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The Pious Fund Case

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Apr 15, 1902

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 15.

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The Pious Fund Case

PRESS dispatches dated April 5 tell us of the “first case” which is to come up for adjudication before The Hague Tribunal. It is a case in which the chief parties are the United States, Mexico, and the Catholic Church. “It is even what is known as ‘the Pious Fund’ matter,” says the New York Sun, “and is clearly based on a claim of the Roman Catholic diocese of California against the government of Mexico for a share in the interest of a fund established prior to the cession of the present State of California to the United States. This fund was established for the aid of the Catholic missions in California and Lower California, and was deposited in the Mexican Treasury.”
The accumulated interest on this fund, it is further stated, amounts now to about $1,000,000, and the United States government is acting for the Catholic diocese of California in the matter, through the United States ambassador to Mexico. A decision favorable to the Catholic Church is to be expected.