The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-13
EPISCOPAL CONVENTION
ONLY MORNING SESSIONS HELD
 BYsEACH HOUSE.
Election of Five Bishops Will Be Held Behind Closed Doors by
 the Deputies Monday After
 noon-Excursion Yesterday

San Francisco, Oct. 12.--Only morning
 sessions were held today by both houses
 of the triennial convention of the Episco-
 pal Church of America. The afternoon
 was devoted to an excursion which em-
 braces nearly all the points of interest
 on San Francisco Bay.
 The House of Bishops passed an amend ment to Article of the Constitution giv- ing an honorary seat on the floor to any bishop retired either for old age or phy- sical disability.
 The Bishops appointed their portion of a proposed joint committee to consider the prohibited degrees in marriage and also three bishops to act on the com mittee which will nominate board of managers for the missionary board. The House of Bishops will probably next con- slider the code of canons, choosing for discussion at this convention those who are deemed of the most importance. Very
 little was accomplished by the House
 of Deputies beyond few changes in the
 rules of procedure and the final adoption
 of the report of the joint committee on
 marginal readings.
 The election of the five missionary
 bishops nominated yesterday by the
 House of Bishops was made the special order for Monday at D. m.. when the deputies will sit with closed doors. The brotherhood of St. Andrew held a meet ing at the Y. M. c. A. rooms and the Womans Auxiliary kept open house at | its headquarters.
 u,t.~ af laHA voted in favor of the appointment of a | joint committee to consist of three bishops, three presbyters and three lay | men, to consider the subject of prohibited | degrees of marriage. On the part Of the House of Bishops the Bishop of South | Dakota and Delaware and Iowa were ap- pointed as members of this committee.
 The Bishop of Montana, central Pennsyl-
 vania, Lexington, Washington and the
 coadjutor bishop of Virginia were ap- pointed to act with a similar number of
 presbyters and laymen on a committee to
 nominate a board of managers for the board of missions. It was agreed to amend the former rule, now part Of | the constitution which provides that a bishop retired by reason of advanced age or bodily infirmity arising therefrom. shall be entitled to an honorary seat in the House of Bishops, by striking out the
 words 'ariisng therefrom;" that bishops incapacitated by other causes than age might not be barred.
 The bishops, on adjournment proceed ed to the House of Deputies to sit with that body in hearing the report of the ! joint committee on Christian education | The next session of the House of Bishops | will be held on Monday.
 An hour and half of the morning was f consumed by the House of Deputies iI 1 discussion and action on rulos of order l and various routine matters. | The nominations of missionary bishops | were formally received from the upper | house and were made the order of the l day on Monday at D. m. when the house | will sit with closed doors.
 The conference committee on marginal | readings made its report recommending
 that all readings in the report Of the | joint commission taken from the new | English version, the new American yer
 sion and the new marginal readings of the King James version be authorized. It was recommended that the commits sion be permitted to substitute for read ings in It's report not taken from one or another of those sources other readings taken from those sources, Which snail
 also be hereby authorized. It IS under
 stood that the bishops acceded to this
 departure from the original reports os the
 joint commission, with great reluctance
 a nd only in order to secure some acton
 on the subject in this convention. There
 was also a strong expression among the deputies in favor of another opportunity
 to vote on the report as 1t came from the joint commission, but no way was found | for it and so the house divided on the
 renort of the Committee on Conference
 with the following result: Clerical vote
 aye. 54; nay, 4; lay vote. aye, ~; nay 5;
 divided, 2.
 The report was declared adopted. A re-
 port favoring certain new marginal read | ings was adopted. The House Of Bishops then sat with the deputies to consider the
 report of the joint commission on Cnris- l tian education which was adopted Adjourned until Monday.