Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1915 — U. S. ASKS CONTROL OF HAITI FOR 10 YEARS [ARTICLE]

U. S. ASKS CONTROL OF HAITI FOR 10 YEARS

New Government Requested" to Approve a Convention for American Administration In Haiti.

Turbulent Haiti’s new government has been asked by the United States to approve a convention under which for ten years the American government administer the finance and supervise the policing of the island republic.

A draft of the proposed treaty is now before the Haitien congress sitting at Port Au Prince, where American marines have been maintaining order since the recent killing of the president by revolutionists. Oocials here say the state department fixed no time limit upon consideration of its request but it is admitted that Charles Davis, who presented the treaty draft, might have asked, as press dispatches state, that approval he given at onfce. Now that action has become necessary, the administration does not intend to leave Haiti to her own resources again until necessary steps have been taken to prevent a recurrence of the events of the last eight years, during which the little republic has had eight president—most of them successful revolutionists —has been in constant trouble with her foreign debts and has been unable to guarantee the safety either of her own people or of foreigners.