New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-13
Catholicism DETAINED by
"Kingsbury and Corps of
Bigots," Is Charge.
ALBANY BISHOP ASKS
WHITMAN TO JUDGE
Menace" and Rockefellers Are
Named as Interests Controlling
Charities Investigation.

II Catholic churches all over the city
Yesterday feeling ran high over the
Strong commissions charities investi-
CATION. Pastors in their sermons de-
nounced it as an attempt 20 defanie
Catholicism. One spoke OF Commits
sioner John A. Kingsbury and his corps
of bigotry" as liars and calumlna-
tors" and in some instances il was de-
clared that the investigation was being
controlled by Rockefeller interests.
Charges that Charles II. Strong had
"misused" his powers were contained
in a letter sent BIZ the Right Rev.
Thomas F. Cussck, Catholic Bishop o,
Albany, to all priests in that city. lie
coatended the: at hearings "private
charitable institutions were abused and
slandered." and that Strong permitted
the Introduction and criticism OF re-
ligious matters over which neither the
State Board Of Charities nor the Com
missioner has any jurisdiction"
Asks Whitman to Heed.
az Governor Whitman will read the
actual record of the proceedings before
Commissioner Strong Bishop CusecH
said last night, "he could come TO no
other conclusion than that his Commits
sioner IS unfair and partisan"
The Rev. William B. Farrell, pastor
OF the Church Of SIS. Peter and Paul, in
Williamsburg, who will appear az the
hearing to-day after having neglected
20 answer subpoena. made an espe-
cially bitter attack upon the inquiry
characterizing u "a AT outrage.
lie said the Investigators had merely
concerned themselves with the sma'
flaws in each institution, and counselled
his parishioners 70 write letters -
every legislator In New York demand
ing a thorough inspection OF every IN
stitution from top 20 bottom, that their
real efficiency Nigh. be proved.
ct is an outrage that Catholic in.
stitutiors should suffer as the result %
a fight between the Charities Depart
ment and the state Board OF Charities,
he declared.
81 should Ike 20 see the investigators
investigated" cried James McGurria,
Columbian Assembly lecturer. at Il
meeting Of the Holy Name Society N
the Church of the Epiphany, Seconi
Avenue and Twenty-second Street, last
night.
This investigation is controlled b.
those behind that lying and unmen-
,ionable sheet. The Menace What
right has Kingsbury and his corps Of
biQotry 90 investigate our Catholic IN
stitutions and 10 misrepresent them
in such a manner? The government
has pros,ituted this outrage under the
name Of investigation, but the truth
will be triumphant at last
Mr.. McGurrin declared he thought
that the death Of Thomas VI. Mulry,
president Of the Emigrants' Savings
Bank. Friday, was partly due TO MS
distress over the statements that had
been made by the Investigators.
zone OF his last acts was TO - on
the witness stand 10 repudiste these
charges" said Mr.. McGurrin. You
must al take example from him, and
repudiate the folly and the blgotry
that are abroad today"
The Rev. Peter J. Harold. pastor OF
the church. said Catholics had 700
long been laboring under the mistake
that religion was free in this country.
Michael J. Kelly declared the cJm-
missioners were merely representa-
tives Of the Rockefeller interests and
referred 70 Second Deputy Commits
sioner Doherty as "the Judas OF
Catholicism"