The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-09-29
Palma TO get OUT
WILL DROP REINS OF CUBAN
GOVERNMENT.
States Will Be Forced to
Make Some Provisional Ar
rangement---Special Session of
Congress Called to Accept Res.
;gnations--Taft Doesn't Like It.


Havana, Sept. 26.-An the mem bers
Of the cabinet and the heads of de-
nartments have presented their resig-
nations to President Palma. He has
accepted them, but the officers will re-
tain their positions until the resigna-
tion of the president has been present.
ed to congress
Senior O'Farrill, secretary of state
and Justice said last night there would
probably be government by q COM
mittee appointed by the American gov
eminent. He mentioned Senior Bar
rier, chief justice Of the supreme
court and Gen. Mario Menocalas pos
sible commissioners.
Havana, Sept. 25.-The Cuban Re-
public stands on the verge of q second
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 now determined to abdi-
cate everything and compel the Unit
ed States to intervene. At the close
of meeting of fifty of the Moderate
leaders held last evening it was decid-
ed that President Palma, Vice Presi-
dent Mendez Capote and the moderate
senators and representatives would
all resign their Offices.
.. In fact, every government official,
from President Palma down, is sim
cerely DESTROYS to force such interven-
ton rather than yield to any one of
the terms offered by the Liberal party
and those in arms against the govern
ment.
Liberals Cry Treason
The Liberal leaders characterize the
conduct of the government as treason
to the republic, while Secretary of
War Taft regards it as an unwarranted
and dishonorable attempt to force the
United States into Intervention. This,
it has teen stated, is precisely what
President Roosevelt has been most
anxious to avoid. It is still just bare
ly possible that President Roosevelt,
through Secretary Taft and Assistant
Secretary of State Bacon, may yet ar
range to establish the Liberals in con-
troll of the Cuban government, but
this is regarded as only the remotest
sort of posi- Utility. With either party
installed in power there would still re-
main a condition Of deplorable dissat-
isfaction and unrest, and there appears
nothing whatever to promise relief
save full control py the United States.
Position of Army
Acting Secretary of interior Mon
talvo declared last evening that he
would never turn over the army to the
Liberals under any circumstances, but
all government officials unite in 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 in the prospect that the ad-
versaries 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 forever.
Palma to Resign
President Palma has called special
session of congress for Friday, when he
will present the resignation of himself
and Vice President Mendez Capote.
The moderates, however will not at.
tend that session of congress for in
their hurriedly called national Moder-
ates assembly yesterday afternoon.
they decided unanimously to simply
quit forthwith. They will not even
attend the approaching session or have
anything more to do with the govern
ment of Cuba, alleging that they have
been unjustly treated by President
Roosevelt's commission.
This determination is taken by
Messrs. Taft and Bacon, however, as
another indication that the Moderate
Leaders, since they cannot longer con-
troll the government themselves, are
determined at whatever cost that the
Liberals shall not now or hereafter
obtain control.
At the close of the Moderate assem-
oily yesterday afternoon Vice President
Mendez Capote emphatically con-
oemned the alleged partiality OF the
American commissioners, and said he
expressed the opinion Of many OF the
members of his party when he declared
mat Secretaries Taft and Bacon had
placed themselves unreservedly on the
SIDE of the Liberals and against the
existing recognized government.
havana, Sept. 25.-Victory for the
Liberals or revolutionary party seems
certain at the conclusion of long
conference between committee OF the
Insurgents of eight members and the
american peace commissioners.
The insurgent committee announced
mat there was practically no differ
ence remaining between them and Sec
re1arles Taft and Bacon and that they
would receive a draft of the peace
pans during the day. These proba-
oiy would be agreed to at a meeting
70 De held in the presidio, where the
prisoner members of the commission
are Confined