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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.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-09-12
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.
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1906-09-13
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.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-09-03
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.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-21
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.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-14
Federico Velásquez y Hernández, Secretary of State for Treasury and Commerce for the Dominican Republic, agrees to the proposed loan terms, provided the country can reserve the right to revise tariffs and port dues, within certain limits.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-07-19
Kuhn, Loeb & Co. write to Jacob Harry Hollander about purchasing a funding loan from the Republic of San Domingo. The letter then details the desired terms and details of the loan.
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1906-07-17
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.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-06-26
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.
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1906-06-18
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.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-04-25
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.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-05-01
Thomas Cleland Dawson visited Senator Spooner to discuss the Dominican Republic and amendments to relevant treaties. Disclosing the information publicly was determined unwise though there is no reason to fear a disturbance in Santo Domingo. Dawson will call on President Roosevelt when he returns to New York.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-08-09
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.
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1904-03-19
Oscar S. Straus wishes President Roosevelt an enjoyable vacation, and says that he approves of how Roosevelt handled the situation in “San Domingo.”
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1905-03-30
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.
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1905-04-01
Whitefield McKinlay informs William Loeb that Dr. W. contacted him and asked that Loeb be made aware that Mr. Williams should be appointed one of the Collectors of Customs in San Domingo.
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1905-04-01
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.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-03-23
Rear Admiral Sigsbee, commander of the Caribbean division of the North Atlantic fleet, reports to Secretary of the Navy Morton that he is authorizing the USS Dixie to proceed to Colon. The revolutionists in Santo Domingo appear to be preparing for an outbreak. Action in the U.S. Senate will affect the crisis.
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1905-03-25
Charles W. Fairbanks writes to Theodore Roosevelt to tell him that Senators Earman and Cullum believe that their are enough votes to pass the Domingo treaty.
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1905-03-14
Senator Winthrop Murray Crane telephoned to caution President Roosevelt about dealing with Senator Weldon Brinton Heyburn regarding San Domingo. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is sensitive about the president “butting in.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-03-15