The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-04-13

RESUME OF THE INCOME OF THE GOV ERN-
1dENT FOR 1870.
First custom receipts:
Tonnage. .......S 1880, $50 %
Entrance 146, 1896. 90
Lighthouses Observation-Disclosures. 81, 901. 90
Ancnorage.... lso,S9o W
Pilotage. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 142 1890
Lighterage ........................ 31,S0U 90
interpreters. ..................... 61,420 80
Signalmen., acknowledgements. 594lG.59
Quarantine Observation-Disclosures. 43e165
Wharfage ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 679338 %
Recargo municipal. 11O53o. so
Recargo for steamer...........-....... 5SS6l4.0O
Water ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 24100 90
Import dues. oy, lx9S642
Export dues...... ................ 7,14I, 800. 60
Coast fees. ................ ........ 75,l11.00
The commissioners believe that the
statement published, as given, includes
all the indebtedness or obligations for
which the Dominican republic is in any
degree liable, as we'll that which it CON
siders valid and binding as that which it
regards as unfounded, or overstated by
the claimants. Throughout the inquiry
it was urged upon the Dominican author
tiles that every claim known to exist, of
whatever character, should be exhibited
to the commission, whose object was not
to determine the precise amount thai was
justly due and binding, but to get at the
bottom and find the utmost limit Of their
obligations, setting forth everything for
which the government could, under any
circumstances, be made liable. The above
account contains much that the Domini-
can government believes to be partly or
wholly groundless, and some which, upon
inspection, will appear questionable.
Among pending claims is one upon Presi
dent Baez, for destruction Of property.
It is alleged by che claimant that the
Spanish government recognized the claim
as valid, and ordered an examination to
fix the amount but the commission cannot
understand how this claim could be valid
against the Dominican government A
question has been raised in our country
whether the government and people of
the Dominican republic, having once been
under the rule of the Haytiens, might
not be liable for portion of the in
demnity exacted by France from Hayti
for the estates of French families which
had been confscated by the Haytiens dur.
ing the revolution of 1901 The Com
missioners made inquiries on the subject
of the Dominican government, also in
Hayti, ana they could not learn that the
Haytien government had ever made this
claim upon the Dominican republic and
they think that if made 1t would be
wholly without foundation The Com
missioners were informed by the Domni-
can authorities that the present admistra-
tion Of the government has not had diplo
matte representatives., or made treaties or
engagements with any other government
except the United States. An examina-
ton of the treaties made during the pre-
vious history of the republic with France,
Great Britain, and other powers, will be
found in Ec-Dox. II, Forty first Congress,
I'd session. They are mostly treaties of
navigation and commerce, and contain no
unusual provision requiring notice here.
The extent Of the undisputed Domini
territory is 1922 square miles; the por-
ton which had been formerly involved in
the dispute with Hayti, being 1000
square miles.
THE GRANTS TO AMERICANS
The Commissioners were not unmind
full of the various rumors which had beea
circulated on divers occasions, that SEES
sions or grants of lands were made to
officials of the United States when the
treaty of annexation was negotiated in
1859. No pains were spared to ascertain
the exact truth of this statement In ad-
ditlon to an examination of all grants
from the government of the republic, the
Commissioners further carried their re-
searches to the municipal grants by the
town Of SANTANA, where rumor had loca-
ted the supposed grants The officers of
the municipality and the records were
carefully examined. Inquiries were also
made of the authorities of the city of San
Domingo. After this investigation, the
Commissioners can declare, without hes
itation, that there is no particle of eyi-
dence for these charges.
UNANIMOUS FOR ANNEXATION.
The Dominicans repeat their willing
ness to be annexed on the terms Of the
treaty Of 1869, asking, in addition, pay
ment for rent for SANTANA bay during the
two years the negotiations were pending
They are also willing to appropriate one
fifth of the publiC funds for schools, pro
viding the United States will appropriate
100000 for the establishment of an agri. |
cultural and scientific college. In rela-
ton to Dominican independence, the
Commissioners say that there is but one
chance for that republic ever to secure
its independence to become, after per-
iod APPRECIATION, one of union of states,
the freedom and substantial dependence
of each being guaranteed by the strength
of ALL 1t is under the resolution of Con
gress, to recommend that such couise
be adopted or abstained from They
simply state as their belief, founded upon
the observations they could make, and of
the facts they could learn, that this is the l
only way in which Dominican independ-
enee can be secured, that if it should be
judged best not to adopt that course, even
the present shadow of independence will
be taken away. The Dominican terrific
~ is one of the purest and richest on oali the