The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-12-14

Ing 10 soy - TO The right Of Mr.. Ogden
10 vote but must follow the law"
Rev. Mr.. DegAn Of AuGusta-"Ths
whole thing hinges on the Interpretation
which 10 placed upon the word 'sssuaiiy'
In this canon. Would . clergyman loss
bis right 10 vots here II he had been abb
sent from his parish for . vacation trip 70
Europef In the case Of Mr.. Ogdsn he IL
actually Q resident Of Maine and 10 voter
In this state. He has been temporarily
away and 10 not only . csnonical resident
here bat has no residence elsewhere. III
the chair will rule on ths word 'actuslly'
a. 10 appears In the canon the convention
can then take an appeal from his ruling
II 10 sees DC 10 do So"
Mr.. George Il. Hughes Of Bath. lay
dslsaats-''Ths secretary has only 10 rule
upon the Law. which he has already done
We rule upon the facts.''
Dean sills the presiding os,icer-"A
clergyman should be In charg, OF parishs'
Mr.. Ogden is not. He has resigned all
charge In this diocese"
Rev. MIR. Dssan Of Augusts-"Hs Is q
canon of the cathedral STILL"
Dean Silica canon of the cathedral
but not In charge OF . parish"
Mr.. Robert II. Gardiner OF Gardiper. a
lay tsiegate-"The canon Of the cathe-
rdal is a canonical resident Of the do
cese.''
Raw. Mr.. Grsss,n moved that the mat
ter be committed to u COMMITTEES for ac-
tion.
Rev. Mr.. Shspherd-"There IL motion
pending before the committee. That can
not he committed TO any committee.
Rev. MIR. Greg son" What Is the use Of
trying to change the constitution at this
time. 1 move that the ruling Of the chair
man tie Sustained"
Rev. MIR. Shpeherd-'iI don't want Mr..
Ogden to be shut out from this conven-
tion or any other man. All question Is
the right of the presiding officer OF this
convention to put whatever Interpretation
on this canon he sees 1T. do not cues.
tion his motive"
Dean SiIIs--"I ask then II the oonven-
ton will sustain me In my ru ing on this
matter. My ruling IL that to vote In this
q clergyman must be ncufa'-
ly resident as we'll as economically at
tsched-
George 4. Hughes Of B,th-"This Is
question OF fac,. The secretary rules up
on the law and not upon the facts"
Rev. Mr.. Forth Of Lewiston-"T The
convention has confidence in Its chair
man."
Mr.. Hughss-'Thers IL no question Of
that, but what We are to decide is the
question Of fact pertaining to this CASE"
Rev. Mr.. Dsgan-"The ruling should
be made on the word actually. He bias
been bodily present In this diocese In the
last thirty dsys."
Dean Sills-Thers ars two terms In
volved here. When . olergyman's Tapers
are received and he Ia given in charge OF
a parish he Is economically resident but
he may not be- an actual resident for
some time afterwards. Economically he Ia
- resident where the papers are received
and accepted. but he Is not atuaily a
resi- lent until he become so BY law. DE
must obtain some work and be bodily
present to carry on the work. have NO
desire to exclude any ons from the privi-
lege Of voting,
Mr.. Ogden was asked II he was resi-
dent Of Maine. He replied that he Mas.
Mr.. samuel W. Lane asked him where
his family was. Mr.. Ogden replied that
they were In this city. He said ne had
been called away to assist q member of
his family and had no intention Of actual
Iy removing from the state. He thought
it was not necessary to have n parish to
be allowed to vote In the convention.
Rev. Mir. Wood of Saoo-"This Is no
place to amend the constitution OF the
church. The law says Mr.. Ogden cannot
vote here. am hers to sustain tbs law"
The question was then called for and
was put by the chair.
'An those In favor of allowing mr.. Og-
den to vote say aye"
There was seemingly larger number
Of the convention which voted in this
way. The negative vote was called for
ami Dean Stills announced that the mo-
tian OF Mr.. Shepherd WAS carried and
that Mr.. Ogden could vote.
A committee consisting OF Rev. Walter
Stewart OF Bath, MIR. q. p. Gardiner or
Gardiner and Gen. S. d. Leavitt of East
port were appointed to examine the Gro.
dentiais Of the lay delegates.
While this committee was absent at
tending to its duties the conversation voted
to adopt the resolution on the late Bishop
Nicely passed by the clerg ymen at the
d ne Of his funeral.
The report OF the committee on creden-
tials being received, showing nineteen
parishes represented and entitled to vote
the question Of adopting rules governing
the convention came up.
Gen. Brown presented the rules which
were adopted by the convention of 1866
and the special convention of 1877 when
Bishop Nesly was elected aud moved
their adoption by this convention. These
rules were that the election should be
made without nominations or discussions
of character of any Of the men Whose
names we're presented, that one layman