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The Dominican Republic in the American Press: United States newspaper coverage of the island, gathered and translated for readers in both languagesLa República Dominicana en la prensa estadounidense: la cobertura de la isla en los periódicos de Estados Unidos, reunida y traducida para lectores en ambos idiomas
January 31, 187331 de enero de 1873 · Central Falls, R.I. · Grant Annexation Debates & Bondholder PoliticsDebates de Anexión de Grant y Política de Bonistas

The weekly visitor

SourceFuente: The weekly visitor · Central Falls, R.I. · January 31, 187331 de enero de 1873
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83021113/1873-01-31/ed-1/?sp=2

In contextEn contexto

Grant Annexation Debates & Bondholder PoliticsDebates de Anexión de Grant y Política de Bonistas · 1865–1905

President Ulysses S. Grant championed a treaty to annex Santo Domingo (1869–1870), sparking a historic Senate battle led by Charles Sumner. Later coverage tracked President Ulises Heureaux (Lilís) and crushing European bond debt.El presidente Ulysses S. Grant promovió un tratado para anexar Santo Domingo (1869–1870), provocando una histórica batalla en el Senado con Charles Sumner. Informes posteriores siguieron al presidente Ulises Heureaux (Lilís) y la deuda externa.

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More on Samaná BayMás sobre Bahía de Samaná

SummaryResumen

Dr. Samuel G. Howe writes that he and Benjamin F. Wade, as United States Commissioners to Santo Domingo, favored political annexation, and that after annexation was rejected he worked for a commercial company to lease the peninsula and bay of Samana for ninety-nine years. He describes negotiating the terms with President Baez and his cabinet, consulting the Dominican Senate of Seven, and organizing the company, with the first year's rent of $150,000 to be paid in advance.

El doctor Samuel G. Howe escribe que él y Benjamin F. Wade, como Comisionados de los Estados Unidos a Santo Domingo, favorecieron la anexión política, y que tras ser rechazada la anexión trabajó por una compañía comercial que arrendara la península y la bahía de Samaná por noventa y nueve años. Describe la negociación de los términos con el presidente Báez y su gabinete, la consulta al Senado dominicano de los Siete, y la organización de la compañía, con el primer año de renta de 150.000 dólares a pagar por adelantado.

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The passage where this article was found, copied from the newspaper page itself, reading errors and all. This is exactly what the summary above is based on.El pasaje donde se encontró este artículo, copiado de la propia página del periódico, con sus errores de lectura y todo. Esto es exactamente aquello en lo que se basa el resumen de arriba.

Samana from the recognized Government of

Santo Dmnlnmbich has the full suthority

1o make such reserving to the inhabi

tants all their rights and privfirg!‘ The first

yvear's rent h-geen and the eu:rny

will eonmeneenptnm immediately. W hat

ever may be the pecuniary return to the pio

neers in this enterprise, I believe that the

application of American capital and labor to

the immense tropical resources of Santo Do

mingo must result in public good.

To show my taith by my works, I have con

sented to serve for the present as ope of the

directors of the company: but not, as you

state, to be the resident director at Samana

for that would interfere too much with duties

and relations here which [am not vet ready

to relinquish. SamueL G. Howe,

Hexry Wano Beecaer's Scnoor. Davs.—

When I was eight or nine years old (this is

strictly confidential) [laughter], was sent 10

school—an old, old painted village school

house, that I can smell yet. [Laughter]

We had benches made of slabs of logs put

in at each end, and we brought the softness to

them. [Laughter]. There we sat. cannot

remember that I ever learned anything at the

common school in my day. It was always a

mystery to me how I learned to read. never

remember any process how I got the alphabet.

I thought I dreamed it out somehow. My

business used to be divided between two

things—being whipped for roguery, and sitting

on the bench wishing it was time for recess.

Laughter].

One comfort T enjoyed in looking out of the

window, seving the country round, and hear

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The weekly visitor. (1873). Central Falls, R.I., 1873-01-31. US/DR Newspaper Timeline. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83021113/1873-01-31/ed-1/?sp=2

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