The Saint Paul globe., 1900-05-23
DEADLOCK OVER SELECTION OF
METHODIST BISHOPS WAS
BROKEN TUESDAY
Zach GIVEN 4 BIG VOTE
DRs. j. w. HAMILTON AND DAVID
H. MOORE RECEIVED MORE
THAN NEEDED
PROMINENT IN CHURCH WORK
Selection Seemed Popular With the
Church Following-Busy Day
at the General Confer
ence Meetings.

CHICAGO, May 22.-The Methodist gen
eral conference today elected two mem
bers Of the board of general superin-
tendents, after a battle of ballots lasting
nearly week, and also finally disp0sed
of a question that for many years has
been a source of dispute in Methodist
conference.-the admission of women to
the general conference. This was settled
in favor of the women
Dr. ]. W. Hamilton, of the New Eng
land conference, general secretary of the
board Of Freedmen's Aid and Southern
Education society, and DR.. David H.
Moore, of Cincinnati, editor of the West
ern Christian Advocate, were elevated to
the episcOpacy on the seventeenth bal
lot both receiving many more than the
necessary two-thirds votes.
Besides the action on the episcopacv
and the question of the admission of
women to general conferences and there
fore necessarily to lay electoral confer
ences, the general conference adopted the
constitution as submitted by the special
commission on organic law.
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY.
The methods used by the projectors Of
the American university were called into
account by DR.. John r. GouGher, in the
committee on education today, ana the
matter was submitted to a subcommittee,
with instructions u prepare a report
which, after being passed upon by the
general committee, will be presented to
the general conference.
According to the statements made be-
fore the committee by DR.. Goucher, the
covenant made at the Omaha conference
in 1893, between the American university,
the general conference and the college
association, by the terms of which the
university projectors agreed to teach
nothing but graduate Werk in the insti-
tuition, not to interfere with the support
Of other institutions by undue efforts to
secure contributions from their constitu-
ency and not to open the school before
an amount OF $5,00O00o over and above the
value of the grounds Tad been secured,
had been violated. He claimed that the
university had announced its opening at
Washington, D, c., with not more than
S,0O0,O00 collected and that through the
influence of its chancellor, Bishop John r.
Hurst, had invaded the territories occu-
pied by the constituencies of other insti-
tutions.
DR.. Goucher intimated that the pub
lshed list of trustees of the institution
was padded by the insertion of names
of persons who had not accepted the
places.
The subcommittee to which the matter
was referred is made of eight members,
Of which DR.. GOucher is chairman. When
DR.. J. r. Day, president of the general
committee, was appealed to become a
member of the subcommittee, he de-
INJURED, saying:
I do not want to be on this committee.
1 know too much"
In spite of his protest, however, he
was made a member of the committee.
The committee on education adopted the
report of a subcommittee, which pro-
Vlded that before any theological school
could be recognized by the general con
terence, the members of its faculty must,
upon election, be approved by a majority
OF the board of bishops. The report pro
vided that the bishops might, in case
they objected to the reelection of any
nlemper of the faculty, furnish the board
OF trustees OF the institution and the man
so objected TO with a statement Of their
reasons. The provisions of the report.
however, give the bishops the right only
TO object to the reelection of a member
oil the faculty, but no power to remove
any such member.
Tie matter OF the charges of improper
the Boston Theological school, and his
trial and vindiCation, which was sumbit-
ted to the conference ia the form of a
pamphlet of half a hundred pages was
not reported upon in the committee.
EPWORTH LEAGUE WORK.
The Epworth league committee held its
:ast meeting today and its report Of com
pIeted business will go to the general
conference tomorrow
Proposed changes in the board of con-
troI received unfavorable action at the
hands OF the committee, and the memorial
will go back to the conference without
the members sanction
Inc proposition to establish an age limit
IN the EpWoTth league, liking thirty years
as the age when members must relinquish
active connection and become honorary
members, was rejected also.
Inc request of the league of Southern
ASA asking for the appointment of a
general secretary to the executive head
OF the organization in the Indian PENN
sula, received like treatment. the sui
committee reporting that it doubted the
prudence and constitutionality of such
action.
a memorial suggesting the abrogation
OF ehe fraternal relations of the Epworth
League with other church societies of
young people was not adopted by the
committee DR.. Thirkfield the general
secretary, announced that he had just
forwarded charter to a new Epworth
league IN Western state, formed of 100
SeCedlng Christian Endeavorcrs This
was deemed good reason for no action.
The committee on book concern con-
t1nued its policy of retrenehment and re-
tornI IN the management of the church
publishing interests az its meeting today
The Southwestern Christian Advocate,
the official publication of the <colored peo-
pie IN the South, which was given a sub
sldy OF $lZsOOt for the past quadrennium,
VIII be compelled tosget along with $9,2
durlng the lrext four years. The cut in
the subsidy Of this paper was recommend.
ed by the committee in the interest Of
economy The committee decided to re-
fuse the request for financial assistance
for the Methodist Advocate Journal, pub
ished at Chattanooga. At the last gen
cral conference the paper was given a
subsidy of $1,000. The action of the COM
mittee will suspend the publication Of
this periodical
After spirited discussion the com,
mlttee adopted "a report directing the
managers of the ehurchs book reposj,
tories to close out their stocks of miscel.
laneous books and contfne the business
IN the future to the distribution of Meth