The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-09-02
THE MEXICAN INSTRUMENTS.
The following article has appeared in a recel
number Of "Ihe .Nelc York E1press:n

"MrNIcN IsrrMNTrFrom private letter dated NIexi.
CO. July 90 1913 received by gentleman in this city
Congress TO call the Secretary of the Treasury for
written report on the subject Of the payment of the two
animated and lesghy discussion Mr. TTigueros the late
Secretary of the Treasury and Mr. Voss the agent of
United states were handled most unceremoniously and
the Minister OF the United States, Mr. shannon like
wise subjected to critical remark The motion was
hnaiy carried by vote Of % to 26 and likely
70 get possession OF all the leading cs in this
affair copy Of the report will be forwarded
as practicable. after il is made public in Mexico and we
shall publish il for the information OF the claimantsn
The mystery may be cleared up by the proposed
investigation; but we can scarcely entertain doubt
that the history which we have given of this curious
transaction, upon the authority Of Gov. Shannon
will ultimately turn Quito becorrcct. That the money
has not been paid by the Mexican government, is
sl our decided impression; and the following state
ment, with which we have been furnished by q
friend, who is conversant with the Spanish Ian.
guage, and has the Mexican papers before him, will
contribute TO confirm this impression:
The Mexican newspaper called Eel Sigio Diez ,
Nueu, (the Nineteenth Centrry,") Of July 90, con.
tans TRANSACTIONS of articles from the Courier de.
Etats Unis, respecting the instalments of the debt
due by Mexico to the United States, which should
have been paid more than year ago; on which an
other newspaper Of that city, called " Ell .Amigo del
Pueblo" ('the Friend of the People, ~ on the Goth
OF the same month, makes the following OBSERVE
tons:
The honor of the nation requires us to say some
thing respecting an article from New York news
paper inserted in the Sigio of the 23d, relative TO
The last nsament of the debt to the United States ac-
quilted by the late administration. Everything said in
mat paper respecting collision, in order to levy
percentage, between the Mexican and the American
ministers, and between the latter and the CONNER
cal house charged with receiving the money, is
aiasehood-a caIumny. The republic has ac9uit-
tea That insialment and the house empowered to
cei I'VE i has given the proper receipt for it.
~ Is true that the money was TO have been given
10 The agents [of the United States by another re-
spectacle house, to which the government gave or
uers TO collect the necessary funds, and that those
orders have not been paid but whilst the nation is
oouhd IN honor 10 cause payment to be made and
save The credit of the house, which, believing that
would receive the money on the orders, gave the
receipt Tor an amount which it did receive it ia
not The less certain that this operation, so far from
sSelhg an attempt to levy percentage, was merely a
ing moren
IN consequence Of the above article in the Sigh
De' .Nasre, Sefior Boves, member of the Cham.
oer oil Deputies, moved n resolution, which was
carried on the Goth of July, that the Minister OF
FINANCE should report in writing, infinitely, the cir.
eums'ances relative TO the affair Of the unpaid in.
s,slment.