TROY CONFERENCE.

R. H. Robinson offered the following resolution, and it was referred to the Committee on Revisals, to wit:

Resolved, That the Committee on Revisals be requested to inquire into the expediency of so altering our book of Discipline (if such alteration be necessary) as to render ministers eligible to Deacons' orders who may be appointed in charge of circuits or stations.

May 4. THIRD DAY. TROY.

UPPER IOWA CONFERENCE.

William Brush submitted the following preamble and resolution, and it was referred to the Committee on Revisals, namely:

Whereas, No reference is made in our Discipline to the subject of withdrawals: therefore,

Resolved, That the Committee on Revisals be requested to take into consideration the expediency of preparing a paragraph on the subject for insertion in the Discipline.

UPPER IOWA.

The further organization of standing committees Chairmen and was announced as follows, namely:

On Missions: W. H. Goode, Chairman; J. E.

King, Secretary.

On Education: John M'Clintock, Chairman; John W. Locke, Secretary.

On Revisals: B. F. Crary, Chairman; R. Nelson, Secretary.

On Sunday-Schools and Tracts: D. Wise, Chairman; B. St. James Fry, Secretary.

On Church Extension: J. M. Reid, Chairman; A. J. Kynett, Secretary; R. H. Pattison, Assistant Secretary.

On Lay Representation: E. O. Haven, Chairman; James Leaton, Secretary; B. I. Ives, Assistant Secretary.

On the State of the Church: L. D. Barrows, Chairman; W. D. Godman, Secretary.

On Freedmen: Thomas Bowman, Chairman; J. M. Walden, Secretary; D. P. Mitchell, Assistant Secretary.

John Lanahan presented the appeal of R. P. Bell from the action of the Washington Conference ex

Secretaries of standing committees.

pelling him from the Church, and it was referred to the Court of Appeals.

William Reddy offered the following resolution, which was adopted, namely:

Resolved, That resolutions offered to this Conference contemplating verbal alterations of the Discipline shall state the language of the paragraph or line proposed to be altered, and also the language to be substituted.

On motion, the Chairmen and Secretaries of the standing committees had leave to meet this afternoon at half past two o'clock, to complete arrangements as to times and places of meeting of the several committees, that the same may be published in the Daily Advocate of to-morrow morning.

On motion, Conference adjourned. The Doxology having been sung, the Benediction was pronounced by Henry W. Reed, of Upper Iowa Conference.

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TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 5.

Conference met this morning, Bishop Clark in the

chair.

The religious services were conducted by W. H. Ferris, of the New York Conference.

The Journal of yesterday was read, and approved. The President announced the following special committees:

On Rules of Order: A. M. Osbon, A. Brunson, J. Pike, F. A. Hester, A. Wheeler, T. C. Murphy, G. W. Maltby.

Pastoral Address: G. Peck, J. Castle, F. C. Holliday, W. Nast, J. Lanahan, A. Lowry, L. R. Thayer. State of the Country: F. G. Hibbard, Z. Paddock, H. W. Reed, J. C. Harrison, C. F. Allen, R. A. Caruthers, A. Bland, E. H. Stokes, W. G. Williams.

Expenses of Delegates: J. S. Porter, D. Sherman, W. Graham, W. H. Olin, P. T. Rhodes, E. Q. Fuller, J. Dillon.

Scandinavian Work: H. Slicer, W. H. Hunter, E. J. L. Baker, J. M. Arnold, A. H. Ferguson, L. P. French, J. F. Chaffee.

Temperance: G. Haven, R. Haney, W. B. Edwards, May 5. B. I. Ives, J. Kendall, J. C. Reed, B. Pilsbury.

FOURTH DAY. Temperance.

Society.

American Bible Society: D. Curry, J. T. Crane, G. American Bible D. Carrow, B. F. Cocker, R. H. Robinson, G. L. Mulfinger, W. Young.

American and Foreign Christian Union: J. P. Durbin, H. Bannister, C. S. Vancleve, A. J. Kynett, C. D. Pillsbury, J. Colby, M. A. Daugherty.

and

American tian Union.

Foreign Chris

On Seamen: G. W. Woodruff, D. L. Dempsey, I. S. On Seamen. Bingham, F. B. Bangs, J. B. Wentworth.

ers.

Better Organization of our Local Preachers: S. H. Local PreachNesbit, P. Akers, A. Wood, J. H. Power, J. B. Wakeley, P. P. Ray, J. H. C. Dosh.

port.

Centenary Report: W. H. Ferris, T. M. Eddy, J. Centenary ReErwin, H. P. Torsey, J. M. Walden.

M. E. Church.

Trusteeship of the Methodist Episcopal Church: D. Trusteeship of P. Kidder, W. L. Harris, C. Brooks, J. L. Smith, F. A. Blades, C. A. Holmes, J. W. Locke.

