The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-08
Fifty Thousand Tickets Of Admission
TO BE Distributed to Humble
Catholics.
HIGH OFFICE GOES BEGGING
NEITHER sATOLLI NOR AGLIARDI
WANTS RAMPOLLA's PLACE.
Cardinal Ill, but His COndi-
tiOn Not Regarded as Serious
FaIconiO's Address,.

ROME, Aug. 7.-St. Peters is closed while
the preparations for the coronation, next
Sunday, are proceeding. Pope Plus X has
expressed a desire to have as many of the
humble members of the faith as possible ad-
mitted, and 50,000 tickets will be distributed
by the parish priests, Catholic clubs and
associations, seminaries, ecclesiastical col
leges, monasteries and converts. The re-
mainder of the seats will be reserved for
distinguished guests. Only two galleries
have been erected. one for the diplomatic
body and one for the Roman aristocracy.
The body of the church will be divided into
compartments with separate entrances.
Thousands are already leaving the Venetian
provinces to attend the coronation of their
Pope" The papal master of ceremonies
has issued the invitations to the archbishops
and bishops who will participate in the pro-
cession from the Vatican into st. Peters.
They are requested to be at the Vatican at
z o'clock Sunday morning.
The government, to avoid untoward Incl
dents, has ordered the piazza and the
neighborhood of st. Peters and the Basilica
to be occupied by the military, and has for
hidden an anti-clerical manifestation pro-
posed by the Socialists and Republicans for
that day. The Popeis first allocution, to be
delivered at the next secret consistory, is
looked forward to with great interest.
Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender, who
is/a personal friend Of Plus X, has said to
his followers that he would not now have
the papacy against him, as he did Under
the pOntificate Of Leo, who was the god
father of King Alfonso, and has even gone
so far as to say that he hoped the accession
of the Pope would help him TO the throne.
The selection or a new papal secretary
of state is daily becoming more and more
complicated, as there is a division In the
Sacred College such as existed before the
election of Plus X. There is a strong senti-
ment in favor OF the reappointment of Car
dinal Rampolla because he is converSant
with all papal affairs, and Cardinal Ferrata,
who belongs to the "Rarnpolla party" is
also suggested. The latter's opponents init
mate that as he was nuncio at Paris na
might not be agreeable to some of the pow
ers and besides IT is pointed out that ne
voted against the Pope in the conclave, ex-
cept on the last ballot. Piux offered the
position twice to Cardinal Agliardi, who
declined to give UP the vice chancellorship
of the church. Cardinal Satolli declined also
on the ground that he was not sufficiently
! acquainted with the French language and
that he knew too little of foreign questions
generally except those relating to America.
He suggested Cardinal Vincenzo Vannutelli.
Negotiations are proceedings to have Car
dinal Agliardi, while retaining the vice
chancellorship, assume the secretaryship of
state temporarily.
Cardinal Gibbons was received by the
Pope in private audience. In a lengthy con-
ference Plus Y renewed his expressions of
interest, already made manifest by his re-
ception Wednesday to the pilgrims from
the United States. TIL Pope said he should
liked TO have hat the cardinal remain in
Rome for some time in order that he might
become thoroughly acquainted with all
questions connected with the United States,
but his Holiness did not insist, being aware,
he said, of the cardinals delicate state of
health, and his suffering from hot weather.
In closing the audience the Pontiff charged
Cardinal Gibbons to carry the apostolic
benediction to all the faithful in America.
Cardinal Gibbons is suffering from in
t~estinal trouble due to excessive heat and
fatigue. His illness is not regarded as Sc
rious.