The record-union., 1897-10-03
Recalled From His Position as Cap
tain-GeneraI of Cuba.
Marshal BIanco, II Is Believed, VIII be His
Successor.
Senior Sagasta, the Liberal Leader,
Intrusted by the Queen Regent
With the Task of Forming a
New Cabinet for Spain.

LONDON, Oct. "a special dispatch
received here from Madrid to-day says
that Captain General Weyler has been
recalled from Cuba His successor, it
is added, has not yet been officially
announced.
Marshal Blanco, it is stated, in all
probability will accept the post of Cap
tain-General of Cuba in succession to
Captain General Weyler.
SEGASTA TO FORM A CABINET.
MADRID, Oct. 2.-Senor Sagasta, the
Liberal leader, has been intrusted by
the Queen Regent with the task of
forming a new Cabinet in succession to
the Azcarraga Ministry.
Senior Sagasta, after leaving the
Queen Regent, had a long conference
with the Marquis Vega de Arajo, who
accepts the Presidency of the Cham
Der.
Admiral Bermejo becomes Minister of
Marine, in succession to Admiral Ber-
anger.
The financial question is demanding
the greatest attention aud the Liberals
at the outset of the coming season of
Parliament viii expose frankly the po-
sition of the Spanish treasury.
SAGAsTA's MISTAKE.
HAVANA, Oct. 2.-"'El Pals" the or
gan of the Autonomist party, COM
men1s editorially on the Spanish Cabi-
net crisis, saying:
There are powerful reasons why we
advise the continuance of the Conser-
vatives in control of the Government
so as to avoid the prejudice and dan
ger which might be occasioned by q
violent transition in the abnormal cir
cumstances of the present political and
military problem in Cuba The nego-
tiations with the United States have
arrived at a, stage which does not ad-
NIT of a violent interruption or radi-
cal reversal"
la Lucha" says: "The Liberals dur
ing the last political campaign went
further than prudence advised, and
compromised more than they thought.
Their demands for the recall of Cap
tain-General Weyler place Senior Sa-
gasta in difficult situation, when the
Captain-G General has asked for two
years time to put down the revolu-
ton. Now, after what has happened,
will they still ask for his recall. The
General in Chief cannot resign in war
time. Moreover, Captain General Wey-
Ter will be able to prove that in the
provinces of Havana, MatanZaS and
Pinar del Rio the rebellion is under
control. SO that it would be because
of political circumstances for which he
is entirely irresponsible that he might
feel obliged to ask his recall, not con-
sidering himself backed up at home
with the moral force necessary to con-
tinue the command of the army in
Cuba.
"The advantage or disadvantage of
such a course will lie exclusively at the
door of the Liberal party. This is the
question of the hour, and perhaps for
the first time Senior Sagasta has made
a mistake and given a chance to his
adversary to rout him by making it
impossible for him 10 form a durable
Cabinet"
POSSIBLE LOSS OF CUBA.
MADRID (via Bayonne), Oct I'm
all her consultations with the Spanish
Generals and the leaders Of the politi-
cal parties, the Queen Regent has laid
stress chiefly upon the question of
SPANS relations with the United
States and the best means of averting
the loss of Cuba through prolongation
of the war and consequent American
Intervention, thereby imperiling the
stability of her sons throne, let alone
playing into the hands of the Republi-
cans and Carlists, who have been espe-
cially troublesome of late
The Queen also insisted strongly upon
discussing whether Spanish rule in the
West Indies would not be jeopardized
by too extended grant of autonomy
thus enabling the separatists and au-
Economists to prepare gradually and le-
gally their revolution toward independ-
ence.
She earnestly asked the statesmen if
they really believed a Liberal Govern
ment would be strong enough to make
the majority of Spaniards accept ex-
tended home rule. involving a sacrifice
of Spanish material interests in the
colonial markets, and a heavy burden
for the Spanish treasury if saddled with
a part of the Cuban debt
The Queen questioned whether Sagas-
ia. would be able to restrain public
opinion, the press and the opposition
parties if he made concessions to the
colonies under the pressure of Ameri-
can diplomacy.
The Queen cannot believe success
would crown so complete a reversal Of
the policy which has been followed for
the last two years and half, but It
seems that some if not all of her loyal
advisers had the courage to tell the
Queen Regent that the alternative lies
between the sincere trial of a new
policy embracing an understanding
with the United States and the greater
peril of a conflict with America, prob
ably entailing the loss of the colonies.