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57TH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. REPORT
1st Session. No.189.
CLAIMS FOR STORES AND SUPPLIES.
JANUARY 29, 1902.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered
to be printed.
Mr. GiBSON, from the Committee on War Claims, submitted the
following
REPORT.
[To accompany H. R. 8587.]
The Committee on War Claims, to whom was referred the bill
(H. R. 8587) for the allowance of certain claims for stores and supplies
reported by the Court of Claims, etc., beg leave to submit the follow-
ing report, and recommend that said bill do pass with amendments:
The claims embraced in this bill are for stores and supplies furnished
the Army of the United States during the late war for the suppression
of the rebellion by loyal citizens residing in the loyal States and by
loyal citizens residing in States declared in rebellion. These claims
were referred to the court for a finding of facts by former Congresses,
and have been returned to Congress by the said court with findings of
fact in each case.
The cases referred to the Court of Claims under the terms of the
Bowman Act are for stores and supplies furnished the Army and
Navy of the United States by loyal citizens residing in loyal States,
under the provisions of the act of July 4, 1864, and the acts amenda-
tory thereof (13 Stat. L., p. 381), and for stores and supplies furnished
the Army and Navy by loyal citizens' residing in States declared in
rebellion for their subsistence while in the field, of which a commis-
sion, professionally known as the Southern Claims Commission,
organized under the terms of the act of March 3, 1871 (16 Stat. L., p.
524), which claims had been rejected or suspended by the Quarter-
master-General, the Commissary-General, and the Southern Claims
Commission.
Many of the claims thus rejected had been heard upon ex parte testi
mony and many on the private reports of special agents, which the
claimants had been allowed no opportunity to rebut. Much dissatis-
faction was created by many of these decisions, the claimants feeling
that they had not been justly dealt with, and the consequence was that
appeals for relief were constantly made to Congress, many of the par-](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.usccsset/usconset30881&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)