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837.51/561: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Cuba ( Cable )

Washington , August 18, 1921—5 p.m.

146. For General Crowder.

Your urgent 104, August 17, 1 p.m.

Department advised by Cuban Legation that Budget Bill passed by Cuban Senate August 3, was yesterday passed by the House of Representatives and has been sent to the President.

The Department desires you to inform President Zayas of the earnest hope of this Government that the budget as passed by the Cuban Congress will not meet with his approval, in view of the fact that the budget would appear to provide for expenditures very much in excess of the expenditures strictly necessary, and in view of the fact that the budget as passed exceeds by $6,000,000 the budget proposed in accordance with the Cuban Constitution by the Cuban Executive.

The Department is informed by Secretary Gelabert that he has recommended to President Zayas that the latter veto the budget as passed by the Cuban Congress.

Hughes