The Sentinel=record., 1914-05-20

l {hr60 presiding elder, or rather to make a presiding elder ineligible to serve more than four years consecutively in one district, which was pending when the conference adjourned at noon, will come up for conclusion to- morrow
 Then the Vanderbilt committee is expected to make report. The thing that will be of greatest inter est, however, will be the report on l Episcopacy. This was placed on the calendar, but it can be called up for immediate action, and this is what IS | likely to be done after the disposi- tion of the pending order tomorrow. The point of difference in the com mittee hinges on the word legal" The majority report as originally adopted, provided for a commission to turn back or re-cOnvey to the eight patronizing conferences all
 
 them in and to Vanderbilt university. The supplemental legislation which the conference instructed the com mittee to incorporate in the majority report provided that the board of education should, pending the ad- iournment of the conference and such a time as the commission should complete a transfer of said rights, continue to exercise its authority of rejecting or confirming trustees and maintain it's full relation to the board of trust.
 When the report was read in com mittee preparatory to affiXing sigma lures, a motion was made to insert the word legal" before the word transfer" making it read, complete a legal transfer This was objected to by those known as the majority refusing to change the report in any particular, while the minority refused to sign without providing for legal conveyance.
 There will be two reports pre- sented to the conference tomorrow morning
 The conference adopted a resolu- tion providing for final adjournment at o'clock Monday evening
 Bishop E. E. Hoss, who has led the fight for the rights of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in the Van ..f the church has done all it can do to maintain those rights, and in view of the decision of the supreme court of Tennessee, which he holds stripped # of every vestige of right, is of the opinion that the church should now retire and leave the board of trust in quiet and full possessio"
 In a statement issued tonight the bishop said.
 As long as there was any ground left on which to contend for the rights of the church in the university l was willing to stand upon it. Neither the slack support of luke warm friends. nor the open opposition and bitter criticism of ayowed enc mics swayed me from dischargins my duty to the best of my ability But after the decision of the supreme court on the subject had been made public. l did not believe there was anything left for the church in the institution that was worthy of furthv strife. Subsequent reflection has confirmed my original view. am not at all able to sympathize with the sudden valor of the brethren who wish to fight after the war is over. It is my deep conviction, in fact, that any further agitation would be hurt full both to the university and to the church Being a man under author ity, shall of course obey whatever 1 directions are given to me by the l general conference. At the same time. my personal inclination is to | leave the trustees in quiet possession | and control of the university. A united church can take care Of itself l and its own interests. and in my | judgment it will do so. Whatever comes to pass. however, nothing can alter my deep-rooted conviction that the decision of the court. so far from being sound and just was an inva- sion of the rights Of the church. Facts are facts. and right is right. 1 There are some questions that can be adjudicated only in the open court of history"