Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-06-05
THE BRIGGS CASE,
As Viewed From the Standpoint OF Its
Money Cost.

As Viewed From the Standpoint OF its
Money Cost.
An excellent authority on the subject OF the
cost o: entertaining such a body as the gem
e-ai assembly OF the Presbyterian Church is
tire chairman OF he locsl committee
of arrangements. Rev. DIR. bartlett He
has Just nboat concluded paving the
bills incurred at the various hotels for the
board CT the commissioner He is settling
up the other expenses, and today was OF the
opinion that there would be a small balance
LEFT Of the fund Of $4,000 provided by
the generosity OF the Presbyterians Of the
city for the entertainment of the assembly,
The LEGAL committee agreed to pay the ex-
penses in this city OF 200 delegates. The
Briggs case had bearing on this bill of
expense, as it is estimated that the as
semblv was In session two GAYS longer than
IL would have been il there had been no case of
this SOFT. The expense to the assembly for
each day that i. was in session for the board
bills alone o. the delegates was about
$780, In this particular. then. the Briggs case
cost 1850. DR.. Bartlett supposes that all
the printing that done by the prosecuting
committee was a charae upon tie funds of the
assembly. BE is of the opinion that the esti-
mate as printed il some OF the newspapers
that the Briggs case, from tie beginning, more
than two wears Sgo. 10 the present time. has cost
the assembly 5000 is not much out Of the
way. He thinks that Col. McCook of the
prosecuting committee. who is wealthy man,
has expended on this out OF his own
pocket at least SO 900. lie is the only man OF
means on the committee. DR.. Bartlett. says, and
no doubt paid the expenses CT the other MEM
beers OF the committee while they were in this
city.
LIKE A MEXICAN REVOLUTION.
Now that the case OF Prof. Briggs has been
disposed Of DR.. Bartlett is disposed to talk
about matters that have more Of live interes:
than something that is settled and belongs to
the past. He has been so stepped
in assembly matters during the past
two weeks that il is not surprising that he had
something to say on the subject of the assem-
bly, in his pulpit Yesterday. What he said, and
especially when he touched upon the Briggs
case. was in conciliatory spiri.. As he said
today to representative of TIE STAR:
There was a Mexican revolution in progress
in one section OF the great Presbyterian Church
and the church simply crushed il out. 1t is q
noticeable fact that in all the pulpits
OF the country as reported to us in
the newspapers there was only one whore a
denuncistion Of the action Of the assembly in
the Briggs case was heard, that is, only one
Presbyterian pulpit. while outside OF our de-
nomination I saw that only one other min
lister has expressed himself in opposi-
ton and that was Universalist.
DR.. Ecols of Albany. \. Z. is the pastor OF q
Presbyterian church. but understand that he
has given up the church PRAYER meeting. the
Sunday school and has only one service on Sun
day. His church is not much like a
Presbyterian church, and yet he is retained
in the church. which goes to show that the
Presbyterian Church is not insoleraut as some
say, but on the contrary it tolerates the largest
liberty,"