THE CUBA REVIEW 



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PRESS AND INDIVIDUAL COMMENT ON CUBAN 



MATTERS 



THE BILL REGULATING INTERVENTION 



That ultimate annexation necessarily 

 must ensue in case of the repeated and 

 unrestricted intervention of the United 

 States in Cuba has been asserted in the 

 Senate by Senator Bacon of Georgia. 



It was made on June 10th in connection 

 with the introduction by the Georgia 

 senator of a bill regulating intervention. 

 The bill provides first for interference 

 upon the request of the Cuban authorities, 

 and in urging the desirability of this pro- 

 vision Mr. Bacon said that the frequent 

 presence of American troops would so ac- 

 custom the Cubans to them ns lo render 

 more easy the formal transfer of all re- 

 sponsibility of government to the United 

 States. 



He thought also there should be especial 

 effort to prevent all appearance of any 

 intention of subverting the authoritj' of 

 the Cuban authorities. In more extreme 

 cases the president is authorized to land 

 American troops in Cuba for the restora- 

 tion of order. 



The full text of Senator Bacon's measure 

 follows. 



"Whenever the duly constituted civil authorities 

 of the government of Cuha shall inform the presi- 

 dent of the United States that there exists a re- 

 bellion, or resistance to the authority of law, in 

 Cuba such as the Cuban government is itself unable 

 to subdue or control, and shall request the assist- 

 ance of the United States for that purpose, the 

 president of the United States is hereby authorized 

 to use the army and navy of the United States, 

 or so much thereof as in his descretion he may 

 deem to be necessary, to subdue said rebellion and 

 enforce obedience to the then existing govern- 

 ment and laws of Cuba. 



"Section 2. Whenever there shall exist in the 

 island of Cuba a condition of rebellion and civil 

 disorder, and it shall appear that the government 

 of Cuba is inadequate for the protection of life, 

 property and individual liberty, and for the main- 

 tenance of law and order, and the duly constituted 

 authority of Cuba shall fail and omit to request 

 the assistance of the United States to suppress 

 such a rebellion and disorder, the president of the 

 United States is hereby authorized, if Congress 

 shall not be in session, to use, in his discretion, 

 the army and navy of the United States, or so 

 much thereof as he may deem to be necessary to 

 subdue said rebellion and restore order and obe- 

 dience to the then existing civil government and 

 laws of Cuba. 



"Section 3. Whenever under the authority here- 

 inbefore granted the military and naval forces of 

 the United States are used for the suppression of 

 rebellion and disorder and for the restoration and 

 maintenance of order in Cuba, in no event shall 

 the civil government then existing in Cuba be sub- 

 verted or the civil officers of the government of 

 Cuba removed or supplanted, nor shall any officer 

 be appointed to perform the duties of a civil office 

 in Cuba without the authority of an act of Con- 

 gress of the United States. 



"Section 4. That whenever the army and navy 

 of the United States shall be used as aforesaid 

 in said island of Cuba, the military and naval 

 operation conducted and executed in pursuance 

 thereof shall be under the direction, management 

 and control of the president of the United States." 



INTERVENTION STILL IMMINENT 



Even without the present negro disturb- 

 ance in Oriente, conditions as they now 

 exist, and as in all probability they will 

 continue to exist for an indefinite period, 

 make the possibility of American interven- 

 tion more nearly imminent than is generally 

 supposed. Cuba, as Mr. Lindsay has well 

 observed, presents the curious anomaly of 

 "a highly prosperous country with an ex- 

 tremely needy population."' Possessed of 

 a vigorous munerative agriculture, the na- 

 tion is, nevertheless, slipping rapidly into 

 bankruptcy, and its administration shows 

 no tendency to correct the obvious defects 

 in its economic condition, says George 

 Marvin in Harper's Weekly. 



Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston, the Af- 

 rican explorer, has written to the London 

 Times advocating annexation by the United 

 States as the best thing that could happen 

 for Cuba. He declares that if the United 

 States hesitates much longer, Cuba may 

 experience the history of Hispaniola — which 

 would mean its division into two parts. 



THK WHITE M.\KS HURDE.V. 



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