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...large, untidy desk of President Pascual Ortiz Rubio one day last week lay a bill and a letter. The bill, passed unanimously by the Senate and House of Mexico (TIME, Jan. 4), provided that in the Federal District and Territories of Mexico no creed should be represented by more than one clergyman per 50,000 population. The letter was from Most Reverend Pascual Diaz, Catholic Archbishop of Mexico. It urged the President to veto the bill...
...reality it does not merit the name of law," promptly declared Catholic Archbishop Pascual Diaz, in a pastoral letter to his flock. "It does not merit the name of law, since if it is judged from the Catholic viewpoint it is contrary to the 'just ordination of reason' of which every law should consist; it opposes the positive dispositions of God and the teachings of the Church, the authentic and infallible organ established by Jesus Christ our Lord...
Archbishop Pascual Diaz further contended that the law is in violation of the peace between Church and State arranged by the late Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow (TIME. July 1, 1929), under which Catholic churches (closed throughout Mexico for three years) were reopened. The peace agreement unquestionably authorized Mexican State legislatures to limit the number of their clergy, and six States have already done so; but Archbishop Pascual Diaz contended that the right to limit does not extend to the Federal Congress of Mexico...
...unanimous votes the Senate and House of Mexico passed a law last week which was promptly denounced by the Most Reverend Pascual Diaz, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Mexico, as "an unheard of outrage of the public power against religion." The new law, unless vetoed by President Pascual Ortiz Rubio, will provide: 1) That no religious denomination shall have more than one clergyman per 50,000 population in either the Federal District of Mexico City (pop. 1,217,663) or the Territories of Lower California (pop. 94,469) and Quintana Roo (pop. 12,150). 2) That in the District and Territories...
...Jane Addams, 71, famed social worker, in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, following an operation for an ovarian cyst; President Pascual Ortiz Rubio of Mexico, in Mexico City, with a high fever; Harold Gatty, 'round-the-world flyer, in Atlanta, of influenza; General Ballington Booth, 72, founder of Volunteers of America, son of the late Founder William Booth of Salvation Army, in Manhattan, following an operation for a kidney disorder...