Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-31
THE NEW CUBAN CABINET
Members Are Expected to Be Sworn in at
Havana Tomorrow.
What Their Powers and Dutie. Are-
PersOnncl Not Yet Definite.
ly known.

Inc swearing in of the new Cuban cab-
met at Havana tomorrow morning is await
ed with much interest in official and diplo-
Hatic circles, rot SO much on account of
the personality of the ministers IS for the
eHect IN naugurating the new autonomous,
or home rule, policy. Minister Dupuy De
LONE takes the view that with the advent
OF the Cuban cabinet there will be a real
izatlon OF the new government of Cuba by
The Cubans, as the new law makes the
cuban cabinet and the legislature the re-
sponsible organs of administering the af-
fairs of the island. Summaries of this law
have been received by cable but the Span
ish legation has now received the full text
of the law, from which the following arti-
cles are taken to show the powers and
duties of the new cabinet:
Powers and Duties
Article 44-No executive order of the
governor sereral, acting as representative
and chief of the colony, shall take effect
unless countersigned oy member of the
cabinet. who by this act alone shall make
himself responsible for the same.
Article 45-There shall be five secretar-
les OF department, to wit: Justice and in
terror, finance, public education, public
works and pests and telegraph, agriculture,
industry and commerce
THE governor general shall appoint the
president of the cabinet from among the
secretaries and shall also have the power
to appoint a president without a secre-
taryship.
THE power to increase or diminish the
number of secretaries composing the colo
nial cabinet and to determine the scope
CT each department is vested in the insular
parliament
Article 46-The secretaries of the cab
met may be members OF either the cham
Der of representatives or the council of ad-
ministration and take part in the debates
of either chamber, but a secretary shall
only vote in the chamber of which he is a
member.
article 47-The secretaries of the cabinet
ment'
1t is pointed out as chiefly important in
the foregoing articles that under the last
clause of article 4.J the Cuban parliament
and under article Al the orders of the
governor general are not to take effect
hereafter until countersigned by a member
of the local cabinet, thus giving, in the
view of the Spanish authorities, practical
rome rule by the Cubans.
Personnel Not Positively Known
The personnel of the cabinet is not yet
known with positiveness. and the unofii-
cial lists sent from Havana are said to
contain some names which will not appear
in the list as announced, and to omit some
names which will appear. There is nc
doubt, however, that Senor Jose NJ. Galvez
will be president of the cabinet, or premier
He is native Cuban, and has passed
through some severe ordeals during Cuba's
struggles, being confined during the former
revolutionary period on the Isle of Pines
and at another time cooperating from
Havana with the revolutionary junta.
There is reason to believe. also, that
Senior Gown will be in the cabinet not
withstanding denials from Atlanta, where
he has Leen of late
He passed through Tampa, Fla, yester-
day, en- route to Cuba. There was serious
apprehension for a time that Senior Gown
would be subjected to personal ndignties
as he passed through Tampa the Spanish
minister having received a dispatch from
the Spanish consul at Tampa, and a letter
from New York, saying that an organized
effort would be made to insult GOWN in a
conspicuous manner. The consul stated
that the plans on foot contemplated as
semblinS crowd at the depot and making
a hostile demonstration. The letter from
New York stated that the plan to publicly
insult Gown was being organized there by
the radical element of the junta. AS no
demonstration has been reported from
Tampa, it is supposed that Senior Gown
got through without serious affront, as the
snip for Cuba left late last night. Refer
ring to the incident, the Spanish minister
stated today that he regarded it as a con-
Sp1racy. and as one of the means by which
the 1rreconcllables, as he terms them, seek
to terroriZe those Cubans who are ready to
accept autonomy.