The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-05-24
METHODIST CONFERENCE.
The Educational Bill Passed After a
Hard F1ght-Will Adjourn Soon.

Hard F1ght-Will Adjourn Soon.
MEMPHIS, May 18.--At to>day's sess-
ion of the NJ. E. conference Bishop
Key presided and DR.. David Bush con-
Quoted devotional exercises, Resolu-
tions were adopted commencing DR..
W. P. Harrison who is soon to con
clude his long service as book editor
and editor of the Quarterly Review OF
the Methodist Episcopal church South,
and instructing that his services be
retained by the book agent until the
close of the present year. Vanderbilt
university at Nashville was endorsed
and it was resolved that the conference
seek to obtain an endowment for the
theological department.
Charles B. Long of the Louisville
conference, chairman of the committee
on finance, reported enough money in
the treasury to pay the expenses of the
delegates until Monday night, includ-
ing supper.
Mr.. Napier moved suspension of the
rules in order that he might introduce
an amendment to report No. Of the
Sunday school committee. The
amendment amounted to compro
mise between the Sunday school COM
mittee and the committee on educa
ton in regard to the disposal Of the
children's day collections. Item 2 of
the report of the committee on educa-
ton provided for the giving of the
children's day collection to the board
of education to be used for educational
purposes. The amendment by DR..
Napier, which was agreed to by the
committee on education, provided
that 10 per cent of the funds collected
on Children's day should go to the
Parent Sunday school board and 10
per cent to the board of education of
the Methodist Episcopal church south,
and the remaining so per cent to the
Sunday school board for the main-
flamenco and assistance of Sunday
schools, any money that may remain
for the collection after it has thus been
dealt with to be divided between the
parent Sunday school and the general
conference board of education.
Upon motion report No. 8 o. the
committee on education, which recon-.
mends commissioner of education to
raise money for Payne and Lane
Institutes was read, also a
minority report which deemed
the appointment of the commissioner
inexpedient and recommended that
the secretary of the board of education
should be the commissioner for the
Colored Methodist church.
After some discussion the minority
report was adopted. A motion to re-
consider was lost. The following res
port was submitted:
THE committee appointed to nomi-
nate the book committee beg leave to
submit the following nominations w
H Morgan, j d Hamilton, r A Young,
Il d File, Collins Denny, j NJ Brink
ley, Paul Whitehead, r w Millsap, J
A Odell, j NJ Mason, W II LovejOy, r
NJ Scruggs and w G Kendrick. "
DR.. Atkins offered resolution which
provided that schools under the pat
ronage of the church be divided into
three classes, viz: Training schools,
colleges and universities and that an
educational councilsconsistlng ofseNen
members be appointed. This council
is to determine the minimum amount
of work for bachelors degree, dis well
as any other matter which might
come under their supervision. Upon
motion the substitute was tabled.
The reports was then adopted as
whole. A motion to reconsider the
whole report was made. The point of
order was raised that the house eX.
tended the time until the educational
bill shall have been passed and that it
had been passed; therefore the house
stood adjourned by its own action and
the motion to reconsider was out of
order. The chair ruled the point well
taken. Thus the educational bill, the
most important introduced at this
general conference, was at last adopted
after its opponents had fought it to
the last ditch and died there.