The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-05-21
The General Conference Make Great
Progress During the Week. Far
Reoching and Extensive Plans
Proposed and Adopted for
MI nuo Uranium
The Next Quadrennlllnl

St. Louis.-This has been an unu-
sualIv busy week at the sessions OF
the conference at the Coliseum. Many
of the most important committees re
ported. Among them, the Episcopal
Committee, the Committee on Confer
cncc Boundaries and Redistricting, the
Unification Committee. The Committee
ON Revision of the Dicipline. The
several reports were warmly discussed
and some of them created exciting
scenes and were adopted with tumui
tnous applause. The Committee on Uni
f.atjon with the C. M. f. and A. NJ.
f. churches, reported favorably on uni
fication. This report was adopted prac-
ticallv by unanimous vote. A teic-
gram from the A. M. E. Zion General
Conference, now in session at Knox
vile. Tenn, was read saying thatsNnl-
fication was carried by that Gefrral
Conference. The G. M. f. General Con
ference has already adopted similar
resolution. So the Union of these three
Methodist bodies now goes to the sew
eral annual conferences for approvai,
The secretaries roll shows that 3ooo
DELEGATES and altcrnatcs are in atten-
dance.
Congressman L. C. Dyer Of Missouri
in an address before the African Meth
odist EpiscoDal Conference, at the col
iscum. urged the members to work FOR
the passage of legislation now pending
in congress designed to prevent lynch
ing and mob-violencc.
Congressman Dyer said he had intro
duccd a bill six years ago and IN tn"
two succeeding congresses which would
make lypcling and mob violence Ted
cral offense.
He called upon the Negro race to
work up sentiment in favor OF the blll
by sending letters to their representa-
tives and by resolutions in their various
organizations.
The conference passed a resolution
commencing the law presented to Con-
ercss by L. G. Dyer Of st. Louis making
lynching a federal offense. The resolu-
ton states that the faithful assistance
of 10000 Negroes of the A. M. e. church
is pledged to Dyer as result OF ms
efforts to do away with mob violence.
The conference went OH record with
an approval of the prohibition qncs-
ton as set forth in the constitution.
Resolutions praising the educational
system. but recommending more equit-
able division of the funds, were ap-
proved the granting the ballot to women
saying in part: "The womanhood or
the country we believe, will help to
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safe along lines for moral uplift.
The business session Of the Confer
cnce on Wednesday included report on
redstricting and fixing conference boun-
diaries. The newest district is that
including South America. To this dis
trict California is added so as to give
the Bishop of that district some terri
tory in the United States. Women were
to hold Office in the genera
departments of the church. A special
committee was appointed to revise the
charter so as to conform to new re%uia-
lions. Among the candidates for Bish-
Op were some of the most prominent
men of the race in this country. The
halloting for Bishops began about 1890
Thursday morning and closed at the
night session.
DIR. w. Sampson Brooks. of Baltimore
DR.. William d. Johnson of
GEORGIA: Or. A. J. Carcv of Chicago:
DR.. w. T. Vernon of Memphis, and
DR.. w. A. Fountain of Atlanta were
last night elected. DIR. johnson whose
election was expected, received his APP
pointment upon the first ballot and re-
ceived the highest number of votes, 1872.
DIR. Carey was also made Bishop upon
this ballot, receiving 321 votes,
DR.. Brooks was the first bishop TO
be chosen upon the second ballot. He
got $40 votes.
The election of Bishop Johnson was
long expected. For sixteen years he
has been secretary of the A. M. e.
General Conference and for more than
thirty wears has served in one confer
ence He has never been transferred
out of Georgia since he entered the
Biship Carey has served as pastor
and presiding elder in one of the large
est churches in Chicago for several
years. Hc was born in Georgia, and
entered the ministerv in Arkansas. He
served for more than twenty wears
in various cities in Illinois, but for a
considerable length of time has been
in Chicago
Bishop Brooks, spent FIVE years in