The daily gazette., 1879-04-14
FOURTH EDITION
WASHINGTON.

srATEMnST THAT Hk WILL not DB A
CANDIDATE Is RECEIVED.
wAsHINGTox, April 10, 1879
THE SOUTHERN CLAIMS COMMISSION
GENERAL BRACES MOVEMENT FOR
ITS ABoLIsHMENT.
The report published on the authority
| of travelling companion of General
Grant that the General says he will not
be candidate for the Presidency under
any circumstances, and that he does not
| want ~ re-enter public life, and will de-
| cline a nomination to any public ofiice
when the time comes, naturally attracts
a good deal of attention here. 1t does
not seem TO surprise the real friends Of
the General, who have always been re-
luctant to see him dragged once more in
| 10 the field of polite. and believe that a
due regard for his happiness requires that
he shall be permitted to live beyond and
above the turmoil of partisan politics
| They believe also that he Will lie much
greater and effective force for good III the
country during the remainder of his life
if he should be permitted to remain
the foremost private citlZsI III the
country, man with whom ali admins
trations would advise in emergencies,
and who in that position would receive
for the first time the greatest reward for
his many laborlous aud Brilliant services
to the country in the affection and conf
dence of all his couulrN men, regardless
OF party or section. One of the most in
timAte of General Grants friends in
L.
few days ago that tn. General had never,
in his letters to him, Indicated the shght-
est desire to return to political lte, and
} that he had the best reason to believe
that General Grant does not desire an
, other term of the Presidency.
There l. likely TO be IA lively discussion
Tuesday on the war claim business, arls-
ing out OF General Braggs motion to
strike out of the Legislative, Executive
and Judicial Appropriation bill the APP
preparation continuing the Southern
; Claims Commission. Mr.. Bragg is one
a OF those democrats who oppose subsidies
!. and war claims, and his speech on thls
!. subject AT the last session made him the
:, leader Of those who think with him. Hi'
4 desire now Is to put summary end tc
the whoie claims business, by abolishinl
! the commissioners. a clerk, Reporter an,
e messenger, sitting here. The appropra
: ton proposed runs thus:
Southern Claims Commsslon-For or pa,
of three commissioners to the 10th da.
of March, 1850, at the rate of $1,000 pc
anuum each; one clerk, AT the rate o
IL S2,t0J; one stenographer at the rate q
. 81 800; one messenger, at the rate o
- 81 200; three additional clerks at tn
i rate Of 81 200 each, in all Sl1 DOB 81. Fo
y compensation of three lnvestigatin
:. agents, at 81 per day when actually en-
20 ployed; also travelling expenses Ofagent
'e fees and mileage to government witness
b -, cost of sumlnonlng witnesses, ices I
}. commissioners tor taking test uuny, fee
= for abstracts and -XempllhcatIon q
public records relating to claimants, sG,
10 00O
H. The total annual cost of running thi
.e machine is about 900.
70 The Southern Claims Commission wa
VI established by clause tackled on an al
q" preparation blll III 1871, which created
No in rXprcss words for two years only.
60 While the Quartsrmaster's Depar
" meut was SIN settling Southern claims
A. Southern Congressman, who had hiI
"a self fought Oh the Southern side, VI
10 asked by the authorities to glance at
os claim which had been properly esta
80 hshed, audited and was about 10 be pa
s9 to see II he knew nything of tie clalI
:" ant, who lived in his district. He ask,
in some surprise, "Ous ht such "A Claima
-, to be loyalist." and, being assured Iii
- this was absolutely indispensable, r
", phed-
an ain that case | will tell you that
made the last Union speech in my iii
trict before my State seceded. / spoil
with gun in my hand and to a howlil
in mob, the leader of which urged that
Of should be taken out and hanged the
of and then, and this leader was the We
l.. man who has now pursuaded yoa III
in he was "a devoted and suffering loyals
.r- The Southern claims business Is a pi
his posterous humbug, and 1t is to be hop
eg- that the House VIII agree with Genel
mt Bragg and abolish the commission. T.
nix last House, by n nearly unanimous vo
refused to entertain such claims, and
ng present House ought TO be asked
hat General Bragg at once 10 do the sal
i'm thing. He has prepared and will of
but yer! soon "A constitutional amen mime
.ck prohibiting amy branch of the COVE
ing ment from entertaining or hearing a
900 claim, for losses or damage from a
ire source connected with the war ANA be
lrg date between the l9lh OF April, ,lo
and the 10Th of August 1866.