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56mTh CONGRESS, JTHOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. I REPORT
1st Session. f iNo. 1756.
W. T. SCOTT AND OTHERS.
MAr 25, 1900.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to
be printed.
Mr. RIXEY, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following
REPORT.
[To accompany S. 3554.]
The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the bill (S. 3554)
for the relief of W. T. Scott and others, beg leave to submit the fol-
lowing report, and recommend that said bill do pass without amend-
inent.
The committee adopts the annexed Senate report.
[Senate Report No. 781, Fifty-sixth Congress, first session.]
As ground for our recommendation we append Report No. 882,
House of Representatives, first session Fifty-second Congress, and
ask that it be reprinted as part of our report hereon.
[House Report No. 882, Fifty-second Congress, first session.]
The Committee on Claims, to which was referred the bill (H. R. 3675) for the
relief of W. T. Scott and others, have considered the same, and respectfully report as
follows:
This claim has been considered by the Judiciary Committee of this House on two
separate occasions before, first session Fiftieth Congress, and first session Fifty-first
Congress, in which the passage of a bill for relief of claimants was unanimously
recommended.
The reasons why the bill should pass were fully set forth in these reports, the
more recent of which (Report No. 2740, first session Fifty-first Congress) we adopt
as the report of this committee, and recommend the passage of the bill.
[House Report No. 2740, Fifty-first Congress, first session.]
The Judiciary Committee, to whom was referred House bill 850, have duly
considered the same and respectfully submit the following report:
The subject-matter was fully considered by the Judiciary Committee of the House,
first session Fiftieth Congress, and tihey miade a report recommending the passage
of a bill granting the relief sought.
Attorney-General Garland, in his annual report for 1886, transmitted the facts in
the case to Congress and recommended legislative action, and Attorney-General
Miller, in a letter transmitting the paners in the case to the present Congress, also
recommends that some relief be granLed.
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