May 18.
FOURTEENTH
DAY.

NEWARK.

Restoration

Ordination.

of

NEWARK CONFERENCE.

On motion of John S. Porter, the following resolution was referred to the Committee on Revisals, namely:

Resolved, That the Committee on Revisals be directed to inquire Credentials of into the expediency of so amending the Discipline, page 129, on the Restoration of Credentials of Ordination, as to make it read, "shall restore them, or on failing to do so, where an Annual Conference has recommended it, shall present charges against him, and in case such charges are not sustained upon due investigation, the Conference having in custody such credentials shall restore them without further proceedings."

Newark
Mission.

City

District Stew

J. T. Crane offered the following resolutions, and they were referred to the Committee on Revisals, namely:

Resolved, 1. That the Committee on Revisals be instructed to inquire into the expediency of so amending the third ans. to quest. 3, sec. 13, Part II, page 86, of the Discipline, as to make it lawful for the Bishop presiding at the session of the Newark Annual Conference to appoint a preacher to labor in the Newark City Mission for a longer period than three years.

Resolved, 2. That the Committee on Revisals be instructed to inards to choose quire into the expediency of so amending Part VI, sec. 2, page 252, of the Discipline, as to permit the District Stewards' Meeting to choose their own chairman.

their

chairman.

own

NEW HAMP-
SHIRE.

Election of
Trustees.

NEW HAMPSHIRE CONFERENCE.

On motion of L. D. Barrows, the following resolution was referred to the Committee on Revisals, namely:

Resolved, That the Committee on Revisals be requested to inquire if the Discipline, Part II, chap. i, page 58, should not be so amended as to read after, "is there a report of the Trustees of the Church property,' ," "Who shall be Trustees the ensuing year?" no mention now being made in this chapter of the Discipline on Quarterly Conference of the election of Trustees as any part of Quarterly Conference business.

NEW YORK CONFERENCE.

On motion of R. S. Foster, the following resolution was referred to the Committee on Benevolent Collections, namely:

Resolved, That the Committee on Public Collections Be instructed to inquire into the practicability of arranging the stated collections under four calls, namely:

1. The Bible, Sunday-School, and Tract under one call, three sixths of the whole amount going to the Bible cause, two sixths of the remaining half going to the Sunday-School cause, the remaining one sixth to the Tract cause.

2. Church Extension and Freedmen under one call, the donors designating the amount to each.

3. The Missionary (and in case the Episcopal Board should be in part or in whole supported by direct contributions from the Churches) the Fund for Support of the Bishops in the same call.

4. What is known as the Fifth Collection.

On motion of J. B. Wakeley, the following resolution was referred to the Committee on Revisals, namely:

Resolved, That the Committee on Revisals be instructed to inquire into the expediency of amending the Discipline by striking out the words, "and approved by the Quarterly Conference," in Part II, sec. 3, page 53.

On further motion of J. B. Wakeley, the following preamble and resolution were adopted, namely:

May 18.
FOURTEENTH
DAY.

Whereas, There are several officers to be elected by this General Election of GenConference for the next four years; and

eral

Confer

Whereas, Such election is important business, in which the whole Church is deeply interested; therefore

ence

officers

by ballot.

Resolved. That we are opposed to the election of any officers of this General Conference by acclamation, but all of them shall be elected by ballot.

On motion of W. H. Ferris, the following preamble and resolution were referred to the Committee on Revisals:

Whereas, In the older sections of our work, the quarterly visits of a Presiding Elder are not always demanded by the necessities of the Churches; and

Whereas, An enlargement of Presiding Elders' districts is deemed advisable by many, thus lessening the expenses of the Churches and securing a better support of the office, and also releasing a part of the men now employed on districts for the pastoral work; therefore

Resolved, That the Committee on Revisals be requested to inquire into the propriety of so altering the Discipline respecting the duties of Presiding Elders (page 91, Discipline) as to allow of semi-annual instead of Quarterly Conferences, wherever recommended by an Annual Conference.

NEW YORK EAST CONFERENCE.

Daniel Curry presented a plan for Lay Delegation, Lay Delegation. and it was referred to the Committee on that subject.

NORTH OHIO CONFERENCE.

On motion of W. D. Godman, the following resolution was referred to the Committee on Revisals:

NORTH OHIO.

Resolved, That the Committee on Revisals be and they are hereby requested to consider the propriety of inserting in the Discipline, Part II, chap. iii, sec. 2, the following paragraph:

"6. In any Circuit or Station, the Trustees holding in trust the church edifice and its furniture, shall, with the advice and co-operation of the Pastor, have power to make the needful arrangements for music in public worship."

On motion of J. F. Kennedy, the following resolution was referred to the Committee on Revisals :

Resolved, That the Committee on Revisals be requested to inquire into the expediency of expunging from the Discipline all that relates to Superannuated Preachers. (Part II, chap. ii, sec. 23; Part III, chap. i, item 1; Part VI, chap. i, sec. 4.)

