The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-05-15
Temperance Committee Brings up the
canteen Question, Which is De-
bated by the Members.
ONE OF THE PRESIDENTS FOES
Member of the COmmittee-Dr.
Lynch, of This State, Stood Firm
ly by the Chief Executive.

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the anti-canteen law is a member,
adopted resolutions to-day, which in
the minds of a number Of committee
men at least. is direct slap at Presi-
dent Mckinley because in his ac-
quiescence in the decision of Attorney
General Griggs declaring the law inef-
fectlve.
The resolutions are q portion Of the
report of a subcommittee into whose
hands the task of preparing the COM
mlttee's report to the general confer
ence had been placed and was adopted
in the face of a motion to substitute for
1t minority report from DR.. Jacob E.
Price, of the New York conference, af-
ter a two hours debate, in which the
members alternately arraigned and
champIoned President Mckinley in his
stand on the anti-canteen law.
How the Report Reads.
The report reads as follows:
1--WE are, however, chagrined, humll-
lated and exasperated by the puerIle
and obscure construction placed upon
the antI-canteen law. so-called by the
attorney general of the United States,
and with all due respect to his exalted
station, we record the fact that we are
panied and disappointed at the course
OF the President in accepting as final
and satisfactory an opinion without
binding force. Such an abuse of power
is notification in its most dangerous
form.
Upon the President as commander
ln.chlef Of our army rests the respon-
sibnlty for the canteen saloon, an evil
which he has ample power to suppress
and which, to quote the Episcopal adj
dress, is more deadly foe to the
soldier than bullet or troplc heat
Take the Temptation Away.
I'VE urge upon the President an
early exercise of the power vested in
him to the end that the authority Of
the government, instead of being used
to place temptation before the soldier,
shall be used to save him as far as pos
sIble from the moral hazards incident
to military life.
while because Of an oversight on
the part Of the secretary this report
was not signed Chairman Evans, Of
the Central Illinois conference, stated
that the following members had been
favorable TO the report: Chairman Ev-
ans, Prof. ]. W. Bashford, CIncInnnti;
Samuel Dickle, editor OF the New Voice;
Herber, T. Ames, of the Central Penn
sylvania conference, and DIR. George E.
stocpwell, Of the Troy, N. Y, confer
ence."
Delegate NJ. n. johnson had objected
to one Of the sections of the general
report concerning prohibition states,
and DR.. Price had prepared a minority
report on the three paragraphs refer
ring to the President. The minority re-
port consisted of quotation from the
Episcopal address and read as follows:
Aroused and Indignant at the ag-
Eresslons OF the liquor power: at the
inexcusable miscarriage Of the can
teen law, and at the new perIls In
which the nation is involving its new
possessions, the church Will summon
and pledge oil our ministers and people
TO a more determined struggle against
this enormous evil, and urge each to
contribute thereto. according to his
Judgment, his testimony, his example
and his ballot"
Hented Discussion Begins.
A motion to adopt this portion of the
majority report followed closely by a
motion to substitute for It the minor
ity report. opened the question to a
heated discussion. The argument of
w. B. Howard. lay delegate from the
East New York conference. that the
majority report was an effort to be
little n public Official" brought forth
the reply from Dr. william d. Parr, of
North Indiana, that "the report could
bellttle no one when It spoke the
truth"
81 contributed to the presidential sit
untion MS far ns was able but I do
not answer for the future" said DR..
Parr. "1f a man makes a mistake let
him tnKe the consequences, but let the
church face toward the right"
Wanted to Leave the HarpoOn.
A dozen called for recognition when
Or. Parr yielded the floor and DR.. R.
II. Gilbert, of Central Pennsylvania,
after an Illustration Of a sailor who
crltlclses a sermon, because there was
no harpoon in IT," said: II don't believe
In taking the harpoon out Of our re-
port by making the substitute which
perhaps was the best the Episcopal
board could ofler. but which is be-
meath this committee. There Is only
one right side to this question.
In the cries for recognition which fol-
lowed. Dr. f. w. Lynch. OF West vlr-
gInla, who was acting rs temporary
secretary. secured the floor and called
forth a voley Of dIsnpproval when he
said:
West Virginia for the President.
II favor the substitute; first, because
It Is more stntesmanlike. and second
because 1t is more likely to pass in the