Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1898 — GAGS THE CORTES. [ARTICLE]

GAGS THE CORTES.

Premier Sngastu’M Daring Suppresses Spanish Agitators. By proroguing the Spanish Cortes iu th« midst of a heated and violent discussion over the war, Premier Sagasta ended a stormy session of the senate and probably saved his queen and country. Gen. I*imo de Rivera and Count Almenns were the leaders of the turmoil, and while it lasted the chamber was a wild scene of uproar nnd disgraceful disorder. Bagnsta, with the decree of the suspension of the session of the Cortes, ascended the tribune. He mounted the rostrum nnd read a decree proroguing the Cortes, and the law forbids any one speaking after the queen’s decree has been read. His pluck saved the country nnd his queen.