The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-13
CATHOLIC CONGRESS.
A Full and Complete Platform of
Principles Adopted.
A DENUNClA ZION OF MoRMoNIsM.
Committee of the Congress Waits on the
President-Public Schools = Independence
of the Holy See Demanded.

BALTIMORE, Nov. 12.-The concluding
sessions of the Congress of Catholic Lay
men were held to-day with all the enthusi
asm and crush of spectators that charac
terized the opening meetings. Hon.
Honore MERCER, prime minister of Quebec,
made an address. In man. respects it was
one of the most rousing heard this week.
His reference to the recently repaired des-
poilment of the Jesuits "by the same
George III. who despoiled the American
revolutionary fathers of their liberties and
rights was cheered again and again.
1.-The restitution act by tn CanaGian gov
ernment," he said, twill long stand as an
| honorable act before ndnkiud as To the
status of Catholics whether in Canada or
the United States. The wo.Id should know
that loyalty To God means loyalty TO the
state" Cheers
To the American poet, Longfellow, and
his pathetic lu ;ions to Catholics and Can
adams, Mercier paid tribute of noble
eloquence, conc uding with the quotation
from the pee IS Ship of State" which the
premier so used as to imply that it ex-
pressed the feelings of Quebec to the
American union. Wild applause
Delegate Fagan's, of New York, resolu-
ton was adopted with a rush, tending, ON
behalf of the congress, the most cordial
greeting to the people Of Canada and &C
knowledging their warm sentiments of re-
gard as expressed by Premier Mert Ter.
Monseigneur Gadd, Of England. special
representative of Cardinal Manning, briefly
congratulated the congress- on its success,
and following him came long paper on
philanthropy by Peter Foy, of ST. Louis.
Edmund Dunno, of Florida, treated ex-
ternporaneously the subject OF the right of
the state p6nr1tiOO The fOllOITinU
papers We're also read: Religion and Edu-
cation" by William Il. Kelly, of St. Paul;
Societies" H. j. SpunhorsU, of St. Louis;
'Cathoiic American Literature" c. B.
Palm, of St. Louis; Sunday Observance"
NJ. b. Tello, of Cleveland; Labor and
Capital" William Richards, of Washington.
The mayor of Baltimore with words of
welcome then rendered the delegates re-
ception Thursday at the city hall. The
tender was accepted. Prof Hemou Allen,
of Chicago, read a paper on Church
Music, advocating the Gregorian and the
exclusion of all figured music that did not
conform to plain chant prototype.
After recess the committee on future
congresses appointed a committee to wait
upon President Harrison at Washington
and invite him to be present. 1t is reported
they have been received cordially and
handsomely by the chief magistrate
Cheers. President Harrison had said if
IL were not that he was preparing his mes
sage he would accept the invitation gladly,
and III any event he would be with the
delegates in Washington to morrow at the
dedication of the new university. The re
port was enthusiastically received. The
obligations of the congress to the Presi-
dent and the committee We're expressed
by more cheering and & rising vote. The
reading of papers was then resumed.
Gpol,of n Wolff Of philadplnhia road a
paper on 1.-The Catholic Press" Judge
Frank McGloin, of Louisiana, and Milton
E. Smith, of Washington, discussed
Wolff s paper.