The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-05-28
E|GHT-B|SHOPs
/ ARE NOW.CH0SEN
EPISCOPAL ELECTION or. THE
METHoDlsTs FINISHED.
CONSIDERATION is SUNDAY
Illinois, Iowa and indiana Represented
in the Llst--Dlscord in the
Presbyterian General
I Assembly.

Baltimore, Md, May 27.-The Epis-
copal election of the Methodist Epis-
copal conference of 1908 is now a
matter Of history, and when announce
ment was made late Tuesday of the
selection of the eighth and last bish-
op, very many of the delegates heaVed
sighs of relief.
The new bishops in the order Of
their election are as follows: Rev.
DR.. w. F. Anderson of New York,
secretary Of the board of education,
freedmans aid and Sunday schools;
Rev. DR.. J. l.. Neulsed, professor in
Mast Theological seminary, Berea.
TO-; Rev. DR.. w. A. >Quayle, pastor of
st. James church, Chicago; tteN.s, ".
Charles W. Smith, editor of the Pitts
burg Christian Advocate; Rev. DR..
Wilson 8. Lewis, president of Morn
ingside college, Sioux City, Ia; Rev.
DIR. Edwin H. Hughes, president of De
Pauw university, Greencastle, Ind;
Rev DR.. Robert Mcintyre, pastor of
the First church, Los Angeles, Cal,
and Rev. Dr. Frank NJ. Bristol, pastor
of the Metropolitan church, Washing
ton, d. c.
The bishops-elect will be consecrat-
ed at special service which will be
on Sunday afternoon at the Lyric.
Discord Among Presbyterians.
Kansas City, Mo, May 27.-Discord
entered into the proceedings Of the
general assembly of the Presbyterian
church in the United States of Amer
lea Tuesday for the first time during
the present assembly, while the re-
port of the committee on administra-
tive agencies was under considera-
ton. 1t was apparent during the
heated discussion of the report that
there is in the general assembly a
strong sent lnt In favor Of reor-
ganEzing3 administrative agencies
Of the BY changing the per-
SofT dts ins,s sdrtant committee,
altnoGsn y motion to that effect was
defeated. After DR.. J. D. Moffatt of
Washington, Pa, finished reading the
recommendations of the committee
and these recommendations were sub
nI.,ted to the assembly for action, DIR.
Rice ". Hunter of Buffalo took ex-
ceptious to the tenor of one section.
which he said gave too much power
to the 81 men composing the commit
tee on administrative agencies, adding
the assertion that there 'is a growing
belief In this assembly that too much
power is being centered in the hands
OF few men,"
Or. MerrliPs Amendment Lost.
Several speakers followed with
speeches of conciliatory nature and
when Vice-Moderator James put the
recommendations of the committee to
vote they were adopted and 1t was
believed a tense situation had been
succeeded by the harmony which had
heretofore marked all the delibera-
tions of the assembly, but 1t soon de-
yeloped that the storm had not yet
spent its force. a-.
DIR. William D. Merrill of Chicago
offered an amendment to the effect
that the present committee on admin
istratiye agencies be discharged and
that a new committee of 21 members
be appointed, to include all the mem
bers of the present committee who are
not memhers of any of the church
boards and that all the business pend.
ing before the committee be reported
on by the new committee at the as
sembly next year. After lively debate
the amendment was lost.