Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-10-07
SAGASTA rs TO LEAD.
Selected to Form a New Minis
try for Spain.
His Policy Will Include the Retire.
ment of Weyler-A Much More
Liberal Treatment Of Cue
bans Is Assured.


as captain general of Cuba. The new
cabinet will be sworn in to-day. The
chief obstacle in the way of liberal
solution of the crisis was that the 10y
alist volunteer corps strongly support
ed the union constitutional party in
opposing the removal of Gen. Weyler.
But the general drift of the crisis was
favorable to the liberals.
Sagasta, on receiving the command
of the queen regent to form liberal
cabinet, Immediately consulted the
leading statesmen of his party. 1t is
probable that the ministry of foreign
affairs will be intrusted to Senior Moret
or to Senior Leon y Castillo, formerly
ambassador at Paris, if Marquis Vega
.Armijo declines to accept the post in
the cabinet which is considered the
most difficult and important on ac-
count of the negotiations with America.
The next in Importance, the ministry
of the colonies, has been offered to
Maura, author of the first Cuban home
rule bill.
The liberal government will divide
the command in Cuba, sending out
civilian viceroy-probably Canalejas-
and as commander in chief of the mill
tary forces Marshal Blanco.
1t is also the intention of Sagasta to
select very influential liberal states
man to succeed Dupuy de LONE at
Washington. The new cabinet is very
well received by majority of the press,
and the stock exchange saluted the adj
vent of Sagasta with general rise in
all securities.
The finacial question is demanding
the greatest attention, and the liberals
at the outset of the coming session
of parliament will expose frankly the
position of the Spanish treasury.
London, Oct. 4.-The Madrid corre-
spondent of the Standard says: Sa-
gasta in accepting the portfolio ex-
pressed his intention to give the largest
possible measure of Cuban home rule,
to reverse the conservative policy in
Cuba and the Philippines, to recall Gen.
Weyler, if he did not resign, to prepare
FOR a dissolution of the cortes and to
select able representatives to go to
Washington and European capitals, as
well as to the colonies of SPAIN to prove
to America and Europe that Spain is at
last going to do spontaneously and sim
cerely what the United States has sug-
gested could be accomplished more
quickly and better by mediation or the
interference which the Spanish people
would certainly not brook, and to which
no Spanish government could assent.
London, Oct. A special dispatch
received here from Madrid says Capt.
Gen. Weyler has been recalled from
Cuba. His successor, it is added, has
not yet been officially announced, but
Marshal Blanco will in all probability
be given the place.
Washington, Oct. Ain the view of
the administration, the United States
and Cuba have all to gain and nothing
TO lose in the liberal accession to pow
er in Spain. Even if the party is not
willing to go as far as the extreme
Cuban sympathizers in the United
States wish, it is felt that there will
certainly be a most liberal offering of
concessions to secure peace in Cuba.
Weyler's withdrawal, it is believed,
nill result in a general relaxation of
the severity of the Cuban campaigns,
a'rcsuming that the war is to continue
TO: time at least, and there will be less
complaint of rigorous treatment of in
siividuals suspected of lending aid to the
rebels. The choice of Sagasta to form
"a cabinet had been expected for several
days, and gave general satisfaction
among diplomats who regard this as a
distinct step toward an abandonment
of the aggressive policy thus far pur.
sued toward Cuba, and substitution OF
conciliatory methods for militarism. Sa
gasta is said to have stood from the
first in opposition to the policy pursued
by Spain for the last year. Those ia
miIar with affairs in Spain say the
Sagasta view has become very popular
in Spain.
IPraxedes Mateo Sagasta the Spanish
statesman and leader of the liberal party
was born in 1897. He is an engineer by pro-
fession and was elected from Zamora II
1854 to the constituent cortes. He took par
in the insurrection of 1856 and eventually
sought refuge in France. When amnesty
was proclaimed Senior Sagasta returned tc
Spain and became professor In the schoo
of engineers at Madrid. He also edited La
Iberia, the principal organ of the progress
list party. He was appointed minister OF
the interior in the first cabinet formed by
Gen. Prim In 1870 he was appointed min
lister of state. Under the presidency OF
Marshal Serrano in 1874 Sagasta was sue
cessively minister for foreign affairs, min
lister of the interior and president of the
council of ministers. In June 1875. he gave
i'm his adherence to the cause of Alfonso
MI. and endeavored to form liberal con
stitutional party. Subsequently Sagasts
Joined the opposition and attacked the ad
ADMINISTRATION formed by Martinez de Cam
pos and Canovas del Castillo in 1S77-79. II
1850, when a new liberal party was formed
Senior Sagasta jonted it, and the cabne
OF Senior Canovas del Castillo was over
thrown early In 1881 and Sagasta ant
Martinez de Campos, by coalition, cam,
into power, Sagasta's ministry remained
i'm office until October. 1888, but he wa
again in power in 1885 and 1888, and in 1S9
his ministry resigned and was succeeded
by that of Senior Canovas del Castillol
Postal Finances.
Washington, Oct. 4.-Henry A. Castle
auditor for the post office department
mas closed the books of the postal serv
ice for the fiscal year ended June 81
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