The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-01


in today's bailoting.
Then the great business of the day
was at hand.
Al 10 o'clock all the cardinals assem-
ble6 in the Sistine chapel for the first
ballot
Many were the grumblings al the un-
comfol table beds. the heat. the Odors
and other discomforts endured one
cardinal declaring he had not slept
wink because of the mosquitoes. The
chapel presented a picture of much an
mation and beauty Violet was the
leading note of color Six candles on
the altar gave "A peculiar light in con-
junction with the daylight streaming
through the windows and cleaning on
the empty thrones on the long lines of
seats. with their baldachinos. (caEOpiesJ
occupied by the cardinals intent upon
the business in hand Everything was
symbolic. Even the baldachinos which
We're now raised over the cardinals
chairs in the Sstine chapel are a sign
that each member of the sacred college
has a personal part in the sovereignty
of the apostolic see, but when pope is
elected they are removed, the new ponS
tiff alone remaining with this symbol
OF power.
The cardinals went to the Sistine
chapel accompanied by their conclaviStS
carrying portfolios and papers. When
Cardinal Oreglia was seated, all the
others following his example, prayers
were offered, after which Monsignor
Cagiano, the governor of the cOnclave,
called exit omnes" thus announcing
to the conclavists and prelates that they
must retire and leave the cardinals
alone. The voting papers used by their
eminences are somewhat different from
those of 1878, being little longer and
narrower.
After the balloting was finished the
chalice was covered. well shaken. and
the ballots were publicly counted.
Then passing them into a receotacle
nlaRa6 ron or or
the chapel the two cardinal scrutinizers
opened the first ballot and passed it to
a third cardinal. who read it out in a
loud voice. and the other cardinals
noted the votes on a printed list of
names with which each was provided
AS no cardinal received the prescribed
.wo-thirds of the votes a supplementary
ballot was taken. with no better result.
Consequently at 11;20 a. m, all the bal
lots We're burned, the smoke being seen
from the left side of the piazza of St
Peters, where few curious people
mostly newspaper men. had gather TO
record this mute MESA ge.
1t was said on good authority that
Cardinals HerrerO and Langenieux were
unable to leave their cells this morn
Ing so that when the time came for
vUting, Immediately after having taken
TO the altar his own vote. Cardinal
Oreglia showed the members of the
sacred college a small empty box having
a tiny slit in the cover. This box was
locked in the presence OF all the cardi-
nails and the key was placed on the
altar after which the three cardinal
scrutinfzers carried the box to the
apartments of the invalids who. after
taking the prescribed oath, dropped their
ballots through the slit into the box,
which was taken back to the Sistine
chapel, unlocked. and the ballots de-
posted with those of the other cardinals
in the chalice on the altar.
The balloting this afternoon did not
differ in form from that of this morn
ing. From what leaked out from the
conclave IT does not appear that much
progress has been made toward a re-
suit, although 1t is said that the Ram
polla party remains compact with a
tendency to increase its strength
The two invalid cardinals are reported
to be somewhat better. The cardinals
who like Gibbons. have rooms with full
southern exposure found the heat at
midday almost unbearable The after
noon ballot ended at sos o. m. when the
crowd waiting in the piazza of St
Peters saw the smoke from the burned
ballots ascend from the Sistine chanel.
Owing to the lateness of the ho1r at
which the burning of the ballots tofS,
place many rumors became current and
hopes was even entertained that a new
pope had been elected.
According to a reliable source of in
formation. it is stated that at the arst