Claims Arising out of the Occupation of Vera Cruz V. 1

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1 Claims Arising out of the Occupation of Vera Cruz 1925

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68TH CONGRESS HOUSE OF REPRESNTATIVES REPORT
2d Session I No 1261

CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF THE OCCUPATION OF VERA
CRUZ

JANUARY 20, 1925.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
state of the Union and ordered to be printed

Mr. MOOREs of Indiana, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs,
submitted the following

REPORT
[To accompany S. 2506]

The Committee on Foreign Affairs submits the following report in
explanation and approval of the accompanying bill (S. 2506), re-
ferred by the House to this committee.
The bill undertakes to authorize the payment to the Government
of Austria, France, Germany, Great Britain, Spain, and Mexico,
and to J. F. Woodyard, an American citizen, of various sums as
indemnity to the nationals of such countries, and to the individual
named, for losses sustained during and directly occasioned by the
occupation of the Mexican city of Verz Cruz in April, 1914.
Letters are submitted herewith from the President, the Secretary of
State, the Director of the Budget, President Harding, Acting Sec-
retary Phillips, and Acting Director of the Budget Kloeber, all ree-
ommending the appropriation of $45,508.69 as compensation.
These letters also recite briefly the facts as to the occupation, but do
not go into details as to thespecific nature of the damages.
The impression may be gathered from the letters of President
Harding and the Secretary of State that much of the amount
asked was for intoxicating liquors, whereas the allowance for the
destruction of such property was considerably less than one-sixth
of the total amount, and all of it gqes to Spain to compensate some
15 Spanish claimants.
During and immediately after the occupation of Vera Cruz,
Admiral Henry T. Mayo, United States Navy, in command of the
expeditionary forces, appointed a naval board to pass on all claims,
for damages. The naval board included Rear Admiral George W.
Kline, Capt. 0. P. Jackson, Capt. Roscoe C. Moody, Capt. Aldelbert.
Althouse, Commander R. P. Scudder, and possibly other naval