The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-08
ONE MILLION AS OFFERING Episcopal Churchmen to
 Give Big Sum. BISHOP OF LONDON DEPARTS Routine Work of Convention is
 Taken Up. Preamble to Constitution Referranx to Church as ''The American
 chureh,r Brings Forth
 Heated Debate.
BISHOP OF LONDON DEPARTS
Richmond. bod. 7.-The second meet.


 ing of the trfenniaI conven- pal Church commenced today, the several subsidiary bodies meeting at the various places Of assembly. The early morning hour in both the House of Bishops and the House of Deputies was devoted largely to routine work. The Woman's Auxiliary had an ala day conference on diocesan offices.
 The features of the work will ho the mems thank offering and the sun- day school exhibit. with the mass meetings to be connected with 1t. It ii anticipated that the mems thank of fering will amount to a million dol- lars, which fund will be used in some permanent work of the church and to pay current expenses.
 In the matter of Sunday -schools. some action will be taken as regards present condition Is admitted by those most interested in the work to bs chaotic and there is a strong senti- ment in favor of a general graded system of instruction simtsar to that in the public schools but modified form The Lord Bishop or Losiion left today for Harvard. where he has an appointment to make an address. He has extended invitations to Rishop 
 and others to attend the conferences next year.
 During the proceedings of the House of Deputies, pr. Huntington. Chair man of the Committee on Amendments of the amendments to the constitutton. offered a preamble to the constitution in which he referred to This Ameri- can Church" This brought W. w. Old of Norfolk to his feet in protest. He said adoption would be In viola ton of the constitution and involve a change of the name of the church without consideration. heated Qer bate followed and the matter finally went over until tomorrow.
 Lay Delegate Solgster, of indianap- olis, Chairman of the Commtttae pf Unfinished Business. reported a reR0~ fulton which was accepted by the House requesting that the Coninittea be relieved from further consideration of n motion made by a Pennsylvania delegate to the effect that bishops be elected to preside over the negroes m the respective dioceses.
 The woman's auxiliary decided today to devote the womans onering' skzss- 900. to woman's work in home mis- sions.
 The resolution introduced by J. Fer pont Morgan to reduce the lay ana clerical representatives of the various dioceses in tho house of deputies was after e bitter debate rejected The Western New York delegation, ok which MT. Morgan is member. voted against the rcsolutioE
 A committee of i've was appointed to raise a fund of $5,000,000 for the cier- ieal relief fund. Adjournment was then taken to reassemble at o'clock.
 The house of bishops defeated q resolution sent from the house or dep~ uties requesting that the former have open sessions.
 Matters of Interest.
 Five matters of interest were dls- cussed during today's session of the general convention of the Episcopal Church. Four of these took place i'm the House of Deputies, the matter or greatest importance being the discus- sion relative to the reduction in the number of representatives from each diocese of the church. At the present time there are sixty -one dioceses, with a representation of 600. An earnest effort has been made by the delegafess from New York and Massachusetts to reduce the representation to three clerical and three lay delegates from each diocese, but this was defeated. The second matter of interest occurred when a resolution was made by Dr- Huntington of New York. to practi- ChlIy cnanBo tnO HdhS VI NANS ~tS to read American Church.
 MT Ole of Southern Virginia. led the fight against it. pleading for Q delay, which Dr. Huntington grante0 with the understanding that the mat ter should be brought up for constd- eration tomorrow.
 The third matter of interest was the passage of a joint resolution which recognized the diocese of Duluth, ana tha fourth. a resolution which practi- cally grants permission to the diocese of Georgia to form new diocese which, 1t Is said. would be called the diocese of Atlanta
 In the House of Bishops. the day was spent for the most part in the dis- cussion of the negro question. The Bishops of dioceses throughout the south are anxious that negroes shall have their own church and their own bishops. while the northern and west- ern bishops for the most part favor the present plant of white bishops over the negroes. It is said that Bishop Ferguson of Cape Palmus, the only negro bishop, and the only negro dele gate attending the convention. ls not m favor of a separate diocese and negro bIshops It is openly said that the Southern bishops would be glad to be relieved of the burden of tne negro in their dioceses. The House Of Bian- ops voted down a resctutton permit ting the sessions of the House to be open to the public.
 Unpopular Resolutions.
 The Rev. Cyrus Townsend Brady, the we'll known author from Ohio, or fered a resolution asking that the clergy of the church be allowed to fn- vite ministers of other denominations to take part in the services or the church. This came in the nature of q bombshell, hut before any discussion was allowed the resolution was side tracked by teing sent to committee.