Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1897-10-07
SAl.GASTA is 10. LEAD.
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try for Spain.
ais Policy will Include the retire.
ment Of Weyler-A Much More
| Liberal Treatment OF Cu-
bans 10 Assured.
Madrid, Oct. 4.Sagasta has been
commissioned by the queen regent to
organize ministry, and doubtless will
send Marshal Blanco to replace Weyler
as captain general of Cuba. The new
cabinet will be sworn in to-day. The
chief obstacle in thesway Of liberal
solution of the crisis was that the loy-
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. -
l. Sagasta, on receiving the command
of the queen regent to form a. liberal
cabinet, immediately consulted the
leading statesmen of his party It is
probable that the ministry of foreign
affairs will be intrusted to Senior Moret
or to Senior Leon y Castillo, fesmerly
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 a
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 a majority of the press,
and the stock exchange saluted the ad-
vent of Sagasta with a 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. 81
London, Oct. 4.-The Madrid ,corre-
spondent of the Standard says: Sa-
gasta in accepting the portfolio ex-
pressed his intentionto 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 q dissolution of the cortes and to
select able representatives to 20 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 sin
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. 4.-In the view of
the administration, the United States
and Cuba have all to gain and nothing
to lose in the liberal accession to DOW
er in Spain. Even if the party is not
willing to 60 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,
will result in general relaxation OF
the severity of the Cuban campaigns,
presuming that the war is to continue
for time at least, and there will be less
complaint of rigorous treatment of in
dividuals 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
distinct step toward an abandonment
Of the aggressive policy thus far pur-
sued toward Cuba, anu 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
miliar with affairs in Spain say the
Sagasta view has become very popular
in Spain. =. ~ ...-.- ~~. III
CPraxedes Mateo Sagasta, the Spanish
statesman and leader of the liberal party,
was born in 1927. He is an engineer by pro-
fession and was elected from Zamora IN
1854 to the constituent cortes. He took part
in the Instruction Of 1856 and eventually
sought refuge in France. When amnesty
was proclaimed Senior Sagasta returned to
Spain and became professor in the school