The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-21

spanish senators and deputies declare
that the American demands VIII be re-
jected and war credits be voted. 1t is
said in official circles that the location
of the first naval battle will be a veri-
table surprise.
Great war enthusiasm is reported to-
day in all the towns of Spain. The
hope prevails that the Cuban insur-
gents will join the Spanish against the
United States.
United States Minister Woodford has
received from the president his ulti-
matum and will present it to the Span
| Ish government tomorrow The Span
ish employees at the legation will pass
the night at Minister WOOdford's resi-
| dence-
Midnight---After the opening session
| OF the corteS, the ministers met in
council extraordinary and discussed ex-
elusively naval and military matters.
! NO statement has been issued re-
garG1ng the decisions reached. After
! the council Senior Sagasta, the premier,
| declared that the government had up
to that time received nothing official
regarding an uitimatum.
! United States Minister Woodford has
not asked for his passports.
| Herbert w. Brown, American consul
| general at Barcelona, will leave that
city on Thursday after transferring the
/ papers of the consulate to the British
consul.
POPULAR ENTHUSIASM.
London. April 21.-The Madrid cor
respondent of the Daily Mail, tele-
graphing Wednesday, says:
'On few occasions has Madrid Wit
| messed such scenes of popular enthusi-
asm as today, when the queen regent,
accompanied by the king. dressed in
the uniform of the infantry cadets,
with the insignia of the golden fleece,
/ Travelled in state with all the pomp that
makes the Spanish court famous from
the palace to the senate hall.
The distance is very short. not more
than four minutes walk. The Plaza de
Oriente and the Plaza de Ministries,
which the court and procession had to
traverse, were most densely crowded,
chiefly with people Of the upper and
middle classes. The moment the bat
teries announced the departure of the
queen regent and the king, the excite
ment became intense. When, at the end
of a long procession Of huSSars. royal
piQuerS, state coaches, carrying the
chief ladies in waiting. the chamber
lains of the courts, and the grandeeS Of
Spain. the royal carriage appeared at
the gate of the palace, the enthusiasm
burst forth in a long and interminable
in Spain since the day when the late
King Alfonso returned from Paris.
MILITARY DISPLAY.
1.-THE infantry, which lined the way to
the senate; the cavalry and the mount
ed civil guards, sent to preserve order,
had hard work to keep the crowd,
frantic with enthusiasm, from ap-
preaching the royal carriage. The
queen regent appeared much moved,
though she is usually of impressive de-
meanor. The king looked on the crowd
with evident pleasure, with feelings as
enthusiastic as theirs, and saluted in
military fashion.
Long live the queenr Long live
the kingp Long live SPAIN were the
cries necessarily given. The spirit OF
the crowds in the streets pervaded the
secluded halls of the senate, and when
the doors were thrown wide open for
the royal persons to enter, thousands
of distinguished spectators, who flied
the gallerieS-deputieS and senators
rose to their feet and received the
queen and king with laundering ac-
carnations.
HALL OF SESSION.
THE hall of session presented a most
animated appearance 1t was gay with
a bright note of color. Ladies in spring
costumes filed the front rows of the
galleries. They were most enthusiast
tic, cheering and waving their hand
kerchiefs and fans. 1t was long before
silence was established.
The queen regent and the king, eS-
corted by commissions from the senate
and the lower chamber, who had met
them at the gate, took seats at their
throne. The government, the captains
general, the grandees and members OF
the court stood on one side and the
diplomatic corps on the other Senior
Sagasta advanced and handed the
queen regent the speech from the
throne, all others standing.
1T is against Spanish etiquette to
interrupt the reading of a speech from
the throne. but the enthusiasm and
emotion were too great, and the SOL
emnity of the occasion was too i'm
pressive. Twice had her majesty to
stop while the cheers, acclamationS and
vivas for Spain, the queen regent and,
the king made her speaking impossible.
The cheering was still more frantic
when their majeStieS left the senate,
and so it was in the streets.
''Senor Gullon, the foreign minister,
today received the British charge
d'affaires, who put forward, on behalf
of his government, an urgent request
for an explanation as to how Spain
will carry out her right of visiting
ships in the case of war"
QUIET AND ORDERLY.
All is quiet and orderly here, and
nothing unusual has occurred. Two
policemen are stationed at the corner
of the street upon which is situated
the residence of the United States min
lister, General Stewart L. Woodford,
who began yesterday preparations for
his departure from Madrid. He has
not received any communication from
Washington since the text of the reso-
lutions of congress were cabled out.
GAMBLERS SUBSCRIPTION.
The Prince of Monaco, who is an off,
Ger in the Spanish navy, has written to
the queen regent, warmly expressing
regret at the fact that private duties'