Durango semi-weekly herald., 1901-03-21

ative OF the intention OF the commit
tee to recommend the acceptance of
the Platt amendment. but that they
desire authority, which they hold has
not yet been given them, to approve
OF reject 1t.
Gen. Gomez, replying to Gen. Carno-
la. who recently resigned from po-
litical society in Matanzas because
the constitution convention adopted
clause making Gen. Gomez eligible
to the presidency of the republic.
says:
People attach too much Importance
to the action of the convention. lit
means nothing to me. The point re-
garding the eligibility of foreigners
who fought in the war should never
have been discussed, as 1t leaves the
country open to condition OF things
such as happened to Spain in the
days of Amndeo and to Mexico in
the days of Macmillan. No foreign
er in Cuba has expressed desire to
be president AS for myself. | would
not accept the office. 1t will he
enough for me that the republic is
established"
NEW YORK, March lS.-J. p. Nor
gan has given 100000 to the Y. NJ.
c. A. to apply on their debt of a quar-
ter of million.
NEW YORK. March 1S.-A Wash
ington dispatch to the Times today
says the sultan of Turkey is bankrupt
and cannot pay the American debt.
He tried to get the better of Germany.
but the kaiser refused to be bilked.
LONDON, March 1S-Word from
Kitchener this morning announces
that De Vets command has practi-
cally disbanded, and that the brave
general is now without a following
of soldiers.
Negotiations for peace are progress
ing satisfactorily and proclamation
to that effect is expected this week.
MEXICO, March 1S.-"President Di
az will never rule Mexico again." said
prominent army officer and a close
friend of the president, today. for
he is insane and the doctors have no
hope of his recovery"
Rumors of like nature have been
rife in the city ever since the president
hurriedly left the capital two months
ago without giving any official notice
of his departure. 1t is now pretty
generally believed he was hurried out
of the city by those close to him to
keep from the public the fact that
his mind was badly affected To lull
suspicion it was given out that he had
had gone to the wilds of the state of
Guerrero on hunting trip. There
were those who remarked that it was
strange that the president should go
on second hunting trip when he had
but recently returned from one. Soon
after his departure for Guerrero 1t was
whispered that the president was not
well. Then came the report that he
was dangerously i'll, and few days
later it began to be whispered around
the city that he was insane.
The gloom was lifted from the city,
however, some three weeks ago, when
it was reported that the president had
completely recovered, and that he was
on his way back to the city. But he
never reached here. Instead he went
to the fashionable winter resort, Cuer-
navaca, few hours ride from the
capital, where he was received by the
governor of the state, In whose house
he has been ever since. There only
physicians and his family and very
intimate friends have been permitted
to see him.
1t appears from reports that it was
decided to bring the president back
to the capital, but that he showed such
decided dislike to returning that
it was decided to take him to Cuer-
navaca.
The presidents malady takes the
form of great dread that some one
is going to kill him. and he believes
that assassins are hidden in his win
ter residence here, the castle of Cha
pultepec.
One of the doctors attendant upon
Gen. Diaz said a couple of days ago
that the old man appears quite chilli
sh. and that the strong will that
made nation out of a disorganized
conglomeration Of states peopled with
robbers. cut-throats and political in
tfiguers, has completely broken down
and left the old man as helpless as
child. All there is left of his for
| mer strong self is his obstinate re-
fusal to come back to Chapultepec
castle.
A member of the legislature and a
man who has been in close touch
with the president for years, said:
THE present malady of Gen. Diaz
commenced to show itself in slight
eccentricitics some three or four years
ago when an attempt was made up-
on his life by drunken tailor named
Arroyo. At the time the general pub
lie attached no great Importance to
this incident, nor did they think the
president did. But the event had a
significance which the public did not
see, for Arroyo was but the tool in
the hands of others who wished to get
Diaz out of the way so that another
prominent official might become pres
ident."