The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-26
INTERVENTION
SEEMS CERTAIN
Secretary Taft Has Little Hope
of Making Peace Between
the CubanS.
ELECTIONS WERE ROTTEN
BLAME PLACED ON THE PALMA
GOVERNMENT.

Oyster Bay. Sept. 25.-Plans for the \
y transfer of troops from the United =
y failure Of Secretary Taft's mission y
TO bring about peaceful solution OF =
y the trouble in the island republic y
have been completed
The final step was taken today, y
according to an announcement made
here tonight when the transport y
Sumner. now lying at the New York
navy yard. was put in commission. y
The Sumner is in readiness for the =
immediate embarkation Of troops. y
Negotiations are already under way y
y for the acquisition of merchant y
y steamers to be used as transports y
That the events of today, as told y
y in the press dispatches. have has y
= tened plans which have been long in 4
preparation seems apparent. Addi- y
= tional warships will reach Cuba y
y within few days and will be ready y
= TO land marines II necessary long y
before the regular troops now await y
y ing orders can be moved. Should y
y armed Intervention come. these y
y forces will undoubtedly form the y
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Havana. Sept. 25.-The Cuban repub-
lie tonight stands on the verge of a sec
ond 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 to
abdicate everything and compel the
United States to intervene. In fact
every government official, from Presi-
dent Palma down. is sincerely anxious
10 force such Intervention rather than
yield TO any one of the terms offered
by the liberal party and those i'm arms
against the government.
Regarded as Oishonorabie.
The liberal leaders characterize the
conduct of the government as treason
To the republic, while Secretary of War
Taft regards il as an unwarranted and
dishonorable attempt to force the hand
of the United States into Intervention.
This, IL has been stated. is precisely
what Roosevelt has been most anxious
To avoid. 1t is still just barely posi-
BILE that President Roosevelt through
Secretary Taft and Assistant Secretary
Of State Bacon. may yet arrange to es-
70 blish the liberals i'm control of the
Cuban government, but this is regard
ed only as the remotest sort of posi-
bility. With either party installed i'm
power there would still remain a con-
dition of deplorabIe dissatisfaction and
unrest, and tonight there appears moth
ing whatever to promise relief save full
control by the United States.
No Chance for Liberals.
Acting Secretary of the Interior Mon
talvO declared this evening that he
would never turn over the army to the
liberals under any circumstances but
all government officials unite i'm saying
that if the rebels in the field, or any
portion of them, resist American con-
troll. the Cuban army would cooperate
with the United States in every way
possible. The real feeling at the palace
is one of relief i'm the prospect that the
adversaries of the government will not
win even though the government loses,
combined with the satisfaction that the
United States will be obliged to take
over Cuba indefinitely and possibly for
ever.
Spec al Session Of Congress.
President Palma has called a special
session of congress for Friday when he
will present the resignation of himself
and Nice-President Mendez Capote. The
MOderates. however will not attend that
session of congress. for in their hurriedly
called national Moderate assembly this
Bfterno' n they decided unanimously sim
ply TO quit forthwith. They will not even
attend the approaching session or have
anything more to do with the govern
mcnt Of Cuba. alleging that they have
: been unjustly treated by President Roose-
VeltS commissioners
This determination is taken by Messrs
Taft and Bacon. however. as another in
dicatior that the Moderate leaders, since
meut themselves, are determined. at what
ever cost. that the Liberals shall not
now or hereafter obtain control.
capote's Opinion.
Al the conclusion of the Moderate as
Ecmbly this afternoon Vice President Men
dez Capote called on the American com
missioners and declared that he had been
Instructed by the Moderate assembly 10
draft a reply to Secretary Tafts letter
10 President Palma. in which peace terms
were suggested. After this interview
Senior Mendez Capote said 10 the Asso-
ciated Press:
Il have resigned irrevocably my posi-
ton as vice-president Of the republic.
resigned because the resignation of Presi-
dent Palma was forced upon him nv
causes detrimental TO the dignity and
The president will convene congress in ex-
traordinary session on Friday to consider
his resignation and my own"
Will Be No Quorum.
Mendez Capote said further that tine
entire body Of Moderates i'm both houses
as we'll as the entire Liberal National. tr
Nunez party. would refrain from attend
Moderates and the Nationalist Comprise
more than two-thirdS OF each house There
will be no quorum. This will block ac-
ton and prove that the structure of con-
stitutional government no longer exists.
\ Mendez CapOte emphatcally condemned
fie alleged Partially of the American
commissioners. and said he expressed the
opinion OF many OF the members of his
party when he declared that Secretaries
Taft and Bacon had placed themselves
unreservedly on the side of the Liberals
and against the existing recognized gov
eminent. He said that. even had thev
accepted the basis of peace first pre-
scented by the mediators he did not think
the island would have remained at peas
for thirty days.
Mendez Capote has called another meet.
ing OF the Moderatcs for Thursday to de-
forfnfne the attitude OF the marty tou,,r7
the approaching extraordinary session of
congress
While the developments recorded today
arc profoundly serious. the outward an
rfarance of things was distinctly peace
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