Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-10-15
T00NAME A RECTOR
Important Meeting Of Catholic Clergy
Next Week.
ARCHBISHOPS uWRO WILL BE !. HERE
Administrations of indian Schools
I. to Be Considered. 4.
TO MEET MGR. MARTINELLI

Tho apr oaching meeting of the Catholic |
clergy Washing ten" will be one of spe-
cial interest and Importance. Not only are
the administrators Of the Catholic Univs--
sity to meet ,on r4her21zt instant. but the
representing the controlling
force of the church.s have determined TO
change their place. of .meetings which was |
set for New Orleans. snd meet here fol-
lowing the university meeting. The two
bodies are entirely distinct. as only six OF
the thirteen archbisAops have vote on
the university board. These six are Car
dinal Gibbons talso ran archbishop OF the
Baltimore dioeese), and sArchbishops Will
Jams of Boston, Csrrigan of New York
Ryan. of Philadelphia. iceland OF ST. Eau
and Chapelle OF Santa Fee. They hold Their
places on thesboard by. virtue of being char
ter members. The other archbishops have
an advisory membership on the board but
no This last feature is important.
in view of the vote on the choice of sue
'cessor to Bishop Keane as rector OF the
university. Seven bishops also have vote
on the board, wiz, Spalding of" Peoria.
Marty of st. Cloud, Macs of Covington,
Foley .of Detroit, Horstman. OF cleveland
and keane, late rector of the university.
Bishop Spalding Is in. Europe and will not
be present. Bishop Keane Is not expected
to return for the meeting, Mons:gnor Far
ley of New York and Father Lee of Wash
ington make up the remaining voting men,
bers of the board. There are three lay
members, Messrs. Waggaman of Washing
ton, jenkins of Baltimore and Banigan of
Providence, who have no vote on the choice
of the rector, that being a function of the
clerics, especially committed to them by the
pope. This makes twelve voting members.
OF which seven constitute majority.
Thus far the names mentioned in connec-
ton with the succession to Bishop Keane
are wholly conjectural, as It, is expected
that each of the voting members Of the
board will come here with a candidate to
support. and until they get together there
is no means of learning the consensus of
opinion.
The view prevails that. the board will in
cline to trained teacher, rather than a
prominent member Of the clergy. 1t is
pointed out that Bishop Keane was best
qualified as an organizer and manager.
He was not trained as teacher, as he was
raised from parish priest to the position
of rector Of the university.
May BE n Priest.
Now, however. the institution has passed
through its period of organization, when
strong executive manager was required,
and has entered upon its teaching period,
SO that a rector having the teaching char
acteristics is said to be most essential
ranks of the priesthood rather than from
the bishops, who are prominent mainly
through their administrative ability. This
opens so wide field that there can be lit
tie definite information as to who the ap-
pointee will be until the administrators
get together.
The prominent part Vice Rector Garrigan
has taken in the affairs of the University
leeds to the mention of k-s name. Among
the more prominent teacher of the church
| who have been associated with the univers-
| ity are Bishop O'Gorman of Sioux Falls
| an authority on church history; Rev. Dr.
race head of the school of philoso phy;
| MonsiShor Schroeder, professor of d6g1natic
| theology, and some others While there
| has been no special movement toward any
| OF these names, attention is directed to
them, in view of the feeling that teach.
| ing cleric viii he named In making the
| recommendation to the pope the board may
suggest three names, as is usual when d
| bishop IS to- Re named, or may ccnfint
| their recommendations to one name.
While he acton of the administrators
| will doubtless be final in shaping the ac-
\ ton of the pope, yet there viii be room
| for private representations to Rome u:
| tc the time of the fiCal confirmation.
| Bishop keane's- Position.
| The meeting of the arcnbishops foIlowi.;
the university meeting will have a numbe,
! of important questions to deal with. The
| popes recent letter to Bishop Keane gave
l
| a see would be designated by the arch
! bishops If he elected to remain In thi.
| country. He SO elected, but There va!
| some ambiguity. as Ito 1ha acceptance O.
| the advanced rank. An authority or
| church administration: says that tie pope:
| language was effective. in creating The
| rank, and that Bis hop. Keane Is now il
fact. an archbishop. At present, however
here is no vacant archbishopric so tina
the rank will be nominal unless a new
| arrangement of archbiShops is attempted
| The archbshcps also deal with the ad
Ininistration of Catholic Indian schools, al
| lotting the sums to be used for India,
education in the several localities. Th
| changes made by the last Congress as t,
government support for ecclesiastical
| schools may necessftate some new met
! DDS of administration. By the act of Con
| gress all government aid is to end on Jul,
l of next year, and as the Catholic schools
received the bulk of this aid the archbis no,
will Re called on to determine how tn
work can proceed. unaidad by the govern
ment.
The coming OF, the archbisf.ops and Dish
cps will afford the first opportunity TO
a meeting between the heads Of the Ameri
can church and the new delegate Mgr
Marttnelli.. and it Is expected that severa
imposing ceremonies will occur. .
| The papal delegate left for New, Yorl
today to pay his farewell respects to Car
| dinal Satolli and to be present at the re
| ception terdered the cardinal at the Cath
| Ollie Club Of Brooklyn tonight. Mgr Mar
tinelh was accompanied by Mgr. Sbnrrett
| and DR.. Rocker of the delegation. -
| Mems Servfcenbl Shoes, $3.50
as trade attraction tomorrow at Hove
& Snyder's, 1911 F st.-Advt.
The National Dental College. d