The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-11
Huerta SuSpends Both Branches
of National Legislature
After Locking Up no Members
of the Chamber.
THEY SIGNED RESOLUTIONS
Warming Him Because of q
Senator's Disappearance.
New Election of Senators and
Deputies Oct. 26.

Mexico City, Oct. 11.-Both branches
of the Mexican national congress were
formally declared suspended at late
hour last night by Provisional Presi-
dent Huerta.
The declaration was made after ITO
members of the chamber of deputies
had been arrested and lodged in the
penitentiary for signing resolutions OF
warning to General Victoria Huerta,
because of the disappearance of the
senator for Chiapas, DR.. Delisaro Do
minguez. A proclamation was issued
just before midnight calling for new
elections of senators and deputies on
October 26, which date is coincident
with the presidential election.
The arrests followed a demand by
President Huerta that the chamber
withdraw the resolution, which car
ried the threat that the deputies would
abandon the capital owing to an al
legged lack of guarantees for their per-
Sonal safety.
Senator Dominguez early in the
month made a speech in the senate
violently attacking Huerta, saying that
not only had nothing been done dur
ing Huerta's regime toward the pacifi-
cation of the country, but that the
present situation in the republic was
infinitely worse than before. He said
the currency of Mexico had deprecia-
towns razed and that famine threat
ened. He added that the situation was
first and foremost due to the fact that
the Mexican people could not resign
themselves to be governed by Huerta-
Huerta Becomes Dictator.
Mexico City, Oct. 11.-Provisional
President Huerta's coup last night,
manner of the legislative bodies of the
government and constituted himself
dictator of the Mexican republic has
left the city today in state of tense
expectancy.
The dissolution of the National con-
gress was not wholly unexpected in
political circles, but the manner of it's
accomplishment served to demonstrate
the lengths to which the executive was
prepared to go to maintain his grasp
upon the administrative affairs of the
nation The capital was alive with ru-
mors this morning, one of them being
to the effect that three deputies arrest
ed last night, who were most active in
promoting the clash with Huerta, have
disappeared.
This report was not given much cre-
dence President Huerta before the
arrests were made had given his word
that none of the deputies would be
harmed. Senator Domingues, whose
attack on the provisional president in
the senate was the starting point of
said to have prepared for events in
advance. Having determined upon his
line of conduct, he made his will and
bade his family and friends goodbye,
declarin~ that he expected to pay for
his efforts with his life. By many, the
senator is believed to have fed the
country.
Gives His Reasons.
The dissolution of the national con-
prpSS was based uDOn the alleged
usurpation by the deputies and sena-
tors of the prerogative of the chief ex-
ecutive in the matter of Senator Dom
ingues. Provisional President Huerta
declared that the chamber of depu-
ties had constituted itself one of the
executives worst enemies, hostile to
all his acts and invading his jurisdic-
tion even to a point of questioning his
selection of minister of state. BY its
demagogic tendencies, Huerta said. it
had attacked the bases of the existence
of the nation and had taken upon it
self all branches of the government
He declared his patience with the
body had been taxed to the limit. The
president referred to the recent refusal
of the chamber to grant leave to Dep
uty Eduardo Tamariz to occupy the
public instruction portfolio on the
ground of his affiliation with the Cath
olic party. He also referred to the re-
cent investigation instigated by the
deputies of certain acts of Jose Liman-
tour, when he was minister of finance
under General Porfirio Diaz
Insist on Adjourning.
General Huerta charged that the in
vestigation which the deputies pro-
posed to make was solely within the
province of judicial power. He called
upon them to withdraw the resolution
warning him of their intention to dis
solve the parliament. and hold sessions
elsewhere. The deputies, who had lis
tened sullenly to TIL. reading by Man
uel Cara Aldape, the minister of in
terror, of General Huerta's reply,
moved at it's conclusion to refer the
presidents demand to committee and
a motion was put to adjourn. Minister
AIdape interposed an objection saying
that the president required immediate
action. At this the deputies demurred
and persisted in putting the motion to
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