The establishment of the Little Rock University—overshadowing that section of the country, as well as Philander Smith College, where colored youth were being educated—with that of the Chattanooga University, at Chattanooga, Tennessee, helped to agitate the question. It is said that the items touching this subject were presented in the General Conference by a resolution adopted without reference to a committee, through reports from the Committee on Freedmen’s Aid and Work in the South, and through a resolution from the Committee on the State of the Church. Any criticism in opposition to work done for the whites by the Freedmen’s Aid Society was broken by the General Conference adopting the following: “_Resolved_, That we fully indorse the administration of the Freedmen’s Aid Society during the past quadrennium.” This is the resolution above referred to. The following was part of the work done and reported to that General Conference as its administration during the quadrennium: “The following sums were appropriated to schools among whites: In 1879 and 1880, 0 00 In 1880 and 1881, $2,600 00 In 1881 and 1882, 19,453 75 In 1882 and 1883, 26,847 25 ─────────────────────────────────────────── Total receipts during $437,986 89 quadrennium, Appropriations for schools 48,901 00 among whites, ─────────────────────────────────────────── Appropriations for schools $389,085 89 among colored, “The whites received a little less than one-ninth of the receipts, and a little less than one-eighth as much as the colored people.” It is to be remembered that “the schools among the whites” were not constitutionally eligible to aid from the Freedmen’s Aid Society until after the General Conference of 1880; that the work had been chiefly confined to its then legitimate channel, the colored work, and, of course, appropriations to the work among the colored people began with the work of the society. Viewed from that point, another phase of appropriations appears. Resolutions came rather briskly and presenting many different phases of the question. On May 12th, Rev. C. O. Fisher, of the Savannah Conference, presented the following resolution, signed by himself and twenty-two others, which, on motion, was adopted: “_Resolved_, That the General Conference hereby confirms and reaffirms the opinion previously expressed that ‘color is no bar to any right or privilege of office or membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church,’ but we recognize the propriety of such administration as will hereafter, as heretofore, secure the largest concession to individual preferences on all questions involving merely the social relations of its members.”