Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-04-08
TEDDY HAS ROW
WITH POPE Plus
MORE FRICTION ABROAD CAUSED
BY STRENUOUS Ex-
PRESIDENT.
ECHO OF FAIRBANKS INCIDENT
Reception by the King and Queen for
All the Roosevelt Family
Goes Off as
Planned.
ECHO OF FAIRBANKS INCIDENT

not take pace, OWING " COAOAL1OLo
which the Vatican has imposed and
which Mr.. Roosevelt refuses to &C
cept. :
p, Although the definite negotiations
relative to the audience ended before
Mr. Roosevelt left Egypt, the an
nouncement was withheld until after
Mr.. Roosevelt reached Rome, at the
solicitation of his American Catholic
friends here, who believed that in the
meantime the Vatican might change
its attitude. One of the former presi-
dents American friends, who had been
with him in Egypt, same to Rome Sat
urday without, however, any authority
from Mr.. Roosevelt, and fnterceded
with Cardinal Merry Del Val, the papal
secretary, in an endeaVor to avoid a
situation which as it now stands, has
caused a sensation in Rome, although
it was not entirely unexpected. But
these efforts were unavailing.
While at Gondokoro in February last
Mr.. Roosevelt wrote to Ambassador
Leishman saying that he would be glad
of the honor of an audience with King
Victor Emmanuel and the pope.
Refuses Restrictions.
The audience with the king was
promptly arranged. Before an ar
rangement could be reached relative
to an audience with the pope several
kilograms were passed, and the nego-
tiations were ended by Mr.. Roosevelt
refusing in any way to be limited as
to his conduct, and announcing that
any audience with the pope under the
circumstances was impossible.
AS a matter Of fact, Mr.. Roosevelt,
while declining to accept any condi-
tions in connection with his audience
with the pope, had neither directly
nor indirectly, before, during, or after
the negotiations. made or considered
any engagements IN ROme except
those of an official character, and he
actually entered Rome with but two
definite engagements, the audience with
the king, and the dinner to be given in
his honor by the municipality.
The history of the negotiations is
about as follows:
following telegram from Minister
Leishman:
Exchange CT kilograms.
"Mongignor Kennedy, rector of the
American Catholic college, in reply to
an inquiry which I caused to be made,
requests that the following commune
cation be transmitted to you:
1.-The holy father will be delighted
to grant an audience to Mr.. Roosevelt
on April 5, and hopes that nothing will
arise 10 prevent it, such az the much
regretted incident which made the re-
ceDtion of Mr.. FairN onks flrnoasihle -"
Replying by cable to Ambassador
Leishman on March %, Mr.. Roosevelt
said:
please present the following to
Mgr. Kennedy: 1t would be a real
pleasure to me to be presented to the
holy father, for whom I entertain high
respect, both personally and as the
head of a great church. fully recog-
nize his entire right to receive Or not
receive whomsoever he chooses for
any reason that seems good to him,
and if he does not receive me l shall
not for a moment question the pro-
priety of his action. On the other
hand, l in my turn must decline to
make any stipulatiOns or submit to any
limit my freedom of conduct. I trust
that on April he will find it conven-
tent to receive me-"
On March %, Mr. Roosevelt received
a cablegram from Ambassador Leish-
man giving a message from Monsignor
Kennedy, which concluded by saying:
The audience can not take place
except on the understanding expressed
in former message
The following day Mr.. Roosevelt
sent another message to the American
ambassador saying:
THE proposed presentation is, OF
course, now Impossible"
Rome, April 6-Theodore Roosevelt
is not in his happiest mood. His wish
that the vatican audience incident be
regarded as personal to him had not
been respected and he was intensely
annoyed.
About the first thing that the former
president did was to call off the re
ception to the members of the Ameri
can colony. This action can be traced
directly to the issuance of statement
by Rev. B. M. Triple, pastor of the
American Methodist church, in which
opportunity was taken for an attack
upon the Roman church. Mr.. Roose
welt does not propose to be used by
anyone to the disparagement of any
one else.
Rev. Triple called upon Mr.. Roose
welt and upon his departure made pub
lie a statement in which he lifted The
vatican episode out of the realm o
the personal and gave it world-wid,
significance.