The Lancaster News

METHODISTS MEETING MUST KEEP NEGRO IN OKLAHOMA CITY OUT OF PRIMARY

Vanderbilt Question Goes Back to Original Status.

CLAIM SUBSTANTIAL RIGHT

The Conference Votes to Reconsider the Entire University Matter.

Oklahoma City, May 18.—Just before adjournment for the day the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in session here, voted to reconsider the entire Vanderbilt University question.

The vote upon the question to recommit the report to the committee of fifteen was reached shortly before noon and was almost unanimous.

It instructs the committee of fifteen to follow the spirit of the majority report and the supplementary legislation submitted at today's session by Judge N. E. Harris, of the Georgia conference.

After a service of prayer for the success of the mediators in their work of pacification of Mexico the conference adjourned until 9 o'clock tomorrow.

CLAIM SUBSTANTIAL RIGHTS.

It developed in the arguments that the signers of the majority report, which was adopted by the conference late Saturday night, had discovered that the church held substantial instead of "negligible" rights in Vanderbilt despite the rulings of the Tennessee supreme court.

This was brought out in a proposed amendment to the report, providing for continuance of relations for the interim between the adjournment of the general conference and the completion of the reconveying of Vanderbilt to the patronizing conferences; giving the board of education authority to confirm or reject trustees and calling on the commission provided for in the majority report to safeguard the interests of the church.