The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-22
CUBAN REPUBLIC.

CUBAN REPUBLIC.
Political constitution to be in force during the
war of the Independence
Article l. The legislative power win be vested
In House of Representatives
2. An equal number of members for each of
the four States which from this moment divide
the island, to compose said house.
B. These States are:-The Eastern, Camaguey,
Las Villas, and the Western.
a. Only those citizens of the republic that are
over twenty years of age can be representatives.
g. The duty of representative is incompatible
with all others of the republic.
o. Whenever any vacancies occur in the repre-
sentation of a State, the Executive thereof is to
dictate the necessary measures for new elec
ton.
T. The House of Representatives will name
the president, charged with the executive power,
the general-in-chief the president of the ses-
slons and his other employees. The general-in-
chief is subordinate to the Executive, aud his
duty is to give it an account of his operations.
3. Should there ever be occasion for it, the
President of the republic, the general-in-chief,
and the members of the House shall be arraigned
before the House of Representatives. The ac-
cusation may be instituted by any citizen what
ever; should the House deem it important, the
accused will be subjected to the judicial power.
9 The House of Representatives can freely
dismiss those functionaries whose appointment
pertains to the House.
10. The legislative decisions of the House. to
render them obligatory need the sanction of
the President.
II. Should this not be obtained they, are to be
returned to the House for reconsideration, and
the objections made by the President will be
borne in mind.
IL. The President is bound to communicate
his appreciation to the projects of law, the
contrary within the term OF ten days.
IL. When a resolution of the House be passed
the second time, his sanction thereto will be
compulsory.
a. The following ought indispensably to be-
come objects of law:-The taxes, public loans,
ratification of treaties, declaration and termna-
n hpri n President
issue letters of marquee the raising and main
tanning of troops equipment and sustaining of
navy, and declaration OF reprsals against the
enemy.
49, The House of Representatives constitutes
itself in permanent session from the moment
the representatives of the people ratify this fun
damental law until the war be at an end:
TO- The executive power will be vested in the
President of the republic.
IL. To be President, the candidate must be
thirty years of age or more and have been born
in the island of Cuba.
49, The President may make treaties, but with
the ratification of the House.
10. He will appoint the ambassadors, minis
tiers plenipotentiary and consuls of the republic
in foreign countries.
20. He is to receive the ambassadors from
other countries, take that the laws be faith
fully executed, and issue his orders to all the em
ployes OF the republic.
pointed by the House, at the suggestion of the
President.
90. The judicial power is independent in it.
self; its organization will be the object of spe
cial law.
%. To be an elector the same conditions are
required as for being elected.
"a. All the inhabitants of the republic are alb
solutely free.
%. All the citizens of the republic will con-
slider themselves soldiers of the liberating army.
26. The republic recognizes no titles, special
hOnors, or privileges whatever.
%. The citizens of the republic cannot admit
of any honors or distinctions from foreign
country.
%. The House cannot attack the liberty of re-
ligion or conscience. the liberty of the press
pacific meetings, instruction and the right OF
petition, nor any right whatever inherent to and
inalienable from the people.
80. This constitution may be revised and cor
rected whenever the House unanimously deter
mines it,
The foregoing was put to vote in the free town
! of Guaimaro on the 10th April, 1869, by citizen
Carlos Manuel Cespedes President of the Com
stituent Assembly, and the citizen Deputies Sal
vador Cisneros Betancourt, Francisco Sanchez,
Miguel Betancourt Guerra Ignacio Agramonte
Loynaz, Antonio Zambrana, Jesus Rodriguez,
/ Antonio Acaa, Jose lZaguirre, HonoTato Cas-
i tllo, Miguel Geronimo Gutierrez, Arcadia Gar
! cia, Tranquino Valdes, Antonio Lorda and
! Eduardo Machado Gomez.
ThG%ss nsfs@n Iers il GsSG of
A correspondent in Havana writes on the
18th Instant
General Thomas Jordan has been given the
Il III.
has had a couple of fights with the Spaniards, in
which his Cuban troops acted very well, and to
his entire satisfaction lie has formed large
4 camp of instruction in the district of HolguiR,
and is thoroughly organizing, drilling, dsci-
plining equipping, and AIMING some 600O picked
men, divided into battalions of infantry and
! cavalry and companies of artillery for he has
fourteen field pieces with him.
While he is training this force, his generals
and colonels in other parts OF the department
have orders to harass the Spanards, but to avoid
all serious engagements, which accounts Tor the
Spanish troops not meeting with more resistance
in some of their marches When his picked
force is in that condition Of efficiency he wants
II TO be in, General Jordan viii then sweep down
Unexpectedly upon the many scattered detach-
ments of the oyer-conHdent SpanlardS, ana is
hopeful of capturing most OF them in detail.
Count de Valmaseda is one OF those to whom he
will pay the first military compliments of his
lighting season.
General Jordan, in taking command of the
Eastern Department, found the ''armies OF libe-
I ration" too abundantly supplied with Officers
81 partculariy of high grade, so he proposed that a
eertain number should assume Lower positions
but have a breVet title for the ones they should
4 yacate This was at once agreed to, and the
number of officers, not only IN the army OF the
east but in AL the 'armies of liberaton, was
4 aDpTopriately reduced. OF the six Major-Gene-
4 rails in the Eastern Department, only iour rGtaih
their observation-disclosures, Donate M@lnOl, Julo
i Peralta and AiaXimO Gomez; one OF the other
two Modesto Diaz taking charge OF Il
brigade, and Figuerdo having become Governor
of the Eastern State, formed Dy Ihe hIely
adopted constitution of the republic OF CnOa'
Mr. Tinker and SeROr CisnerOs VIII soon leaVe
4 for Nassau and the United States charged WIN
an important mission, and the bearers Oh F9iu- FI
4 able dispatches from President Cespedes- Mr.
= Fullerton thinks they must now be away lor
cnbo and that their timpOrtant mission" is TO