THE 

 CUBA RLVILW 



"ALL ABOUT CUBA" 



Copyright, 1919, by the Munsoti Steamship Line 



Volume XVII 



JUNE, 1919 



Number 7 



CUBAN GOVERNMENT MATTERS 



INDEPENDENCE DAY 



May 20th marked the seventeenth an- 

 niversary of the independence of Cuba 

 and it was celebrated with great en- 

 thusiasm. There were aerial maneuvers 

 by Cuban aviators in the Escadrille. A 

 military parade started in front of the 

 Payret theatre in Havana and marched 

 down the Prado, along- the Malecon and 

 past the reviewing stand between Galiano 

 and San Nicholas Streets. On the review- 

 ing stand were President and Mrs. Meno- 

 cal, Hon. William E. Gonzales, United 

 States Minister to Cuba, and Mrs. Gon- 

 zales, the British, Chilean, Peruvian, 

 Uruguayan. Italian and Colombian min- 

 isters, and the members of the cabinet, 

 municipal authorities and other digni- 

 taries. 



President Menocal received felicitations 

 from the United States, Mexico, Brazil, 

 Colombia, Chili, France, Belgium and 

 Great Britain. 



In Paris there was a reception at the 

 Cuban Legation and other fetes., A deed 

 was signed by which Cuba acquired the 

 chateau, once the property of Gabrielle 

 D'Estrees. The purchase was made by 

 Cuba for the purpose of transforming the 

 chateau into an asylum for French war 

 orphans. 



SUSPENSION OF CONSTITUTIONAL 

 GUARANTEES 



Owing to the numerous strikes that 

 have taken place in Cuba during the past 

 few months. President Menocal requested 



congressional action in the matter of sus- 

 pending the constitutional guarantees, and 

 on May 30th the Senate, with only one 

 dissenting vote, passed the House bill 

 which subjected Cuba to such provisions 

 of martial law as the chief executive 

 should deem necessary. The bill pro- 

 vides for the suspension of constitutional 

 guarantees until June Moth and the city 

 and country labor situation is now im- 

 proving, the Government decree of work 

 or be deported or sent to jail having had 

 the desired effect. 



ELECTORAL LAW 



Major-General Crowder, U. S. A., who 

 has been in Cuba to assist the Govern- 

 ment in drafting a new electoral law, has 

 now returned to Washington. He recom- 

 mended to President Menocal that Cuba's 

 presidential campaign be suspended for 

 the present, or at least that the parties re- 

 frain from naming their candidates un- 

 til a new electoral law should be framed. 

 General Crowder is working toward this 

 end in conjunction with some of Cuba's 

 legislators. 



The new electoral bill provides that 

 candidates shall not be nominated until 

 six months before the holding of the elec- 

 tions. Another important addition to the 

 law now being framed by General Crow- 

 der is one borrowed from the American 

 electoral law. namely, the limiting of 

 campaign expenses and requiring the can- 

 didates t<> publish what their campaign 

 expenses are. 



