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 CUBA REVIEW 



"ALL ABOUT CUBA" 



Copyright, 1913, by the Munson Steamship Line 



LIBRARY 

 INCVV YORK I 

 6UTA>«C.*L 



Volume XI 



OCTOBER, 1913 



Number 11 



GOVERNMENT MATTERS 



PRESIDENT S OPINION ON OFFICE PATRONAGE NEW LOAN MAY BE 



FOR $30,000,000 IMMIGRATION VERY LARGE 



President ?iIenocal recently 



President's gave out a statement to an 



J'iezi's on evening paper of Havana, 



Patronage which sharply emphasizes 



his views on the question of 



patronage. He says : 



"I am not bothered by the job seekers. 

 To aspire to a public position is a legiti- 

 mate sentiment. Conservatives, or better 

 say, Conjunctionists. Liberals, Veterans. 

 office holders, all have their aspirations; all 

 feeling that they liave a perfect right to 

 what they pretend. For my part, I try to 

 please them all in the proper measure and 

 according to their merits and the circum- 

 stances of the case, demanding at the same 

 time their strict compliance with their duty. 

 There are limits to this patronage ciuestion 

 and these limits are those which have been 

 traced beforehand by the law and the limi- 

 tation of the l)udget appronriations. We 

 are going to the limit in this matter, but 

 not one inch further. We did not wage 

 that formidable electoral campaign, nor 

 did the Conjunctionists form a union and 

 neither did we receive the support of the 

 country from the east to the west in order 

 that we might proceed arbitrarily or cai)ri- 

 ciously in that matter. I look upon the 

 patronage question from a point of view 

 which we may call a national reality. I try 

 to heed the clamors of the Conjunctionists 

 and even those who militate in the opposi- 

 tion whenever their demands shall be rea- 

 «onable and that they be served in the 

 right proportion according to their apti- 

 tudes; because I am tlie President of all 

 the Cubans, and that without l)reaking 

 away from the doctrines, i)rinciples, and 

 moral compromises of the party — as long 

 as I never contracted any material ones 

 and also of the law, I aspire that all citi- 



zens shall be served within a measure of 

 equity and that justice shall be adminis- 

 tered." 



For a 

 N^ational 

 Highway 



The administration has un- 

 der advisement the building 

 of a national liighway con- 

 necting Oriente and Pinar 

 del Rio provinces with Ha- 

 vana. Engineers of the department of pub- 

 lic works are now making estimates and 

 Congress will be asked to make an ade- 

 quate appropriation if the president ap- 

 proves of the plans. 



There are roads connecting Ha\ana with 

 Pinar del Rio, RIatanzas and Cardenas, but 

 none east of the latter city, connecting 

 with Oriente. 



The chief of the navy de- 



Tiinber partment has ordered the 



Dcspnilation commanders of gunboats to 



closely guard the coasts to 

 stop the fraudulent exploitation of forests 

 in the numerous keys along the coasts 

 wliich are rich in timber. The order is 

 due to information received by the secre- 

 tary of agriculture al)out the exploitation 

 which is carried on in those zones in spite 

 uf the president having enacted recently 

 tliree decrees annulling concessions for 

 the exploitation of forests in the maritime 

 zones of the northern coast, from the prov- 

 ince of Pinar del Rio to Caibarien, and on 

 the southern coast of Santa Clara. 



■ \ recent project to erect a 2r)-story busi- 

 ness l)tiilding on the site of the Campo 

 Marti in Havana is objected to by the 

 .Vational 15oard of lleallh because of its 

 encroachment on a pul)lic park. 



