Evening star., 1924-09-09
ALESSANDR|, CHILE
PRESIDENT, QUITS
Military Cabinet Takes
Charge-Deposed Presi-
dent to Leave Country.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SANTIAGO, Chile, September O.
President Arturo Alessandri of Chile
has resigned, and has been succeeded
as president by Gen. Luis Altamarino.
head of the military cabinet which
assumed power Friday night.
President Alessandri rendered his
resignation after it had been request
ed by the cabinet and the leaders of
the military group, who asked him to
absent himself from the country and
asserted they would guarantee his
own personal safety and that of his
family.
New Cabinet Takes Hold.
The executive functions of the gov
ernment have been taken over by the
new cabinet, with Gen. Altamarino at
its head.
After the approval yesterday eve
ming by the two houses of the Con-
gresS of the reform measures which
had been demanded by the military
committee, the council of state signed
proclamation announcing the steps
which had been taken. Then Presi-
dent Alessandri presented himself be-
fore the ministry and renounced his
office.
Alessandri and his family were the
guests of the American Ambassador
today while they awaited constitu-
tional authorization to leave the
country.
Censorship Is Invoked.
A dispatch from Buenos Aires last
night declared that a censorship had
been put into effect in Chile on DO
litical news and that reports on the
current happenings in Santiago were
meager.
Messages received directly from
Santiago yesterday declared that the
new ministry had faced both houses
of Congress with it's reform program
and had received the approval of
Congress. The military committee
issued a declaration asserting that
the military movement would have
no political character, that there was
no intention of establishing a dicta-
torship of any kind, that the move
ment was inspired by a desire TO
save the nation, ruined by political
and administrative corruption, and
that 1t would not end until It's mis-
sion had been fulfilled.
Precipitated by Army Men.
The political crisis in Chile came
to head last Ysfk-when a group of
army officers came before Congress
with the demand for the constitution
of a noh-political ministry and for
reforms to benefit the condition of
the-working class and the people.
= The old cabinet resigned and was
succeeded by a non-political one Fri
day night. President Alessandri ask
ed the military committee to submit
a statement of the reforms they de-
manded, and when this was. done
both houses of Parliament, in special
session, accepted the committees Pc
tition.
The reform measures which now
had been adopted by the Chilean
Parliament called for non-political
government, immediate veto of the bill
which precipitated the trouble, call
ing for the granting of salaries to
the legislators. prompt passage of the
budget law, payment of public en-
ployes who have received no money
for several months and the adoption
of measures now pending in Congress
for the benefit of the working class.
While the military committee has
heretofore disclaimed political mo-
tives in it's attitude toward the gov
ernment, it's action in forcing the
resignation of President Alessandri
and in placing the head of the new
cabinet in the chief executives Of
flee would appear to give the move
ment a similarity with those brought
about in Spain by Gen. Primo de Ri
vera and in Italy by Premier Mus