Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-07-11

New York and Brossalt San Mare of
France.
Election by compromise Is when all
the candidates agree 10 intrust the
choice to a small committee Of two or
three members OF the whole body.
Election by reclamation, or quasi in
spiration. is when all the cardinals
with sudden and harmonious consent
as though inspired by divine spirit.
proclaim some person pontlff with one
voice and without any previous can
wasting or negotiation whence fraud or
insidlous suggestion could be surmised.
Neither Of these two methods has been
OFTEN employed. The usual course is a
ballot and the details Of the event are
carried out in the following order:
TENTH DAY AFTER DEATH.
After the death of pope the car.
dlnals who are absent are Immediately
TO be summoned to the conclave by one
OF the secretaries of the Sacred coll
lege, and the election is to begin on the
tenth day after the death. In what
ever city the pope dies there It must
be held. Within the 10 days the con-
clave must be constructed in the papal
palace or in some other suitable edi.
flee. The large halls Of the palace are
so divided by small partitions as to
furnish number OF sets OF apart
ments all opening on a corridor
which are distributed by lot, two for
an ordinary cardinal and three for one
Of higher rank.
Here the cardinals must remain un-
I'll they have elected a pope. on the
tenth day a solemn mass Of the Holy
Ghost Is said In the vatican church.
After 1t the cardinals form a process
sion and proceed TO the conclave, TAX
ing up their respective apartments.
For the rest OF the day the concaye is
open; crowds OF people flock In and
circulate among the apartments and
corridors, and the ambassadors and
delegates Of foreign states, besides their
personal friends, visit the cardinals for
the last time.
In the evening everyone Is turned out
except the cardinals and those auth
orized TO remain with them, and the
conclave Is closed 10 the outside
world. This Is done under the superin-
tendance of two guardians OF the con-
claye one a prelate previously ap-
pointed by the Sacred college. who Is
called 'the governor" the other a lay
official designated the marshal" Each
cardinal is allowed TO have two mem-
bers Of his household in personal at
tendance on him, and these are called
''oonclayists." A number Of other at
tendants and minor ofilcials-a carpen-
ter. a mason a sacristan. a monk TO
hear confession, two BARRIERS. eight or
ten porters and messengers and sever
al others-are In the common service
OF the whole body of cardinals.
IN SECRET BALLOT.
All the entrances TO the building are
closed but one and this one Is in charge
Of officials who are partly prelates and
partly OF the municipality, whose busl-
ness Il is to see that no unauthorized
person shall enter and TO exercise a sur
VIGILANCE over the food brought for the
cardinals. lest any written communca-
ton should be conveyed TO them by this
channel. After three days the supply OF
food sent IN Is restricted, II fivc days
more elapse without an election being
made the rule used TO be that the carr
dlnals should from that time subsist on
nothing but bread. wine and water. But
this rigor has been somewhat modified
by later ordinances Each morning and
evening the cardinals meet IN the chapel
l.. II.
papers, Is usually Instituted in order 20
ascertain whether any candidate has
the required ma Jority OF two-thirds.
A cardinal coming from q distance
can enter the ronnlave after tho closure,