THE CUBA REVIEW 



interests, and that English capital controlling the Cuban railroads was trying to 

 secure English control of the arsenal water front, which it thinks will ultimately 

 become a British coaling station in spite of the opposition of the United States. 



Theodore Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt were invited by the Cuban minister in 

 Rome, under instructions from the President of Cuba, to visit the island on their 

 way north. An acceptance of the invitation has been received. 



Plans are under way for next winter's agricultural exhibition in Havana, which 

 promises to exceed anything which has yet been done in this line. A series of 

 pavilions will be constructed and it is understood that an appropriation of $25,000 

 can be counted on. 



Sr. Gonzalo de Quesado, recently appointed Cuban minister to Germany, was 

 sworn in at Paris on March 26. 



The Cuban Department of State has canceled the exequatur of office granted to 

 Carl Bock, as vice consul of Norway in Havana. Sr. Bock has resigned his office. 



The disagreement between the Cuban government and the contractors for the 

 construction of the sewers and water system of Havana and the paving of the 

 city, which brought out stories of the suspension of some contracts, was discussed 

 on April 2, by the American minister, John B. Jackson with the President of Cuba, 

 who appointed a commission composed of the Secretaries of State, the Treasury and 

 Public Works, to confer with engineers representing the govertiment and the 

 contractors. On April 5, it was given out that the matter had been closed, because 

 of the findings of a special commission previously appointed by General Gomez, 

 which had been succeeded in effecting a compromise and securing concessions from 

 both sides. The decree awarding to McGivney & Rokeby the sewage and paving can- 

 tract in Havana was signed by Governor Magoon on June 22, 1908. This work will 

 cost about $11,000,000. one-third of which is to be paid Ijv the city and the remainde 

 by the Cul)an government. 



The question of raising the Maine wreck in Havana harbor will not down, and 

 agitation looking to its removal is constant in the United States among the legis- 

 lators. It looks now as though something will be done, as the United States House 

 of Representatives has passed a bill for raising the hulk. The bill provides also 

 for the removal to the United States of the two tall masts of the wreck, to be 

 erected in Arlington Cemetery, Washington, near the bodies of the buried soldiers. 



The nninicipal elections, under the law, must be held July 1, to fill the offices of 

 one-half of the members of the 71 municipalities throughout the island. 



Ur. Francisco Carrera Ju.^- 

 Cuba's tiz, former Cuban Minister to 



Nctc U. S. Madrid, and now appointed to 

 Minister. Washington, to succeed Gen- 

 eral Carlos Garcia Valez, who 

 has been appointed to Buenos Aires, reached 

 his post at Washington on March 28, and 

 presented his credentials to President Taft. 

 His appointment to Washington is in the 

 nature of a promotion, for no post in the 

 Cuban foreign service is so important as 

 that of Washington ; his capacity for the 

 post being denied by no one, he is num- 

 bered among one of the most eminent Cuban 

 statesmen. Dr. Carrera Justiz is also thi- 

 "wealthiest" of the Cuban diplomats, pos- 

 sessing a large fortune. Mrs. Carrera 

 Justiz also is very wealthy. 



Mr. Carrera Justiz is professor of r^u- 

 nicipal administration in the University of 

 Havana. During the last intervention he 

 was a member of the law advisory commis- 

 sion and he was the framer of the munici- 

 pal law now in force in Cuba, which grants 

 autonomy to municipalities and which 

 marked the first step towards the descentral- 

 ization of government in Cuba. He also 



aided effectively in the framing of all the 

 other important laws recommended by the 

 law advisory commission. 



General Vclez, the retiring Minister, will 

 proceed to Buenos Aires, where he will 

 act as Cuban Minister. He has also been 

 desigiiated as chairman of the Cuban dele- 

 gation to the approaching Pan-American 

 Congress in Buenos Aires. 



Some ^liguelistas of Santiago de Cuba 

 are already talking of Dr. Hernandez for 

 President of Cuba in 1912. But the ma- 

 jority want no other than Dr. Zayas, the 

 present Vice-President, and next in line for 

 the Presidential nomination by party 

 pledges, made when the Zayistas and Migu- 

 el istas combined to elect Gen. Gomez. The 

 feeling for Dr. Zaj'as is more pronounced 

 since President Gomez instructed Secretary 

 of State Sanguily to announce for him that 

 he would not accept a renomination. 



Seiior Don Jose F. Godoy, Mexico's 

 Minister to Cuba, has returned to his 

 post at Havana. 



