The Atlanta constitution., 1900-04-02
MEET NEXT AT VALD0STA.

Griffin. Ga. April 1.-(special) Memo
rial exercises in honor of the deceased
members of the Georgia State Baptist
convention who have died since the last
meeting of the convention was held at
the First Baptist church this afternoon
at 3 O'Clock, conducted by DIR. Fitzpatrick.
who said that he attended a meeting of
the convention here thirty-four years
ago, and of the large number of members
present then, only three are in attendance
now Last year, he said. there were
six of these old members at the meeting,
but since then two had passed beyond
the river and another was old ana feeble,
unable to be with them.
DR. H. w Gwinn read the report of the
committee on deceased members OF the
convention, showing that nearly fifteen
had died since the last session of the
convention.
During the afternoon several eminent
speakers offered beautiful and appro-
pirate tributes TO these deceased men,
bers.
The life and death of DIR. Gibson, which
has so often been referred to during this
session of the convention. brought forth
many beautiful illustrations by DR.. Jane
son, of Atlanta.
1t was requested by the committee on
deceased ministers that a page be set
aside each year in the minutes Tor the
memorial of deceased ministers
At the meeting last night an effort was
made to organize board of educators with
the object in view of ultimately bring
ing under the control of the convention
all schools and colleges i'm the state Whlch
are owned by Baptists.
This brought forth considerable COM
motion i'm the ranks of the Baptists and
a. "A
standpoint.
At the beginning DIR. Fitzpatrick made
a point of order that such an action would
necessarily have to change the constitu-
ton; therefore TO pass the motion II
would be necessary To secure a two-thlrds
vote of the convention.
President Northen held that DR.. Kill
patrick was correct in his theory and IL
the proposed educational board was Gre
ated the constitution would have to be
changed
DR.. Nunnally. of LaGrange, proposed
to relieve the situation of the committee
and offered an amendment of the con-
stitution with that purpose in view.
While this motion was pending DR.. b.
NJ Galloway moved an indefinite post
ponement. which opened the whole ques-
tion for debate.
DR.. Kcrfoot then took the floor and
asked DR. Galloway To Withdraw his mo-
tion; that it would accomplish his pur-
pose In a better way, namely, TO refer
the same back to the committee
A Parliamentary Question.
DR.. J. l.. ID. Hillyer. of Atlanta. then
gained the floor and started 10 speak. but
was notified by the chair that he must
confine his remarks 10 the question as
To whether the matter should be deferred
at all or to the qualification of the
committee itself
t. IilIyet,, said; - und, rstaad that
what shall say will 'be to offer an
amendment which | am not at liberty
to offer pending the motion to recon-
nit"
The chair interfered, saying: you can't
offer any amendment, To which the
speaker replied: IL know that, but | can
present the amendment | would offer if
the way was open my argument
"The constitutional difficulty i'm the way
of the report was that il could not De
passed by the fragment Of the conven-
tion present, that the constitutional diff
ficultv could ne removed by striking out
that part of the report which requires the
proposed board to be Incorporated"
At this point Mr. Hillyer was interrupt
ed by a point of order by DR.. Kerfoot.
who claimed he was not discussing the
matter with reference 10 the committee.
DR. Hillyer said he insisted upon it and
had a right 10 give his reasons for oh
iecting to referring the report back to the
committee. and after being again inter-
rupted by a laugh from the congregation,
said: Brother President, | do not wish
to occupy the time of the convention
needlessy. but | understand a parliamcn-
tiary situation as thoroughly as anybody
can and don't want TO be laughed off
the floor
This brought silence and DIR. Hillycr
continued, saying:
Brother President. my reasons for oh
iecting To referring the report back to
the committee is that the report may be
amended and can be adopted with such
an amendment at this meeting, thus
saving a year. The amendment l would
propose is this:
Strike out that part of the report