The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-14
Three Notable Exeeption..


number of those present with the object
OF making reports to the justices of po-
lice.
Three Notable Exceptions.
Formal charges were entered wherever
mass was celebrated except at the
churches of st. Jean PEvangeline and
St Blaise de Charonne and Pere La
Chaise. whose parishioners, following the
example OF the first mentioned church,
made application yesterday evening to
hold services under the law of 1851.
The vicar of st. Blaise de Charonne
when induced by his parishioners to take
the step, said:
Whatever the consequences L regret
thing"
Early dispatches from the departments
say that wherever mass was celebrated
charges were drawn and summons is
sued.
At Chalons the Able Panaudin claimed
that the church bells were not ringing,
and that therefore the assemblage had
not the character Of a public meeting,
whereupon he was compelled by po-
lice officer to inscribe his protest upon
the summons.
Submit Only to Force.
AT the final meeting last night of the
diocesan council here il was decided that
neither the ecclesiastical residences nor
the seminaries should be abandoned ex-
cept before a show of force.
IL is officially stated that the letters
of Mgr. Montagnini, the expelled seere-
tary of the papal nuncfature here. show
that the majority of the French bishops
favored observance of the law of 1881
and bowed with reluctance to the papal
decree. The official statement adds that
the inviolability of the diplomatic cor
respondeDce of the nunciature was scru-
pulously respected before the rupture be-
tween the vatican and France
During the day Summonses were is-
sued charging illegal assemblies in the
case of sixty-nine churches of Paris.
The Official Journal announced that only
sOciatiOns formed were legal. while 800
Protestant and IS Jewish associations con-
form with the law.
Many Suits Brought.
Many suits have been begun in connec-
ton with endowments for masses to be
celebrated for the Tepose of the souls OF
the departed. About fifty seminaries
which refused to comply with the terms
of the law are being closed.
During the day a number of applications
for permission to hold religious meetings
under the law of 1881 were made at the
prefecture of police by parishioners from
all parts of Paris. Ten such applications
were filed before o'clock. Reports from
other cities say that similar applications
were made
1t was rumored during the afternoon
that the government is instigating this
course in order to insure keeping the
d
and forcing the latter into the position of
deliberately disseminating public wor-
ship. No disorder was reported from
Ard department where the same proceed
ure as adopted in Paris is being followed.
Notices to evacuate the edifices belong
ing to the state were served the &C.
clesiastics and seminarists. and were
usually met with the response that they
would yield to force.
Cases Postponed.
The abbes of the Church OF St. Pierre
du Gros Gallon. st. Augustin and ST.
Roche. who are being prosecuted under
the law making it an offense to utter in
places of public worship words calculated
to provoke resistance to the lawful au-
thoTities, appeared for preliminary exam
ination today. They denied having vio-
lated the law and their cases were post
poned. 1t was in the churches of the
three abbes mentioned that the greatest
resistance to the taking of inventories
occurred.
The ecclesiastics charged with violat ions
of the law have appealed to the commits
saries of police. They claim that in eel
ebrating mass they are within their
rights The trials will take place before
the correctional court.
Proceedings have been begun in be-
half of the government against the Sis
ters of the Assumption on the charge of
conducting a convent and school for the
aristocracy in violation of the law against
education by religious orders.