The Saint Paul globe., 1900-05-23
EACH GIVEN 4 BIG VOTE
DRs. J. w. HAMILTON AND DAVID
H. MOORE RECEIVED MORE
THAN NEEDED
PROMINENT IN CHURCH WORK
Selection Seemed Popular With the
Church FoIIowing-Busy Day
at the General Confer
ence Meetings.

eral conference today elected two mem
bers Of the board of general superin-
tendents, after a battle of ballots lasting
nearly week, and also finally disposed
of question that for many years has
been a source of dispute In Methodist
conference.-the admission of women to
in favor of the women.
DR.. ]. W. Hamilton, of the New Eng
land conference, general secretary of the
board Of Freedmen's Aid and Southern
Education society, and DR.. David H
Moore, of Cincinnati, editor of the West
ern Christian Advocate, were elevated to
the episcopacy on the seventeenth bal
lot. both receiving many more than the
necessary two-thirds votes
Besides the action on the episcopacy
and the question of the admission Of
women to general conferences and there
fore necessarily to lay electoral confer
ences, the general conference adopted the
constitution as submitted by the special
commission on organic law.
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY.
The methods used by the projectors of
account by Or John +. GouGher. in the
committee on education today, and the
matter was suljlnittc1 to a subcommittee
with instructions u prepare a report
which, after being passed upon by the
general committee, will be presented TO
the general conference.
According. to the statements made be-
fore the committee bytDr Goucher, the
covenant made at the Omaha conference
in 1893, between the American university,
the general conference and the college
association, by the terms of which the
university projectors agreed to teach
nothing but graduate werk in the insti-
tuition, not to interfere with the support
of other institutions by undue efforts to
secure contributions from their constitu-
ency and not to open the school before
an amount OF $5,000,009 over and above the
value of the grounds. mad been secured,
had been violated. He claimed that the
university had announced its opening at
Washington, D, c., with not more than
$10O0,O90 collected and that through the
influence of its chancellor, Bishop John r
Hurst, had invaded the territories occu-
pied by the constituencies of other insti-
tutions.
Dr. Goucher intimated that the pub
lished list of trustees of the institution
was padded by the insertion of names
of persons who had not accepted the
places.
The subcommittee to which the matter
was referred is made of eight members,
Of which DR.. Goucher is chairman. When
DR.. ]. R. Day, president of the general
committee, was appealed to become a
member of the subcommittee, he de-
INJURED, SAYING:
l do not want to be on this committee
know too much"
In spite of his protest, however, he
was made member of the committee
The committee on education adopted the
report of subcommittee, which pro-
Vlded that before any theological school
could be recognized by the general con
terence, the members of its faculty must
upon election, be approved by majority
OF the board of bishops. The report pro
Vlaed that the bishops might in case
they objected to the reelection of any
member of the faculty, furnish the board
OF trustees of the institution and the man
so objected to with a statement of their
reasons. The provisions of the report,
however, give the bishops the right only
10 OBJECT to the reelection of member
OF the faculty, but no power to remove
any such member
Tie matter OF the charges of improper
teaching made against Prof Mitchell, of
the Boston Theological school, and his
trial and vindication, which was sumbit-
ted to the conference in the form of a
pamphlet of half a hundred pages, was
not reported upon in the committee.
EPWORTH LEAGUE WORK.
The Epworth league committee held its
;ast meeting today and its report Of com
pleted business will go to the general
conference tomorrow
Proposed changes in the board of con-
lroI received unfavorable action at the
hands OF the committee, and the memorial
Will go back to the conference without
the members sanction.
Inc proposition to establish an age limit
IN the EpwoTth league, liking thirty years
as the age when members must relinquish
active connection and become honorary
members, was rejected also.
The request of the league of Southern
Asia asking for the appointment of a
general secretary to the executive head
OF the organization In the Indian penfn-
sula' received like treatment, the sub
committee reporting that it doubted the
prudence and constitutioRality of such
action.
"A memorial suggesting the abrogation
OF the fraternal relations of the Epworth
League with other church societies of
'-S POHPlS WAS NOT a0OpleQ Dy the
committee. DR. Thirkffeld, the general
secretary, announced that he had just
forwarded charter to a new Epwortt
league IN a Western state, formed of 800
seeding Christian Endeavorcrs. This
was deemed good reason for no action
The committee on book concern con-
unued It's policy of retrenchment and re-
form IN the management of the church
pubhshlng interests az its meeting today
The southwestern Christian Advocate,
the ofhcial publication of the scoIored peo-
pie In the South, which was given sub
sldy OF SlZ, Goo for the past quadrennium,
VIII be compelled to5get along with S9.2OO
curing the ltext four years. The cut in
the subsidy ofthis paper was recommend.
ed by the committee in, the interest Of
economy The committee decided to re-
fuse the request for financial assistance
Tor the Methodist Advocate Journal, pub
lshed at Chattanooga At the last gen
eral conference the paper was given
subsidy of $1,000. The action of the com
mittee will suspend the publication of
this periodical
After spirited discussion the com.
mittee adopted a. report directing the
managers Of the ehurch's book reposi,
tories to close cut their stocks of misceI.
laneops books and eontfne the business
IN the future to the distribution of Meth
odlst literature. This will apply to the
Dook stores now operated in Boston Phil,