, 1901-10-17
SECTION 4 KILLED
HOUSE OF DEPUTIES DOES NOT
CONCUR IN COMMITTEE
FINDING.
Famous Canon Against Remarria9e Of
Divorced Persons, Adopted by
Bishops and by House of Deputies
in Committee Of the Whole AnnuII-
ed by Decisive Vote in Convention.

San Francisco, Oct. 1.-THE trou
hlesome question of marriage and di
vorce was set at rest for another three
years Tuesday by the action of the
house of deputies of triennial Episco
pal convention in rejecting both Of the
proposed canons passed By the house
of bishops.
The greatest fight of the convention
was over section / of canon SO. virtual
ally forbidding the remarriage of a
divorced person by an Episcopal min,
lister. This was passed the house OF
bishops and adopted by IA yea II nay
vote i'll committee of the whole of the
house of deputies. but when the com
mittee reported its work to tn" house
and Il decisive vOte taken the entire
canon was rejected. The vote was as
follows: Clerical-aye, 30; 10. 10: di
vided, 10; lay, aye, 10; no, "A; Givid-
ed, 9.
\ motion to reconsider the o a. by
which the first three sections of the
proposed canon had been adopted led
to a parliamentary %tangle. Finally a
vote was taken on ConCurring on the
report of the committee Of the whole
on adopting the first three sections of
the canon resulting as follows: Ayes,
clerical 0: lay o; nays. clerical IS; lay
A; divided. clerical |; lay /. The re
suit was the defeat of the whole can
on.
The substitute for canon 81 present
I'd by the house of bishops. referring
to the remarriage of persons marrying
again after being divorced, was then
defeated by a vive voce vote.
DR.. Greer of New York presented Il
resolution providing for the appoint
ment of a commission of three bishops.
three presbytcrs and three laymen to
confer with official representatives of
other religious bodies with a view to
establishing uniformity of practice in
the subject of matrimony and divorce.
1t was unanimously adopted.
The house of deputies passed an
amendment to article 10 of the consti-
tuition permitting modified forms of
worship which in spirit is similar to
the famous Huntington amendment re
Gently defeated. Though credited to
DR.. McKim of Washington. it was in
reality presented to the convention of
three years ago by DIR. Huntington.
The bishops have yet to act upon it.
The house of deputies appointed the
following members of the joint com
mission on the relations of capital and
labor: Rev. J.. S. b. Hodges of Mary
land, Rev. C. D. Williams of Ohio, Rev.
j.. Lewis Parks of New York; Mr.. Sam
uel Mather of Ohio; Mr.. Jacob Riis of
New York. The bishops named three
bishops on the board.
Rev. Cameron Mann of Kansas City
was nominated to be missionary bish-
op of North Dakota in the place of Rev.
DIR. Pierce who failed of election in the
house of deputies.
In the house of bishops the following
were elected trustees of the general re-
lief fund: Bishop Whitaker of Penn
s%ylvania; Bishop Brewster of Connec
ticut, Rev. Morgan Dix of New York.
Rev. James E. Alsop of Long Island;
William A. Smith of New York, Elihu
Chauncey of New York, and George
c. Thomas of Pennsylvania.
Bishop Potter of New York was Sc
lected to prepare the PASTORAL letter
for 1904. his assistants to be the bish-
ops of southern Virginia and Albany.