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Show MATTER IS ONE OF INTEREST IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON. July 29. The treatment treat-ment of non-Catholic denominations in Spain has been watched closely by the diplomatic representatives of the United States at Madrid The Investigation of 190tJ came as the result of a protest filed with President Roosevelt by Rev. John Lee and Bishop L. B. Wilson. Acting Secretary of State Bacon at that time asked Minister Collier to report on the status of non-Catholic denominations of Spain. In his report Minister Collier called the attention of tho state department to the existing constitution, which designated desig-nated the Catholic religion as that of the state and obligated Spain to maintain its worship and its ministers. The American Ameri-can minister quoted the section which declared that no one should be interfered with because of religious opinions, but that no ceremonies or manifestations In public, except those of the religion of the state, were to be permitted. Mr. Collier said that funeral services were never interfered with even when Protestant ministers appeared In their clerical capacity on 'the streets, that churches and chapels might be built, but that distinctively ecclesiastical architecture, architec-ture, calculated to proclaim the building as the seat of a Protestant form of worship, wor-ship, was not allowed, or at least that the Protestants had refrained from such form of architecture. |