The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-19
REST WAS BROKEN
LACK OF 1T INITIATED AGAINST
THE POPE.
PULSE FEEBLE, BUT RAPID
TAKEN TO MEAN WEARING OUT OF
HIS FORCES.

ditiOns-GOssip About the POpe's
SuccessOr-ObjectiO That Are
| offered Against the Various
Princes of the Church Who Are
/ Mentioned.
| Rome. July 1S.-Deprived of rest the
Pope spent the day which has just end
ed with a serious depression. The doc
| tors reported a feeble but rapid pulse,
which was generally taken to indicate
the wearing out of the patients forces.
The favorable symptoms recorded IN
the morning of the lowering of the
pleurotic liquid were sufficiently main
tanned to relieve the Pontiff of his pain
full struggles for breath, which lately
have been so frequent.
The doctors fear that the gradual
sinking is due to general conditions.
rather than to the necessity for an
other operation, which seemed so Inn
minent on Thursday.
The sleepless night was succeeded by
day during which the Pope seemed to
lack any desire to vary the medical
routine by receiving visits from cardi-
nails or others. Both morning and aft
ernoon he remained isolated from all
save the doctors and attendants.
The nourishment which the Pontiff
] took at first somewhat encouraged his
encourage, but the condition of the pa
tient this evening pointed to the fact
that it had not had any beneficial er-
feet. What is now most hoped for is
that the Pope may be enabled to secure
much needed rest.
| Gift From Francis Joseph.
| Among the many evidences of con-
tinued sympathy with the Pontiff in
his illness, showing that his fight for
life is watched by the highest and
lowest. was the arrival at the Vatican
to-day of a case of mineral waters
sent by Emperor Francis Joseph Of
Al tria to the Pope. Their peculiar
medicinal properties, it is asserted,
| may relieve the secretionary disorders
of the Pontiff, which the doctors but
recently have announced.
During the morning the Pontiff re-
manned comparatively quiet getting
some sleep, and seeing no one except
the doctors and his immediate attend
ants.
An italian proverb says when the
patient does not get worse he improves
very much" but, with the Pope after
the last two weeks experience, every
body has renowned making any pre-
dictions.
The heat is beginning to increase.
The shutters of the Pope's bedroom
window are almost closed, the window
| is open and the curtains are drawn
! back. 1t is reported that steps will be
taken to install an electric fan in the
| room.
About the Succession.
A number of cardinals, and Aspe-
cially their friends, utilize the prolonged
| illness of the Pope to test the feeling
| which will prevail at the next conclaVe
The task is difficult one, as it is claim
ed that the cardinals never had
chance to show their mettle under
| Pope Leo, important questions being
| deputed to commissions composed of
few cardinals, after having practically
been settled by the papal secretary Of
state. The Philippine affairs, which
were inquired into by only five cardi-
nails, are frequently quoted as an in
stance Of the foregoing complaint.
Much diversity of opinion and much
| uncertainty regarding the candidates
| still exists. However, the most prob
able candidates remain more or less
those whose names have been mem
| LlOuCQ Since tue rope HTSI became Ill.
To Cardinal Gotti, project of propa-
ganda, the objection is made that as
he belongs to a religious order, his
election might in view of recent
events, be considered a challenge to
France. Against the chances of Car
dinal Rampolla, the papal secretary or
state, it is urged that Austria will try
to exercise her right of veto, as France
would in the case of Cardinal Serafno
Vannutell, the grand penitentiary,
who is considered to be the candidate
of the triple alliance. Cardinal
| Svampa, archbishop of Bologna, mas
been dropped because since his last
stroke of paralysis he speaks with
some difficulty.
Because He is an AutOmObiIist.
Cardinal Ferrari, archbishop of Mi
Ian, is not favored, for the apparent
ly trivial reason that he uses a motor
car, which Is not considered dignified
in a prince of the church. Cardinal
Agliardi, Bishop, of Albano, is regard
ed as too democratic. Therefore, I'M
less Cardinal Gotti, who has always
been the most favored candidate, sue
ceeds in overcoming the objection In
him, it is likely that someone now un-
mentioned will be elected to succeed
Pope Leo.
The cardinals themselves, naturally,
maintain the greatest reserve, though
they all more or less repeat, as though
in the nature of password, that the
next Pope must be one combining
the piety of Plus TX with the intelli-
gence Of Leo XIII"
The cabinet ministers have held sew
eral meetings to discuss the latitude
of the government on the death of the
Pope, and it has been decided that If
the Vatican does not notify the Italian
government of his death and does noti-
fly the other governments, Italy will
not officially participate in any mani
festations of mourning, but limit her.
self to maintaining public order and
insuring full liberty for the conclave,
as prescribed by law.
In arriving at such decision the
ministers declared that they had been
guided by the wish to protect the dig
nifty of the state, and by no lack of
respect for the aged Pontif, towards
whom there have been most chival-
rous manifestations of sympathy from
the King, who postponed his journey
to Paris on account Of the Pope's i'll
ness, and from the whole people, who
are participating in the universal feel
ing of regret at the Pontif's illness,
thus forgetting the traditional strug-
gle between church and state.