Departure of the Spanish Forces from Cuba--Treaty of Peace Between the United States and Spain--Cuba to be Made Independent--The Cuban Debt--First American Government of Intervention--The Roll of Spanish Rulers from Velasquez in 1512 to Castellanos in 1899--Relations between Americans and Cubans--Disbandment of the Provisional Government and Demobilization of the Cuban Army--A Mutinous Demonstration--Paying Off the Cuban Soldiers. CHAPTER IX 139 American Occupation of Cuba--General Wood's Administration at Santiago--His Antecedents and Preparation for His Great Work--A Formidable Undertaking--Conquering Pestilence--Organization of the Rural Guards--American Administration at Havana and Throughout the Island--Grave Problems Confronting General Brooke--Agricultural and Industrial Rehabilitation--Reorganizing Local Government--Triumphal Progress of Maximo Gomez--Unification of Sentiment Among the People--Finances of the Island--Church and State--Marriage Reform--Franchises Refused--The Census--Improving the School System. CHAPTER X 158 General Brooke Succeeded by General Leonard Wood--Favorable Reception of the Soldier-Statesman--A Cabinet of Cubans--Efficient Attention Paid to Public Education--Cuban Teachers at Harvard--Caring for Derelict Children--Public Works--Sanitation--Port Improvements--Roads--Paving--The Heroic Drama of the Conquest of Yellow Fever--Work of General Gorgas--A Home of Pestilence Transformed into a Sanitarium--Reforms in Court Procedure--Cleaning Up the Prisons--The First Election in Free Cuba--Rise of Political Parties--Taxation and the Tariff--Increase of Commerce. CHAPTER XI 185 Preparations for Self-Government--Call for a Constitutional Convention--The Election--Meeting of the Convention--General Wood's Address--Organization of the Convention--Framing the Constitution--Debates over Church and State, and Presidential Qualifications--Signing of the Constitution--No Americans Present at the Convention--General Provisions of the Constitution--Relations between Cuba and the United States--Controversy between the Two Governments--Origin of the "Platt Amendment"--Attitude of the Cubans Toward It--Malign Agitation and Misrepresentation--A Mission to Washington--Final Adoption of the Amendment. CHAPTER XII 204 Text of the Constitution of the Cuban Republic--The Nation, Its Form of Government, and the National Territory--Cubans and Foreigners--Bill of Rights--Sovereignty and Public Powers--The Legislature--The President--The Vice-President--The Secretaries of State--The Judicial Power--Provincial and Municipal Governments--Amendments. CHAPTER XIII 240