Apparently enclosed with the preceding document is a statement of the problem in the hand of Miss Edes. The points are 1. Bishop Winand Wigger and his secretary insist that the Bishop cannot name a rector of the cathedral because that would be alienating part of the episcopal mensa. This is the opinion of Bishop John England. Monsignor George H. Doane, the Cathedral Rector, is supported by all the bishops of the country. 2. Bishops in the United States where there is no Cathedral chapter nor parishes should not set up a rector of the Cathedral parish. 3. Propaganda in rulings on America and Australia insists that the bishops be supported by funds collected in the diocese. The prohibition about alienation refers not to financial offerings but to the immovable property. Wigger wrote to Doane claiming that Corrigan was suspended from Pontificalibus because be ordained sede vacante. Bishop Francis Patrick Kenrick and Father Michael Koenig maintain that in case of necessity the bishop could so act. Cardinal John McCloskey also ordered him to act. Corrigan ordained three deacons who had been prepared while he was still Bishop of Newark. 5. The American custom of appointing rectors of the Cathedral goes back for more than forty years. The Catholic Directory shows how other bishops do this, but Doane who prepared the report for Newark never designated himself as rector. 6. The removal of Doane would probably be against the Instruction of 1878. A.D. Italian 2pp. :: I-1-i A.L.S., A.D. 7pp. 4to. 11 Photostats from New York Archdiocesan Archives