Evening star., 1898-09-26
LIST OF DELEGATES
Those Who Will Take Part in the
Episcopal Convooation.
LARGE GATHERING IN This CITY
Important Questions to Come Be-
fore the Sessions.
PROPOSED CHANGE OF NAME

The most important trienniaI convention
of the Protestant Episcopal Church of
America will be held in this city beginning
Wednesday. October >, and lasting three
weeks. Fully 1900 people will be attract
ed here by it. the notables including all
the bishops of the church and other dis
tingushed men in private walks of life.
The meetings will be held in Epiphany
Church. the large auditorium being aliot-
ted to the house of deputies. whose ses-
sicns are public and the Sunday school
room chosen for the house of bishops,
which meets behind closed doors. a large
platform extending across the church prop
er will be erected this week, the chancel
curtained off and number of front seats
removed to make room for secretaries.
speakers and press representatives. The
platform will be constructed so as to per-
nit its removal during the usual church
service on the Sabbath. and it's restoration
the following day. Two buildings on G
street opposite the church have been leased
and will be fitted up as committee rooms
offices for the two secretaries of the con-
yention, and as general headquarters for
the delegates number of auxiliary
church organizations also will hold their
meetings during the general convention,
the most prominent among them being the
Womans Auxiliary and the American
Church Missionary Society. There will
also be a Sunday school rally and inter
esting services by the afternoon Sunday
school. The Woman's Auxiliary will con-
vene in Trinity Church. but the business
sessions thereafter will be held in National
Rides Hall.
The social side of the occasion will. as
usual prominent and agrt eab'e feature
Many Of the lay delegates are very
wealthy, among them being J. PierDont
- N1r
tdrnunds. now Of Philadelphia: Henry F.
Pierrep0nt of Brooklyn. president of the
Long Island Trust Company; John r.
Triplett of Missouri. David Il. Lyman of
LaGrauEe. H.. president of the Chicago
Title and Trust Company: Chief Justice
Melville ". Fuller of the Supreme Court
Of the United States. Justice Charles An
nI-"S OF the supreme court Of New York,
William Wade Hampton Of Florida Judge
t 5. MaxcE Of Texas and Justice John II.
stiness Of the supreme court OF Rhode Is
land, Geo. 7. Sewall Of shphuilding fame.
James c. Biddlc Of Philadelphia. Joseph
Bryan, proprietor of the Richmond Times
Robert Treat Paine of Boston and ex-Ciov-
ernOr r. T. Bullock of Georgia. Cornelius
Vanderbilt used to be a frequent delegate
but i'll health fOrbids it now. J. Pierpont
Morgan, following his custom. has rented
the Carpenter mansion on 18th street for
october. and viii entertain his friends and
tellow-delegates with lavish hospitality.
LEGAL Committees.
vention have been actually going on for
several months. The work has been made
easy and productive of perfect results by
the organization of a number of subcom-
mittees. Little remains to be done now ex-
cept TO welcome the delegates, who are ex-
pected TO reach here in large numbers as
early as Monday, October 3.
The local committees are composed as
follows:
Executive committee-Rev Richard p
oh aIrTr an q
tary; Colonel George TruesdelI. Colonel
Cecil Clay, j. HoldswOrth Gordon. Frank
W. Hackett Major J. G. Bel. W. d. Bald
win Rev X \. McKim, ID; Rev. J. II.
Howell and Elisha S. Hutchinson.
Finance Committee-Col. George Trues-
dell chairman: W. W. Burdette, John 7.
Arnes. A. Y. Gray. John l.. Newbold DR..
D =. Gordon. IT. l.. Bryan. w. c. Hill,
wood. II. L. Rust, c. W. Howard Adam
Ciaddis, Henry L. Mathews, Julius w. Tol-
son. Arthur S Brown, Leroy Tuttle. Ru-
dolyh johnson. Theodore \. McAvoy Il. S.
Chew. John F. PaTet, Charles j. NcCub-
bins Milton Whitney and John W. Se5as-
tian.
Hospitality Communicated. Cecil Clay,
chairman: Edwin F. LOCKER Frank II.
Evans Henry P. Blair, George W. Saltor
and Albion X. Paris.
Transportation committed HoldswoTth
Gordon. chairman; Edward II. Talcott ana
Ptrcival G.. Melbourne.
Press conmittcc-Frank W. Hackett.
chairman: Richard Hamilton, acting chair
man. K. Preston Shealey. secretary; Gaze
move @. Lee and Frank NJ. Evans.
Postal telegraph and telephone commit
tee-Maj. ]. q. Bell. chairman.
Public comfort cJmmittCe-Wiliiam ID.
Baldwin. chairman; Arthur S. Browne,
Robert Stead. Harry c. Whiting and w p
Young.
The general convention is organized like
the Congress of the United States. There
is Z. house Of bishops and a house of depu-
w. lott G1rG ole -if Il nd
four lay delegates from each diocese. The
missionary diocese send one clerical and
one lay delegate each, who can debate but
O. mot vote
The presiding officer Of the house of bish-
ops should be the senior bishop. who IS
Right Rev. John Williams of Connecticut;
but as neither he nor his immediate sue
CeSSor Is TO be present. the duty Will fail
upon Bishop Whipple OF Minnesota. or, in
the event of his absence, Bishop Wilmer of
A}abam Rev. Samuel Hart. L. D., will be
secretary Of the hous- OF bishops. The
house Of deputies elects its presiding officer,
but Rev Morgan Dix the rector of Trinity
Church, New York city. will probably be
the choice. as il has been the custom for
some years past TO honor him with the
Office Rev. c. L. Hutchins of this city
viii De the secretary. In all there will be
t5lp delegates to the convention. represent
ing every part Of the United States and
Hayti. Janan. Brazil, Mexico, Liberia and
various parts of Europe.
Important Questions.
The convention viii consider the revision
OF the church constitution and canons
which was begun several years ago. and
It IS believed final action will be obtained
The need OF expansion which many lead
ers of the church recognize will be dis
cussed. together with measures to con-
tract the work in the necessary directions
Most important and far-reaching of all
the questions TO come before the gathering
Is the proposition to revise the canon on
marriage and divorce so as to make it
impossible for clergyman of the Protest
ant Episcopal Church to remarry either
party to a divorce. 1t will probably re-
ceiye the undivided support of the high
church ministers and many advocates
among the low church following. The SEN
timent Of the clergy in the church seems
to be against divorce, and petition to the
convention. asking that It adopt some
stringent rule against reTnarriage under
such conditions, has already received the
signatures of about 20O0 Of the ministers.
The canon applying TO this point is as fol-
lows: