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Show HflE AND HI POLYGAMY Ipiisls to Talk on 1 1 fee Topics. I 'jper Questions Which Con-I Con-I ; firencfi Will Consider the I . Coming Week. ji fyvfo Bishop, in Person- of Dr. J. R. f D7 Syracuse, N. Y., Is ' j dj Elected. I H (f OS ANGELES. Cal., May 21. -f I (D The Committee on State of I Jie Church lias decided by a H "Mltrge majority vote, after a -- H nrm discussion, to recommend H io the general conference that it ' ;;epare a petition to Congress H the subjects of polygamy and -f H i flroree. It will ask Congress, if H j ii report of the committee is -f H iJopted, to enact a constitution- H i ilmcndmcnt providing: uniform H j divorce laws in all the Slates H f izi Territories. ' H . f OS ANGELES, Cnl.', May 2L When H . the ilcthodlst general conference My fjmshfcd its third week's labors at HI IT soon tcilay and adjourned until H Itf Monday, it had elected eight bish-BJ bish-BJ ::JjK the cumber recommended by the K lrcsoiucy committee and disposed of H : t majority of the subjects that have H -i rst up for consideration. Ten days H isrt remain in which to complete its H j kcais. Subjects yet to be passed H tr-iare the election of four additional H , tiuJoaary bishops, the result of the H ' bi ballot for which will be an-flj an-flj Kiicrf Jlonday morning, the election BJ h' jtwral conference officers for the H . in quadrennicum; action upon the H bpjrtant problem of denominational BI blftnerol interest as follows: Amuse-BJ Amuse-BJ : tali, divorce, consolidation of book BJ arns, polygamy, temperance and H Cuditlon of capital and labor. H J E. Day, chancellor of the Sym- fa X Y., university, was tlie eighth H 1 last bishop chosen. His election U effected on the fourteenth ballot, eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth bc- i k ineftectual. On the twelfth ballot H fa. ft. j. Cook of Tennessee, Dr. Day's jWrot competitor, withdrew from the ; and.from that timo on Dr. Day in- hIs lead antl Anally was elected 'I ?i . ourteenth ballot by a vote of I, i, WorthcSDC ballots cjisL Dr. W. A. I $ Tle of Kftnsas City was second ? l!1 candidate on the last ballot, re- , kItIef 180 votes I t incomplete II t of bishops chosen, I ; t o named. is as follows. Jospph ,1 f-wrj', Chicago; Iloury P. Spellmcy- L,,?.rk' N- J-: William F. Mc-J Mc-J Sw"NcTork; Janies w- Bashford, X frar 0.; Vt. A. Burt. Rome, Italy 1 S,, Wsori, Baltimore, Md. I t?ls B- c-eley. Philadelphia; J. R. 1 i4liyr?clse' N- T- wIth the ex- &u .?f BIshP3 Berry, Burt and itr the newly elected members of j Sf tetween the ages of 42 and -IS ii W1itnf:i"ence today Anally disposed n X I"e3t'ori 113 to whether the .Meth-?lLCiMUrch .Meth-?lLCiMUrch 0vould retui'n rule I StLthe ma0rItv report of the I SSiS, !. erancy. This report I i BSu i8 that no clianw be made In f J 53.nd0pled four ears o. whldi WuriJv an UI,1I,nlted tenure A -a 1 Ij"; rei"Jrt from lho committee I 'ft-i Cd Priding a time limit of 1 ' aad vl& Uio blshopB dis- I ftTtaSl P0?rB Ia special cases, but I overwhelmingly defeated. 4 a"rn, VJ.e featuro3 of today's sea-I sea-I aW1110 aPPearance of the first h ethrSu. man "lvh0 cver addressed a V ,"eral conference Mre. n&St ckla,nd of Little Rock, Ark., : ?flho colored race on the t- ' Ss i,ara- She Presented reso- M!llehln? hat tne Episcopacy ; teSmS6 slructcd to consider the f VjS nl f the eleetlon of a negro i Station ,,' was Blven respectful at-, at-, i bftecnm u4r reeolu"cn was referred I I the ;22Vnlftoc " Episcopacy. 6 Wliok fnr r.n?e tncn Proceeded ' to i 4m f5sa',narr bishops. A bal- ul0B-ir wi ken for an additional ' I bl9op for Africa, and an- i 3 fidonal "lParate ballot for two adit ad-it & n SsL Si bishops for south-f south-f 1 tllbt ;The result C these ballots I It "nced next Monday morn-" morn-" tlhe n,Ti mosa foregone conclusion, ? Nit Rpv ?nt weU P0Hted delegates, Liberia 4m uP' Campor of .Monrovia, w be chosen for Africa and 5wt.J V w(lI?hsun of Chicago and rf'Mn Wif" obhison, editor of the In-TSBVtnSS5', In-TSBVtnSS5', Calcutta, India, will be UK Tin SSL candldates for tho two 1 ?v southern Asia. IH tLut nce accepted an Invitation Hlimoon Bcach ln a body this Ifl1? lh 5m here tney were entertained fit ' "Uzena of that city. |