Show EXPECT MUCH Bishop Scanlan Says His Share of the Pious Fund Will Be Bei i Rather Small Bishop Scanlan of the Roman Cath Catholic Catholic Cathole olic ole church does not expect to receive Very ery ery much as as his share of the famous Pious fund According to the pro provisions visions of the decree of ot The Hague Hagie tribunal the money should be paid pal over overby overby overby by the Mexican government within eight months after the members of ot o The Hague commission have signed their names Dam s tt to the document The fund only amounts to fo about in Mexican money which Is to about in our currency said the bishop last evening Out of that has to be paid the lawyers lawers In the case those who hunted up the records In Mexico and California and the ex cx expenses expenses of the commission W When Wien en those legitimate l claims are liquidated I would not be surprised to see the fund left for fo distribution diminished to about And that sum has to be di dl divided divIded vided pro rata among a large number Of dioceses The heads of those dl di of the church will be paid in proportion to the number of missions and priests they have under their per personal personal supervision Inasmuch as my diocese is comparatively small my share of o the fund when I get it will willbe willbe willbe be correspondingly small I do not like to make even a guess as to what it will amount to but I should be greatly surprised and correspondingly pleased should It amount to more than or The money mone be divided in Rome It lt will be distributed among the dio dioceses ce 5 in the west W In that section f the tle United States which once belonged to 10 to Mexico Although the money should be paid within eight months after the pro protocol protocol tocol tocoi is le signed I would not be surprised to see the lawyers keep the case In Incourt InCourt inCourt court or Ir tied up for several years 1 Q 0 |