St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-24
ADJOURNMENT FIXED.
The Methodist Conference Will
Quit Thursday.

OMAHA, May 23.-The last week of the
conference began this morning, with
Bishop Warren in the chair. DR.. Smith.
of the Pittsburg Advocate, introduced
a motion to take from the table the res
olution presented last week providing
for an adjournment Thursday afternoon
of this week. DR.. Nicely and others
were opposed to the idea of fixing the
time of adjournment. A vote was
taken, however, and the motion was
carried-216 to 100.
Chaplain McCabe moved that the con-
ference have three sessions every day.
1t was not seconded. DR.. Little moved
to suspend the rules to provide for
night sessions. Carried. He then
moved that the conference hold night
sessions to the close of the conference.
1t was amended so as to- provide for
afternoon sessions Oh Tuesday, Wednes-
day and Thursday. The motion to hold
night and afternoon sessions was then
carried.
DR.. Hunt offered a resolution to con-
solidate some of the paragraphs in the
discipline concerning the relation of the
annual conferences and certain officers
of the church. Laid over for day to
be printed. DR.. Hunt also introduced
resolution 20 appoint the bishops a
board to appoint the various boards of
control for the different auxiliary de-
partments. Carried.
A resolution condemning capital pun
ishment went to the table with rush.
Mr.. Shinkle, of Kentucky, introduced
a resolution providing that delegates to
general conferences hereafter have
their travelling expenses paid in proper
tion to the amounts paid by the annual
conferences. Conferences that paid
their assessments should have the eX-
penses of their delegates paid by the
general conference. Those who failed
to pay their assessment would not have
the expenses of their delegates paid. 1t
carried after excepting delegates from
foreign countries. 1t was decided to
draw the pay of the missionary bishops
from the missionary funds instead Of
from the episcopal fund.
DR.. Potts, of the Michigan Advocate,
wanted to introduce resolution to sub
nit the question of admitting women as
delegates to the general conference
again, but owing to the fact that this
question was already before the COM
mittee on lay representation and judi
ciary, the resolution was not enter
tanned.
DIR. Pullman and half dozen others
declared that the subject was not before
the committee, and it was finally ascer-
tanned that this important matter
had not been presented to any
of the committees in the form present
ed in the resolution introduced by DR..
Potts. The ruling was therefore re-
.versed and the resolution was taken up.
DR.. Potts declared that large number
of the delegates present had been
elected on the issues involved in the
woman question, and it would be a
shame to go home without taking definite
action. The whole question was finally
laid over tO<await the COMMITTEES report
having the constitutional question in
.handss Dr.a Sanford Hunt was elected
treasurer of the missionary society and
DR.. Earl Cranston was elected secretary
of the same society. Mr.. Field, of Phil
adelphia, introduced a resolution to
make it necessary for all officers, agents,
secretaries, treasurerS and the like who
had the handling offunds to give bonds as
security. This brought on a heated dis
cussion. Chaplain McCabe, DIR. Lana
han, and others opposed the resolution.
They held that as the funds had always
been properly accounted for, and as
many of these officers filled the office of
treasurer without compensation, 1t
would be out of place to ask them to
furnish bonds.
A resolution of sympathy for the Jews
of Russia was then introduced and
passed. The resolution declared that 1t
was the sense of the conference that
the Jews in Russia were being un-
mercifuily prosecuted. They should
have the right to worship God accord
ING tn thc dictates Of their conscience
and it was the hope of the conference
that the Russian Jews would soon en-
JOY the same rights as other people.