The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-06

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I next sitting, the same day. lasted three
hours and a half, with this result: Car
d1nal Pecci, "a; Monaco Ia Valleta, g.;
f'anebianco, s. and Imeoni, s. There
We're hfty-nine present.
After this vote the cardinal bishop of
5 Lisbon arrived and entered the con-
I clave. He took part in the next ballot
ing, which was held on the following
suit: Cardinal Pecci. "A; Bilio, 5; La
lsValleta, ,; Panebianco, 2; Simeoni 2;
Di Canossa, 1; Ferrieri, 1: Martinelli
l; Moretti, 1; Schwartzburg. 1. This
elected Cardinal Pecci. OF the whole
college of cardinals only three were alb
sent-Cullen of Dublin; McCIoskey of
New York, and Brossalt San Marc of
| France.
Election by compromise is when all
the candidates agree to intrust the
choice to small committee of two or
three members of the whole body.
Election by acclamation, or quasi in
spira ton, is when all the cardinals, with
a sudden and harmonious consent, as
though inspired by divine spirit, pro-
claim some person pontif with one
voice and without any previous can
vassing or negotiation whence fraud or
insidious 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:
DETAILS OF ELECTION
| AFTER the death of pope the cardinals
who are absent are Immediately to he
summoned to the conclaVe by one of the
| secretaries of the Sacred college, and the
election is to begin on the tenth day af-
ter the death. In whatever city the pope
| dies there it must be held. Within the
ten days the conclaVe must be con-
structed in the Papal palace or in some
other suitable edif1ce. The large halls
of the palace are so divided by small
partitions as to furnish a number of sets
| of apartments all opening on a corridor
,fCf, fv.s10 H.
ordinary cardinal and three for one of
higher rank.
Here the cardinals must remain until
they have elected pope On the tenth
day a solemn mass of the holy ghost is
said in the Vatican church. After it the
| cardinals form procession and proceed
to the conclave, taking up their respec-
| tive apartments. For the rest Of the
day the conclave is open; crowds of peo-
pie flock in and circulate among the
apartments and corridors, and the am
bassadors 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 authoriz-
ed to remain with them, and the con
claVe is closed to the outside world.
This is done under the superintendent
of two guardians of the conclave, one q
prelate previously appointed by the sa-
cred college, who is called 1.-The COVER
nor" the other a lay official designated
the marshal" Each cardinal is allow
ed to have two members of his house
hold in personal attendance on him, and
these are called ''conclavists." A num-
ber of other attendants and minor Off
cials-a carpenter mason, a sacristan,
a monk to hear confessions, two bar beI s,
eight or ten porters and messengers and
several others-are in the common ser
vice of the whole body of cardinals.
| All the entrances to the building are
closed but ones and this one is in
charge of officials who are partly pre-
lates and partly of the municipality.
whose business it is to see that no un-
authorized person shall enter and to
| exercise a surveillance over the food
brought for the cardinals, lest any
| written communication should be con-
veyed to them by this channel. After
three days the supply of food sent in
is restricted If five days more elapse
without an election being made the
rule used to be that the cardinals
should from that time subsist on moth
ing 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 and a secret ballot by means
of voting papers, is usually instituted
in order to ascertain whether any can
didate has the required majority Oh
two thirds
A cardinal coming from a distance
can enter the conclave after the closure
but only if he claims the right of doing
the city. Every actual cardinal, even
though he may lie under a sentence of
excOmmunication, has the right to
vote, unless he has not yet been ad
mitted to deacOn'S orders. Even in this
case the right of voting has someti
been conferred by special papal dispen-
SatiOn. No cardinal, however, can vote
unless he has received the full dignity
of his rank-that is, the hat, ring ana
titlc-and had his mouth CLOSED" and
| opened" in the consistories. The res
ervation of his name lin petto" or the
mere reception of the beretta would
give him no right to vote.
WHEN BALLOTING BEGINS.
Before the election begins each car
dinal goes through the formality of
proving his identity and right to be
| takes place in the presbytery before the
altar. Inside the railing are the seats of
the cardinals, each with canopy of
green for those of older date and of Vio
let for those created by the late pope.
AS soon as an election has taken place,
these are lowered, the canopy of the
new pope remaining alone aloft. Be
fore each cardinal is a table with writ
ing materials On the gospel side the
cardinal dean has the first seat, follow
ed by the others in the order of preced-
ence, so that the senior deacon sits OPP
posite to him onethe opposite side of the
altar, in front of which is a large box
for the ballots while at the back is the
fireplace wherein, after an inconclusive
ballot the papers are burned The vot-
ing papers are square and folded down
so as to have at each end sealed por-
ton, within the upper end of which is
written the voters name, to be opened
only under special circumstances; and
in the other sealed with the same seal.
is some motto from Scripture, which,
once adopted, must be the same at all
the ballots. and serves ordinarily as the
means of identification of the vote. In
! the middle space, which is left open,
stands the name of the candidate.
When the vote begins each cardinal
advances in turn to the altar, and after
a short prayer in silence repeats in Lat
in the following oath:
Il call to witness Christ our Lord,
who shall be my Judge, that 1 am elect
ing him who. before God think ought