THE CUBA REVIEW 



President Roosevelt cabled this message to Cuba's new head: "Our fondest 

 hope is that you may enjoy the blessings of peace, prosperity, justice and orderly 

 liberty, and that the friendship which has existed between the Republic of the 

 United States and the Republic of Cuba may continue for all time to come." 



Twenty-four hours after the inauguration Vice-President Zayas had threatened 

 to resign because of the appointment by President Gomez of Ricardo Arnauto as 

 Chief of the Secret Police. The appointment was later withdrawn and Zayas paci- 

 fied. Arnauto was then made Chief of the Public Order Service, by many considered 

 a much more important post. A second clash between the leaders occurred on 

 Feb. 7," when Zayas was refused an office for one of his followers. In spite of his 

 protests the President refused to sanction the appointment. 



On Jan. 18 the House 



Presidents of Representatives elected 



of the Orestes Ferrara president. 



House Ferrara was secretary to 



and the Cuban delegation at 



Senate. the last Hague Conference, 



but resigned his position 



because of the disclosures that he had 



Jbeen indicted in Italy, of which country 



he is a native, on anarchistic charges. 



The Senate elected Martin Morua Del- 

 gardo, a negro politician, as its president. 

 He managed President-elect Gomez's 

 campaign, and was formerly a prominent 

 leader in the Senate. His influence is 

 extraordinary among his own race. 



The Senate is made up entirely of 

 Liberals, and the House has fifty-one 

 Liberals and thirty-two Conservatives. 



All applications for of- 

 Dividing fice must be passed upon 



the by a committee of the two 



Offices. Liberal factions. President 



Gomez means that allot- 

 ment shall be made on the percentage 

 basis, and hopes in this way to obtain 

 ■exemptions from the solicitations of of- 

 fice seekers. Yet on Feb. 4 the news- 

 papers esteemed that thousands of ap- 

 plicants were thronging the palace. 



The following is the division decided 

 upon: Liberals, 70 per cent., apportioned 

 equally among the followers of Gomez 

 and Zayas, and 30 per cent, to the Con- 

 servatives. The three parties will also 

 each give 10 per cent, to negro mem- 

 bers. Old government employees are 

 being rapidly discharged. 



A convention was signed 

 Cuba Pays at Madrid Jan. 29 settling 

 Spain. the questions of the own- 



ership of the war materials 

 left in Cuba by Spain upon the evacu- 

 ation of the island by the Spanish. 

 Under the agreement Spain will turn 

 over this material to Cuba in considera- 

 tion of the payment of $300,000, payable 

 in installments as fallows: Fifty thousand 

 dollars July 1 of the present year, 

 $100,000 on July 1, 1910, and the re- 

 mainder on July 1, 1911. 



A Cuban Treasury state- 

 The ment issued Jan. 27 is as fol- 



Cuban lows: Cash in treasury 



Treasury. vaults, $776,043; cash in 

 bank, subject to check of 

 treasurer, $133,333; cash in bank , subject 

 to daily call, $795,853; cash in transit, 

 $124,250; cash in hands of disbursing 

 officers in excess of their outstanding 

 checks, $1,051,189; total cash immedi- 

 ately available for purposes of new gov- 

 ernment, $2,860,668. 



In addition there is in the treasury 

 $1,000,000 in Cuban bonds purchased by 

 the Palma government, and carried on 

 the books in the treasury statement as 

 cash. 



MEN TALKED ABOUT IN CUBA. 



Orestes Ferrara, who was elected President of 



the Cuban House of Representatives and 



now presides over that body. 



