The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-04
FATAL SECRETARY PUTS BLAME FOR THE VATICAN
 DISPUTE ON ROOSEVELT
Cardinal Merry Del Val Says Former President Might Have Quietly Acquiesced in Plans Made for His Reception By the Pope Without Any
 Humiliation His Part
Teddy, However Declares that No Other Course Was Open to Him Than the One He Pursued-Now Con siders Incident Closed-How His Action Is View ed Tn

I eigners of note and indicates either | a decreased number of audiences | granted to Protestants in the future | or a modification of the rules thai
 now govern receptions at the Vatican | Already cablegranls of congratula- 1 tfons are pouring upon MT Roose- | welt.
 ] Everywhere in Rome. except among l Catholics of the most strict type, the
 feeling is manifest today that Col | one1 Roosevelt acted wholly within his | rights and in conformity with his dig ] nifty and position in refusing to accept
 an invitation to have an audience with | the Pope tomorrow as long as the in | vitation carried with it such reStric- | ttons upon his conduct as was implied | in Mgr. Kennedy's final telegram to | Colonel Roosevelt delivered to him at 1 Cairo.
 Summed 41p, this restriction was that MT. Roosevelt could not be received
 by the Pope if he contemplated a prior
 address ito the Methodists of Rome: This was the Fairbanks incident" that Mgr. Kennedy referred to. MT. Roosevelt contemplated no such
 address but he resented the implied dictation and immediately sent word to Ambassador Leishman that he would not submit to stipulations re- garding his movements while in Rome. He did not finally cancel the negotia- tiOns however, until a. subsequent message from Ileishman also received at Cairo. stated that the audience with the Pope could not take place except under the conditions expressed in the former message.
 That MT. Roosevelt keenly resented the tone of the Vatican's message was indicated by the brevity of his second
 dispatch to Ambassador LeiShnan.
 Proposed presentation is. of course, now impossible" he wired from Cairo under date of March 29.
 The Vatican authorities expressed anaZement at MT. Rooseveft'S publfca- ton of the text of the messages that passed between him and Ambassador T.0ie and If Tor K a R6Iy'es respondence with the AnbasSador. These messages: in the opinion of the Vatican authorities, were confidential.
 It was explained that Mgr. Ken nedy's reference to the Fairbanks in cident was intended as friendly in the hope that an intfmation along this line would avoid the possibility of another such unpleasant situation.
 The affair. conceded to be regrett- able by the Catholics. apparently made no difference in King V1ctor's attitude. for he received MT Roosevelt at the palace this morning with unusual warmth.
 The. audience granted by King Vie lasted two hours. being one of the longest audiences ever granted by the King to any one except on political oc-- casions. MT. Roosevelt and his son drove from the Hotel Beauside in an automobile at 9:30 a. m. and it was exactly 11:30 when they emerged from the nalaeg f +a Th4 n nat1e or 1ot the aivs 91p ed but it is believed that the length of the interview was partly due to the Kings desire to hear MT. Roosevelt's side of the controversy with the Vat ican. 'HThey are a most interesting pair,' was one of the remarks made by the King after the departure of his guests. .sI have always looked up MT. Roose- welt as one of the greatest men in the world and today's meeting with him has only strengthened this imDres- sion.'
 The King was just as, retfcent as Colonel Roosevelt as to the details of the conversation.
 The departure from the palace was
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