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TAFT PARTY SAILS FOR HOME.
SECRETARYS GREAT WORK IN
0UELLING CUBAN TROUBLE.
when ne went There q Month Ago He
FOund the Country I'm Undesirable
Turmoil All Settled without Ices %
Life-MAKOOn Issues q PrOelamatiOn.
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Special Cable Despatch % TIE SUN.
HAVANA. Oct. I3.-Secretary Of Wal TAFT
and Assistant Secretary Of State Bacon
sailed from Havana for Newport News at
4 o'clock this afternoon on the battleehip
Louisiana. With them sailed Mrs. Taft
and Mrs. Bacon. The battleship Virginia
steamed out in the wake Of the Louisiana.
carrying Gen. Funston. The battleship
New Jersey completed the homeward bound
squadron.
Judge Magoon, who is o Provisional
Governor Of Cuba, accompanied Mr.. Tart
and Mr.. Bacon to the battleship In a launch.
As Secretary Taft boarded thew arship her
guns roared put the Wal Secretary's salute.
The vessel soon slipped her m~oorings,
pointed her nose seward, ran up her sp I'D
cones and slipped down the harbor. her
guns booming a national salute as she
passed Cabanas fortress. Secretaries Taft
and Bacon and their wives stood under an
awning on the afterdeok waving their hats
at the big crowd which was cheering them
from land, while a small feet Of tugs loaded
with enthusiastic Cuhans, most of whom
were Liberals, pursued the battleship as far
as Moro Castle. When the Virginia steamed
Oub LLo DdAld Ou Nv ~ OSe A~JON SNS
Cuban national anthem, but nobody seemed
to pay the slightest attention to it.
When Secretary Taft came to Cuba q
month ago he found the country in in
describable turmoil. To-day he left it
almost peaceful and with enough American
troops here to keep it so for some time to
come. Nothing has been heard here but
enthusiastic praise of the manner in which
the Secretary Of War has discharged q
task OF the utmost difficulty and delicacy.
Cuba has entirely resumed her normal
! condition. The farmers have returned to
work and business is going on as usual.
The opposing armies have disbanded, and
all this has been accomplished without
! the loss Of a single life since the armistioe
was declared.
1t is not too much TO say that Secretary
Taft won the heart Of every Cuban who
approached him, no matter what faction
he might be associated with. 1t is perfectly
evident that the mass Of Cubans have
every confidence that the Government
will be administered entirely in their in
terest till such time as America may safely
leave it to themselves again.
In assuming office Gov. Magoon issued
Il is proclamation:
proclamation 10 the People Of Cuba:
Acting under the authority conferred
by the appendix to the Constitution Of
Cuba by treaty between the United States
and Cuba, ratified July 1, 1904, and by an
act Of the Congress OF the United States
approved March 2, 1901, the President Of the
United States has appointed me Provisional
Governor to succeed Gov. Taft and l hereby
assume office. The policy declared and
the assurances given by Gov. Taft will be
strictly adhered to and carried out.
AS Provisional Governor l shall exercise
the powers and perform the duties con-
tempIated and provided for by the third
article Of the appendix to the Constitution
of Cuba, for the preservation Of Cuban
Independence and the protection OF life,
property and individual liberty. As soon
as it shall prove to be consistent with the
attainment of these ends l shall seek to
bring about a restoration Of the ordinary
agencies and methods OF the Government
under the other and general provisions OF
the Cuban Constitution. All the provisions
Of the Constitution and all laws the appli-
cation of which for the time being would be
inconsistent with the exercise OF the powers
provided for by the third article OF the
appendix must be deemed in allegiance.
The other provisions of the Constitution
and other laws will continue in full force
and effect
The situation in regard to yellow fever
is as follows: There are six cases in Havana
and one in C~ienfuegos. which originated
there. One death, that Of a Me ican,
occurred at Guines yesterday. The man
was found sick in the street and died a few
hours afterward.
The transport vessels Monterey and
Seneca. which arrived here yesterday,
sailed for New York to-day and will go out
Of Government commission on their arrival
there. The steamer Admiral Sampson ar
rived to-day with 2A men and fifteen
officers Of the Eleventh Infantry and nine
officers and ia men OF the medical depart
ment. The Taarholm is expected to sail
from Newport News direct TO Sagua with
horses for the Fifteenth Cavalry at Santa
Clara.