The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-09
SPECIAL SESSION CALLED.
Palma Passes Up Situation to the
Cuban Congress.

Havana, Sept s-President Palma to-
night issued a call for a special session
OF congress to convene Sept. IA to con-
slider the disturbed condition of the cOun-
try and measures for ending the situa-
ton. The president is weary of the COM
plicated conditions and is anxious to di
vide the responsibility with congress.
The principal features in the revolt to-
day were attempts by the Western rail
way TO get trains toward Pinar del Rio.
and the advancement Of an armored train
with machine guns and recruits to the
country now occupied by the insurgents
Wire communication both by railroad
and government lines was cut repeatedly
further east tonight and neither the rail-
road nor the government is able to COM
municate beyond PaSo Real two miles
east of Pinar del Rio city. The armored
train which returned to Palaicos Friday
night started west from PasO Real. Be
tween La Herradura and Consolation del
Sur, is encountered revolutionists. but the
result of the engagement is now known.
1t is thought however. that the troop
train got through to the vicinity of
Puerta Golpe. where two more railroad
bridges were blown up this morning.
Reinforcements Go Forward.
Four hundred more reinforcements left
Havana to cooperate with the machine
gun corps in an endeaVor to reach Colonel
AvaIos at Pinar del Rio. and another
machine gun battery started for Santa
Clara in an armOred train. which isNtaken
10 indicate that the government does not
over seriously regard the unofficial
armistice. The government considers that
the use of the word armistice would mean
recognition of belligerency.
The veterans who are searching for a
peaceful settlement profess that the Santa
Clara and Havana insurrectionsts are
ready to quit and turn against Guerrero
if he does not show a similar tendency.
But Guerrera's conduct. and especially
the attitude of the liberals in Havana.
SllnnOSp6lV
ers of the revolutionary junta. preclude
the probability that peace is at hand
Veterans Peace Committee.
A permanent veterans peace committee
was constituted today. IT includes Cen
erals MenOcal. NOdarse, CebrecO. ReciO.
Agramonte. Molinet and Padre and
Colonel Lazo.
The cigar and cigarette manufacturers
and their $4,000 men and women employed
in Havana are awakening to an apprecia-
ton of the consequences of there being no
tobacco crop in Pinar del Rio. The num-
Der of persons more or less directly en-
plOyed in the Havana factories. with
their dependents. is estimated TO approach
100000. The factories use only Pinar del
Rio and Havana tobacco.
The Havana factories must. unless the
instruction ends soon, suspend work
next summer for a year or more. or un-
til the crop planted a year hence is avail
able. 1t is claimed that the best tobacco
an insurrection.
The Western railway Nhis evening re-
ceived a telegram from Pas0 Real saying
that the band commanded by the PaiZ
brothers was still holding up the armored
troop train between Herradura and Con-
solacion del Sur. and that firing was con-
tinuing. The dispatch adds that Colonel
Avalos' troops in Pinar del Rio city un-
doubtedly are surrounded.
Three Hours Fighting.
The Associated Press correspondent at
Paso Real telegraphs that Countrymen re-
port that there was three hours fighting
this evening by machine gun batteries
and insurgents, between Herradura and
Consolation del Sur, and also between
Colonel AvalOS' force which came on from
Pinar del Rio and insurgents near Con
ISOLATION del Sur. They assert that Colonel
AValOS camped Friday night at Puerta
GOlpe and moved eastward today. The
statements of the countrymen, however
have not been authenticated.
The mayor of Guayabal near Guiana
jay. has Joined the insurgents. He was
accompanied by seventeen rural guards
who deserted. 1t is learned tonight that
Speaker Freyre Andrade and Carlos Zal-
do, ex-secretary of state, strongly opposed
the extra session Of congress. but that
President Palma and the cabinet insisted
More Bridges Burned.
Havana, Sept S.-Two more bridges
of the Western railway were blown III
last night, one of them situated twelve
miles east of Pinar del Rio, thus cut