Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1898-07-15
Tn. Nevada War Claims.


obtain consideration Of the Pluto
War Claims but the Speaker :eiusef
unless the Chairman Of the Commit
tee On Appropriations would consent
which was denied. As both these
claims are now on the Omnibus
Claims Fill i. is hopei they will be
adopted at The next session.
WAR ACCOUNTS O sTATEs.
Mr.. Hun. l again ask unanimous
consent Tor the consi I, ration OF the
bill which Was Temporarily with
dawn thus morning. II has been
modified since it was brought up be-
fore.
The bill was read rs follows:
A bin 10 indemnify the governors OF
States for expenses incurred D them in
s!ttrE the United States 10 raise ana or
Army OF the United States In the existing
war with Spain.
Mr. HASpY. l reserve The right to
object.
Mr.. Hull. The gentleman from
Ohio iMr. GRosvESoRl, after this bill
was presented here this morning,
sent for ar expert OF the Treasury
DEPARTMENT and submitted the bill
To him in order to guard against what
the gentleman had called attention
to. the liability that the Government
might lie called upon to pay more
than it should for supplies furnished
by the States. Tie last proviso has
been added to I'VE that point. The
Treasury officials and the gentleman
from Ohio say that now the bill is
properly guarded.
] will say ia the gentleman from
Delaware iMr. HANDY) :hnt the Fed
eraI Government only asks the adop-
ton of this because the gov
errors nf the States are urging the
Government to settle the accounts 81
the States.
Mr.. NEwLANDs. I wish To ask the
gentleman whether he viii permit an
amendment TO be put upon this bill
authorizing the Secretary OF the
Treasury to reimburse the States Of
California, Oregon and Nevada for
expenditures made over thirty years
ago in the late civil w~ar-expendi
lures amounting in the State Of Cal
itornia to e. eco and over, in the
state of Oregon to over 100000, and
in the State OF Nevada to over SltO,.
coo, expenditures OF this very class,
made for the purpose OF equipping
troops that were accepted by the
Government and who took the place
IN hat vast domain Of regulars who
we're retired from the entire inter
m%ontane country aud Pacific coast
region to take their places in tire
civil war:
Mr.. Hull. Mr.. Speaker. ] would
rot, because hat is an entirely diff
ferent question. This Law was pas
sed in 1851 substantially e. now. II
Is a little better law now. because
il Is intended to obviate some Of the
difficulties that were encountered
then, but this proposition Of the gen.
tleman from Nevada is to 20 back.
and now, in the closing days OF this
session, take up a batch Of clains
that Gre not yet adjusted under the
Law 81 1851.
Mr.. NEwLASDs. / wish to state to
the gentleman in that connection that
these claims have been approved by
the Senate Committee live or six
times, have passed the Senate half a
dozen times mt least, have been re.
ported favOrably by the committee
in the House, and we never yet have
been able to obtain consideration Tor
those bills.
Mr.. LOUD. They have been audi
ted 10y .he War Department.
Mr.. NEwLASDs. / claim that the
Government should pay expenditures
w tub's y'hiS hsO IhAii'I tlhh bIc
expenditures OF today and that mn
old claim OF that kind. founded upon
equity aud justice, fhould be settled
at least cOntemporRncously with these
claims. / also insist that llleGe claims
shall 20 through the same process OF
sitting that the claims Of Oregon,
Nevada. and California have gone
through, adjustment 10y examiners
appointed under law 10y the War De-
partmcnt. md yet claims which have
been resisted by Congress thus sue.
cessfully for n period OF tllirty-iive
, years because the people 81 thu Pa.
ciiic coast arc not represented in sr:f-
ticicnt numbers here to secure recur
milton Of a just claim. II the gentle.
man will blow the amendment to he
made, shall have no objection to tho
consideration Of the bill, hut other.
!. wise ] shall object.
Mr.. GEosyESoR. wnnt 10 nsk the
: gentleman from Nevada il there il
. not now a provisio. Of law by which
these clnims eau he paid?
+, Mr. NEwLAsDs. None. except lbs
|, appropriation 10y Congress.
Mr.. GRosvrSoG. The other States
, have been paid. OF ut least many Of
them have.
Mr.. NEwLANDs. Tho State Of New
York has been paid in part. The
State OF Texas has been paid. I be
licvc. in whole, because the State o