Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-03-20
SHE'SADIPLOnAT
She Was to Be Fiscal Agent In Unit. ed States For Morales, hut He Feared Uncle sam's Big Stick
 and Weakened.

 and Weakened.
 NEW YORK, March 2O.-William N. Cromwell, the attorney, made pub. lie statement that he had never had any employment, understanding or agreement with Mir. and Mrs. Athole B Reader respecting any Santo Domingo matters. In statement published Sat urday Mrs. Ella R. Reader had de clared that Mir. Cromwell had acted as counsel for her husband and herself in a venture by which they had under taken to secure financial relief for the republic of Santo Domingo in return for valuable concessions. Mrs. Reader declared that the project was stopped on the eve of consummation by a dis closure of it to the authorities at Wash ington and consequent dispatch of an agent of the United States government to Santo Domingo.
 MT. Cromwell said:
 II supplement my explicit denial with the statement that I never have had any employment, understanding or agreement with Mir. and Mrs. Reader respecting any Santo Domingo matters and have no information as to what was done or not done by them in Santo Domingo"
 The charge made by Senator Morgan of Alabama that William Nelson Crom- well, whom various Panamans have said was the guiding star of the isth- milan revolution, negotiated the inter- vention of the United States in Santo Domingo has brought interesting devel- opments here.
 Senator Morgan said:
 Morales wanted to engage the Read CTS as his agents to negotiate a treaty with the United States. There is nothing wrong about that. nor is 1t unprecedented. Burlingame was en- gagged for the purpose by China in 2 famous instance. .a-
 Reader sailed for Santo Domingo to get the treaty, but mark this: He knew what the treaty was to contain before he sailed. His counsel was Cromwell. The treaty which Morales wanted the Readers to negotiate was a much better treaty than the one we afterward got. It provided that six commissioners should be appointed, one by each of several different govern ments, to collect the revenues and dis charge the debts of the government. Morales was to sell Samana bay to us for $1,OOO.OOO. He was to get million and half out of the revenue receipts to run the government, and if that did not suffice he was to disband his standing army and reduce his expenses until million and a half did cover the expenses"
 Mir. and Mrs. Athole B. Reader. the South American mine owners, whose plans to get concessions from Presi- dent Morales. Senator Morgan said, were frustrated by the intervention of this country. turned up in New York, elaborated on Senator Morgan's story and added that Mfr. Cromwell had been their legal adviser with respect to their Dominican enterprises, the failure of which followed the arrival of Con- mander Dillingham; and the signing of the now famous Dillingham-Sanchez agreement"
 It was arranged that Mrs. Reader should be fiscal agent in this country for President Morales: that Mir. Reader should take hold of the Santo Domingo end of the negotiations; that President Morales should hand over to the Read CTS the bay of Samana. which the Readers might or might not hand over to President Roosevelt as coaling sta tion. From there Mrs. Reader takes up the tale as follows:
 MT. Perez and Mir. Reader arrived at Santo Domingo on the 3Oth of De- cember. 1904, and were met on the boat by General Morales. Perez called up- on Morales on Friday evening. as ar ranged, and returned to my husband about II o'clock with the news that ev- erything was most satisfactory and that President Morales was ready to keep his promise and had agreed gen orally to everything Mir. Reader re- quired.
 On Monday. Jan. 9. when he called at the palace, Mir. Sanchez informed him that they had a communication from Mir. Dawson not to proceed with the Reader negotiations. but to deal di- rect with Washington. and that a spe- cial commissioner was leaving Wash ington within twenty-four hours for Santo Domingo city. President Mo rales seemed confused and upset and said:
 "'What can I doi I am frightened of the "big stick" and dare not under present circumstances offend President Roosevelt
 .'On Jan. IA Commander Dillingham; arrived at Santo Domingo city with the United States gunboat Castine. and immediately proceeded with his nego- tiations with President Morales in con junction with United States Minister Dawson.-