The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-14
] BE A GREAT SESSION.
+ETHoDIST GENERAL CONFER
 ENCE IN LOS ANGELES.

ENCE IN LOS ANGELES.
 sw Bishops to be Named-Rock Rtv- br Conference yyt,i submit Some Un- usual Propesstions-Dlscn of Discipline.
 lFhe Methodist General Conference, .hich will be in session in Los Angeles firing the month of May, will have lch heated discussion, and possibly ecclesiastical fight or two, says the ! Louis Globe-Democrat There will \ 750 delegates, with 1, 400 names on the ll. Bishops preside, but are not mem Frs of the conference. A sure road to 2pular favor on the floor is taking Hoe at a bishop, and, as one of the emorials is to the effect that Metho- Est bishops have far too much power, lis counted likely that bishops in the air will come in for some plain talk. fie election of new bishops will at Islct most popular interest, but not |bst discussion on the floor, and other |atters to come up are the removal of |e manufacturing plants of the book [lcerns from New York and Cincin- fti,. the modification of the book of f$cipline, the consolidation of benevo- lice, the districting of bishops and the |eognition of the new St Paul Broth hood, has q membership of 1S000 men d is growing rapidly.
 Methodist Wants.
 The Rock River Conference, to which long the ministers resident in Chi go, can always be relied on for half dozen or more striking memorials. is year it proposes at Los Angeles an nuaI meeting of the bishops of the thodist churches North and South, h the aim of effecting transfers of nisters and possibly of members. It also advise Methodism to elect hops for Italians, Chinese and other eigners resident in America. rthermore it is sure Congress ought make law forbidding the sale of rituous liquors in the District of umbia and in all quarters of the rld where it is in direct control. Cal mia and Michigan conference thinks hops have too much power. Michi- M would limit bishops greatly in the yer to station preachers. and under 2 tain circumstances, would not per- A them to make appointments with A first consulting those to be ap- nted. Michigan, furthermore, de- .es Congress to take steps to secure gious liberty in South America, ere Methodists have strong mission erests, and also to restrict the opium de in the Philippines.
 is the Genessee conference in Vest New York that wants the Brother Id of St. Paul recognized, with the h that few years hence it will be- he one of the official agencies of erican Methodisnn. It is on the lines the Brotherhood of St. Andrew, and the Brotherhood of Andrew and lip, but it is as large as both of Inn together. Other things that are ed for are the opening of the Meth Bt University in Washington and doing away with the system of pro- toners. It was the idea of the late hop Hurst that the Washington in- ution should not be thrown open un- able to teach a complete course. Ehodists now say it is absurd to t until $5,000,000 have been secured,
 that buildings already erected uld be used There is some talk of ricting bishops, which would be giv-
 them a, diocese, but it is not likely garry. It is declared to be against
 very spirit of Alcoholism. There
 be a winding up of the $20,0O0,000 bpaign for debts and charities, and it
 be shown that the amount raised t least s25,OO0,00O.
 Candidates For Bishop.
 ontests will not come over election bishops, but widest interest attaches candidates of anything that will e before the conference. Nobody
 say how many new bishops a gen.
 conference will name. Bishop Mer- will ask to be placed on the non ctive list, and Bishops Hurst and de have died during the quadren- ii, Sc also has Bishop Warne, but was missionary bishop, and was cnOSGn TOT S6TNlCG III liilo SOulitl J' beems to be agreed that not fewer n four new bishops for the work at he will be named, nor more than
 Rev. Dr. James M. Buckley could bne of the six, the number that will oably be agreed upon if he wanted pe, but he does not want the honor.
 Pacific Coast is pushing the name President Bovard, of the University outhern California, but hardly any, expects to see 8 Coast man se- ed. Leaders are making lists, and ost all of the names appear on these ]. The only difference in the lists he order of the names.
 hancellor Day, of Syracuse Univer- is so certain to be named that il aid that already candidates are ap- ring for the vacant chancellorship be. Rev. Dr. W. F. Mcdowell, of Education Society, is named on all
 lists. He belongs to Western ,erence, but for some years has been toned in the East, President cher, of the Woman's College at