He has received Corrigan's letter of April 22. Corrigan is now to be put on a gridiron and broiled just as McQuaid was. Sending this simple case of insubordination of Father Richard E. Burtsell to a General Congregation is making government of the Church in America impossible. To force Corrigan to keep Burtsell in New York City instead of Roundout is practically to condemn Corrigan. In Corrigan's defeat, and it will be unless Burtsell goes to Roundout, all the Bishops in the country will have to suffer. As long as Rome kept the Father Louis A. Lambert case open the disturbances kept up at Waterloo. Lambert is in charge at Scottsville. McQuaid interdicted two men from going to church in Waterloo until they repented and repaired the scandal given. They had defied the authority of the pastor, refused to pay pew-rent, abused and calumniated their bishop and finally brought Father Edward McGlynn to Waterloo. The scandal given to the laity was exceedingly great. The civil courts understand Church rights better than Rome, and threw out the suits of these two men against the constables who ejected them from their pews. These two men have paid Burtsell to carry their case to Rome. Menghini is hired by Burtsell. Their plan is to torment the Propaganda until a compromise is offered. McQuaid has just written to Bishop Edgar Philip Wadhams that it would be better to wait for the action of the St. Louis Province with regard to Omaha. McQuaid thinks the Province does not want Bishop Maurice Francis Burke. McQuaid is prejudiced against Burke on account of his backing out of Cheyenne. In case the St. Louis Province does not want him, then let him go to Ogdensburg. Should he be accepted for Omaha, they can find a third candidate of Ogdensburg. It was Bishop Winand M. Wigger who suggested Father John J. O'Connor when no one else had a candidate. Bishop Stephen Ryan of Buffalo is gradually breaking down. Cardinal James Gibbons came to New York to open a fair. What he will not do to keep before the public! Corrigan should read "The Catholic Democracy of America" in the Edinburgh Review and show it to Cardinal Camillus Mazzella. McQuaid will send copies of the Ritual of the U.B. United Brotherhood, known in America as the Clan-na-gael. Some priests belong to it. The Baltimore Mirror announces that Msgr. Denis J. O'Connell is returning to Rome to resume his duties at the College. He has been sounding some American Bishops on Rome's project of establishing an ecclesiastical tribunal for the U.S. His questions were in confidence. O'Connell has not yet set foot in Rochester. Gibbons was invited to lecture before a Catholic Club at Cornell University, but gave the invitation to Bishop John J. Keane, who accepted. His lecturing would be equivalent to approving Cornell as a place for Catholic students. He did not lecture. Keane was to set out on a tour of Seminaries to get students for next year's work and McQuaid protested. McQuaid encloses a cutting from the New York Times of May 8 no enclosure. Rome must order Burtsell to Roundout. :: I-1-i A.L.S. 8pp. 12mo. 16 Photostat from Archdiocesan Archives of New York