Show GOVERNMENT OF CUBA ABLE TO HOLD HOLDUP HOLDUP HOLDUP I UP ITS HEAD DURING PAST MONTH Havana March 14 U While the first month in tho the lift of or the restored Cuban republic has ha not riot been bee 1 one of or achieve ment meat It has at least not been marked bj by b bavy sPy any Incident calculated to confirm the prediction that the experiment of ot Cuban was as destined to speedy speed f lure On the other hand the govern ise I t of General G Gomez has still to ir Jr ire f nt assurances of Its ability wisely and f firmly to direct the destinies of the island Cubans of all parties seem leem for the time being determined to forget their political pe differences and pull together to avoid an ai another a other American intervention At the close cloe of the provisional pr govern government ment mOnt one of the most prominent Ameri meri Americans cans expressed the fear that the Gomez administration would collapse within three months but he lie added that If It survived that period it probably would In Indefinitely IndefInitely definitely Only once has there theta been even the faintest rumor of ur an au uprising This Thi was three thre weeks week ago three discharged officials in Santiago de e Cuba were re reported reported reported ported to have taken to the woods The story was wall untrue A discouraging dl feature of the tho congressional Hinal session 18 the multiplicity of trivial measures Among these were bills to re rc rescind rescind the military orders of the lie first In Intervention Intervention Intervention against cock rock fights and hull bull bullfights fights to establish a national lottery lotter and to change the name of the revenue cutter service to that of the Cuban navy nav The general amnesty bill which was signed by Jy y General Gomez Cornea a few days daS ago gave liberty to hundreds of convicts through throughout out the republic all but the perpetrators of the most atrocious crimes being in m included eluded in its provisions One of the most recent amendments which was accepted by the house houte gravely grael declares de lares that all aU homicides and suicides except those a OCr erv ervIng Ing life sentences for fora a second offense shall be included In the amnesty |