Evening Star Newspaper, October 4, 1931, Page 30

|1s radically changed beforehand, to | think of taking a census ot the people or of the voters, nor to carry out a re- organization of parties which is indis- | pensable for the subsequent designation of candidates for the Constitutional | Convention: nor can the people enter- |tain the illusion that there would be any guarantees for the elections or, in s| | Protest of Withdrawn Rep- resentatives Suppressed in Havana. cial Dispatch to The Star. HAVANA, October 3.—Protesting ent conditions in Cuba, which they re are due to President Machado's fon of the constitution., 22 mem- s of the Cuban House of Representa- have witharawn from that body refused to participate in its se A protest against President achado's position has been suppressed 1 Havena, but its contents have been partially revealed. The protest, in reviewing present congitions, follows: To the Chamber of Representatives: “We, the Representatives who make tp the so-called Orthodox Committee. | and the independents who hiave united | with_this committee, all belonging to the National Conservative party, have! considered it necessary to meet again to deliberate at this time in regard to| the conduct which patriotism demands | hat we should follow in view of the ! new call for an extraordinary sesslon, | virtue of the message of the Execu- | e of the 8th instant, in which em- sis is pliced on approval by the of certain constitutional tatus of Force. ge of impression have unanimous in our withdrawal 1, because the causes esponsibl still exist, and be- cause we do not wish to give either the support of our presence or of our co- operation in the regular quorum to constitutional reforms which it is neither prudent nor opportune to d cuss as long as the government main- tains throughout the country the pres- ent illegal status of force which totally | suppresses moral peace among our peo- ple and renders impossible any civic contest, which is the right of a civilized democrac: The ‘state of war’ decreed Temains in effect; constitutional guarantees have long since been suspended by means of an unconstitutional decree, and those constitutional guarantees which cannot be suspended are con- stantly being violated. The dai is subjected to a previous censors! illegal and so stiict that it kee country in a condition of obscurity and uncertainty with respect to those events which would be of greatest interest to it. and. in general, the fundamental rights of freedom of speech, of associa- tioa and of meeting, have been sup- pressed by the government. In this connection the chiefs of the military districts into whose hands the defense- less people and their public liberties have been delivered. have even gone so far as to promulgate, on the authori of a law of colonial times which is in- compatible with the republic, a decree, widely applied. which _creates the anachronistic and _uncivilized offense of ‘speaking 1ll of the government,’ and on the basis of this offense men, women, and even girls so young as to be almost children, are keot in prison. The jails are filled at the present time with political prisoners, among whom are fome of the most famous leaders of the government opposition. who rose in arms, driven to this extreme form of protest by the pressure of an op- pressed people, and because the people could find no other way of regaining their public rights: and almost all of these prisoners have been held incom- municado. contrary to law, subjected to military jurisdiction, and despoiled and f the fundamental right of Members of this very Cham- esentatives have been im- merely upon _suspicion, and liberty by government ary as their imprison- regards those members this Chamber who were taken prisoners in the field, the precepts of the constitution and of the laws were not obeyed. thus violating the rules of parliamentary immunity snd thereby converting the Congress into the prey of the arbitrary will of the executive power. orders as arl ment. And a: Aggressions Feared. “These facts, which we have here briefly outlined. and many others of less signal importance. but perhaps more painful om a ate point of view, keep the country in.a profound state of intimidation. and the people fear a repetition of govern- sions against the funda- chts to life and liberty from hey have suffered =0 much There is becoming rooted smong the Ppdople a conviction thit no right 1s quaranteed, whereas guarantees should copstitute, and must necessarily consti- tifle the most essential clement of law; and the people have well founded cause to believe. on the other hand, that those rights which they are periodically per- mitted to enjov are not really righ! but rather marks of capricious toler- ance or fa conceded by the Gov- above-mentioned con- | ditions it is not possible to undertake any kind of constitutional reforms. N Upto 3 Year HOT Al FURNACE $120 Completelyinstalled for six rooms. Qual- ity heat and iasting satisfaction. 