Show METHODIST VOTING A HOT CONTEST baltimore may 21 the battle for 1 the bishoprick bishoprics bish was hot today and before the adjournment of the methodist epi general conference the fifth ballot had been cast and was in the hands of the tellers who were instructed to report the result to the conference at its opening tomorrow morning late tonight it was learned from a thoroughly well informed source that the ballot resulted in no choice but that it shows rev edwin H hughes lacking only about a score of votes of election ho is followed by drevs revs G W smith and W S lewis in the order named it also shows that rev J B secretary of the conference has gained about fifty votes the election of rev edwin H hughes on an early ballot Is looked for confidently the ballots thus far show marked gains for rev C L goodell pastor of calvary church mcw york whose votes have increased from on the first ballot to on the fourth mr goodell Is noted for his pastoral evangelism and his election would be looked upon by many as a distinct acquisition to the episcopacy rev homer C of Madi sonN J field secretary or the b oard of mission has gained ten places in the list since the first ballot when he was twenty first on the list with votes on the fourth ballot hor was eleventh with votes the leading colored candidate M C B mason developed his greatest strength on the second ballot his vote on those that followed falling from to juat four votes more than be received on the first ballot ii it Is expected that the newly elected german bishop nuelson will begia en an episcopal residence in berlin with charge of the teutonic races in and that bishop william bur will confine his labors to the latin races significance attaches to a recommendation men dation which the book committee unanimously decided to make to tha conference it Is that hereafter book concerns of the church employ union men at union wages and favor union labor whenever opportunity offers during the past four years the two great houses of the general conference have bad a good deal of trouble with labor unions especially with the typographical union the resolution Is the outgrowth ol 01 this and the desire of the methodist episcopal church to get in closer touch with laboring men and women the temperance committee bay been asked to define the duty of a methodist lawyer who may be assigned by court to defend a liquor seller |