The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-09-29
President and the Ministry
Resign
Congress Refused to Assemble Last
Might to Act on the Resignation
and Secretary Taft sum
moned Marines.

Havana, Sept. 20.-~-Jlnited States ma
lines were landed here last night IN AMI
lcipation Of the Intervention which WAS
HPected to be made today BY the
Emitted States government through Sec.
fetary Taft, following the practical ter
nination of the Cuban government last
hight through the resignation Of Presi-
9ent Palma and his minister's and The
dissoiution Of congress, after i futile
effort to get together and act on the
designations.
\ palma's Resignation.
It was in spirit Of utter apathy
that the joint session Of the senate
and the house received the resignation
kof the president, the vice president and
kthe members of the cabinet Yesterday afz
This attitude was due in Il
great measure, to despair that any acs
tion on the part Of congress would re-
&sult in making American intervention
II less probable After brief hut con-
n fused debate, congress decided ID ap-
peal to the president to reconsider his
decision to retire fr0sn Office,
President Palma's letter was as fol.
lows:
The conditions to which public order
has been reduced since the initiation ~
armed rebellion in the province Of Pinar
Del Rio, and the fact that there Is now
in operation in this capital an American
commission said TO be one Of peace, and
representing the government OF Wash
ington, and that in consequence the exc.
cutive has practically lost all authority
while the rebels continue in arms and
in a threatening attitude, and the writer,
on the other hand, desiring sincerely and
ardenfly that the country return to its
natural state Of order and tranquility,
and as it Is absolutely impossible to ac-
cept the conditions which the said conn
mission proposes as the only means of
terminating the rebellion, I have re-
solved, considering it to be patriotic
and decorous, to present formally to
congress and in irTevocable form, ms
resignation from the presidency Of the
fepubIic, to which | was elected BY the
zycitixens and the vote Of the electoral
IzscoIlege May is last. Trusting this viii
h&4t once accepted, | extend my thanks
fo both legislative bodies, to whom
i oiiex this testimony of my highest con
sid<1ntion.r
xotc on the right Of congress to
apn&M to Palma to reconsider his resiq.
nstio5 resulted in ~ ayes to % noes.
The Ne1ise then took a recess until Q
ID. III 10 permit the modersfes and the
libefaI nationalists to visit Palma Tho
presf18nt was much affected and la.
tened )ntently to Senator Doiz, who, af-
ter eXQIhining his errand, said;
F}s no hour for oratory or tears
or words other than spring from the
hearts of patriots. We beg you to con-
sider our desires. We do not forget
III the SorTpws and Affections which you
mxe endured during the past few days
hit ius6fxsieh as you retaining the presi-
lencY 3&n necessary TO the salvation
tie c6ulfry and its Independence. wf
arneeiI bee that you will reconsider
our dak&fmination.'
This Ffezident Palma declined TO do
\ Presid<1t Roosevelt's peace commits
sionefx 6|[hough clothed with the full
eSk authority from him to take sucF
1iion wh<ueycr it became obvious that
III securing Of peace by harmonizinl
~ warning Cubans was impossible, have
XfientIy VIthheld their hands from thu,
Cling aAIi1e Cuban sovereignty nnti
last II6pe had disappeared Tlili
N La of h0nclessness was reached at 4
= hour 6<t night, when the meai
xnrity d all three of the poitica
U|ies ref1sed to attend the session ot
rnss. called To act upon the fesio
81 cf III the members of the pov