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 CUBA RLVILW 



"ALL ABOUT CUBA" 



Copyright, 1912, by the Munsoii Steamship Line 



LIBRAI 

 NEW YC 

 BOTANIC 



OARDE 



Volume X 



lAXUARY. 1912 



Number 2 



CUBAN GOVERNMENT MATTERS 



A law has been demanded 



Opposition b\- the Veterans' Associa- 



to tion, making it impossible 



Veterans for those who fought 



against Cuba to occupy 



government positions or to be nominated 



for office by any political party. 



This proposal is meeting with opposition 

 on the ground that it is unconstitutional 

 and undemocratic, and calculated to ex- 

 clude from the service of the country 

 citizens who have been guilty of no other 

 offense than of formerly holding political 

 opinions hostile to the separation of Cuba 

 from Spain. 



The veterans hold that patriots who 

 helped Cuban independence in the war 

 with Spain should have the offices in 

 preference to those who sided against 

 Cuba during the struggle. (See some 

 American press opinion on this matter on 

 page 14.) 



The president has issued a series of 

 interpretative rules, which will help a com- 

 mission appointed by him and composed of 

 one Liberal, one Conservative, two veterans 

 and a presiding officer, to pass on the quali- 

 fications of any office holder, if doubt is 

 expressed as to his right to continue in 

 office under the agreement between the 

 government and the veterans. 



The success thus far of the veteran 

 campaign brightens presidential aspirations 

 of General Emilio Nunez, who is president 

 of the association. 



Not all the veterans are in favor of the 

 campaign waged by the association, and 

 these will organize an association of their 

 own under the lead of Senator Cisneros 

 Betancourt. The members of the associa- 

 tion in Santiago de Cuba are likewise 

 ouposed to violent measures, and recently 

 adopted the following resolutions : 



"We do not accept the preachings of 

 some of our exalted leaders that the 

 veterans will not permit a government 

 contrary to the veterans, but we respect 



the will of the electors of the republic, no 

 matter what the results of the elections. 



"We condemn all campaigns in favor of 

 violent methods, because we beHeve such 

 methods do not reflect the real sentiments 

 of the veterans, and result in injury to the 

 moral welfare and orderly march of the 

 nation." 



A bill prohibiting the ex- 



Dcssicated portation of sugar cane in 

 Sugar any form has been intro- 

 Cane duced in the Cuban Senate, 



according to advices re- 

 ceived at the State Department on January 

 9th at Washington. 



This is of course aimed an the process 

 for shredding cane which has been carried 

 on with more or less success for the last 

 two years at a factory built on the lands 

 of the Nipe Bay Company at Preston, 

 Oriente Province. Full details of the 

 work with illustrations of the mill built 

 for shredding the cane, and of the pith 

 and fibre were printed in The Cuba 

 Review for May, 1911. At that time the 

 mill was undergoing alterations to pursue 

 greater efficiency results. Not having 

 reached the standard required for perma- 

 nent and profitable work, shipments of the 

 product had previously been sent to 

 Madison, Wis., and chemists from the Pres- 

 ton mill, who had gone north to witness the 

 extraction of the sugar from the dried 

 cane, came back somewhat enthusiastic. 



Since then nothing much has been done, 

 but within the last month much discussion 

 of the process has arisen in Cuba, which 

 has resulted in action by the Senate. 



Havana despatches stated that planters 

 were alarmed and that foreign consuls 

 were investigating in order to report to 

 their home offices. Some planters said it 

 was difficult to estimate results by the new 

 process, but that if successful. Cuba would 

 become one vast cane field. 



