The sun., 1900-05-30
THE METHODISTS GO HOME.
ADJOTRNMENT or THE GENERAL
CONFERENCE ~ CHfCAGO.
Last session Given Over 10 Rostine business
Auction sale Of the bishops Tab'e anu
Chair Work That Has Besn Accomplished
During the session Lasting "oh'n'

| CHICAGO MAY 20 -- The twenty-third General
Conference Of the Methodist Episcopal Church
adjourned az 80 clock thi- afternoon to meet
four years hencn AT "A place to be selected by me
Executive Committee The attendance at ms
last session of the Conference was small IN"
work was purely routine in character and no'h-
| Ing OF lrnportn nee was accomplished Five Bi-h-
| ops occupied the chair during the session.
| Bishop Mctabe opeued the exercises. Bishop
Cran-ton took the chair shortly before the re-
ce-s and the time after disnission was divided
between David II. Moore. }. W Hamilton ana
stephen II. Merrill.
| The ,ediousncss OF reports of minor commit
tees. res buttons. memorials and points Of o'uer
was relieved by the ,en-innuta intermission.
! during which the Conference foor assumed 'h"
appearance Of an auction room. Or Robert
| Forbes took the rostrum and sold 10 the highest
bidder the table that had been used during the
Conference by the BISHOPS This table was
made by the pupils in the Methodist Industrial
School In Venice Italy. and the money paid for
II will bs used for the benefit of that institution
Considerable competition was manifest between
the Bishops and lsymen for this table The
frst bid was SEQ. but within ten minutes this
was raised to $500 W l.. Noodcock Of the First
Methodist Church Of Altoona. Pa delegate
from the Central Pennsylvania Conference was
the purchaser. one delegate asked. during th"
| bidding. whether all questions laid on the table
went with IT,
The time limit slipped on one corner, :" an
swercd DR. Forbes. but the amusement dles-
ton stuck in the middle and is still on the table.
You are welcome 10 1t
As Bishop Moore took the gnvel. Mr.. Wood
cock arose and said
Il wish to call the attention of the Bishop
to the way he hammers on my table Amid
the laugh that followed Bishop Moore said
''Id like 10 ask as a question of high privilege.
who that Id bachelor is going TO give this ta-
| bic top"
Mr. Woodcock said he would put the table in
| his HON" IN Altoona, Were Il will be on exhl-
| bition for the benefit OF the SUNDAY school, Of
which he L. Superintendent, and tAe Epworth
League, of which he j. President Many re-
| quest, have come 10 him to place the table in
institutions Of learning, but he ha, not vet de-
termnrd what he will Ultimately do with u,
George y WaShbnrn of Massachusetts, lay
delegate from the New England Conference
bought the chair used by the Bishops for 500
He will present IL to the Peoples Temple, Bos-
ton, Bishop Ilmtzell Presented Bishop Moore
with an ebony gavel made by students in the
ST Paul River Industrial School, Africa
The following were elected trustees of the
American University at Washington, Miliiani
Mckinley. Bishop Thomas Bowman, Michael
Burnnam. J $. Carr, Homer Eaton, Bi-hopC Fl
Fowler. Il, i, Higinhothag, Bi,hopJ + Hurst
y. F, M9iiSIisas, Il; ii MiIS%rn, eS,GGy
+. 7, Pat,is3n, 4 , Brown, D. II carroll, "
{, Glover, } T.. Herre, j Robinson Bishop
{, e. McCabe, l.. c'.omas, 4 J Palmer, {.
Scott " " smith WM Spr,,sep, bishop 4 !. p
srarcs. S,'GP' ". Smith, p%"j T. Summefs T; i 5
Iowne, Bishop Vincent. D. B, Wcsson, }
q 2 wll'G9 4 k II HObOIl hsInnI, e. HoSeI iSv,sr
L H. Pearse B H. Warner, I D. Collins
Al u O'Clock all unfinished business before
the conference was laid on the table and the
remaining time was consumed in reading COM
pllnentary resolutions and considering few
unimportant reports A. i:SO O'Clock the gavei
Of Bishop Merrill fen. the long-netre doxology
was sung, the henedictiOn pronounced and the
General Conference was ad ournad
During tha month In which 'he Conference
has been IN session many lmporlant Questions
upon favorablv by the delegates are:
Admission Of av delegates 10 equal r"ure-
srntaiion with ministerial delegates to the Gem
pra Conference
Admission Of women as lay delegates 10 the
General Conference,
Adoption OF a constitution, the first the Metho-
DIST Church has ever had
Election ol four Bishops. TWO General Super
intendent- and two Missionary Bishops
Report Of the Committee on iecopacy TAX
ing away the right OF tn Bishops 10 choose
their Episcopal residence
Abolition of the time limit on paStorates,
EstaDlls shment of foreign episcopal residences
al shanghai, China, end Zurich, switzerland.
Consolidation Of the ,ecTetaryshps Oy the
various benevolent societies of the Church.
The mai iOrity report Of the temperance COM
mittee censurinr President Mex nley Attorney,
General Grggs and the Administration and
adopting the minority report. pledeing the
church TO battle Tor the defeat Of liIuor
traffic, was tabled The Conference also re-
fused to alter the Discipline relating To amnse-