The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-05-19
BISHOPS ELBCTED.
.. c. McCabe and Earl
cTansten Chosen by the
Methodist Conference.
AN ATTEMPT MADE TO POSTPONE
Voted Down Amidst shouts and
C0nfusi0n--Bishop Bow
man presides.
AN ATTEMPT MADE TO POSTPONE

CLEVELAND, o., May 10, 9s.-Bishop
Bowman, the venerable senior Bishop
of the Methodist Church, presided over the
General Conference, probably for the last
time, this morning. This is the sixteenth
day of the Conference. None Of the great
questions to be settled by the Conference
have yet been discussed on the floor.
The great question of time limit, lay rep@
resentation, amusements, temperance, rec-1
ognition of Methodist Christian Endeavor5
Societies, foreign Episcopal residences, To-
cation of Episcopal residences in the
United States. and many other equally
important questions are yet to come.
Rev Charles L. Staffors of Iowa put
the Conference in agreat uprcar by NOV
ing that the election of Bishops be indelin-
initely postponed. 81 am satisfied he
said, "that we do not need these Bishops
and the vote of the last few days looks
as though the Conference thought so, too.
Any ten Bishops in good health could att
tend Ito all the work-and we have four
| teen besides the two that have been de-
Jared non-effective.'
Rev DR.. Buckley said:-'Are you sure
that the remedy offered is good for the
patient? What is our situation? Three
men have already had a majority of the
votes cast and one man came within
thirty or forty votes of being. elected. To
postpone this election would make this
Conference and otir great church ridiculous
in the eyes of the world. In one of the
dioceses of the Protestant Episcopal
Church they have taken fifty and sixty
ballots and then adjourned for six
months to think it over, without an cleo
tion. And yet the election of Methodist
Bishop carries with it more power than
a dozen Protestant diocesan Bishops. The
remedy is this:-Let the voting go on
until we elect Bishop or until it be-
comes plaiRly apparent that we cannot
elect anybody
Rev. James F. Mace, of New Jersey,
said:-'T hope the motion to postpone will
prevail. 1t is plainly apparent that we
have no Episcopal timber in the Confer
ence-there is no man who looms up high
enough to secure the endorsement"
Rev. Hill said:--"The world is looking
at US this morning. I move as SUBJ
stitute for the motion, that commencing
with the fourteenth ballot we commence
to drop men for whom few are voting un-
til there is an election
Cries of "No,'' NO. amid much con-
fusion.
Bishop Bowman ruled the substitute
out of order.
Rev. DR.. A. ]. Kynett of Philadelphia:
1t is said that the situation is unpar-
alleled. I do not think SO. We arc
transacting our business, and we will
not suffer if this contest goes on for
days.
Gen. Rushing, of New Jersey one of the
most prominent lay delegates in the con-
ference, created a great deal of ex-
citementl by moving a. suspension of
the rules that he might move that three
bishops instead of two bishops be
elected. He then attempted to speak
on the motion.
DR.. Buckley:-"Point of order. Dele
gates may not speak on a motion to
suspended the rules,
Gen. Rushing: -"Gentlemen of the
Conference, will you not indulge a green
horn while he makes a few remarks?''
daughter and cries of mo, No.'')
The Conference decided amid much
confusion and noise not to suspend the
rules
The motion to postpone the election
OF bishops indefinitely was defeated
On the sixteenth ballot Chaplain o. G.
McCabe was elected bishop
Earl Cranston also elected a bishop.