Abstract

The Haiti-United States Treaty

The article presents a brief history of the framing and passage of the U.S. treaty with Haiti. It is complicated by the numerous proposals and counter-proposals that were submitted and rejected. The preamble of the treaty read that the U.S. and the Republic of Haiti, desiring to confirm and strengthen the amity existing between them by the most cordial cooperation in measures for their common advantage, and the Republic of Haiti, desiring to remedy the present condition of its revenues and finances, to maintain the tranquility of the Republic, to carry out plans for the economic development and prosperity of the Republic and its people and the U.S. being in full sympathy with all of these aims and objects and desiring to contribute in all proper ways to their accomplishment.