Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-09

uon OF the AI1cnslst party, and on-She.
proclamation of Alfonso XII as king. on
December 81, 1874 Senior Canovas del Cas-
tillo became president of the council and
chief of the new cabinet called the cabinet
of Cancellation. He retired in September,
1915, because of the demands of the ex-
IRENE conservative party, but he was called
back to the presidency of the council On
December of the same year, and charged
particularly with the direction of the first
legislative elections of the new regime. He
was himself elected to the cortes from the
city of Madrid in January 1876. 1t de-
volved upon him then to repress the second
attempt of the CarliStS to bring a civil
war. and to deal with the first insurrection
in Cuba.
With the exception of an interval of
few months, he continued to hold the pre-
miership down to 1879, when, on the return
of Marshal Martinez Campos from Cuba,
he retired from the premiership, and was
succeeded by Campos, who accepted as his
colleagues the principal associates of Senior
CanovaS. The opposition raised to the pol
icy of Campos soon forced him to retire.
Senior Canovas skillfully resisted. delayed.
and finally defeated the free trade and
emancipation projects of Campos On the
reassembling of the cortes in December,
1871, Campos gave UP the attempt to con-
duct the government and Senior Canovas
formed new cabinet on December 10, with
a second Cuban Instruction to be dealt
with.
He charged General Blanco with this task.
but the reactionary tendency of his home
policy became more and more marked. until
the financial projects in which he wished to
embark drew upon him the bitter attacks
not only of CASTELAR, and the republicans
but also those of Campos ard of Sagasta
and he was compelled to resign. In 1881 he
returned again to power, but his conserva-
tive cabinet was speedily overthrown, and
coalition government, with Sagasta and
Campos at its head, took the reins of af-
fairs.
Head Of Conservative Liberals.
At the general ffopa Of bo mo yaor
he was returned to the cortes from Madrid
and became the chief and spokesman Of
the intermediate party, known as the party
of conservative liberals. On January IS,
1884, he was called upon to form a con-
servative ministry. In order to secure
majority devoted, like himself, to ideas of
order and of liberty in harmony with the
monarchical principle, he dissolved the
cortes, and the new elections resulted IA
vorably. But on November 26. 1885, on the
question of the occupation Of the Caroline
Islands by Germany, he was again COM
PEELED to resign, being succeeded by Senior
Sagasta. The same day he was elected
president of the chamber by ODD votes
against l12 cast for Senior Romero Robledo,
and he signalized his entrance upon his new
functions by funeral eulogy of King AL
fonso XII, who had died the previous day.
In 1880 another reversal brought him back
into power, and on July he took the pres
idency of conservative cabinet replacing
the liberal ministry of Sagasta. Two years
later the pendulum swung to the opposite
extreme, and the liberals, under Senior Sa-
gasta, won the general elections and
tained power until 1SD5, when disagree
ments in the Sagasta cabinet led the queen
regent to summon Canovas again to the
premiership.
In Power Since 1895.
Canovas came last into power on Feb
ruary I, 1895. number Of officers had
broken into and pillaged the offices of var
ious newspapers, which had made insinua-
tons against the conduct of officers en-
gagged in suppressing the Cuban revolt
The war minister seemed to support the
officers, whereas the premier Senior Sa-
gasta, ordered the journalists to be pro-
tected. This led to the retirement of the
ministry. Marshal Campos was temperate
ly made captain general of Madrid, and the
greatest excitement prevailed. Finally
Senor Canovas formed ministry, although
he lacked the support of a section of the
conservative party.
The government was defeated on vote
of censure on June 3, 1898, but did not re-
sign. The general elections of April 1886
returned an overwhelming majority to the
cortes in favor of the policy of the Canovas
cabinet, though the opposition charged that
the ministerialists carried many of the
election districts by gross frauds. On June
las. Senior Canovas rendered the resigna-
ton of the cabinet, owing to the difficulty
ministers experienced in carrying on the
IN view OF the parliamentary
situation caused by the refusal of the lib
erals to take part in the deliberations CT
the cortes. This attitude of the liberals
was due to personal encounter between
the Duke of Tetuan, minister of foreign af-
fairs, and Professor Comas, distinguished
liberal senator, on May 81, when the duke
slapped the face of the professor after a
heated debate on the Morgan belligerency
resolution adopted by the United States
Senate. After four days of conferences
with the leaders of all political parties, the
queen regent requested him to withdraw
the resignation of the cabinet, and he did
so, being confirmed by the crown in his
ministerial powers with the personnel and
policy of the cabinet unchanged.
Author of Numerous Works.
Senior Canovas was the author of numer-
works in moral and political science,
and of History of the House of Aus
tria,' which is in high repute, and a Ills
tory of the Decline of Spain from the Ac-
cession of Philip III to the Death of
Charles H. which ranks favorably among
works of its class from Spanish writers.
Under the title of lei Solitario," he pub
lished monograph dedicated to one of his
urcles, Estebanes Calderon. OF his literary
studies the one of most general interest is
volume on the contemporary Spanish
Theater, which appeared in 1856.
He had received the insignia of the Order
of the Red Eagle from the Emperor of
Germany; the Grand Cross of the Order of
the Tower and Sword from the King of
Portugal, and the Golden Fleece from the
King of Spain.
MarmOIs Violent Speech.
At special performance given yesterday
afternoon at the Theater de la Republique
in Paris, for the benefit of the Spanish
refugees in Paris. Tarrida Marmol the
Spanish anarchist, who was formerly i'm
prisoned in Montjuich fortress at BARGE
lora delivered a violent speech, in the
course of which he urged that Senior Ca
novas de Castillo should be killed. 1t is re-
ported that he will be arrested
SUNDAY ASSASSINS' DAY.
1t il Then the Nihilist Has His Chance
at Public Men.
Sunday seems to be a favorite day for
political assassinations in Europe The