The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-25

beginning and was given an opportunity
! to see IL through TO the close. AS IL 20
make the action still more remsrkaole,bne
| outsider was an Irishman with the unmls-
taxable patronymic OF O'Byrne; seem
ingly the verein took this method with the
purpose of counteracting in way that
could not fail to attract notice the IN
! pleasant impression caused by their ex,
| clusion of Father ZurCker. the noted
/ Buffalo champion of antl-CahenslYlsm.
The gist of Father Zurcker's charges was
That the clerical union was an un-Amerl-
can organization. designed to Germanl1e
as far as possible the control OF the Catho-
lie church in the United States by secur-
ing the appointment of members OF the
union to higher ecclesiastical offices, DIS
placing particularly bishops OF irish
extraction who were not in favor OF the
German language in America. The tactlcs
of dispOsing of these accusations, 10 tne
satisfaction at least of the mem bers OF the
verein, began last night. Father OByrne
of St. Nicholas church of this city is a
graduate OF the celebrated University OF
Inuspruck. Austria Among The members
of the ''priester-verein" it appears that
there are over twenty who were also Inn
spruck students. Father O'Byrne was
invited to a little festive gathering last
night of the lnnspruckers, and during the
flow of good fellowship was pressed TO at
tend today 5 meeting. to which request OF
his old comrades he, with true Celtic
courtesy, Assented.
From all accounts nothing dangerous to
the public welfare took place AT the meet
ing. which was occupied nearly the entire
time in balloting for officers to serve dur
ing the ensuing year A number of can
didates received votes for every office on
the list, but the we'll known clericals who
have hitherto guided the projects of the
In AiufannaH oil nptifOrC
Vicar General Muehlsiepen OF ST. Louis
retains the presidency OF the organization.
A fine spread. at which Archbishop
Katzer, Bishop Zardetti, Bishop Wigger
and some two hundred German priests
participated closed the congress. Before
the members took trains homeward num-
Der of priests were questioned specifically
as TO whether any discussion any action
has taken place looking to the capture of
the vacant bishoprics of Cleveland and
Green Bay, Wis. for German-speaking &c,
clesiastics. All denied it emphatically and
secuted the idea of such procedure on
their part as absurd.
CAHENsLY REPRESENTED.
BUFFALO, Sept. 24.-The greatest sur
prise connected with the meeting of the
German-American Clerical union in this
city came tonight. A sensation was
caused by the leaking out of the fact that
Herr Cahensly's personal representative
had been present in the city throughout
the weeks deliberations, from start to
finish, and was only prevented at the
last moment from making an open address
to the congress. The full text of the
speech thus suppressed WAS tonight Sc
cured by the Associated Press.
Paul Marie Baumgarten is the full name
of the envoy, and the Cahensly plan, as
far as known publicly, has been to secure
4 a
can hierarchy in America, independent of
thepresenIC Catholic bishop, whoses authori-
ty would be thus relegateditO the affairs of
the non-German speaking Catholic popu-
lation. Failing in this, vacancies occur
ring in the hierarchy of the United States
were to be filed to the greatest extent pos
sible by German ecclesiastics.
Father BOerman of Reading, Pa, one of
the chief officials of the verein was disa-
greeably surprised tonight when he was
asked concerning the presence of Baum
garten in Buffalo and ofo the extent to
which he participated in the meeting of
the clerical union. Up to that moment no
priest had breathed in public the fact that
a visitor TO the congress was present from
across the water, though the clergy had
been besieged repeatedly for the name of
all important personages present. Father
Boerman said angrily: "He has not
mot even in the secret session of the
priester verein?"
HE is not a priest, CURLY answered
the reverend father
A representative of the Associated Press
succeeded later in finding DR.. Baumgarten
himself "A dispatch published in the
papers of this country accuses you of CO.
operating with Cahensly in his plans for
the United States. Is there any truth in
it?''
''Pshaw, no." said DR.. Baumgarten, sit
is the merest bosh."
Are you not in sympathy with him or
his ideas?"
Not in the least. Why it is nonsense
TO think OF such thing You may say
that | deny it absolutely"
Baumgarten's suppressed speech was
evidently written under the impression
that he was to address a lage number of
the higher clergy. His address is not par
ticularly significant.