The Hawaiian star., 1910-08-09
ALFONSO RECALLS
HIS EMBASSADOR
FROM VATICAN
Spanish King and the Premer An.
nounce Action After a Long
Conference.
cARLlsTs READY TO FIGHT.
Rupture With Pope Inevitable but
canaIejas Will Continue Anti.
Clerical.

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and Premier Canalejas it was an
nounced that Marquis Emilio de Ole
da, Spanish ambassador to the Vati-
can, had been recalled At the same
time the opinion was expressed that
rupture with the Vatican was in.
evitable.
Senor Canalejas told the King that
the Government could not accent the
conditions of the Vaticans last note
and that the Vatican would be so in
formed. Premier Canalejas will con.
tinue his anti-clerical programme.
counting on the support of King AL.
fonso.
! Don Jaime of Bourbon, the Carlist
pretender to the Spanish throne. is.
sued manifesto today to the Carlists
in Parliament, congratuIating them on
their loyalty to the Pope and their
defense of the church and declaring:
Il think the day is not far distant
when my followers must rally to our
flag. will lead the battle"
MADRID, July 29.-Ominous re-
ports are received following the pub
lication of the news that rupture
between the Vatican and the Spanish
! Government is imminent.
The Vatican has declared that the
negotiations looking to the revision
of the Concordat cannot be continued
until the imperial degree permitting
non-Catholic societies to display the
insignia of public worship has been
withdrawn. Canalejas has responded
that he cannot change the programme
which the Government has announced.
In some quarters It is believed that
the Holy See counts on the fall Of the
Government Canaleias, however. is
said to have had the assurance of
the Kings support at the time he de-
termined on his plan for religious re-
forms.
The general situation is complicated
by the unrest among the miners in
the Catalonian province and the oc-
casional clashes between the. Cathol-
les and the non-Catholics through
out the country.
El Mundo, discussing the threatened
break between the Spanish Govern
ment and the Vatican, says:
'The Holy See has no reason to
feel offended. It is heading 1eliber-
ately toward a rupture which will
precipitate the. opening of a rapid
apd energetic anti-clerical campaign =
BILBOA (Spain), July 29.-On ac-
count of excitement here over the
church and state question the Cover
nor has interdicted Catholic and other
manifestations which had been plan
ned for next Sunday
WASHINGTON, July 29.-The
treatment of non-Catholic demonstra-
tions in Spain has been watched close
" by the diplomatic representatives
Of the United States at Madrid The
investigation of 1909 came as re-
suit VI lIG DlOlGSI Hl6N WIFI IGeSl-
dent Roosevelt by Rev. John Lee and
Bishop L. B. Wilson. Acting Secre-
tary of State Bacon at that time ask
ed Minister Collier to report on the
status of non-Catholic denominations
in Spain.
In his report, Minister Collier cal.
1aI fhp oft pf he
ment to the existing Constitution
which designated the Catholic religion
as that of the state and obligated
Spain to maintain its worship and
its ministers. The American section
quoted the section which declared
that no one should be interfered with
because of religious opinions, but
that no ceremonies or manifestations
in public, except those of the religion
j., of the State, were to be permitted
u Collier said that funeral services
e were never interfered with, even wher
. the Protestant minister appeared il
his clerical capacity in the streets
, and that churches and chapels Nigh
be built, but that distinctively eccles
" iastical architecture, calculated to pro
claim the building as the seat of
- Protestant form of worship, was no
" allowed, or at least, that the Protest
ants had refrained from such form
VI of architecture.
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It, Ensign Charles Conway Hartigar
I'd u. S. A.. returned Yesterday in th