The Provisional Government and Cuban Stability 217
rain, Miguel F. Viondi, Erasmo Regiieiferos Boudet, and (conservatives)
Francisco Carrera Justiz, Manuel M. Coronado, Mario Garcia Kohly,
and Rafael Montoro. All but Gomez and Coronado (editors) were
lawyers; all had political and professional reputations.
- Lockmiller, Magoon in Cuba, pp. 149-50.
- Crowder to Taft, January 12, 1907, Crowder Papers.
- "Final Report of the Advisory Law Commission," Magoon, Sup
plemental Report, pp. 16-24.
- Magoon, Report, 1906-1907, pp. 119-39.
- Ibid., pp. 135-36.
- Ibid., p. 139. Judge Manuel Landa, acting secretary of the De
partment of Justice, commented that the Advisory Law Commission
had not harmonized "the Substantive with the remedial. ... If there
fore, the Provisional Government is preparing us for public life, why
not attend to our private life?" Landa advocated "total revision of the
law" under the aegis of "the great American nation which so efficiently
intervenes in the destinies of Cuba." Magoon, Report, 1906-1907, pp.
207, 236.
- Magoon, Report, 1906-1907, pp. 75-76.
- Ibid., pp. 20-22.
- Lockmiller, Magoon in Cuba, pp. 150-73. Portell Vila admits the
Advisory Law Commission's work was excellent. Portell Vila, Historia
de Cuba, IV, 550.
- Wright, Cuba, p. 196. Aliens, however, did become eligible for
election to the municipal councils.
- Crowder continued to stress American responsibility for change
in Cuba throughout his distinguished career as exofficio adviser to Pres
ident Zayas and Ambassador to Cuba. Crowder to Secretary of State
Charles Evans Hughes, July 15, 1923; Crowder to President Gerardo
Machado, January 26, 1925, Crowder Papers.
- Magoon, Report, 1906-1907, pp. 36-45; U.S. Department of
Commerce and Labor, Monthly Consular and Trade Reports, November,
1907, pp. 75-78, and January, 1908, pp. 3-12.
- Magoon, Report, 1906-1907, pp. 60-63. The banking problems
were complicated because Cubans seldom deposited their savings in
banks in the justified fear that these unsupervised institutions would
fold. Borrowers, especially the sugar planters, had to seek funds from
foreign sources at high interest rates. As for the Panic of 1907, Magoon
believed it would bring a healthy readjustment of credit in Cuba.
- Magoon, Report, 1907-1908, p. 8.
- Magoon to Roosevelt, August 31, 1908, Roosevelt Papers.
- Louis V. Place to Magoon, January 5, 1907, File 89, CC/PGoC,
RG 199.
- Root to Magoon, March 2, 1907, File 89, CC/PGoC, RG 199.
Magoon did arrange a more expeditious way of settling customs disputes
by using the Chamber as a mediary.
- Maj. Frank Maclntyre, BIA, to Magoon, September 6, 1907,
File 178, CC/PGoC; MID to C/S, ACP, February 13 and 14, 1908, File
