Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-17
THE EPISCOPAL CONVENTION. A Proposal to Change the Title
 of the Church WAS REFUSEDBY THE HOUSE The Canons on Marriage and Divorce Were
 Discussed,
RECEIVED AND PLACED ON FILE
They Provide That No Minister Shall Sol emnize the Marriage of Any Person Who Has a Divorced Husband
 or Wife Still Living.

Minneapolis, Oct. 1e-When the house of deputies of the Episcopal convention reassembled this morning the joint com mittee appointed to consider the regular ity and validity of the order or the church in'Sweden presented a report set ting forth reasons why no minister of the Swedish church should be allowed to officiate in any church under American Jurisdiction. Objection was made 10 the immediate consideration of the matter and it went on the calendar Another at tack upon the present title of the denom- ination made itself manifest in the pre- sentation of report from the commit tee to consider the message from the house of bishops recommending the title page of the book of common prayer to be changed by the omission of the words, According to the use of the Protestant Episcopal church in the United States or America" and the substitution Of the words, According to American use: There was minority report signed by J. Pierpont Morgan of New York, Messrs. Riddle and Blanchard of Philadelphia and Perkins of Kentucky, in which the, proposed change was characteriZed as a virtual reopening of the subject of the prayer book revision, which has already been SettleO, ana therefore uHWioe anu ~ be deprecated as calculated to alarm the members of the communion dis position to cut off debate on the issue was manifested by the delegates, and after Dr. Faude of Minnesota had character ized the proposal as one of bad faith and Dr. Groton of Rhode Island had spoken to the same effect vote by d1o- ceses and orders were taken. It resulted:
 Clerical vote, yeas, 19; nays, 30; divided, 30. Lay vote, yeas, 12; nays, 30; divid- ed, 4.
 The house again refused to change the title of the church as designated in the prayer book, and the formal resolution of non-concurrence with the bishops was adopted by a large majority on viva voce vote. .,
 After the receipt of another message from the bishops saying that they had designated the bishop Of Milwaukee and the co-adjutor bishop of Minnesota sas delegates to the next meeting of the Canadian General synod, Dean Hoffman, from the committee on constitutional and canons, made a final report, containing the proposed canons on marriage and divorce, upon which the committee has been laboring ever since the assem bling of the convention. The canons, which were received and placed on file, read as follows:
 l. No minister of this church shall solemnize the marriage of any person who mas a QlVOrceu nuSDdHu UT Wlle Stlii living but this prohibition shall not be held to apply to the innocent party in a divorce which the court shall have granted for the cause of adultery or to parties only divorced from each other, seeking to be united again
 9 If any minister of this church knows or has a. reasonable cause to believe that the person has married otherwise than the discipline of this church doeth allow, he shall not minister holy baptism or the holy communion to such persons without the written consent of the bishop of the diocese.
 Provided however, that no minister shall in any case refuse the sacraments to a penitent person in imminent danger of death.
 For an hour or more the house was in a legal tangle over a request from the toint committee that it be continued in existence to consider such canons IS may not be acted upon by this convention, special committee having been appointed yesterday to deal similarly with the con- stitution. The bishops had already de- cided in favor of continuing the canon question, and only after a tedious and desultory debate the house concurred by a vote of 196 to s. This matter disposed of the order of the day, the establishment of the "provincial system or the forma- tion dioceses into provinces" was called for and Dr. Taylor of Springfield made a lengthy Hnlress in it's favor.
 The house finally shelved the provin- cial question by referring it to a special committee to report in 1S9S and took a