New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-05-31
MR. BETERIDGE SPEAKS.
Deliuers Memorial Day address at
Methodist Conference.

Baltimore May 90 - Memorial Day OBJ
served at the General Conference of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church with exercises consisting
of patriotic hymns, prayer and an address py
Senator A J. Beverage, of Indiana Senator Bev-
eridge praised the Methodist Church for the stand
il mas taken in support OF all movements for the
suppression of national evils and led his address
into a discussion of the child labor question. ap-
pealing to his listeners aid in the efforts TO
stamp out what he declared was the present day
slavery.
With the view of expediting the business Of the
conference which is most backward, the commit
tee on order of business to-day outlined the mat
t4rs 10 be considered and from this time on IN
Iass the conference rescinds its action only such
renorts as have been selected by this committee
will presented
Under this rule reports were adopted among
o.bere reonesting the board OF bishops TO name a
commission to consider plans for the reducuoh III
size of the General Conference ana 1or HAitis
,,asis of representation and authorizing and IN
dorsing the Methodist Brotherhood
1ar1iar in the day the report of the commission
on federation recommending close co-operalioi
but not organized union, with the Methodlst hpIs-
ooaI church South at this time was carried.
1-lAc,ions for the remaining secretaries ana Tor
the assistant secretaries of the various boards were
continued to-day. The Rev. Dr. A q Leonato'
fr twenty wears secretary of the Board OF Foreign
Missions was retained. He received III votes
atrst os5 for DR. Homer c. Stuntz. field secre-
tsrv Of the same board DR.. Thomas Nicholson,
president OF Dakota Wesleyan University, Mtcheil
g n vas elected secretary of the new board of
education. which VIII have its office in Ne" Aoih
Civ DR. 2 J. Maveety. field secretary OF the for
NOR hoard nf education. Freedmen Aid and sun
dav schools was named the additional secretary
Of the Freedmens Aid Society, authorized py THIS
conference
DIR Stuntz was elected assistant secretary OF the
foreign missions board displacng DR. H h Car
roll who has held the office for eight years Dr.
Ward Plat was chosen assistant secretary OF the
hoard Of home missions and church extension
The judiciary committee has dismissed the
charges of nnaladministration brought by the Rev
c.aorqe i Cooke against Bishops Goodseu, Moore,
Berry and Mcdowell, rulings adverse to MI
cooke in the matter of his charges against Chan
ceIor Day and others the annual conferences
presided over by the bishops named.
The fourth report of the temperance committee.
which was adopted. calls upon Congress to make
annie provision for social life Of the rank ana
file of the army and officers of the army to Sc
c,re the benefits of anti-canteen Law. approves the
Punishment OF the saloon from the immediate sur
roundings of the soldiers in Manila and asks that
-b sale IF liouor be prohibited within two miles of
all military reservations
Governor Hanly of Indiana, for The special COM
n,i1tee appointed to wait upon Speaker Cannon of
rho House of REPRESENTATIVES and urge the passage
of the Littefeld bill touching the interstate snip
rnent of liquors made a report recommending 10
the conference that the election Of members OF Con
rress who will support such legislation be favored
The committee the episcopacy recommended
that Missionary Bishop Harris, Of Corea and Japan
be continued such, the establishment OF the ia
nan Methodist Episcopal Church notwithstanding.
The same committee recommended that bishops be
eopired to nav three visits yearly to each annual
conference and reported that complaints against
Bishops Berry. Burt and Nicely were not sustained
All the report adopted.