The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-11

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Supreme Court. on the Brown Univer
sity case, to the effect that amend
ments to It's cnarter. IL enacted. must
be Of doubtful validity" He deprecated
the perpetuation OF a strife that could
do no good, and asserted that the
assessment from Methodist churches
for the college did not cover the an
nual cost of free tuition for ministeria3
students and children OF ministers. The
Rowe substitute was rejected. and the
conference took a recess for dinner.
Immediately after the recess the Can
non resolutions were taken up seriatim.
and No. l was adopted without dis
cusslon
Mr.. Mnxey offers Substitute.
Rev. r. NJ. Maxey and others offered
substitute for No. 2. cutting out the
limit as to time. and merely requesting
the college board to take such speedy
action In relation to the requirements
of the General Conference as in the
Judgment of the board is consistent
with the best interests Of the college .
Mr. MaSey spoke vigorously against
adopting policy of seeming to coerce
or drive the board.
Il call on the conference to W.T.
ness that we have told the trustees
that they have no choice at all. but
must do as we say" he asserted.
You can't call on me to witness to
that said DR.. Cannon
The pen that wrote those resolu.
tons published the sentiment that the
trustees should obey or resign" replied
Mr. MaXey. amid calls from the house
of That's so.' Mr.. Maxey continued
to argue that the whole matter had
but stirred UP contention, broken
friendships. and torn the conference
apart and destroyed brotherly feeling.
Danger With Conference, Says Kelly.
Rev. g. C. Kelly, formerly pastor or
Broad Street Church, in this city, said
that the system had operated well for
eighty years. and that to get doubt,
full letter of law the conference was
now jeopardiztng the whole spirit OF
the conduct of the institutions.
Is this conference going to cut tie
Knot and let the colleges drift?" he
asked The danger is not in the
trustees, but In the conference
itself They are ours by eighty years
OF history, and never were they more
ours than they are to-day. Now you
propose TO let an outside court come
In and pass on technicality, and per-
haps decide that we have no moral
right or equitable claim. Then where
are you? You have merely put the
college outside your door for some
other interest to come along and
absorb 1t. 1t will prosper independents.
ly. and stand forever as a monumer.
| to the folly of the Virginia Conference
Which threw it off.
Virginia Methodism has not reached
Catholicism. to teach that the church
is cater than the state, or that a
church board must turn over prop
erty, charter or no charter, on the
mere resolution of conference gen
eral or annual
Wants Editor Cannon to Keen Quiet.
The board of trustees are faithful
men. and tell us they Will be faithful
to Methodism, even though the confer
ence divorces them. They have been
hammered on, 'Cannonaded for Years
You Went to the General Conference
and got big stick resols<ion to
knock them down with
If the preachers will Quit talking
about this squabble and talk conf
organ OF the conference, with it's able
editor. will drop into Il golden silence,
as was the case during The summer
when the editor was In Europe, all Of
this will clear away. prolonged APP
plause.) The college will go on victo-
rious The institutions were never
more prosperous than they are to-
day. In five years we will wonder
that we had this much ado about
nothing-this tempest In teapot
Kelly had given him an amount OF
influence and power that he did not
claim to have
81 thank him." said Or. Cannon, "for
putting it in more polite form than
did the president and members of the
board of trustees of Randolph Macon
before the General Conference COM
mittee. where the statement was made
that the Virginia Conference had a
cred it an insult to the Virginia Con-
ference to call it's members a set
of puppets, who would dance at the
word of any man. tApplause.) have
terests Of the church rs have seen
them, The General Conference did not
act because ! brought forward the
papers. ] was not present when the
report was adopted, but dad write
the report as secretary of the COM
mittee regret to see this effort to
drag personalities into this debate, !
am as ready as any man on this floor
to answer for my conduct"
II don't think you have any bitter
ness" replied Mr.. MaNey. Il think
you come as near sitting on a block
OF, ice MS any man I ever saw
Dr. Cannon denied that the confer
ence had attempted TO dictate to the
trustees
Hoard 5Snouid Resign, Says Cannon.
but il the members Of the board
are our Representatives" said DR. Cam
non, "and II In that capacity they can
not conscientiously do what we think
they ought to do. then they should
resign III these institutions do not
make an effort to comply with the ac-
ton OF the General Conference, then
they are not Methodist schools, and
have no right to especially solicit SUP
port and patronage OF Methodists, !.
~ Bishon Wilson -harply ruled out of
or1a n i, seytanFel running debate he