New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-04-06
Ne6 OrIfans 1ailp Grssteni.
Jacob Barker, Esq, before the Court 81
Claims


From the Washington States
Jacob Barker, Esq, closed six days speed
before the Court of CLAIMS yesterday. Az mncl
time as be occupied, he made II interesting to th
last, and II it should be printed It would be rea'
the world over--as well on account Of the fact
connected with the history Of the war Of 1912 az
the merits of the claim at issue. He told the CoHr
that the judicial history Of the part he acted,
mencing with bis petition to Congress, asking 1
short postponement of the declaration Of war
which was read and commented on in the Senate
Of the United States the day day before war was
and ordered to be printed BY that body. asuch !
history Mr.. Barker said, so far as he was indi-
vidually concerned, he should consider more valu-
able than all the money in the treasury. It was a
more valuable legacy to leave to posterty than the
Aster Library, the Girard College, Or the Smith
sonian Institute''
Mr. B. read from the report of the Judiciary Com
mittee the following letter addressed to Hon. Rufns
hlng, winch Was submitted TO the Senate, and sent
to the Court Of Claims by Congress, adding that he
believed his destiny was to outliye the biemish of
reputation which had been inflicted on the history
OF this beautiful republic by the treatment Of his
loan contract; that the public everywhere wish to
see their governments pursue an honorable course,
however delinquent they might individually be in
their own conduct.
tExTRAcr.l
NEW YORK, March o, 1920
Respected Friends The letter you did me the
honor to write on the 9Th has been duly received
Be pleased to accept my thanks for the attention
you have been SO kind as to give to my case be-
fore Congress it would have relieved my anxiety
to have known that the letter from the Secretary
of the Treasury to the contractors for the ten
million loan dated the I'd May, 1914, (Which yon;
inform me had been reported to the Senate) had
been referred to the committee having under con-
sderation my petition, as that would at once have
convinced them that do not rely ON verbal ex-
PLANTATION for any important point. bottom my
claim on positive rights, growing out Of written
contracts, the terms Of which are, to my view, as
plain and clear as the English language can define
them. aver that their sense and manifest mean
ing was perverted by Mr. Dallas, or the other Off
GERS Of Government who acted with him, and that
the arm Of power was exerted against me without
the sembance of reason or justice against which
a citizen Of this republic has no other protection
than by an appeal to Congress and IL they will
not do him justice, he must submit and suffer. For
my rights, point to the said letter of the I'd May,
1874 for the injustice done me, to the Comp
trollers circular of the 30th November, 1914.
These two documents are written evidences,
and prove all ! contend for as matter of right.
The other point which the committee seem to think
depended on verbal explanations, viz that Of con-
waived than for the committee to suppose wish
them to go one step further in my favor than the
evidence exhibited will warrant. do not consider
that exhibiting such connecting circumstances as
must force conviction on the minds of the commit
tee of the justice Of my claim, can be deemed re-
lying on verbal explanations. However this point,
in comparison with those proved by the two docu-
ments above mentioned, is SO very nnmportant
that Iregret ever having urged it. The observa-
ton of Mr.. Crawford that the letter of the I'd May
1914, was circular to all the persons engaged in
the loan, does not vary the question. Whether the
letter was to one or thousand, the obligations it
contains are equally binding it is a certificate of
the terms agreed on OF, in other words, it is the
contract itself. similar one was made with all
the persons supplying portion of that loan.
The advertisement reported by Mr.. Crawford
contains promise to put them all on footing; in
compliance with that promise, similar contracts
were made with all, varying only in the amount
supplied by each; and this is called circular to
all. The term may be proper enough, but do not
perceive any object for introducing it, nor how it
can be used to affect the question. Will you do
me the favor to submit, informally, if you please.
to the committee having charge of my petition,
this letter, together with those had the honor to
address to yourself and Mr.. Sanford under date of
the 9th and Goth of February, and to urge upon
them that all ask is, for the Judges Of the Supreme
Court to pass on my rights, and not the measure
Of favor which, am entitled to receive at the hands
Of Government. The languages f the poor petit
toner to the French king fits my case: at is but
justice ASK
JACOB BARKER.