DISSATISFACTION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 16 August 1910, Page 5

DISSATISFACTION

AMONGST SPANISH CARDINALS. PHOGRFSS OF FYENTS IX SPAI-v KING ALFONSO. [Press Association—Copyright.] .MADRID. Monday. A cniiiinunieat ion from Koine says Cure is grave dissatisfaction amongst the leading cardinals, including the ex- l'a pal Nuncios of Spain, owin.g to lardinal .Merry del \'al 1101 consulti; io- the Congregat ion on Kxt raonlii.ary Kcc-li'siastie:il Affairs, as in I'opo Leo XIII.'s time. Kvery decision rea yil i nji" Spain was dae to Cardinal Merry del YaL Tile Spanish Cardinal. X ivesytu! 10. who is a lifelong- monk, is unfamiliar villi democratic ideals. There was to have been a remonstrance to the Pope ; gainst the de-'truction of Leo's work in esi abl islring relations with all the Powers except Britain and America; but the remonstrance has been abandoned as useless. Pope Pius being in cordial agreement with Cardinal /lorry del Vai in foreign affairs. LONDON. Monday. Instead df proceeding to Madrid King Alfonso visited tiie Archduke Ferdinand of Austria at Ostein!, whence he goe for yach;ing at Cowes. MADRID, June 16. The '"Times'" correspondent referring to ihe political out look in Spain says : With the opening of Cortes it is interest in >j; to examine the situation of the Governniont at the beginning of the fight. Since the clays of his elevation to power S'etior (,'analejas 'has been profuse in declarations on every subject of reform, and prophets have- not been wanting to predict that there would be more smoke tliti.ii flame in the Governmental bonfire. Xew projects always emtail expenditure, and when tile .surpluses of the last few years v.ei'd wipod out By tlie cost of tiie Melilla eapaign it became an urgent necessity to rind some means of re-estab-lishing the. financial equilibrium and at the siiiine time providing money for the priijei ted reforms. THE RELIGIOUS ORDERS. The religious association.* question wae a'luded to in the Speech from" the Throne mi terms which allow of iio doubt as to the intentions of the (iovernm-cnt. After reiterating his sentiments of filial respect for the Pope the King declared tlia.t his Government "will strive to give expression to the pub-Lie acspi.rations'~foi' the reduction and control of the. excessive number of orders a .nd religious congregations, without impairing their independence in .spiritual" matters." Instructions-: have been .-cut to the Prefects to enforce the existing .rules as to registration of the- orders .and negotiations have been -opened with Rome for tho suppression of convents not needed bv the dit+'eront dioceses, while a reform oi the huv of June 30, 1887. and the fram log oi a new Act are announced, c-ua.il-while the Government. "inspired by tho universal s=p ii- i L of liberty and eon science.". has given to Article 11 of the Constitution "the full sense oi its text." The attitude adopted by the' Papal Nuncio in Madrid and t.lie formal pro test lodged by the Vatican leave no doubt .a.s to the entire disapproval of these measures by Home.- His Holiness cannot doubt the King's desire to bring matters to a peaceful issr.e, but tiie Spanish O-overnmeiit is now too deeply committed to abandon a. coni-se approved by the majority of the educated classes and definitely laid down by the King in his. .speech yesterday. The Pcpe'-s re.-ipo usability would bo gre-a.l if. by an untimely rupture of relations, he were to trive lo the Carlist population of the north a pretext for disturbances which might result in bloodshed. The measures announced are moderate. It cannot be said that a spoliation of the religious orders is contemplated or that the Government- is intending to follow in the footsteps of France. THE STATE OF PARTIES. There is much speculation -regarding the conduct of the many groups of liberals and of the minority parties. Senor Canalejas at the meeting of the majority party last Monday appealed to Libera!- of all classes to "unite, and the .nomination of Count Ronianom-s as Speaker has done much to ensure a cohesion which has up to the present been lacking. In which direction the influence of'" Senor Mo-ret will be exercised is, however, unknown. The Carlists can h-ardlv be. expected to favour restrictions upon the reliirioiis orders, and the leaders of the Republican-Socialist alliance do not disguise their hostility.