Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-06-12
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WASHINGTON.

w,su1vcTov. June lin the Senate
Yesterday blair moved to take up the re-
mort of the Conference committee on the
Steamboat bill.
taken mn he would speak at least two hours
against it.
of passing the bill at this session.
4 motion to take it up was lost. Yeas
y: nays, p. And so the steamboat bill fail,
I'd in the Senate.
The failure in the House of the bill al.
lowing tug and freight boats to carry ad-
dtiOnal steam was reported yesterday.
The navigation laws remain unchanged.
The White House is vacant. The Occu-
pants have gone to Long Branch.
The HerdJdS Washington dispatch says
the failure of the treaty of Washington, so
far as it relates to the Alabama claims, is at
last conceded by the President. Schenck
and Bancroft Davis were instructed
to pay no attention to British sugges-
tions or propositions for a compromise be-
yOnd what the supplemental article ap-
proved by the Senate authorizes
Brownsville adViceS through the regular
channels report that only General COrellas,
his staff and twenty men escaped of four
thousand government troops engaged at
Monterey.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
WASHINGTON, June &, 1872.
The attention of all parties interested is
particularly directed to the following pro-
visions Of an act making appropriations
to supply the deficiencies in the appropTi-
atious for the service of the Government
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1872
and for former years, and for other pur-
poses. approved May IS, 1872, and the reg
ulationS for carrying the same into effect:
SECTION. That the Secretary of the
Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized
and directed to pay to the lawful owners,
or their legal representatives, OF all cotton
seized after the thiTtieth day Of June, 1868,
by the agents of the Government unlaw-
fully and in violation Of their instructions,
the net proceeds, without interest, of the
sales Of said cotton actually paid into the
Treasury of the United States. Provided,
that the receipts thereof shall be taken
and received in full satisfaction of all
claims against the United States, for or on
account of the seizure of said cotton, and a
sufficient sum for such payment is hereby
appropriated out of any money in the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated; and
provided further, that the foregoing pro-
visions shall not apply to any claim now
pending before the Court Of Claims, nor to
any claim not filed in the Treasury Depart
ment within six months after the pas sage
Of this act, and the sum of $40, ,000is hereby
appropriated for the payment of the nee
e>sary expenses of defending the United
States in respect to claims for said proceeds,
to be expended under the direction of the
Secretary Of the Treasury.
The following rules and regulations con-
cerning claims for the proceeds of certain
cotton under the foregoing provisions of
law are hereby established:
First-Every claim shall be stated in a
petition addressed to the Secretary of the
Treasury, aud signed and sworn to by the
oath or affirmation of the claimant or
claimants.
Second-The petition must state-first,
The full names of all the claimants, their
present residence and their residence when
their cotton was seized second, who were
the original and subsequent owners of the
cotton, who now are lawfully entitled to
the proceeds thereof or interested therein
and when and upon what consideration
the title is successively passed !; third,
the quantity of cotton alleged to
have been seized or taken, in bales and
pounds, the kind and quality and the
names, marks, signs or devices upon the
bales az the time Of such seizure the name
or names of the person or persons by whom
the seizure was made, and whether they
the date and place of seizure and to what
places conveyed or transferred and all
other material circumstances connected
with the seizure and disposition of the
cotton, with as much particularly and eX-
actness as can be done, and if any receipt,
voucher or other writing was given there
for 10y the persons taking the same, it
should be attached to the petition fourth,
whether the claim has been heretofore pre-
ment of the Government, or to
Congress or to any committee thereof. and
what decision or action, if any, has been
had in regard to the same.
3d, In setting forth facts in the Deti-
titiOn the claimant must always distin-
Tuish between those which he states of his
own knowledge and those upon informa-
ton and belief; he must say as to the first
that he AYERS them of his own knowledge,
and rs to the last, that he states them upon
information and belief.
4th. There must be appended to the pc
tition the postoffice address of the claim
ants, and when represented by attorneys
proper letters of attorney or other suf-
hcent evidence OfauthOrity must be filed
herewith.
5th. When the claim is brought by a
guardian, executor or other legal represen-
tatiye the appointment of the representa-
tive, or a copy of the letters testamentary,
or Of administration granted to such rep
resentative duly authenticated must be
Ned with the petition.
9Th. Each material aVerment Of the pc
uion should be corroborated by at least
TWO creditable and disinterested witnesses
and their same statements should be filed
with the petition or as soon thereafter as
possible
7th. The claimant, upon completing the
proofs relied on to sustain his claim,
should 50 notify the Secretary of the Treas
GIy III writing, and after the expiration of
Ine SIX months allowed by the act of Con-
fress tLt. ior filing claims, the cases will be
ilheH ,,,.I. up and disposed of in the order
iai1Na5 dn winch such notifications have been re-
66l'eL t6n unless further delay is asked for by
,Ito.lt ~ claimant, Or demanded 10y the public
09'9' GEO. S. BOUTWELL,,
IL =, secretary of the Treasury.
hehry Cochrane, nominated for post