Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-02-03
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WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 2.
ANOTHER CHAPTER IN THE cHoRPENNING
FRAUD.
The senate post office committee has created
sensation by adding an amendment to the
house resolution, stopping the payment of the
Chorpenning claim, providing that Chorpenning
may take his claim to the court of claims.
ChOrpenning's friends have been at work with
the senate committee, and have now victory;
for, although the court of claims at one time re-
jected his claim, yet the court has since changed
in its makeup, and Chorpenning believes he can
win there. The danger, however. lies in another
direction, for the house is so sure that the claim
is fraud, that it will nor allow it to get 10 the
court of claims, and, if the resolution fails by
disagreement of the two houses, it may be paid
at the treasury.
QUESTION SETTLED.
The fight on the st. Croix and Bayfield, land
grant bill was resumed in the house this after
noon. Mr.. Strong, of Connecticut, made ten
minutes sp !ech that attracted general attention,
and stirred up the democrats. He called atten-
ton to the fact that, while democratic newspa-
pers and conventions were denouncing a repub-
lican congress for passing land grant bills, the
democratic members are steadily, and in con-
siderable numbers, voting in favor of all these
bills. He called particular attention to the fact
that while the Connecticut democratic conven-
ton passed furious resolutions against the land
for nearly all of them.
The republican side of the house was greatly
amused by Mr.. Suong's pungent speech, and he
was congratulated by number of members.
The political turn given the debate by this
speech killed the BILL for it was soon after re-
committed by twenty majority. As the commit
tee cannot report again in this congress- it will
not come up again. On the vote, to-day, Mr..
Banum of Connecticut voted with his republi-
can colleagues, to recommit the bill.
THE ALABAMA CLAIMS.
Mr.. Starkweather, OF Connecticut, appeared be-
fore the house committee on foreign affairs, this
morning land argued in support ofthe bill for the
appointment of a commission to determine the
claims for damages committed by the Alabama
and other British cruisers. Three plans are now
under consideration by the claimants for dam
ages The first is to take their claims directly
to the British government; the second, to ask
this government to pay them by the issue of
bonds under the Buffinton bill; and the third,
to accept Mr.. Starkweather's scheme, which
proposes a commission to estimate damages and
report hereafter to congress-
The first plan will be rejected, and it is feared
the second has little chance in this congress, the
time is so short. The claimants generally pre-
fer the Bufinton bill, but there is more hope of
the adoption of Mr.. Starkweather's bill, and it
is pressed by him as being the most feasible
method of early relief. A million and one-half
of the claims are owned in the New London dis
trict, though many Of the owners register in
New York. The foreign relations committee has
not yet decided what to do.
SAM WELLER.