The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-07-30

lneels and prays for a moment after
which he takes oath that he is about to
elect him whom, according to God, he
thinks ought to be elected. He then
puts the ticket on the patcn and slips
it from thence into the chalice, which
hecovers up again. Then he makes anew
a reverence before the altar and returns
to his place.
If a cardinal is infrm and cannot
walk, one Of the scrutators goes to his
place to receive the ticket on a paten,
after the cardinal has taken the pre-
scribcd oath. If he is sick in his cell
three cardinals appointed for that pur-
pose go to his bedside with a closed
box, like money box, to receive his
vote and take it to the chapel
They turn the voting ticket out on
the paten and count them and com
mence the scrutiny.
The first scrutator takes a ticket and
opens it and reads in a low voice the
name of the cardinal written thereon,
passing the ticket on to the second
scrutator, who reads it in the same way,
passing it on to the third. The third
scrutator proclaims in q loud voice the
name inscribed on each ticket, and as he
does this the cardinals, who are all seat
ed in their places with printed list of
all the members of the sacred college
before them, on paper ruled with red
lines, score one by one the votes obtain
ed by each cardinal and the third scru-
tator files the votes as he receives them
on a string.
If any cardinal has received two
thirds of the votes Of those present in
conclave he is pope. If no one obtains
this number they pass Immediately to
the ballot per accessum. In the ballot
per accesSum each cardinal has the
right of voting anew for a different cam
didate from the one for whom he first
voted, and for this purpose, by the aid
Of the number and his motto from the
Bible, the scrutator examines his first
ticket in order to see that he does not
vote twice for the same cardinal.
; II in the second round of the ballot
any cardinal gets number of votes
which are sufficient, when added to the
, number he obtained in the first round
l to make up two-thirds, he is pope; anC
generally the popes are elected in the
, second round.
I After each Intellectual scrutiny tn,
voting papers are burned, and the PEG
j. pie of Rome have sometimes divinet
: that the election of the pope has no
: been completed by the non-appearanc'
of the sfumata, or smoke, from tn,
), chimney every day at the appointed
!. hour of voting in the morning.
: But at last the sacred college has de
L cided. The pope has been chosen
i There he sits still among the cardinals
pale with emotion; those who are nea
$ him retire to distance; all fall upol
Q their knees. The dean and the senio
y cardinal priest approach him and as]
G if he accepts the dignity and what nam
3 he will take. The pope-elect consent
a and gives out the name under which h
: will be known as pope. He is led be
q hind the altar, where pontificial robe
). of white are in readiness and slipper
n embroidered with the cross of gold. Fl
7, is placed in the chair of ST. Peter. TIL
cardinal and dean kneel and kiss hi
n foot and his right hand; the pope lift
j them up and kisses them on both cheek
a (osculum pacis). The other cardinal
follow and chant "Ecce Sacerdos Mas
II nus" This is the ceremony Of the fir.
IT decoration, after which the dean, pr,
N eded by the sacristans and the, pap
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