THE CUBA RE\-IE W 



in the other provinces was considered unnecessary and inadvisable, especially on account 

 of the approaching elections. The bill passed both Houses on June .">tli. 



When this was done, the Havana Post said editorially : 



"The president, before taking advantage of such authority, will undoubtedly consult 

 with Minister Beaupre, as the moment the guarantees are suspended the Cuban question 

 will automatically be put up to the United States government which, under the Piatt 

 amendment, guarantees the preservation of a constitutional government in Cuba. The 

 Cuban government is walking close to the border line where independent action is 

 impossible." 



On June 4th uneasiness began to be felt in Havana, and extraordinary police pre- 

 cautions were taken, the men being armed with machetes instead of clubsl 



On June 5th 500 United States marines w-ere landed in the Guantanamo district of 

 Cuba to protect foreign property and four American battleships left Key West for 

 Guantanamo, and "make ready" orders were sent to live thousand American soldiers. 



The decision to send the battleships was reached after a conference between President 

 Taft and Secretary Knox. On the same day several of the large American, British, 

 French and Spanish companies telegraphed to the Cuban government through the mayor 

 at Guantanamo demanding that troops for their mills and cane helds be sent for their 

 protection. 



This President Gomez was unable to do, saying it would require about 1,250 of his 

 best troops for the protection of one group of foreign properties in a single section of 

 the disaffected district. 



After warning General Monteagudo, commander in chief of the Cuban troops, that 

 he did not consider American interests sufficiently safeguarded, Commander G. W. 

 Kline, commander at the Guantanamo naval station, landed four companies of American 

 marines at Caimanera and started them by train for Guantanamo City. Later in rhe 

 day another company took train for Guantanamo, and at eight o'clock that evening 

 there w-ere 570 naval fighting men on Cuban territory. 



General Monteagado issued a proclamation refusing to be responsible for conditions 

 near Guantanamc>, as the Americans had landed without an invitation from the Cuban 

 government. 



The Senate passed a bill on June oth authorizing President Gomez to spend $1,000,000 

 for increase of the armed forces from funds not appropriated for other purposes. 



On June 6th General ]\Ionteagudo put the province of Oriente under martial law 

 and issued a proclamation giving all insurgents, except the leaders, until June Sth to 

 renew allegiance to the Gomez government. After that date he promised to get active. 



June 6th also saw the Cobre mines near Santiago attacked by the rebels who were, 

 however, repulsed. Fifty American marines were immediately landed here, fifty more 

 at El Cuero and more at Firmeza. Seven companies of the first regiment were also- 

 sent to plantations along the Guantanamo and Western Railroad. 



Some definite statements of damage b\' the negroes came from Mr. M. H. Lewis, 

 the president of various companies interested in Cuban enterprises, on June 7th. He said r 



"The La Maya Company has lost eight thousand tons of sugar cane, scale houses, 

 cane loading derricks and cranes, small buildings and three stores destroyed by fire 

 and cattle and horses, the entire value of which is $20,000. The railroad company 

 has had three stations, two section houses, one bridge and several small buildings 

 burned, and has had practically no passenger or freight traffic since May 20th, receipts 

 having dropped from $600 daily on May 19th to $26 on May 25th."' 



On June sth General Monteagudo. the Cuban commander in chief, declared that he 

 would end the insurrection within three weeks. Col. Orestes Ferrara, speaker of the 

 Cuban House, passing through Key West on his way to Washington as a special 

 envoy of Preisdent Gomez, made the prediction that it would take a long time to 

 suppress the uprising. 



The charge that sugar interests might lie behind the present revolution in Cuba 

 to force annexation and consequent withdrawal of the 40 per cent sugar duty was 

 made in the United States Senate by Senator Nelson, of Minnesota, on June Sth. 



Senator Bacon introduced a resolution declaring it to be the sense of the Senate 

 that the president is not authorized to intervene in any foreign country, "except when 

 an emergency arises requiring protection of American citizens and property." 



On June Oth the United States government ordered two more battleships to Cuba, 

 this time to Havana, and the "Washington" and "Rhode Island" entered the harbor 

 on June 10th. 



Xo feeling was shown by the population other than curiosity. 



On June 10th rebels attacked the United States marines at El Cuero, Oriente Province, 

 but were repulsed with no loss to the American force. 



