The hot springs of Arkansas, as they are : a history and guide / by Charles Cutter.

  • Cutter, Charles, 1837-1912.
Date:
1875
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Credit: The hot springs of Arkansas, as they are : a history and guide / by Charles Cutter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    or decree shall operate as a supereedas thereof until the final hearing and judgment of the Supreme Court thereon. J. G. BLAINE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. SCHUYLER COLFAX, Vice-Pres. of U. S., and Pres. of Senate. [Note by the Department of State.—The foregoing Act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the House of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become law without his approval.] In compliance with the foregoing act the Court of Claims are now trying the case, and the three claimants are on hand, with able counsel, looking after individual rights. It is reported that several efforts were made to stave off the trial, without effect, and there is now no doubt but this Court will render its decision this winter. It will, unquestion- ably, be appealed to the Supreme Court by either or all of the claim- ants, if decided in favor of the Government, or by the other claimants, if decided in favor of either one of them; also by the Assistant-Attorney General in behalf of the United States. There was a resolution intro- duced in Congress by Mr. Bright of Tennessee, by direction of the Committee on Private Land Claims, and asking immediate action on the following: Whereas, There are numerous claimants to the Hot Springs tract of land in the State of Arkansas, and Congress, by the act of June n, 1870, authorized these claimants within two years to bring suit in the Court of Claims to have their respective rights adjudicated; and, whereas, all the claimants except the heirs of Don Juan Filhiol have filed their claims in said Court within the time prescribed by statute, and there is now a bill pending before this House on the Private Cal- endar, allowing the Eilhiol heirs the further time of thirty days to bring their suits in the Court of Claims; and, whereas, the Court of Claims now in session will probably reach and determine said cause before the pending bill for the relief of the Filhiol heirs can be reached in its reg- ular order; therefore, be it Resolved by ihe House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States, That the Court of Claims be requested to suspend all action in said cause during the present session of Congress, unless House bill,