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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MO NPAY, JULY 27 1903 Deeds of the Dead Pope Flre Erxtolled in S CARDINAL GIBBONS STRIDING Cable to The Call and New York Copyright, 1908, by the New York Publiehing Company 2%.—Cardinal Gibbons r re to-day. He is stop- ing in the French Convent of tk Sulpiclans. There i no further doubt that under the in- Cardinal Gibbons the French inals will no longer group themselves d Cardinal Matifieu to vote for what practically would be a continuation of the Leo XIII. They pave al- themselves around Cardinal e election of Cardinal tter is practically the of the Vatican for policy of grouped Richard to oppose t Rampolla. The suthor of the the lest sixtéen years. read policy Rampolla represents some- He is the incarnation of the f the papacy, which came the time of the Councll of fluence of Philip 11 and ation of that period. It t the support of the candidature of the 8] 0 FOR SUCCESS OF DANNUTELLI afternoon he drove to the Vatican and paid his respects to Cardinal Oregiia, who received him‘most cordially. He had a conversation with the latter.in which the Camerlingo informed Cardinal Gibbons of the condltions made by the congregation with reference to the conclave. Cardinal Gibbons will reeelve no one except Cardl- nals until after the copclave. KL Cardina Says the Conclave W:ill Be Brief. OME, July 2.—At the sixth meeting R of the comgregation of Cardinals, held to-day, forty-five Cardinals were present. Cardinal Della Volpe, voicing also the opinions of some of his colleagues, criticlzed the ceremonies in connection with the interment of Teo XIIT last night, be- cause the Cardinals did not participate in the ent're procession, a1d compiained gen- erally of the lack of order. Cardinal Oreg- — - — — 2 w BOME i - R 2 ATE PONTIFF, FOR WHOM THE CATHOLIC WORLD MOURNS. AND THE FAMOUS EDIFICE IN ROM ABOVE THE ENTRANCE OF WHICH HIS BODY WILL REST UNTIL ITS PERMANENT INTERMENT 1 THE CHAPEL OF ST. JOHN LATERAN. " 3 3 S 2 S S former Secretary of State, in spite of lhfi!wm".flhv between the Quirinal and the lia replied that he had already noticed fidelity of the ardinals and a|Vatican would take an entirely consti- | thy sud 3 : : . 10 Moms, hobe tuttooal Torm, which wael areaily MU-10 e 3 L s o him elected, has mo | There is against it a | to give the cter from the | Leo XIII { Cardinal Rampolla render it more easy v for any other candidat E ve papabiie, for though Cardinal Oreglia has g -4 teem of late in his funetion es Camerlingo, he has never pos- | sessed the sympathies of the Sacred Col- to make warm friends lege, nor been able there It is cer that if Cardinal Gibbons | has worked 1o render impossible the elec- tion of Cardinal Rampolla, his efforts have at the same time been directed in | favor of Cardinal Serafino Vannutelll. | one member of the Sacred College wh modern in his ideas | d whose conception the papacy 1s | an anti-political one. He is convinced the | Pope has nothing to do with the domestic | politics of the various countries and is a strong partisan f the position or the | church in the United States—that is. com- | plete independence of church and state. 1 In consequence it is almost certain that | if Cardinal Vannutelli should be elected | Pope he would withdraw the prohibition which prevents Italian Catholics voting o from standing as candidates for the Ital- jen Parliament. If this prohibition. which | was first made by Pius IX and continued | by Leo XIII is withdrawn the result wiil | be the immedisate formation of a Catholie | party in the Itallan Parliament, which | will oppose the Socialists If a Catholic party should be formed the The latter is very of gate the present state of the rivalry But nearly all of the Italian Cardinais ebsolutely opposed any change in this direction, and though they recognize the great qualities of rdinal Vannutelli, they will not vote for him. Therefore, even if Cardinal Gibbons should succeed in obtaining fer him the votes of all of the foreign Cardinals (except, of course, the Spanish members of the Sacred Col- lege, who will remain faithful to Cardinal Rampolla) and should obtain more Ital- fan votes than seems at present probable, he will still be far from bringing together the two-thirds majority necessary for the election of a Pope. Under these conditions and in the pres- ent state of the various combinations in the Sacred College, we may prepare our- selves for considerable surprises in the course of the conclave. of Cardinal Rampolla may now be re- garded as odut of the question and the | choice of Cardinal Vannutelll seems ex- tremely improbable, we necessarily reach | the conclusion that the Cardinal who wil succeed Leo XIII will be one not among the aspirants at present prominent. On his arrival here to-day Cardinal Gib- bons was accompanied by Father Garvin, his secretary. He was received at the station by Monsignor Kennedy, rector of the American College in Rome. and Father Hertzog, procurator general of the Order of Sulpicians. They drove to the Sulpician House, where mass was cele- brated Being tired and the hour being late, Cardinal Gibbons did not attend the meet- ing of the Cardinals this morning. In the As fhe election | | short. 