Show MEXICAN WAR CLAIMS chose who served on revenue cutter are veterans Vei erans of the war washington aug 4 an important decision in which alio interior department for the first time declares a revenue cutter to have been part of the united stales navy hs been made by assistant secretary of the interior lebeter We bEter davia is the cape ot william F lieutenant of the united states revenue cutter forward a mexican war claim the decision deci eion overrules the action of the pen gion bureau under the last ion and effects a number cf claims rogers was pensioned in 1887 for eer vice from june 30 1816 to april 30 1847 vessel having been in active operation cooperation co with the navy by order cl the president in the mexican war but he dropped on the ground that he was not legally enlisted into the military or naval service in acting on the rase mr davia says it ii beyond dispute that the cutter forward not in contemplation of the law but under actual provision and mandate of the law and by virtue of the presidents order became part of the naval establishment of the united states under the di notion of the ot the navy and hence the jurisdiction of the treasury department over that vessel aad the ships company meantime was temporarily ousted tho officers and enlisted men thereby became by merger subject to the order of the commodore 0 the navy and amenable to ha rules und articles of war in their practice and operation name willcie restored to the rolls and he will be paid accrued pension |