The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-04-13
KENOSHA, WISCONSIN, THURSDAY, APRIL 49, 1871.

ETeSlueuG are lnellg1Dle TO Inc presidency
during the following term.
The President appoints a Council of
State, consisting of the Ministers of Pub
lie Instruction, Interior, Police and Agri-
culture, Public Works, Commerce, War
and Marine. On one of these four Minis
tiers the duties of the Minister of Foreign
Relations devolves, at the will of the
President. The Legislative branch of the
government consists Of Senate senado
consuIto-elected by primary assemblies,
and has two members for the city Of San
Domingo, two for Santiago, and one for
each of the other provinces and districts
nine members in ALL These hold office
six years, and may be reelected Each
province and district has Governor and
each parish and military post Com
mandant, nominated by the Executive,
and responsible to him. The towns are
governed by dguntdmiatos, or councils,
elected 10y the primary assembly for three
years. The judiciary consists Of Su
preme Court, whose seat is at the capital,
with President, four ministers and one
Attorney General, who are chosen by
the Senate from nominations made by the
electoral college, and who hold Office five
years. In every province and district
there is a court of first instance, sitting in
their respective capitals, consisting of a
Judge, Prosecutor and Attorney General,
all nominated by the Executive, aud
holding Office five years. It was found
that this court had, in many parts of the
republic, fallen into disuse. Finally, each
town and parish, or commune, has an al
cado, appointed by the Executive, and
holding office at his pleasure, and cores
ponding to our justice of the peace. In
this latter case, practice is certainly far
better than theory. In all parts of the
republic it was found that the alcados
held Office virtually during good beha-
vior, and not one was found whose char
acter did not inspire respect.
CONDITION OF THE COUNTRY.
The Commission found the government
organized and in complete operation in
all its departments, exercising every
function of legitimate government, with
Gen. Blenavento Baez as Chief Magis-
trate, in full and peaceable possession of
all parts of the republic, except on the
Haytien border, which is disturbed by
insurrectionary leaders, aided by the
Haytiens and political intr;guers. These
are melted to be extraordinary active at
this time by the fear Of annexation &C. the
United States. From all that the com
missioners could ascertain, President
Baez has the respect of the great MAORI
ty of the Dominican people on account of
his administrative abilities, and the
strong attachment of many leading men,
who regard him as the only statesman
among them who can hold them together
against domestic factions and foreign
foes. In 1913, after five years of anar-
chy, consequent on the expulsion of the
Haytien power, Gen. Baez was regularly
elected President of the Republic. It
appears that he was chosen as the man
who, by his education, fortune and public
services would be most likely to secure
general confidence and heal the wounds
inflicted by the civil and foreign wars.
In one of the delegations of the leading
citizens who rendered to him the Chief
Magistracy, was Gen. Cabral There is
creditable evidence that, under him, de-
spite the difficulties that have beset him,
the republic has enjoyed as much liberty
as any of his predecessors dared to allow,
and more tranquility than they knew how
to give. Nor do the commissioners find
that there is no opponent of the present
administration Of that republic who has
now, or who ever has had, any claim to
the chief by title superior to that of the
present incumbent. Whatever technical
defects there might have been in his orig
inal title to the office, it was confirmed
by national convention and ratified by
the consent and support of the people.
The frequency of civil conmotion dur
ing long period, and the consequential
security of property, have paralyzed in
dustry, discouraged accumulation, and so
the country that for the
last two years the financial resources of
the government, as its officers informed
US, have been inadequate to pay expenses
.tse aota THE INsURREoTIoNs a9a'
which still. exist are headed by Cabral
and Luperon. The furmer of these is. uni
versally concelsd 70 be,the more impor-
tant, but neither has distinct flag OF a
regularly organized army, The commits
sion found that Cabral does not claim to
be the legal head of the republic; that
he does not claim to represent the princi-
pal constitutional or legal authority, and
this is shown by the fact, that, IN a proc
and in a communication to theI
Commission, he styles himself chief of
the revolutions and Journal pretending
to emanate from INN at San uan,. but
well understood to be printed at the
Haytien capital, is styled the Bulletin oil
The Rendition. Asyto Luperon, the testi-
mony both at Cibro and on the coast IS
that he is simply a bandit, stained with |
crimes. He has not. so far as could be
learned, distinguished himself in any reg
llar manner, his main exploits being IN
sundry robberies and piratical operations
On the coast. fire latter ihx means of a /