The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-17
TO PROBE CUBAN FRAUDS
Beginning Of the Enquiry Ordered
by the Bacon Resolution.
Committee Appointed by the senate
Mect--It> Purpose and Power
incd More Information Wanted
Adjournment untiI December 3.

The Committee on Relations With Cuba
met at the Capitol yesterday afternoon
and went into executive session to con-
slider the mass OF typewriter matter sub
mitted by the War Department, which in
cludes the accounts OF receipts and eX-
penditures of public money in Cuba. There
were present Senators Flat OF Connecti-
cut. Chandler. Spooner, Cullom, Aldrich,
and Money. The absentees were Senators
Davis. Mcmillan. Teller. Butler, and Tai
iaferro. This committee. under the reso-
luton presented by Senator Bacon on
May II. 1900. was directed to investi-
gate and report to the Senate as
early as practicable regarding the moneys
received and expended in the Island of
Cuba by. through, and under the officials
and representatives of the United States,
both civil and military. from the date of
the occupation of Cuba by the military
forces of the United States until and in
Guiding the 18th day of April 1900
Under the Bacon resolution this COM
mittee was empowered to sit during the
summer recess. but this it did not do.
Senators Teller, Platt, and Aldrich went
to Cuba during the summer and return
ing reported that the task was exceeding
~ great. whereuron the War and Post
Office Departments agreed to furnish the
committee with itemized accounts OF all
receipts and expenditures made by them
in the island.
Accordingly. $1,000 or 10000 pages. it is
Said of typewriter matter are now before
the committee.
All the information desired by the com
mittee was not at hand yesterday and it
adjourned till December >. After that
date the Cuban enquiry will be resumed
as soon as all the information which the
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Office Departments shall have been re-
ceived. 1t will then be determined
whether witnesses will be called for cx-
animation.
In the Bacon resolution it is provided
that this committee shall investigate
and report as to receipts as follows:
From customs, from postal service. from
internal revenue, from mail sources. spe
cifying the details as far as practicable.
and particularly the places. and the dates
within which said amounts were collect
ed or received, and the officer or officers
collecting and receiving the same, as we'll
as the law or authority under which said
amounts were in each instance so col
lected or received.
The remainder OF the resolution fol-
lows:
Said committee shall investigate and
report as 10 the expenditures of the said
amounts so received. the necessity and
propriety thereof, specifying in classes
and in detail so far as practicable, said
expenditures and particularly the work,
services. or property for which said ex-
penditures were made and the value there
Of. also the law or authority under which
each of said expenditures was made. the
officer. civil or military. by whom said
expenditure was authorized. and the Off
GER. civil, or military, Icy whom said ex-
pcnditure was made, and the particular
fund from which the money was taken for
SAID expenditure.
Said committee shall also report
statement of all public works of every
kind. including buildings, wharyes, rail
roads, and all other structures built or
const ructed improved repaired. or dec
GRATED by or under the authority of any
such officer civil or military. and in each
instance the cost value. necessity, and
propriety of the same. and the uses to
which said buildings or structures have
been put. Where said buildings and
works We're constructed or improvements
were made by contract, or where the ma
terial used in the same was furnished by
contract. the committee shall report
copies of each of said contracts and the
names of all parties interested in each
of the same.
Said committee is authorized to con-
duct said Investigation and make such re-
port by subcommittee or committees ap-
pointed by the chairman and the commit
tee, any subcommittee thereof, is au-
thorized TO sill during the recess of Con-
gress at such place or places in the United
States or CIba as may be necessary; and
Is empowered 10 send for persons and pa
pers, issue subpoenas, administer oaths,
examine witnesses, employ stenographers,