THE CUBA REVIEW 



will drag along this way ^f ^^ J^^af .^h" 

 Recent events have demonstrated that the 

 courts may work up so much feelmg 

 against an accused official that pubhc opm- 

 ion will force the chambers to consent to a 

 continuance of the case against him when 

 Congress does meet. We are free to mfer 

 that this is the reason the liberals are pre- 

 venting a quorum." 



Dr L. A. Beltran, V. S., and 

 Buying Capt. Vila of the Cuban 

 Mules Army, have been m East bt. 

 and Horses Louis and. Fort Worth, 

 Texas, buying for the L-u- 

 ban government 440 horses and 64 mules 

 ThTs order is soon to be followed, says 

 the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, by one 

 twice as large. The horses are to be used 

 as remounts for the Rural Guards, and are 

 of a lar-er type than the Cubans generally 

 buy The specifications call for horses 

 from 15.1 to 15.3 hands high and the in- 

 spection is quite as rigid as that made by 

 buyers for the United States Army. _ 



Many of the horses offered are rejected 

 on sight and others are turned back, after 

 a more detailed inspection. The buymg is 

 said by men interested in such contracts to 

 indicate that the Cubans wish to mount 

 their army on better animals than the un- 

 der-sized pacing ponies ordinarily seen m 

 that country. i • i- ^ 



The number of mules ordered indicates 

 that a regular pack train is to be equipped, 

 fifty pack animals and fourteen for saddle 

 u^e The Cubans have bought several 

 large orders of horses in East St. Louis, 

 but never before have made such strict 

 specifications as to size, soundness and 

 quality. 



Under the new pharma- 

 Patent ceutical rules just revived 

 Medicine by President Menocal on 

 Regulations September 3rd, foreign 

 manufacturers will not need 

 as was provided in the old rules, to be 

 legally represented in Cuba by an agent, 

 but they must explain on the labels of the 

 medicine the name of the components to 

 which it owes its value. Under the old 

 rule it was provided that the component 

 parts and the quantity of each ingredient 

 should be given, but the manufacturers 

 claimed this would be revealing their trade 

 secrets and therefore unjust. The labels 

 must also state the name of the manufac- 

 turers. The sale of the medicines which 

 imT^ede the procreation are to be barred ab- 

 solutely from sale and a punishment of 

 $50.00 for even advertising them is fixed 



Other provisions of the decree affect the 

 question of the record which must be kept 

 by the department of all drug stores which 



must be inscribed, all of these estabhsh- 

 ments to be known in the future by the 

 name of the druggist owner of the place. 



Seiior Torriente, Secretary 

 Cuba's Views of State, in an exclusive in- 

 on terview with a New York 



Free Sugar Herald representative on 

 August 27th, said that Cuba 

 is reminding Washington that under her 

 treaty she enjoys a preferential and is re- 

 questing that in tariff reforms the Ameri- 

 can Congress respect her rights. The sub- 

 ject was discussed at a Cabinet meeting 

 on the same day. 



Cuba has no desire that the reciprocity 

 treaty be terminated, believing both parties 

 are finding it profitable. Cuba's special in- 

 terest is sugar. 



"What will Cuba do when sugar is free?" 

 was asked. 



Senor Torriente said : "We are now in- 

 terested in protecting ourselves for the 

 three years that must elapse before the 

 duty on sugar will be removed. We cannot 

 foresee our action when sugar will be free, 

 for, frankly, opinion here is divided as to 

 the effects on Cuba, some asserting they 

 will be beneficial and others declaring to 

 the contrary. Experience alone can deter- 

 mine, but inasmuch as the removal of duty 

 means the loss of privilege to us, we will 

 request recompense in increased preferential 

 on other products still dutiable or in some 

 other form." 



The official figures of the 

 Six Months Secretary of Sanitation re- 

 Iiiiniigration cording the number of im- 

 Figures migrants for the first six 

 months of 1913, are as fol- 

 lows : 



January 3,505 April 1,494 



February 2,222 May 1,378 



March 2,038 June 1,619 



The custom of carrying con- 

 No cealed weapons in Cuba is 



Concealed well nigh universal and the 

 Weapons President is seeking to abol- 

 ish it by revoking all pistol 

 licenses. This has been tried many times 

 without lasting effect. Those regularly 

 licensed constitute only a small proportion 

 of the Cubans who habitually go armed, 

 and would as soon think of leaving home 

 without revolver and knife as without 

 their hats. It is now proposed to pro- 

 hibit the carrying of weapons under the 

 severest penalties. 



Dr. Luis Mazon has been appointed first 

 secretary of the Cuban legation in Vene- 

 zuela. 



