THE CUBA REVIEW 



The Cuban Senate received 

 Good ll'islics a cablegram from the Co- 

 froiii Cuba lombian Congress protesting 

 against any public approval 

 of the "plunder of the Colombian Depart- 

 ment of Panama executed in 1903 by Pres- 

 ident Roosevelt, according to his own con- 

 fession." 



The Cuban Senate cabled an acknowl- 

 edgement of the message and expressed the 

 desire that all difficulties between American 

 republics would be adjusted "pacifically, 

 within justice, law and international prac- 

 tices." 



In the case against Ernesto 



The Killing Asbert, Governor of Ha- 



of vana Province, Congress- 



GeneralRiva man Arias and Senator Vi- 



dal Morales for the killing 

 of Chief of Police Riva in Havana on July 

 7th last, the prosecuting attorney of the Su- 

 preme Court has asked that Gov. Asbert and 

 Congressman Arias each be given a sen- 

 tence of 18 years 2 months and 21 days of 

 imprisonment for the crime and for Sen- 

 ator Vidal Morales he asks a sentence of 

 3 years, 4 months and 8 days imprisonment. 

 The attorney also asks that Messrs. Asbert 

 and x^rias pay to the heirs of General Riva 

 $5,000 each. 



A bill was read in the 

 Two Lower. House on November 



Important 7th to provide Cuba with a 

 Bills coinage of her own, based 



on the coinage of the United 

 States. The bill provides for the coinage 

 of $59,000,000. The gold coin is to be di- 

 vided in pieces worth $1, $2. $4, $5, $10 and 

 $20 of which $9,000,000 shall be coined. 

 Silver money shall be divided into pieces 

 worth 10, 20, 25, 40, 50 cents and $1, and 

 $10,000,000 shall be coined. Provisions are 

 also made for nickels and coppers. 



Paper money shall be divided into bills 

 of $3, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100 and $1,000, and 

 $40,000,000 worth shall be issued. 



A new bill recently introduced author- 

 izes President Menocal to negotiate a loan 

 of $30,000,000. 



President Menocal has an- 

 Will Not nounced he will not brook 

 Tolerate armed opposition to his ad- 

 Oiitbreaks ministration and those who 

 attempt it will have their 

 necks "twisted." The garrotte, the official 

 "executioner," has been removed from the 

 National Museum to the Havana Carcel 

 apparently ready for service when the time 

 comes. The recently enacted "military re- 

 tirement law" has retired many officers of 

 the army who did not possess the con- 

 fidence of the administration and others 

 are slated for retirement soon. 



The island has been carefully "gone over" 

 by government secret service men and ev- 

 ery move of the opposition is known. 

 "There can be no uprising of any conse- 

 quence," they say. 



Besides the armed forces, the admin- 

 istration ihas the backing of the majority 

 of the Cuban Veterans' Association of the 

 War of Independence. The veterans num- 

 ber about 20,000 men aild. are widely scat- 

 tered over the island. 



It is generally known in official circles 

 that some 15,000 rifles and many thousand 

 rounds of ammunition are scattered over 

 the island, supposedly in the hands of the 

 Liberals, who are opposing the administra- 

 tion. — Geo. M. Bradt in the Nashville 

 (Tenn.) Banner. 



The amnesty bill finally 

 Amnesty passed Congress on Decem- 

 Bill ber 6th. It then was sent to 



Passed President Menocal. If he 

 does not veto it. it will be- 

 come a law. 



The amnesty bill frees the rebels who 

 were connected with the negro uprising in 

 Oriente Province last year, but it has been 

 so amended as to include also public em- 

 ployes who had committed offenses in the 

 performances of their duties up to May 

 20th this year, the date on which the Gomez 

 administration ended. It stipulates that 

 not over six months' imprisonment shall 

 be served by such delinquents. 



Senator Bustamente was opposed to the 

 bill on general principles. He did not 

 believe Congress should pass laws pardon- 

 ing those who had been deliberately untrue 

 to their public trusts and the amnesty bill 

 in its present form would free from pun- 

 ishment many guilty persons. 



President Menocal, through 

 President the State Department, has 

 Menocal given William E. Gonzales, 



Apologises the American Minister, a 

 full apology for indignities 

 offered three young American women who 

 arrived at Havana from New York Octo- 

 ber 29th. 



The young women were detained by the 

 police as the result of the assertion of an- 

 other passenger on the vessel that her dia- 

 mond ring, which she had left in the lava- 

 tory, was missing. Despite their protests 

 the young women were searched. The ring 

 was not found. The local newspapers 

 printed disagreeable stories about them. 



President Menocal, in his apology, said 

 it had been fully proved that the American 

 women were innocent, honest and most 

 respectable. He added, however, that the 

 police were compelled to fulfill their duties 

 according to the law. 



