The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-12-09
CONTEST COMES UP
At SELMA MEETING
Certificates from Correspond
ence School Not Good
YALE TEAM SE1S THE DATE
VIII Play Basket Ball In Selma De.
cember 29-sensatlonal Report
of Wreck Was Greatly
Exaggerated.

| Selma, December s.--NSpeclal.l--1u e SCI
ond days session of the Alabama confer
enee begun promptly at $3.50 this morning,
/ the devotional exercises being conducted
by Rev. s. M. Hosmer. president of the
Southern University at Greensboro.
After the roll call and reading of the
minutes Rev. J. NJ. Dannelly, chairman
| of the committee appointed to consider a
| plan for placing an agent In the field to
secure homes for superannuates, made a
report which was adopted without debate.
| The hour of 10 o'clock having arrived
the report of the board of education
which was special order yesterday for
that hour today was taken up, Rev. A.
]. Lamar reading the report. 1t was on
| this report that came the first contest
| of the session. the argument being on
whether or not the conference would as
| sent to its committees on examination
hereafter accepting the certificates of ex-
animation from the Vanderbilt School of
| Correspondence at Nashville. This matter
was brought before the last conference in
| Pensacola in the report of the board and
Rev. A. L. Andrews offered a resolution
which was adopted, eliminating that part
| of the report recommending the accep-
| lance of the certificates from the cores
| pondence school,
| AS soon as Dr. Lamar, the chairman
of the board of education finished read
ing the report DR.. Andrews introduced
a resolution eliminating that part of the
report relating to the acceptance of GER
tificates from the Correspondence school.
DR.. Lamar Speaks.
DR.. Lamar took the floor and appealed
to the conference to defeat DR.. Andrews
resolution. He claimed that all of the
conference except the Alabama confer
ence and the North Mississippi con-
ference /, which was insession today,
had adopted the plan proposed by the
board and that he was not willing to
have the Alabama conference say I'VE
are the men, wisdom will die with u.s." He
said the move was along the lines of
progress and that he hoped the confer
ence would not permit themselves to be
stampeded by a set of moss backs by
refusing to leave beaten ruts.
DR.. Lamar was followed by Rev. Henry
T. Johnson of Pensacola, who made hui
morous speech, saying that he had fol-
lowed Louie" DR.. Andrews, they now
call him, but that he was sorry for
| him this year, as they were going to
vote him down.
! DIR. Andrews made a forceful and tell
| ing speech to the conference, appealing
| to the members to decide the matter for
themselves and not by what some other
conference had done. That the general
conference had not recommended or or
| dered the change but left 1t to the wisdom
of each conference; that he was not pre-
| pared to either affairm or deny the state
ment of DIR. Lamar that all but two con-
| ferences had adopted the plan, but while
1 - .1A4 l..
| believing what he had said was true. he
| CDR Andrews) doubted 1t being fact. He
said that Henry Johnson had never
| been right In his life, that when Henry
| voted with him 1t was usually when he
| was defeated, and when he voted against
him he was always victorious, and that
| 1t would be so today. He did not like
the spirit of the board in repeatedly bring
ing the matter before conference, saying
in effect that you might as we'll take the
bitter pill now as later, and that he was
| something of a kicker and would not
swallow the pill unless he was compelled
! to.
Resolution Is Adopted.
Rev. ]. M. Glenn spoke for DIR. An
drews' resolution and Rev. H. H. Mcneil
against it. A vote was then called for
| and DIR. Lamar closed the argument
declaring that he did not want to abridge
the rights of the conference nor to be
| understood as trying to bully" the con-
| ference.
Upon the question being put the bishop
was In doubt as to the result and n
standing vote was taken, the resolution
being adopted by vote of 81 to 81. The
| rest of the report was then unanimously
adopted
DR.. Hosmer, president of the Southern
university, reported on the condition of
that institution saying that there were
enrolled 154 students and that the expec-
| tation was to increase the number to
IT'S.
Imposing on Conference.
DR.. Mason then stated that a man was
| imposing upon the minister's and the peo-
pie of the conference. He read the fol-
lowing letter:
! Ashland, Va, December 8, 1904.
! Dear Sir:-In reply to your letter about
| Charles Mohammed, | have to say that
no such person was ever at any time
In or in any way connected with Ran
dolph- Macon college. No one here knows
anything of him, unless perhaps, he Is
| the man who was in our town some time
ago claiming to have been a student OF
| some northern institution
| Yours sincerely,
r. e. BLACKWELL,
| President Randolph Macon college.
| Drs j. W. Shoaff and j. N Rice of
| Montgomery, who signed testimonials of
/ this man upon the faith of what they
| were led to believe, were genuine sigma
lures of well-known people, have issued
| a statement recalling such testimonials.
| The following were called, and being
/ passed by the committees, were admitted
| to the travelling connection: Felix M.
| Wood Daniel II. Mcneil, John P. Dough
try, Lennel Bailey Greene. Singleton C.
Woodward, Chester E. Johnson. ]. G.
crossley, Stonewall Jackson Gibson, Will
liam G. Miller, Francis M. Lowry, r. B.
Jones.
Under section Havelin T. Strout was
readmitte1 to the conference.
Yale's Date Designated.
Director Franklin received a telegram
this morning from the manager OF the
vale Basket Ball team designating Thurs
dav. December %, as the date for the bas-
4 ket ball game with the Y. M c. A. team
of this city. The game will be played in
the city hall and seats will be arranged
for 300 Considerable interest is being
evinced In the contest, and the local team
expects to hold their own at least with
the big college team.
Was "Goosie."
Today shortly before noon, JEFF Brown
a negro employed In the American Candy
mandatory, invoIuntarily struck beside
the head with Ratchet Ed. Mitchell an
other member of his race, standing II
front Of him. jeff was mailing on boz
of candy with a Ratchet when a negro
came behind him and "goosed" him. Thu
The arms Of the negro flew out, and thu