The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-08
MUST NOT SELL IT ON SUNDAY.
METHODIST PAPER WAS HAwKED
ON THE SABBATH.

conference Was Indignant and Mem
hers said 1t Must Not Occur Again.
resolution Providing for Individ-
,aI Communion Cups Was Cried
on the Amusement Clause One
MEMBER said the Clause Was Not
CONSTITUTIONAL.
chicago. May THE session of the
Nethodist general conference to-day was
ful of life, of brisk debate and some feel
ing.
There was CONSERVATION among the
delegates when it was learned that the
Daily Christian Advo- ate had been hawk
ed about on Sundays.
There was violent opposition to DIR.
Buckley's resolution directing that all ar
1clts under discussion by the conference
he eliminated from the Daily Advocate
and a resolution by former Congressman
NJ. W. Johnson of North Dakota, giving
the approval of the conference to the use
Of Individual communion cups was cried
down without the formaity of a discus
sion.
DR.. A. B. Leonard demanded to know
BY whose authority to Daily Christian
Advocate which rep. esents the doings of
the conference had been hawked about
tic streets erday like any secular
Sunday paper. 1t was sold, he declared
with much vigor at the very door of the
Auditorium, while the Methodists were
entering to attend divine services
81 want 10 put motion right here"
said the delegate from Cincinnati that
hereafter our paper be not sold on the
Sabbath and that the proper authorities
be directed 10 enforce the rule
D. d. Thompson, mana ger of the paper
explained that the papers sold were back
numbers; that the sale was not authorized
and that it would not occur again.
DR.. Buckeyes resolution concerning the
suppression of certain articles was pass
ed by vote of 325 60 279. but not until
several delegates had expressed them
selves very freely.
1.-THE humble delegates want all the light
on the subjects they can get" said Dele
gate Hammill of Illinois. leader of the
opposition to the resolution.
Or. John Lanahan of Baltimore re-
marked that the editors were so used to
suppressing things in their paper that
they want to suppress che whole con-
ference. A dozen others spoke in a
similar strain. A motion 10 table the res
olution was lost and following this, the
resolution was passed
An attack on the amusement clause in
the book of discipline was made in an I'M
looked-for way by DR.. j. E. Price of New
York during the session. He questioned
the constitutionaiity of the amusement
paragraph (248 and asked that the Com
mittee on Judiciary look into the matter
In explanation, DR.. Price said:
IT do not believe the paragraph is con-
stitutional, because 1t is a judicial rul-
ing, but was not delivered in a case on
trial. The paragraph was adopted in 1872
and not as the result of trial.
Five New bishops.
It seems probable that because of the
advanced age of several members of the
episcopacy, the Committee on Episcopacy
will recommend the election of five addi-
tional bishops. Three will be for work in
this country and two to supervise the
missionary work in Asia. This is the pro
gramme in favor with a majority of the
members of the Committee on EpiscoIDacy
There are twenty or more avowed can
didates for the high office of bishop, all
though it is not likely that more than five
additions to the present board of episco-
pacy will be made. 1t is probable that
much opposition to the election of a col
ored bishop will appear when the matter
Is taken up by the conference. The South
ern delegates, 1t Is said, will vote solidly
in favor of the innovation, but hundreds
Of representatives of Northern confer
ences. it is said, will oppose it. The great
number Of white candidates for bishop, 1t
IS DeneNed, VIII operate against the
chances of DR.. j. E. Bowen of Washing
ton as the leading colored aspirant and
several prominent delegates declare that
the election of Dr. Bowen by the present
conference is by no means certain.
many-sided movement to increase still
further the powers of laymen in the Meth
odist Church organization can be marked
as the standing committees of the gen
eral conference settled down to business
These are some of the proposed reforms
The admission of laynen to the annual
conferences. constitutional requirement
for a majority vote of the two orders sep
arately on all constitutional changes, the
seating of lay delegates to the General
Conference in a body, separate from the
Ministerial delegates, so as to secure great
er independence for the laymen; the cleo
uon of stewards and trustees of churches
by the church members in their quarterly
conferences, instead of the appointment of
them by the pastor.
WITH COLoRED NETHODISTS.