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Show Taft, Emperor William and resident ! Eliot of Harvard for being teetotalers, am urged tin? ministers of the. church to petition congress (o utop Interstate shipments of Honor, to discontinue the Issuance of internal revenue receipts? in prohibition territory, and to prohibit the use of the mails for the distribution distribu-tion of liquor advertising or liquor. The Rev. Ellsworth L. Rich of Wat- j sonville. Cnl., introduced a resolution providing that ministers should not use tobacco. A layman, in attacking the resolution, dared Mr. Rich to Include In-clude in thia resolution laymen as well as ministers. Mr. Rich amended hie resolution to include laymen aud after more debate the resolution was adopted adopt-ed amid cheering. The next trouble over the temperance temper-ance report arose when a commissioner commis-sioner urged the adoption of a resolution resolu-tion that judges who arc members of the church should refuse to grant licenses li-censes for saloons even thouph It he his legal duty to do so. Several speakers speak-ers at once ordered this with the argument ar-gument that jud?e could not be criticised crit-icised for his actions under the law, but the first speaker hotly demanded ' that judges resign rather than grant the license. "God grant that our Judges do not resign upon such an occasion," said one commissioner, "for it will only pave the way for worse ones." The resolution was defeated. TEMPERANCE WAS UNDER DISCUSSION Denver, May 27. That clergymen and laympn should not use tobacco, that It Is contrary to the principles of the church for Presbjterian judges to grant saloon licenses, and that "a committee com-mittee of ministers and laymen shall Inquire into a method pursued In seminaries sem-inaries in teaching "modern theology," were the principal matters approved by the general assembly of the Prcs-bjterlan Prcs-bjterlan church today. The clause regarding tobacco came in the consideration of the report of the temperance committee. , Discussion Discus-sion of this report dragged through tho morning session into the afternoon. The report commended President |