The age-herald., 1901-10-17
CONVENTION IS
 NEARING ITS. END EpiScopaIian Commission toFix
 Name of Church CONSTITUTION IS AMENDED Canon Is Adopted Requiring That Be- fore Woman Can Become Dea- coness She Must Be Thirty
 Years Ola.
CONSTITUTION IS AMENDED

San Francisco, October 16.-The trien- nial convention of the Episcopal Church of America. now drawing to a close, has considerable work yet to be accom- plished. For this reason the house of deputies will hereafter strictly confine the speakers to the limit.
 The house of bishops met in executive session, and by concurrence of the two houses, an amendment to the new con- stitution was adopted for the further ac- tion of the next convention by which the bishop of a missionary district, If his district becomes a diocese, shall become its. first bishop if he so select. without the necessity of election by the diocese
 An amendment to the new constitution was adopted by the deputies to be finally passed on by the next general conven- ton, giving to the delegates from mis- sionary districts within the bounds of the United States seats In the convention with all the rights of deputies from dio- ceses, except the right to vote when the vote is taken by orders
 At present the two delegates from mis- sionary districts are allowed seats, but no votes
 The house of deputies elected it's mem bers of the board of managers of the gen eral society. The only notable change in the personnel of the board was the cleo ton of Rev. Dr. Fisl5e of Rhode Island in place of Rev. G. M. Christian of New York.
 Deaconess Must Be 30 Years Old.
 rhn The canon makes 30 years the least age at which a woman may be received as deaconess, and has already been adopted by the house of bishops
 The canon providing for courts of ap- peal was sent back to the committee to be presented at the next triennial con- vention.
 The house in Executive session unani- mously reelected Rev. Cameron Mann of West Missouri to be missionary Bishop of North Dakota. Article of the constitu- tion for the creation of new dioceses either by division of an existing diocese or out of a missionary district, was adopted in it's first stage by a nearly unanimous vote.
 A motion was made to concur with the house of bishops in creating joint com mittee of fifteen to take into considera- tioH lue WHoie SuDJecI or a change Of names. The motion was adopted by the following vote: Clerical--Aye 39 nay 31, divided 6. Lay-Aye 30, nay IT, divided f.
 This result cannot be considered a vic- tory for either side on the merits of the question, although all those strongly fa- voring the change voted aye.
 Take Interest In Politics.
 A resolution offered by Dr. Pingwalt was adopted as follows
 Resolved the house of bishops concur ring, That 1t Is the sense of this conyen- tion that good citizenship is a fundamen- tai principle of religion; that the church, mindful of the growing tendency to un- checked corruption in. the conduct of our municipal affairs throughout the United States, the indifference to and covert countenanctng of immortality, gambling and vice, places herself on record as ex- pecting her sons to take an active part at the ballot box and elsewhere, as occa- sion permits, toward the suppression of these pernicious enemies to virtue and good government.
 message from the house of bishops was read announcing non-concurrence in the proposed amendment to article 10 of the constitution, commonly known as the Huntington amendment. and a confer ence committee was appointed, consisting of Dr. W. F. Huntington of New York. ". H. Grosvenor of New York and Charles G. Sanders of Massachusetts.