New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-28

Cove rnment stopped 'Archiving ''-BOut-
well and CresweII-BraggiDg in North
CarOlina-The New Mexican COmmis-
siOner of the Joint Commission Grave
Differences in ihe Commission.
WASHINGTON, July 27,-Since Piekett's
successful speculation the government has
had many offers of archives Having burnt
its fingers, the government has stopped
''archiying.'
Senator Schurz departed last night for
North Carolina.
Secretary Boutwell, is off.
Creswell is going to stump Michigan.
Administra ton circles are bOastful re-
garding North Carolina. They say that
only full Conservative and Democratic
vote can beat them, which they don't ap-
prehend.
Since the advent of the new Mexican
commissioner in the joint commission of the
United States and Mexico. grave differ
ences have arisen between him and his
Amerir' colleague, constituting together
the board, relative to the present status
and future disposition of large class of
claims against the United States. The fol-
lowing is a statement of these differences:
The Mexican government laid before the
commission 3G6 individual claims against
the United States for about $50, 900, 900, and
known as the 'Indian depreciation cases."
These cases were argued by both govern
ments before tbs board of commissioners
and submitted iJr their award. The com
missiOners ditf,ed, and on the eighth of
May last, by an order on their records, re-
ferred- their disa Teement to the umpire for
his decision, dire ing the Mexican secreUa-
ry to deliver to i'm the papers. In the
meantime the Mo lean government ap-
pointed new commissioner, vice the old
one, resigned.
He took his seat on the twenty-fourth of
June last, and fndiIg that the Mexican
secretary had not yeJ executed the order
of reference to the mpire, he volunteered
to his colleague to examir the cases to see
if he could not agree with him in opinion
and thus save the necessity of executing the
order of reference to the umpire. But the
new commissioner reached the conclusion
that neither the board of commissioners nor
their umpire had any right to decide for or
against the claims; but that they should be
suspended, and the two governments ad-
vised that they could only be settled by
new treaty, and that till they were thus set
tied they should be held up and kept intact;
at the same time announcing his firm TesO-
luton to take that course with them.
His colleague, the American commits
siOner, not being able to agree with any
part of his views, required the execution of
the order of May 8, and the delivery Of the
cases to the umpire. The Mexican commits
siOner explicitly refused to allow it to be
done. His colleague then proposed to refer
their difference as to his right to rescind
the order of the board for any reason, and
to suspend the cases, to the umpire. He
rejected this Finally the American com
missioner announced that he would treat
this overthrow of the authority of the
board and of the umpire and this suspen-
sion of the cases as a forced interruption
of thelabOrs of the commission, and at once
referred the questions raised to the two
governments.
The convention requires every case to be
laid before the commission to be decided
by the first of February next, aud unless
this is done nothing is done. The suspension
of 366 cases, with no right to decide them,
is therefore a complete overthrow of the
and breaks the treaty, unless
the two governments provide a remedy.
Pending the solution of the difficulty
through diplomatic channels, the sessions
Of the board are suspended.