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T H F. CUBA R E \M E W 



Political 

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Sr. Ricardo Hcrrcra, Consul cic la Rcj^ublica 

 dc Cuba en Madrid 



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The estalilishment of the 

 Improvement of Ports Com- 

 pany which firm has the 

 contract for dredging and 

 otherwise improving the 

 ports of the island has set free funds which 

 were to be devoted to this purpose. Be- 

 cause of this enterprise Santiago has now 

 some $45,000, which it will devote to com- 

 pleting the city's aqueduct and which had 

 been appropriated for the improvement of 

 its harbor. 



For the same reason the president has or- 

 dered the transfer of $217,600 from the ap- 

 propriation of $483,000 for the dredging to 

 the harbor of Isabela de Sagua. to the sprin- 

 kling and sweeping of the streets of Ha- 

 vana. Since the ports improvement con- 

 cession the money is no longer needed for 

 the dredging at Sagua. 



From the report of the engineer-in-chief 

 it is deduced that the aqueduct at Manzani- 

 llo will be half finished within three months. 

 By the end of this month the last two mil- 

 lion gallon reservoirs will be completed. 

 They will be of concrete and of the most 

 improved construction. 



Juan Gualberto Gomez, the well-known 

 negro poHtician, formerly political editor 

 of La Lticha, of Havana, has resigned his 

 editorial office for "powerful motives and 

 reasons." 



Congress reconvened on the first ^Monday 

 in April, when the budget for 1911-12 was 

 considered, as well as such of the bills 

 which had been under consideration dur- 

 ing the last session. 



All the records and papers of the Cuban 

 army have been removed from Camp Co- 

 lumbia to La Fuerza in Havana, w-here are 

 located the offices and headquarters of Gen- 

 eral Monteagudo. 



accepts the 

 Party pro- 



into the 



The "Jovcn Cuba," or 



^'oung Cuba I'arty. is to 



fuse with the Xational Cu- 



l)an Party, wliich is better 



known as the "Xunista" 



Party ; lioth parties came into the political 



arena last year during the congressional and 



numicipal elections. 



The Xational Cuban Part\ 

 program of the "Joven Culm 

 visionally. 



The Conservative Party will 

 coming ijolitical campaign under the name 

 of the Republican Progressive Party. 



It will urge that the president be elected 

 b\' the c(jngress, for a term of seven years, 

 thus al)andoningthc popular form of gov- 

 ernment patterned after the American plan. 

 It is not shown that this method has failed, 

 but the new program of the conservatives 

 does indicate a certain degree of public 

 opinion in Cuba that better progress could 

 be made and better government achieved by 

 a shift to the parliamentary f(>rm, after the 

 French model. 



El JMnndo and La Disciisioii. influential 

 papers in Havana, approve of the proposi- 

 tions; but \'ice-Presidtnt Zayas has ex- 

 pressed himself as strongly against the 

 change, but said he would like to see the 

 provincial governments abolished as being 

 useless. 



On President Gomez's Saints" Day, ]\Iarch 

 ISth, a committee from Pinar del Rio, fa- 

 voring his re-election, made him a present 

 of a gold pen. The spokesman said the 

 committee wanted him to use the pen in 

 signing the acceptance when he should be 

 notified of his renomination. 



RESIGNATION OF JAMES PAGE 



On ]\Iarch 31st President Gomez, at the 

 recommendation of the secretary of public 

 works, accepted the resignation of James 

 Page, government engineer, who has been 

 supervising the construction of the sewers 

 and water works in Cienfuegos. 



The Post says that i\Ir. Page resigned be- 

 cause of the constant trouble he had with 

 the contractors, and did not wish to con- 

 tinue the wrangle any longer. 



It is said that Sr. Sanchez Xiquel, the 

 well-known Cuban engineer, will be named 

 to fill the vacancv. 



General Pino Guerra will tour Pinar del 

 Rio Province in the interests of Dr. Al- 

 fredo Zaj-as, now^ the vice-president, but 

 slated according to the original agreement 

 of the two wings of the Lilieral Party for 

 the office of president of Cuba. 



Antonio Alartin Rivero, Cuba's minister 

 to the United States, was received by Secre- 

 tary of State Knox ]\Iarch 31st and pre- 

 sented his credentials. 



