Show UNCLE SAM WILL PAY Terms of the Compromise in the Benson Case San Francisco Nov 2SBy the terms of the compromise in the Benson case the government foregoes all its claims for damage and the Nevada bank and Henry Pierce the capitalist will be able to collect something like 330000 from ths United States There are two branches of the Benson Ben-son cases the criminal and the civil It is only the latter that have been compromised but according to the acknowledgment of the officers of the government this will have an effect upon the criminal prosecution When the frauds were exposed In 1884 and 1S85 Benson had earned 51 100000 from the work of deputy surveyors sur-veyors and he held further claims of nearly 400tOOO The government withheld with-held all of the surveys and refused payment Civil suits for the recovery of 5535000 were begun and indictments indict-ments were found against Benson and his partners The claims held by Benson Ben-son were assigned by him to the Nevada Ne-vada bank and Mr Pierce The aggregate aggre-gate amount was 5330000 of which the bank holds claims for 250000 and the capitalist for 90000 |