The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-16
LEO AND HUBERT
Overtufes for a Settlement of the
Roman Question.
THEY COME FROM THE VATICAN
Rome to be Restored to the Papacy-The Court
TO 60 to Fi0renee-Dlffieulties
in the Way.

NEW YORK, Feb. ia Herald Paris
special says: Incredible though it may
seem, negotiations with view TO the ad-
justment of the Roman question have been
opened by the Pope and King Humbert.
The person who is acting as intermediary
is Roman prince whose father once occu-
pied high position at the Vatican, and
whose wife is very close to Queen
Margherita. He has been charged by the
King to
DISCUSS MATTERS WITH HIS HOLINESS.
According to trustworthy information, he
has already had a short interview with the
Pope, who has assured him that he is
ready to enter into pourparlers with view
TO making peace with Italy if Rome is
restored to him. He is said to have ex-
pressly remarked: ''The real solution of
the Roman question is the restoration of
home. This question once resolved, Italy
could devote herself to the Improvement OF
ner finances and might even disarm. No
one would think of attacking her. Far
from weakening Italy, the restoration of
home would strengthen her. You see. we
are quite
READY TO BE REcoNCMED."
The royal delegate was SO astounded by
this answer that he could make no com
ment, and left the papal chamber. The
POPE smiled when he told the cardinals of
Wnat mad occurred. But the negotiations
Will not end there. The Pope, according to
the diplomatic custom at the Vatican, will
demand great deal to obtain something
less. Nobody at the Vatican believes that
the talked-of restoration of temporal power
as 1t was before 1870 is possible. The idea
OF the Pope is that reconciliation is posi-
Bile upon another basis. However, it is
certain that the court and the Vatican
ARE MUTUALLY PRFJUDIcED;
that they have feelings CT points Of SUI
EremacJ and precedence. The Pope can
not leave his palace prison without running
the risk of meeting the King in the streets
The latter might feel himself obliged to
uncover his head and to bend the knee to
receive the papal benediction. On the
other hand, the soiourn of the Pope in
Rome is dlsagreeable 10 the court because
OF the irnDossibility of avoiding conflict.
Dlmlnutlon in the number of pilgrims to
the city following the late disorder has
made tradesmen grumble. Then working
men are organizing and working to bring
about revolution which
SWEEP AWAY BOTH ROYALTY AND THE PAPACY.
these proportions That Rome continue to
De the capital of a shadowy Italian king
dom; that the King shall keep the quorinal
ana come there occasionally; that part CT
the administration should remain there
that parliament should remain there; that
parliament should be opened in Rome in the
presence of the King, so that the nation
should not heve pretext to protest; that
the Pope should maintain his sovereign pre-
negatives at the Vatican and be entitled to
the existing benefit of extra territorialism
and keep up his household. The papaI
court would regain its former splendor
once 1t had ceased to be embarrassed by the
presence of rival court
ALL POINTS OF PRECEDENCE
would be settled by a diplomatic confer
ence. The police, the army, and the NUM-
cipal government would remain under con-
troll of Italy, but the Pope would leave his
palace when the Italian court was not in
kome; hes would regard himself
as being in his own city. The
King would make Florence his head
quarters and the heir apparent would
inhabit Naples. The other mem bers of the
royal family would make Turin their place
of residence. Rome, it is thus supposed
would get back its magnifcience and once
more become excellence
THE ECCLESIASTICAL CITY OF ITALY.
much as certain quarters in most cities are
chiefly colonized by priests and pious
people. This plan Is the Pope's. 1t has
till now been kept secret. What hope it.
has Of being adopted is, of course, known,
for there are countless interests and
iealousies to think of. But if any plan at
all has a chance of being adopted, it is this
one. The European dipIomatists are work
ing hard to bring about a solution of the
irritating question which is 80 dangerous
to the religious peace of most of the powers,
owing to the fact that many millions look
up the Pope as their spiritual chief.
THE HIGH CATHOLIC DIGNITARIEs
or at all events the cardinals are less con-
c1liating than the Pope They feel that
something should be done, but that the
church is not to be hampered by tradition,
and that If Pope Leo XIII cannot bring it
about one of his successors may.