The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-26

on place of meeting, made up of the
moderator, stated and permanent clerks.
was given permanent power hereafter to
name place of meeting, in case any
place agreed upon by the assembly should
be unable to entertain the assembly.
Dr. John H. Boyd, chairman of the
standing committee on temperance, re
ported on the work of the special COM
naittee. Dir. Boyd complained of the.
revocation of the Alaska prohibition law
and Attorney General ,Griggs' "outra-
geous" Interpretation Of the" law abol-
1shlng the army canteen. One Of the rec
concentrations was that the assembly
should appeal to President Mckinley to
enforce the law by virtue of his position
as commander-in-chief, regardless of the
attorney generals opinion, at least until
the supreme court passes on the matter.
An attempt was made to strike out the
last clause, but 1t was voted down. An
other resolution, suggested by Alex Dix
on of Scranton, Pa, calling upon con4
gress for additional legislation for the
abatement of the canteen evil was car
ried.
FRATERNAL SPIRIT.
ID. w. Glass, of Baltimore, caused
something of a surprise by introducing a
resolution directing Dr. Arthur ]. Brown
secretary of the board of foreign missions
TO call conference in New York of all
the evangelistic bodies to confer concern
ing harmonious arrangement and dis
tr1butlon of foreign missions The reso-
luton also directerd that the Roman
Catholics be invited to participate in the
conference If DR.. Brown should deem it
wise. The resolution was referred with
out debate to the board of foreign mis-
sions
The Assembly Herald matter left over
from yesterday, was taken up Henry
W. Jessup, of New York, took up the de-
tense of the committee that has been con-
Quoting the Assembly Herald since the
beginning of the year He declared that
there would be no sensation in the debate
as predicted by the press. He moved the
adoption of the committees Recommended
tons, which included a scheme for the
future management of the Herald by a
committee of three. The matter was set
tied by the adoption of the committee's
report, with the added resolution that The
price of the Herald be made 25 cents If
possible.
The closing half hour Of the session wa 8
devoted to an exchange of courtesy be-
tween the Presbyterian church and the
Reformed Episcopal church Bishop
Samuel Fallows, of Chicago introduced
as a fraternal delegate from the latter
body, made happy address, in which he
tt
PresbyterianS and their work and left
the way open for the Presbyterians to saw
all manner of pleasant things about the
Reformed Episcopalians
The bishop was applauded whenever he
turned witty or particularly felicitous
compliment, which he did continually.
Here is one of the sentiments which was
greeted with a storm of housekeeping:
I'VE will join with you in preventing
the legalizing of that hybrid compound
of lust and lunacy. brass and blasphemy.
depravity and disloyalty, which is now
Haunting itself in the face of our national
congress as polygamous Mormonism'
Dr.. Sample replied to the bishop. He
| mentioned the great favor the Protestant
Episcopal, church has done recently for
the Presbyterian church, and the great
relief his church feels, and suggested that
| other similar favors would be accepted as
| thankfully. Expressing his warm feeling
| of friendship for all churches and ali
Christians, he grasped the bishop by the
hand and stood before the assembly to
ask. blessing on him and his people.
ADJOURNMENT IN SIGHT.
The adjournment of the assembly is In
sight. DR.. Roberts. stated clerk, remind
ed the assembly that if the commission
ers are diligent with their business ad-
! journment can be reached by Saturday
! noon, and If they care to be unusually
diiigent the end can be reached Friday
| night.
| What from some points of view is the
! most important matter to come before the
assembly now gives promise of appearing
In the report of the committee on polity,
| which is due today. There is a good
prospect that this committee will present
a resolution that will be almost reyolu-
tionary. At any rate such action 10 under
10 vron c0rin 4
! this proposal is to abolish the freedman =
board and transfer the functions to the
board of home missions. A member of
the committee admitted this morning that
the idea was a good one and might be an
] proved by his committee. From other