Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-05-24
NC KINLEY COMING.
The President Making PlaHS For His
Trip West.
TARIFF WILL nor DErAIN HlM.
This Information CONS from Wass
ipgion Correspondent 10
Denver Pap,r.

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Ia little reason to doubt. from what re-
Gently has eminatei from The White
House, that President Mckinley will
take trip west In July anu that one
Of tho places he is Interested In visiting
Ia Denver. Your correspondent
learned today from authority high iu
presidential regard, that the President
already is making plane for hlO trip
and that the tariff issue is not likely to
change them. The Presideni's invi.
tation to go West came some Two
weeks ago from the Ctah delegation
that invited hun to bs IN Salt Lake ut
the time the Utah jubilee Is heid.
THE PREsBYTEs;IAS ASSEMBLY.
Reports 10 tho Session ON Various
Branchss of work.
EAGLE LAKE, Ind, May 24.-The
firss ordsr oftue Presby terian general
assembly today was the report of the
Ffcemen's board. TIE second order
was the report of the home missions.
MISSION AMONG FREEDMEN.
AituuuRu uO utW WOEh uEu Uttu
projected Tor the past four years the
board found itself operating two large
and fully equipped boarding Gchools
for girls that wefs not w the list last
Year, one at Admission, Alabama, and
the other at West Point, Mississippi.
Tue former was the generous gilt OF
Mrs. Puineas M. Ii srbsr Of Pnilade.-
phis, the other, the Mary Holmes
seminary, starting again after lapse
OF nearly two years, the frst building
having been burned. The first men.
toned cost fifty thousand dollars and
10 out OF debI. The latter est thirty.
nine thousand uoliars and Ii mort.
gagged tor five thousand.
Besiues these two schools, all the
other seventeen boarding SCHOOLS had
been retained, but the terms have b.eu
reduced. Twelve are allowed ouIy six
mouths eRch, Two i've mJn.hs anu the
parocniai schools four months. The
number OF the latter had been reduced
by twenty.
Tins board has endeRv jrei to carry
on the work withia Its reduced limits
with the least p ssibie outlay, and in
the interest OF econumy.
| The services oil the sreaturer as n
sslaried officer snd also OF tue field
| secretary nad been dispensed with.
These oranges effected reduction OF
expenses Of S2.986. An increase ,in
the real estate itein together with the
act that the receipt fell TO lower
figure tnau they had fallen in the laat
eight years had operated. to incrsa.e
the debt, the a.aount last year being
ISL 40, as against S26 LIB toe previous
Que.
rns real estate item amounted to
Ss9,6l3-isrger than IL wouiu probably
Uo again for many years, the bulk OF
the amOunt going toward the rebuild
Ing OF the Mary Holmes seminary.
Buildings had been completed as fol.
iowt:
Buys' dormitory at Oak Hill, church
anu schoui at Newport News. Hot
Springs church, basement of new
church at Chattanooga, and AID was
given to build churcnes at Columbia,
b. o.. Savannah, Ga, Charlotte, N.
o., Statewide, n. c., Roanoke, Va,
Birmingham, Ala, spartan ourg, 8.
o., aud Maryville, Tenn.
The boarl desired that at least TWEEN.
ty.thousand dollsrs OF the debt should
he pait this year. An increase OF
$l1 100 in income over last year would
make this possible. A reduction OF
expense would accomplish the same
thing, but reduction Of the work to
that extent meant almost lite destruc.
ton to that extent.
The bodies contributing to the cause
were, churches, $3.50; w0man's 30
cieties, 81 ,s05; young peoples societies,
1855; sunday schools, $3.50. Tue
amount contributed for s.ii.support,
none Of which entered into tue boards
accounts, WAS S70,0l7, an increase
compared with tho previous year OF
lob. The freedmen gave to the sup.
port OF their own ministers and
churches s36, sos. auu to the support OF
their own schools 1893, 48l.