Inquiry into Occupation and Administration of Haiti and Santo Domingo: Hearings before the Select Committee on Haiti and Santo Domingo, United States Senate, 1921

The select committee, chaired by Senator Medill McCormick, heard representatives of the Haiti-Santo Domingo Independence Society, the NAACP and the Union Patriotique d'Haiti, whose spokesman Stenio Vincent presented the Haitian memoir on the treaty of September 16, 1915. Part 1 records the session of August 5, 1921, and Part 2 covers sessions from October 4 to November 16, 1921. Witnesses included Rear Admiral William R. Caperton, Major General Barnett, Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler, Major General Littleton W. T. Waller, Brigadier General Eli K.

Cole, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander S. Williams and Major Jesse F. Dyer of the Marine Corps, together with James Weldon Johnson, Roger L. Farnham and H. M. Pilkington of the American Development Co. of Haiti. The testimony covers the landing of 1915, the Marine campaign targeting the Cacos, the gendarmerie, the number of Haitians killed, the treaty officials and the economic concessions granted to American companies. The volume is a primary source on the early years of the United States occupation.