Year: 1873

"Yesv shouted nearly everybody In the crowd "hsse
confidence them added the Prefect and rest assured
that you will soon what you desre AT TINS tnoro
were louder 4" yivas" than ever, and tho ssseaDase
quietly dispersed.


Almost the frs. task OF NE President was 10 mako
searching inquiry into the nature OF tho late manifos
tions which had 40 alarmed his colleagues He was told
that tese had been grossly exaggerated by 1t
not that tho soldiers adnVesteu the command
OF tho garrison In commission OF tner own Dody.
OF the officers for their nonsrenca ana
abs0lutist eanings had indeed been Obliged !" retro I'D
view OF tho imminent mutiny OF the troops uhder ther
command but many remained, and among them nearly
all those in command OF battalions From these tue
continued take their orders as OF old AS 10 the
commission II was little better than ridiculous inyen-


ton. The soldiers and sailors In the port had started
club whittier they were in the habit oil gOlng-pornap
than was desrabi talk over their grievances
The committee of this club had certain influence oVe
them. but It made pretension whatever to mhtary
command. Not the Committee. but the PROVINCIAL
"Deputacion" OF Barcelona the legally constituted
authority of the district had pronounced the dissolution
OF the army The Committee had not even furthered
this reprehensibe measure, but had opposeu H.
and with the happest results for the bulk or the SOL
diers sti remained at their posts Senior Fgueras was
assured that there was some for the disorders
that had taken place. In the absence Oh
authentic intelligence from the capital, certain
persons interested promotion of disturbance had
been enabled Sunday morning. 20 circulate the most
alarming reports to what had passed In the Assembly
tho night before. Tho Government, 1t was said, de-
foated the Gen. Primo de Riyeras report had
resigned and the fate OF tho country once moro IN
the hands Of the Radicals 1t was then that the crowd
had threatened to become turbulent and that many OF
the soldiers had thrown aside their uniform headgear in
favor OF the Pbrygan cap Later In the day. when tho
Ministerial victory made known all danger disap-
pearod. The story OF the proclamation OF the "Estado
Catalan" the independence OF Catalonia, as State
of the Federal Republic also untrue. AT the same
time tho "Deputacon" Of Barcelona, in accord with
those Of Lorda Gerona and Tarragona had been quite
prepared 10 take that step II the Radicals should once
come into power not recognizing the supremacy
OF "a government OF intrigue" Such, in brief Is tho
substance OF the official explanation Of the late events
furnished to Senior Fgueras, and it be still further
summarized in this way: Tho army did not actually
VOLT the people not actually in nsurrection; the
federal republic not actually proclaimed in Cata-
lonia But all these three terrible msfortunes would
have but for the timely arrival Of the OF
the Government victory in the Assembly IL will thus
be that the friends of the Ministry did not sound


false alarm when they warned the Radicals that the
ground beneath their feet was mined with hate, mis-
trust and all the explosive elements OF popular opinion
or the conduct OF the Radicals in riskng the Rrayes
national disasters for the qualification OF their own
party spleen. nothing need be said.