The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-26
His Chances of Election Seem
to Have Improved.
The COMING C0NCLAvE
Interest is Now Largely centered in This---
Today The Body Of Leo Will bs IL-
tered in aSarcophagus
atSt Peters.
atSt. Peters.
(By the Associated Press.)


Rome, July 24.-Again today the body
of Leo XIII lay in state in the Basilica OF
st. Peters and about thirty thousand peo-
pie passed before the catafalque during
the day.
With impressive ceremonies the body
will be inferred tomorrow evening in a
sarcophagus at st. Peters, where it will
remain until taken to its final resting place
in the church of st. John Lateran Ital-
ian soldiers again today preserved order
inside ST. Peters, where there was a repe-
tition of the scene and crowd which Oc-
Cured yesterday.
Interest is now largely engrossed with
the coming conclave and it's result. The
gossip of the day may be summed up
briefly by saying that Cardinal Gotti's
CHANGES of election seem to have improved
in Comparison with those of other cardi-
mails who have been mentioned as likely
to succeed the dead Pontiff, although there
still exists strong feeling that some one,
hitherto scarcely talked of, may wear the
tiara.
Much comment was excited at the Vat
lean by a drive which Cardinal Oreglia
took through the Vatican gardens this
morning.
The workers in the more quiet precincts
of the gardens were startled when they
saw the well known Papal carriage ap-
preaching, surrounded by Swiss and Noble
Guards. Their hearts jumped when they
saw the face of the Cardinal looking out
at them. The Camerlengo did not appear
to be satisfied with what he saw. He shook
his head, exclaiming dismally:
what decay; what neglect. / could not
remain shut up in this melancholy place.
/ should die w,.nin year."
The gossips of the Vatican now wish to
know if this means that the Cardinal would
not accept the Papacy which seems prac-
tically impossible, or accepting, would re-
fuse to be the voluntary, traditional Vat
lean prisoner. 1t seems that the more
probable Interpretation of his remarks
you'd be that, if made possible, he would
lnsrNtute great changes in the gardens.
Thet congregation of cardinals has not
yet decided whether the note which the
Sacred College intends to address to the
powersN concerning the situation of the
Papacy hat Rome shall be presented tomor-
row wheA the reception of the diplomatic
| body occurs. At the meeting of the con-
gregati0n today Cardinal Satolli asked
when the conclave will be opened. Cardi-
nal Oregla replied that he thought that on
the evening of Friday, the 31st, all the car
dinals might enter their cells and be ready
for the first meeting of the conclave Aug
ust 1st, week from tomorrow
The congregation today also heard the
secret reports received from the nuncios
at Vienna, Paris Munich and Madrid. 1t
approved the charity requeathed by Leo
to the poor, dividing it as follows: SIC. 900
for Rome. $4,000 for Perugia, where Leo
was for many years archbishop, and $4,000
for Carpenite, where the late Pontiff was
born
Inside the Vatican the work of arranging
the apartments for the concave has been
begun. The court yards are choked with
carts. bricks and building material for
raising the walls where doors exist, making
partitions. etc. The Palatine Guards and
gendarmes will be transferred elsewhere,
as their barracks are needed by .he con-
clave This afternoon Cardinal Oregla,
escorted by the Swiss Guards, inspected
the work, observing everything infinitely
Cardinal Oreglia is increasing in favor
daily, even IN the government circles
where it is remembered that it was through
his efforts that the propaganda of the
Vatican adhered to the request of the
Italian government to establish an apos-
tolic prefecture in Erithrea.