CUBA TO PAY FOR HER FREEDOM.
AN Associated Press despatch, under date of March 6, is as follows:— “Representative Levy, of New York, to-day introduced a resolution in the House directing that the Collector of Customs for the island of Cuba be instructed to deduct from the monthly receipts of the island twenty-five per cent. of the total amount collected, until the total sum expended by the United States on behalf of Cuba during the war with Spain and since, shall have been paid. “The resolution places the cost of the war with Spain at more than $300,000,000, besides $3,000,000 to effect disarmament of the Cubans, and the cost of since maintaining an armed force in Cuba to preserve order and administer affairs. The deduction of twenty-five per cent. of the island’s monthly receipts is to continue until our total expenditures are reimbursed, or provision for settlement of the indebtedness of the island of Cuba to the United States shall have been made between the government of the United States and the island of Cuba.”