Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-31
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He Startled Speakers By Proposed Changes in
 Church Canon.

Chicago, Oct. 31-Like thunder storm after the slow winds of a sul- try day the Right Rev Charles Palmer ston Anderson, bishop of Chicago dio- cese of the Episcopal church, followed a half dozen routine speakers at the layman's forward movement banquet at the Auditorium last night with q bold address, proposing changes in the canons of the church.
 He stated that one of the purposes which he had in mind when he began work on the plan for the present Chi cago conference of clergy and laity was that of "clearing the air" in the relations between the general board of missions and the fifth district which includes the states of the old north west territory.
 "The relations between the board of missions and the fifth district have In the past been strained" said the bishop. "The way to clear the atmo- sphere is to discover the germs of in- compatibility and to destroy them.
 "Evr since Bishop Chase, the first bishop of Ohio. went east as an am bassador and representative of his district and was opposed by Hobart, there has been a mutual distrust be- tween the two sections of the coun- try. The New Yorker refers, and will continue to do so, to, the wild west, while we of the fifth district are in- clined to turn up our noses at the 'effete east -.
 Now the trouble Is not ecclesiasti- cal and 1t is not geographical. The trouble Is more elusive. It is caused by the daring spirit that led to the reformation and the same spirit that gave birth to the American nation.
 "The representatives of the east may assert that Chicago is not a col ony. that there is no taxation, and that there is representation. That Is as true in theory as it is untrue in practice. The fifth district wants to be a real. vital Integral part of the board of missions just as every other district should be.
 ''For the accomplishment of this end there must be in every district some local authoritative organization that Is vitally identified with the gen. eral board"
  sal, which in short. aimed at change in the canons of the church. and asked that canon 52. section 12. which pro- vides that the general board be auth orized to promote missionary organi- zations throughout the country, be changed to read that auxiliary boards may be organized in every district that shall be subordinate to the gen. eral board. but shall have power to conduct missionary work. spTead the propaganda, raise money and elect a representative upon the general board. The motive of the change and its re- sult. he urged. would be. not to de- centralize authority. but to extend the power of the board and asserted that the middle west has stood for this point during the last twenty years, and that 1t will be for the advantage of the districts and to the missionary work of the church.
 The honorary pallbearers were named this afternoon as follows: Ad- iutant- General George \. Cole. Briga- dier-General Russell H. Frost. Colonel Gilbert Fitch of Stamford Colonel Ed ward l.. Schulte of Hartford. Colonel W. l. IPayenworth of Wallingfurd. Colonel John B. DOherty of Water bury. Colonel Lucien F. Burpee of Wa terbury. Colonel Timothy F. Callahan of New Haven. Company E has been detailed to act as guard of honor. The active bearers will be chosen from among the sergeants of the Second reg fmcnf