THE 

 CUBA REVIEW 





"ALL ABOUT CUBA" 



Copyright, L! 19, by the Munson Steamship Line 



Volume XVII 



AUGUST, 1919 



Number 9 



CUBAN GOVERNMENT MATTERS 



ELECTORAL REFORM BILL 



Maj. Gen. Enoch Crowder, U. S. A., 

 sailed for New York August 7th, aboard 

 the Cuban cruiser Cuba, after spending 

 the day as the guest of President Menocal 

 and his family at Varadero de Cardenas, 

 where the President signed the laws which 

 General Crowder framed. 



General Crowder drafted three laws, 

 namely, the Census law, an electoral law 

 and a statute controlling executive pardon- 

 ing power. 



The Semite passed the electoral reform 

 bill without amendment by a vote of 14 

 to 2. 



Following are the more important of 

 the hill's provisions : 



All political parties must he reorganized. 



Employes of the federal government, 

 provinces or municipalities may not be 

 delegates to party assemblies, and party 

 assemblies may not make presidential nom- 

 inations except during the year in which 

 elections are to he held. 



Counting of ballots must be done pub- 

 licly and must terminate before midnight 

 of election day. 



Electors who fail to cast their hallo! 

 lose their right to vote and must apply 

 for re-registration. 



Each elector i- to be given an identifica- 

 tion card which musl he presented at the 



polls. 



Ballot tabulators are in lie considered as 

 public functionaries and. therefore, may 

 not he pardoned if convicted of election 

 frauds. 



A vote of thanks and a testimonial of 

 public estimation ami gratitude to Major 

 General E. 11. Crowder, in recognition of 

 the service he has rendered to Cuba in re- 

 vising tlie electoral and census laws, was 

 passed in both houses of the Cuban Con- 

 gress. 



The Senate voted authorization to Ha- 

 vana University to confer on General 

 (rowder the degree of Doctor of Laws, an 

 honor the university has not paid to any- 

 one in the last fifty years. 



On the return trip from New York the 

 Cuba will hear the body of Gonzalo de 

 Quesada, for years Cuban Minister at 

 Washington, and later at Berlin, where 

 lie died a short time before Cuba entered 

 the war. 



BARON STEPHEN LEECH 

 The British minister to Cuba has re- 

 ceived knighthood at the hands of King 

 George of Great Britain, in recognition 

 of his services during the war. 



