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"ALL ABOUT CUBA" 



Copyright, 1920, by the Munson Steamship Line 



Volume XVIIL 



AUGUST, 1920 



Number 9 



CUBAN GOVERNMENT MATTERS 



HALL OF AMERICAN NATIONS 

 Passage by the Cuban senate of a bill 

 appropriating $200,000 toward tlie cost of 

 a special ball of the American nations to 

 be built in connection with the permanent 

 office at Havana of the international 

 trade mark registration bureau, was an- 

 nounced recently by Dr. Mario Diaz Irizar, 

 director of the bureau. One of the sites 

 for the proposed building fronts Havana 

 harbor and overlooks the monument com- 

 memorating the sinking of the battleship 

 Maine. 



The bureau is now functioning normally 

 and carrying out the terms of the con- 

 vention signed at Buenos Aires last Aug- 

 ust, for the protection of trademarks in 

 the American republics. Only six gov- 

 ernments have failed to ratify this con- 

 vention and several of these, the director 

 asserted, are expected to take favoi*able 

 action soon. 



ELECTORAL VOTES FOR PROVINCES 



The central electoral committee has met 

 and decided on the electoral votes for 

 each province of Cuba, and has communi- 

 cated its findings to the President of the 

 Senate and the Speaker of the House of 

 Representatives. 



The system of elections in Cuba is that 

 electors are to be named for president and 

 for the election of senators. In the presi- 

 dential contest there are to be 139 elec- 

 tors. Each province has 18 senatorial 



electors. Supplementary electors are also 

 to be named by the different provinces. 

 The following is the electoral vote each 

 province will have : 



Pinar del Rio, 14 presidential electors 

 and 4 substitutes. 



Havana, 32 presidential electors and 5 

 substitutes. 



Matanzas, 17 presidential electors and 

 10 substitutes. 



Santa Clara, 30 presidential electors 

 and 10 substitutes. 



Camaguey, 13 presidential electors and 



10 substitutes. 



Oriente, 33 presidential electors and 



11 substitutes. 



Thus, it will be seen that the success- 

 ful candidate must carry two of the large 

 provinces and one of the smaller prov- 

 inces. Therefore the fight is for the two 

 big ones. If a candidate can carry the 

 three eastern provinces, he goes in. If 

 he carries two of the eastern, say Cama- 

 guey and Santa Clara, and Havana, he 

 will be successful. But if there are three 

 or more tickets in the field, there will 

 likely be some sort of a mixup and there 

 will be a good deal of litigation to go 

 through with. 



GUATEMALAN MINISTER 

 Senor Adrian Vidaurre, minister of the 

 treasury of Guatemala, has been appoint- 

 ed minister to Cuba. 



