New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-09
TIE SITUATION IN HAY 1I.
TWO GOVERNMENTS DE FACTO WITH
THE FIRAlIN CAUSE GAINING.

| Port-au-Prince. Aug. % (SpeciaD.-When
President Sam resigned the presidency last
May and sailed for Europe provisional govern
| ment was formed in Port-au-Prince appointed
by the revolutionary committees of the whole
country and composed of seven members Sc
lected in the different departments.
The first act of this provisional government
was to decree general elections. However, Cen
eraI Nord Alexis. Minister of War in the pro-
visional government and delegate from the De-
partments of the North and Northwest, inn
posed his candidates forcibly on the county and
caused attack to be made on General Firmin,
for whom many had declared themselves, and
on General Albert Salnave These. protected by
the marnes of the Haytian man-of-war Crete
a-Pierrot, succeeded in embarkng on that YES
sci, but their houses at Cape Hayten were pill
LACED and ransacked at the instigation of the
friends of General Nord Alexis. Firmin's very
valuable library and manuscripts were de-
stroyed, the fruit of thirty years labor of col
Letting
The provisional government in POrt-au-Prince
tolerated these outrages. and wherever they
could they tried to prevent the election of dep
uties favorable to Firmin. In Gonaves city
famous the birthplace of Haytian liberty. all
the candidates for the Haytian Congress with
drew and unanimously named Firmn First
Deputy. General Jean Juneau delegate to all
NAiS 10y 'A'h lneSS twenty ytdlS
from the Department of the Artibonite (the
capital of which is Gonaives), protested against
the unlawful acts of General Nord Alexis and
of the provisional government in Port-au-
Prince. and took up arms. The revolution thus
proclaimed Immediately spread over the whole
country and TO regulate and organize 1t a pro-
visional government set up in Gonaiyes
with Ffrmin as President and six ministers as
a council.
The government in Port-au-Prince Is to-day
In the minority.
have withdrawn, and. General Nord Alexis not
being in Port-au-Prnce. it is composed Of only
three members. 1t controls only a small ma rt
of the country, while the revolutionists control
all the rest and hold the ports of Gonaives ST
Marc, Mole St Nicholas. Port de Paix and Aux
Cages. The revolutionists control therefore the
whole of the departments of the Artibonite and
the Northwest. In the Department of the
North they bold the ACCOMPLISHMENTS of Limbe
PaisanCe. Borgne. Hnche and St Michel In
the Department Of the West Gin which Port Ian
Prince Is situated) they hold the arrondisaa-
ments of Mirebalais and Las Caobas and in the
Department: of the South they have the most
important of all the arrondissements-Aux
Cages.
The foregoing shows that in Hayti tbsre sra
at present two governments de faeto Each
holds certain parts of the country and certain
ports open TO foreign commerce, and each adj
ministers Independently of the other the par
of the country which il occupies. Neither is
recognized by the foreign powers II ,yoYId
seem therefore, that each government the ons.
in Port -au-Prpce we'll as the one in Conai,es
was in a position to receive arms ammnnitfon
and coal, at any rate, that the so-called reyo-
lutioniSts should be recognized as belliserents
FiTmin is gaining every day, while Fouchard
and Seneaue are constantly losing. that their
candidature has become almost impossible Here
in Port -au- Prince complete anarchy is reignine
SeneQue and Fouchard have each an armed en-
campment in the very city. The provisional
government exercises no authority whatever
The other day the steamer Lauenburg arrived
with three hundred tons of coal for Gonaives
consigned to English house. Although this
article is not regarded as contra and of war in
Hayti, the steamer was seized. despite the cap
tn n'S he
was destined for the Crete-a- Pierrot This seiz-
ure produced great irritation here and il is
generally believed that Firmin will make re-
prisals Selling any boat carrying arms for
General Nord.