The Saint Paul globe., 1900-05-15
! who frankly announced himself a Demo-

who frankly announced Himself Demo-
crat, said:
Il hold the remark Of the secretary in
bad taste. Is the general conference the
boss? Must we ask the general confer
ence what to do? Must We refuse 10 act
for fear the general conference will sit
down on US? Let the committee have the
courage of its conYictions,' and let the
conference do as it pleases.''
The reference of Mr.. Ross to his politi-
cal affiliations called forth the statement
from DR.. Henry Brown, of the Columbi 1
river conference, that IF the pre- sident
were a Democrat, the committee would
not hesitate to denounce him." and that
the committee could not afford to sacrifice
a principle for personal friendship.
The vote to accept the substitute was
lost, with only 16 affirmative to "a mega
tive votes, and the original report was
adopted
The remainder of the report will be TAX
en- up at the meeting of the committee
Wednesday, and will probably be adopted
as read. There is probability, however,
that the minority report submitted by DR..
Price may be added to the general re
port.
Delegate Johnson took exception to the
portion of the report which read as fol-
lows:
I'VE deplore the fact that our general
government, by its internal revenue sys-
tenn, continues to give aHrecognition to
so corrupt a business. Especially do we
condemn the course of the government in
accepting and collecting revenue from
persons in prohibition towns or states
which are known to the officers of the
treasury department to be engaged in the
violation of the prohibitory law"
His objections were opposed, and tn
section of the report was adopted.
COMMITTEE WORK.
The committee to whom was referred all
questions which came up in the discussion
of the report of the committee on organic
law of the church organized today with
DR.. Buckley as chairman and DR.. john
F. Goucher as secretary. The committee
may report tomorrow. After a stormy
session the committee on episcopacy to-
day decided to recommend to the general
conference that two new bishops be elect
ed to provide for possible deaths on the
board during the next four years.
The body voted down a report from a
subcommittee in favor of petitioning the
conference to elect a colored bishop. In
stead of making direct Recommendation
on this question the committee reportei /
a revised version of the declaration adopt
ed by the convention in 1886, recognizing
the qualifications of colored men to fill
the high office, and admitting the need of
a colored leader to direct the religious
work among his people in the South
The result is taken as a defaat of the
movement to secure the election of a col
ored man as bishop at this conference, as
the leaders started out with the deter
mination to get specific instructions to the
conference
Chairman Buckley will report these find
ings to the conference tomorrow, and If
the recommendations are approved tha
balloting for candidates for bishop may
begin Immediately. Both reports are GER
tain to be bitterly contested on the floor
of the conference.
The time limit for Methodist preachers
seems doomed. BY a vote of 50 to q the
committee on itineracy today decided to
present to the general conference a report
favoring the abolition of the time limit
now in force.
BOOK CONCERN PROFITS.
The conference discussed the ques-
ton of confining the profits of
the book concerns to the support
Of superannuated ministers. The question
involved the withdrawing of subsidie
from church publications that could not
exist otherwise, and the payment of con-
ference expenses. The discussion was
lengthy, and at times spirited, but the
matter was finally laid on the table by a
rising vote. Discussing the report of the
committee on the revision of the consti-
tuition, and the report of the comm: ttee
on rules for the general conference cleo
tions took up most of the time of the con-
ference after the morning recess.
Just before adjournment, Chairman
Buckley, of the committee on episcopacy
read the report bearing on the effective
ness of the board of general superintend-
ents. Every Bishop at present acting
was recommended to be continued in the
present relations.
DR.. Buckley's motion to lay on the ta-
BILE finally prevailed by a large majority.
ORGANIC LAW
The regular order of-.the day. the or
ganic law of the church, was then consid-
cred, article 10 being read for amendment
and adoption. This article defines the
powers and restrictions Of the general
conference. After some debate the reso-
lutlOn was referred for further consid-
Grafton by the committee
The report Of the committee on cleo
ton, which was made public Saturday,
recommending that the election of bish-
ops be held under the two-thirds rule,
was brought up, and resulted III spirited
debate. DR.. ]. NJ. Buckley, of New York,
editor of the Christian Advocate, made
a strong plea for the adoption of the re-
port, which, he said, would tend to neu-
tralize the electioneering methods.
The report was voted on section by sec
ton. The section providing for the cleo
ton of editors of the several advocates
was recommttted to the book committee
for further action, the intention being, it
is understood, to discontinue some of the
subsidized publications for which editors
are to be selected.
The two-thirds rule on the election Of
bishops was then adopted by an over
whelming vote.
The time of the session was extended to
hear Chairman Buckley's report No. 3,
of the committee on episcopacy, the re-
port being on the effectiveness of the
board of general superintendents. The re-
port, which was adopted after short
debate, recommended that the whole list
of present acting bishops be declared ef-
fective.
The conference then adjourned for the
day.
CLAIMS TT AN ACCIDENT