St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-15
UNHONORED EN- VOY.
CahenSlY and His Friends Al
legged to Be on a New
Tack.
A Menial of a Vatican Ante.
Chamber on an Unde-
fined Mission.
Balfoup's Home Rule Bill Is
Harshly Criticised and
Denounced.
Conservatives Look Upon It
as a Deplorable Act Of
Destruction.

BERLIN, Aug. 14.-It seems that,
knowing the Outbu rst of feeling on all
sides in the United States against the
intermeddling of foreigners, either by
residence or sympathy, in American af-
fairs. Cahensley and his party are still
at work and determined to accomplish
something. On the Sth of August there
sailed from Hamburg to the United
States a person who goes in the interest
of the German party, presumably TO
consult and prepare for some new move
ment in the same direction as that in
which other steps have already been
taken. He is a certain Paul Baumgar-
ten, a Prussian, about thirty years of
age. He speaks English fluently, but
with a very pronounced German accent.
He is the son of a respectable widow,
who keeps boarding house at Alsace.
For two or three years he moved about
in Roman society as a layman. lie
pushed himself successfully into
some notice and was made a lay cham
berlain at the Vatican, with the prlvl-
lege of appearing in certain functions
in a sixteenth century Spanish costume,
including the cape and sword. de also
found favor with a certain ecclesiaStlc
| of prominence who was at that time III
Rome. Two years ago, after learning
from the outside some of the ways by
which he thought he might be able
TO Maintain Distinction
in an ecclesiastical choir, he put on
cassock and, through the influence of
his ecclesiastical friend, was admitted
into the academy of noble eccleSlaSticS
the diplomatic training school Ill
Rome. When Cahensly was in Rome
last spring to urge his plan of cOloniZing
foreign priests in the United States,
Baumgarten acted as his pilot and gave
him all the assistance he could. Some
time after Cahensly's departure from
Rome, Baumgarten announced his lnten-
ton to go to America in connection with
Cahensly's movement. He had been
invited. he said, to do so by some Ger
man priests of st. Louis, who guaran-
teed to pay all hiSexpenses. They even
told him how they would be able to do
this without burdening themselves,
saying that by delivering few lectures
| on Rome he would more than make the
cost of his trip. They were very anX-
iOuS to have him present at the German
| prieSterverein, which is TO be held this
! fall, and he has arranged to content
| them in this wish. Desiring to appear
| in America with as much eclat as posi-
! BILE, he endeavored to have himself
| made ''mOnsignOrin," or little mon
signor, which would give him the priv
ilege of wearing a purple cravat, trim
ming his caSSOck with dark shade OF
purple, and wearing dark purple sash.
| He was not priest, nor, III fact, had he
any orders, but he prepared himself and
| raaoix,a1 fninnr nrnaTC which nfIt him
| in the ecclesiastical ranks and are suffi-
cient foundation for the reception of the
dignity to which he aspired. Somehow
this plan did not materialze and he
Did Not Get His Purple.
His friends in st. Louis. however,
gave him another idea, by the accom-
plisbing OF which he might give his
coming to America that Importance
which they and he desired it should
have. The archbishop of st. Louis
celebrates in the fall his episcopal jubi
lee. The event is rare one. very few
bishops ever serving so long time as
fifty years in episcopal labOrs. Know
| ing we'll the pope would recognize this
exceptional occurrence by congratulate
ory letters. and probably some present,
they suggested to Baumgarten that he
have himself selected as the bearer of
these papal cOurteSieS to the venerable
archbishop of St. Louis. He made
strenuous efforts to carry this point,
but when the pope heard of it he init
mated that he had his proper repre-
sentative in the United States in the per-
son of Cardinal Gibbons, and what
ever he might see fit to do i'll
the matter would be done through the
cardinal. He moreover hinted that the
cardinals dignity required that com
munication with him from himself
| should be carried on by some one rather
| further advanced in ecclesiastical life
and honors than this young man. So
| Baumgarten goes, but not as the bearer
| of commission from the pope. 1t is
believed that, having failed in their
| plan by the exposure of their scheme,
| the Germans intend to arrange with
Baumgarten for the Introduction of the
| thin edge of the wedge, beginning with
some more modest demands than those
| contained in the CahenSlV memorial.