| Show SA SANTO TO DOMINGO GO SITUATION SITU A TIO ACUTE Caused by bi b of Action by United States Senate on The Tue Treaty COUNTRY CANT PAY ITS DEBTS Morales Can Cnn Handle Revolutions Hut lie He Is Afraid of Complications Kan aan Domingo Dt March 2 Tho news laws of ot the postponement by b the lie United senate ot of action on tho the treaty with Banto Domingo makes the situation hero here acute and nn an n Internal uplifting uprisIng to bo be Imminent bated based on oil the tho cry that Morales hue has been boemi discredited In tho the United States President Morales states that ho he Is U pre lire prepared 1 re I pared to 10 put down any revolution but Jut that a n more moro serious matter In his mind 1 Is ie foreign complications growing out of at demand presented on March 21 wants the customs re receipts reo of or the port of ot Hanto Domingo to the extent extant of oC a 11 month accord lag InK In to a it on which no payment hUH been made for tor or three years This Thimi first demand IH is construed an as a 11 dl di direct result of or failure of ot the treaty be between tween the be th United States and Santo Saute Do Vo President Morales anticipates similar demands by other foreign pow powers powars Ore ers which ho he will be bo helpless to resist Ho says nays he wants to pay all 1111 the tho re republics reo publics debts but sees the ruin of oC tho the country With every ev ry port In iii the hands of ot a n different foreign rower power and ho rev revenue revenue onus for tor the government gov While he light ahead he lie lies has blind faith lint will trill triumph In the course of or an nn Interview with the Associated Press Iress President Mora Moralet Moralee let lee today eald It Is entirely possible that the Unit United ed ad 11 States may have hoo to scud Rend an ultima ultimatum tum thin hero here on account of ot tho the Dominican government being unable though not to meet UH its obligations It Is IH utterly Impossible for tor the tho government to pay tho the sums due foreign govern goern governments ments unless the tho United States can enn front from powers a 1 post postponement postponement of ot their demands Otherwise those demands will be bo pressed 1 I have no at physical rr nr moral force torce to resist them With the custom houses In the tho control of at tho the United States the re 10 resources sources s of ot tho ho Island will develop and nil mill demands will ba ha paid with the that hunt the tha country will wll willbo bo be educated e to pence pM co and n permanent prosperity With two IIa Dominican ports now In the hands of ot the tha United States and antI the nil fail failure ure nrc of the tho treaty Dominicans bellevo believe that the ho grab anio by the foreign pow I ICI era eru CI will begin at nt once An Italian cruiser was here a 1 few tew days ago but withdrew to Kingston The American I gunboat Is here with men menthe menthe menthe the Chattanooga Is at I nu lilt bay the Detroit Is H at lit Puerto Plata and nut Dixie Is II at nt Monte Rear near Admiral tine has gone to juno nino for tor or consultation with Hear Ad Admiral miral flanker Darker with the seizure ot of the Dominican ports port by lIy foreign powers power It Is argued here that the lie Monroe doctrine will bs bIt nullified us nit regards tItle this republic With tho ho United States In Jn possession pos of ot two ports It would not he hue logical to tl oppose the tho seIzure of ot other r ports by foreign powers At tho the name came time this the only of or President Morales Is III that lint In lit some Home way the United States can secure a n postponement of ot if seizure by European l powers No steps to this end emid have been be on Initiated d lucre hero No reply has yet been made to the Belgian demand President has about 1200 men under arms arias ready neatly to crush the first up UI uprising uprising rising hut should the tha custom houses houe be seized ho ha speedily Mould ba be without funds which to pay y his hili army which would Immediately desert The United States transport ort Sumner Jumner has gone goue to Kingston Jamaica |
