The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-05-15
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Methodist Temperance Com
mittee's Resolution
ON THE ARMY CANTEEN
Is a Slap at Mckinley--B
and the Time Limit.
ON THE ARMY CANTEEN

Chicago. May 1.-THE Methodist Epis-
copal general conference committee or
temperance. OF which Samuel Dickie OF
Michigan is chairman. and Of which Con
gresham NJ. y. Johnson Of North Da-
kota, author and CHAMPION of the ant
canteen law. is a member, ADOPTED re O
buttons today which, in the minds OF =
number of the committee al least. is q
direct slap at President McKinlye be
cause OF his acQuiescence in the decision
Of Attorney General Griggs dec. airing tn
law ineffective. The resolutions are e
portion Of . subcommittee report, into
whose hands the task Of preparing the
committees report 10 the general CON
ference had been placed and was adopt
ed in the face of a motion 10 substitute
for il minority report from Dr. JACOB
E. Price, Of the New York conference,
after a two hours debate, in which the
members alternately arraigned and cham
pioned President Mckinley in his stand
on the anti-cantzen law. The report wa
read az follows:
we are, however, chagTined, humiliat-
ed and eXasperated by thu puerle and
absurd construction placed upon the anti
canteen law, 50 called. by the attorney
general OF the United S ates, and. with
all due respect to his exalted station. W
record the fact that We are panied ana
disappointed al the course of the pre- j.
dent in accepting as final and satlsfac-
tory and opinion without binding force.
Such an abuse of power is nulliicatiol
in its most dangerous form. Upon the
president, commander in chief Of our
army, rests the responsibility of the can
teen saloon. an evil which he has anne
power to suppress, and which, u quote
the episcopal address, is u more deadly
fee to the soldier than bulle. or tropic
heat.
We urge upon the president an early
exercise Of the power vested in him to
the end that the authority of the army
instead of being used to place ;empta-
ton before the soldier, shah be used Il
save him, as far as possible from the
moral hazards incident 70 military life"
After a stormy session the committee
Of eDiscOpacy 20 day decided to recon-
mend TO the general conference that two
new bishops bs elected, 10 provide for
possible deaths on the board during tn
next four years The body voted down q
report from the subcommittee in favor
o. petition to the conference to elect a
colored biEhop. Instead OF making q Gi-
rect recommendation on this question
the committee VIII report a revised yer
sion cf the declaration adopted by The
conference Of 1886. recognizing the quail
tication of coIored men TO I'll the htgh
Office and admitting the need OF col
ored leader TO direct the religious wo L
among his people IN the south The re-
suit is taken as q defeat Of the rnovefen ,
to secure the election OF q colored man
as bishop OF this conference as the lead
ers started out with the determination q
get specific instructions TO the conference
Chairman Buckley will rep ri these find
ings 10 the conference tomorrow. Both
reports are certain 10 Oe bitterly CON
tested on the floor Of the conference. The
time limit for Methodist preachers seems
doomed. BY a vote Of 50 to q the com
mittee on itinerancy today decided to
present to the general conference a re-
port fsvoring the abolition Of time limit
now IN force
Bishop Fitzgerald presided at todav's
session. Rev John r Riley Of Oklahoma
leading the devotional exercises.