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54TH CONGRESS, SENATE. REPORT
1st ession. No. 886.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.
MAY 7, 1896.-Ordered to be printed.
Mr. PAsco, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following
REPORT:
[To accompany S. 1623.]
The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the bill (S. 1623) for
the relief of Cumberland Female College of McMinnville, Tenn., have
carefully considered the same, and submit the following report thereon:
There have keen several favorable reports upon this case made by the
Committee on War Claims of the House of Representatives and by
this committee in former Congresses. In the Fifty-second Congress
the House committee recommended the payment of $7,500 in satisfac-
tion of the claim, and a bill to that effect was there passed. When it
came to the Senate this committee recommended that the amount be
reduced to $2,500, and the House bill thus amended was passed. The
House refused to concur in this amendment, and the difference was
adjusted by a committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the
two Houses, and their report was as follows:
The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the
amendment of the Senate to the bill (H. R. 2122) for the relief of Cumberland Female
College of McMinnville, Tenn., having met, after full and free conference have
agreed to recommend and do recommend to their respective Houses as follows:
That the Senate recede from its amendments and agree to an amendment as follows:
Strike out all after the word appropriated, in line 6, and insert in lieu thereof
the followiig: The sum of $5,000 for use and occupation of the college buildings
and premises as a hospital during the years 1862, 1863, 1864, and 1865 by the military
authorities of the United States, and the same to be accepted and receipted for in
full of all claims of the said Cumberland Female College against the United States;
and the House agree to the same.
Jonm W. DAuE,
S. PAsco,
W. A. PEFFER,
Managers on part of Senate.
B. A. ENLOE,
W. J. STONE,
JonN C. HOUK,
Managers on part of the House.
This report was adopted by the two Houses and was signed by the pre-
siding officers and was sent to the President for his approval, but it did
not reach him till the last day of the session and within an hour or less of
the final adjournment, when alargenumber of bills were awaiting 'con-
sideration and action. Those of a public nature and of greater general
importance had the preference, and when the last moment came the bill
had not even been considered by the President, and was still unsigned.
The original claim was for $10,000, and included claims for damage
and injury to the buildings, furniture and apparatus of the Cumberland
Female College of McMinnville, Tenn., while the property was in the
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