THL 

 CUBA RLVILW 



"ALL ABOUT CUBA" 



Copyright, 1911, by the Munson Steamship Line 



LIBRAH 

 NEW YO 

 BOTANIC 



QARDBi 



Volume IX 



MAY, 1911 



Number 6 



CUBAN GOVERNMENT MATTERS 



PREFERRED DUTY FOR IRRIGATION MACHINERY SCHEME FOR DIX'IDING 



A GREAT PRO\'INCE SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT WORK 



Duty 

 on 

 Machinerx 



Irrigation m a c h i n e r y, 

 pumps, etc., will receive 



preferred treatment under 

 section 215 of the tariff 

 until congress passes a law 

 entirely abolishing the duties. 



A ruling granting all pumps, machiner}-, 

 etc., imported for the installation of irri- 

 gation plants has been approved by Secre- 

 tary of the Treasury ^Martinez Ortiz, 

 whereby the duty paid will be 10 per cent 

 ad valorem, instead of the former duty 

 of 20 per cent. 



The ruling will go into eft'ect imme- 

 diately, and Senator Nodarse will urge 

 the aboUshment of the duty by congress. 



Irrigation machinery has been pa3-ing 

 20 per cent ad valorem, and under the new 

 ruling the duty will be 10 per cent ad va- 

 lorem. Owners of the farms or planta- 

 tions will receive this reduction by pay- 

 ing into the custom house the duty cor- 

 responding to the machinery under the old 

 tariff and will receive a refund after it is 

 certified to the customs department that 

 the machinery has been duly installed. 



A project is discussed in 

 Dividing poHtical circles to divide 

 Oriente Oriente Province into tw^o 

 Province departments, to be called 

 the Upper Oriente and the 

 Lower Oriente. Others would have the 

 new province called Cauto after the larg- 

 est river of Cuba in the western valley. 

 Oriente Province is already divided as 

 far as the treasury department is con- 

 cerned. There are two revenue collectors' 

 offices in that province, one at Santiago de 

 Cuba and the other at Holguin, entirely 

 independent from each other. 



It has the largest area of any province 

 in Cuba. The population at the last cen- 

 sus was 455,086. 



Sr. Fidel G. Pierra, senator from 

 Oriente Province, pronounces the scheme 

 absurd and will oppose it. 



The president has expressed himself as 

 highly pleased with the idea, saying that 

 he thought Oriente Province was large 

 enough to be converted into two provinces 

 b}- dividing her area equally. 



Fiscals' 



Work 

 Inspected 



The new secretary of jus- 

 tice, Sr. Barraque, will 

 make a thorough examina- 

 tion of the work of the 

 fiscals of the audiencias of 

 all the provinces in the interests of greater 

 harmonj- of method and efiiciencj^ 



The fiscals are the prosecuting attor- 

 neys for the people and the legal represen- 

 tatives of the executive power before the 

 courts. 



They control the corps of deputy and 

 district fiscals who have jurisdiction over 

 the dift'erent courts of the island. 



"The job is an eas}- one," 



Any Cuban says La Luclia, "sincerely 



for we say it — the easiest that 



President we know of, for it is our 



conviction the., a modicum 

 of good intention will suffice to avoid se- 

 rious error. Cuba is a most fortunately 

 situated country, for everything is already 

 arranged for us and to steer the ship 

 of state it but needs a mediocre pilot. \\'e 

 have no need of skilled navigators. And 

 our people have recognized this fact and 

 have not wasted, nor do they seem dis- 

 posed to waste, their time looking for a 

 Descartes to govern them, and it will be 

 the same at the next election, whether 

 Jose IMigual again wins, and whether this 

 or that person, not forgetting Zayas, is 

 elected. 



"Let us realize the situation and not for 



