Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-05-15
POPULARITY OF
 DIR. W.D. BUCkNER
EpiscOpalians Enact Important Measure on Closing Day of 37th Annual Council.

Little Rock, Ark, May l4.--In lieu of the suggestion made by Bishop Brown at the Council of the Diocese of Arkansas, last year, calling for one more bishops smffragan to as sist the regular diocesan in his work, the council, which ended it's thirty seventh annual session at Trinity Cathedral yesterday. adopted plan which will pract.c t.cally divide the dio- cese into four smaller ones. These will all be parts of the original dio- They will st Il be as formerly under the Jurisdiction of the bishop, but will have their own officers. and will take into their province much of the detail which is now brought before the whole diocese: Sas%1.4
 By the plan adopted yesterday, the diocese which is coeef1hinous with the boundaries of the sstaa6 of Arkansas. will be divided into the convccations of Western, of Southern. of North eastern, and one which will probably be known as the Convocation of Lit tie Rock. Each of these will he pre- sided over by dean of convocation, who will bear the title of very rev. erend, and will be further provided with a secretary in the clerical or der, and treasurer who is taken from the ranks of the laity.
 Dr. Murray Is First Dean.
 The council ratified the provisional organization of the first of these con vacations, that of Western Arkansas. Of which the Very Rev. G. M. Murray. rector of St. Johns church of Fort Smith. is dean the Rev c. c. Burke Is secretary, and c. N Overman of Texarkana, treasurer. Organization of the other conversations will be inn med ately undertakes.
 When the session for the second day was called to order at o'clock, the Rev. Nicholas HGghtor, curate of St. Johns, Helena, presented paper on the best methods for Sunday < school management. and was followed by the Rev. w. D. Buckner of Pine Bluff, who took up the missionary situation in connection with the ques- tion of ways and means. He said that the assessment of the parishes for the support of the mission fields in Arkansas was not apportioned by the numerical strength of the parish es. but was figured on the past rec ords of what the parishes had paid for this object.
 Would Mean Many Thousand Dollars.
 The Rev. Howard Ingham, rector of Camden and chairman of the Ti- thaing Committee. stated that the ! average income of the communicants in Arkansas was t7eo a year. As there are estimated to be 1000 such com he said that if each of ASese would pay ene-tenth of their in K me thus derived would be s2SO.0O0 year. He thought such giving would
 i've the problem enow so ttro iblesome
 the bishop. of making the diocese Rlf-supporting wha6 the outside in- Nme is cut of on May 19 Of next lar. The remainder of the morning
 ssion was taken xp in routine busi- esa4ss-
 ,Buckner Leads the List.
 X .of the 3S votes cast for the Stand Bne Committee. the Rev. Walter D. Buckner of Pine Bluff received the laroest number. polling 36. Next to h,m was Rev. NhAsaes Harry Lock
 9od Of Helena. paliing 32. and the sthird clerical member. the Rev. c. M. fn-ray of Fort Haith. received 19.
 sAre were few scattering votes y,r other clergy. The lay represen- .tscn on this committee remains the sme. the members being Maj. P. K. 5Rccts9 and John M Bracey. both of