Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-03-09 | Page 1 | Government Will Have Big Majority

GOVERNMENT WILL HAVE BIG MAJORITY Elections for Parliament in Spain Eosult in Rioting and Many Deaths. MADRID, Spain. March 8. Balloting In the general elections for members of the chamber of deputies began todav throughout tho kingdom. Ninety-eight candidates who had no opposition wero declared elected last wook under tho provision pro-vision of tho electoral law, among them Count Alvaro de Romunoncs, formor premier, and Melqulndes Alvarez, formor head of thc Liberal party. There are 30G seats to bo filled In tho elections. Reports received up to midnight showed thai the government would have a solid majority, and that tho Romanones party, a faction of Liberate, had run second. The government will havo from 250 to 260 out of the 101 seats in the new chamber cham-ber In Madrid. Thc Republicans, who had 38 seats In tho old chamber, will not have more than 20 In thq new. One of the Republicans eleclcd was Pablo Iglo-slus, Iglo-slus, the Socialist leader of Saragosea. Serious rioting occurred ut various places and four men wore killed. At Urgcl one man was killed and many persons per-sons Injured. In tho Basque provinces at Barradclos another man was killed and eight men Injured. In a village near Diirango the Conservative electoral agent was killed. At Bilbao and GIJou. shots were exchanged between Republicans and Conservatives, resulting in one man being killed and several persons being wounded. Tho elections took place under chaotic political conditions. Strong Liberal tendencies ten-dencies wero manifested, and King Alfonso Al-fonso shifted tho political center of gravity grav-ity toward the left, causing a division 'in all parties. , v