The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-02-09
Ratification Of the Treaty be-
tween the United States
and Mexico.
bill for the Restoration Of the
Arlington Estate lndeR-
niteIy Postponed.
President Grant Recommends
Congress 10 Beinstatc Mr..
Brooks as Gov ernOr
Of Arkansas

house, u large number Of bills were in
troduced and referred.
In the senate, Mr. Conkling, from
the Judiciary committee, reported la,
verseIy on the bill to give Jurisdiction
TO the court OF claims 10 hear HE claiu4
Of George Gusts Ice for Arlington,
and il was indefinitely postponed,
The recent convention between ihe
United states and Mexico having been
ratified by both countries, is NOW pro
claimed by the president. 1t extends
until the 3lst day Of January, 1876, the
joint convention for the settlement Of
claims, but it does not alter or eX-
tend the time originally fixed by the
convention of 1868 Tor the presentation
of claims to the commission. If, at
the expiration of the time when the
functions of the commissioner shall
terminate, the umpires shall not have
decided all the losses referred to him,
he shall be allowed II further period OF
not more than six months for that pur-
pose.
The second article of the convention
reads Us follows: All cases which have
been decided by the commissioners, OF
by the umpire heretofore, or which
shall he decided prior to the exchange
of the notifications of this convention,
shall from the date of such exchange,
be regarded as definitely disproved Of,
and shall be considered and treated rs
finally settled, barred, and thencetorth
inadnissihle, pursuant to the stipula-
ton contained in the fourth article OF
the convention of the fourth day OF
July. 1868. The total amount awarded
i'm eases which have been already de-
cided and which may be decided before
the exchange of Publications of this
convention, and in all cases which
Shall be decided within the times
i'm this conventions, respectively
named for that purpose, either by
the commissioners or by the
umpire. in favor of the citizens of one
partv. shall be deducted from the total
amount awarded to the citizens of the
other party, and the balance TO the
amount of $500 900, shall be paid at the
city of Mexico or at the city of Wash
inStop. in gold or its equivalent, with
in twelve months of the 3lst day OF
January. 1876. to the government in
favor of whose citizens the greater
amount may have been awarded,
without interest or any other deduc-
tion than that spec;fied in article six
of that convention. The residue of
said balance shall be paid in annual
instalments, to an amount MOI to ex-
coed $500, 600 in gold or its equivalent,
in anv one wear, till the whole all
have been paid.
In the house, Mr.. Senior, of Virginia,
introduced bill for a breakwater at
Smiths Point, on the Potomac river,
for a lighthouse at the mouth of Great
Wiacomico river. and also to make
West Point, Virginia, q port of entry.
Mr. Sheets, of Alabama, introduced
n bill to apportiOn the eight represent
tatiye districts of Alabama.
Mr.. Crossman, of Kentucky, intro
duced n hin for an income tax of two
and a half per cent on incomes exceed
inc two thousand dollars.
Mr. Morri, of Louisiana, moved to
suspend the rules so rs to make in or
der the river and harbor appropriation
bill, providing for an appropriation to