The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-12-06
The Whole Of Yesterdays Session Devoted to Discus
sion Of This Matter.
IT WAS 4 BATTLE ROYAL, FOUGHT TO THE FINISH.
STRONGEST EVER HEARD ON FLOOR OF CON-
FERENCE-REyS o. AND J. w. DANIEL LEADING THE
OPPOSING FORCES OPENING ARGUMENTS-GooD
FEELING PREVAILED THROUGHOUT.

The Columbia Female College
will not be moved. BY a vote o1
12o to e5 Conference so decided
yesterday morning.
The whole of yesterdays session
was devoted to consideration OF
this, probably the most important
question to come before the present
session, and the discussion was a
battle royal. Rev. E. 0. Watson, OF
Charleston, chairman of the Board
of Trustees of the institution, led
the forces in favor of the removal,
and the Rev. J. w. Daniel, pastor
the BefhelMethodist church ofChar-
lesion, led the opposing forces. For
three and a half hours the discus
sion lasted, and some of the strong
est arguments ever heard on the
hoor of Conference, were made. A
kindly feeling. however, prevailed
throughout, and when, the final
vote was taken, after every inch OF
ground had been contested. there
was general rejoicing that the ten
sion had been relieved.
OF course the Greenwood and
Laurens forces championed the
cause of the removal. And when
taey had lost the motion from
Greenwood, seconded by Laurens,
tu~make the vote unanimous, was
most gracefully done.
The matter came up as a special
order at 10 O'Clock.
The Darby Resolution.
DIR. O. A. Darby was the first to
secure the floor. He offered the
following resolution:
Resolved, That it is the seuse
of this Conference that the Colum-
bia Female College remain in the
city of Columbia, its present loca-
tion.
"W. H. Bays,
so. A. Darby"
Rev. L. F. Beatty moved to
amend the resolution by striking
out the words, "renain i'm and in
serting in lieu thereofthe words 'be
removed from
Mr.. G. C. Featherstone raised the
point that the report of the COM
mittee appointed to investigate the
legal status of the matter aud.to re-
port whether or not there are any
legal obstacles in the way of the re-
movai of the college must be heard.
The committee reported that af-
fer full investigation it was of the
opinion that the college could not
be removed under the present char
ter, but that an amendment to this
charter could be secured through
the Office of the Secretary Of State
without any action on the part OF
the legislature; and that there were
no legal obstacles in the way of Sc
curing this amendment
It was moved to lay on the table
Mr.. Beatty's amendment, making
it the sense of Conference that the
college should be removed from
Columbia.
A roll call was demanded. The
motion was carried and the amend
ment lost by vote of 1oS to 100.
The resolution offered by DR..
Darby, that the college be allowed
to remain in Columbis, was then
squarely before Conference.
Rev. E. 0. Watson,
Chairman of the Board Of Trustees,
desired to make a statement IN re-
gard to his own attitude and to that
,of the Board. The Board did moi
attempt to arrogate to itself any su
Tperior sense of the solemnity or the
importance of this matter. Al
were interested alike. The pres
ent conditions indicated progres:
throughout the South, the birth
of a new Southland. The sltua
tiou, as the Board saw it, in the