THE 

 CUBA REVIEW 



"ALL ABOUT CUBA." 



Copyright, 1907, by the Munson Steamship Line. 



Volume VL 



JULY, 1908. 



Number 8. 



POLITICAL AND GOVERNMENT MATTERS. 



General News Notes. 



Minor elections, both pro- 



No vincial and municipal, are to 



Excitement, be held in the island within 



the next few weeks, and 



spirited local contests are going on between 



the adherents of Gen. Jose Miguel Gomez 



and those of Dr. Alfredo Zayas. There is 



no excitement. The voters have shown 



little patriotic or national sentiment. 



The emblemsof the political 



The parties have been filed with 



Emblems the Board of Elections. Con- 



of the servatives 'have a five-pointed 



Parties. star; Miguelistas a plow 



and a rooster, and the Zayis- 



tas display the three medallions of Jose 



Marti, Maximo Gomez and Maceo. One 



of the Havana papers, La Discussion, has 



this to say regarding the party symbols ; 



The Conservative party's emblem is serious 



and simple. The Miguelista emblem is 



complicated, in bad taste and symbolizes 



cock-fighting, while the Zayista emblem is 



likewise in bad taste. 



"Work on the military map 



NeW' of the Island of Cuba wihiich 



Government has been in progress from 



Map of time to time during the occu^ 



Cuba. pation of the island by our 



troops is now practically 



completed. In the more important parts 



of the island the scale hiss been two inches 



to the mile and elsewhere on inch to the 



mile. 



"The old map of Cuba was defective in 

 many respects. Rivers ran where was dry 

 land, cities appeared where in fact was jun- 

 gle and roads and railroads were not found 

 in many places where for years they were 



supposed to be, and where surveying par- 

 ties expected to cross lakes they found 

 small swamps, i he data of the old map 

 came from Spanisn sources. It is safe to 

 siay that for the first time in the history of 

 Cuba there is now approaching completion 

 an accurate map o^ tne island." — Army and 

 Navy Life. 



The Immigration Bureau of 



Immigration the Agriculture Department, 



Bureau located at the Treasury Build- 



Services ing in Elavana, has issued a 



Free. circular notifying the families 



and all persons desiring to get 



immigrants out of the detention camp at 



Triscornia for the purpose of giving them 



work, t'hat the bureau's services are free. 



The bureau also offers to secure a reduc- 

 tion of 50 per cent, in the transportation to 

 parties of immigrants composed of five or 

 more going to the country to engage in 

 work. 



By a law of the Cuban 



Can't Pay Congress passed July 25, 



Taxes. 1903, the Cu'ban government 



canceled all the interests due 



on "censos" which are taxes imposed upon 



real estate during the Spanish times, and 



allowed a settlement on a basis of 25 and 



40 per cent., to be paid within a period of 



five years. This period expires July 30, and 



an extension of time is asked for on the 



ground that bad business conditions will not 



permit of pa3'ments for the present. 



Secretary Taft said recently, after a re- 

 port from Governor Magoon, that condi- 

 tions in Cuba were most satisfactory with 

 reference to the turning over of the island 

 to the Cuban authorities in February ne.xt. 



