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Show Tin: nti.MivTi:i:i is. Report Received anil the DKrui. nlon Thereon. Saratoga, Jiay 16. At the session ses-sion of the l'rettiterlaa general assemblage as-semblage the committee on method of cUVetive changes in the confession confes-sion of faitii and constitution of the church reported unanimously substantially sub-stantially as follows: The church, speaklug officially through the rrc-bvterks, rrc-bvterks, can alone determine with authority the questions at issue; therefore, the committee reconi mends questions be traumttleU to the presbyteries, wlutherthcrcshal! be added to the forms of government chapter xxxlil of the'at endments, providing for a proposal by the general assembly to the presbyteries presbyter-ies of amendments or alterations of the form of govt nunc ut, book of discipline aud directory of worship, but that these shall not be obligatory unless a majority of all the jiresl'y-teries jiresl'y-teries approve In writing. "That alterations In tliedoetrinil standard? shall not lie prood to theiresbytiriea unlet tiny hae been under con'fcie ration lor one Vcar by a conuiiiltcc of not less tlian nftten ministers and ruling ciders, not iurc than two of whom shall It from any one synod. JCo situations situa-tions shall b: made in the pro-isijnsof pro-isijnsof this chapter for changes iu the doctrinal standard unless an ovirture from the General Assembly, Assem-bly, submitting the proposed alteration", altera-tion", to transmitted to all preshy-teriex, preshy-teriex, to Lc nppruv cd iu w riting by two-thirds of them. The General Astmbly must transmit to the prcsbytcricsnny overtures submitted to it by one-third ot all the presbyteries. presby-teries. Any amendment so submitted sub-mitted and approved shall go into elTcct inimeiiiatcly after the General Gen-eral Assembly shall have certified thufACt." The committee ALSO KKMMMEMllUI that the presbyteries be directed to answer l!'i overture" a n whol ly a simple yea and nay, to l reported to the clerk In time to be presented to the next General Assembly. President Pattou, of Princeton Theological Seminary, in opening the great delate on the report, said he ol jected to two features. First-It First-It denies to the assembly Its IcgMi-tivc IcgMi-tivc rights. What are we hero for if not to legislate? Second This Ld-ca nwaffrom 'h-s a emHy nut only the riRht to Icgil-.tc, but also that of deliberating. Suppose one-third one-third of the presbyteries overture tlie assembly for any glvpn change In tlie doctrinal standard, this r-ivortrjtvest'ie r-ivortrjtvest'ie nsembly no cjitlou. It must send down thu overture to presbyteries, and if two-third adopt or approve of It, the assembly has no choice but to declare the change, no niittir how radical orrevolutionary, adopted. "I n Jloore's Digest of Presbyterian Presbyteri-an ISTV Te rtad the follain. declaration. 'The asscinbiy order: that the Westminster confession is to continue to be our standard unless two-thirds of the presbyteries propose pro-pose changes di sired, and in that case the assembly is to enact that the change be mide.' It dots not decree it only, but cnacU it. You cannot make a change in nuy way tliat Invalidates an adopting act." In conclusion Dr. Patten said: "I Implore tills jtseinbiy lo move eIot-ly eIot-ly in these critical limes, when a single false step may lead us wo know not where and INVOLVE CS IX DIFHCl LTIti we dare not anticipate. Rev. Dr. Henry Van Dyko of Xew York was delighted witli tlie riioit, and did not accord with the views of Dr. Pattou. He denied the legislative right of the assembly In saying that there is no line 111 llm digest that confers tliat lower. The presbytery existed before thegens-mlaemtlr, thegens-mlaemtlr, add never (rave ltlf islative power. There can be uG action to change the standards ex cept by mutual co-operation betwcetl the a.