New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-17

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dates the Customhouse Crowd-HOttesi
Day of the Season-Hieh and Low
Pressure Boats Liable TO Forfeiture
Treasury Decision ON Banks-Tax on
Insurance Policies to be Resumed.
WASHINGTON, August 16.-A long editorial
in the New York Tribune, deprecatory of
the split in the Republican party in Lou
isiana, has this sentence: "But we rejoice to
hear that the President promptly repudiates
the doings of his New Orleans subordinates,
and as now reported, proposes to show his
appreciation of their misconduct in office
by turning them out" The article is cap
toned ''The New Orleans Outrage"
Senator Spencer had satisfactory inter.
view with Secretary Boutwell, to- day.
Thermometer $50; the hottest day of the
season by three degrees.
The Treasury Department decides that a
vessel propelled by both high and low pres
sure engines is liable to forfeiture if it works
both when low pressure is painted on the
wheelhouse.
The Treasury Department decides that
where commander of vessel is part
owner he can not be deprived of command
by other owners without an order of court
The Controller of Currency has decided
that national banks designated as deposita-
ries for the new loan are not obliged to hold
upon subscriptions to that loan and depos-
tied to the credit of the United States.
Commissioner Douglass to-day reversed
the decision of the late Commissioner Pleas
anton abolishing the stamp tax on insurance
policies, and the old decision imposing a tax
upon such policies will be renewed.
The Secretary of the Interior has received
from the War Department extracts from a
letter of the commanding general of the
department OF Texas, in relation to the re-
moval of the Kickapoo Indians, now in
Mexico, TO the reservation north of Red
river, which further shows the agency of
the Mexican officials in preventing the re-
turn of those Indians to the United States,
and the encouragement given to their dep
relations on this side of the frontier.
General Reynolds says he has Just re-
turned from an official visit to Forts Clark
and Duncan, and adjacent Rio Grande
frontier.
The people in that State are fully informed
as to the conduct of the Mexican officials in
preventing the return of the Kickapoos to
United States territory. They have been
retained in Mexico by bribes of money and
goods as set forth in the report of Agent
Mills.
Depredations on live stock still continue
unabated. Marauders, with their stolen
stock, have been time and again traced to
the Rio Grande, and he is reliably informed
that parties in pursuit can often see from
the north side of the river their stock in
possession of others, collected in convent.
ent droves on the south side, for sale OF
distribution to the interior of Mexico.
The gradual but heavy loss of property
is, he says, very discouraging to the people,
they are becoming reckless, not to say des
perate, and seeing the determination of the
Mexican officials to retain the Kickapoo In
dians in Mexico as a cloak for the real deeds
of the Mexican people.
They talk now quite freely of organizing
themselves into armed bands and crossing
into Mexico to recover their std1en property
This feeling is universal on the frontier
since the recent developments with regard
to the removal of the Kickapoo Indians.
The ranchemen live from ten to thirty
miles apart, and incursions from the south
of the Rio Grande in small parties can not
be prevented by reasonable force IN Texas,
unaided by any force of civil or military
from the Mexican side.
General Reynolds adds: 1t is believed
that these depredations can be etfectually
and permanently stopped by pursuing the
marauding bands into Mexico with troops,
accompanied by the owners Of the stock,
and the records of the brands.
The Mexican Claims Commission held a
session yesterday. William E. Barron, sur
viving partner of the firm of Barron, Forbes
& Co. vs. United States-This was a claim
involving the new Almeda quicksilver mines
in California The claimants are British
subjects. They base their claim on the
ground that they are vested with the rights
of their Mexican grantOr in the mines in
question, which rights were assigned to
their firm some time prior to the second of
February, 1913.
They complain, first, of the act of Con-
gress of March 3. 1851, requiring them to
submit their titles to board of land COM
missioners, established in California, to try
titles arising under Spanish and Mexican
grants; second, of the refusal of the United
States to make proper provision by law to
enable the claimants to procure the evidence
necessary to establish the genuineness of
their title.
Third-Ot the Judgment of the Supreme
Court of the United States. rendered at its
December term, 1862, in the case of the
United States versus Andres Castelero, pro-
nouncing the title under which Barron.
Forbes g. Co. claimed null and void.
The claimants, at the date of the treaty
of peace with Mexico, and cession of Cali
fornia, had commercial dOmicile in Mexico.
by virtue of which it was contended, by
them, that they were Mexican citizens, for
all purposes intended by that provision of
the treaty, which guaranteed the protection
OF the United States to all valid titles in
California arising under Mexican grants.
The parliamentary question of citizen
ship as well as the other points of the case
were fully argued. The commissioners dis
agreeing in opinion, the case was referred
pretension of claimants to Mexican citizen
ahln- and dismissed tho claim,