Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-05-10
THE BIG CONFERENCE.
The Day for the Election Of Officers
Announced, AMI the
FENCE BUILDING BEGINS AT ONCE.
Candidates for the Positions in the Gift Of the Con-
ference Begin an Active Campaign-Grant
University to be Inyestigated-The Meth
OdiSt on Indian Sectarian Schools.

OMAHA, NEb.l MAY 5.-OclcS dtCS W
the general conference assembled in the
exposition hall this morning, looking
considerably disguised with the weather
but ready to take up the work OF the
conference with energy. Bishop Vim
cent presided and the devotional exer-
cises were conducted by DR.. Mckinley,
of New York.
DIR. Hammond, of San Francisco,
offered a resolution referring TO enter
tainment of the next general confer
ehce. A report committee was appoint
ed TO consider the subject. A resolu-
tion was offered calling upon the COM
mittee on epiScopacy to ascertain If
either OF the missionary bishops
had ordained any body outside of the
special territory to which they have
been assigned and if SO by what authOri-
" they had been so. The resolution
was referred to the Committee on Epis-
copacy. This will doubtless touch the
action OF Bishop Taylor who it is said
ordained a minister while in England.
His authority extends only over the
work in Africa. VIM. Deering, Of the
Rock River Conference, was added to
the Committee on Equalizing. Amos
Shinkle, offered resolution To fix the
time for the election of officer for Mon
day, May 10th. 1t was amended so as
to read Tuesday. May nth, and was
carried. This, it is thought, will create
a tremendous Interest in the work of
eectioneering and from now until May
18th work of building fences will, it is
said, be pushed with great vigOr by the
candidates.
A resolution was offered calling for an
investigation into the affairs of Grant
University at Chattanooga. 1t was al
legged in the resolution that this institu-
tion had squandered great deal Of
money, had kept in employment a
larger faculty than necessary and that
the whole management of the college
needed investigation.
Grant University Is under the charge
of the Freedmen Aid Society. The res
olution was referred to the Committee
on Freedmen's Aid and Southern Edu
cation Society.
DR.. j. +. Spence is president Of Grant
University and will probably defend the
management when the proper time
comes. Dr. J. NJ. King, leading can
dldate for the episcopacy offered reso-
luton for a proposed amendment to the
Constitution OF the United States. 1t
relates TO the protection OF the public
schools in the United States against re-
ligious encrOaChments and to define the
attitude of the churches with relation
to the schools. The resolution was
adopted and applauded.
DR.. King offered a resolution declar-
ing that the appropriation OF money by
the national government for eccieSi-
astical education was not in accord with
the principles of the Constitution, and
that the churches should refuse to re-
ceive money from the government for
the education of the Indians. DR.. King
spoke earnestly upon the subject, stating
that all the churches had been getting
assistance from the government in their
Indian work. He believed it was a
wrong principle. The Catholic Church,
he said, had received over two million
dollars. He wanted the whole contract
system between the government and
the church wiped out. The resolution
was carried unanimously.
Women and dancing were two Of the
topics that agitated the Methodist
Episcopal General Conference to-day.
Committee membership was demanded
for the former, and the young members
gave decided indications OF a desire to
enjoy the latter.
The women's question was sprung in
the formal resolution by j. b. Maxwell,
Of Nebraska, asking that they be ad-
mitted to full participation in the do
ings OF the General Missionary Commit
tee. The resolution, while exciting
much interest, was referred under the
rules without discussion. The project
to mix terpSichoiean gaiety with piety
came in the shape OF memorial from
the Troy conference petitiOning the
General Conference 20 eXpunge from
the discipline section PAP, relating to
amusements, or at least asking that it
be modified so that dancing may be per-
miSSible.
The memorial is signed by Rev. VIM.
W. Foster, Joel w. Eaton, William Ii.
Hughes, John w. Thompson, E. f.
SSevens, Z. E. Sawyer, and several
others, all of New York. Bishop Eos
ter, of Boston, approves the movement
and has given 1t his official sanction and
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The memorial is now in the hands OF
the Committee on Discipline to whom it
was referred.
DIR. Mcdowell, Of Philadelphia, offered
resolution providing for change in
the rules by which neither the laymen
or the ministers when voting by call OF
the orders, that is separately, should
have power to demand call of the
roll of the opposite order wished TO be
placed on record; in other words the
resolution, if adopted, would not permit
the laymen to compel the ministers to
go on record, sixty ministers TO put
the laymen on record against their
will. DR.. Buckley, of New York,
was in favor of the amendment. DR..
Lawrence was very much opposed to it.
A hot discussion followed in which a
number of laymen spoke against the
amendment. The vote of the laymen
on the amendment stood as sollows:
Ave 81; no lib. The ministerial vote
stood, aye ZIG: no As.
The amendment was lost, IS the two
orders failed to.agree, and according to
rule a negative vote of either order de-
featS a resolution or motion. Ad-
iourned.
The Levees In Danger
ARKANSAS CRY, ARK, May 9.-The riv-