This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...the administration kept this agreement secret from the Senate of the United States and from the public. It provided practically that the United States should become receiver for Santo Domingo, seize its revenues, pay fifty-five per cent, to foreign creditors and give over forty-five per cent. to the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...the administration kept this agreement secret from the Senate of the United States and from the public. It provided practically that the United States should become receiver for Santo Domingo, seize its revenues, pay fifty-five per cent, to foreign creditors and give over forty-five per cent. to the Santo Domingoans to apply to governmental expenses. The constitution of the United States does not provide for the President acting as receiver for bankrupt nations and using the executive departments for carrying on the business. So much the worse for the constitution. When Congress had discovered the proceeding, February, 1905, a protocol was presented to the Senate, and it was asked to ratify the seizure of an island nation for the benefit of alleged creditors. Shoulder to shoulder with Bischoffscheim and Goldschmidt stood the Santo Domingo Improvement Company, the important American claimant. A whole shoal of worthy fellows must be protected. With laudable forethought, the administration had the claims "arbitrated," and Congress had only to witness the levying of the execution, and attend the sheriff sale. Congress thought the thing a trifle drastic and held back. Then the newspaper claque, which is always at the back of every administration, if the fireworks are sufficiently brilliant, went to raising a great noise. Encouraged by the din, the administration decided to persist in its course, Congress or no Congress. It had made an agreement, although this, too, had been omitted from the constitution as a thing which might be made by the President against the will of Congress. Pious motives more than made up for the irregularity. Roosevelt and his noisy newspapers friends demonstrated that in a republic based upon government by...
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