The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-22
WEYLER WANTS FREE HAND
WOULD DEAL WITH sREBELS IN
 HIS OFN WAT,
Queen Regent Said to Favor His Plan but Premier Sagssta Threatens to Ress sign if the Generals Request is Granted-A Strict Consorship-More Fighting i'm Barcelona.

London Feb 21-It is announced in
 a special dispatch from Madrid that
 General Weyler, the war minister, is
 urging the queen regent to give him a
 free hand in dealing with the rebels
 in Catalonia" and that Premier Sagas-
 ta threatens to resign if General Wey
 ler's request is granted The queen re-
 gent is said to favor General Weyler's
 plan.
 Madrid Feb. 21,-The premier, Senor
 Sagasta, announced to-day that the chambers will not be prorogued until the opposition obstructs the govern ment's action by continually raising de- bates on the present labor troubles in Spain Ten anarchists have been ar rested here and others are under sur veillance. The working people of Ma drid remain quiet.
 Madrid, Feb. 21 (yia Bayonne France). The censorship over telegrams from Barcelona Is exceedingly severe, even some official messages having been stopped. The Madrid Heraldo declares the censorship to be only comparable to that of Turkey. This paper says:
 At the recent meeting of the foreign consuls at Barcelona important resolu- tions were adopted.
 Firing continued at Barcelona Thursday l Int.
 "It is feared that trouble may arise at Cartagena where 12000 miners are idle
 Owing to the heavy 1mposts on the dynamite monopoly, making it impos- sible profitably to work the mines, the dynamite duty, which formerly brought b00 900 pesetas to the state, now pro- duces 9,0OOOOO pesetas."
 According to other reports, the troops at Barcelona are continually engaged in taking barricades at the point of the bayonet.
 Among the many persons arrested is senor Reoyo. president of the Federa- ion of Labor.
 According to the best available infor- nation, the movement for general | strike throughout Spain has failed. The | eaders of this movement counted upon he fact that the strength of the army lad been reduced by the recent dis ,andment of 35,0O0 trained troops who lad been replaced by conscripts and he expected support from the trades lnions throughout the country The prompt measures taken by General Veyler, however, had a deterrent ef- ect and the emissaries sent from Bar elona to all the leading industrial owns did not meet with the expected except in comparatively few ases The bulk of the trades unions eclined to join the general strike on he ground that their financial resources were not sufficient to hold out any angth of time and further, that the re- ublican and opposition political par les deprecated a general strike and hat the socialists were equally adverse hereto Pablo IglesiaS, the leader of he Spanish socialists, in his paper El ocialisto, declares that a general trike might at some future time be enefcial, but not now. He points out lat the four previous and premature I ttempts were shown to be such badly ( repared and equipped enterprises that ley only made the condition of the f orkmen more unfavorable. Other prominent socialists also con l amn the present movement Official dispatc received here from arcelona still deny that the troops lere have met with serious resistance s that any need has occurred for the t SC of artillery. They admit that one striker was kill ! l yesterday in an attack on the police ade with the view of preventing the u rest of revolutionists. e Private dispatches received here say | at the captain general of Barcelona | sembled the newspaper correspon- mt there and recommended that they e ercise the greatest prudence in send a g out news. T A dispatch to the Heraldo from Man se thirty miles from Barcelona, says T at public opinion there is inclining q rongly toward Carlism. <