Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-10-23
Nominating Committee.

Nominating Committee.
Nominating committees were named
today by each house, to act Jointly
officers. including the president, who.
after expiration of the term of office
of Presiding Bishop Daniel S. futile
Of Missouri. is to be presiding
The representatives of the eight
provinces on the executive council
were also being selected today. the
provincial delegates holding special
Gil will be made up Of twenty-four
bishops, clergy and laity.
Prayer book revision was also to
be considered further today and
engagements for the next convention
was looked for.
Three Radical Departures.
Three radical departures from the
old church order that obtained for
more than "a century were accom-
plished by the convention yesterday.
The house of bishops concurred in ac-
ton of the house of deputies creating
an executive. board to have general
charge of the work of the church, vir-
tual approval was given the plan for
greater unity between church bodies,
approached through the concordat be-
ing worked out with the Congrega-
tional Church, and greater powers
were granted the eight provincial
synods.
A budget of $10,6S5,S04 for the regu-
lar work of the church the next three
years was presented and adopted in
the house of deputies and now is in
the hands of the house of bishops.
This does not take into account
church work extension, however.
which is to be cared for through the
nation wide campaign, the program
for which has been approved in both
houses.
Under the budget adopted today es
Inmates of s3.22S.343 for 1920. $3,551.-
III for 1921 and $3.906.2S4 for 1922
were made. The total shows an in
crease of $1.200.000 over any previous
budget. For domestic work next year
s1.127.S23 was asked and granted;
for foreign work s919.634: for Latin
American work. s209.O39. and for adj
vance growth during the year,
$3.50, 900.
Other items included deficit of
$226,135, the church pension fund. ex-
tracontinental work and administra-
ton and publicity expenses.
Women Refused Admission.
The proposal to admit women to
church legislative bodies was over
whelmingly defeated in the house of
deputies when reconsideration was
given the question of substituting the
word communicates" for the word
'Iaymen" in the constitution.
The house of bishops decided to ca
BILE the Archbishop of Canterbury.
asking that measures should be taken
to secure the protection of Christians
in Persia. The bishops concurred in
actions of the deputies condemning
mob violence and asking capital and
labor to submit their differences to
arbitration. A move by Bishop Coad-
jutor Frederick e. Johnson of Mis-
souri, to ask the President of the
United States to set aside Good Friday
as a holiday was lost. Fear was ex-
pressed that such action would de-
tract from the religious nature of the
days observance.
The house of deputies confirmed the
election by the house of bishops of
bishops to missionary districts as fol-
lows: Suffragan Thomas J. Garland of
Pennsylvania, to Utah; William Henry
Overs of Bradford, Pa, to Liberia;
Samuel w. Grice of Petersburg. Va,
negro. to Haiti; DR.. James c. Morris,
Madison. Wis, to the Panama Canal
Zone. and DIR. Gouverneur F. Mosher,
Wusih, China, to the Philippines.