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Volume IX TULY. 1911 Number 8 



CUB AX GO\TRNMENT MATTERS 



ATTACKS OX THE PRESIDENT— RUMORS OF UPRISINGS SPREAD BROAD- 

 CAST U. S. SECRETARY OF STATE OFFICIALLY DISCLAIMS 



ANY INTERFERENCE OF PRESIDENT TAFT 



On July 2. Representative .Armando Andre, of Pinar del Rio, demanded that 

 Congress should direct the supreme court to investigate the milHons alleged to have 

 been amassed by President Gomez since his inuaguration. On the same day appeared 

 the first copj- of "'El Dia/' a new morning paper, published under the direction of Rep- 

 resentative Andre, in which he told how tirmh- con\inced he was of the president's 

 guilt of graft. 



These attacks brought out a statement from the president on Juh- 6 giving an in- 

 ventory- of his estate, which showed it to be of only moderate dimensions and acquired 

 prior to his taking otece. 



This action of the president's was deplored by his friends as being weak and un- 

 dignified. The executive committee of the consersation parr\- discussed the charges the 

 same night and decided they did not present legal grovmds for action against the 

 president. 



Persistent rumors of uprising in the extreme eastern and western ends of the island 

 in Oriente and Pinar del Rio Pro^"inces were also prevalent, and added to the general 

 uneasiness caused by Representative Andre's charges the opposition papers declared 

 revolution was imminent, while administration organs declared there was no danger. 



On Jul}' 12 General Orencio Xodarse, director of the national lottery-, resigned on 

 the ground of ill health. His resignation was accepted by the president. General 

 Xodarse was also the subject of El Dia's attacks, that paper charging him with fraud 

 in the collections of illegal commissions to the amount of SSO.OOO monthly. A duel is 

 likely to follow between the General and Representative Andre. 



On July 14th a special cable to the Xew York Sun said that Havana was consider- 

 abl}- stirred over the publication of a sensational stor\- that the president was in pos- 

 session of documents amply proving that certain prominent men have been conspiring 

 to procure another inter\-ention ever since he was elected. 



Of cotu-se, these reports of revolutionarj- conspiracies had reached Washington, and 

 despatches to the press from that citj- said the government was keeping a close watch 

 on affairs, and it was even intimated that preparations were being secretly made for 

 another intervention. 



That Washington was not ver\- much disturbed over happenings in Cuba was first 

 indicated when the Cuban secretary- of state, Senor Sanguily sent L'nited States Sec- 

 retary Knox his thanks for a despatch assuring Cuba that Washington did not intend 

 to inter^-ene. 



This despatch was in explanation of the coming visit to Cuba of the secretary' of 

 war, the chief of staff and the judge advocate-general, and Mr. Knox, speaking for Presi- 

 dent Taft, said officially as follows : "The government of the L'nited States has thought 

 it not worth while to deny the false stories of possible intervention which have been 

 circulated in certain sections of the press, the fact being that no such question has been 

 the subject of consideration by that government.'" 



This statement is so comprehensive that even the practical politicians of Havana, 

 who find ■' "the countn.^ in danger" a verv- useful crj- when they want to make a dis- 

 turbance," says The Sun. "will find it hard to get their fellow countr\"men to disbelieve 

 Mr. Taft. who is notorious for tellins the truth in and out of season." 



