Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-30

The President and Secretary Taft are
ccmpleti ting the details of the arrangement
with Santo Domingo, under which agents
| of the United States will collect the Gus
| toms revenues of Santo Domingo and turn
| over 4J per cent of the total to the Domin-
| lean authorities and deposit the remaining
| % per cent in a New York bank, to be held
in trust for foreign creditors until the
| United States Senate acts the pending
| tleaty with Santo Domingo.
Only Two Men Selected.
| So far but two men have been selected to
| take charge of the Dominican customs
| service One of these is Col G. r. Cotton
| OF Nebraska, collector of internal revenue
| at Ilolo Island of Cebu, in the Philippines.
| He is in Washington on leave of absence
| and has accepted President Roosevelt's Of
fer to nc inmate him to President Morales.
The other man selected for nomination is
William Z. Gould of Baltimore. Mr. Gould
| is a New Yorker, though he has resided in
Baltimore for some time past.
DIR. Gould was graduated as doctor OF
philosophy at Johns Hopkins University in
| June, 1858, and is said to be an accom-
| plished linguist, being particularly prof.
cient in Spanish. He took his academic de-
gree at Columbia in 1879, and now lives at
1881 North Eutaw street The appointment,
it is understood. was made upon the recon-
menda tion of Prof. Jacob H. Hollander, DIR.
Ira RemSen Daniel G. Gilman, Cardinal
Gibbons and others.
Forgot the Name.
An amusing incident in connection with
the selection of Mr.. Gould occurred yes
terday When Secretary Taft arrived at
the War Department in the morning from
his first visit to the White House, he an
nounced that it had been decided to appoint
MIR. Rhoades" of Baltimore as one of
the collectors of Santo Domingo. Secretary
Taft said he had completely forgotten MIR.
RhDades" initials For several hours the
officials of the War and State Departments
were kept busy hunting up the Mr.
Rhoades record and initials, but without
success.
No one, including Secretary Taft seemed
to know exactly who Mr.. Rhoades' was,
he having been selected it was said,
upon the recommendation of Professor HoI-
lander. About ) O'Clock in the afternoon
Secretary Taft suddenly remembered that
the name was not "Rhoades'' at ALL but
Could And having settled that fact the
department was still unable to give his
initials, or exactly which of the many Bal
timore 'Goulds it was who would be sent
to Santo Domingo. Various publications
containing the names of men prominent in
the country were looked up, and it was
finally settled late in the afternoon that it
was Mr.. William E. Gould who had received
the appointment.
Prof. Hollander's Mission,
The position to which DR.. Gould has been
appointed is entirely distinct and separate
from that of Professor Hollander, who will
go to Santo Domingo as the special COM
missioner of the President Professor Hol-
lander will leave New York Saturday morn
ing on the Caracas for San Juan
His mission TO Santo Domingo will be sole
ly for the purpose of studying conditions
there in order to mage a report upon them
to the President. The exact financial and
nial CT at n no annla iS cal
is what the President is now chiefly inter-
ested in, and it is for the purpose of finding
out the true conditions that Professor Hol-
| lander has been named. His business will
be in no way connected with the collection
| of customs nor with any permanent board
that may hereafter be appointed 1t is pos
sible, however, that Professor Hollanders
report to the President may be the means
of deciding whether such board shall or
shall not be appointed.
The San Domingo Improvement Co.
Some question has arisen as to the status
of the claim of the San Domingo Improve
ment Company under the new arrangement
for the collection of the revenue of Santo
Domingo. The money which is to be col
lected will be placed in a bank, both that
which is claimed by the improvement COM
pany and the other funds, and will be paid
out when some future arrangement is made.
Information from Minister Dawson Is
awaited to ascertain whether under the
arbitral award it is actually necessary that
a portion of the collections must be paid
to the improvement company. Meanwhile
Professor Hollander will investigate the
claim of the San Domingo company as well
as other claims, that claim having been
criticised in the Senate and some doubts
about 1t expressed by the administration.
Surprised at Dawson's Statement.
Mr.. John Bassett Moore, representing the
Santo Domingo Improvement Company, who
was the agent for the United States in
| the arbitration providing for the means of
settling the claims of that company against
Santo Domingo. called upon the President
today in reference TO the status of the
company's claims as liable to be affected
by the agreement. Mr.. Moore also at the
Presidents instance saw the officials of
| the State Department On the same business.
| He pointed out that SO far as the official
records show no charge has ever been filed
attacking the justice OF the companyS
claim during the four years that 1t had
| been in prosecution Furthermore the DOM
inican government itself in all the nego-
| tiations that led up to the first agreement
| to pay those claims never questioned their
| perfect validity and the only issues in
volved amounts.
| Mr. Moore was at loss to account for
Minister Dawsons statement to the effect
| that the Improvement company had with
| held approval of the agreement for the rea-
| son that it had no representative In SantO
Domingo competent 10 act either way, and
/ the company itself had never been given an
| opportunity to pass upon the agreement;
! In fact 1t had been taken by complete sur
| prise by recent Developments No formal
| protest, however, has yet been lodged
! against the execution of the agreement. 1t
| is stated that the improvement company
| has so far not received more than half Of
| the $4,000 month from Dominican Gus
| toms dues contemplated by the arbitral
award
Tfalv,c Affifado Evploipad
| The Italian ambassador, Senior Mayor
des Planches, called upon Acting Secretary
| Adee at the State Department today to talk
with him respecting the international
agreement which has been prepared
| governing the collection and disbursement
| OF the Dominican customs. Italy as we'll
L as the limited States has claims a1ainsf the