Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-27
Put on Record rainst Po'yramv.

The Common Missions then brought in a
red-hot report upon the attitude of the
Church with relation to polygamy. 1t de-
clared that the Church should under no cir
cumstances admit any one who had not en-
tirely abandoned the practice of polygamy.
Adopted.
A long discussion took place over the
matter of church insurance. The committee
recommended that tine matter be referred to
the Church Extension Society, but others
favored the organization of a special COM
mission to consider the organization of a
Church Insurance Society, a substitute
for the report of the committee recommend
ed to organize an insurance society within
the Church. DR.. Buckley and others fa-
vored the idea of organizing an insurance
society similar to those conducted by the
Wesleyan Church in England. The substi-
tute was adopted. This provided for the
appointment of Commission OH Insurance
~ report plan of insurance at the next
General Conference.
On motion of Dr. Bristol, the Con Inference
congratulated the United States Congress
upon the action taken few davs ago, by
which the S5,000,000 appropriation to the
Worlds Fair was conditioned upon the
proposition that no intoxicating liquors
should be sold on the grounds.
Ih, Last Bout on tn, Woman Question.
Now, at last, the woman question got into
the Conference. The Judiciary Committee
reported that the word "layman" in the
Discipline did not mean both sexes, but that
1t had reference to men only. The commit
tee did not mean TO lake the ground that
the women should not be admitted, but
simply that the meaning of the word "lav-
man, as it WAS placed in the Discipline
years ago, did not include women.
DR.. ID. III. Moore, the women's champiop,
offered substitute, declaring that the plan
OF Law delegation is not a constitutional
question. but it might be decided bv the
action of the General Conference, and, there
fore, that the General Conference might de-
eide the right to admit women to the Gen.
eral Conference without constitutional
change. He held, further, that the word
'1aymen" did mean women as well as men.
The term might have been applied only to
men at the time the words were adopted,
but by justice and right the term ought to
be applied to both men and women.
The Substitute That Finally Carried.
DR. Hamilton offered a substitute, pro-
yiding 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 by two-thirds
'O'Ns N'~N VIZ WIN IhCu buOIC-
after mean both men and women. This
was received with hearty applause.
DR. j. NJ. Buckley said he wanted the
women to come in early if they came in at
all. Drs. Hamilton and Moore, he said,
were trying to get the women into the Con-
ference Dy a trick. If this effort succeeded
it would place stain upon the record of
the men who presented such a scheme, and
would be questionable right granted to
the women.
DR.. Field, of Philadelphia, held that the
admission Of women would drive the Young
men and boys out OF the Church He
pleaded for the young men, he said, by urg-
ing the Conference and all the women of
the Church not to insist upon admitting
women.
DR.. Bristol was opposed to the scheme
proposed by DR.. Hamilton. He held that
the women should not come in by iugglery.
Let them come in by vote of the annual
conferences, or not at all. This, he said,
was the only way by which the women could
come into the General Conference in a con-
stitutional manner.
Annual Conferences Must Decide.
A motion to lay DR. Hamilton's amend
ulent on the table was lost The