Show i THE wnr AND LA AlmA CLAIMS 11 li Our pross dispatches from WlIshln ton state that Judge Jeremiah Wilson and other ublo law era liavo been retained toy to-y j Kl appear before the House Committee on t9 + + foreign Affairs on behalf of tlio Wei C I and La Abra claimant while ox I f Minister Foster will appear for the Mexican Government It t is Raid l 10 t r bo the intention of the committee to reopen the whole case and if wsiblL I bring to tho surface all tho facts connected t con-nected with tlio alleged frauds in till I i procurement of tho award to tho claim t t rl ants tho tenth installment of which I they are now seeking to collect and which amounts to about f 150000 out of the total award of 700000 In brief tlio history of thin claim am li It j award ns heretofore set forth in tho I DEMOCRAT is as follows In 18G8 a 1 New I York corporation styled La Alira fining I Company owned and operated group 1 of sifter mines in tlio Mexican Stalest of Durango and Sonora placing in clmrg i i thereof a gentleman Mho is now a prom I l i Hunt mining operator in Utah nnd aics dent of this city In tlio spring of the year above named the Mexicans it Is i alleged drove the cdmpanys eraploje hr I from the country and took tinlnwfu I possession I of the mines This con 3 F Btitutcd Iho basis of the claims for i I s 1 damages against the Mexican Government I j Govern-ment and when tho matter was t fill 1 li milled for aibitration before tlio commissIon 1 I I lion in 1873 it was decided that the il I Mexican Government should bottle tho i claims by paving I tlio claimants worn 700000 Somo time thereafter andy and-y i3 j subsequent to tho payment of soveial I ti litallmcntx Iho Mexican Government r i alleged fraud in the procurement of the I award and tho tenth i installment t 1 ha been ithhcld by Secretary UayarJ lending lend-ing an inustlgation the nutter Thcro is evidently good ground for Clio Ft allegation mado by the Mexican Govcn w oleo in this connection I lUll if tlio t I com I 1 1 r mlttco I push their 1 I n ca li b n dons to tho t tl + f lixtcnt I that this dispatch I indicates the I I will it would not bo n matter of notch tf I surprise l if a scandal 1 of t big proportioi should bo doeoi in which tho name of Feveral piominent Itepublica iiilk I n P u lit p n may figure most consplcuouhl I I I |