People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1895 — Adopt Baltimore Amendment. [ARTICLE]

Adopt Baltimore Amendment.

Peoria, 111., Sept. 24.—The Central Illinois M. E. conference yesterday decided to meet next year in El Paso. The constitutional question came up, the matter of admitting women to the general conference being first. The Baltimore amendment was adopted on the recommendation of the committee by a vote of 141 to 7. The recommendation of the Wisconsin conference relative to the date of holding the general conference was adopted unanimously. The Colorado amendment was adopted unanimously. This is relative to the representation in the general conference, making the ratio one in every forty-five. At the evening session the business of the conference was closed and the appointments were announced.