THL 

 CUBA RLVILW 



"ALL ABOUT CUBA" 



Copyriglit, 1910, by the Munson Steamship Line 



LIBRARY 



^EW YORK 



tiOTANICAL 



OARDEN. 



Volume IX 



DECEMBER, 1910 



Number 1 



CUBAN GOVERNMENT MATTERS 



General 

 Giierra 



Deposed 



THE CUBAN BUDGET — GENERAL GUERRA DEPOSED — TARIFF AMEND- 

 MENTS, RESOLUTIONS, ETC., BEFORE THE CONGRESS 



the exchange of shots Sr. :\Ioleon received 

 a bullet in the neck and died soon after- 

 ward in the hospital, while Gen. Figuera 

 was wounded in the stomach, which nearly 

 proved fatal. Two passers-by were struck 

 by bullets, but were not mortally injured. 



Representative ^loleon and his slayer 

 were liberals, Seiior ^iloleon of the Migue- 

 lista branch and General Figueras of the 

 Za^-istas. Their enmity arose over the 

 tight waged in the House by Representa- 

 tive ]\Ioleon and his friends to pass the 

 Arsenal bill, the measure having always 

 met with Representative Figuera's bitter 

 opposition. 



Senor ^loleon struck and badly injured 

 General Figueras with a cane several 

 months ago, shortly after Representative 

 San ^Miguel's life was attempted in the 

 House. 



The strained relations be- 

 tween President Gomez and 

 General Pino Guerra, com- 

 mander of the Cuban arnn', 

 which were brought into 

 prominence immediate!}' after the attempted 

 assassination of Guerra, on October 22d, 

 continues to be a topic of absorbing in- 

 terest. Rumors were prevalent that in or- 

 der to end the friction the president had 

 determined to send the general on a foreign 

 mission and that the post would be de- 

 clined, but on December lith the president 

 took a decisive step, issuing an executive 

 order relieving Guerra of command of the 

 arm}- and appointing Col. Jose ]^Iarti, 

 Guerra's Chief of Staff, to succeed him. 



The president's action left Guerra the 

 alternative of accepting the foreign mission 

 or resigning from the service. 



Which course he would take, he said later 

 in a newspaper interview, he was not pre- 

 pared to decide, but it may be that as he 

 received his appointment from Governor 

 Magoon he may dispute President Gomez's 

 right to supersede him and appeal to 

 Washington. 



The general has a large sympathetic fol- 

 lowing among the army officers and pri- 

 vates, adherents in large numbers of the 

 Za3-ista faction of the Liberal Party and 

 much uneasiness is expressed. 



A Xezc 

 Postmaster- 

 General 



Colonel Orencio Xodarse, 

 director of posts and tele- 

 graphs, announced Novem- 

 ber 30th that he had agreed 

 with the president to as- 

 sume the directorship of the special rent 

 bureau. The annual salary is $-t,500, the 

 same as received in his former position. 



His successor in the post-office depart- 

 ment was Francisco Lopez Silveira. The 

 appointment is generally approved. 



Severo ]\Ioleon and Gen. 

 A .Sanchez Figuera, both 



Street members of the Cuban 

 Duel House of Representatives, 



and the latter a negro, held 

 an impromptu duel with revolvers Decem- 

 ber 9th on O'Reilly Stree;t in the rear of 

 the palace at Havana and within a stone's 

 throw of the scene of the recent attempted 

 assassination of Gen. Pino Guerra. In 



The Enrique Mlluendas 

 For a Club, composed of many 



Second prominent members of the 

 Term .Liberal Party, met recently 

 to initiate a campaign in fa- 

 vor of the re-election of President Gomez. 

 On notifying the latter of their purpose, 

 the President said he was grateful for their 

 support, but considers their action prema- 

 ture. 



