The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-07-22
nUERTA GIVES Up
HIS RESIGNATION Is ACCEPTED
BY MEXICAN SENATE.

BY MEXICAN SENATE.
CARBAJAL TAKES OFFICE
Retired Dictator is Expected to Leave
BIS Native Land and Sail fos
Europe-Mexican Congress Cheers
President as They Accept His Res
ignation.
Gen. Victoriana Euerta resigned
from the provisional presidency OF
the Mexican republic wednesday
night and his resignation was ae-
cepted by the Senate and Chamber OF
Deputies by a vote Of 121 to II.
Francisco Carbajal then was appoint
ed President and took the oath Of Of
fee att he joint session Of the Depu-
ties and Senator'S.
Huerta's resignation was. submit
ted through the department of for
eign relations. It was read IN the
House and was greeted with cries OF
Viva Huerta % It then was referred
to the joint COMMITTEES Of Goberna-
cion. After brief consideration the
committees. reported accepting the
resignation in the following terms:
.Article I. We accept the resigna-
ton presented by Gen. Yictoriana
Huerta as President Of the Mexican
United States.
..Article 2. We call Licentiate
Francisco CarbajaI, minister Of for
eign relations, to assume the presi-
dency.''
A ballot was taken and the joint
session approved the report. Presi-
dent Carbajal proceeded to the ma
tional palace under an escort OF pres
idential guards, and all along the
way was greeted with tumultuous
cheering.
The text of Gen. Huerta's resigna-
Z ton follows Deputies and Sena-
tors: Public necessity, admitted by
the Chamber Of Deputies, by the
Senate and by the Supreme Court
called me to the supreme ministry OF
the republic. Later when in this
same hall had the honor Of ad-
dressing you in compliance with the
constitutional precept promised at
all costs to bring about peace.
Seventeen months have passed
and in that brief period Of time I
have formed an army with which to
carry out that solemn promise. You
all know the immense difficulties
which my government has encounter
ed owing to a scarcity Of funds as
well as to the manifest and decided
protection which a great power OF
this continent has afforded the rebels
so much so that when the reEoiu-
tion had been broken up, seeing that
its chief leaders were, and continued
to be divided, the power in question
sought a prete1t to intervene directly
in the conflict, and the result OF this
was an outrage committed at Vera
Cruz by the American feet.
Success was had, as you know, in
adjusting honorably, through our
delegates at Niagara Falis, the petty
Tampico incident, but the revolution
continued with the support Of whom
we all know.
"Yet after the highly patriotic
work achieved by our delegates at
Niagara Falls there still are some
who say I, come what may, seek my
personal interest and not that of the
republic. And as I need to rebut
this allegation with facts tender my
formal resignation of the presidency
of the republic.
eThe national Congress must vote
that the republic, through its govern
ment, has labored in entire gooo
faith and with the fullest energy,
having succeeded in doing away with
the party which in the united States
calls itself Democratic, and having
shown how the right should be de-
Tended.
s"To be more explicit, I will say
that the action Of the government OF
the republic during its short life has
dealt death blows to an unjust power.
Later on, stronger workers will come,
using implements that undoubtedly
will end that power which has done
so much harm and committed too
many outrages on this continent.
ssIn conclusion, will say that l
abandon the presidency of the re-
public, carrying with me the highest
sum of human wealth, for I declare
that I have arraigned at the bar OF
universal conscience the honor Of a
Puritan, whom I, as gentleman,
challenge to wrest from me that pos
session.
MAY God bless you and me-
The galleries of the chamber were
packed before the beginning Of the
session. Intense excitement charac-
terized the gathering and at the close
of the reading Of Huerta's resigna-
ton the Deputies and spectators
broke into loud and continued ap-
plause.
After the acceptance Of Huerta's S
resignation, a commission was ap-
pointed by the president of the cham
Der to escort Senior Carjabal to the
floor of the House. Senior CarbaJal
soon appeared in front Of the cham
Der, passing through files of soldiers.
He entered, and as he walked to the
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