The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-09-26
PRES. PALMA RESIGNS;
 TO FORCE INTERVENTION
CUBAN GOVERNMENT TO ABDI- CATE RATHER THAN AC-
 CEPT TERMS.

Liberals DenOunce the Action as Trea-
 son to the Republic--Taft Re-
 gards it as Unwarranted and DishOn-
 orabIe-PersOnal Appeal Made to Pal
 ma by ROOseveIt--Former Calls spe-
 On ResignatiOns-Fifteen Hundred
 Marines Ordered to the Island.
 Havana, Sept. 25.-It is declared on very high authority that American in- tervention in Cuba is certain. Further more, it is expected that the proclama- tion of intervention will be issued from Oyster Bay
 All the members of the cabinet and the heads of departments have present. ed their resignations to President Pal ana. He has accepted them but the officers will retain their offices until the resignation of the president has been tendered to congress. Senor O'Farrill, the secretary of state and justice, said tonight there probably would be government by a commission appointed by the American government. He men tioned Senor Barreiro, chief justice of the supreme court, and General Mario menocal as possible commissioners, with the approval of all. Concerning the election of congressman, senators and TiYlat at11 oA1o colt, would be the resignation of all those elected In 1905, with the exception of President Palma.
 Havana, Sept. 25.-The Cuban repub- lie tonight stands on the verge of a second period of American intervention. The moderate party, which six weeks ago was in absolute control of every office in the island, national, provincial and municipal, is tonight determined Ito abdicate everything and compel the United States to intervene. In fact every government official, from Presi- dent Palma down, is sincerely anxious to force such intervention rather than yield to any one of the terms offered by the liberal party and those in arms against the government. The liberal leaders characterize the conduct of the government as treason to the republic, Mhile Secretary of War Taft regards it as an unwarranted and dishonorable attempt to force the hand of the Unit ed States into intervention This is precisely what the Roosevelt adminis- tration has been most anxious to avoid. President Roosevelt, through Secretary of War Taft and Assistant Secretary of State Bacon, may arrange to establish the liberals in control of the Cuban government, but this is regarded only as the remotest sort of possibility. With either party installed in power there would still remain condition of deplorable dissatisfaction and unrest, and tonight there appears nothing whatever to promise relief save full control by the United States.
 Acting Secretary of the Interior Mon- talvo declared this evening that he would never turn the army over to the liberals under any circumstances, but all government officials unite in saying that if the rebels in the field, or any portion of them resist American con- trol. the Cuban army would cooperate with the United States in every way possible.
 The real feeling at the palace is one of relief in the prospect that the ad- wersaries of the government will not nyin. even though the government loses This feeling is combined with con- siderable degree of cunning satisfaction that the United States will be obliged 10 take over Cuba indefinitely, and pos sibly forever
 President Palma has called a special session of congress for Friday, when he will present the resignations of him. self and Vice-President Mendez Capote, The moderates, however, will not attend That session, for in their hurriedly-call- ed national moderate assembly this aft ernoon they decided unanimously sim ply to quit forthwith. They will not even have anything more to do with the government of Cuba, alleging that they have been unjustly treated by President Roosevelt's commissioners. This determination is taken by Messrs. Taft and Bacon, however, as another indication that the moderate leaders, since they can no longer control the government, are determined, at what ever cost, that the liberals shall not, now or hereafter, obtain control At the conclusion of the moderate assem- bly this afternoon Vice-President Men 6ez Capote called on the American com pnissioners and declared that he had been instructed by the moderate nation al assembly to draft reply to Secre- fary Tafts letter to President Palma in which peace terms were suggested After this interview Senor Mendez Ca pote said to the Associated Press:
 T have resigned irrevocably my posi- tion as viee-president of the republic | resigned because the resignation of President Palma was forced upon him by causes detrimental to the dignity and decorum of the office of chiefex- ecutive. The president will convene congress in extraordinary session on Friday to consider his resignation and my own"
 Mendez Capote said further that the entire body of moderates in botf houses, as well as the entire liberal na' fional or Nunez, party, would refrain from attending the extraordinary ses. sion. As the moderates and the na' tionalists comprise more than two thirds of each house there will be nc quorum. This will block action anC