The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-13
INCREASED
 lEXGTEMENT .yAy of Grace for Paris Churches. THE PROSECUTION OF ABBES Rank and File of Catholics Disap-
 prove Pope's Stand.
THE PROSECUTION OF ABBES
CIemanceau SeemH to Have Pa lament Back OT Him But Gives t'riests Every Opportunity to
 Conform to Law

Paris Dc. 12.-The day Of grace granted to the churches of Paris gran ted In the execution of .he law provid- ing for the separation of church and State postpones until tomorrow the measures for it's enforcement.
 The delay. howevr, has only ser'- ed to increase the excitement caused by the expulsion from France yesterday If Monsignor Montagnini, secretary of the papal nunciature at Paris.
 The formal charge on which Monsig- nor Montagnini was expelled was that he carried out an order contained in a telegram from Papal, Secretary of Stato Merry Del Val, received December s to instruct the French clergy to refuse to make applications under the law of 1881 or obey the law of 1905. The gov- ernment obtained a, copy of the meS- sage at the telegraph office
 Prosecutions have been begun against the Ultramontain Abbes of the churches of St. Pierre du Gros Cail!ou, St. AI- est resistance to the taking of the in- ventories occurred. and It has been de cided to immediately take over the buildings belonging to the ecclesiastics, stop the pensions of the clergy, com pei aspirants to the priesthood to full fill their military obligations and if necessary, treat the clergy IS subjects of foreign power.
 The three Abbes will be prosecuted under the law which makes is an of- fense to utter in places of public wor- ship words calculated 70 provoke re- sistance to the lawful authorities, which is punishable if the words tend to produce an armed uprising with Imprisonment from three months to two years.
 At the church of St. Augustine this mnFninHr tnarR q fFYy ing. which concluded with the chanting of the Dies Irae.
 ClemenCeau Is Popular. E This constitutes a sufficient Semon- stration of the spirit with which the government intends to meet resistance The reception of Premier Clemenceaus speech in the chamber or deputies last raent at his back.
 Nevertheless, M CIemenceau was careful to say that there was still time for Catholics to conform to the law That the rank and file of the liberal Catholics diaapprove Of the intran- sigeant attitude of the authorities at Rome is evidenced by the fact that the editor of The Renaissance. Felix Robin, has of his own initiative filed with the prefect of police, Lepine. an application under the public meetings law, of 1881, for permission to hold religious meet ings in all the churches.
 This affords the single ray of hope In the situation. The Figaro today says that Cardinal Richards, archbish- op of Paris, at firss declined to ap- prove of M. Robins action, but later he changed his mind. This application, if accepted, no matter whether 1t Is approved or disapproved by the clergy, will legalize the holding of religious services and render unnecessary any proceedings against Paris priests or v!cars tomorrow.
 It turns out that the papers seized at the papal nunciature yesterday plac- ed in the governments hands, impor- tant evidence. which may prove ex- ceedingly embarrassing to the vatican if open war Is to take. place.
 They include besides all the diploma tic records covering the correspondence exchanged before the rupture with the vatican, recent instructions from Car dinaI Merry del Val. the papal secre- tary of state, a mass of letters from prelates all over the world and let- ters in the handwriting of deputies of the Right Party M. Jaures, the social ist leader, asserts in his paper that the seized documents even prove the exis- tence of conspiracy.
 Cardinal Richard has accepted the temporary hospitality of M. Denys Cochin, a conservative member of the chamber of deputies from one of the Paris districts.
 The Catholic seminaries at Bordeaux, Mende and Saint Brieux were evacuat- ed today.
 A detachment of police this after noon surrounded the buildings occu- pied by the chamber of deputies and the Senate in order to prevent possible anti government demonstrations by clericals.