Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-12-14
PAPAL ENVOY EXPELLED.
FRANCE ON EVE OF CHURCH AND
STATE SEPARATION ACTS
WITHOUT HESITATION
WOMENWEEP CHURCHES
Men Do Not Seem to Care Much-Rad-
icals Temporarily Suppressed by Of
fcials of Both Sides.

L "A
day for France. The struggle which be-
gan in 1880 with the Punishment OF the
Jesuits ended today with the legal rup-
ture of the bond which for practically
1000 uninterrupted years had united
church and state.
By refusing to make the required
declaration under the public meeting Ia"
of 1881, public Catholic worship, except
by schismatic organizations, tomofro"
becomes illegal.
papal Envoy Is Expelled.
Mgr. Montagnini, secretary OF the
papal nuciature here since the recall OF
the nuncio, was arrested this afternoon
upon an order expelling him trom
France. and will be conducted TO the
frontier tonight. The residence or Mgr'
Montagnini was searched by the ponce;
Immense quantities of documents 1ouuu
at the nunciature were seized ana taAen
to police headquarters. &c
A courier from the Papal secretary OF
state, Cardinal Merry del Val, bearing
dispatches from Rome, was turned back
at the frontier today
Cardinal Must Move.
Formal notice was served during the
day on Cardinal Richard, archbishop OF
Paris, and the bishops and parish priests
of this department that they must evac-
uate their residences tomorrow:
Similar notices were served on the
clergy in the other departments notify
ing them to leave their residences OH
Tuesday or Friday. /
War Minister Picquart has ordered ting
recruiting officers to require eccleslastlcai
students to present their certlhcates ioi
morrow. Those who fail to do so DN
December 20, will be ordered to join th1
3ttpcfS
$500 students.
After a meeting of the cabinet mlcls4
tiers today it was announced that on
December Il Premier Clemenceau VIII
ask Parliament to suppress the pensions
of the clergy, to liquidate the publc
the presbyteries, seminaries, etc.
Among other measures the cabinet
proposes to introduce in Parliament, De
cember II, bill authorizing the gov
eminent to expel ecclesiast1cs whose
presence is considered dangerous to the
public peace.
In the hope of affecting a compromise
several deputies, headed by Georges Ley
CUES, radical Republican, and ex-minlster
of the colonies, have telegra phed to the
mayors of the communes asking them
to induce two Catholic laymen from each
parish to make the declaration undef the
law of 1881 which the Pope. has forbld-
Men Show Indifference.
The scenes in some of the churches
were extremely touching. Not In years
had there beer such an attendance at
mass. The number of women was es-
pecially large and was noteworthy as III
dicating the religious Indifference of the
male population Although seven-eighths
of the inhabitants of this city are nom
inally Catholics, in no parts OF the city
ola1 cd
Notre Dame cathedral, where solemn
high mass was celebrated. the edltlce
was only half filled.
The officiating clergy read the regular
offices for the week as usual without re-
ferring to their illegal status tomorrow.
Nevertheless, the depression OF the
Catholics was manifest. Many women
emerged from the cathedral with their
ewes streaming with tears and fingered
on the pavement to discuss what to 90
when the clergy are turned out OF their
churches.
Radicals Held Aloof.
But on the eve of the struggle it is
becoming more apparent that both the
government officials and high ecclesi-
Incorporate. Minister of Public Wor--
ship BRAND announces that the govern
ment cannot be driven into the trap OF
closing the churches
Cardinal Richard, Archbishop OF
Paris, has strongly censured the placard-
ing of appeals to the clericals to make
violent resistance to the officers OF the
law.
mo violence" he says, ''but passive
resistance to the unjust law, after ex-
hausting all protests at every step.
Followers Not So Meek.
This is the disposition so far as the
higher ecclesastics are concerned; but
their followers evidently have no inten-
ton to submit and are preparing to as
sumo the roll of martyrs, abandon the
churches and organize private worship
Cardinal Richard and many of the bish-
OPS already have begun the removal OF
their private effects from the Episcopa
mansions, and the clergy are preparing
to move into hired lodgings. 1t is an
nounced that the parish priests have re-
ceived many offers of places to hold re
ligious services. but there is not the
slightest indication that they intended
to take advantage of this.
The government continues to present
a calm front, although the ministers real
ize that additional legislative power will
be necessary if serious trouble occurs.
Receivers have been appointed every
where to assume charge of sequestered
property, and three policemen will be
stationed tomorrow at the doors Of each
of the churches
Spain Is on Edge.
MADRID, Dee. 1.-THE premier, the
MARQUIS de Armiho, former Premier
Moret and President of the Chamber OF
Deputies Canalejas, leader OF the new
party as the extreme liberals, are sound
ing the Vatican authorities as to wheth
er they are prepared to support a law OF
associations with certain notifications
If the Pope is found intransigent they
propose to press the law as now drafted
Sensation in Rome.
ROME, Dec. 11.-Signor Mirabelli
Republican, at today's session of the
Chamber Deputies, introduced a resolu
ton which was adopted, to the effect
that the Chamber sends it's warm con
gratulations to France on the anti
clerical policy which it is following, as
tending to secularize the state and rem,
der the human conscience Independent"
WORKERS IN THE NEVA.