Progress and Condition of the Business of the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission V. 1

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1 Progress and Condition of the Business of the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission 1 (1906)

handle is hein.prescomm/psadcnote0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 59TH CONGRESS, SENATE. DOCUMENT
1st Session. ( No. 308.
PROGRESS AND CONDITION OF THE BUSINESS OF THE
SPANISH TREATY CLAIMS COMMISSION.
MESSAGE
FROM THE
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,
TRANSMITTING
A COMMUNICATION FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE SPANISH
TREATY CLAIMS COMMISSION RELATIVE TO THE PROGRESS
AND CONDITION OF THE BUSINESS OF THAT COMMISSION.
APRIL 9, 1906.-Read; referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered
to be pri'nted.
To the Senate and -House of Representatives:
There is herewith transmitted for the information of the Congress, a
communication from the President of the Spanish Treaty Claims Com-
mission relative to the progress and condition of the business of that
Commission. From this report it is clearly apparent that the work of
the Commission is proceeding with due care and reasonableexpedition.
The Spanish Government is now courteously furnishing the evidence
from its archives and officials, which is indispensable to give complete
information concerning the transactions upon which the claims before
the Comini sion are founded.
1 recommend the passage of a law limiting and fixing the fees of
attorneys in cases where awards are made in favor of claimants; and
also that the question whether a right of review by the Supreme Court
of the decisions of the Commission should be given by means of writs
of certiorari be decided at the present session of Congress.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
THE WHITE HOUSE, April 9, 1906.
SPANISH TREATY CLAIMS COMMISSION,
Washington, D. C., April 7, 1906.
SIR: On the occasions since March 2, 1903, when you have made
the necessary six months' extensions of the powers and jurisdiction of
the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission-it being your judgment that