The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1869-10-29

The EcoeN0eeotc0x C0oe1oCxs
The structures now erecting in st. Peters
for the approaching religious council and
exhibition wnisersale, aro beginning 10 pre-.
Dent On intelligent shape. The stalls for the
bishops are finished, and rapid progress 10
being made with the tribunes, which some
sutl,oriues declare to bc intended for short
hand writers, and some assign to diplomat
ists. The vestibule 10 cut of from the ca
,hed.l by high partition, now being fitted
with great door, which will remain open.
when the council 10 in public session. but
ordinarily will be closed. Even when the
door 10 open the public vill not BE- allowed
to advance farther than the threshold. The
fathers of the council will enter by another
door removed from observation. As . pre-
caution against Mazzi.,isn ineendiaries, the
works ars watched by Arsnaen. and, during
the sitting of tho council, engines will bs
placed In different paris Ut the cathedral,
and the number of hrcmcn doubled. The
council Is not only distastcful to tho Mag
.zinians, but 1t Is warmly opposed by many
Of the italian episcopscy. Monsignor Char
vas las resigned the archbishopric Of Genoa
rather than consent to attend. The resigna.
ton has been accepted by the Pope. and the
ex.prelatc has retired to Savoy, TO reside
with his family. The preparatory congrc-
CATION of the council have elaborated two
propositions, which the fathers of the coun'
Gil will bc required to approve and to pro-
mise all their efforts to carry them to sue
ccs,ful issue. The first proposition relates
to the Pstcr.penny, the Election Of which h
to be 40 organized as to proluce annually q
sum sufficient to l,sy the interest of three
quarters of the pontiiici.l debt, the fourth
quarter being undertaken by the Italian gov.
crnment. The second proposition demands
the maintenance by the Catholic world Of g
pontificial army of 1000 men SO long Us the
Holy Sec shall remain in its present exccp'
tional state-that is severed from the Ro
magnas, the U,nbria, and the Marches. The
proposition declares that this force 10 neces
ssry for the maintenance Of order in Rome
and the patrimony If st. Peter, and tha
the Holy Sec is without the means of sup
porting it until the lost provinces are rcstor
ed. The congregation of cardinals ha'
again debated the question of the admissio,
Of representatives Of the Catholic powers
and now recommends that they shall be al
lowed to attend a. ''spcctators." The Pop
expresses his conviction that he has mis-
sion to replace the principles Of tho revolu
ton of 1903 by those Of the Syllabus, whicl
the council is to pronounce canonial law. IL
will resist any opposition to the design, o
| to the adoption Of the dogmaOf infallibility
and lately Roman bishop was told by ON
| ot hss physicis - that the rejection of thes
propositions might have the most scriou'
even fatal, consequences to his holiness
The holy father believes himself that he vii
live ten years longer, and the other day h
remarked to some member Of the household
that, if the Catholic exhibition of next yea
proved u success, he would have ore on
grander scale in 1871. One Of the object
Of the exhibition is to promote the intrOduc
ton of uniformity in sacredotal vestn,cnta
ihosc now used in Germany and Englan
b ing quite different frOm the vcstmenIs ~
tllorizd at Rome. Pal xMu Gacelll