Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1845-06-19

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aie:e'edn indemnify lie thus noticed in the New
York Courier DIES Flats Unis. The facts ara
said to DO derived from person recently arrived
from Mexico, and one intimate with Santa Anna.
even to a knowledge of his tampering in stocks
The Courier, however, declines TO assume anv
responsibility, as to the person named.
alt is known that Il sum of S275 Ooo . :,
question, making the quarterly payments of Aprii
and July, 1914. This SUN has never reac6oa
the government at Washington, althongh ,S.
Mexican government insists that it is paid. and
exhibits the receipts of the representative of ,hs
U. States. Here is the explanation, as furnished
to us, OF this enigma. Mr.. Shannon, the u. s,
Minister, MIR. Voss, the agent of the u. States to
receive the money, and NJ. Trigueros, the Minis.
ter OF Finance in Mexico, are said to have been
interested in more than one speculation. The
partnership was indeed official betw cen Mr. Voss
and nj. Trigueros, who belonged to the same
commercial firm. M. Trigueros not having "a
minister money enoush-ready money to pay tho
amounts as they fell due, induced Mr.. Shannon
and MIR. Voss TO accept drafts OH the Treasury i'm
favor OF and endorsed by an English house in
Mexico, Tor $4,000 being $50, 900 more than
Tue amount due. In return it was agreed that
M. !r'gueros should accept from Mr. Shannon
Mexican Treasury Notes in payment of tho cv:
cess of $4,000, and as these were to he bonoht
any where at from to 10 per ceni.-so greatly
were they appreciated little operation would
leave profit Of some forty odd thousand dollars
TO the American agents. In return they were to
give full and entire acquittance to the Mexican
government in terms for the payment of the two
instruments, whereas they had only been Iiuui-
dated. Such is said to be the secret history Of
this little diplomatic jobbine,
Tue question now is, were the drafts paid al
maturity either by The Mexican Treasury or the
iEng'ish endorserf This is precisely what is not :
known, and concerning which the official ac.
counts at Washington are silent. However that,
DE, the Mexican government considers itself dis
charged from all nl,esior responsibility by reason
OF the very explicit tenor of the American receipt,
oh the o'her hand the American claimants insist
upon being paid by their own governments.
Such is the position of the matter and il ia
certainly not little remarkable and not at all ere.
ditable that there should be any room for such a
solution OF The delay as is here given. We must
soon know the truth now"
MORE OF THE MEXICAN INDEMNITY
The last Baltimore American SAYS that Ben;a.
min X. Green, Esq, late Charge d'Affaires at
Mexico, has published letter in the WASHINGTON
Union, In which he states what he is confident
are the facts in relation to the Mexican install.
hen's due on the 3Oth of July, 1914. In this let
ter he says that Mr.. Voss the American AGENT
specially commissioned to receive the instalmen,s.
obtained from the Minister of the Mexican Treas
ury drafts upon the departmental treasures Of
HaudalaJara, Guanagiuato and Zacatecas. ole
took these DRAFTS" adds Mr.. Green, "to tho
house OF Tayleur, Jamison s. Co., one of the best
English commercial houses in Mexico, and re.
qnesied them to be sent on for collection. Thev
were sent on; and the reply was. that the drafts
were good and would be paid as soon as any rev.
enue could be collected for that purpose In CON-
sequence of the revolution, and the distracted
state OF things in Mexico since, they have not
yet been paid" Mr. Green further States that
when MIR. Voss received the drafts above referred
to- he told MIR. Shannon that he was confident
'he money would be paid, and that in fact he
might write home that il had been paid Roth
MIR. Shannon and Mr.. Voss felt confident the mo-
ney would be paid, and hence the notice of pay.
ment published In the United States.