THE 

 CUBA REVIEW 



''ALL ABOUT CUBA" 



Copyright, 1922, by the Munson Steamship Line 



Volume XX 



JANUARY, 1922 



Number 2 



Cuban Government Matters 



Loan to Cuba 



The United States Government has 

 sanctioned a loan of 15,000,000 to Cuba, 

 but the conclusion of negotiations for a 

 loan of $50,000,000 suggested by Cuba 

 will depend upon the ability of the Cuban 

 Government to reduce further its budget. 

 Decision to permit the loan was based on 

 a report of conditions in Cuba made by 

 Major General Enoch H. Crowder, special 

 representative of the American Govern- 

 ment, who has been in Cuba supervising 

 work on the Cuban budget. 



The small loan for which permission was 

 granted will be made bj;- private bankers. 



Housing Legislation 



According to the Bulletin of the Pan 

 American Union for December, the Cuban 

 House of Representatives has passed a 

 bill providing for the construction of 

 houses of moderate price. According to 

 the bill, the President will have 5,000 

 houses built: 1,000 of type A at $4,000; 

 2,000 of type B at $2,000; and 2,000 of 

 type C at $1,200, the President being 

 empowered to select the places where the 

 houses are to be built, considering the 

 necessities of the localities where living is 

 most expensive. Type A will consist of a 

 vestibule, drawing room, dining room, 

 reception room, four bedrooms, kitchen, 

 servants' room, bath, and patio. Type B 

 will have a vestibule, drawing room, 

 dining room, two bedrooms, kitchen, bath 



and patio. Type C will be composed of 

 two bedrooms, dining room, kitchen, 

 toilet and patio. 



These houses may be acquired only bj^ 

 Cuban citizens, heads of famihes who 

 have no real property, whose wages or 

 salary is not greater than $200 per month, 

 including state, provincial and municipal 

 employes. To meet the interest and amor- 

 tize the principal, those acquiring these 

 houses will make monthly paj^ments to 

 the state for 16 years, as follows: Type A, 

 $36; type B, $21; type C, $13. For the 

 time specified the houses are entirely ex- 

 empt from taxes, and cannot be mortgaged 

 or used as security in any waJ^ 



The President has authorized the emis- 

 sion of $100 bonds of the National Trea- 

 sury to the amount of $12,075,000, interest 

 payable at the rate of 6 per cent. 



International Agreements 



The President of Cuba has announced 

 that the Senate has approved the settle- 

 ment of Madrid of April 14, 1891, con- 

 cerning the suppression of false information 

 as to the source of merchandise, revised 

 in Washington June 2, 1911; the settle- 

 ment of Madrid of the same date, for the 

 international registration of trade-marks, 

 revised in Brussels December 14, 1900, 

 and in Wasliington June 2, 1911; and the 

 agreement of the Union of Paris of March 

 20, 1883, for the protection of industrial 

 property, revised in Brussels December 

 14, 1900, and in Washing-ton June 2, 1911. 



