The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-08-05
Settlement of the Vexatious
Philippine Question.
PRELATE'S VISIT EAST
Significance of His Defense of the
Pope's Temporal Power Claim.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY AND SCHLEY
Resolve That a Court of In
Quiry Was Ordered.

fro1. The Jo'.rnaI BsSreGw. Room IS, Pos
Building, Warrington
Washington. Aug. 8. - Archbishop Ire
lands visit to Washington last week has
set the tongues OF the gossips going again,
and an effort is being made to establish,
some connection between the visit and the
report from Rome that the Philippine
church question has been settled. 1t is
said by those who profess to know what
Is going on at the state department that
the archbishop has had communications
from Cardinal Gibbons regarding the de-
tails Of the settlement as agreed to by the
vatican, and that he came to Washing
ton for the purpose of laying these COM
munications unofficially before the proper
authorities of this government, in order
that the government might be fully ad-
Ftsed OF what has transpired as the result
OF the cardinals trip abroad. 1t is i'm
possible to verify this report, but it is
quite generally accepted as being true.
Mgr. Ireland arrived in Washington late
Thursday afternoon, and went at once to
the Ebbitt house, his usual stopping place
That night he denied himself to the news
PAPER men, and the next day he was not to
be found in his room. I met him on
the street during the day when he was GO
ing in the direction Of the state depart
ment. Whether he went there or not
nobody knows. He left Washington on
Friday evening. So far as church mat
tiers are concerned, it is said that there
was no object in his being in Washing
ton at this time. The papal legation is
practically deserted, all of the high off,
cials being away. Cardinal Gibbons is
still abroad, and Mgr. Ireland could not
have come here on his way to Baltimore.
The only remaining inference is that he
came TO confer informally with officials of
!he government regarding the Philippines.
1t is very flattering to the archbishop of
St Paul that leading Roman Catholics
IL this part OF the country accept in good
faith the cable interview with Cardinal
Gibbons stating that he is to be made
member OF the sacred college. This in
dicates something of the standing of Mgr
Ireland has with church people in a To-
cality where they are more numerous and
United States. These people believe that
ireland has played an important part in
the effort to settle the Philippine church
question. and that Cardinal Gibbons. while
at Rome unfolding the plan, made it plain
that credit for it was in part due to him.
The gossips recall in this connection a
very forceful sermon preached by Arch
bishop Ireland in Washington a few
months ago, in which he ably defended
the plea Of the pope for temporal power
This sermon was so higly regarded by
the eastern hierarchy that it was printed
in pamphlet form for wide distribution.
OF course copy of 1t went to Rome.
no American prelate, it is said, has ever
presented these arguments more logically
or forcibly than they were presented in
that sermon. For number of years
prior to it's delivery 1t is said that Mgr.
Ireland had remained practically silent
regarding this, to the church, momentous
question. He had been regarded as the
leader Of what has come to be known
as the American faction within the
church, and was popularly credited with
entertaining views which because Of their
advanced and liberal character were not
In harmony with vatican opinion
1t is now said that the Washington SER
mon defending the temporal power was
suggested by Cardinal Gibbons. also 8
member, although somewhat more mod
crate in his views, of this so-called
American faction, and that before deliv-
ering 1t Archbishop Ireland talked the
question over with him at considera hle
length. Whether these things are true
or not 1 am unable to say, but it is true
they are easy of explanation. The SER
mon was a detailed and convincing reply
to Mgr. Irelands enemies inside the
church, and at the same time it was a
formal avowal before the world of SYM
pathy with the idea which is dearest to
the papal mind and heart Previously
there had been some question, raised by
Mgr. 1reland's enemies, as to whether
he were really an advocate of the restora-
tion Of the temporal authority.
Not long after the sermon had been de-
livered the Philippine church question
came up, and again Archbishop Ireland
was in the east, this time to consult with
Cardinal Gibbons and try to solve the
question in some way that would satisfy
this government and the holy see ar we'll.
The sermon may thus be suppos to
have paved the way to the later emu oy-
ment. Now, after the cardinal has aid
the plan before the vatican authori %.
comes the announcement that it was q
vorably received and then approved; and
right on the heels of this announcement
comes the cable Interview with the
cardinal stating that the pope is soon
to create two new American cardinals.
Of whom the archbishop of st. Paul will
be one.
The public is at liberty to draw it's own
conclusions. Friends of Mgr. ireland IN
Washington already have done so. and
they think that the red hat is COM
ing. The arehbishop's modest denial of
the cable interview need not conflict with
the foregoing story, for he thus far knows
no more about the subject than ANYBODY
slse, unless, as is quite possible, Cardinal
Gibbons may have mentioned it to him
In letter.
ScHLEY AND The presidents atti-
tude toward the
THE PRESIDENT. @Schley- Sampson in
quiry affair has been
the subject Of some speculation by per-
sons o. meager information. The fact is,
President Mckinley has been kept in
formed and has approved every step of i'm
portance which has been taken up to this
time. When the Maelay history publica-
tion was first called to official notice. and
the old feud revived, there were com
munications sent to Canton, Ohio. in large
numbers. The friends of Admiral Srhlev
represented that this was the latest Of
feuse Of the despicable CLIQUE in the navy
department, headed by Admiral Crownin
shield, and acting for Admiral Samneon
The friends of Sampson represented that
this was only another evidence that truo
merit could not be forever kept down.
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