Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-05-26
MEETING
Proceedings of the Thirty-first Gen.
eraI Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.

eraI Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
Los Angeles, May 1S.-Action on
two important matters was taken by
the general conference of the Metho-
dist church at Tuesdays session.
The report of the committee on epis
copacy, recommending that the CON
ference elect eight bishops, was
adopted. At the close of a heated de
bate between DR.. James NJ. Buckley
and DR.. Thomas B. Neely the two
foremost parliamentarians of the
Methodist church, the conference
adopted the report of the special com
mittee, which finds that the confer
ence has no authority to district the
episcopacy.
Los Angeles, Cal, May 19.-The
crowd that beseged Hazards Pavil-
ion yesterday seeking admittance to
the Methodist conference in order to-
observe the balloting for bishops,
which had been fixed as the special
order OF the day, was unusually large.
Upon reassembling after recess
Bishop Hamilton, who presided,
asked the delegates to devote ten
minutes to prayer, seeking divine
guidance in the important duties be
fore them. Tellers were then ap
pointed and the first ballot for
bishops was cast.
On the first ballot for bishops only
one was elected, j. F. Berry, who re
ceived 531 votes out of $50 cast. One
hundred and twenty other men were
voted for.
Los Angeles, May 2O.-Three ad-
ditional bishops were elected Thurs
day at the Methodist general confer
ence, DR.. w. f. Mcdowell and DR..
Henry Spellmeyer on the second bal
lot, which was announced at the
morning session, and DR.. J. w. Bash
ford, chosen on the fourth ballot in
the afternoon. The third ballot re-
suited in no election.
Four of the eight bishops to be
elected have thus far been chosen, as
follows:
DR.. J. F. Berry, Chicago; DR.. Henry
Spellmeyer, Newark, N. j.; DR.. Will
liam F. Mcdowell, New York; DR..
James w. Bashford, Delaware, o.
The fourth ballot, which resulted in
the election of DR.. Bashford, present
ed DR.. William Burt and DR.. T. B.
Nicely at the head of the list in the Or
der named, with AGO and 44O votes re-
spectively.
The fifth ballot was taken just be-
fore adjournment and as a result of
1t, it is reasonably certain that DR..
William Burt is elected as the fifth
bishop, and perhaps DR.. T. B. Neely
sixth.
The report of the committee on in
ternational and industrial peace,
which was read at the morning ses-
sion, will doubtless provoke an ami
mated debate when it comes up for
consideration next Tuesday as the
special order of the day.
The report recommends three agen-
cies as the means to accomplish uni
versal arbitration and the settlement
of industrial disputes, namely, The
Hague peace court, a United States
permanent national industrial peace
court, and a permanent periodic inter
national peace congress.
Los Angeles, Cal, May 21.-When
the Methodist general conference ad-
journed last night seven of the eight
bishops to be elected had been chosen,
and the ballot taken just before ad-
journment probably had elected the
eighth, although its result has not yet
been announced. The three bishops
chosen Friday were: William Burt.
of Rome, Italy; Luther B. Wilson, of
Baltimore, and Thomas B. Nicely, of
Philadelphia.