THE CUBA REVIEW 



Dr. Alfredo Zayas. Liberal Party candidate tor 

 president of Cuba." 



Colonel doctor Rafael Manduley. Liberal Party 

 candidate for vice-president of v^nba. 



increase of the epidemic in Porto Rico, 

 Surgeon General Blue took steps on July 

 15th looking to the expediting of commerce 

 between Havana and New York. He issued 

 orders that passengers for New York 

 should be allowed to embark without quar- 

 antine delay subject to a completion of 

 examination at Xew York. Allowing five 

 days from Havana to New York, pas- 

 sengers would be detained two days in 

 Xew York. A new case was reported in 

 Havana on July 17th. 



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Stand By 



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Major 'Andre resigned his 

 congressional office recently 

 because the Lower House 

 would not stand by him in 

 his latest charge against 

 President Gomez of complicity with Gen- 

 eral Esteilos in the recent negro uprising. 

 Both the Liberals and Conservatives in 

 caucus refused to consider the charges on 

 the ground of lack of proof. 



Because of these and other charges, 

 President Gomez began suit against Major 

 Andre. The laws of Cuba allow the de- 

 fendant to produce his proofs and if these 

 substantiate his charges he is not guilty 

 nf libel. The president has also libel suits 

 pending against the Havana dailies La 

 Lucha and /.(( Prcnsa for alleged libelous 

 matter. 



As the result of a i)etition 

 French made by the Cuban State 

 Consul Department, the Fr.ench le- 



Transf erred gation on July 7th officially 

 notified Secretary Sanguily 

 tliat the government of the French republic 

 had finally acceded to its request and that 

 M. Henri Bryois, French consul at San- 

 tiago de Cuba, had been given a leave of 

 absence, which implies that he will not be 

 again assigned to a post in Cuba. 



The action of the department was taken 

 as the result of the consul's animosity to 

 Cuba. He was blamed more or less for 

 the attack made on the Cuban government 

 in the French Chamber of Deputies which 

 nearly resulted in a tariff wall being raised 

 in Cuba against France, and charged with 

 contributing to the French press articles 

 detrimental to the Cuban people. 



The Department of Government has re- 

 ceived complaints from Governor ]\Ianduley 

 of Oriente Province regarding the safety 

 of the bridge over the Guaninicum River 

 at the station called Aura, and near San 

 Luis. The governor says that he has been 

 informed that the bridge is about to give 

 way. This bridge was received by the 

 Railroad Commission and the Department 

 of Public Works in 1902. It is 5.32 feet 