OHIO CONFERENCE.

B. N: Spahr offered a resolution providing for the election of General Conference officers on Friday next, when, on motion of W. H. Ferris, it was amended by striking out Friday next, and inserting Tuesday morning at ten o'clock, May 26, and the resolution was adopted as follows:

Resolved, That the order of the day for Tuesday morning at ten o'clock, May 26, be the election of officers to be chosen by this General Conference.

PHILADELPHIA,

Using notes or

PHILADELPHIA CONFERENCE.

On motion of G. D. Carrow, the following resolution was referred to the Committee on Revisals:

Resolved, That the Committee on Revisals be and is hereby inreading ser structed to insert immediately after the question, page 82 of the Discipline, "Will you endeavor not to speak too long or too loud?" the following: "Will you study to refrain from the use of notes in the pulpit, and especially from the reading of sermons?"

mons in the pulpit.

J. Castle submitted a resolution, proposing an amended section in the Discipline respecting the reception of preachers from the Wesleyan Connection, and from other Christian Churches, and it was referred to the Committee on Revisals.

TROY CONFERENCE.

On motion of E. Wentworth, the following resolution was referred to the Committee on Missions:

Resolved, That the Committee on Missions he instructed to take into consideration and report upon the expediency of separating the foreign department of the Society from the domestic, and also the

propriety of locating the foreign office and secretary in the city of May 18. New York, and the domestic in one of the cities of the West-Cincinnati, Chicago, or St. Louis.

UPPER IOWA CONFERENCE.

On motion of Henry W. Reed, the following resolu

tion was adopted:

FOURTEENTH
DAY.

UPPER IOWA.

Resolved, That hereafter the notices be given immediately after Time for giving the reading of the Journal.

WASHINGTON CONFERENCE.

On motion of Benjamin Brown, the following resolution was referred to the Committee on Boundaries:

Whereas, The Washington Conference have been very successful during four years; therefore

notices.

WASHINGTON.

Resolved, That the Committee on Boundaries will consider the Boundaries. propriety of her continuing in her present formation.

WEST WISCONSIN CONFERENCE.

A. Brunson submitted a paper proposing new Articles of Religion distinctive of our Church, and it was referred to the Committee on Revisals.

WYOMING CONFERENCE.

On motion of R. Nelson, the following resolution was referred to the Committee on Itinerancy:

WEST WISCON-
SIN.

WYOMING.

the General

Conference.

Resolved, That the Committee on Itinerancy be requested to con- Time of holding sider and report on the subject of a change in the time of the meeting of the General Conference to the first day of October, 1871, and on the first day of October of every fourth year thereafter.

ters.

On motion of T. H. Pearne, copies of letters signed Waldro's LetS. F. Waldro, purporting to be written by a Methodist of Chicago, and published in some of the Southern papers, and all matters relating to them, were referred to the Special Committee on the memorial from the Holston Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

The Standing Committees were called in order, and reports were presented and disposed of as follows:

COMMITTEE ON EPISCOPACY.

J. M. Trimble, Chairman of the Committee on Episcopacy, presented Report No. I, and the report,

May 18. including the following resolution, was adopted, namely:

FOURTEENTH

DAY.

Wilson F. Ball,

Resolved, That we approve of the ruling of the presiding Bishop of Black River in the case of Wilson F. Ball, of the Black River Conference. Conference.

[For Report as adopted, see Appendix D, I.]

He also presented Report No. II from the same Committee, which was adopted, as follows:

The case of complaint against the official acts of Bishop Scott at the session of the Philadelphia Conference in 1867 having been considered, your committee find no cause of complaint against the administration.

[For Report, see Appendix D, II.]

CHURCH EXTENSION.

J. M. Reid, Chairman of the Committee on Church Extension, submitted Report No. II from that Committee, and it was laid on the table, and ordered to be printed.

The Special Committees were called.

J. P. Durbin, Chairman of the Committee on the American and Foreign Christian Union, presented a report, including the following resolution, which was adopted:

Resolved, That we look favorably upon the objects of the American and Foreign Christian Union, and we are gratified to have our people give it of their funds so far as, in their judgment, it shall be consistent with their local and other Church interests.

On motion, the order of the day, to wit, the reception of a Committee from the Laymen's Convention, was taken up, and the time of the session was extended.

D. P. Mitchell, as a matter of privilege, asked that H. D. Fisher, a reserve Delegate from the Kansas Conference, be admitted to a seat in this body, in the place of W. R. Davis, who is absent, and that he be assigned to the several Committees in his stead, and, on motion, it was so ordered.

The Committee on Laymen then came upon the platform, and were introduced to the Conference by the President. They presented an address, which was read and ordered to be printed. [For Address, see Appendix V, I.]