Foy returns M.J. Harson's letter. Some of his suggestions are good. If there is to be a paper from zach Montgomery on the public schools there should be a second one from a more moderate writer. An attack on the common schools, unless accompanied by an antidote, would do mischief. Foy attaches no value to Harson's suggestion about geographical considerations in the case of the writers of papers. It is proper enough in the appointment of officers and if the attendance justifies it, there can be a vice-president from every state of the Union. He saw Henry J. Spaunhorst Saturday and he was very reluctant to undertake the paper on organizations. Foy urged him very strongly not to back out, for two reasons: his mind seemed to be loaded with the idea in Detroit, and he is a German. With regard to Otten, Foy merely asked him to write because Brownson complained that he would have to ask a certain priest to write such an article, as he knew no layman capable of it. Otten was not at all desirous of taking up the task and mentioned a Milwaukee man, whose address Foy encloses as the fittest man for the work, and has not seen Otten since. William J. Onahan, Henry J. Spaunhorst and Foy are to meet here next Sunday and the call will be the chief subject. Spaunhorst told him about Onahan's coming but was not quite sure. It would be advisable to get a good many papers although the subjects need not been increased but might be sub-divided. If all the papers should not be read, they could at least be published in the volume of the proceedings. Foy would prefer not to read his. He dissents from the notion that ecclesiastics should be called on for papers. If the Congress is to be a lay Congress it ought to be so in fact as well as in name. Harson also takes it for granted that the subjects may be divided. With regard to Negroes and Indians, Brownson remembers how the farmer was disposed of at the Detroit conferences. The Negro representative did not want the subjecttouched. Try to get a paper on the Indian schools from a competent layman. If Brownson knows none, he may apply to Bishop Martin Marty. Foy does not doubt that most of the Government Indian schools are bitter opponents of the Catholic Church. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 8 pp. 8 vo.