Show minneapolis oct 15 in the episcopal bouee 0 deputies today were passed recommending that the ex peno com raise A fund to pay the traveling expense 0 in churches there and de clarine it expedient to name a depula tion to attend the next meeting atthe canadian synod of the church of england II 11 0 cancan of louisiana in his report on the state of the cli aid that bince the last conference cot ference in 1892 ten bishop had died and fourteen had been consecrated tour of whom went to missionary districts the church now had seventy nine candidates tor ay bordere baptisms in the past year and confirmations there wore now communicants church and nearly tiong of a benevolent or educational character contributions from all sources had reached dr duncan showed that the body of communicants was estwing than the number of the clergy the increase in the triennium had afen while the list cal priests hail crown but fact he attributed to insufficiency and diminution ot the income for ih ethree was loss than for the nenod the committee made recommendations tor patriotic eer vicea on alie fourth of uly far stricter regard for the divorce law of the church or better sabbath observance and for a more active propaganda tor christian teaching sought to thank tho author of a publication for its distribution trib ution a resolution refusing to per mit the distribution in the convention of any publication not officially lecog nihed was offered by J pierpont alor ean and unanimously adopted alie house of bishops today concurred in the action ol 01 the deputies providing for final adjournment on october on which day the pastoral letter will be most of the nomine cession was devoted to constitutional revision an amendment was adopted to article 6 making the consent of the bishop of the diocese affected as well as that vt the convention necessary before any diocese or missionary jurisdiction could be erected tho action of yesterday the of alaska to the luhov of olympia ft as reconsidered by a two thirds vote and the advisability ot the election of a bichop was discussed the deputies final ly pas red the packard resolution referring the subject of constitutional revision to a new commission composed of six clerical and six lay members the bishops will have no connection with the work of this commission abo house had previously defeated a proposal to refer the matter back to the present joint commission the establishment of a provincial system was excepted the matters referred to the now commission the house of bishope today reconsidered their action ia not to send a bithos to Alas baand with the concurrence oi the bouse of deputies one will be elected the house of deputies spent the en tiro afternoon debating the question of the establishing of provincial in hie country dean hoffman favored having the general convention lay out the territory but dr end other favored organizing the dioceses of the different elates into province stephen H faeh of now york and obbera were emphatically opposed to the adoption of any provincial system and did not believe that the convention would care to delegate to provincial bynote any great amount of authority and unless it did the would be mere debating societies there was great danger he thought ae alie adoption of the plan would place the church in danger of |