The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-07
IRREPRESsIBLE.
THE WOMAN QUESTION IN THE
METHODIST CONFERENCE.
Twenty More Speeches Are Made and
the Problem Seems No Nearer an
End Than at First.

End Than at First.
CLEVELAND, O., May 6.-The wo-
man question in the Methodist Episco-
pal general conference seems irrepress-
ible. Today a resolution which pro-
vided for changes in the constitution
of the Epworth league, so women
might become trustees, was made the
onder of business a week from today
Bishop Warren presided. It was de-
cided 10 elect bishops and other officers
on May 49,
A resolution to increase the amount
of the fund for the relief of worn out
ministers, by having the churches APP
pealed to, was adopted. This was fol-
lowed by a resolution, the preamble of
Which, said the Rev. DR.. Morris, frater-
hal delegate of the NJ. E. church of the
south, in an address to the conference,
recommended that a commission con-
sistfng of three bishops, three ministers
and three baymen, be appointed to act
with similar commission already ap-
pointed by the Methodist church of the
south, looking toward a confederation
of the two churches.
Rev. Daniel Stevenson of Kentucky
presented substitute, which provides
for commission of eight ministers,
seven laymen and one business man,
to meet similar committee from the
M. E. church of the south. If this COM
mittee from the NJ. E. church of the
south is not empowered to conduct
such negotiations, the general confer
ence is requested to confer such power
on them. Nothing agreed upon by
these committees is to be binding until
reported to and approved by the re-
Spective general conferences in 1900.
Both papers were referred to a
committee on the state of the church.
DR.. Kelly presented resolutions dep
recating the lack of courtesy extended
to DR.. Moore as a fraternal delegate
from the M E. church of the SOUTH
and conveying humble regrets and
apologies.
Or. Buckley amended by inviting him
to visit the conference again, and his
resolution was unanimously adopted.
Rev. DR.. D H. Moore of Cincinnati,
opened the debate on the woman ques-
ton. His speech was followed by
twenty others. Two hours We're con-
stunned in the debate. just before AID
journment the reports of the majority
and minority on the question of the
admission of women were referred back
to the committee on eligibility with
ing.
WILL PROBABLY WIN
The four women delegates will re-
tain their seats in the Methodist gen
eral conference. This was practically
decided at the meeting of the commit
tee on eligibility held tonight All but
two of the thinty-one members of the
committee were present at the meet
ing. A long discussion was INDUCED in
behind locked doors, and at its con-
clusion the result was announced. Two
reports will be submitted to the con-
ference in the morning. The majority
report which will be signed by twenty
five members of the committee, includ-
ing DR.. Buckley, editor of the New
York Christian Endeavor, will recon-
mend that the women delegates be per-
mibted to occupy their seats and par
ticipate in the proceedings, and that
the question of admitting women to
future conferences be referred to the
annual conferences for decision within
the coming year.
The minority report will be signed by
DR.. T. B. Nicely of Philadelphia, DR..
Bothweiler, DR.. Graw and one other,
whose name could not be learned to-
night, and will insist that the women
are not eligible to seats. 1t is believed
the majority report will be adopted,
with little opposition, and that the
question will be disposed of as far as
the present conference is concerned.
AT the meeting of the bishops this
afternoon Bishops Merrill, Ninde and
Joyce were appointed as members of
the committee to consider the fedora
ton of the Methodist churches North
and South. The ministerial and lay
members Of the committee will not be
appointed for several days.
There is much chagrin over the nm
Intentional sighting of Rev. DR.. John
C. Morris Of Nashville, Tenn, the rep
resentative Of the Methodist church in
the south. Morris arrived Monday and
was directed to the Hollenden hotel
by a member of the reception commit
tee at the depot, to whom he merely
announced he was a delegate to the
conference. None of the conference
officials came to him and he went to
the armory alone in the evening. Even
when he delivered his speech there no
one present seemed to know he was
the official representative of THE
Methodist church in the south. On
Tuesday this fact became known to
some of the leaders in the conference,
and there was d hurrying to find him
They discovered he had quietly left
the CITY, after discharging his mission,
which was to formally ask for the ap-
pointmen5 of a commission to act with
similar representative of the church
in the south, in consideration of the
possible federation of the two
branches of the denomination. An
urgent invitation will be sent him ITO
come again to the conference before it
adjourns.
Tonight Army Chaplain McCabe de-
livered his famous lecture on 1.-THE
Bright Side of Life in Libby Prison"
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