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Show THE DEATHS AMONG CARDINALS. Philadelphia Preei. Tlie deaths of two ranlinalf like Cardinal Simconi und Cardinal Manning must tiotb increase (hi pressure fur the selection of new cardinals, the. discussion of the place for holding the next conclave and the discussion discus-sion over t lie selection of the. next pope. The past two months, liave seen a visible increase in the reports and rumors that tbo pope may leave Home or that the next conclave con-clave may he held elsewhere. The discus, sion of this subject at Koine and elsewhere lias taken a form and assumed a persistence persist-ence which strongly suirircsta that some new arrangement is pending between the papal see and the kingdom of Italy for Thick this agitation is a useful preliminary. It is constantly forgotten by those who lightly discuss the possibility of another exile at some Ill-fated Avignon that the I toman Catholic, church i- llaliau in its organization, though world wide in its influence in-fluence and its sympathies. I he pope for centuries has heen Italian. The cardinals arc overwhelmingly llaliau. The supremely nkillful inn lii ihtj- in dally motion at Home as rcniarkahlc f it the uhility of those who man it aa it is for Its own nlci 1 1! ui y to its work is to the core Italian. Inevitably the removul of the papal si c from Home would alter all this. The Italian nation as a whole, and the great Koinuu finnillcB which have for centuries filled to large a proportion of the hiifhest posts in the coiiicn'alions at Home, would sink if Dot on the Instant, still la a few short years to the relative position occupied by Italy in the family of "nations. 1'nleas overmastering ueccsiity, it is incredible that any such step will be taken until years it may be generations have transformed the Italian inllm necs which have so long and so tenaciously maintained lln ir central pot! in tatoialttrative control of the working machinery ma-chinery of the Ko.nttii church. The present pope was elected, as is now familiar history, by the union of the foreign cardinals with the moderate branch of the Italian cardinals. TbitledtoUie choice of Cardinal Peccl, then "Camerlinpo," and presiding over the Sacred college. His speech at the opening of the conclave opposing op-posing its remuval from Home is said to have been decisive both against the step anil in favor of his own election. Such an utterance was certain, liowever, to express the settled opinion of every astute Italian cardinal. At the next election which 'every well-wisher well-wisher of the church and of the race will hope is to be, long removed tho same division is certain to appear between the moderate und extreme wmjjs of t lie Italian cardinals, and it is altogether probable that the decisive votes will be cast by the foreign members of the conclave unitiinr with tin' former. The choice of new cardinal", since a large portion of those announced nual be "of the pro. vinee," becomes vital. It may easily decide the character of the next Papal election. The pontitlcatc of Leo has, it must be remembered, greatly increased tho relative Influence and importance of the Catholic church without the walls of Koine and beyond the couflnea of Italy. A Swiss baa been placed at toe head of the Jesuits, i.i, win., ,,iiB,uii ...11 iiiu v-wpiiv niuuD, aim i the new general ff the Dominicans is not an Italian. Thirty years ago the cardinals whoae names were in the mouth ea of men wi re Italians. They arc not today. There is painful contrast between the wide public knowledge of those canvassed for the succession suc-cession even fourteen years ago and today. Cardinal Parocchi, in some senses the reactionary reac-tionary candidate und today "t ninerlingo;" or Cardinal Rattagllni a more liberal! l'an-dldate l'an-dldate who at some points resembles the present Pope to name two leading candidates candi-dates can neither of them be compared In the general knowledge of their career with Cardinal Pecei. in 1S7S, or even Hiineonl or BIIlo, who were voted for on the last ballot. Under these circumstances the influences of tlie foreign cardinals three of whom were absent at the last conclave is certain to be strouger than in the pust, though the election elec-tion of an Italian and the maintenance of the see at Home is certain. |