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Show METHODIST CONFERENCE. I.iymen w ill Defe it the Election of More liishiips. Omaha, May 13. Bishop Goodsell presided pre-sided over today s session of the Methodist coiference. It Is the gossip of the coufer- u -l' hall that the laymen wiil defeat the ef-f ef-f ifrt to elect more bishops. After some sparring it m deeded to ieceive all of the fraternal deiegiies except the one from the Methodist church south this evening, and. to receive ihe latter Tuesday evening. nis action was taken in deference to the feeiitigs of the s mthern church delegates, wits! did not wUh to be recdved with a ue-grrho ue-grrho is one of ii: : fraternal. Rs . Thomas Ha.;'...:, .f i'ennington sem-:di", sem-:di", introduced a resolution "declaring trial be church should come out squarely orijie struggle l ei '.vei n capital and labor, ilefeclared in his remarks that the church hat not ehoy.-M euo.igli sympathy wi'h thBbifing millions; and the laboring classes ! are trif ting aw a v irotn ir. Ihe resolution w Preferred in l '.e c-ein.iiiitee on the sta'.e of in church. Ajres dui ion to cha n go the rules so as to adsjit women as lay oelegates in the goBrai conference was refcraed to the com-riiitjc'j com-riiitjc'j on lay delegates.. |