Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-08-17
CAHENSLY' PLAN
To NatiOnalize the Priesthood
of the United States
Alleged to Have Found Advo-
Gates in Germany.


United States Presumably to Consult
and Prepare for the New Movement.
Cahen,ly and His Party Determined to
Accomplish Something.
BERLIN, Aug. 17.-It seems that not
withstanding the outburst of feeling on
all sides in the United States against the
intermeddling of foreigners, either by
residence or sympathy, in American af-
fairs, Cahensly and his party are still at
work and determined to accomplish
something On the Sth of August there
sailed from Hamburg, for the United
States, person who goes in the interest
of the Germanizing party, presumably
to consult and prepare for some new
movement in the same direction as that
in which other steps have already been
taken. He is n certain Paul Baum
garten, Prussian, about thirty years Of
age. This young man has been in
Rome about five years.
He speaks English fiuently, but with
o very pronounced German accent. Ee
Is the son of respectable widow, wao
keeps boarding house in Alsace. For
two 0T three years ne moved about in
Roman society as iayman. He pushed
himself successfully into some notice,
Snd was made lay chamberlain at the
Vatican, with the privilege of appearing
In certain functions, in sixteenth Con-
tury Spanish costume, including Cane
and sword. He also found favor with a
certain ecclesiastic of prominence, who
NJ thur ftpt1n 1yr rxurn
ago, after learning from the outside
he might be able to maintain distinction
in an ecclesiastical career, he put on
cassock, and through the influence of his
ecclesiastical friend, was admitted into
the academy of noble ecclesiastics-the
diplomatic training school in Rome.
When Cahensly was in Rome, last
spring, to urge his plan of colonizing for
eign priests in the United States, Baum
garten acted as his pilot, and gave him
all the assistance he could, Some time
after Cahensly's departure from Rome
Baumgarten announced his intention of
going to America in connection with Ca
hensly's movement. He had been in
vited, he said, to do so, by some German
priests of st. Louis, who guaranteed to
pay all his expenses. They even told
him how they would be able to do this
without burdening themselves, saying
that by delivering a few lectures on
Rome 1t would more than make the cost
of his trip. They were very anxious to
have him present at the meeting of the
German Priester Verein, 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 possible, he endeavored to
have himself made 'monsignorino,
or little monsignore, which would give
him the privilege of wearing q purple
cravat, trimming his cassock with dark
shade of purple, and wearing dark
purple sash. He was not priest, nor,
in fact, had he any orders, but he pre-
pared himself and received minor orders
which put him in the ecclesiastical
ranks, and are sufficient foundation for
the reception of the dignity to which he
aspired. Somehow this plan did not ma
and he did not get his purple.
His friends in St. Louis, however, gave
him another idea, by the accomplishing
Of which he might give his coming to
America that Importance which they and
he desired it should have.
The archbishop OF 81. Louis celebrates
In the fall the episcopal jubilee. The
event is rare one, very few bishops |
over serving 80 long term as fifty years
in episcopal labors. Knowing well the
pope would recognize the receptional |
by congratulatory letters |
and probably some present, they sug-
yested to Baumgarten that he have him |
'elf selected as bearer of these papal |
,ourtesies to the venerable archbishop |
If st. Louis. He made strenuous efforts |
70 carry this point, but when the pope |
heard of 1t lie intimated that he had his |
proper representative in the United |
States in the person Of cardinal Gibbons |
md whatever he might see fit to do in |
he matter would be done through the |
cardinal.
He moreover limited that the cardi- |
laPs dignity required that communica- |
ion with him from himself should be |
,arried on by some one rather further
advanced in ecclesiastical life and |
lonors than this young man. So Baum
yarten goes, but not as the bearer of a
from the pope. 1t is be.
ieved that having failed in their plan
)y the exposure of their scheme, the
Germans intend to arrange with Baum
,arten for the introduction Of thin
,dge of wedge, beginning with some
more modest demands than those con-
aimed in the Cahenslv memorial