ROOSEVELT AT ROME.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 356, 6 April 1910, Page 5

ROOSEVELT AT ROME.

THE POPE DECLINES AN AUDIENCE KING EMMANUEL'S CORDIALITY. By Cable.—Preea A«sociatio».—Opyrijrfct Rome, April 4. Mr. Roosevelt is at Rome. He purposed seeing his Holiness the Pope tomorrow, but the arrangements have fallen through, the Y:\tiean intimating that as a necessary r.:...ition Mr. Roosevelt should not o :o:M the susceptibilities of the Vatican a, Mr. Fairbanks did on his recent visit. Mr. Roosevelt declined to make any promise. Mr. Roosevelt, in his correspondence 1 with the Vatican, recogniscu tne Pope's right to receive whomsoever he liked, i and added: "1 in my turn must decline' io make any stipulation or condition limiting freedom of conduct." ' Mr. Roosevelt telegraphed to America, and hoped that American journalism would treat the incident as merely personal, and in no wise affecting the relations of Catholics and Protestants. King Emmanuel gave Mr. Roosevelt a cordial audience. A CAMPAIGN OF CALUMNY. FAIRBANKS AND THE METHODISTS Received April 5, 9.45 p.m. Rome, April 5. The Vatican authorities are astounded'that ex-President Roosevelt published correspondence which was regarded as diplomatic documents. Mr. Roosevelt's secretary, who is a Roman Catholic, interviewed Cardinal Merry del Val, who asked for a guarantee that Mr. Roosevelt would not visit the Methodist Church in Rome, which, Cardinal Merry del Val stated, was countenancing a most offensive campaign of calumnious detraction against the Pope. The secretary refused to give a guarantee, saying that Mr. Fairbanks' address to Roman Methodists was the real cause of the Vatican's displeasure.