Another instance of intervention was the objection by the United States to an employers' liability law that would have given a monopoly of the insurance business to a Cuban company to the detriment of American firms.
After the election of Mario Menocal, the Conservative candidate, to the presidency in 1912, another occasion for intervention presented itself.
An amnesty bill, originally drafted for the purpose of freeing the colored insurgents and other offenders, was amended so as to empower the retiring President to grant pardon before trial to persons whom his successor wished to prosecute for wholesale corruption in financial transactions.

Before the bill passed, however, notice was sent from Washington that, since the American Government had the authority to supervise the finances of the republic, Gomez would better veto the bill, and this he accordingly did.
A sharp struggle arose when it became known that Menocal would be a candidate for reelection.

The Liberal majority in the Congress passed a bill requiring that a President who sought to succeed himself should resign two months before the elections.

When Menocal vetoed this measure, his opponents demanded that the United States supervise the elections.

As the result of the elections was doubtful, Gomez and his followers resorted in 1917 to the usual insurrection; whereupon the American Government warned the rebels that it would not recognize their claims if they won by force.