St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-11-07
AIDING The FREEDMEN.
THE M. e. BISHOPS CONSIDER AND
APP0RTfOR THE FUNDS.


What Has Been Expended Both
for Whites and Blacks in the
South-A Detailed List of the
Appropriations Made for 1893
'94-The Evening Anniversary
Meeting-Affair in the South.
Yesterday morning the Methodist
bishops met at Central Park NJ. <.
church and resumed their labors. The
immediate business before the meeting
was the annual appropriations for the
Freedmen's Aid and Southern Educa-
tional society. This society wss organ
lied in Trinity church, NJ. E., in Cincin-
natl, o., Aug. Z and s. 1865, and was
first known as the Freedmen's Aid So
ciety of the NJ. E. Church.
Since its organization. the society has
achieved, out Of the many and tortuous
difficulties surrounding it, very crafty
ing success, and today large numbers of
both whites and blacks are being edu-
Gated side by side in these institutions
of learning. The following sums have
been set apart and appropriated for the
present scholastic year, 1885 "a:
SCHOOLS AMONG COL0RED PEOPLE.
Theological. ..Sl0,0S0 90
Collegiate. ........ .........." $3.50 on
Total ...... ...... ......S6s' 500 OO
Total among colored peo-
pie. .......SS2.5C2 5O
SCHOOLS AMONG WHITE PEOPLE.
: !.
Academic. .............-. $3.50 W
Total. Observation-Disclosures. .S11.S50 90
Grand total. ....,..s 1O0.352 so
These appropriations as before stated,
made from the general fund for the
year 1854. are an increase of per
cent over those made for the previous
year 1928. The above figures, how
ever, do not show all the expenses of
this mammoth charity. They may be
more fully particularized as follows:
Institutions of learning $50. .S100,352 so
Interest on bonds, annuitieS,
oe etc; IL d2 S S0O 0 oO
Total. ........... ...... .sl35, 1852 so
In addition to this. all expended in
fort in each particular case.
In view of the prevailing financial de-
preston, it was resolved to open the
schools month later than heretofore,
and that salaries be paid only from the
time of opening.
a resolution offered by Bishop Wal
don, thanking the teachers for their
courtesIeS in such ready submission to
the necessities of the situation, was
unanimously adopted.
DRIVE ABOUT TOWN.
II. S. Fairchild, of the chamber of
commerce committee, then extended an
invitation 70 the conference to take a
drive about the city, which was &C
cepted, and the hour fixed at today at 2
p. IN.
AID TO THE FREEDMEN.
The conference next took up the bust
ness in hand-the amount to be appor-
toned in aid of the freedmen's educa-
tional course, which amount, it was
stated, reached the sum of $3.50, 600.
This amount had, however. never been
obtained, and DR.. Pearson, of Cincin-
natl, introduced "a resolution to cut it
down. This led to spirited discussion
i'll which the proposition to cut down
was vigorously opposed. and after
discussion participated in by DR.. Hamil.
ton, Bishop Newman and others reso-
luton was adopted, as offered by Bishop
Walden, looking to the deliverance bv
the church of declaration on the sub
ject, which would inevitably result in
improving collections.
AT the afternoon session the work of
appOrtioning the amount to each institu-
ton for the present scholastic year was
further prosecuted and fixed as follows:
EASTERN CONFERENCES