New Britain herald., 1915-01-21
JACK ROSE SOUGHT
 IN SULLIVAN PROBE
American Minister Charged With foS- teTinQ Puerta Plata bOnbaTdmcnt.

New York, Jan. Civilian C. Beer, an attorney for the Banco Ma cional of Santo Domingo. which has been accused of seeking to exploit public contracts in Dominican Re- public, was quoted yesterday at the inquiry into the fitness of James M. republic, as having said that he ex- pected to share what profits he made in the alleged exploitation with Sec retary of State Bryan and Martin H. Glynn, former governor of New York, and Congressman J. A. HamIll of New Jersey.
 M. E. Davis of New York, q con- tractor for supplies, testified he had been so informed by Beer while the two were on their way to Santo Do mingo, Davis with the expectation of securing government contracts which he said Beer had represented to him were to be had.
 Expenditure of $6,OOO,OOO.
 The witness said Beer had asserted that Messrs. Bryan, Glynn and Hamill were "all interested in seeing San
 
 engagements had been made by the administration with the Dominian government for the expenditure of $6,0oO,000 in public improvements.
 1T took him to mean MT. Bryan" continued MT. Davis.
 Did he say MT. Bryan?" asked MT. Phelan.
 He didn't use the name Bryan," replied Davis, but I inferred that was who he meant"
 When MT. Davis said that he as- stunned MT. Beer referred to Secretary of State Bryan, Senator-elect Phelan asked:
 Did you believe that? You are the first person that has cast a reflection in this inquiry upon MT. Bryan"
 Well, MT. Beer had great weight with me- replied the witness, though I had some doubts about t." Regards It As Silly Rot. Report just what Beer said" iu- structed MT. Phelan. This time Days said that Beer had used the words, "a person of no less importance than the secretary of state" After further questioning Davis said he regarded Beers statement as silly rot.''
 You really didn't believe that D secretary and a governor would so disgrace the United States as to par ticipate in such a scheme, did you ?" asked Attorney Strong.
 'I regarded it seriously at the time but I certainly think now it was bunk. Beer was simply using all means in his power to get money" Encouraged Bombardment That Minister Sullivan had encour- aged the Dominican government to bonn bard the city of Pueblo Plata during a revolution in October, 1913 in spite of the fact that it would en- danger American property there. was charged in testimony by G. O. Baker, a construction engineer. Baker had a contract for building a powerhouse in that city for a Boston concern and said that he protested to Minister Sullivan, asking intervention against threatened attack upon the city by a Dominican gunboat that was pa- trolling the river.
 The city was at that time in the possession of revolutionists and al- though it was defended by 8, so-called fort, Baker said that it was in no sense fortified, as the entire artillery
  pounder gun. Sullivan, he declared, had insisted that it was a fort and that the gunboat had a right to bonn bard. Baker said he then entered a protest in writing to the minister. To this Sullivan replied in a letter that was put in evidence, in which oc- cured the sentence:
 This does not mean that the attack ho cfo United States; on the contrary, we will encourage it."
 Copy for Bryan.
 copy of the letter, the witness said, was sent to Secretary Bryan.
 The gunboat subsequently, did bonn bard, he testified throwing five shells into the city and damaging his prop erty, though not seriously. He said that Sullivan had once threatened to get him arrested by the Dominicans and had said to him, Don't forget that you're not on American soil"
 AS evidence of conditions in Santo Domingo, Baker said that on one oc- casion when all Americans had taken to the cellar" 1t was reported that Desidario Arias, revolutionist leader, had recommended that it would "be a good thing to shoot off three or four good Americans in order to bring about American intervention.
 Commissioner Phelan announced that ex-Governor Glynn of New York and eX-Governor J. Franklin Fort of New Jersey had been asked to appear. MT. Glynn was recently mentioned in testimony as having given Beer a let ter of introduction to Secretary | Bryan. MT. Fort went to Santo Do- | mingo recently to investigate affairs 1 there for this government
 Rose Wanted as Witness,