The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-01-03
Won sCmL0zER's RECALL
TO be tho Mediator between Prussia
and the Vatican.

10 be tho Mediator Between Prussia
and the Vatican.
WASHINGTON, January Baron Won
schlozer, who has been for nearly dozen
years Minister OF Germany here. has bid.
den farewell to his friends, and sails next
Wednesday for home. lie has been up.
pointed Minister Of Germany to the Vati.
can, his translation being at the special
command Of Prince Bismarck. yonSchlo.
ger was formerly Secretary of Legation at
Rome, under the celebrated Harry Won
Arnim, and he has now returned there be.
cause the Chancellor finds it once more
possible to establish, not merely diplomatic,
but friendly relations with the Pope. Won
SchlOzer, who is favorite in Rome, and
especially at the Vatican, has been selected
as the most capable person to advance this
friendly understanding between the Vati-
can and the German Chancellor. His up.
pOintment is therefore evidence that the
inconyGnient and troublesome deadlock,
80 long subsisting between Prussia and the
Holy See, is broken. Indeed, preliminary
steps TO d good understanding have already
been taken
During his last summers vacation Won
Schlozer was sent to Rome by Prince Bis
marck, not as minister, but unotIicially,
to arrange preliminaries for q renewed
friendly understanding. He made two
journeys to Rome during the summer, and
the result OF this private and Mt that time
secret mission was the appointment by
Pope Leo of two Prussinn Bishops for the
dioceses OF Trier aud Fulda. The ecclesi-
astics thus dignifed by the Pope were
agreeable 10 the German Chancellor, and
their elevation by concert between the
Pope and Prince Bismarck may be rightly
regarded us evidence that the ecclesias.
teal deadlock, which has SO long wor-
ried 100000 Of German Catholics
and troubled the politics OF the empire
has been effectively broken. With the last
Pope, Pho Mono, the Prussian government
was unable TO come to any understanding
whatever, but the present Pope Leo, Il
broader statesman than his predecessor,
has taken different and more liberal views
Of German policy, and has shown ability
10 see that u state of things which deprived
100000 OF German Catholics OF the most
important offices of their religion, and dis
abled their clergy, WIS only hurtful to
Catholic interests, and that to prOlong this
situation could produce no good results
and only inflicted needless suffering on
faithful Catholics, and tended to weaken
their numbers; hence his willingness to
come to an understanding with the Ger
man Chancellor, readiness which wiis
made eHectual by the skill and tact of Won
SchloZer in his private communications
with the Papal authorities last SUMNER
The event thus brought about is, oI
course, OF the greatest importance. It de.
notes change in the policy Of the Vati'
can, which will be welcomed by all Ger.
man Catholics, and by their co-religionistS
elsewhere. 1t relieves the Catholics O
Prussia from weary and protitless strug
Igle, and puts them again in harmony with
their Government, at the same time that il
assures the equal protection and favor oil
the Government for all their churches and
Clergy without compromising any article
OF their faith. A fair trial OF the May Laws
so-called, against the Catholics ha!
evidently convinced both the Prussian au
thorities and the authorities OF the Vatican
that these regulations arc not practical, ant
Prince Bismarck is understood to be ready
to modify them. 1t is the mission Of Vol
Schlozer to the Vatican to arrange tn
terms Of such changes as shall be mutual,
agreeable to Prussia and the Holy See
And us the first steps toward friendl,
agreement were already secured by secre
negotiations conducted by Won Schloze
last summer, there is little doubt that thi
I reconciliation, mutually desirable and I'D
!. vantageous, will be completed in time t
| receive the ratification Of the Prussian Pa,
[ lament.