Salt Lake Herald | 1900-03-12 | Page 2 | Opposition to Sbarretti

IO 10 S MEETING AGAINST N NEW BISHOP OP POORLY ATTENDED ATE Decided to lo Ask Ak Bishop of Havana to Resign Besign eg I In View of the te Peeling Feeling Fe Among An Cubans Against H Him 1 Havana Havana March arh IL Comparatively i few fe people attended at meeting to i protest against t the appointment nt of Mgr Mg to t the te bishopric bl hopr of Havana A committee of four Including Gen Gsa General Generl eral erl Maximo almo Gomez Gomer was to visit Isit the bishop and to inform him hi re respectfully res reSpectfully s oC ot of the te wishes of the Cuban people It was argued that t t it would b be better to take tae this course coure on n the chance chae that ta Mgr g would express er a a wil willingness wI il to resign r sig Sig and ad thus to save se the work of organizing s me forty subcommittees of protest from the various proposed parts of the diocese as was originally A resolution was offered oferd advocating that a protest be sent set direct to the pope ppe and that nothing further be done until ut his answer had bad been received but this ti was by a large lage majority it being beig argued ged that tat the te movement might grow cold were the agitation to be dropped for six si weeks the time It i was estimated would be required to get a reply from Rome RomeA A representative of br the popular com corn committee of protest prote who was wa present said sid general generl manifestations in opposition to the appointment were about to be made in the provinces of Matanzas latanza and ad Santa Clara Clar on the day after the landing of or Mgr Ig but bat that tat the letter leter which General Gomez published in the Has Hav Havana ana papers paper was telegraphed to many towns town the intending and had demonstration the effect of o deterring