TH E CUBA REVI E W 



Aurelio Sivera, second-class 

 Cuban consul at Bayonne, France; 

 Co)isularAp-Manue\ Tejador, consul-general 

 pointments in China; Benjamin Giberga, 

 consul-general in Montevideo, 

 Uruguay; Jose Curbelo Ayala, consul in 

 Las Palmas, Canary Islands ; Arturo Carri- 

 carte, vice-consul at Montevideo; Crescendo 

 Sacerio, vice-consul at Barcelona, Spain; 

 Miguel Angel Diaz Piedra, consul at Santa 

 Cruz de Teneriffe, Canary Islands; Jose 

 Robledo, consul at Vera Cruz, Mexico; An- 

 tonio M. Alcover, vice-consul at Jackson- 

 ville, U. S. A. ; Oscar Ramos, vice-consul at 

 Seville, Spain; Enrique Garcia, vice-consul 

 at Trieste, Austria; Luis Rodriguez Embil, 

 vice-consul at Antwerp; Guillermo Blanck, 

 vice-consul at Zurich, Switzerland; Calixto 

 Garcia, vice-consul at Hamburg, Germany; 

 Ramon L. Bonachea, vice-consul attached 

 to the Cuban legation in Mexico; Maximo 

 Gomez Toro, consul at Santo Domingo; 

 Alejo Bonachea, vice-consul at San Juan de 

 Puerto Rico, and Mario Morello, vice- 

 consul at Miami, U. S. A. 



Carlos Garcia Velez, the new 

 Cuban Cuban minister from Cuba, ar- 

 Envoy on rived in Washington on March 

 Annexation. 30, and in reply to the question 

 of the Post of that city, "Is 

 Cuba coming into the United States?" re- 

 plied : 



"Eventually; yes, but with a different language 

 and a different people; it will take some time to 

 bring that about, although it is the commercial 

 and political salvation of my country," he said 

 further. "I feel most kindly toward the United 

 States because I owe my education and my point 

 of view to it." 



The new minister, who succeeds Senor 

 Gonzalo de Quesda, is an American in 

 everything except birth. He speaks English 

 perfectly and has advanced American ideas. 



Cuba's provincial governors 

 Provincial have come to an agreement re- 

 Taxes. garding provincial taxes, and 

 suggest that provincial taxes be 

 apportioned as follows : Province of Ha- 

 vana, 50 per cent, of the internal revenue 

 collected; Provinces of Matanzas, Santa 

 Clara and Oriente each 40 per cent., and 

 the total collections to the Provinces of 

 Pinar del Rio and Camaguey. President 

 Gomez will send a message to Congress on 

 the subject. 



A committee of the Agrarian League, led 

 by Don Luis Marx, has requested Presi- 

 dent Gomez to make representations at 

 Washington through General Garcia Velez, 

 the new Cuban minister, toward tariff re- 

 vision on Cuban tobacco. 



New Cuban postage stamps will be in cir- 

 culation about July 1. A new issue is 

 planned on which the faces of Cuba's heroes 

 will appear. 



Some people seem to 



Cuban think that Congress can get 



Comment. up a new tariff law, a new 

 revenue and taxation law 

 and a revised criminal code over night 

 and pass it the next day while waiting 

 their turn at the barber shops. — La 

 Lucha. 



If you hear a Cuban predicting that 

 the Americans will soon come back to 

 Cuba and take charge you can put all 

 your money down on good odds that 

 he has just lost his government job. — 

 La Lucha. 



"Cubans do not dislike the Americans," 

 says El Triunfo, the organ of President 

 Gomez. "We respect and esteem them. 

 To hate them we have, up to this time, no 

 reason. The Cuban people are essentially 

 afifectionate and grateful, and it will not 

 hate the United States if the United 

 States do not oblige us to hate them." 



Replying to Mr. Watterson's statement 

 that Cuba, if it were to be governed 

 from abroad, would prefer Spain to any 

 other power, it says, the Cuban people 

 will never accept a foreign domination, 

 neither by Spain nor any other power. 

 Cubans fought during thirty years for the 

 right to be free, and not for anything 

 nor anybody will they renounce this 

 right. 



"When Cuba raised its arms against 

 Spain, it was not because of hate to- 

 wards the discovering nation, but for 

 love of its own independence, and to- 

 day, as yesterday, it loves that inde- 

 pendence and will not support any yoke 

 whatsoever." 



New^ Postal Money Order and Telegraph 

 Offices. 



Money order offices have been estab- 

 lished at Media, Luna, Oriente Prov- 

 ince and Caimito, Havana Province. 



New telegraph offices have been opened 

 in San Diego de los Bafios, Pinar del 

 Rio Province, and in Dimas, same prov- 

 ince. 



Cocoanut Bill Passed. 



The Lores bill, granting an appropriation 

 of $7,000 to cover the expenses of prelim- 

 inary work in extinguishing the bud rot in 

 the cocoanut groves and to cover up to 

 July 1 the expenses of a commission to at- 

 tend to this work, as recommended in a re- 

 cent presidential message, was passed. 



The liberal leaders have announced that 

 instead of allowing the conservatives 30 per 

 cent, of the public offices, they will give 

 them but 20 per cent. The conservatives 

 reply that they want 330 per cent, or noth- 



