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Show SPAINS CABINET DUT ALFONSO'S PREMIER DECLINES TO RETAIN OFFICE EVEN WHEN URGED BY THE KING. Difference of Opinion Over the Commutation Com-mutation of Death Penalty of Murderer Mur-derer Results In Ministerial Crisis and Resignation o' Premier. i , . Madrld.Tho Bpunl 'i cabinet, of which Joso Canalejas was premier, renlKned Sunday as a result of a divergence di-vergence of views with King Alfonso as to the advisability of commuting the death sentence of one of the rioters riot-ers who murdered a JuiIko and who wounded several court officers In the town of Culleru, province of Valencia, last September. The general strike at that time, In Valencia and In other pro!nces, Involved In-volved a plot to assassin is General Weyler, and the king was compelled to suspend the constitutional guarantees guaran-tees The trial of the strikers concerned con-cerned In the Cull'-rit murder has en-groped en-groped public nttintlon to the exrlu-aion exrlu-aion of all eluo for Bfimo time, thanks to the hklllful car pulgn of the radicals, radi-cals, who seized u ) the affair as a weapon to mack the government, in the same way tha-. they utilized tho refusal to reprieve Francisco Ferrero, director of the modern school, who was executed in I 'M, to bring about th downfall of th i Maura cabinet. The ministerial crisis at he moment mo-ment of the Fran-io-Spanlsh negotiations negotia-tions on Morocco Is of exceptional gravity and the kl K has lost no time In consulting with leading statesmen. He conferred In ;urn with General Montero Kios, pre ildent of the cortex cor-tex former Preml r Morel y Preti. derga.st. und forme Premier Maura, each of whom agi 'd that the Liberals Liber-als should remain 1j power. They tii'Ked the king ti ' ry to prevail upon Senor Canalejas tf return. |