THE CUBA REVIEW 



Discussion in the Cuban 

 Eleven Million Congress of the project of 



Dollar Loan President Gomez for an 

 $11,000,000 loan is being 

 closely followed by Minister Beaupre and 

 officials of the State Department, says a 

 Washington despatch to the New York 

 Commercial. Should the Cuban Congress 

 accept Gomez' proposal the United States 

 will exercise its rights under the Piatt 

 amendment to pass upon the proposition. 

 It is to be doubted whether consent to the 

 loan will be given by this government and 

 w^ithout the consent of the United States 

 there will be no loan made. 



The impression prevailing at Washing- 

 ton is that the revenues of Cuba are not 

 sufficient to warrant its incurring any 

 further obligation. It is believed that the 

 loan might be possible, however, if unneces- 

 sary expenses of the Cuban administration 

 were eliminated. The charge of great ex- 

 travagance has been made against the 

 Gomez government by Americans in Cuba 

 and also by many Cubans. 



Gomez has stated that he desires the 

 $11,000,000 for sewers and other public 

 works which a previous loan was supposed 

 to provide for. The charge is being made 

 in Cuba that the proceeds of this earlier 

 loan have been frittered away in projects 

 not supposed to have been undertaken with 

 the loan funds. 



A Washington dispatch of July 15th to 

 the New York newspapers said that State 

 Department officials were closely following 

 the discussion in the Cuban Legislature 

 of the project for an $11,000,000 loan. The 

 United States government probably will 

 not express itself regarding the matter until 

 it assumes more definite form. If the 

 Cuban Congress should approve the pro- 

 posal, it is believed that the United States 

 will exercise its rights under the Piatt 

 amendment and pass upon the proposition. 

 Without the consent of this government, no 

 loan can be affected, and it is doubtful that 

 consent would be given. The loan is for 

 public works, which a previous loan was 

 supposed to provide for. 



The Cuban government has granted an 

 exequator to Luis Amezaga as honorary 

 consul of Uruguay in Matanzas. 



The Cuban Senate on July 7th approved 

 a long standing bill which amends the 

 organic municipal law in all that which 

 refers to the tax to be imposed on the 

 transfer of cattle. 



The law which has been repealed pro- 

 vides for a tax of 25 cents for each head 

 of cattle, horses, mules and asses more than 

 two years of age. and fifteen cents when 

 under that age. It wnll become effective 

 on July 1, 1913, and all municipalities are 

 ordered to strike out that source of income 

 from their annual budget. 



Major Andre, congressman and editor of El Dia, 

 an Havana daily which has on every occasion 

 attacked the administration. He is the candidate 

 of the Conservative Party for governor of Ha- 

 vana Province. 



The existence of bubonic 

 Bubonic plague in Havana, for the 

 Plague first time in the history of 

 Appears Cuba, was definitely deter- 

 mined on July 7th. A spe- 

 cial board of physicians pronounced a case 

 at Las Animas hospital true bubonic. 



Recognizing the danger of the transmis- 

 sion of the plague from infected Cuba to 

 the United States through the medium of 

 incoming ships from the island republic, 

 the governtnental medical authorities im- 

 mediately became stringent in their en- 

 forcement of quarantine provisions. An 

 order was issued at once that all passengers 

 from Havana to Atnerican ports should be 

 detained seven days at the Trisconia quar- 

 antine station near Havana, before con- 

 tinuing the voyage to the United States. 

 All Mexican Gulf ports put into effect the 

 same day strict quarantine measures 

 against Porto Rico and Cuba. 



Aside from the two known cases in Ha- 

 vana, one of which died July 12th. Passed 

 Assistant Surgeon Von Ezdorf, Stationed 

 at Havana, reported on July 14th three new 

 suspected cases, two of which proved 

 negative. The first person taken ill, how- 

 ever, was pronounced as recovering. Dr. 

 Von Ezdorf has greatly increased his field 

 in fighting the disease and has a quaran- 

 tine line about the zone of infection, in- 

 cluding in this district the strip from 

 Montserrate Street to the bay. This in- 

 cludes the confines of the old city. Dr. 

 Von Ezdorf stated that 800 rats had been 

 examined, but no infection was discovered 

 in them. While the situation in Havana 

 was regarded as serious because of the 



