Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-01-15
SECY BRYAN
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Let me know what is requisite together
with the salary and when appointments
are likely to be made. Sullivan will
be down before long and you and he
tosether ought to be able to bring abou;
such reforms as may be necessary there
courageous. reliable fellow The more
have seen Of him, the better satisfied
| am that he will fit into the place
there and do what is necessary to be
done.
Very truly yours.
(Slgned) "W + RRyaS
Pulliam further testified that he had
warned Assistant Secretary of State
Osborne in July, 1913, under no cir
cumstances to have anything to do
with the Banco Nacional crowd" and
had explained the character of the
institution to him and that it was
seeking to exploit Dominican finances.
L was surprised and incensed," he
sald, that such a cOterie got to Bry
ans ears. l was sorry to see the re-
ownership of customs made the subj
Ject OF political exploitation. | recall
ed the instructions which Secretary
Root gave me when he said that those
funds should be added as a sacred
trust. For eight years the receiver
ship had been operated without anv
trouble and the difficulties that later
arose were unquestionably caused bv
SnlllVan's transferring the funds to
the Banco Nacional. That was what
they wanted. They wanted to establish
a credlt for themselves. Why. nobody
would accept their notes of issue ex-
cept as handDlllS on the streets
Iulllam said he had no doubt that
the Jarvis interests We're responsible
Tor his removal 1t developed accord
ing to the testimony, that the customs
Iunds were eventually transferred to
the Mlchelena Bank. the original de-
posltory and institution supposed to
represent the National City Bank Of
New York and in this connection PM.
liam said that on July 16 last, in COM
pany with Senator Chamberlain of
oregon, he saw Secretary Bryan in
Washington.
Objection to PuIliam
This is what Mr.. Bryan told the
SENATOR" testified the witness.
MY objection to Pulliam is that he
was entirely too friendly with Michelena
SAID: Now that your administration
mas been forced to put bacn the funds
into the Michelena Bank, don't YOU thin,,
L nave been vindicated?' He eyaded the
question by saying: 1t has not been off,
ciaily brought to my attention that the
transfer has been made"
Did Mr.. Bryan appear to be obsessed
with the belief that the power behind
Mcnamara was The National CITY Rank
"nich represented to hi mthe so-called
money trust?' asked Commissioner
Phelan.
He did" replied the witness
me Jarvis interests were pioued he
added, because the National CITY Bank
mad handled a A,5OO,OOO loan for the gov
eminent in which Michelena acted as
tnelr agent They had represented that
the National City Bank was seeking to
exploit the island, he said, but as far as
he knew the New York institution had no
other interest in Santo Domingo.
Wick took the witness stand and testt-
ned that Secretary Bryan at the recon-
mendation of Boss Long, until lately
head OF the Latin-American department
and friend of J. G. Gray. who was a
great friend of the Banca Nacional and
appointed Charles M. Johnston of Indian.
apoiis as financial expert for the re-
public.
Bryan told me that Johnston would
get 5000 year and expenses" said the
witness Johnston was a salesman in