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"ALL ABOUT CUBA" 



Volume XVII 



Copyright, 1919, by the Munson Steamship Line 



MARCH, 1919 



Number 4 



CUBAN GOVERNMENT MATTERS 



GENERAL E. H. CROWDER 



General E. H. Crowder, Provost Mar- 

 shal General of the United States Army, 

 was invited by the Cuban Government to 

 go to Cuba to assist in an advisory ca- 

 pacity in the reformation of the country's 

 election laws. 



President Menocal is determined to re- 

 move the source of constant irritation, 

 criticism and mortification to which Cuba 

 has been subjected by the way in which 

 recent elections have been carried on, and 

 at the beginning of the next session of 

 congress he will again urge such amend- 

 ments to the election laws and such 

 census revision as will enable honest 

 elections to be held. As the existing 

 election laws of Cuba were drawn partly 

 under the direction of Major General E. 

 H. Crowder President Menocal invited 

 General Crowder to advise and give the 

 government of Cuba the benefit of his 

 experience and ability in suggesting such 

 amendments to the election laws of Cuba 

 as will meet the needs of the present and 

 future. ■ 



The invitation was accepted and Gen- 

 eral Crowder arrived in Havana March 

 18th. 



CUBAN BUREAU IN PARIS 



Secretary Agramonte of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, Commerce and 

 Labor, has presented to the chamber of 

 commerce and to the advisory committee 

 a bill proposing the creation in Paris of 



a Cuban bureau of commercial informa- 

 tion for the purpose of strengthening re- 

 lations between the two republics and to 

 prepare the ground for the establishment 

 of similar bureaus in England, Belgium, 

 Switzerland, Holland and Spain. 



BELGIUM 



The Cuban Charge dAffaires in Bel- 

 gium, Senor Portela, has informed the 

 Secretary of State that King Albert has 

 bestowed by decree the Grand Cordon 

 Order of St. Leopold upon the President 

 of the Republic of Cuba, and the Grand 

 Cross with Cordon of the Crown upon the 

 Chairman of the Committee on Foreign 

 Affairs of the Cuban senate, Senor 

 Torriente. 



MINISTER FROM SWITZERLAND 



Mr. Hans Sulzer, the new Envoy 

 Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten- 

 tiary of the Swiss Government, presented 

 his credentials to President Menocal of 

 Cuba on February 13th. The formalities 

 incident to the occasion lent great inter- 

 est to the meeting. The Swiss Minister 

 was accompanied by Presidential aids in 

 his carriage and escorted by a detach- 

 ment of cavalry detailed from Camp 

 Columbia. In front of the palace two 

 companies were drawn up in honor of the 

 Swiss diplomat and the regimental band 

 furnished music for the occasion. 



