Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-18
MISSION OFFICERS
NSECRET SESSION
Considering Policies to Be Pre-
sented to Convention
Next Week.
WORK ON THE BUTGET
CONTINUES PlECEMEAL
Appropriations Asked for Activities
Carried on Under Direction of
Methodist Women.

The national officers of the Woman's
Home Missionary Society of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church went into executive
session this afternoon at . O'Clock, at the
convention. of the organization now in
progress at Foundry M. E. Church.
They took up the report of the commit
tee on changes in the constitution and
bylaws, presented by Mrs. c. W. Bick-
ley, chairman, and will formulate va
rious policies which will be brought before
the fun convention later on, probably
early next week.
The national officers expect to finish
their work for the day in time to join the
other delegates to the convention at a
reception which VIII be held in their
honor at 4:3O o'clock this afternoon by
Bishop and Mrs. Earl Cranston at the
bishops home
Budget Under Discussion.
The delegates do not expect to trans
act any other work this afternoon. Most
of the morning session was given over
to a consideration of the financial budget,
which is oeins voted on piecemeal. day
by day. The principal item taken up this
morning was proposed appropriations for
immigrant work at AtIanic and Pacihc
coast ports, and about 5000 was pieu
for this work Mrs. C.. w. Buckley, chair
man Of the immigration bureau, ad-
dressed the convention with an explana-
ton of the needs of her bureau, declar
ing that immigration Is larger this year
than 1t has been since 1907. The total
number of imm. grants this year. she
said. would reach 1,1OO,00O. In 1901 she
said it was 100000.
Mrs Buckley told the convention that
the foreign peoples coming into the
United States this year CONSIST largely
of Slavs. Italians and natives OF south
ern Europe. She said that their immi-
grafton is largely dependent upon the
prosperity Of the United States. and that
after 1907. following the financial de-
preston in the United States at that
time, immigration went down In num-
bers to 100000 annually. since which
time 1t has been gradually climbing
back She told Of the homes the immi-
grafton bureau of the society has at
Angel Island, San Francisco; how the
workers OF the bureau meet incoming
steamers, and care and shelter are given
the needy. For this work. she said. in
needed The principal items for which
Mrs. Bickley'S bureau was given pledges
were for the homes for immigrants the
society maintains at New York and at
East Boston.
Sums Needed for Work.
The convention also took up today. dur
ing consideration of the budget, the sub
feet Of appropriations for the following
work carried on in various distant places
by the society:
Anthracite Slavonic Mission. Hazleton,
Pa; Catherine Blaine Home, Seattle.
Wash: Susannah Wesley Home and
School, Honolulu. Hawaii Jane Couch
Memorial Home. Los Angeles. Cal: Ellen
Stark Ford Home, San Francisco. CAL
and Oriental Home for Chinese Girls. San
Francisco, Cal. among which. with the
exception of the Slavonic Mission at
Hazleton. the society cares for Chinese.
Japanese and Koreans.
The Alaskan. Indian and Porto Rican
work was also on today's budget for con-
sideration, among these being the Sinuk
Mission at Sinuk Alaska; the Lavinia
Wallace Young Mission at Nome, Alaska;
the Jesse Lee Home at Unalaska, Alaska
the Navajo Home and School at Farm
ington. N. M; the Ponca Mission at
Ponca, Okla; the Pottawatomie Mission
at Mayette, Kan. the Nooksack Mission
at Everson, Wash. and the Yuma and
Greenville missions in California.
A total Of $12,202 Is wanted for Indian
a total of $11.7OO for Chinese work; a
total of SIC, 600 for Japanese and Korean
work, and Sc. 80 for the Slavs. 1t Is ex-
pected that appropriations and pledges
will be made in accordance with these
requirements.
Literary Secretaries Banquet.
A banquet was held last evening at the
rooms of the Young Women's Christian
Association by the literature secretaries