The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-25
DATE OF SACRED CONCLAVE
LIMITATION THAT IT MAY BE-
 GIN AUGUST ~

Seem the Best at This Time-Cardtnai
 Oregiia Increasing tn Favor Also
 Thirty Thousend People Gaze on Dead PontiT:
 | Rome, July 24.-Again to-day the
 body of Leo XIII. lay in state in the
 basilica of St. Peters, and about SO,0OO
 people passed before the catafalque.
 This is a slight increase over the num-
 Der who viewed the remains yesterday.
 and the augmentation was doubtless
 due to the widely circulated reports
 that to-day would be the last upon
 which the public would have an oppor-
 tunity of looking upon the body of the
 pontiff. These reports proved to be
 baseless and the body will remain in the
 chapel of the sacrament, at least during
 the. greater part of tomorrow The
 fears expressed by the vatican authori- ties concerning decomposition appear to
 have been exaggerated.
 | With impressive ceremonies the body will be inferred tomorrow evening in the sarcophagus of St. Peters, where it will remain until taken to it's final rest ing place in the Church of St. John Lat eran.
 Italian soldiers again to-day presery- | ed order inside St. Peters, where there was a repetition of the scene and crowd which occurred yesterday. The day was notable for the solemn masses eel ebrated for the repose of the soul of the. late pontiff at St. Peters and other fa- nous churches in Rome, which were largely attended, despite the pathetic
 ceremony which was occurring at the
 basilica
 | Interest is now largely engrossed with | the coming conclaye and its result The
 gossip of the day may be summed up
 briefly by saying that Cardinal Gotti's I chances of election seem to have im- proved in comparison with those of other cardinals who have been men toned as likely to succeed the dead pontiff, although there still exists d strong feeling that some one hitherto scarcely talked of may wear the tiara. Much comment was excited at the vati-5 | can by a drive which Cardinal Oreglia took through the vatican gardens this morning. The workers in the more I quiet precincts of the gardens were. lstartled when they saw the welI-knoWn papal carriage approaching, surrounded l by Swiss and noble guards. Their hearts jumped as they saw the face. of the cardinal looking out at them. The Icarnerlengo did not appear to De satis1 ls1 Tx ,Ir ,Ie< ihead. excIaiming dismaily, What de- | cay! What neglect! could not remain shut up in this melancholy place. should die in a year" x l The gossips of the vatican now wish to know if this means that the cardinal would not accept the papacy, which seems practically impossible, or, accept | ing, would refuse to be voluntary tra- ditional vatican prisoner. It seems that
 the more probable interpretation of his.
 remarks would be that, if made pope, he would institute great changes in the
 gardens
 At the meeting of the congregation o-day Cardinal Satolli asked when the conclave would be opened. Cardinal
 Oreglia replied that he thought that on the evening of Friday, the 31st all the cardinals might enter their cells and be ready for the first meeting of the con- clave August l.
 Monsignor Farabulini. the famous Latinist whom Gladstone often consult ed and of whom the German emperor requested advice concerning Latin, has been selected to write the cratic brevis, the Latin eulogy upon the late pope, which will be buried with him. The congregation to-day also heard the se- cret reports received from the nuncios at Vienna, Paris, Munich and Madrid. It approved the charity bequeathed by Leo to the poor, dividing it as follows:
 s1O,000 for Rome, s4,000 for Perugia, where Leo was for many years arch bishop, and $2,000 for Carpineto, where the late pontiff was born.
 To-night's Italia sees alleged confirm lation of the story that Cardinal Gibbons had succeeded in transforming Cardinal
 Richard. st the archbishop of Paris, into an opponent of Cardinal Rampolla in the alleged fact that Cardinal Gibbons did not leave Cardinal Richard while in Paris; that they left together for Rome, travelled together and will lodge togeth-
 CT at the house of the Order of St. sul-
 pice. As matter of fact, only the
 statement that they will lodge togethkr
 is true. It is known that they did not
 start for. Rome together. Cardinal
 Richard is coming via, Modane and Carr
 dinal Gibbons via St. Gothard Pass.
 The latter is expected here on Sunday evening or Monday morning.
 Inside the vatican the work of ar ranging the apartments for the conclave
 has begun. The courtyards are achoked
 with carts, bricks and building 1nateri-
 als for raising the walls where doors
 exist, making partitions, etc. The Pal-
 atine guards and gendarmes will be j transferred elsewhere as their barracks are needed by the conclave. This after noon Cardinal Oreglia, escorted by the
 Swiss guards, inspected the work, ob-
 serving everything minutely. Cardinal
 Oreglia is increasing in favor daily, even in government circles, where it is remembered that it was through his ef- forts that the propaganda of the vati- can adhered to the request of the Ital-
 ian government to establish an apostol- ic prefecture in Erithrea.