The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-06-21

SUNDAY, JUNE 81, 1868.
the question Of Immigration is not to be
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the Catho1icn e L. st large, and neither
sOcieties aret hNcwed to use their cor
Porate fundas 14e purpose. But the
ing to secure protection and aid to newly ar
rived immigrants, and to this end the Union
will appoint central committee of Eve
good Catholics, residents of the city of New,
York, with a priest for chairman, as the
experimenting board concerning all mat
tiers of immigration. This committee shall
appoint two agents for New, York and two
for Baltimore, who shall serve gratuitously,
and whose duty shall be Is procure railroad
tickets for the immigrants, 70 advise in the
exchange of foreign coins or other money
or valuables, to obtain suitable boarding
places, and to look after the safety of the
baggage. That these agents may act by
authority, they win be accredited by the
grafton, and each agent will also receive a
certificate of his appointment. The local
societies in all other cities shall appoint an
agent in their places to perform the same
service.
Some very interesting facts were also
made Known. One was that the seventeenth
annual convention of the United Catholic
this, held at Prizes, in Prussia, had taken
the initiative in this matter, and has ap-
pealed to this German-American Central
Union for some cooperative effort to pro-
tect and aid Catholic immigrants on their
arrival at our shores. 1t was announced
and received with applause that to the eff
forts OF this organization in Germany it was
due that the Bremen and Hamburg Catholic
mission chapels were instituted for the re-
igious benefit of emigrants, and that with
the aid of French Catholics a splendid
church edifice was erected at Havre, in
France, for a like purpose. The report of
the committee .%nn substantially as given above,
gruber, rector of the Redemptionist Convent
in Third street, was then made chairman
OF this central committee, the Rev.Mr.
Schweringer chairman pro ten,., and Messrs.
koelble, Frech, and three others selected as
the lay members of the committee.
The Rev. Professor Gartner, of Milwau-
kee, then made his report on what was
called the school question. The report
consisted of three resolutions, the second
and third of which elected very warm de-
bate. They were voted upon seriatin, and
the second was rejected by large majority;
tions followed, and it was finally adopted,
as were the other two. They are in sub
stance as follows:
l. The Union reminds its members of the
obligation entered into mt the last yearly
meeting, to send their children to only
Catholic schools, where there are such.
9. Every member is requested individually,
and through his local society, to exert his
personal influence, as circumstances may
allow, that better Catholics may he APP
pointed as teachers in public schools than
now are, that the prevailing prejudice
against Catholics may cease, and the scott
ing at Catholicism be stopped. 3. That the
Union most respectfully, and with entire
confidence, submit to the American Catholic
episcOpacy the pfopriety to consider the
time and manner of petitioning the several
State governments to obtain a proportionate
share OF the school fund for the schools of
their own faith.
1t was. then moved and carried that a
committee of five be appointed to draft an
address to the Pope, expressing the sympa-
thy of the German Catholics of the United
States with the troublous situation of the
Holy See, and that it is their conviction
that the maintenance of the temporal power
OF the Pope at Rome was necessary to his
independence, as the spiritual head of the
Church and the vicegerent of Christ on earth
This was adopted amid enthusiastic APP
plause, and the Revs. Gartner, Stoller
Schweringer, and Miller, and Mr.. G.. Haus-
chel, the mover, were appointed on that
committee. The constitution was then
amended that all juvenile societies shall
hereafter be admitted, but that no delegate
to the Union shall be below twenty-one
years of age. A motion which many looked
upon as a vote of censure upon the clergy
of the city was tabled. 1t was to the effect
that hereafter the delegates to the Union
shall, in a body, attend divine service only
at the opening and close of the session, the
mover and seconder evidently thinking that
even Piety might be overdone. But they
partially carried their point upon the mo-
ton to print the proceedings in pamphlet
form for the use of the members, by passing
a proviso that of all the sermons and cere-
monies but very short extracts should be
inserted. Chicago was then fixed for the
place of next years convention, and after