. The Cuba review. Cuba -- Periodicals. THE CUBA REVIEW The lottery bill went Cuba's through only at the last mo- Sfate ment, the long delay being Lottery. clue to the usual wrangling and also the settlement of the question of who should receive the much coveted post of director. Senator Morua Delgado having persistently refused to ac- cept the appointment of General Director of the new National Lottery, President Gomez on July 28 appointed S'enor Gustavo Alonso y Castanedo, a lawyer and journal- ist, to the directorship. On the same day the State Department at Washington received from the Ame
. The Cuba review. Cuba -- Periodicals. THE CUBA REVIEW The lottery bill went Cuba's through only at the last mo- Sfate ment, the long delay being Lottery. clue to the usual wrangling and also the settlement of the question of who should receive the much coveted post of director. Senator Morua Delgado having persistently refused to ac- cept the appointment of General Director of the new National Lottery, President Gomez on July 28 appointed S'enor Gustavo Alonso y Castanedo, a lawyer and journal- ist, to the directorship. On the same day the State Department at Washington received from the American Minister at Havana full details. Under the law the State is given a mo- nopoly by prohibiting the importation of any other kind of policy tickets and also forbids any private lotteries, raffles or any other smiilar competitions for prizes. Seventy per cent, of the receipts must be distributed in prizes. Drawings are to be held four times a year, under the super- vision of a board of seven men. Children from the Foundlings' Home and National Orphan Asylum are to draw the lucky num- bers. Tickets range from 25 cents to $1. The Cuban Government expects a net an- nual revenue of $2,000,000 from it. Havana brokers report large orders for tickets from the United States and will try and fill them, but it is believed that no large or profitable sale of tickets can be made if the American authorities co-operate to prevent them. At the ofifice of the Cuban Consul at New York an immense amount of correspondence is being received in relation to the new lottery scheme of Cuba for raising government funds. The number of inquiries as to how tickets in this lottery may be ob- tained in the United States is rapidly in- creasing as news of the governmental character of the lottery spreads. United States postoffice inspectors are carefully watching for evidence of lottery tickets which are expected soon to make their appearance. The authorities say that not only is it a violation of the law
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