The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-08-03
THOUSANDS ARE HOMELESS
rs
NOW FOR SWISHER

expense OF the reeetvership, ana out
lay for maintaining three interio
ports along the Haitian frontier
The aggregate amount appropriated
for the combined customs service q
less than 4 per cent. of the esti
MATED gross customs collections, ant
It win be ample for. the purpose In.
! dlcated.
4 Among the items of particular
prominence In the budget are sever
al for the encouragement and fur
therance. of: work of a public char
acter, in continuation OF the general
plan for improvements undertaken
by the government within the last
two years. and about which receiver
ship reports have been forwarded.
A new department OF agriculture and
immigration has been created. II
will deal with the two elements need
ed most to improve the country
the cultivation of the soil. which In
turn demands immigrants to supple
nent the paucity of the present pop
ulation and thus supply labor nec-
essary to material development.
THE sum of $4,000 was appro-
priated for the encouragement of
immigration, with particular refer
ence to It's Introduction along a por-
tIon OF the frontier adjacent to Haiti.
The nelghboring islands-Cuba and
Porto Rico-have benefited vastly
during recent years by the immigra-
tion of hardy Spanish laborers from
the farming districts of northern
Spain.
Under the same head and the d.
rection OF the department mention
ed. $4,000 was appropriated for an
experimental agricultural school.
This amount IL properly expended,
should-go far towards ultimately OBJ
tanning better returns from the soil
than has been the rule in the past.
Santo Domingo possesses the cli-
mate. its soil is of the. best, and the
wealth OF its natural resources is
beyond argument.
Irrigation work in the Monte
Cristi district commenced during the
past year. has been further provided
for by an appropriation of $4,000.
Two wireless telegraph stations,
with the latest approved appliances.
are now in course of construction
the one at the capital more than
half completed. For this innovation
$4,000 was made available. It IS
understood that successful working
of the wireless station at Santo Do
mingo will afford an independent
communication with the outside
world. Such is the expectation of
the government.
The position OF Director General
of Public Works has been created,
and 1t is already occupied by an en-
perience in his profession In other
countries. Under his supervision
the work of public Improvement is
now being prosecuted.
Another tangible result accruing
from the convention was the recent
taking over by the Government,
from the santo Domingo Improve
ment Company. of the railway be-
tween Puerto Plata and Santiago, |
known as the Ferrocarril Central
This road Is now oper-
ated directly by the Government, and !
It is expected that the receipts from |
II for the coming year will yield q
surplus over expenditures.
What should be most significant
of all, especially to a student of af-
fairs Dominican-one interested in
the present outlook compared with
the past-is the fact that for the De-
partment of the Interior and Police
the sum of $3s.233 was set aside to
meet what is known as general ex-
expenses which would
relate to the suppression of uprisings
against the organized government,
that when a contrast Is revealed in
the statement that only four years
ago-the fiscal year 1s04-5, the peri |
cd Immediately preceding the Re-
total estimated in
come OF but two and one-half mill
lions, forty per cent of 1t was des-
ignated for the Identical purpose.
The operation OF the modus vivendl
and the convention following has had
the decided effect OF accomplishing |
a radical change in this respect"