The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-10-07

ing suspicion among the clericals
there that King Alfonso plans to in
definitely postpone the settlement Of
affairs between the church and the
state. The constitution does not re-
quire the Cortes to sit more than
one day in the year. The general
impression is that as soon as the
Cortes has transacted the routine
business of the kingdom, an adjust
ment will be taken before the church
question can be taken up T.. The Cor
ties convened today but owing to the
distured conditions in the capital it
is probable that the opening will be
again postponed
King Fatally Ill.
King Alfonso is fatally i'll, &C
cording to a statement of high
medical authority here today, with
disease described as carries of the
bone A fatal termination is fear
ed in the near future. The COM
plant involves the decay of the
bones. DR.. Mourse, the celebrated
Bordeaux scientist, to whom Alfonso
has made frequent visits of late, has
been able only slightly to retard the
progress of the disease. One of the
kings ears has been affected for
long time and the bones of the nose
are now gradually disintegrating.
The King, as is well known in Of
fetal circles in Spain, and at other
European courts, has been a suffer
er from birth from hereditary
blood disorder. AS an infant it was
only by the most unremitting atten-
ton that he was kept alive. This
care and the vigorous outdoor life
that he followed as he grew older
seemed to work a considerable i'm
provement and by the time he at
tanned his majority he was external
ly sound. 1t was not long, however,
before it was evident that his ap-
pearance of health was merely arti-
fetal and that at bottom his con-
stitution was completely under
mined
His majesty suffered mentally
from the same complaint which af-
fects him physically. In public he
MANAGES fn maintain on onrooro~oo
of ightheartedness, but those fami-
liar with his private life say he is
constantly afflicted by melancholy.
Even his efforts at cheerfulness are
often marked with eccentricities
suggestive not quite of insanity but
of an unstable mental balance.
Complicates Situation.
This condition is largely response
BILE for the care the kings advisers
take to guard him from full know
ledge of the politically disturbed
conditions in Spain. During the
uprisings at Barcelona last year he
spent his time at San Sebastian
When Premier Canalejas was at the
height of his troubles with the Va
tican the young monarch was visit
ing in England Plans are already
under discussion for him to go
abroad again if, as seems certain,
the state and church quarrel be-
comes much more acute.
The alarming state of Alfonso's
health complexities in the most dan
gerous manner possible the already
critical situation in Spain. If any
possibility exists of maintaining the
dynasty it can only be done through
the utmost efforts of an able and
popular ruler AS he is today AL
fonso lacks the ability for such an
effort
Alfonso's early death would also
involve another long regency, such
as preceded the reaching of Alton
SOS own majority. Even the conser-
natives admit that a fresh regency
could not lost many months. Queen
Victoria, it is contended, has neither
the age, experience nor mental
equipment, and, as a Thorough Eng
lish woman who has never been at
all in sympathy with the Spanish
character, she is heartily disliked
from one end of the country to the
other. Her mother-in-law, Queen
Maria Christina, is considered even
more unsuitable. And there is no
one else in Spain who is even
thought of for the post.
Civil War in Spain.
The flower Of the Spanish army
has been ordered to the Portuguese
frontier. Madrid is seething with
excitement over the news fro Por-
tugal and the republicans assert
that it foreshadows an attempt on
the part of King Alfonso's ministers
to aid Don Manuel against the re-
publicans of Portugal. Republicans
here predice that if this is attempt
ed, civil war will result. On the
other hand Alfonso fears that the
success of the republican armies in
Portugal will mean the overthrow
of his power, and it is asserted that
he has been counselled by his minis
ters tn fight to the last ditch