Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1914-06-17
CARD GIBBONS DIG1ATING TO CONGRESS,
They Say They arc not 10 Politics Yet Want
10 Control the Whole Thing,

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house when Chairman Padgett ol
Tennessee offered committed
amendment to the naval appro
priation bill providing for sixty
five additional chaplains for the
navy. Cardinal Gibbons directed
his congregational lobbyist, DR.. e .
L. Sharfe, Father Lewis ].
[ O'Hearn, @. s. P, and others to
see that the increase was made 80
that there would be q chaplain
for every battleship and twenty
six more. His letter to Father
O'Hearn which appears in the
Congressional Record at page 1915,
Of May 2, 1914, is as follows:
Cardinals Residence,
408 N. Charles St..
Baltimore, Md,
Jan. Is, 1914.
Ny dear Father O'Hesrn:
As our representative in mattsrs
pertaining to army and navy
chaplains, may I ask you to per :
sonally call on the members of
the Committee on the Naval AT.
fairs. both of the Senate and the
House of Representatives, and
urge upon them the necessity Of
more chaplains for the navy?
Explain to them that the propos.
ed scheme of substituting "wel-
fare secretaries" for chaplains
does not meet with the approval
of the American Catholic archbi.
shop. since no layman can do the
the work of an ordained clergy.
man.
Most faithfully yours liz Xt.,
(Signed) J. CARDINAL GIBBONS
Archbishop of Baltimore.
"Father O'Hearn" saw each
and evey member of the House
Committee of Naval Affairs. He
obeyed orders. The members of
the house committee that took
orders from him and wrote the car.
dinal's com mand into the naval
appropriation bill we're: Lemuel
P. Psdgett of Tennessee, Rich
mond P. Hobson of Alabama, Al
bert Estopinal of Louisiana,
Daniel J. Riordan Of New York,
Robert E Lee of Pennsylvania,
William E. Williams of Illinois,
Petere g. Gerry of Rhode Island.
Finley Il. Gray Of Indiana, Ernest
W. Rcbarts of Massachusetts,,
Fred A. Britten of Chicago, Ill.,,
and Patrick d Helly of Michigan.
These are not all of the congress.
men that are members of the
house naval affairs committee,
but these are the ones resp onsible
for obeying the order of Prince
Card. Gibbons TO write law in.
creasing the number of chaplains
from "a to IS, and propose it a
an amendment to the navy appro
priation bill. Think of it! Make
it q rider on an appropriation bill !!
Being new" legislation, it was
subject to point of order. The
Cardinal, Prince Gibbons, felt his
grip on congress sufficient to
strangle even a single voice in op.
position, for being new legislation
any member of the house could
by merely objeoting knock the
proposed amendment out ON q
point of order.
And yet they say the Church Of
Rome 10 not in politics Why
this very selfsame cardinal only
last November asserted it at the
Psn.American msss attended by
William ]. Byrsn, President Will.
son, Secretary of the navy Jose
phus Daniels, Albert Sydney
Burleson and others, for at the
"breakfast" following this ofcia
presldential.cabinet mass and ovel
whlce Cardinal Gibbons presided
and at which affairs of state af
fecting the Roman Catholic
church were and are reported by
the newspapers, fine newspaper
bunk for the unsuspecting, over
oonfiding pblio to have said tha'
the Roman Catholic church hat
tried "both" union of church ant
state and non-un1on of church
and state, and like the fellow VIII
had tried honesty and dishonesty
concluded that honesty wa
the best policy, so the Romal
Catholic church had conclude,
separation of church and stat
was the best policy. And ye
here is the documentary proof
something very hard to get, tina
he was at that very time and late
issuing orders to congress an
congressional committees of th
most extraordinary degree.
But the cardinal reokone
wrong. The Congressional Re
cord at Pages 1914, 1916 and S27
shows that one congressman, Hon
Samuel J. Tribble of Georgia
may his and Tom Watson's trib
pcrease, had true, red America
blood il his veins and dared i
MacDuff fashion to beard the ca,
, dinal in bis den, for Sam Trlbbl
objected. Not only did he object
but he slapped the cardinal
written orders through Fathe
O'Hearn kerplunk in the Oongre,
sional Record, and went on