Steamboat Inspection Service, Office of Supervising Inspector, Fifth District,

Dubuque, Iowa, December 11, 1906. Dear Sir:

I am in receipt of your favor of December 7, 1906, asking me to use my efforts in obtaining a
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remission of the penalty imposed on Capt. A. M, Short for violation of the law in navigating the steamer Waunetta after the expiration of her
50 inspection certificate.

In reply I wish to assure you that I would be pleased to serve you in aiding Captain Short, but I have no
75 authority, officially, in the matter, it having gone out of my hands when I referred it to the surveyor of customs at this port, Mr.100 John M. Lenihan, at which time I recommended leniency in Captain Short's case. The enclosed copy of Mr. Lenihan's report to the Department will show
125 that he, in turn, recommended that the fine be remitted.

However, when I am in Washington, D. C, next January, I shall be pleased to
150 do what I can in Captain Short's behalf.

It would seem to me that if you would take the matter up with one of the
175 United States Senators, and have him intercede with the Secretary, he could be influenced to remit the penalty; and in that case I would
200 be glad to call, with one of the Senators, upon the Secretary and state the circumstances to him.

Trusting that this will be satisfactory to
225 you and that I may have an opportunity of assisting you in this way, I have the honor to remain

Very sincerely yours, (248)

Chapman W. Maupin, Esq.,

Office of the Solicitor of the Treasury. Sir:

I have given your Digest of the Court of Claims Reports, in typewritten form, a hasty examination, and in so far as I am
25 able to judge from this examination it is a most excellent work and will

fill a long-felt want of the accounting officers of the
50 Treasury.

The plan of the work is most excellent; and it will no doubt prove an invaluable aid to those of us who are interested
75 and governed to a large extent by the decisions of the Court of Claims.

If you will pardon a sugestion, I would advise that blank
150 leaves and pages be left in the back, so that its users may be enabled to keep it up to date by indexing and digesting
125 therein the decisions of the courts as they subsequently appear under their proper headings and indexes.

Yours truly, (143)

The Hon. Francis E. Warren,

Chairman Committee on Claims,

United States Senate. Sir:

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 10th instant, forwarding a copy of a joint resolution pending before
25 the Senate Committee on Claims, to inquire into the claim of the Wales Island Packing Company (S. R. 45), and to inform you that the
50 memorial of the company, which is printed as House Document No. 510, Fifty-eighth Congress, second session, appears to the Department to possess
75 elements of equity entitling the case to a careful investigation and report, which is all that the resolution contemplates.

I have the honor to be,100 sir,

Your obedient servant, (105)

Sir:

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt, by your reference of the 5th instant, of S. 3622, "A
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bill to provide for the payment to the heirs of Darius B. Randall, deceased, for certain improvements relinquished to the United States for the use
50 of the Nez Perce Indians."

In response thereto I transmit herewith a copy of a report of the 21st instant from the Commissioner of Indian
75 Affairs and its enclosure.

The Commissioner's report shows that this claim was favorably considered by his Office in 1879 and that he now recommends
100 the passage of the bill.

The recommendation of the Commissioner meets with my approval.

Very respectfully, (116)

Government Printing Office, Office of the Public Printer, Washington, D. C, February 22, 1904.

Hon. T. C. Plant,

Chairman Committee on Printing, United States Senate. Sir:

Replying to your letter of the 18th instant, wherein you ask from me a full statement of the situation in respect to the amendment
25 to Senate bill 2665 suggested by me, I have the honor to state:

First. The employees in the Office are
50 now paid for twenty-six working days' leave of absence for each fiscal year, which must be taken after the expiration of the fiscal year in
75 which it is earned, under the law as construed by the Comptroller of the Treasury.

Second. The amendment to the bill suggested by me extends
100 the annual leave of all employees to thirty working days in each fiscal year. The

wording of the amendment was copied from the proviso in
125 section 4 of the legislative act of February 24, 1899 (30 Stat., 890), and that form was suggested for the reason
150 that the proviso has been held by the Comptroller of the Treasury to accomplish in the Executive Departments the end which this bill seeks to
175 effect in the Government Printing Office.

Third. The proviso to the amendment was suggested as a means for simplifying the work of keeping the leave
200 accounts of the employees in the office engaged on supervisory and clerical work, who were paid annual salaries, or weekly or monthly compensation. All other
225 employees are paid at daily or hourly rates. The advantage gained will be that the separate " pay roll" now used in making payment of money
250 for leave to the former class of employees will be done away with, and they will be paid in the same manner as are the
275 clerks and employees in the Executive Departments. There are about 175 employees who will be affected by the proviso.

Respectfully, (298)

413 Mr. S. G. Furber,

President, National Export Association, New York. Sir:

I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your letter of December 11, relative to the publication of certain material for educational purposes upon
25 the question of a reduction of the duties of Cuban products, principally sugar and tobacco. In this letter you enclose samples of the proposed circulars
50 and accompanying letters, with the statement that your list comprises 30,000 names, and that the cost per issue will be about $2,880.75 The work is to be first quality, 2-cent postage, letters sealed and carefully directed.

You are hereby authorized to make
100 the necessary arrangements to send two issues of 80,000 circulars in accordance with the samples enclosed, together with additional information which will be forwarded
125 you from Cuba on my return.

Very truly yours, (134)