The sun., 1870-06-27
GRANTS DOMINICAN JOB
TUB SECRET PRELIMINARY TREAT
HELD 70 THE PUBLIC GAZE.



The President Privately Promises to use ~
his influence with Members Of Consres
to put the swindic Threugh-Astonishias
Revelations by the Senate COMMITTEES.
Washington Correspondence Of he World.
wAsuISaroS, June 25.-The official develop
msnts made TO the Senate to day the result Of In
investigation. into the negotiations OF the 81. Do
mingo treaty have proved to be 90 much more In
porsnt than was anticipated that they have created
very decided sensation. The declaration OF ~
partisan majority OF the Committee that no fraud a
unfarness has been discovered is not only rcfutst
By the minority report which ia signed by two Rae
ical Senators, but is overwhelmingly swept away b
the testimony and the Official documents, the lstta
sctpally eQasieti"g ns Administration o1t o. its o's
mouh.
In the oflcla correspondence submitted there sp
pears protocol agreed on In September Inst, whore
in President Grant pledges his private promise n
use all bis influence to get q majority OF Congress
In support ofthejob Of annexation before be
municates the same to them onicially. This Iobbs
scheme was actually signed, scaled, and delivered
and here Is the ofhcial proof;
Enp9i1foa1
The following bases, which shall serve for famiag
Dominican Republic, have been reduced 70 writiss
and aRreed upon BY Gen. Orvie X. Babcock. aidc-de
camp TO hs Exoeliency Gen. Ulysses 8. Grant. Pros.
agent TO the Dominican Republic, and Mr. Msnud
Maria osuter Secretary OF State OF the Departments
eisn T = citations OF I IN. SAID Dominican Republic.
Nra-His EIcellency Gen. Grant, President %
the United States, promise, privately to use all ~
Dominican Rhpublic TO the United s,stes may 10
quire such . degree OF popularity among members
ment, and no offers to n AXE no communication 70
that body on the subject until be sh9ll be certain
sa eep.nee Vi" oSse he United ss
70 pay one million and half IN coin in order thsA
the republic may pay its debt, estimated q that SUM
II the debt 70 In excess, 1t Is to DO paid BY the ~
Seoond-In ease the North American Congress
Dominican Government would accept as the prics
Of the sale Of samana the t2,000,000 In coin which
the same Government offered IL under Presidese
7aird-His E1cellepcy President Grant assumss
the obligation TO remit forthwith TO the Domlnican
be in coin and $4,000 to be in arms for the psrp
OF defrayinx the unavoidable expenses OF tps~ ~
credl. shall be allowed for this amoust .,,, s.'ts S
| OF an acceptance OF annexation o. in the evea
for the acquisition OF saI.a. OF preferences
win guarantee Tue ss;. .es tha, the Uuited State,
/ NEGOTIATIONS i OF Dominica pending thesI
| neither % 81. understood by both parties that
eneet the bases referred TO shal be carried ips
force, and they shall, throughout all tune
presesye their character OF involable secrecy: bu
II one OF the two extremes which they embrace shnl
be scceptet-anneration OF the Republic or the coe
sion OF the Bay Of Samanatboir tenor shall he obh
gntory for both parties. and shall be embraced th
! 9W cAence In the dennitive treaty.
Srn-In cose the proposition relsve to Ssman,
| should alone be accepted b. the United States, and
| the sum Of one hundred thousand hard dollars shs
| be re nitted to this capital OF San Domingo. tbs
| Dominican Government will abstain from receiving
it until the Senate shall have approved ths bargain
| for which purpose II engages to submit that ques
ton and to solicit said approval AS soon ~ the sais
| sum may arrive
Done 10 duplicate In good faith in the city Of SaI
Domingo, the fourth day OF the month OF Septem
Der. In the year OF our Lord one thousand eigt
hundred and sixty nine,
| MANUEL MARIA GAUTIER.
There also appears In tho ofieiai documents
letter dated February 10, 1870 in which Secretary
State Ganter OF Dominica, writes 10 Consul PERI
| that Hatch, an American citizen, Is imprisoned b
Baez because OF what is called his irrocon cilabi
enmity to the scheme OF annexa lion. and his dcos
| mination to disturb the public mind against It,
Admiral Poor, In a despatch dated March 1s. 1870
details an interview With B9ez, aud says the latte
| admitted that Hatch remained imprs oned because
| OF his influence with the newspaper press an,
people OF the United States against annexation.
| On page III OF the evidence, Gen. Babcock tcs-
tiles that he receiy cd long letter from Hatch but
owing to its similarity to printed letter exposing
some Of these st. Domingo negotiatons he declined
TO reply to It, under the belief that llatch wrote ts
letter. In across-examinaiOn lie admitted that he
was unable TO give any other reason.