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CUBAN GOVERNMENT MATTERS 
CONSULAR CHANGES 
President Menocal has made the fol- 
lowing changes of posts and promotions 
in the consular service: Transfers— 
Consul General Luis Rodriguez Embil 
from Rotterdam to Hamburg; Consul 
Frederico Sanchez from Honolulu to Bos- 
ton; Consul Alberto 8S. Hiria from Bos- 
ton to Honolulu; Vice Consul José A. 
Ramos from New York to Cleveland; 
Second Class Consul Guillermo Godoy 
from Mayaquez to Marseille; Second 
Stable from Mar- 
Class Consul 
Class Consul Juan P, 
seille to Alicante; Second 
Fernando Paine y Pols from Gijon to 
Coruna; Second Class Consul Leén de 
Leon y Lazo from Milar to Gijon; Sec: 
ond Class Consul Leopoldo Pereira from 
Seville to Vera Cruz; and Chancellor 
Lorenzo Blas Verde from Quito to Ali- 
cante. Promotions—Vice Consul Crecen- 
cio Sacerio at Cleveland to consul general 
in Rotterdam; Vice Consul Pedro E. Des- 
vernine to second consul in New 
York; Vice Consul Nicolas Bilbac Puig 
class 
at Hamburg to second class consul in 
Bremen; Vice Consul José Robleda_ at 
Vera Cruz to second class consul in Se- 
ville; Vice Consul Alberto G. Abreu San- 
chez in Ottawa to second class consul at 
Mayaguez; and Vice Consul Alfonso Fer- 
sarcelona to second 
The resignation 
second 
nandez Sarrasi in 
Class consul in Malaga. 
of Senor M. Fernandez 
Alicante, 
Sarrasi, 
class consul in has been ac- 
cepted. 
GENERAL BUDGET FoR 1921 
President Menocal presented to 
Congress the general budget for the coun- 
try for 1921. The revenues are reckoned 
as follows: $53,S802,- 
has 
Customs receipts, 
707; port and improvement taxes, $1,894.- 
322; consular fees, $1,445,723: revenues 
from means of communication, $2,392,919; 
taxes and various contributions, $25,849,- 
925; property and rights of the State, 
$584,736; different products, $1,558,125; 
taxes of the loan, $4,942,195; national lot- 
tery, $4,366,432; and extra tax on sugar, 
total $104,137,085. 
$7,500,000 ; revenues, 
The expenditures as reckoned in the budget 
are as follows: Debts of the Republic, 
$9,928,902; legislative power, $2,163,660; 
judicial power, $3,869,934; presidential 
staff, $253,850; state, $1,544,204; justice, 
$547,920; Government, $12,151,420; treas- 
ury, $4,364,087; additional budget of the 
treasury, $1,559,804; public works, $6,349,- 
987; additional public works, $25,942,172; 
agriculture, commerce and labor, $1,413,- 
428; public instruction and fine arts, 
$10,615,549; sanitation and charity, §$6,- 
208,260; war and navy, $17,444,508; total 
expenditures, $104,187,085, 
CONDITION OF THE TREASURY 
The receipts and expenditures effected 
by the General Treasury of Cuba during 
the seven months from March 1 to Sep- 
tember 30, 1920, were as follows: Bal 
ance on hand on February 28, 1920, 
$6,582,272; receipts in the seven months, 
public revenues, $66,294,240; reimburse- 
ments, $3,472,932; and special funds, 
$2,954,756, showing a total in the treas- 
ury on September 30 of $79,284,200. The 
expenditures by budgets, laws, and de- 
crees for the seven months amounted to 
$68,705,419, and for special funds, $1,802,- 
367, or a total expenditure of $70,507,786, 
or a favorable balance of $8,776,414. 
PAYMENT OF OVERDUE DEBTS 
The Cuban Government has decided to 
liquidate the overdue debts owed various 
companies and private individuals for 
the general transportation of the State 
up to 1918-19. The total of these balances 
is $301,796, distributed as follows: United 
Railroads of Havana, $229,894; Railroad 
of the West, $17,888; Cuban Central Rail- 
ways, $22,604; Havana Central Railroad, 
$7,183: and to other companies and indi- 
’ 
viduals, $24,199. 
SPANISH IMMIGRANTS 
During the first six months of 1920 
fully 39,745 Spanish immigrants arrived 
in Cuba. According to the figures of the 
Superior Council of Immigration of Spain. 
59,593 persons emigrated from that coun- 
try during the six months mentioned. 
