Show I j BIG QUESTIONS aARE ARE EPISCOPALIANS Movement to AsK Federal Legislation Regulating 11 i M Marriage e and Divorce NEW w YORK Oct 10 Stirred by bythe bythe bythe the lively to sessions during the thelast last t t d day Y J th the house home of bishops and aud the bouee of deputies of oC the forty forty- fourth convention of the Protestant Episcopal church of or America ca met mot in inI I joint to The first business J was to receive the reports of the board t of missions and auxiliaries but above L this tha routine the thoe problems of remarriage It of divorcees and various changes in the church canons canons' ons loom up aa as tho the absorbing features of discussion among both the and the to laity I Th The The- convention now has bas before it an program of proposals for the adoption of which vigorous demand is voiced from many iuan sources particularly the l low w c church hurch element which won the first ret contest 1 of ot the tho ho c convention in the election of Alexander Mann of Boston as the presiding officer of the tho house of deputies over ocr Dr William T T. T Mannin Manning of ot Ne New York who was remembered as one one one- of the strongest t leaders lenders of the high church ni movement As ft result lt of yesterdays yesterday's session o othe of the house honse of bishops the tho general convention con eon will havo have before it Jt memorials attacking divorce and calling upon not only ecclesiastical authorities but the thin government of the tho Un United it ed States t to tose I se seek eek k an amendment m nt to the constitution I Iso so so that that- federal legislation concerning marriage could be effected The most radical of ot the n measures asur brought forward is that o of ot the Rev Rc Dr Tames James W W. Ashton of Olean Clean N N. Y who asked th that t. t the tLc general convention bD should uld consider the tho situation created in inthe inthe inthe the United States State by bv the promulgation o of the lie ue J decree of tho Ito Ho Itoman m man mn n Catholic church which prevents jt its ts priests from marrying marrying ng Catholics an and Protestants The memorial adopted by bythe bythe bytho the tho deputies m urges es the tho general conference conference confer confer- en ence e to affirm that marriage should not bo be dealt with other than as ns tho the holy scriptures and the laws Jaws of of the thc land lahd allow StAn An interesting social feature of tho the convention D was the reception arranged at ah the Metropolitan museum of art last night dori during which bishops deputies deputies ties bes and their friends shook hands with t the c Rt lIt Rev ev Daniel Sylvester ter Tuttle of St St. Louis LoUt the senior bi bishop hop of oC the church Despite his eight years year carl Bishop Tuttle hail had a 3 i vigorous hand hand hand- for tor all There Thero was great reat rejoicing ing over oer the showing which the worn worn- S 'S had male mado in its e auxiliary offering r t. t the foreign mis mission iol board Money t to td the amount of was heaped o onto to the old contribution plate at nt the great afternoon on m mass q meeting or of the all records of ot the |