1 were responsible. Monsignor Merry Del Va! communicated to the Cardinals the report from Santiago, Chile, of the incident which occurred there during the celebration of the re- quiem for the late Pope, which was at- tended by the President of the republic and all the authorities. According to the report Monsignor Uguarte in delivering the eulogy upon the late Pontiff protested against the usurpation of papal territory by Italy, whereupon Count Cuechi Boas- son left the church and lowered the Ttalian flag, which had been hoisted at the legation as & sign of mourning. The incident produced an unpleasant impres- sion upon the Sacred College, being the first discordant note in the universal mourning. The ceremonial of the conclave esthb- Ushed by Gregory XV is to be followed at the coming meeting. The Cardinals have decided to eat in common during the con- clave in order to facilitate their work. A ocal paper quotes the response of, Car- linal Svampa to a question as to whether he believed the conclave would be of lengthy duration as follows: On the comtrary, T thynk it o days believe that 1o reach an agreement Another paper quotes Monsignor Fran- ciscanava as to the possibility of the elec- tion of a Pope who would reconcile the Vatican and Quirinal th No Pope ever hated Italy. The Go must reconcile iteeit o the Pope. . Certainty Italy, on the occasion of the death of Leo, showed erself well digposed for & reconcilla- jon will be very will sutfico D o o e e L e e h S s 2 ) CAPACITY OF CHURCHES IS TESTED — Continued From Page 1, Column 6. cld. and with his dying glance surveyed the world which God had given him for his universal kingdom. Thither the eyes and hearts of his children—yes, of the whole world, have, during these last weeks, followed him and watched with him in wondering Jove and awe, until, in his unequal struggle with death, his he- rolc soul was at last set free from the frafl prison-house of his body. And great es has been the work of Leo XIII in his life, God has so willed that its crowning | gredinese should be in his dying and in his death. It has been an extraordinary spectacle to see, the world over, the hearts of the children turn to thejr father in & common impulse of enthusiastic praise, loving sympathy and intense de- votion. It is as though this were only an- other instance of how the Lord's eer- vants, like himself, often labor with-more bunfant fruit when their earthly life §s over. “Uniless & grain of wheat falling into the ground die, itself remaineth alone, but if it die it bringeth forth much fruit.” “The beginning of Leo’s pontificate feil wpon difficult times. The preceding cen- tury had been one of bloodshed and ware. Revolution had followed revolution. Kings had been made and unmade. Em- perors and Presidents had been swept away in the storms, Governments had been set up and had fallen to pleces. Pope Leo Found Many Arrayed Against Church “ T HE people were restless, dissat- isfled with existing conditions and vaguely reaching after bet- ter things, ready in consequence to take &n active and even violent part in any movement that promised a new order. The Papacy stood in the midst of these volcanic disturbances, often itself forced to become a storm center. Plus IX, mild and gentle though he was, had been forced out of Rome. His bishops and priests were in prison in Germany. Negotiations had been broken off with Russia, whose BY M_Q!/RNERJ FOR THE LATE POPE ruler was persecuting Catholics i borders. Switzerland had driven C-’t‘ho’l‘l‘: bizhops into exile. France, ever too lkely to be extreme, forgetting the traditlons which had made it glorious, was fnaugu- rating a policy of violence against the church. England and Belgium were scarcely friendly, and in Rome itself the rulers of the new Italy, in hostile mood. were sitting in the ancient palace of the Popes. The Papacy seemed to be out of Joint with the rest of the world. Nations were estranged from it. Leo XIII suc- ceeded to this heritage of estrangement, suspicion, ill-will, hatred and persecution. ‘What a change he has wrought in the twenty-five years of his reign! Not a vestige of the old embittered relations re- mains save only in unhappy France, and there only because the people would not heed the counsel of the Pope to live in the present and future and ‘Let the dead past bury its dead.’ And so but a few months ago the King of the great Eng- lish nation and the official head of its church pald respectful homage to the aged Pope, and the German - Emperor seemed to glory in the spiendor of his of- ficial visit; and if the President of France and the Czar of Russia éid-not journey to Rome it was only an unhappy accident af in Eloquent Eulogies. |Leo’s Life Forms Themes for Tribute. e -+ the times that prevented them from car- rving out the desires of their hearts. Even official Italy has shown by its spon- taneous courtesies how much the old spirit of hostility has passed away. It is safe to say that when the time comes to remove it the body of Leo XIII will be carried in peace, as in honor. to its tomb In the Lateran basilica. “What a wonderful tribut: all this change is to'the consummate diplomacy of Leo XIII! But what a great tribute it 18 to the means he has employed. The Gerntiles have raged, and the people de- vised vain things. The kings of the ‘earth stood up .and the princes met to- gether against thé church and against her ruler. But he that dwelleth in the heaven laughed at them. They took away the temporal dominions of the Pope, but the Lord gave him the Gentiles for his inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for his possession. They trusted in chariots and horses; Leo trusted in the name of the Lord. He to the justice he knew to be in the hearis of rulers and nations; he called to it and it harkened to his voice. Above all, he watched and waited with the eternal pa- tience of Rome, and at lasi he saw the calm succeed to the storm-tossed political sea of Europe. His eminent Christian virtues won the good will and confldence of those whom he had found separated from him. As scripture beautifully says, ‘When the ways of a man shall please the Lord he will convert even his ene- mies.” * * * ‘This is the Lord's doing and it is wonderful in our eyes.' Brought Peace | JAfter Discord Head Held Sway | 66 UT Leo's purposes and triumphs i B:Hd rot end with bringing the | rulers of the nations back to | him. He never forgot thai he was a | pastor of souls, the chief shepherd in suc- | cession to Him to whom our Lord had | said, ‘Feed my lambs, feed my sheep.” And souls are individuals He knew they were his charge and that they would look to him for suidance. 8o | with the promptness of a vigilant pastor, | one month after his coronation he issued his first encyclical in which with wonder- tul clearness and accuracy he portrayed the evils of socisty and warned tie faith- | ful against them. ‘Since the beginning {of eur vontificate’ he says, ‘there has been presented to us the d spectacle of the evils with which mankind is over- wicimed on every side: that most wide- | spread corruption of the supreme truths | on which rests, as on its foundation, the of human society; that revolt capable of enduring any law- | ful authority; th constantly reoccuring :s of discord whence arise intestine strifes and bloody and civil wars; con- tempt for laws regulating morals and defending justice; a cupidity insatiable of the perishable,things and forgetfulness of things eternal; improvident administra- tions, dissipation and misuse of public funds and property; the impudence of those who, doing everything to deceive, | strive to make themselves pass as defend- ers of their country, of liberty and of the rights of all; and in the last place, that species of deadly plague that vitally at- tacks the organs of human society, gives it no rest and threatens it with fresh revolutions and most calamitous events.' “Could one with surer touch put his finger on the ills of soclety They are all here, discase of the spiritual life, the in- [ tellectaal life, the moral life, the physical life, the social and the political life. And as these were wide-spread, penetrating all | classes of men and women, the Pope saw that there was no possible remedy, except by arousing the consciences of the in- dividuals, Legislation cannot generate virtue. The masses will be no better than the units of which they are composed. 8o in a series of clear a’\d forcible encyeli- cals the Pope taught {he world anew the old elementary Christain traths, which have the proud strength and glory of having lifted mankind out of the ancient paganism. He began by teaching that God Is supreme on ecarth as well as in heaven and that all power and authority to command and Tmake laws derive from Him and from Him alone. Therefore, he insisted cn the religious education of children, that they might learn to know | about God and the' hereafter. Hé spoke of the Christain family as the sacred foundation of the whole social fabric. Tells of Work for Benefit of Al Humanity E emphasized again the Al- mighty’s command written on the first page of scripture, ‘What God hath joined together let no asunder.’ ‘It follows,’ he say when the dignity of Christian marriage is violated men adopt legal concubmage instead of marriage, husbands neglect their natural duties of fidelity, children refuse obedience to and respect for their parents, the bonds of domestic love are loosened, and what sets a deplorable ex- ample and brings ruin to public morals, ‘ pernicious and fatal separations often follow extravagant love.’ He outlined the constitution of the Christian state and the constitution of the church. He spoke to laborers and capitalists, uphoid- ing the former in their right to a just re- muneration for their toil; supporting the latter in their title to property justiy ac- quired. He denounced anarchy and all attacks upon constituted authority and pointed out to his people the great dan- gers of soclalism. And because all re- ligious and all social and civil, even com- mercial, life, is based upon philosophical principles, he, in the very beginning of his reign issued a strong encyclical on the sound traditional policy of the church, re- quiring that it be taught with renewed vigor in all Catholic schools of higher education. The results which he hoped to achieve through the teaching of his en- cyelicals he looked to the church to ac- complish. Catholics, he knew, would be obedient to his teaching, and he knew also that if Catholics were better morally and intellectually by following his leader- ship he would inevitably through their agency benefit those outside the church as well. And so he said in a pastoral let- ter written in 1894, ‘Guided by our knowl- edge Of the times and our consciousness of our duty, what we have proposed to ourselves, what we have indefatigably aimed to do in words and in actions throughout the whole course of our pon. Continued on Page 3, Column 3. loved peace and pursued it; he appealed | Crmons Praise Rendered NOT WITH SIWORD BUT WITH SMILE LEO SWWAYED THE WORLD LAMEDA, July 26.—At the sol- emn pontifical requiem high mass sung in St Joseph's Church this morning for the re- pose of the soul of Pope Leo the thirteenth, the sermon and eulogy were delivered by the Rev. Father P. M. Sar- dfl'nl. an Italian priest of distinguished lineage, who knew the late Holy Father personally and who served for a time as an assistant in the magnificent cathedral of St. John de Lateran, the sacred edifice -chosen by the late head of tihie Roman Catholic Church as his final resting place. Father Sardoni came here recently from Nicarauga and has been acting as assist- ant to the Rev. Father T. J. O’'Connell, who, in the absence of the pastor of the parish, the Rev. P. A. Foley, is directing the affairs of St. Joseph's Church. Father O'Connell was the celebrant of the mass. The sanctuary and altar were draped in black and with the papal colors, yellow and white. Special music was rendered by an augmented choir. In his .sermon Father Sardoni sald in part: “When a great man passes away all the i ;WS / FATHER SARDONI, AN OAK- LAND PRIEST WHO PAID | TRIBUTE TO LATE POPE. o less. When a good man dies all the world bows down, sunk in sad reflections. Leo XIII was great and good at the same time; and it is no wonder if all the earth has surrounded his bier. That great man when alive stoood before all the world; and all the world, now that he is dead, Iying upon his funereal bed, views thoughtfully his inanimate figure. “‘Before that sublime bier, I, who have seen him so many times, I, who have so often received his blessing and heard him speak, will endeavor to picture to you, not in a magnificent canvas, but in an humble sketch, Gloachimo Pecci, who was the great, the good, the wise Leo Thir- teenth, supreme and august Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. “Meditations that arise from the tomb of a great personage inspires our souls, and 1 feel something in the depths of my heart as I approach this subject that seems as a vision. Sometimes we are awe struck at beholding a renowned cunquercr, who has left behind him ruin, corpes, death. Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon enchant, bewitch and fascinate our imaginations, excited at the reeking wounds and razed ciue Cries, tears, oaths, curses, clash of weapons, neighing of war horses, destruction of towns and village§, falls of empires and dynasties enshroud the presence of a con- queror who goes, surveys und over- comes. Sublime figures, beyond a doubt. “But we do not now behold the tomb of such a man. His eyes may have been under the brow -of a Caesar, but his smiles revealed an ineffablé something that one could easily imagine was the smile of Christ, the Prince of Peace. Be- fore this exponent of peace the world was silent. He swayed it with a mysterious rod. He treated every ancient question with the pen of a ripe scholar and great master, and not with less prudence, wis- dom and light, dwelt upon every modern question. He revived the most august philosophy, that of Aristotle and St Thomas. called ‘the angelic Goctor.’ “In these days, when men strive to abolish authority on the ground that the people alone are the source of it, he showed the people that there is a source avove them from which all governing power springs, thus refuting the doctrine of the ‘soclal compact.' A great society is growing like a tree, the branches of which-shadow the light of the sun—Free Masonry: Leo XIIT wrote upon this so- ciety one of his most learned and artis- tic works—one that has won the admira- tion of the Masons themselves, whom he kindly invited to return to the pale of the church. Gives Luminous Explanation to Great Problems “fl FTERWARD he lifted up his wonderful velce, giving, lumi- nous explanation to many a modern problem, as that upon political toleration, of false religions and upon the freedom that fosters prosperity and pro- tects States from arbitrary violence. This indefatigable fighter for truth did not halt here. We have his sage encyclical upon Ilberty; that liberty in whose name so .many crimés have been committed; that libérty which is the fountain of every good and every evil; that liberty which shares the throne of God, and to some ex- tent the abyss of hell with Lucifer; that liberty for which we weep, struggle and die; that liberty constituted one great subject that he made patent with incom- parable clearness and eloquence. “When all the world recently celebrated the achievement of Christopher Colum- bus, Leo sang upon his harp. Dante, Pe- trarch or Milton would have accepted with pride his verses as their own. The study of the Bible, of history and the sciences did not escape his attention and keen penetration and he wrote passages that will live and be handed down to pos- terity. “There was another question that ia- - are sad, gloomy, mournful, but the tomb | world moves—starts and secems to weigh | vaded every thinking mind, troubled ev- blood, | sight of | | | | all that, if he had died, upon his tomb | these words might justly have been in- ery Cabinet, shook and is still shaking soclety—the labor.question. There was not a nation but which was disturbed and distressed with this problem. On one side employers would not yleld ground, pro- claiming their rights: on the other side were the employes demanding recognition. “Leo | arose when the Attila and the Huns threatened to devastate Italy. Leo XIII appeared when despondent peoples, deprived of their religion, often grew more barbarous and flery than the bar- barians themselves. The more generous a people are in their natures the more Iike unto the savage they become at feel- ing that they are despised and downtrod- den. “The anclent struggle of ancient Rome with greater strength than in those early days burst forth. New Coriolanuses sprang up on one side and new Gracchb on the other and with threats of blood | were about to lead hordes of despondent humans against government, institutions, societies gnd states. People could no longer be calmed with a fine fable. “It was then that Leo XIII spoke. The tribunes heard him. Attila with his| Huns harked back to the wisdom anl elo- quence of the first Leo. At the guiding el oquence of the last Leo the people did not shrink, but heeding. came forward. and to better hear his voice approached the altar. Then they listened to the advice of an old man, with plercing eyes and a saintly smile, who was insinuating that if soclety was committing an Injustice against the toilers, they (the toilers vere likewise committing an injustice agalnst religion by not allowing it to share their sacred cause and rights. “Workmen, 1 am certain, will surround the tomd of Leo XIII more compactly than they did his throne. After having done scribed, ‘Leo XIII. the great Pope.' But he did not die then. I have already said that Leo stood before the world like a glant struggling through all his life, not to destroy or create discord, but to estab- lish peace. | upon the venerable old man, when that Pro- testant sovereign kissed the trembling hand of the ‘prisoner of the Vatican,” pro- | claiming to the world at large that from that meeting he drew new ideals, new views, new hopes and new projects. “But Leo did not stop here. He dealt with mighty America, galning the affec- tion of the Government and its people and writing with tender heart that letter ‘Americanism,” winning ‘the love and admiration of Catholics and Protestants alike. FHe expressed on numerous ocea- sions his unbounded admiration and re- spect for things American in words that were fraught with the sincerity that ema- nates from a great soul uch was Leo XITL I would style him the peaceful conqueror of the world Many a great Pope passed before him. but nene greater than he, who with bonds of peace and in times such as the world is now ex fencing united all nations around the Vatican. It is no cause for surprise therefore if at his last fllness the entire world sympathized and listened, not losing one of his parting words. “Before dying, like a swan, he sang. and sent his last poem to the American C: dinal as a token of his affection. To the end he arose from his bed and worked and strove. Once he cried, ‘Open the win dow and give me light'—the dying words of a noted German poet. We are told that in his final agony he exclaimed, ‘I bless all the world.’ v “To the end he was great. With him it was a personal virtue. He received the bi#ssed eucharist with edifying plety and strikingly displayed his devotion to the Blessed Virgin, whose rosary and scapu- lar he love “He was humble. He was meek. His life was like that of an angel. His smile was a symbol of s virtue; his eyes | dicative of his gen “The last w he unconsciously pronounczd w that a Pope uses to bless. Leo XIII died. No, he did not dle: he stil! lives. He lives in the gl of God will live in the history of the world; he will live in the hearts of men Chant Solemn Mass for the Late Pontiff AKLAND, July %.—Solemn requiem high mass for the repose of o of the late Pope Leo XIIT was sa Roman Catholie ¢ to-day in the this city. Observan he sacred cere- monies was attended by elaborate musi and sermons on the life of the departed Pontiff were preached by the pastors. At St. Francis de Sales Church the mas. was celebrated by the Rev. Father Cantwell, Father McSweeney, deacon: Father Cull, subdeacon, and Fa Power, master of ceremonies. The m was under direction of Miss McNally Father McSweeney delivered the sermon The Rev. Michael King, the venerabie pastor of 8t. Mary's parish, sald the mass at the Church of the Immaculate Concep- tion. Father Morrison was deacon and Father Gleason subdeacon. Adolf Greg- ory dijrected the music, an original re- quiem mass written by himself the funeral of the late Bishop of Novara, Ttaly. His Pontificate” was the subject of the Rev. Father J. B. Me- Nally’s sermon at St. Patrick’s Church. The mass was celebrated by Father Mec- Nally, the younger, with Father Mec- Nally, the eider, as deacon and Father Lony as subdeacon. The sanctuary was draped in mourning emblems arranged by the Ladies’ Altar Society under direc tion of .Mrs. McAvoy. A special choir of twenty voices sang under the direction of “Leo XIII and Professor Meredith, with Miss Grace Quinn as organist. The R P. C. Yorke, pastor of St Anthony's Church, delivered an eulogium “I saw him-calming the unrighteous wrath of the rabld Carlist in Spain, e cited by the cordial relations existing be- tween the Vatican and the Spanish Minis- try. I saw him between: two nations, two races, the Latin and the Teutonic, Spain and Germany, while already throughout Europe might have been heartho clash- ing of arms on account of the disputed archipelago of the Caroline Islands, when at a word from Leo Bismarck withdrew and Alfonso XII went forward to clasp his hand. Pope Pacifies Ungquiet France With a Word 6“ SAW him again before France I while the royalists and the repub- lcans were about to deluge with fraternal blood, not glorious battle-fields, but streets and boulevards, when Leo once more, arrayed in bis pontifical robes, spoke to the royalists and spoke to the republicans, explaining to them that the church would bless every form of true government, thus pacifying at that crit- fcal period unquiet France. I saw Leo be. fore the Irish powers, and although con- demning their plan of campaign and sys- tem of boycotting, he showed them, the children of his heart, that such methods would lead théem into harm rather than to a betterment of their conditions. “1 saw him after the audience with Lora Halfax, president of the English Church Union, inviting the British nation to re-enter the church. I behold him blessing a few months prior to his death the last King he blessed in his life, a suc- cessor of Henry VIII and Elizabeth. I saw him with the German empire, at the head of which was the terrible Ifon Chan- cellor, who had declared that he would never go to Canossa. and Leo conferring on him the title of ‘Knight of Christ." “We all remember how the Emperor of Germany humbly went to the Vatican, when that soldier ruler shuddered hefore on the dead Pope this morning after mass had been said by Father Powers. At the Church of the Sacred Heart the Rev. Lawrence Serda was celebrant of the mass, with Father Praught as dea- con and Father de Campua as subde: Father Praught preached on the life of Pope Leo XITI. The Rev. Father Heslin, pastor of St Columba’s parish, celebrated the mass this morning. At St. Mary's College a requiem masd ‘was chanted by the Christian Brothers at 6:30 o’clock this morning. —— Colorado Assembly Adjourns. DENVER, July %6.—The General As- sembly adjourned at 1 o'clock this morn- ing after having passed a general appro- priation bill, that being the purpose for which the special session was called. The House defeated the Senate joint resolu- tion calling upon the world's fair board to disband. Governor Peabody refused te issue a supplementary call #r a special session to consider an eight-hour bl