The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-05-15
YOUNGER MEN
ARE DESIRED
Five Aged Methodist Bishops
to be Retired.
PRECEDENT IS ESTABLISHED
HOSPITALITY OF SALT LAKE
ROAD ACCEPTED.

Los Angeles. Cal, May lL-AGter a
secret session lasting over ten hours.
and which was marked by periods Of
sfeat confusion, the committee ON
'piacopdcy Of the Methodist general
tyilLefeuce adjourned shortly after mid
ught this morning. having definitely
decided, IL is reliably stated. TO retire
IlFe of the present bishops because OF
age ana luemecuVeueas and TO choose
SIX and probably eight new bishops.
ne action is said TO be without DreCe-
Gent ln the history of the church. There
IS little doubt but that the conference
VIII confirm the action OF the commit
tee as an the prominent leaders are
members of the episcOpacy committee.
The committees report viii come be-
fore the general body next Tuesday,
and tn the meantime the leaders of the
contendiug elements viii marshal their
forces for the final fray.
The names OF the bishops who viii De
retired, III the recommendation of the
committee is accepted, have not been
made public.
Younger Men Desired
IN the church at large there is said to
be strong sentiment against the re-
tiremeut Of bishops. but majority of
the delegates. IL appears at this time,
desire 10 see younger and more active
men placed on the episcopal board. The
bishops are elected for life, and nearly
all of the vacancies heretofore created
in the board have been caused by
death while I'm active service.
The conference is expected to set the
date for the ballotiug CA the election
of bishops either at todays or Mon
days session. Tt is expected to be
some days, probably not before next
Wednesday, that the ballot viii be
taken.
While the report Of the committee on
episcOpaCy on the subject of restoring
the pastoral time limit viii be against
any disturbance Of the present unlim-
tied tenure, it Is reasonably certain
that there viii be a minority report on
the matter, en- bOdyiug the views Of
the various annual conferences that
have petiUoned the general conference
10 restore the limit
Many Memorials.
Sixty-fve memorials from annual
conferences are iu the hands of the
subcommittee of the committee on the
state of the church bearing upon the
proposed change in paragraph 2f8 Of
the church discipline, relating to
amusemeuts. Thirty-five of these petit
tions ask that no change be made i'm
the paragraph and ten suggest various
alterations. 10 is stated that some of
the memorials asking that uo change
be made in the discipline are signed by
as many as 2 600 individuals. no aC-
ton has vet been taken ON the matter
by the committee. but it has been made
q special order for next Monday at
which time the committee viii forWu-
late a Tecommeudation TO the general
conference. The committee on state
of the church has also passed a Teso-
luton recommending that the 6uaI add
ournmeut of the conference be taken
on Saturday, May 2S.
The conference this morning fixed
upon Saturday May %. as the day of
fnal adiournmeuL sunday. May 20.
there is To Zoe a great cvangelistic rally
at an the Protestant churches i'm the
city.
The rules for balloting for bishops
were adopted The conference heard
the report of missionary Bishop A. w
Warne ON his work in India, and re-
ferred it TO the proper committee. The
entire body of delegates accepted the
invitation of the Salt Lake railroad 90
visit Riverside this afternoon and at
11-45 the days session closed.