Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-10-24
BISHOP KEANE'S SUCCESSOR
Twelve Men Who Will Make the
Selection Next Week,
approaching Meeting Of Catholic
Clergy Deemed Z % BE OF spe-
ciai Interest and OF
Great Importance.

washington. Oct. IL. The approach
ing meeting of the Catholic clergy al
washington will be one OF special in
tefest and Importance. Not only are
the administrators of the Catholic uni
Nerslty 10 meet on the 2lse inst. but
the archbishops representing the con-
trolling force of the church, have de-
termined To change their place OF meet
ing, winch was set for New Orleans.
n meet here following the university.
meeting. The two bodies are entirely
distinct. as only six Of the thirteen
archolshops have a vote On the univer-
Sky board. These six are Cardinal
Gibbons talso an archbishop OF the Bal
Gmore d!ocese), Archbishop Williams
OF baltimore, Corr.gan Of New York,
Ryan OF Philadelphia. Ireland Of St.
raul, and Chappelle of Santa Fee. They
mold their places on the board by W.
tue OF being charter members. The
other archbishops have an advisory
membership on the board. but no votey
This last feature is important in view
or the vote on the choice OF Il successor
10 Bishop keane as rector of the uni
Versity. Seven bishops also have n
vote on the board, viz: Spalding OF
Peoria, Marty of st. Cloud, Mates of
Covington, Foley OF Detroit, Hoi stman
of Cleveland and keane. late rector Of
the university. Bishop Spalding is in
Europe and will not be present. B.sh.
op keane ls not expected 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 rec
tor, that being "A function of the clergy
especially committed to them by the
pope. This makes twelve voting men,
bers, with seven constituting a major
ity.
Names Are Only Guesses.
Thus far the names mentioned in con.
nection with the succession Of Bishop
Keane are wholly conjectural. as il Is
expected that each Of 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.
The view prevails that the board will
incline TO a trained teacher. rather than
a prominent member Of the clergy. IL
is pointed out hat Bishop Keane was
best qualified as an organizer and man
ager. lie 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 orEaniza-
ton, when "A strong executive manager
was required, and has entered upon its
teaching period, so that a rector having
the teaching characteristics is 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.
~istratirc ability. This opens so wide a
field that there can nc 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 liz the affairs of the uni
verSity leads 10 the mention of his
name. Among the more prominent
teachers Of the church who 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 thar
a teaching cleric will be named. In
making the recommendation To the pope
the board may suggest three names, as
Is usual when a bishop is to be named,
or conhne their recommendations 10 one
name. While the action Of the admin
istrators will doubtless he ina IN shap-
ing the action OF the pope. yet there VII.
he room fog private presentations to
Rome previous to the time of the final
confirmation.
Find a Sec for keane.
The meeting Of the aTchbishops. 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 OF
archbishop and added that a see would
be designated by the archbishop II lie
elected to remain in this country. He
80 elected, but there was some ambig-
uity as 10 the acceptance of the al
vanced rank. An authority on church
administration says that the pope's lam
suage was effective in creating the rank
and that Bishop Keane is now, in fact,
All archbishop. At pr 'ccnt, however.
there Is no vacant archbishopric, 50
that the rank will be Nominal unless 4
n:w arrangement Of arChbishops is at
tempted.
The archbishops also deal with thA
administration Of Catholic 1ndiar,
schools, allot;iLS the sums to be used
fol- Indian education in the several To-
c~alities. The changes maue by h last
congress az 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 this aid the archbishop will be called
upon to determine how the work can
proceed unaided by the government.
The coming Of the archbishops and
bishops will afford the first opportunity
for a meeting before the heads Of the
American church and the new delegate,
Mgr. Martinelli, and it is expected that
several imposing ceremonies viii occur,