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Show ' I X ARCHBISHOP KEAKE OF DUBUQUE. : j The appointment of Archbishop Kcane to the vacant See of Dubuque, . Iowa, is announced. This is the Arch- I bishopric to which our lit. Rev. Bish- 1 4 op Scanlan and others were named. 1 However, while the honor was great, i . there was never a moment when the ? Bishop of Salt Lake ever wished to leave his present charge. ; Archbishop Keane is one of the fore most Churchmen of his time. Says a cable dispatch from Rome: "The appointment to the Arehbishop- (ric of Dubuque of Archbishop Keane, j former rector of the Catholic Universi- r ty at Washington, is confirmed by the Pope. j Archbishop Katzer of Milwaukee i flit a strong letter in opposition to the appointment. It was the most violent episile ever received at the Vatican. "Archbishop Keane is now at Brus-i Brus-i Fels under treatment for his eyes. He , will come immediately to Rome, and as quickly return to the United States, where he will take possession of his I I Sec.' if A dispatch from Paris says that I Archbishop Ireland and Archbishop I Kain of St. Louis, who are in that I city, confirm the report. "And now the German question comes up again," says the Milwaukee Citi- And now the Gerniaa question comes I up again. Says the Milwaukee Citi- 7 Father Schinned denied the state- jiK-nt about Archbishop Katzer's vio- ; 1 Km epistle. Speaking to a Citizen rep- I resontative, he said: 1 . "The statement that Archbishop Kat- I zor wrote in opposition to thea.ppoint- inent of Archbishop Keane, 'the most I violent episiie ever received at the Vat- ian' is wholly untrue and evidently cooked up by enemies o the Arcnbish- ip. I do not know whether the Arch- I . Lishop wrote to Rome in reference to I Archbishop- Keane's appointment or I nut. but it he did he never sent a 'vio- lent epistle' as described. When an archbishop is to be appointed the names which are to be sent to Rome are rirst submitted to the Archbishops through- ' out the country for their approval or j .disapproval. This undoubtedly was t done in the case of Archbishop Keane. ; "What Archhishon Katzer did in refer- ; Mice to the matter 1 do not know. If he wrote a letter to Rome no one knows Its contents, as it is a private letter. "Ever siee his appoinment to the Archbishopric of Milwaukee Archbishop Archbish-op Katzer has been subjected to these persecutions," said Father Schinner. - "The lirst false report sent out from Rome was that the German Emperor had sent a special representative to j the Vatican to urge the appointment of A tcli bishop Katzer to the head of the Milwaukee diocese. This report was too absurd lor anyone to believe, but it was : published all over the country and sent a out by the Associated Press. "Another report equally false and I more damaging to the Archbishop was I circulated a short time afterward, to " the eriVct that he had protested to the I Vatican against the organization ! known as the St. Raphael's Soeietv. I which is composed of German Catho- j lie immigrants, in this country. The enemies of Archbishop Katzer in Rome f have taken every opportunity to injure 1 him by circulating false reports, t "A few years ago the Review of Re- ; views had an article charging Ach- . bishop Katzer with being the instigator 1 and promoter of Cahenslyism in this j country. Later a publisher of an en- i cyclopaedia of biography incorporated substantially the same matetr in his work. The Archbishop wrote protest- ing and the publisher offered the Arch- f bishop the privilege of denying the Ftatement under his own biography in the cyclopaedia.. The Archbishop refused re-fused to do so and demanded that the statements be stricken out. This the publisher agreed to to in the second edition of the work." "Who are the enemies of the Archbishop?". Arch-bishop?". "I cannot say who they are. I do HHIIIIIII. I ,111 ., II HI , not believe they can be members of the clergy." Father Schinner. was not willing to say that the attacks upon Archbishop Katzer were provoked by any of his colleagues col-leagues in the Church. Father Schinner said that Archbishop Archbish-op Katzer and Archbishop Keane were on friendly terms, and in confirmation confirma-tion of this fact he recalled the circumstances circum-stances attending the visit of Archbishop Archbish-op Keane to this city some months ago, when he met Archbishop Katzer. |