Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-21

ceived from all parts of the world and of the universal mourning for Leo XIII. An exchange of ideas took place re- garding the ceremonies preceding the conclave When Cardinal Oreglia asked for the advice of one of the car dinals present the latter replied: It is difficult to give advice.l Indeed, you must teach us what to do as not one of us has ever participated in con- clave"
 The following telegram, dated yester- day at Molde, Norway, has been re- ceived by Cardinal Oreglia from the German emperor:
 ''I am painfully affected by the sad news have just received. send to the il1ustrtous college of cardinals the expression of my sincere sympathy at the grievous loss the Roman Catholic church has sustained through the de- mise of the pope. shall always retain a faithful memory of the exalted and venerable man who was a personal friend of mine, and whose extraordi- nary gifts of heart and mind compelled my admiration anew only few weeks ago on the occasion of my last visit to Rome. WILHELM I. R.
 Dr Lapponi sent yesterday to Prince Colonna, mayor of Rome, the following notice:
 To the Inustrious Mayor of Rome, the Capitol:
 With grief I announce to you that at D. m. to-day there ceased to live, from adynamic pneumonia, followed by hemorrhagic pleurisy, the holiness of our lord, Leo XIII, pope, formerly Gioacchino Pecci, of Carpinetto, Prov iYf1 of a% nf and 5 months
 ''DR GUISEPPI LAPPoNI, Delegated to the Vatican by the Nuncio of Rome.
 From the Vatican, July 2O 1903." l The Italian government has given orders to the railroad officials that car dinals coming to Rome for the con- clave shall be considered princes of the blood and have reserved compartments, or saloon cars, placed at their disposal from the frontier. Tn addition instruc- tions have been given to all the gov ernment authorities to put themselves at the disposal of the cardinals if they are requested to do so and to leave nothing undone for their accommoda- tion and protection.
 The Tribuna to-day published an in- terview with Cardinal Svampa,~ arch bishop of Bologna, who, the paper says, has quite recovered from his stroke of paralysis. The cardinal is quoted as saying: 'I believe that the conclave will be very short, as were the last 1 two. At the utmost, I think, it may 1 take one week, as now there does not exist in the sacred college the marked l political differences of other times. 1 Therefore it will be possible to arrive at an understanding more easily and ] quicker" 1 The interviewer asked the cardinal
 what he thought the policy of the flu
 ture pope would be in regard to the
 so-called Roman question. Will it re-
 main rigidly unchanged, or will the
 new pope inaugurate a modus vivendi, | which many persons in both camps wish for? Cardinal Svampa replied: I ''No one to-day can say with cer- l tainty anything about it. But it must not be forgotten that whoever is elected l will bring something personally into the attitude of the holy see regarding
 that question, something which more Il or less must differentiate from the at titude of the former pope. Besides, \ every historical fact of great impor l tance brings with it changes which
 ameliorate or aggravate pre-existing I conditions. Every sunrise of each new
 day throws fresh light on men and l things"
 I Rome, July 21.-According to state
 ment coming from a high eccelesiastic, I arrangements at the vatican are being pressed forward which will enable the
 conclave of cardinals to begin August I 1. However, it is now thought the ses-
 sions may last considerably longer than at first expected, even long enough to permit Cardinal Moran of Sydney, N. I $ w., to arrive in time to take part in I the proceedings.
 T An ambassador accredited to the vati- can says the question of Pope Leo S I successor is a peculiarly open one at | the present moment The personality of the candidates plays a much more T important part than in any precedi1 1 conclave, since the conditions prevail I ing in the past are now entirely T changed Formerly the sacred college was divided into several distinct par 4 ties. There was, first, that composed } of the cardinals who were members of i the great Roman families, nearly evf one of which was represented in the I college. These always eXerted very powerful influence in the election of a pope. At the present time there is only one scion of a great Roman house among the cardinals, namely, Cardinal : Battista Casali del Drago. who, from the standpoint of the election of a new pontiff. is relatively unimportant. Then l there were parties composed of car I dinals appointed by the same pope, who usually ranged themselves into : separate bodies Tn addition to the
 members of the sacred college appoint
 ed by the pope who had then just passed away there were usually consid- erable numbers chosen by his prede-
 cessor, and even a few nominated by the pope preceding him. Tn conse-
 quence of Leo XIII's long reign these parties have entirely disappeared. In
 the present concIaye there will be orly