THE CUBA REVIEW 



he is inaugurated on May 20th, will receive 

 a lighted bomb, whose explosion is apt to 

 end the Cuban Republic." 



La Discusion, the organ of the conserva- 

 tives, says : "In reality it is foolish to view 

 with indifference, from the Cuban view- 

 point, any possibility of coolness of rela- 

 tions with the great northern republic. In 

 treating of a law susceptible of change 

 along lines indicated by the United States, 

 the President's veto is reasonable." 



El Dia, another conservative newspaper, 

 commented somewhat sarcastically about 

 Mr. Bryan's professed friendship to Cuba, 

 so often avowed, but ended by saying : 

 "Cuba cannot, under any circumstances, al- 

 low strained relations between the United 

 States and Cuba." 



The Cuban Government 

 To Protect has been requested by the 

 Diplomats State Department at Wash- 

 ington to use its best en- 

 deavors to secure enactment by the Cuban 

 Congress of pending bills removing the 

 existing exemption of Legislators from lia- 

 bility for the publication of libelous and 

 defamatory statements. 



Those responsible for recent attacks 

 through the newspaper Cuba, upon Ameri- 

 can Minister Beaupre and Secretary Gib- 

 son have successfully asserted the right of 

 exemption under existing law, hence the 

 request. 



The Cuban government was so slow in 

 punishing the editors of the offending news- 

 paper that Secretary Knox was forced to 

 send a note to the Cuban government ex- 

 pressing the surprise of the United States 

 at the apathy of the Cuban government 

 and the regret that it must insist that the 

 guilty parties be speedily punished. 



Secretary Sanguily in a note on Febru- 

 ary 21st to Minister Beaupre, deprecated 

 the impatience of the American govern- 

 ment and reiterated his previous promises 

 of vigorous action. 



The Lower House of Congress will not 

 allow their comrade, Oscar Soto, to be 

 tried by the courts for the libelous articles 

 he confesses he wrote against the Ameri- 

 can Minister. While the House up to 

 March 6th had not taken official action, 

 it is understood that in a caucus of a ma- 

 jority of the members it was decided that 

 it would not be a proper policy to yield 

 one of their number to the courts. 



At a meeting of the Na- 



Swearing to tional Council of Veter- 



Preserve Peace ans held a few weeks ago 



in Havana in honor of the 



anniversary of Baire, a significant incident 



occurred. During the services Col. Irribar- 



ren rose and made all present stand and 



take an oath to preserve the peace forever. 



The decision of the Cuban 



Liberal Party Supreme Court on the pe- 



Defeated tition of the Liberal party 



that the Cuban election law 



be declared unconstitutional and thereby 



annul the recent elections wherein General 



Mario Menocal was elected President was 



handed down March 5th. The case was 



decided against the Liberal party. The 



court held that the case had not been 



properly presented. 



Whether or not the Liberals will pre- 

 pare their case again and present it with- 

 out the faults pointed out in the decision 

 of the court is problematical. 



The general opinion seems to be that the 

 matter is settled and that no further pro- 

 ceedings will be considered. 



Menocal's 

 Promises 



Colonel Aurelio Hevia, 

 President-elect the President-elect's cam- 

 paign manager and his in- 

 timate friend, is quoted by 

 the Havana Post as to the 

 views held by General Menocal on Cuba's 

 government problems. Col. Hevia, while 

 not speaking with authority, was positive 

 that he interpreted faithfully the senti- 

 ments of his chief. He asserted that de- 

 spite the predictions of the defeated lib- 

 erals, there will be no investigations in past 

 matters, no delving into what others have 

 done. The future and the problems which 

 come with it will occupy all the new Presi- 

 dent's attention. The new administration 

 will not only appear honest, but will be so. 

 Harmony among the allies of the Con- 

 servative party in the last elections and 

 in the party itself continues undisturbed. 

 The many leading men among the National 

 Liberals who threw the votes of their con- 

 stituents in favor of General Menocal have 

 become the latter's friends and will heartily 

 support his administration. Colonel Hevia 

 believes that these men combined with the 

 Conservatives from more patriotic motives 

 than the mere hope of securing offices. 



Senor Eugenio Freyre, 

 New Consul for acting Cuban Consul at 

 Newport News the port of Galveston, has 



left the city to take up the 

 duties at his new post in Newport News, 

 Va., to which he has been transferred by 

 orders from Havana, Cuba. Senor Freyre 

 is succeeded in Galveston by Senor Joaquin 

 Zanza. 



Eugenio Freyre was one of the younger 

 generation of Cubans, trained in the United 

 States for government service. He was 

 a graduate of St John's MiHtary School, 

 of Spring Valley, N. Y., of the Genesee 

 Wesleyan Seminary, of Lima, N. Y., and 

 of the Potsdam Technological School, of 

 Potsdam, N. Y. 



