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Show Senator Says: "Keep Marines in Hayti" TNDEFINITB continuance of Amerl- can military occupation of Hayti, but with a reduction of the marine force, was recommended in a unanimous unani-mous report presented by the special senate committee which for nine months has been Investigating American Ameri-can administration In Hayti and Santo Domingo. The committee deferred announcement announce-ment of Its findings on Dominican affairs af-fairs "In view of the negotiation's happily begun between the State department de-partment and the Dominican leaders looking to the termination of military government in Santo Domingo." The declaration that early withdrawal with-drawal of or drastic reduction In the American marine occupation force in Hayti would be followed certainly by brigandage and revolution was made In the report signed by Senator Mc-Cormick, Mc-Cormick, Republican, Illinois, chairman, chair-man, and Senators Oddie, Republican, Nevada ; Pomerene, JDemocrat, Ohio, and Jones, Democrat, New Mexico, who have held protracted hearings and who recently toured Hayti and Santo Domingo. The committee found that, on the whole, American administration in Hayti had been of great benefit to the Haytians and was so regarded, by a vast majority. The American record, rec-ord, however, was described as one both of "failure and achievement." There had been some "blunders" and a few instances of cruelty against na- tlves by members of the military force. "In brief, under the treaty between Hayti and the United States," the report re-port said, "the peace of the republic, the solvency of its government and the security of Its people have been established estab-lished for the first time for many years." In justification of American intervention, inter-vention, the report said that "the chronic anarchy into which Hayti had fallen, the exhaustion of Its credit, the threatened intervention of the German Ger-man government and the actual landing land-ing of the French naval forces, all Imperiled Im-periled the Monroe doctrine and led the government of the United States to take the successive steps set forth to establish order in Hayti, to help Institute a government as nearly representative rep-resentative as might be, and to assure the collaboration of the governments of the United States and Hayti for the future maintenance of peace and the development of the Haytian people." |