Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-29

DON JAIME.
MADRID. July 2a.-omInous reports are
received following the publication of the
news that a rupture between the Spanish
government and the Vatican appears inn
minent
At San Sebastian Don jaime the pre-
tender. has issued a manifesto in which
he says that he will lead the Carlists in
the battle which he intimates may be
| coming soon,
1t is expected that Premier Canalejas
will ask King Alfonso to set the stamp of
premier has adopted.
Will Not Cancel Program.
! The Vatican has declared that the ne
gotiations looking TO a revision OF the
| concordat cannot be continued until the
! imperial. decree permitting on-Catholic
societies to display the insignia OF public
worship has been withdrawn. Canalejas
has responded that he cannot cancel the
program which the government has an
nounced. In some quarters it is believed
that the holy see counts upon the fall OF
said to have had the assurance OF the
kings support at the time he determined
upon his plan for religious reforms.
The general situation is complicated b.
the unrest among the miners in the
Catalonian provinces and the occasional
clashes between the Catholic and non
Catholic elements throughout the coun-
try
Forcing Anti-Clerical Campaign.
Ell Mundo, discussing the threatened
| break between the Spanish government
and the Vatican over the refusal OF Pre-
mier Canalejas to rescind the imperial
decree, which permits non-Catholic So
cieties to display the insignia for public
worship, says:
1.-The holy see has no reason to feel OF
Tended 1t is heading deliberately toward
rupture which will precipita,e the
opening Of d rapid and energetic anti
clerical campaign.
Ready to Lead Revolt.
SAN SEBASTIAN. Spain, July 29.-Don
Jaime of Bourbon, the Carlist pretender
to the Spanish throne, today issued
manifesto to the Carlists in parliament
CO ngratulating them upon their loyalty ~
|
and declaring:
Il think the day is not far distant
" hen my followers must rally TO Qua
fi.g. / will lead the battle
Watched by Washington.
The treatment of non-Catholic denom-
nations in Spain has been watched
closely by the diplomatic representatives
of the United States at Madrid 1t has
not been the subject of q diplomatic In
yestigation since 1906 but Minister lde
has sent repeated dispatches TO the State
Department, informing the officials here
Of the recent utterance of the government
looking to a more liberal attitude toward
non-Catholic organizations.
The Investigation in 1905 came as the
result of a protest filed with President
Roosevelt by the Rev. John Lee ana
Bishop l.. b. Wilson. Acting Secretary
of State Bacon at that time asked Min
lister Collier to report on the status OF
non-Catholic denominations in Spain.
In his report Minister Collier called
the attention of the state department to
the existing constitution, which desig-
mated the Catholic religion as that OF the
state and obligated itself to maintain its
worship and its ministers. He quoted the
section providing that no one should be
opinions but that no ceremonies or man
itestations in public, except those OF the
religion of the state, will be permitted.
Funerals Not Interfered With.
The minister said that funeral services
were never interfered with, even when
the Protestant minister appeared in his
clerical capacity on the streets; that
churches and chapels might be built. but
that distinctively ecclesiastical architec-
ture. calculated to proclaim the building
as the seat of form of worship, was not
allowed, or, at least the Frotestants had
refrained from such form of architecture.
Generally the door of the Protestant
church ediiice." said Mr.. Collier, lis per-
mitted to open upon the public street.
although il is not allowed during service
to remain open so as TO attract attention
to the worship. 1t is, however, not uni
yersal to allow the door to open upon
the public street. For about ten years
the front door of the Protestant church
in the Gale Beneficiencia. in Madrid