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Show , CUBA FACES CRISIS. i ' Treasury Is Empty and Heavy Bills Remain Unpaid, Havana Cuba, ber treasury empty j and the Improbability of an honest ' and orderly presidential election be-, be-, Ing beld, is facing the most serious i financial crisis which has confronted ' the Island since It became a republic. I The last dollar of the $1 .DOO.O00 ' Speyer loan has been spent, while tba i sewering and paving of Havana, for which purpoRe the loan was made, Is jonly half alnlHhed and Is in danger of being abandoned. Receipts from the ruHtoms house and the lottery hare reached their lowest ebb. Th Gomes administration has spent 1140,000,000 In ltrt two and one-half years of existence, exist-ence, and Cuba must cut down her expeuses at least 50 per cent befors she can hope to break even. |