The Republic of Cuba 



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DR. LEOPOLDO CANCIO 



Secretary of the Treasury 



R. Leopoldo Cancio, lawyer 

 and statistician, was made 

 Secretary of the Treasury, a 

 position that he had filled with 

 credit under the Government 

 of the First Intervention. 

 Probably no one in Cuba is 

 better versed than he in the 

 Intricacies of those financial and industrial prob- 

 lems which unavoidably beset a young Republic. 



COL. AURELIO HEVIA 



Secretary of the Interior on Government 



OL. AuRELio Hevia had been a 

 close personal friend of the 

 President during the War of 

 Independence, and,with Cosme 

 de la Torriente, took upon 

 his shoulders the management 

 of his presidential campaign. 

 Col. Hevia was not unknown 

 in political life, having been Assistant Secretary 

 of State under President Palma, but his forte 

 seemed to be organization, and the management 

 of men, either individually or in parties, hence 

 it is that the Department of Government, which 

 controls the administration of provinces and 

 municipalities throughout the Island, seems to 

 be, for him, a congenial berth. Difficulties to 

 Hevia only relieve life of monotony. 



