Show TEGiCAUTES T1 PLAY j I i Sharp Debate Among Methodists Method-ists on Amendments I fROWN OPENS DISCUSSION j Resolution that Conference Offers a Should Show to the World by Prop I or Action that tho Church Had Not Amusement Changed Front on the question and that tho Book of Discipline 1 Dis-cipline Remains UnchangedIt z Was RefusedNumber of Reports Presented to General Conference Chicago April 4At todays session conference the hours theMethodist nf vivacious as some lrc lightened by ccre debate Dr > Henry v1I as vigorous Columbia river conference oWfl Brown hrtiicht the amusement question to the early In the day by I offering a resolution front which In substance was that by proper action show conference the that the church had not the world hinfiwl front on the amusement question ques-tion He asked to forestall action by those ito in favor of greater liberality In matter that rue 2IS oC the book of this J discipline he for the next ciuadrennlum left substantially unchanged PLAY TECHNICALITIES A sharp debate on play technicalities followed tcsulting In the resolution being be-ing referred to the committee on the ctale of the church Dr A N Craft East Ohio confer secured the passage of a resolution resolu-tion ence calling for a committee composed of one member of each confcremo district dis-trict xo Inquire Into tin condition oC seminaries the Methodist theological STIRS UP DEBATE Rev J M Kumler of Illinois stirred up further debate by calling for a committee com-mittee of 111 one from each conference district to Inquire into the matter of the deaconess societies Rev G N Jackson of the Rock River conference secured the Jloor and asked that the committee be doubled In size by the appointment of one lay and one clerical delegate from each conference After further debate the committee was reduced re-duced to fifty to be composed of an equal number of laymen and preachers PRECIPITATED A ROW Dr W N Wilson of Iowa Introduced a resolution which caused the most active ac-tive and vigorous debate of the session The resolution after being amended la as follows Resolved That no bishop or general conference officer shall receive anything any-thing above actual expenses for services ser-vices In the dedication and reopening of churches attending commencements of Methodist educational institutions or for any similar services which he might render the church t BISHOPS INDIGNANT The Insinuation in the resolution I that the bishops had asked for more thui actual expenses was received with indignant looks by the bishops them Klves Villlam J Welch a layman of the Wyoming conference supported the resolution as amended and declared thai the standing of the church was Impaired by the practice of the bishops of demanding foes for olUMatlng at dedicatory and kindred exercises It wai resolved to request every Protestant pastor In the United States to read to their congicgatlons the Wshops address delivered in the con frrence yesterday containing IfiOOO The devotional exercises which prefaced pre-faced the third session of the conference confer-ence were Conducted by Rev H J Cozlnc of Puget Sound university Bishop Warren presided over the business busi-ness session N LAY DELEGATE SEATED Caleb Buttcrworth the lay delegate from New Jersey was In his seat the committee to which the protest against his being seated was referred having ileclded that his credentials were sulll clent There were many delegates In the house with resolutions and papers i concerning the amusement question 0 LIBERALITY IN AMUSEMENTS Rev William Fawcett of Chicago though not a lcgato himself had given his views in favor of greater liberty lib-erty hi the matter of amusements to a delegate while C W Pearson of the Northwestern university handed his Play to Secretary Monroe today Others Admitting having resolutions on the subject one of the moat important be fore the conference The llrat business of the session was the presentation of the reports of the various committees for the past quad rennlum Tho following were read Commission on federation book committee com-mittee general missionary committee board of education general committee on church extension freedmanK aid and Southern educational society board of manage s of the Sundayschool union snmpj foreign missionary society so-ciety Omans home missionary socle viy trustees report national city evan gehittn Union Epworth league twefltlcth ccntury thank offering com n lsl ion |