
favor of the abolishment of the five year
limit on the appointment of pastors, and
recommended that the bishops be permit
ted tn appoint pastors every year, without
reference to the place to which the min
listers had been assigned the previous year.
AS the church law has stood for many
years, the pastor could not remain at one
place any longer than five years in sue
cession.
The report was made the special order
Tor tomorrow morning.
The committee on the state of the church
brought in q report fairly bristling with
denunciations of the outrages practiced on
the negroes in the south. 1t called on
the government, the states, the church
and all good citizens TO rise
and abolish these outrages. The res
olution declared that the colored people
were treated shameiully in trains and
hotels, shot down like dogs, and the law of
the land was trampled under foot by the
people who despised the colored race. The
report caused a great stir. A number of
delegates made vehement speeches, calling
on the great Methodist church to sound the
alarm, and stand firmly for the rights of
the coored people. The report was unani-
mously adopted by rising vote
The order of the day, the election Of
officers of the book concern, ETC., was then
called. DR.. Sanford Hunt and DR.. Homer
York book concern for some years,
were nominated. Fields, Phila-
delphia, attempted to make q
statement in regard 10 the management of
that business, but was ruled out of order
He claims the concern has been badly man
aged; that with a capital of 81, 000, 600, it
showed a profit of only $40, 900 for the last
four years; with business of 5000, 900 for
the last year. 100000 still stands on the
books uncollected. DR.. Hunt says in ex-
PLANTATION that large amount of nomina al
capital was locked up in the building used
| by other departments of the church and
| brings no rent; that the whole capital of
| the concern has been made from nothing
by the concern, and the debt does not rep
resent the money sunk. On ballot the NOM
| inees were elected with little opposition
Nominations for agents of the Cincinnati
book concern: DR.. w. r. Halsted, DIR.
Louis Curtis, DR.. Cranstou, Dr. w. P.
Stowe, DR.. Samuel Pemberton, Dr. j. d.
Hammond, DR.. L. a. Belt, Hon. Samuel
Hickey, Samuel H. High.
Pending the count of the ballot the con-
| ference proceeded to the election of their
secretaries to the Missionary society. Nom
nations: T. S. Nicely, Chaplin McCabe,
DR.. j. o. Peck, DR.. H. B. Leonard, William
Jones, DR.. J. w. Hamilton, Dr. A. j.
Palmer, DR.. S. L. Barrwind. By resolu-
ton Rev. John M. Reed was made honorary
secretary OF the Missionary society.
The report of the ballot for agents of the
Cincinnati book concern showed the cleo
ton of DR.. Earl Cranston, the only one who
] had majority of the votes cast A second
ballot was ordered for the other agent.
The committee on church extension,
pending the report of the tellers, reported
recommending that provisions be made for
the kneeling of the audience during wor-
ship.
The tellers on the vote for missionary
secretaries announced the result, showing
the election OF McCabe, Peck and Leonard
who were the secretaries during the pas
four years.
Adjourned without getting the result o.
the second ballot for agent of the Cincin
natl book concern.