CONTROL OF CUBA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13647, 15 January 1908, Page 7

CONTROL OF CUBA.

AMERICA'S TASK.

By Telegraph.— Association,— Copyright.

(deceived January 14, 10.45 p.m.) New York, January 14. Mr. W. H. Tapt, in a letter to President Roosevelt, forwarding the report of Mr. Charles E. Magoon, provisional Governor of Cuba, anticipates that the United States will be able to relinquish temporary control of Cuba in March, 1909.

the peace preliminaries and definitive treaty signed by the Peace Commissioners at Paris, in December, 1898, Cuba was relinquished by Spain, becoming an independent State. 'the Spanish-American war brought the island into association with the United States Government, and in 1901 a constitution was adopted, giving Cuba a republican form of government, with a president, Senate, and House of Representatives. The United States Legislature passed a, law authorising the President of the United States to make over the government of the island to the Cuban people, if Cuba undertook to make no foreign treaty endangering her independence, and to concede to the United States Government a right of intervention. 'These conditions were accepted. In August, 1906, an insurrection broke out, and President Palma resigned office. No successor was appointed, and Mr. Taft, United States Secretary for War and Peace Commissioner to Cuba, undertook the provisional government, being succeeded on" October 13 by Mr. C. E. Magoon. ■As soon as it seeme expedient and Mr. Taft has indicated'that the time is now arriving—a regular Cubean Government will lie formed.