The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1900-06-01
BPHOLDS THE PRESIDENT.
Methodist Conference Refuse to Cen
sure His Action On Canteens.
The Minority Report Recommending No
Action On Card-PIaylRg, Dancing aad
Other Prohibited Amusements Wa
Adoptsd-5SS Ayes 20 ESQ Noes

Chicago. Nav 29-The Methodist
general conference Monday took IN
expected action in regard to the com
mittee reports on card-playing, dane
ing and other prohibited amusements.
The official vote by which the minor
ity report was accepted recommend
ing no action was announced as 333
ayes TO 29O noes Then, to the sur
prise Of the large audience, on motion
of DR.. Buckley, the minority report
was laid on the table by a vote Of
256 to 253. Bishop Fitzgerald ruled,
however, that the question was no
longer before the house. 1t is ex-
tremely improbable that the matter
viii again be taken up for action, so
the standing Of the Methodist church
for the next four years in regard to
forbidden amusements viii be IN
changed.
Samuel Diekie, of Michigan, then
presented the report Of the commit
tee on temperance, and for the first
time the great Methodist body took
on a strong political appearance The
majority report contained a strong ar
raignment of President Mckinley
and Attorney General Griggs for their
attitude on the anti-canteen law and
over this point the conference de-
bated all morning. The majority re-
port on that point reads as follows:
We are chagrined. Inundated and ex-
asperated BY the puerile and absurd con-
structiOn placed on the anti-canteen law
by the attorney general Of the United
States and with all due respect to the
exalted station, we record the fact that
we are panied and disappointed at the
course Of the president in accepting as
final and satisfactory an opinion with
out binding force. Such an abuse Of
power is notification in its most dan
gerOus form. Upon the president. as
chief OF our army, rests the responsibility
for the existence Of the canteen saloon.
an evil which he has ample power to
suppress, a more deadly foe to the sol
diers than the bullet or the tropical heat.
DR.. J. Z. Price, Of New York, pre-
scented the minority report, which
struck out all Of the majority report
In which President Mckinley was
condemned. I'VE are here to deal in
principles and not indulge in per
sOnalities,' said DR.. Price, amid Wig
OrOUs applause. Judge Lore, of
Delaware, in speaking IN favor of the
minority report, paid a strong tribute
to the president, with whom he served
four years in congress. Il love his
elemental manhood, - said Judge Lore,
sand L hope the Methodist church
viii not strike down one of the most
loyal men within her borders"
DR.. Buckley offered an amendment
to the minority report, which was &C
cepted by DR.. Price, which appealed
to the president to use all his inf1u-
ence to promote the passage Of the
amended anti-canteen law now be-
fore congress. DR.. Frank B. Bristol,
of Washington, President McKinley's
pastor, aroused tremendous applause
by protesting against what he termed
an ''unbrOtherly, unjust, unpatHotic,
unprOtestant attack upon the presi-
dent of the United States. He is to-
Gay the most distinguished Christian
layman in the world"
The minority report with DR.. Buck
ley's amendment was then adopted by
an Overwhelming vote, with the
further amendment that the action
was not in the interest Of any POliti-
cal party.
BY the laying on Of hands Of u
bishops in the presence Of 5000 per-
sons at the Auditorium four new
bishops of the Methodist Episcopal
church were eOnsecrated yesterday.
The newly-consecrated bishops are:
David Hastings Moore, assigned to
the Shanghai district; John William
Hamilton, assigned to the San Fran
cisco district; Edwin Wallace Parker
and Wesley Warne, missionary
bishops, assigned to India and Malay
asia. The ceremonies were brief and
simple The delegates to the confer
ence and hundreds Of their friends
came forward when the services were
at an end and crowded the stage to
congratulate the four new bishops.