Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-03-21
FROM WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, March 20.


THE COURT OF CLAIMS.
The President has approved the act in rel alton to
the Court OF Claims it repeaS the lith section OF
the act establishing that tribunal which section pro-
vdes that money shall be paid out of the Treasury
for any claim passed upon by the court until after
an appropriation therefor shall be estimated by the
Secretary of the Treasury.
The present allows either party to appeal to the
Supreme Court Of the United States for any final
case whsrein @ the amoGRt in eonroyerSy ex
where the amounts found due by the court have been
ID at the Treasury.
pa OBLIGATION FOR INCREASE OF SALARY
Ioh, Al D '"l. United States Minister at Madrid,
Jonn 4. L. -"Veral prominent members of Con-
mas written 10 :. "ee of his salary, which is now
twelve thousand dollars in - alwsys opposed d
will be recollected, when Senato4.
the slightest increase of salaries.
ESTABLISHMENT OF A NAVY YARD.
Representative Brandagee last night made an ar
gument before the Committee on Naval Affairs, in
favor of the establishment of navy yard at New
London when Representative Kelly replied in favor
be on a Tba sn E taxi a
Island that the selection of this site does not in
crease the number of navy yards. as that at Phila
while the establishment of one at New London would
have the effect of essening the business at both the
New York and Boston yards.
APPLICATION FOR INDEMNITY.
Some time ago citizen of West Virginia pettioned
the Senate to indemnify him for the loss of his print
ing office at Ravenswood. valued at $1,000, destroyed
by the rebels in 1862 1t appears from the report that
the petitioner did his duty manfuy and assisted in
the defence of his country.
In this the Committee of Claims say he did no
more than his duty as a citizen and patriot, and
that the Government has never recognized liability
be entitled to reward for doing service which his
duty and loyalty compelled him to perform. His
liabilities and risks are the same that pertain to
every who loves his country and loyal to her.
His place and situation demanded sacrifice and he
performed the duty and met his losses at the hands
of a lawleSs horde of rebels. The Committee add
w commend his fidelity but rpcouDiyn
| the liability of Government for his losses"
THE MONITOR MoNADNoCK.
MOnadnock was at Montevdeo on the 18th January,
bound for Valparaiso, which port she is supposed to
have reached about the last of February. This YES
sell the letter states has everywhere excited the
derand admiration of all behOlders, and given them
better idea Of American skill than anything they
4 had previously seen.
The Government does not seem to be apprehensiye
that the fSnians will attempt an inyasion of the
British Provinces, nor is the British Minister seri-
ousiy alarmed on the subject.
Nothing is known here to justify the belief that the
Fe9ians have az YET gone beyond h9dFg I meeting
Nothing of begcrent character has been done thus
far, TO authorize direct Governmental interference
INSTRUCTIONS TO REVENUE OFFICERS.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has issued
circular calling the attention of assessors assistant
assessoyz and of all other internal revenue 6dceTs.
to the ac ceently passed. declaring the tGeaning
certain parts OF the internal act, the third
section of which requires all persons making returns
to declare in such returns whether the rates and
amounts therein contained stated according to
their values in legal tender currency. If the rates
and amounts are stated in correct ms neg the
sOrs receiving the returns must reduce them 10 their
equivalent in currency at the time when and tie
1 place where TIE returns are receivable.
l TEE MEXICAN QUESTION.
/ Friends of the Mexican Republic have printed and
are circulating statement Of the aspect of the ques
tion and of the comparative &nancial condition OF
the country under republican and monarchieal rule.
1t shows the total foreign debt recognized in 1862
to be nearly $S2 000 less than go 009 of which
i is due to French. nearly $9500000 to Spanish, and
the remainder TO English subjects While all the ex
pendtures of the republic annually, as established
by Congress in 1851, amount TO $1l.0O00O0 those o.
the called Empire sad to be nearly $50 900
O00 O06 the amount of the public leans put out fol-
Maximilisn in France and taken by French subjects
and for which Louis Napoleon is morally resEQnsi-
Bile, there have been expended from the public rev
enues of France up To tie end of the year 1865, il
on I't the American continent. $50 ,9W more.