The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-11-06
READ AND REPLECT.

Ahp AOh0Wh6 bAA VS. 1850 =
H. 7. Riddle, Representative from the
Fourth District Of Tennessee, in the
House OF Representatives, February %,
1876. 1t was read twice, referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary, ordered 10
be printed, and can be taken up and
passed whenever the Democracy get full
control Of the several branches Of the
Government:
A BILL
Directing compensation TO be allowed
for the use and occupation oil prop
erty by the United States army dur
ing the late War.
Be Il saaaed BY tie Seadts Gad Hot!E y
RepreSsntatipes Of he Unissd &ate!o Anler.
Ia IN Congress assembled, That the Score
tary Of War be, and he Is hereby author.
led 10 alor reasonable compensation 10 ALL
CITIZENS Of lie United SIdteS FOR THE
Csc AND OCCUPATION OF THEIR PROPERTY
BY THE UNITED STATES ARMY, or any
part thereof, during the late Civil War,
In the same manner and under the same
regulations as compensation Is now al.
lowed for QuartermasterS' stores used by
said army; Provided hOEerer, That the
affidavit OF the claimant, supported by
the competent testimony Of any reputa.
BILE citizen, SHALL BE SUFFICIENT
PROOF TO ESTABLISH THE FACT
OF THE USE AND OCCUPATION OF SUCH
PROPERTY BY SAID Army. But II is mot
the intention OF this act TO limit the par.
ties to the amount Of proof herein speci.
fed; but other and additional testimony
may be taken to establish the fact Of the
use and occupation, and the rental value
Of the property occupied.
REMARKS.
The foregoing bill and another intro.
duced by Mr.. Wiltshire, Of Arkansas, and
equally sweeping in It's provisions, are in
tended to embrace all claims for property
or supplies Of every character used or de.
stroyed by the immense army OF the
Union, which during four years marched
and encamped upon Southern soil. Their
estimated aggregates are immense, 81
4lO,32G0O0! Bu. the vas! and ruinous
schemes Of plumber proposed under these
bills are greatly increased by the aggre.
gates Of other schemes oflike character
all proposed by the Confederate Democra.
cy at the last session, and all for the ben
eft OF disloyal persons debarred under
our present laws from relief before the
Southern Claims Commission-such as
the bill Of Mr.. Scales, Of North Carolina,
"a. R. 3l45,l to refund to the disloyal
States the direct tax collected under the
act Of August 8, 1861, amounting to 81.
492, 100; such as H. R. 2S2, proposing to
the cotton planter the tax levied on raw
cotton during the years 1865, 1866, and
1867, amounting to S6s,072, 0SSi such
as the relief bills 10 special cases
one hundred and iorty-one in number,
introduced in the House at the
last session, as the proposition Of Mr..
Johnston, of Virginia, covering the claims
of two hundred and six citizens Of Lon:
don county, Virginia, and that OF Mr..
Merrimon, Of North Carolina, in the Sen.
ate, for the repeal Of section $3.50 OF the
Revised Statutes for the benefit Of claim
ants to sums accruing prior to April Is,
1861, but who forfeited their claims by
their acts OF rebellion, and all amount
ing to S2,ls1, 497. Such as the bills to
the extent OF 5000, 900 introduced by the
present West Virginia delegation in the
House for payment for damage done to
certain pixies, roads, churches, &C., in
West Virginia. To recspitulate:
Reiuuding dlrec, Tar under law oils s?esi,T6
Special relief SOL ~
Reiunding cotton tax.................. 69,gl? ~
Property and supplies destroyed OF used 900
S24sSr2Il .Ssl
Or in round numbers an amount equal