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Show Holy See at No Time Conciliatory, Says Garcia Prieto j Madtid, Aug. 2 The Liberal press cfllclally denies the insinuations of tiie Vatican tbat It only demanded Ibc withdrawal of the bill prohibiting turther religions orders until the concordat con-cordat had been revised and also ! olnts out tbat ,tbe bill in question i i e'id not violate th? concordat which ' recogalzes only three orders. I El Liberal says Pope Pius X Is now sowing what will be reaped iu ; kdlowlng the advice of two Spanish ' cardinals. j San Sebastian, Spain, Aug. 2. Gar- ' eia Prieto, the minister for foreign I r: fairs iu an .interview today in w hich I be recited the history of the negotla- J j tlons between Spain and the Vatican, j j-denies that the Holy See bad made i a conciliatory attitude. He addol: I "The government asked only two 1 ! things. First, the suppression of th? i j convputs and monasteries, which en- i . tercd Spain illegally, and. second, I hat the pope should authorize the bishops to suppress or transform the j establishments unnccess?;.-y to the I .'iid of the priests in their ministrations. ministra-tions. "The government offered a year for the transformation which was do-i-lrod by 'the secular clergy whose existence ex-istence is gravely compromised by the monks." Senor Prieto declared Cardinal Mer ry Del Val had adopted dilatory tactics tac-tics from tho first, alleging that the Fpeprh from the throne contained ; i.olntss ngflinnt the Catholic religion. ' "We protested our good faith and ! ct tdrod to reach an agreement," said ! the minister, 'when we enforced tho j d'-cree of 1902. against which neither ! the curia nor the episcopate protcst-j protcst-j (!. Cardinal Merry Del Val demand rd that the decree remained a dead b Iter although the Vatican since that date granted numerous authorizations without the sanction of the Spanish j-overnmnt. "Finally, the demand of tin? vail i can' ior the withdrawal of thj bill permitting non-Catholic organization;? j io display the insignia of public worship wor-ship was deemed inadmissible Th'j I lecall or Marquis de Ojedu, our am- j bussador at the Vatican, was in full nccord with diplomatic usage when a I I power with which another power i3 ir telotlon refuses to admit the justi- i j lied pretensions of the latter." |