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tne next three years act as Its missionary
bishop and use the money which would be
expended in setting up a new missionary
district in the employment Of missionaries
10 work in the southern counties.
with due respect and loyalty to the bish-
ops, Mr.. Wilmer said bishop can do very
little without the help Of missionaries. He
called attention to the fact that II I'm three
years the recommendations of the majority
: We're found to be wrong, the convention of
1901 could rectify them, and admit south
ern Indiana, requested now, but that
this could not be done II at the end of that
time II We're found that the minority recon-
mendations had been wrong. There would
be no manner in which wrong in such
case could be rectified.
Attacks Minority Report.
The next speaker was Robert Strange. D.
D., of east Carolina, a young slender man.
with voice like clear trumpet. He
strongly attacked the proposition of the
minority. He showed by census statistics
that Indiana was neither large in area
or as great in population as the surrounding
states of Iowa with one bishop, Ohio with
TWO and Kentucky with two. He wanted to
Know why Indiana wanted to have three The
dllnculty that seemed to be eXpatiated upon
with so much emphasis by so many speak
ers, he said, of putting the southern coun-
Ties under some careful guardianship, could
be easily met by dividing the state into the
TWO dioceses already provided for.
Kun line catacornered across the
state, he exclaimed. either from north
"NSt ~ sooliiteSl, OT from southwest 10
northeast"
In conclusion he warned the convention
against adopting the minority report. and,
Dy SO doing. he declared, starting the prac-
tce OF letting state after state come In and
throw responsibility for church work with
In ITS borders upon the church at large.
Rev. DR.. {. A. l.. Richards of Rhode
Island, chairman of the new dioceses COM
mittee. closed the debate in favor of the
majority report, and the question then re-
verted 10 the minority report. BY q divis-
Ion vote OF 81 ayes to 224 noes, the depu-
ties declined to concur in the recomma nda-
ton of the bishops. By viva voce vote
the majority report was then adopted and
the regular order of the day was called for.
Conference Committee Reports.
Several reports were received from the
committees on conference upon questions at
issue between the two houses, and Mr.
Packard of Maryland took the chair and
DIR. Dix was recognized as chairman of
the conference committee. He reported
that the committee had not vet concluded
consideration of Article XII recommitted
to it yesterday. lie then submitted a mes
sage from the bishops returning to the
deputies Article VI, which provides the
rules for the establishment of missionary
districts recommending for the deputies
consideration an amendment providing for
the retrocessiCn to the diocese of which they
mad originally been part of missionary
districts applying for such return, the re
quest for which meets the approval of the
general convention.
Rev. Mr.. Strange moved an amendment
that no retroceSSion of q district should be
permitted without the consent of the biSh-
op and standing committee \ motion to
lay the amendment on the table prevailed
by Vote of 151 to 1Jo. The vote on con-
currence with the bishops was then taken
by GloceSes and orders, and resulted as
follows: Clerical, - ayes, A. nays, . di-
Nided; lay, AZ ayes, : noes; concurrence
being agreed to.
The recommendation of the bishops 10
amend section three of Article Ii was
unanimously agreed to. 1t provided that
bishop of the church, or unless authorized
the limits OF his own diocese in Il vacant
missionary district unless by the presiding
bishop of this church, or. unless authorized
or appoil ted by the house of bishops, or
the presiding bishop by its direction.
Conservation Of Foreign Bishops.
The conference committee then recon-
mendeG concurrence in the action of the
bishops who voted 20 insert in place of Ar
ticle III, as recommended by the consti
tuition revision committee and adopted by
the house of deputies, Article y of the
present constitution.
The difference between the two articles
was simply that Article Y had been con-
densed by the revision committee. and there
had been added TO ii 4 provision that biSh-
ops for churches in foreign lands might be
consecratcd, upon due applications there
from, under such conditions as may be pre-
scribed in the carons of the general con-
vention. The addition of this provision
was not agreed to by the bishops.
Rev. DR.. Tayler of Springfield, a member
of the constitution revision committee, eX-
planned the necessities for the addition that
had been considered by the committee,
which led to its adoption, and moved nom
concurrence with the bishops.
Rev. DIR. Fulton of Pennsylvania favored
concurrence. He said applications from
foreign countries We're usually out of the
ordinary and he saw nothing in Article III
that could not be met by the retention of
Article Y. the only necessity being to
change the number Of the latter to Article
III in order to give it proper place in the
constitution.
The hour of recess having arrived, con-
sideration of the matter was dropped until
8 o'clock.