The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-05-15
SEARCHING INVESTIGATION
Into Conduct OF Cuban Finances Called
for by Resolutions Introduced I'm the
Senat

Washington. May 11.-Senator Bacon
today introduced the following reso-
luton:
Resolved by the senate That the
committee on relations with Cuba 10
hereby directed to investigate and re-
port to the senate as early as practi-
cable regarding the monies 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 occupation of Cuba by the military
forces OF h United States until and
including the Both day OF April. ISan.
Said committee shall INVESTIGATES
and report as to receipts as follows:
From customs. from postal service,
from internal revenue from all other
as practicable and particularly the
places where and dates within which
said amounts were collected or received
and the officer or officers collecting
and receiving the same. as well as
the law or authority under which said
amounts were in each instance so coll
lected or received.
Sd.u COIlsIilillct snail lnNcSNlEaIe
and repor as TO the expenditures Of
the said amounts so received. the ne
cessity and propriety thereof. speci-
flying in classes and in detail so far
as practicable said expenditures and
particularly the work, services and
propriety for which said expenditures
were made and the value thereof: also
the law or authority under which
each of said expenditures was made,
the officer, civn or military, by whom
said expenditures was authorized and
the officers, civil or military, by whom
said expenditure was made, and the
particular FUND from which the money
was taken for said expenditures.
Said committee shall also report a
statement of al public work of every
kind. including buildings, wharves.
railroads and all other structures built
or constructed, improved, repaired or
decorated by or under the authority
of any such officer, civil or military;
n in each instance the cos, value.
necessity and propriety of the same,
and the uses to which said buildings
or structures have been put. Where
said buildings and works were con-
structed, or improvements We're made,
by contract, or where the material
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 shall also report a
statement of the personal property
which was purchased or procured and
entrusted to any officer, civil or mil
itary, in Cuba within said time. the
cost and value of the same. and the
uses to which said property has beer
put and the disposition which has beer
made thereof"
| At Senator Bacon's request the reso-
luton was laid on the table.
Representative Bromwell. Of Ohio, to-
day introduced a resolution directing
the secretary of war to ascertain the
amount, if any. of monies or other
| property belonging to the postal e
enue of the island of Cuba, which
have, since the ratification of the
treaty with Spain, been w~rongfully
| misappropriated and taken to his owr
use by any official or officials of the
| United States and to certify the
| amount to the secretary of the treas.
| ury who is directed to transfer the
| amount so certified to the secretary
J of war, who shall reimburse the SAID
| postal revenue fund of the amount
wrongfully Incorporated therefrom