OCR Text |
Show BISHOP MANN IS SEVERE. North Dakota Prelate Denounces Conditions Con-ditions at the Capital. The Protestant Episcopal bishop of North Dakota has created a sensation Bishop JIann succeeded Bishop Ed-sall Ed-sall as the head ,of the Protestant Episcopal missionary diocese of North Dakota. He is a son of the Rev. .Duncan Cameron Mann, who was a Protestant Episcopal minister in Now York, where Bishop Mann was bo:a fifty-three years ago. He was crdair.ed a priest in 1S76, and his first chrrje was at Albany, N. T. When appointed bishop he was rector of Grace church at Kansas City, where he had been since 1SS2. JiSHOP CAflEPON 1AW throughout the , state with the public statement he Issued recently, in which he says conditions In Bismarck, Bis-marck, the state's capital, are disgraceful, dis-graceful, corrupting and inexcusable, "at least during the legislative session," ses-sion," when the leading hotel cf Bismarck Bis-marck "presents the features of a saloon, a gambling house and a .brothel." He appeals to the 'people of the state to improve conditions he alleges to exist. The desirability of a legislative investigation in-vestigation ' of the bishop's "charges was discussed in Bismarck, but no action was decided on. The proprietor of the hotel, against whjch his charges were aimed said that his hotel was no better or worse than any similar hesielry during a legislative legis-lative session. He explained Bishop Mann's attack by saying that the churchman recently stopped at the hotel. His room was next to one occupied oc-cupied by a number cf convivialists, who were, having a jollification meeting. meet-ing. Liquor was drunk in the room and some ribald songs were sung, the meeting being participated in by some members of the legislature and attaches. |