7001 N. Y. Ave. |the honor to direct ourselves to the i vinced that the Cuban people would re- NO CASH NEEDED .SHIELDS L. hort, for any sort of civic contest. “We, the representatives, who have chamber in the present document, would rejoice were we akle to base any hope on the constitutional reforms which the executive power, in the message of the 8th instant, already re- ferred to, promises to grant, But it is not possibie for us even to undertake to debate them because, aside from our opinion, already set forth, we are con- ject them without faith, as dead letter. because they would totally lack the soul | of guarantecs. “Peacs Depends on Faith.” “The re-cstablishment of moral peace is the pensable prior condtion for the adeotion of any sort of legislative | measures, and this moral peace, o | anxiously desired. is dependent neither on the Congress nor on the constitution nor on the laws, but on the fulfillment thereof, and most especially on the good faith which the people may expect of those who are charged with' the carrying out of this constitution and these laws. “We beg the chamber to receive, in this document, the sincere testimony of our fraternal companionship. “In the Chamber of Representatives, this fourteenth day of the month of September, of the year nineteen hun- dred and thirty-one. “(Signed): Dr. Gonzalo Freyre de Andrade, Dr. Wilfredo Albandes, Senor Angel Calas, Dr. Armando Chardiet, Senor Feliz del Prado, Dr. Carlos Fraile, Senor Miguel Albarran, Senor Julio Tundora, Dr. Antcnio Bravo Acosta, Senor Aristides Rodriguez, Senor Fran- cisco Escobar Tarmayo, Senor Antonio de Armas, Senor Rafael Padierne, Senor Olimpo Fonseca, Senor Manuel Herry- man, Senor Lino Marreno Lima, Senor Joaquin Meso. “Absent: Dr. Carlos Manuel de la Cruz, abroad; Dr. Santiago Verdeia, prisoner; Dr. Miguel Angel de Aguiar, prisoner; Dr. Pedro Martinez Frags, prisoner, and Senor Jose Meneses, pris- oner.” ARMY ORDERS Brig. Gen. William P. Jackson, Madi- son Barracks, N. Y., has been ordered to his home to await retirement Novem- ber 30, Six ‘lieutenant colonels have been promoted to the grade of colonel as follows: Harry B. Jordan, Ordnance; Frank P. Lahm, Air Corps; William G. Peace, Coast Artillery, and Walter D. Smith, William P. Ennis and Creed F. Cox, Field Artillery. Officers in the Philippines have been ordered to stations in the United States as follows: Col. Louis Brechemin, jr., Medical Corps, to Fort Sam Houston, Tex.; Col. P. L. Freeman, Medical Corps, to Fort Banks, Ma Maj. R. | P. Bourbon, Medical Corps, to Fort Slocum, N. Y.; Ma). P. R. King, Vet- erinary Corps, to Jeflerson Barracks, | Mo ; Ma). J. H. Kintner, Veterinary Corps, to Randoiph Field, Tex.. Maj. A. A. McDaniel, Medical Corps. to Fort Moultrie, S. C.; Maj. F. W." Romaine, Medical Corps, to Fort George Wright, Wash,, and Capt. G. J_ Rife, Veterinary Corps, to Fort Benning, Ga Officers ordered to tne Phulippines in- clude Col. W. H. Tefft, Medical Corps, Fort Sheridan, 1ll.; Ma). O. L. Graham, Medical Corps, Fort Eustis, Va.. Ma). H. M. Savage, Veterinary Corps, Brook- lyn; Maj. W. L. Hoffman, Medical Corps, Minneapolis; Maj. W. C. Griffin, Vet- erinary Corps, Fort Brown, Tex.. Maj Raymond Randall, Veterinary Corps, Walter Reed Hospital, and Maj. O, T. Kirksey, Medical Corps, Boston. Maj). W. M. White, Medical Corps, has been transferred from Fort Sam | | Houston, Tex., to Panama; Maj. J. J. McCérmick, Medical Corps, from Fort George G. Meade, Md., and Capt. C. D. Goodiel, Medical Corps, from this to Panama; Lieut. Col. G. W. s, Infantry, from Seattle, to Fort George Wright, Wash.; Ma). C. M. Red- dig, Medical Corps, from Walter Reed Hospital, to Panama; Maj, 1. E. Titus, Chemical Warfare Service, from San Francisco to Edgewood Arsenal, Md First Lieut. James Flannery, Air Corps, at Brooks Field, Tex., and First Lieut. M. W. Balfour, Air Corps, at Mitchel Field, N. 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