New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-22

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week ago last night at the Church
Club dinner in the Hotel Astor. The
Bishop ascribed the fall Of the Roman
Empire to the distintegration of the
| family, and said that the United States
seemed to be following in the footsteps
of the empire of Nero and Caligula.
I'm the days Of the Roman Empire"
said DR.. Wrigley, lin its decline and
just before its fall, the fallen woman
was more representative figure than
the true domestic wife. Such is the
condition this country is approaching
Not Up to New York Standard.
He favored a uniform divorce law for
I the United states, but Arthur 5. Browne.
q lay deputy, from the diocese Of Wash
! ington. disagreed with him as to the
remedy. Mr.. Browne pointed out that a
uniform divorce law would reflect the
| average conscience OF the country and
would not. therefore. measure up 10 the
standards OF certain individual states.
! such as South Carolina and New York
which would then have to let down their
bars 10 conform to the federal enactment.
The first half OF the resolution finally
was Withdrawn, and the second half
passed with little opposition.
incidentally. the House ratified the
Bishops choice OF Ave missionary bishops.
whose names were printed yesterday in
The Tribune. These bishops-elect are
! Hugh Latlmer Burleson. North Dakota:
William Theoditus Capers. Spokane.
Wash; Milo Hudson Gates Cuba, Fred
erick Bingham Howden. New Mexico. and
Charles Blaney CoImore. Porto Rico. The
deputies very rarely oppose such nomina-
tons by the House Of Bishops
In regard to a negro bishop there is a
complete division of opinion In the House
/ Of Deputies. although not at all on sec.
tional lines. The Southerners. who are
primarily interested in the outcome OF
the measure. are almost equally divided
for and against IT, and so are the negro
communicates themselves.
The joint commission on a racial episco-
pate, to which was referred by the Cen
eral Convention OF 1910. the whole pro-
posal to create a separate missionary
district for the negroes in the South.
with a negro bishop i'm charge, pre-
sented a majority report TO the House in
the morning against 1t. Three dissenting
members Of the commissioning Bishop Kin
solving. OF Texas: Bishop Nelson. Of
North Carolina. and the Rev. DR.. /. Alex.
Pittnger OF North Carolina, introduced
minority report favoring such measure.
Reads Majority Report.
The Rev DR.. G. b. Bryan, OF the do
cese Of Southern Virginia, read the ma
jority report. which says, among other
things:
This proposal is radical violation OF
the principle and custom OF diocesan uni
ty, OF the territorial eplscopate and OF
one jurisdiction in the territorial diocese.
And while the conditions existing. espe-
cially in our Southern dioceses. are ex-
traordinary and unique, we DO not feel
that they are so hopeless OF solution as
to Justify such radical and revolution
airy violation of principle which has
been certified by the age-long experience
and wisdom OF the Church.
Surely. with patience. courage and
faith, God will lead the Church TO a
safer. wiser and more effective solution
OF our difficulties.
1T Is impossible to avoid the appre-
hension that under the proposed legisld-
. ton danger Of even further and more
irreparable separation between the races
would ensue, that conflict OF Jurisdictions
might arise which would weaken, II not
destroy. the unity of the Church.
with the utmost sympathy and friend
ship for our colored brethren. and with
the desire to advance the work OF the
Church among them we still cannot be-
lieve that as a race they are prepared
for an independent ecclesiastical admins
tration."
of permitting the negroes only partial
representation in the diocesan councils
Is deplored in the report: but IL goes on
to say that IL believes that even such
system is better not only for the Church
but for the colored people than an indie
pendent racial missionary district
The committee expressed the hope that
trial might be made OF the measure
permitting the election OF suffraran
bishop in dioceses possessing negro com
municants in large numbers
Sharp and Positive Separation.
The minority report. read by DR.. Pit
finger, said
The fundamental fact OF the situation,
recognized by all. is the fact Of the dis