The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-10-11
Three Deputies In Clash
With Provisional Presi-
dent Said to Have
Disappeared
MEXICO CITY rs IN
TENSE EXPECTANCY
Prominent Legislators I'm
prisoned, Following Disso-
luton of Congress, Mostly
of the Liberal Party.

Mexico City, Oct 11-Provisiona1
President Huerta's coup, last night,
whereby he rid himself in specta-
cuIar manner of the legislative bodies
of the government and constituted
himself dictator of the Mexican re-
public, has left the city, today, in q
state of tense expectancy.
The dissolution of the national con-
gress was not wholly unexpected in
political circles but it served to DEM
onstrate the lengths to which the ex-
ecutive was prepared to go to main
tain his grasp upon the administrative
affairs of the union.
The capital was alive with rumors,
this morning, one of them being to
the effect that three deputies arrest
in the matter of precipitating the
clash with General Huerta, had dis
appeared.
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 eventualities
in advance. Having determined up
on his line of conduct, he made his
will and babe his family and friends
goodbye, declaring that he expected
to pay for his act with his life
The dissolution of sthe national con-
gress was based on the alleged usu-p-
of the prerogatives of the President
in the matter of Senator Dominguez.
BY it's demagogic tendencies, Cen
era1 Huerta said it had attacked the
basis of the existence of the nation
and had taken upon itself all branch
es of the government He declared
his patience with the body had been
taxed to the limit.
The president referred to the re-
cent refusal of the chamber to grant
leave to Deputy Eduardo Tamariz to
occupy the public instruction port
folio on the grounds of his affiliatton
with the Catholic party. He also re-
ferred to the recent investigation in
stigated by the deputies of certain
acts of Jose Limatour, when he was
minister of finance under, President
Diaz.
General Huerta charged that the
investigation which the deputies pro-
province of the judicial power. He
called upon them to withdraw the res
oIution warning him of their inten-
ton to dissolve the parliament and
hold sessions elsewhere. .
The deputies who had sullenly lis
tened to the reading by Manuel Cara
A1dape, the minister of the interior,
of General Huerta's reply, moved at
its conclusion to refer the Presidents
demand to committee and a motion
was put to adjourn. Minister Aldape
interposed an objection, saying that
the President required immediate ac-
ton. At this the deputies dernurre7
and persisted in putting the motion
to adjourn. Thereupon the minister
of the interior signalled to Chief of Po-
lice Chavez who was stationed on the
balcony. The chief of police came
down to the floor Of the chamber
with 200 police. Senior A1dape then
read the names of the signers of the
resolution and as the names were
called the deputies were taken into
Among the deputies placed under
arrest are Rodo1pIno Reyes, a son of
the late Bernardo Reyes ex-provi-
sional Minister of Justice, and Jorge
Vera Estanol, former provisional Min
lister of public instruction. Nearly
all them en- imprisoned are members
of the liberal party