Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-08-21 | Page 6 | Crowder on the Job

wrote the republic's ejection laws from j beginning to end. Their execution will now be largely in the hands of the judiciary, who will be members of the election board. Tho political parties will still have representation on the board, but General Crowder took away their votes. Ho also made certain that any person may got adequate legal remedy rem-edy in an election, dispute. One of the chief provisions of the new codo is de-fiined de-fiined to prevent collusion, which has been tho bane of politics in Cuba, and from which most of the trouble in tho i bin ml has arisen. He also drafted a strict corrupt practices act. A notable feature of the new code is a system of census-taking. Every voter will take a card of identification to the polls. With these cards registration regis-tration will not be necessary. Now voters vot-ers may apply for cards as they become be-come entitled to the franchise. All political organizations are- to bo prescribed pre-scribed by statute. Before General Crowder left Havana President Menocal signed tho new laws, and the Cuban legislature tendered the American officer a vote of thanks. It would not bo at all surprising to hoar of any number of South American republics calling upon General Crowder for assistance, for tho juggling of elections elec-tions in practically all of them has been a curse. CROWDER ON THE JOB. Major General Enoch Crowder is still doing things. General Crowder is tho man who made such a remarkable success of tho military registration in t ho United States, under which 23,000,-000 23,000,-000 men were enrolled with little noise and less bustle. Now General Crowder has just finished another job, and ho finished it with tho same dispatch with which ho put through America's now-world-famed draft svstem. General Crowder has given Cuba a set of new election law.s. Four months ayo he was invited by President Mcno-cr.l Mcno-cr.l to go to Havana and put tho island's ( lection machinery upon aa honest lnis. Any other man than General Crowder would have been stumped bv such r. request, for the election systems sys-tems of Spar.i. a republics rre not to bo lightly tampered with by thoso unacquainted un-acquainted with their labyrinthine intricacies. in-tricacies. However, even the chaotic election law3 of Cuba, long manipulated by politicians for their own purposes, had no terrors for General Crowder. The f.m- thiug General Crowder did was tn invif': the Cuban legislature to appoint a committee of ten, represent-i.i: represent-i.i: all parlies, to iu:Siit suggestions !u him. After he had thus paved tho tv.ay for fending against possible Hiaigf'S of discrimination, (Jeneral Crowder took his .en iu hand aud re-