Show AW AN INTRICATE WAR CLAIM an interesting war claim which has it as been presented to every congress daring during the last twenty five years again looms up before the present body of lawmakers and demands adjustment the mass ol 01 papers which has las accumulated daring during that period may bo be imagined and this perhaps is what makes the cace BO so appalling to the senators and members whose personal friendship toward it is implored in the deluge of jetters which are let loose at the beginning of every session from the records it appears that on november 30 1801 1861 miss anna ella carroll submitted to the hon lion thomas A scott then assistant secretary of war a plan of military operations which she considered would solve the situation in the southwest this plan was submitted by mr scott to mr stanton who in turn place edit dolt be fore mr lincoln its strategic importance port anee was fully folly recognized and the mississippi squadron which was then being fitted out at st louis toon soon sailed up the tennessee river instead of attacking the forts along the banks of the mississippi the papers on file leave no room to doubt miss carrolls carrells Car rolls part in the apparently ly sudden change in the conduct of the campaign in the southwest president lincoln is reported mohave said that the whole merit of the tennessee river expedition was due to the plan of campaign presented by miss bliss carroll Oar roII the president also said that the tampa campaign ign was carried out generally and very much in detail according to her suggestion gea tion it was while abst louis engaged in collecting data for the continuation of a series of political art arti clesi clea which she had written and which the government recognizing their strength had circulated throughout on t the country that miss bliss carroll became acquainted with the publicly announced plan of the authorities to send a squadron down the mississippi daring september and october nothing else was talked about in st louis there were many w who ho conjectured that the expedition would be a failure among them be ing in the pilots who had been secured for the squadron they particularly deplored the scheme and ad based their objections upon the knowledge they had of the swift current and treacherous channel of the mississippi i they considered that the heavy gun gan boats would be very unwieldy nn wieldy and ineffective in tact fact all of the objections that tha miss carroll subsequently presented were more strongly advanced by them the testimony on file shows allows that miss alias carroll secured her information from one of these pilots she does not say that she c conceived on cc ived the plan sho she saya says that a she be was the first to call the attention 0 of f the government to the impracticability of the proposed campaign and to suggest the tennessee river asa as a much better base of action actio a but her claim for remuneration does not end here she also desires compensation for the articles which were approved by the government published by the war department and so extensively circulated throughout the land she says that assistant secretary scott encouraged her to continue writing att articles leles upon the absorbing topics of the day and she produced quite a number As she estimates the value of her literary lite ary iary productions duct ions ione there still remains an unpaid balance of on that account she at one time accepted for the articles that being the amount the then hen secretary was willing to pay but she he did co so upon the assurance of reverdy johnson that it was no bar to he her claim only twice has the intricate matter been formally reported upon favorably by the forty first congress and adversely by the forty fifth she is making a desperate endeavor to have the claim acted upon and settled by this congress and her friends encouraged by the lavishness with which the treasury ry surplus is being ladled out have strong hopes that at last she ia Is within sight eight of victory so dr far our streets treat are p pared aved inertly merely with food good intention intentions this Is 1 poor material halt sau lale limsi well good intentions have kept your people out of tha the mud a good many times before even they are worth something |