Richmond times-dispatch
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045389/1920-08-16/ed-1/?sp=4
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President Woodrow Wilson ordered US Marines to occupy the Dominican Republic in May 1916. For eight years, naval governors ruled by martial decree, facing guerrilla resistance ('gavilleros') and Senate investigations.Woodrow Wilson ordenó la ocupación militar en mayo de 1916. Durante ocho años, gobernadores navales gobernaron por decreto marcial, enfrentando resistencia guerrillera ('gavilleros').
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SummaryResumen
The *Richmond times-dispatch* published a report by Military Governor Rear Admiral Thomas Snowden detailing administrative progress in Santo Domingo. Snowden reported that internal revenue collections had increased from $700,000 to approximately $3,500,000 annually and that regressive taxes were replaced with direct property taxes. He stated that the republic's floating debt was cleared, the 1908 loan was on course to be retired thirty years early by 1926, and administrative savings were funding new schools, highways, and sanitation projects.
El *Richmond times-dispatch* publicó un informe del gobernador militar, el contraalmirante Thomas Snowden, en el que se detallaban los avances administrativos en Santo Domingo. Snowden informó que la recaudación de rentas internas había aumentado de 700 000 dólares a aproximadamente 3 500 000 dólares anuales y que los impuestos regresivos fueron reemplazados por gravámenes directos a la propiedad. Declaró que la deuda flotante de la república había sido liquidada, que el empréstito de 1908 estaba encaminado a cancelarse con treinta años de anticipación para 1926 y que los ahorros administrativos financiaban nuevas escuelas, carreteras y obras sanitarias.
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Thomas Snowden, made public today
by tho Navy Department. It wan
prepared In response to an inqulry
froin tho State Department as i?j
what steps had been taken to pre
pare Han Domingo for government ?y
the Dominican people.
"The military Kovernment has set
the country an unassailable example
of good government, frCc from gran,
giving a square deal to nil, an admin
istration absolutely above rt-proach,"
Admiral Snowdcn'a report declared.
Internal rovenue collections of San
Domingo liiivo Increased from an
average of 9700.000 annually before
the occujratUm to approximately J.I.
000.000 last year with prospects ??f
11,000,000 more this year, tho ad
miral's summary said. Certain taxes
bearing heavily on the poor havo
been eliminated and a tax on prop
erty substituted, the first attempt at
a direct tax In San Domingo, tho re
port said.
As a resu't of the financial re
habilitation of the republic the float
ing debt has been liquidated and in
dications are that the $20,000,0u0 loan
of 130H will be paid off by 1 more
than thirty years before maturity,
tho Governor reported. A revision <>f
the tariff system has resulted In a 70
per rent Increase In Imports and added
customs collections, be added.
Much graft, dishonesty and Inef
ficiency In government ofllces has
been eliminated and the money saved
thereby lias gone toward building
schools, roads and public buildings,
port Improvements ami sanitary ar
rangements, tho report said. Special
attention has been given educational
facilities with the result that of the
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Richmond times-dispatch. (1920). Richmond, Va., 1920-08-16. US/DR Newspaper Timeline. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045389/1920-08-16/ed-1/?sp=4
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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Richmond times-dispatch, 1920-08-16.
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