The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-24
SPANS CABINET CRISIS.
A Ministry Able to Carry on the
COuntry's Business Hard to Find.


COuntry's Business Hard to Find.
Madrid, May 2S-The position of the
cabinet is a theme of most anxious discus
sion on all sides. Some of the government
organs think the ministry should meet the
cortes tomorrow, endeavor to secure the
adoption of such bills as are pressing, and
then suspend the session as soon as posi-
BILE. Others think change of policy eX
pedient, and, in fact, inevitable. All adj
nit the difficulty of appointing ministry
to carry on the business of the country.
The cabinet sat in council this evening
until s o'clock and it was decided to APP
pear before the cortes tomorrow and give
explanations of the Tetuan-Comas incl
dent of Friday last even if the liberals
should absent themselves. A special COM
mittee of the Chamber of Deputies will be
instructed to consider the budget bill
London, May 24.-The Madrid CORE
spondent of the Times says: Seldom in
the history of the cortes has an event Gre
ated such sensation as the Tetuan-Co-
mas incident. It is difficult to conceive
how a staid and experienced statesman
like the Duke of Tetuan could have so
completely lost his self-control on so slight
a proVocation
1T is believed that Senior Sagasta is will
ling to do all he consistently can do to
minimize the difficulties of the situation:
but it seems impossible that the Duke of
Tetuan should retain his portfolio"
The Standards correspondent at Madrid
says; In the conference, held on Satur-
day, between the president of the Senate,
the premier, and Senior Sagasta, with ref
erence to the Tetuan-Comas incident, the
president said he would not be justified
in interfering, as the affair had not oc-
CURED in the Senate chamber, but in the
lobby. The premier declared that the op-
position ought to be satisfied If the Duke
of Tetuan announced in the Senate cham
her that he never intended to slight or
give offense to the liberal minority. He
added that the government could not dis
pense with the Duke of Tetuan's services
as minister of foreign affairs, because he
alone was acquainted with and able to
conduct important and delicate pending
negotiations with foreign governments
(meanng America
"Senor Sagasta promised to give his fol-
lowers conciliatory advice, and said he
must be guided by their decision. Accord
ingly he summoned a meeting OF the lib
erals, who were in no conciiatory tenn
per. However, after a prolonged discus
sion, they gave a vote of confidence TO
Senior Sagasta, with instructions to settle
the conflict on the understanding that
they would not enter the cortes until the
government had given them such satisfac-
ton as Senior Sagasta deemed proper.
THE dissenting conservatives declared
that they would follow the decision of the
liberals, and, therefore, minsterialists
only have been present in parliament since
Friday.
THE premier, on receiving the reply OF
Senior Sagasta, went to the palace to in
form the queen regent, who summoned a
council of the ministers. The crisis has
Withdrawn popular attention from the at
titude OF the United States Senate, which
majority OF the newspapers and OF the
ministers affect to consider without inn
portance as bearing upon the immediate
relations of the two countries"