-tembly and the presbyteries. The report teemed lo him (Van liyke) a peace measure prescribing a fair and practicable method of coming to an understanding. Dr. Van Dyke added that fortw enty-fivc j ears lie had been growing convinced con-vinced that a revision was sure to come. "You can no more etop It than yoll Can keep back the spring piling up last w Intt r's Ire." Judge Wilson of Philadelphia spoke as a member ol Ihe committee, lie said the report was not made primarily to favor revision or antl-revislon. antl-revislon. It was framed as the best way to extricate the church from the conflict as to the force and meaning of the adoption act. which lias gone on ever since Its enactment. enact-ment. In making the report we aimed to keep what is vital, and, at the tame time, to ut the UUBAT E$SESHAI. IT.lNCiri.K forever herealtcr bey,oud dispute, except by those bound to liave a fight any way. The report does not interfere with the legislative power of tlie assembly, If itliad any, but, on the other baud, gles It greater power of conservation and regula-tlou. regula-tlou. Practically any amendment lo tbe standards must be formulated in the assembly, became the presbyteries presby-teries hive not needed facilities fcr consultation. They may propose, but the assembly niut co-ordinate their propesitions. The Assembly ought not lo have sucli legislative lower as to uefrat amendments proposed by one-tliinl of the presbyteries nnil adopted by two-third. President Pattou has no lejal foundation for liis arguincnUhat the act is an unalterable un-alterable law of Hie Church. Could not the power tliat made It repeal it; Tlie adopting act seems to have been largely framed for the very pur-poseof pur-poseof facilitating orderly members, and was not by any means meant to bea straight-Jacket that could never be enlarged and altered In f hape. Judge Junkln of Philadelphia spoke against revision and the matter mat-ter went over until tomorrow. Two children Cremated. .Lake Park, Jliuu., May 16. Tbe general store building of Carlson Carl-son t Ebclloft was burned this morning mor-ning and two cliildrenof Kbellofl, who rtaided on thu upper floor, were cremated. An Iii.nne Uolher. Chicago, Jiay 16. Jlrs. Ada Hkstrem, wife of a mechanic, went suddenly Insane .today and threw her nluc-months-old baby and two and a taff-year-old child from a second sec-ond story window to the sidewalk. Both were terribly injured and there are little hniies of recovery. The mother was locked up at the detention de-tention hospital. A Town lleMrojeil. St. PETERsnuna, Jiay IC The city of Tomsk, In Western Siberia, was almost completely destroyed by Hood and lire. Jlauy lives were lost. The Hibernian. Hartford, Conn., Jiay 16. The Hibernian convention finished its work today and adjourned, to meet at Xew Orleans the second Tuesday in Jiay, 1SP2. Officers were elected as follows: National delegate, JI. F. Williere, Philadelphia; National secretary, JI. D. Slattery, Albany; National treasurer, Thomas J. Dun-don, Dun-don, Columbus. The Rate War. St. JjOBIS, Jiay 16. There were several developments in the rate-war rate-war from hero today, tlie Wabash taking a hand aud cutting rates sharply to St. Paul and Denver. On Sunday the Wabash will nuke a $3 rate to Omaha and $6 to Chicago, Chi-cago, while Kansas City tickets, round trip, w ill be sold for $2. Tro Republic". London, Jiay 16. A dispatch to UieTimcJi from "Buenos Ayres, says: "The Argentine republic and Chili are firmly determined to reject Jlr. Blaine's pretension, under the cover of a delusive commercial convention, to dictate their internal aud external policy." Ilronnrd San Francisco, Jiay 16. AI-plieus AI-plieus Bull, for the post twenty-fiv e 3 ears prominently Identified with mtny of tlie corporations of thl-clty thl-clty and State, and vice-prc-sMe lit cf tho Firemen's Insuratiif con jtny was acei h ntnily diowi.ei i:i tiie bay tw'av by f.'lling fii.m tlie breakwater. break-water. Deceased wa aic-I "laud was president of the G Mild A Curry and several ether m'nlug a'sci-i-tions. Tempr ranee. Tol-SKA. Kas, Jiay 16. The annual an-nual State Tenjirancu Union today adopted a resolution diiu-inditig tliat an act of Congress be enacted giving tlie Suites pow er to regulate the sale of liquor. To Avoid lllpnlr. I)MX)N, Jiay 16. The SfandVrrd Berlin correspondent says that France and Germany, In erdtr to avoid frontitrdispute", haeedreided to mark the licundams with stone ill conspicutus positions. - V Jlan or Iron." Berlin, Jiay li.. At a. uawiuit at ICouigstiurg the Kui.ror uinde a speech, in vhhhlie said that whoever who-ever attempted to attack the security of tlie country would find him a man of iron," who could enforce peace. |