The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-04-16
SITUATION AT MADRID.
Great Enthusiasm Over Queen Re.
gents Donation to Fund.

MADRID. April 15.-Great euthusi-
asm has been aroused here by the fact
that the Queen Regent has headed the
national subscription to increase the
strength of the Spanish navy by giving
one million pesetas towards the fund.
The "Imparcial' independent, COM
menting on her majesty's action to-
day, says: Until yesterday many peo-
pie only saw in the august lady vir-
tuous Queen, but since yesterday she
has been known to all as Spanish
Queen. Her gift of one million pesetas
gains her millions of blessings"
Referring to the political situation,
the Impartial remarks: ''Senor Sa-
gasta's Government finally struck the
Spanish note yesterday, the result be-
ing a reunion of the Government and
people. We are all Spaniards- We for
get party lines and we are united
around the State
The Globe" OiberaD this morning
| severely censures the Carlist manifesto,
saying it considers it mot patriotic
but revolutionary" and adds: The
Government requires no spur to calm
ly defend the rights of the nation 1t
will not strike first, but it will return
a blow"
The Liberal approves the energetic
measures adopted by the Government
yesterday" and advises the press to
''contine itself to tanning the warlike
enthusiasm" adding: mo new dis
cussion is possible while Spanish SOW
ereignty in Cuba is challenged"
WAR INEVITABLE.
MADRID, April IA (via Bayonne,
France, March 15).-The action taken
by the Spanish Cabinet to-day has con-
firmed the general belief which has
been prevalent here since yesterday
that war is now inevitable. The war
like tone of the official note issued by
the Spanish Government finds general
approval here, and creates much ex-
citement. Contrary to the general opin
ion that the Queen Regent has been
negotiating for peace at any price, her
| attitude to-day had much to do with
the firm action of the Cabinet
1t is learned on unQuestionable au-
thority that the Queen Regent recently
made the following statement: 81 pre-
fer even the horrors of war rather than
| tarnish on the prestige of the army or
an impairment of the rights of the
| crown"
Another factor, undoubtedly, is Don
Carlos manifesto of yesterday, of
which the following is an extract, which
was not risked submitting to the CEN
sOr:
THE Governors at Madrid may make
a call to arms inevitable, and I may
if they continue to permit the Spanish
standard to be dragged in the mud.
| Twenty years of patriotic retirement
have proved that 1 am neither ambi
tious or a conspirator The greater
and better part of my life as man
has been spent in the difficult task of
restraining my natural impulses and
| those of my enthusiastic Carlsts, whose
eagerness I was the first to appreciate,
/ but which nevertheless / curbed, al
though it rent my heart to do so. To-
day national honor speaks louder than
! anything, and the same patriotic duty
which formerly babe me say, Wait
yet awhile may leave me to cry, COM
handing the Carlists, 'Carlists, for
ward and not only the Carlsts. but
| all Spaniards, especially the two ma
tional forces, who still bravely with
stand the enervating feminities of the
regency, the people and the army
the Hamburg-American liners Norman
MIA and Columbia was confirmed to-
night. 1t is said that the Minister for
the Colonies, Senior Moret, bought them
without consulting Admiral Bermejo,
! the Minister of Marine.
AS indicated tonight in the Her
aldo" Spain is figuring on yellow fever
/ being an important factor of the Gu
! ban situation 1t says: I'VE have
| 100000 troops on the island. perfectly
accllmatized, and any Americans who
are landed there will die like flies
| SAGASTA ON MAINE DISASTER
! LONDON, April 15.-Senor Sagasta.
/ the Spanish Premier, is quoted in a
special dispatch from Madrid as saving
! that the reference to the destruction of
| the Maine having been caused through
/ Spanish agency: This infamous calum-
ny merits the reprobation of the whole
| world. All the nations know the true
/ cause of the disaster and many Off
Gals of America know it, For the
Americans to base plea of interview
ton upon heartless calumny of this