The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-05-27
After . brief executive session, the SEN
ate at bs8 p. m. adjourned.
TEXT OF THE RESOLUTION.
Committee Required TO Go over All
Receipts and Expenditures in
the Island.

NASttiEN3ltsNs may En~fp itoWink ~
the text of tho resolution ordering an in
vestgation into the administration OF Gu
ban affairs which passed the senate to-
day;
''Resolved. That the committee on rela-
tions with Cuba Is hereby directed to in
vestigate and report TO The senate as early
as practicable regarding the moneys re
ceived and expended in the Island or Cuba
nv through and under the OFFICIALS ana
ranrese nj atives of the United States, both
ciyil and military. from the date OF the
OCCUPATION of Cuba by the military forces
OF tho United States until and Including
the goth of April 1900
said committee shall investigate and
report as to the receipts as follows
From customs, from postal service.
from internal revenues. from all other
sources, specifying the details as Tar a.
practicable and particularly the places
where and dates within which such
amounts were collected or received, and
the officer or officers collecting and re-
ceiving the same; also the law under
which such amounts In each instance were
90 collected or received
said committee shall investigate and
report as TO the expenditures OF said
amounts so resolved, The necessity and
propriety thereof. specityius In classes
and in detail 50 far as pracccAhtc saIa
expenditures and particularly the work.
service or property for when said eNpen-
ditures we're made and tho value thereof
also as TO law or authority under which
said expenditures were made the officer.
civil or military. by whom said expendi-
lures was authorized and the officer, civil
or military. by whom the expenditures
was made and the particular fund from
which the money was taken for said ex-
said committee shah also report n
statement # all public works u every
Kind, including buildings, wharves, ran
roads and all other structures huilt or
constructed. improved, repaired or deco
rated by or under the authority Of any
such officer civil or military. and in each
instance the cost. value. necessity anu
propriety of the same and the uses TO
which said buildings or structures have
been put.
Where said buildings and works were
constructed or improvements were made
by contract, or where tho material used IN
the same vas furnished by contract the
committee shall receive copies 81 each
Of said contracts and thc names OF ali
parties Interested IN each % the same
said committee shall also report a
statement of the personal property which
was purchased or procured and ntruSted
to any officer. civil or military. in Cuba
within said time. the cost and value -
me same and the uses 10 which said
property has been put and the disposition
which has been made thereof
said committee Is authorized 10 CON
duct said investigation and make such
raport bv subcommittee or committee
appointed by the chairman; and the com
,niftee or any subcommittee thereof IS
authorized to sit during the recess or
congress at such place or places In the
Jfni{ed states or cuba as may be neCes-
sary and Is empowered TO send for per
sons and papers, issue subpoenas, admin
istsr oaths examine witnesses. employ
stenographers, expert accountants and
other necessary assistance, and the eN-
penses of said investigation shall be paiG