Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-10-24
BISHOP KEANE'S SUCCESSOR
Iwe'vo Men Who Will Make the
Selection Next Week.
approaching Meeting Of Catholic
Clergy Deemed 90 BE OF spe-
ciat interest and or
Great Importance.

washington. Oct. II. The approach
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
Serslty TO meet on the 2lst inst, but
the archbishops representing the on
trolling force of the church, have de-
teffnined to change their place OF meet
Ing, which was set for New Orleans.
and meet here following the university,
meeting. The two bodies are entirely
distinct, AZ only six Of the thirteen
archbishops have IA vote on the uniyer-
sity board. These six are Cardinal
b talso an archbishop OF the Bal
tmore diocese), Archbishop Williams
of Baltimore, Corr,gan Of New York.
Ryan of Philadelphia. Ireland Of ST.
Paul. and Chappeiie OF Santa Fe. They
hold their places on the board by Va
tue OF being charter members. The.
other archbishops have am advisory
membership on the board. no vote
This last feature is important IN view
OF the vote IN the choice OF a successor
TO Bishop keane az rector OF the UNI
versity. Seven bishops also have a
wac VII AHt "pdIu, VIZ. SidiuA1R Oi
Peoria, Marty of Sc. Cloud. Mates Of
Covington. Foley OF Detroit, Hoistman
OF Cleveland and keane, late rector OF
the university. Bishop Spalding - in
Europe and viii not be present. B.sh.
on keane is not expected TO return for
the meeting. Mgr. Farley OF New York
and VI. 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 nave no vote on the choice of rec
tor. that being a function Of the clergy
especially committed 10 them by the
pope. This makes twelve voting menu
bers, with seven constituting a major
lily,
Names Are Only Guesses.
Thus far the names mentioned In con
nection with the succession Of Bishop
Keane are wholly conjectural. a. il IL
expected that each " the voting mem.
bers Of the board will come here with a
candidate 10 support. and until they
come there is no use trying 10 learn the
consensus OF opinion.
TIL view prevails that the board Will
incline TO a trained teacher, rather than
d prominent member OF the clergy. 10
In pointed out hat Bishop keane was
best qualified as an organizer and man.
ager. He was not trained as a teacher,
as he was raised from a parish priest
tothe position Of rector Of the univers-
ity. Now. however. the institution has
passed through its period OF organiZa-
ton, when a strong executive manager
was required, and has entered upOn it's
teaching period. 80 that "A rector having
the teaching characteristics il said 10 be
more essential. Such a teacher may be
drawn from the ranks Of the priesthood
rather than from the bishops, who are
prominent mainly through their admin.
istrative ability. This opens 80 wide a
field that there can joe little definite in.
formation as TO who the appointee will
be- until the administrators get to-
gether.
The prominent part Vice Rector Gar
igan has taken ia the affairs OF the uni
versity leads to the mention OF his
name. Among the more prominent
teachers of the church VINO have been
associated with the university are
Bishop O'Gorman of Sioux Falls, an au-
thority on church history, Rev. DIR.
Pace, head Of the school Of philosophy.
Mgr. Schroeder, professor OF dogmatic
theology, and some others. While there
has been no special movement toward
any of these names, attention Is direct
ed To- them In view of the feeling that
a teaching cleric will be anne In
| making The recommendation 10 the pope
the board may suggest three names. az
IL usual when a bishop is 10 be named.
! or conAne their recommendations 10 one
name. While the action OF the admin
~istrators will doubtless he final In shap-
ing the action Of the pope, yet there VIA
be room ~: private presentations 10
Rome previous TO the time Of the hnal
confirmation.
Fine. q See for keane.
The meeting Of the archbishops. fol-
lowing the university meeting, VIII
have a number OF important questions
to deal with. The pope's recent letter
to Bishop Keane gave him the rank or
archbishop and added that "A see would
be designated by the archbishop IL he
elected 10 remain in this country. He
no elected, but there was some ambig-
uity as 10 the acceptance OF the al
vanced rank. An authority on church
administration says that the popes lam
yuage was effective in creating the rank
ard that Bishop Keane is now. IN fact,
an archbishop. At pr sent, however,
there Is no vacant archbishopric. SD
that the rank will be nominal unless L
nav arrangement of arGhbishops Is at
tempted.
The archbishops also iea, with tn
1 -. - - ffn.l Df (EtthOIlC lnulAfk
schools, allot;iLS the sums 10 be used
foI Indian education in the several To-
~ca!ities. The changes maue ty the last
.. ngress a. To government support for
for ecclesiastical schools may necessi-
tate some new methods of teaching. BY
the act Of congress all government aid
Is to end on July l Of next year, and as
| the Catholic schools received the bulk
| OF his aid the archbishop will be called
upon to determine how the work a
proceed unaided by the government.
The coming Of the archbishops and
bishops viii AFFORD the first opportunity
| for a meeting before the heads Of the
| American church n the new delegate.
Mgr. Martinelli, and ii is expected that
| several imposing ceremonies VIII occur,