The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-20


been eliminated. claim that the conference
VIII refuse to become a party to any CEN
sure or the President. either as chief execu-
tive OK the United States or as a member
OF the Methodist Church The thirteen
members of the committee who signed the
minority report have been busy with the
members of the conference In an effort to
secure support In their refusal to criticise
the President. The action of the majority
is said 10 have caused sense of embar-
rassment among the leaders in the confer
ence. who will be called upon 10 take
stand on the issue which the submission
OF the two reports will raise.
Letters, kilograms and appeals on the
subject have been pouring in the MEM
bers OF the committee from all parts or
the country since the committee decided
upon Its report A number of these COM
munications appeal to the members not TO
recede from the position taken by the COM
mittee. while others present equally earnest
appeals 10 the conference not 10 go on
record as criticising the administration. The
contest has been given something of polit-
icai interest. representative of the Re-
publican national committee, 1t is stated,
having arrived in Chicago for a conference
with members of the committee and lead
ers of the conference. His mission, accord
ing to those with whom he is said to have
conferred, is TO ascertain at first hand the
exact purport of the resolution of the COM
mittee and to learn personally the senti-
ment OF the members of the conference IN
regard to the report.
The committee will probably be given an
opportunity to report early next week.
Chairman Samuel Dickie attempted to
bring the matter up to-day, but was de-
feated in his attempt.
Members of the committee on book con-
Germ to-day adopted a report recommend
ing that the General Conference author
lie the board of bishops TO appoint spe-
cial commission of nine to compile new
hymnal. The book will contain six hundred
hymns-fve hundred now in use and one
hundred new HYMNS The words and music
will be printed together. The book Will also
contain the church service and ritual. and
is designed for the use of every Methodist
church. A recommendation for an appro-
priation of $1,000 to be used In publishing
limited number of the hymnals in the
Swedish language was approved. After a
long discussion report was adopted Civ
ing the management of the San Francisco
book depository and the California Chris
tian Advocate over to a commission or
seven TO be chosen by the California Con-
ference. A subsidy of $500 for the sup
port of the enterprise is recommended with
the understanding that If loss is sustained
during the next four years both the paper
and the depository are to be dropped. Dele
gate AFTER tried to have the California
and the Pacific Christian Advocates con-
nected, but the proposition was voted down
and the latter given subsidy or S9,OVO
resolution was adopted directing the
book committee to formulate plan for re-
organizing the affairs of the Book Con-
Germ on business basis and put the new
system of management into effect at the
earliest practicable date. Delegate AFTER
tried to have all the publishing interests
of the church put under one executive head
by reducing the number of publishing
agents from four to one, but the plan was
rejected.
The committee on Sunday school and
tracts will report TO the General Confer
ence recommending the appointment of
an editor for the Sunday school publica-
tons and also a corresponding secretary
for the Sunday School Union and the Tract
Society, whose duty it shall be TO edit
tracts.
Teachers in the colored educational in
situations of the South complained at the
meeting of the Freedmen's Aid Society
committee to-day that they were having
trouble in drawing their salaries. One in
structor announced that he and his col
leagues in Tennessee institution had not
received a cent for four months DIR. w.
G. B. Mason, the general secretary, was
called upon to explain this state Of affairs
DR.. Mason said it was through no fault of
the Freedman's Aid and Southern Educa-
tional Society that the salaries were not
paid. He said that the organization had
given the promised amount in every case,
but that the sums promised by the
churches had not been forthcoming. The
committee adopted a resolution expressing
its willingness TO take up the work in Porto
Rico providing the money can be raised
and that the missionary society does not
supersede ii in the field.