St. Paul daily globe., 1892-05-27

any one who had not entirely abandon
ed the practice of polygamy. Adopted.
Now at last the woman question got
into the conference The judiciary
committee reported that the word "lay
men" in the discipline did not mean
both sexes, but that it had reference to
men only. The committee did not mean
to take the ground that women should
not be admitted, but simply that the
meaning of the word ''laymen" as it
was placed in the discipline years ago.
did not include women.
DIR. d. Ii. Moore, the women'S cham
pion, offered substitute, declaring that
the plan of lay delegation was not
constitutional question, but might be
decided by the action of the general
conference and therefore that the gem
eral conference might decide the right
to admit women 10 the general confer
ence without constitutional change.
DR.. Hamilton offered a substitute
providing that the annual conferences
should vote upon the proposition to
make the word ''laymen" mean men
only and in case the proposition was not
carried bv a twO-thIrdS vote then the
word 'laymen" should thereafter mean
both men and women. This was
great hit. 1t was received with hearty
applause.
! DIR. j. NJ. Buckley rolled out vigor-
Gus speech going to show that the word
.slaymen" never had meant women.
Drs. Hamilton aud Moore, he said, were
:trying to get women into the conference
/ liz trick. If this effort succeeded 1t
5 would place a stain upon the record OF
! the men who presented such a scheme,
/ and .would be questionable right
granted to the women
B geMr. Field, Of PhifzHefp held that
/ tile admission of women would df1ve the
young men and boys out OF the church.
Hepleaded for the young men, he said,
BY urging the conference, and all the.
women of the church, not to insist upon
admitting women.
A motion to lay DR.. Hanilton's
|; amendment on the table failed0 OF
adoption. DIR. Hamilton's amendment
provides that the word slaymen," as
applied to lay delegates, must mean
male delegates, and i'll case this interpre-
taIien of the word is not sustained by
tWo-thirds vote Of the annual confer
Iieces and three-f0urthS vote OF the
general conference. then the word .lay-
men, shall mean both women and men,
and will. of course, admit the women as
| lay. delegates. The amendment was
adopted by a vote of 234 to 1T4. The
result was tumultously applauded.
: The question was then divided; DR..
| Moores part of the paper was laid on
/ the table, and Dr. Hamilton's substitute
was then adopted by vote of 241 to 1863,
to take the place of all other parts OF
/ the paper, and be submitted at the an
|. nhal conference. The victory was
greeted by long burst of applause.
! A resolution to ask the annual con-
ferences to reduce the ratio of repre-
sentat on from one delegate for each
forty-five ministers to one for every
ninety ministers in the annual confer
ences was adopted by vote of 167 to
1913. The object of this is to make the
general conference smaller body. The
roll was then called to see how many of
the delegates were present and who
they were at the last session, and after
the approval OF minutes and the usual
resolutions of thanks, the conference,
with devotional exercises, adjourned
sine die.