The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-13
ARCHBlSH0PS IN SESSION.
ANNUAL MEETING CONVENES AT
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY.

A Dispatch From Rome Announces
Archbishop ChappeIIe of New Or
leans as Apostolic Delegate to
Cuba-ArchbishOp ChappelIe Now
in Paris-AnnuaI Meeting Pro-
ceedings Pertained to the Inter-
nal Affairs of the Church.
Washington, Oct. 1.-THE annual meet
ing of the archbishops of the Roman
Catholic Church began at the Catholic
University to-day under peculiarly aus
picious circumstances.
Just prior to the>opening session Cardi-
nal Gibbons who, as Archbishop of BaltI-
more is presiding officer of the arch5ieh-
ops, received a cable dispatch from Rome
announcing that Pope Leo had appointed
Archbishop Chappelle of New Orleans as
apostolic delegate to Cuba. This was the
first official act of the vatican toward
meeting the important new church condi-
tons in the Antilles arising ont of the
war.
The dispatch made no reference to Porto
Rico, so that the scope of the special mis-
sion is confined to Cuba. Archbishop Chap
pele is a lnguist, speaking both Span
ish and French, so that his work can be
prosecuted under favorable circumstances
IN Cuba.
The particular duties of the new apos-
tolic delegate to Cuba will be to provide
for the proper assimilation of the church
in the West Indies to American churches.
Aside from ecclesiastical arrangements,
the duties of Archbishop Chappelle doubt
less win cover the settlement of questions
relating to the vast church estates, and to
the future conduct of these communities,
which are almost exclusively Catholic.
The annual meeting of the archbishops
began to-day. Those present were: Cardi-
nal Gibbons, Archbishops Williams of Bos-
ton, Corrigan of New York, Ryan of Phil
adelphia, Feehan of Chicago, Elder of Gin
cinnau, Kain of St Louis, Hennessy of
Dubuque, and Kaiser of Milwaukee.
The sessions were private. The arch
bishops completed their work at the af-
ternoon session and adjourned, although a
committee win remain here untk to-mor-
row TO apportion funds for Indian schools
10 the several archdiocese in which the
Indian work is carried on.
AT the close of to-day's meeting Arch
pishop Kain, who acted as secretary, said
there was nothing to give to the public
as the proceedings had been confined en-
urely 70 the internal affairs of the church.
The Pope's appointment of Archbishop
Chappelle as apostolic delegate to Cuba
continued to be the uppermost theme
among the prelates. 1t developed late In
tne day that the archbishop had left Rome
ana was now at Paris, where the peace
commission is meeting. While the accept
ed view here was that Archbishop Chap
Peie would remain at the head of the
New Orleans archdiocese, yet it was felt
that II might become necessary to APP
point a coadjutor archbishop to assist
MN during has special mission. The IN
outstanding here is that he will go to
havana and Santiago, and conduct his
"oih IN Cuba. There, he will be the per-
SoHdl representative of the Pope, just as
Sardinal Satolli and Monsgnor Martinelli
ssaFe represented the Pope in the United
was source of some satisfaction
elNonS the prelates that the vatican had
vi mis- occasion, chosen an American
pIi7s' Tor distinctly American enterprise
mus varying the usual rule of selecting
apo 'olic delegates from the Italian clergy
near the Pope.