Arizona republican., 1911-09-18
CONS|STORY WILL
 MEET NEXT YEAR
Session Will Be Held for the Pur- pose of Creating Number
 of New Cardinals.

ROME. Sept. 17.-It can be stated on authority that a consistory for the creation of members of the sa-
 cred college will be held immediately after the first of the year, and not
 before. and that a very large num-
 Der of new cardinals will be ere ated.
 It is now nearly five years sicne
 the last one convened. During that time deaths have been very numer- Ous, and Plus Ks senate has been reduced to forty seven. That is twenty three short of the full num- Der of seventy, and seventeen less than the number that met in the vatican just eight years ago to elect q successor to Leo XIII The in tervaI between this last consistory and the next one is already the longest for centuries. and not for centuries has the number of car dinals been so low. Deaths and some other causes have brought changes in the time also that are of vital in- terest to the Catholic church.
 When Leo XIII was elected, the majority of the cardinals were Ro- mans, and the immense majority Italians. The conclave that elected Plus x was formed of only mi nority of Romans, but of strong majority of Italians. If conclaVe were held between now and next March the Italians would be in the slight majority of only seven, ana tbe possibility of the election of cardinal Who was not an Italian Tor the first time in about 500 years would be imminent.
 While the pope was i'll short time ago the matter Of cohclaN' rather than a cOnsistory was in every Romans mind It has not wholly vanished. for the pope Is past 70 years of age. unused to the conilhe life of the vatican and bearing such burdens as few men have ever been called upon to stand up under.
 Pins \ is not concerning himseH about the number of Italians Tn the sacred college. The pressure for more cardinals comes from the curia. AL least thirty cardinals are required to narform the vast routine work or tbe church. There are but twenty oyaiIabIe. and twelve of these are incapacitated by age and illness. S' only eight are at hand to do the work of thirty. Nevertheless, fluS \ will not yield and hold a con sistory during the Italian jubilee year. He has promised. since ms recovery. to hold one immedlateN inc year is ended. possibly in Janu- arv. but certainly not later tnth March.
 Three causes have contributed to pone Pins Ks reluctance to hoid consIstory hitherto. The first Is tha' he wishes to give effect to his res"- Iution to abolish what is known as CardinaIitial posts That ls' offices the mere tenure of which, independ- entlv of the qualities or success or their occupants. inevitably lead to the highest dignity in the church The first to feel the effect of thiS decision was Cardinal Lorenzelll. Wh"' although he had put in the normal time as nuncio at Paris, was sent hv Pins \ to govern the diocese or pisa and denied the coveted hat uh- tu he had shown his administrative ability there.
 The second reason for the delay has been an economical one. Every cardinal who lives in Rome costs tbe holy see between 5000 and sG. 900 a year. so the difference be- tween twenty and thirty cardinals
 totals m towards s60.OOO a year, an