Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-04-04

vept unon the understandings express
cd In the former message.
After this no further communion.
ton reached me from Mr.. Roosevelt
II further appears that IL was John
Callan o1.oughlin who was assistan
secretary of state In 1909 and a gren'
personal friend of Mr.. Roosevclt's VIII,
yesterday attempted to intcl cede with
Cardinal Merry del Val The follow.
ing scmi-officidl version Of what
transpired at that interview has beer
furnished TO the Associated Press b,
a vatican authority
Cardinal Merry del Val said to Mr.
oloughlin:
can YOU guarantee Tint Mr.. Roasc.
Welt Will not visit the M|ethodists
Ihore9"
MI 0Loughlin replied:
II cannot. indeed. / believe thHt Mir
: Roosevelt is just the man To ga there.
He win do as he pleases.
'it is ~ndctcnsihle, said the papul
secretary. TOR any person TO be asked
70 be received by a great parsonage
whose feelings he would be unWillinp
TO respect
In The course OF further conversa p
ton. the cardinal declared that NO
court IN Europe granted unrestricted
audiences.
AR Roosevelt. said the cardinal.
when he WAS president. declined to
receive persons uncouditionally at the
White House.
Without giving the name of the per-
son the cardinal recalled a ease where
President Roosevelt, having been err
ronoously informed that a certain per
son was visiting him by the authority
OF the vatican. Immediately sent a.
cabinet officer to the apostolic dele
gate at Washington. to Inform the
delegate that he could not receive this
parsonage, but he NEAR no discour-
esy To The pope by his refusal Tho
pontitf, when informed of this. re-
piled
Il esteem President Roosevelt more
than ever
Returning to the present Incident.
Cardinal Merry del Val remarked
1t is not i'm any sense % question
OF religion. Mr.. Roosevelt might
gone to an ~Episcopalian. n Pros
hytcrian or any other church except
the Methodist ANA delivered IN adj
dress there, and he would have been
received hy the pope ever on tho
same day. liut he could not he recciv-
cd when IL was suspected that after
the audience he intended to GO to the
Methodist church in Rome which is
carrying on a most offensive cam
paign of ealumny and detraetion
against the pontiff."
The papal secretary ever recognized
AIR. RooseVelt's right to claim tho
privilege of visiting the Methodists the
day after the audience. ON condition
that he, Merry del Val, receive pff-
assurances that he would not ac-
tually do SO.
The vatican emphasizes the state
mcnt that it did not receive from the
American embassy any notification OF
Mr.. lioosevelt's final message that an
audience had become impossible.
After being appraised of the contents
the v%atican's statement. it WAS ok
planned on MIR. RooseVelt's behalf that
inal message had not been com
lnunicated to the vatican because Mgr.
second telegram was MI
Of thcmttter SO tar us he was concern
ed, but that he wished to keep the
open. not for his own sake. but
the sake of the Catholic church OF
America.
When Mr.. OLoughln came to
it was with the distinct under
standing that he did not do SO IN Mr
ltooseVclts hehalf but ia behalf Of
WV AthA 'AAloAF w HNfAitl wa anu
he did nOt carry any authorize
tion to subtract on add a word to MIR,
Rooscvelts position rs defined by his
telegram to Mgr. Kennedy
Although measures had been taken
by the police to prevent Il large gath
inside the railroad station az
the time of the arrival of the Roosc-
volt party, many Americans and
Italians managed to find
/ way to circumvent those precau-
Iions ana the depot was wen filled
the president made his APP
)carance at the dour of thc ear. col
mel Roosevelt was greeted By Mayor
Nathan and Sienor Bollati, director
general OF the Italian foreign office,
ambassador Lcishman and the other
members of the American embassy.
\ detachment of carbinccrs and a
1rgc force of police made a pathway
rom the train to the royal waiting
Dom, the King having ordered that
he eX-prosident be given the same
as the members of royal FAM
when they visit the Italian cap
Colonel Roosevelt smilingly re-
pondcd to the warm greetings with
'hicl ne was received on an sides |
he shook hands with many or
hose about him. The streets to the
otcl were lined with spectators and
.oloncl Roosevelt and his family were
hccred as they proceeded In ear
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