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 CUBA RLVILW 



"ALL ABOUT CUBA" 



Copyright, 1913, by the Munson Steamship Line 



Volume XI 



JUNE, 1913 



Number 7 



GOVERNMENT MATTERS 



PRESIDENT MENOCAL S STRONG CABINET BRIEF NOTES OF THE 



MEMBERS THE MAINE MONUMENT CEREMONIES 



Enrique Jose Varona, Vice- 



President President, was born in the 



Menocal's city of Camaguey in 1849, 



Helpers was graduated from the 



" University of Havana and 



is now professor of philosophy and ethics 



in that institution. He was Deputy to the 



Spanish Cortes from Camaguey Province 



shortly after the Ten Years War (1868-'78). 



Under General Wood's administration he 



was Secretary of Public Instruction. He is 



an author, a newspaper man and presfdent 



of the Conservative Party. 



General Emilio Nunez, the Secretary of 

 Agriculture, is a practical tobacco grower. 

 He is also a merchant and a man of 

 wealth. He was governor of the province 

 of Havana in the early days of the Cuban 

 Republic. On taking his office he declared 

 that one of the first things he purposed to 

 do was to reorganize the government agri- 

 cultural experimental station at Santiago 

 de Las Vegas in Havana Province. 



Jose Ramon Villalon, Secretary of Pub- 

 lic Works, was born in Santiago de Cuba, 

 in 1864, and speaks English fluently, having 

 graduated in 1889 from Lehigh Univer- 

 .sity, where he obtained his degree of civil 

 engineer. 



Cosme de la Torriente, Secretary of 

 State, is the Vice-President of the Conser- 

 vative Party. At the time of the second 

 American intervention lie was Cuban Min- 

 ister to Spain, a position he resigned. 



Cristobal de la Guardia, Secretary of 

 Justice, is the only member of the cal)inet 

 who has no war record. In is<!i8 he made 

 an unsuccessful effort to organize a lal)or 

 party. As a senator he marie a strong fight 

 against the lottery, chicken fighting and 

 Jai-alai. His election for tlie ()ortfolio of 

 justice is considered an excellent one 



Col. EureHo Hevia, Secretary of the In- 

 terior, was one of Gen. Galixto Garcia's 

 expedition which embarked on the "Haw- 

 kins" for Cuba and when that vessel sank 

 off the Jersey coast he narrowly escaped 

 with his life. During the first intervention 

 he was assistant secretary of state. Since 

 1906 he has practiced as a lawyer. 



Leopoldo Cancio, Secreatry of the 

 Treasury, has been a cabinet minister sev- 

 eral times. He assisted in the preparation 

 of the reciprocity treaty witli the United 

 States in 1903. 



While in the United States, prior to join- 

 ing General Maceo, he built the first dy- 

 namite gun ever used in the world and 

 employed it in the operations in Cuba. He 

 is a professor of mathematics in the Uni- 

 versity of Havana and a member of the 

 American Society of Civil Engineers and 

 the American Institute of Mining 'En- 

 gineers. 



Ezequiel Garcia, the Secretary of Public 

 Instruction, is professor of literature in 

 the University of Havana. 



Enrique Nunez, Secretary of Public 

 Health, was graduated from the University 

 of Havana in 1886 and as a surgeon in 1893. 



In order to have Mexico get her United 

 States mail some twenty times a month 

 instead of ['we or six times as at present, 

 Sr. Pedro luiriciuez, chief post-office in- 

 spector of the Republic of Mexico, will 

 recommend that all mail I)e sent via Ha- 

 vana. He also wants all Mexican mail 

 now being sent to New York and New 

 Orleans be sent direct to Key West via 

 Havana, as he is convinced that the most 

 satisfactory service is being <)l)tained 

 tliroiigh the Key West routing. 



