The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-03-16
CLAIMS OF SOUTHERNERS
FOR RENTS AND DAMAGES DUR.
ING TIE WAR.
The Chances Much Against Them
lrOnclad Rule Laid Down by the
House Committee.
IcoRREsroNprror or rur Irrr.L.I

state that the Committee on Wa
Claims have laid down a rule OF pro
ceduTe which secures the disallowancI
OF many OF them, even before re-ex
animation is made. The class TO which
reference is made are those in which
Congress is asked to pay for the occu
patton and damage to property BY
United States troops during the war
In many instances, as is well-known
church property was taken for hospi
tal purposes and other army pur
poses. The committee, however
broadly pass upon all claims for the
use and occupation Of and damage tC
real estate and declare:
at appears TO be the settled policy
OF Congress not ID allow this class OF
claims, and this committee feels dis
posed to follow that policy in the con.
sideiation Of cafeS. Numerous cases
have been considered, and many more
are still pending, involving this same
principle, and every principle OF JUS
iice and equity demands that they
should be tIeatsd alike"
From this declaration OF policy 10
be pursued II can be tesn that such
claimants in the State as have hoped
for liberal and equitable treatment
from Congress- are doomed to disap-
pertinent. The fact is that the spec.
ter OF Southern claims, no matter how
just, still continues to frighten the
statesmen who control the national
legislation, and little can be expected
from them so long as politics over
powers rights
The Cult and Chicago Air Line
railway is before the Commerce Com
mittee, asking for authority to erect
bridges over the Cumberland river a.
such point in the counties OF Mont
gomery or Stewart as surveys may de-
termine as most advantageous, and
such other navigable streams along its
line as are necessary for the railway
or it's branches TO GLOSS. II is specified
that such bridges shall not int rfere
with navigation, and shall be of such
dimensions and character as the Sec
rotary Of War may prescribe.
In the Committee on Commerce
there is measure awaiting considera-
ton that was proposed by MIR. Zach
Taylor ito modify and re-enact an act
to prevent the introduction OF conia-
geous or infectious diseases into the
United States" II provides that the
National Board Of Health shall CO.
operate with and aid any State or
Boards of Health in the
execution and enforcement Of the
regulations TO prevent the intro
duction OF such diseases into the
United States from foreign countries,
aud into one State from another. II
also directs that all necessary precau-
tons be followed to prevent the intro
duction OF diseases from foreign ports.
The report of the Secretary OF the
Treasury, giving an account OF the
funds seized at New Orleans by Gems.
Butler and Banks, shows that the fol.
lowing amounts belonged to banking
institutions of Tennessee, the money,
however, being Confederate; Bank o.
Memphis, SAB, l64 IL; Ocean Bank Of
Tennessee, Cleveland, $4,000; Bank OF
West Tennessee, S90,SS7 %; Cbatta-
nooga Savings Institution, 81 1888 10;
Planters Bank OF Tennessee, Nash
VILE, SOL, 462 80; branch Bank OF
Tennessee, Memphis, s10,33l OF
branch a. Clarksvile, $3.50 70; ut
$50; Murfreesborougb,
iG36S IS; Bank OF Tennessee, NASH
Vile, 1904 "a; Somerville, 81 So; CO.
lumbia, 1859 "a; Shelbyville, &l274 70;
Clarksville, S2S76 2S; Sparta, $500 so;
Trenton, $l7,l44 90; Knoxville,
1885 10; Union Bank, Nashville, &c.
700; branch at Memphis, S25, 724 OF;
$74l 20; Jackson, $500 10;
Bank of Memphis, $l3,0}4 SO; Bank
)t Middle Tennessee, Lebanon, S1818;
Citizens Bank, Memphis, $l6l 70.
The list also contains the names OF
individuals who bad amounts stand
ng on the books. of the banks to their |
'redits, one OF whom, in Tennessee,
state OF John Armfeld, received by |
pecial act of Congress a return pay
nent If $4,000 20.
Senator Harris has introduced a bill |
o pay Jesse j. Brisby of Memphis
355 for rent of buildings owned by |
lin in Pine Bluff, Ark. end which |
we're occupied by United States mill |
airy, under contract, in 1865.
There are in the Committee on War
)laims the following measures pre-
jared by Mr.. Taylor: To pay the
egsl representatives OF Moses Diffee
1856 for property taken by the army,
md TO pay Mrs. F. A. Lea, OF Madison
ounty, iS9S9 for stock and supplies
'lso taken by the army.
Mr.. Taylor also asks that the charge
Il desertion be removed from Thomas
)ary, Seventh Tennessee Cavalry.
Sarah Friedman wants $4,000 for
property taken and destroyed at Holly
springs, Miss.
A more liberal sentiment prevails
n the Senate than in the House in
he matter OF Southern claims. This
8 readily apparent from the action of
he Senate Committee on Claims on
tennessee matter Of almost identical
IMPORT with that ro,ed in the first
paragraph above. TIE Senate COM
nittee has drawn up favorable re-
,ort on the bill to psy the claims of
)Avidfon Dickson, w b. DApiels, ].
}. McCrary, A. Pike, James A. Raj
tons estate, L. T. RawSou, NJ. Sparks
md the trustees of the Odd-Fellows'
4odge, Pulaski, all OF which are for
ent. All of these accounts havs been
lisallowed by the accounting officers
u the Treasury.
under the act OF 1867" the COM
nittee say, che departments have de-
lined to pay any claims originating in
he insurrectionsry States from the be-
inning of the insurreCt on to the date
I the Presidents proclamation de-
lariDg the instruction at an end.
IND thus all persons whose lust
laims are based upon an express con-
rsct between themselves and the
roper officers OF the lovernment,
made within the limits OF the ipsur-
dictionary States, are forced to appeal
o Congress for relief"
The House Committee on War
)laims have made, through Mr.. Rich
rdsoD, favorable report on the claim
i the legal representatives of Gregory
arrett, lsts Of Hmdeman county.
he committee claim, which ia for