THE CUBA REVIEW 



HAVANA PROVINCE 



Conservatives . . . 43,108 Liberals . . . 39,441 



MATANZAS PROVINCE 



Conservatives . . . 26,747 Liberals . . . 27,363 



ORIENTE PROVINCE 



Conservatives . . . 38,194 Liberals . . . 37,298 



There were 628,356 officially registered 

 voters and about 50 per cent voted, or 

 329,805. 



The elections were for president, vice- 

 president, thirteen senators, fifty members 

 of Congress, six provincial governors, 

 twelve members of the provincial coimcils, 

 one hundred and eight mayors and six 

 hundred and forty-five aldermen, for a pe- 

 riod of four years from 1913 to 1917, ex- 

 cept the senators, whose term of office 

 goes to 1921. 



The electors of the six provinces are 

 apportioned as follows : Havana, 27 ; Pinar 

 del Rio, 14; Matanzas, 15; Santa Clara, 

 25 ; Camaguey, 10 ; and Oriente, 24. 



For mayor of Havana the vot^ showed 

 the election of the Conservative Candidate. 

 The poll was : 



General Freyre Andrade (Cons.)... 21,067 

 Sr. Eugenio L. Aspiazo (Liberal) . . 19,459 



The City Council is equally divided, 

 each party securing seven representatives. 



Queer 

 Election 

 Frauds 



Some election frauds were 

 committed in the form of 

 "refuerzos," and a c c o m- 

 plished in this way, says 

 Havana Post. A candidate 

 who finds when the polls are closed that he 

 lacks a few votes of being elected bribes the 

 other officials of the voting place to allow 

 him to vote for himself the votes which had 

 not been cast. 



When General Menocal and Governor 

 Asbert made their alliance it was agreed that 

 any use of the "refuerzo" system on either 

 side would be punished. Several Asber- 

 tistas have complained that Conservatives 

 by resorting to the fraud have caused them 

 to be defeated. 



General Menocal acted promptly when in- 

 formed of this and announced that such 

 elected candidates must resign and he 

 threatens them with denunciation before the 

 courts if they fail to do so. A commission 

 has been appointed to investigate all such 

 frauds. 



Dr. Rafael Montoro is president while 

 the other members will be composed of Dr. 

 Pablo Desvernine Carlos de Zallo for the 

 Conservatives and Dr. Pedro Bustillo for 

 the Asbertistas. 



General Menocal, the Conservative presi- 

 dent-elect of Cuba, will visit the United 

 States this spring before taking his oath 

 of office. 



John Barrett will give a dinner in his 

 honor on his arrival. 



The Spanish minister has 



For intormed Cuba's govern- 



Ftirer ment that Spam has passed 



1 1 incs a law prolnbitmg the use of 



sulphate ol hme and chalk 



in the manufacture of vvme whenever the 



wine contains more than two grams of 



sulphate ot potash, except in dry snerry and 



Malaga wines. 



Customs collectors througliout the island 

 have been notified to denounce adulterated 

 wines. 



Ihe secretary of the treasury also an- 

 nounced that he would issue an order pro- 

 hibiting the sale in the future of any wine 

 containing more than two grams of sul- 

 phates. Under the old order, wine con- 

 taining up to four grams were permitted. 

 Spanish wine is one of the principal im- 

 ports of Cuba. No other country approaches 

 Spain in its wine trade with the island. 

 The figures for the fiscal years 1909-1910 

 and 1910-11, in gallons, follow: 



WHITE WINE 



1909-10 1910-11 



Spain 350,438 359,643 



France 27,031 38,699 



RED WINE 



1909-10 1910-11 



Spain 5,397,138 4,896,138 



France 228,044 114,698 



Santiago's old Krupp cannon and another 

 of bronze, relics of the Spanish govern- 

 ment, have been transferred to the city's 

 museum. 



Dr. Knri(|ue Jose N'aroiia, Prof. Philosophy, 



Havana University, President National Committee 



Conservative Party, Elected Vice President of 



Cuba. 



