THE CUBA REVIEW. 



OTHER GOVERNMENT MATTERS. 



A. Campbell Turner, charge 

 Combination d'affaires of the American le- 

 of Telegraph gation at Habana, forwards 

 and Mail copies of three decrees of the 

 Service provisional governor of Cuba 

 in Cuba, establishing state telegraph 

 offices, to be connected with 

 the post offices in the following places in 

 Pinar del Rio Province : Orozco, Quiebra 

 Hacha, an Cabanas. In these offices the 

 postmaster is to be required to pass an ex- 

 amination as telegraphist and is to fill both 

 posts. It is proposed in the future, in all 

 the smaller towns in the interior of the 

 island where the work of the post offices 

 will so permit, to' combine the offices of 

 postmaster and telegraphist and to make 

 applicants for these positions pass an ex- 

 amination in telegraphy before receiving 

 their appointment. — December 23, 1907. 



The goodi effects of the 



Trinidad's work of the local board of 



Sanitary health are beginning to oe 



Conditions seen in Trinidad, Santa 



Good. Clara Province. Numerous 



sources of infection that 



formerly existed in the' city and that, 



thanks to its natural salubrity, had not 



long before producea epidemics, have 



been made thoroughly sanitary. 



As a consequence the absence of certain 

 diseases of a malignant nature is marked, 

 especially among the infant population, since 



the board of health began to exercise its 

 functions. 



A chapter of Governor 

 Compulsory Magoon's report deals with 

 Citizenship, the evils of alien residency 

 without citizenship. It is 

 shown that a large proportion of the 

 population of Cuba is composed of 

 such resident aliens, who control 

 commercial enterprises and public 

 utilities, yet decline to become citizens of 

 Cuba. It has been proposed that such per- 

 sons be required to assume citizenship after 

 five years' residence and to acquire a knowl- 

 edge of Spanish, but Governor Magoon says 

 that the whole subject is still under con- 

 sideration. 



Consul-General James L. 



United States Rodgers, of Habana, reports 



Invoices that the officials of the 



Defective. Cuban customs department 

 are preparing an invoice 

 form which is designed to minimize the 

 errors now so apparent in the papers relat- 

 ing to exportations to Cuba. He adds : 



According to the statement of the Cuban 

 officials in Habana and those of the Cuban 

 treasury, the invoices from the United 

 States are more defective than those from 

 any other country doing business with Cuba. 

 Cuban customs officials declare that Ameri- 

 can exporters seem to have the idea that 

 any kind of an invoice will do for Cuba. 



HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITION IN HAVANA, JANUARY 6, 7, 8. 

 Fine specimens of fruits and vegetables grown by Americans in Cuba were a revelatkin^ to ^]si_t_"J?,'. 



La Gloria, Ceballos, Holguin, the Isle of Pines, Herradura and San Cristobal sent exhibits 

 Magoon visited the exhibition and vcas much interested. 



Governor 



