THE 

 CUBA REVIEW 



"ALL ABOUT CUBA." 



Copyright, 1909, by the Munson Steamship Line 



Volume VIII. 



JANUARY, 1910. 



NUMBER 2 



CUBAN GOVERNMENT MATTERS. 



Cuba Wants Arms — Cabinet Changes — Consular Appointments — The Interven- 

 tion Expenses — Work of the Senate — Cuba's Sanitary Condition, etc. 



Major-General Bell, Chief 

 Cuba of Staff of the United 



Wants States Army, recommend- 



Rifles. ed on December 17 to the 



Secretary of War an 

 amendment authorizing the sale of not 

 more than 10,000 stand of arms to the 

 Cuban Government. He urged this be- 

 cause if Cuba could not buy here she 

 would go to foreign manufacturers. The 

 ammunition for these guns would also 

 be bought in the United States. The 

 House Committee on Military Affairs 

 has ignored the desire of the Cubans to 

 get army guns from the United States 

 and has made no provision for them in 

 the army appropriation bill. 



The N. Y. Sun says: 



"The only American weapon that Cuba 

 would wish to buy is the Krag-Jorgen- 

 sen, controlled by the United States 

 Government. Three courses are now 

 possible. We must allow the Cubans to 

 buy the Mauser guns or oblige them to 

 buy some American made gun that they 

 do not want or sell them as many 

 Krags as they need and of the latest 

 pattern. Such a sale can only be made 

 by permission of the Congress. If that 

 permission is given it is hard to see 

 how the complaining American gun 

 makers will be in any way benefited. 

 If it is not given will the Cubans be 

 diplomatically and paternally forced to 

 purchase an American made weapon 

 that they do not want or will they be 

 free to purchase Mausers in Germany? 



"Whether Cuba's regular army is 

 armed with Krags or Mausers or popj- 



guns, the institution is a mistake. It 

 takes 10,000 or more able bodied men 

 from productive industry and makes 

 their maintenance a burden on the tax- 

 payers. Such an army in the island is 

 neither a guaranty of peace nor an as- 

 surance of political stabilitv. It may 

 even be a menace to both. One of the 

 wisest and most commendable measures 

 possible for the Cuban Congress would 

 be an act annulling the Magoon decree 

 under which the armv was organized. 

 An efficient police force and Rural 

 Guard are all that is needed and all that 

 the island can afford to maintain." 



Cuban 

 Cabinet 

 Changes. 



Gonzales de Quesada will 

 probably be appointed Cu- 

 ban minister to Madrid as 

 successor to Carrera Justiz, 

 who may receive the office 

 of Secretary of State. Justo Garcia Ve- 

 lez, the former Secretary, will go to Ber- 

 lin as minister. This post is a new one. 

 There is talk of Martin Morna Delgado, 

 President of the Senate and leader of 

 the negro party, being appointed Secre- 

 tary of Public Works. The office at 

 present is filled by Colonel Chalons, who 

 was but recently installed. 



President Gomez signed on Decem- 

 ber 21 an executive decree authorizing 

 Carlos Capella of Cienfuegos to con- 

 struct a wharf and warehouse in the lit- 

 toral of the bay of Cienfuegos between 

 Paseo Arango, Santa Elena, Casales and 

 Castillo streets. 



