The New York herald., 1921-02-13
HAYTIANS HERE TO
URGE U. GET OUT
Former Minister Here Says
Daniels Naval Court Was
a Comedy.
TORTURES DESCRIBED
Withdrawal of Marines Is De-
manded-Loeal Military
to Be Reorganized.

II. Paulens Sannon, former Haytian
Minister to the United States. and Stenio
Vincent. one time chairman Of the Hay
tian Senate. arrived here yesterday to
plead the cause of the Haytian people
and to urge a Congressional investisa-
tion of American occupation of the
island. NJ. Sannon and M. Vincent
charged that the court of inquiry sent
to Hayti last autumn by Josephus Dan-
iels. Secretary of the Navy. was "a hum
bug and "a joke"
The two Haytians say they come to
the United States not as representatives
Of the Haytian Government but of the
people. They come as the delegates or
the Patriotic Union of Port au Prince TO
tell the American people just what the
Marine Corps has done in the South
Atlantic island and to ask that the
military and naval forces be evacuated.
M. Sannon and NJ. Vincent are stop
ping temporarily in the Union Square
Hotel, but they will proceed to Wash
ington to seek interviews with the lead
ers of both the House and the Senate.
1t is their intention, il possible, person
ally to lay the cause of the Haytian
people before President-elect Harding
after the Inauguration.
1--WE have come to the United States,
NJ Sannon said, 'to say most emphat-
ically that the naval court of inquiry
presided over by Admiral Harry IT. Mayo
and sent by Mr.. Daniels to Haytt was
merely comedy. The court went down
there to make an appearance OF fnvesti-
cation on two or three cases where some
American officers were concerned. Sc
the court called witnesses for evidence
only in these cases.
AZ Sl.s.
ranged. Everybody else was refused a
hearing by the court. 1t did not matter
that the same offender had other charges
preferred against him. Take. for in
stance, the case OF Lieut. Lang. He was
charged with having shot several pris-
oners In the Jail at Hinche. While the
court was investigating these charges
notable Haytian wrote to the court that
Lieut.. Lang had hanged his brother at
Mirebalais, but the court did not take
up this charge"
NJ Sannon charges that the court
never went near Mirebalais, Hinche or
Las Cahobas, where the reign of ter
ror caused the most terrible damage in
human life and property" The former
Minister says Gen. Barnett, former head
Of the United States Marine Corps. was
correct when he stated there had been
indiscriminate killing in Hayti.
NJ Sannorr added that tortures such
as the water cure. hanging and electro
cution "have been perpetrated on the
peaceful people" He declared It would
be interesting TO know why the court
of inquiry never left Port au Prince in
the three weeks it remained on the
island.
NJ Sannon said the Haytian people
have suffered greatly during the VIII
son Administration because the Presi-
dent has made It practice to send
mostly Southerners. who have an in
born dislike for negroes, TO the island.
Another thing TO which NJ. Sannon took
exception was the assertion made by
Franklin d. Roosevelt during the re-
cent campaign that he had written the
Haytian constitution and had made a
pretty good job of IT,"
What the Haytian people wont. ac-
cordlng to NJ. Sannon. is. first, immedi-
ate suppression Of military courts sec
ond, reorganization of the Haytian MILL
tary and police forces and the evacua-
ton of the American forces of occupa-
ton. and. thirdly. the convocatlon ar
the earliest possible moment Of a con-
stitutional assembly.