Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-17
ROME EXCITED
At Correspondence Received
About the Congress
TO BE HELD AT CHICAGO.
A Charge That Prelates Have Interfered With
the Programme.
This is Denied by EccIesiastics at the Vail
can-The Inside History of the
Case-Gales and Snow in the
United Kingdom.
a Sensation in Rome.

ROME, Feb. 16.-At the Catholic congress
at Baltimore, in 1888. committee of prelates
and laymen were appointed to make arrange
ments for Catholic congress to be held
in Chicago in connection with the Columbian
exposition. The committee was also
charged with preparing programme of
matters to be discussed at this congress
Among the members of the committee are
Judge F. Dunno of Ohio Under date of
December 10, Dunno wrote q personal
letter to Condo Pallen, editor
of Church Progress and the
Catholic World at St. Louis, giving
his views in regard TO certain decisions Of
this committee. This letter in some way
came into the hands of Rev. G.
kaufman, who sympathized with
the view expressed therein. He had
the letter put in print and sent
copies to all cardinals. The letter was re-
ceived at Rome few days ago and created
no little sensation in ecclesiastical circles.
kaufman accompanies the letter with
reached by the American prelates in refer
ence to the Cotholic congress to be
held at Chicago is displeasing
to himself, Pallen and Dunno and many
other Catholics. The authorities at Rome
were therefore invoked to override these de-
cisions. Dunne's letter gives a review of the
history of the committee and its meetings.
committee was appointed to organize
the congress at Chicago. This COM
mittee held meetings in Boston
and New York for the purpose OF settling
the prelimiuaries, arranging the pro-
gramme, etc.
1t was harmonious in this direction until
at an inauspicious moment it of
archbishops of the church, who
should be assembled at st. Louis Decem-
Der /, 1891. In the programme of subjects
for discussion, Dunno asserts were such
questions of Vi tai Importance, as temporal
power and the question of Catholic educa-
ton The prelates of Boston, the letter goes
On to say, objected to these questions, but
the laymen of the committee obtained the
assent of the New York prelates to them.
The work of the committee, the letter says,
was submitted to the archbishops at st.
Louis, as proposed.
The archbishops presided over by
Cardinal Gibbons changed the whole plan
and took the congress into their own hands,
Recognizing the laymen of the committee
only as auxiliaries. Dunno criticises this act
of the archbiShops as q usurpation Of
authority. He complains chiefly against
Archbishops Ireland, Williams and Feehan.
He asserts that Onahan of Chicago and
O'Brien of Detroit abandoned their fellow
laymen on the committee and played
into the hands of the prelates. On the
other hand, Kelly, Harson, Farrelly,
and Fanslar stood firm, while Spaunhorst's
attitude was doubtful. Bishop Spalding,
Dunno says, was the only prelate who de-
Tended the laymen, and he did so
feebly. Archbishop ireland, the letter con-
tinued is reported as saying the question Of
temporal power and Catholic education
could be rapidly disposed Of by the congress
whose time ought to be given to considera-
ton Of social matters.
Early in December, Dunno continues,
meeting was held at Judge j.
O'Brien's chambers in New York for
the purpose Of making public the protest
against the archbishcps' nsurpation. At
this meeting were present Dunno, Kelly,
Farrelly and O'Brieu. Judge O'Brien
strongly urged that nothing be-
sides this be said and this
course was decided upon, but the
record of the meeting was saved for future
use. The correspondence has been trans
lated into italian, and has been received
not only by the cardinals, but by many
lesser eccleSiastic in Rome Special inter
est attaches to it at this time because Arch
bishop ireland is now here. The send
ing of the correspondence to Rome
is regarded as continuation of the Cahen-
ally movement. Since last year hundreds
of documents have been circulated
in Rome from America, declar-
ing the Catholic church would
die If the process Of Americanizing the
church, which Gibbons, Ireland and Will
Jams are said to be the leaders in bringing
il about, Oe allowed 10 proceed.
Meanwhile the ecclesiastical authorities
At the Vatican deny the questions Of tenn