The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-20
TIE TWO NEW M. E. BISHOPS
uodBE AND CRANsT0N FL ECTED BY THE METHODIST CONFERENCE.

New Bishops Are Well Known All Over
 the Country MeCabe We'll Known in
 New Haven-Before the Election Excite
 ment Was Created by Motion to Post
 pone the Election Indefinitely and An
 other That Three Bishops Be Elected.
 Cleveland, May l9--Chaplain c. c. McCabe was elected bishop by the Methodist Episcopal general conference this morning. It was on the sixteenth ballot.
 Earl Cranston was elected bishop on the next ballot.
 Bishop Bowman, the venerable senior bishop of the Methodist church, presid- morning and probably for,the last time. This is the sixteenth day of the confer ence. None of the great questions to be settled by the conference has yet been discussed on the floor. The great questions of time limit, lay representa- tion, amusements, temperance, recogni- tion of Methodist Christian Endeavor societies, location of Episcopal resi- dences in the United States and many other equally important questions arc yet to come up.
 The Rev. Charles I. Stafford of Iowa put the conference in a great uproar this morning by moving that the cleo tion of bishops be indefinitely postpon- ed. "I 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 attend to all the work-and we have fourteen besides the two that have been declared effective
 The Rev. Dr. Buckley said: Are you sure that the remedy offered is good fo1 the patient? What is our situation: Three men have already had 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 our great church ridiculous in the eyes of the world. In one of the dioceses of the Protestant Episcopal church they have taken fifty or sixty ballots and then ad- journed for six months to think it over without an election. And yet the cleo. tion of a 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 g bishop, or till it becomes plainly appar- ent that we cannot elect anybody
 The Rev. James P. Mace of New ter sey said: II hope the motion to post pone will prevail. It is plainly apparent hi ty,,lN iy the conference-there is no man who looms up high enough to secure the in dorsement.
 The Rev. MT. Hill said: "The world is looking at us this morning. I move as a substitute for the motion that commencing with the fourteenth ballot we commence to drop men for whom few are voting until there is an cleo. tion."
 Cries of NO! No' amid much confu. sion.
 Bishop Bowman ruled the substitute out of order
 The Rev. Dr. A. J. Kynett of Phila. delphia said: Tt is said that the sit uation is unparalleled I do not think so. We are transacting our business duu tt VIII lpL HidhlcI II llllS CUILeSl goes on for days"
 General Rusling of New Jersey, one of the most prominent lay delegates ir the conference, created a great deal oi excitement by moving a suspension ot the rules that he might move that three bishops instead of two bishops be elect ed He then attempted to speak on the motion.
 Point of order-a delegate may no' speak on motion to suspend the rules, called Dr. Buckley.
 "Gentlemen of the conference, vii you not indulge a greenhorn while ht makes a few remarks?' asked Genera | Rusling. Daughter, and cries of No no."l
 The conference decided, amid mucl confusion and noise, not to suspend tht ! rules.
 l The motion to postpone the election of bishops indefinitely was defeated The Rev. Charles c. McCabe, tn, | newly elected bishop, was born in Ath |