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Resignation as President of Mex
leo Received and Accepted by
Chamber of Deputies.
WILD CHEERS IN THE STREET
Hush in Congress after 1877 Mem
bers Had Bowed Their Assent
-Vice-P sesident Corral
Also Resigns.

Mexico City. May 3.-President Por-
fir'o Dlnz, IN II letter road by the prosi-
dent of the Chamber Of Deputies this aft
| crnoon, resigned tho presidency of the
| republic of Mexico and ut 4:A o'clock
the acceptance Of the resignation by the
deputies was announced. Vice-President
Ramon Corral's resignation was also ac-
cepted and the minister Of foreign af-
fairs francisco Leon de 10 Barra was
chosen provisional president to serve un-
I'll general election can be held.
Every one had expected an uproar when
the announcements should be made, but
within the Chamber the words announc-
ing the event were followed by silence.
The deputies seemed awed by what had
taken place
In the streets, black with people, the
news that Diaz was no longer the pres-
dent was n signal for wild shouting and
manifestations.
There was no violence or destruction of
property. On the motion to accept tho
presidents RESIGNATION, 167 deputies voted
aye. while no expression of their choice
was made by Benito Juarez, descend
ant of President Juarez. and Conception
Del Vale. AS their names were called,
all other Legislators rose and bowed their
affirmation.
In similar fashion the resignation of
Nicc-President Corral, now In France,
was unanimously accepted and similarly
Senior de la Barra, recently ambassador
20 Washington, was chosen provisional
president. Senior dc la Barra will take the
oath of office at noon tomorrow in the
fellow parlOr of the National Palace.
EX-REBEL CHIEF IN CONTROL.
OF scarcely less popular interest
than tho resignation was the assump-
t!on of military control of the fod-
eral district by Alfred Robes Domin-
guez, Madcros personal representative,
insuring that popular demonstration
will now be dealt with by a leader o.
the new regime.
Personally Dominguez commands only
small body OF local rebels. but the
federal garrison is under orders to
make no move whatsoever without his
approval Senior Domingue2 said that
he could bring 5000 organized rebel
troops into the city within three hours.
| Their baggage and horses are aboard
trains, furnished by the government
at Cuernavaca, Pachuca and Talana-
petla.
Dominguez added that the troops
would remain at their present stations
until needed in Mexico City to control
the situation. President Diazs letter
Of resignation follows:
Sir: The Mexican people who gen
erously have covered me with hOnors.
who proclaimed me Us their leader
| Ia,
triotically assisted me in all works un-
dertaken to develop industry and the
commerce Of the republic. establish its
credit, gain for it the respect Of the
world and obtain for it an honorable
| position in the concert of nations that
same people, sir, has revolted in armed
military bands, stating that my pres
once in the exercise of the supreme eX-
ecutive power is the cause OF this in
surrection.
BOWS TO WILL OF PEOPLE.
~ do not know of any fact imputable
to me which could have caused this social
phenomenon, but permitting though not
admitting, that I may be unwittngly
culpable, such a possibility makes me the
least able TO reason out and decide my
|
have always respected the will of the
| people. and in accordance with article
s. of the federal constitution, ] come be-
| fore the supreme representatives of the
nation in order to resign unreservedly tho
| office of constitutional president of the
republic with which the national vote
honored me. which do with all the more
reason since, in order to continue in office,
| = no tn
| blood, eudangering the credit Of the coun-
try. dissipating its wealth, exhausting its
resources and exposing its policy to inter-
| national complications.
Il hope, gentlemen, that when the
passions which are inherent to all revolu-
tons have been Gained, more con-
scentious and justified study will bring
out in the national mind a correct
acknowledgment, which will allow me
TO die, carrying engraved in my soul a
just impression of the estimation of my
life. which throughout l have devoted
| and will devote to my countrymen.
with all respect.
"PORFIRIO DIAX."
Vice-President Corrals letter Of resig-
nation says
In the events which have shaken the
|
| President has been brought to feel that
1t is patriotic to resign from the high
office that the almost unanimous vote of
MeXcans conferred on him in the last
election and that 1t is advisable at the
same time in the interests of the country
that the vice-president do likewise so
that new men and new energies should
continue forwarding the prosperity of
the nation, and, following my program
of secondlng General Dlazs policy, l
JON my resignation with his, and in the
present note ! retire from the office of
vice-president OF the republic, begging
the Chamber TO accept it at the same
time az that of the Presidents"
The one dramatic speech Of the day
was made by Deputy jose Aspe. In in
Producing the Presidents letter Of resig-
nation, he made an oratorical effort
which was repeatedly drowned by ap-
plause The floor fairly shook with the
demonstration which followed his perora-
| ton: