Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-05-18
TICKETS WERE DEMANDED.
For Admission Of Outsiders to
Methodist Conference.
TEMPERANCE QUESTION UP.
Losing Fighters Against Paragraphs
Which Criticise President Mckinley Will
Take the Fight to the Floor In the
Form of q Minority Report.

Chicago, May 1S.-While the morn
ing session in the Methodist confer
ence was in progress Bishop Charles
c. McCabe occupied the chair.
There was trouble at the forenoon
session over the police regulations put
in effect to keep the floor clear Of out
siders while the balloting was going
on. The ministers had been accus-
toned to perfect freedom, and when
big policeman stopped them and made
them produce tickets they felt insulted.
The Rev. William H. Shier Of De-
troit protested that the policemen were
half full Of beer" 1t was then an
nounced that the policeman in charge
Of the detail was a member of Meth
odist church in good standing. Judge
Horton became slightly indignant at
the implied criticism of the committee
on arrangements.
The board of bishops appointed a
committee of fifteen to formulate
plans for the twentieth century move
ment. J. W. Bashford is chairman.
A committee of fifteen to report on the
question of federation of the Methodist
church north and south was ordered.
The report of the committee on
book concern was taken up, and it
was finally ordered that the New York
Christian Advocate may continue pub
LEGATION provided a guarantee against
loss is given and contract that part
of the profits will be paid to the book
concern.
A memorial authorizing bishops to
unite churches at annual conferences
to preserve the property rights in
volved in any transfer was recon-
mended for passage.
The friends Of President Mckinley
in the temperance committee who
made a losing fight against the adop-
ton of paragraphs which criticise the
president for his acceptance Of the
Griggs decision in the anti-canteen law
will take the fight to the floor Of the
conference in the form of minority
report, to be presented by DR.. J. E..
Price of the New York conference.
The majority report, including the at
tack on the president, was adopted
after a long fight on several para
graphs which referred to the attitude
Of the church on the license question.
Among the recommendations made
by the report is: ministers and
members of our churches should not
become nor remain members Of social
clubs which keep a bar or provide in
toxicating liquors for the use of their
members and Others"
The committee on the state of the
church debated the question Of raising
the ban on amusements for two and
a half hours. It is expected that the
final vote will be taken tomorrow, and
that it will favor the removal Of the
prohibitory ban on some of the amuse-
ments now discountenanced. Confer
ence and district territorial changes
were made by the committee on boun-
daries. At the request of Bishop
Hartzell the Congo mission conference
was divided into two bodies-the East
Central Africa mission conference and
the West Central Africa mission confer
ence. The northwest Iowa confer
ence was put back into. the Eighth
district from the Ninth, and Needles
(Cal.) conference was transferred
from the Southern California confer
ence. The general conference accepts
the recommendations of the committee
as final In the committee on temporal
economy a subcommittee on church
insurance was appointed to report on
the advisability of having a church in
surance society. The City Evangeli-
zation union held it's anniversary at
the Auditorium hotel.