Bisbee daily review., 1905-04-25
SANT0 DOMINGO TREATY
Big Stick Policy Suffers an Evi.
 Gert Reverse.
WHY THE sENATEDBLAYEDAOTIo
Belief In That Body That the Policy Sought to Re Established Was Dan gerous-It Proposed New Venture For the United States.


 The causes of the senate's dislike of the SantO Domingo treaty were sup plIed by the president himself ln
 making this statement we allow full weight to Secretary Hays disclaimer for his department and for the presi- dent of any antecedent knowledge of the celebrated memorandum of a pro posed agreement" drawn up and exc cuted by Commander Dillingham; and
 MT. Dawson. The making of that agreement. which was to take effect on Feb. l without the advice or con sent of the sente, was an act of the ex- ecutive department It was the act Of government officers within the control of the president. Their act on coming to the public Knowledge was not at once disclaimed by the executive. It was thought sufficient for Mir. Loomis to explain that the memorandum" would find it's way to the senate in due time Moreover. dispatch manifestly authorized and inspired at the state de partment on Jan. 22 and published n the columns of the New York Trib- une on the following day conveyed to the world the information that in view of the gravity of the prevailing condi- tions in Santo Domingo 'the president has deemed it wise at this time to as- sent to the strongly expressed wisS Of the Dominican government for the fiscal arrangements provided for in the protocol.
 With tho lAnGf Ifcnn-ftfnr1 i'm 4hn OrId toward the president and his agents and advisers, many senators find it i'm possible to rid themselves of the be- lief that an attempt was made to make a treaty with Santo Domingo and to establish control over the fiscal affairs of that republic without con sulting the senate.
 When the treaty of Feb. : had been drawn up in due form and submitted to the senate it was found to be in many ways so defective and objec- tionable that the unfavorable impress zion created by the memorandum" es- capade was deepened. The senators were amazed that the president should ask them to assent to the principle that the Monroe doctrine binds us to consider as an unfriendly act any at- tempt on the part of European cred itor nation to collect just debts from Spanish-AmericaE republic.
 All that preposterous stuff was struck out, and other amendments were made, but the treaty still suffers from the dtscredit of the circumstances which gave it birth. and furthermore it ap- pears to be the judgment of the sen ate that the executive department has not maturely considered where and how far the policy established in this treaty will lead us or whether it is to our advantage to establish and follow 1t even for limited time and a linn tied distance.
 The haste. the heedlessness4 and the irregular manner in which the proposal to entangle ourselves with the affairs of Santo Domingo has been brought to the attention of the senate and the country have sufficed to make the treaty unacceptable. All these errors of procedure are, of course, chargeable against the executive department, and they were all committed by persons who if they were not acting under the direction of the president were at least fully within his control. If the treaty is dead it is fair to say the pres ident has killed it. He has also suffer- ed an evident reverse at the very first attempt to apply to our relations with our smaller sister republics :hc p-incs- pies and the doctrine of policy which he has often and somewhat emphatical- ly enunciated in public utterances.
 It Is no doubt true, as Senator Spoon CT pointed out in the debate on the treaty. that the relations of the mis- governed or ungoyerned and semi bankrupt little republics of this hemi- sphere to their creditors across the wa ter will always be source of uneasi- ness and of possible danger to us un- less we can in some such way as that sought to be provided in the case of Santo Domingo assume control over them and arrange the payment of the debts.
 To assume control over the customs, revenues and large part of the ex- penditures of these republics or of any of them, however, to guarantee their domestic tranquility and to undertake the sitting and auditing of claims pre- scented against them or any of them is new venture for the United States. Secretary Seward made such an offer to Mexico when that republic was threatened by Great Britain, France and Spain forty years ago, but the creditor powers withheld their assent. | Santo Domingo is eager to make tue l arrangement, and if we make 1t with 1 one there is no logical reason why we | should not make it with all
 The scope of the new policy broad | ems rather startingly as we contem- | plate the possible field of its applica- | tion- It is not strange that the sena- tors hesitate. They are justified tn feeling that the country has nc. had | lime to make up it's mind. The treaty | will % over to the next session: the | people will think about 1t; the senators | will have the whole summer for delib- eration and study. Meanwhile the | president has bad the opportunity to I profff hr En fnefrr.<-ffva axnartapca