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METHOD|STS TO HAVE
II new BISHOPS.
Decide on This Number at General
Conference and Proceed to
Their Election.
Drs MONIES, IA, May Is.

Drs MONIES, IA, May Is.
The General Conference of the M. r..
Church has decided to have IL new
bishops and it has begun TO elect them.
When the secretaries began to pre-
pare the balioting the program was
first TO transfer the three missionary
bishops into regular bishops. This wns
done by vote Of s02 in each case
Then Frank w. Warner and John W.
Robinson. Of India and Eben s. john
son, of Siberia, we're introduced as
bishops-elect
A ballot for twelve additional bishops
was almost Immediately taken.
The tellers we're instructed 10 keep
the result absolutely secret until IL could
be reported to the conference today.
When the twelve are selected the
election Of two colorcd bishops will be
taken up. That will not require long.
Following will come the election Of sec-
rectaries Of benevolent boards and OF
official editors. about twenty men in all.
There is n vacancy in the editorship
Of the Methodist Review, for the editor,
DR. ". v. Kelley, is in failing health.
The standing committee showed under
the proposition 10 elect the bishops tor
eight Years only, and also the PROPOSE
ton that a retired bishop shall return
20 the annual conference Of which he
was a member when elected and receive
his pension from that conference. Memor-
ials asking that no appointments shall
be made by the bishop without the con-
sent OF the district superintendents will
be reported adversely.
Bishop A. w. Leonard has been in
vited by the Epworth League Of India
10 make tour Of that country this
year.
The senior bishop celebrated his
sixty-rourth birthday Thursday. The
New Jersey delegation made q speech
and presented handsome bag, while
the Philadelphia delegation rendered q
banquet Mt the Savery Hotel last night.
A proposition has been introduced 20
make the Epworth League responsible
for the publication Of the Epworth Her
sld instead Of the publishing house. The
motion will be contested The proposed
consolidation of several Of the church
wceklies does not win much favor.
GENERAL CHURCH CONFERENCE.
A deputation on behalf Of the movement
initiated by the General Assembly Of the
PRESBYTERIAN Church in the United States
of America, for the union of all evangelical
denominations in United Church of
Christ in America, is expected TO address
the conference today.
There is a strong movement on foot for
the correlation Of the work Of the several
correctional boards and societies Of the
church under one general board, and II Is
expected that the committee on temporal
economy will recommend in its report
some such correlation. In the event Of the
adoption, the work now carried on by the
centenary conservation committee Will be
committed to such general board and
made one OF its constituent interests and
organizations In the event OF the present
correctional board and societies being
continued as now organized and adnpnis-
tered, it is expected that q separate bdard,
closely related to the other existing boards,
will be created to which the work now
carried on by the centenary conservation
committee will be committed.
Prominent visitors at this week 9 ses-
sion were Bishop James Cannon, Jr., of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, South: +:
DR. Stonewall Anderson. secretary of the
Board Of Education Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, and DR. j. H.
REYNOLDS, president of Hendricks College
and member 0f the commission on
unlficatIon from the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South
Within the last four wears s.. .263. .Ss2.-
20 has been received for conference
claimants, were the encouraging words
with which the committee on itineracv
began its report The report showed the
funds OF this board were safely invested,
and recommended that the church require
an age and service limit for voluntary re-
tirefnent, and the continuation Of the
present corresponding secretary. DIR. j.
b Hungeley The report vas adopted.