The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-05-20
SATURDAYS SESSION


| Vi ~ EtNuyNtElu Nchbta -tshtElDly III
PlttsbutEh-Two Eloquent Speeches.
P%ITrsnuRGu, May l9.-After a morn
ing session, which was occupied exclu.
sively with a discussion OF the semina,
ry control question. the Presbyterian
general assembly yesterday adjourned
until tomorrow morning. The speech.
es delivered at the session were ex.
haustive, and went deeply into all the
matters involved in the propositions OF
the assembly in the colleges. They
we're decided, too, in that the repre-.
| gentatives OF both sides did not hesitate
TO say that the others had not treated
'hem fairly; but this was done in a
very di~spassiona.e manner, and with SO
many assurances it was only in brother
ly kindness that the discussion cannot
fairly be said to have been in the least
heated.
The determination 10 continue the de.
bate until it was ended was repeated on
the occasion Of an attempt to defer i.
and permit the introduction OF some
other matters, and the assembly also
expressed in an emphatic manner its
belief that all those who had anything
to say should be heard TO the full extent
that they desire 10 speak, q motion to
limi. the time OF speaking being over.
whelmingly voted down.
The Scotch readiness at retort mado
isielt apparent during this enliyening
incident more decidedly than at any
other time OF the days session, aud tho
assembly was several times in au up.
roar oil laughter at the sharp thrusts
and the name in which they wern
parted. Tho disposition OF tho com.
missiouers to display their wit is, per.
haps, more than any other thing, con.
tribu,ing to keep down animosities, and
enabling speakera to say things with
out giving o~iense, which il clothed in
a very little different language would
be exceedingly harsh.
After tho devotional exercises OF the
morning, and the announcement Of n
few committees. Rev. DR.. WV. Nc
Kinney resumed his speech in favor Of
the seminary control committees re-
port, which had been interrupted by
tho adjournment OF the previous day.
DR.. Mchinuey's opening argument for
the day was a reply to the claim that
the adoption OF the plan OF seminary
control would widen the breach DO.
tween the northern and southern Pres
by terrain bodies. He declared that tho
southern general assembly had assert.
cd, and on various occasions had exer-
cised, the right to control its scmina.
rios, and read from authorities OF tho
southern church in support OF this po-
sition.
Dr.. White, who is president OF tho
board OF trustees OF Lano theological
seminary. entered an objection at tho
outset against tho course OF tho last
speaker in favor OF the report in per-
haps uuwittingly characterizing the &C
ton OF the seminarics as rcbellious.
The mon in charge OF theln were, he be-
loved, called OF God to administer those
trusts, and acting upon their best iudg-
mcnt they had decided that it was best
not TO change their rclatins to tho as-
Hembly. Tho proposition OF tho assem-
bly, had been laid before them by the
committee merely as matters for their
judgment, and thoir answers upon them
should be treated MS final, rs arc tho
nnswors OF tho presbytcrics to M over.
| turo from tho general assembly.
Mr.. McDougal, who ia Il leading Gin.
| cinnati attorney, made ono OF tho most
convincing speeches which had yet been
listened TO by tho assembly. At tho
outset no invited interruption and quos.
ton. and ho got it in abundance. Ito
took UP tho four propositions made by
the general assembly to tho ssminarics,
and analyzod them thoroughly. Tho
frat, which naked for tho insertion Of u
statement in thoir charters declaring
that their property was hold for theo.
logical education according to tho stand.
ards OF tho Presbyterian church. ho OK.
plainod was intended to safeguard tho
property OF tho seminariOs for tho usO
to which those who'donatod it intended
1t to DO put.
lilo roforred 10 tho declaration OF scv-
eral OF the seminarios that 1t was in
their charters in substance. aud said
that ono objoc, Of tho committee was to
find out II it were there. II it worc,
there wns nothing TO ask that seminary:
and II not, then the assembly wanted It
nut there. lilo repeated tho doclara-
ton mado by some OF tho previous
speakers, that seminarics which did
not huvo tho provision in their charters
and could not put II in, were not Pres
bytsrinn.
Referring to Lano seminary in par
t%icular, no said he considered it n Pres
bvterian seminary because Of tho con-
ditions attached to its gifts and DO.
quests, but lawyers aud judges might
mako mistakes in constituting those con-