San Francisco Call, Volume 69, Number 92, 2 March 1891 — I'Ailt BXtill [ARTICLE]

I'Ailt BXtill

.. . , _ .. Appointment of Commissioners to K«prsj«at Cub* at the Columbian Exposition WASHn*o<ro?c, March I.— Mi. -Cur:i3 cf ilia State Department, who hasclia.^a of iXo '.itia-Amtrican del ■ ' "•"■" ')' ' '"■ Columbian JC'j> ".■•.. has tfait returned from a vWit lo tiin.\Vestl:ut!s< lv trie intereat of the exposition. ':-i~n '.'■>• r t -. ort Curtis announced the appoint:! ■•!•; by ii.;' QaptuaGeneral cf Cuba of v board of thirty Ci.nimitsiiners to rci'T«seiu the island at the . exposition" and si-cure a. collection il-tu-irntini: its . resource?, products niM i&ju3tri.'3 for t'ihibitum there. TTilboarc, Mr. Cuuu tajs, includes Uip uicit prominent, enterprising and Influential meti tr TV« colony,- ten of the thirty bearing tlic ._nu of hxcvlleutlssimo. * The Chairman, the Excellentissiiuo Sr. Don Auto:.:.. C. 'JVllrrii, Is a gentleman at great wealth anil wile experience in commercial and political iit.tir.--, and lias a very high standing in .'"lain. "'1 be desire of the people of Cuha," report says "especially the sugar and tobacco manufacturers, to promote their enihniercial; relations with the United States amounts to anxiety; and 1 may ■alsii mpntion in this connection a matter of. news il learned at Havanua, wi.i M is that tlip commercial organization of tic Republic of San DomlnCv have rail a purse to pay tho salary and expenses of an envoy to be sent by the Government to Washington for the purpose of negotiating a reciprocity treaty with the United i States. A similar spirit pervades tliß entire group ol West Indian colonies, an 1 will, I am sure, stimulate, their representation at the exposition."While in Havana Curtis secured for the historical section of tbe exposition plaster casts of th« tomb of Columbus and the famous, statue of Columbus in Chains. Kx-Minister Foster, who has just returned from Havana, says that city is packed with Americans, fie says that Cuba is in a bad way. Hit business interests arc nearly paraly/ed. Tin* island represents a loss each year to the Spanish Government in the form of a deficiency. The taxes collected '.lo not Day the expenses of the 1 cal government. The greatest falling off has been in the sugar industry. The people In Cuba are anxious to secure reciprocity under the Mein ley hill so that they can cut their sugar into the United States free.