Woodruff County news., 1906-12-06
CUBAN CONGRESS. SEATS OF SECOND SERIES
 DECLARED VACANT. President Roosevelt NulIifies 1908 Election and Will Order New One
 Trouble Predicted.

Havana-By a decree to be issued soon under specific authority of the president of the United States, the seats of all members of the second series of the Cuban congress, elected in 1905, will be declared vacant. This was the announcement made by Governor Ma goon to 25 senators and members of the House of Representatives whom he had invited to attend conference in the palace After reveiewing all the facts developed by the peace com mission sent to Cuba by President Roosevelt in response to President Palma's appeal for intervention and with special reference to the negotia tions relating to the status and final disposition of the Cuban congress Gov ernor Magoon called the attention of the members to the fact that the de termination as to the status of the congress had been reserved by the peace commission for consideration at Washington. He then communicated to them the final determination of President Roosevelt that the seats of all senators and representatives elect ed in 1905 shall be considered vacant from October 12, 1906, the vacancies thereby created being filled by an election under the provisional govern. ment in accordance with the procla- nation of Governor Taft, September 29.
 The first series of senators and rep resentatives elected in 1904 will be continued in office if moral peace, tranquility and public confidence be restored to such an extent that an election for the vacated seats may be held during 1907, and that there may be at the same time an election of the successors of representative whose terms expire December 31, 1907, with out shortening these terms, thus avoid. ing the necessity for two elections. The salaries of the busted members will be paid to October 12, the date fixed by the peace commission.
 Governor Magoon explained to the members of the congress that he con- sidered it only fair and courteous to submit to them the terms of the decree prior to it's formal promulgation, so iobt yhot they desired to assume.
 The decree will be promulgated at once. It will declare the last election to be not illegal but will say that it is annulled sin accordance with the terms of compromise arranged by the peace commission under which the rebels were induced to lay down their arms.
 After the conference former Minis ter of the Treasury Fonts Sterling Senator Dolz and other Moderates, ex pressed strong dissatisfaction with the terms of the decree, which they de- clared was unfair, but they recognized the futility of any protest. Gen. Ruis Rivera, eX-secretary of the interior, said to the Associated Press that he realized the decree merely carried out an obligation of interest to the peace commissioners, but he greatly deplor- ed it, believing its effect would be dis astrous. He said he was firm in the belief that the only means of estab- fishing peaceful conditions consist in the election of an entirely new con gress, whereas the proposed election, which would result in turning over the government to Liberal control, would surely result in a new insurrection the moment American troops were with drawn from the island