The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-01-25
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Resignation Of the Sagasta. Malcampo Cabinet
and q Ministerial Crisis

hCsi6uustUu vi smO DusuSsu'mulCumpO CuDln0t
and Ministerial Crisis.
Parliamentary Combination Against tho Advisers
ofthe Crown-Herreros Defeat for tho Presi-
dency Of the Cortss- Official Anticipa-
ton Of Legislative Reputation
Interview with the King and
Advice from Amadeus
ItLEeaAMs TO the new YORK HERALD
MADRID. Jan. PAP. M.
The members OF the Sagasta- Malcampo Ministry
have resigned their portfolios. placing them In the
hands OF the King.
Defeat Of tho Ministry I'm tho Cortes-Thc
Parliamentary Presidency Test Question
and IN Adverse Vote.
MADRID, Jan. "a 1872.
The defeat OF Senior Herrera for President OF the
lower House Of the Cortes decided the fate of the
then existing Cabinet
At the first sitting OF the Oortes. during the pro-
oeedngs preliminary 20 organization. 1t became evi.
dent that the temper OF the House was agains. the
present government and that the Ministerial candi
date for the Speakers chair had little chance OF sue
cess.
On the test vote the opposition showed itself
largely In the majority and Herreros' defeat In the
regular election for President was inevitable.
sAGAsTAs INTERVIEW WITH THE KING.
For this SeNor sagasta did not wait.
He immediately visited the King, and informed
him that the vote In the Cortes left HIM but two
alternatives-the dissolution of the Cortes or the
resignation Of the Ministry.
CAUTION OF THE CROWN AND PRUDENT ACTION OF
THE THRONE
The latter course was decided upon, and the King
said ne should take counsel with the President of
the Senate the Vice President OF the House and
with Se1ores Herreros, Zorrilla and SerranO before
the formation OF new Cabinet
Senior Sagasta and the present Ministers were
requested to return their portfolios until some de-
cisive result was reached.
THE FUTURE.
To-day being holiday the Cortes Is not In session
Tomorrow the regular election Tor President Will
be held.
Senior sagasta's Election TO the Presidency
Of tho COrtcs.
The vicious custom OF attaching political and
party importance to the office OF President Of the
Cortes Is the cause Of the present Ministerial
trouble In Spain, Just as It was at the moment
when Senior Sagasta was himself chosen to preside
over the deliberations OF the Parliamentary body
This event occurred on the % Of October 1871.
Senior O)Ozaga having gone to Paris as Spanish AM
bassador his post President OF the Cortes had to
be filed. The government candidate was Senior
River0 the chief OF the democratic faction It beng
the opinion of Senior ZOrra and his progressist COM
panions they could best tone down the oppos
OF the republicans and carry their reform schemes
that way. SeuOr Sagasta allowed himself to be put
forward by his personal friends OF ine Pr0gresssta
party, and his party nag was eagerly Joined by the
conservatives and Carlists, the former because Sa-
gasta mad shown OF late considerable tendencies to
Separate himself from the radical camp, and the
latter because they imagined that the more pertur
baton they could bring about In the camp OF the
Amadests che better for the cause OF Don Carlos.
The voting resulted-Sagasta ITO; Rivero, 100;
blanks, 17-t0tal, 2S6. Neither candidate having
the half plus one Of the total Of those present,
as Is required Dy the rules OF the Spanish
Legislature, there had 10 be second voting.
The numbers then sto0d:-Sagasta 124; RiverO,
49, The party analysis was thus:-Sagasta mad,
progressists, AZ; uni0nsts, 50 opposition constitu
Ji0nal Is; Carlists, 10; total, 1914 RiverO had
progressists, a.; democrats. 81; republicans. $751;;
total, 113.
The result of Sagasta's victory last year was to
destroy the prospect just opening up before Spain
O settled government and one OF extreme liberal
views. presided over by Z0rrla. All were placed al
''sixes and sevens'' again. and 'p0or Spain'
adrift the ocean OF troubled politics once
where she has remained noattng since.