People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1896 — SCORES THE TURKS. [ARTICLE]

SCORES THE TURKS.

RESOLUTION PRESENTED TO METHODIST CONFERENCE. Sympathy for the Armenian* Call* on Confren to Empower the President to Asslat In Preventing Massacres. Cleveland, May 13—The Methodist conference was ppened Tuesday with Bishop Vincent 1n the chair. The devotional services were conducted by Rev. R. E. Gillum, a colored minister from central Missouri. The first resolution offered denounced in the strongest terms the Armenian outrages and massacres, and referred to the apathy of the Christian governments of Europe and America. It closed by calling on congress to pass a joint resolution authorizing the president to enter into negotiations wiyi the European powers most directly interested with the view of interfering and preventing further massacres. The resolution also provided that a cony of the resolution should be sent to both houses of congress. It was referred to the committee on state of the church without discussion. The proposition to change the time of holding the general conference from fttay 1 to the first Wednesday in Mayaroused a discussion on the point of the constitutionality of the action. Threefourths of the annual conferences have approved it. Dr. Leonard led the opposition, but he was literally buried, as the vote resulted: 397 yeas to 19 nays. The next general conference will therefore meet on the firgt Wednesday in May, 1900.