Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-10-24

July; one in each OF the two following
months, and there have been two this
month, the last occurring on the 10th.
instant.
The Bristow report on the Postoifice
investigation was given to Postmaster
General Payne by his Fourth Assistant
this evening. General Payne immedi,
ately took it to the White House and
handed it to the President. The report
is voluminous document and the ex-
hibits which will accompany it number
500. 1t is understood that the report
will not be given out for publication
until the exhibits shall have been trans
mitted to the President. Postmaster
General Payne was with the President
for half an hour discussing the report.
The President desired to take up the
matter at once and Immediately arranged
for conference later in the day with
both Postmaster General Payne aud
Attorney General Knox.
The Pan-American Congress Of Protestant
Episcopal Bishops will conclude the business
of Its annual sessions this afternoon, though
MANY of the bishops will remain here over
Sunday. This morning Bishop Potter OF New
York and the coadjutor of southern Chic read
papers on the maintenance Of high ideals and
poiitical and commercial morality. This alter
noon mass meeting will be held in Convention
Hall at which hundreds of Sunday school
pupils will sing hymns and join in procession.
The Marine Band will furnish the music for
The exercises which will be presided over by
Bishop futile. Tomorrow afternoon the clos
ing services of the conference will be held at
the pro-cathedral. DR.. Courtney, the bishop
of Nova Scotia, will preach. President
Roosevelt has promised to attend and make
an address. The bishops have decided to de-
fer a vote in the important questions OF d.
vorce and re-marriage. The opponents OF abso-
lutte prohibition Of re-marriage aiter divorce
induced the congress to drop the matter just
before a vote was taken. The bishops heard
only one side of the question discussed, that
of the advocates Of prohibition. Rev. Mackay-
Smith. the coadjutor Of Pennsylvania, argued
that to vote on the question without hearing
the other side would be taking snap Judgment
ON the matter and as no papers were read Dy the
eppositioD, the delicate problem was dropped.
When the subject was discussed yesterday
most of those present took strong ground
against the re-marriage Of divorced persons.
Bishop Doane. in his address, declared that
the increase of divorce had become serious
menace to the country. He took the ground
that divorce with remarriage can DE allowed
by the church only in the case Of the innocent
party to a divorce granted for adultery. A
resolution was adopted by the conference that
II was the sense of the Episcopal clergy that
the relations with the Catholic church should
be one of friendliness rather that one of critic.
ism. A resolution urging a union OF all
Protestant communions in America, Protes-
tant. Episcopal, Lutheran and Unitarium was
also passed The resolution of Bishop Doane,
of Albany, on the question of remarrlage,
which was before the conference yesterday
was not acted upon. Three Of the bishops OPP
posed its adoption and therefore action was
waived. The text of the resolution was made
public today. 1t reads:
Resolved, That in the alarming prevalence
of divorce persons the Bishops assembled here
declare them, their convictions that while the
Sacraments Of the church should not be de-
MED to the innocent party in divorce for
adultery remarked, the sanction of the church
should not be given to any remarriage after
divorce for any cause rising after marriage.
The conference adjourned to assemble next
wear at the call Of the Bishops of all Canada
who shall designate both the time and the
Mace of conference.