, 1872-12-18

The next class, casual robbeEeR Of cattle and
horses, is the most numerous. The following
will illustrate their character: "''''' .'~ ;
MARTIN Rabb 20 600 cattle at $10. 5000 900
Lost the increase, 600 CATTLE at
Thomas lSst To- g. '5es os t
$50 cattle stolen in 1859 at SO. ,501
Increase Of to 1872, r3o5o at s1o..-. so59o
Increase, 2e6 hogs, ut s.. 532
How the number lost is ascertainedm may be
gathered from some Of the other bills, as, for.
instance: ~ :
Adolphus Glaveche, 1,5oo cattle In 1859, and
their increase to 1872, less 800 now on hand,
81, 700 catt1e at $lo.
The Commissioners state in their report that
it is written in the Texas Almanac, and other
publications, that the rate Of increase Of cattle
in Texas is 33I per cent, and the annual sales
seldom exceed one-hah. the increase, conse-
quently it is considered self-evident PROPOSE
ton that, it any mans herd does not show this
constant increase, then there has been stealing.
The Commissioners declare that there has been
no local disease and no complaint OF local cattle
stealing. The cattle all range together over
many hundred square miles. Once year they
are driven up by the rancheroB, examined,
branded, and an account taken. Ownership is
determined by branding, each man having pub
licly recorded brand, which cannot lawfully
be initiated. When q herd is sold, the
sale Of the brand is recorded. In gath
ering the stock; the increase which follows
the old cattle is assumed to be theirs, and is 80
branded. When the old stock and the increase
do not turn up in their full numbers according
to the tables Of the Texas Almanac the owner
makes an entry Of the deficiency and charges it
against the Me1icans. The third class Of claims
is for imprisonment and outrages. -Four citizens
Of Brownsville demand 825,o00 each for ar1est.
while on the g waters Of the Rio Grande." One
Francis II. Campbell asks 9150,000 for brief
imprisonment in 1859. Four other citizens Of
Brownsville we're arrested On Mexican soil on q
criminal charge, in 1867, and afterwards released,
for which they ask 900 each. This class of
claims is completed by Joseph Walsh, of Mata-
moras, who sued certain Me1icana on their &C.
ceptances; and has, 80 far, been unable to re-
cover judgment. He asks 9251 ,022.97 for
"negation of justice" by the Mexican Courts. j.
We have taken the trouble to run through this
array Of claims, indorsed by three Commission
ers, who are assumed to be intelligent citizens,
as valid claims against Mexico, the collection OF
| which should bo enforced by the Government,
and ne find tho following results: Value placed
by the claimants upon the property alleged by
them to havo been taken OF destroyed, S6,
439; claims for consequential damages resulting
from the taking Of the property, 18,104, ,283;
claims forpereonal damages for arrest, imprison-
ment, and "negation of JUSTICE" s903, ,022.97.
Whole number OF cattle alleged to have been
taken $685. 1856; whole number Of increase, for
which pay is asked, ], ,742, ,146; aggregate num-
Der OF cattle claimed, 1906, ,972.'
i It will be seen that Mexico is charged with
half q million cattle taken, and with a1l the
increase is compounded; it doubles almos1
every three years, and, il the claim is left IN
paid, it will exceed, before the year 1900 all the
national debts Of all the nations on the face o1
the EARTH It is true the Texan citizens whe
make this claim ask $40 in gold Per head TO,
their cattle, old and young, though the Commits
sionerB admit that like cattle may be bought il
Mexico at from 50 to 84 per head; but thea'
American cattle can't be expected to grow q
cheap1y as cattle on the other side Of th
river; and American industry, which exist
in letting cattle feed themselves on the plains
must be protected. The demand for horses i
made on the same scale as that for cattle; th
probable increase Of the herd is put down in til
bill against Mexico. II this we're 3 claim mad
BY one American citizen against another, we d
not suppose Court in any part OF tho Unio1
outside Of Texas would entertain it. Even
any responsibility for the raid into Texas b
: Cortinas, in 1853, WAS traced to Mexico, an
: these bills for damages were submitted to tn
Judgment Of any intelligent American
We question whether he would allow s cent
on the dollar claimed. The whole mas
Of claims are,. on their face, eve
as presented by the Commissioners, an emo,
NOUS and prepoBterouB job,-something to b
sold to lobby, and by the latter to be pushe
through Congress-. The Commissioners al
now begging Congress to vote money to pa
their salaries for another year, to hunt up othe
claims Of the same kind. ALL the good that thi
:. Commission has done has been to lead the PEI
pie along the Rio Grande to suppose that the
> had valid claim against Mexico for twenty
J, fifty millions Of dollars and that Congress woul
j, insist upon their being paid. -, y
+ THE ADMISSION OF COLORADO.
It is reported from Warrington that the Hout
: Committee On Territories will bring in bill pr
8 viding for the admission Of Colorado as Stat
= There ere many reasons why Colorado, whic