The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-19
TO PROSECUTE SOME PRIESTS.
SELECTED CASES ONLY-SUM-
MONSES STOP IN PARIS.
French Church Dignitary Fined 40 Cents
After Bitter speech by Public Prose-
cutor-RIchard May suspend Open
rvIces-B Bishops Move Protesting.
Special Cable Despatch to TIE sun.

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separation law are becoming rarer daily,
although a. occasional demonstra ion is
recorded in the provinces. Declarations
continue to be made in various sections Of
the country. One was made this morning
for the Church Of st. Sulpice in this city.
Many have been made in Ardennes.
Capt. Magnez, who efuse to order his
troops to smash the doors OF a church on
November 20 in order that an inventory
might be taken. has been tried by court,
martial and condemned to degradation in
rank and the loss of his pension. The deci-
sion is noteworthy bccauss Officers who
we're tried on similar charges previous to
the taking Of inventories were acquitted.
The Government has decided to issue no
more ,ummonses for the offence Of saying
mass in the churches Of Paris and the De-
partment Of the Seine. considering that
the fact of the violation of the law of 1881
has been already sufficiently established.
The further programme in this regard has
not been announced. II may be the inten-
ton Of the authorities to select certain cases
for prosecution. In the farther provinces
prosecutions are still going on.
The Ministers representative who is
prosecuting A~rchpriest Arnaud at Brig
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public prosecutor he never believed he
would one day he oblig ed to pursue the
representative of God on earth. Living
in a country where each individual ought
TO respect the law, the clergy had out
regeously violated il systematically.
Mgr. Arnaud, he said, had violated it
daily at the direction of his spiritual chief.
The republic could not and ought not to
tolerate citizens in its own territory obeying
the commands of a foreigner. He asked
the Court to pronounce condemnation in
order TO indicate To all the cures in France
that they are Freshmen before they are
priests, and that they must obey the CON-
mon law. Mgr. Arnaud was found guilty
and fined two francs, or 40 cents.
The journal des Debdts says IL understands
that il process rerbduI continue to be issued
against the clergy Cardinal Richard will
order them to leave their churches and
organize private worship.
Services have been resumed at the church
ct Etampes, two vestrymen having made a
declaration for the purpose. On the other
hand. three cures in Carcassone have
decided not to say mass owing to the process
rerbdur thai are served upon them daily.
The Mayor of a town near Rochelle
resigned rather thar act against the clergy.
The General Council of Bouches du Rhone
has voted an expression of sympathy with
the republicans Of Barbentane, who suffered
on December IA through the action of
fanatical royalists. The resolution ex-
presses the hops that such demonstrations
will be severely repressed, 80 as to prove
to those who consider orders from
Rome as above the French law that all
Frenchmen owe obedience to the law of
their country.
The magistrate at Barbentane resigned
rather than prosecute the manifestants.
He wrote to the Minister Of Justice that
"after condemning malefactors for thirty
six years I cannot bring myself to prose-
cute the most honorable people OF the
country, who are my friends
A number of manifesters invaded the
prefecture at Vannes, a Breton town. and
injured the sheriff. Several Of the mani
testers wero sentenced to various terms Of
imprisonment. ranging from two to five
DAYS, but they will not serve any time as
they were sentenced under the first Of
tenders act.
The archives Of Cardinal Richard were
removed from his palace before he left il
Yesterday. The furnishings are being re-
moved to-day. The conciorges are the only
qua rds at the palace. the Government
not yet having taken actual possession.
The Cardinal said mass this morning in
the smoking room OF the residence of Dep
utY Denys Cochin, which has been trans
formed into an oratory.
The sec ucstrator at Bordeaux, having
summoned Cardinal Lecot to remit or
cause g be RENTED to him within three
dsvs the cash, deeds and other property
OF =. hich he il the guardian, the Cardinal
replied. refusing to comply with the bar
barous injunction" He added:
We rave allow ed ourselves to be plum
d,:el " ithout resistance beyond appealing
10 common honesty. When you ask us to
bring ourselves and our property to our
plunGerers we refuse TO commit an act OF
baseness that Is abs olutely contrary to
our duty. The accounts, inventories, every
thing, are ready and in their customary
places. You can take possession, but for
us TO take the slightest step to hand them
over ourselves never"
The Bishopric Of Laval was vacated at
a O'Clock this morning. Bishop Rehou
insisted that force be applied to him before
he would leave. simultaneously the sem
mares wero vacated, soldiers breaking in
the doors and compelling the occupants to
quit.
The was some disturbance at Ajaccio,
Corsica. when the seminaries we're vacated.
The soldiers " ere forced to smash the doors
to gain entrance.
The semiuaries at Fontenay -aux-Roses
and Grenoble were vacated quietly. The
Bishop Of Amiens, when he left his palace,
declared that he yielded to moral force.
The Bishop OF Cahors left his palace quietly.
The Bishop Of Coutances left on the pre-
fect's demand.
II is stated that NJ. BRAND, Minister OF
Public Worship, after the meeting OF the
Cabinet told the Religious Bill Committee
nj the Chamber Of Deputies that the Gov
m had agreed that only associations
formed before December II could claim
properties owned by vestries.
The three days grace allowed to Paris
churches expired yesterday. The chief
seauestrator describes the future nethod OF
procedure thus:
"Summonses will be issued to-day rotify-
ing the present holders OF church property
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