THE CUBA REVIEW 



SITUATION OF THE CUBAN TREASURY 



The published returns of the Cuban Treasury, 

 1911, are as follows: 



showing its condition on June 30, 



Cash on hand (in the Treasury 

 and in the National Bank 

 Cuba and Royal Bank of 

 Canada) $2,356,049 



[Miscellaneous accounts : 



Speyer ($35,000,000) loan, first 

 50 per cent 



Balance of army (1896) pay, 

 second 50 per cent 



Postal money orders 



Checks pending payment 



Fees from honorary consul- 

 ates 



(Semipublic) works per- 

 formed for account of pri- 

 vate persons 



Epidemics 



Maintenance of detained immi- 

 grants 



Refunds 



Cuban Ports Company 



Workingmen's homes 



In hands of collectors for ac- 

 counting 



*State transfer taxes and the like. 



40 



40 



26,105 



4,863 



16 



25,530 

 3,095 



929 



91,641 



102,121 



550 



166,713 



Expenditures for June : 



Disbursements, budget 1910-11. 



Disbursements, budget 1909-10. 



Disbursements, budget 1908-09. 



Disbursements, special laws of 

 1906 



Disbursements, decrees pro- 

 visional government 



Disbursements, law of 1909... 



Disbursements, laws of 1910.. 



Disbursements, loan-tax ad- 

 ministration 



Miscellaneous accounts : 



Speyer ($35,000,000) loan, first 

 50 per cent 



Balance of army (1896) pay, 

 second 50 per cent 



Postal money orders 



Checks pending payment 



(Semipublic) works performed 

 for account of private persons 



Sewering of Habana 



Sewering of Cienfuegos 



Cuban Ports Company 



Cash on hand : 



In Treasury $997,562 



In National Bank of 



Cuba 361,097 



In Royal Bank of 



Canada 150,613 



2,824,460 

 510 

 100 



29,432 

 88,009 

 57,467 



407,186 



3,000 



3,000 



52,484 



496 



85,136 

 286,721 



41,000 

 312.431 



1,509,272 



166,713 



In hands of collectors for ac- 

 counting 



Available to paymasters for cur- 

 rent and extraordinary dis- 

 bursements 3,699,063 



Red 



Cross 



Uniforms 



When the Cuban Red Cross 

 was organized, its members 

 adopted uniforms which 

 only for the difference in 

 color was the same as the 

 regular army and the rural guard. Added 

 to this the officer wore straps and bars 

 and stars like the army. This General 

 Monteagudo, the commander, says must be 

 changed, and hereafter the only uniform 

 which will be allowed will be one of the 

 same color as that at present in use, but 

 it will be more simple in the making and 

 the only ensigns worn will be the interna- 

 tional red cross on a white ground. 



President Gomez has appointed a com- 

 mission to examine and accept one of the 

 four plans submitted to the government for 

 the new presidential palace. 



Sr. Rafael Montoro, Cuban minister to 

 England, has resigned his post in London, 

 and at the request of the secretary of the 

 state department. General Carlos Garcia 

 Velez, who was recently named to Uru- 

 guay and Paraguay, may succeed Dr. Mon- 

 toro and his post given to Dr. Aristedes 

 Aguero, first secretary of the Cuban lega- 

 tion at Berlin, and a son-in-law of Dr. 

 Montoro. 



In the House during the present term 

 there were introduced 231 bills, of which 

 only twenty-five were approved and most 

 of these were for roads or pensions. It 

 failed to pass the Bustamente bill, which 

 provides that all vessels flj'ing the Cuban 

 flag and carrying passengers shall be pro- 

 vided with wireless apparatus. 



