The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-16

required to make up the price of the lee
turer when the receipts at the door were
not enough TO meet the demand. This ac-
counts for the fact that the minority re-
from a leading layman. The life tenure fea-
ture is likely to cut quite figure before
the question is closed
Look out for storm when the temper
ance committee brings In its report. 1t held
a session Monday afternoon to receive the
report of the subcommittee of nine. 1t was
quite up to the guage 1 set for 1t when /
told you how the subcommittee was consti-
tuted seven appointed by the chair. Prof.
Dicky, then the chairman and secretary,
both party prohibitionists. There were only
fifty-four members OF committee OF more
than two hundred present Most, IL not all.
of the absent members were'On other COM
mittees meeting at the same time, but as
thirty-five constitutes quorum business
went The first fight in the committee
was on restoring to the Discipline the eu-
phoneous phrase "can never be legalized
without sim An able lawyer from New
Jersey showed, by numerous author
tiles, that no law could legalize 1t be-
cause, in the absence of law, IL is as law
full to sell intoxicants as it is to sell wheat.
But that counted nothing. The bishops
built the expressive phrase in 1883 and II
must be restored to the Discipline from
which 1t was taken In 1886.
THE ARMY CANTEEN.
Then came the canteen. Secretary Long.
of the navy, was complimented by name
for enforcing the canteen in the navy.
but the President and the attorney general
and the secretary of war came in for re-
buke only in their official characters for
the nonenforcement of the law. The tenn
per Of the paper may be inferred from the
first sentence: 1--WE are chagrined, humil-
lated and exasperated." Now, a man or a
committee that is all that may be relied
upon to say some very naughty things If
he sets about it, and that is what that
committee did. OF the subcommittee that
drafted the resolutions only seven were
present, five of whom Joined in the major
ity report and two brought In minority
report wishing to substitute the language
of the bishops address, for the 'exasper-
ating'' words of the majority, but II was
voted down by "a to TO-. The committee will
meet again tomorrow and an effort will be
made to at least incorporate the language
of the bishops address into the report.
but it is not likely TO pass. 1t will prob
ably not reach the conference this week,
but when 1t does there will be a time of 1t.
committee IL is to be said they never sug-
gested third party once 1t is enough
for their purpose that they defeat Mr.. Nc
kinley, matter by whom.
The conference finally determined to re-
tain the two-thirds rule as to bishops, while
a majority may elect the other officers.
The final discussion brought to the front
some sharp rebukes on electioneering for
the office of bishop by those whose present
official position enables them to at least
get leading vote on the first ballot, so
large that a mere majority may be easily
reached. On the other hand, one brother
spoke his mind freely when he said that
if Dr. Butts, who at one time had a ma
jority at Cleveland, had been elected We
would never have been ashamed of him.
The way he said it seemed to imply that
some people were ashamed of the man who
later on got two-thirds. Governor Shaw S
speech on the minority report, which pro-
poses no new bishop now meant fewer
men and more work. On the whole the un-
rest of the church on the bishop question
forbodes some radical new departure soon.
L. A. @.