THE CUBA REVIEW 



President Gomez has made the following 

 changes and appointments in the Cuban 

 Consular service : 



Mclcher Fernandez, a law- 

 Coiisuhir ycr of Havana, to be 

 Appointments, secreiary of the Cuban lega- 

 tion in Paris; Claudio Picque, 

 chancellor of the consulate at Gijon, trans- 

 ferred to Madrid, in place of Francisco 

 Echevarria, deceased. 



Joaquin Divine, to the consulate at 

 Liverpool. 



Miguel Angel Cabcllo, vice-consul at 

 Rome, has been placed temporarily in 

 charge at Marseilles, France. 



Arturo Sainz de la Pena, a Havana news- 

 paper man, as vice-consul at Vienna. 



Rumor has it that Dr. Carreva Justiz, the 

 Cuban minister to Spain, will be appointed 

 Secretary of State. Gonzalo de Quesada, 

 formerly minister to the United States, goes 

 to ^ladrid. 



The President has signed a decree creat- 

 ing a consulate at Milan. Eduardo Bunfi 

 has been appointed to the place. 



Mayor Stern, formerly connected with 

 the Department of State, has been appointed 

 chancellor of the Cuban consulate at Ham- 

 burg, Germany. The office is of new 

 creation. 



President Gomez has appointed Ramon 

 Tamayo to be Cuban Consul at Vienna. 



Further appointments are : Jose A. Bar- 

 net, consul-general at Rotterdam, Hol- 

 land. 



Julian de Ayala, consul-general in Eng- 

 land, with residence at Liverpool. 



Gonzalo Ledon, vice consul, attached to 

 the legation at Washington. 



Antonio Barba Martin, vice consul at Rio 

 Janeiro, Brazil. 



Arturo Sainz de la Pena, consul at 

 Vienna, Austria. 



Manuel Ecay de Rojas, to be consul- 

 general in Germany. 



There are at present un- 



New der construction the fol- 



Road lowing highways and 



Work. bridges: San Cristobal to 



Pinar del Rio; Guane to 



La Fe; Pinar del Rio to Guane; Cabafias 



to Bahia Honda; Guanabacoa to Santa 



Maria del Rosario; Guines lo San Nicolas 



and Nueva Paz; Jaruco to Tumba Cua- 



tro; Vento to la Vibora; La Vibora to 



the Sanatorium of Tuberculosis; Guines 



to Catalina; Guanabacoa to Lagunillas; 



Santa Clara to Camajuani; Camajuani 



to Salamanca; Sagua to Caguaguas; Ba- 



racoa to Sabanilla and Manzanillo to 



Bayamo. 



U. S. Secretary of War 

 //"/// Wait Jacob ^1. Dickinson says that 

 /•"(*;■ Fiiyinent. until the Cuban Treasury is in 

 better suape no efforts will be 

 made by President 1 aft to 

 compel the payment by Cuba of the claim 

 uf the United States for $6,509,5n on ac- 

 count of the expenses of the intervention 

 two years ago. He said Mr. Root had 

 taken up the question of a demand on Cuba 

 when he was Secretary of State and had 

 concluded that the Cuban Government's 

 treasury had not sufficient funds to pay. 



By an act of Congress approved March 

 4, 1907, the President is authorized to re- 

 ceive from the Treasurer of the Cuban Re- 

 public and pay into the United States 

 Treasury from time to time such amounts 

 for this purpose as he may consider the 

 Cuban Treasury is able to spare without 

 serious embarrassment. 



Mr. Dickinson said further "that a de- 

 mand for payment would simply bring 

 about ill feeling and friction without yield- 

 ing anything in the wav of money. It is 

 well known that Cuba is not in a financial 

 position to respond to any demand of that 

 sort." 



Mr. Dickinson also denied all knowledge 

 of the truth of a rumor to tiie effect that 

 the Cuban Government would be asked to 

 give the United States a military harbor or 

 some other important concession, in addition 

 to the two naval stations this country now 

 holds there, to offset this indebtedness. 



He also told the House Committee on 

 ^Military Appropriations on Dec. 16 that 

 "very little has been done in the construc- 

 tion of sewers in Cuban cities, which in it- 

 self will involve the expenditure of more 

 $18,000,000. The contracts were made 

 through the instrumentality of the United 

 States, in order to put the island in a san- 

 itary condition, but the contractors have not 

 got along very far with the jobs. What is 

 more, the payments for what has been com- 

 pleted have been very slack." 



Wants Congressman Garcia Cani- 



Shields ^'^res objected to the English 



Changed ^'^'^ °^ ^^^ shields of the Ha- 



* ■ vana police: "Police of the 



City of Havana," and wants those words to 



be in Spanish. 



The reason the Havana police have those 

 words on their shields is because when the 

 police in Havana were organized it was 

 done by Inspector McCluskey, of the New 

 York police force, and the same model has 

 been used ever since. 



Zulueta street, in Havana, will henceforth 

 be known, by order of the City Council, as 

 Agramonte street. 



