Closing Scenes Of The Day

The scènes in the assembly as consideration of the case carne to a close were very exciting. After the adoption of the resolution in favor of taking a vote on the matter at 5 o'clock, both sides began getting in their best licks. Briggs' friends were persistent in their attempt to postpone consideration. During the last few minutes the contention for the . floor was terriflic. Civil Service Commissioner Lyman; Rev. Dr. Baker, of Philadelphia, and Kev. Dr. Bartlett, of Washington City, were among those who were fortúnate in securing the moderator' eye, and, though Judge Shipman of Xew Jersey, had been waiting an hour under Moderator Green's nose for a chance to say a last good wórd for Briggs, the moderator did not notice him. Five o'clock eame with Dr. Bartlett urging the veto of Dr. Briggs' appointment, when a Briggs man jumped up with a motion to adjourn. The assembly howled him down. Dr. Worcester's substitute for the report of President Patton's eommittee was flrst presented. There was not one hundred in favor of it. Next carne Dr. Logan's amendment that disapproval be extended only for the present, which was voted down with as big an adverse majority as Dr. vrorcester's substitute. Then carne the report of Patton's committee. Amid wild excitement, mingled with hilarity, the vote was ordered, but from disorder the whole scène changed to most solemn stillness when the name of the first presbytery on the list was called by the stated clerk. The ayes had it from the start. Only a solitary "no" lent aid and comfort to the Briggsites for half an hour. The southwestern reserve and the far west were solidly Princetonian, The mederator voted for the report, as did the stated clerk. Dr. Patton was not present. The foreign delegates voted"aye"as strongly as they knew how. When the vote was counted it stood 440 to 50. Briggs' appointment had been vetoed, and Princeton had won the greatest theological battle since the trial of Professor Swing. Adjourned.