THE CUBA REVIEW And Bulletin. 



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Governor Nunez favors the proposed in- 

 crease of rural guards. He does not know 

 why there should l^e so much opposition 

 towards this plan by the Cuban press. 



Gen. Jose Miguel Gomez requested the 

 consideration of Gov. IMagoon for a bill 

 which has been approved by the Chamber 

 of Deputies and favorably reported on by 

 the senate relating to claims by Army of 

 Liberation, said: claims having been 

 omitted at the time the list was drawn up. 



Gen. Loinaz del Castillo, at a meeting 

 held February 7, railed and bewailed against 

 American intervention. Gen. Guas held 

 forth against the proposed increase in num- 

 bers of rural guards, and stated that these 

 10,000 men would be additional policemen 

 to influence and control the next election. 

 Gen I Estenoz (colored) said the increase 

 might not be prejudicial if Gen. Rodriguez 

 were not in command and that this mat- 

 ter did not come within the control of the 

 government of intervention. 



A deputation of colored politicians, head- 

 ed by Colonel Estenoz, called upon Gov- 

 ernor Magoon to lay before him their griev- 

 ance in regard to lack of offices for colored 

 liberals. 



J. Nelson Polhamus, formerly Cuban 

 Consul at Galveston, has been trans- 

 ferred to New Orleans, and took pos- 

 session of his new cost on """anuary 27 

 last. He succeeds Sr. jNIanuel J. Yza- 

 guierre, resigned. 



Rumor has the following politicians slated 

 for office, said appointments to be carried 

 out after March, namely : For Havana Prov- 

 ince, Gen. Ernesto Asbert ; for Pinar del 

 Rio, Dr. Abraham Y Urquiaga ; for Matan- 

 zas, Dr. Alfredo Carmot, formerly mayor of 

 that city ; for Santiago de Cuba, Gen. De- 

 metrio' Castillo Duany, now warden of the 

 penitentiary in Principe Castle ; for Santa 

 Clara, Col. Carlos Mendieta, and for Cam- 

 aguey, Gen. Lopez Recio. 



A meeting was held recently at the resi- 

 dence of Seiior Jose Bruzcn, a well known 

 lawyer of Havana. This meeting was at- 

 tended by Rafael Montoro, Gen. Rius Ri- 

 vera, Gen. Emilio Nufiez, Lanuza. Desver- 

 nine, Leopoldo Cancio, ?^Iayor Cardenas, 

 Ricardo del Monte, and Manuel Ccronado, 

 with the purpose of organizing a new 

 party, and adopting a political platform for 

 the coming campaign. They expect that 

 a large number of moderates who have 

 withheld their support heretofore, will join 

 them. 



Governor Magoon's letter to the com- 

 mission now engaged in meetings pre- 

 paratory to remodeling Cuban laws, has 

 been printed. Some of the salient points 

 are in reference to the electoral law, pro- 

 visional and municipal laws, organization 

 of the judiciary and the promotion of civil 

 service. 



Several members of the advisory com- 

 mission favor the establishment of a law 

 to adopt the proportional census, which 

 would give the dominating party the right 



.ICSE MIGUEL GOMEZ. 



to select the majority of the government 

 offices. Others would like a central com- 

 mittee to supervise the registration of 

 voters, and keep a tally upon the lists, so 

 that said lists are not tampered with. 



Justiz Carrera will submit his report for 

 a municipal law to the subcommission of 

 which he is a member. It is rumored that 

 he will offer a proposition to' allow for 

 eigners to vote in municipal affairs. 



The Liberals review their grievances 

 against Senator Zayas for not advising with 

 them previously to conferences with the 

 Advisory Commission. There is rivalry in 

 the ranks, and rivalry between the two can- 

 didates for the office of president, and just 

 now it hangs in the balance whether Znyas 

 or Gomez will get the most votes when he 

 election is carried out for the next president 

 fof Cuba. 



Gen. Pedro Diaz recently telegraphed Gen. 

 Rodriguez, in the name of Gen.Varona and 

 a large number of officers of the wars of 

 independence, favoring the increase in the 

 rural guards. Mayor Ignacio Ayala of 

 Guines has resigned and Governor }iIagoon 

 has appointed Sehor Leandro Rodriguez to 

 this office, which he held during President 

 Palma's administration. 



Ex-President Palma in the press, publicly 

 denies the truth of an account published in 

 the Lucha of a recent visit to ex-President 

 Palma and states that the opinions at- 

 tributed to him are a tissue of 'falsehoods, 

 given either intentionally or through care- 

 lessness, by persons whom he had received 

 as friends in his house. His home is at 

 Baj^amo. 



"Rebelde" attacks Alfredo Zayas on ac- 

 count of his not calling a meeting of the 



