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Show RECEIVER OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Mr. Walker W. Vick of New Jersey, general receiver of the Dominican customs cus-toms for Uncle Sam, has just rendered ren-dered the sixth annual report of the receivership. A summary of the re-' re-' port shows that big business at the Dominican capital showed some trepi-' trepi-' dation when President Wilson brought about a change of administration of custom affairs In Santo Domingo. They feared the new broom might sweep too clean. As the new receivership administration administra-tion gradually unfolded its purpose, however, there was a natural subsidence sub-sidence of concern within business circles, cir-cles, and now the conclusion is in all realms of Dominican financial and comnrercial circles, that the right ' kind of sweeping has a salutary effect on the financial, as it does on the domestic do-mestic household, and that cobwebs of .debatable precedents are not always al-ways conducive to forceful achievement. achieve-ment. When what is known as the X "American-Dominican convention of 1907" was created, the 'United States accepted the responsibility of receiving all the customs duties; to pay a definite proportion of the same each month to the Republic, and to apply all else in payment of interest on a $20,000,000 bonded debt and into a sinking-fund sinking-fund for the discharge of the principal. During the six years- thiDoroinican receivership great progress has been made towwd-the inpayment oi Jue ACl7"C2lI23ie$-20i50(L000 loan, the : customs receipts climbing from about $2,000,000 ayear to an annuaribfal'crrs-. toms receipts for the calendar year 1913 of over $4,000,000, or, to be exact, $4,290,000. I ' |