New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-13
D|SCORD IN CONFERENCE
Frenchmen Complain They Are
Not Allowed to Speak.
AT EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS
Committee Had Expected a
Larger Attendance of Dele
gates from Republic.

Vienna, Sept. 1.-The twenty-third
International EucharIstic Congress Is like
~ 20 establish a record in the number OF
strangers in attendance. 5000 tickets haY-
ing been sold TO foreigners as compared
with 1900 at the Montreal congress II is
estimated that no fewer than $4,000 Wis
itors are here. and the hotels are 50
crowded that titled visitors are glad TO
obtain sleeping quarters in the hote! bath
rooms. Many thousands Of pilgrims have
found shelter in four hundred school
houses. In the courtyard of the City Hall
to-day 1900 persons We're supplied with
dinners, cooked in the military field kitch
ems.
The French representatives complain
that the central committee declined to in
ute them TO speak at the opening meet
ing. II seems that the committee was
disappointed at the small number OF
French delegates. and considered that they
were not entitled to have a speaker Il
is reported that Cardinal Annette. Arch
bishop OF Paris, has made written pro-
test, and that the controversy IS likely to
Be carried before the Vatican.
II is understood that the committee was
led to expect very large attendance OF
French delegates as protest against the
Church policy Of The French government.
The agitation 10 this end apparently proved
o failure. and the Vienna committee is
said 10 hold the French clergy response
BILE
Among the speakers AZ the festival
gathering fl the rotunda this afternoon
was Monsignor Rainer. Vicar General OF
Milwaukee. his subject beng The Coun-
eli Of Trent" Monsignor Rainier declared
that the reform DEGREES OF Pope Leo XIII
regarding daily communions and the first
communion OF children contained moth
ing new. but were only the modern
adaptation OF principles already formu-
lated by the Council OF Trent
Emperor Francis Joseph. under whose
protection the congress Is being held, and
the other members OF the imperial family
received communion to-day I'm the Hof-
burg Church.
The papal letter brought by Cardinal
Van Rossum 20 Vienna thanked the or
9anscrs OF the Eucharistic Congress I'M
stin.ingly, praised Emperor Francis
Joseph and the members OF the imperial
house and wished the congress a brilliant
success. The Pope called special atten-
ton TO the need for care Of the Young
leo, they be led astray by deceitful
teachings and temptations OF the flesh.
The Poutln. IN conclusion. conferred the
apostolic blessing for the conference. the
Emperor and tho imperial house
The session to-day was attended by
Archduke Francis Ferdinand and con-
SOFT. many grand dukes and duchesses.
the Duke and Duchess OF Wurtemberg
and Princess Ma;hilde OF Saxony
Cardinal Van Rossum. in behalf OF the
congress, sent telegram OF homage to
the Pope
Cardinal Franz Nagl. Archbishop Of
Vienna, IN the course of his speech said
that tie congress should he devoid o. po-
liticsi character. and should be purely an
ecclesiastical celebration.
The city, with it, vast number % Wis
itors and its gayly decorated streets pre-
sents an animated appearance