THE 

 CUBA REVIEW 



"ALL ABOUT CUBA." 



Copyright, 1907, by the Munson Steamship Line. 



Volume Vn. DECEMBER, 1908. Number i. 



POLITICAL AND GOVERNMENT MATTERS. 



Liberals and Conservatives Harmonizing — How the House and Senate Will Stand — 



President Gomez's Cabinet — The Cause o£ the Conservative Defeat — 



President Roosevelt's Warning — The Cuban Loan. 



The election is over, and reports from various places show that Liberals and 

 Conservatives are generally fraternizing. Gen. Jose Aliguel Gomez and Alfredo 

 Zayas were elected President and Vice-President of Cuba and will hold office until 

 May 20, 1913, when, according to promise, Alfredo Zayas will be the Liberty party 

 candidate for President. 



A House of Representatives of eighty-three members, fifty-two Liberals and 

 thirty-one Conservatives, and a Senate of twenty-four members, four from each 

 province, were also elected. Half of the Senators will not take their seats until 

 April, 1910, there being twelve Senators, elected for eight years in 1902, whose terms 

 do not expire until that time. The twelve who will take office now will be selected 

 by drawing lots. 



There will be twelve negro members in the new House, just four times as many 

 as when the Cuban Republic first opened for legislative business. 



In the House the Conservatives will have a minority, as the electoral law pro- 

 vides for proportional representation in Congress, which makes it necessary that 

 there shall be a minority. 



In the recent Presidential election the total vote of the island was approxi- 

 mately 329,805, about 70 per cent, of the registration, while that cast in the provin- 

 cial elections last August was about 60 per cent. 



The newly-elected members of the House are divided as follows: Province of 

 Pinar del Rio, 6 Liberals, 4 Conservatives; Province of Havana, 15 Liberals, 7 

 Conservatives: Province of Matanzas. 6 Liberals, 4 Conservatives; Pr'^vince of 

 Santa Clara, 10 Liberals, 8 Conservatives; Province of Camaguey, 3 Liber.-ils. 2 

 Conservatives; Province of Santiago, 11 Liberals, 7 Conservatives; total, 51 Tj'berals, 

 32 Conservatives. 



Regarding President Gomez's cabinet, the following, from the Cuba R - iew's 

 correspondent in Havana, will prove interesting reading: 



"Nothing that the newspapers have said about President Gomez's cnbinet is 

 well founded. Each daily makes a list to show itself as well informed; b'-t all is 

 reduced to suppositions made up by those who want secretaryships. The *" " 'wing 

 memorandum is correct: 



"Treasury, Marcelino Diaz de Villegas; Justice, Pelayo Garcia, a leading attor- 

 ncy-at-law; Government, Eusebio Hernandez; Health, Dr. Nicholas Alb^rdez These 

 four secretaryships belong to President Jose Miguel Gomez. 



"Public instruction, Dr. Ramon Mesa, professor of literature in the Lni'-rsity 

 of Havana: State, Justo Garcia Velez, who is now the acting secretarv Public 

 Works, 3,lanuel Luciano Diaz or Benito Lagueruela, formerly the Municipal Archi- 



