The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-21
CONTRADICTS The READERS.
DOMINICAN TICE-CONSUL SAYS
MORALES DID NOT DECKER

And That lie Refused to See Reader-MrS.
Reader says MIR. CrOmwell's Denial
Does Not Deny-AlsO That Her Plans
Leaked-ShOWs a Roosevelt Letter.
j. Emilio Villalon, Vice-Consul OF the
Dominican Republic here, denied yester-
day the statement Of Mr.. and Mrs. A. b.
Reader that President Morales negotiated
! with Mr.. Reader for the construction Of
treaty between Santo Domingo and the
| United States.
Senator Morgan has been mised by
some one with little respect for this dis
tinguished Statesman said Mr.. YillalOn.
L am brother-in-law Of President Morales
and he has informed me about this case.
Reader went to Santo Domingo on the
steamer. Cherokee Of the Clyde Line on
Dec q. accompanied by Elisso Berez. A
| few days after their arrival Reader sent
letter to President Morales requesting an
interview in which he would communicate
some important matters as a representative
Of the United States Government.
President Morales refused to receive
him and advised him TO address himself
either TO the Minister Of Foreign Affairs
or the Charge d'Ahaires in Washington il
he were an agent Of the United States.
Reader afterward sent to the Minister
Of Foreign Affairs a bundle Of papers
which, he said in a letter contained the
terms on which the United States would
lease SANTANA Bay, &c. This bundle Of
papers was sent back to Reader without
even being read by the Minister. After
this attempt Reader left for Porto Rico
about the 10th Of January.
Il have never heard Mr. CTomwell's
name mentioned in connection with Santo |
Domingo affairs. Reader says he was en-
gagged by Perez, who he says was a secret
agent Of Morales. Perez was Chancellor Of |
Santo Domin 60 under the Wos y Gil govern
ment and has always been against the Mo- |
Tales government. What Reader says about |
Morales telling him that be was afraid |
Of the big stick u a fine joke
Mrs. Reader said yeste rday Of Mr.. Crom- /
wells statement printed on Sunday:
1T can scarcely be deemed denial /
Of what my husband and have asserted. |
IL Mr. Cromwell really desires to be explicit, |
why does be not make a statement some
thing like this: Il never saw Mr.. and Mrs.
Reader never wrote a letter 20 them, never
gave them any advice, never heard any Of
their plans, know not now and never did
know the first thing about their business
affairs and never had in my possession
any treaty or other document they had
prepared. They lie if they say did any
one OF these things II Mr.. Cromwell
|
him a chance to be more explicit In public. |
But Mr.. Cromwell won't. He is too good
a lawyer for that.
There were only three copies Of that
treaty in existence. had one: Mr. Reader,
who was in Santo Domingo, had one, and
Mr.. Cromwell had one. There was leak
somewhere; otherwise, how could President
Roosevelt have become acquainted with the
situation so suddenly? II may be that Mr.;
Roosevelt read my mind. Maybe he gained
the knowledge through some marvellous
pschysic power which he possesses. May be
the walls told him-at any rate my treaty
fell by the wayside. was conducting per-
fectly honest negotiations, In some way
they were disclosed to persons hostile
to me-
Mrs. Reader intimated that powerful
Wall Street interests had caused the defeat
of her plans, but she declined to go into the
details Of this phase of the matter
THE names Of several prominent men
will be made public in connection with this
affair before il Is thoroughly threshed out,
she said. That is all care 70 say just at
present. am in the hands Of Senator
Morgan and Mr.. Delahunty and l cannot
say what / will do
Mrs Reader said she had done consider
able work for President Roosevelt. She
showed a letter signed by him, holding IL
in such a manner that the name Of the person
to whom II was addressed could not be seen.
IL read
This is TO introduce to you Miss Ella
Rawls a lady who was my stenographer
when wrote my Rough Rid rs and after
ward was employed by me. She did her
work satisfactorily and / have every con-
fdence in her. would at any time employ
her myself
The last sentence was written with a pen
The rest Of the letter was typewriter, ,
MANY foolish things have been written
about me since this matter became public"
said Mrs. Reader, "but none more foolish |
han that / am a clever woman. II had |
been a clever woman-one-tenth as clever
as Mr.. Cromwell II a man. for instance
The treaty would not have been lost to US