Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-16
FRANCO SPANISH INTERVENTION.

cation. That the Senate understands that
the participation of the United States in the
| Algeciras conference and In the formulation
and adoption of the general act and pro-
tocol which resulted therefrom was with
the sole purpose of preserving and fucreas-
| ing its commerce in Morocco. the protection
as to life. liberty and property of ITS citi-
Gems residing or travelling therein and OF
aiding by its friendly Offices and efforts in
removing friction and controversy which
seemed to menace the peace between pow
ers signatory with the United States to the
treaty of 1880. all Of which are on terms OF
amity with this government. and without
American foreign policy which forbids par
tcipation by the United States in the set
| Element of political questions which are
entirely European in their scope"
-
| It has been asserted that the Emperor of
Germany has had a policy of his own to
attach the United States to
American German policy in Morocco.
Attitude The resolution OF Senator
! Bacon has put quietus on
The resolution besides is doubly signih-
| cant, because it precludes the adoption OF
| the resolution offered by Senator Lodge OF
Massachusetts,, empowering the President
| to assist any European power that chooses
| to investigate the affairs of the Congo
| Free State.
Quite apropos to German overtures to
| the United States. the National Review of
| London for December contains the follow
| ing under the caption of "Germany's Great
! est Asset
'The Berlin government as we have seen,
claims to possess one priceless asset, viz,
l an American alliance, which is being ex-
| plotted on the continent in manner whlch
would astonish Americans. The notorious
DR. Schiemann of the KreuZZeitung ana
! other Byzantine journalists impudenuy
| pretend that the German emperor carries
| President Roosevelt in his pocket as secure
| ly as he carries the sultan and the pore.
There is probably another side to the story
| If the White House ever condescended TO
| tell It, That German diplomacy is at low
| ebb in Washington is evident from the ire
| ouent references in the German press 10
! the morning rides which Baron Speck Won
Sternburg German ambassador at wash
ington) enjoys in company with Mr. Roose
| welt. as also by the illusions to the rae:
| that the President calls his German friend
| by a Observation-Disclosures which would not
| loom so large in the semi-official mind II
| there was anything more material 10 us
| cuss The impression that In spite OF ia,
| cessant intriguing the Germans have faiied
| to capture the American government mas
been deepened by the speech Of Baron
Speck Won Sternburg at recent banquet
| of the New York chamber OF commerce. ~
| which he declared that If God and nature
| had ever marked out three nations 10 iVe
| in perpetual peace. those three were the
| United States Great Britain and Germany,
| Considering that the speaker mas niaae T., =.
| Washington to put a spoke IN Anglo-
| American relations and to develop Ger
n-American relations at our expense,
| this sounds like the despair1ng CRY y, q
| drowning mans clutchng at tne i"s'
| straw.
| M. Jules Cambon ambassador of France
| at Madrid, referring to, the Spanish minis
| teriaI crisis. says: This
| Spanish crisis does not take one by
| cris;e surprise. 1t was expected
since the discussions in the
cortes on the proposed religious associa-
tons law showed the profound divisions
| that existed in the ranks of the liberal ma
| jority. The close relations uniting France
| and Spain, notably in connection with
| North Africa, cannot be affected by the
| circumstances.
| The crisis Is not serious, and involves no
grand principle but in. the preceding
| cases, 1T sfslspurely question OF persons.
| The chiefs Of the divers groups or the
| liberal party, MN: Marshal Lopez Do
| minauez Moret, Montero-R Rios, CanaleJas,
who had been in turn prime minister
4 are divided by profound rivalries which
have for pretext religion. but there Is
no religion in it at all, only personal In,
| VI.
| Marshal Lopez-Deminguez were in favor
| of a minimum program against the holy
| see This program was limited TO the priu-
ciple of preventing an Indennite mu1tipfi-
| cation of religious orders and the resisting
of the pretensions of the church to abolish
/ civil marriages., or that they should not
be contracted by Catholics. M. Canalejas
and his group have program somewhat
| similar to the anti-cIerical party in France.
| The other chiefs have programs which are
| not readily understood even in Spain.
| The king, Alfonso XIII, has taken
| liberal position on the marriage question IN
| signing decree authorizing persons con-
tracing civil marriages to do so without a
| declaration Of their religion, as heretofore.
| Marshal Lopez-DomingueZ rendered his
resignation to the king on the 18Th OF NO
yember, Seniors Moret and MOntero Rios
| had already informed the king of the
I serious dissensions in the liberal party, and
| that they did not share the views of Mar
| shall Lopez-Dominguez, nor those of Senior
| Canalejas. The king thereupon empowered
| Senior Moret to form liberal ministry,
with the result that General Luque was re-
| tanned as minister of war, Senior Perez Ca
| ballero minister of foreign affairs, senior
| Gasset minister of public works. Senior
| Borbolla minister of public instruction,
| Senior Alba minister of marine, Senor Bar
| roso minister of justice. Senior Ballesteros
! minister of the interior and Senior Delgade
| minister of finance.
| Prior to the reS1SnallOu Oh tie LOpSz-
Dominguez ministry Senior Pho Gullon, min
lister of state, informed
Scheme Of the French ambassador
Intervention. that Spain approved in
| principle - the French
| note, which may be briefly resumed as
follows: The dispatch of naval forces to
| Tangier; each power to furnish landing
| force Of 1850 men; each power to formu-
| late agreements providing that in the
event of debarkment no national flag
| should be hoisted, recognizing thus the
| fact that the mission confded to France
| and Spain by the Algeciras conference
| should be executed in the name of the
saltan.
| It is the unexpected that happens in the
orient Although there is nothing that por-
tends a Storm the Franeo-Spanish fleet
will do well to remark the wee bit of a
cloud on the horizon at Murrakech. On
the occasion of the fetes of the Beiram,
| according to the Gazette de Cologne, Muley-
| Halid, the viceroy at Murrakech. address
| ing the German colonists, said Your
presence causes me double joy, because a
| proof of the friendship Of your emperor
| and my seignor and brother, the sultan,
and particularly so when 1t is falsely rep