New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-19
MISSIONARY BISHOPS
CHOSEN IN SECRET
strict Privacy Of Election
pioues Curiosity Of the Epis-
copaIian Convention.
m NAME FIVE TOMORROW
posts. Both Northerly and Trop-
ical. Call for Exceptional Men
Court of Appeals Is
Voted Down.

Following the rejection yesterday morn
TN hy the House Of Deputies OF the pro-
".Ad canon establishing a court OF APP
.al in heresy cases. popular interest In
-. General Convention of the Protestant
r.,.conal Church focused on the House
- p,.hops. For the bishops were busy
N aay discussing the merits OF candi-
lac for the five missionary bishOprics
80, vacant by the resignation or death
n, tbeIr occupants since the last General
Convention. in 1870
The very secrecy Of the proceedings In
,,s House of Bishops has piqued the curl
os,tv OF the entire Church community.
r,s bshops have barred even their sec
-.,sres and banished their pages and
soorkeepers beyond earshot during tho
dAbates regarding the candidates. The
candidates themselves do not know whom
The bishops are discussing. although they
NAV have their suspicious. Not until to-
morrow will any one except the electors
,hernselves know surely who are being
considered and then they will know only
the successful candidates. The unsuc-
fortune came to slapping them on the
hack on the Episcopalian tap day.
II is supposed that in Old Synod Hall,
which snuggles UP TO the gigantic new
Cathedral OF ST. John the Divine. as If
dreading the approaching day OF It's re-
noval. at least a score OF names of dis
unEuished clergymen have been formally
I'm IA N
hIshoprics. These nominations were made
on Friday. II is said, and yesterday the
candidates came in for the most search
ing analysis. involving mental. moral and
physical characteristics, ever carried on
behind q mans back. except under similar
circumstances.
Need Drawn as Well az Brain.
often in the consideration OF human ma
terial TO take charge Of the difficult work
OF the missionary districts superior physi-
cal fitness turns the scale In a candidates
favor This. OF course, is particularly
true Of the Northerly missionary districts.
No weakling, for instance. however APP
pealing spiritually and incisive mentally
could accomplish the work of the Church
In Alaska Fortunately. Bishop Rowe has
no intention, his friends say. Of resigning
or asking 10 be transferred to a more
salubrious cline. although because OF his
heroism and splendid accomplishment
within the Arctic Circle II is a regular
thing for the bishops TO intimate to him
at each general convention that they think
MIN entitled to a change, and that he has
only to indicate his choice. He has al
ways declined.
But II Alaska is taken care of. the mis-
sonary districts OF North Dakota and
Spokane are not. The men who undertake
10 cover the wind-swept snowdrifts of
those regions this coming winter in the
service of the Master must have hearts
which pump blood while they throb for
humanity must have strong limbs and
stout lungs II is natural, therefore, that
Archdeacon Hudson Sucks name should
be on peoples lips as a likely candidate
for one or the other of these posts. A
man accustomed TO wintering in Alaska,
who has cut a path in the everlasting Ice
Of Mount Mckinley right UP to that
mountains summit, ought 10 be able to
laugh at the billiards. OF the Northwest,
II is argued.
But II may be that for his heroic &C
complishment in the frozen North the
bishops have in mind offering him trop-
zeal post. The district of Porto Rico
needs filing. and so do those Of Mexico
and Southern Florida, not to mention
New Mexico. II is supposed, however,
that Bishop Cameron Mann. OF North
Dakota, who has asked TO be transferred
to a milder climate. will be made Bishop
Of Southern Florida.
A Friend Of tho indians.
The Rev. Hugh Burleson. Of the Board
OF Missions, is another whose name
figures prominently In the gossip. AS one
Of the secretaries Of the board he was
stationed with Bishop Mann during sew
eral years in North Dakota, being dean
OF the cathedral at Fargo He is known
as an authority on Church matters In the
Northwest and a friend and counsellor OF
the Indians. Just at present, however ne
is suffering from an injured kneecap IN
ST. Luke's Hospital. within stones
throw OF the august proceedings In which
II Is supposed his name is constantly
cropping up. His injury Is considered 10
be only temporary disablement.
The Rev Robert w. Plant of Portland,
Ne. has his following. He possesses a
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