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Rokeby and Havana sewerage system controversies); pp. 94-96, 207-9
(pardons). See also Chapman, A History of the Cuban Republic, pp.
237-46.
With the amount of high-level attention (including close examina
tion and final decisions by Roosevelt and Taft) the contractual disputes
received, it is little wonder that Cuban historians and American apolo
gists have centered their researches (and charges) upon them. The
author is inclined to agree with Lockmiller that the various settlements
were legal, fair, and honest, but there is much to the contention that
mere legality did not mean that they represented the Cubans' prefer
ences. Moreover, the controversies were and are of peripheral importance
in the history of the Second Intervention. See also David A. Lockmiller,
"The Settlement of the Church Property Question in Cuba," Hispanic
American Historical Review, XVII (November, 1937). 488-98. The
documentary evidence is ample: R. Floyd Clarke, "Brief on the Havana
Paving and Sewer Contract," Crowder Papers; File 035 CC/PGoC, RG
199, on the same subject; File 060, CC/PGoC (Church Property); File
070, CC/PGoC (Marianao Telephone Company concessions); File 115,
CC/PGoC (Cienfuegos waterworks).
- The best way to share Magoon's burial in minutiae is to examine
his handiwork: Republic of Cuba, Under the Provisional Government of
the United States: Decrees, 1906-1909 (9 vols., Havana, undated), in
the Library of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, National Archives. Here
after cited as Decrees by number and year. - Magoon, Report, 1907-1908, pp. 1-6.
- On the state of the Treasury, see Maj. E. F, Ladd's report of
October 26, 1906, in Taft-Bacon Report, pp. 534-39. - Magoon, Report, 1906-1907, pp. 38-39.
- Magoon, Report, 1907-1908, p. 114.
- U.S. Senate, Supplemental Report of the Provisional Governor of
Cuba, December 1, 1908-January 29, 1909, 61st Cong., 1st Sess.,
Senate Doc. 80, pp. 12-13. Hereafter cited as Magoon, Supplemental Re
port. See also Lockmiller, Magoon in Cuba, pp. 201-2.
Recent Cuban studies still criticize Magoon's profligate spending:
Alvarez Diaz, Estudio sobre Cuba, p. 367; Portell Vila, Historia de
Cuba, IV, 567. Actually the estimated revenues easily covered the fiscal
1909 budget before President Gomez changed it. - Magoon, Report, 1906-1907, pp. 83-86; Magoon, Report, 1907
1908, p. 6. - Taft-Bacon Report, pp. 461, 506, 508-9.
- Magoon, Report, 1906-1907, pp. 20-21. The best account of the
Provisional Government's legal reforms is Lockmiller, Magoon in Cuba,
pp. 146-73; this chapter also was published as David A. Lockmiller,
"The Advisory Law Commission of Cuba," Hispanic American Historical
Review, XVII (February, 1937), pp. 2-29. - Decree 284, December 27, 1906, Decrees, 1906.
- E. V. Morgan to Root, December 31, 1906, Case 1852/59-60,
Num. File 1906-1910, Vol. CCI, RG 59. The Cuban members were
(Liberals) Alfredo Zayas, Juan Gualberto Gomez, Felipe Gonzalez Sar