Dunne is in New York for help on the QuigleyOhio school case. On the morning of October 29 he received a telegram from Father Patrick L. Quigley informing him that he had just received from William J. Onahan a letter about the meeting of the committee of the Catholic Congress called for that day in New York. Dunne hurried up there and found only Judge M. W. O'Brien and M. J. Harson, who informed him that the meeting had been called by O'Brien at Onahan's urgent request since Archbishop John Ireland had informed him that there would be a meeting of bishops and archbishops in Laltimore about that time for the consecration of the new coadjutor archbishop of Santa Fe; that an informal meeting of the same committee had been held the night before; that Major John D. Kieley, Jr., and Onahan appointed a committee to go to Baltimore and see how many of them they could get to come here for the meeting; and that meantime the meeting here had been postponed to Friday, the 30th. At 11:00 on the 30th they met at the Catholic Club, and Kieley and Onahan reported that there were no bishops at Baltimore, except the resident one, who did not come. Since John Lee Carroll had not put in an appearance and was in Europe there was a movement for some organization of the committee by which they could get a president, Onahan maintaining that Carroll was chairman, elected by the last Congress and could not be deposed. Dunne had Harson bring in the report of the proceedings of the last Congress, which read simply that on motion of Onahan the name of Carroll had been put at the head of the list. Harson maintained that that did not necessarily make him chairman and the committee agreed. Onahan moved that O'Brien be made permanent chairman, but he declined; Harson moved that Kieley be chairman, which was unanimously adopted and Harson was made secretary. Onahan then made a long report from the Committee on Organization of a complete scheme for the next Congress the system for delegates Dunne describes and which also provides that the 13 archbishops of the country be made members of the committee, that the Congress be a social one limited to the discussion of the labor question, including women and child labor, and cognate subjects as called for in the last Encyclical, but carefully worded so as to exclude all discussion on the Temporal power, education, or the school question in the U.S. Dunne was unable to be present at the afternoon session but asked leave to have it recorded in the minutes that he was opposed to the adoption of any report which would shut out discussion of the Temporal power or the school question. This was accepted after he remarked that he would publish his protest otherwise, and make it an energetic one. Returning at 6:00 he found the committee ready to close, having amended the report so as to recommend a social congress or one on the lines of the last, with the Temporal power and the school question to be discussed, and not having adopted the report but referring it to the archbishops when assembled at St. Louis November 30, for their consideration, so as to put the onus on the archbishops of excluding the paper on the temporal power and education, if they choose to do so. After the action by the archbishops the report will then come up for action by the lay members. Harson will try to find out when the archbishops can meet the laymen at St. Louis and the committee is adjourned until then. None of the hierarchy were present at any of the meetings, nor any reporters, but some of the results were given to the press. Dunne gives Brownson this report, not for publication, but for his own personal knowledge and such private use as he may think proper. He is to remain here a month on the Quigley case, conferring with John Holland. The Catholic Club gave a formal reception to the members of the committee, at which Archbishop M.A. Corrigan was present and at which Dunne spoke and acted as toastmaster. :: III-3-d A.L.S. 6pp. 12mo.