The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-01-05
WILL FIGHT
G. P. LOYALISTS PREPARE
TO DEVOTE $4,000 TO
CONTEST.
WILL EMPLOY LEGAL TALENT
Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars
To Be Raised to Defray the
Expense of Actions in
the Courts.

The Loyal Cumberland Presbyterian
Council completed its session IN Nash
vile Thursday, adiourring shortly after
~ o clock. Over 81 coo was subscribed
by the mem oers, and other amounts
were pledged, as the nucleus of fund
of $4,000 to detray the expenses of the
organized fight against the proposed
union of the Presbyterian and Cumber-
land Churches or this amount $25 -
600 is to be set aside for the use of the
Legal Committee in employing legal
talent and 10 defray ing the costs of le-
gal action. 1t is stipulated, at the re-
quest of the Legal Committee, that the
committee is to employ only attorneys
who are in no way connected with the
Cumberland and Presby terrain Church.
The sub committees met at O'Clock,
and at 1915 o'clock general meeting
of the Council was held in the Tulane
parlors. Judge Joe RUSSELL reported the
action of the Legal Committee, of which
he is Chairman. He briefV outlined
that the committee wanted S25, 200 for
the purpose of making fight in the
courts to retain possession OF Church
property. The committee stated that
the best talent in the United States
must be secured for the fight, and to the
attorneys selected the committee wished
to leave every datal of the fight. Atten-
ton was called to the fact that one of
the United States Supreme Court JUS
tees, before which tribunal the con
troversy must eventually come for
final adjudication, Is member of
the Committee of the Northern Pres
byteIian Church which had charge of
the union overtures, and he has taken
avery prominent part in the procedure.
rnis member is Justice Harlan.
Rev. A. N. Eshman, of West Point,
Miss, opposed the recommendation
that the committee go outside the
Cumberland Presbyterian communion
oHous plea for this section of the rec
concentrations to be non cOnculIed in,
Judge w. L. WelckeT, of Knoxville,
a member of the committee, held out
for the recommendation adoption.
He said that the committee wanted as
|attorneys those who could view with.
out prejudice or passion the merits OF
| the controversies and lead the tight
with q cool head. Besides this he
would not touch a copper of tho money
himself, nor would any of the other
members of the committee, and the
raising of $25, 900 to be spent among
lawyers belonging to the cDurch would
create discord ana suspicion that the
fund was simply raised for the purpose
of letting the leaders in the movement
get some of it for their own pockes.
Judge J. J. McClslland, of West
Point, Miss. ana Judge RUSSELL ais
opposed Nh. Eshman's idea. After a
warm discussion extending over a half
hour the entire report was concurred
in, and the Legal Committee authot'
izeu to take such step as may become
necessary and to act at it's own discre
tiCn
Ii was stated that in addition to thn
$25, 900 necessary for legal expenses
proba bly, So 600 more would be Leeded
for the other details of the bght. A
field man was selected who, If he &C
cepts the position, will travel about
the jurisdiction of the church, arouse
the members of the church, and or
game the opponents of union