The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-04
DOMINICAN MODUS VIVENDI.
NET ARRANGEMENT DISPLACES
THE ARBITRAL AWARD.
The city National Bank OF This City IL
Designated as the Depository OF All
Customs Revenues OF santO Domingo
Collected by the American Agents,

Designated as the Depository OF All
Customs Revenues OF santO Domingo
Collected by the American Agents.
WASHINGTON, April s.-The City National
Bank Of New York, which appears 10 possess
the confidence Of the United States Gov
eminent to a marked degree, was to-day
designated. as the trust depository Of all
the customs revenues Of Santo Domingo
to be collected by American agents and
to he distributed to the Dominican Re
publio's foreign creditors il the United
States Senate should rahfy the pending
Dominican treaty The designation was
made in accordance with the terms Of
the so-called modus vivendi arranged
by T. c. Dawson, United States Minister to
Santo Domingo with the Government Of
that country and the diplomatic repre-
sentatives Of its European creditors at
the Dominican capital. Mr.. Dawson tele-
graphed the State Department that Presi-
dent Morales had issued a decree putting
the modus into effect.
Within ten days OF two weeks Col A. O.
Cotton, who has been selected as Chief
Customs Collector for Santo Domingo
under the modus, will be in charge Of all
the customs houses Of the republic He
will leave Washington this week. He will
be assisted by j. H. Edwards Of the Philip
pines customs service; Richard J. Leopold,
recommended by DR.. W. L. Gould Of
Baltimore, who declined one Of the offices
Of Chief collector; Warren W. Rich Of the
customs division Of the Treasury Depart
ment, and David f. Morris, who served
as a soldier and q newspaper man In the
Philippines and was later connected with
the ST. Louis worlds fair.
These men, it was announced to-
day, will be nominated TO the President
as collectors. Three Spanish speaking
clerks Of the War Departments Bureau
Of Insular Affairs were desi grated also as
the stan Of the Chief Collector. They are
NJ Drew Carroll, statistician; H. Warren
Smith. accountant and II. +. Morley, trans
lator and stenogr8pher. A suggestion was
sent to President Morales through Minister
Daysoa that Chief Collector Cotton be paid
400 a mouth, and the other collectors and
employees 10 be paid in accordance with an
agreement to be made between President
Morales and Col. Cotton.
There has been considerable mystery
as TO the status under the modus vivendi
of the arrangement by which, In accordance
with the terms Of the arbitral award rem
dered by Joint American-Dominican arbi-
tration commission last July, the San
Domingo Improvement Company Of New
York was to receive 1880 month OF
the revenues collected at certain designated
Dominican ports until the claim OF the
company had been liquidated, The mys-
tery was cleared up to-day, when II became
known that the arbitTai award has been
displaced bv the so-oalled modus vivendi
This statement. made to-day in an
authoritative quarter, means that the
aTTan cement, which the Administration
calls aOmodus Wvendi, has temporarily
az least, permanently perhaps, shrogated
the arbitral award Under the terms
OF the award the customs house at Puerto
Plata was placed in charge Of an American
collector, Judge Abbott, and subsequently
the customs house at Monte Cristi was
also given over to an agent Of this Gov
eminent. Lieutenant Commander Leiper
Of the navy. The money collected by
them, TO the amount Of $3.50 monthly
for two years and t41 500 monthly subse-
ouently, was TO be paid TO the Improvement
company.
Under the modus. however, these pay
ments will be stopped. and IS per cent Of
the revenues collected at Puerta Plata and
Monte Cristi, as we'll as those Of all other
Dominican ports il 10 be deposited in the
CITY National Bank OF New York and by
II held In trust pending final action by the
Senate on the Dominican treaty.
Should the treaty he rejected by the
Senate, an amount equal to q . aggregate
Of monthly payments Of tS7, 500 for the period
from April l. 1905, 90 the date Of rejection
will be paid 20 the Improvement company
out of the revenues collected by the Ameri-
can agents appointed under the modus,
and the terms Of the arbtral award Of July,
1904, will be revived and customs collections
be resumed by Amencan agents at the ports
designated by the arbitrator
should the treaty be ratified, the money
on deposit in the City National Bank will
be distributed in accordance with the d.
rections Of this Government, probably after
q commission has passed upon the various
American and foreign claims. Under this
possible distribution the San Domingo
Improvement Company will get its pro
Ito shera oply