Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-01-16
.SANT0 DOMINGO
| ROAD CONTRACTS
USED FOR GRAF 7
Man Said to Have Offered to
Insure, for $4,000, That
Firm Would Make Thirty
Per Cent Net Profit,

Ivan, American minister TO the Doe
minicap republic, was pictured toda'
at the inquiry conducted by senator
elect Phclan into his fitness TO hold
the post as having been associated
with interests who for money eonsia'
Grafton would guarantee to Obtain
profitable contracts from the DomiEi-
can government.
f. Bright Wilson, attorney for c, -
Smith, a contractor Of Memphis
Tenn. the principal witness, testified
that his client had told him he had
been approached with an offer 81
such a guarantee and had been told
that sullivan could make It possible
for him 10 get road contracts IN Santc
Domingo that would net 80 per cent
The man who approached his client
he said was william G. Beers, an at
torney. said TO be associated with tho
Samuel NJ. Jarvis interests, who con
trolled the Banco Macdonald at Sanlc
Domingo. This Is the institution
which, II had been previously testl'
fled had obtained the deposits Of Do
minlcan customs funds through Sulli'
vans influence.
Wanted Pay for Contract.
Beers wanted, among other things
the witness said, $4,000 cash payment
as the price Of securing the contracts
The witness said Smith rejected tho
proposition
Smiths story as told by his attos-
ney WAS this;
Beers told me ne had got In touch
with some Santo Domingo contracts
He said he was responsible for the ap-
pontWent of sullivan as American
minister, that there some large puhh,
road contracts in santo Domingo and
that he wanted me to get some OF
them. lie said sullivan had been CIV
on broader powers chan any other
minister who had been sent to Santo
Domingo. lie impressed upon me that
sullivan had charge Of the situation
down there. / spoke about the as
turbed political conditions in the re-
public and that 1t might be difficult
to get paid for the work.
No Trouble 10 Get Money.
Beers assured me there would DC
no trouble in getting the money az
the United states government would
attend to that He said If | would
give him $4,000 in cash he would give
me a letter to sullivan and left the Inn
preston that would pe all that was
necessary to get tho contracts, AS
soon as the contracts were obtained
he said, he would want $4,000 more
and that he would then organize
construction company Of which he
and his associates-he mentioned jar
vs--would get 10 per cent of the
profits The profits on the contracts
would net 80 per cent he said,
told Beers that it was not legitimate
and he assured me that his influence
at Washington was such that there
would be no investigation under th'
present administration
II told Mr. Smith. said the witness
that those things could NOT be done
under this administration and th1
Beers guarantee was of no value"
smith, of course, turned the propo
sltion down
That Sullivan brought to Santo DO
mmgo and caused to be placed upor
the pay roll a man who he said wa'
his personal physician, but said to be
masseuer for Beers and with no bet
ter medical qualification than that 81
a nurse, was asserted by Walker w
Nicks. former receiver general of Gus
toms for Santo Domingo In this h.
was corroborated by r.. Fred Knauth
dealer IN medical supplies in New
York who said that on representa-
tions made by Beers he had advance,
the so-called physician. A. j. Conroy
81 600 worth OF medical instruments
Beers had paid him $500 in advance
knauth said dnd told him Conroy hat
insured his life IN favor of Beers anC
sullivan was guarantee of his re-
liability Knauth said he never go
the other $500
Caused Dominican Revolt.
Wick put IN a deposition signed b,
Conroy that he was told in the pres
ence of Beers, Jarvis and sullivan Al
the Union League club that if Sulh
van was appointed minister he, Con
roy, was 20 be appointed physician 4
attend SullNans family. Conroy wal
a good nurse Wick said. but had ad
mitted to him that he never received
u degree
Wick. who instigated the present in
vcstigation. said Sullivan was gen
orally credited with being responsible,
for the Dominican revolution of 1914
because he upheld the Bordas gov
eruuenf auainet tho Iofss4Iictae