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50TH CONGRESS, ( SENATE. (REPORT 2705, Part 2.
2d Session. I Views of minority.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.
MARCH 2, 1889.-Ordered to be printed.
Mr. BRowN, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, submitted the
following
REPORT:
[To accompany bill 8. 2632.]
VIEWS OF THE MINORITY.
[The references In this report to the Appendix, which is printed with the majority report, are to the
top paging.]
Under a resolution of the Senate, passed August 30, 1888, a subcom-
mittee of the Committee on Foreign Relations has been engaged in tak-
ing testimony respecting the claim of La Abra Silver Mining Company
against the Governmiient of Mexico until the closing days of the Fiftieth
Congiess. The last witness was examined in the afternoon of the 27th
of February, and his testimony, comprising the last thirty-two pages
of the record of the subcommittee's proceedings, was not printed until
the 2d of March. The report of the majority of the committee was sub-
mitted to the Senate on the 1st of March, with the testimony, which was
ordered to be printed as an appendix, and leave was granted for the
printing of the views of the minority. (Congressional Record, March
2, 1889, p. 2753.)
The appendix, containing nearly a thousand printed pages, comprises
not only the oral examination of witnesses who have testified in the
course of this investigation, but also a transcript of the alleged original
press-copy book kept at the office of the Abra Silver Mining Company,
at its mines in Mexico (pp. 236-318); certain original letters of David J.
Garth, treasurer of the said company, addressed to Charles H. Exall,
superintendent at the mines, in the year 1867 (pp. 318-322); certain
original letters of the said C. H. Exall, addressed to James Granger
in the spring and summer of 1868 (pp. 322-326); the memorial and evi-
dence submitted by the said La Abra Company to the United States
and Mexican Claims Commission, comprising the certificate of incorpo-
ration of the said company, the titles to its various mines in Mexico,
and the depositions submitted in support of its claim, together with the
depositions submitted in opposition by the Mexican Government to the
said Commission (pp. 328-499). The testimony of witnesses who have
been examined orally by the subcommittee comprises the first two hun-
dred and thirty-five pages of the appendix, and also extends from page
502 to page 971.
The Mexican Government was represented in the investigation by its
counsel, the Hon. John W. Foster, late. United States minister to Mexico,
and Mr. Robert B. Lines, formerly of the Department of State. La Abra](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.usccsset/usconset33954&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)