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fore the arrests were made had 81
deputies would be harmed.
Dominguez Is Missing.
Senator Dominguez, whose attack on
the provisional president in the senate
was the starting point of the row., has
not come to light. He is said to have
prepared for e~ventualities in advance.
Having determined on his line of con-
duct, he made his will and babe his
that he expected to pay for his effort
with his life. BY many the senator is
believed to have fled the country.
Both branches of the Mexican ma
tional congress We're formally declared
suspended at a late hour last night by
Provisional President Huerta.
The declaration was made after ITO
members of the chamber of deputies
had been arrested and lodged in the
p~enitentiary for signing resolutions Of
warning to Gen.. Victriano Huerta be-
cause of the disappearance of the SEN
ator for ChiapaS, DIR. Belisaro Domin-
guez.
Senator is Missing.
Senator Dominguez early in the
month made a speech in the senate
violently attacking Huerta, saying that
not only had nothing been lone during
Huerta.s regime toward the pacifca-
ton of the country, but that the present
situation in the republic was infinitely
worse than before. He said the cur
rency of Mexico had deprecated, fields
had been neglected ard towns RACED
and hat famine threatened. He add
ed that the situation was due first and
foremost to the fact that the Mexican
people could not resign themselves to
be governed by Huerta.
- A nroc11yn1tin woo icc,,oI Nv,
Huerta just before midnight calling
for new elections of senator's and dep
nties on October &c, which date is CO.
incident with the presidential cleo
ton.
The dissolution or the national con-
gress was based on the alleged usur-
patton by the deputies and senators
of the ~prerogatives of the chief execu-
tive in the matter of Senator Domin-
gueZ.
Huerta Flags Congress.
Provisional President Huerta de-
clared that the chamber of deputies
had constituted itself one of the ex-
e%cutive's worst enemies, hostile to all
his acts n invading his jurisdictions,
even to q point of questioning his
selection of a minister of state.
BY it's denagogic tendencies, Gem
eral Huerta said, it had attacked the
basis of the existence of the nation
and had taken on itself all branches of
the government. He declared his pa
thence with the body had been taxed
to the limit.
The president referred to the recent
refusal of the chamber to grant leave
to Deputy Eduardo Tamariz to occupy
the public instruction portfolio on the
grounds of his utilization with the
Catholic party. He also referred to the
recent investigation i%nstigated by the
deputies of certain acts of Jose Imam
tour. when he was minister of finance
under Gen. Porfirio Diaz.
Beyond Powers, He Says.
General Huerta charged that the in
posed to make was solely within the
province Of judicial power. He called
on them to withdraw the resolution,
warning them of their intention to dis
solve the parliament n to hold ses-
sions elsewhere.
lenly to the reading by Manual Cara
Aldape, the minister of the interior,
of General Huerta's reply, moved at it's
conclusion to refer the presidents de-
nand to committee and a motion was
put to adjourn.
ton, saying that the president required
immediate action. AT this the deputies
demurred and persisted in putting the
motion to adjourn.
Thereupon the minister of the in
terror signalled to Chief of Police
Chavez, who was stationed in the ball
cony.
The chief of police came down to the
floor Of the chamber with 200 police.
Senior Aldape then read the names of
the signers of the resolution and as
the names were called the deputies
were taken into custody. Among the
deputies placed under arrest are
.Rodolfo Reyes, a son of the late Gen.
Bernardo Reyes, and ex-provisional
minister of justice, III Jerge. Vera
Estanol, former provisional minister of
public instruction. Nearly all the men
Imprisoned are members of the liberal
party.
The unexplained absence from the
senate yesterday and the disappear
ance from his residence at a local hotel
Of Senator Belizaro Doninguez. rep-
~reseoting the state of Chiapas. was
what precipitated the heated debate at
the chamber Of deputies secret session.
The debate resulted in a warning be-
ing conveyed to Provisional President
Huerta by unanimous vote of the body
that unless the deputies We're given
assurances of their personal safety
WOULD HARNESS FALLS