Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-25
Recommendations of Committee
in Favor of Pella Fails to Re
ceiye Two-Thirds Vote
BITTERNESS in THE CONTEST.
Question Fought Out in Session
That Lasted Until Nearly Midnight
-Des Moines Colleges Strong Offer
Efforts to Withdraw All Support
Tabled.
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Special 10 Times Republican
| Grinnell, Oct. 25.--After session
lasting all yesterday afternoon ana I'M
til IL o'clock at night and marked by
intense feeling and at times bitterness
on both sides. the Baptists of Iowa adj
journed without arriving at a sem
blance of a solution of the controversy
rera riding the location Of state edu-
cational institution. The committee OF
| seven, in whose hands the question OIL
a site for one central Baptist college
has been for the past year. on yester-
day morning recommended Pella. AT "a
| o'clock last night Il vote was taken the
| Intervening time having been occupied
| in discussion The vote on the motion
for the acceptance of the report OF the
committee failed Of the necessary two
thirds majority by %, the ballots
| standing 222 for to LAG against. a To-
| tai of 245 was necessary to carry.
An attempt to have a second ballot
| taken was defeated it being held that
was final.
An attempt hrdl hrdl mfwy mfwyp
The controversy between Pella, the
site of Central University and Des
Moines, the home of Des Moines Col
lege, was most animated. The Com
mercial club of Pella came to Grinneif
! in their special yesterday morning with
| a guarantee of $4,000 If the college be
brought to Pella. At the afternoon ses-
sion, when Des Moines had it's innings,
the college offered to turn over its
campus and buildings, valued at $780,
900 and its total cash endowment OF
sos, 900 absolutely to the Baptist de-
nomination. Its trustees offered TO
make way for trustees chosen by the
denomination. The proposition was
| that the control by the denomination
be absolute. This was on condition that
| the Baptist denomination of Iowa raise
a sum equal to that turned over by the
college and toward that sum Des
Moines offered to turn over $4,000. Of
which $4,000 has already been raised
| In campaign for new endowment.
1t was the committees report as
| against this proposition, ably set forth
4
First Baptist church of Des Moines,
Judge Milton Remley of Iowa City and
| others, with which the convention
| wrestled all day long.
A sensational chapter came at the
close, when Rev. j. F. Saunders, a
| member OF the committee of seven,
which had been discharged, came to
the front with motion that the Bap-
| fist churches of Iowa withdraw their
support from both institutions until
they express their willingness to serve
| the denomination as it ought to be
served" Rev. ID. B. Cheney of Water
loo. followed this with a substitute mo-
ton that conference committee be
appointed of five members from each
OF the two Baptist colleges of the state
and three from each of the academies;
this committee to confer until it had
found solution of the problem and
church support in the meantime to be
| withdrawn from the institutions Both
the motion and the substitute, how
ever, were laid on the table and the
convention soon afterwards adj
journed.
Committee Report Fails.
After heated debate lasting most
of Yesterday afternoon and all even
| ing, the Iowa State Baptist convention
rejected the recommendation Of it's
special educational committee to make
Central university at Pella and not Des
Moines college the official denomina-.
tional school in the state. The motion
to adopt this report received vote of
222, while 146 were cast against it, but
ftaySN ir1S m
ry and this number was not forthcom-
ing.
Following this action on the part Of
the convention, two important motions
were offered, intended to force some
adjustment of the college situation.
The Rev. j. +. Saunders of Keokuk
moved that the Baptist churches of
Iowa withdraw their support of the
| two colleges until there should be an
| adjustment of the whole matter. The
Rev. Mr.. Cheney of Waterloo moved
as substitute that a conference COM
mittee of five representatives of each
college and three from each of the two
academies be appointed to settle the
whole educational matter among
themselves and that the support Of the
churches be withheld from all of them
until they agreed among themselves
upon some course, of action. Both of
these motions were laid on the table.
AS a result of the defeat of the
committee report, the whole college
matter is back where it was. 1t will
not be opened up again unless the
convention decides to do so in the
morning, and the education committee
has been discharged. President l.. ID.
Osborn declared last night that Des
Moines college would continue and
that it had assurances of support that
would enable it to push vigorously
ahead.
PRESIDENT HANCHER TO RETIRE
Head of Iowa Wesleyan School in III
Health.
| Mount Pleasant. Oct 25.--At a spe-