New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-29
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ACCEPTS DOMINICAN PLAN.

the only one that could be adopted, in view of
the exigencies of the case. At the conferences
leading up to tie decision of to-day it was
declared to be a fixed principle OF international
law that, where a treaty was pending between
two nations neither should permit such changes
in the status quo TO render impossible the
execution of the treaty In the event of it's final
approval Santo Domingo. fearing that alone it
would be unable to preserve the existing
conditions as to render the execution of the
pending protocol possible. appealed to the
United States to sanction a plan already ar
proved h. the other powers concerned. and to
give such moral support to the Morales ad-
ninistration would be effected by the ap-
pointment of an American citizen to act as re-
ceiver for Dominican customs
To this appeal the administration could not
properly turn a deaf ear. and the decision
reached impressed all called on to consider the
situation as the only feasible one under existing
circumstances. Moreover. this arrangement rem
ders any foreign complications impossible, and
leaves only the possibility of incipient local
revolutions to be dealt with It is fully appre-
ciated that the decision or the President that
the 80 per cent of Dominican customs set apart
for the payment of the republics creditors shall
remain undivided pending action of the Senate
on the protocol will prove unwelcome to the
San Domingo Improvement Company, but the
La Abra case is held to afford ample precedent
for such action. 1t will be remembered that in
that instance an American citizen whose claim
against Mexico had been pressed by the State
Department had secured an award from an
arbitral tribunal and, in fact the first cash pay
ment haG been made to the State Department
under the award, when the Mexican government
entered a demurrer on the ground that the claim
was fraudulent. Investigation followed Mexico
proved its contention. and the payment was
returned.
THE IMPROVEMENT COMPANY'S CLAIM
When the Dominican protocol was under con-
sideration in the Senate certain Senators de-
clared that the San Domingo Improvement Com
panys claim was based fictitious valuation
OF certain concessions, and the Presidents let
ter or instructions issued to-day makes 1t clear
that the company will receive no further nav
ments of Dominican funds until Jacob Fl HoI
lahder has completed a thorough investigate
or the validity Of it's claim. What would be the
Value or the arbitral reward in the event that
-hf, hollander found the claims of the company
10 De equitable and the Senate failed to ratifv
the protocol is not clear
huInors or revolution in Monte Cristi which
reached Washington this evening are meagre
ana are not regarded as OF grave import for the
reason that Judge Abbot or his subordinata 10
now in charge of that port and the cruiser yo,
zee Is there, and several American naval Yes :
sels are near Monte Cristi, 1t Is declared has
always been a hotbed of revolutions hut as
pointed OUT IN these dispatches last December
the customs receipts cannot irarnadia teJ,, he ,r
cureo as sinews of war II is further believed
that the decision of the United States m acoent
Santo Domingo's proposition will render innos
the treaty ~ oii