The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-06-29
WASHINGTON.
TOPICS AT TIE eAPrEAL.
BuHInssS OF the Pension RaFsAu-Re-
IirsmsnI Of COmmIAsIOneF Bentley.
A Claims Case seHeIIIsd-BOndH
for Continuance, &C.

that the number Of new pensions granted
during the year will be about twenty-five
thousand exclusive Of the war OF 1872
pensions, This Is an increase Of more
than sixty per csntum over the number
granted last year, A part Of this increase
is accounted for by the fact that we hSve
handled q very large number OF new
claims during the year, many of which
were for shot gun wounds or Tor some
disease OF which there was record, This
element will enter more largely into the
work Of next year and continue 10 increase
the number OF annual settlements until
the claims which are pending, but not yet
reached for adjustment, have been gone
over. After that the work will again
fall back into its usual course. The set.
Elements next year ought TO reach from
45, 900 to $1,000. Flrst, there are probably
from fve TO seven thousand cases In the
files ready or nearly 90 Tor the issue OF the
certificates. Second, there will be an in
crease OF the examining force, including
that relieved from the work upon the
new records, equal TO nearly Atty per
centum. Third, there will be o large in
cresse In the number OF special agents
which, under the law % modified last
winter ought considerably TO increase the
number Of claims which will be settled,
These advantages, together with the
ferred to, ought 70 nearly, II
not quite, double the number OF
allowances. We have exhausted the pen.
zion appropriation thisyear- $50, ,302, ,s06 6S
and have been compelled TO carry over
into July nearly all the May and June
settlements, think they will require for
the first payment about i6, 900 000 This
added to the expected increase in the set.
tlement next year will run the amount Tor
next year up TO nearly or quite 500. .000. 600,
so there will be required for the pensions
next year an appropriation OF SAC, ,000, 900
In addition 10 the $50. 900, 900 already ap.
propriated. New claims continue to come
in very rapidly. There hava been filed
this year upward Of thirty thousand new
original claims.
AN IMPORTANT GLAZING CASE DECIDED.
The French and American Claims Com.
mission rendered decision to-day In the
case OF EgIs Aubrey I. the United States.
The claimant 70 colored womSn) was born
in January, 1903, in the Territory Of Lou.
isiana, then o French colony. April 30,
1903, the territory was ceded 10 the
United States, The counsel for the claim. |
ant COntended that OF the time OF the Ces'
Hon the claimant was o French subject |
and as under the Constitution OF the |
United States she (betng aColored person
could not become citizen OF the United |
States, she remained o citizen OF France, |
and as such was entitled 10 sue the United
Slates before the commission. A claim |
was filed for $4,000 damages for loss oi
property, &c. The court to-day decided |
that there is nothing In the treaty of
Cession 10 indicate that II was the inten.
tion, either oil France or the United States,
that the inhabitants, or any OF them,
were to remain citizens OF France. On
the contrary, 1t was intended, that they
should be citizens OF the United States.
The claim was therefore disallowed. The |
decision in this case will hold In oil simi-
lar cases where the claimants were coloTed
persons and citizens oil France at the time
Of the Cession Of the Territory Of Lou
isiana.
ThHhbUhI
Secretary Window was at the Treasury
Department to-day.
The amount Of Ave per cent coupon
bonds received for continuance at three.
and.a half per cent to date, including those
presented at the London agency, agyre.
gates about eighty.nine million. /
A statement prepared In the Office Of
Register OF the Treasury Bruce shows that
there has been issued In extended 6ves 10
date, on account Of registered bonds,
Sl85, ,991 200; on account Of coupon S3l,.
SS4 350-total 1911, ,876.5 $50.
Ex.SeCretary Ramsey, 10 whom was 80
signed the work OF examining into the
charges preferred against Superintendent
Dodge, OF the San Francisco Mint, has re-
Ceived bis instructions.
The President will leave next Friday to
attend the commencement exercises at
Williams College, Massachusetts,. He
will be gone aboutten days, visiting other
points In that section.
THE INDIAN TROUBLES.
instructions were mailed to-day from
The Indian Office to U. s. Indian Agent
Tufts, Of the Muocogee Indian Territory,
instruCting him 10 proceed In the settle.
ment OF the trouble growing out OF the
threatened enforcement OF the Choc.
taw and Chicasaw local permit
laws. Agent Tufts 10 directed, In con.
formity with the decision OF the Attorney.
General, 10 give notice 10 oil the parties
Interested, that 0 reasonable time, Say
thirty days from July 1st, will be allowed
within which they can make arrange.
mentB 10 comply with the Ohoctaw per.
NIT laws or leave the country.
Such 90 refuse or neglect, with
In that period, 10 take out
the necessary permits, and who do not
come within The excepted classes men.
toned 10 the Attorney Generals opinion,
he is directed 10 remove from the limits
Of the indian country, using for this
purpose such police force as he has at
bis disposal. Hhould The police force
prove insufficient, be is directed to report
ihe fact 10 The department, Ia which
event The aid Of the military will be ID.
yoked. The letter concludes aa fellows:
You will also perceive that under the law
and the treaties, the duty and power Of
removal ol the inttudefO resides 10 the
Department ol the Interior and not with
tnb luulhubt huu ueuOo yOut A1 .Vpte
sentative Of the Department, subordinate
10 this office, will be expected 10 eniotCe
the law vigorously, yet as humanely as
possible ID this respect.
Secretary Kitkwood to-day requested
the Secretary Of War 10 direct the ptopef
mililafr commands 10 render military uid
10 Agent Tults, should IL be needed to 90.
cute The prompt removal Of theiAttudefs.
1Hg WRONa LADY