The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-29
P ALMA RESIGNS,
CHAOS RE|GNS
Secretary Taft Certain to Take
Cuba in Out of the Wet
Sometime Today.
BAND OF MARINES LANDED
GOODNIGHT TO THE ISLAND RE-
PUBLIC.

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Havana, Sept. est is certain =
that American intervention will \
take place tomorrow
Twenty-Five United States ma y
rlnes were landed here tonight to y
= guard the treasury building. There y
viii be no further landing tonight, \
but Secretary Taft's proclamation, y
creating himself provisional mill y
tary governor of Cuba, will be is \
sued tomorrow. h
A further force of Americans \
y will be landed tomorrow.
Tonight the city is policed by \
= rural guards
General Rodriguez, commander +
of the rural guards. is cooperating y
= with Secretary Taft.
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Havana, Sept. 2S.-Up to the time
that congress took a recess at 5 o'clock
! this afternoon, today was a day of
waiting. After that hour various prob
Abilities became certainties By $50
President Palma definitely and firmly
announced to his political followers
that his resignation was absolutely ir-
reVocable. Following this announce
ment the moderates held a long con-
! sultatiOn at the residence of Senator
Dolz, president of the senate, at which
II was decided that no moderate should
return to the session after the recess.
thus precipitating a condition in which
no provisional president could be elect
ed. This throwing up of their hands
would practically give over the control
OF affairs to the American commission
ers.
Taft Waited Patiently.
Up to that point the attitude of the
commissioners also had been q waiting
one. Secretary Taft who has TO a con-
siderable extent taken the newspaper
correspondents Ito his confidence. said
That he was then in a position where
ne could not say anything for publica-
ton. During the day Secretary Taft
heard various kinds of propositions and
counter propositions about available
and unavailable candidates for the
presidency. None of these propositions
proved at all agreeable to all factions
Among those who visited the secretary
We're Governor NuneZ and other liberal
nStionalists They regretted that Pres
ident Palma persisted in his determine
ton to resign. Zayas came, too. and
asserted that Secretary of the Interior
Montalvo had 500 soldiers in the arsen-
al close to the house of representatives
and was prepared to shoot him and
other liberals if they approached the
house for tonight's meeting
designations Received.
1t was in a spirit of utter apathy
that joint session of the senate and
house received the designations of the
president, the vice president and the
members of the cabinet this afternoon.
This attitude was due in a great meas
ure to despair that any action would
result in making American interven-
ton less probable. After brief but
DOR II ln1N-
the final and forlorn hope of an appeal !
to Palma to reconsider his decision to
retire. Although the session had been
called for o'clock, ii was nearly 8 be |
fore the members began to arrive, and
at that hour the improvised gallery in |
the long, bare chamber formerly a |
work room in a big tobacco factory. |
contained only a sprinkIing of specta- |
tors. Over the presidents rostrum hung
the faded and tattered folds of the
original lone star flag that was first |
raised by Carlos Cespedes in the ten
years struggle for independence 1t
was now witness to the closing scenes
of the brief life of the first Cuban re-
public. From the broad street upon |
which the house is situated a small |
crowd of loungers and workmen gazed
silently at the windows of the building. |
Scene in the Assembly.
The assembly was called to order by
Senior DolZ at 800, and a rollcall re- |
vealed quorum, fourteen senators /
and forty-six representatives being
present. The designations of the mem |
bers OF the cabinet to President Palma |
were then read. Thereon Zayas en-
tered protest, declaring that the pres
ident had no right to accept the resig- |
nations of the cabinet without appoint
ing successors. Representative Mandu- /
lay declared that the president had act
ed entirely within his rights The res
ignation of MendeZ Capote, the vice |
president. was then read without com /
ment. Following this, and amid a pro-
found silence, the resignation of Pres /
ident Palma was read.
PaIma's Message.
1t was as follows:
ITO Congress: The condition to which /
public order has been reduced since the
initiation of armed rebellion i'm 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 at Washington, and that in
consequence the executive has practi-
cally lost all authority, while the rebels
continue in arms and in a threa.anin /
attitude, and the writer, on the other
hand, desiring sincerely and ardentIy
that the country should turn to its
natural state Of order and tranquility.
and as it is absolutely impossible to
accept the conditions which the said
commission proposes as the only means
of terminating the rebellion. 1 have re-
solved, considering it to be patriotic
and decorous, to present formally TO
congress, and in irrevocabIe form. nv
resignation from the presidency of the
republic. TO which office L was elected
by the citizens and the vote of the cleo
toral college. May Is last Trusting
this will be at once accepted, 1 extend
my thanks to both legislative bodies. to
whom l offer this testimony of my
highest consideration"
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