The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-04
ROOSEVELT NOT TO
GREET THE Pope
Former President Declines to
Be Tied Down by Any Limita-
tons as to Conduct.
INTERESTING STORY OF
DIPLOMATIC NEGOTIATIONS
Points Out That as American
Citizen He Can Accept No
Restrictions.

ROME. April 3.-1hc audience which
IL WAS believed ex-Prosldent Roosevelt
would have with the pope on Tuesday
next. Will not take place. owing 10 CON
ditions which the vatican has imposed
and which Mr., Roosevelt refused To ac-
cept.
Although the definite negotiations rela-
tive 70 the audience ended before Mr.
Roosevelt left Egypt. the announcement
was withheld until after Mr.. Roosevelt
reached Itomc tonight at the solicitation
OF his American Catholic friends here.
who believed in the meantime the vatl-
can might change ils attitude. One ol
the former presidents American friends.
who had been with him in Egypt. came
To Rome yesterday without authorize
ton from Mr.. Roosevelt and interccdec
with Cardinal Merry del Val the papal
secretary. ia an enoeevor TO avoid SIT
uation which. IL now stands has
caused 2 real sensation in Rome, al
though II was not entirely unexpected.
| But his Efforts were unavailng.
Would Not Be Limited.
While at Gondokoro In February last
| Mr.. Roosevelt wrote 10 EmbesssdnI
| Leishman saying he would be glad nf
the honor OF AN audience with King
! Victor Emanuel and the pope The
audience with the king was promptly
! arranged. Before an arrangement coulc
/ he reached relative to an audience With
| the pope StNtEdl ltltEldIHS Wtlt IISSfll.
and the negotiations were ended by Mr
| Roosevelts refusing In any way TO be
! limited as 10 his conduct and announc-
! ing that an audience with the pope un-
| der the circumstances WAS now impos-
| sibe
AS 4 matter OF fact Mr. Roosevelt,
| while declining TO accept any conditions
! in connection with his audience with
/ the pope. had neither directly nor indi-
rectly before, during or after the neSo-
| tIntions made or considered any engage
| mCpIS In Rome pSGpnl those OF
fetal character. and he actually entered
Rome tonight with but two definite en-
| gasements. the audience with the king
and the dinner tn be given in his honor
| by the municipality.
The history OF the negotiations is
| about as follows:
! While at Cairo Mr.. Roosevelt received
the following telegram from Embassador
!. Lelshman. dated March 25;
| Mgr. Kennedy. rector of tie Amcri-
can Catholic college, in reply 10 an In
qury which | caused to he made. re-
quests the following communication be
transmitted To you: The holy father VIII
be delighted To grant an audience 10
| Dir. Roosevelt on April .. and hopes that
nothing Will arise TO prevent IL, such as
the much regretted incident which made
! the reception of Mr.. Fairbanks imposSl~
Bile. "
Reply Is Pointed,
/ Replying by cable 10 ambassador Leish-
man. on March 25. Mr.. Roosevelt said:
Please present the following TO Mgr,
to me 10 be presented To the holy faith
er for whom | entertain high respect.
both personally and az the head OF
! great church. fully recognize his en-
tire right to receive or not receive whom
| soever he chooses. for any reason that
seems good TO him, and II he does not
| receive / shall not for Il moment queS-
ton the proprlety OF his action. On the
! other hand, l. in my turn. decline To
make any stipulatious or 10 submit To
| any conditions which in any way would
ifalt % L
on April he will find 1t convenient To
receive me-.
On March 2S, Mr. Roosevelt at Cairo.
| received a cablcgram from EmhnsSodog
| Lcisbman giving the message from Ngr-
Kennedy, which concluded by saying;
THE audience cannot take place eN
! cept on the understanding expressed In
| the former message
The following day Mr. Roosevelt sent
another message TO the American em-
bassadori saying:
Will Be No Audience.
THE proposed presentation is OF
| course now impossible"
| Mr. Roosevelt particularly desired the
incident shall be regarded by his friends
both Catholic and Protestant in Ameri-
| ca, as personal and that II shall not give
| rise TO an acrimonious controversy.
With this end I'm view. he cabled to-
day the following statement 10 the Rev.
| Lyman Abbott. editor OF the Outlook, at
Through the Outlook. 1 wish to make
2 statement 10 my fellow Americans re-
gartllng what has occurred IN connection
with the vatican. ! am sure that the
great majority of my fellow citizens,
! Catholics. quite as much as Protestants,
] will feel that | acted in the only way
| possible for an American to act, and
| because OF this very fact most earnest
| ~ hope that the incident Will he treated
| IN matter of course way as merely per-
| sopal and above all. as not wnrrantins
the slightest exhibition OF rancor or bit
| terneSS
Not Sectarian Rancor.
Among my best and closes; friends
arc many Catholics; The respect and re-
are Catholics are as dear 10 me as the
respect and regard of those who are
Protestants. on my Journey through Al
/ many Protestant missions. AS l look
! forward To telling the people at home all
that has been done by Protestants ana
| Catholics alike as l saw II, in the field
/ of missionary cndcavoI 1t would cause
me real pang 10 have anything said
or done that would hurt or give lain TO
| my friends whatever their religious be-
lief But any merely personal ccds'dera-
| sions are OF no consequences in THIS mai
ter, Tho important considefa s'on Is TN, Ine
avoidance of harsh and bitter comment
! such as may exotic mlstrUst and anger
between and among good men.
"'rhe more an American sees of other
| countries the more profound must be his
| feelings OF gratitude that IN his own land
| there Is not merely complete liberation
| but the heartlest Sood WIN ana syinPaIiitS
! between sincere and honest men OF dif-
! forent falths-good viii and sympathy so
! complete that in the innumcrable daily
| relations OF our American life Catholics
| md Protestnnts meet together and work
| together without thought of the differ
! encc OF creed being even present IN their
! minds.
! tlonal well-bciDs that nothing should be
permitted 20 jeopardize u. Bitter com
ment and criticism, acrimonious attack
/ l.fn rn
| harmful and 70 seize upon such an In
cidcnt as this as an occasion for con-
md should be frowned upon by Catholics
- prnIestnnts allke. and all good Amor