THE CUBA R E \' I E W 



United States Secretary of 



Secretary State Knox and party ar- 



Knox's rived at Santiago April ."ith. 



Visit and left on the Sunday 



following for Jamaica. 



Contrary to the wishes of the American 

 secretary, his arrival took on somewhat 

 of an official character, for he was met 

 at the pier and welcomed by Ross E. 

 Holaday, the American consul; the gov- 

 ernor of the Province of Oriente, the 

 commander of the rural guard, the mayor 

 and city councillors of Santiago, repre- 

 sentatives of the Chamber of Commerce, 

 representatives of the archbishop of San- 

 tiago and the British, French, German, 

 Brazilian, Argentine, Colombian, Mexican, 

 Norwegian, Santo Domingan and other 

 consuls. A troop of cavalry escorted the 

 secretary to his hotel, and officers of the 

 rural guard were stationed there to attend 

 him. 



The formal entertainment of the secre- 

 tary took place in Havana, where^ Mr. 

 Knox arrived April 11th. The Cuban 

 government appropriated $13,000 for this 

 purpose. 



\Vhile in Santiago, a delegation com- 

 posed of thirty colored men who are in- 

 terested in procuring an amendment of the 

 constitution to permit the straight colored 

 party to have electoral rights, tried to se- 

 cure an interview with the secretary in 

 order to present a petition asking the 

 State Department to exercise its influence 

 in order to secure the colored party's 

 rights at the polls in Cuba, but were un- 

 successful, Ross E. Holaday, the American 

 consul, inducing them to abandon the 

 project. 



A committee of the veterans, headed by 

 General Castillo y Duany, also called to 

 see the secretarv and also without success. 



The corrections made in 



Registered the voters' list in prepara- 



Voters tion for the presidential 



of Cuba campaign show there are 



in the entire island 485,116 



voters. These are divided among the 



provinces as follows : 



White Colored 



Pinar del Rio Province.. 41,328 14,981 



Havana Province 89,271 31.063 



]\Iatanzas Province 36,092 24,3.-.4 



Santa Clara Province... 79,051 34,526 



Camaguey Province 24,053 6,002 



Oriente Province 57,877 46,518 



Total 327,672 157,444 



This official compilation shows that the 

 colored Cuban voters represent 48 per cent 

 of the voting class. 



Congress convened April 1st for the last 

 congressional period of the year. 



An association for good 

 For roads has been formed in 



Good Havana under the name of 



Roads "Associacion de Buenos 



Caminos." The organiza- 

 tion is preparing to go actively to work 

 along the lines observed by such associa- 

 tions in the United States. 



"The association's aim," says the Havana 

 Post, "is to improve the present avenues 

 of communication, prepare and publish 

 road maps of the island, regulate and pro- 

 tect the traffic of vehicles of all classes, 

 secure the construction of highways which 

 will open to local and foreign markets the 

 produce of great tracts now waste for the 

 lack of proper facilities." 



At a dinner given in honor 

 Knox of United States Secretary 



J'^cassiires of State Knox on April 

 Cuba 11th by the Cuban Secre- 



tary of the Interior Sr. 

 Machada, w-hich was a most elaborate 

 affair, Sr. Sanguily made the address of 

 welcome. Secretary Knox's response was 

 a reassurance of the disinterested purpose 

 of the United States toward Cuba. 



After referring to his visit as the presi- 

 dent's representative to the independent 

 nation of the Caribbean, a message of 

 fraternal good will and assurance, he said : 



"The special purpose of my mission hav- 

 ing been accomplished, it is alike appro- 

 priate and gratifying that on the home- 

 ward journey I should have the opportu- 

 nity to get into closer personal touch with 

 the one sovereign people of the whole 

 western world who, above all, are in a posi- 

 tion to know and appreciate the broad and 

 essentially conscientious policy of Anglo- 

 Saxon America toward Latin-America. 



"So far as Cuba is concerned, our record 

 speaks for itself. It is consistent and un- 

 blemished. Our deeds with respect to the 

 Cuban people are before you. Look to 

 them for fresh assurance, that the United 

 States stands firmly as a true and whole- 

 hearted friend of Cuba, glad of the work 

 it has done for the Cuban people and ready 

 to aid them to conserve the civic and ma- 

 terial benefits, which it was our good for- 

 tune to be instrumental in helping them to 

 win. 



"First among these benefits is self-gov- 

 ernment. We hold that all people are fit 

 to work out the highest ideals of self-gov- 

 ernment by creating for themselves and by 

 their own effort a healthy national life, 

 inspired by safe and sane exercise of the 

 popular will, homogeneous in all its parts, 

 free from radical weakness or corporeal 

 blemish, self-respecting and imbued with 

 respect for the rights of all, at home and 

 abroad. 



"Providence has called upon free Cuba 



