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with Dsgssta and Campcs a. it, head.
took the rsips q affairs.
At the general elections Of the same
year he was returned to the cSrtss from
Madrid and became the CHIEF =, end
spokesman of the intermediate party.
known a. the party Of conservative
Liberals. On Jan. Is, 1884, he was called
upon to form conservative ministry.
In order to secure q majority devoted,
like himself, to ideas of order and Of
liberty, in harmony with the monarch
zeal principle. he dissolved the cortes,
and the new elections resulted favor
ably. But on Nov. 26, 1885, on the ques-
ton 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 222
votes, against 112 cast for Senior Romero
Robledo, and he signalized his en-
trance upon his new functions by a
funeral eulogy of King Alfonso XII,
who had died the previous day. In 1890
another reversal brought him back into
power, and on July he took the presi-
dency of the conservative cabinet, re-
placing the liberal ministry Of Sagasta.
Two years later the Liberals. under
Sagasta, won the general elections and
retained power until 1895. when dis
agreements in the .Sagasta cabinet led
the queen regent to summon Canovas
again to the premiership.
Canovas came last into power on
NIL nf h a
broken into and pillaged the Offices
of various newspapers which had made
insinuations against the conduct of
officers engaged in suppressing tho
Cuban revolt The war minister seemed
to support the officers, whereas the
premier. Sagasta, ordered the Journal
lists to be protected. This led to the
retirement of the ministry. Marshal
Campos was temporarily made captain
general of Madrid. and the greatest
excitement prevailed. Finally Senior
Canovas formed ministry. although
he lacked the support of section Of
the Conservative party.
The government was defeated on a
vote of censure on June 8. 1895, but did
not resign. The general elections Of
April, 1896, returned an overwhelming
majority to the cortes in favor of the
policy Of the Canovas cabinet, though
the opposition charged that the Min
isterialists carried many Of the elec-
ton districts by gross fraud. On June
2 last Senior Canovas rendered the re-
signation of the cabinet owing to the
difficulty ministers experienced in car
rying on the government in view of
the parliamentary situation caused by
the refusal Of the Liberals to take part
in the deliberations of the cortes. This
attitude of the Liberals was due to q
personal encounter between the Duke
Of Tetuan, minister of foreign affairs,
and Professor Comas, a 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 re-
quested him to withdraw the resigna-
ton of the cabinet, and he did so, be-
ing confirmed by the crown in his
ministerial powers, with the personnel
and policy of the cabinet unchanged.
Senior Sanovas was the author of
numerous works in moral and politi-
cal science, and History of the
House Of Austria" which is In high
repute, and History of the Decline
of Spain from the Accession Of Philip
III to the Death Of Charles H." which
ranks fayorably among works of its
class from Spanish writer's.