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"ALL ABOUT CUBA" 



Copyright, 1911, by the Munson Steamship Line 



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\'OLUME X 



DECEMBER, 1911 



Number 1 



CUBAN GOVERNMENT MATTERS 



The 



Veterans' 



Association 



The campaign of the Vet- 

 erans' Association of Cuba 

 against the maintenance in 

 office of former Spanish 

 sympathizers and enemies 

 of the repubhc has not lessened, and a 

 great victory was secured by the members 

 on December .sth, when the Senate with 

 one dissenting vote passed the House bill, 

 suspending the civil service law for 9 

 months in order to enable President Gomez 

 to dismiss from office former guerrillas and 

 other opponents of Cuban independence. 

 The Senate amended the bill so as to ex- 

 tend its application to judges, who were 

 exempted by the provisions of the House 

 bill. The bill will go back to the House for 

 recurrence in this amendment. 



The veterans have prepared a list of so- 

 called traitors and guerrillas, many of 

 whom hold high offices, and will now bring 

 pressure to bear on the president to dis- 

 miss them and replace them with patriotic 

 Cubans. 



General Nunez, former governor of Ha- 

 vana Province, is president of the \'et- 

 erans' Association. 



Xot all prominent Cubans are in favor 

 of the sw^eeping dismissal of office holders. 

 Salvador Cisneros, Marquis de Santa 

 Lucia, a general in the two great Cuban 

 wars and an ex-president of the revolu- 

 tionary republic, has spoken against the 

 project and said recently: 



"Although I vote against the law, it 

 should prove no surprise, even though I 

 am a veteran. Before I am a veteran I am 

 a citizen, T am a liberal and I am a patriot. 

 That law is contrary to the constitution." 



Hon. ?*Ianuel Sanguily, secretary of state 

 and a veteran of the Cuban revolution of 

 1868, is stated to have said that he feared 

 the veterans' campaign against "traitors" 

 and "guerrillas" would lead the country to 

 civil war or would at least lead to an- 

 other American intervention. 



Chief Justice Juan ^lenocal of the 



Audencia of Havana has unearthed a bill 

 passed by the United States Congress six- 

 teen years after the republic was estab- 

 lished w'hich establishes a precedent for the 

 action of the veterans. The United States 

 statute barred fmm public service all who 

 fought against the independence of the 

 country. 



The new'—proposals which 

 Sf'ain's ha\e been made by the 

 Treaty Sjianish government for a 



Prof^osals trade treaty with Cuba arc 

 much more favora'^le than 

 former ones, especially on tobacco. Spain 

 agrees to import from Cuba a minimum of 

 •J.OOO kilograms of Wielta Abajo filler, 

 140,000 kilograms of Vuelta Abajo "capa- 

 dura," or the second cutting : 1,335.000 kilo- 

 grams of Remedios "capadura," and 526,000 

 kilograms of Remedios filler per annum. 



The treaty stipulates, however, that it 

 will not be complied with if the tobacco 

 purchase price exceeds $10 Spanish gold 

 for ev-ery forty-six kilograms of Remedios 

 and $14 for Vuelta Abajo. 



The treaty reduces to 25 pesetas the duty 

 per kilogram on cigars, boxed or unboxed, 

 and to 18 pesetas the duty on cut tobacco. 



Xo reduction is made on cigarettes, and 

 the reason is explained by saying that it is 

 necessary to protect the home industry and 

 also the importers of Cuban tobacco in the 

 leaf. 



The standard weight is to be including 

 the package on cigars and cut tobacco. 



Leaf tobacco is only to be imported into 

 Spain by the "Tabacalera" (the company 

 holding the monopoly in Spain), and in 

 quantities as stated above. 



In return. Spain wants Cuba to maintain 

 her present tariffs during the life of the 

 treaty, and asks for a reduction of 15 per 

 cent on the present duty on wine, and to 

 promise a revision of the tariff on onions, 

 potatoes and tomatoes from the Canary 

 Islands. 



