The record-union., 1892-05-31
PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY:
Final Proceedings in the DR..
Briggs Heresy Case.
PROTEST AGAINST THE WORLDS
FAIR OPENING ON SUNDAY.
Man and Two Boys Drowned In the
Kern River-No Change In the situa-
ton at the Occur d'Alene Mines
Small Forces of Non-Union Men at
Work-The Press Association Ar
rive at Portland.
Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.

! obSSiiti " the hhSORD~UNION.
PORTLAND, May 30.-The reading of
the minutes of the assembly to-day con-
tanned Renaissance of the feeling
| which was excited by the precipitate
! action OF Friday night upon revision. A
/ protest is to be formulated and intro
duced at later date. The Mayor of Port
( land was present and addressed the as
scmbly. After some uninportant bust
ness Judge Ewing introduced the follow
ing resolution in the Briggs case, it being
mainly formal and only important in its
wording:
The General Assembly having on the
18th day Of May, 1892, duly sustained all
| the Specifications OF error alleged and set
forth in the appeal and specifications Of
the case, it is now ordered that the iudg-
ment Of the Presbytery of New York,
/ entered on November +, 1891, in dismiss
/ ing the case of the Presbyterian Church
/ IN the United states of America against
/ IteV. Charles y. Briggs. D. D., be and the
/ same is hereby reversed and the case is
remanded To the Presbytery of New
! DIRK for new trial. with directions to
the said PreSbytery to proceed to pass
| upon and determine the sufliciency of
| the charges and specifications in form
and legal effect. ana to permit the Pros
| ecuting Committee to amend the Specif-
cations or charges, not changing the gen
/ eral nature OF the same, ii in the fur
therance OF justice it be necessary to
| amend them, SO that the case NAV be
! brought TO an issue and tried on the
| merits thereof as speedily as NAV be
! practicable"
The rest of the recommendation is I'M
| essential to the main ISSUE
After few unimportant matters had
! been attended to the order Of the day was
! called, II being the report on Theological
! Seminaries.
! The supplementary report of the ma
! Jouty OF the committee was then read.
and it was followed by that Of the minor
1ty. These reports were essentially the
| same as those presented last Wednesday.
without the harmony then enjoined. The
| majority report had added certain phrases
which were considered Objectionable by
| many; for instance, one that the. nom
| compliance of the Union directors was "a
| failure to comply with the obligations
| contained in the compact of 1870" An
/ other resolution was plainly aimed at the
! Union Seminary. and declared in words
| OF Commissioner to mean "a boycott"
! The memorial of the seminary for the
| dissolution OfrelatiOns was recommended
! Tor denial. This point of the minority
report recommended opposite action and
the formation of new compact.
A substitute was offered by DIR. Blay-
ney OF Kentucky which accepted most of
the proposals OF the majority, but which
| toned down their language. Instead of
| the declaration that DR.. Briggs chair is
| de Jure vacant he proposed to say that
the election of DR.. Briggs was ''incom-
! plete." The discussion proceeded till the
close OF the morning hour, and covered
| everything from the inception of the
compact of 1870 till the close of the mi
nority report. 1t was shown that arbi-
! tratlon was out OF the question, and that
the only problem is in regard to the new
status introduced by the Union Semi
nary's memorial asking for the severance
| OF relations. Many strong words were
used, but no result was reached.
In criticising the recommendations of
majority OF the committee DR.. Lampman
of Newark said that the committee RECON-
mended both declaration Of war and a
| proclamation of truce. In closing. he
said: What L object to is that you
! should come with d flag of truce in one
! hand and q club in the other to beat out
! the brains of this institution" meaning
! the Union Seminary. He was called
| upon 10 retract, but the Moderator al
! lowed the words as a figurative state
| ment OF the speakers views. The dis
| cussion goes over TIL the afternoon
session.
ny 0h'y p'LU VI Iue iudJOTIIy report
which was adopted was that which
! speaker had characterized as proclaiming
! a boycott on the Union Seminary 4
resolution looking toward arbitration
was considered ut length, and was finally
| adopted in the form recommended in the
majority report. The day special order
for O'Clock was a report of the Commit
tee on Sabbath Observance, presented by
| Colonel Sheppard of New York. For the
second time the assembly entered a pro-
| test against the opening of the Worlds
Fair on Sunday. Action OF a similar ma
ture Will be taken later on in the report
| of the Standing Committee