The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-28
TRIAL OF ASSUMPTI0NISTS.
HAS CAUSED SOMEWHAT OF A SEN
SATION IN PARIS.

Cardinal Richards Visit Stirred
Things Up-POpe SymPathizes With
the Fathers, Hut WO"Id Not Have
Sanctioned the Visiu-France to
Send 5000 Troops to Madagascar.
Approach of the Carnival season.
Copyright, 1900, by the Associated Press.
Paris. Jan. 27-The trial of the Assump-
zionist fathers has injected some life into
an otherwise prosalc week. The prosecu-
ton of the fathers is believed to be the
beginning of a government campaign
against reactionary cericalsm which re
Gently has TOO openly entered the political
arena.
The order of the Assumptionists is re-
markable for the aesthetic life of its mem
bers, which, with its large revenue, mas
permitted the accumulation of great
wealth. which, according 10 the govern
ment supporters, has been mainly used
TO undermine the republic. They have not
accepted defeat and have decided 10 send
out their views.
An outburst of protests in the Radical
press has been caused by what looks like
the apparent lack of tact on the part of
Cardinal Richard, the Archbishop of Paris,
in visiting the fathers and expressing his
sorrow at their conviction and thus open
Nv encouraging them. The Radicals de-
mand that the government take some ac-
ton against Card nal Richard for his overt
action with so-calied Illegal associations.
Some newspapers even assert the incident
as a mode for ehe separa zion of the church
and the state
The first fruit of this agitation has OIL
ready been born in the shape of an OIL
cial demand upon the Cardinal for an eX-
planatio of his conduct To this the
private secretary of the Cardinal has re-
piled that the Cardinal had no though hit
that his action had political significance;
he simply wished to sympathize with the
fathers on passing through a painful
event and he did not wish to protest
against the verdict. The words attributed
to the Cardinal, the secretary added, were
a garbled summary without official char
acter.
A special dispatch to the Temps from
Rome says
''According TO information from the best
sources, the vatican, though regretting
the conviction of the Assumptionists,
would have preferred that Cardinal Rich
ard had not made the visit from which
the Assumptionists might profit. Had
pope Leo been consulted, Cardinal Rich
ard would not have made the visit, which
was kind but not polite"
As to Great Britain.
Repeated affirmations by large section
of the French press that the British i'm
goes and the Chamberlain clique in the
cabinet had determined to pick a quarrel
with France in order to recover the pres
tge Great Britain has lost in Europe by
her reverses in South Africa, and that
Madagascar would be the first point, have
received what is re sarded here as confirm
alton in the announcement that the gov
eminent has decided to dispatch 5000
troops there, and to form a fortified camp
at Diego Suariez The government ex-
plains that these movements have no spe-
cial significance but are merely a part
Of an already announced plan of fortify-
ing the colonies. II is denied that it has
any connection whatever with Great Bril-
tain.
English designs In Madagascar and her
rumored intention to provoke war sooner