OCR Text |
Show EILL TOO TRIVIAL FOR CONSIDERATION. Washington, August ' 2.",. -A bill of t cents is too trivial a matter for the government to consider. The comptroller of the treafury so holds in a decision in which he affirms the action of the auditor of . the war do- I partment. who refused to settle the ' claim of r" cents increased service j pay of George W. Lambert, a discharged dis-charged private of the 2Gth United States Infantry. Lambert, In his discharge in 1004, was paid in full except the .".j cents in dispute. Ills claim has been disallowed dis-allowed on the grounds that "in ac- , cordance w ith tbe estnbllshed practice ihe amount is too small to carry a set-, j tlement.-' |