William J. Onahan and Henry J. Spaunhorst were with Foy yesterday. The former was loaded to the muzzle and the latter coincided with him, almost in everything. The result was a complete upsetting of what was done at Detroit. They have determined to appoint "a supervisory committee of bishops" to take charge of the papers and boss the proceedings. The committee on papers, of which Brownson is chairman and Foy a member, is practically wiped out. Brownson may solicity persons to write papers, but there his functions end. Onahan, speaking for Archbishop John Ireland, declared that the selection of the writer on the Independence of the Apostolic See must be left to James Cardinal Gibbons, the Committee to entreat him to name the writer. Foy kicked vigorously, but compromised, by agreeing to consult Brownson first. Onahan also proposed to leave the nomination of the vice presidents, one for each state, to the bishops, and this Foy opposed also, insisting that the laymen should name the vice presidents. The subject of temperance also came up, and as Spaunhorst yielded, Foy did, because his only object in voting for excluding it from the list in Detroit was to please the Germans. Brownson will therefore perceive that hardly anything of the work done at Detroit remains. In addition, there are to be papers on the labor question, on capital and labor. Foy does not know who is to write them, but Onahan, who assumed to be the mouth-piece of Archbishop Ireland and Cardinal Gibbons, laid out the whole program without reference to what had been done at Detroit. Father J. J. Hughes was present most of the time, for Foy sent over to the college inviting him. The committee on organization has now taken control of the whole affair and ousted the committee on papers. Why did not Archbishop Ireland attend at Detroit, to meet those who travelled hundreds of miles to get there? Foy thought it was to be a congress of Laymen, but now it seems that laymen cannot be trusted to utter their sentiments even on such a question as the independence of the Holy See. But Foy as an individual is not much hurt, for he has already expressed himself. And as he was merely called in to the movement by the originators. He hasno notion of doing or saying anything antagonistic to the hierarchy, though he holds that their strange action in forbidding any expression of opinion on the Roman question showed neither political sense nor Catholic spirit. This is entre nous. Brownson is therefore at liberty, as far as Foy is concerned, to write to the Cardinal in the name of the committee and ask him to name the gentleman who shall write the paper on the independence of the Holy Father. Foy will agree to anything but to write it himself. Neither will he write a paper of any kind because he is not en rapport with the Cardinal on social and industrial questions, and the supervisory committee would inevitably sit down on him. He is determined to take a back seat and let the prelates run the meeting to suit themselves. This is his ultimate resolve, and he hopes Brownson will not attempt to alter it. Of other matters that came up Governor John Lee Carroll of Maryland was agreed on for president. Charles J. Bonaparte was mentioned, but Onahan seems to hate the name. Foy proposed to establish the Catholic Union of America and hold a Congress every year in different cities, but Onahan did not seem to accept the idea. He was more occupied by the necessity of visiting the two convents of the Sacred Heart than anything else. He evidently stuffed Spaunhorst before Foy met them, and Foy doubts whether he would have made the flying visit which he did make if Archbishop Ireland had not sent him. There is no call drawn up yet and no sketch of it was submitted yesterday. Onahan promised to attend to it at once and returned to Chicago yesterday evening. Foy cannot say whom Brownson can get to write the paper on temperance. He asked Scaunhorst to write it, but he peremptorily refused. P.S.: The Milwaukee man is of the straightest sect of Gregerians; Otten is a little more liberal. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 12pp. 8vo.