On the Use of Tobacco: J. Cunningham, B. Eaton, Use of Tobacco. J. F. Kennedy, D. P. Hulburt, I. Cogshall, W. Goss,

H. Fiegenbaum.

of Trade.

An invitation was received from the Chicago Board Visit to Board of Trade to visit the Board any day between the hours of eleven o'clock A. M. and one o'clock P. M. at the convenience of the Conference.

On motion of L. Hitchcock the invitation was accepted, and a committee of five was ordered to make

suitable arrangements for the visit.

called.

The President called the roll of Conferences for the Conferences presentation of petitions, memorials, and appeals, and

they were presented and referred as follows:

BALTIMORE CONFERENCE.

BALTIMORE.

E. H. Waring presented the appeal of Rev. J. N. Appeal of J. N. Davis from the decision of the Baltimore Conference,

and it was referred to the Committee on Appeals.

Davis.

BLACK RIVER CONFERENCE.

BLACK RIVER.

I. S. Bingham presented the action of the Black Book on EccleRiver Conference in relation to the publication of an

siastical Law.

May 5. FOURTH DAY.

Episcopal Districts.

authoritative standard book of ecclesiastical law, and it was referred to the Committee on the Book Concern.

I. S. Bingham also presented so much of the Journal as relates to the Districting the Episcopal Work, and proposed its reference to the Committee on Itinerancy.

B. N. Spahr moved its reference to the Committee on Episcopacy. D. P. Mitchell moved to lay this latter motion on the table, but the motion did not prevail. The motion to refer the matter to the Committee on Episcopacy was lost by a vote of eighty-one to one hundred and four, and the paper was referred to the Committee on Itinerancy.

CALIFORNIA,

Chinese.

CALIFORNIA CONFERENCE.

J. W. Ross presented the appeal of S. D. Simonds, and it was referred to the Committee on Appeals.

J. B. Hill presented so much of the Journal as ralates to the Evangelization of the Chinese and the Missionary Sec- appointment of a Missionary Secretary for the Pacific Coast, and it was referred to the Committee on Missions.

retary for Pacific Coast.

Bishops' dress.

On motion of J. S. Porter, the Rules were susAd- pended to take up the Order of the Day; when Bishop Simpson read the Episcopal Address to the General Conference.

Bishops' Ad

dress to be printed.

Bishops'

Address referred.

Bishop Janes to

report his Visit

as a delegate

At the conclusion of the Address R. Nelson offered the following resolution, which was adopted, namely:

Resolved, 1. That the Book Agents be instructed to print the Quadrennial Episcopal Address in pamphlet form, and that the same be distributed pro rata among the delegations according to the number of delegates from each Conference.

Resolved, 2. That the Quadrennial Address of the Bishops be published also in the Christian Advocate, and in all our other Church papers.

On motion of G. W. Woodruff, the several parts of the Bishops' Address were appropriately referred to the various committees having the different subjects respectively in charge. [For Address, see Appendix A, I.]

On motion of the Secretary, the Report of Bishop to English and Janes as a delegate from the General Conference of 1864 to the Wesleyan Conferences of England and of

Irish Wesleyan
Conferences.

Ireland, together with the presentation of the Address

of those bodies respectively to this General Conference, was made the Order of the Day for ten o'clock in the forenoon of Thursday next.

At the request of E. J. L. Baker, he was excused from the Special Committee on the Scandinavian Work, and R. H. Hurlburt was appointed in his stead.

The call of Conferences for the presentation of petitions, memorials, and appeals was resumed, and they were presented and referred as follows:

May 5.

FOURTH DAY.

CENTRAL GERMAN CONFERENCE.

W. Nast presented a memorial from the Southern District of the Mission Conference of Germany and Switzerland, and it was referred to the Committee on Revisals. He also presented a memorial from the same district, which was referred to the Committee on Itinerancy.

CENTRAL GER-
MAN.

tation.

J. Rothweiler presented so much of the Journal as Lay Represenrelates to Lay Representation, and it was referred to the Committee on that subject. He also presented the action of the Conference on the appointment of Presiding Elders, and it was referred to the Committee on Itinerancy.

CENTRAL ILLINOIS CONFERENCE.

P. T. Rhodes presented the action of the Conference on Lay Delegation, and it was referred to the Committee on that subject.

CENTRAL ILLI-
NOIS.

CENTRAL OHIO CONFERENCE.

P. S. Donelson presented the action of the Conference on Boundaries, and it was referred to the Committee on Boundaries.

CENTRAL OHIO.

ferences.

W. J. Wells presented a memorial from D. Cable, Quarterly Conof Kenton, Ohio, in relation to empowering Quarterly Conferences to determine the location of houses of worship, and it was referred to the Committee on Re

visals. He also presented a petition from Upper San- Lay Delegation. dusky in favor of Lay Delegation, signed by William