The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-01-05
Foxy Claim Agents Working q Swindling
Game on Gullible Englishmsn with the Al
legged Big Edwards Estate of New York.
Salvation Army Attacked by a Mob
While Praying on EastbOurne Sands.
Lively Fight for Possession of the Standard
Many Trampled by the Mounted Police, Who
Dispersed the RiOters-Buried Alive.
ROME LOSING BRAZIL.

The Pope Threatens Recommendation Un-
less Ecclesiastics Be Paid.
Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
ROME, Jan. At is rumored that the re-
lations between the Vatican and Brazilian
government are SO strained that q rupture
is imminent. The Pope, it Is said, has in.
timated that he will excommunicate Presi-
dent Peixotto. his Cabinet and the mem.
bers of the Brazilian Congress unless
measures are taken to renew the former
relations between church and state in
Brazil. The Vatican has received numer-
GUS complaints from the Brazilian
clergy of the disastrous effect upon
church interests of the policy of
separation adopted by the republic.
1t is said that many churches are
without pastors and the seminaries are be-
ing deserted. because the government re-
fuses to continue contributions for the
maintenance of the clergy and the chairs
in the seminaries. The prelates and priests
who were in ecclesiastical service at the
time that connection between church and
state was abolished are still nominally in
receipt of salaries from the federal treas
ury, but when q bishop or priest retires OF
dies the salary is not continued to his sue
cessor, so that the death of q priest means
the cessation of salary to his charge. and
perhaps the closing of church. The Bra
lillian hierarchy did not at first feel tho eff
feet of the change. but as time progressed
and salaries ceased the bishops have be-
come alarmed.
Archbishop De Macedo Costa, Primate of
Brazil, has sent q statement Of the facts
and an earnest appeal for the assistance of
the Pope in restoring the church to its
former place. In this the Primate is sus-
tanned by the whole hierarchy. 1t is on
account of the ecclesiastics that there Is
no apparent prospect OF voluntary support
for the church. The people have been SO
long accustomed to the state church that
they will not contribute to the mainte-
nance of the new priests appointed with
out q state salary and thrown upon
the people for support. Attempts to take
generally failed. Although the provincial
governments are permitted by federal law
to provide for the support of religion, they
have omitted to make any such provision
public support the old system should con-
tinue. Bishop Count De Saint A2ostinho.
of Pernam bucO, IS among tho most earnest
of the prelates struggling for re-
stored establishment, and it is said
that the determined attitude of
the Vatican is largely due to his
inf uence. 1t is reported that Papal ulti-
matum will be presented to the brazilian
government, and, If 1T be unfavorably re-
ceived, it will be followed by excommuni-
cation. Among South Americans in Rome
the opinion prevails that Brazil will not
yield, and that hostile action by the Vat
lean will provoke retaliation and bring
about a complete withdrawal of state sup
port. This opinion Is founded on the fact
that the Brazilisn clergy have generally
sympathiZed with the deposed imperial
family, and that some of them are charged
with aiding to keep alive the sentiment in
favor of restoring the empire.