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54TH CONGRESS, SENATE. REPORT
1st Session. I No. 704.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.
APRIL 14, 1896.-Ordered to be printed.
Mr. MARTIN, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following
REPORT:
[To accompany 8. 1913.]
The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the bill (S. 1913)
entitled A bill for the relief of Louisa S. Guthrie, widow and execu-
trix of John J. Guthrie, deceased, having examined all the facts in
evidence, submit the following report:
Your committee adopt the report of the Committee on Claims of the
House, submitted in the second session of the Fifty-third Congress, as
fully setting forth the facts in the case, and recommend the passage of
the bill.
The bill passed the Senate during the Fifty-second Congress, but did
not pass the House.
[House Report No. 1009, Fifty-third Congress, second session.]
The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 5205) for the relief
of Louisa S. Guthrie, widow and executrix of John J. Guthrie, deceased, submit the
following report:
The committee have carefully considered this claim and report it back to the House
with the recommendation that it do pass.
For a full and complete history of the case we herewith present a letter to the Hon.
H. A. Herbert from Hon. W. C. Whitney, Secretary of the Navy, dated April 25, 1888:
NAVY DEPARTMENT,
Washington, April 25, 1888.
SIm: This Department has examined the petition of Louisa S. Guthrie, dated
Portsmouth, Va., January 5, 1888, which, with other matters, was referred by the
Committee on Naval Affairs, House of Representatives, to this Department, with a
request for such information as the Department may be able to furnish touching
the merits of the petition and for an expression of its views respecting the action
which should be taken thereon.
It appears that Mrs. Guthrie, the petitioner, is the widow and executrix of John J.
Guthrie, deceased, formerly a lieutenant in the U. S. Navy. The facts stated in the
petition are substantially as follows:
That on April 21, 1861, Lieut. Guthrie, who was then attached to the U. S. S. Sara-
toga, captured off the west coast of Africa the slave ship Nightingale, containing 1,000
natives, and was assigned as prize master to the command of the captured vessel for
the purpose of bringing her to the United States and delivering her to the civil
authorities, after having first turned over the natives to the agent of the United
States at Monrovia.
That the sum of $500 was transferred by the paymaster of the Saratoga to Lieut.
Guthrie, as prize master and acting paymaster of the captured vessel, for the pur-
pose of defraying the incidental expenses necessarily involved in the discharge of
the special duties thus intrusted to him, including the provisioning of the vessel
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