. The Cuba review. 18 T II c u r. .\ k !â¢: v i !â : \v DECIDED AFTER FIFTEEN YEARS An echo of tlic liylit fur Cuban inde- pendence was heard on Xoveniber :2Utii in the Supreme Court of the United States at Washington, when that tribunal decided that Collector George 1). Bryan of Charles- ton, S. C, was not liable for the detention of the steamer "Laurada" during the struggle for independence. In 1895 Col- lector Bryan received instructions from Washington to take measures for the de- tention of the steamer "Laurada," which was supposed to have landed a hostile ex- pedition
. The Cuba review. 18 T II c u r. .\ k !â¢: v i !â : \v DECIDED AFTER FIFTEEN YEARS An echo of tlic liylit fur Cuban inde- pendence was heard on Xoveniber :2Utii in the Supreme Court of the United States at Washington, when that tribunal decided that Collector George 1). Bryan of Charles- ton, S. C, was not liable for the detention of the steamer "Laurada" during the struggle for independence. In 1895 Col- lector Bryan received instructions from Washington to take measures for the de- tention of the steamer "Laurada," which was supposed to have landed a hostile ex- pedition from the United States in Culia. This suit was to recover for damages alleged to have resulted from the collector detaining the boat. The Supreme Court held that it was the United States marshal and not the collector who detained the ship. THE NOVEMBER RAIN STORM Losses in excess of $1,000,000 was caused by the rain storm of November. In Pinar del Rio Province the tobacco crop, it is said, may prove a total loss. If bad weather continues and the planters be un- able to obtain nev/ seedlings, the loss will reach several millions, because no crop will be harvested this year. Some of the smaller farmers have been hard hit and are asking for government aid. At Guines, near Havana, a great center of vegetable growing, and where the picking and pack- ing of tomatoes for the New York market was about to begin, a total crop loss is re- ported. The storm raged for three days. The same heavy rains benefited the sugar crop materially, and a yield of over 1,700,000 tons is expected. NEW TOBACCO DUTIES PROPOSED A bill recently introduced in the Cuban provides for a duty of one cent a p(jund on all leaf and cut tobacco exported from Cuba, the tax to be used in erecting schools throughout the ishmd. It is esti- mated the tax will pniduce in the neigh- borhood $300,000. Up to the present, no export duties have been levied in Cuba. Such duties, chiefly on tobacco and cigars, were im
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