Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-07-31

FOR CONCLAVE
Make the Vatican Look Like Beehive
---Apartments for Cardinals
Being Prepared.
TEMPORAL POWER OF PAPACY
Expressly Mentioned in the Oath Requir-
ed of Each Cardinal Who is to Vote
in the Election of the New POpe---A
Note to the Powers is Spoken Of.

Rome July 2S. The vatican re-
sembles an ant hill, SO feverish is the
work of preparing the part of that
building set aside for the conclave
Before 1880 concaves were held in
the Q1irinal Palace, one long wing of
which was always ready without any
special preparation. But in the case
Of the vatican, apartments of three or
four rooms for each cardinal have to
be specially prepared, and as there
are sixty -four cardinals, the amount
of work involved is great.
The section destined for the con-
clav comprises. on the ground floor OF
the vatican, tho three suites OF rooms
which surround the famous Court OF
San Damaso, the rooms under the late
pop Is apartments, and the tower with
the rooms about fhe Sala Ducsle. On
the second floor the rooms about Log
gia Raphael and the pontificll Offices
comprising all the apartments former
Iy occupied by Cardinal Rampolla,
who has left the vatican altogether,
will be used. The whole will furnish
commodious lodging for about 500
persons
LOCATION OF THE CONCLAVE.
The Sistino Chapel. os in the case of
the last conclave, will be used for the
meetings of the cardinals and tbe bal
loting. There. after three solemn
funeral services, which begin today,
viii be erected throne for each card
inal. The thrones will be baldacchinos
or caropies attached to the wall be-
hind. The moment q new pope is
elected he will lower his baldac ,hino
as a token of his new dignity thus
silently announced. Paulin chapel
will be used for ihe celebration OF high
mass every morning OF the conclaae,
while in the Sala Ducsle will be NOV
able altars for the masses to be cele-
brated every morning by each cardi-
nal.
The gendarmes and Palatine Guards
will be transferred to the building in
the Belyidere courtyard, where the
roor pilgr ms were lodged during the
last jubilee, The gendarmes' barracks
being rransrorme into kitcnens, pas
tries, etc. The Belvidere courtyard
will be conv .rted into general q iarters
for the carpenters aud other workmeu.
The court is quite rnrecogniza lie
The long lines of glass windows of the
Loggia r ,phael have been paintel up
to certain h.ight as precaution. and
shades have been put on every win
dow to better insure secrecy. As
surances have been given that every
thing will be in reaiinesss for Friday
night, but there is much yet to be ac-
complished.
TEMPORAL POWER QUESTION
The cardinals at their meeting to-
day again discussed the advisabi,ity
of sending a note to the powers re-
garding the condition of the Holy See.
Some of them isisted on the necessity
of not allowing the occasion to p; IS
without again protesting against the
eizare of Pontifical territory by Italy,
thereby showing that the Papacy is
determined to maintain its claims un-
abated. Others said they thought
thst such a note would not add any
force to the many protests of the same
kind already made, while it might in
terfere with the policy which the fu-
ture pope may desire to follow, aud
added that the best thing to do was to
leave the successor of Leo XIII, en-
tirely free to choose the course which
he may consider the best for the good
of the faithful and the general inter-
ests of the church.
No decision of the subject was ar
rived at.