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The Dominican Republic in the American Press: a bilingual research edition of United States newspaper coverage, 1820-1963La República Dominicana en la prensa estadounidense: una edición de investigación bilingüe de la cobertura periodística, 1820-1963
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1911-11-12 · Washington, D.C. · 1905-1916 Customs receivership

Evening star

SourceFuente: Evening star, Washington, D.C., 1911-11-12
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1911-11-12/ed-1/?sp=55
customs_receivership_loansdiplomacy_treatiessugar_trade_economyrevolution_unrest

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The Evening Star recounted the December 1904 Dominican debt crisis, which culminated in threats of force from European creditors, including the dispatch of an Italian warship. Following the U.S. Senate's failure to ratify an initial 1905 treaty, American Minister Thomas C. Dawson formulated an interim plan to manage customs and reassure foreign powers. The resulting arrangement allowed the Dominican government to dedicate revenue percentages to creditors while guaranteeing impartial financial oversight.

The Evening Star relató la crisis de la deuda dominicana de diciembre de 1904, la cual culminó con amenazas de uso de la fuerza por parte de acreedores europeos, incluido el envío de un buque de guerra italiano. Tras la falta de ratificación de un tratado inicial por el Senado de los EE. UU. en 1905, el ministro estadounidense Thomas C. Dawson formuló un plan interino para administrar las aduanas y dar garantías a las potencias extranjeras. El acuerdo resultante permitió al gobierno dominicano destinar porcentajes de ingresos a los acreedores garantizando al mismo tiempo una fiscalización financiera imparcial.

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likely to develop ifiade the possibility

on>- of serious import to the I'nited

States and unthinkable to the Dominican

Republic.

The crisis came in December, 1!*04.

with the expiration of the time limit

in the last promise given to France

and Belgium for beginning payments,

and through a protocol with Italy pre

viously signed for a similar purpose.

Karly in 1 !H'"i the Dominican president

asked if the Fnited Stat s would be

willing t" act as general receiver, t ik

ing charge of the collection of the

customs revenues and determining t. e

amounts of tin- debts. Negotiations cul

minated hi the treaty of February 7.

190A which failed of ratification,

whereuoon an Italian war vessel

promptly i< appeared in Dominican

waters, ready, it was believed, to em

ploy force if necessary for the pro

tection of the rights claimed by sub

jects of the Italian government

The Dominican government announced

its willingness to do anything in its pow

er suggested by it- creditors to the ex

tent of devoting per cent of its reve

nues to their payment. It became evi

dent that the creditors would be willing

to wait indefinitelv for actual payment

providing they could be assured that tin?

r? venues would i>e honestly collected and

their proportion placed in secure hands.

Thomas? C. Dawson, who has since been

minister to Panama and who has recent

ly been appointed minister resident by

the Departme: i of St ate, was then min

ister S into Domingo. lie it was who

stepped into the brea< and evolved the

plan that ha* since been worked out with

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Evening star. (1911). Washington, D.C., 1911-11-12. US/DR Newspaper Timeline, record cr27764-4. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1911-11-12/ed-1/?sp=55

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Evening star, 1911-11-12.