The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-05-19
SAGASTA IS PRESIDENT
THE FIRST CLASS LIBERALS
Not Willing to Suffer for SPANS
Sins When the Day Of Reck-
oning Comes


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Associated Press Special Wire
, MADRID, May IS. a. m.-The new
Spanish cabinet has been formed, as fol-
lows:
President of the council Of ministers
Eenor Praxidcs Sagnsta.
Minister of foreign affairs-Senor Leon
y Castillo.
Minister of war-Lieut. Gen. Correo.
Minister of mnrine-Senor Aunon.
Minister of the colonies-Senor Romero
Eiron.
Minister Of finance-Senor Lopez PUG
cerver.
. Minister of the interior-Senor F. r. Ca
pedepon.
, Minister of Justice-Senor G. Orchard.
q Minister Of public instruction-Senor Ga
mazo
Senior Sagasta will submit the names Of
the ministers to the queen regent during
the day, and the cabinet officers will be
sworn in this evening. The premier will
act as foreign minister. pending the ar
rival here of Senior Castillo.
p. m.-Senor Sagasta has telegraphed
Senior Leon v Castillo, now at Paris, to
foreign Office portfolio.
The Public Interest
NEW YORK, May ia dispatch to the
World from Madrid says: The Cabinet
crisis excites more than ordinary interest
because everybody comprehends that Sa-
gasta finds SO much difficulty in getting
flrst-class Liberal politicians to join the
new Cabinet on account of the general feel
Ing that this Ministry is doomed to suffer
for all the sins of its predecessors when Its
hour of reckoning with an enraged and dis
appointed people comes.
The hour is felt to be approaching and
nverting it Is dependent upon the frail hope
still entertained Of the success of Admiral
Cervera's squadron in the West Indies. Sa-
gasta is certainly gamely doing his duty to
his party and his country and his Queen,
but he perceives the dangers of the situa-
ton in the growing audaclty of the Repub-
leans and the Carlists and in the tone of
most of the Madrid papers, which dare to
attack and ridicule the monarchy and dy-
nasty, forestalling their fall openly.
Even such a moderate man as Castelar, Is
known to have told his friends that he
considered the whole situation as going to
pieces. Too many blunders have been conf
mitted to make it possible to avert catas-
trophe and he adds that he only declines in
terviews and public declarations because
he would have too hard things to say.
Before leaving Madrid CASTELAR, issued
the following circular letter:
II thank you for your good wishes. The
line of conduct that for ten years have
followed was dictated by my experience
and disappointment; I do not propose to
abandon it,"
The attitude and ominous words of Cas-
telar created much impression on all
classes. particularly in the official world
He goes to spend six weeks at Sax, in the
province of Alicante, with friends of his
youth, to recruit his health and follow a
rigorous diet until he can CO. in July. to the
waters Of Mondariza, in Galicia. His per-
eonal appearance at the station showed his
numerous friends the traces his long ILL
ness this winter had left on his features by
his emaciated figure and his weak voice,
though he was cheerful as ever otherwise.
The crisis interests him much and his
friends say that Castelar, cannot hear tho
United States mentioned unless he gets flu
rious, saying they have given him the Bit
terest and cruelest disappointment of his
life.
Inc 6pduldIuS explain DIS lOllOWS the res.
ignation Of the four Cabinet Minister'S:
Count Xiquena leaves office like the &C.
centric grandee nobleman that he is, weary
Of the trimming policy of Sagasta. whom
he charges with having too late decided for
q war policy. Admiral Bermejo leaves the
Marine Department because he only re-
manned so long to please Sagasta and the
Queen by staving off crisis. Senior Gull
Ion leaves the State Department because he
is really in bad health, and was never al
lowed to have his own way or he would
long ago have FASTENED the rupture be-
tween Spain and the United States. Senior
Moret has retired because not even the
Liberals and Democrats could venture to
share the extreme unpopularity Of Minis
ter that the majority of Spaniards cannot
forgive for having attempted to bring
about home rule and having long advocat-
ed concessions to America and Cuba
1t is difficult to;imagine all you hear of
the popular and national feeling against
Moret and against homo rule in every rank
in Spanish society, even among the women
Of the lower classes. His house and fam
lily have had to be constantly guarded by
police and detectives. He would be in great
danger If national reverses provoked a rev.
Olution or popular movement