The San Francisco call., 1908-09-08
COADJUTORSnIP IS
LOST TO DIR. HANNA.
Congregation for Settlement OF
American Questions Declines
to Elect Candidate
SPECIAL pIspATuH To THE cALL

ROME, Sept THE last meeting
of the congregation for sstIleInsnt OF
American Questions was held to-
day Casdinal Gottf was in the chair,
and Cardinals Wives. Tuta, Cassetta,
Gennari, Satolli. Caviochioni, Segna and
question under dispute was the appoint
ment of the Rev. j. J. Hanna. president
of the theological seminary of Roches-
ter, to the coadjutorship archbishopric
of San Francisco, vice Archbishop
George Montgomery, deceased.
1t is understood in vatican circles
that Cardinal Satolli, who was at one
time Vicar Apostolic to America, and
who in that time became very friendly
with American prelates, upheld the
candidate of Archbishop Riordan, while
Cardinal Gotti. the head of the propa-
ganda, led the opposition to his ap-
pointment. After much discussion the
congregation decided to ask Archbishop
Riordan to have new candidates pro-
posed by the irremovable rectors and
the suffragan bishops of the archiepis-
copal province.
While the general deliberations of
the congregation were kept secret, it
is understood that the irregularity
mentioned in the choice of DR.. Hanna
as dignissimus in preference to two
other candidates mentioned, did not
meet with favor even with those who
date proposed.
1t is quietly rumored about here
that one of the electorate body, which
was made up of Archbishop Riordan's s
council and the congregation of ir-
removable pastors, voted the ticket
proposed and then found technical ir-
Irregularities in the balloting which he
<.l,<x a. i g. -1<I ID
The objections to the charge of mod
ernism. drawn from DR.. Hanna's writ
ings on the Human Knowledge of
Christ" published in the Catholic Re
view of America, seem to have been
disregarded by the congregation Of the
propa ganda, and the lesser objection in
volving his choice through irregularity
are given the precedence in the delib-
Grafton of the cardinals.
1t is generally acknowledged, how
ever, that the case of DR.. Hanna, in
whose behalf Archbishop Riordan went
to Rome, and whose cause was advo-
Gated. by Cardinal Satolli, is now i'm
possible, so far as the coadjutorship
to the archdiocese of San Francisco
is concerned.
This feeling is said to have existed
in Rochester. the doctors home city, for
many months past, but there was al
ways IeeunS III ISoiiic THAT the ScduUl-
date proposed by Archbishop Riordan
would be finally appointed.
The appointment of Bishop Muldoon
of Chicago to the post of bishop of
Rockford H., was unanimously ap-
proved The congregation also ad-
vised the transfer of the seat of the
Canadian ecclesiastic province of Vic
toria from Victoria to Vancouver; ap-
pointing Right Rev. Austin Denten-
will, bishop of New Westminster, as
archbishop. of Victoria in succession to
Archbishop Orth. resigned, and ap-
pofnting the Very Rev. Alexander Nc
Donald, vicar general of Antigonish, as
the new bishop of Victoria.
Archbishop Riordan is at present in
the country. There seems to be a feel
ing, however, that he will not again
ask the holy see for coadjutor. His
health has improved in the last year.
and the general idea expressed among
the clergy is that with added vitality
he will continue to administer the
functions of the diocese with the aid
of whatever visiting bishop NAV
chance to sojourn in this vicinity. or
with the aid of one of the bishops in
nearby dioceses. as he has done since
the death of Archbishop George Mont