The Washington herald., 1907-04-15
SIX new CARDINALS
Prelates to BE Created at
COnsistOry This Week.
ROUMANIA SITUATION GRAVE
Riots Degenerate Into Mania for IN
discriminate observation-disclosures
20 Abolish Personal Tax and Tax
on Domestic Animals ia Order to
Alleviate Distress In the Country.

London. April 1.-THE secret consistory
ordered by Pope Plus X win assemble in
Rome on Monday and viii be followed by
a cOnsistory on Thursday The following
six new cardinals will be made: Aristide
Cavallar. Patriarch of Venice. born at
Chioggia. in the diocese of Venice in
1S49 and has been connected with that
diocese ali his life, succeeding the pres
ent Pope as Patriarch in 1904, Benedetto
LorenzeIli. Archbishop of Lucca since
1904 was born in the diocese Of Bologna
in 1853. and was the Papal Nuncio in
Paris from 1889 to 1904 when diplomatic
relations were broken of. PietrO Mafti,
Archbishop of Pisa, was born in the
diocese Of Pavia in 1858, and. after being
auxiliary bishop in Ravenna. succeeded
Mgr Capponi in 1913 in the see of Pisa:
he will now rclinqulsh this see and come
to Rome as a Cardinal Of the Curia.
AIossandro Lualdi Archbishop of Paler-
NO. was born at Milan also in 1855, and
succeeded Cardinal Celesia In Palermo in
1876, after being director of two of the
principal religious seminaries. Desire
Mercer, Archbishop of AIalines. born in
1851 i'm the same diocese, is also well
known as head of the Belgian seminaries,
succeeding Cardinal Goossens in his pres
ent arehbishopric last year. Aristide Rim
aIdinl. born in the diocese Of Spoleto IN
1874. has been successfully Nuncio at
Munich and Madrid where he now re-
sides
The addition of these six cardinals Will
bring up the ltImber Of the Sacred Col
Iege TO slxty-one, which is still nine short
of the normal number OF seventy. OF
these. thirty-seven are Italians and TWEEN
ty-four are foreigners. None of the new
cardinals belongs TO the religious orders,
which still possess only seven representa-
tives in the Sacred College
The lack of direct news dispatches from
Roumania does not seem TO prove that
the situation is improved to any consider
able extent Private advices show that
the situation Is exceedingly grave. gTaver
indeed than seems realized by the out
side world. The refusal of the landlords
TO bow TO the government edicts granting
the peasants liberal reforms seems large
~ responsible for the renewed trouble,
which appears 20 be growing worse every
day
In the extreme north of Moldavia,
where the peasant revolt began, there is
apparently some abatement in the tide
Of violence and devastation, but the series
of ''pogroms" which has followed ia
Wallachia during the last few weeks has
far surpassed anything that had taken
place in the northern province.
The character Of the movement also
seems to have changed. In the first In
stance it was purely agrarian, the peas
ants demanding land at low prices and
seeking to liberate themselves from the
grinding tyranny of the farmers OF mid
dIemen, most of whom are Jews. But
since its extension to the southern prov
ince the agitation has assumed differ
eat aspect. There are indications that
a widespread organization is at work.
and that destruction pure and simple.
rather than plundeT or personal revenge.
is the leading motive. Whole villages,
country houses and farms have been
burned in q most indiScTiminate manner.
and an enormous amount Of valuable
property has been destroyed. The dev-
astatiOn is all the greater owing TO tho
circumstance that last years harvest
was exceptionally abundant. and that
owing 10 lack OF facilities for transport
"a large proportion of the crop was still
stored on the farms. II is even stated
that on one occasion the peasants de-
stroyed a large number OF bank notes
found in one of the local institutions %
credit Il has been observed that the
bands proceeding from village TO village
ard dealing destruction in all directions
are composed to some extent Of strangers.
townsmen, and even foreigners. and there
is reason 70 believe that anarchist sOcie-
ties over the Russian frontier for soma
time past have been extending their
organization into this country.
The destruction OF property of all kinds
is enormous, the losses Of some individ-
ual pToprietOTs exceeding one million lei
(S200 COO. In the Vlashka district organ
lied bands OF plunderers have been driven
by troops into the three villages of Vieru,