The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-16
CATHOLIC DIGN1TARIEs.
Great Interest Attaches to Their
Meeting at Washington.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.-The COM
ing meeting of the Catholic clergy at
Washington will be one of special in
terest and Importance. Not only are
the administrators of the Catholic uni
VerSity to meet on the 21St inst, but
the archbishops. representing the con-
trolling force OF the church, have de-
termined to change their place of
meeting, which was set for New Or
leans, and meet here, following the
university meeting.
The two bodies are entirely dis
tinct, as only six of the thirteen arch
bishops have a vote on the university
board. These six are Cardinal Glib.
hons (also an archbishop of the Balti-
more diocese; Archbishop Williams,
of Boston; Corrigan, of New York;
Ryan, of Philadelphia; Ireland, of st.
Paul, and Chapelle of Santa Fe. They
hold their ,'laces On the board by virtue
of being charter members. The other
archbfshops have an advisory mem
bership on the board, but no vote.
This last feature is important, in view
of the vote on the choice of a successor
to Bishop Keane, as rector of the uni
versity Seven bishops also have
vote on the board, viz: Spaulding, of
Peoria; Marty, of st. Cloud; Macs, of
Covington; Foley, of Detroit; Horst
man, of Cleveland, and Keane, late
rector of the university Bishop
Spaulding is in Europe, and will not
De present. Bishop Keane is not ex-
pected to return for the meeting. Mgr.
Farley, of New York, and FIR. Lee. of
Washington, make up the remaining
voting members of the board. There
are three lay members, Waggaman, of
washington; Jenkins, of Baltimore,
and Banigan, of Providence, who have
no vote on the choice of rector, that
a fri to-
claiIy committed to them by the pope.
This makes twelve voting members. of
when seven constitute majority.
Thus far the names mentioned in
connection with the succession of
bishop Keane are wholly conjecture.
as 1t is expected that each voting mem
Der OF the board will come here for
cand1date to support, and until they
get together there is no means of learn
ing the consensus Of opinion. The view
prevails that the board will incline
to a trained teacher rather than a
prominent member of the clergy. It
Is pointed out that Bishop Keane was
pest qualified as an organizer and man
ager. he was not trained as a teacher.
as ne was raised from a parish priest
TO the position of rector of the univer
s1ty. Now however, the institution has
passed through it's period of organi-
Zatlon, when strong executive man
ager is required, and has entered unon
IT'S teaching period, so that rector
having the teaching characteristics is
SAID to be most essential Such a teach
eI may pc drawn from the ranks of
the priesthood rather than from the
bishops who are prominent mainly
through their administrative ability
This opens so wide a field that there
can De little definite information as to
VINO the appointee will be until the
administrators get together. The
prominent part Vive Rector Garrigan
mas taken In the affairs Of the uni
Verslty leads to the mention of his
name Among the more prominent
teachers of the church who have been
associated with the university arc
Blshop O'Gorman, Of Sioux Falls an
authority on church history; Rev. DR..
race, head of the school of phiIosophv.
Mgr;. schroeder. professor Of dogmatic
theoiogy and some others. While there
has been no special movement towards
any OF the feeling that a teaching
cleric Will be named, in making the
recommendation to the pope, the board
may suggest three names as is 11s1IaI
when bishop is to be named or NAV
cchIlne tnelr recommendation to one
name. While action of the admins
traitors will doubtless be final in shan
ing the action of the pope, vet there
VIII be room for private Representa-
tlons to Rome up to the time of the
final confirmation.
The meeting Of the archbishops fol-
lowing the university meeting will have
number Of important questions to
zeal with. The pope's recent letter to
Blshop keane gave him the rank of
archbishop, and added rnat a see would
be designated by the archbishops If he
elected to remain in this country. He
SO elected, but there was some ambig-
u1ty as TO the acceptance of the adj
Vanced rank. An authority on church
administration says that the pope's lam
guage was effective in creating the
rank, and that Bishop Keane is now in
fact an archbishop. At present. how
ever, there is no vacant archbishonric
so that the rank will be nominal. unless
new arrangement of archbishops is at
tempted
The archbishops also deal with the
administration of Catholic Indian
schools, alloting the sums to be used for
Indian education in the several local
tiles. The changes made by the last
congress as to government support for
ecclesiastical schools, may necessitate
some new method sof administration
BY the act of congress, all government
aid is to end on July 1, of next wear.
and as the Catholic schools received
the. bulk of this aid, the archbishops
will be called on to determine how
the work can proceed unaided by the
government.
The coming Of the arehbishops and
bishops will afford the first opportunity
for a meeting between the heads Of
the American church and the new dele
gate, Mgr Martinelli, and it is expected
that several imposing ceremonies will
occur.