Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-05-15

tions.
CHICAGO May 1.-THE General
Conference of the Methodist church
to-day discussed the question of con-
inning the profits of the book concerns
to the support of superanuated min
listers. The question involved the
withdrawing of subsidies from church
publications that could not exist 9TH
erwlse, and the payment of conference
expenses. The discussion was lengthy
and at times spirited, but the mat
ter was finally laid on the table by
rising vote. Discussion of the re-
port OF the commission on the re-
vision OF the constitution and the re-
port of the committee on rules for
the general conference election took
up most of the time of the confer
ence after the morning recess. Just
before adjournment Chairman Buck
ley, of the committee on episcopacy,
read the report bearing on the ef-
fectiveness of the board of general
superintendent. Every bishop at
present acting was recommended to be
continued in the present relations.
The report of the committee on cleo
lions, which was made public Satur-
day, recommending that the election
of bishops be held under the two
thirds rule, was brought up and re-
suited in a spirited debate The re-
port was voted on section by section
The action providing for the election
of editors of the several advocates
was recommitted to the book COM
mittee for further action, the inten-
ton being, it is understood, to dis
continue some of the subsidized pub
LEGATIONS for which editors are to be
selected. The two-thirds rule on the
election of bishops was then adopted
by an overwhelming vote. The time
of the session was extended to hear
Chairman Buckley's report No. of
the committee on episcopacy, the re-
port being on the effectiveness of the
board of general superintendent The
report, which was adopted after
short debate, recommended that the
whole list of present acting bishops
be declared effective.
The conference then adjourned for
the day.
The NJ E. committee on temperance,
of which Samuel Dickie, of Michigan,
is chairman, and of which Congress
man M. n. Johnson OF North Dakota,
author and champion of the african
teen law, is member, adopted resolu-
tions to-day, which in the minds of a
number of committeeman at least, is a
direct slap at President Mckinley be-
cause in his acquiescene in the decs-
ion of Attorney General Griggs declar-
ing the law ineffective.
The resolutions are a portion of the
report of a subcommittee into whose
hands the task of preparing the COM
mittee's report to the general confer
ence had been placed and was adopted
in the fact of a motion to substitute
for it minority report from Dr. Jacob
E. Price, of the New York conference,
after two hours debate, in which the
members alternately arraigned and
championed President Mckinley in his
stand on the anti-canteen law.
The report reads as follows:
We are, however, chagrined, humil-
lated and eXasperated by the puerile
and obscure construction placed upon
the anti-eanteen law, so-called, by the
Attorney General of the United States
and with all due respect to his exalted
panied and disappointed at the course
Of the President in accepting as final
and satisfactory an opinion without
binding force. Such an abuse of power
is notification in it's most dangerous
form.
Upon the President as commander
in-chief of our army, rests the re-
sponsibility for the canteen saloon, an
evil which he has ample power to sup
press and which, to quote the episco-
pal address, is a more deadly foe to
the soldier than bullet or tropic heat
I'VE urge upon the President an
early exercise of the power vested in
him TO the end that the authority of
tho government. instead of being used
TO place temptation before the soldier,
shall be used to save him as far as pos
sible FROM the moral hazards incldcnt
to military life.
while because of an oversight on
the part of the secretary this report
was not signed, Chairman Evans, OF
the Central Illinois conference. stated
that the following members had been
favorable to the report: Chairman
Evans, Prof. J. W. Bashford, Cincin
natl; Samuel Dickie, editor of the New
Voice; Herbert T. Ames, of the Cen
trail Pennsylvania conference, and DR..
George e. Stockwell, Of the Troy, n. Y,
conference"
Delegate NJ. H. Johnson had object
ed to one of the sections of the gen
eral report concerning prohibition
States, and DR.. Price had prepared
minority report on the three par
agraphs referring to the President.
The minority report consisted OF a
quotation from the Episcopal address
and read as follows:
Aroused and indignant at the ag-
gressions of the liquor power, at the
inexeusable miscarriage of the can
teen law and at the new perils in
which the nation is involving its new
possessions. the church will summon
and pledge all our ministers and peo-
pie to a more determined struggle
against this enormous evil, and urge
each TO contribute thereto, according
TO his Judgment, his testimony, his
example and his ballot"
A motion TO adopt this portion Of
the majority report followed closely
by motion to substitute for IL the mi
nority report, opened the question TO
heated discussion. The argument
of W. B. Howard. lay delegate from
the East New York conference. that
the majority raDort uac an ofrort N