THE CUBA REVIEW 



President of Cuba; the Miguelistas, the 

 supporters of ex-President Jose Miguel 

 Gomez, who is now touring Europe. The 

 last three are segments of the Liberal 

 Party, which went down in defeat last fall, 

 supporting the candidacy of Dr. Zayas 

 against General Menocal. A segment of 

 the party broke away from the Liberals, 

 and led by Governor Asbert formed with 

 the Conservatives the patriotic conjunction 

 that elected Menocal. 



Ports 

 Company 

 Accused 



The commission which 

 President Menocal appoint- 

 ed to investigate the crim- 

 inal responsibility of the 

 Cuban Ports Company 

 made a partial report to the President on 

 November 11th, setting forth that the 

 company and various officials of the 

 Gomez regime had been guilty of several 

 crimes, including "the falsification of an 

 official document, the falsification of a 

 public document, and the usurpation of 

 authority." 



It is probable that a special Magistrate 

 will be appointed soon to study the evi- 

 dence that the commission collected, and if 

 indictments are recommended, the matter 

 will be referred to a higher court. 



The tonnage fees paid to the Ports Com- 

 pany for the eighteen months prior to the 

 annulment action of the concession by 

 President Menocal is stated by the Treas- 

 ury Department to be as follows : 



According to the statement there were 

 imported from the United States during 

 the year 1912-13, 1,044,566,141 kilos of 

 merchandise which netted the company 

 $731,425 ; . other merchandise from the 

 United States and other countries amounted 

 to 571,777,642 kilos or $502,542 in fees. 



During the same period there were also 

 imported 1,350,306,859 kilos of coal which 

 paid tonnage fees to the Port Company of 

 $135,030. The total for the year was 2,966,- 

 650,642 kilos and a total tonnage fees of 

 $1,368,997. 



During the six months (January 1st to 

 June 30, 1913) there were imported 1,611,- 

 955,736 kilos of merchandise, the Port 

 Company having received for its share or 

 tonnage fees the sum of $714,996. 



The custom houses through which this 

 merchandise was imported were Banes, 

 Baracoa,, Batabano, Habana, Los Indies, 

 Jaruco, Manzanillo, Puerto Padre, Sagua, 

 Santiago de Cuba, Trinidad, Tunas de 

 Zaza. 



Three post offices have been recently 

 established. One at Sumidero, Pinar del 

 Rio Province, another at Central America 

 in Oriente Province and one at Maban, 

 Santa Clara Province. New telegraph offices 

 are also being established. 



Treaty 



Amendment 



Desired 



Col. Cosmo de la Torriente, 

 Cuban Secretary of State, 

 and Dr. Pablo Desvernine, 

 Minister to the United 

 States, are in Washington 

 on a special mission to obtain the consent of 

 the United States to such alterations of the 

 reciprocity treaty between the countries as 

 will enable Cuba to make up the financial 

 deficit created by the free listing of sugar 

 ty the Underwood tariff. President Meno- 

 cal desires the United States to agree to a 

 change of the agreement on tobacco that 

 will give Cuba greater benefit. 



Cuba's income from all 



Cuba's sources except the National 



Income Lottery, for the first three 



months of the fiscal year 



1913-14 total as follows : 



July $2,631,374 



August 2,740,050 



September 3,071,351 



Total $8,442,775 



Under a new government 



Restricting ruling all Chinese merchants 



Chinese or students attempting to 



get into Cuba will be re- 

 quired to put up a personal guarantee or 

 one from reputable persons and a bond of 

 $500 that they are as they represent them- 

 selves to be, something that has not been 

 required heretofore. The intended appli- 

 cant for admission must also bring his pa- 

 JDers properly authenticated by the Cuban 

 consuls in China and a photograph of him- 

 self. 



Regulation 

 for 



Explosives 



New government rulings 

 provide that merchants may 

 have private magazines for 

 the storage of powder, lo- 

 cated at isolated places no 

 nearer than 400 meters to any house, where 

 they may store up to 100 pounds of powder, 

 without license or permit to remove same. 

 These magazines, however, shall not be al- 

 lowed to be used for the storage of dyna- 

 mite or other high explosives which must 

 be kept at the government places. 



The order will also provide that mer- 

 chants may import chlorate of potash with- 

 out permit as long as it is not kept or im- 

 ported with other substances such as oil, etc. 



The work for the construction of the 

 Caibarien-Remedios aqueduct in Santa 

 Clara Province, which is being constructed 

 on the Bartolome River from where the 

 supply of water will be taken, has com- 

 menced. 



