Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-05-10
Who Shall Be
new BISHOPS?
Question is Causing Mich
Consultation at Methodist
Conference

MINNEAPOLIS, May 10.-With the
beginning today Of the second week
of the quadrennial conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church, the
politics" of the church which hinges
principally around the election of the
bishops, is occupying more and more
the attention Of the delegates. Con.
sentative leaders place the number OF
names which will be voted upon at
the first ballot at 100, while others
say that there will be nearer 200. A
two.thirds vote of the $50 delegates
is necessary for the election of a
bishop.
Among those who prominently are
mentioned as candidates from whom
the probable eight or ten new bishops
are to be chosen, and WHO in most
cases have been candidates in previ-
Gus conferences are:
Suggested as Bishops.
II. c. Stuntz, missionary secretary,
New York.
David G. Downey of the Sunday
school board, Chicago.
F. J. Mcconnell, president Of De.
Paw university, Green Castle, Ind.
H. J. Cooke, book editor, Chatta-
nooga, Tenn.
/ E. S. Triple, Madison, N. J.
/ Naphthali LuccQck, Kansas City.
H. c. Jennings, Cincinnati.
NJ. S. Hughes, Pasadena, Cal.
Andrew Gillies, Minneapolis.
A. E. Schell, president Iowa Wes-
leyan, Mount Pleasant, Iowa.
! A. B. Hingely, Chicago.
w. H. Crawford, Allegheny college,
Meadville, Pa.
w. o. Sheard, Chicago.
c. B. Mitchell, Chicago.
H. l.. Jacobs, Altoona, "a.
Edward S. Ninde, Providence, r. l.
Franklin Hamilton, Boston, Mass.
F. D. Leete, Detroit, Mich.
w. P. Thirkield, Howard universe.
ty, Washington, D. c.
George H. Trever, Atlanta, Ga.
R. E. Jones, colored, New Orleans.
Fletcher Homan, Portland, Ore.
Benjamin Young, Portland, Ore.
John W. Butler, City of Mexico,
Mexico.
George H. Bradford, president Ep-
worth university, San Francisco.
The name of DR.. Jones has been
mentioned in connection with the
plan, which is being urged by negro
delegates to the conference, Of nam.
ing bishop Of their own race, and
that Of DR.. Butler of Mexico in con-
nection with the possible naming of
that city as a place of Episcopal resi-.
dence
Court Plan Voted Down.
There will not be a final court of
appeals of the Methodist Episcopal
church.
This was decided at the business
session, when, after more than five
hours debate, participated in by many
leaders of the church, the conference
rejected the first paragraph of the re-
port of the commission on judicial
procedure, appointed at the last ses.
sion OF the conference in Baltimore
four years ago. What will be done
with the remainder Of the report will
be decided later.
The first paragraph Of the commits
sion's report, which the conference
eliminated consisted in the main OF
the sentence: There shall be fin
al court of appeals" 1t was the great
power granted to this proposed court
to which most of the objection was
made by the delegates, and church
leaders say that the FORMATION of a
court Of appeals with far less power
than provided for by the commission
may be the result Of the present ses.
sion Of the conference.
Yesterday afternoon was given over
to the hearing of the repor: OF the
work Of the Woman's Foreign Mis-
sionary society, addresses being made
by Bishop Luther B. Wilson and Miss
Jennie V. Hughes. A reception to the
fraternal delegates Of the Methodist
Episcopal church, south, and Metho-
dist Protestant church was held last
night, addresses being made by Dr.
Frank w. Thomas of the Methodist
Episcopal church, south, and by DR..
Julius Soper, representative Of the
Methodist Episcopal church in Japan.