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Memorandum from Jacob H. Hollander

Memorandum from Jacob H. Hollander

Dr. Hollander discusses the terms of the contract to settle the debt problem in Santo Domingo. He encloses a plan of adjustment which states that the Dominican Republic has entered into a contract with Kuhn, Loeb & Company for a sale of bonds under a set of terms.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-09-12

Plan of adjustment

Plan of adjustment

This document outlines the plan of the Dominican Republic for adjustment of its debts to various parties through the collection of a tariff and the issuing of bonds. It includes plans for adjustment of debt to specific nations and claim holders.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-09-12

Letter from Jacob H. Hollander to Robert Bacon

Letter from Jacob H. Hollander to Robert Bacon

Professor Hollander encloses a letter from the Dominican Republic’s Minister of Finance and Commerce, Federico Velásquez y Hernández. Velásquez places blame upon Judge Otto Schoenrich’s “excellent translations.” Hollander has prepared a press release regarding Velásquez’s mission and will release it unless he hears otherwise.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-09-13

Letter from Thomas Cleland Dawson to Elihu Root

Letter from Thomas Cleland Dawson to Elihu Root

Thomas Cleland Dawson updates Elihu Root on the situation surrounding insurgent forces in the Dominican Republic. President Ramon Caceres takes responsibility for the disorder in Monte Cristi, citing tired government troops as a reason the unrest has continued. Caceres is optimistic that the unrest will soon come to an end, and he is happy with the changes and improvements in the Dominican Government that have been made since he took over from the Morales administration.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-09-03

Telegram from Elihu Root

Telegram from Elihu Root

Secretary of State Elihu Root does not have an objection to the Dominican bond arrangement. Root also discusses his travel plans and states that his visits to Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina have been “most satisfactory.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-08-21

Letter from Robert Bacon to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Robert Bacon to Theodore Roosevelt

Acting Secretary of State Bacon has spoken with Jacob H. Hollander, who assures him that neither he nor Secretary of State for Treasury and Commerce Federico Velásquez y Hernández of the Dominican Republic were aware of a conversation occurring with Speyer & Company, although they have had ample opportunities. Bacon believes that Speyer & Company were not disadvantaged in any way, and that the plan they proposed was simply not as advantageous as that presented by Kuhn, Loeb, and Company and the Morton Trust company. He promises nevertheless to meet with Charles H. Tweed, as Roosevelt directs.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-08-14

Telephone message from Clarence Ransom Edwards

Telephone message from Clarence Ransom Edwards

Colonel Edwards, head of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, leaves a telephone message at the White House regarding military movements in the Dominican Republic. Edwards conveys the contents of a confidential telegram that Colonel George Radcliffe Colton sent to Secretary of War William H. Taft. Colton reports on the United States’ withdrawal of war vessels, including three gunboats and one torpedo boat destroyer, and assures that there is “no cause for anxiety at the present moment.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-06-26

Bureau of navigation

Bureau of navigation

The document says that as far as the government of Santo Domingo is concerned, the situation in the province of Monte Christi is desperate. It reports that there are as many as 500 rebels at the Haitian frontier with plentiful weapons and ammunition.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-06-18

Telephone message from Francis B. Loomis

Telephone message from Francis B. Loomis

Francis B. Loomis leaves a telephone message regarding his invitation to address the New York Southern Society tomorrow night. Loomis asks if there is anything President Roosevelt would like him to include in his speech, such as the work Secretary of State Root is doing to increase trade opportunities in South America or the treaty with Santo Domingo.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-04-25

Letter from Henry Cabot Lodge to Charles Francis Adams

Letter from Henry Cabot Lodge to Charles Francis Adams

Senator Lodge responds to statements made by Charles Francis Adams and discusses the advancement of societies that have been under or are currently under the possession of the United States. Lodge agrees with Adams about the important role white societies have in helping non-white societies “advance.” Lodge disagrees, however, with Adams’s assessment of Secretary of War William H. Taft, who Lodge says has not at all exploited the Philippines, but actually devoted many years of his life to help “elevate” the people of the Philippines. Lodge ends by commenting that the administration has also been trying to “take charge” of the Dominican Republic to help them pay their debts.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-05-01

Memorandum for the Secretary of State on the Dominican Republic

Memorandum for the Secretary of State on the Dominican Republic

Memorandum on the recent history, relations with the United States, and conditions of the Dominican Republic. The country has suffered under numerous revolutions and has a large foreign debt. It may become necessary to take control of the Dominican Republic’s custom houses, and an independent diplomatic post should be established in Santo Domingo led by an experienced, capable individual.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-03-19

Letter from Alvey A. Adee to William Loeb

Letter from Alvey A. Adee to William Loeb

Diplomat Thomas Cleland Dawson has cabled that the Dominican government has issued a decree accepting the terms of an agreement between the United States and Dominican republic. Acting Secretary of State Adee believes that now it is possible to designate the American collector and New York bank that will act in accordance with the agreement, unless President Roosevelt would like to wait for a formal request from the Dominicans.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-04-01

Letter from Alvey A. Adee to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Alvey A. Adee to Theodore Roosevelt

Acting Secretary of State Adee advises President Roosevelt that during his weekly diplomatic visit, British Ambassador H. Mortimer Durand informed him of the British government’s intention to enter into a financial agreement with Liberia. Durand was misinformed about the failure of the agreement between the United States and Santo Domingo, and Adee told him that the convention had not failed, but is still pending in the Senate.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-03-23