Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-03-08
THE CORPORATION SOLE.
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which they are Il part. but he brand
cd tho system as An anomaly" and
"a monstr0us thing" and declared that
there was no room for . king III q
republic.
Mr.. Dupre. in reviewing the cause
led up to the establishment Of the
corporation sole in lSS1. stated that il
was represented that such action was
necessary in order to confirm Win
tho laws of the Catholic church. IL
said that the late bishop ilcalcv was
labogfng under a serious misappro-
henS!on when he said that the laws Of
his church eomBollad him t. ask FOR
such action.
Attention was called to the fact
that the system of French speaking
people are asking for new exists iE
Canada and that an Protestant
churches ar, so managed. He related
that when the French p,opl, first
began to come over from Canada and
have their own parishes. they labor"d
under the deluSion that conditions
were the same here as they We're in
Canada and that somehow they could
get actual possession Of their prop
erty any time that they wanted it.
The sneaker then reviewed church
troubles in Biddoford. stating that be-
cause collections We're refused III specl-
fc instances, meetings were i"fhiu-
den ana the money taken from thc
church funds and sent 10 the nisil"p
without their consent He 1ur'het
claimed that money was so taken lot
the purpose of aiding young M' Il
studving for the priesthood Wn" are
100 poor 10 pay their own bills' pui
that later these young priests were
cornnellod to reimburse the blsh"n
ca that the money eventually sta!cA
with the Bishop.
Mr.. pupre called tn present system
an uncalled for cenlralizatlon oI pow
er He went into the estima'eo III
come of tho bishop ana priests III ue
rail. AT this point Mr.. Pattah2aH NJ
formed Mr. Dupre that ne had pu' NV
minutes left and he hastened 20 con
chdc. He claimed that 4 cohsl"'lao''
amount of the money when wen. w
the bishop and the priests shouio ~
10 tho parochial schools. II Is ou.
money, and we want H. cSctaiiii'''
the sneaker. II the bishop mas kept
II we want to know why. ii YOU "a"
grant us what We ask Tor, gehtielh'i'
nut us back where We were beior' .Ha',
Mr.. Dupre was greeted with a tu>nui'
of applause and cheers from All par'S
of the hall which did not cease uftii
Representative Pattangall finally COM
ueiled order by vigorous use ol inc
Eavel.
Judge Foster counsel for the pro-
nonents, then read Il letter from llon
BENJAMIN +. Hamilton of Dayton,
member of the legal affairs committee
who is critically i'll at his home IN
DAYTON, saving that he was 1amlllaf
with the petitioners in Biddeford and
the abuses which had been heapef up
on them by the exercise of power OF
one man. The writer stated that II ne
was able To be present he should try
10 do All that he could to help the
netitioncrS and hoped that the COM
lnittee would grant them what they
asked.
MIR. Duprc filed with the committee
petitions for IN" bill from various Ro-
man Catholic parishes of the State
containing eper 600" signatures.
David w. Snow of Portland opened
the case for the rcmonstrantS ut '.4o
+. NJ. He said that the hearing had
revealed quarrel inside a great re-
ligious denomination of Maine. The
bulk of the argument of the propon-
ents had dealt with alleged grievances.
The purpose of the hearing was not
for the considering of alleged grieV-
anceS but for tn. purpose OF CONSIDER
ing bill for the repeal OF an act pass
ed by the Legislature OF 1881 and the
substituting ot Il general law Moor
porating Roman Catholic parishes in
its place. If the argument OF the
counsel for tho proponents Is true. h"
contcnded. there has been Il breach of
trust and the remedy is in the courts
and not in the Legislature. lie has IA
right in the courts to ask that re-
ceiyer be ,appoipted and the corpora :
tioffdiss6fska. - }z3faCt stsk3l e.
You are asked. gentirmen. 10 sub
stitute a general law in the place of