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"ALL ABOUT CUBA" 



Copyright, 1911, by the Munson Steamship Line 



Volume IX 



NOVEMBER, 1911 



Number 12 



CUBAN GOVERNMENT MATTERS 



CONGRESS RECONVENES AND HEARS THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE 

 REVOLT OF THE VETERANS ALCOHOLIC REGULATIONS 



President Gomez, in re- 



Deportations sponse to the request of 



Revoked many prominent Spaniards, 



signed a decree October 22d 

 permitting the return to Cuba of Jose 

 Maria Villaverde and Manuel Villaverde, 

 editor and business manager of the news- 

 paper Cuba, who were deported last 

 August. 



Investigations, which are now being made 

 by the secret police on behalf of the De- 

 partment of the Interior show that there 

 are fifty labor leaders and alleged anarch- 

 ists of foreign nationality on the list to 

 be expelled from this country. This in- 

 vestigation has been going on during the 

 month of October and there is much se- 

 crecy being maintained. 



Secretary of the Treasury 



Regulations Martinez Ortiz has issued a 



Regarding circular, effective November 



Alcohol 1st, which provides that all 



the alcohol sold to manu- 

 facturers of perfumes must be denatural- 

 ized at the still with either boric acid or 

 formol. 



By decision of the Supreme court alco- 

 hols used in the manufacture of perfumes 

 are not taxable under the internal revenue 

 act. Up to the present time the protection 

 offered the revenue office was provided by 

 forcing the manufacturers of perfumes to 

 denaturalize the alcohol they received at 

 their factories. This procedure is said to 

 have given away to many frauds, for it had 

 been found that perfumers would sell 

 alcohol, purchased for perfume manufac- 

 turing, to liquor dealers in a form that 

 avoided the payment of duty on the raw 

 material as the present tax involves. Now 



by denaturalizing the alcohols at the stills 

 where the work is done under the supervi- 

 sion of inspectors this will be avoided. 



Other provisions of the circular are that 

 packages containing natural alcohol must 

 be painted blue, while those containing 

 denaturalized alcohol must be painted red 

 and have large letters stating that it is de- 

 naturalized alcohol. Wagons conveying 

 these packages must also be labeled. 



Opening 

 of ■ 

 Congress 



Congress was convened No- 

 vember 6th in its regular 

 fall meeting, ordered to be- 

 gin on the first ^Monday in 

 November. Doings at both 

 houses consisted merely in the reading of 

 the president's annual message, which is 

 to be followed in ten days by the annual 

 budget appropriation measure. 



The center of interest was in the Senate, 

 where members of the diplomatic corps 

 and Cabinet officers had been invited to 

 attend. At 3.30, when Vice-President 

 Alfredo Zayas called the body to order 

 there were fourteen senators present, while 

 the diplomatic gallery was filled with the 

 foreign representatives and their wives. 

 Most of the members of the Cabinet were 

 also present and the public gallery was 

 packed. 



The General Staff Band, which was 

 present, played the National x^nthem, to 

 mark the opening. 



On November Sth the diplomatic repre- 

 sentatives of Great Britain, France and 

 Germany presented a joint note relative to 

 claims against Culia owing to destruction 

 of property during the war of independence 

 to the Cuban state department. 



