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THF, CUBA REVIEW 



Representative Pardo Sua- 



Measures rez on April 21st presented 



Before in the House an amend- 



Congress ment exempting from the 



thirty per cent increase 



medicines, articles of wearing- apparel and 



articles of food. 



A bill signed by Speaker Orestes Fe- 

 rrara was introduced in the House April 

 29th. forbidding all religious processions 

 outside the confines of monasteries or 

 other religious inclosures. 



Twenty thousand dollars is asked of 

 congress for a road from Santa Clara to 

 Cienfuegos. 



An aqueduct for Jamaica, in the prov- 

 ince of Oriente, is projected. 



The new road between Vueltas and Re- 

 medios, Santa Clara Province, has been 

 officially received by the department en- 

 gineers and is open to traffic. 



An appropriation of $40,000 is asked for 

 a road from San Juan de los Yeras to 

 Santa Clara. 



A motion was introduced in the House 

 and referred to a committee on April 27th 

 to em.power the president to contract for 

 the building of the railroad from Hol'^uin 

 to join the Cuba Railway at Delicias, as 

 provided in the bill of July 5, 1906. 



Another bill introduced, referred April 

 27th, appropriates $50,000 for a sewer sys- 

 tem for Bejucal, Havana Province, and 

 $72,000 for a road between Yaguajay to 

 Remedios, Santa Clara Province. 



The regulation of woman and child la- 

 bor in Cuba is the subject of a bill in- 

 troduced May 3d in the House. The bill 

 deals with labor conditions and is a step 

 towards the advancement of labor in 

 Cuba, where hundreds of women are em- 

 ployed in the tobacco industry. 



Bills creating two new courts in Bara- 

 coa, one in Havana and another raising 

 the grade of the court at Banes were also 

 considered and referred to committees. 



Congressman Luque proposes that the 

 state, the province and the municipality 

 shall establish bonuses and special prizes 

 for the growers of coffee, cocoa, corn, 

 rice, potatoes, onions and other vegetables. 



The bonus is to be fixed as a basis on 

 one caballeria of all the products men- 

 tioned, and the amount of the bonus will 

 be 25 per cent of the value of the 

 caballeria. 



Nezv 

 Arrivals 

 in Cuba 



The proposed budget for 1911-12 

 amounts to $34,024,582, and there are ru- 

 mors that a message is being prepared ask- 

 ing for one million more, in order to 

 cover the deficit which will result from the 

 tonnage fees being ceded to the Port Im- 

 provement Company and the increase in 

 • wages which will be made in fav.or of 

 the state laborers after July next. 



Immigration to Cul 

 1910 was the largesi 

 period of five years, 

 als in Cuba during th 

 in question numberin 

 764 against 31,286 in 1909; 27,999 in 

 32,436 in 1907, and .34,556 in 1906. 



Of those a. riving in 1910 Spain 

 tiibuted 30,91.3, of which nea.ly 

 were men ; the United States sent 

 men and 383 women. 



)a m 

 for a 

 arriv- 

 e year 

 - 37,- 

 1908; 



con- 



26,000 



1,189 



It is said all of the steam- 



Passeiigers ers arriving at Havana 



Vaccinated from southern ports are to 



be subjected to rigorous 



quarantine becj^use smallpox is declared to 



exist in some southern ports. 



All of the passengers arriving April 25th 

 on the "Olivette" from Kev West and 

 Tampa were vaccinated by the health of- 

 ficers before being permitted to land. 



The mayor of Cienfuegos has issued 

 an edict against bull fightina' in his muni- 

 cipality in harmony with the order sent 

 out by the interior department. It is be- 

 lieved that the Cuban statutes which for- 

 bid the killing of bulls by men in public 

 rings will be effectually observed every- 

 where. 



Col. Julio Morales Coello, coiumandiitg officer 

 of Cuba's Navy. He zvilt marry on June 3d 

 President Gomel's eldest daughter, Senorita 

 Maiiiielita Gome:. 



