The Kanzas news., 1859-05-28

payment of said claims, until the same
should be fully aEthorized by subsequent
legislation. The passage of this supple
mental act was regarded both by the friends
and enemies of the original bill, as virtual
| ly . repeal of its most vital and obnoxious
provisions-leaving the Commissioners
simply to audit the claims that might bs
presented to them, and allowing the people
] an opportunity to be consulted in relation
to their payment. The Governor appoin-
ted Edward Hoaglapd, of Tecumseh. one Of
of the Commissioners-the Council elected
Henry ]. Adams. of Leavenworth, and the
House s. A. Kingman, Of Brown county,
and thus the Board was filed. Judge
Mckay, of Wyandott. was chosen Attor-
ney for the Territory.
The Board thus organized has been en-
gagged for some time past in auditing claims,
and various rumors are in circulation oi
their doings. 1t is reported that they have
allowed Col. S. w. Eldridge the modest
little sum of forty nine thousand dollars!
for property destroyed by Davy Atcbinsou
and his brother Democrats in May 1856,
although we have yet to meet the FIRST man
acquainted with the circumstances who es-
timetes Eldridge's loss at more than SIS. 900
They have allowed G. W. Brown. s14,oOl
for the destruction of his Printing Press
and type on the same occasion, though four
teen hundred dollars would doubtless cover
every dollar of his loss! It is rumored
that Brown claimed payment for 500 copies
of the Herald Of Freedom destroyed II
the Office, as he says, and had the assu
rance to value them at the trifiing sum o
ten dollars each, because some individual
after they were destroyed. offered ten dol
lars for a single copy of that last issue as I
curiosity, or memento of Border Rufianism
We do not hear that the Commissioners al
lowed that item, but it would seem a.
though they must have allowed other items
nearly as Objectionable to swell the amoun
to $4,000! We further learn that Gen
Stricken, the Comptroller of the Treasury
is issuing the Territorial scrip for th'
amount allowed to each claimant, and thu
the attempt is made to Mortgage the Terri
tory of Kansas and the earnings of th'
people for years to come. to satisfy tie in
ordinate greed of these bogus claim mon
gers. Gor
The Wyandott Constitutional Conven
ton will be beset by them, the attempt vii
be made to dragon that Convention int
the suicidal folly of incorporating into tn,
Ordinance provision by which the United
States shall be compelled either to assum,
the payment of these claims en- masse. o.
to reject our application for admission int
the Union. The wisdom of such meas
ure would be precisely on par with tba
of the sailor who lashed himself to an an
chor to enable him to swim!
If the People of Kansas desire admission
into the Union, let them see to il that NJ
such blunder is committed Let thos,
claims stand upon their. own merits. NJ
honest and patriotic claimant will desire te
make the new Constitution pack-horse fol
such burden. It would afford the Slave
Democracy in Congress precisely the ex
cuse they will stand in need of for keeping
Kansas out of the Union Till after the mex
Presidential election. They dare not stanc
upon the Bill English restrictions. but viii
feel infinitely obliged to the People of Kan
sas for furnishing them with good and val
id protest for excluding US.
These claims will probably amour. to /:
million of dollars, if other claimants are
dealt with as liberal as Col. Eldridge and
G. w. Brown have been Is any man in
Kansas SO insane as to suppose that Dem
ocratic Senate-and President will consent to
pay that smount as premium for The ad
mission of "Black" Repu blican Kansas in
to the Union? IT,
! We are as anxious as any person can be
that all honest claims shall be paid by the
General Government, and would rejoice to
have the Wyandott Convention send up a
memorial asking Congress to pay all claims
due to our citizens, for properly destroyed
during the civil war, but we are not willing
that the interests of the whole people should
be sacrificed to the clamor of few.
Let the people look to this matter before
it is too late
The Boilers Convention.
The Convent of Boilers to be holden
at Americus- on Tuesday next. is simply