Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-03-01

cover. or, enS lrge quantities OF val
IsmJne' Amer u. .upplies st great COS
usDis re and erecting valuable i'm
TO tne tnennts n In the shape of mills and othe
proo,S:nsS about il, and that ne sooner haS
y ysbscouae 3 source OF
Proat and Income
49,, The neighboring authorities began t,
'.sr ' unjust tolls and exactions. When :
.H.,ni,ition for money to support some i'm
,rnnious institution that had no Just
aims was refused, the Judge of the Dis
.srt imprisoned the foreman of the mine
/ n the District pest house, and the balance
1 :; me employees, who had already been
Ccnsiderably harassed by the Mexicans, goi
Gc;shtened and ran away, leaving the prop
| IN open to further attack. Then this
\ s.me Judge-the claimants story goes
! TbO hsd locked up the foreman in the
| ,sst house, and whose daughter had mar.
red . former superintendent osthe mine,
o-ocseded to
Sequester the Whole Property
for bis own use and benefit, moved into the
hsienda attached to the property, with his
sOa-in-law and daughter, and at last &C
counts they were running the entire estab.
ishmsnt and doing well for themselves.
The Company's agents state that when this
bapPened the mine had gotten out and
ready for market many hundred tons OF
silver ore, worth many thousands of dol
las, and that this, together with all their
yaluable machinery and Improvements,
we're absolutely lost to them. Anyhow,
Vher their claim was passed upon by the
r.Iti commission organized under the
treat OF 1868, they succeeded in getting an
aTa Of nearly
sven Hundred Thousand Dollars,
and the payment OF this award has been
:he bone OF contention ever since. Mexico
asaed q rehearing on the ground of fraud
sad perjury, and the umpire thought it
vas out of his power to grant it, but sug-
gssed that he thought the United States
would not accept payment of the claims il
they could be shown to be fraudu-
lent. Acting on this point Mex
jco, while paying the installments
on the award as provided for in the treaty,
At the same time prOffered alleged evil
dence OF fraud, and appealed to this gov
eminent TO let the cases be reheard.
Harts, who was then Secretary of the
state, paid
No Attention TO the Appeal,
and was about to pay over the money when
Congress passed resolution directing him
not to pay these two claims. Then the
Secretary referred all the claims passed
upon by the commission to Congress for
and after a long fight, i'll
which the lobby figured prominently,
congress ordered that the President
should investigate the charges OF fraud
and determine whether the cases should
be retired This duty Hayes apparently
never performed. In 1879 Secretary EvartS
decided with the Presidents approval,
hat the honor ot the United States did
require an
Investigation Of the Claims,
Dut that Congress ought to make it and
to send for the proofs In lSSO
the report Of the Secretary was sent in by
President Hayes. at the request OF
The Senate. in which it was again
that Congress should decide the
question, Congress had submitted to him,
md which the secretary had, in the pre-
,ious wear decided in MexicO's favor. Con-
sresS did nothing, the Senate lndicIary
Committee reporting that the President
had not discharged his duties under the
lCt OF 1873, and that Congress could do
nothing until he made the decision direct
ID and finally after giving notice that un-
ess Congress did something he would feel
i his, duty to --,--,-s.-----.---.--.
Pay over the Awards
EvartS, after the adjournment OF Congress,
md Just as the Hayes administration was
dosing, paid over the installments on hand,
mounting to about four hundred thousand
dollars.
1t is probable that under the treaty just
signed by Freling IIuyscn further facts as
10 these cases may he developed. The
foregoing are about all that can be SubStan-
.iated now. although there are various
-umOr> for which no responsible authority
IS given, in circulation. LAS.