The record-union., 1895-11-16
REDUCTIONS MADE IN MANY OF
THE APPROPRIATIONS.
Poor Preachers aud Their Families
VIII Have to Subsist Another Year
on the Pittances They Have Been
Receiving in the PaSt-Some Sharp
Talks Heard on the Floor at Yester-
days Session.

OF the appropriation of the 10 per cent.
of the million-dolla fund amongst the
conferences of the United States. Rep
reSentatiVes of the different sections of
the country pleaded for relief, for eXcep-
tions from the Z per cent. reduction of
the sums set aside last year, and for a
lesser cut, but arguments and pleading
for the poor ministers working on mere
rittances were met by the ineXOrable
condition that the reduction must be
made. The delegates generally took the
cut stoically and laughed at the plead
ings Of others, but occasionally the
righteous Indignation of some of the
ministers, and even Bishops, could not
be subdued, and some sharp talks were
heard on the floor.
Because of the drought of last year,
Nebraska Jared better than any other
section, getting an increase of allow
ance. Wyoming was made happy by
getting no cut The white-c church
movement of this church organization
in the South obtained no comfort.
Many members of this conference stated
frankly that they had little sympathy
with the movement, as the NJ. r.
Church South was covering that field
V ell enough. The work amongst the
colored people was more favOrabIy con-
sidered
In the afternoon the Bishops and dele
gates were lunched at University Park,
where the Methodist college has estab-
lished itself amidst beautiful surround
ings, Bishop Warren and wife, who re-
side there, giving the luncheon. After
refreshments the conference resumed
work III the chapel on the college cam
rus, and in the evening were shown
through the observatory.
Bishops Goodsell and Leonard ad-
dressed public meeting at the Trinity
Church in the evening upon missionary
subjects.
Bishop Goodsen occupied the chair to-
day.
Dr. Wilding of the Columbia River
Conference spoke forcibly in favor of Il
liberal appropriation for the Pacific
Northwest. He had been in the South
in early days, and thought then that
no section in the United States could
ever need greater missionary work, but
since going to the Northwest he had
changed his mind He asks that the
appropriation for ColuR bia, Oregon
and Puget Sound be left as last year.
and that $500 special be given the Nez
Perce Indian reservation.
DR.. Hunt called attention to the fact
that a few years ago this conference
had been given an increase of 30 per
cent.
The Columbia River Conference was
given an appropriation of $6O45.
DR.. Goucher by an effective plea Sc
cured a special additional sum of $500
for the Nez Perce Indian reservation.
Oregon got 81, 100 and Puget Sound
$3.50
DR.. Huntington, for Nebraska made
a most eloquent plea, showing the ter
ribIe hardships there because of crop
failures His motion that the appro-
priation be increased from 81, 800 last
year to $1,000, with $3.50 available at
once, was seconded by a dozen voices.
Bishop Newman gave figures which
showed that some of the preachers in
Nebraska received as little as S2O1 for
the support of their families.
Mr. French, for forty years a member
OF the board, wanted to know what
other money besides missionary aid the
PREACHERS had received, and Bishop
FITZGERALD showed that the salaries
ranged from $22S to S4O4 per year.
The appropriation was placed at
5000. with $3.50 available at once.
Northern Nebraska was given 5000,
with 81 200 available at once. North
west Nebraska got $1,000. with $500
available at once West Nebraska was
increased from 81 800 to $4,000, with
81 800 available at once. Wyoming es-
cared the cut In spite of the pleadings
Of DR. Scott, Texas stood the usual cut.
Fort Worth was excepted.
Bishop Mallalieu spoke for a liberal
arp1 opriatiOn for the Blue Ridge Con-
ference. and told of a preacher who had
converted 100 people in three weeks
ard did not have clothes fit to be seen
in public But clothes or no shelter, "
the Bishop continued, ''he will go on
converting" Up in that country, the
Bishop conttnded. the people were not
converted by card or baptized by tele-
graph They are all Christians when
tncy ioin the church. He gave figures
showing the salaries, less mission
money, to be from SIS to 500 per year.
The wives and children of the preach
crs had to work to keep the family.
Bishop Foster said that the country
was poor, the people were poor the
preachers We're poor. and the salaries
were poor, so everything seemed to be
harmonious He was supported in his
position by Bishop Foss, who thought
Bishop Mallalieu had overstated the
necessities. The { per cent. cut was
made.
It was during this discussion that the
feeling against missionary work among
the whites of the South by the North
ern wing of Methodism cropped out.
When a delegate asserted that there
were seven counties in Kentucky with
OUT a Methodist Church another del
egate cried out, There ought not to be
any"
Bishop Foster, in response to a state
ment made on the floor that the Meth
odist Church South was establishing
churches in Colorado and the far
Northwest wherever Southern people
had gone, said: I'VE have a suspicion
that we can furnish them with enough
gospel to save them, if they are worth
saving" and he opposed following the
people of the North into the South with
missionary aid. He thought the money
could be better used in aiding the col
orcd people there.
Some of the ministers we send to
these white churches" said he, "go to i'm
prove their health, their wealth ane
some of their morals, and l hope they
will be successful
Bishop Goodsel did not look with
pleasure upon two Methodist Churches
starving in one community just to sat
isfy the prejudices of certain people, but
he was forced to admit the conditions.
and until the Lord should bring about
4 change he wanted the work to go on.
IT was useless now to hope to get mem
the other. There were too many bitter
memories surrounding them, which
time alone could soothe and soften
The attack upon the white church
movement brought forth an irf1Das-
stoned speech from Bishop Joyce. He
was little severe on people who, as he
said, went through the South in palace
cars and went back North and wrote