The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1922-01-29
ALLIED CARDINALS
ALIGNED AGAINST
PRO-CERdANBLOC
Compromise Candidate
For Pope Must Be
Sought,

ROME. Jan. 2s.-Three lines of
cleavage among the cardinals as-
sembled here for the election Of .
successor to Pope Benedict XIV APP
peared tonight-the allied cardinals
against the old pro-German school;
the Italian against the foreign
born Pope proponents, and the
friends of a reconciliation with the
Italian government aligned against
the intransigeants.
More and more II became appar-
ent that compromise candidate
must be sought. for tonight no one
group stood out as sufficiently
strong to elect its candidate.
Whatever speculation was to be
INDUCED in had to make the most
OF the brief time remaining before
the election. for once the cardinals
enter the conclaye the world at
large will not know Of their ac-
tions until Benedict's successor is
named.
Wear Violet Costume.
From the moment that the cardi-
nails. with their servants. priests.
BARRIERS and the master of cere-
monies are walled up in the Vatican
for the conclave. the entire person
mel takes an oath not to communi-
cate with anyone in the outside
world during the duration of the
election, and not to reveal anything
pertaining to the election OF the
new Pope.
Prince Chiki. who has the fam
lily right to act as marshal of the
conclave, is not admitted to the
oonclave itself. but must Install
himself in an apartment just cJt-
side the entrance. Among his du-
ties is that OF sealing in the car
dirals, then of admitting those who
may arrive later.
Throughout the entire concl1ve
the cardinals will wear a special
WOODEN costume of violet.
Two Votes Daily.
When all the cardinals present at
the Vatican on the tenth day fol-
lowing the death of the Pope have
entered the ,onclave, il will be the
duty of Cardinal Gasparri, as car
dinal canferlengo, to ascertain that
there is no one within the pre-
cincts of the conclave who has not
the right to be there.
Accompanied by three officials
crying extra omnes." he will make
the rounds of all the apartments
within the conclave premises. Then
Prince Chigi will seal up the two
entrances from the outside world,
while Gasparri does likewise from
the inside.
Voting for the election of a sue
cessor to Benedict XIV will begin
on the same day. Two votes will
be taken daily, one at 10 in the
morning. and at in the afternoon.
Three white Robes Ready.
The two daily sessions in which
the cardinals will case their votes
for the new Pope will take place
in the Sistine Chapel which has
been especially prepared for the
occasion. One of the interesting
details OF these preparations is the
little casket in which there will
repose three white robes. one of
large dimensions, one of medium cut.
and one of smaller size. No mat
ter what size Pope is elected. there
will be ready for him a robe of
the necessary dimensions. which he
must don Immediately 20 receive
the homage of his former asso-
ciates.
Around the three walls of the
Sistine Chapel will run three rows
of chairs, each with a silken can
opy of its own. Before each chair
there will be a little table bearing
the coat of arms of the cardinal
occupying the chair. The first seats
will be occupied by the cardinal
deacons, the second by the cardinal
bishops, the third by the cardinal
priests.
Little Puff of smoke
Before the altar will be placed
a large table on which the ballots
will be deposited and counted. =
little off to one side will be placed
a small stove in which the oal!ots
will be burned as fast as they are
counted and 1t is ascertained that
new Pope has been elected.
1t is the little pun OF smoke
coming out of the chimney o: this
little stove that will tell the count
less thousands waiting in the
square Of St. Peters outside If the
ballot is successful. when. after
10 in the morning or 3 Of an
afternoon, the little white puff
of smoke is not forthcoming. Rome
will have its first intimation THAI
the next supreme pontiff has beer
chosen.