The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-30
HATS
FOR UNITED STATES
Gifts That Are Likely to Disap-
point France and
ov1 Austria. -

NEW YORK, Nov. "a despatch to
the Herald from Rome says,
"A very strained condition of feeling ex-
Of the Vatican and His Holiness 1t con-
Germs coming distribution of Cardinal s
hats.
1 lne Austrian Government has of late
been urging with much persistence that
the Archbishop of Prague should receive
the covered scarlet. The See of Prague
IS considered by AuStrians, for historical
and other reasons, to be of Premier rank
and has been held by a succession of
Idignitaries of Princely title 1t is now
occupied by Baron Scribnitz.
! The Pope, however, has just given final
decision, which is negative on the ground
that the Archbishop is too young
| Furthermore there are other disappoint-
ments in views. These will touch French
aspirations, as the number of Cardinal
hats expected by the French will not be
granted.
This last decision is -ue to the growing
Importance attached by His Holiness to
the increasing development of the Roman
Catholic faith in the United States, in
which country, in consequence, two new
appointments of Princes of the church
have been decided upon.
This appointment of two additional
American Cardinals may cause Jealousy,
but it is only in accordance with the
amount of support which the Roman
Catholic church in the United States is
giving to the Holy See, as compared with
other nations. Commenting :. upon the
above, the Herald says:
Gossip will be set going at a fast pace
by this announcement that two red hats
are to come to the United States. One
solution of the ecclesiastical friction that
has for years existed between the east and
the west, used to be that both Archbishops
Corrigan and Ireland should be raised by
the sacred college and thus all rivalry
equalized, but "a new factor has appeared
on the scene in the person of Archbishop
Chappelle, of New Orleans, the delegate
apostolic to Cuba, Porto Rico and the
Philippines.
This is a most important office. and as
Mgr. Chappelle seems to be meeting its
many requirements successfully he will
no doubt receive the customary reward
OF the Red Hat that Rome bestows on
her successful diplomats. This would dis
pose of one of the newly promised dig
nitaries. Then who is to get the other?
Such a course would leave the old trouble
unsolved. Both Archbishop Corrigan and
Archbishop Ireland have been in Rome
this summer and both were received there
with the highest honors. Archbishop Cor
rigan made a report to the Pope of Won
derful prosperity and progress in his do
cese of New York. But this point is
balanced by the high honors paid to
Archbishop Ireland in France and his I'M
doubted repute as a force for even in
iternational weight. Another idea is the
recently mooted topic of Cardinal de
Guerra, or resident in Rome for the
United States. He would be specially
charged to look after the affairs of the
church here. For this Mgr. Martinelli
who will undoubtedly soon be made Car
Idinal, has been spoken of, but it is not
thought he would do, because he is really
an Italian and not an American, though
so long resident here