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THE CUBA REVIEW 



The now loan will be used 

 May be a to pay off the outstanding 



$30,000,000 current indebtedness left by 

 Loan the preceding administra- 



tion and push needed public 

 works to completion. 



The government recently submitted to 

 the Washington government a very satis- 

 factory statement in regard to the treas- 

 ury's condition. 



President Menocal purposes to spend 

 $7,000,000 for completing the Havana 

 sewers, $3,000,000 for paying off old debts 

 of the Public Works Department, and 

 $2,000,000 to meet other pending obliga- 

 tions. The remainder will be used to ex- 

 tend, pave and repair Havana's streets. 



The economical management of the Me- 

 nocal administration is rapidly increasing 

 the financial strength of the country. 



It is thought probable that Congress will 

 increase the amount of the loan to $30,- 

 000,000 in order to carry out other pro- 

 jected public works. It is understood that 

 the Cuban minister to Washington has re- 

 ceived assurances from Secretary Bryan 

 that he has no objections to a loan of $20,- 

 000.000. 



Regarding this loan the London Morning 

 Post made the following comment : 



"It seems indeed most improbable that 

 the Cuban government will receive much 

 encouragement from any responsible Lon- 

 don house at the present moment. British 

 lenders may well wait to see how the gov- 

 ernment intends to deal with the claims of 

 the bondholders of the Cuban Ports Com- 

 pany before they entrust fresh funds to the 

 Cuban authorities." 



The Department of Health 

 Chinese and Charities has approved 

 Women a report of the immigration 

 Barred office which will deny the 

 admission to this country 

 to a large number of Chinese women who 

 allege that they are wives of merchants re- 

 siding in this country. Cuba permits Chi- 

 nese merchants to enter the country, but 

 bars all others, the law saying nothing of 

 merchants and their wives unless they 

 show the marriage certificate. 



Chinese laborers and coolies are barred 

 from Cuba, but the immigration laws permit 

 merchants to come into the country as long 

 as they are identified. Dr. Guiteras, the 

 director of health in Cuba, says it has be- 

 come a regular trade for some agents to in- 

 troduce venders of produce and fried foods 

 as merchants. 



Dr. Guiteras wants strict measures 

 adopted to restrict the invasion which he 

 thinks is highly prejudicial to the country 

 owing to the diseases that these elements 

 spread and the harm they cause the la- 

 lioring element of the country. 



The work of the agents of 

 Immigrants the Department of Agricul- 

 for Cuba ture abroad toward procur- 

 ing laborers with which to 

 take care of the sugar crop, which is the 

 country's annual problem, seems to be 

 bearing fruit, the steamship companies an- 

 nouncing that during the month of October 

 they expect to bring more than 8,990 la- 

 borers, which is the record for a single 

 month. 



The passage of the married men who by 

 coming with their families denote that they 

 will stay here permanently, is being paid 

 by the Department of Agriculture. These 

 families have been assured permanent 

 work and homes at different sugar planta- 

 tions. 



Many sugar planters have already noti- 

 fied the authorities that thev are willing to 

 take these immigrants and emplov them on 

 their estates to the extent of fifty and one 

 hundred families. 



The secretary of agricul- 

 ture has been asked by meat 

 dealers to encourage the 

 importation of foreign cat- 

 tle to save the country from 

 the disastrous effects of the inevitable high 

 prices due to the scarcity of cattle. 



May 

 Import 

 Cattle 



Major Andrew S. Rowan, 

 Cuban U. S. A., retired, nation- 

 Site ally known as "the man who 



Dedicated carried the message to Gar- 

 cia," took part at San 

 Francisco on September 25th in the dedica- 

 tion of the site on which the republic of 

 Cuba will erect a pavilion for the Panama- 

 Pacific International Exposition in 1915. 



The Cuban commissioner Sr. Jose Por- 

 tuondo y Tamayo spoke feelingly of the 

 part this nation played in winning inde- 

 pendence for the island republic. 



The Cuban government will 

 Agricultural hold a fair or exposition in 

 Fair Havana from January 28th 



Coming to February 24th. Among 

 other features foreign firms 

 will be invited to show horses, cattle, 

 pigs, chickens, etc., and from these ex- 

 hibits the government will buy valuable 

 specimens, expending from $40,000 to $50,- 

 000, such animals to be used at the farm 

 schools. 



Dr. Enrique Jose Varona, vice-president 

 of the republic and president of the Con- 

 servative Party, resigned his place as head 

 of the party on September 15th. Wrangling 

 inside Conservative ranks over the division 

 of the spoils is the cause. 



