The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-12
WILL ELECT K|LGO
ON FIRST BALLOT
Conceded That Trinity
College President Will
Be Made Bishop.
TWO REPORTS
ON TIME LIMIT
Warm Debate Expected When
Question Reaches Conference.
mmittec Recommends
Non-concurrence on Me-
mortal Requesting Rights
of Laity for Women.
Especial to The Times-pispatch /

| Especial TO Ine 1lmeS-DiSDatclI,1
Asheville, N. c., May 1.-THE diff.
ferent committees of the General Con.
ference of the Methodist Episcopa
Church, South. were in session all az.
ternoon. and several are ready to repor,
at tomorrow mornings session. Vita
questions pertaining to the policy Of
the church will be discussed. based
on the committees report.
During the day the most favorable
comments were made regarding the ac-
ton Of the committee on itinerance in
reference to the time limit.
/ The decision this morning concern.
ing the election of bishop for Braz,l
strengthens the belief that Rev. J. w.
| Tarboux, of Brazil, will be elected TO
the episcopacy. 1t Is practically con-
/ ceded that Rev. j. c. kilgo. OF the
| North Carolina Conference. will be
elected bishop on the first ballot
The session Of the conference held
to-day was marked by several features
| that will go down in the history of tho
church to be remembered for all time
TO come in the times of advances
Nethodism.
A memorial from the Virginia Con-
! ference was presented last week, re-
commencing revision OF the Psalter
as 1t now appears in the Methodist
| hymn book, and referred to the COM
mittee on revisais yesterday That
committee reported concurrence with
the request and Rev. W. F. Tiliett ana
Rev. Gross Alexander were appointed
a committee to revise the Psalter.
This morning motion was made for
the conference to reconsider Its action
of yesterday, and to recommit the re-.
port to the committee. The motion to
recommit prevailed
Time Limit for Pastors.
The committee on itinerance srhs
.r1ittcd ! .e1stt tas osy with .e1sreliats
to the time lint OF the pastorate The
committee reported concurrence In the
petition Of the memorial presented by
j. F. Cannon and E. II. Rawlings, of
the Virginia Conference, and C. NJ.
Bishop and o. E. Brown. of the Mis-
souri, Conference that the time limit
OF the pastorate be continued beyond
the four-year limit. at the discretion
OF the presiding bishop of the annual
conference, provided his action meets
with the approval of all of the presid-
Ing elders OF the conference. The pc
tition recommended further that the
night of unlimited appointment tro:r
year to year obtain In the case Of men
In charge of church schools, those
holding chairs In other schools, those
in the navy and army of the United
States and correctional officers of he
church. There has been so much agi.
tation over the subject of the time
limit through the columns of tho
church papers during the past year
that the presentation of such a me-
mortal was expected, and 1t was eS.
pected that the committee would sub
NIT report such as 1t did. This ex-
pectation was increased on account OF
the fact of the number of petitions
presented requesting some change in
the time -honored four-year pastorats.
1t was expected also that the COM
mittee would not be unanimous in it's
report, and SO 1t occurred.
A minority report was at once sub
mitted. bearing the names of twelve
members of the committees This re-
port concurred in the petition from the
North Georgia. and from the South
Georgia conferences. recommending
that the four-year time limit remain
unchanged
Both reports We're referred to the
calendar. and will be taken up in their
regular order unless a motion should
be made and should be carried to take
them from the calendar out OF the
regular order. 1t is expected that one
of the longest and one of the most
strongly contested debates OF the con-
ference will take place when these
reports are taken up for discussion.
The secretary Of the conference, a..
F. Watkins, read a letter from Bishop
Joseph S. Key, in which he requested
the general conference totrelieve him
from the active duties of the eplsco-
macy. Bishop Key referred to the fact
that he was now in his eighty-firSt
year; that he had been a preacher IN
the Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
for sixty-two years Of unbroken ser
vice. and bishop for twenty-four
years of that time The letter was re-
ferred to the committee on episco-
macy. The reading of the letter touch-
ed the conference deeply. and a num-
her OF the close friends Of Bishop Key
went to him. and, graspins his hand,
e9nressed their love for him and
their regret at his request for retire.
ment from active woik.
No Rights for Women.
The report that was looked for with
the greatest interest to-day was that
of the committee on revisals, with
reference to the memorial requesting
the rights Of the laity for women. The
committee in its report recommended
on-concurrence.
A substitute report was presented
signed by N. B. Henry
and several other members of the con-
ference, These reports also We're re-
ferred to the canlendarr. and Will come
nm In thir regular order for the con-
z -JIf. ~, serr n "a "a r1rnt (
The women who are supporting the
memorial have made hard fight to
get 1t passed., and some prominent
the conference agree with
them. The matter will notgbe settled
until the reports are taken from the
calendar, and then the conference Will
witness an interesting debate on the
floor. Should the substitute report'bc
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