# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1914_S117
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14th Delegate Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States, 1914. 117

2. to appoint a committee that, for the next General Synod convention, shall draw up rules modeled on the rules of the Wisconsin District;

3. to have this committee appointed by the General Presidium.

Publication of Protests.

A motion from a conference was before the Synod, that any protest of a district conference, pastoral conference, or district synod must, after two months of negotiation without reaching a satisfactory resolution of the controversy, be published in the paper in which the district conference, pastoral conference, or district synod demands it.

Resolved, that the answer given by the General Synod in the year 1890 (see the Synodical Handbook, p. 45) is, in its sense, also to be applied to this motion:

"To the question whether the General President or the editorial staff of the 'Lutheraner' have the right to prevent the publication of a submission which, by the unanimous resolution of a district synod, was to be published in the 'Lutheraner,' the answer reads: Since the editorial staff of the 'Lutheraner' is responsible not to each individual district as such, but to the General Synod, the right in question must indeed be granted to it, the editorial staff, insofar as it is not restricted by other resolutions of the Synod."

A Protest.

Mr. G. Küchle of Milwaukee entered a protest into the record on Friday, April 8, first, against the election of four vice-presidents, since the constitution allows the election of only two vice-presidents; second, against the election being held on that very day, since under the constitution the election must take place toward the end of the sessions.


Possible Division of the Wisconsin District.

Committee Report.

Your committee had before it a petition of the Northeastern Conference of the Wisconsin District, reading:

"The Northeastern Pastoral Conference of Wisconsin asks the Reverend General Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States for its permission that the Wisconsin District of the Synod be divided into two districts, should the district consider it advisable.

"The matter of dividing the district was already before the district in the year 1913, but was tabled because of the pending negotiations concerning the synodical union (Missouri-Wisconsin)."