St. Paul daily globe., 1893-06-01


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Westernland, Antwerp.
fendant into the record were permitted
to remain, and quotations and extracts
offered by the defendant We're received
as evidence without having been sworn.
On first specification division was
taken, the result being that the specifica-
ton was sustained-262 to lS5. The
others were sustained by viva voce vote.
The third ground OF appeal was that
of ''declining 10 receive important testi-
mony," with two specifications, that
charges four and seven were striken
out, thereby preventing the proving of
the charges. These specifications were
sustained without Il division.
The fourth ground of appeal alleged
manifestations of prejudice in the
conduct of the case. and of its six
specifications the Briggs men carried
two, and came within two votes of
carrying another. On the first specif-
cation, which alleged that the Rev.
George Alexander, Antonio Arreghi,
Henry NJ. Fields, Henry S. Hastings
and Henry Van Dyke made
PrejudIced Statements
OH the floor, and afterwards voted in
the presbytery mot" to sustain each
and every one of the specifications and
charges, yive vOce vote was taken
only, and the moderator declared the
specification lost.
Specifications second, third and
fourth, alleging that the presbyiery did
not try the case on its merits, attempted
to terminate it without attaining the
ends Of discipline and eyaded the issue,
were sustained by viva vOce votes.
Specification fifth, alleging that Revs.
Francis Brown, Henry Nj. Field,
Thomas S. Hastings, j. Hall McLiyaine
and Henry Van Dyke, members of the
Presbytery, voted to sustain the accused
after they had been charged in the APP
peal with prejudice, was lost by viva
vOce vote.
Specification sixth, alleging that sun
dry directors, officers and professors of
Union Theological seminary, namely:
Revs.sFrancis Brown, Edward l.. Clark,
Charles K. Gillett, ThOTas S. Hast
ings, }. Hall McIlvaine, Philip
Schaff, w. NJ. Smith and NJ. X.
Vincent and Mr.. William A. Wheeler,
voted to acquit the accused upon each
and every specification and charge after
they had approved Of DR.. Briggs in
augural address, which contained the
alleged erroneous doctrines, for the
holding and publishing of which the ac-
cused was there OIL trial. a viva voce
vote was followed by count, and the
stated clerk announced that
IL stood 236 TO 234,
but suggested that another count be
taken on account-of the clOSeness OF the
vote. There were cries of NO" how
ever. and the clerk proceeded to read
the fifth ground of appeal.
The fifth and last ground of appeal
contained: specifications OF errors"
and it charged mistake or injustice In
the decision" The specifications
charged error in the failure to convict
the defendant OH competent charges, the
facts being admitted by the defendant;
that the judgment was not warranted by
the law and evidence; that the Judgment
is IN fact an approval OF the views EN-.
bodied in the inaugural address; that
the Judgment is vague, unjust ana mis-
leading; that the presbytery was moved
by unsworn and improper testimony;
that the judgment is contradictory In
form and effect. The votes on these
specifications were taken without
division, resulting in declaration that
each and every one had been sustained.
This part OF the proceedings having
w
Kentucky. moved that the roll be called
and the assembly vote upon the main
question, "Shall the appeal be sus-
tained?p which was adopted. Before
beginning the roll call the moderator
announced that the form of answer
would be Sustained" or Not suS-
talned." and that commissioners might
vote 10 sustain III part" but that such
votes would be counted as part OF the
total.
To Sustain the Appeal.
The roll was then called in the midst
of an almost painful stiffness, the spec
tators in the gallery rising to their feet
In their anxiety TO catch every response.
The vote was announced at 1O:l5 by the
stated clerk as follows: Whole mum
Der Of votes cast, 400; to sustain the APP
peal, 29S; to sustain in part, So; total to
sustain the appeal, 3S3; not to sustain,
116.
After the result had been announced,
Rev. J. T. Smith, eff Baltimore. moved
the appointment of a committee of
fifteen commissioners, of which Rev.
Thomas A. HOyt, ID. d., of Philadelphia,
shall be chairman, to bring in an eX-
planatory minute. This was carried,
and on motion of President Warield, of
Lafayette college, the moderator was
duliol iLSu W dppOlhI thC COhIhiittcO'
Hc will announce the committee tOmOr-
row. The assembly then adjourned at
1925 until tomorrow morning at
O'Clock to reconyene as court at 9:30.
The explanatory minute to be pre-
pared by the committee to be named to-
morrow will express the sense of the
assembly as to the action that should be
taken npon the judgment of the Pres
bytery of New York-whether it shall
be reversed or modified and what pen
atty shall be imposed against DR.. Briggs.
IL any. The report of the committee
will doubtless provoke some discussion,
and, with the less important matters on
tic docket for consideration, promises a
of the assenbly's sessions
Until FRIDAY night.