Show TROUBLE IN SPAIN pretender who threatens to battle for the throne origin of the present difficulty between the government and the vatican the Car carlista Carll lists sta plot revolt madrid the car lists of spain who have been threatening revolution in connection with the present cintrov ersy between the government and the vatican take their name from don carlos brother of king ferdinand VII ferdinand about 1830 set aside by royal decree the salle law which excluded females from the throne in favor of his infant daughter afterwards queen isabella this decree whose constitutionality Is and proba ge ar 1 the spanish pretender bly ever will be a matter of dispute to spanish legists legis ts sot set aside don carlos who would otherwise have been indisputably heir apparent do don n carlos after protesting in words f for or several years against his deprivation began in 1834 to protest in arms A terrible civil war followed which ended only in 1840 with the defeat of the Car carlista lists spain was a long time in recovering from the effects of the struggle under don carlos II 11 son and suc successor ceasor of don carlos carloa I 1 war broke out again in 1873 1973 and was not stamped out for three years don jaime la is the son of don carlos 11 II and Is said to be a man of considerable military m ability the revision ot of the concordat which regulates the relations be between tween c hurch church and state la Is at the bottom of the difficulty arrayed on one side Is the government supported by the king and on the other are the catholic church and the vast power and wealth of the religious orders the concordat dates back to 1851 and does not fit existing conditions the present premier pr emler senor canalejas Can alejas has undertaken to revise it ft and at the very outset drew upon himself the antagonism of the church hy by the provisions of this instrument the church Is subject to certain restrictions which really have never been enforced one of these limits the number of religious orders in t the he kingdom to fewer than owing however to the enforcement non ot of the law there are nearly orders in spain many of them owning property and enjoying exemption from taxation and possessing also other special privileges in opening up tip the question of the revision of the concordat senor canalejas Can alejas announced his intention of enforcing the provisions of the law of 1851 relative to the religious orders the church of c ourse course interposed its objection and made its intention plain that the revision it wanted was such as would remove the restrictions of 1851 and in crease rather than diminish its ritt nu dhority and power neither side has seemed inclined to yield the carlista Car lists who are opposed to the present dynasty are particularly MI M I 1 e A X ili 1 Z A 4 1 fk TA king alfonso active and now that king altonso alfonso has thrown in his lot with senor canale jas the religious orders are said to regard with favor a movement the republicans or radicals are also planning the estaba limea or of a republic no ile that king alfonsos throne seems to be menaced from two sides the leader la Is don balme son of the late ate don carlos and he has the support of the clergy the peasants and the aristocrats don jafee was born bom in 1870 and is a called the duke of madrid in court circles |