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Show Southern Claims. Chicago, G. Ti ibunc's Washington: Washing-ton: Notwithstanding the efforts ol c tho democrats to show that the amount of claims presented to the t last houso was insignificant, advance 1 sheets of tho Contrcasiomtl Record lis definitely their number and amount with astounding results. The j total sum proposed to be appropriated is $100,000 more than our entire national debt, and amounts to S-,o03,G22,380. Tlio classification is as follows: Rebuilding levee on the Mississippi river, $.", 1230,000; rebuilding bridges in West Virginia, $200,000; reprisal of cotton tax, $0S,-072,000; $0S,-072,000; supplies used or destroyed, $1,-05,103,000; use and occupation ol property, $1,205,103,000; return of proceeds of captured property, $9,-000,000; $9,-000,000; refund and remission ol direct tax, Jo.151.000; disloyal mail contractors, $350,000; disloyal claimants claim-ants under tho repeal of certain revised re-vised statues, 500,000; private relief bills, $1,770,000. |