New Britain herald., 1915-01-19
SULLIVAN INSISTED ON SHARING PROFITS
Construction flg~G,T IeSlIfitS Al PTCb5 ni0 minister's Conduct.

New York. Jan. 19.-James NJ. Sullivan, minister to the Dominican republic, whose conduct is under in vestiga ton here before Senator-elect Phelan of California, was represented yesterday az having insisted in shar- ing the profits of a construction com pany organized to obtain public works contracts from the Dominican gov | eITment.
 w. Lee SissOn. a construction en- sineer, who said that he had been i asked by the late Samuel L. Jarvis, 1 controlling the Banco Nacional of | Santo Domingo, to become president of the construction company, testified l that F. J. R. Mitchell. president of the
 bank. had said to him: We will
 have to take the minister in with us.
 and I think it advisable to do so
 Ee can be of considerable service to
 Us in the way of throwing contracts
 to us
 Objected to Proposition. 1 The witness said that he had ob- i ieCted to the proposition and that 1 Mitchell had replied: Well, the min 1 ister insists upon it." he (MitchelD
 suggested that I've might give him ! l company.
 Sisson said he refused and returned | tC New York.
 l Bryan Rcpudiatcd Suggestion. 1 The fact that Sisson was in Santo 1 Domingo in behalf of the Banco Ma 1 cional became known to Secretary of | State Bryan, it was brought out, and MT. Bryan had repudiated, according I
 ton by Sullivan that Sisson would be ] a good man for the Dominican gov
 ernment to employ in it's public works | contracts.
 1 Walker W. Wick, former receiver | general of Dominican customs and in stigator of the investigation, who
 asserts that Secretary Bryan 'white- | washed" Sullivan. described yesterday 1 negotiations which, he said, led to MT. | Pryan's receiving a call from Samuel | McRober vice president of the Ma | tional City bank which is said to have ] heen represented by the Banco Ma 1 cional interests as having sought to 1 exploit the island. Wick said that Me | Roberts wanted to talk to him about
 the Dominican situation and that he l had spoken of the matter to Beaz | w. Long, head of the Latin Ameri- l can department of the state depart l ment. Long referred the matter to | Secretary Bryan who advised it would
 not look well for Wick to be seen | going into the National City bank, and | suggested writing instead
 To Meet Big Financicrs.
 Long told me-" said the witness | that he was not anxious to have the
 secretary meet some of the big finan-
 ciers and had persuaded him to let
 me invite McRoberts to come down to ] Washington
 The upshot was, Wick asserted, that 1 with MT. Bryan's approval, he invited | McRoberts to Washington, to present
 him informally to the secretary of l state"
 1 Active for Banco NacionaI i "McRoberts announced be would | put into evidence documents which l would show that J. c. Gray of Will l mington, Del, "an intimate friend of 1 Bryan," had been active in the state | department in behalf of the Banco l Nacional interests. He declared also | that he had been threatened in many ways for his activity in this case.
 One man told me he had been promised a postmastership if he | would get me " Wick testified. He ! intimated that Joseph P. Tumulty,
 secretary to the president, had been
 responsible for Secretary Bryan's at | titude toward him. This had grown l cut of rivalry between them for Tu- | multy's present post, he thought. Regarded as Sorehead. Earl Harding, newspaperman, who has been Investigating Sullivan in, oha1 of h ic he had been told that Tumulty had said that the White House regarded Wick as a sorehead and that he would have been removed from his post had he not resigned"