The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-09-18
IMPROVING HAVANA,
cuhan Capital Is to Be Put Into
Better Sanitary Shape.
WORK or OUR GOVERNMENT.

assen8e eoaagssu1 before i2e provisional
xowernnspat through witch tse tar
81 States - temporarily administering
the aHana Of tAe repablic e Cabs. b
FeEfaced - 6alsaa aaa W8aIly in1e
HeE4enf e1nal ssgrars says a WASH
fngton corrwsgssasaeat % lh~ New Y0Fk
Pest 80 GAts coarse ths Washington
roverumaeut - grFeEo<al5y committed
TIE ngsS step Is That direction viii Ne
tAr pacing and sewHranE of the Cahan
caNIiz since hla return frouI HaYsHs
Secret > Tafi has hrad several confer
ences TN The sfgevneys - d epnstTuc
sson ~ paay Ia tbs effort % settle tbs
kaug palalinH QaeStAons growing out %
she coGspany'x contract foF doing this
wnrk As regNit % these conferences
Fepres atatives ~ the company have
Eoue q HavanH b take 90 with Pre-
vision Governor Masoga and Colonel
BLACK. The galceF In charge ~ public
WORKS the details ~ the contract
whtrh Eaay require Modification because
- the long aeiay In It's execution,
ObJe lon has tren raised ~ the T.ee
pie ~ EiavMaA Ia the past % the carry
tAg o.; - this or aay other contract
Cor the paving and seweriag 81 their
capital Ga fhe Eeneral ground that the
work Has extFavawant and unneees
amry. When the contract was iet. thls
wmn fsa ohseefian they offered, and
they 60 not appear % have changed
their point - r1ew since that time
Another reas1a advanced IN opposl-
hoa % shin hyEieule measure 10 the
last fe~ years IL that the city Of Tia
gnna j. not enancialiy IN a condition
so Hhealaer the burden ~ tbs project.
aud YfS he aaanccs ~ the city art
Uersnlhiy not less able 10 stand fbe
strain today than thsy we're when the
c0afraNt was lRt Furthertnore, the
eauhan treasury 4 IN excellent eoodl.
kian. "a u has always teen under
Bfnod tsaag assistance could lee expect
nj fF0.a thia arurce IN defraylng the
eusf 81 she work ID u estimaied ttst
about G4e yeArs win b. Feanired fur
che exeesfioa Of the pgsssent epairact
and 81 pas uaenfs which faA due h
The NEXT fwo years o. more coall Ger.
Rasnly he paid
Exactly bow the WORK 10 % b. slhane
"a h 9 quesiioa Jet % BE- settled one
way cut ~ the dlfaculfy would be fer
TIE ialana government 10 advance the
funds neceasaFy % supplement those
aislalned b. neaun 81 taxat'a Ia The
city. The issaaBce q city Is has
been aaEsesied. bot The pihh may
prove sHiFaacsirable u Is unlikely
ghat ne teginuinE 81 the w0fs win u
dNiayed uutl the details ~ the tnan.
rami auessiam inN0lFed are wogke3 out.
GoeknEhtlus will not ~ permitted
d Cuba un2sr tbe American regime
TITS has proved troublesome qnes-
tioa % dee3da, hecausa Il lHvolged >
great popuinF uloyeneat which was ia
fasor ~ ieavlag the regulation Or sup.
pEeAs4ua af Ice sport 10 thV towns u
tha island tbs Is the Philippine
usthosi - 6eallag with the subject
and II was SUPPOSED that secretary
Taft waNla favor t8e same method OF
eontFol a Cuba that BE- adopted In the
phiiippinee Nhlle h. was ripll govern
or Elaa she qpestlaB uf cos gaghglns
been uew eae. ahd bad IL i,-ea per.
mitted B less at she time the pre-
Nisioaal government was established
amwF fn0, il - certain taat Secretary
Tan would hnVe taken the position
expected aad would have directed that
'thlM matter be left 70 the towns 10
regulate or suppress. az they saw 1T
1kls LEGAL aptlon9 solution OF the
pHehieln would doubtless have proved
popular among the gutAn8
LnNgha1 81 being 4 new question. the
provisional government found that
throughout the four years ilfe Of the
republic the congress bad never repeal.
~ tn military order iszae1 b. Gen.
wraa Weed a. military governor which
Kgstssie cecknghtinR throughout the y.
aand AZ soon a. SECRETARY TAR was
Wnade aaare Il the history Of this mat
keT - dsieYtnlneA 70 maintaIn the stat.
Eis quo he refused 70 discuss the
question whether ceekaEhfins was
more cruel than other pastimos witch
prevail II AnKio=Sa1on countries such
q discmsNl2a WAS rot necessary 10 bis
declSion. The posltisn u the Wash
ingtaa government - defined - the
sscswtary waa that a provisional Soy.
ernment eonld hardly he JUSTIFIED In
changing the existing lAws pgohlhltinE
eocknEhtinE when Tn repubiis q cuha
bad refused 60 make anch = Change.
When The question Was recwntly PRIV
seated - secretarY taft whether TIE
Omitted States WUaid saRsenf 10 the
eFectios 20 3 monument 10 the mem
ewy ~ ura ~ the distinguished span
IN gcnst who served ia Cplsa whom
fAs SpauisraN - the Island desired %
eoner promptly eablei oovernas
1iaRoos ~ Americas government.
-saizst TIE geeerai fought. Ger.
nly had ~ objection 10 the srecttau
% 9 m9anment 70 bis mamary. and he
expressed to belief that the shish
courtesy" sec Cuban pssspte would
lead theW rtlly 20 arqulesse Ia and
seepprp1e g provisional Forernmant's
course ~ e sntine the nessesssrY per.
tuiasl0a Tise eQuseut 81 the auth8ri.
Etea - tie erection ef The memorial
has probably Gane n5aFe ghan anR Oh