The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-23
AMERICAN CIVIL
 ADMINISTRATION
 IN HAITI SCORED
More Oppressive Than MiIi- tary Days, Says President Of Black Republic In Message
 of Denunciation
By Associnted Press

By Associated Press Port Au Prince, November t3.-The American civil administration in Haiti
 President Dartiguenave declared in tho s, S,oo0-word statement he made today, attacking the public service of Minis ter Blanchard and John McIlhenny,t financial advisor of the black republic. The president charged that since American occupation. no effective aid had been given Haiti for development
 of it's agrculitural and industrial re- , sources, as stipulated in the treaty, and that no serious measure had been proposed with view to placing
 Hatfs finances on truly solid basis"
 MT. McIlhenny is ill Washington, and the minister declined to be seen. Calling attention tD the fact that tho financial advisor, as named by him on
 the proposal of President Wilson is
 in effect a Haitien official who is paid
 $10,000 year from Haitien funds, the president said:
 Tn reality the financial advisor does not report to the Haitien government; it is the Haitien government that he pretends to submit to his sovereign will The facts are numerous which show the omnipotence which the finan- cial advisor attributes to himself CONFISCATE SALARIES "Nothing can give a more striking idea of this omnipotence than the con flscation by the financial advisor, aided
 by the American minister. of the salaries of the president of the republic, the 1 secretary ef state. members of the leg
 islative council secause tue govern ment refused to insert in the contract of the national bank of Haiti. an estab- l lishment controlled by the National | City bank of New York, clause pro. | hibting the importation into Haiti of foreign gold, which the advisor wished l to impose. This (advisor) equally pre- vented a vote of the budget, contrary l to the voice of the Haitien constitu- ! ton
 The financial advisor, the president l asserted, has made no Inquiry into tho validity of 1aiten debts has recon- 1 mended no perfected method of bank l ing the revenues and made no recom-
 mendation for the welfare and pros- I perity of the republic. In the face of
 the inertia or the financial advisor.' 1 the government multiplied it's efforts,
 according to the president, who | charged,N
 "The numerous financial projects.
 agricultural. educational administra-
 tive and rural organization, meet the 1 opposition of the American officials OF lie without response, in the archives or the American 1egation.e
 MAKE NO PROPOSALS
 Admitting tiiat his own rropesaIs
 were not perfect the president com. piained because the civil functionaries
 Iaiied to propose notifications or sub 1 stitutes. After his plans had been
 turned down, the president said this | happened:
 | ss
 | Ana It IS in the name of the govern.
 ment of the United States that the
 American minister comes each time te impose on the government and the
 Haitien people the requirements least l coinpendable of the American officials paid Tor with Haitien money. IF | the government rerused, the worst
 humiliations are nflicted.p me president said that loyal co-ou- l erauon, promised by the>treaty, should
 De assured; that peace must be main | talheu py national force assurinr- public respect and conscious Of ifs responslDilities; that American military i iorces must not intervene in adminIs lratlve and Judicial affairs: that fh. American minister remain within bis
 oipiomatic functions and not serye to aid the treaty officials in conflict with .ne government; that the United States stVe efficaeious aid to develop Haitien
 resources and put Haitian finances or solid and durable basis. tnis programme is applied with ioyaity, he added the Haytian neonIa VIII forget the humiliation, brought to
 all proud people by foreign intervention. VIII accord their confidence. friendshin
 and all their thanks to the great An,er.
 ican people
 COST PEOPLE MILLIONS
 one or the charges made by the Pres iueht was that single operation by tha iinancial advisors had cost the peopls ot Haiti the loss of several million francs.
 The functions of the adviser said ina
 President required great financial expe- fiehce which Seems not to have been considered in the choce.n and he added: ne proof Is the unhappy operation which he conducted last year for the ac- counts Of the republic, despite contrary instructions by the Haitian government
 ne having converted into francs S,oO901 ,Amercan). for the best interests Of , Haiti, he explained in conversation i'm october. 1919, Just at the moment when | the tendency of the francs to fall was
 the most marked at the exchange rate Of francs and a fraction for sl. while shortly afterward the dollar was vaiuen
 at about r francs This caused us a loss of several million francss' instead or davisipg "an adequate sys- tenn of public accountabllity, as defined l III the treaty the President charged that the advisor brought about the suppress sion of the chamber of accounts, an 1 old Haitian institution.
 Despite all efforts or the government
 to reconsttnte 1t In accordance with the new constitution" he said this organ of control has been constantly refused by 1 the advisor. Consequently there is no
 means for the Haitian people to control | their finances. taken entirely by the
 American treaty officials
 l EMPLOY RAT CATCHERS [ A rat Killing incident was mentioned by
 the president to show how Haitian
 money was spent After the discovery i Of two cases of plague at New Orleans
 the financial advisor in Washin9tnp ars,- ployed two rat cateners at s2s0 a month
 each for Port Au Prince. said the Pres ident which city has never known 1 the malady.
 | Outside of customs, the President said. l there were no other budget resources
 under the treaty for distribution toward
 expenses The financial adviser, aided 1 by the minister and the military an- thority which on this occasion Invoked martial law. decided that> these funds
 must be remitted to him. In this fash /, ion, he added the government was com
 pletey at the mercy of the caprices and ] absolute arbitrariness of the financiai adviser, l' "The state department. absorbed no doubt by more important questions or i badly informed by it's official agents
 closes it's ears to our protestation, and