Nicaraguan Affairs

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Download or read book Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Relations United States Senate written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Relations United States Senate: Sixty-Second Congress, Second Session, Pursuant to S. Res; 385, a Resolution Authorizing the Committee on Foreign Relations to Investigate as to the Alleged Invasion of Nicaragua by Armed Sailors and Marines of the United States The subcommittee met at 3 o'clock p. m. Present: Senator Fall. Present also: Mr. Fenton R. McCreery. Senator Fall. This testimony is taken under authority of Senate resolution 385, which is as follows: Resolved, That the Committee on Foreign Relations, or a subcommittee thereof, authorized and appointed under S. Res. 335, passed July twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and twelve, to make certain investigations and report concerning influences connected with or inciting rebellion, insurrections, or disorders in Cuba and Mexico, be, and it is hereby, authorized and directed by said committee, or a subcommittee appointed or to be appointed, to further inquire, investigate, ascertain, and report as to the alleged invasion of the Republic of Nicaragua by the armed sailors and marines of the Navy of the United States during the month of August, nineteen hundred and twelve, or at any other time preceding or subsequent thereto during said year; and particularly to investigate and report to the Senate - First. Under what authority of law and by the orders of what official of the United States said armed sailors and marines were at any time during said year ordered to invade the territory of the Republic of Nicaragua. Second. What armed officers and sailors and marines of the Navy and Marine Corps were under said orders sent into the territory of the Republic of Nicaragua. Third. What orders were issued to said forces of the Navy and Marine Corps to be executed by the same in the Republic of Nicaragua, and what was done within the period named in pursuance thereof, and particularly what military operations were carried on within the Republic of Nicaragua by said forces in pursuance of said orders or otherwise. Fourth. The said committee or subcommittee is further directed to investigate and report to the Senate what citizen of the United States or other person or persons are now or have been during said year assuming to collect customs in Nicaragua, and assuming to be American customs officials, and particularly by whom said collector of customs has been appointed, by whose instigation, and the authority assumed to be exercised by said alleged American customs officials and all the acting and doings of the same under any authority, actual or assumed. Resolved further, That all the powers and authority conferred upon said committee or subcommittee by the said original S. Res. 335 of July twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and twelve, be, and the same are hereby, conferred upon said committee or subcommittee in making the additional investigation and report herein authorized and directed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.