The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-03
HAVE NOT CONVENED.
s,orNT MAsSO SAYS THERE
u,s NEVER BEEN A QUORUM.

IS nv the Way of Santiago OF
..sembIy's Action in ImpOr-
- Questions Are Said TO Have
, FaISes-PrOvisiOnaI Govern
ut VIII Not BE AntagOnistic to
49, Policy at Notwithstanding
aobIy Not Military Body.
+r.s.i7gton, Nov 2,-President Masso
me provisional Cuban government has
hied from Santa Cruz del Sur to Senior
o,.s.5a secretary of the Cuban legation
~. saving: Assembly has not yet met
.n, 10 the absence of quorum"
mis- was called out by inquiry from
o,oor ouesada as to reports coming by the
-, of Santiago, representing the Cuban
.aar,blv as in session at Santa Cruz del
Cur and engaged in important questions
-.I.tina to the future of the island, the
,,.,rnament of the Cuban army and the
I'm, If cooperation between the former
,nsrrqeut forces and the United States au-
.hor,ties 1t has been stated that the as
aao,blv ORGANIZED by choosing Gen. Garcia
nrasiding officer, thus indicating the
sar,tarv element under Garcia would dom
,.ota the assembly. Senior Quesada was
considerably surprised at these reports as
mas likely to be notified of the conven-
inc of the Cuban assembly, particularly as
- has been chosen a member of the as
semblv. representing one of the districts
81 tbe province of Puerto Principe. He
oocordinglv telegraphed President Masso
t,r information and this morning the an
suer was received. There are evidences
that President Mckinley and his cabinet
have assurances that the provisional gov
eminent will not be antagonistic to the
noicy at Washington, but rather in SYM
n,tbv with the execution of that policy.
Senior Quesada is satisfied that this will
he the course of the Cuban assembly when
# begins work, and it is probable that he
made this view known during a recent in
terview with Secretary Hay at the state
denartment In the event of his leaving
Washington to attend the assembly at
SANTA Cruz del Sur, it will be with the
enecial purpose of securing cooperation
between the authorities there and here and
of overcoming frictions which may arise.
Speaking of the Cuban assembly Mr..
toward a regular and constitutional form
of government, and it will give way later
10 an assembly truly representative of all
the people of Cuba. For the present Pres
ident Masso has called together this pro-
visiopal body, which is necessarily crude
because of the unsettled condition of af-
fairs in Cuba. 1t is, however, not mill
tarv assembly. only eight or ten out of
membership of forty-eight being from the
military ranks The others are from civil
life. doctors, lawyers and planters, and
represent the best elements in the commu-
mites. This assembly will form a consti-
tuition, but will provide for constitution
al convention, which will take up the inn
portant work of framing constitution
and establishing a permanent government
for the island"
With this programme in view, it is hard
" expected that the question of annexing
Cuba to the United States will assume
large proportions for the present, but Will
remain in allegiance until the Cuban gov
eminent is sufficiently well established 10
permit it to express the wishes of the PEG
pie OF Cuba on the question of annexa-
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