The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-05-19
THE BLOODY SHIRT.
1T is WILDLY FLAUNTED BY THE ME-
TH0DIsT CONFERENCE.
They Say Southsrners Are Demons in Their
Treatment of Negroes, Shoot Them Down
Like Dogs and Will Not Even Eat
With Them at Hotels.

OMAHA, Neb., May 1.-THE genial
face of Bishop Bowman shons behind
the presiding officer's desk today in
the Methodist Episcopal general con-
ference.
The committee on itinerancy
brought in report recommending
the abolishment of the five year limit
on appointment pastors. The report
favored the idea of permitting bishops
to appoint pastors every year without
reference to the place to which minis
ters have been assigned the year pre-
vious. A motion was made to make
report on special order at 10 o'clock
Wednesday, and it was carried.
The order of elections was then TAX
en- up. DR.. Goucher moved that elec-
tions of secretaries of Freedman's Aid
society be postponed until Thursday,
because the committee was not ready
to report. Adopted. The order OF
Agents of the Book Concern at New
York; agents Of the Book Concern at
Cincinnati; secretaries of Missionary
societie-; secretaries of Freedman's
Aid and Southern Educational soci-
ETY.; editor Methodist Review and
editors Advocate at New York, Gin
cinnati, Chicago and San Francisco.
The committee on the state of the
church brought in report that
fairly bristled all over with
denunciation of "outrages practiced
upon the colored race in the South"
1t called upon the government, state
officials, the Methodist church and all
good citizens to arise in their might
and abolish the indignities and out
RACES put upon the colored people, and
all white people who love the work
for the elevation of the colored race in
declared the colored people were treat
ed shamefully on railway trains and
in hotels and in every way. They
were shot down like dogs and the law
of the land trampled under foot by
people who despised the colored race.
The report was adopted by rising
vote, every delegate in the conference
rising to his feet.
The order of the day was then call
ed. Election of officers: For agents
of the book concern at New York, DR..
Myley nominated DIR. Sanford Hunt
and Homer Eaton. Mr.. Field of Phila-
delphia, wanted to ask a question.
The chairman decided he was out of
order. He persisted in his demand
that he should be heard on q question
of ,,ri iuilana Ha uoc nollad to 0rdor
by the chairman. If he had been
given the floor he would have ex-
ploded bomb. 1t was business
boom touching the management of
the New York concern. Mr.. Field
had figures in his possession showing
that the great book concern at New
York with q capital of $4,000, 900 had
only made net profit of $4,000 per
apnum during the past four years.
Mr.. Field wished to ask If that was
considered good business ability.
Another strange fact in the business
of the book concern, Field holds is
that while the house did business OF
100000 last year, the amount OF
money on the books and uncollected
is over 100000. DI. Hunt says he
could explain all this matter to the
satisfaction of all reasonable men if
he had hearing. A large amount OF
capital of the New York book concern
he says is locked up in the building
used by other departments of the
church and brings in no rents. He
says the whole capital of the concern
has been made from nothing, and the
debt does not represent money sunk.