Savannah morning news
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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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The *Savannah Morning News* reported that the Samana Bay Company—chartered in New York by men including Marshall O. Roberts, William R. Grace, and Commodore Garrison—undertook trade and development in San Domingo, backed by a Dominican concession and railroad grant. The newspaper noted that utilizing the island through Spanish and French concessions was intended to eventually bring the West Indies into the United States, while government acquisition schemes sparked a major political fight resulting in the deposition of Charles Sumner from his chairmanship.
El *Savannah Morning News* consignó que la Samana Bay Company —constituida en Nueva York por personalidades como Marshall O. Roberts, William R. Grace y el comodoro Garrison— emprendió el fomento y la explotación mercantil de Santo Domingo al amparo de una concesión dominicana y un privilegio ferroviario. Apuntó el diario que el aprovechamiento de la isla mediante concesiones españolas y francesas buscaba en último término la anexión de las Antillas a los Estados Unidos, en tanto los manejos gubernamentales de absorción territorial desataron una encarnizada batalla política que culminó con la deposición de Charles Sumner de la presidencia de su comité.
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autonomy of these two republics from the
Bay of Samana to Saint Marc, and around
and about to the Bay Bt. Nicholas la Mole.
It was discovered that these two parts
of the island of Santa Domingo had
been in chronic revolution, and it was
thought that through these Spanish and
French concessions the Americans would
not only utilize the entire island, but would
also make such a showing, by enterprise
and energy, as would make Cuba and Porto
Rico drop like a ripe apple into the lap of
the new empire, and make the West Indies
a part of the United Btates. A few years
before this, the Samana Bay Company, a
company chartered at Albany, under the
laws of the State of New York, led by men
who run the steamer “Tvbee,” for instance
—such men as Marshall O. Roberts, Wm. R.
Grace, the present Mayor of New York,
Commodore Garrison, and others—under
took to make a trade between New York
and San Domingo City, for the purpose of
developing San Domingo and bringing
hence to this country the products
of that Island, which were prin
cipally mahogonv, coffee, and to
bacco equal to the best produced and called
Vuelra Abajo in the Cincho Vias of Cuba.
The company had a concession from the
Dominican Government, taking in the
waters and islands and the frontage of Sa
mana Bay, and a railroad grant reaching
from Samana to Santa Domingo. The op
position to this scheme of the government
to acquire the island brought about the
well-known fight against the administra
tion of Charles Sumner which resulted in
his deposition from the Chairmanship of the
How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo
Savannah morning news. (1881). Savannah, 1881-12-23. US/DR Newspaper Timeline. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn82015137/1881-12-23/ed-1/?sp=1
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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Savannah morning news, 1881-12-23.
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