The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-05-26
VATICAN AGlTATED.
Recent Conflict With French Govern.
ment Over Loubet's Visit of
Serious Nature.

Rome, May 24-Vatican authoritie
continue to be agitated over the con-
fict with the French government grow
ing out of the protest against Presi-
dent Loubet's visit to Rome. and tho
recall OF M. Nisard, the French am
bassador to the vatican.
The pope said mass this morning in
the presence OF $40 Italians and for
elgners and gave up the rest of the
day to The consideration Of the diff
culties with France, reading clippings
from the newspapers on the subject,
The vatican authorities hope that M.
Nisard will soon return to Rome, be-
ing influenced by the fact that his
family is still here.
The question as to how L'Humanite
OF Paris became possessed Of the note
Of protest addressed to the other DOW
ers, Which varied from that sent to the
French government, is daily becoming
more interesting. 1t seems to be now
certain, as was at first supposed, that
the 1ndiscretion was due to the prin-
cipality of Monaco, the Vatican's note
to which was stronger than that ad-
dressed to the other Catholic states in
consequence of the vatican having been
Informed that Prince Albert of Monaco
intended to visit the king of Italy. A
further reason why the note to the
prlnc1pal1ty OF Monaco was more en-
phatic, 1t is said at the vatican was be-
cause Prince Albert was the friend of
captain Dreyfus, who had worked
against the French government, and
also because the clerico n~ationalists
We're in accord, if not in the same field
with M. Jaures, the socialist leader,
who originated the present agitation.
1t Is said that Prince Albert was
offended because the ate Pope Leo
at his last jubilee refused the Peters
pence sent by Monaco because the
one n6 ~ n u 40
-erations. The relations between Prince
Albert and the vatican became more
strained when the latter rejected Prof.
Klein, translator of the works of Bish-
op John L. S%palding, OF Peoria, who
was proposed by Prince Albert as bish-
op of Monaco.
The ministry of the interior author
ICES a denial of the statement that NJ.
de NavOnne, first secretary of the
French embassy to the vatican, will
act as charge d'affaires at the en-
bassy, stating that the government
tenuate the Importance of the action
taken in the recall of Ambassador
NiSard.
The Only Topic in Paris.
Paris, May 23.-The recall of NJ. Mis-
ard, French ambassador to the vatican
continues to be the absorbing topic.
The ambassador is expected to arrive
tojiloI IL" Iilcil IiiiS, NiiCll lc Will
confer with foreign Minister Dclcasse
and go over the details of the rupture
between France and the vatican pre-
liminary to the meeting of the council
of ministers on Tuesday when a fur
ther line Of action will be determined
upon.
Contrary to general expectations,
Monsignor Lorenzelli, the papal nuncio
at Paris, will not feave his post, at least
not at present.
The tone OF the socialist papers indi-
Gates that that powerful element has
urged the government to take most
extreme measures. Deputy Geralt Rich
ard saye in the Petite R~epublique that
the matter must proceed until the con-
cOrdat has been ended.
The Rome correspondent of the
Temps says that vatican officials lay
great stress upon h TACT that the pope
alone directs the policy of the holy see.
When Cardinals Vannutelli, Gotti, Ag-
liardi and others saw the pope on
Thursday n Friday, according to
the correspondent, his holiness fore
Swallowed the first stage Of the con-
fict, but he declared SO theoretically
that he was responsible to God alone
for his actions and was acting thus
for the greatest good of the church that
the cardinals did not dare to remon-
Strate.