Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-14

Chicago. May 14.-Bishop Fitzgerald
presided at today's session Of the Neth-
odist Episcopal conference, Rev. John =.
Riley, OF Oklahoma, leading the dsvo.s
tional exercises After unimportant
routine business motion was made by
Bishop Hurst that commission be cre- "A
ated by the general conference, consist-
ing of one member from each general
conference district, to select the l29 dele
gates to the ecumenical Methodist con.
ference in London. Adopted. A little
politics was then injected into the pro-
lceedings by a resolution to allow dele
gates the privilege Of vacant seats In
their delegations for their friends. It
was opposed on the ground that 1t gave
too much opportunity for lobbying and
was finally defeated.
Rev. Albert r. Rich, Of Erie. Pa, con-
ference. introduced resolution to make
| it a sacred trust to devote the profits Of
1.-The book concern to any other object
than the support of superannuatedm min-
listers. This was introduced to stop the
appropriation for expenses of the gene
eral conference out Of this fund and eub-
4 sidizing of ying official papers
Rich said, il necessary. an Injunction
should be served upon the general COM
4 ference or those holding these trust
1 funds to prevent their diversion to any
other channel than that for which they
were intended. DR.. Eaton. Of Troy, N.
Y. agent of the eastern book concern.
made strong plea for the adoption Of
the resolution. In my judgment, = he
lsaid, I'VE have too many periodicals In
4 the Methodist church. DR.. Lewis Curtis,
4 of the western book concern, also favor
ed the resolution. "A motion by DR..
s Buckley TO lay the whole matter on the
table resulted in lengthy debate.
Buckley's motion to lay on the table
finally prevailed by a large majority.
4 The regular order Of the day, the or
s. ganic law of the church, was then con-.
ssidered. article 10 being read for
amendment or adoption. This article
defines the powers and restric tons of
the general conference After some de-
: bate the article was referred 70 the
!. committee for further consideratiofa.
81 The report Of the committee osi elsc-
. tions, which was made public Satur-
! day, recommending that election Of
: bishops be held under the two-thirds
. rule. was brought up and resulted In
> of New York. editor of the Christian
Advocate, made a strong plea Tor the
/ adoption of the report, which he said
5 would tend to neutralize electioneering
methods. The report Was voted on
: section by section. The section pro-
5 viding for the election of the editors Of
5 the several advocates was recommitted
s to the book committee for further
action, the intention being, it is UNDER
stood, to discontinue some subsidized
tsfpublications for which editors are to
!, be selected. The two thirds rule on the
V election of bishops was then adopted
-I.bY an overwhelming vote. Chairman
Buckley then read report No. OF the
s Icommittee on episcopacy, dealing with
. the effectiveness of the board of gem
/. era1 superintendent. The report
s. which was adopted after short de-
e bate recommended that the whole list
n of present acting bishops be declared
e effective. Adjourned for the day.