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Genera!) Gomez, Ex-President of Cuba 
General José Miguel Gomez 
General José Miguel Gomez, former 
President of Cuba, died in New York on 
June 13th. 
Funeral services were held in St. Patrick’s 
Cathedral, New York, on June 16th, and 
at the Gomez Mansion in Havana on June 
19th. The Cuban patriot was buried at 
Colon Cemetery-with ceremonies attended 
by the greatest popular demonstration 
ever known in the history of Havana. 
Full military honors were accorded the 
General both in New York and in Havana. 
General Gomez, for many years a 
political factor in Cuba, was successful 
in gaining the chief magistracy of the 
Island in 1908. His efforts to obtain 
political supremacy made him a feared 
but picturesque figure among Cuban 
leaders. He won honor in the Cuban War 
of Independence. During the first Ameri- 
can intervention in Cuba, General Gomez 
served for almost a year and a half as 
Civil Governor of the Province of Santa 
Clara. He was a member also of the 
Constitutional Assembly, 
After the troubles in regard to the 
administration of President Palma and the 
subsequent intervention by the United 
States, General Gomez was elected Presi- 
dent and served for a term of four years. 
A candidate again for the Presidency last 
November, he was defeated by Dr. Alfredo 
Zayas. 
Financial Condition of Cuba 
From President Menocal’s message read 
to congress in April are taken the following 
data relative to the economic condition of 
the republic: 
Public Debts: payments for the last 
five months on the loan of $35,000,000, 
issue of 1904, $1,020,000; amortization on 
the internal debt, issue of 1905, $32,400; 
interest on the same, $253,652. 
Payments for foreign debt: amortiza- 
tion and interest to the seventh monthly 
payment of the second year on the bond 
issue of 1919, $425,000; amortization on 
the issue of 1917, $401,000; interest on the 
same, $146,462; series A of the issue of 
$30,000,000 of 1917, $639,700; series B 
of the same issue, $584,100. 
In September, 1920, there was a balance 
in the treasury, aside from the funds on 
hand in the Banco Nacional, amounting 
to $8,776,514; and the receipts up to 
February were $51,872,894, which, added 
to the sum collected from back payments, 
special funds, and money minted, gives 
a total of $61,914,315, a sum which added 
to the balance makes a grand total of 
$70,690,829. 
The expenditures up to February for all 
purposes amounted to $54,647,247, leaving, 
therefore, $16,043,582 on hand, in spite 
of increases in the expenditures of the 
Government. 
The tax of 10 cents a sack on sugar: 
brought in during the period indicated 
$386,882; the tax of 4% on profits is being 
wlsciné siileur difficulty. 
From October 20, 1920, to March 14, 
1921, com to the value of $69,197, 726 
was recived. This contributed baw 
to solving the money crisis. The Ad- 
ministration has minted silver coins to a 
value of $1,751,140, and nickel coins to the 
value of $693,780, which makes a total 
of $2,444,920. The minting of these coins 
cost $1,616,065, leaving the treasury, 
therefore, a profit of $828,855. 
