The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-23
Moderator Jackson DeIuged with Mo-
tiOns After DIR. Phraner Had De-
MED DIR. KnOwIes's Charges
ANOTHER DAY OF ORATORY
TWO BRIEF SPEECHES AND a STORY
BY GOVERNOR MOUNT.
Report of the Ministerial Relief Conn
mittee-JOhn Wanamaker on the
New York Building.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WINONA PARK, Eagle Lake, Ind, May
22-More fireworks of rich rare and beau
tiful cesign characterized the session of
the Presbyterian General Assembly to-day.
Rev. James +. Knowles of Mt. Carmel,
Ill. C"successor to Elisha as he announced
himself when a reporter from the press
benches called his name) applied the match
which set loose the pyrotechnic display.
The trouble was again over the ma
jority and minority reports of the commit
tee on the New York building, which bid
fair to tie up the work of the assembly
for some days to come. The matter was
brought UP as a special order to-day and
every man on the floor wanted to say some-
thing about it. Many of the commissions
ers did express themselves, some of them
more forcibly than in good taste, and the
result was an unseemly wrangle. DIR.
Knowles saw fit, in his remarks. to make
personal aspersions against members of the
mission boards one Of whom he alleged to
have received 5000 from outside source
as an inducement to remain on the board.
His statement was promptly denied by a
member of the board, and he was CEN
sured by the moderator himself for induIg-
ing in personalities.
The affair raised storm of discussion
in the midst of which Moderator Jackson
lest his head and contradicted his
rulings dozen times. Questions
of privilege, points of order and
motions to do all sorts of things
were poured in on him and he was utterly
unable to stem the tide of parliamentary
conflict. Finally, after the decision of the
chair had been appealed from several times,
DR.. Knowles was allowed to give his au-
.I,;o
the session assumed some sort of order.
Hon. John Wanamaker spoke in the
morning IN favor Of the majority report
and in the afternoon number of commis-
sioners We're heard from. Amendments to
the report were offered in abundance, and
no one knows where 1t all will end. Rev.
Duncan Brown, of Tarko Mo. made the
best speech Of the day, advocating d COM
promise measure. He spoke logically and
forcibly, and is supposed tc represent the
position of the majority in the assembly.
The report of the committee was made the
second order for Monday, and the discuss
sion will then be continued.
GOVERNOR MOUNT SPEAKS TWICE.
Governor Mount spoke twice during the
day, as chairman of the committee on min
isterial relief. but kept clear of the building
sqlabbIe Moderator Jackson made some
very complimentary remark in introducing
the Governor to the assembly, and spoke
of his having a son about TO enter the
Presbyterian ministry, and daughter al
ready engaged in foreign missionary work
The Governor prefaced his report as fol-
lows:
81 consider it a great honor that in my
State am placed at the head Of the chari-
table, benevolent and reformatory institu-
tions. think the most enduring monu-
ments erected in my State are the build
ings pointing heavenward, dedicated to the
work of charity and love-the institutions
where we care tenderly for the unfor-
tunate wards of our State 1 consider it
a great honor conferred on me that L am
permitted, as chairman of the ministerial
relief committee of the General Assembly
of the Presbyterian Church of the United
States of America, to submit this report.
/ believe the greatest monuments built by
our church ought to be love and charity
and the board for which 1 speak is the
channel through which those Christian
graces should be exempified'
After the report had been read and Rev.
B. L. Agnew, secretary of the board of
ministerial relief had spoken strongly in
favor of its adoption, Governor Mount made
another short speech or the report He
sent the audience into convulsions of laugh
ter by telling a story of his encounter with
one of the colored commissioners to the
assembly. The colored man asked him IL
he wasn't q preacher.
How did you know I was a preacher?"
asked the Governor.
'Oh, / kin mos allays tell 'em; yas sab,
I kin. They's a strong 'aemblance among
all us brethren of the ministry"
The Governor said he was in doubt
whether or not the ''semblance" ne was
supposed to bear to his clerical brethren
was a point in his favor He spoke strong
ly for an increase in the fund for the re-
lief of aged ministers and their families,
and created a favorable impression on the
assembly. His remarks were frequently in
terrupted by applause.
Many of the commissioners and other vis-
itors who live near here have gone home
until Monday, as there will be nothing here
tomorrow except devotional services. Gov
ernor Mount and Rev. NJ. l.. Haines re-
turned to indianapolis, accompanied by
Rev. DR.. Spinning, of Orange. N. j., and
Rev. Frank Williams, of Baltimore. DR.
Spinning will fiji DIR. Halues's pulpit to-mor-
row morning, and DIR. Williams win preach
at Tabernacle Church in the evening Dr.
Haines expects to return on Monday and
Governor Mount will endeavor TO get back
on Tuesday.
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