The Mena weekly star

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houses and the collections of the re

public’s revenues.

The treaty really had its birth in

a revolution. While the American

government was pressing for a settle

ment of the claims of its citizens

agaillHl Ottilia UUUIJHRU iu L/ovcmiTCi,

1904. President Morales being beset by

revolutionists, in the hope of securing

the moral support of the United

States, entered into an agreement

with Captain Drtllingham of the

American navy under the terms of

which the Dominican custom houses

were to be occupied by the Americans

and the foreign indebtedness of the

country discharged from the receipts

The substance of the modus vivendl

in the shape ot a treaty pending before

the United States Senate when Secre

tary Roof f ssumed office Recogniz

ing the force of the objections that de

veloped to its ratification, he set

about recasting the document and

February 19 last the treaty which has

just been ratified was submitted to

the Senate. The way bad been paved

by an agreement bet wen Federico Vel

asquez, the Dominican minister of fi

nance. and the creditors of the little

republic whereby the latter agreed to

a fifty per cent reduction in their

claims if these were settled in cash

A New York banking house undertook

to advance the money for this pur

pose for the $20,000,006 five per cent

50-year bonds which will now be

promptly issued, with the result that

<tn pf the creditor* of Bantu Duutltifo

will be embodied In the single Npw

Yoik firm.

The now treaty provides for the

appointment by the president of the

t'nlted States of a receiver of ctm

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

The Mena weekly star. (1907). Mena, Ark., 1907-05-09. US/DR Newspaper Timeline. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn89051213/1907-05-09/ed-1/?sp=5

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The Mena weekly star, 1907-05-09.